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I am Gary Parris. Welcome back.

CBS Sports Eye on College Basketball Podcast.

Where we sometimes discuss Kamble Fighting,

Dotto Birds, Leaky Black Matt Norlander is here with me.

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We're talking Kamble Fighting before we get out of this show.

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Keep it going. Kamble Kambles still alive in the postseason.

We'll get there.

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Wherever you listen to podcasts like Apple or Spotify,

let's get into it.

The place to start is Ann Arbor.

We're Michigan and Michigan State.

Close the regular season on CBS.

It's America's most watched network.

It's the network of stars.

Final score.

Michigan 90, Michigan State 80.

Axel Lindembourg got 27 points.

Three rebounds, three assists that should secure

Big 10 player of the year honors for him.

Norlanda, what'd you make?

Of Michigan completing the regular season sweep of the Spartans.

And I think they'd already locked up a one seed.

But now there's no debate whatsoever.

I think that's been, yeah, I think it has been without debate for a week.

But regardless, yes, it was a wonderful game.

Had our A team on the broadcast.

And they were in a tremendous form.

Love to hear that.

Frankly, every CBS broadcast is incredible.

But earnestly, if I was not employed by CBS Sports, I'd be like, damn,

that's the company that puts on better college basketball product

on television than anyone else.

And our announcing teams are a big part of that.

Loved hearing it so much a bit.

And we got a really good physical intense game.

Michigan State was in it plenty.

Kohler had 23, fierce had 22.

He had nine assists.

Leninborg did win Big 10 player of the year as a result of this.

We thought it was open ended going into the weekend just a little bit.

He goes for 27 points.

Five of six from three point range in this one.

And as a result, it improved his case

to be a first team all American all the more.

That 27 was the second most he put up in the game this season.

Michigan is now 19 and one in the big 10 this season.

And has outscored its opponents by 301 points.

This is a Berson Banger here.

So I asked to Jared Berson.

Highest scoring differential in Big 10 place in 74 75 Indiana,

which didn't play this many games then.

And outscored opponents by 410 Bob Knight famously said his 74 75 team

was better than the 75 76 team that went undefeated.

Scott May got injured toward the end of that 74 75 season.

That's why the Hoosiers did not win back to back instead.

75 trivia time.

Who won the title in 75 GP?

Oh, man.

Was it UMass loyal?

It was the second greatest coach in UCLA history.

Oh, yeah, no Johnny Woodland came to 70 Johnny Wooden.

Johnny Wooden Michigan finishes the league,

averaging 85.95 points per game and conference play.

Indiana is also invoked here, but it wasn't 74 75 or 75 76.

The 92 93 Indiana team was the last time a Big 10 team

scored that many per game.

So a wonderful game.

Good push out of Michigan State, which had it one,

I think would still be in the mix to get at the final one

seat if it could win the big 10 tournament.

Could some help that's off the table now.

And then I don't have too much to say about it,

but I know is always asked about it afterward.

I know there was immediate chatter about it.

I get all that fears did a mule kick again.

Is no really did push back on it.

Both when Tracy asked them on the court in the game.

And then even after word, I don't think we have the video.

We don't need the video.

It's a 90 second clip.

I get all that.

But it is kind of like, I want to pull sides here.

You know, Mara had a technical in this game as well.

This was a real rivalry.

Like to me, entertaining is how game you had real intensity.

The players care, the coaches care.

There's real animosity with both sides.

By the way, these are two amazing coaches.

Amazing schools, amazing programs.

Two teams that can get to Indianapolis.

I was entertained by all of it.

I think Tom said something afterwards.

I saw the quote didn't hear it.

I hope to God.

It's not one of those just made up things that people share for.

Yeah, but he was something like, hey, there's a great environment, especially for here.

Or something like that.

He was like, Ray, his place was popping, you know, relative to what this place usually is like.

It was good.

The saltiness.

I love it.

It's good.

Like those are two great, like great basketball coaches who I think deep down probably respect

each other as basketball coaches.

But you just irritate each other a little bit.

Like I know guys who have been friends or at least friendly.

And then they get rival jobs in the same state.

And they told me like, we don't start hating each other,

but it is harder to like hang out.

It's harder to just like text all the time.

You're often, your fans are pitting you against each other.

The recruiting stuff.

You're banging heads a lot.

He's cheating you.

He thinks you're cheating him.

It just, it can get complicated.

And it feels like the dusty and Tom thing is probably gotten to a point where they just irritate

each other a little bit.

But I'm with you.

Fun basketball game.

The fierce thing, I guess, it doesn't look right.

I mean, I don't know what to say.

It doesn't look right.

I know that there are other moments in maybe not every basketball game,

but certainly lots of basketball games where other players do other things.

Generate technical files or attention.

But this is, to me, this is obvious why fierce gets all the attention in Mara doesn't.

Because one guy's become the face of it this season and the other guy's not really.

Like this is the, unfortunately, this has become part of Jeremy Fears story.

This is what people were to associate with him when they were to associate with him at all.

Hopefully he can shed that, but it's still there.

So anytime something like what happened today happens,

it's going to be the thing that gets clipped, that gets slowed down, that goes viral.

And I'm sure Tom understands, understands why.

Yeah.

We'll see if this can shed and was just a, you know, a rivalry game kind of thing.

But, but I get it again, entertaining, salty.

There was a Jeremy Fears DPO Y sign in the stands and then below it,

it's a dirtiest player of the year.

That's the good kind of rivalry smack talk that I want to see.

So quality win by Michigan, it does have a chance at the number one overall seed.

Just not, not just because of where it stands in the, in the pecking order,

but with Duke, we'll get to Duke in just a second.

You want to keep touring around the Big Ten GPU, anything else from this game?

Or you want, because the Big Ten actually had a few notable results.

Even as we go live here, you know, in Nebraska, just clinched the two seed in the league tournament.

We'll show you the conference brackets here on YouTube live.

Later in the show when we look ahead to what's coming.

But another good win by Nebraska, really a nice emotional moment with the Hoyberg family.

All that Iowa, another team with an uninspiring record that couldn't get it done.

We'll get to that as well.

What else do you want to talk about from the league GP?

Yeah, let's, I mean, we can put a button on Michigan, Michigan State by saying this.

I did pregame on HQ with Fink.

And one of the points he made is that no matter who wins this game,

Michigan's going to wake up on Monday and be a projected one seed in the tournament.

And Michigan State's going to wake up on Tuesday and pre a projected two seed in the tournament.

I think that's true.

Michigan is awesome.

Michigan State is also really good.

I think the one seed stuff for Michigan State probably done now with this loss.

But I would still have them projected as a two seed right now.

And I guess at this point, that's where I would assume they're going to land on selection Sunday.

Elsewhere in the big 10.

Final score was constant 97 Purdue 93.

The currently unranked Badgers now have four wins.

Over teams ranked in the top 11 of the net.

Three of those wins came on the road.

Meantime, the preseason number one boilermakers just finished tied for six in the big 10

with five losses on the season inside McIarina.

What's the more surprising of those two sentences?

Good setup.

In the here and then now, Wisconsin.

But if we went back to the start of the season, it would be Purdue,

which continues to baffle.

I don't know what's going on.

I want to talk about both teams equally, but let me just go into Purdue first.

I don't get what's happening here.

This team is too veteran-laden, talented,

well-compensated, even for Purdue's level, those guys aren't taking massive discounts.

Okay, I don't get it.

Five losses at home in the same year, preseason number one team.

Braden Smith, not going to be a first team all-American,

not going to be a second team all-American.

I guess I got to see what he does in the tournament for the rest of this month if you can get

on 13-mile American.

Just weird.

By the way, might lead college basketball as the NCAA's all-time assist leader,

but did not lead the big 10 and assist in his senior year of college.

That goes to Jeremy Fears.

Still the second off, best offense in the country, per possession,

according to Ken Palm, adjusted for competition, 39th and defense, eighth overall at Ken Palm.

It's not bad, but if you've watched this team, if you've actually watched the games

over and over and over again, it has either slow starts, missed opportunities in the second half.

Purdue has now dropped four of its final six to end the regular season.

I don't get it.

It's almost like it's just, I think I said this a week ago.

It feels like Purdue is like daring everyone to pick against it in March,

so we can just do a complete reversal and then go ahead and make it to the final four.

At this point, not knowing what the bracket's going to look like, I mean it.

I would have to think long and hard about picking this team to win two tournament games.

It has looked that uninspiring.

Now, painters are really good coach.

They still have good talent.

Fletcher lawyer is now the all-time leader in Purdue and made threes.

I get that TKR.

He's got some ability.

CJ Cox has had some moments as of late, but they need the CJ Cox to avoid the loss

against Northwestern last Wednesday.

Like it was very closely to being a defeat for Purdue.

So I don't know.

I'm just a I'm vexed by the 97.

I think 97 that they allowed here was the most by any opponent this season as well.

So it's not just the loss.

It's that 97.93 finish.

Wisconsin hit 18 triples in Hostel Territory, allegedly Hostel Territory GP.

I got another person banger here.

Wisconsin's the only team to make 15 plus triples in four wins over ranked opponents in the

last 20 years.

And so that's almost certainly ever.

Man, oh, man, oh, man, that was just that was nuts.

In fact, they made 18 in this game.

They've made at least 15 plus in the four wins over the ranked opponents.

They've got the season insane.

Shot 53% in this game.

Got on the Badgers.

We can talk about them as well, but the Purdue stuff continues to vex me.

I don't know if this team is going to be one and done in the big tent tournament,

but it's just not what we thought and does rank fairly high in my opinion on the list of

most, if not disappointing teams, like confusing teams in the country.

Very confusing, just because we know this coach, we know this core, we know this program,

we know that building.

There is no indications that that this was the way this was going to unfold.

And there's been moments throughout the season, like games where you go, okay, that's it.

That's a team that could throw their hat in the conversation to go win six games and

hold the national championship trophy.

But mostly, they've looked short of that.

And the problems are obviously on the defense of them.

Since February 17th, Purdue is two and four,

27th at Torvitt, yeah, I sort of dated a day.

Second in offensive efficiency in that stretch.

So February 17th, two and four, 27th at Torvitt, second in offense.

Guess where they rank in defensive efficiency in that six game stretch nationally?

I'll go 184.

You need to make that number sound worse.

Oh my gosh, there's sub 200.

Yes, give it to me.

228, Purdue ranks 228th nationally in adjusted defensive efficiency according to Torvitt.

Since February 17th, in this six game stretch, and when they're two and four, I mean,

that's tight.

What?

Like, how does that even happen?

By the way, Wisconsin averaged 1.47 points per possession.

It was in Kenpom's database history going back to the mid 90s.

No team had ever put up a better points per possession mark against Purdue in its history.

This happened at Mackie.

I mean, good God.

How do you think it's going to end for Purdue?

Like, like, are they going to fix this?

Or have they become the team that we talk about almost every single.

There's usually one or two teams where it's this.

It's preseason.

Not necessarily number one.

It's top five.

It's top 10.

And then it's like every fourth podcast.

We're talking about this and then they go into the tournament and then it goes the way we think.

Like, is that what we're, is that what we're heading to here?

You know what it feels like?

Because I do think we get into a pattern of doing this with teams every year.

Like, the roster looks good.

They were preseason top this.

And they have some moments where they show you like what you thought they were going to be.

But largely, they're wildly disappointing.

But they have these moments.

And then we always wonder like, I'm, you know,

but when you get in the tournament, can it click?

And it is almost always.

Just disappoint more disappointment.

Like, these teams rarely just flip a switch and get hot.

And I'm not talking about like an NC state thing where it just comes out of nowhere.

I'm talking about this team was supposed to be great.

Hasn't been, but then gets great in the tournament.

That didn't usually happen too often.

We did it last season with Yukon.

It was like Yukon preseason top everything.

Got off to a rough start.

But, hmm, is it coming together?

Is it starting to come together?

Ooh, I wouldn't want to see them in the tournament.

Is it starting to come together?

Ooh, you never want to run into Dan Hurley.

And then it's like, yeah, they're gone.

Just like, you know, it's over.

They're just a disappointing team.

Gave Florida a good game.

But yes, never the less than a second weekend.

Right, yeah.

Right. And I would, I would be worried if I were a producer

and that this is starting to feel a little bit like that.

But I've, like I've said before,

I will never rule out anything for that coach,

that core, that program.

If you told me they did actually get it together

and end up in Indianapolis at the final four,

like that's not unimaginable for me,

but it is, it's harder for me to imagine

than it was say a month ago.

In the aggregate, Wisconsin also has some vexing stuff.

I mean, it lost at home to USC, got dropped by 14,

most recently at Oregon.

What, GP less than two weeks ago.

It's got some weird losses, but it's wins are incredible.

It's now at 14 wins in the big 10 for the six time ever.

Four of those have come under guard.

It has four straight wins over a top 25 opponent

for the first time since 14, 15.

You might remember that team and the fellows on there.

They only, oh yeah, by the way, made the national title game.

Wisconsin got incredible play at a Nick Boyd.

He had 23 points.

He had takeover mode late.

Blackwell also played very well in this game,

but Boyd was the guy who I think actually made sure

it was not going to go produce way in this one.

And what's kind of wild about Boyd is this.

The big 10 is, you have too many teams in the league, man.

There's too many good players in the back court.

You've got fears.

You've got Wogler has Boyd outplayed Smith at this point.

I mean, maybe like the big 10, I guess the player awards,

I think are going to come out here over the next day or two.

And there are two, you've got Bruce Thornton,

who just set the school record for most points.

It's one thing after another, after another.

And you got Bennett Sturts, like Boyd is extremely good.

And he deserves some love because Wisconsin,

one against Michigan State,

Wisconsin won at Illinois, Wisconsin won at Purdue,

Wisconsin won over Iowa.

I don't know where he fits in this mix,

but he's been one of the better players in the country this season.

And the big 10 just has straight up too many really,

really good guards in the conference this season.

I just wanted to give him a little love because he was key in this game.

One more to get to in the big 10.

And don't worry Ohio State fans, we got you.

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Ohio State's going to be in the bubble block.

Nebraska 84, Iowa 75 in OT.

It was on Fox late Sunday afternoon.

Finished a little bit after Michigan State.

Tremendous scene.

Oh, buddy.

If Sam Boydberg would have hit that shot at the bar,

or regulation, I know.

I was standing in my office like,

this is like, come on, come on.

I would have demanded.

We started the show with it if that went in.

Oh, you have to.

That was almost like we've had it.

We're eight days into this month.

And honestly, it feels like we've had a dozen amazing moments already.

That's at the top of the list if it would have gone in.

That had me feeling like dozer for the champion.

I felt the same stuff I felt during dozer for the champion.

The shot wasn't close.

But made it look good flying through the air.

I mean, if that goes in, you've got an all-time great father, son, college basketball moment.

I mean, like right up there with,

I was thinking about this earlier.

I was just like, first father's son moment that pops into my head.

You do it. Go.

The McDermott's only because he was awesome.

His final year, but there's probably something better.

The thing that popped into my head was Ron Hunter and RJ Hunter.

That moment.

Oh, yeah.

Come on now.

Come on, Alzheimer.

Yeah.

The stool, the whole thing.

But I was like, that Sam that moment would have been,

anyway, Nebraska wins it over time.

26 and 5 overall, 15 and 5 in the Big 10.

Two seed in the Big 10 tournament.

I would argue two seed in the NCAA tournament right now.

I think so too.

That's where I would have them.

I've got them in the top eight of the top 25 and one.

And I just loved the way, hey, I agree with you.

CES is the best.

Our people are incredible, but credit what credit is due.

I did like the way Fox sort of stuck with it.

And I know they were, I know they were just trying to feel.

I know what they were doing.

Like, I know how TV works.

They weren't like, hey, this is great.

Let's stick with it.

They're like, hey, we got to get to 58.

I know how it works.

But they head shots of Fred and Sam obviously,

but then they head shots of Carol.

That's Fred's wife, Sam's mother,

who we both met at Final Four is that she's delightful.

It's just a beautiful family.

And for them to have that moment,

and even pregame when they did the ceremony

and Fred here, I just love everything.

I could watch.

I'm a sucker for father son stuff.

I'm a sucker for like, I could watch that it's seen.

Like, we talked about it with the hurlies,

the McDermott's, that whole thing.

Everything.

Yeah, the Izzo's had this as well.

Yes, the Izzo's had it.

And even afterward, so post-game interview,

they do it jointly, Fred and Sam.

And Sam just said, you know, that's the person I look up

to more than anybody.

And I just hated it with the polls,

watching my dad go through that.

And because I knew how great of a coach he was.

And not to see him.

I was just like, I mean, I don't know.

I guess we all aspire to like, have your sons look up to you?

I don't know that we all hit that mark,

but I can't imagine a more awesome thing

to hear from your adult son

than that you're the person he looked up to.

And he's just thrilled that you're getting to have all this.

Like, I was, you can see Fred getting emotional.

I was, I was battling it myself up in the office.

I just thought the whole thing was sweet.

You can take it from there.

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I can't put it any better than you did there.

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and we're gonna start it in the ACC.

We're top ranked Duke, routed North Carolina.

That's the good news for the Blue Devils,

but there is some bad news.

We'll talk about that in a second.

First, let me give you the final score.

Duke 76, Carolina 61.

Blue Devils are now 29 and 2 overall,

17 and 1 in the ACC.

They won the outright conference championship by two games.

Their two losses are by a total of four points.

I mean, they're really close to being one of those all-time.

Let's talk about it, type of runs as it is.

They'll have to settle for being the top ranked team

in the AP poll and in the top 25 and one.

The more pressing matter is that Patrick Gangba

and Caleb Foster were both in boots on Saturday night.

That's 40% of the nation's top ranked team

starting lineup in boots on Saturday night.

How concerned should Duke supporters be?

Yeah, listen, this is the story coming out of this game.

It was a competitive game for a good while.

Carolina gave a good fight.

GP, this is the first time you and I are even talking

since the Wilson News broke.

And the fact that Carolina was able to even make a competitive

for a decent portion of the game

and then, oh, by the way, as Josh just mentioned,

just we got the cover right.

Even without Wilson, Carolina covered the number there.

So a little plus one on the final four and one,

I'm sure we were both under 500 regardless.

Another really entertaining battle there, I guess.

Boozler had 26, 15 and five.

That's over.

It's so nerve-y here.

Like, I actually thought about this.

It would take something like,

for CBS Sports purposes, it would take something like

Duke stunning upset in the second round of the tournament

and then either Yaxl, DeBonza or A Cuff lead their teams

to the national championship for,

okay, it can't even be the national championship

because we vote before the final four.

It would have to be insane for four games in a row

and Duke couldn't make the second weekend

for us to actually think about it.

And I don't even know if I could get there

at that point, even with that.

It would have to be, I don't think it's over.

I think we're done, all right?

I could imagine a Darius A Cuff going on a Kimber run.

Yes.

If that happens, yeah.

If it does happen, that's why at CBS Sports,

we do our All-American in player

that we do all of that after the elite eight

before the final four.

So the tournament does reflect,

but we don't let the final stage over shadow

and entire seasons worth of work.

I love the way that we do it.

I wish everyone did it that way.

So it goes, by the way, Duke passed two seasons

plus 824 point differential in the ACC.

Plus 824, 824 with a 36 and two record

against conference opponents.

It's insane.

It is ridiculous how dominant this team has been year

over year.

And yes, Booser is statistically even better

than Flag was last season.

He's now reliably a threat to shoot

from beyond the perimeter.

Amazing stuff.

But the story is the injuries now.

So the weird thing was like it felt like going in,

the chatter was like, Gangba might he be in

and then you're watching the broadcast.

It's like, that's dude, that's not playing tonight.

And then afterward, Shire says he's not going to play

in Charlotte at the ACC tournament.

The Foster injury didn't look good.

Reporters on the scene noted that he was emotional,

didn't look good.

Is he done for the season?

Shire's going to have media availability again on Monday.

I suppose we're not getting an update there.

I'm kind of wondering if we get any real update at all

on either of these guys before the tournament starts.

Because if Duke does not win the ACC tournament,

and that's hard to see, but you don't have two

of the starting five.

Yeah.

ACC just said, you never know, which it does

when the big tournament, like number one overall

could flip, like their regions aren't going to flip

but the number one could flip.

And it just, Duke has been a dominant team.

It's been amazing this season.

Two losses by a bucket.

And now you've got this, okay.

Are they going to be at 85% of the capacity moving forward?

Like where do they sit here?

So I did find it fairly notable.

Foster, I know he's not their best player.

He's not their second best player.

Might not be their third best player.

But he is a veteran back court presence.

And I'm sorry, I think that stuff really, really matters

at this time of the year.

I hope he hasn't played his last game this season,

but it's very much seems TBD.

It seems like his outlook is less optimistic than Gunquus.

Let me tell you how this is going to go,

because I've seen how these things go.

Duke will say one of two things about both of these players,

either that they're good to go or that they're day-to-day.

Nothing else will be said before selections end it,

because you don't want to say,

it's very much like, don't say anything that can

and will be used against you in a court of law.

You don't want the selection committee to say,

well, Duke told us that Caleb Foster's done until at least April.

No, the Caleb Foster is day-to-day.

Even if they had to do surgery on his ankle,

at some point, he's going to be day-to-day

through selection someday.

And then Duke will be seated based on,

I think, their full strength roster,

because I'd be shocked if they give anybody any indication

to think they're not going to have that

once the tournament starts.

But this is an ideal.

I don't really care what happened to the ACC tournament,

but I don't like the idea of bringing two players back,

perhaps for a second-round game.

I mean, the second-round games are, you know,

you can get got there.

First rounds, I'm not worried about that,

but the second round, you start playing.

And in a single elimination tournament,

where you only get one shot with every team

for your whole career.

Like John Shire will never coach the same team twice.

And you'd like for everybody to be as healthy

as they could be at this point in the season.

Obviously, this is a unique to Duke.

Injuries everywhere, right?

BYU, Texas Tech, you name it,

but Duke is the number one team in the country,

and that's why it is such a notable national headline.

One other thing to touch on in the ACC.

Go ahead.

You got that.

If you say it, if you don't, I'll inject it real quick here.

I was going to point to two coaching changes.

No, I was going to say this, talking about injuries.

Louisville did win at Miami.

And that's a really nice, Louisville.

Good boost into the tournament.

Mike Elbron, Jr., didn't play.

And that also seems like that's an open question,

F, if he'll even go in Charlotte.

So way too many injuries to way too many good players

in college basketball, I'm not liking this at all.

We are done.

Please know more, but just keep an eye.

Like there aren't, right?

Maybe Louisville is keeping it airtight, fine.

But it kind of feels like, when's he coming back?

Are they saving him for the NCAA tournament?

How about it's a back issue?

That's also tender.

Just keep an eye on that.

We have had two coaching changes.

Take it away.

Yeah, so in the ACC,

Georgia Tech has dismissed Damon Stodemire.

Boston College has dismissed Earl Grant.

I don't guess either one of these is a surprise,

tough business, and this is the tough side of it.

You don't win enough, you know, these days come.

But let me ask you a question,

because somebody asked me this,

and I figured it's at least bringing up.

If you start looking power conferences right now,

the coaches that have already been moved,

it's a drum tank, it's Damon Stodemire,

it's Earl Grant, depending on whether it's considered

official or not, it's, you know, Kim English.

Yeah, I think you can probably see

where I'm going with this thing.

Somebody said to me,

does it bother you that all these men look alike,

and none of them look like you?

And I said,

I don't know, let me ask Norelander.

So here I am, so you didn't answer it.

Now, I just, here's the thing.

I don't know if there's definitely something to make of it,

but I know that people definitely make something of it,

and I don't think it's worthy of being ignored.

Uh, yes, I have obviously noticed that some of it

is a function of the ACC tournament, for example,

all 18 teams don't go.

So Boston College seasons over, Georgia Tech seasons over.

If Bobby Hurley wasn't going to,

that's right, yeah, right.

He'll join this list soon.

He would join the list.

Badmata could join the list.

West Miller going to join the list

if they don't make the tournament.

Um, Matt McMahon might make the list.

Um, Jeff Capel, Black Coach going to,

going to make the list, Adrian Otrie,

Black Coach going to make the list.

Uh, the records are one thing,

but like Kimminglish and Damon Stautamire

were caught off after three seasons.

Earl Grant, Boston College of Badjob,

he's been there five years, they've never been good.

I get it.

Um, certainly.

Now, I will say like, there's still a,

uh, because this is,

this is obviously a very, uh,

and rightfully so, uh, a very important topic,

uh, amongst a lot of Black coaches.

Ed Cooley talked about this on the podcast,

when I sat down with him at, at Big East Media Day,

back in October.

Um, I think the candidate pool

for coaches on the, on the upswing here,

this, this cycle, like,

I'd like to believe that there's going to be a lot of them

that do actually get to fill some of these jobs.

So keep an eye on that as well.

Um, but yes, I, I have noticed it,

but some of it is the timing and, and, and I don't think any,

the one thing about all these situations is Georgia Tech.

I mean, it was cheap to fire.

I think you could have given them another year.

If you wanted Earl Grant was bad,

the Providence situation, like Kimmelley got three years,

I think you could have, uh,

Providence fans are going to be a gas at this notion,

but like, it's expensive to get rid of them.

I know it was super toxic with the fan base.

I get all of that, um,

maybe there needs to even be a bigger discussion

about why that's the case,

but that's Providence fans in general.

They're, they're passionate about how they want their morning coffee,

let alone the performance of their men's basketball team.

Uh, but you could have, in a, in theory,

you could have given Kimmel one more year,

see how it goes.

I don't have to pay all that money,

but that's not the way that it went.

So, uh, I have, I have noticed it for sure,

and I'm not the only one I got a,

I got a call on this in the past day or so as well.

Just say, hey, why is it started off like this?

And then we have to talk to you about the general care.

And the, and the other thing I,

and the, and the other thing I hear from,

from some coaches is that,

hey, and like, I can't defend or grant, right?

Or, but like, you know,

Josh Paster didn't like get off to the best of starts at Georgia Tech,

but they didn't get him after three years.

Um, and then the other question was,

like, who now gets these jobs?

Because one of the things we've seen happen in recent years is,

the black coach gets fired and,

I think the numbers have been skewed a little bit.

Do you have data on that that the,

I don't know, I don't have it right now,

but I mean, I will say like I had my,

um, I had my candidate list of guys like to keep an eye out for this,

this cycle here.

And I mean, you could have,

I'm thinking like up that you could have Chris Kerwell,

come on a young assistance to watch James Jones at Yale.

I like, if I'm Boston College,

why am I not talking to him,

Richie McCay at Liberty,

um, to K.O. Siddell.

Now he just lost to K.O. Siddell and K.C. Alexander just,

they just got bounced in their quarterfinals as one season,

their conference tournaments.

Tony Skins, another one.

Kellen Samson is going to get a job.

Mike Boyton will be up for some jobs.

A manual dildee at Duke,

Carlin Hartman at Florida,

Justin Ganey at Tennessee.

So Justin Joyner at Michigan,

heavily involved right now at Oregon State.

So there are plenty of black coaches that I think are going to get opportunities

and ultimately hired the cycle.

We'll see, but, uh, but yeah.

That's just an initial list of assistance to keep and head coaches to keep an eye out.

That's good stuff.

One last thing on this, then we'll move on,

but just at a curiosity.

I just, because one of the things I was hearing from a certain coach was like,

it's, it's fine.

You could find, but like we're, we, and it was a black coach.

He was like, we're not getting these opportunities.

Um, the, the, the way other,

the way white coaches are getting the opportunity.

That was sort of the thing.

And, um,

uh, so I just started looking at it.

Who do you think right now?

Just off the top of your head?

Mm-hmm.

Best team in the country led by a black coach right now.

Uh, the numbers are, the numbers are smaller than you think.

Uh, you're talking high major, just in general.

Just in general, just, you just named the best team in the country.

Hmm.

Wilmington was good, but they're now out.

Um, hmm.

I don't know.

I mean, I mean, Miami is what I'm, yeah, Miami.

Yep, yep, yep, yep.

But it's like Jay Lucas.

It might be Jay Lucas just got there.

Yep.

Yeah.

But just got there.

Look what he's doing.

Yeah.

No, it's great.

It's, he's been, he's really, really good coach doing a lot with a little pirate

aren't making the tournament.

But you know, he's done, he's done a good job as well.

But yeah, unless I miss something when I looked at the top 50 of the net,

there was one team in the top 50 with a black head coach.

Miami, those numbers have gotten skewed.

Um, that sounds like an offseason podcast.

Uh, let's move to the Big East.

These two, I think, can go together.

Final score market 68.

Yukon 62.

Final score St. John 72.

Seaton Hall 65.

So my red storm are outright Big East champs for the second straight year.

Um, and

after Yukon falls in Milwaukee over the weekend.

Norlander.

Yeah.

Yukon has now still not won a conference championship.

Since winning back to back national championships.

And did you anticipate this, this kind of fall off from the Huskies?

I wouldn't call it a fall off.

Yukon is still top 10 in the metrics, right?

Project.

I'm obviously joking.

If you idiots try to act like that was a serious comment.

I'm obviously playing around.

This was a shocking result.

I mean, I mean, come on, man.

I'm, I'm, I'm sitting, I'm sitting there watching my son's basketball game.

Thinking, okay, they might actually be able to somehow pull out this win.

But no, 68 62.

Hurley gets tossed $25,000 fine.

No suspension for the Big East.

I did, uh, look into it because obviously like Yukon fans don't think Hurley made contact.

And everyone in the Big East actually made contact.

Um, John Cal runs the, uh, the officiating for the Big East.

So I actually did look into this, um, in the advance of what came out on late Saturday when,

when he was not, uh, suspended.

And the Big East said we couldn't find verification of that.

And there wasn't concrete evidence.

But the director of officiating for the Big East called John Gaffney, who is no shrinking violet.

And I was told, ask Gaffney directly.

Did Hurley make physical contact with you and Gaffney told Cal?

No, that's what I was told.

Gaffney doesn't seem like he'd be anyone to take any kind of crap whatsoever.

But if he didn't, Hurley got as intimate as you possibly could have yelling sweet

nothings into Gaffney's ear.

And he blew a gasket because he wanted the foul.

I don't know.

Like, hey, blew a gasket because that's what he does.

That's who he is.

That's why he did it.

But like you blew the shot.

You blew the regular season championship, uh, you're ticked off.

You want the call.

You didn't need to act that way.

Hurley was on this podcast right now.

I guarantee you he'd regret it.

But guess what?

You can't do it in the moment, man.

You can't do it in the moment.

Now we have, have we had another incident with Hurley so far this season?

I don't care anymore.

I don't even care.

I'm not even saying like we need to be keeping a quota or a tally.

But as it happened, I was like, is this the first one of the year?

Did he actually make it to March 7th before there was a significant incident?

But on a different scale and to a different degree and to a bigger degree,

it's like the fierce thing.

Like one thing and everyone's going to reference the stuff that happened before.

So I thought they would suspend them for a game.

But the official that he yelled at apparently and told him he didn't,

he didn't make, he didn't bump me.

He just didn't do it.

He did not make malicious contact with me.

And so that's why he doesn't suspend it.

Yeah, um, I'm at a point with all that stuff where it's just like,

that is a Yukon problem.

Like I made it clear.

Like I, I, I don't think I would coach that way.

I don't think I would like to be coached that way.

But his players love him clearly and it obviously works.

So just whatever, at some point he might cross a line that you really can't cross

and he'll have to pay a price for that, a price bigger than $25,000.

And but you know, that'll be his problem, not mine.

As for the actual like call or non-call, here's 100% the truth.

Dan Hart, here at Hurley blew a gasket, as you say,

because that official didn't call a foul in that moment because it was his player driving the ball

and the other team's player trying to prevent the basket.

And Dan thought that should have been a foul in that moment

and that's why he flipped out and got the technical foul.

Here's the truth.

Had the roles completely been reversed.

What?

Yes.

And that play happened right in front of him the exact same way,

but it was a Marquette player driving and a Yukon player.

I mean, the physical nature of the moment is exactly the same.

All right.

And it is also a no-call or no, no, no, rather.

No, no.

The whistle is blown.

It's a foul.

So everything that happened in the play that you watch happens again just opposite roles.

It's a Marquette player driving and a Yukon player playing defense.

It looks exactly the same and the ref calls the foul,

which is what Dan Hurley says should have happened.

Do you know what would have happened if the ref called that foul in that moment?

He would have also blew a gasket and got a technical foul.

It would have all been the same.

So he didn't, he wasn't upset at the way the thing was called as much as he was upset as

the call didn't go his way because if it would have been roles reversed

and the call would have been made, he would have been upset about that too.

He just didn't go Yukon's way.

And then he does what he does often when things don't go Yukon's way.

It's a, it's a, it's a, not new, but that is what happened.

And I lose the one seat as a result.

Florida's now on the one line, Yukon, I guess never say never,

but it would take Florida losing immediately in the SEC tournament.

Yukon beating St. John's on the big east and like Houston not going far

for, for, in my opinion, for Yukon to rip the one seat back.

It still has two fewer losses.

But I said that when we had this debate a week ago or a couple days ago,

whenever it was time, what is it?

If they didn't lose again, both, I thought Yukon would have the tiebreaker.

Yukon did lose.

Now the calculus changes.

And not only did they lose.

Like they've got the, was that, was it quad two?

I'm looking right now, GP.

No, it wasn't.

That was, yeah, it was quad two.

Sorry, it was.

I wondered if it was quad three.

Now, so the Creighton loss at home is still the only quad three.

Yukon right now 16 and three and quad one and two six and one and quad three.

It is fifth and web still fifth and web.

It is behind Florida, which is fourth at this point.

It is a two seed.

Probably the, the best two seed right now.

But I think that Houston can pass it if Houston wins the big 12 tournament.

I think that would be the case.

Houston has two more Q1 and Q2 wins than Yukon at this point.

And they have the same amount of quad one victories.

Anyway, that was, that was a stunner.

Good for Shaka Smart.

It's been a tough year.

I get it.

You're going to have to really have some serious questions about what you're doing

and answers, hopefully, about the program.

But at least you got that last home game of the season.

You got to win.

You can at least salvage something and stun the entire country.

I don't think many people get market any chance going into that game.

I, you know, proud program.

Senior day capacity crowd or at least nice crowd.

I'm always going to give that a fighting chance, but I didn't expect it.

So yeah, like it shapes the outright Big E's champ.

Opens up that final one seed for Florida.

I think Yukon is now a two.

I think probably will be a two on selection Sunday.

And if I were a one seed, that would be the two seed I would want to avoid.

If you said, okay, you're a one and you can, you can identify one two seed

that you push on the other side of the bracket.

They're not there.

Yukon, Michigan, state, Illinois, Houston, Nebraska.

Which one do you want to avoid the most?

I think I'd just rather get away from Yukon.

Yukon or Houston, it's one of those two.

But come on.

Hurley's got two national titles this year about on the roster.

Like I understand like someone just said in the chat,

like Houston's got a national title ceiling, but the lowest floor.

And there might be something to that.

Although I almost wonder if Illinois is in that conversation as well.

Two seeds in general right now teams in that discussion.

I find it's super fascinating heading into, you know,

or we're a week out from selection Sunday.

Oh, by the way, folks, we'll know the bracket less than a week from now.

Let's move to the big 12.

I'm going to run you through three results real quick.

Yep.

Then you could just take it wherever you want to take it.

Final score, Arizona 89, Colorado 79.

Nothing really here.

Other than it's worth acknowledging that Arizona is 29 and two.

They went 16 to two in the big 12 won the league by two games.

Four years ago, Kansas had won a 17th big 12 title in a 19 year stretch.

Then comes realignment past three big 12 champs.

The past three big 12 champs have been Houston, Houston, and Arizona.

Two schools that weren't even in the league four years ago.

Final score, Kansas 104, Kansas state 85.

Darren Peterson, 10 to 15 from the field, 27 points, five rebounds for a cis.

He played 29 minutes.

Final score, BYU 82.

Texas Tech 76.

AJ DeBonza, 21 points in 40 minutes.

Boy, they ain't going to bang on nickname him, DNP.

They ain't going to nickname him, DNP.

He'll play all 40.

Robert Wright got 27.

BYU just needed to stop the bleeding.

He had lost three straight and nine of 13.

But that was a nice win in what was likely DeBonza's final home game.

Regardless of what he says.

Yeah, I know.

I don't have a lot here.

And you know what, we can even keep him moving in this regard.

Your boy here is hopping on a bird in less than in what two two days or so.

And I'm going to the big 12 tournament.

So I'm going to see a lot of these teams.

We'll be able to talk on the newer, more good out of Peterson.

Arizona found himself in a closer game and expected on the road against Colorado.

Got it done.

And BYU did need that kind of win.

I want to see if that transfers over at all to the big 12 bracket.

But I'm excited to be on the ground there in KC and see who shows up

and what we get there and what's plenty on the line.

A lot of interesting stuff that awaits with the big 12.

All right.

Let's go over to the SEC and tip our hat to the conference champs.

They are Florida 84 Kentucky 77 Gators.

25 and six now 16 and two in the SEC.

One the league outright by three games.

They are 20 and two since December 13th.

Since that day.

Yeah, I was certain data earlier today.

Since December 13th.

Florida is 20 and two and according to Torvick.

The top four teams in the country since that day are Duke, Florida, Michigan and Arizona.

The four schools that are projected to be one seeds right now.

Funny how that works.

Florida got out to a good start.

I kind of want to split this into here because Kentucky just can't keep doing this man.

Florida hasn't lost since January 24th.

It's an absolute freight train right now.

And it looked like Florida was pacing itself to like a 22 point win here.

Finds a final is 84 77 Kentucky.

They actually blew a call.

Florida was out of bounds.

I think it was as a club star.

I think it was a club star that was out of bounds.

But they missed it.

It was a five point game at that point.

Florida got the bucket.

If it was Kentucky's ball instead.

Maybe it turns into one possession game, but that's not what happened.

And don't get down so big early.

It keeps happening with Kentucky.

Duckies 19 and 12.

Ten and eight in the league.

Oh, I had himself another really nice game.

But you had Florida come into your building and a chance to really do something.

They got off to us last hours.

It's just bad for Kentucky.

We'll see if they can get into

Nashville and make some noise.

Florida just continues to be that.

How is one of my favorite players to watch in the entire sport?

And good play out of fland and Lee for sure.

Bigs are the bigs and they get it done.

They grabbed Kentucky for at least half as a pride and making a game in doubt late.

But Florida's the final one.

And it knew that it was in a position because this game came after the Yukon loss.

We go. We went to Kentucky.

We know we'll be in position in the projected practice to be the final one.

And it got it done.

You hear that?

You hear that big blue nation?

Norlanders proud of your boys for.

At least they didn't roll over and lose by a Florida team that has that is vaporized.

Plenty of opponents.

At least Kentucky didn't do that at home.

I will say this.

Because then like Dickie V jumped on it.

Man, I appreciate you injecting this because because I know if I tell you sometimes

are a rep for like I get it like he's he's a cheerleader for the sport.

I think that's fine.

His role is fine.

But ever so often like he'll he'll drop in and say something.

You take it away here.

But I appreciate what sometimes when he says that because I actually think that does mean

something in kind resume.

He was just like, hey, reportedly is $22 million.

They spent on this roster.

And I don't feel like they bought the right groceries.

I mean, those are my words that he is.

But he more or less said, I don't think they roster built very good.

It is worth noting that like they're down to starters.

Like that matter.

Like it does.

But at the same time like.

Do we think this would be like they're 19 and 12.

If they had both the starters.

Like you I don't even think you can you can factor in quaintons being

involved because he was always returning from the injury.

So what like Jalen Lowe never had the injury.

Are they 20 and 13 or 2011?

They're way better than this.

I mean that those are two are they on paper.

Would they be two or three most important players?

If they're 100% healthy and on the court.

You're run your team point guard and your your your arms to the sky.

Big swaps and deflects everything.

Those are probably two of their three most important players.

And you just don't have them.

And you know, but a lot of these losses dude.

They weren't living in a Louisville game.

I got a hat low for some of this.

They lost by 15 to Bama.

They lost even though Missouri game at home flips.

They lost by 25 to Vandy.

We're never winning at Florida.

Lost by eight at home to Georgia.

Lost by 11 at A&M.

I don't know.

I just wonder if Mark Popes ever sitting around like a I got it.

We're not very good, but they've had some good wins.

They're just up and down.

They're completely unpredictable.

I have no idea what they're going to be over the next three weeks.

They are as unpredictable as just about any team in the country.

I guess I'd just be like.

You know, I know we should be better.

I'll own it.

This is the type of thing I'd be saying to myself.

I would mark Popes privately.

I take responsibility.

But grab Yaxl and Elliott could doe off of Michigan's team.

And let's see how great Dusty May is doing.

You know, like you take two of the top

dudes off of any college basketball team things change.

I don't need to make excuses for Kentucky.

I just I all I ever hear about is how

the only I ever hear of a Kentucky is 22 million and they stink.

22 million and they are terrible.

And I'm like they are missing like two very important players that

that should at least be in the conversation.

I got a real quick before we get to the next one.

Who do you trust more over the next two weeks?

Kentucky or Purdue?

Oh, Purdue.

Just because at least they got, you know, like,

at least they have their point guard in their big.

Okay.

Yeah, so but I don't need the one of them.

Neither one I'm looking real trustworthy lately.

I think Kentucky now.

What is it like two and five in the last seven?

The last seven and prior to that they've won like eight out of nine.

All right.

Hey, can we spend a few minutes on the Mac?

Dude, I am ashamed right now.

What are you ashamed of?

We have a team that ran the regular season table and it took us

50 minutes to get to them in this podcast.

What new thing could we possibly say about Miami, Ohio?

We could acknowledge greatness.

I've been at knowledge and greatness.

You're the one that's been hesitant to jump on.

Boabbin and knowledge and greatness for months.

Finally here.

All this.

Hey, what if they lose three games?

I got a CM lose one.

What if they lose two?

I got a CM lose one.

They still haven't lost.

They're a lock.

I wrote the column Friday.

I did HQ all this stuff.

They're a lock folks.

Not only is Miami a lock.

Miami is of no threat to go to Dayton.

Could lose the first game in the Mac tournament quarters to UMass.

Wouldn't surprise me if it happened.

We'll be going to Dayton.

We'll get to the bubble stuff in just a minute here.

Not going to happen.

Travis Fields team is going to the tournament.

Josh, what a toss up those results here from the poll here.

I wanted to see what folks thought they're going to end up seed wise.

They're in.

It's not debatable.

This isn't just like me saying it and thinking it's going to.

I know it's going to be true.

I'm having talked to committee members

when we did the mock selection committee

and knowing how much a zero running the table

means what that reflects.

I know they're not top 75 in any predictive mainstream metric.

I don't care.

Right now they are top 30

in web and in strength the record.

And by the way, they inadvertently picked up another quad two win

because right state happened to stumble into just getting into that category.

So as I wrote Friday night and GP wrote about this in his top 25 and one as well.

If you in any way find yourself trying to drag this team down,

you have so brutally missed the point and missed the plot.

This team is the best of college basketball

and what it can bring in the month of March.

I don't know if we will.

I really don't know if we'll ever see something like this again.

In this era with the portal and NIL.

A mid major team.

Go 31 and 0.

Run the regular season table.

By the way, the regular season is going to get larger.

So it will be 32 33.

It'll probably be at least 34 games in the next five years.

You really might not ever see something like this again.

And that game on Friday was incredible.

You are going to your rivals place.

That is real hatred.

They had not won in that building in 15 years.

The broadcast was awesome.

Miami couldn't stop picking up dead ball technical fouls.

It got a flagrant.

It looked like it was in doubt.

Jeff Bulls was as excited as could be.

And you could even hear if you picked it up every so often on the broadcast.

Those Miami players in Hostel territory,

they were on the receiving end of some real lashings.

And so that's why at the end of that game when Miami won

and you saw Peter Souter, Miami's best player.

Waving goodbye.

You saw bench guys running off onto the court,

flipping the bird at the Ohio students.

Yeah, I actually think it's amazing.

I think this is a great thing for college basketball

because that's a real rivalry.

They had to listen to it for two hours.

They had to take this game even beyond into overtime.

218 points were needed to decide the 218th meeting ever

between these two schools.

How poetically perfect is that?

One of the most memorable regular season games I can recall

in recent history.

And Miami did it with a perfect regular season on the line.

I look forward to seeing where this team is slotted

on Selection Sunday and what seed it gets.

That's still up for debate because we've got to see if

he can run the table entirely or if it's going to take a loss.

But that was amazing.

And I love the fact that Miami did this on a weekend

where so many teams in the bubble conversation just did a pratfall.

Vomit on their shoes, soup on their shorts, couldn't stop losing.

Left and right everywhere you look.

Not Miami.

That team doesn't know how to lose yet.

31 to know.

It knows how to win no matter what.

It has more road wins by I think two if not three than any team in the country.

It's in the tournament.

It's in the tournament with room to spare.

It will play its first tournament game either on Thursday or Friday of the

tournament week.

You will not see this team anywhere close to date at risk of exposing myself

as a poor sport.

Great teams taught GP.

I love double birds.

I'm a big fan of double birds.

I just think they're funny.

I think they're funny.

And I also like booing.

Not yelling

obscenities.

Just just just this when you see something you don't like just doing this.

I just think that's funny that we just decided that's how you that's how you

show disdain for something.

I like the double bird.

I know it's not the best sportsmanship but

I enjoy it.

I'm with you obviously like what are we talking about?

This is a great story.

We should be arguing for the Indiana's and the Auburn's over something like this.

Do you know bad Indiana fans hate their team?

How bad Auburn fans hate their team?

Hey, selection committee.

This is always maybe this is a new process we should put into the equation.

But when we're when we're really scrubbing and trying to

weigh this at large against that large, maybe we get to a point where we go.

But do these people even like their team?

Be like, no, they Auburn fans?

No, they hate their team.

Are you crazy?

How could they not?

And be like, okay, what about Indiana fans?

No, bro, they always hate their team.

And always hate their coach.

Since Bob Knight, everything has come after that has just been hated consistently.

Okay, what about Miami Hound?

They love it.

They love their team.

They love every they love Peter Souter.

They love everything.

All right, then let's let's do them then.

This is easy.

One one story is great.

The other ones are silly.

I like the great one.

Go Redhawks.

Flatwood.

Redhawks.

You want to flap?

Sure, we'll flap.

Flap a little bit.

Flap, flap.

Redhawks, red lock.

Incredible stuff.

The chat has voted before I reveal the results, GP.

What seed?

You got a factor in whether you think it runs the table or not.

What seed will Miami have on selection Sunday?

They'll have a 10.

I would give them and I'd give them something better,

but I think they'll get something like a nine or a 10.

Biggest result is the eight nine game.

37% number two is 10 or 11 seed at 31%.

Third best result is seven or better at 25%

and then a 12 seed at 7%.

The tournament needs no extra juice,

but the one thing that gives it even more is to have any team

that enters in and has a zero in the lost column on its first game.

That would be incredible.

I wonder if it can get there.

Akron still rates better.

It's still more likely than not to lose a game,

but that's been true for Miami the entire season.

I will say you said 10.

I think I'm with you.

I'll say when we get to selection Sunday,

Miami is sitting on the 10 line.

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It's time for bubble talk.

Now, Northlander, listen.

It's the bubble block.

This is what I like to call bubble block.

Now, we are not going to talk about every bubble.

We are not.

Because I think my family wants to watch a new Harry Styles concert

that dropped on Netflix tonight or something.

All right?

Yes, you.

So we are not going to go through every bubble team.

So what I'm going to do is I'm going to run you through some bubble stuff.

And then I'm just saying, I'm just going to say,

hey, what's the fire?

You throw that me throw it over the plate.

No, knock it out of the park.

Well, a good picture does not throw it over the plate.

I'm trying to.

Sure.

So I need you to be a crappy picture right now.

I need you to be a terrible picture.

Who is hold on, hold on.

Who is like one of the worst

fourth or fifth guys in the rotation in the majors right now?

That's why I need you to be.

Well, I mean, there was that one fellow for the blue Jay's a few years ago.

He was like a Sai Young candidate.

And then they put a pitch clock in and he can't pitch anymore.

Who was that?

I can't remember his name.

He's like a Sai Young candidate for Toronto.

Then they they implemented the pitch clock.

It is just over here.

He's back in the minor league.

He's going in the no context preview.

I just got to figure out who it is.

If anyone in the live chat knows who this blue Jay's picture was,

they can't couldn't pitch with a pitch clock.

He said, we got an, I'll look at that.

They're right on it.

Alec Manoa.

Yeah, that's him.

All right, he's going in the no context.

I need you to be Alec Manoa right now.

Okay, I'm going to be Alec Manoa.

But I'm going to be post pitch clock Alec Manoa.

Okay.

Not Sai Young candidate, Alec Manoa.

It's like six immediate responses, Alec Manoa.

Yeah.

Love in the chat, Alec Manoa.

It's actually a crazy story.

It would be like if, if like, this is an exaggeration.

But like, conconiple has this incredible season.

And then like two years from now, he can't play anymore.

He's like in the G league.

So like a Rick and Keel situation, but different.

Different, but yeah.

And baseball does that all the time.

Like like Cody Belinger will win a MVP and then stink

and then get good again in ways that doesn't really happen.

In other sports, baseball is crazy.

All right.

All right, late on me.

I'm going to throw you, I'm, I'm going to put it on a tee for you.

As GP as GP lays us out just as a, just so everyone realizes this weekend, Friday,

Saturday and Sunday.

Like even Iowa, I think it's getting in the tournament.

Take a closer look at that resume.

I don't know if we've seen a messier bubble situation a week out from the tournament

in the past seven, eight, nine years.

Five bubble winners by my count.

Fourteen teams in the conversation lost Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

Fireway GP.

Okay.

VCU, San Diego State, Ohio State are among the bubble teams that won this weekend.

Good for them.

Ohio State blasted Indiana.

Book eyes have now won three on a row.

Currently an eight seed, according to CBS sports.

Yeah, that's a mess, by the way.

I'm sorry.

Ohio State is now.

Oh, I can't wait to see your slack tomorrow morning.

I don't know what to tell you.

Nine and a two games under five hundred and quad one and two six and eight in road

neutral.

It's 37th and resume average right now.

It's, it's not an eight seed.

So I've decided I'm, I've decided I'm going to be a good team player.

Okay.

Well, I'm decided I'm going to be a truth teller.

So keep it up.

Bruce Thornton, by the way, all time Lee's corridor, Ohio State.

Love to see it.

I want to see him in the tournament.

Ohio State's going to get in the tournament.

Yes.

There's a big double bubble result.

Indiana, by the way, not in the field.

We'll get there now to the Goofies.

Listen to all these.

Hold on.

Give me the teams you just said again.

The ones who did well.

VCU, Ohio State and San Diego State.

You're missing one.

Who?

Stanford is in the field according to CBS Sports

Bracketology.

But you don't trust CBS Sports Bracketology.

It's whatever.

And I, I do.

There are exceptions to the rule.

That's how you hold things accountable.

Stanford is nine and eight and quad one and quad two right now.

Nine and eight.

Ohio State's nine and eleven.

Oh, by the way, although the only reason why it's, it's iffy.

Stanford's the only bubble team with three.

Quad three losses.

That's the problem there.

Chastio Bucca-Corey, who was awesome.

One put up another 30 pound point outing there.

Stanford is the team that was so off the radar going into the weekend.

Got to win and all these other teams losing.

It really increased the standing there.

Cardinal may well get into the field.

I listen to these Goofies.

Cow SMU.

New Mexico.

Missouri.

I mean, I can just get one after another.

Texas are among the bubble teams that lost.

Auburn got smacked at Alabama.

Stephen Pearl's Tigers are now 16 and 15 just two and eight in their past 10.

Which of these bubble losers disappointed you the most these Goofies?

There are so many of them, by the way.

There are dozens of us.

Dozens of Goofies.

Dozens.

What was the question?

Which one of these Goofies these bubble losers disappointed you the most this weekend?

Where do we start?

Did we start with UCF?

Which lost at West Virginia on Friday?

Lost again.

Has gone from 17 and four to 20 and 10.

It's now down to 53rd in the predictive averages.

10 and nine and quad one and two with a quad three loss.

Is it NC State?

Lost at home to Stanford.

39th in resume average now 20 and 11.

11 and 11 and quad one and two and has a quad four loss.

Diving to the specifics of that resume GP NC State.

Thoroughly uninspiring.

The one thing saving it.

It's above 500 and rode neutral games right now.

Is it Missouri?

Which lost at home to Arkansas?

Now Arkansas is a good team.

Didn't have Daris Ackoff in the game.

It's 43rd in resume average.

Five quad one wins is what's saving Missouri.

It's in the field, but it isn't better than 38th in any single team sheet metric.

I can't say they're a lock yet, but they're going to get in.

Sorry.

Too much weirdness out there.

Is it SMU GP?

Lost at Florida State.

Now eight and 12 and quad one and quad two.

Hovering between 38 and 48 and all metrics four and nine.

In road neutral didn't be J Edwards at the factor.

If you aren't keeping up with the ponies,

here's what they've gone from 19 and eight to 19 and 12 with losses to Cal Stanford,

Miami and Florida State.

Is it Auburn?

Lost at Alabama.

We're not surprised by that.

It was Alabama and it was Auburn, but it wasn't even competitive.

96 84 and it wasn't even that close as well.

Auburn's now 16 and 15.

45th in resume average.

That's right around the cut line.

It's five and 11 in road neutral games.

Since 1985, there have only been two teams that have ever gotten into the

tournament as an at large with a two game over 500 overall record.

And back then, they played fewer games.

So the win percentage actually accounted for more.

And that was Georgia in 2001 and Villanova a decade before 91.

There have only been three teams, GP,

that have gotten into the tournament with at least 15 losses.

That was all SEC teams.

Vandy, Bama, Florida, 17, 18, 19.

Auburn's already got 15.

It would have to become the first team with 16 losses ever to get in.

Get them out of here.

Virginia Tech is understandable.

Lost in Virginia.

Is it Texas losing at home to Oklahoma?

In overtime.

And now the long horns are 20 and 11 sitting at 48th in resume average

with an eight and 12 quad one and quad two record with a quad three loss.

Five and eight on the road in neutral.

Not good.

What about Cal blowing in on the road awake forest?

Yuck.

50th in resume average.

70th in predictives.

Not better than 50 in any single metric.

Out, out, out.

Get the hell out of my tournament.

Is it new Mexico?

Now lost at Utah State.

It's a problem.

They're out of the field right now.

Couldn't expect them to win.

At least they're above 500 and quad one and quad two.

They got two quad three losses.

That's the problem.

Not better than 40 for the 90 metric.

Or is it Indiana?

Lost at Ohio State.

Understandable.

I get it.

Zero case to be in the field right now.

50th in resume average.

Six and 13 in quad one and quad two.

Non-conference strength.

The schedule is 301.

They're four and nine in road and neutrals.

They lost to Illinois by 20.

They lost to Purdue by 29.

They lost to Ohio State by 13 over the weekend.

Which is the same margin.

They lost to Michigan State.

And they lost to Northwestern at home.

They're nowhere even remotely close.

There's even more of them.

Cincinnati, U.C.

U.S.

Seaton Hall.

They're all on the outside looking in.

Shout out to stained yet again.

It's been a while.

I think my most disappointing loss of the entire weekend

of all these teams was NC State losing to home to Stanford.

What the hell are you doing?

No surprise that Auburn lost at Alabama obviously.

But there's just so much attention on that whole thing now

that it's just...

First off, I've had a funny moment.

I don't watch a lot of college basketball with my wife.

We don't sit and watch games together a lot

in part because I'm just not home throughout the week much.

But last night we were like,

I was like, hey, let's just...

So we watched the double head.

We watched Duke Carolina, Alabama, Auburn, double head.

And so...

They show Steven...

It's like the very beginning of the game.

It's like, you know, they show Steven Pearl

and it says, Steven, it's got the graphics.

Steven Pearl and it's record.

It's like first year at Auburn.

She goes, she goes, Steven Pearl.

Is he related to Bruce?

I swear if I ever need to hide anything from my wife,

I'm doing it right here on this podcast.

That is too...

She goes, she goes, Steven Pearl, she goes,

he related to Bruce.

And I said, I said, yeah, he is.

I said, that's Bruce's son.

She said, oh, she said, how did he get that job?

I said, Kelly, that's a hard question.

I said, I can send you a clip

but be talking about it earlier in the week.

Yeah, I let him explain it.

And so then we watched the game and it did not go well.

Did you see the pre-game speech, the locker room speech?

I did not actually.

All was good.

It almost felt like it was a performance

for the selection committee as opposed to,

as opposed to, like, hey guys, let's go out there

and beat Alabama.

It was like, it was great.

It was like, you've got a great strength of schedule.

You did not.

It was something like, you played the hardest schedule.

Okay, that's true.

I'm guessing, Steven didn't say,

our web is incredible right now.

That's the way my ears hurt it.

I know that's not the way,

but that's what it was like.

It was like, and you beat the national,

the reigning national champ to their place.

You got this went over here,

and your strength of schedule is incredible.

It was like, that's the way I heard it.

I was like, all right, let's go.

I was fired up.

And then it was, I think.

Went over Florida is the only thing

that is keeping Auburn's case on the table.

If Auburn gets in and doesn't have the auto bid,

that means he will be the first team ever with 16 losses.

And I'm actually willing to hear the case

if Auburn makes the SEC semis,

because they're going to have to have knocked off some teams,

but we'll get there.

Devastating week for the bubble.

You cannot expand this tournament.

This is just, I'm serious, man.

Like, the teams we have in the flotsum

of 10, 11, seed, 9, seed territory,

it's borderline offensive.

So one after another,

they just kept losing and kept losing and kept losing.

That's a result like even Oklahoma now,

like it suddenly just showed up at the party out of nowhere.

They're like, it's the community gift

where he walks into the room on fire with the pizza.

That's Oklahoma right now.

Credit supporter Moser, got life,

saving his job, but yeah, yeah.

So I think the next six days,

I talked about this tonight on HQ with Cobb.

Like the next six days worth of results,

I think you're going to be wild.

I think that you have teams right now

that depending on which forecast is putting them out there,

like our 9s,

and you can't feel 100% confident you're getting into the field,

because there's so much around you

and so many opportunities for these teams to pick off wins

when the difference between these resumes

is like this and they're all in inspiring.

There's a calving between

call it the seven, maybe the top of the eight line

and everyone else after that.

This is a big group of teams that are in absolute mess.

Yes.

Let me say one last thing about the Pearl situation

and then we'll move on.

Because you know, Bruce did that interview last week

and he was like,

do I want my son to do well?

Of course I do.

Did I help my son get this job?

Of course I did.

And I know that he's gotten banged on a little bit

because of that.

Like people are like,

how can you admit publicly that

nepotism is the only reason your son has that job?

How could you?

And I'm like,

I didn't mind that at all.

What he said there,

the misstep I think BP had,

respectfully,

is pitting Miami Ohio against his son's team.

Because that's just,

even if your data is all correct,

that's just not going to play the right way.

Period.

And I think he knows that now

and can laugh about it now.

But I don't think there's,

I just wasn't bothered the way I saw some other people get bothered

with Bruce just sort of raising his hand in the air and saying,

all right, sure.

I want my, I'm an analyst,

but I want my son to do well.

And you know, of course I help my son get this job.

What are we talking about?

I just saw like,

we all know both of those things are true.

So why are people banging on him for saying it out loud?

I like of all the things that you could bang on Bruce Pearl about,

that just didn't seem like it should be anywhere on the list to me.

Okay.

Pearl, if nothing else,

always willing to speak at how he is.

And he actually leaned into a lot of the stuff.

He did the hit with the Travis steel.

Yeah.

And he always got him in the tournament.

I'm, by the way,

I haven't talked to Bruce at all about this.

I can only assume that what I wrote on Friday

and what you wrote Friday in a Saturday

is what finally convinced them.

They're in the tournament, Bruce.

Miami's going to the tournament.

So I don't, I'm not,

I'm not sitting around assuming Bruce Pearl's convinced about anything

because of me or you.

I'm pretty sure he's dialed in online and reading your stuff.

I think he's just, I think he's realized.

It was just a misstep.

I know what he was trying to do.

His intentions were good.

And it just got him, it got him to a play like real quick.

It reminded me of something I did once.

I'll be quick with this.

It was the, hey, you're the one that wants to watch Harry Styles tonight.

So it was the second year of Penny Hardaway at Memphis

when he had the number one recruiting class in America.

James Wiseman, all those guys.

Preseason ranking the whole deal.

And that team was bad.

And I remember doing a video for CBS Sports Network

where I said, okay, let's like everybody's,

you know, banging on this team, this disappointing.

But James Wiseman quit the week before Christmas.

And DJ Jeffries had a season ending injury

before February 1st.

Those are two of his top three players.

How many teams would be good if they lost two of their top three players?

And I had it all thought out

and my numbers were, the information was, it was a great argument.

But it couldn't come from me

because I was the guy who was screaming two years earlier.

You have to fire Tubby Smith, higher Penny Hardaway.

So that argument coming from me

felt like you're just making excuses for the guy

you wanted to coach your alma mater.

Went in reality in my head.

It was just like a common sense.

Yeah, he had the number one recruiting class in America.

Two of the top three recruits from it aren't playing anymore.

What are we talking about?

And if you would have done that,

it would have played way differently than if I did it.

And I think this is kind of the same thing.

It was the messenger here.

You can't be Bruce Pearl arguing for Auburn against Miami Ohio.

You could be somebody else doing it,

but you can't be him doing it.

And I sort of under,

when I saw the backlash, I was like, oh, I know that feeling.

Because in his head, I bet it made perfect sense.

It just not going to be well received.

And when I did that thing that time,

I had a blind spot for that.

And I couldn't believe the reaction,

but with a bit of a hindsight, I can see it now.

Okay, let's keep him moving here.

Tennessee State, I'll go out of bed dancing, right?

I think that's next to around the docket.

I'll just run through it real quick.

Because we've got teams in the dance here

and congrats to all of them.

Tennessee State wins in the OVC.

Nolan Smith, that Nolan Smith.

First year as a head coach, getting the Tigers in.

This program hasn't been there in 32 years.

Probably going to be a 16 seed.

That was the first team in the field.

I guess I know it technically was the second team in the field

because L.I.U. coached by none other than Rod Strickland

out of the NAC.