UConn, Michigan, Arizona, & Illinois Are Final Four Bound! - 2026 NCAA Tournament College Basketball (Ep. 1143)

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Welcome everybody into the college basketball team.

All experience elite eight reaction show final four look ahead oh man, what a day, what

a fucking day, what a sport, what a game, we'll dive into it.

If you are wondering who you're listening to, I am Moneyline Mac, former staffer with

awesome people with the goves, South cackelackel with the game cocks, and West my god for

gym with the mountaineers also known as Mac tonight over here, you're like a live and

joining me talk college hoops, this guy's happy, look at him, he's over there smirking

with his big M yet the big Michigan hat on there, he is from the state of Michigan, he's

a Wolverine, he is the LeBaron driving cocktail that can happen, he's no beating, what's up

brother, I am doing well, Mac, as you mentioned, feeling on cloud nine with the Wolverines

and the final four, yeah, welcome to the final four, Yukon, Michigan, Arizona, and Il

and Noi, I will say this off the top, two and two against the spread for me, and all

I did was bet spreads in the elite eight Mac, how about you, two and two for me, I did have

Yukon on the money line, we'll talk about them here, and I believe Colby was two and two

against the spread as well, I believe he had Iowa and then Arizona, Michigan, and then

he had Duke, so then I believe this is the point of the show where he would like to tell,

but I did have the alt line on Michigan, and yeah, I mean, yeah, I was on that too, you

could say, so yeah, the big, so Mac, we have the assignment today as Colby is currently

on sports gambling podcast, it is our job to bicker about the four results that we had

today for about an hour, but really three favorites, three favorites won and covered, and

we have to talk about just one game this, yeah, the other, yeah, let's just go ready, let's

just jump to the final, final game of the weekend, Duke, Yukon, by the way, this rivalry always

delivers, like Duke and Yukon always deliver, whether it's a 2004, final four game, the 99

national championship game, 91, Latener makes a shot, these two teams, like whenever they

swear off, Duke and Yukon, it's a classic, unbelievable game, you want to start off with this?

Yeah, the final shot came from an Indiana kid who was committed to Mike Woodson,

yeah, dead eye three point shooter, Mac, who would have fit in the debris system, just fine.

Oh boy, polls, his commitment from Indiana has debris, takes the job, lands at Yukon.

Absolutely, and Braille and Mullins, what, how about Yukon winning the game and they could not

make a fucking shot the whole game? That was the stories, they couldn't make the shot,

couldn't hit water if they fell out of a boat, man, there were five of 23 from three, began the

game one of 18, I think you were tweeting out left and right, like, what are they going to make a

shot if they make a shot? I'm like watching this guy tweeted out and I'm like, dude, just give it

up, man, Yukon's still up by 10, still just stiff arm in him away, or I mean, Duke up by 10,

because yeah, I was, I had, I was sitting on a 4-0 elite eight until Purdue puked in the second half

and Duke puked in the second half, otherwise I would have been, you know, pretty dang good, but,

oh, we've got a third chair in the house, man, man, he is a wee growing,

I'm sorry, we've grown, we've grown, what's up, man? What's going on?

I'm picking up puked, yeah, puking rally, I come in a little late here, I got the message from

Mac, we were going a little later on and then decided to set an alarm and go to bed like usual,

going along to get up right away when the alarm tells you to, but we're here a little late, yeah,

DC had a little bit of magic today, huh? That was, that was something else, I was listening to

the game on radio, because I gave up on this one at halftime, I straight up gave up,

said I was going to the driving range, have the Westwood one on, on, on my serious radio,

yeah, and I'm trying, I'm thinking I could run inside and watch this game on the TV in the,

in the clubhouse, I don't really want to mess with this mojo right now, I kind of want our

bald guy to come back and win this game, so I knew I just sit there and listen to it on the radio,

what a, what a crazy comeback, I mean, the John Shire photo is going to live forever, the one

that was the art but sports that we build, man, that's going to be a, I mean, the funny part is

seeing the Twitter reaction of like, is it time to fire John Shire, we need to talk about fire

and John Shire, being like, do we want to do the Duke side or the Yukon side first?

I think let's talk about the, there's two different sides to this, I think let's talk about the

play and then we'll dive into the sides, because Sir Coach Mack, you've got to fucking time out,

when, when is the right time to take the time out? Well, actually, I will stand up for John

Cryer, that he get punched on the sideline after he gets punched, as a player, you got to know,

like, you got to know, you got to know time situation, at some point these players got to know,

if I get fouled, I make two freezes, we win the game and go to Final Four, like, I'm not putting

that game on John Shire, the last play, we'll talk about the sequences leading up to the last

play, but, I mean, boozer, boozer, you're an A, which one, which one, which one? The, the guard.

Caden. Yeah, Caden, you're an 85% free throw shooter, fucking get fouled and I'm fucking take the foul,

make your two free throws, we're going to Final Four and play an Illinois, like, come on,

like, I'm not going to blame Shire on that one, like, at some point, the players got to play,

they're getting paid a lot of money and, um, but you have a time out, you see them just frantically

shuffling around, and addition it to each other instead of taking a foul, and you not just pause it

and say, guys, take the foul, let's go to the line, let's close this thing out. Why,

players got to know that, I know what happened to the free throw specialist as a guy that rode the bench

and came in the game to catch the ball at the end of the game and personally get fouled,

take two free throws and sub out of the game. My only job was to make free throws at the end of games

because not the most athletic, maybe a little tall, but where's, where's the guy that's like asking

for the ball because he wants the free throws? You know what I mean? Like, somebody's got to,

I understand that you're trying to move the ball, they're trapping it first on the inbound's pass

and whatnot, but someone's got to go demand the basketball, right? Someone's got to be the guy

that just holds it and it's like, I'm the free throw shooter. I mean, everybody that passed,

I couldn't believe it to that pass. I'm like, everybody that touched the ball in this sequence.

Cam Boosers, 79% free throw shooter. Isaiah Evans is an 86% free throw shooter and

Caden Boosers and 81% free throw shooter. All of them are worthy and capable of taking that.

Just get fouled. Just get fouled. Uh, Mac. So this is the other thing. What college basketball player,

fan coach has not watched the firm and game winner. Oh, I know. I know. Yeah. It looked like the firm.

Don't chuck the ball straight up. Don't do it. We've seen this already happened before. Like,

they punted that game away the same way Virginia did to ferment in the first round a couple of

years ago. It's honestly more one of the more stunning results because they had a night.

We're going to dive into Duke here. Let's do it. 19 point lead. Let's go into Duke now.

Are you? You have to have a real conversation about John Shire.

This is this is bad. Like, and I'm not trying to overreact and pile on Shire,

even though I can't stand it. But when you do what they did today,

on top of what they did against Houston last year. Oh, man. Like, uh, Colby,

Colby defense John Shire. This guy is making a quick reputation of one of the biggest choke artists

in March Madness history. And it's not even close. So Duke's. Oh, Duke's last four losses.

Their last four losses. They led by 14 against Houston in the final four. They lose that game.

And it was 14 with like four minutes to go today. It was 19 with like 18 minutes to go or

something like that, whatever you want to call it. So the final four one was the worst loss.

This one's just the moment that you're going to remember forever. I love this one towards

actually. Like, this one's going to sting worse because of the shot. The shot.

Everybody's going to remember the shot. Um, they led by 17 this year against Texas Tech in the

garden. They lost that game. They led by 13 this year against North Carolina in Chapel Hill.

They lost that game. And then today, they led by 19 against Yukon and lost the game.

Mac. How did it unfold? This is the question. Well, here's the bad part too.

They have the best players. Oh, my God. Like, you were flagged. Have you seen what he's doing in the NBA?

Oh, my God. Unlike I don't follow the NBA. I don't know. Oh, oh,

boozer. He's by far the best player in college basketball. Yeah, Blake. He said, as he said,

the best players in your choking the last year, he should have won back to national championships.

These are like epic choke, choke jobs. Like, this is ridiculous.

I didn't know when either year, like, you have a point. You have a point. I tell you,

this guy's a fraud. This guy's a fraud. This is what we talk about all year when it's youth in March.

Right? Yeah. Yeah. And that was a freshman point guard that just chucked it up, got tipped at mid court.

Yukon intercepts it, chucks up a half-court shot for the game winner with point four seconds left.

And that's their first lead since like three minutes into the game. So I think, for me,

I'm going to circle, I think, how this game got lost. They tried to just ice it and sit on the ball.

They took their foot off the gas pedal. Like, Yucin last year. Yeah. Yeah, they used to

game all over again. They got conservative. They didn't really, I mean, the first half man,

Camp Booser was unreal. They didn't like abuse that matchup advantage because Yukon was struggling

to defend it. Then later on in the game, Yukon had a couple of guys step up and make some stops.

Terrace Reed defensively stopped up and matched Booser. The final five, eight minutes of this game.

Got a couple of stops and that was huge for Yukon. But it was the turnovers too. Like, Duke

was, they finished with 13 turnovers. A good amount of them were in this collapse in the second half,

Mac. It's the youth, especially your ball handlers that, I mean, say what you want. Caleb Foster

may not have been 100% today with the one day off of rest, you know, he was great on Friday.

Asking him to play two games in three days might have been a tough ask. He was not great today.

Yeah, he wasn't put, I mean, they were good enough to win the game. They had nothing.

And I think the thing that will sting for Duke for a long time, Yukon didn't play well.

Yukon didn't make a shot the whole fucking game. I don't know. They're one for 18.

I don't think Duke's last feel goal they made was that little flip up shot at the front of the rim

by Cam Bouser with what three and a half minutes left, three minutes and 20 seconds left in the game.

I mean, they made a couple of free throws after that. But how do you not just post Cam Bouser up?

I mean, yeah, I mean, they did. They attempted it.

Terrace Reed actually defended pretty well in the final few minutes of this game.

I mean, he's the only reason why they were in the game anyways.

Terrace Reed had the best game outside of Cam, but you know, they didn't use Cam Bouser throughout

the entirety of the game. They let him kind of get cold offensively and then tried to go back to it.

And the matchup wasn't their advantageous wise. They didn't take advantage of it. I think

throughout the full 40. They just kind of took their foot off the gas pedal in the middle 15 minutes.

Last five minutes, the first half, first 10 of the second half.

Was there anything else that we wanted to mention Duke wise?

Yeah, he go, Benic.

We had a request in our group chat, Mac and one of the other guys are like,

man, if I could get a choking photo of John Shire, that would be great. So there we go.

This is hilarious. This is hilarious because they are the biggest bitch fan base.

Like they are such a soft ass fucking snowflake society.

And for them to choke that game away, oh my god.

That was ridiculous. I couldn't believe it. As a dukater, for them to lose that game the way

they did, couldn't even make it up. I thought it used to be improbable last year.

They honestly, they won up that. That was crazy.

They won up this year.

Yeah. And it goes back to the Shire thing, man. Like, dude, you've had the number one pick in

the draft or number one player in the country back to back years. You got a walkway with one

daddy. Yeah. I think that's one of these two teams.

And I think the other thing that I wanted to bring up on the duke side of things, like

they went ISO ball too much. Yes.

With Jam Booser at just controlling the ball throughout the entire possession,

hey buddy, go make a play, you're our best player. Yes. They did.

Instead of scheming him a play, like they just said, we'll give you the ball at the top of the

key. Let's play black, let's play black top basketball and it just doesn't work in the elite

eight or final four or against quality, quality teams, like the ones that we listed off.

Especially when they got off to the lead, like with Cam kind of distributing the ball out of

those plays, like he wasn't necessarily just scoring when they were scheming, stuffing up for him.

He was finding the open man really well. Yeah. Like if you go back and you dissect the final minutes

of all of those losses, I guarantee you there's not many plays that aren't

Cooper flag or Cam Booser ISO. They're really aren't. And I see the chat talking about like flag

and Knapple are killing it in the NBA. They're like NBA all sorts. Yeah. Boosers is about to be an

NBA all sorts. Yeah. Last year's team was better than this ones, but you got to win a title in one

of these. You got to, you got to, you got knocked down the door one of these two. And so Shire

is quickly and rightfully so turning into the biggest choke arts in the sport.

You can't, you can't lose these games. Like what? You got 19. You certainly can't do it against

the guy that's nice. 17 and one in the tournament. You're 19 with the best players. You lose?

Like who does that? I will say too. I've seen some comparisons thrown around about Hubert

at North Carolina. Yeah. There's a thing of assembling the roster to get there that I just

think that Hubert's failed at that part. Yeah. To even move on to where Shire's got in the

last game. Hubert sucks. And Shire is turning into choke arts. Yeah. Let's talk, let's move to

Yukon. The thing that I'll begin with and Troy hit on it. Like if he didn't out duel,

Cam Booser, he matched him. And he did it defensively in the final minutes, made some clutch plays.

That's Terris Reed, the big man for Yukon. In this game, he goes for 26, 9, 3 assists,

4 blocks, 2 steals against Duke. He breaks an NCAA tournament record against Ferman and

Round 1 with 31 points, 27 rebounds and 3 assists. He has 20 points, 5 boards and 4 assists against

Michigan State. And then was in foul trouble against UCLA and put up a double, double, 10 points,

13 boards and 3 blocks. The guy has just been on an unbelievable NCAA tournament run.

He's turned into a March legend in four games. He's the region's most outstanding player. And

is he is he going to be the most he's turned into a March legend. But is he the most memorable

player from this game from the Yukon side of the Mac? Is it Reed or the Braille and Mullins shot?

No, it's definitely Mullins. But Reed's a motherfucker. I mean, he is a dog. I love this kid.

He is a tough, he's a tough cookie, I say he likes to say. I mean, he's a tough man. He scores

it over both shoulders. I'm going to go to the coaching side. Dan Hurley. And I like to bus

Dan Hurley's balls as much as anybody. He's annoying himself. Dude, this is a legacy game for him.

For him to beat Duke after he's already won two natties, like what three, four years ago,

whatever it is now to go to three out of four final fours. This dude's a fucking put him in the

hall fam right now. This guy, this guy's a hell of a ball coach. He's one game in his last three

tournaments and news to a national championship. And he's almost beat Florida. You're right,

being like this, this motherfucker, he can coach. He's crazy. He's annoying. Yeah, he's a villain.

Me personally, I like him. I like, I'm starting to like him more and more. But to me, it's like,

I think this coaching staff is gold. Boston College or may have just had a home run with Luke

Murray. Like he's been there side by side since Wagner. Come on, young anybody should be on

their knees for that guy right now. 100%. Yeah, no, they're culture so good. I think that's

the biggest takeaway. Like I said, they did not make a shot the entire game. They were terrible

today. And they still beat Duke. That was just a toughness win. The pure toughness grit grime

championship pedigree. Congrats, you come fans. I hate you. You know, I hate you. But you

tip your cap and go, well done. Well done, guys. Yeah, honestly, I thought Mack would come around

on Dan Hurley faster than this, mostly because he's just, we've kind of gotten away from the idea

of these old school coaches where, you know, the team kind of comes together in this mutual

hate of your evil mean head coach, right? That's how it's supposed to be. That's how old school

sports were. And the funniest thing is when you see the celebrations of like a Michigan state team

or a Yukon team like this, they're all running and hugging Hurley right away. And he's the most

excited person for all of them because the game's over. And that's when you can be friends with

your players. John Gires friends with his players all game long. Dan Hurley, mother fucks them the

whole time. And when they finally get it done, then, then we can be friends. Then we can,

we can enjoy our time. I, he definitely has some magic up his sleeve. And, you know,

I agreeing with Noah there, I would pretty much take anybody from the staff with what they've

done over the last few years that you got to think that they've got, they've got something that

they're keeping to themselves that you don't, you don't get to see guys go 17 and one in the

incitably tournament that often. Yeah. And they're all lost to the Florida. Yeah.

Yeah. But who they almost beat and they won the nadi. Like this, this is a crazy run by Yukon

and 30. Yeah. And I will say this too. Duke was down or Yukon was down 19 in this one to do.

They were up 21 on Michigan state the other night. And they persevered and went in both

game scripts when both got tight at the end of the game. I think that to me is more impressive than

anything that you kind of used the experience you had with you were the one up by 20 against Michigan

state. You let them back into that game. And then in the solid eight game, you were the one that

was down by 20 and then you crawled back into it slowly but surely the exact same way that

party did in the second half bang. It's a game. And if anything, they did it perfectly where

they didn't give Duke any time to kind of react to Yukon taking the lead because they took it with

four seconds left on the clock. They sold like game. I mean that that's it's it's one of the more,

it feels like Houston last year. And I keep going back to Duke like how how do you lose both those

caves like that unbelievable. How great is it that Mullins thought they were down three? I know he's

out of tune for the time. He thought they were tying the game there. So even like I was thinking

about it the at first I'm thinking man the mist free throw actually led to a one point win

instead of them like taking a two point shot and still still trying to win the game or something

like that but we get this incredible 40 foot probably the most accurate three we've seen since like a

Dame Lillard game winner from that range in a while that thing was right in the middle of the hoop

there was no missing there. And then he does the post game interview and he's like well first of all

I'm just happy that shit went in. I was trying to pass it to Caribbean because he had at least made

one during the game. I was over four and then he goes and to be honest I thought that was for the tie.

The whole time we're sitting here going Dan Hurley's just awesome coach. He's got everybody prepared

for the scenario. It's all perfect. No, the dude that hit the shot was you still got kids in

March that are caught up in the moment. It's going to happen. Just good to have the momentum on

your side then I guess because that was wild. I thought Caribbean was going to shoot it too,

especially because he had just finally drilled one coming off a screen on the possession before

was not expecting the pass back for the 40 foot 40 foot heave.

Dude, I love Caribbean. I love Caribbean. He's gonna call his basketball player. He was horrible today

and then when you're down four, gotta have a shot. He nuts up and makes a big three. I'm like this

is what everything college basketball is about. Shout to him. Shout out to him. I see a lot of

narratives flying on this game too. I don't know if this is social media or we just don't know how

to describe what we watched anymore but this isn't in the category of greatest March Madness games

ever. This is how you describe this game. It was one of the more improbable comeback victories

for Yukon and it's one of the most memorable shots in the NCAA tournament, especially when you

consider it being a game winner. It wasn't like a back and forth entertaining affair that makes it

the greatest game of all time. It was one of the all time great moments and great game winning

buckets. It's like later. Later, later was in a late-day game against Kentucky. This was a lot

like later. Like a crazy play, loose ball, flip it back and onions. I mean, I'm gonna lose.

I thought we were gonna lose Bill Rafferty today. I thought he died.

I mean, everybody gives Stan Van Gundy shit for his reaction to the Virginia Ferman.

I mean, did you not watch Grant and Hill and Rafferty watch like an all-time moment? Like

first off, it's the play-by-play guys responsibility to describe what the fuck just happened

and then the secondary guy comes in and Stan Van Gundy was the tertiary guy. I can't believe I

have to defend the SVG, but I just did. But yeah, I mean, Grant and Hill and Rafferty were stunned

as well. Oh yeah. That's the best one since Jalen Suggs, right? No, the Ferman Virginia one was

after Sugg. You have Lamont Butler too. Yeah, I'm talking about that. I mean, this is also an

elite eight matchup. Like, this is later in the tournament, a little bit more writing on it. Yeah,

Lamont Butler happened in 2024 against FAU to win. Oh, when it comes to it, we're talking about like,

because I kind of agree this isn't, this is gonna go down as one of the greater match madness games,

but it really is just the moment that it is the peak of it. Yeah. Kind of hard to, a lot of those

other games were really good back and forth games that came to that climactic peak. This one was

just, you know, a sluggish kind of bullshit game and then pile it all on the last 15 minutes. Yeah,

it's nuts. You can't have no answer for what Duke was doing offensively. And then they just

stopped. Yeah, they just stopped doing it. It's kind of crazy. I saw Micah Parsons had a big bet on Duke

and once the game investigated because they stopped, they stopped running the same offense. Oh,

yeah, I saw him tweeting out, rage tweeting about how he lost his bet because the game's rigged,

Duke stopped running off in some purpose. Wow. What did this money line get up to at the highest

that you saw? Because I saw 14 to one. It was 14 to one, 15 to one, I think. Shout out as

anybody, if anybody jumped on that one. I was chilling on Duke. I was not hawking a live line at all

there. I was actually counting my money thinking that I had a shot of going three and one in the

elite day. But that's college basketball for you. Mac, do you want me to hit this ad or you want to?

You get it? Yes. Is there anything else that we want to mention on this game before?

I think we've hit it. I mean, that's Duke. That's that's a bad loss. That's a tough one.

That's that's one. That's one that that one is going to sting. That one is going to sting. Like

which one sings more? That or he used to use them. Houston without a doubt because they did it within

like four minutes of game. This one was a slow death. It was a slow burn. And then it was cut the

cord at the end with the three. Yeah, they're pretty close, but it's great. Fuck Duke. And you kind of

avenged their loss with a lightener shot. Yeah, that was that was the joke narrative because it was

like 30 years ago, but they avenged their loss to Duke with later. All for it. All for it.

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myself. No, it'd be an exciting alongside Moneyline Mac and Troy tuning. Let's talk about UConn's

opponent in the final four. That will be the Illinois fighting a line. I as they take down Iowa

by a score of a score that covered the spread. And that score was Illinois 71 Iowa 59.

Close game pretty much throughout that got a little dressed up at the end here for this cover,

Mac. You were on Iowa with Colby. Tell me how it was from your point of view.

Definitely dressed up. But hey, shout out to Illinois, man. They continue to find ways when

they beat Houston on Friday night. They beat Iowa. Oh, sorry, Thursday night. Then they beat Iowa

last night. They didn't make shots either. They were three for 17 from three and they find a way

to win by 12. This Illinois team is finding ways to win without making shots. So like you're

got to be impressed with the Align Eye and Brad Underwood breaks through. Shout out to Brad. He's

on the hugged tree happy for him. They get it done against Iowa. Troy, what were your thoughts from

this one? Iowa and Illinois. You're muted, bud. Sorry. Yeah, there we go. Kind of early on in the game.

You kind of saw a look on Wagler's face. It looked like he was going to take the game over,

at least to me, he seemed like he was going to very confidently kind of stroll through this one.

I mean, you got to give credit to Bennett Sturts. He did have the most turnovers in a March

Madness game so far today in this run with two. He had one in the combined games before this. So

he finishes with three whole turnovers when he's basically carrying the ball up the floor every

single possession for this Iowa team, which is, you know, you want to give some flowers to this

Iowa team. They played pretty well, but yeah, Illinois just looks like a Illinois looks a lot like

kind of what we expected Houston to look like. They are still able to out physical and out

tough you. And then on the games where they do have guys making shots, it's pretty much

impossible to beat them right now. So I mean, they looked great in this. I

there was a little while where I didn't know if they would cover this game or not,

and then they just kind of pull away as it goes on with maybe Iowa getting kind of worn out or

something like that. But the biggest difference I see is the the story, Akavic kid is out of all the

the token white guy three point shooter is in college basketball. He seems much more willing to

to drive to the basket and confident and finishing around the cup around taller guys.

He's kind of got that Steph Curry to him where he goes in down low enough that he gains his

own space on the perimeter as the game goes on. And it's always threatening a lot of these guys

just like to bomb up threes and really hope that they're hot. If you got a guy that can get to the

basket and see a couple go through the rim first, you know, that's always the the key to success.

And yeah, Illinois looks like a well oiled machine right now. Shout out to Underwood.

That's a great point, Troy, because still Akavic is one of the guys that we were talking about

on in that Houston game where he had so much success just cutting towards the basket. Whether it be

you know, through the pain or from the baseline, Illinois has had the knack of being able to

really use elite ball movement to create an open lane down low. They started this game pretty slow too.

I think Iowa got out to like a 13 to 2 run, if I remember correctly. And Max said it. Illinois

was not able to make a shot, but at the same time Bennett starts. He had a game today. Went for 20 or

he had a game on Saturday. Went for 24 points, but this NCAA tournament run, it was more about

the supplementary pieces for Iowa stepping up because this was the worst four game stretch. I

think of his entire division one college basketball career shooting percentage wise. It was not

Bennett starts last two weeks, but just this game, there was not a guy that you could circle that

stepped up for Iowa to be the difference maker where it was just a search show. You look at Alvaro

Ferris. He only had nine minutes in this one. Only had a handful of shots, but he kind of got

exposed in the first half defensively, struggled with Illinois's size and physicality. And

you saw why he at times didn't play a whole lot during the regular season and

you know, got stapled to the bench. But I mean, this is still a hell of a run for Ben McCollum,

I believe this is going to be his worst team that he has at Iowa just because this team,

this run put them on the map and I don't think he's going anywhere because he's born and raised

corn fed. And for Illinois, Mac mentioned like given underwood some flowers like

I'm not a fan of it in the way that college basketball is trending because it's not just

Illinois like Arizona's got a handful of euros. Michigan's starting a year, but

Brad Underwood literally went in person overseas, scouted these guys, got to know agents like

in person. And it was one of the more followed and tracked and newsworthy offseason stories of

this college basketball offseason. And it paid off big time. He's getting his first career

final four and like, what is it? 30 year coaching career. So massive kudos to him,

diving in head first into something that I'm not even aware of. He fully knew or had faith in

what he was doing, but it ends up paying off in spades. And I think it'll be more used by him

and others moving forward going over and getting this overseas pros to come in and play the game

because these freshmen are not 18 year olds like you were watching with Duke, these freshmen are

20, 21. They know what they're doing with the ball in late game moments and weren't coughing it up.

They take care of the ball. I mean, they had eight turnovers today and that's actually quite a bit

for them. And go 18 to 21 from the line. They don't make any mental mistakes really. Illinois did

a lot of winning things in order to pull off this win against Iowa. Anything else we'd like to add?

No, I'm happy. Happy for Brad. Brad Brad's been knocking on the door for a while now. We

saw them and honestly, they got boat race by Yukon. And we they last time he had a shot at the final

four. So he gets one more shot at them. But yeah, I mean, they've they've come together here and

they have an identity and I mean, Yukon's going to be a fun game. Yeah. So earlier this season,

Illinois played Yukon. The Huskies won that game by 13. It was played at Mars Square Garden. So

I do remember the line I having a good contingency there for that game in that arena. But still

probably 60% of a Yukon crowd. I do not expect that for this final four game. I expect this to be

an Illinois crowd right in their backyard. I think they may have the biggest fan base in

Indianapolis this weekend. Guys, in this game, I saw this screenshot by Ant Wright. You had for

Illinois. Thomas love a visage played 25 minutes. David Merkovich only played 18 minutes. Keaton

Wogler only played 14 minutes. Ben Humrickus played 25 minutes. Mahalo Petrovich played 18 minutes.

And Jake Davis only played nine minutes. Everything that I just mentioned there, it is all

inverted. This this team has a different identity. They only lost that game by 13. Again,

they shot it pretty poorly in that one against Yukon. What is the the winning recipe do you think

we're not picking this game right now? But what's what's the recipe for Illinois to be able to pull

off this upset? Well, it's on upset. They're favors. Illinois's favorite over Yukon. Yeah, they're

favorite by two and a half. I find that surprising. Yeah, I think Illinois's been the better team

to be honest. Like Yukon has a magic because they beat Duke in a magical game. But yeah, Illinois,

I think is a better roster top to bottom. Talent wise. I think they're going to need a

better performance than what we saw in this Iowa game out of somebody like Kyle Impa as well.

Because the guard play is going to have to keep up with with how Yukon is going to try to attack

them. I think they're physical enough to kind of deal with Terrace Reed. I'm sure he will still

get his down low. He's you know, it's nice to see a classic big man in there using the footwork

and getting some buckets. But there is a chance that Terrace Reed is just a little too strong down

low and with how he's been playing recently. I know we mentioned it after Iowa had won to get

them to this Illinois game and people we were talking about. If Ben McCollum thinks that his team

is tough right now, this is probably the least tough team we're going to see out of them.

And then they get kind of outtuffed by Illinois. That's not they're not going to be able to do

that against Yukon. They're going to have to they're going to have to make shots really. And

again, I've just been scared of this Dan Hurley Magic for for too long really.

I am kind of with Troy in the thought process that I think Terrace Reed. So back when they played

this game the first time I actually Terrace Reed was coming off the foot injury. Only played 15 minutes

and yeah, it was his I don't know if it was his first game back, but he was missing time.

No, he's a catch. I remember because it was a new game on Black Friday. And

and we didn't know if Terrace Reed would play or not. And then he popped up and he's going to play him

and I think ball I think ball was injured too. So he played the first game of the year or he did

not play the first game of the year, played the next three, missed the next two, popped up,

played that Illinois game and then missed the next two after. Yeah. So it wasn't I remember that.

It was a new black Friday game. I remember that shit.

That's a guard. Yeah, I'm expecting him to make a bigger difference in this new like.

So we've seen these two teams play before this season, but we really haven't seen

these current form of teams play each other this season. And I like that. I like find it like

I would prefer new matchups. And this is the one renewal that we're seeing. But in essence,

you got a new identity Illinois team and a Yukon team with a fully healthy Terrace Reed. And

it should be a great matchup. And I'm going to take Reed in that front court matchup. And I'm

going to take Dan early in the the Xs and O's and tactitional matchup there between Brad Underwood.

But in that Iowa game, that second matchup of the weekend, that's where we've seen Underwood kind of

get, you know, or B pedestrian, I guess as a coach, he's not a difference maker. He hasn't

cost this team any, but he did get out scored and ran up on Yukon like a 30-O runner, whatever it

was a couple years ago on that second game of a weekend. But yeah, I'm very interested to see how

that result comes out. Let's move to the second game of that Saturday, which was guys Purdue in the

first half, the Adam in the first half is everything what they say on social media. And yeah,

to Max point statement there, Purdue played well. If that is what Arizona is going to do in the

final 20, I don't I don't know how you beat this Arizona team because Purdue was hitting shots

in the first half. They were I think forcing Arizona to be uncomfortable offensively, forcing

them a little bit into not some of their strengths, which was like the outside shooting. And then

Arizona just imposed their will will in the second half. Mac, tell me how I was wrong picking

this game, taking Purdue against the spread in this matchup. I mean, you look good for 20 minutes,

but like this fucking Arizona team is the wack. Like the way they just beat the fuck out of you.

I thought Purdue played well. And that's the scary thing. I think is Purdue actually played pretty

well. And you have you have a veteran group proud program. I mean, you have Brain Smith,

who is playing how many college basketball games? Fletcher lawyer. Yeah, like these guys

coughing and red. These guys have played games. But this Arizona team is fucking a wack. They just

beat the fuck out of you. They imposed their will. They win the game and they win the game at the

rim to win the game in the in the paint. They didn't play well. They said one by 15 against Purdue.

That's kind of like I opening in my opinion. And we haven't even seen the game where Dell

or so decides to make his three pointers yet. Yeah, no, they don't even make threes. They don't

make shots at all. Yeah, I can't wait for them. If anything, that was the game for them.

If anything, that was the game for him to step onto the court and shoot a couple of threes,

because Purdue was playing his own for a little bit and forcing them to take a little bit of

outside shots. And Dell or so only saw the court for nine minutes took three shots hit one,

three threes and hit one three. So yeah, you don't need it if you're going to have your post guys

between like CarChankov and co-appeat shoot like 65% from the floor. Yeah, just keep feeding the big

man. I mean, co-appeat, everybody knows how good he is. And you know, it doesn't have a jump off

the the box score game. And it's like people forget about him. That's how good the Arizona team is.

And everybody already moved to Braden Burries is now the best player on the team. Oh, wait, no.

Jaden Bradley is actually still the best player on the team. Oh, we forgot about co-appeat. Yeah,

this Arizona team is as much as Mac has been on the quest for winning over Steffi Smalls with his

Bear Down campaign. I think he might be right. This just might it might just be what

in Charles Barkley caught the Arizona ass kicking invitational. Yeah, no, no. Yeah, and I'm not sure if

you saw Mac, I'm not sure if you saw the NC Nick sub tweets at you this weekend. No, but we'll

mention it now. Arizona at the free throw line in this one. 22 free throws to 13 for Purdue in

the sweet 16 against who is that? Who did they play in the sweet 16 again? But they don't shoot

jump shots. I don't want to hear it. I don't want to hear it. They don't push back on me for

the same. I don't even shoot ten threes again. I'm staying with like mate. Don't push back on

this shit. No, they don't even shoot threes. Don't push back on this because against Arkansas,

they have 39 free throw attempts to 26 against Utah State. They had 39 free throw attempts to 11.

How many days do they intend against a long island? They had 33 to 10. I don't want to hear it.

It goes both the ways and this is a one seed. Get no whistle and it's not going the other way.

It's on my dick. Hey, it's not just me noticing it. NC Nick sub tweeted you on it and you didn't see it.

They don't shoot threes. Everything's at the rim. I understand. I don't want any pushback.

I'm just mentioning and nugget. No, no, no. This is not how we play this game. All I get to do is

mention a stat and then that whistle has to explain to me and then I'll mention a stat. It all ends

at free throws, free throws, free throw numbers, the deciding factor in the game, Mack.

That's what changed. Arizona shot eight threes against Arkansas in boat racers. Sorry,

asses by fucking 30. They only shot 10 more free throws. They only shot eight threes the entire game.

The logic's not going to work with me when I have the stat that explains free throws.

They had 39 free throws against Arkansas. They had against Utah State 39 free throws to 11.

It gets Arkansas shot 26 against you. It was still 13 more and then against Utah State,

they had 39 to 11. Arkansas lost because they went five for 23 from three. They suck. How about

this Purdue game? They won by 15 and they had nine more free throws. That's two possessions.

That's a two possession game. That's why that's why Arizona won. I'm just uno reverse carding you

and this is how this is how you react. I just want you to know. I know what you're doing. He's shot two.

Two, two, two. I produced shot 13, 13, 13, 13, 13. All I did was shoot jump shots in.

13 with Oscar Kluff and Trey Kaufman. Yeah. Trey Kaufman, Trey Kaufman,

Ren and Braden Smith, your two experienced guys that have been around combined to go like nine

of 30 in the game. Yeah. Yeah. Trey Kaufman, Ren had 14 fuel goal attempts around the rim.

That guy shot one free throw, Mack. They finally called a game fair for Trey. One free throw letting him

shoot 45 free throws in a game. He does seem to get whistles a lot. So when he wasn't getting

him this game, I kind of felt the same way to know I was like, man, that's usually one that he gets.

Man, that's usually one that he gets. Troy. I have to be honest. We spotted Trey Kaufman,

Ren's last six, last seven games at the free throw line. Two free throws, two free throws,

zero free throws, three free throws, three free throws, four free throws, one free throw.

I don't want to hear that he gets 36. Yeah. That's true. So yeah, one free throw for TK are the big

that they went to 14 times in the game. Mack. They got their ass whipped. They were winning at half.

Houston didn't sniff a lead. Peter, that, like, that, that, that shit was never in down the

second half. That was, that was just live better the year. I'm just putting this as an uno reverse

because Houston wasn't even close to Illinois in that game. I disagree. They got it to

fuck it like six. And I disagree. Purdue was up at a half. Purdue. Fuck Purdue. Purdue dictated

what Arizona was doing for an entire 25 minutes. They were down 20 with fucking two minutes left.

They got their fucking Houston got their ass kicked. That's why I'm doing this.

They got their ass kicked. This team got their ass kicked.

No, they, she got down to six with fucking two minutes left.

Fuck, fucking Purdue. Get the fuck out of here with Purdue. Like I like Purdue. It's a proud

to see what the reaction would be. And I got exactly what I wanted. I'm eating my popcorn over here.

This is exactly what I knew was going to happen. You're about to get your tea kicked in by

fucking Arizona too. I'm happy we got to a final four, Mack. Yeah. Like we lose in the final four.

So what? We lost to a one seed. Purdue, Purdue is a great run. They overachieved

coming down the stretch because they, they, they, they were not playing well in February.

Fuck it. Purdue had no shot this game. They had a nice little

Arizona winning after two years. One of them seven points. And then they sold me to buy 20.

Somebody to buy 20. There we go. He hates me. And it's even up to three throws.

It's, it's, it's a close game by Max Math. It is a close game. It's a different game.

Totally different by Max Math. There's, there's no math when co-op Pete's put his nuts.

There is math when there's no foul trouble whatsoever for Arizona. That's one thing they

haven't had to deal with. Oh, it's. What do you want? It's definitely the one thing that could

cause them issues. If I'm watching there are a crew that's ticky-tack in somebody like

COA who gets in foul trouble. It's not something to do. Oh, Purdue. I don't care if it's a good

take or not. I'm just giving you a stat and you don't like it. They were never winning this game.

They were never winning this game. They were never going to win this game.

They were winning it after 20 minutes. Yeah, then then then then what happened?

Belt the fucking ass. Belt the ass. Bear in the fuck down. They got killed. Yeah, killed.

Yeah. This would have been a good first half money line for you, Mack.

Traykovman there had one free throw. The team had 13 total.

TKR had one free throw. The team had 13 total. TKR sucks. TKR sucks. I don't care if he sucks or not.

Houston sucks. That was the argument the other night. That's the only reason why I'm bringing it up.

TKR regulates you free throws because crevices just go, I'm 7-3. I'm going to beat your shit out

into the second row like fuck off of red. He's a good guy. He's a nice guy and sure.

But he ain't being there. It's all right. He's fucking bears. Oh, they're crazy.

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little bit Arizona's next opponent will be the one seed out of the big 10 who won the big 10

regular season by four games a historically strong big 10 that had five elite eight teams a

historically strong big 10 T conference that had two final four teams and Michigan the one seed

takes over control in this game with 30 minutes to go against Tennessee. Watching the first 10

minutes this thing was back and forth if anything Michigan started out very very slow and kind of

you know methodical almost to the point where they were playing to their competition a couple of

silly turnovers and then a day we're back all right I hope I'm back where did I leave off

you said and then and then disappeared and then you said I die a die ma picks up two fouls he gets

reinserted into the game in the first half huge and then yaksal lendaborg makes the reverse layup

to go up 19 to 16 and then it was already in but I yeah it by a rule it was offensive gold

tennis it wasn't needed it was it it was in the hoop but that was the turn that was the turning of

the tide as Colby will use the sound drop often easy to see a tide turn because it goes 19 to 16

after that bucket that was pretty sick and then it you blink and it's 38 to 18 it was like a 24

to two run for Michigan in that one and that was kind of all she rode as Tennessee's and that

really designed to come back I have more thoughts but Mac that to me was what ultimately was the

the kill shot as Evan Miyakawa would put it your thoughts on Tennessee in Michigan yeah it was a

hey maker what like late verse half that that that between the I guess the second quarter if

we were playing quarters yeah it was under 12 to under four yeah Michigan's good man okay I

I said all year Michigan's really good and they they they got all the pieces they make shots and

uh they're defensive versatility with how much length they have on the defensive end I think is

is pretty I'm good so um I I hated that ripards lost in the lead yet um it's so tough to play

but honestly though for Barnes is a great year they over achieved this year this team is not that good

I was gonna say this was one that I also turned off at halftime and it didn't have the same magical

feeling at the end as the later game did I knew that we were going to I was hoping that the later

game was going to be better than this so at halftime I did the same thing I was kind of listening on

the radio doing some stuff around the house instead of sitting in front of the TV watching this

massacre uh yeah yaxel the the x factor yaxel is it's come a long way I know the chat saying it but

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lenda borg GBO lenda borg is a German last name it kills me but he's Dominican yeah he's not

he's unbelievable um that's a good deal if they had case on man this would be I mean I'll talk

the same way I do about Michigan about Arizona there's so many guys on the team that it feels like

they just overwhelm you with talent and it's exactly what happened here yeah I mean

LJ case and was a big piece of this team he was their best on ball defender and also a 40%

three point shooter and he could handle the ball on possessions where we need uh we're

where they needed uh Elliott Cato to take a blow but I think I said it like the night

of the injury or the night after it was announced like this team can still win a national championship

without case and uh because Cato's on the floor at the time was for 30 minutes now he's on the

floor for like 3637 and they're still not really an issue um so yeah I think that first half swing

of momentum was ultimately key Michigan had the crowd in Chicago I was worried if it was going

to be Iowa State uh that would have been probably a 50-50 building when it comes to noise but

Tennessee they're a great fan base but uh when it comes to basketball uh and they're not as

in droves in person as they are for football or uh if they're making a run in baseball or whatnot so

yeah that was a big edge for Michigan uh in Troy already mentioned Yaxl so I'll I'll do

Roddy Gale uh had a huge couple of threes in this one in the Murray Burnett and um

and Will Cheddar stay from the eight-win uh Joanne Howard Michigan team they they've been through

kind of seen it all uh eight wins to a last year they won the Big Ten tournament title went to

the sweet 16 and this year win the Big Ten regular season title and go to the final four happy

for those two guys um and uh McKenny is just continued to emerge and evolve as a player as a

freshman getting more minutes he's kind of cleaning up some of that LJ case enroll as the three-point

shooter and he's gotten better and better and um him and Kadoa have already announced that

they're coming back for next year but uh to the response I believe it was to Josh North uh J

North they're saying like uh you're not just happy to get there uh you want to win the national

title yeah but I didn't spend any of the money I'm happy that we're in the final four you know

it's not none of that's my money um and it's Arizona like they're a really damn good team

I know Michigan's favorite by like one but that's a 50-50 coin flip game it'd end up losing that game

I'm not out in the streets calling for dusty maze name I'm not out in the streets saying

the Axel and Aborg was always the money like they kind of fulfilled expectations here uh and I'm

pretty satisfied um when they're hitting their shots from deep they are a very hard team to beat

and that's where I'll take you guys to the same conversation that we had about first off

any more on Tennessee against Michigan here no I mean domination domination and uh Arizona

Michigan I think those have been the two best teams all year um that's gonna be a fun game

that's gonna be a fun ass game yeah I kind of threw all year through Duke into that conversation

I got I got to take it on the chin here because I gave out that take that I thought Duke Arizona

Michigan would all be last standing in final four because I thought those three teams had set

themselves apart obviously Duke falls in the final seconds against Yukon so that take was not

correct but it was oh so close so same question or same talking topic that we had with

Illinois against Yukon uh now to Michigan Arizona I will paint the picture in how Michigan needs

to defeat Arizona I'm assuming that Mack and Troy will paint the picture of how Arizona needs to

beat Michigan because both of these teams in total have just been defeated five times Michigan has

three losses Arizona only has two how do you crack these impenetrable horses for Michigan I think

the game plan has to be first off you're gonna need to play with pace like they have all year um

and make sure that you are getting many possessions in this game because if Arizona is able to

just suck the clock and lean on you physically and be able to drive defensively uh and score on

half of their possessions uh I think that's uh a resume of winning but if Michigan's able to run

up and down the floor at their pace they hit some shots the way I think you knock off Arizona as

you build a lead they have not trailed for long periods of time this season I know that Purdue just

had that lead at half time against Arizona very quickly got swallowed up after the half time kind

of stalled momentum for Purdue Purdue in the second half wasn't able to hit shots I think Michigan

with their kind of waves of momentum that we've seen they're a very streaky team they can start

slow and they can kind of be slow and methodical the entire game or they can be up and down run

around with their heads cut off and they're run that they're kind of in that flow state and they're

hitting shots their ball movements unbelievable uh the way I think you win this game is you just

have to match the front court which is a tall it's a tall task but running at your pace you have a

chance of wearing them not wearing down if they play from behind I don't know if they're able to

hit the shots to make sure that they get back into the game and win the game Mac

best path to success for Arizona is it just more the same just uh fucking bowl in a china shop

they're running straight they're running through or uh anything change in the game plan there

I if if Arizona's at their best I don't think anybody's beating them now it's a single elimination

tournament um they could not be able to the ball in the ocean and Michigan can make a bunch of

shots and and and maybe Michigan knocks them off because Michigan's really good but if

Arizona plays the way Arizona's played I I don't see them beating them so um I think it's more

the same dominate the paint dominate the rim dominate the backboards and they cut them in that's

truly how does uh paint the picture on how Arizona beat the Michigan paint the picture on

I think I'm gonna be on your side here actually no really but are not because the way that you beat

tall teams is you have forwards that can stretch the floor and make shots it it not necessarily

fill up the basket with a bunch of threes just make them at the right time to continually stretch the

team if Arizona gets in a position where they need any of those stretch players to hit threes

between Pete Carchankov and Kreevas they're all just 30% three point shooters so you're really

hoping for a variant game where a couple of them go in whereas I trust yaks to step out and hit

a three at any point in time so I think that there's a path here for Michigan to to stretch the floor

a little bit offensively and maybe not just go front court on front court uh power versus power

I think that's still a viable play for either team here as I I don't I don't really know which

front court to give the direct advantage to down in the paint but I do think Michigan can stretch

it a little bit more and that that does scare me a little bit Mac do you think that

Arizona biggs are going to use the three ball on this one at all I I don't know that's

necessarily my prediction but it is interesting that it is interesting that Troy brings up the point

that all of them are shooting around 30% it's not like we could see the uh zack 83 ball in this

game there is like one every five games from Purdue you know uh is that in the game plan or

in up air is on a sleeve at all I don't think so um I I think this game is this can be a war um

I I think the game is one to rim I think both game both teams are super physical um and

maybe maybe if Arizona can make six or seven threes that'd be nice but um but yeah I think this

could be a fascinating matchup with all the sides on the floor yeah and to Troy's point maybe

this is a Delaware so uh you use utilized Delaware so for 15 to 20 minutes in this game and uh

you've got that ace up your sleeve otherwise I don't know Pete and uh Cree Voss and uh

uh a walker stepping out and shooting any but they may just step out for spacing in this one

because uh buries three ball I think will be in the game plan um how about who wins guard play

Arizona Arizona Arizona Arizona guard plays better I think Michigan's front courts could

enough if not better to match it especially defensively I think Marais and a Diamara are the

best defensive big man duo in the country um so I think they're very very even in the front court

that's where this year's college basketball domination I think has been stemmed from from the

beginning you look at uh Duke who just got bounced today they've got cam boozer and Patrick Gungba

you get when you look at Florida who's the other one seed their front court was unbelievable um

and then you got Arizona's duo you got Michigan's duo both of them defensively co-op heats

unreal he's got a really good offensive game too um as well um but uh I think I think both

of these teams defensively are very very stout I don't know if this is gonna be an up and down

lightning fast uh shooting game and that's the game plan that I said I think that Michigan needs

to use in order to win the game so that's what scares me the best uh how about this before we get

out of here fellas the next question I want to ask you is the losers of the elite eight

yet Purdue yet Iowa yet Duke and you had Tennessee now I would expect dukes losing cam boozer

they are losing uh I would expect Isaiah Evans is gone that guy was unbelievable from three

at times this year Dame Sar could be gone with his six eight frame and good defense uh you look at

Tennessee Nate immense gone Gillespie's graduating you look at Iowa Bennett starts is gone and you

look at Purdue that senior trio and even it was more than just the trio it's you're looking at

Braden Smith who's leaving TKR Fletcher lawyer of also graduated Oscar Cluff I believe is out

of eligibility which of these four teams Purdue Iowa Tennessee or Duke is best suited for 2027

you know I mean you either want you to go back was kind of pondering so he wasn't necessary

ready I have a scenario where cam boozer comes back to school because he sees that he's

going to be drafted by the wizards and also this game has turned him into a deep unit wants to win

something for Duke I know that there is probably a 0.001 percent chance of it but man it would be

awesome he's already if families got enough money probably making a pretty good amount of money

in NIL might have just had his heart broken and if he's anything like his dad he probably wants

to win one for Duke right why would he just come back and terrorize college basketball for another

try to just move the needle for me from 0% to 4% chance he comes back all right if I keep talking we

can get this up to 8 to 10% here yeah brother's gonna be on the team he's he's everyone's gonna be

I'm going Duke because there were crude glasses pretty okay coming in Duke doesn't lack players

we'll see if Shire can actually finish job for once now I mean that's just a real narrative now

yeah you're not wrong how about by the way we we failed to mention

cam boozer actually didn't get a call in this one he got elbowed just under and he had a mouse

there yeah that that was something that he needed a boxing corner that just kind of iron out

after the three minute four minute rounds you know but the burger press right on his cheek

yeah I wonder if that affected him at all in the second half um but uh that I think does it any

other talking topics that you guys wanted to bring up in this Elite 8 recap episode of the college

basketball experience no I'm done I'm mad we fulfill their job Mack by the way we we expanded four

games of talk to an hour and 18 that was impressive yeah I'm going to the beach tomorrow I'm going to

the outer banks outer banks they're going to kinskin cap to the outer banks yeah I'm going to be

in the outer banks maybe on Thursday and I don't want to hear from anybody I can't wait until

we see a random post on Wednesday for Mack and there's just like a like a cheerleading competition

going on max out there with fucking bill dollar checks girlfriend the the adult cheerleading squad

you never know what I'll get it dude down there at the beach I was trying to quote uh the outer

banks show like the beginning of it but I forget what he says after I forgot the outer banks and

then it's like with your left hand that's good that's good movie series yeah Netflix series yeah

yeah that's like a tv show yeah I like this series like Mack likes that one because I mean I said

down during covid and watched it but I haven't caught up to it yeah so I just don't you know me I

don't watch movies or tv shows or anything but we'll have a lot of time during the off-season

of college basketball Troy what what are uh what are your plans this week we you know we aerate the

golf course so I'm actually kind of happy that we're at the schedule wears where we won't be doing the

the show every single night where I've got to try to then go in because you know we aerate

the golf course it'll take us 10 or 12 hours two days so make sure it's all cleaned up and everything

afterwards it does suck but here in about 10 or 12 days it'll be significantly more fun to play

the course it's a little bumpy from the winter jeans are a little bumpy you can follow him on

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college football previews this year and they've got to they've got to sort out all of the conference

re-alignment madness that's happening right now and Louisiana Tech says they're in the sunbelt

when they're really being scheduled in the conference you assess so I think I'm on the hook for

some of those two NOAA there you go you're the unlucky one I don't believe I'm on the hook for

any right now just they sound just smile and wave no yeah smile and wave boys but yeah that's

the show the college basketball experience we've got a couple of stuff planned ahead Tuesday tomorrow

we have college basketball crown picks or sorry Monday tomorrow night we have college basketball

crown picks Tuesday night going into Wednesday morning we have NIT picks Wednesday night going

into Thursday morning is when we will do the final four picks Thursday night going into Friday will

be college baseball picks Friday night going into Saturday morning I believe we are back with college

basketball crown picks and then Saturday night going into Sunday we are back with national championship

predictions and then Monday night we will be here recapping the national championship and giving out

our way way too early final fours for 2027 this has been the college basketball experience you

better start thinking about yours and we are out of here

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