FINAL FOUR BOUND

[00:00:00] I love a take the juxtaposition.

[00:00:07] Family close the home, Brian George,

[00:00:08] one block, two, one, play a good,

[00:00:12] one point nine to go.

[00:00:13] Tigers inbounded, one in zero.

[00:00:16] And let get out of here and go to the final four.

[00:00:24] Welcome to Takin On Sports.

[00:00:26] I'm TD that is Greg.

[00:00:27] And that was Chris Stewart's call of Alabama going to the final fucking four Greg.

[00:00:34] Is this real or is this a trouble?

[00:00:36] I don't know.

[00:00:37] I don't know.

[00:00:38] Yeah, I woke up this morning.

[00:00:39] I had to check to make sure we indeed did it.

[00:00:42] Cause then there's been a long time coming and long time coming and long time.

[00:00:47] A long time first final four in program history.

[00:00:49] A program with a solid basketball tradition, not you know, not a blue blood but plenty

[00:00:55] and say tournaments before 16,

[00:01:00] before Thursday, you know, unfortunately a tradition of losing in the sweet 16 before

[00:01:06] the win over Carolina one in nine and sweet 16.

[00:01:10] So worst record of any team that have been there at least 10 times.

[00:01:15] But they've anguished the tar heels on Thursday night,

[00:01:19] called Clemson last night and just after an umbilical start,

[00:01:25] it looking like maybe they were just gassed out.

[00:01:27] The magic had run out.

[00:01:28] The three started dropping.

[00:01:30] Mark Sears turned it on.

[00:01:31] Jaren Stevenson just talk about a breakout performance.

[00:01:38] The defense that what we talked about all year long, the defense needed to just step

[00:01:44] it up and just play good.

[00:01:45] They didn't have to be great.

[00:01:46] They were just good enough and they turned up the insensitivity and it's unbelievable.

[00:01:52] We were just talking about it before we started recording and you said, you know, it's been

[00:01:58] a long time coming.

[00:01:59] It doesn't feel real.

[00:02:01] You mentioned getting emotional.

[00:02:02] I did the same thing.

[00:02:03] My wife was looking at me like I was crazy and I just couldn't explain what it means.

[00:02:09] It's not just an Alabama fan but someone who's really rooted for Alabama basketball.

[00:02:13] Right.

[00:02:15] It's crazy.

[00:02:16] It's a lot of Alabama football fans.

[00:02:20] Obviously, the basketball program doesn't have the same appeal to the basketball fans.

[00:02:30] But man, we've been through the fire many times as fans.

[00:02:36] Seeing the ups and downs, it's just when you go through so much, so many ups and downs

[00:02:42] and so many hopes and it just feels that much better when you finally break through.

[00:02:50] I mean, it's just an amazing feeling.

[00:02:53] So, you know, finally broken through because there's been some epic teams in Alabama.

[00:02:59] Like we were talking about me, we're not a blue blood but I mean, we're just out of

[00:03:04] nowhere either.

[00:03:05] We've had great program.

[00:03:08] I mean, we've had good teams.

[00:03:10] We've had great players come through.

[00:03:12] I mean, you know, we've had, you know, the dressing room, Robert Warrior and David after

[00:03:18] the sweet 16.

[00:03:20] You know, when we were on sweet 16 in the lead day, we were in college.

[00:03:28] And at that point, you know, we were with, I mean, I was with 20.

[00:03:32] I mean, I was 20, 40 now.

[00:03:35] So yeah, 20 years.

[00:03:36] And you know, at that point, you know, it was awesome.

[00:03:40] But I don't think we appreciated much as we do now because who knew it would take another

[00:03:44] 20 years before we'd even see that opportunity again?

[00:03:47] Exactly.

[00:03:48] You kind of take those things for granted almost.

[00:03:51] Yeah.

[00:03:52] I mean, it was awesome.

[00:03:53] But yeah.

[00:03:54] And even though that we know that we don't have the best program in the country, you still

[00:04:02] think, yeah, no, yeah.

[00:04:04] It was awesome and especially as an eight seed or whatever we were back then.

[00:04:07] But it's just insane.

[00:04:10] After last year with Brandon Miller, maybe one of the better teams in program history.

[00:04:14] And like you said before, we started an easy path, a easy earpath.

[00:04:20] You know, there's no easy path in this tournament.

[00:04:22] It never is.

[00:04:23] Well, paper, I mean, you know, San Diego State, Craig, I mean, on paper, we, man, that

[00:04:32] team last year was one of the kind.

[00:04:34] Just with how they ran to direct overseas in the SEC tournament, Brandon Miller.

[00:04:40] Hardly probably won the better one year, you know, one year.

[00:04:43] And I'm done with history.

[00:04:46] Stantwines and Norway went in the draft and all but yeah, but you know, finally put it

[00:04:51] together.

[00:04:54] And with this team, that's even the crazier thing because then so many ups and downs, you

[00:04:59] know, with this team, you know, we've talked about it.

[00:05:02] And then they could just put it together.

[00:05:04] We know it's there.

[00:05:05] But what can they do it?

[00:05:07] You know, you know, even going into the MCA tournament, we're like, we don't know.

[00:05:12] Yeah, we don't know who's going to show up.

[00:05:16] You know, coach was talking about, you know, these guys tough enough.

[00:05:22] Did they want it in that point?

[00:05:23] Well, it's not how you want to go into the MCA tournament.

[00:05:26] Obviously, you know, coach told them going after that Florida loss and going into the,

[00:05:32] you know, going into that first round.

[00:05:33] I mean, I was they ate it up because they completely different team as far as on a defensive

[00:05:39] side of the ball.

[00:05:40] And just an effort and just a pass to me return.

[00:05:44] You know, we saw that so a lot and I thought in January February and most of February,

[00:05:49] then we kind of lost it after that Tennessee game and kind of lost it.

[00:05:54] You know, that was kind of like, well, we ran into a team and maybe he gave it our best

[00:06:01] and we didn't come out.

[00:06:03] We got a momentum back with a beautiful time of the year.

[00:06:08] Absolutely.

[00:06:09] Yeah.

[00:06:10] And that's what march is all about is momentum.

[00:06:13] And you know, I mentioned, I think that's what makes it so special too.

[00:06:18] You know, we mentioned it's never guaranteed even for the bluebirds.

[00:06:21] I mean, look at Kentucky right now.

[00:06:23] You know, like it's not easy to get here and the NCAA tournament is such a unique thing

[00:06:31] that you get to the semi finals.

[00:06:33] You know, you're not even a title and it means so much.

[00:06:37] You know, it's and that's where it differentiates from like even football and the old bowl system

[00:06:45] to play off whatever it is.

[00:06:46] You just it's one game and it's done.

[00:06:49] It's special, but it's different kind of special.

[00:06:52] This is you know, you go through, you have that first week and all that excitement, you

[00:06:57] know, the promise and then that second weekend is when it gets real and you know that it's

[00:07:02] the final fours two wins away and then it happens and you're just kind of stunned and

[00:07:11] you mentioned yeah, we've been, you know, you I guess your fandom as it started like

[00:07:18] when you started attending the college kind of.

[00:07:21] Well, little a little bit before.

[00:07:23] A little before.

[00:07:24] Yeah.

[00:07:25] I mean, I do, you know, pretty well.

[00:07:28] You know, I have watched tape and you know on YouTube and then of course it's not as

[00:07:37] prevalent as what it is now of course.

[00:07:39] And you know, I knew that the program history.

[00:07:43] But I think the you know, when I really started watching probably my, my new album, I think

[00:07:51] it in junior year and my senior year, I've been having it.

[00:07:56] It was all one of those two.

[00:08:00] They were a two seed to see really.

[00:08:04] I love rock.

[00:08:05] It's already.

[00:08:06] Mm-hmm.

[00:08:07] And you know, I was, I mean, it was so much fun to watch.

[00:08:11] Big man Irwin Dudley down low.

[00:08:13] Yeah.

[00:08:14] I mean, that was a spot and they were, you know, just electric with the highlight reel.

[00:08:19] But yeah, I mean, I think that's what I was really meant to do.

[00:08:25] You know, they dropped in the 32.

[00:08:27] Yeah, second round lost to second round lost at Kent State who I think was the 10

[00:08:33] seed.

[00:08:34] Yeah.

[00:08:35] Who went out of line because I didn't want to lead eight that year for not.

[00:08:38] I believe so, but still yeah, disappointing.

[00:08:40] I was like what in the world?

[00:08:42] Especially at that point.

[00:08:43] That was a, you know, that was the year the regular season SEC champs.

[00:08:47] Of course, that famous shot Antoine Petway hit it to beat Florida and Tuscaloose on the

[00:08:54] last day the regular season won the SEC regular season title earned a two seed.

[00:08:59] I remember talking with the buddy of mine in school and he was taught by man Alba was

[00:09:03] a quiet as two seed ever.

[00:09:04] They might make some noise and then like you said that didn't even make it out the first

[00:09:09] weekend and that was kind of Alabama basketball there, you know, our freshman year we made

[00:09:15] it to number one in a country around Christmas time and then we ended up at a nine seed

[00:09:19] in the tournament.

[00:09:20] Lost to you, Tom.

[00:09:21] Uh huh.

[00:09:22] Yeah.

[00:09:23] And then it just moved by you.

[00:09:24] Tom and it never really never recovered from there.

[00:09:28] Yeah.

[00:09:29] Indiana.

[00:09:31] Tom Cloverdale, whatever his name was.

[00:09:33] Yeah.

[00:09:34] Uh, hated that man.

[00:09:36] But uh yeah and that's how yeah mine if I you know haven't been a basketball fan as

[00:09:42] long as football, you know my football memories go way back.

[00:09:45] My first basketball memories I've been trying to think about was probably 94 because if

[00:09:50] I remember as the first year I did a bracket my mom, you know we clipped it out the newspaper

[00:09:56] and you know did our brackets and you know Alabama was like an eight seed we lost a second

[00:10:01] round of Purdue and Glen Robinson should have, you know not disappoint you know it sucks

[00:10:06] to see your team lose which you know you look back on it and yeah.

[00:10:09] Very good Purdue team.

[00:10:12] Uh and then the next year is when it really clicked for me we were a five seed that Antonio

[00:10:17] McDice team.

[00:10:18] Um he was a beast out.

[00:10:21] A beast and they actually played their first round game their first weekend.

[00:10:25] They were actually in Baltimore.

[00:10:28] Some of my dad took me we had a big five 12 game against Penn went to overtime and in

[00:10:33] overtime McDice just took over and I could be making this up my head but I feel like

[00:10:39] we outscored them like 10 nothing in overtime or something and just routed them but you know

[00:10:44] then lost in the second round to a big country Bryant Reeves.

[00:10:50] Um they went on to the final four they did yeah they made it title game.

[00:10:55] Yeah.

[00:10:56] Oh no that was yeah they lost the UCLA.

[00:11:00] Was it yeah.

[00:11:01] The UCLA Arkansas was the national time.

[00:11:05] That's right yeah Arkansas yeah yeah Arkansas chance go back but yeah that's how far

[00:11:09] back that's 30 years now.

[00:11:11] Uh yeah.

[00:11:12] Just like so close getting that that fever in the it remembering when Alabama upset Chris

[00:11:19] Porter and Auburn you know one of the better Auburn teams ever.

[00:11:23] Uh just like you mentioned that Rodgers are that kind of showy that fun team and never

[00:11:31] never really getting to see him.

[00:11:33] Yeah because I was like yeah I was one of the Steve Rogers are the first they all left

[00:11:39] it after that season.

[00:11:41] Mm hmm.

[00:11:42] I've been so let's see that see that and that's the other thing too we know it's not

[00:11:47] my thing I thought another Alabama basketball fan talk about it what if we had had a better

[00:11:51] coach during that time period.

[00:11:53] Oh man I know uh because yeah that was one of our things even though Mark

[00:11:58] Offrey did a lot of great things for the program went to like what four or five straight

[00:12:02] tournaments um the elite eight run.

[00:12:06] Yeah he was a solid recruiter but we never really it felt like talent never really got

[00:12:10] better under him and they'd have spirts you know like remember Jamario Davis and drop

[00:12:16] in like 33 and Rapparina uh but then you know he'd never scored more than like 18 again.

[00:12:25] Uh you know and that was just kind of that way you know like in between that and you

[00:12:30] know that uh game against pinna mentioned you know I think we made like an IT final and lost

[00:12:36] and then after Gotfrey's time right now we hired Anthony Grant and you know hopes were

[00:12:40] high again and they just never it never took and then you went to the NIT final one year

[00:12:47] I think uh lost the like witch toss which at all state yep.

[00:12:51] We did go to the tournament the next year and lost the crate in the first round and never

[00:12:56] ingrate yet and he even recruited well but a lot of weird things happen with that is

[00:13:03] I remember the big man that came up in charges and you knew yeah when some of his recruits

[00:13:10] and the difference is always the lead but that often is terrible.

[00:13:15] Yeah yeah yeah.

[00:13:17] Grand Skipal just never clicked in Tuskegee and then we had Avery Johnson and uh uh

[00:13:21] appreciate Nate Oats.

[00:13:23] Nate Oats I don't know if you call this and one of his post games actually uh gave props

[00:13:28] to Avery Johnson for uh with the crewing he did and the players that he brought in because

[00:13:33] he really was one of the first guys to really start bringing in out a state talent you

[00:13:38] know um yeah big big names I mean you know Colin Sexton there.

[00:13:46] Yeah well there's Tom and then you know Colin won us a game there um we went into tournament

[00:13:51] of Avery um but 18 there and I got the first round went against what I've been is lots

[00:13:57] of it and ran to a bud saw and uh I've been on over with the pro no just going to have

[00:14:02] him playing that tournament.

[00:14:03] I was one of the more uh dominant runs of the NCAA tournament but you know just I don't

[00:14:11] even know what really like it's just like people Avery I don't know what what happened

[00:14:18] Avery I really love Avery I mean he's a great great guy.

[00:14:22] Uh-huh.

[00:14:23] I don't know they just end by him but they went like there were times you saw it and then

[00:14:29] I don't I don't know why happened in the coach.

[00:14:31] No yeah it's like uh I mean you see Anthony Grant now it's clicking and what Dayton right

[00:14:37] that's where he's coaching.

[00:14:38] Uh Avery Johnson a great commentator it's a shame I guess maybe he can't be in our games.

[00:14:42] Yeah oh he's great.

[00:14:44] He even mentioned um yeah I think it was on the first round games and you know it was a little

[00:14:49] got a little testy and there's a shot of one of the assistants holding back all the guys on the

[00:14:54] bench from running off and he mentioned that five on three game we played against Minnesota.

[00:14:59] Yeah.

[00:15:00] You know having to finish game knowing three players uh I wish he had mentioned more that Colin

[00:15:04] Sexton damn near won that game for us uh even down two people uh yeah you put on that

[00:15:11] that's when we knew Colin Sexton.

[00:15:13] But yeah all of special yeah all of that led up to you know Greg Byrne taking a shot on

[00:15:20] Nate Oates a guy from Buffalo a lot of people are like question the decision if he was right and

[00:15:26] look at us now we've got four tournament appearances in five years three sweet 16s two SEC

[00:15:33] titles two SEC turning titles uh one seed uh uh top one in the brand new mille was the number two

[00:15:40] pick uh yeah uh and now the first final four in school history um oh and again Nate Oates

[00:15:48] deserves every coach of the year vote not only I mean he lost three assistants he lost like

[00:15:57] basically Brandon Miller and then all of these great players you know like the whole team I think

[00:16:02] only three players stayed from last year yeah and I mean Brandon Miller and then in the worst I

[00:16:13] be with we've done man you know we were always saying what a better y'all go and stay man I wish

[00:16:18] maybe I could win a state or no a clowny you know something like that you know but uh yeah

[00:16:25] what you lead to that you know let's start talking more about these past games but you cannot say enough

[00:16:32] about uh Pringle man uh Nick Pringle the effort suspended twice this year for attitude problems

[00:16:41] he wasn't even uh second suspension he's come he's been a different guy

[00:16:46] and then and then there was another weird thing where he wasn't on the team flight to

[00:16:50] Spokane had to get his own way out there and he did yeah and uh because you knew we need him we

[00:16:57] need inside you need an inside guy and he is just his hustle the last night against Clems and

[00:17:07] some of those just jump balls you know we were getting two or three offensive rebounds in one

[00:17:13] possession hustling the loose balls you know tipping balls back to guys just all the props in the

[00:17:20] world and Nick Pringle man and his buckets and you know but the most part I was clutch from

[00:17:26] the flute all mine as well and drew so many files he's the reason that their guy PJ Hall found out

[00:17:32] as Nick Pringle he he drew so many files uh we mentioned Jaren Stevenson a breakout game for

[00:17:39] the freshman you know he kind of looked like the moment might be too big for him against Caroline

[00:17:44] I'm playing this hometown team and he even started off shaky last night and then he got stroking

[00:17:50] he was really the one that kick started us I think he hit a couple shots yeah um and you gotta

[00:17:57] think I mean he came I mean he's technically should have been a senior in high school this year

[00:18:01] uh-huh and he you know came in early you know took it to a different level I mean that's hard to do

[00:18:08] I mean you know from high school level even in the big you know big basketball stay like North Carolina

[00:18:14] I mean to go back to the vision one in the SEC I mean that year early I mean it's just uh you know

[00:18:20] completely changing games so I mean man I mean he arrived last night and yeah you know you're

[00:18:28] excited to see what the future brings for him because you'd have to think last night I mean that

[00:18:33] changes probably his whole perspective on what he could be as a player you know at level and the lead

[00:18:40] eight you know against uh you know Clemson not a sexy basketball name school of course in the

[00:18:47] universe they're gonna what you know there should be some on the football field I mean Clemson had

[00:18:52] an epic run to get to where they were looking at first round you know a lot of people I was sure

[00:18:58] of it a lot of people you know didn't even think they would get out that first round match up with

[00:19:02] New Mexico you know I blew out New Mexico and you know New Mexico came into the

[00:19:08] the thing now blue them blue them out the water we won't even again

[00:19:18] then the who they're playing the 32 what about uh not Baylor was that yeah it was Baylor

[00:19:28] Baylor was a nice Baylor team I mean not the best Baylor team but I mean I didn't think that

[00:19:35] they'd be Baylor you know be Baylor uh handled Arizona I mean they were on the I had to go

[00:19:44] on to the home I mean this was a team that you know similar in the fact that you know they've

[00:19:50] had some okay basketball uh but you know I hadn't been to the to that level the elite eight since

[00:19:56] 80 so I mean they were you know in the same similar boat I mean getting to that level was completely

[00:20:03] new you know there was a back and forth event last night um so I mean both both teams to get to

[00:20:12] where both them and us you know not a lot of expectations going into the tournament and

[00:20:18] man just that was your out of the bad bracket with North Carolina

[00:20:23] inspector North Carolina Arizona uh elite eight and we're like I'm a Clemson

[00:20:31] right um yeah you mentioned they also program never made to find a four in that

[00:20:36] that puts an added pressure on the game even if those kids don't grow up fans of the program

[00:20:41] it's the the weight of the whole program is on you because yeah and for two teams yeah and you

[00:20:49] and it's one thing for a team that's never made it to play you know if we had played

[00:20:53] Arizona Arizona has been there they've won national titles you know it's it's different but when

[00:20:58] you're playing another team that's trying to make their first ever final four yeah it's

[00:21:04] just this that game was so tense that's how I felt you know my wife made dinner and brought it out

[00:21:10] I just put the bowl on the side table I was like I don't know if I can eat this right now like I can't

[00:21:15] it's just two in the way the game started out with Danny

[00:21:19] mm-hmm yeah uh yeah Clemson made that first half run we mentioned Mark Sears just

[00:21:25] over what like nine to start the game something like that

[00:21:28] the team started one of 13 from behind the arc and then Steve's and hit a couple

[00:21:34] Griffin hit one Sears finally got one and then he just second half

[00:21:38] it was a different team yeah uh that heat check three from the logo oh my goodness oh man uh

[00:21:47] it's just it's amazing and read it and you know what I was texting my friends talking about

[00:21:52] dad as I don't care if you come beat us by 40 we're going to the final four yeah we're going

[00:21:57] to the final four I mean that's just picking itself you know and of course you know everybody's

[00:22:04] gonna say oh you know north uh UNC I mean you come you're gonna be in my 40 who knows you know

[00:22:10] I mean of course they've been a monster to this point but I mean we still that's why you play the

[00:22:15] game and we've seen teams going to that and uh you know not not be the same the next round I mean

[00:22:21] they're well coach I mean the way today play is coming into the final four yeah definitely

[00:22:29] the camera to the tournament is the best team and they're still the best team I mean

[00:22:34] absolute boot of doors off well no way yesterday that 30-year run was ridiculous oh man

[00:22:39] I mean that's why we played a game though I mean we're there and again you know we went into

[00:22:46] that sweet 16 game I mean we're playing with house money I mean there's no expectations we've

[00:22:51] reached levels that we never thought maybe imaginable yeah here we are I mean you know

[00:22:58] we're just you know hopefully everybody just soaks it up and joins it because you don't know

[00:23:03] when we win that next time will be I mean I think where when they don't just going you know

[00:23:08] it may be sooner again than later but you gotta enjoy it you know we just got to umpire

[00:23:14] game and let the chips fall where they may uh and who knows that's why we played a game

[00:23:21] yeah exactly especially the team that plays the style we do you never know if we get hot and

[00:23:26] hit 23 pointers 20 25 whatever uh and you know all bets are off um you know that said we

[00:23:35] know what we got against us Yukon is looked digivicious um all season yeah and especially now they've

[00:23:43] turned it up tournament time even with him three or four losses on the season wow

[00:23:49] so the likes of Kansas and Kansas and Crayton and Crayton and other than that I mean they've run through

[00:23:56] everybody for the most part and it's ridiculous you know you mentioned that they went only 30 to

[00:24:02] oh run yesterday against a three seed yeah not this isn't the one 16 matchup where they do that

[00:24:09] and you're like okay yeah this is a three seed and a good Illinois team that if they'd made

[00:24:15] the final four people would have been like okay like that's yeah uh yeah I mean they were

[00:24:22] I mean this is probably the best Illinois team since they went to the final 405 and lost the North

[00:24:28] Carolina in the final um but I mean they're going a 30-year run like that and I mean it was a close

[00:24:35] for us half and they just came out that second half and like not today guys sorry we shined it down

[00:24:40] yeah but yeah you made anything possible at this point I mean and you know that I mean everybody

[00:24:50] said the same about Carolina and they were supposed to blow us off the water there's no way

[00:24:54] to keep Carolina not there I mean this is a Carolina team that looked like they were built for

[00:25:00] final four run I mean they had they know their defenses great uh you know the winning play

[00:25:07] really didn't fit us I mean because you know we've had our struggles against physical big teams

[00:25:12] and you know we held our own and you know we have been trying to play our game over that's what

[00:25:18] got us there we're not Thursday night is they were tired you know they miss you know uh what's

[00:25:24] the name is that duck at the end of the game because he was tired I mean we run him up

[00:25:27] not my court on night we got in the North Carolina stopper say but we forced him into our game

[00:25:33] and that was a different yeah and uh same thing last night you know Cleanson wanted to ugly

[00:25:41] that game up play physical uh the refs kind of let him do it for the first 10 minutes or so

[00:25:47] it seemed like the calls are a little uneven and then they started leveling out we started

[00:25:52] getting more free throws we mentioned Pringle which are on a lot of files inside on their big men

[00:25:56] and um but one of the biggest things last night too was just anytime after you know in that second

[00:26:04] half especially anytime Cleanson made that run we had to answer the big point came they hit two

[00:26:10] threes in a row big threes their crowd was getting back into it and we answered each wrong with

[00:26:15] a three of our own um yeah and that's exactly what you got to do in these games and you know

[00:26:22] and somebody steps up you know uh Grant Nelson the hero the Carolina game um yeah

[00:26:31] yeah and that's what you need and Mark Sears just a steady pendulum just

[00:26:36] putting in work this tournament man uh one of not just probably I mean

[00:26:41] not probably the best tournament run in school history by you know by a player I mean

[00:26:47] uh this is one of all time memorable runs in period and tournament history man when it's set and done

[00:26:53] yeah I mean you look at his fans I mean he's put up numbers I mean even when he was quieter that

[00:26:58] second half against Carolina me didn't squirtle on that second half the way he led the team

[00:27:04] I mean you he was throwing dimes I mean he was just a leader either you know running

[00:27:09] I'm well he almost had a j kid like second half there

[00:27:13] you know when that's how he's scoring but you know he was making things you know the

[00:27:17] past as he was giving Grant Nelson you know looks inside

[00:27:23] just you know just what he's turned into since he came from Ohio I mean you know

[00:27:28] there's honestly coming into this season you know I was like you know he was nice last year but

[00:27:34] he also had Brandon Miller um you know I wasn't sure I mean he's he yeah he showed signs of

[00:27:42] being the decim player but is that is that gonna be our gun I was a little worried honestly I was

[00:27:48] a little worried when it's the season you know that's our number one guy yeah you just

[00:27:55] and we lose not just Miller but you lose his steady hand like Javon Quinterly um even though

[00:28:01] it's probably his time to you know try somewhere else but you lose you know uh just what the guy

[00:28:08] that transferred there his own Jayden Bradley uh you lose we mentioned Chuck Bediaco left Noah

[00:28:16] Clowny left the big guns yeah we lost a lot of guards and we replaced him again you know

[00:28:22] we just and then we you know we hit up the truck and they did a great job on the truck

[00:28:27] we're a four-door guy guys that fit I mean but you know at the same time I mean they and my

[00:28:33] guys that never played brawl together you know basketball is the most chemistry Javon sport

[00:28:39] I mean it's only five you know five guys and have to click or this is never gonna work yeah

[00:28:44] um you know it was uh up and down you know Aaron is proud of you know time sees it great

[00:28:49] hasn't you know Brandon Nelson has had a game um but you know there's just his run they all they

[00:28:55] just put together to a different level I mean any other amazing thing is two games I mean I would

[00:29:00] have never thought that we would make in the final four and say the Lattura writes it didn't play

[00:29:05] in the either the last two games right yeah we knew we needed people to step up in his place

[00:29:12] and like I said we got that grand Nelson we haven't talked enough about that Thursday night performance

[00:29:18] man against Carolina uh legendary I mean just wait it was just magical who watched him down there I

[00:29:25] mean it was like he just you just knew where they threw it down and he was gonna finish

[00:29:32] and you know he was just you just put up a uh and you know probably the best comparison

[00:29:40] I could think of is knowing college um listen just what you know just what he it was like a Kevin

[00:29:49] love like performance when he was a UCLA I mean you know you had a couple game then

[00:29:53] telling me when they would go to the final four back to back years where he just put the team on

[00:29:57] the back they threw it down there westbrook were told down there and you know um he just finished it

[00:30:03] up you know maybe not the prettiest player but you know but grand Nelson his confidence has grown

[00:30:10] immensely because you know uh you know people thought me and that man is soft you know sometimes

[00:30:15] you know we like you know you can see who was good but yeah you know he was similar time

[00:30:20] like you know I don't think anybody I think of course a lot of people expected

[00:30:25] what we saw Thursday night was what we were gonna have a season it wasn't necessarily that but

[00:30:31] you know he had his moments of greatness but it you know just uh and put it together I guess

[00:30:38] his consists consistently is what you would have liked I mean remember come into season he was a

[00:30:43] SEC preseason first teamer and didn't quite work out to that level but I mean he and definitely aren't his

[00:30:52] stripes do this tournament around for sure yeah um but it's just great and whatever happens next

[00:31:01] week in a Phoenix it's it doesn't matter yeah uh I mean it matters obviously but yeah I mean you

[00:31:10] know you want to make your great showing you know but man you know I think we're gonna

[00:31:16] I don't know if he shocked the world per se but I think we're gonna show up and we're gonna

[00:31:22] make it a better much better game than what at worst case scenario much better game what people

[00:31:27] expected to be at this point because the way we're playing I don't you know it doesn't know that's

[00:31:33] you know like when they're that old four one it's seem very Cinderellaish you know just

[00:31:39] don't seem very Cinderella I mean this seems like and we said it many times I mean we're a

[00:31:45] talented team we just have to put it together can we put it together and they click they put it

[00:31:52] together obviously all those big big games and you know we you know lost the Clemson and we lost

[00:32:01] to Crate when we lost their zone and Purdue and you know we're like well damn we know we would

[00:32:06] like to got it but obviously dad stuck in the mind at some point because you know that

[00:32:12] the I mean learn something from those games and they put it put it forth at the right time so that

[00:32:18] worked out to some extent and learn something because that's one thing you can't say this that

[00:32:24] I don't have a team had any back we might have lost some games but it wasn't any back losses it's

[00:32:29] like why are we losing to them you know I want anything like that we lost to the best of the best

[00:32:34] I mean we lost to a final four team in Zach Edie yeah I do who's also in the final four now

[00:32:41] you know we lost to Arizona team sweet 16 a Crate and team sweet 16 you know we lost

[00:32:47] to Tennessee who took Purdue you know a lead eight you know Florida Kansaki I mean teams that

[00:32:57] probably should have gone further than tournament that they did have for Clemson yeah avenge that

[00:33:03] loss yeah yeah so I mean no no no no remember you know Clemson kicked our ass yeah and they came

[00:33:13] in the Coleman and shot like 60% for the game and and Oats references and his interviews too is

[00:33:21] uh his coaching staff they did a great job of you know Thursday night they had a great game plan

[00:33:26] for Mondo Becca and RJ Davis I mean RJ Davis just oh and nine from three I think that's something

[00:33:33] like his first collegiate game where he didn't make at least one three or something uh just crazy

[00:33:39] and then coming in and figuring out and it looked like maybe Clemson had our number again early on

[00:33:44] and the staff made adjustments especially half time and uh all props to them and

[00:33:53] and we mentioned you know how hard it is how you know making the final four is so special because of

[00:33:59] how hard it is but also you know we mentioned everything and Oats has done since he's got here it really

[00:34:05] kind of submits like our status that we're here as a basketball program you know because this

[00:34:13] it's only going to help recruiting it's only going to show people that NATO style of play works

[00:34:19] you know there's been criticism of them that it doesn't you know get you past the second weekend

[00:34:23] well it has and like you said this is not a send a relearn this is a good team that you know had

[00:34:31] its chemistry problems it's up and down during the season you know not a good defensive team

[00:34:38] but a team that Oats said time and time again they just had to play with intensity and they

[00:34:43] they had to give the effort and they finally have balled in and they as click for them

[00:34:49] and it got us to the final four um exactly and they're not afraid of Yukon we can tell you that much

[00:34:58] and like you said it we may not win and for probably not you know we're definitely not expected to win

[00:35:05] and while of course you know it would be it won't break hearts in that way to lose to a Yukon you know

[00:35:12] to be one of those like yeah it'll suck you'll be disappointed because the runs over but

[00:35:18] it's we're gonna come out we're gonna throw our best punches at him and hey let's see what happens

[00:35:24] next Saturday right um but yeah let's talk about some of those other teams um

[00:35:32] uh you know we mentioned Yukon the 30O I mean nothing not much else you can say about them

[00:35:39] they're who they are oh and I'm gonna see me yeah and honestly probably you know

[00:35:45] just historically wise when you look at Khan basketball probably the most underappreciated blue blood

[00:35:53] uh-huh of our time I mean of course we always talk about the Carolina's the Kansas the Duke's uh Kentucky

[00:36:01] but you know Yukon I mean you gotta look at some of what they've done I mean their first title 99

[00:36:07] with Jim Bayhawk they played what probably on paper one of the best Duke teams ever beat them in

[00:36:13] the national title again nobody really thought they had a chance and there yeah no um brand and

[00:36:20] trade the land in I mean who is a legendary Duke squad oh one lost Duke yeah one lost Duke team before

[00:36:27] that um yeah well also like November I think a Cincinnati or something it was I think it was

[00:36:33] it was Cincinnati and the that tournament that used to be was it now I actually thought it was

[00:36:38] uh the tournament that used to be an anchorage um yeah it was one of those holiday tournaments and

[00:36:47] yeah I'm defeated through ACC play you mentioned all those great players on that team

[00:36:52] uh and they were Duke was running through people in that tournament too and yeah

[00:36:58] that Yukon team just

[00:37:01] lead out the mean uh who was a Jake law school I mean that was a squad yeah and Jim uh-huh not

[00:37:11] Bayham yeah uh uh Richard Hamilton was on that team too uh yeah oh rip uh but yeah you're

[00:37:18] you're a Yukon as a newer blue bud because they really only they're started their history and kind

[00:37:24] of around 90s when they had that first big win for them Jim Jim Calhoun was kind of like the catalyst

[00:37:31] of that program I mean no he did it before you know he was always the runner you know you never

[00:37:37] got the big win for a while there I mean he was breaking in people um and he just took it you know just

[00:37:44] you know what they've done I mean you know oh four you know we haven't done that a lead eight

[00:37:50] I mean they ran through everybody even the meet hope before I mean they ran through everybody

[00:37:56] yeah tournament um then you you know they

[00:38:03] um cooled off for a little bit there uh but then the Jim Bay hunt one that said Jim Calhoun's

[00:38:10] uh well did they well he won again in the home and you know that it can walk around to that

[00:38:17] through the biggest tournament and the NCAA tournament um little tough of that route would uh

[00:38:23] you know and then they um after that then they won again at 14 with the Shabazz Napier's amazing run

[00:38:29] 10 um to the tournament I think they were like a seven or eight seed I mean they were

[00:38:36] they don't want to expect to get what they did and they'd be Kentucky and 14 um

[00:38:41] and you know did one last year I mean they they definitely on the blue blood level

[00:38:50] you know just uh amazing amazing what they've done over the 30 years on the corner

[00:38:56] so yeah um and they're trying to become the first back-to-back champ since Florida did it

[00:39:04] in 607 yeah and then then the first seemed to make a final four and back-to-back seat you know

[00:39:10] they're one entirely even make it back to a final four since then so it's not just going back

[00:39:16] to back no one's even made a final four after winning a title since Florida until last night so

[00:39:22] that just tells you that this is not easy to do no it's not easy at all uh and then on the other side

[00:39:29] uh you mentioned Purdue they're in they a tough one earlier today over Tennessee a back-and-forth

[00:39:35] game um yeah that was a good you know a great game I mean yeah it looked for a while like Tennessee

[00:39:42] might have had their number Purdue went cold and it was a game of runs each team made a bunch of runs

[00:39:47] and uh Purdue pulled it out and the thing with them is that that free throw advantage they get

[00:39:54] man they average you got every you can't touch some teams gotta figure out how to mitigate that

[00:40:02] they gotta figure out how to get him in foul trouble uh yeah because that's the key to being

[00:40:09] Purdue this year because I mean they got okay team around them but yeah I'm going if he had a

[00:40:13] sip where saying you got him somehow three thousand first half or a derf hour early a second half

[00:40:20] against us a little bit I mean their guards are okay but I mean they're nothing scary no yeah um

[00:40:29] and they're of course a one seed we mentioned we played them earlier in the year um yeah

[00:40:35] they've been they've been a team that uh we talked about it I mean they've been on that seed as far

[00:40:41] as it's hermendid no last year they've lost to the 16 as a one um and you know not

[00:40:47] of time to do the Virginia thing when you lose the year before they come back and win the whole tournament

[00:40:53] you know you could do the first one 16 ever and then I think in one the whole thing it'd be Texas Tech

[00:41:03] yeah and now they'll play uh the winner this game currently going on as we record in C state and Duke

[00:41:09] back and forth game right now um the ACC battle and see state trying to become an 11 seed making

[00:41:16] another final four which would uh match was George Mason in 11 seed when they made it or they even lower

[00:41:24] uh they were yeah I think they're around the 11th

[00:41:28] the 11th

[00:41:30] the 11th

[00:41:32] and that's been a long time now um

[00:41:38] but yeah I mean they uh and there they're another team that mean just

[00:41:44] I mean they had to win it they had to win the ACC tournament even to get into the tournament

[00:41:48] I mean if they had lost any of those games I mean because I think well they were 17 and 14 going

[00:41:54] into the ACC tournament and one five there they'd get to 22 wins

[00:42:00] they had to be they had to be Duke they had to be Carolina I mean

[00:42:04] who's that mean they had to win that tournament to get into they weren't getting an auto bit uh

[00:42:09] they weren't getting an out large not you know they had then even even the

[00:42:14] to run that they lost the Carolina in their chapter game do not get again still

[00:42:19] amazing see just then have to respect what all that it did at one point you know

[00:42:27] but yeah so uh here I actually got it now actually 11 seed is kind of a good luck charm

[00:42:31] to make the final four one two three four five different 11 seeds have made it uh we got

[00:42:37] LSU and 86 uh we mentioned that George Mason team that made that run in 06 uh VCU

[00:42:45] 2011 uh we mentioned our man yeah uh was that was Anthony Grant with no he would have

[00:42:52] that was shock as smart you're right that was shocker yeah uh and then 2018 loyal Lish Kago

[00:42:58] course you know sister gene uh and then uh team we're familiar with 2021 UCLA uh

[00:43:05] beat us in the sweet 16 then yeah you know they weren't playing game they're

[00:43:11] um yeah yeah and when I went from the playing game to the final four I really you know they were

[00:43:16] actually what I'm starting to remember the conglomerate did it a day almost half first shot to beat them

[00:43:25] um I mean they were made in the first title again in the year

[00:43:28] yeah so in C state trying to make uh you know a lot of history too and they actually have a

[00:43:33] four point lead right now four point lead with uh 10 minutes left um and even this do run is a

[00:43:39] little surprising too you know um kind of similar to ours you know not a not a sender relarum by

[00:43:45] anything but a team with talent obviously a talent in the team that's finally clicking it seems like

[00:43:51] yeah um we talked when we talked about a couple episodes ago um they just

[00:43:59] since they've changed their formula and gone everybody kind of that uh

[00:44:06] McDonald's American type player and they've kind of lost the edge it may do do

[00:44:14] you know I don't I mean I I think people still this this like do but I don't think they hate

[00:44:20] you for do because there as much as it was at one point no not since coach K left it doesn't

[00:44:25] feel like yeah it doesn't seem like it and they don't have a player like we had talked about those

[00:44:30] are players who hate the people hate you know people hated they did read it you know people

[00:44:38] hated Paulus hated Christian Layton her way back in the day I mean hell there's a whole

[00:44:44] easy and 30 for 30 called I hate Christian Layton uh yeah but yeah you mentioned that the guys

[00:44:50] through the years every Duke team had that one guy that just pissed off other fans and opponents

[00:44:57] uh you know the great Paulus is that um you know back in the day I'm sure Bobby Hurley with

[00:45:04] like Bobby Hurley yeah Bobby Hurley that Cherokee Parks kind of took that mantle in the mid 90s for

[00:45:11] a little bit uh mentioned JJ Reddick he had guys um Grayson Allen that's that's who I'm trying

[00:45:18] to think of I was like there's a guy that's kind of you know playing well in the pros right now

[00:45:21] Grayson Allen was that dude he was kind of the last one really yeah this this Philip Palski kid

[00:45:28] kind of has it you know he's got his little tripping and stomping things uh yeah but um it's not

[00:45:34] to them it's not to them no no no no one hates Philip Pals like they hate those guys

[00:45:41] no but um yeah they're on there all the way but honestly I didn't think that this is a Duke team

[00:45:48] you can get to this level um no one of my brother I did it with two or three brackets one of them

[00:45:54] I think they could lose a very mind and you know my game again and they turned it up to a different

[00:45:59] level after that I mean that second round matchup uh they they throttled um

[00:46:07] and I came because they played in that second round but it was James Madison James Madison the Duke

[00:46:13] yeah they beat him by damn near 40 uh yeah and that was a good James Madison scene I mean it just

[00:46:19] come out to five 12 game themselves um

[00:46:25] um yeah so I mean this Duke team I mean they're one and then it just shows you the difference I mean

[00:46:32] if Duke wins this game I'll be this your 18th final four ridiculous yeah um

[00:46:40] um but yeah so what produced first since the 80s did I say that right yeah I think

[00:46:47] this would be in C States first since I think 86 the yeah the Jimmy V years that was maybe three

[00:46:55] the title yeah but I think it I think I saw something they made a fun yeah they made another

[00:47:00] one a few years later uh okay but yeah actually if I want to remember right it might have been 80

[00:47:06] yeah 83s when they won it I think I saw 86 earlier which is always here my dad

[00:47:11] points out as a Alan another disappointing Alabama team that should have made it I think they lost to

[00:47:16] Providence in the sweet 16 if I'm right coached by a guy named Rick Patino um

[00:47:24] yeah right uh getting shafted by the NCAA if you ask him uh uh state has opened up an eight point lead now

[00:47:36] I will say that would be a state does hold on to witness there but they got a big dude who's a unit out

[00:47:41] there he's not a slim dude him versus Eddie might be uh might be a battle yeah that would be fun

[00:47:48] to watch um because I mean he's not he's gonna stand this ground I mean you'd like him to

[00:47:53] fuck him out at all no and you know definitely you know not a basketball build it all I mean just

[00:47:59] with how he's built I mean he's 68 but uh 280 I mean he's uh I would say a more talented version of

[00:48:10] trying to show him Michigan you know he's gonna think kind of build there but

[00:48:15] probably more talented guy I mean he's uh I mean he's been in college I think he came in to the ACC

[00:48:26] with like uh I think he came in the same time as I was I didn't really understand so I mean he's

[00:48:34] evolved into what he is now so I mean he's been in there he's been there for a while and you know

[00:48:41] I came out I think for many I also favor this this tournament in for sure yeah um and in the wolf pack

[00:48:48] trying to do a very rare thing um trying to get to the final form both the men's and the women's

[00:48:54] side they're uh their women's team beat Texas earlier today uh even pretty handedly yeah

[00:49:00] and they will face now granite they coming up against their own bus all they will face South Carolina

[00:49:05] oh and they're um

[00:49:09] and they're seeing me final game so uh South is South Carolina

[00:49:15] pretty easily beat uh Oregon State earlier too um yeah I mean it was

[00:49:22] close for a little bit but yeah he turned into final white

[00:49:24] maybe five minutes I mean it took a two different level

[00:49:29] yeah um it's it's a feat that's actually happened um a decent amount of times um

[00:49:36] now we know I think you come in a women I think the one in the same year

[00:49:41] yeah so looking at this list starting back Georgia did it in 83 both the men's and women's made the

[00:49:47] final four and then Duke in 99

[00:49:51] Oklahoma 02 Texas 03 Yukon 04 Michigan State 05 LSU 06 uh Yukon did it three more times in

[00:50:01] 09 11 and 14 uh Louisville did it in 2013 when Louisville was like the best athletic department in

[00:50:10] the world they had uh the men's national title their women's team made the final four their

[00:50:16] caught their baseball team made the college-rolled series uh I think their softball team were a big run

[00:50:23] their football team won the sugar bowl that year that was the Teddy Ridgewater years

[00:50:29] and the Louisville was just on fire that year that's actually around the time I lived in Louisville

[00:50:34] so yeah that was oh yeah they loved it oh yeah big time uh and then we got two more Syracuse did

[00:50:39] in 16 and then South Carolina did it 17 um that's right I've got about that weird soft

[00:50:47] Carolina men's run yeah yeah yeah they kind of yeah we know Don Staley's doing it when she's what this

[00:50:53] is their but third four straight final four uh yeah I mean Dave they live they live in the final four

[00:51:00] yeah um but um so yeah crazy right now uh about eight minutes left in the game and eight point

[00:51:08] lead but uh yeah so we mentioned it's just a great time of year uh it's been and it's even better

[00:51:22] when your team actually uh doesn't get to the final four it's just so special um let me give

[00:51:30] everybody listen and advice it was given to me a long time ago but buy up all the merch you can

[00:51:35] t-shirts little uh I saw someone on twitter asking there it might have been a

[00:51:41] sometimes contributor Brian Oliu uh who has a peace out in the album take today too about his fan

[00:51:47] of the connection yeah that's a good piece yeah um she go give that a read folks um but I think he

[00:51:53] mentioned I think it was him uh that pizza should bring back their little mini final four balls they used

[00:51:59] to do yeah those balls were awesome uh yeah give me give me a basketball they Alabama logo on it

[00:52:08] with the final four logo that's um man we um no technical here for the NC State bench all right

[00:52:17] that could be a turn of point here two three two three points there in possession

[00:52:23] well yeah um yeah you have anything else to add on any uh the tournaments oh wait no I got some

[00:52:35] to my Auburn fan friends here you guys just gotta let it go

[00:52:42] I've seen a lot of post online a lot of social media stuff Auburn fans

[00:52:48] yeah oh well this is an easy run or oh it's you know your athletic director got you a good draw

[00:52:55] and there's an ad look maybe uh maybe the draw is not the hardest draw in the world but that's

[00:53:02] that's what this tournament happens man it's it's life in the the tournament

[00:53:06] we still have to beat the number one seed in the sweet 16 uh huh you still the

[00:53:10] still had to beat a red hot cleansing team you know um look that's just the way it is and

[00:53:19] and now you have to give up another thing that you thought you had over us now no more

[00:53:24] well you never made a final four talk well no no we have and now we have and you also had your

[00:53:30] coach saying roll tide on uh on national TV so I hate to see it but we can tease the same

[00:53:39] yeah oh Chuck just hey Chuck gives respect when the respects do he knows uh yeah

[00:53:46] well we're free there wow oh you might oh I think yeah you're about a second ahead of

[00:53:54] me because I just saw yeah Duke did not take advantage of that technical possession

[00:53:59] there's no right there go well nine yeah man and that didn't see state crack that didn't see state

[00:54:07] and that's the thing you know in these tournament games you know if there was any um you know

[00:54:12] and then the neutral somewhat of a site when it just gets definitely jumps on that

[00:54:17] lower seed bandwagon yeah and this was what in Dallas right now so

[00:54:24] yeah I'm sure there's no love for good things yeah same bad it's just there definitely

[00:54:30] filling the fill in the wolf packs line and getting behind them

[00:54:37] but yeah uh it's been great and one more weekend to go and then you get a little sad that it's over but

[00:54:45] uh someone never forget

[00:54:48] no no um exactly it's just it's that special because you never know when it'll happen again

[00:54:55] yeah because you got to get hot at the right time it's not just about being a good team it's

[00:54:59] about being knowing when to turn it on um oh exactly

[00:55:05] yeah um how have your brackets held up mine urges dead they're just trash I mean nobine

[00:55:13] let me tell you so we did a family bracket this year let's just say my eight my nine nine-year-old son

[00:55:23] who doesn't watch he'll sit in the room with me and basically talked to me the whole time about

[00:55:28] anything other than basketball it's in first place right now that's just like 85 percent yeah

[00:55:38] so this kind of shows you where the back is going this year so yeah uh my boost to the whole family

[00:55:45] wife got her son's yeah sitting last place nobody do let's see right now yeah mine just

[00:55:53] the mine was dead oh man a while ago but officially it mine was I at least still had all my final

[00:56:00] four teams coming into this weekend and then Arizona lost and it's like all right well lost them

[00:56:06] and then Houston lost it's like oh shit well there goes that but I still had a you con I got you

[00:56:13] con in yeah and I actually had yeah me too because I had Tennessee going over Purdue and that didn't

[00:56:20] happen yeah um so looking at the Alabama take the excuse me they're taking on sports

[00:56:27] uh bracket challenge right now a man see who elect to kick ass don't know who that is uh

[00:56:35] it's in the currently in the lead but they had Houston as their champ so

[00:56:41] uh not gonna happen for them um that was you know that was a tough way for Houston to talk about

[00:56:47] Houston I mean you know your star player uh ankle injury set up most of those second half there

[00:56:55] and you're gonna do one by four there I mean uh shed plays you know you some probably playing

[00:57:01] today yeah that's tough um it's tough well we do have though oh or buddy Nate Barfield

[00:57:11] uh second place right now and he's got Purdue as his champ so um and and he's got you he's got

[00:57:20] Purdue over you con title game so you can get those points too yeah it's fall back

[00:57:26] and then way down there very interesting but oh Caleb Johnson we mentioned made fun of them

[00:57:34] last week because he was damn near last place but Homer that he is has Alabama as his national champion

[00:57:41] so he could actually he could actually turn around and get some points here if things go right for him

[00:57:51] but uh say oh there's a new little feature here uh you can forecast it oh let's see let's see

[00:57:59] so if you go micro you go to win it yeah if let's see if Yukon wins the title someone named

[00:58:07] fifteen dollar pretzel at Coleman uh will win it if Purdue wins the title it is a whole Nate

[00:58:15] Barfield that will win it right if Alabama wins the title indeed it would be old Caleb Johnson

[00:58:22] winning look at that if Duke wins the title it would also more than likely be Nate uh depending on

[00:58:31] I think who makes a title game and all that and if NC State wins it says Nate's got a 65 percent

[00:58:38] chance to win if Duke wins it and same thing as NC State so oh oh buddy Nate might uh

[00:58:46] be cutting down the proverbial nets yeah getting a shirt

[00:58:52] uh probably the toughest competition out there yeah

[00:58:56] I'm not a good one good to be

[00:58:59] and on the women side of things I see of course the stair down doing that challenge you were doing

[00:59:03] hot for a while I was doing good and then I lost uh lost seats after you see LA going to the final

[00:59:10] four um that didn't work out they went into a election team I should have known that I wasn't

[00:59:17] gonna happen because of course no matter what everybody wanted to get the Kaylyn Clark

[00:59:23] um the Iowa LSU rematch and of course we'll see that tomorrow night at lead 8 for chip to the final four

[00:59:31] I mean of course I mean what would be with the club that's what they're getting to like

[00:59:36] known to them who was a guarantee that you guarantee to happen there

[00:59:43] yeah I've actually and I have come back in

[00:59:47] this uh

[00:59:52] I'm not third place yeah I had Stanford in that bracket but I did have Iowa I do have

[01:00:01] or I have Iowa

[01:00:03] um

[01:00:05] I had South Carolina course I think everyone had South Carolina at least in the final four yeah

[01:00:11] you thought they were lose for us let's see looking at the forecast here if South Carolina wins

[01:00:17] a title would be someone coach dead she has an 84% chance she would take it

[01:00:24] if I

[01:00:29] If Iowa wins the title oh Mr. Blaine Duncan has a 77% chance to win the thing he would need

[01:00:38] uh see he needs I would have win it all obviously and he did I'll tell you what this matchup

[01:00:46] hinges on tomorrow is Yukon USC that's the big one because if Iowa wins the title I need I have

[01:00:54] USC beat Yukon to get the final four so I need USC to win the more night and then I might actually

[01:00:58] have a chance to win this look at that get myself a stair down shirt now

[01:01:03] oh

[01:01:07] but yes I'll be interesting to see if USC wins it

[01:01:12] oh someone named Trich 27 oh actually that's a oh a toss up between them and someone else

[01:01:20] I don't think anyone picked LSU to win it no no one picked LSU to win the title

[01:01:24] not for us one person named Hadi Tadi Lady picked Yukon to win it so if they come through when she

[01:01:31] gets comes down from ninth place to win it interesting oh yeah but uh yeah you mentioned that

[01:01:41] game no no she's actually if I'm right I think Mal is um

[01:01:49] yeah for sure she would have been having Tadi Lady now I think she's actually rebel in Bama if

[01:01:55] I'm not mistaken yeah yeah yeah yeah because she does indeed live in Bama how far does she

[01:02:03] at Ole Miss go and I wonder how much where where see where's Ole Miss oh she had them making

[01:02:13] the elite eight losing South Carolina okay so wow but you know that's what they made the second round

[01:02:21] yeah that's right but no yeah you mentioned of course tomorrow night's the big one LSU

[01:02:27] Iowa Caitlin Clark a chance for revenge LSU a chance for a second straight final four of course

[01:02:33] the Kim Mokie Washington Post then came out at it was it wasn't yeah she made it out to be more

[01:02:41] than it was you know it's a it's a good profile I would say that is journalism major

[01:02:47] there's a good profile like a good piece of writing just solid journalism um detailed her kind

[01:02:53] of falling out with some family and former players but it wasn't no yeah it wasn't like oh she

[01:02:59] used to punch players in the locker room yeah I mean it's kind of I don't know I kind of

[01:03:06] I thought that was all stuff people knew yeah yeah it turns out though okay we can well it turns

[01:03:13] out the bad piece came from an LA Times writer that for the LSU UCLA preview he did very weird writing

[01:03:24] calling LSU players what they call devil debutants and it's a really weird piece of bad writing

[01:03:33] so that's who she should get mad at yeah yeah

[01:03:39] I don't know I don't know I don't know I don't know maybe the fire of the squad it seemed

[01:03:53] exactly yeah kind of rally them around you good ball there because you know there's also the talk

[01:03:58] about that you know that she's supposed to say bad things by Angel Reese you know so I don't know if I mean

[01:04:08] and she's a she's the character herself Camoque is I mean uh

[01:04:14] but you know her either she's the winner everywhere she goes I mean she was a leader Baylor

[01:04:20] as I'll just do back in prominence almost for the second straight final four just for

[01:04:25] what second you're in in bad moves so I mean she knows how to win yeah um we can say that'll be

[01:04:31] of just a heavyweight fight Monday night um and right now they see state right yeah I get

[01:04:42] and getting that kind of uh solo spot that that showcase yeah they were um yeah the numbers are

[01:04:49] gonna be elite tomorrow night and as we speak in see state pulling away from Duke here up 12

[01:04:55] with what right under four minutes ago uh blue that was an miracle yeah but that's how she

[01:05:03] stayed done there by recently I mean they've passed and called games and then put it away late

[01:05:08] and there's another that's been there M.O. making it be

[01:05:14] there's an epic epic run there uh well for the wolf pack uh as we said

[01:05:21] now they make it so let me you have uh in she stayed and what in she stayed Purdue I mean

[01:05:32] uh yeah but that is yeah yeah that's that's what all lies on that uh real quick elsewhere around

[01:05:45] the sports world of course it was uh opening weekend or opening week in a major league baseball um

[01:05:53] looks like one so to making himself comfortable there in pinstripes

[01:05:57] yeah um yeah good weekend uh braze my braze took two or three from the fillies um always good to

[01:06:04] you know start the season off of the series when the orios look like they're gonna uh just run

[01:06:12] know yeah be a beast again you know that trade for Corbin Burns or picking him up but it's huge

[01:06:18] for them he great performance for him to uh start opening day um uh yeah so it's a fun time for sports

[01:06:31] I hope in my fantasy baseball team holds on for the first win of the year

[01:06:37] NBA we mentioned you know it's that time they kind of holding pattern teams are just jocke in

[01:06:42] position uh we mentioned and the west kind of you know we're like at the teams are kind of said

[01:06:47] it's just about where you go but the Houston Rockets of all teams

[01:06:52] man down the heater trying yeah on a heater trying to make a run at the warrior so that last play in spot uh

[01:07:00] interesting you know I'm trying to pull up the standards right here

[01:07:04] let's see oh big defensive play but do it right there are they gonna call golden and who

[01:07:10] uh Houston is only a game behind golden state right now um

[01:07:16] so that youth movement in Houston there maybe uh that would be huge for them to get into that play in

[01:07:23] look what you've seen we've got used to tonight

[01:07:26] oh I look like a good block I put them tonight yeah that bit and then that's a different

[01:07:32] like I called to them uh some of the tournaments on yeah but you're playing good ball

[01:07:39] and then we got two crucial wins on the road both games going in each Sacramento twice in a week coming

[01:07:47] yes oh huge you know y'all want Dallas is one six in a row nine of their last ten and they are now

[01:07:53] a game and a half above Phoenix for that six seed so that's you know what we've talked about all year

[01:07:59] especially far two teams yeah get out of that playing get out of that playing for sure um and even

[01:08:06] the pelicans even in the mavericks too close a gap on the clippers uh um um pelicans only

[01:08:13] game and a half that that Dallas only two behind the clippers for that four seed uh in first

[01:08:17] around home court advantage so and that'd be huge and I like it too uh you know it seems like

[01:08:25] ever since the trade deadline I mean we made some trade it stays and everybody came in things have

[01:08:30] found we've uh turned it around I mean we've since the trade deadline we've been put up numbers

[01:08:37] uh just winning games um and found an inside presence as decent and I'm excited I'm much more

[01:08:44] excited this time than I would last year for the matter I don't know I don't think we're in a

[01:08:48] championship but I think we'll make some noise but yeah just it's you got to get a guy like Luke

[01:08:54] in the play offs uh just like the pelicans you got to you got to get Zion in the playoffs like yeah um

[01:09:02] that point you never know yeah uh NFL nothing really major going on there um they did announce a

[01:09:12] the new kickoff rule yeah yeah band the hip drop tackle and then uh gonna adopt the XFL style kickoff

[01:09:23] where the two teams line up like what ten yards from each other don't move until the receiver catches

[01:09:30] a ball um I mean it's supposed to yeah cut down on uh injuries uh it'll definitely take getting

[01:09:39] used to for people yeah I mean I don't know it's seemed like a lot of kickoff go up the back of the

[01:09:47] games on anyway yeah today's kickers are just too good you know just booming it yeah I don't

[01:09:54] know what it'll change I mean I don't know but but I guess the biggest thing is what is it I guess

[01:10:03] there's a does that pretty much eliminate all the side kicks in uh no they said that uh teams have

[01:10:10] the so it does eliminate surprise on side kicks um which yeah rare in the the pro game uh more of a

[01:10:20] college saying of course the most famous one the Saints uh to start a second half and they're

[01:10:24] super bowl win over the Colts but um no they say that if you want to do an onside kick you have to

[01:10:30] tell the rest beforehand and then then they line up into classic formation and you go after it

[01:10:36] there um so nothing too much change I mean obviously no you know one team's gonna learn it so yeah

[01:10:43] it's just uh waiting for the draft uh we've been talking about that for a while at the end of next

[01:10:48] month there about a month from now um to be yeah I think that's and then uh go ahead

[01:10:56] now as we want to say and then with it just for a quick little drop tackle thing I mean

[01:11:00] it's gonna be hard to call I mean you that think if it's some egregious I mean

[01:11:06] you know it's gonna be a judgment call I mean someday you're gonna be pissed off at that rule I think

[01:11:12] yeah I think uh I think I saw you post something on this week about uh uh

[01:11:16] uh that technical would have been a penalty and the the Rams tightened Super Bowl from back

[01:11:21] yeah you can't put them one you imagine that getting flag on and you crazy crazy and that's not gonna

[01:11:29] yeah but again it's one of those things yeah you understand why they do it because it

[01:11:34] it can result in injuries of course the Ravens lost Mark Andrews this year for a while because of

[01:11:40] a hit drop but uh and I mean that's why we lost Tony Pollard in the playoffs um yeah 49ers but

[01:11:47] you know it's a judgment call so it's coming it's hard to call I mean

[01:11:52] let's see how much of that could get called or how much of an effect that'll have in the game

[01:11:57] it sounds terrible now probably won't be as bad as we as we think it'll be but we'll see

[01:12:05] uh but yeah anything else you wanted to touch on

[01:12:08] well just a beautiful beautiful weekend yeah I was gonna say uh for a second straight week I think

[01:12:15] we can agree on what's done up real good it's it's Alabama going in the final four man

[01:12:20] yeah like we said something we thought we'd never see yeah or especially you know after we

[01:12:30] talked about last year a team all that talent the potential Branda Miller you're like man if

[01:12:34] we don't make it this year then win is our time yeah uh but low and behold Mark's here is

[01:12:41] that dude yeah it's gonna be weird it's gonna be a little weird to tune into the final four next

[01:12:52] Saturday and see our guys playing there yeah we're there yeah bring it on you con uh let's go

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[01:13:40] yeah well used to be you know final four games Saturday night in WrestleMania Sunday then title

[01:13:44] game Monday but now WrestleMania two nights you got today so much going on now. I was

[01:13:50] seeing my otherwise Saturday won uh on a replay yeah you're gonna have to watch that later yeah

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