BYU’s Season Ends…Was it a Failure?; TCU CAN Shock Duke

Texas controls BYU wire-to-wire as the Cougars season ends in disappointment in the first round. TCU channels March Madness to hold off Ohio State. Can they stun Duke?

BYU’s season came to a painful end after getting pushed around by Texas, which raises the big question: was this season a failure or just a disappointment? In this video, I break down why BYU had too much on AJ Dybantsa’s shoulders, how injuries to Richie Saunders, Dawson Baker, Nate Pickens and others changed the ceiling of this team, and why the Cougars still gained something huge from this season despite the ugly ending.

Plus, TCU may have a much better shot against Duke than most people realize. I explain what the Horned Frogs showed in their win over Ohio State, why Duke looked vulnerable, and the one key factor that could make this a real NCAA Tournament shocker.

If you care about BYU basketball, TCU basketball, Duke basketball, AJ Dybantsa, March Madness, and Big 12 basketball, this is the place to be.

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Well, BYU season is over. The Cougars lose 79-71 to Texas in the first round of the NCAA tournament. It's a one-and-one day for the Big 12 so far. And TCU, believe me, I want to talk about what the Hornfrogs did and the possibility that they could get Duke in the next round. And by get, I mean beat Duke in the next round. But BYU was the headline game today for the Big 12. We've got Houston coming up later on tonight. Hopefully, I will not be sitting here doing a live show talking about the Houston game because that would be bad, bad, bad news. But man, I felt like I needed to react to what just happened there to BYU, which was a performance in which it just felt like AJ DeBonzo was kind of helpless. He drops 35 and 10, but did not get enough help at all. And at the end of the day, this BYU season, it's really hard to evaluate. And I've had so many people ask me lately, like how I would characterize the BYU season. I've had opposing Big 12 fans asking, hey, like, should Kevin Young be taking more heat? Or really, typically, it's more phrased in the form of Kevin Young should be taking more heat. How was this season as bad as it was for BYU? And I have defended Kevin Young in many ways, but I think it's a very complex question, right? Everybody wants a hot take answer. Should be a horrible failure of a season or it's a great season. I mean, guys, usually it's somewhere in between. You know that's typically what you're going to get on this channel. So we'll talk about it, man. We'll break it all down and we we will we will talk about it all. Uh, this is the Open for Business Big 12 podcast. I'm your host, John Kurtz. This is where the Big 12 just means more. Uh, please do like and subscribe as you come in. Let's let's push toward 35k subscribers. Doing great with that right now. I appreciate all of you guys. So many people watch and don't subscribe. If you click subscribe, it really does help me out. Thank you to those who do. Uh okay, I'm already seeing the comments bringing some uh criticism of Kevin Young strong after this one tonight. Uh look, I mean, Texas just kind of bullied BYU in this game. Uh the obvious there is Focatis, who, I mean, he wound up with 23 and 16. It felt like he had about 40 and 20. I mean, in the first half, Focatis, the big man for Texas, had 15 and 11, and it felt like he was like prime Shaq. You know, like Lakers Shaq with Kobe Shaq. Uh, they just could not do much to stop him. The only thing BYU could do to stop him in this game was put him at the free throw line where he went three of 11. Speaking of Shaq, right? That's pretty apropos. Just tack a Shaq. Maybe BYU could have gone to that earlier. One of my biggest disappointments from this year is a guy who was a bit disappointing tonight. And that was Kiba Keita. Like Cada had four points, five fouls, uh, or excuse me, five points, four boards, five fouls in the game. And he's a guy, it just felt like to me every time I watched him this year, that he was somebody that kind of regressed. And uh, frankly, BYU needed more inside. Like AJ DeBonsa needed more help, and he there was not much Robin to his Batman going on tonight, and uh, and the Cougars absolutely needed that, and that's sort of the story of the season. But Texas, I mean, they shot 47% in the game, 36% from three, so not crazy. But they, yeah, it didn't feel like it was a game where Texas was just bombing threes. They were just they were able to get to the rim, get jumpers, like whatever it was that Texas wanted, it felt like they got in scoring 79 points. Now, they they left the door cracked open there toward the end of the game. BYU could not step through it. But outside of that, up until the last like five minutes of the game, I mean, Texas got absolutely whatever it wanted offensively. There was never a moment where it felt like you could rely on BYU to get stops. I mean, it just there were anybody who watched this game, like you never felt like there was a moment or a stretch where BYU was in control or legitimately was it just never felt like they were gonna do it. You know, I mean, even late when it got to six and they have the ball a couple times there, it gets to four. Just didn't feel comfortable, you know? I mean, AJ DeManza took a couple of, and this is a part of where I think not feeling like he had enough support tonight hurts, took a couple of bad shots in key moments. You know, the one pull-up three he had that was just a total brick off the back rim. Not a great shot. He had the turnover. Now, you know, maybe some of that, if you want to put some of that on a boop for not rolling to the basket, but that's not really his game, right? He's in there to be a defense and rebounding guy. So it again just sort of underscores that problem. Uh, you know, Rob Wright's decision to try and get to the rack, like I can understand why he was doing that there, but it seemed pretty obvious that that was going to wind up being swatted. And uh that was kind of the last straw for BYU in the game there. So, you know, if we want to break down what went wrong in the final minutes, was there an opportunity there that the the Cougars kind of let slip away? Like, yes, kind of. Um, but this is more to the point, it just this did not ever feel like a game where BYU was going to string together enough to make it happen. Game control completely in Texas's hands uh from start to finish. I mean, wire to wire. And hey, credit to Texas and credit to there, there is something too. I mean, I believe that is now the 12th game that a play-in winner has won in this tournament since that started back in 2011. So I do think there is something to getting some of the jitters out, playing a game in the first four, winning, feeling good about yourself, and then no time to think, man. You just turn around and you go play a game right off the rip. So maybe there is a bit of that going on here too. But let you know, let's just be honest. Like, if if you have watched BYU this season, especially in the last six weeks, like the last month and a half, since Richie Saunders went down, that looked like the team that you have mostly watched, right? There were a couple of highs, uh, the Iowa State game at home, the Texas Tech game at home, right? There were a couple of moments, but for the most part, this is what you've gotten since Richie Saunders got injured. And it's just another case of AJ DeBonsa not having enough help, man. I I this this resonates to me being a K-State guy, right? And I mentioned this in the the Discord for our three-mod podcast. I and it made me feel good. My buddy Colmanbeck, who's you know a better K-State basketball historian than I agreed with this, but it felt to me a lot like the Michael Beasley K-State team by the end of the year. Like once Richie Saunders was down, it felt like the Michael Beasley K-State team, which actually did win a 6'11 game in the tournament and got to the round of 32, but was just a lot of Michael Beasley, and by the end of the year, not a whole lot else. Uh Bill Walker, Bill Walker was a pretty good player. So that's kind of like your Rob Wright, right? There's there's sort of a Robin. Uh, but then the rest of the roster, you know, pretty a lot of jags, you know, felt like a lot of jags. And that's kind of how I by the end of the year feel like the the rest of the BYU supporting cast. Just some jags, just the guy. Um, there's a lot of that going on, and you're just relying too much on one guy to carry you, and eventually that that burns you out pretty early. For Michael Beasley's team, it was when they went up against like a classic Bo Ryan Wisconsin uh team that was able to neutralize him enough and just not give anything to anybody else. And here tonight, 35 and 10 for AJ DeBonsa. Nobody else, nobody else really steps up. I mean, I guess let's let's go look at this box score. Rob Wright had 14 points on 17 shots. I saw somebody in the in the chat. Let me go pull that up here. By the way, if you have a super chat, you can click the dollar sign below the chat box. Appreciate you guys who do that. Um Bear, the person I might expect to point this out, says Rob Wright was a minus 14 tonight. Uh woof. Yeah, you know, plus minus sometimes can be dangerous to read into too much, but that that is not a good number for sure. Uh 14 points on 17 shots is not very efficient. He was 04 from three. Uh, he had three assists, two turnovers. I mean, you look at this for the game. BYU, this is a telling stat. And look, when you have an AJ DeBonsa, you're gonna let him go one-on-one and try and get his shots a lot, right? But to me, this is kind of the story of what the team devolved into without Richie Saunders. On 24 made field goals tonight, BYU had six assists. They assisted on 25% of the made field goals. Just there's not a lot of ball movement. Like you're just not it's not very pretty basketball. I mean, AJ DeBonte can do some really pretty things, and the the reverse jam that he had driving to the basket is one of the prettiest things you'll see in the entire NCAA tournament. But just a team sharing and moving the basketball, there's there's not there's not a whole lot of that right now. Rob Wright had 14. I mean, Kennard Davis knocked down a three at nine points, gave you a little bit. It felt like more in the first half. He played 39 minutes. Uh, so credit to him. But then, you know, I mean, like, guys, I was getting frustrated. It's like guys are missing free throws. Like, Kostic missed his first free throw of the entire season. Uh it just felt like, okay, like it's one of those nights, man. Like, nobody else is if you can't even, you're the guy that hits free throws and you can't even contribute and help help AJ out with some free throws down the stretch when you're trying to make a push and and get the comeback going, you're just not gonna have it. Um now, the big picture stuff, right? Because I'm seeing the opinions flying in the chat on this. Like, how do you properly evaluate what this season was for the Cougars when there are so many things to take into account here, right? And this is where I just don't think if there's one thing I can imprint on you, anybody who watches this channel, I genuinely hope it is that the answers in sports and in life are typically not black and white. There is a lot of gray area, there's so much nuance to discussions usually. And so if you are somebody that thinks unequivocally this was a disappointment and a failure, and Kevin Young is a failure, or if you are somebody that thinks unequivocally the injuries wipe out everything and this, how dare you call it a failure? You can't do that. I think it requires a lot of digging through all of this. Would I say the season was a failure? No, I would not say the season was a failure. When I say it was a disappointment, uh, yes, I think it was a disappointment. Now, with the disappointment comes the caveat that there were a lot of injuries here, right? Like Dawson Baker, who could have been a sixth man on this team out for the entire season. You have two other contributors that that went down before the season even started, right? Nate Pickens, I know, being one of those, who would have been a transfer that was coming into play. And then Richie Saunders misses like the last month and a half of the season, who was putting together like an all-American type campaign. Like, remember the game that he had at Allen Fieldhouse and Lawrence. That that factors in, and that that helps make the season a disappointment, whether it's Kevin Young's fault or not. The injuries, obviously, that's just something that happens. Those those are not his fault. So, because of that, I would not label it a total failure. I've got more on that, on why I think it's not a total failure of a season, but it's definitely a disappointment. And even I think it is it's fair to criticize Kevin Young a bit. Like, should you still have gotten more out of this team even after the injuries? You can certainly argue that. Um and the reason it's a disappointment overall, I should have just started with this, is because coming into the season, it's very clear what the expectation was for this team. Went to the Sweet 16 last year, added arguably the number one player in the country this year. It was going to be a showcase of a season with that type of a talent and that type of a player on the roster. The expectation is to do more than lose in the first round. Period, end of sentence. Like, so yeah, the season's a disappointment. And sometimes it's dangerous to judge coaches, seasons, programs too much based on one NCAA tournament run because things can be fluky and it's such a, you know, no other sport is really measured quite the same way by these insanely pressure-packed, wild, zany postseason moments, like the tournament's just so unpredictable. It's different than a lot of the playoff systems that you're gonna have all throughout sports. But yeah, that is how this is ultimately judged. And when he went to the Sweet 16 last year and the program looked like it was on the uptick, the the idea was definitely to do that andor. So, yes, it's a it's a disappointment. It's not a failure, though, to me, because first of all, yes, there were extenuating circumstances outside of anybody on the roster's control or Kevin Young's control that are largely injury related there that you have to take into account. But beyond that, the reason that I really wouldn't label it a failure is because the program still elevated its profile, right? Like AJ DeBonsa still elevated the profile of BYU's program this year. He had a phenomenal year. He scored 20 plus points in what was the grad 28 of 35 games this year. At the beginning of the year, he was viewed as the probably consensus number two overall pick, like maybe fringe of number one. And now you might flip that based on what happened with Darren Peterson this year and what happened with AJ DeBonsa. Meaning he elevated as an elite prospect, an elite NBA prospect, he elevated his status enough to go from being the number two guy to the number one guy while playing for your program. While playing for Kevin Young, while going to Provo, while pushing the message that he really was the whole time like, hey, I actually really like this. This worked out well because I get to just come here and play basketball without the distractions. And like it wound up being a pretty good marketing campaign all season long for BYU, regardless of how deep you went into the NCAA tournament. Great publicity. And you know what happened in the midst of all this? You landed Bruce Branch, who, you know, maybe he's not going to be AJ DeBonsa level, but he's the next five-star recruit. He's the next banger of a recruit that you have coming in as the crown jewel of another really good recruiting class. So all of that has elevated, I think, what people perceive the BYU program to be nationally, honestly, more so than last year's Sweet 16 run, I would argue. Now, we can debate whether or not that's that's good or like or whether or not you should agree with that being the case, but I think it is the case because this was part of it's playing into the whole conference narrative, right? Like there were just there was so much elite young talent in the conference that there were a lot of eyeballs on it, and DeBonsa was uh far and away the the headliner there by the end of the year when you had the Darren Peterson stuff. Will he play? Will he not? Like DeBonsa was the guy drawing all the headlines. So BYU's proven now. You can be an elite player, you can come here, you can totally thrive, you can elevate your NBA draft status. Um, and AJ to the final moment was doing a great job, being a great messenger for the program. You know, he was still getting asked, and I almost did a video on this. I decided to just hold off, but he was still getting asked about, you know, like why BYU and these NCAA tournament press conferences, right? Like people still almost like astounded, like, why'd you choose to go there? And he continued to be a total great ambassador for the program with his answers and the way he was handling all of that. So if you're an elite prospect coming up, you'll know, hey, I saw AJ go do it there. I know that Kevin Young is a coach that he liked and trusted and was able to help elevate his status. Kevin Young's obviously got the NBA credentials behind him, and you'll be able to land more guys like this in the future. So, from that standpoint, I don't think it's fair to call this season a total failure. If you want to call it a disappointment, I'm totally with you because I think anybody, any rational BYU fan, supporter, anybody involved, if you would have, if it comes down to this, if you would have told them back in November when the season started, like, hey, it's gonna end with a loss in the first round of the tournament, you're gonna lose to a play-in game winner in Portland and and not get a chance to face Gonzaga, yeah, everyone's gonna say, yeah, that's definitely a disappointment. Uh, but I would not, I would not be preaching failure. I think the Kevin Young for this season just gets kind of an incomplete grade. It certainly is not an overall overwhelming success, but I mean, guys, you gotta you gotta take into account those injuries. Like that was at least three rotation guys that were out for the that missed six plus weeks of the season. A couple of them missed the entire season. Uh, you lost uh like a 1B best player on your team, potential all-American for the back half of that. It just like it, it's I'm not gonna be too overly harsh while also recognizing, yeah, there are probably things that could have gone better. Uh, namely figuring out a way to defend better, not having regression from Cada and and the bigs, getting more out of them. Even like, you know, Wally Zerbiak was uh somewhat critical on the broadcast of saying, like, why are they not just running pick and roll with Rob Wright and AJ Devon some more down the stretch? I mean, there there are there are plenty of legitimate criticisms here, but the uh there also is a reality where if you're just coming in to dunk on Kevin, I think the problem is I think too many people just like either don't care at all about wanting to recognize the injuries or haven't paid enough attention to really have that on their mind. And so they know, oh, BYU spent a ton of money on DeBonza. I hear about BYU having a lot of money these days, so that was a really expensive roster to go out in the first round. I mean, I think that's generally the the conversation there for most people. When I I think if you're if you're just paying more attention, you're somebody that pays more attention to this. There's there's a lot more to it. Um there's a lot more to it. Uh Toglips. Uh no, I don't believe I maybe I I have serious doubts that I ever said that after the Richie Saunders thing. If I did, that was a pretty terrible take. Uh with Richie Saunders, I would love to know what this BYU team could have done. They probably wind up as a four or a five, which you know, then you're looking at a one seed in the round of 32. Um, but if I ever said that post-Ritchie Saunders, that's that was definitely a bad take by me. It was definitely a bad take by me. Uh Duke lost two starters and came back in one. Well, I mean, so they're down Pat and Gongba. I don't who's who's who's the other, but also they were playing Siena. I mean, I think BYU probably could have, no offense to Siena, who balled out and they were amazing. I do want to talk about that because we're gonna talk TCU here in a moment. But yeah, I mean, BYU probably could have beaten Siena. I I think Texas, Texas probably could have beaten Duke if they were getting that same Duke team right tonight. So I think that's a little, a little intellectually dishonest there. But uh hey, I get the point that you're making. If you guys want to leave a super chat and uh guarantee your question or comment makes it on tonight, you can click the dollar sign below the chat box in order to do that. Um, yeah, that was it's frustrating. Pat Man, why does Rob try to loft a basket over the tall dude when there's no way he can arc it high enough? I to me, it was like nothing was going right in the set offense for BYU. It felt to me like it was like uh everything building on itself. Like they were struggling in the half-court offense, big time to get good looks there when it when they got it down to four and six. And so I think right was thinking, like, hey, you know, semi-fast break opportunity here. It's kind of one-on-one for a second. Let me just drive, try and get some contact, see what happens, hope for the best. And in that, you're not paying enough attention to uh you're not paying enough attention to prime Lakers, Shaquille O'Neal coming over, uh vocatis there. So anyway, Pat Man, I get it. Definitely frustrating. Uh okay. Well, here's this. Guys, TCU can beat Duke. I'm not saying it's gonna happen, but TCU can, and there's one thing like nobody's talking about here. We'll talk about Duke's performance today, but it's it's not even that. That's not even the reason that TCU can beat Duke. But credit to the Hornfrogs, man. They showed some real intestinal fortitude, or as our friend Bill Raftery would say, they showed some real onions, right? Some real onions today in pulling off that win, right? First of all, looked great in the first half. Uh TCU built a 15 point lead at halftime. And then in the second half, now, you know, you see this all the time in the NCAA tournament. Double digit lead, it's never safe. Ask North Carolina about that, right? Like North Carolina in control of that game up the Double digits into the waning moments, and VCU comes storming back and winds up winning that game in overtime, right? Uh, you gotta be careful. You gotta be careful about these double digit leads. TCU missed 18 of 22 shots in the second half at one point after getting up by 15, and it took some real heroics to come back after they had coughed up the lead there. And I'm not gonna lie, when they had let it go, it it did not feel like this was something that was going to happen for TCU. But man, Jamie Dixon, Jamie Dixon can coach and David Punch, I got to give that kid a ton of credit. Obviously, he's a great player. He put up 16 and 14, but the pass to Xavier Edmonds for the game winner, after you'd had back-to-back threes, teams really trading, blows and haymakers, and that was an offensive possession that had not gone well at all. You know, I mean, it was one of those where like sometimes the coach would just, I can't remember if Jamie Dixon had a timeout or not, but some coaches would just call the timeout, like, hey, let's reset with like six seconds left. Didn't have much time left. Punch could have taken like a fadeaway 13 to 15 footer, and instead decided no, and kind of caught out of the corner of his eye. He's like, wait, Xavier Edmonds is right there. He's got good position and drops a great pass. So it's one, like the unselfishness when you're the guy and it's March Madness. Everybody's watching. First game out of the shoot that day, tie game. Like, this is your moment. This is what you're playing in the backyard basketball quarter, you know, on the cul de sac, whatever. When you're playing on your own basketball goal at home as a kid, you're thinking about that moment taking that 13-footer to win the game. And instead, he's unselfish enough to just drop it off to Edmonds, who settles and scores. Uh, that was great stuff, man. Big to big passing inside there. Uh, love that. Just great poise from everybody, too, all around, because that's shot clock, shot clock dwindling, man. You don't you don't have much time left. And in a clutch moment like that, a lot of times guys are just gonna panic and put up the shot. Uh, and and that all came from David Punch, man. I was reading about this after the game. I actually did not see this before the game, but David Punch said before the game in the media, uh, to the media leading up to it that TCU would beat Ohio State nine times out of ten because of their athleticism. Now, I did see some of the players also saying, like, we feel like that maybe got taken out of context a bit, but like, I don't know, man. You say that, of course, it's gonna fire Ohio State up, and then you get up by 15, you blow the lead, and then you come back and make the game-winning play, and you can just stand on your business, man. Yeah, we said we beat them nine out of ten times. There's one of them. There's one of them. Uh, so great game, great way to start the day. Uh, happy for TCU, and they've got a chance. They've got a chance to go to the Sweet 16 for the first time ever in school history. Why not the Frogs? Why not the Frogs? If Nebraska is out here winning NCAA tournament games for the first time in school history, why can TCU not make the Sweet 16 for the first time in school history, ladies and gentlemen? Uh because I know most people are still saying, ah, they'll get smashed by Duke. I would imagine most people's reaction to Duke coming out of the game that they played today against Siena, in which they were in grave danger for a large portion of that game. People will say, well, they got the nerves out of their system. They got the scare they needed. That was even the commentary of, I think that was the Raftery crew, right? Did they have that game? That was some of the commentary of whoever the broadcast crew was for that game afterwards. Like maybe this is exactly what Duke needed. Get a scare like that, they'll be locked in and ready to go against TCU. I think there's one reason that is really foolish to think that, okay? But this game, I mean, if you I would hope that you got to see, maybe you were working, but I would hope that you got to see a lot of this Duke game against Sienna, man. I mean, they they were up 10 to 8, and then they didn't lead again until like the five-minute mark of the second half. It was crazy. Uh, Siena led by as many as 13 with these guys. I saw somebody say it was like the Hoosiers energy, uh, like Gene Hackman, like my five are on the floor. Uh Jerry McNamara coach did not play anybody on the bench. It was just the five starters, nobody else on the bench. They only had seven scholarship players available. Uh the two leaders off the bench shot under 35% from the floor. So I saw, I think it was Kevin Sweeney making that point. Like, hey, couldn't really play him and didn't. And those guys, they got gassed by the end of the game, but credit to them, man. They they had Duke down 13 at one point. They're almost up 15 in the second half, bricked a dunk, and then it turned into a jam on the other end for Duke when it could have been a 15-point lead in the second half for Siena. And they tried, man. They held on, they held on, they held on, but they they sputtered to the finish line, and Duke uh finally figured it out. But I don't know. It seems like Duke, Duke has some exploitable problems inside, as crazy as that sounds, without Patton Gongba, who's been out for the last five games. We'll see if he's gonna play in uh in the round of 32 game against TCU. I think that's still up in the air. But here's the thing this is when when I referenced earlier, like there's something not enough people are talking about here. And again, if you haven't followed college hoops or TCU or the Big 12 all year, I don't I don't really blame you too much. But TCU guys has this is nothing new to them to play a team like Duke. And I'm not even just saying because of the Big 12. Obviously, in the Big 12, you're seeing Iowa State, you're seeing Houston, um, you're seeing Arizona, right? But beyond that, in the non-con, like TCU beat Florida. That's been TCU's resume and like what they have been this year. They've been some giant killers who have then also laid some real eggs. They're pretty inconsistent. I mean, that's generally what you're gonna get out of an eight or a nine seed, but they have it in them. We we know that they have it in them. They beat Florida, they almost beat Michigan. Uh, they played Michigan to a really close game in Fort Worth earlier this year in the Doncon as well. That's a couple of one seeds, and then they beat Iowa State. So that's a two-seed that they they have knocked off. Like TCU is much more capable of this than I think most people would realize or think, even beyond just what they're thinking after being like, man, Duke Sienna. Like Sienna had you totally on the ropes. And yeah, wet blanket makes a good point here. Like they're they're very good in close games. They're very good in close games. Jamie Dixon said as much in his interview right right after the game, which was uh very apropos. He's kind of just like, hey, doesn't shock me. We've been good in these situations before all year. So I'm I'm really intrigued for that, man. I am really intrigued for that game. TCU is capable of doing it. Now, could they also just go get blasted? I mean, Duke is certainly capable of doing that. That's a really good team. I don't know what was going on with Cam Boozer today. His line looked fine, but it just seemed sort of tentative. You know, I mean, he's got the capability to completely go off. As good, you think about all the freshmen that the Big 12 have had, AJ DeBonsa, you know, Coa Pete, Braden Burries, Darren Peterson, all these guys. Like most people think Cam Boozer's the best of the bunch and the best player out there, right? Uh player of the year, anyway, in college basketball. Obviously, I don't think he's gonna be the number one pick. But he's he's certainly in that category, right? That's really tough. If he's having a night, might not be much you can do. But TC's got a real chance here, man. Roll the ball out there and let's let's see what happens uh with the Frogs and Duke. So looking forward to that game. Looking forward to uh to watching Houston tonight. I guess that game's probably already started because I'm sitting here looking at it 9:30 Central Time. Looking forward to uh everybody in action tomorrow. Should be awesome. Thank you, everybody, for hanging out with me here tonight. Wanted to make sure that we got a bit of a reaction here as things go throughout the weekend. I'll try and just hit you with some uh instant reactions like this as I can when it seems appropriate when we have uh major moments. So uh yeah. Hope to uh talk to you all soon. Please again like the video, subscribe to the channel if you're a Big 12 fan. Make sure you sign up for the Open for Business Big Twelve newsletter. It's OFBnews.com to do that. That's OFBnews.com. Thank you all, and I will talk to you very soon. Take care.