Sweet 16 March Madness Picks For Friday, March 27th ONLY - 2026 NCAA Tournament College Basketball (Ep. 1139)

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There we go. Um, so the chat was talking about there's rumblings of will wait.

Going to LSU. I feel like we should wait until that's official. Just like the bill self thing.

I feel like we don't know, right? But I do find it quite hilarious.

I do find it quite hilarious, but I feel like we will wait. Um, uh, we wait a little bit to, uh,

to, yeah, we need official news before we just, we do that. But I do want to say, I think it was

this time last year when we did our coaching episode or whatever. I said, keep an eye on

well way to LSU this year. Uh, it's just hilarious. The McNeese president and AD are currently

the president and athletic director at LSU. So, uh, come, come back to the channel on April 1st.

That's the bio numbers. Buy out that there's a bio for coach that drops on April 1st and then

there might be some maneuvering. I enjoy the chat talking about my head doesn't look tall.

I was just about to say that might have had something to do with the, uh, the 10 plus pound fat camera.

Just looks. I'm out of stretched out head like it.

Camera adds a couple hundred pounds. Uh, the camera was a little bit of a side angle. I think that's

what I have landed on. Uh, either way. My wife was like, you're fat at shithoney. I was like, yeah,

I don't know how that happened. Uh, all right. Let's get to these games. Say,

Jod's Duke in Washington, DC. Are you guys going to this game? You, you guys should be at this game.

Fuck this. No, I ain't going to take your prices, Colby.

I feel like you should have an in by now, dude. Right? Yeah, some guys. Aren't you friends with

some dude? Yeah, aren't you friends with some dude? I just say I'm bony at the captain there.

I was told by the NCAA. I did not fit the criteria for the past.

They must have saw you at Circle last weekend. Uh, they didn't want me to get my hands on all

those cheerleaders. They want you to bring your coonskin. Maybe that's just pointing out his

latest, uh, Isaiah Thomas rendition. They told me I did not fit the criteria. No, no.

Me and Isaiah, we got a lot of COVID. It's ridiculous. We had to stop. And they, they said,

we haven't seen you cover events like this. I go, I was just at four conference

tournaments. You fucking retards. Who else did that? You don't fuck out of here. If you're,

if you're going to just say no, we don't like your brand. At least do that. Don't fucking lie to

me and fucking try and win and dine me. Fuck off. You soft ass bitches. Oh, you're fucking

trying to go shitty. Can, can you give me her email address? Cause I would like to reply with, uh, this.

I would reply with this. You're like, your job's on borrowed time. It's my pistol in front of

the way. Uh, I'm serious. We should, we're, I, I, I would love to reply and say, look,

there's a borrowed time. This is a timeless classic. You can play this at your, at your son's

fucking wedding in a few, in a few decades. I'm sure the ladies are nice lady, but she is so

fucking low IQ. I mean, I was like, I was like, all right. Well, good luck to your tournament.

I'm not going to beg to go to your fucking event. Fuck your event. Yeah. And uh, it's going to

be even funnier because the NCAA really wants Duke to win and St. John's will win this game. I

will take the six and a half. I will lock it up. I think it's a bad match for Duke. I'm my bracket.

I had this forecasted now to be fair. My bracket is, uh, awful, but uh, shredded. Uh, yeah. I will

lock up the Johnny's plus six and a half. I think the money line is live and I will be betting that

you're not going to get it. Uh, Macintosh. What are you doing here? What are these emojis on the St. John's

logo, by the way? I like, look at it. Oh, fuck, that's my photo. I think I'm like, like, why is

there a heart? Do I click on the hard? Yeah, just to mean they cover. Um,

did I earlier in the week? I was on the Johnny's like, I was like, they're going to win the,

I have not heard one person I'm fucking Duke all week.

I, and the more I looked at, like, my heart wants Rick Matino to win this game.

I have a bad feeling this. We're going to get the best version of Duke on Friday night in DC and

impossible. And the Johnny's and the Johnny's are coming off an emotional buzzer beater. Hold on

for their dear life game against Kansas. I think Duke sized his bothers them and they make the

fritos at the end. I think there's a tight game throughout, but I'm going to take Duke to cover

reluctantly. I don't want Duke to win. I'm going to fade Duke in the Elite 8. I think Duke is a fraud.

But I think, I think they're, I think they're going to have this one circled. I think they're

better than the, I think the Johnny's have a lot of deficiencies that are just covered up by Rick

Matino. Um, I'll lay with Duke. I know everybody in the chat's like, what? He's lying here with Duke

against Matino, but yes, I'll take the dookies here on Friday night more chalk for moneyline

chalk entire. Being a what are you doing here at DC? So in two tournament games, the boozer brothers

have combined for 12 turnovers. Meet St. John's defense. Um, I just think that like they've

without foster the point guard. They've put the ball in Kaden Boozer's hands a little bit more,

but they're also told Kaden Boozer to create a little bit more and Kaden specifically has uh,

turned it over a ton in the two tournament games. He's got 10 turnovers himself.

Um, I just think that that Johnny's front court's not going to give him anything free.

Uh, I'm on St. John's. I mean, there's four games. I'm locking up them on the spread. I don't

know if they're not necessarily a huge threat to win the game. I like the fact that Duke added

Gongba back. He played 13 minutes. He was a plus 19 in those 13 minutes against DC, which is

a pretty big deal, especially with St. John's strength being that front court, but overall,

I think I'll go St. John's plus six and a half as my favorite pick in this one.

Uh, player projection here on the underdog fantasy. Higher than 11 and a half points rebound

as a cis for Ozea sellers. It's nine and four and his last 13 games.

I like it. I like it. Um, Troy, what are you doing here in DC?

So Duke played a game of capital one earlier this year and looked pretty good in the game that they

played there. And I know nobody watches the Wizards believe it or not. Uh, if you're kind of good

at basketball, it's easy to make buckets on those rims. So I, I do kind of see Duke getting a

little bit of offensive help from the sake that they're playing in an NBA arena and NBA rims and

it won't be weird like a death perception thing playing at a football stadium yet or anything like

that. I just six and a half points is too much for a game that I feel like comes down to a

possession or two and maybe, maybe we see a favorable Duke call with some free throws at the end

or something. I can't quite get there on the St. John's money line. Uh, but I will take the six

and a half points with them. I've already locked that up and I'm glad that Noah didn't take. I

have some, some player props. I saw Caesars is doing four assists for Zuby is plus 105. Uh, he's

pretty much going to be asked to do everything. Uh, eight rebounds is minus 120. Both, uh, I think

those were at Caesars, which connected to the stadium right there. If you're at capital one arena,

you can go bet it. But, uh, yeah, I can't quite get there with the money line quite with with you

Colby, but I'll lock the six and a half. Did anybody have this on their bingo card that I would be on

the Duke Island? Duke Fox hall spot. Duke Foxell proud program, Dukeies. Come on, Dukeies.

Proud program Northwestern Florida state just hit a four point play down five with two minutes

left. They're only down one now against golf coast state. This is on ESP. It's good. Get going on

here. Uh, Matt, pretty proud programs there. Yeah. Um, uh, Mac, uh, I did forecast this because I

had a feeling when, because he, look, there's, I know Mac. There's a point where like if he just

hears everyone talking about it, he's just going to say he's going to be contrarian and just does that,

especially in the big games. Maybe not the shittier games, big games. I had a feeling that Mac was

going to go with Duke. Anyway, um, go puke. Yeah, there we go. Next up, we have, you got to play

the lock down music. Oh, all right. Let's go. We got a battle.

Uh, I got the new keys in the fox hole.

Alabama is layers catching nine and a half inches. What's the fox hole spot again?

Well, this one's a fox hole because it's three on one and you got the whole channel with

Johnny's. I believe it's taken into mountain mamas for a fireball shot. Um, uh, I like to

fuck some of these dookies and knock some sense into them. Let me know how that works out for

you. Uh, uh, Michigan's laid nine and a half in Chicago against Alabama. We kind of already

hit on this shit. Bama has made what 23s last game. Not going to fly here. I will lay the nine

and a half with Michigan. They win by 15. Uh, Mac, I feel very similar how I feel about Arizona

tomorrow with Michigan. I think Michigan's going to fuck them up. Uh, Alabama, we just saw them do the

shit last year where they made 73s against BYU in the sweet 16 and then they played Duke with all

that length and then that really bothered them. Um, this is a terrible matchup. I think Michigan

rolls my 15 plus maybe even online could be live here, dude. Yeah. And it's a Michigan crowd,

Michigan. Um, I hate Michigan too. I hate all these one seeds, but I'm just going to lay the chalk

because I think that these are good matchups for him. Um, Michigan's great like Michigan has

his battle test to they've played teams that shoot a bunch of threes. I know it's constant beat him

in that miracle game, but I just think that their length is going to bother Alabama, finesse, cha, cha,

cha team, uh, Michigan rolls into the lead eight and then I'll fade them in the lead eight just like

Duke. Bama one, I'm rooting for you. I'm rooting for you because A, I would get to make fun of

B. Nick B. Dusty made it would take them, but that's he made it would take the North Carolina job

and see, uh, it's Petiti. He is worse than Sankey. Um, B. Nick, what are you doing here? Do I

even ask? I might be too close to the fire. Um, but I'm a little nervous that everybody's just

overlooking Alabama here. I think it's actually, yeah, I mean, Michigan's size and physicality is a

bad matchup for Alabama. But if you look at, uh, under a microscope, the games at Michigan is lost,

they've lost the three point battle. The other teams have had a volume number of three pointers.

Um, and specifically if their bigs can shoot threes, if they can step out, that's kind of been

the one way Michigan's been defeated this season. The way I see this going is if you're looking

to handicap the side in this matchup, either sprinkle a little bit on Alabama straight up

money line or take Michigan minus 14 and a half at plus 174 because Michigan's either winning this

game by 15 or they're losing it outright. Um, Alabama's either hitting their shots or they're

getting ran out of the gym with their tempo and missed shots because Michigan's going to I think

win the battle on the glass. That's a given. Um, so yeah, I think my favorite pick. So I handicap

this a little bit different. Alt spread or money line. Give me Michigan over 91 and a half team

total. Uh, when you look at Alabama and the recent games that they've played, uh, against

quality competition in SEC games like they gave up 115 Arkansas. I know that was double, uh,

overtime or whatever, 92 Auburn, 197, uh, text saying I'm 100 Florida. Uh, they've kind of

in these fast up tempo games, uh, given up a bunch of points Michigan can score if they're

hitting their shots. I think I like that. And then the player projection, the actual Lundaborgs

played outstanding down the stretch of the season is higher than 33. Uh, 0.5 fantasy score is

eight and five in his last 13. I think you specifically want his defensive value for this.

Like his steals and whatnot added to that fantasy score really will help. Cause I think they may

slap them on LeBaron Phylon, uh, at the top of the key. So that's what I got for this one. I

think Michigan wins pretty comfortably, but I can see this is a dangerous game and Matt Colby mentioned

it. Like Dusty kind of flirting with North Carolina, not 1000% and zoned in. So there's an

opportunity for Bama no doubt. Uh, shout out to Mark in the chat. Give it a 50 American. You

good, sir. Thank you. Uh, he's thankful for the guys of Vegas. I was with you at circuit,

open up the week. Then at Westgate, the next few nights, Benick showing me college baseball,

I have smack buying me a sienna tequila shots. Colby running everywhere. I apologize. That means

I met you, right? Try giving me vitamins. Uh, I like those vitamins too. I had some of those vitamins

as well. Um, and, uh, Veda, uh, see you next year. There we go. Um, uh, yeah. I mean, I, I,

I'm pretty sure I met you. I'm grateful regardless. And, uh, yeah, I apologize for not spending

more time hanging out. But, uh, it's tough, man. It's tough. James Franklin, you haven't watched

Michigan game all your butt. That's their best offender. They switched stuff, though. Yeah,

they do. He's good. Like, especially with the way Bama plays and they put you in rotations and

they just play so fast at tempo. Yaxle will be on LeBarrad at some point. 1000%. Yeah. Like when

they need stops, the axles on the bulk area. How do you feel about this one? Tied first to 15?

That's, uh, if they're hitting shots and then in 15 are the ones that I'm on. Um, I'm playing

Alabama money line. Like Noah said, I don't think the three or the nine and a half is,

I mean, you can play it to back yourself up. If you think this is going to be a close game,

I think it's a lot of points, but it's either going to be Michigan stomps on mud hole in them

or Alabama somehow hangs around and makes enough shots to win the game outright. And I think

they come out in fire and you might get lucky on a race to 10 or a race to 15 where they make a,

you know, two of their first three, three years or something like that. Uh, again, I wouldn't be

surprised if Michigan stomps a mud hole in them, but I'm playing the Alabama side. I'm going to play

the money line and I hope that they, you know, make 18 three pointers. Alabama has played a game

this arena this year. Both both have played the UC. Yeah. Uh, who did, uh, who did Bama play the

line line? They beat Illinois there. Yeah. That's right. That's right. What I will say is I think I like

the way that Alabama is, um, they, they tallyed a lot of their best wins in conference play.

Very much similar to Florida. And I think the Michigan's played up to their competition. They've

had a tendency to play with their food and down the stretch in some of these big 10 games.

Um, and in the 16 seat against Howard, they, I loved the way they played the second half against

St. Louis when they were still in a tight game. They just full throttle when they ran them out of the

gym. I think that's that second level that Michigan has. I don't know if Bama can match that.

Uh, yes. And I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully.

Shout out to the chat for, I'm asking for that one. I'm going to change my favorite pick to that

alt line minus 14. There you go. There you go. Uh, let's jump back to a huge,

or Washington DCG's Michigan state UConn. They, dude, you guys know they play in hockey in the

frozen four, which is a sweet 16 and hockey the day, the day before. So the same matchup hockey

basketball, check out the frozen four episode we dropped. Uh, Michigan state,

one and a half. Um, is it still one and a half? Is the question. Yes, it is. Uh, I got, I'm sorry,

UConn laying one and a half here, not Michigan state. Um, so the line has crossed over zero. Uh,

hasn't. I'm saying you kind of was minus one and a half.

UConn opened as the favorite, I believe. So maybe it went in open as pick.

Get a two at Caesars with Michigan state.

Draft Kings opened it at one. I will take the two in Michigan state, but actually,

you know what, you can keep your points. I am taking the money line with Thomas of Michigan state

against UConn. Can't wait to watch this game. Uh, just a fire. I mean, DC games are just

absolute fire. But I, I just think, uh, I, I've been out on UConn really all year. I,

I think this year's UConn team now, Hurley's great as a coach in the tournament, say what you

want about his antics, but he's a great fucking coach. I just don't think this UConn team is

that good. And I've been, I've, all year, I've been kind of beaten this drum, whether it's the

Georgetown games, both of them, the Providence games, both of them. Uh, I just, I,

they're just not that good this year. I don't believe that. I just don't believe that the UCLA

game without, without their leading score was close with a three minutes left before UConn

to their credit pulled away. But I think Spartans better this year. So just giving Michigan state

money line, Mac. Yeah, I'm, uh, I'm really looking forward to this game. Um,

I, I guess what, UConn's minus one and a half is what we're calling it.

Or two, whatever the fuck you want. I actually, like, I actually think that point and a half

or two points actually really matters because I think this is going to be a tight fucking game.

Um, I think Spartans tougher. I think Spartans tougher.

And I think the big East is going to go into in the East Regional. I think you can, you heard

Hurley after the UCLA game saying we tough, we out tough to one of the, the toughest teams in

America, uh, and Mick Krony UCLA team. Well, buddy, like, you're getting ready to play a whole

different level of toughness and grit, especially this time of year. Um, is Owen company?

I think they grind the saying out. I think they can control the glass.

UConn has gotten beat up on the offense of glass at a time or two, um, especially in the

St. John's games. I, uh, I think I like Iso here. I like Iso to find a way to get this thing done.

I think UConn goes home in the sweet 16. I think they've had a good run, beat UCLA. Um, but I,

I think, I think Spartans are better basketball team and I, I think their guards are going to

make enough plays down the stretch. So give me Sparty, give me Iso and they're onto the elite

eight when they beat Duke. Benick. The strength of this UConn team is their defense. However,

I do think that Michigan State's got a big time X factor that I like the matchup. It's Jackson

Kohler. They're big. He can step out and shoot a three when you need them to. He's hitting

that 40% on the season higher than one and a half three pointers made in this game. Uh,

for underdog is my favorite player projection there. It's four and two in his last six. Uh, and

you're, you're asking Tarris Reed to cover ball screens to step out and defend a three ball. I,

I think it's tough. Like that's a guy that wants to stay around the paint, defend the rim, grab a

board. Uh, I like that matchup for Sparty. Also, the question for UConn for me is the guard,

the guard plate. Like solo balls kind of lost the step. It feels like down the stretch of the

season, Salis Demory might be hurt. Uh, they really had a heroic performance last game from Jaden

Ross. Can he give you that again now with Iso and company having a couple of days to scheme for

it? I don't know if that's coming free against Sparty. I'm on Michigan State Moneyline as well.

Lock up the point and a half just for safety, but yeah, give it to me. Yeah. Um,

Troy, I'll go against you guys. I'll take Dan Hurley here. Uh, who do you think will have the crowd?

You caught Duke. I was thinking too slightly. Yeah. No, I think you can see the prices of the

tickets. Duke will have the DC crowd. Uh, those UConn fans are fucking crazy. I kept City Mackie

know that. Uh, uh, fans are pussies. Exactly. State travels, man. They do. Sparty will be there.

Sparty, I think Johnny fans will be there too. I think all four will be there. Yeah. The, um,

it might be even split to be honest. And this is the thing it's going to be a Duke crowd. I think

Troy will have a bite a little bit. Yeah. But in this match, I think it'll be in the news. We'll

be rooting for Michigan State because they want to know. I would think that that's, and you

don't think that's crazy. I don't think that's true. They hate playing iso because every year,

they're in the same bracket. Duke hate you, conduit. Duke and Michigan state are in the same bracket.

Every single year, they hate it. They hate it. Well, Duke is, I think Duke's got a great record

against. Yeah. It's like three and 17 against Duke. They're definitely gonna be rooting for Sparty.

They're not rooting for you. They hate you, conduit. I mean, I mean, I'll just go with crazy

early, not not even gonna get as crazy as we did last week on the show. And I'm bringing up

Tom iso's lack of winning national championships. Most of the time, it's talent based. And he's

overperforming that looks to a to a fault, basically. But I don't mind laying one and a half

with the Yukon. It might that half point might matter. Like Max says, this could be a one point

win. Oh, I fully expect this at like the five minute mark to be with him. Yeah. Yeah.

I just you see Alex Caravan completely elevate his play when he gets to the tournament. It's

it's hard to bet against the guy. Yeah. 17 and a half points rebounds assist is minus 120.

Over two and a half threes is plus one 55. He can step out and make the three two. And when it comes

to tournament time, he's kind of the only he's the counter to any of these teams are gonna run

two bigs. You put Caravan out there and you hope that he has the game of his life. He's been playing

pretty good. It's the only reason why they passed the high test in the last two games. But I'll

go against you guys up out of y'all. Play it with the Huskies. All right, there we go. Where the hell is

this battle music? Uh, I'm going to party pal.

We got a battle. Troy on the Huskies.

We got back on party.

Ryan Sanderson takes party first to 10. No, that's uh, I think win margin margin.

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All right. Final game on the slate as we jump back to Chicago.

Tennessee. The Vols. Take it on Iowa State. Back to Chicago. Like the Chris Farley thing.

Iowa State is laid four and a half. Is it still four and a half? Let me just double check

because that made these last night. Three and a half. That was three and a half. I think that tells me

that Joshua Jefferson there is not playing. Says game time decision. I'm going to go ahead and say he's

not playing. Series goes back to 1960 and he was going to play is incorrect. Yeah, I think he's out.

He's out for attorney. I mean, the inside scoop that Mack and I got, which was simply just

a craps table in the circa. But, uh, you know, pretty pretty solid. He's 80% out for the whole

tournament likely. So good luck. Good luck. Thank you. He's playing this one. I would think it would

all it would have to be next weekend at the earliest. Hmm. Well, uh, that's interesting because

now you have Ozzelberger to North Carolina talk heating up much like Dusty May. We mentioned earlier

or NATO's. Which one of those coaches and those three will be distracted most by, uh,

uh, well, I think the one that will be impacted most is Arizona. Just because Tommy Lloyd always sucks,

uh, in the sweet 16. Tommy got this. Yeah. Tommy answered at the worst compared to Ozzelberger.

It's like, I'm not leaving. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, I look, I'm on Iowa State. I barns pass. It's in

intriguing. It's more intriguing now. I'll tell you that. But, uh, Tennessee, uh, I thought they

got fortunate against Virginia. Um, credit to Rick Barnes for getting back to another sweet 16. But

this, I do like to fade bonds in March. I'm not going to ditch that because most of us, I think,

are in the sweet 16. So, uh, I will take this will be in, I mean, Tennessee travels well. But this

is still going to be in Iowa State crowd, right? I would say might have more than Michigan. Yeah.

I was going to. Yeah. What is that far as aimed? What was that six hour drive seven hour drive?

Who's that? They will have more than Michigan. Everybody talking about Michigan having the most.

That's not going to be true. I, I can see that to be it. Like, it's like three or four. Like,

it might be closer than Kansas City. I don't know if it's that close. All right. I got to look

this up because I've done that drive. I think it's four and a half. I think it's four to half.

I did it from Ames Champaign the one year. Is it four and a half?

I go Ames the Kansas City's three and a half. Yeah. I know. Five and a half to Chicago.

Oh, that's nothing for five minutes. Actually, five out right now for five hours and 19 minutes.

Oh, that's. Yeah. You got the campers that they do in Ames. That's nothing.

They're going to, they're going to pack those fucking vehicles. They're going to have a case

of bush light all the way out to fucking Chicago. These fuckers are ready. They're going to

fuck up Tennessee. See, like, I, like, fuck up, meaning win by 10. Like, they're, their culture is

going to win. They're going to guard them. Jefferson's not a good defender. That's the, like,

Jefferson's a really talented offensive player. But I feel like their defense gets better when

Jefferson's not on the floor. And I thought we saw that in the second half of the Kentucky

game. They didn't make enough plays enough shots. I was state to the elite eight for the first

time since coach, you stay she in 2000 on, yeah, 2000. There we go. Rob Donnells will be there

in Veto. It'll be there too. I believe. So make sure you hit all the spots.

Lou Malinatis, the fucking Green Mill. What's that fire steakhouse? There's a couple fire steak

houses there. Um, uh, yeah, I'm with you. I was state double, double lock. Uh, being

like, what are you doing here? Uh, so I could see either way, like Iowa state choking somebody

out as far from, uh, what is not likely of possibility in this matchup. Um, both teams can

struggle offensively putting the ball in the twine. I could see that happening. I could see

Iowa state not really clicking offensively like they've had in the past and they've advanced in

the NCAA tournament. What I ultimately landed on was the under 138 and a half in the matchup.

I think I will still stay with Iowa state over Tennessee. But what nervous me most is that

when Rick Barnes has gotten to the sweet 16 last two years, he's won the game. He's got the

ever been a dog. Have we ever seen Barnes win as a dog in the tournament?

Yeah, Duke. Okay. Like, like, is that the one game? Because I was thinking of it. I'm like,

I don't remember Barnes ever really being a dog. He's always a favorite.

Yeah, he knocked off Duke one year. Um, yeah, they went to the,

he also was a dog to Kentucky last year. No, they're favorite. They're favorite.

It was like a two point game, which I still don't know if that's enough to sway you one way or

another. But, uh, yeah, I'm gonna land on Iowa state to win and cover. But my favorite pick is

the under 138 and a half. That's my lock for, uh, us talking about the game. I'm gonna take

you to lower than 28 and a half points. We're bound to assist for Jacobi Colesby. I love this kid,

but, uh, this is just too high for this matchup. Uh, it's first off, the player of Jackson's four

and two in his last six games. His last 15 games, he's averaging just 26 and a half PRA and the,

the lines 28 and a half. His last 15, it's 11 and four. I mean, this is one of my bigger slam dunk

favorites on the slate. Uh, this one, I would pair with the Jackson Colour over three,

higher than threes and then, uh, Yaxel fantasy points. That was my favorite three.

Troy, there we go. Troy, what are you doing this matchup?

I was hoping that Noah locked the lay the points here with Iowa state. This is a part of the

big 12 skull fuck parlay. We're laying the points with Iowa state here. This, uh,

background three get this bullshit out of here. TJ Osselberger is going to be doing

fucking ed Hockeyley pushups right before they walk out so you can see how pumped up he is.

He hasn't been wearing super tight shirts yet. I think he was waiting to bust it out in Chicago.

Yeah, I think a really funny line I saw is mom mom's chillovich.

Four three uses even money. He's got to make four threes at even money. I'm not suggesting

you bet that. I just see that number as like, well, the inevitable three threes is probably going

to happen. But it seems like there's always a point in time where he hits three or four shots in a

row and it paired with the the toughness of their defense. It kind of stretches them away from

teams. I don't know if Tennessee has seen somebody that can kick ass like that, but

Taiman lip sees the man, dude. It doesn't matter if Jefferson's playing. Taiman lip sees just such

an annoying fucking on ball defender gets his hands in every, every lane of passing it.

His assist line is the one that I'm going to bet along with this lane, the points with Iowa state.

But five and a half assists plus 116. Jefferson gets hurt one game and he has 10 assists in the last

game they played because now it's it's going through him significantly more. So yeah,

lock up Iowa state, lock up those clones. We go and shout out to try and say nobody's betting

Tennessee. You got to take him now. They're illinois of the night before. It is a fake sharp play.

They're going to get fucked up just like he's going to fuck Illinois up. Let's go.

All right, that's our slate. Now top play, top play and dog. The dog for me pretty obvious.

The Johnny's, I mean, I guess smarty is catching two, but I want a real dog and that is the

Johnny's for me and the lock for me. I'm going to lay it with Michigan. I think it's a bridge too

far for Alabama. Mack, what are you doing here? I'll go clones. I'll fade barns.

And he gets back to the sweet 16, but they peter out here and they get punked at punked here.

I only have one dog in its party. I know it's a yapper. I'll parlay the two yappers.

Give me sparty and then Iowa the night before together. Give me Iowa on the money line and

give me Michigan state on the money line together. That'll be my dog parlay. I know that's two yappers.

I have six favorites in the sweet 16 and then I'll do the two yappers together for my dog. That'll

be nice. The locks the under one thirty and a half in Tennessee, Iowa state. The dog, I mean,

I'm on St. John's spread. I'm on Michigan state spread, but I think my favorite plus money

money line quotation mark pick is that Michigan minus 14 and a half plus one seventy four.

Like I legitimately legitimately think in that matchup, Alabama either has a chance to

be live and win that game or they run themselves out of the gym and lose by 20.

There we go. Troy, fly away. I, I mean, I want to lock Iowa state, but I feel like you

getting the points with the Johnny's is worthy of a lock play. Dog is Alabama for, I mean,

for the same reason that, you know, Noah, I might get crazy and bet like the alt spread and

the dog with Alabama and hope that we're right on the read here. Like you should take, take a,

take a minus 14 and a minus 17 and a half and then play the money line and hope that it goes one

way or the other. If there's no middle, you're guaranteed to make money. If there's a middle,

you're losing bull. Yeah. It's, we, and we got to bet them all. And, I mean, I'm sure everybody

that was out in Vegas understands. It's more about the fun anyways when, when you're on some

vitamins, you can, you can still have a good time losing some bets as long as they're enjoyable.

And as long as you tail Mac on a few first half money lines, you'll be fine.

There we go. Troy is on the money line for the sweet 16.

Yeah, you have a favorite one here, Mac. First half money line.

I mean, I'm pretty chalky, man. I've six. I've been all the favorites and then I took the two

yeah. Johnny's could have the lead at half time now. No. Yeah. That's the one.

I don't have one. I'm chalking tired this time. I'm a chalk guy. I'm a chalk guy this,

this late in the year. I bet he should. He's on the all year.

No fun. No. There's no, but Benic. There's no spots this time of year. Like it's plenty of spots.

It's, he's got to make him one. It's Jimmy's. It's eight. It's Jimmy's and Joe's versus,

like over X's and O's this time of year. Make a play. Who's got more pros in my opinion? Like,

make a play. Fine. I owe a first half money line. St. John's first half money line.

Alba. I'm a first half money line. Michigan State first half of any line. Let's go.

No, Benic on Twitter. No, it'll be seven. It's five there. All right. I like it.

Throw some darts. I think two out of the four will hit, but yeah, there's no 20 to one

money line. If you're talking about that. Yeah.

Macintosh is on Twitter. I have money line underscore Mac. Troy tuning is on Twitter. I Troy

tuning right. No underscore right. Troy tuning. Yeah. I'm on Twitter. The Colby D.

Fuck man. We got great games. NIT is not until next Thursday in Indy. I think Macintosh will be

there. But also we have the crown this upcoming week as well. The crown with the mountain years.

Is there a way we get a crown attached to that Cune skin cap in the event of a West Virginia

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