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I want to start in our nation's capital, where Caleb Foster returned just 20 days post-foot surgery

and helped Duke get past St. John's final score, Blue Devils 80, Red Storm 75, Dylan Darling. He had

a potential game tying three in the final seconds. Oh man, it just barely scraped the rim. Then two

camera boozer free throws later. Duke won by five despite trailing earlier in the second half by

as many as 10 Norlander. It's good to see you on this Friday night. We in different parts of the

country. You're three athletes behind me out in California. So when we're done here, you still

going to have plenty of time to get to the club in the meantime. Let me ask you this. In the meantime,

let me ask before you go to the club. Let me ask you this. What'd you make of Caleb Foster's

miraculous return? 11 points in the second half. And Duke's come from behind victory over

Reptino's Red Storm inside capital one arena. Yeah, I made of it that the district gave us what we

were hoping. And that's obviously this game and Husky Spartans, which we'll get to Caleb Foster.

I mean, we are this is now becoming a bit of a running theme here in terms of players injured

gritting through it. You know, I wasn't obviously on the on the pod last night, but come to find out

Jordan Pope played with a broken foot. A broken foot and played 33 minutes. Foster wasn't dealing

with an outright break, but he he guts it out and Shire obviously emotional on the floor afterward

with with Tracy Anderson heck of a moment from him there. Just literally seconds after Foster

would talk to Tracy about getting that win. There's so many places to go with this game. It was an

incredible sweet 16 game. And now that sweet 16 is done, you know, we did have some, you know,

some games that weren't ultimately that close, but I just there were a variety of matchups that

were final four caliber. This one was obviously to that level here. St. John's goes home with the 30

win season and and gets knocked out after having real shots, real hopes, real looks at winning

this game and putting Duke on on the ropes. John Shire again went to his zone in this game that

obviously was effective. I understand why they have darling on the floor at the end of the game.

I understand that unless you're a St. John span, you probably didn't know who the hell Ruben

Pray was, but he started this game off with the potential to be one of the more unlikely,

you know, March heroes. This tournament can do that. Guy just absolutely goes off for four

threes in the first half. It's not a factor down the stretch, right call, wrong call. That's

patinos call for the second straight season. St. John's is knocked out of the tournament and I think

there's at least an open question about if the right players were on the bench or not and the game

credit to Booser, who just will not be denied. I said this a month ago on HQ, I'm sorry, he is

more reliable, more valuable and better than Cooper flag was at Duke. Cooper flag is a better

prospect. Cameron Booser is a better college basketball player. He has been the entire season.

It's one damn thing after another with him. He is awesome and he just knows how to well his team

do a win. One of the most impressive freshmen I've ever seen in my entire life. He got it done

yet again, 22, 10, three dimes, three turnovers of block in 39 minutes on the floor and yet for

all that Booser did, I think having foster off the bench log 19 minutes was as important as anything.

Damay Sar, he leaves this game with only two points but his presence on the floor was

crucial, particularly on the defensive end. Isaiah Evans arguably was the most impressive and

necessary guy in the floor period for Duke. It took everything possible for Duke to get this win by

five over St. John's. Darling doesn't make the shot from three. He actually looked like he had a shot

GP that he hesitated on, then he repositioned himself, didn't have it barely flick the rim

and that's all she wrote and it's another sweet 16 classic. I was just I was wowed by it. I think

it was everything we could possibly ask from these two teams in this in this game. Zubi gave it

about as much as he possibly could. Big time battle between the two best bicks in the country. So

we're not going to go an hour plus on this at least. I hope not knock on wood. I could go an hour

on this game. This was everything I wanted and I thought that St. John's was really going to

tempt put and do guy to this tournament when it went on that run early in the second half and

it was flying and it was turnover after turnover after turnover you're seeing Zubi edge of four

flying down the court. Duncan got the slimo replay. We're going to break coming out on CBS and

St. John's looks like it's going to pull away. Did not let it happen. Congrats to Blue Devils on

the hard fought and incredible win in the regional semis down in the district. On camera boozer,

you know he was he's I'm not going to get I'll let you handle the Cooper flag camera boozer college

debate. I don't want to get well and it's already done. Camera booze is a better college player

than Cooper flag was. Let's keep it moving. All right. At Matt Norlander at Matt Norlander on

X 22 point seven of 16 from the field eight of nine from the free throw line tonight on March

madness 360. We did the the nascent award for finalist and the point I made on there is a point

we've made on here a bunch. That's over. Cameron boozer is going to be your national player of the

year. He should be everybody's national player of the year. If you give that award to anybody other

than him, you're just trying to be different for the sake of being different. He has been

if not the best. Certainly one of the few best college basketball players in the country

this season and the fact that he's done it for the number one overall seat of the NCAA tournament

that should that should put all the trophies in his trophy case. In this game like you mentioned Isaiah

Evans. He was leading score 25 points 10 of 15 from the field four of eight from three. But the

story it really was Caleb Foster. We got news earlier today earlier on Friday that he wasn't on

the status report anymore. So that suggested he was going to play comes off the bench only played

19 minutes zero points in the second half in the first half, but in the second half five of eight

from the field 11 points. And then I thought that was telling in the post game that John got

emotional with Tracy said there's no business. This this young man should have been playing in this

game 20 days removed from foot surgery. Most players. I think he said 99.9% of players would not have

played in this game. And yet his presence alone sparked that team according to everybody in the

locker room. And in a time where at different levels of basketball, but certainly at the NBA level

and the division one men's basketball level, there's a lot of conversations about you know can

this guy play? Should he play? Does he really want to play? Does he love it? I mean we've talked

about that in the NBA every week. And it was a big topic of conversation this season around

Aaron Peterson at Kansas. And yet here we have the other side of it. This is somebody who nobody

thought would play in the sweet 16 when it was announced he needed foot surgery. This was somebody who

even a week ago people didn't think we're going to play in this game. John said the first time he's

played five on five in switch surgery when he entered the game tonight. There was no five on five

in advance of this. They threw him out there with nine of the dudes and he helped them get that win.

He wasn't the biggest reason they got that win, but he played a role in it and that was awesome to see.

All 11 points came in the second half. Shot five of eight. Just to turn them it's incredible.

Congratulations him for on returning. We spoke earlier this week when when Shire said it was an

outside chance. Just coaches don't typically say that kind of stuff unless they've got a particular

feeling. Shire might even tell you he didn't know for sure, but for him to have gone enough on the

record four days ago showed you there was a real shot, but he no one could have imagined. He was

going to be that impactful good on him. When you combine that with 25 from Evans and then just

a couple notes here on on Booser. And I want to talk to St. John's real quick as well GP. Boosers

the fourth freshman ever with at least 15 points, 10 plus rebounds and three straight and

several tournament games. He's the second freshman with at least 20, 10 and three in a sweet

16 game. Kevin loved it that in 2008. He's the fifth player in the last 50 years to average at

least 20 points, 10 plus rebounds, three plus assists entering the elite eight and he's the first

player since a guy named Larry Bird to go at least 15, 10 and three and three consecutive tournament

games. He's an outright stud and his coach is doing well for himself by the way as well. John

Shire is now joined Bob Knight indeed Smith is the only coaches to make the elite eight before

the age of 40 in the past 60 years. So mighty, mighty, mighty impressive stuff there. St. John's

made 13 threes in this game. It was hot early. There was regression after after the half here

got this somewhere. I want to say they only hit four of their shots from beyond the arc of the

second half and that was that was obviously a major major factor and and them not being able to

keep up with the Jones is their GP and not having prey on the floor. I couldn't possibly imagine

that was going to be a major case against them, but it it was and they just couldn't quite hold

on to the rope. That's as much about Booser and Duke and Evans as anything, but yeah four of 14

from beyond the arc in the second half for St. John's after after drill and nine in the first half

they also got owned on the boards that was significant. This was the first time in 17 games when

St. John's led by at least 10 points in the game that they didn't win the game and they were also

beat by Duke and the paint by a margin of 12 points there. So Zubi was obviously understandably

very emotional in the post game. These are emotional games man. I mean these are for a lot of players

every single year. It is their final game in college if they do indeed get knocked out. So

it's a lot to process in the immediacy of these losses, but I really appreciate

Zubi, Dylan Mitchell spoke as well and everything they had to say there. Just a mighty, mighty

impressive game. Patino almost had it. He really did and and what he did over all this season

and it back to back years with St. John's is extremely impressive. I know these losses are really,

really tough to take, but it comes at the hands of a Duke team. That's and a program that's just

rolling. I mean this is now three straight elite HGP. So the second time in school history that

they've gone to three to the eight. They did this from 88 to 92 under K and they know how to

close. I mean Duke made 14 of its final 18 shots in this game. It went from down 10 with 14,

24 to go to out scoring St. John's 35 to 20 the rest of the way. They just they know how to win.

They've been able to do it. They've had some some real scares here in this tournament. I

understand that, but now that they've got their full roster on the floor, it's not fully healthy.

They remain as dangerous as any team in this in this tournament and it's extremely impressive.

Any last takeaways on either Duke or Johnny's? It's all you. Well, on St. John's, Rick was very

complimentary of his team afterward while obviously disappointed, but said like in five decades of

coaching, he had never had a team where the players never had a argument. There was never an

issue. There was never an almost fight. And he's like, that's just not normal. And so I had a good

group of guys and they gave me everything they had. And you know, Rick is great in press conferences.

Sometimes they go one way, sometimes they go another. This is one where clearly disappointed,

but he said all the right things and seemed to have real affection for the men in that locker room.

As for Duke, just a statement to put out there because it's a graphic we threw up on

March Manus 360 that thought was interesting. John Shire Bob Knight Dean Smith. They have now

all gone to three elite eights before the age of 40. Nobody's ever gone to four.

John is only 38. So he'll have a chance next season to get to four elite eights before the age

of 40. And that would put him in a group of one. So as we've stated many times, his career is off

to one of the greatest starts in college basketball history, coaching history at the Division 1 level.

And now he's one more win away from getting back to a final four. As you likely know, by now,

Duke will play Yukon on Sunday in DC with the winner advancing to the final four. And that's because

Yukon got past Michigan State, late Friday, the final score Husky's 67 Spartans 63 terrorist

read Let All Scores with 30 points. Alex Caravan added 17, Norlander. I'm about to ask you a question.

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a whole lot real quick here. And I don't know what happened to your other computer. I think you

spilled soda on it. I don't have that story. But when you did this last night, you had a better

connection. Oh, I didn't do this last night. You have no idea what last night was about. I'll tell

you someday. Okay. I don't need to know it right now. How about this? We're going to take a break.

We're going to go to commercial. You're going to reboot entirely. You're going to log back on

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All right, we're absolutely cooking with gas at this point because Josh is also DMing me that

he can hear the air conditioner coming in in my hotel room. What do you want from me? I don't

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here buddy. All right, let's get to the other game in the district. A terrific game. Yukon wins

67 63. That's setting up a one versus two. So we got a pair of one versus two's in the regional

finals. I'll be at the one Saturday here in San Jose. And then on Sunday, the final final final

four bid will be determined between the Blue Devils and the Huskies. In this game, you saw how Yukon

get 20 out of terrace read. You saw a caravan go for 17 including a big three laid a couple big

foul shots late. So LeBal emerged after a rocky first weekend. He played well. And on the Michigan

State side, Jeremy fears and Cohen car each at 13 Carson Cooper had himself some moments again,

tried to will this Spartan's team to a big time come back couldn't get it done. But it was

it was just extremely impressive to see this team not die not quit at one point. It got down.

It was down 25 to six to start the game, but they got it to eight of the break. Obviously took

the lead after the half and unfortunately for for Sparty here just four or 16 from beyond the arc.

That was an issue Yukon's defense showed up in a significant way. Mighty impressive for them to do

that at this point here with the Huskies. You've got look at this. So there's 16 and one.

Past four tournaments. This one included 16 and one in the tournament. Dan Hurley has never lost

in the sweet 16 or later to this point. We'll see if he can keep that going in the next round.

They have won 17 streak games as a program in the sweet 16 or later. Yukon has that's the longest

streak since the acknowledgement of the sweet 16s existence in 1975. It technically goes back

further beyond that. UCLA would have that streak, but I guess for official record keeping

purposes, Yukon has the most in the modern era, if you will. And it's just really impressive.

Dan Hurley being nine and no is has ever been done at this stage with no loss. That many wins

with that loss. And now he is 18 and five in the tournament as a head coach. That's the second

best winning percentage in the history of of Colton and college basketball only behind wouldn't

the minimum of 20 games there. So this was a tight watch, a tense watch. It looked like Yukon was

going to run away with it. It did not do that. GPL center right back to you for everyone watching.

You've seen this, but if you're listening, GP is back in the stream and I think you're a little

bit clearer. So it's yours, buddy. Dan being nine and no in the sweet 16 and beyond

is obviously, are we done here? Is this over? What do you mean is this over? Like Dan never

loses at this point. Oh, you guys that's that's for you to decide. I guess we might be done here.

I mean, they're halfway home to a title, but if you think you think we're done here when

then we're done here. I mean, I'm just saying you go and Yukon may never lose again on me here.

I think I'm going to circle back to that time where I said, you kind of might never lose again.

What if you kind never loses again? Have we thought about that? Dan Hurley has never lost

going forward in an NCAA tournament. Are we done here?

I mean, it beats Duke. We'll have to, I'll have to seriously engage in that kind of conversation.

In all honesty, parish, like Michigan State put a big surge on,

that building looked and sounded incredible. I just I was so thrilled that the most height

to region of them all deliver two outstanding games and Michigan State had a chance, but

you're looking at if you're watching right now you're seeing the stat pace that Josh has up here

and unfortunately Michigan State just in aggregate did not have the perimeter shooting at all.

It was able to get back into the game because it had a real good stretch there where it was

malling Yukon on the boards and it was getting really good second chance opportunities.

It was it was equaling them if not bettering them in the paint, but Yukon got enough of a lead

where they were, both teams played really, really hard, but it just seemed to me down the final

two and a half, three minutes of this game and this is something that would drive his own nuts.

I just felt like Yukon had a little more battery in the pack. That's all and it shot just a

little bit better in Caravan. That three that he hit, I think it gave him a four point cushion

was big and then he's on the line. He hits both threes and they were just cool barely touching

the back of the rim, barely making the net move at all. I mean just big time stuff

and that spot there. So congrats to Husky's fans. That was a really, really good and

and well-earned battle, a sparty, you know. I know the big 10 populates half the elite eight now

and you're hoping them to make it even five out of eight, but the fact that you couldn't get it done.

No shame in it and this was a really, really, really good battle here and Isos group just couldn't

quite get it done. He got asked afterward. I guess about retirement. I don't have the context of

the question, but to no surprise at all, he said this on the record to me multiple times. He's

like, he's not close. Maybe he gets close one year, but this dude is not remotely close to

walking away and he reinforced that and the immediacy of the feet on Friday night.

Yeah, so Jerry Fears was five of 15 from the field. Michigan State four of 16 from three.

Those, if I just told you those two things before we started, you probably would guess which way

this was going to go. Still, it came down to the final minute and I did think it was notable that

we have watched over the past week. Bill South leave his future up in the air publicly. Kelvin

Samson kind of leave his future up in the air publicly and yet here's Thomas. Yeah, I'll just

real quick on that. Like I have checked in on the like, I'm told he is not retiring. Kelvin Samson.

So just, just for those purposes here, I even doubled back again on that today. He could change

his mind, but it's been insisted to meet for months that Kelvin Samson will not be walking away.

So, but at least publicly at the press conference. He was like, yeah, so, and then here's Thomas.

They'll say, no, no, no, like we don't have to, you don't have to ask me next week. I don't need

time to talk to my family. I'm a basketball coach. I'll be best coaching basketball next season. So

that's good for him and obviously good for Michigan State. He said the thing like, if I ever

get to the point where I, you know, my, my bosses don't think I let that thing that coaches of a

certain age often say, but clearly we're nowhere close to that. And we may never get there. You

know what? Like we may never get there. Um, he, so he's still operating at the tip top of the sport.

And yeah, that was a, uh, a fun nightcap in DC. So let's move to the Midwest region in Chicago.

We're going to take the games in the order that they were played. Final score Michigan 90, Alabama

77, Yaksal, Lindembourg was the star 23 points, 12 rebound seven assists in a 13 point victory. So

the Wolverines are in the elite eight for the first time since 2021, your thoughts, Norlander.

Uh, how about Bama really putting a scare in? They hit Bama combined to make

a hole not once. So the Michigan and Bama made 27 threes in this game. It's the second most ever

in a tournament game. Uh, the only one that was more involved Bama, I was there last year. Uh,

it was BYU and Bama and the, and the, and this is a very same round. So it's 16. Those teams made a

combine 31, uh, in an, in a tournament game and Michigan to hit the gear and needed to hit Yaksal

Lindembourg taking over just, you know, across the sport the past couple of nights here, GP,

you've seen a lot of stuff from a variety of teams and players that have occupied that top shelf

of the, of the sport for the majority of the past three or four months showing up large. And that

includes first team all American Yaksal, Lindembourg, who goes for 23 and 12 along with seven assists.

He's the first player to hit credit to our research team for this. I think it might have been

on the broadcast as well. Um, last time a, a player, any player, this deep into the tournament

or later went for at least 23, 12 and seven in a game. Larry bird in the final four and 79,

not a Larry on this podcast and, and deservedly. So it just gives you an idea of how special this

year is in terms of the talent. What we're seeing out of the likes of Boozer and Lindembourg, of course.

He's also the third player since 2000 joining, uh, Carmelo Anthony with at least 2010 and five in a

sweet 16 game or later. That's, uh, that's big up big upspotted. I've had the other player,

Dway, also in 2003 in that elite eight game against Kentucky. I was extremely impressed with

Lindembourg, impressed with Michigan to be able to, you know, Phylon was it going to get his and

Phylon was awesome. Like Phylon was going, always going in the lottery. But like you watch him play

like this tonight and you're like, he has to be in the top 10. How can you not take this guy with

a top 10 pick? 35 and seven and four. Just one turn over in 39 minutes. You know, they got some

good play out of, um, Sherrell and Wright cell and, and, and they were up what one going into the

break. But Lindembourg even said on the floor afterward like, you know, they dictated it and

Michigan got it back to where it wanted it in the second half. Like they played more at their

pace overall. Um, Kado had some, Kando had some moments where he was like, he was not, he was

not taking anyone's stuff whatsoever. Uh, and I thought Trayn McKenney who, who has a bright future

provided he is going to stay and return for his sophomore season. I think that is worth this,

where this is going here. Um, I just really nice flashes out of him and Roddy Gale. So the game

didn't wind up and ending as closely as I thought it was like this between this and Duke and the

Johnny's GP like, we were on fire again for a second straight, uh, semi final like, you know,

early card, if you will. But Bama wins at 90 to 77 gets onto an elite A Michigan. I'm sorry,

sorry, Michigan. Thank you. Um, and, and thus so with four guys with at least 15 points in

the tournament game. Like that just doesn't have like, I don't know how often that happens. We have

four guys at 15 apiece speaks to their balance. Their balance is as much of a weapon as anything

else. And oh, by the way, um, couple more nuggets for you. Uh, Michigan now is 34 wins. That's the

most of the single season of school history. It's the first team in the tournament ever with at least

90 points on 50 and 45 shooting. So 50 from the field 45 from three and three straight games.

Team is just loaded, loaded, loaded. And this year's Michigan team and Kansas back nine years

ago in 2017, the only teams of the past three decades with three straight 90 point games

in the tournament. They do that and they had to survive a barrage of three from Alabama. I was

Marty impressed what we were taking away from the game. Well, you mentioned however many players

at least, I guess it was 16 points. I know you know, but like Arizona had four or six. They

got 13 last night. And that had never happened in an NCAA or a sweet 16 game before. So a lot of

this type of stuff bouncing around it speaks to the quality of the basketball that we're watching.

Michigan, like you said, 34 wins now. That's a school record. The story was the three point line on

some level, like Alabama missed 33. They missed 33s, which tied the record for most misses ever

in any NCAA tournament game. They were 14 to 47 from three. That's 29.8%. So they took 69 shots

and 47 of them came from beyond the art. That's a 68% launch rate from beyond the art. On the season,

they lead the country while taking 54% of their shots from beyond the art. And in this one, it went

up to 68. And I don't think Nate was completely happy with it, like those numbers after the game,

the way he put it was, we need to make better rim decisions. But they were always going to have

to take a bunch because scoring against Michigan inside the arc is one of the most difficult

things to do in the sport. They're top four, I think in two point defensive field goal percentage. So

I don't know that you needed to take 47. But you needed to get up there pretty high. And the biggest

thing was you couldn't miss 70% of them. And that's what they did. They missed 70% of their three point

shots. And there's just no scenario where they were going to beat Michigan, missing 70% of their

three point shots. So Phylon was great. You know, down south, we follow in all the lottery picks. We

could have two lottery picks down in Memphis. We'll follow them all. And LeBaron Phylon is on the

on the watch list, for sure. Anything else on. Yeah, just go ahead. Couple of things on

get to get this. This Bama stat. So the most three point attempts through the first three games

in a tournament, single tournament ever. Bama now has the record. Okay, 2019 Auburn had the record

with 98 three point hoists. Okay, this year's Nebraska team actually had 96. Sneaky 96,

if you asked me. So the record until Bama, which broke it, was 98. That Bama shot 125 three

pointers in three games. 125. Get a hold of yourself. Can get control of your life. That's

that's just incredible. You are drunk beyond the arc with that. And Bama for the season on

made threes now has the third most ever would have had the second most ever if it couldn't got to

gotten to the next round. It made 450 triples this season. That same Auburn team that set the record

previous record for hoists was number two with 454. The Nova team that won it in 2018 had the most

made threes in the season with 464. They needed to go all the way to the final game of the tournament

in order to achieve that record. And then one more thing on Michigan averages right now averaging

in this tournament 95.3 points shooting 57% from the field, making almost 12 threes a game at a 47.3%

clip and out rebounding opponents by almost 14 per game machine. Like I saw Arizona person and it

feels like that's the best team. And then you see what Michigan doing. And it's like how can that

not be the best team? You see the efficiency of Illinois. And it's like, okay, they have now come

back to this conversation. Then obviously Duke added 100%. But it's it's will to win as

that's good as any other team in this tournament. It's just it's phenomenal. And with that,

yeah, let's move along to the the other game from from Friday night, which was the second game in

Chicago. And credit to the balls. Let's dive into it. But I just as as most people listening and

watching would agree, I just hate when teams that are good enough to go all the way to on Monday night

unexpectedly at any injury sucks. I get all that. But I'm talking like you get into the tournament

and then you lose your best player. Joshua Jefferson is a gamer. And as we look around as I

mentioned before, like one player after another has just been you know, fighting through injury,

C.J. Cox is pretty another one, right? And he had to be pretty damn limited if he was not

able to get on the floor. Him being down on the floor G.P. is not the sole reason why Iowa state

didn't win. But even lapsed out on the call like against Tennessee, Iowa state just could

ill afford not to have him on the floor. And it was just it was wounded quite literally. And as a

result, it's Tennessee, not just with the win. Tennessee with the win by 14 a 76 62 final.

Happy for Tennessee. Happy for Rick. But yeah, it stinks for TJ, for Joshua, for Iowa state and

his fans. I think I think the most famous example of legitimate national title contender loses its

best player late is probably Kenyan Martin at Cincinnati once upon a time. But we get these kind

of martial at Carolina. That's another one that immediately pops him out. That's the 2012 one where

I mean, Kentucky was the best team in the country that season. But you know, broken a martial

on that team. And let's see what happens. And so yeah, these always because you never get these

teams back, you don't get to run it back in college basketball with few exceptions. And it's just

an opportunity ripped away from you. If you're Tennessee, you don't have to apologize for it.

Because you'll be on the wrong side of one of these things at some point too. But it just it stinks

for TJ and stinks for Iowa state. But I do love the Rick Barnes story. This is a man who

was a incredibly successful coach at Texas in the big 12 for a long time. And then Baylor started to

get on the rise. Texan was getting some recruits recruiting had dropped off in the state. That was part

of it. But another part of it was seven straight years at Tennessee. He fell to get out of the first

weekend. And or either make the NCAA tournament all. All right. And so in 2015, they pushed him out.

And the Tennessee thing was either already lined up or in the works. But he knew he was going to be

coaching again in people in Orange, June and August. Donnie Tingle got fired. And that opened the door

for him to get to see a job. That's right. Don't know about Donnie Tingle. Go ahead and Google it.

So here we have this man who is late in his career in terms of age at least.

Just couldn't get out of the first weekend of the NCAA tournament seven straight years. And

that is ultimately why the school that he had taken to a final four decided to move on. And now here

he is at Tennessee. Having spent part of his career with a reputation of just can't get it done

in the tournament. And now he has been to four straight sweet 16s. He's in his third straight

elite eight. And one more win and he gets Tennessee to the final four for the first time in school

history. Obviously there's awesome stuff on the other side of it too. But if you're a UT fan,

like this is this is awesome stuff. And given where I live, I'm surrounded by him and happy for him.

This is this is this is the good stuff. And like I've known Rick for a long time. I like him on a

personal level. It is nice to see him having the success at this rate at this level at such a late

point in his career. Yeah. And as I and as I understand it, he is also like, you know, the matter

when this run ends, he's not he's not stepping away there. He's doing well. And I think it was

so we're the 26 tournament now. I want to say going into the 23 tournament, he was 500 for his

career in the tournament, which is wild. And think about considering like, I want to say it was like

26 and 26, 27 and 27, 27, 28, 28, something like that. Now he's he's he's well over that at this

point. And and well deserved well earned. This is the fourth elite eight in the history of Tennessee's

program. Three of them are with Barnes. And they're all in the past three years. Now they haven't

broken through to the final four. Tennessee has the most tournament wins of any school without a

final four in its history. This was win 34 in March Madness for the men's falls program here.

See if they can break that they're going to have to go through Michigan in order to do so. And

Tennessee, oh, by the way, has never defeated a one seed in the history of its program. But they

looked ready to rock ready to roll in a major, major way. They they got up what 42 29 in the second

half when it was close to the first 20 minutes. They mauled Iowa State. Oh, GP, what are the

percentages here? Actually, let me look, let me bring this up real quick here. I want to actually

want to see what not the margin, but the percentage that they had actually gotten a done on the offense.

I mean, this is outrageous. Tennessee grabbed 53.3% of its offensive rebounds in this game. Iowa

State, 23% false fans know this, but if you had forgotten, Tennessee has owned that number one

spot on over rebound rate on Ken Palm, the entire season came through and delivered again for the

season. Tennessee is grabbing 45% of its misses, which is just just I mean, come on now. That's

that's absurdly impressive. So impressive that I'm going to check this in real time here. Have we

had a team at 45% in the past 15 years? I'm cycling through it right now, GP. No, there's no one.

Let's see West Virginia and in 15 16 was at 42%. That's close. Baylor the year before. Yeah,

all these teams are at 42. Minnesota in 2012, 13 43.8. I'm wondering right. Oh, old Dominion.

Shouts, shout out to Blaine Taylor. His team was at 44.9% back in 2010 11. I want to say that

was the ODU team that either lost a Butler or pit in the first round. Point is, I'm not seeing a

single team that to this point matches Tennessee's O rebound rate in the history of Ken Palm. I've

got three more years to cycle through up. There it is. Okay. Oh, one Michigan State, Thomas O. So

2000, 2001 Michigan State was a one seed. That team went 28 and five and lost in the final four to

Arizona. The most recent Arizona team to make the final four. That's the last time there was a team

as proficient at getting second chance opportunities at the as this year's balls group.

I saw this Tennessee team in person in Vegas. They played Houston and it was one of the most

physical games I've ever seen in person. Grown man game that if NFL scouts were there,

they would have been salivating. They owned Iowa State on the boards and Felix Oxtapara and

Jalen Kerry were possessed in this game tonight. Jacobi Gillespie continues to be that dude and is

the kind of dude where I think he has and I gotta sit down and figure this out and we'll do

this actually after this weekend when we've got the final four set. I think he has played himself

onto all American status. I don't know if there's a case against it. It's a loaded year for talent

though, but after and light of him getting them to an elite eight here, he had 16 points and I

didn't shoot well from the field, but he had a dagger three late that was like when it went in.

It was like, yep, Iowa State's done. They're not winning this. Lipsy gave him a good push there.

Mom Chilvish did not have a good game. That was another major factor, but between Gillespie,

Akpara, A-Ment who looked, you know, I know he's on 100%, but he was looking better in this game and

then carry off the bench. Just one thing after another. Congrats, Valls fans. You're doing a really,

really good job here with Barnes as your coach. I know it's a huge ask. Like you're six going

against a one Michigan. I just went over what Michigan's done here. See if you can break through,

but no shame whatsoever. If you don't to this point, 25 wins, 11 losses. You enter in, you know,

with that six next to your name, you're 11 in Kenpom right now, oh, by the way. And the

I'll tell you what, Wolverines are in for a battle. Like it is going to be a big boy only varsity

level ball here at GP on Sunday in Chicago. I understand why that game isn't going to be as

potentially as enticing on the face as Duke Yukon. You got, I'm here with the one two as well,

and then we've got this Illinois Iowa big 10 battle that gets it going with the elite

it on Saturday. But telling the attendacy has the guard playing NBA talent, physicality,

and the bodies to make that a real rough game. Doesn't mean Michigan can't win by 15 or 16 points.

It can't, but Michigan cannot underestimate Tennessee. Like it's just one of those teams that

once you see him in person and you got to deal with the way that they crash the glass,

it's a real, real, real problem. My last thing here, that clinched you for Iowa State,

five of 23 from D 21.7%. Second worst three point shooting performance on the season.

You combine that with the lack of ability on the boards and no Jefferson. Unfortunately,

Alta Burgers team was was doomed after a really really nice season and a well earned two seats.

All right, let me tell you how we're going to do this thing. The rest of the what? We're going to

take a break because that's how we get paid. I don't know, I lost track. No, that's just keeping

going. Let's go. Hey, hey, I don't want a chance to take a break and you come back and you're

pixelated like one of those channels that you might have been trying to watch. That's not the way it

works. That's not the way that's not the way it works. That's not the way it works. I feel like it

just happened 10 minutes ago, but if you don't mind, I'm going to take control of this in the spirit

of making sure all the bills are paid. And we're going to get one more. We're getting rich, right?

But then you I am just I am taking this is how rich I'm getting. I'm taking my Macbooks.

I'm pouring Diet Cokes in them and just walking to Fifth Avenue and bought a brand new one.

That's how rich I saw the two today. You bought it. You have bought a Macbook. You saw

Livy Dunn and I need to know other context. I'm not I'm not even I'm not joking or like I was

just walking down Sixth Avenue with my brand new Macbook Air. And I was like, Oh, there's Livy

Dunn. She was walking the other way. We crossed pass them. It was like two ships passing.

Was it? Yeah? You sure? Yeah. Yeah. And somebody on Twitter asked.

All right, GP. Tell the truth. Who's taller? Yeah. Yeah. Tell the truth.

I think you got her gymnast. Like she's probably not over five four, right?

She's I'm going to Google. I'm going to Google her before I. Well, let's be careful.

Man, I don't think I'm the first person to ever Google Livy Dunn. All right.

I think I need to do a how tall is Livy Dunn. All right. How about you do that?

Just I just watched you do. I just watched you do offensive rebounding percentage research

in real time. In real time. You wish. You can start the data off the podcast. You got to do it

real time. That's how a pro does. Yeah. If you can if you can research offensive rebounding

rates in real time, I can look up Livy Dunn's height. She's five foot six. She's five foot six.

Not getting this kind of range. You're just not. I can't turn off the AC by the way.

She's five foot six. There she is. Livy Dunn, five foot six. I saw her little face in person today.

She was in if you want to know, she was in what looked like a

a business like pantsuit. She looked like she was in a pantsuit. She looked like she was

walking to a meeting. Okay. And I was just walking and I was just walking to get a case of

Dia. She looked like she was going to a meeting to get rich. And I was just trying to get a case of

Dia. Okay. Anyway. So here's what we're going to do. All right. Because you never know when I

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liby done looks at five six she looked tall to me she looked tall I'd have to get back to back with

her we'd have to get back to back it's not gonna happen you don't think liby done we get back to

I'm not trying to get front to front I'm trying to get back to back you're not getting back to back

you're not getting front to front you're not getting side to side you're not getting toe to toe

I acknowledge front to front would be I acknowledge front to front would be crossing a line I respect

Paul schemes too much for that all right I admit that would be crossing a line but back to back just

to see who's taller I don't think that's I think that's reasonable put if I'd have grabbed her

and put her back to back with me today on six avenue well you wouldn't be doing this podcast

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sling game to watch here's the schedule on Saturday 609 PM Eastern Illinois Iowa in Houston on TBS

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I'm gonna let you pick it this is up to you but I will note before I turn it over to you seven

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points spreads five or lower that can't be normal over under point five elite eight games decided

by fewer than four points VP one I'll say one I'll say over yeah I'll take the over it's just

that's a weird number to land on because it's always like a one-position game and then Mr. Shot foul

now it's a five-position game I mean now it's a five-point game right yeah give us at least give

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sling game watch yeah it's the sling game to watch Duke versus Yukon Sunday final bid for the four

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this money is where is this money going not a single single clue I think that's it's wow you're

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I'm a I'm a big believer in this anytime I've spent more than a few days like a week at a time

on the west coast sign me up for that I could I could a hundred percent live with that schedule yes

there there is something to this that when when I was at the sweet sixteen games yesterday and my

press seat you could see out of the opposite section and you could see into the the concourse and

it was still sunlight like halfway through the second sweet sixteen game I was like this is

this is phenomenal so I uh San Jose solid spot solid city I haven't spent much time sorry

minute I don't I don't have much time in San Jose so go ahead brag on it no it's I've I've

liked it so far and I went to a spot called Luna Kitchen today big time it's probably about two

miles from my hotel uh but in fact I loved the the tortilla chips so much that they give you when

you say these top three tortilla chips that they give you at a Mexican restaurant I've ever had in

my life you two you brought them home with you they were that good you're traveling you're traveling

with tortilla yeah I'll have a couple more tonight and then that'll be it um yeah when that's

basically San Jose good times hopefully we get a good one tomorrow one versus two Tommy Lloyd

Matt painter you either got Tommy Lloyd making his first final four painter getting there for the

second time in three years um two very different point guards it seemed you're veteran point guards

but very different styles and Jayden Bradley versus Braden Smith um Arizona looks near

indestructible so I'm interested to see if Purdue can find a way uh to get it done I have to

imagine they are going to pack the hell out of the paint and try and induce Arizona to take at least

15 16 three pointers so uh very interesting strategy um and tactical game but if Arizona plays to

its typical potential uh main Purdue is going to need to have an all-time night from offense we'll see

if they can get it done uh very much looking forward to it and we got two one versus two's we got a

one versus six we've got a three versus a nine Illinois and the fighting line going up against Iowa

and uh we can wrap here but I just love the idea that there's going to be a big 10 fan base

that is going to be over the moon like Tennessee's fan base we'll get to its first final

four that'll be incredible we'll see thing if has Michigan which has been there relatively recently

Arizona's fan base if they get there for the first time in 25 years that's huge Purdue just got

to experience that Duke and Yukon obviously that's in the recent history it is guaranteed no matter

what that in the south regional final the first game of the elite eight we are going to have a

fan base that is flying on cloud nine uh and will be a well abundance given the proximity of

those campuses uh to Indianapolis there so uh I can't wait for that either underwood gets it done

and we've got his whole gambit with the Balkans and getting that done getting there or Ben McCollum

um might be the next coach in North Carolina I mean I don't know Ben McCollum wins one more game

he he gets inducted into the naceman polyphane this year he wasn't even a finalist and he

and he's not a wild per regulation I think that's crazy man but I say Iowa rosters at the

freaking four are you kidding me you induct him into the hall of fame post game Tracy Wilson does it

Tracy Wilson does Tracy Wilson inducts inducts Ben McCollum into the naceman memorial hall of fame

post game I mean that she won't be there but you get the point you get the point

Evan who's there Evan Washburn now Washburn was in Chicago tonight okay then who's in Houston

is that Lauren let's work it backward is that Lauren Lauren Toddi okay all right Lauren

Lauren former cbsports.com video contributor oh man back in a day I was young and I had hair

Lauren Chahadi was young and she had hair and we do videos together okay cool story Hansel

it's a real story all right now here's the plan Ben McCollum wins

in a lead-a-game to go to the final four and you're one at Iowa

Lauren Chahadi and ducks him into the naceman polyphane post game

I feel like that's fair sure I think it's time going out

that's show I think I'm going out okay I am not I'm going out I'm three hours behind you you go out

I'm going to bed getting up early much I am going to I'm gonna I gotta do it I'm going to stand for

tomorrow never been you've never been a Stanford never been a Stanford oh I thought I thought you

said I'm going to Stanford and I was like how have you never been a Stanford I'm going there

Sunday I'm going to Stanford with an end I'm in the Bay Area parish hold on are you gonna be the

one person are you gonna be the one person in the planet who is gonna be at Stanford on Saturday

and in Stanford on Sunday that's why and the only human being that will be at Stanford University

on Saturday yeah and then we'll be in Stanford Connecticut on Sunday only one right here that's

right here look at you ever been I've heard it's I've heard it's quite literally the most beautiful

college campus in the country so I don't know when I'll have the opportunity to get back out here

and see Stanford I hope Kyle Smith has a rolling seven months from now and I'm back but but in

absence of that I don't want to miss the opportunity so I'm going to scoot up there take the Cal

train the Cal train whatever this thing is called excited to do it and I'll get that done then

dip then dip back down here catch the game fly home and then you and I are podcasting in person on

Sunday night I'm not really going out I'm just going to take my brand new computer and sit right

over there and just look out the window and play around just go play around I'm like my brand new

computer tonight learn about it I'm gonna leave that one alone I'm trying to figure out how to

get better internet with my new computer I don't think it's a computer problem but you never know

anyway we're going to call that a show all right Evan Downey Chester South Carolina Terry Teagle

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