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Bar, stool, spork, bar, tight end, Brandon Walker, mostly sport, what, huh, huh,

what?

Well, you're mostly sports, I'm Mark Titus, he is Brandon Walker.

It's Friday.

I damn sure am, Mark.

It's March 20th.

Is that mean spring tomorrow?

I does.

It does, yeah.

First day of spring tomorrow?

Yes.

Three, two, one.

Relive from Chicago.

Contact?

This is the final day of winter.

Today, the equinox.

Wait.

Oh my god.

Oh, fuck.

Oh my god.

I'd race the horses.

Oh, fuck.

Race the horses to see if it'll be one more week.

Oh my god.

Four minutes of winter.

This all seems good.

Connor, you want to go outside and enjoy your last 10 minutes of winter because I know you

love Chicago winter so much.

Yeah, yeah.

And then somebody could just like show dong to the sun or something like that.

What?

You know, people do that.

No.

How do you know they're first?

They're like getting a crouch position and then let the sun, the youth race hit.

Oh, you're talking about sunning your perineum.

Yeah, that is that.

Well, if you would have said that, I know exactly.

I'll give her.

Right.

But how do sunning your perineum and showing dong are two different things?

How'd you get sunning your dong so fast?

You could have said, I'm just going to go outside and catch a few rays.

You went straight to dong.

Yeah, but I'm saying in like 10 minutes to be the first person to sun your dong outside

that.

You keep saying sunning your dong.

Sunning your dong is nonsense.

Sunning your perineum is a art that goes back to millennia.

Now, perineum is the fancy word for taint.

Yeah, taint.

Taint, actually, don't I don't know what the thought is behind sunning your perineum.

I don't really know.

I think sunning anything is good perineum is probably the most unsung place anybody's

got.

Yeah.

If you can get sun, if you can get sun to the place that never gets sun, you're a good

spot.

It's got to feel good.

Yeah, it has to feel good.

If you're in a place in life where you can take time out of your day and make sure your

unsung place gets sunned, that might be it.

It's just a placebo.

Like the sun on your perineum does nothing.

It's more that like as you're doing it, you realize you've progressed far enough in life

that you have time in the day that you can go outside, remove your pants, throw your

legs over your shoulders.

Sure.

Yeah.

I just have the sun hit your taint.

Coal miners are too busy to sun their perineum.

Everyone else is trying to feed their kids.

Stock brokers, too busy to sun their perineum.

There's no evidence that this is just fully derived on the phrase the place the sun don't

shine.

It might be.

Yeah.

I feel like it's, yeah, it's like scratching an itch that you can't, it's an unscratchable

thing.

But the sun don't shine on the same dogs ass every day.

Well, but if that dog is active and outside and they do have their assholes, they're very

high on their body, there's a good chance the sun does shine on the dogs ass every day.

Do any other species sun their buttholes?

You have to think the gorillas and chimpanzees should have the time to do it.

Sure.

Seals will, they'll stick their fins up.

Yeah.

You just see like a fucking seal with this and just going like, if I'm a, if I'm a,

if I'm a sloth crawling around the jungle and I'm, I'm up in the tree, I might, I might

go ass up in the tree.

Yeah.

Why not?

Why not?

Anyway, is it, we still got six more minutes, six more minutes to win her winter.

I'm sorry.

What do you want to talk about perineum?

I kind of, can you check your weather out?

What is, today is soon be 63 outside.

Yeah.

What's going to be tomorrow?

What's the high temperature tomorrow?

Can't.

Sixty-eight?

No, mine's at sixty-nine.

Oh, you learned the six.

Yeah, I learned the six-nine.

I'm sorry.

And I think his does say sixty-nine.

He just says sixty-eight to be a bitch.

No, it says sixty-eight right here.

Okay.

All right.

I would like to talk about the story that is dominating the news.

Ebo.

You're not going to do this, are you?

Ebo.

You're not going to do this.

You don't want to take this.

I'm giving you one opportunity.

I'm just taking the snap and I bought three steps backwards.

The ball's out.

Do you want to be a play action passer?

Do you want it to be a handoff or you run for a touch watch?

Handoff to me, handoff to me.

There it is.

Fleet flicker.

Fleet.

Whoa.

How can I be a Fleet flicker?

I was the quarterback.

It was Carolina fluid nineteen point up to it.

It's a nice play lead.

It got upset.

What was the story of the day in the college basketball

tournaments?

It's either North Carolina blowing their nineteen point lead.

It is either high point beating Wisconsin or it is, no, it's one of those two.

I had five.

I have five standouts and really, really four because one is just, one is just the Ohio

State game.

It was a good game and it's personal to me, but I think we could talk about it, but

I don't think that that.

It wasn't a pretty game.

By the end of the day, I don't think that was that compelling of a story.

Sure.

It was a good game and it came down to, you know, the final seconds.

So the other four of this, Brandon, and I'll let you choose.

Yeah.

Choose your own adventure.

Number one, you have high point beating Wisconsin, a man who had not made a two point

field goal the entire season makes a two point field goal to beat Wisconsin.

And high point pulls off the upset, the biggest upset of the day by seed.

Yeah.

And I assume by, by point spread as well, I didn't actually go back and look, but I would

have to assume that that's true as well.

Number two is North Carolina blowing a 19 point lead against the VCU and Hubert Davis suddenly

wakes up this morning very much on the hot seat.

And there are discussions about whether they will fire and whether they should fire.

I mean, I think most people are like, yeah, they probably should.

Number three is Duke looks susceptible against a 16 seed.

And it wasn't just like kind of a, haha, this is funny that CNN is kind of hanging around.

CNN was taking it to them.

Yeah.

The zone Brandon, yeah, the, the, the, the Duke defense that's been dominating college

basketball all year said we cannot stop Sienna, man to man.

We cannot stop this 16 seed man to man.

We have to throw zone at him.

And the number four thing I think we could talk about is, uh, AJ DeBonza puts up 35 points

in a losing effort and just kind of what that season was for AJ DeBonza because his, his

college career presumably is over.

So I think the, uh, the, the number one story to me in the short term is, it's high point

Wisconsin.

The number one story long term is North Carolina.

Yeah.

North Carolina basketball is a blue blood and should be one of the top five burinial programs

every single season under Hubert Davis.

It's been less than that.

And yesterday was probably the encapsulation of everything that is wrong with North Carolina

basketball and how they don't matter anymore.

But I do want to start with high point Wisconsin.

Okay.

Well, always coming into March, looking for that guy.

We might have got him yesterday, uh, Johnston's his last name, right?

Chase John.

Chase Johnston.

Uh, we might have got him.

Now we didn't do proper respects and we didn't properly stop over the last couple of

weeks and marvel at how stupid and crazy it was that he had not hit the two point field

goal.

Yeah.

That he, that he, uh, I believe he had shot 164 threes.

Yep.

Uh, he had made a bunch of him.

He's a three point marksman.

That's fine.

Um, but like yesterday, at the end of that game, there's a scrum and he leaks out is

the, and gets the easy layup.

That didn't happen once in 35 games this year.

Not one time, not one time did one time at any point in the game and he saved it for the

last shot of, I actually, was it the final shot?

There was the final shot.

It was on a shot, right?

It was 12 seconds left.

Yeah.

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I remember in the cave yesterday, somebody was like, wow, he, he's the first two point

shot and he made it.

You know what to do?

I was like, it was, it was a finger on it.

Yeah.

I had to play basketball for his entire life.

It's probably a year with a head.

And still lay ups in him.

But it wasn't just that.

It was the half court, basically half court shot he made.

Yeah.

Which was a ridiculous premise that he's just coming.

He's kind of trailing a little bit of the play.

The ball finds him at the logo and he says, fuck it.

And just, and just heaves it.

He doesn't even have a shooting motion.

It's just like a, like a, like an immediate,

here, I'm letting go of it.

Fix it up.

Yeah.

And he hits a three in the final minute to cut it from 82 to 78.

That's insane.

That, that looks like there's 25 seconds.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That looks like a last second play.

Fuck it.

Yeah.

That's the, that's the play Ohio State should have ran.

That's right.

You know, like that, that looks like a game for the champion.

That's taking us for a championship going the other way, right?

But like further than Jenkins even got.

Yeah.

Further than Jenkins even shot from, um, yeah, that's what you draw up for a last second

shot.

And he did it with 25 seconds.

That was, and, and, you know, we, we, you know, Wisconsin's a five seed that went down

and Wisconsin's the, uh, the, the one team we kind of, I don't say laugh at, but, you

know, there, there, March Man has called him yesterday, you know, what, it called him.

But that was even a high point loses by one.

That was an excellent fucking game.

That was that, that was, I don't really think Wisconsin played that poorly.

I don't think it did.

I mean, what defense can you play against that?

Yeah.

And then there's the one off the screen on the side where he is, uh, defended very

well.

That was in the final minute and he shoots it shoots it right in front of his bench, drills

it.

Yeah.

Like there's, there's not a whole lot you can do.

And then the, the, the game winning basket, Wisconsin has the ball.

They, they drive for a layup and it just becomes a scrum and the ball luckily ends up in

the hands of the guy that gets the layup.

Yeah.

Nick Boyd played a little hero ball down the stretch for Wisconsin, but also it was working

for, for a while.

For a while.

Like every time high point hit a shot, Nick Boyd would, would just get to the rim and

finish show like I don't, you know, in a vacuum, you show the final possession of Wisconsin

and you're like that, that we could have gotten a better shot than that.

But also if you watch that game, that was, that's the shot, that's kind of what he was

doing.

Um, the whole last five minutes.

Let me ask you this angle, because afterwards and, and, and forgive me, I'm going to

Clay, keep, Clay, Clayton.

What's his name?

The coach.

The high point coach.

Yes.

Yeah.

That's the high point coach.

So the high point coach afterwards.

Thank you very much.

Flynn Clayman.

Afterwards Flynn Clayman was angry.

Yeah.

Mad.

See you thing.

Yeah.

They put a camera in front of him.

And I'm, I gave him a mic and he's like, let me tell you mother fucker something.

Yeah.

This is, these mid majors like me and Miami of Ohio and all of us were been disrespected.

I scared you mother fucker.

And I'm tired of this bullshit and I go take it no more like he, he had the best professional

moment of his career and he took that opportunity to get on the stump for mid majors and disrespected

mid majors.

Your thoughts on that?

Yeah.

I like the clip.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I thought it was cool.

It felt like he had rehearsed it a little bit and was like ready to, you know, like, can

you find the clip to you?

It's very funny that I think he wanted to walk off his first thing and he had to stay

for a second.

There's a second question.

Yeah.

Remind me of the passenger thing we showed not too long ago when we had a passenger

there.

Like God bless America.

God bless the troops.

Good night everybody.

And then the lady's like, and then, okay, so in the second half, he's like, fuck.

Yeah.

So I got to hit her one more.

These shut off the horse.

Yeah.

On Quirk post game one.

Yeah, that's the one.

That's the one.

There was also a press conference clip as well.

How does it feel?

That's the first NCAA tournament game coach, Clayman.

It looks pretty obvious to me that high majors need to play mid majors or in the season because

they said, we ain't playing nobody.

We played somebody now.

You're right there.

You want to know how?

I know how good a team we had, but nobody would play us just like they wouldn't play Miami

Ohio.

But they got to play us in this tournament.

He's, he looks like he, it looks like after every question, he like tries to walk away.

Yeah.

Back.

Yeah.

We got a hell of a team.

We settled in.

That's pretty awesome.

You know what he looked like?

You know when, you know, you go out with just any situation really, and your boy like

gets in a fight, somebody gets in a fight and then afterwards they realize how fucking

stupid they were.

Yeah.

But they're adrenaline is going too crazy.

They're like, God damn it, man, I'm sorry, and that's what he looked like.

But yeah, it's a pretty cool, pretty cool win.

I love the clip.

I love it.

Yeah.

And Flynn Clayman?

Flynn Clayman.

You think he's from the South?

I would hope.

The name like Flynn Clayman.

Yeah, that sounds like one of those Southern women that gives their son their maiden name

for their first.

Uh huh.

Yeah.

Is he from the South?

No.

Wow.

That's an upset.

Flynn Clayman sounds like a, sounds like a Southern man.

But was he like a, it was, it was a coach's son because he couldn't move it all over.

You know, he could be more in LA and move it all over.

I don't know where the man's from.

Got no personal life section.

He has no personal life.

He has no personal life at all.

No.

But he just spawned yesterday morning to coach, I point basketball.

He built him in a lab and he popped up and, uh, good tie knot by the way, Flynn Clayman.

Ties a good tie that man.

Dave said something yesterday, um, and I want to kind of think about this.

What Dave said was stupid.

I want to take his thought and go from it.

He said when he saw that guy's like, that's an upset suit on that coach, whatever, fine.

The firm in Virginia a couple of years ago, firmman was wearing purple.

Okay.

Yeah.

Should a high point was wearing purple.

Okay.

Go on, Brandon.

I, I'd like to do a little deep dive on purple being an upset color.

Okay.

Uh, like I would like to do deep dive on the 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, that have won in this

tournament and how many are which color because purple feels, if I'm, if I'm taking the

court and I'm a four seat and I look over at 13 and they're wearing all purple uniforms,

I'm a little worried.

Okay.

I, by the way, let me stop you there because I don't see colors great.

High point was purple.

Right?

Yes.

Okay.

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Yeah.

Checked.

Yeah.

I, I, I, I told you all for years.

I don't see that.

I see him.

You don't see color.

You don't see color.

I don't see color.

Yeah.

Never had TJ.

I realized how you live your life.

I don't see color like you see color.

Yeah.

TJ, it's all he thinks about.

All he thinks about.

All he talks about.

You're not brand of walker.

No.

Uh, yeah.

The so fairly Dickinson is is blue is purple and upset color.

UMBC.

Uh, there's a, a purplish navy blue to, to fairly Dickinson.

No, no.

No.

To what, what are you saying?

I think a lot of the upsets are either navy blue or purple.

Pool colors.

Okay.

Yeah.

You and I.

UMBC is black and gold.

Yeah.

Black and gold.

UMBC.

Yeah.

That's right.

It's just a thought.

It's just a thought.

You know what all I'm saying is let's, who's playing today?

Is there a preview?

UMI.

Northern Iowa.

Um, is that your team?

No.

I don't have a team.

That's, uh, Blutman and Bob.

No, but who's your team for the thing?

I don't, I don't get one.

Oh, you know who you're not involved?

No, bro.

I'm not.

Connor and Ebo got one.

You don't have one.

Not big time enough for that.

Connor and Ebo are trash.

And you, you know, you don't get one.

I'm a winner.

Listen, bro.

I'm not big time enough.

You know who could pull the upset today?

Oh.

JMU.

That would be the ultimate upset.

Wouldn't it?

Tomorrow.

Tomorrow.

Purple.

JMU.

That's why it would be an upset if you want an insatiate tournament.

Right.

Like that would be, which, that would be historic.

If I didn't, I didn't notice what's constant is played in two five

12s to Brandon's point the last three years.

Mm-hmm.

They played two purple teams.

Mm-hmm.

And they struggled with both of them and lost both of them.

Steven F. Austin.

Yes.

Steven F. Austin is very much.

Good.

If you just, if you compare the number of purple teams in existence

and the number of purple teams who have had upsets in March,

I know purple might be the color of upsets.

VCU.

VCU.

Good one.

Yeah, GCU.

VCU.

Grand Canyon.

VCU's.

He's carrying a line of their purple.

VCU.

You're saying VCU?

VCU.

Okay, so there's no purple on the 16 or 15 line ever.

Texas B.

BYU yesterday too.

Yeah, purple.

Texas.

Texas is purple.

Yeah, it's something to that for.

Maybe you're right.

It's just not just something.

Keep an eye on.

Something to monitor.

Are we saying that?

ECU, GCU, and TCU are all purple.

What the fuck?

What the fuck?

What the fuck?

Are you saying VCU?

No.

What are you saying?

VCU.

Yeah.

TCU.

That's what he and TCU.

GCU and ECU.

All purple.

GCU is Grand Canyon.

ECU is East Carolina.

Whoa.

To your point, Brandon, over the last decade, last decade, 14s over 3s.

We have Oakland, not purple.

But then we have Abel and Christian, purple, Steve and F Austin, purple.

Purple as fuck.

Wow.

All right.

Brandon's on to something.

Let's monitor purple.

Let's keep our eyes on purple.

That's all I'm saying.

But if you're seated 12 to 15 and you're purple, let's keep an eye on that.

Let's just keep an eye on that.

Who's fucking purple?

Or if you're a school, change your colors to purple right away.

Let's keep an eye on them.

Ferman.

Ferman's playing today?

Ferman's playing Yukon.

And they had a 13 over four to two years ago.

Oh my god.

We cracked a code.

If Ferman beats Yukon.

Oh my god.

Purple's in effect.

Okay.

I like it.

All right.

Northern Iowa, Ferman.

Great.

color wheeled.

That wasn't that funny.

I thought you over laughed.

I thought it was funny.

Thanks, Connor.

I think that's it.

I think it's I think it's those two.

Let's do the Hubert Davis North Carolina thing.

Okay.

I think I'd fire him.

And it's not.

If he were the coach at, if he were the coach at Oklahoma State, or Kansas State or Colorado.

And they did the same thing.

I'd be like god, whatever.

Well, here's what's interesting.

Well, here's what's interesting.

He's coaching North Carolina.

I think it's worth talking out.

It's two guys that are not North Carolina people, but I'm just curious.

What your thoughts are, he's a family hire.

North Carolina has a family type program that like everyone that's been the head coach

there since Dean Smith has been directly tied to Dean Smith, directly tied to the program.

And that seems to matter a lot to those people.

Now two things here.

One, if you fire him, are you alienating a, the Roy Williams sector of North Carolina,

like the behind the scenes power at North Carolina?

Yeah.

The Roy Williams loves you, but Davis, see, this is a hand-picked successor.

Roy Williams is very involved in the program, Brandon, is around all the time, is that every

game with his wife, do you risk alienating that, alienating him with that?

And if you do, like, it does that matter.

And then number two, if you fire a human, Davis, who are you hiring?

Are you going the family route because North Carolina doesn't really have, like Wes Miller,

the coach of Cincinnati was just fired, was supposed to be kind of the young up and

coming candidate to keep it in the family.

They don't really have a guy that's obvious out there.

So they're going to have to hire from outside the family.

Do you think that that's the move to make a departure from what they've done for damn near

100 years it feels like?

I think we are in.

Make up when Dean Smith started coaching air.

I think we are, I think we are in an unprecedented and new era of college basketball.

And if Roy Williams gets his feelings hurt because they try to embrace the new era and

try to get somebody who is more in line with it and better at it, then Roy Williams can

go fuck himself.

That's what I would think.

I would think.

Who gives a fuck if an 80-year-old man who's stopped coaching cares about who the next

hire is?

Did Dusty May have Michigan ties or did he have Indiana ties?

Yeah, he has Indiana ties.

But is Dusty May like a great, perfect modern basketball coach?

So you don't stop and wonder, would Roy Williams like this guy?

Is Roy Williams going to have this guy over for biscuits and gravy in the morning?

Get the fuck out of here, Roy Williams.

That's exactly what I think they talk about.

Then they should shut the fuck up.

What are we doing?

North Carolina basketball belongs at the top of the sport.

And for you to be beholden to a man and a thought process and family, when college basketball

has changed, you need a fucking killer in there.

Fuck Roy Williams.

That's what I say.

Am I the only one here?

I mean, his name is on the court.

He's a legend.

Give a damn.

Like Dean Smith, we're going to honor his names in the rappers.

He's dead.

I don't want Dean Smith's body to approve of the next hire.

What are a family show?

Puber Davis stinks.

How do we not talk about family and families all that we got?

Puber Davis sucks.

Very point caught.

Yeah.

1961 is when Dean Smith first started coaching at UNC.

Wow.

Yeah.

Brandon was four.

Bang.

Fucking old ass.

They've only forced one coach out since then, basically.

Dirty or, got the rage for it.

Two final fours.

Yeah.

And then I guess retired essentially.

They didn't force Dirty out?

Yeah.

Dirty.

That's what I'm saying.

Dirty.

He's the one.

Yeah.

Guthriege was.

Yeah.

There's no guarantee of somebody with family ties being a good coach.

And eventually the well runs dry.

Right.

You don't, especially when college basketball changes the way it changes, I hate the name I'm going

to say.

And I don't want, I don't, because I don't like him, okay?

Put, you tell me North Carolina couldn't hire Nate Oates tomorrow?

Yeah.

They could hire him.

They could hire Nate Oates by the end of the day, which I don't want them to hire him,

because I don't like him and don't, but there's other Nate Oates type guys out.

You think, so if you're in charge of North Carolina, you would think that way.

You would think like, we got to, we got to be done with the family thing.

I would think, I need somebody who's going to, who's going to inspire North Carolina basketball.

I need somebody who's not going to watch silently as a 19 point lead in 13 minutes and a 14

point lead in seven minutes evaporate.

I need somebody who's not going to let Trimble just keep going to the rim and firing up

layups that aren't close.

I need somebody that's going to make the seven footer occasionally go down to the basket

and try to establish some toughness.

I need, I need things like that.

That's what I need.

And I don't give a damn of Roy Williams likes it or not.

That's what I say.

Am I coming out as anti-royal Williams?

Yeah, you're just, I just think these, I think like, I, if you're the A.D. in North Carolina,

you call Roy Williams and Roy, let's get something straight.

I don't give a good god damn what you think, what his name's on the court.

All right.

All right.

I said it yesterday.

I agree with you.

I think, I think you got to open it up to all the candidates.

I said it yesterday.

You got to tell the kid about it.

I'm going to say it again here.

You know, we shit on Mike Chachevsky a lot because he kept, he hired John Shire and he's

never more than like 15 feet from the sidelines.

He's always like sitting there.

I got them Roy Williams knows where the fucking camera is.

Yeah.

When he's in North Carolina game, he knows, he knows exactly where the camera is.

He knows exactly, you know, he's kind of sitting there as the godfather and the godfather's

watching his family burn up and die because they won't make a change.

Brandon hates Roy Williams.

I just fucking hate him.

I think this idea, this idea that we got to have, we got to have a Roy Williams guy.

We got to have Dean Smith guy.

No, you don't.

I agree with that.

I agree with that.

I just think it's like delicate how you go about it.

Like reminds me, like when Big Cat comes to me and he's like, should we fire Brandon and

I say, well, like I understand in a vacuum, I understand in a vacuum, yeah, we could fire

Brandon and just move on.

There's so many better people put in Brandon's chair, but you have to understand what that

would do to our show.

Right, Connor?

Like we've talked about that.

Yeah.

Like last week, we talked to Big Cat about that.

What?

No, I don't.

That if we, if we fire Brandon, now you're, you're upsetting the rest of us and even though

Brandon might not be the best for that seed, it would like undo this family feel we have

here.

Maybe it's more than one wheel, you know, I'm telling you, I'm telling you we stood up

for you.

Yeah.

You seem, you seem upset about that.

Right, but the, the, the, the, I don't know that conversation this should ever come up

on.

We had a closed-door meeting.

Yeah.

We, we said this is wrong.

We all to a man stood up and said, no, don't fire Brandon.

Even though I haven't heard a word from you yet.

I don't want to speak on it, brother.

I, the past, but we do support you.

Yeah.

I took off my shirt and I laid it down on the desk and I said, you do that every after

time.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And then everybody thought, that's how you end every shit here, you know, you go up to

big cat, take his pants, check your pants off and you lay them on his desk and you say,

I could start doing that.

Yeah.

But I've never blown a 14 point lead in seven minutes.

Yeah.

That's true.

And I mean, this isn't a one-time thing with Hubert Davis.

He did it in the national championship against Kansas.

He did it.

I forgot about this and then people pointed out to me.

He did it against Baylor in the second round.

But then they ended up winning the game.

They were up by like 30 against Baylor.

Do you remember that?

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

They were.

Yeah.

It was the eight one game and they upset, they ended up hanging on, but like, oh my God,

that was a collapse.

I, uh, I guess I am, it's a little unfair because his best player, you know, top 10 probably

lottery pick, right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Just got hurt.

Top five pick, maybe.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Top big time player got hurt.

Great.

Yeah.

I don't think VCU is like playing lights out basketball.

VCU wasn't like, didn't, VCU didn't just get hot, VCU just cranked up the toughness

in North Carolina folded.

Oh, you really want to hate Hubert Davis?

Did you see his post game press conference?

Uh, yeah.

When he said, uh, we were getting the shots, they just weren't falling or something?

Uh, try to find, let me see if I can find a T, Cody has it.

Cody, if you're watching, send it to T.J., we played it last night.

He was asked that you, I don't want to say too much because I just want to get your,

yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And that's what the reason it's interesting to me is because that seems to be North Carolina's

thought, but they are now at a crossroads where there's just no one out there to hire.

The well has run dry, as you said.

And so they're going to have to go outside the family.

But if you do that, yeah, or is, is really going to be upset and then you say who gives

a fuck, which I, you know, I, I'm, I mostly agree with, but I do, you know that there's politics

with all this and you have to like, yeah, a piece, certain people and certain boosters.

And, you know, well, I, well, all of Roy's players, I do think love, she, I don't know.

There's, are you willing to cut out, like it's Tyler Handsboro going to be mad?

Like you, you have to think of these things, but also you don't have to think it, I don't

know, it's weird.

I hate, I hate the idea of, yeah, that's, that's the one.

I hate the idea of a coach who has, has retired, has retired.

Still having power.

Right.

Like, like, okay, you, you, you let us, and I appreciate your national championships you

brought us.

I appreciate the two decades you gave us.

But when you step down, you step down, you don't get to be the puppet master behind the

scenes.

If you want to be the puppet master, be the fucking coach.

That's a fair point.

Yeah.

That's a fair point, Brandon.

Uh, watch this.

Watch you for Davis after that.

I didn't, I didn't.

Cuber, why did you go to just a six man rotation in the second half?

Because that was my decision.

Good.

What did you, generally, what do you think went wrong?

What do you mean?

Cuber, uh, the free throws again, as you mentioned, a little bit of an issue tonight.

Um, why do you think that was such an issue for your team throughout the season?

That's a great question.

I mean, we work on them and that's the, uh, that's the kind of decisiveness you won't

from your, uh, from your head coach.

I don't say it.

It is funny because he was on the, he was on the other side of the, the microphone equation

for a long time.

Yeah.

It's a media guy.

Yeah.

The trained guy that you would think that he would know, but maybe he's aware of how ridiculous

it all is.

Yeah.

You would think you would know how to bullshit his way through that.

Yeah.

But he just kind of, he looked like shell shocked.

He looked like a man who knows he's getting fired.

Um, yeah.

He looked like he got just listed in the second half.

Um, do we have the official Jeff D. Low stand up moment's counter because I believe,

oh, I believe last in the last report I have is four or he texted me at eight thirty

last night and said, you know, if, just if you want to keep records, that is now four

stand up moments from the first day of the tournament after I guarantee ten this weekend.

Guaranteed ten this weekend, the rare two in one game.

I will say eight thirty means that was before the last late and I can confidently tell you

there wasn't a single fucking stand up moment that last late.

That thing was awful.

Yeah.

That was, that was three blowouts in a, like a ten point game.

But, uh, yeah, four stand up moments.

So, so both endings of North Carolina and VCU, the ending of Ohio State TCU, high point

Wisconsin, I point Wisconsin, um, now does that include, okay, I got to talk to, to

Jeff D.

A little bit about this.

I'll Florida got interesting, but not, but, but I got to talk to Jeff D. Low about

this.

Does he say stand up moments are only then because I would say Arkansas won pretty comfortably,

but they had two or three moments where I like the dunker, the lob was so impressive

that I would stand up.

You stand up.

Yeah.

So, so like Arkansas, I two or three stand up worthy highlights.

Are we not doing them?

Does he mean slow rise moments?

He might mean slow rise moments, and he doesn't know this is the show of the slow rise.

We are the slow rise.

Yeah.

So, because Arkansas, Arkansas had what, twenty five dunks, yes, ten lobs, like Arkansas

just kept throwing highlight in for highlight.

They're fun to watch.

Highlight factory Arkansas.

Yeah.

A cup is doing something to me.

He's really doing something to me, Brandon.

He's really.

That's a funny way.

Yeah.

You said he's the best guard that I did.

Yeah.

Wow.

And I mean it.

Yeah.

The coach cows ever hand.

Yeah.

And people don't like to hear that, Connor.

It is interesting, because it is the nostalgia type people are more that your NBA types.

You ran around this recently.

The people that just love to say everything back then was better or whatever.

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But it's interesting that this is this is showing me that that existed college for sure

that like people don't remember.

I got to be careful because I'm going to piss off a lot of people, but people don't

remember Derek Rose in college.

Like he was a good player.

He was a very good player.

Derek Rose did not go number one overall because he lit the college basketball world on fire.

He went number one overall because his athleticism six four you six four he was undeniable

athleticism.

And yeah, I mean like you saw him as a prospect.

He shot like thirty two percent from three average fifteen points and like four assists.

Yeah.

He was good.

He went to the national championship.

Wasn't the best player on his team and that's okay.

So like if you say Darius Acuff's better and Derek Rose, it is not even close to me

in college that there is that one year in college, Darius Acuff is way better than Derek

Rose to me.

And people get pissed off about that because they love Derek Rose and they love what

Derek Rose became and that's fair.

But I saying just college, you know, I also think the NBA success of the Kentucky guards

kind of skews you a little bit.

Yes.

Or even like case and wallets is like having a successful NBA career and are like, he's

like the bottom of the barrel of those guys, but it's like SGA, you're comparing, you're

comparing a freshman in college at Arkansas right now to a guy who won the MVP last year

and you're like, he's not better than that guy.

And it's like, well, that, I mean, yeah, he is better than SGA was at a Kentucky.

He is.

That doesn't mean I think he's going to be, you know, the best player in the NBA.

But yeah, when you're comparing like a finished product versus a guy who's 19 years old,

anyway, my point is dairy say cuff is it's gone beyond just the basketball brand.

And I'm finding, I mean, I said this to you.

I'm like, I can't stop just like looking at his, his undershirt just the way he looks

like.

Like just the way he moves on the court.

And I'm just like, that is a, I could see, I could see the a cuff look taking off in

like 10 years.

There's like a throwback.

I kind of like that because like I could see dudes at music festivals wearing an Arkansas

ball number five jersey with like a cut off white shirt underneath it.

Yeah.

The, the cut off white shirt, the, the law started the undershirt, man, the law started

the undershirt.

Now you got these guys wearing the fucking spandex tight.

Oh, the Anthony Davis undershirt.

Oh, give me the old school.

Stinky.

You can give me the old school t shirt under the jersey or, or then you can cut the sleeves

off the t shirt.

Give me the old school fucking t shirt under the jersey.

I fucking love it.

Yeah.

That needs to make a comeback.

Can be.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Or Khalid Alameen.

Those are your two options.

Uh, trying to picture Khalid Alameen and I had, Kambi, Kambi was perfect.

Do Khalid Alameen, please.

Kambi was full t shirt, right?

Yeah.

What did he do cut off?

I think he cut off.

I'm thinking of, am I thinking of Kenny Martin?

I think you're thinking of Kenny Martin.

Kenny Martin.

So I'm thinking of.

Oh, there's full t shirt.

Yeah.

That is.

Yeah.

Oh, that, that's full ass.

Like dress t shirt.

Yeah.

Let's see.

Let's see.

The first full t shirt.

Let's see, Kambi.

I was thinking of Kenny Martin.

I was thinking of.

Oh, we're gonna see him too.

Yeah.

Let's see Kenny Martin.

Um.

Kambi is crazy.

Yeah.

Kambi had a long big t-shirt, right?

The college.

Got it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Big t-shirts.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But there's a cutoff, yeah.

That's crazy t-shirt.

Yeah, I did that too.

Did do the cutoff.

A massive t-shirt.

Now let's see Kenny Martin.

Let's do a Kenny Martin.

Please.

I like this game.

Nama, Nama.

90s-90s college-

Name a 90s college basketball player and we have to figure out did they wear a t-shirt under their jacket or cut off.

Oh, there's your-

Oh, that was just the jersey.

That was jersey.

The jersey was almost like, took care of the cut off.

Let me see Scottie Thurman Arkansas.

I think that's Maggie T-shirt as well.

I like this game Brandon.

Yeah.

I like this game a lot.

I think white guy t-shirt under-

Do you go-

Oh, yep, yep.

Yeah.

Yep, good t-shirt.

Big time t-shirt.

Show me Brian Cardinal.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Can I get a Brian Cardinal, please?

Uh.

Oh.

Oh, wow.

I thought Brian Cardinal was-

See, and this is why you have to play the game.

You do have to play the game.

You do have to play the game.

Brian Cardinal wore a t-shirt.

Yeah.

Oh, t-shirt.

Give me a head of Trachon Langdon.

Trachon?

Trachon Langdon.

T-R-A-J-A-N Trachon Langdon.

Give me some Trachon Langdon up in this hoe.

Oh.

Oh, so okay.

Okay, no.

And this is-

This is a really good game.

Now, T-J, the way I remember it, Jason Caponeau.

Yes.

We're a cutoff shirt.

K-A-P-O-N-O.

Underneath his jersey at UCLA.

Yeah, you're certainly right.

But did he actually?

Yes.

Am I misremembering?

Uh-huh.

Perhaps I am.

Okay.

Well, I tell you what, I'm not misremembering.

The shirt that Adam Morrison wore on his jersey.

Oh, yes, that's right.

That's right.

And there's just no chance I misremember that.

Because he certainly wore T-shirt.

Yes, he got through the hoop.

There it is.

T-J, I would like for you-

So he did both.

He did do both, yeah.

T-J, I would like for you to search AJ Moye.

Please.

Um, and-

And I would like to take a peek at how big of the shirt-

Yeah.

Big of the shirt wasn't he-

AJ Moye, of course, yes.

Yeah.

AJ Moye.

Now, fuck you, because he wore a shirt.

Well, there he is right there.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

That one was actually gonna-

Yeah, he wore a shirt.

But some guys did it and didn't do it.

They didn't-

They weren't married to one look.

And-

And of course, and I-

Am I just kind of throwing names-

AJ Moye didn't do it.

Am I-

Am I kind of throwing names at him?

They're gonna be hard to spell.

Of course, Wally Zerbjack.

Wally Zerbjack, yes, dude.

Yes.

Wally Zerbjack.

Uh, and-

And maybe Luke Rashard and Bob-

And Bob-

Uh, Wally Zerbjack.

He-

I saw-

The recent Final Four intros with him recently,

and he might have been wearing a shirt underneath.

Do-

Do you-

Do you guys realize-

What do you mean?

Luke and Bob-

I'm-

Oh.

Uh, if-

Are you starting Bob Muta?

Yeah.

If-

If Wally Zerbjack happened today,

he'd be the biggest star in America, right?

Oh yeah.

He's scored 43 points in a game.

Day one, 59 to 57.

He-

He was so good, dude.

And handsome.

Which I-

It shouldn't matter, but it-

Yeah.

Us to me.

Handsome as the day is long.

Uh.

And-

Can I finish the game when I head one more?

We can-

We can play this all day.

Obviously, you were going to say Austin Crosier.

I was.

Yeah.

Austin Crosier has to-

Um.

Now-

Wait, do you want to name T-shirt guys until-

To one of us buzz?

Do you want to play a little-

I-

I-

Brother, I'm already there.

Alright.

I've already busted.

Um.

Kevin Love.

Gotta have a T-shirt or your out.

College.

Okay.

College.

Kevin Love College.

And I love college.

Mmm.

Fuck.

Well, I gotta-

I gotta close the loop here.

You did wear a T-shirt in college?

I gotta finish it here.

Uh.

Larry Johnson.

Larry Johnson's a winner.

I mean, that's a winner.

That's a winner.

Wait, I might be thinking this takes you off.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

T-shirt guys.

You should-

You can't-

Can we rename mostly Heart Hoops to T-shirt guys?

You can't wear a T-shirt and then not wear a T-shirt.

Yeah.

You should have no pictures of him not wearing a T-shirt.

I don't like that.

And Morrison, same thing.

If you're a T-shirt guy, you're a T-shirt guy.

Um, when you were playing on your AAU team, were you a T-shirt guy?

Me?

Yeah.

Uh, I was.

Well, actually, no, not the AAU team, but everything prior to that.

Yeah.

I felt-

I felt like a kid who was like going into the swimming pool with a shirt on on my AAU team

if I was wearing a T-shirt underneath.

So I took it off.

But every other sport I was-

or every other time before that I was T-shirt.

You got-

You got bullied out of the T-shirt?

Yeah, kind of.

The premier jammers.

The-

Thank you for remembering, yeah.

The first red girls in the stands, bullied out.

No.

No, no, no, no.

But I'd say up until eighth grade I was a T-shirt guy.

Loved it.

Yeah, T-shirts are-

You're either the best player on the team or a dork.

Yeah.

Which is-

I don't know.

Well, I guess that's not entirely-

I don't know. There's just something about it.

It's either cool as fuck or you're a loser.

But I think it's cool as fuck.

But the-

I like T-shirts don't exist anymore.

Yeah.

I think T-shirts under the jersey.

I think it's-

Yeah.

And this all started because Darius A-Cuff wears a cut off T-shirt.

He wears a cut off.

Yeah, he wears a throwback type.

It does not look-

With dry-fit technology, you don't see guys wearing that sort of undershirt anymore.

But I like it.

But he does.

And he wears the little sweat band on his elbow.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, come on.

Come on.

The sweat band is what makes it for me.

Quincy Dubie.

Quincy Dubie, yeah.

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I'm going to go through higher seed teams at one.

And I want you to tell me if they were more impressive than you thought they would be

less impressive or no change.

Okay.

Uh, Michigan Wolverines, uh, no change, no change, I agree that they're opponent scored

a lot, but they were never in true.

They weren't in do it.

Yeah, you're at no point where you were that they were going to lose the game, but it was

like, you know, some points in the first half, you wanted to see a little bit more

from them.

Yeah.

They had a four point lead to half.

Yeah, Michigan's fine.

The, uh, Illinois fighting the line, I'm more impressed, but also somewhere between

no change and more impressed, because this is, I mean, Illinois scoring 105 points doesn't

really surprise me, but at the same time, you know, pen, pen was a little hot.

And I don't think anybody really circled that as an upset, but to win by 35 in the first

round is certainly impressive.

So, uh, number four seed Nebraska corn huskers and that might number be wrong.

That's four.

Yeah.

No, no, no, more impress is what I have to say.

I was they smoke that they smoke Troy that I mean Nebraska has not been playing well lately.

And a ton of pressure on Nebraska to get their first win and have John Rostin come by

the happy hour at a, at a date to be TBD and that one guy say Sharpie.

Yeah.

And that one guy to say Sharpie.

And, uh, yeah, they won by 30, uh, impressive from Nebraska Vanderbilt, Vanderbilt, this

uh, beats McNeese state by 10 points.

Um, maybe slight, slightly unimpressive, but I believe in, like I have Vanderbilt going

to lead eight.

I think the Vanderbilt Nebraska game is going to be awesome, but uh, yeah, McNeese was,

was pressing, you know, and trapping and I, I, I say, I said going into the tournament

that McNeese had played one team.

It was Michigan.

That was a power conference team.

They lost by 40.

Um, I was, I didn't think, I didn't have much respect for McNeese.

So maybe McNeese was just better than I thought they were.

Yeah.

Maybe that's what it is.

But, uh, yeah, I, I, I, I was monitoring that game.

I forget which game we were watching at that.

Maybe it was Duke and see in it.

Yeah.

We were locked in on that.

Um, and as you're monitoring, like it felt like Vanderbilt had control the game the

whole time, but I would have, I would have liked to see them run them out of the gym

and handle the press or pressure and the traps a little bit better.

And here's my take.

I think slightly unimpressive is where you want to be after day one, because in a four

game, March to the final four or a six game March to the national championship.

It is almost without fail that you're going to have one where just you just ain't got

it.

You just don't have it.

You have to survive.

Duke had theirs yesterday.

They were more than slightly unimpressive.

Yeah.

But, but, but you're going to have a game where you look back and like, boy, I can't,

we beat that 14C by four, but then we got like, I think you're not putting together

four perfect games.

You're not putting together six perfect games.

If I'm a Vanderbilt and I look kind of unimpressive, but beat me nice by 10 in my kind of unimpressive

game, I think I'm right where I want to be as opposed, and this isn't a guarantee of

anything.

But like Nebraska won by 30.

What if their slightly unimpressive game is coming in a bad spot?

That's just, yeah, everybody's got a slightly unimpressive game in them.

Can I get it out of the way first?

Can I say something about Nebraska?

Because I've seen this clip going around, the people laughing at the kid on Nebraska

was fragrant, right?

The freshman kid.

Yeah.

I don't know what you're talking about.

What happened?

We said, uh, we didn't come here to win one.

We came here to win two.

Yeah.

And people were like, there's, it takes six to win the national championship, but they're

at this, right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

They're in this city.

They're in this city to win two.

That's how literally every team is approaching this tournament.

Yes.

No, there's not a team in this tournament that's saying we're going to, you know, like San Diego

to win six games.

We're going to San Diego to win two.

Yeah.

We go back to campus.

And then we're going to go somewhere else to win two more.

We went two more.

Yeah.

I don't know.

I saw that.

Am I, did anyone else see this?

People are, I didn't see it.

People are assholes.

They're taking a task on that one.

Yeah.

Maybe I just conjured it up in my head.

I said it happened.

Oh, you sent it.

Yeah.

Okay.

So it is out there.

Yeah.

We're going to come here to just win one game.

We came here to win two.

Um, yeah.

I think that's, that's a very, that's a fair thing.

Yeah.

Literally everyone.

I don't know what city they're in.

Um, but that is exactly their goal for that city was to win two games.

Go home and keep practicing.

Their, their city is.

Doesn't say on here.

Nebraska is playing.

Where do they play?

Where do they play?

So they're the four and they're playing Vanderbilt next, right?

Where?

No, they're in Lincoln.

Oklahoma City.

Oklahoma City.

So I mean, if Nebraska went to Oklahoma City to win six games,

that'd be stupid.

Uh, after they win two, they're going to, they're going to,

they're going to have to forfeit.

That'd be a failure.

They're like, we're going to turn on the TV.

Yeah.

And in Houston, trying to watch the South Regional.

And Nebraska is just not there.

Because they're still in Oklahoma City.

Um, all right.

What, uh, can we talk about Duke?

Yeah.

So Duke.

I think Duke is, uh, Duke is, is obviously the number one overall seed

and has the national player of the year, but they are,

they are in a bad spot and they need their guys back badly.

And the fact that Duke, like, if everyone's healthy at Duke,

I believe they are, they are worthy of the number one overall seed.

Like the, their season they had speaks for themselves.

But I've seen enough through the ACC tournament, which they won.

Yeah.

But it's almost like to your point, it's almost like worse.

That they're winning these games because not this one.

Like, you, you obviously don't want to lose in the same tournament.

But it's almost like worse that they won the ACC tournament playing kind of poorly.

They, they could have used a wake up call.

They could have used, like Virginia beat in them by 10.

Would have been nice for this team to realize.

Like, you're not the same team if you don't have Caleb Foster and, uh, Gangba.

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This was not like a, this was not the like obviously Michigan won by a lot,

but this wasn't, this wasn't like Michigan Howard was in the first half or like Sienna was hanging around,

but you thought like this is, I mean, surely at some point, Duke is going to flip the switch.

Sienna, I'll play them for most of this game.

Yeah.

Duke is very, very lucky to win.

Duke, I said it earlier, has maybe the best defense when, when everyone's healthy

and they have their whole, their whole team has maybe the best defense in college basketball.

And they had no answer for a C, for a 16 seed, for a 16 seeded Sienna team.

They had to turn to zone Brandon.

They had to turn to a zone defense because they're like, we cannot guard these guys man to man.

And yeah, I think if you're a Duke fan, you're like, we just, once we get our guys back, we'll be fine.

Are your guys going to be back for TCU?

Because TCU is much, much better than Sienna, much more physical.

I think like, you know, the teams are going zone on Duke now and they have shooters

and, but that's sort of like falling into a trap.

Like Duke can shoot threes and they have a lot of guys that are comfortable stepping into them.

But, you know, if you're neutralizing Cambuser a little bit, making his life a little harder,

is that what, is that how Duke wants to approach offense?

Is just letting guys shoot threes and you, you hope they go in.

I don't, I don't think this is a fluke anymore.

I think I've seen enough from this iteration of Duke that like, they are not on the level,

they're not national championship level right now and they need their guys back.

Um, that's where I'm at.

It's not a one game thing for me.

This is like, this has kind of been happening for a little while.

I was taking a back by how little Cambuser flashed on the screen.

Like it just wasn't, you watch the other stars and they're just, oh my god, you can tell.

Right.

And yesterday it didn't seem like Duke had any guy that was, I know they have guys that are better than Sienna's guys,

didn't look like any of the five on the court for Duke were demonstraily better than any of the five on the, on the floor for Sienna.

Yeah.

And maybe that is, you know, they need the guard to get everybody in the, to, to, to lock everybody into the game that they need to play.

Um, I, I want to go another way a little bit here.

And I, I, TCU is a terrible match up for somebody who struggled with Sienna, by the way.

TCU is going to punch him right in a fucking dick.

And, and I don't know if Duke's going to be able to handle it.

The only thing is like TCU's offense was, is dreadful itself.

No, but if they get them, if they get them in a 64, 64 game, who know?

It's a coin flip at that point.

Um, Sienna, are you, are you?

Did you pick 64 64 on purpose?

Because they beat, they beat us 6664.

Was that intentional?

That might have been, um, it might have been subliminal.

It might have been just subtly in there.

I didn't mean to know.

That was impressive.

Yeah.

Um,

so Sienna's coach, Jerry McNamara, correct?

Yep.

Uh, getting a lot of loving.

John Sharer said, Decker, I'll coach me.

That guy's just better coach.

He, he took me to the woodshed.

Um, Syracuse job is open, Brian.

Syracuse job is open.

All that being said, you, you can't, you can't sub one guy in.

I don't understand it.

So, so they, they, they showed a, they showed a screen, or they showed a graphic with about 10 minutes to go in the game.

All five starters, Sienna have played every single minute.

I don't believe they came out until the, maybe not even the very, very end because it wasn't a blowout.

Like less than a minute left.

I think they made their first.

They finally made a substitution.

They did make a sub.

So they basically played their five starters.

Now you, your five starters of Sienna are not going to be as talented as the five starters at Duke.

And Duke's rotating in backups and keeping their starters fresh.

These are five star all American starters and their fresh coming at you in waves.

And you've got five guys out there playing their, their outman already.

And then you ask them to play 40 straight minutes against the number one team in the country.

That's fucking crazy.

It's pretty crazy.

And I don't care if your six or seven might not be that good.

Steel two minutes.

They live with two minutes with a backup power forward in there.

Especially when you're up 13.

Yeah, like, like get a, get a, get your guys a break somewhere.

Let the lead go from 13 to seven or something.

And have your guy come back in.

And then have your guy come in, give him, give him, yeah.

I don't agree, I agree with you.

You can even, if there's, you know, if there's, if there's five minutes, if there's five minutes ago in the, in the first half, you know,

you, you, you sub a guy in, you're going to have the, the ball, take it all the way down the shot clock.

That's half that time.

Yeah.

You ought to be able to mitigate and get to the media time out.

And I extended his break a little bit.

I don't understand why I did it.

Die with your best.

Reminds.

Die with your best, but you're going to kill your best if you die with your best.

You're going to die either way.

But you're going to die either way.

But he killed them.

And it reminds me of, uh, are you familiar with ASAP and his fables?

Roto, Rocky?

Yeah.

Roto, uh, you wrote a tale once of the Hortus.

Thank you, TJ.

The Hortus in the tear.

And.

Yes.

It's, uh, seeing, uh, seeing a dude game felt that way, Brandon.

Who was the, who was the Hortus and who was the tear?

I said to be the tear.

That's why you're the tear because you just tear out of the gate.

Sure.

Yeah.

Just tear out and you just, you're killing the Hortus.

You build a big lead.

Yeah.

I guess what happens?

You run out of gas.

On the board.

Meanwhile, the Hortus the whole time was just right, you know, yeah.

It was just right there.

And then the Hortus knew.

And the Hortus knew how long this.

So stupid.

The Hortus created an awesome new like R-rated kids book, by the way.

The Hortus.

The Hortus.

Hortus.

Oh, I was definitely been done already.

The Hortus.

I was saying tearing the Hortus.

Turned up the Hortus.

Yeah.

I thought the first one was, uh, something you saw on the hub.

The Hortus?

No, the Tortus in the tear.

Yeah, you don't get credit for.

The hub.

Don't say the hub.

That's crazy.

You know, you shouldn't get credit for the leader three quarters of the way through the marathon

when you're the one guy that was just like sprinting.

Yeah.

And everyone else was like, well, we have a 40 minute game.

You know, eventually you're going to run out of gas.

And that's what happened with Sienna.

But I mean, hell of an effort.

But yeah, I mean, you have to wonder what, what if they would have, what if they would have been a little fresher?

I just, I don't.

Guys, it's hardly played 40 straight minutes against elite competition.

It's just.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And there's a reason you give guys breaks and you, and you give them some water and you do that.

Like, yeah, he's a hell of a coach.

And, and that was probably as well as they're going to be able to do against Duke.

And, and I'm not poo pooing what he did and what they did.

I was just like, at some point, fuck, man.

Yeah.

Just, just, just give your guys a breather.

I think, I think, uh, Duke will ultimately be okay.

But they're, Kaden Booser, the brother, Kaden Booser is the stud.

Yeah.

And he's the brother who's been playing a lot more because Kaden Foster is out.

Um, relying on a freshman guard who's not going to be like a lottery pick as much as Duke is.

Yeah.

I don't love that recipe.

And they're relying on him a lot.

And he's playing okay.

But like, I don't love that recipe.

If you have national title aspirations and you rely, you're putting the ball in the hands of a freshman guard

who's not exactly making NBA scouts mouthwater.

Yeah.

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We'll talk about some other stuff in a minute, because there's other stuff to talk about.

You want to bring it up more than I do.

I want to talk about fucking basketball.

We can't honor Chuck Norris, don't we can't, we can't talk about, here's the last

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He's doubling up.

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And stay fun.

One safe.

Today we got 2J.

May I talk?

May I talk?

May I talk?

Yes.

Santa Clara Kentucky, Akron, Texas Tech, L.I.U.

Arizona, Wright State, UVA, Tennessee State, Iowa State, Hofstra, Alabama.

We have Utah State, Villanova.

We have Miami, Ohio, and Tennessee, Iowa, Clemson, Northern Iowa, St. John's Central

Florida UCLA, Quinnipiac, is that Quinnipiac?

Quinnipiac.

Queens.

Queens.

Okay.

I thought it was.

Okay.

Queens College.

What's the abbreviation?

QU?

QUC.

And that's why I didn't think it would be Quinnipiac, because that'd be QUI.

Got it.

Yeah.

But it is Queens.

And if I looked at the logo, even though the logo is too small on my screen, I would have

seen it as Queens out of North Carolina, not Queens.

I don't know which.

Yes.

Which might be merging with Elon soon, so I don't even know what's going on, but what game

right there tickles your, tickles your perennial, tickles your taint.

I think it has to be Miami, Tennessee, right?

That's the, I mean, Miami is kind of becoming a story a little bit.

Yeah.

I think Iowa Clemson one kind of makes me go a little bit.

Yeah.

I am curious, because I think, uh, yeah, I think Iowa Clemson winner could give Florida

a decent game, potentially.

I think both Iowa Clemson fit the profile of somebody who could make a deep run, could

give a number one a scare, and they play today.

I think that was a great one.

Obviously, Miami, Ohio, Tennessee is one.

Everybody will have some.

I would say, I would say Santa Clara can tuck you.

I would say the, uh, the WCC.

So St. Mary's just was not competitive at all against Texas A&M.

And Zaga didn't play particularly well.

I don't love this Gonzaga team, but, uh, they didn't play particularly well against

Kennesaw State.

They did win.

And now the bracket, you know, BYU's out.

So maybe it's opening up for Gonzaga a little bit.

But I think the WCC has not had a, uh, an, an awesome showing so far.

And Kentucky Santa class of first game, right?

Yeah.

That one stands out to me, because we might be doing the same thing with Kentucky that

we did with North Carolina this tomorrow tomorrow.

Well, I guess we're not doing a show tomorrow on Monday in Pope fire.

No, I mean, not just talking about like the state, well, how did Kentucky fall this

far?

Actually, at a time when John Calipari has Arkansas rolling a little bit.

Yeah.

Um, so yeah, I, I don't expect Kentucky to, uh, to make the sweet 16 because Iowa

state should take care of them.

If, if they do, in fact, be Santa Clara, but there are levels to this.

And like as much as you want to pretend like who cares?

Kentucky's not winning the title anyway.

Win in one game is, is much different with perception than, you know, like if they

be Santa Clara by 20 and then lose the Iowa state versus, yeah, losing, losing

Santa Clara.

Yeah, it's, it's a very different conversation.

So I think that one's a big game.

That one has my attention for sure.

Um, what else?

Uh, St. John's Northern Iowa is going to be just disgusting basketball, I fear.

Just not fun to watch.

I fear.

Well, just, just kind of, maybe similar to what the Ohio State TCU game, uh, the

total is one 32 could be close, but like just, not a lot of offense Dave just saying

these teams suck.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Cut.

Taste.

These teams suck.

God.

These teams suck.

Are you doing white socks, Dave?

Well, Dave was saying Kant a lot a lot.

He said a lot.

That is, I don't know.

He said Kant probably 200 times.

Yeah.

And he wasn't calling anyone a Kant.

No, wait, what occasionally, but then, yeah, you call situations, Kant, it was, it

was just everything was a Kant.

It was, it was like in place of, damn, it was in place of like every cuss word.

Yes.

Correct.

There was no damn hell.

Shit.

Cut.

You're a fuck.

It was just all Kant.

This is press.

Yeah.

Just wait for tomorrow.

Oh, we're coming for that ass.

We're coming for that ass.

I didn't pick the best team.

Oh, I got a shout out me and, uh, me and Ebo here last night with the, with our

Billikens.

Um, we're going to win some money here.

I need, I need scoop on the couch next to Dave.

Listen, yeah, decked out in St. Louis, uh, if they need me, they need me yesterday.

Well, yeah.

I, I, that was a great museum, by the way.

Yeah.

It's a very interesting place, uh, particularly like that plane.

Yep.

Yep.

You guys get along.

Let's see the Rams, St. Louis.

That was very lucky because they don't play there a lot of, not a lot at all.

No.

Of course we have to go see the arch.

I mean, yeah.

I can't go to St. Louis without seeing the art.

I'm not joking.

I would legitimately, I would put that up on my fridge.

That, that picture of all of us in front of the arch.

I would get that tattoo to my chest.

Yeah.

I'm jealous that you guys get to be on a team where you guys all get along.

What?

What?

What?

So Connor got me a sweatshirt that you know that's a Catherine's upstairs.

I don't know who that is.

I just got off your desk.

Okay.

Yeah.

Can I, can I make a suggestion for the Michigan game?

Sure.

You guys should, you guys should be the St. Luna Ticks.

Yeah.

Oh, I already did that.

Yeah.

I put, I put that tweet out last night.

Oh, you did?

Of Connor and the St. Luna takes graphic.

Oh, yeah.

Obviously.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I want to see a bit.

Oh, great minds.

Yeah.

There we go.

And honestly, it looks pretty good.

Yeah.

I'll be honest, Brandon.

I just like saw that at first glance.

I didn't even realize I was in that.

You even noticed that?

I just noticed that.

There we go.

Um, Brandon, you're going to, you're going to be here tomorrow, right?

Huh?

Are you going to be here tomorrow?

Huh?

Are you going to be here tomorrow?

What?

Okay.

Let's look at what your Brandon says.

I don't think we're going to be streaming for that game.

They're not streaming live until like four o'clock.

Actually, they're not.

Actually, we're not streaming that game.

Even though it's, it's Dave's game.

Dave's game.

I don't think they, I don't know that unless they change the plans, I don't, I don't know.

The first game of the day.

I think they might end up out here.

I don't know.

Oh, shit.

But I'm not sure.

I'm speaking out of school because I don't know.

All right.

I don't think we are streaming now.

Fuck, dude.

So 12 to 10.

Well, you couldn't stream the last night, but you, you're asking.

No, no, no.

No, no.

Your ass went home.

I asked multiple people.

I said, are we going to be on the stream?

Or is it too crowded in there?

And they said, no, it's too crowded.

You're not going to be on stream.

And then I asked before I left, dude, I'm missing on the stream.

Well, that's also because it's fucking mincey.

And then it's Chef Donnie and Mark and our team is.

Yeah.

Our team is.

So that's a word.

That is a word.

Yeah.

Our team.

I asked around.

And I said, do you guys need anything else from me before I leave?

And I made sure we had all the promo.

I made sure we did the videos and everything like that.

And we were good.

I just don't know how to handle my team because.

Yeah, I want to cut Donnie out of the money.

But then Donnie's coming up to me saying we should cut mincey out of the money.

Yeah.

And it's just all very confusing.

Also mincey's using the wrong hashtag and nobody's telling him.

Yeah.

Yeah, he won't know you.

Yeah.

Chuck Norris is dead.

Sorry.

That was a hard pivot from the last topic.

Yeah.

Yeah, that was a tough laugh.

That was a tough laugh.

Chuck Norris has died, ladies and gentlemen, 86 years old.

And I am torn.

Chuck Norris has been in my life, my entire life.

But the comments and the memes.

Yeah.

Are going to be terrific.

Yeah.

The Chuck Norris is awesome thing that happened around 2008-ish, nine-ish.

Yeah.

Is that an example of how the best the internet could be?

Yeah, I guess.

We all come together to make the same joke.

It's a bit nonsensical, but also you kind of look back and cringe a little bit.

Yeah.

It's a little whimsical though.

I don't know.

I like it way better than the cynicism on the internet.

But now everything's negative.

Everybody sucks.

Is it really, I mean, you, it was before that.

I remember being in high school and I graduated in06 and I remember doing Chuck Norris jokes in high school.

Oh, it's for that.

Okay.

So I remember like you walk in and you're like Chuck Norris doesn't do push-ups.

Yeah.

He pushes the world down.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

And then everyone's like.

Some were admittedly terrible.

You look back and you're like, was that funny?

Yeah.

We think that was funny.

But like even this morning, even this morning I saw Chuck Norris admitted into the hospital.

No word on condition of the hospital.

Yeah.

That's.

Yeah, that's fine.

That's fine.

Yeah.

And when you compare that to the cynicism that is all over the internet today.

Yeah.

And I like that.

And you're a better for sure.

And clav getting frameworked by the issue for that leader.

Right.