Episode: 10 Season: 1 "March Madness"

In this episode, Dom and Zach break down everything you need to know heading into the NCAA Tournament — from bold upset picks and Cinderella teams to our Final Four predictions and national championship winner. Whether you're trying to win your bracket pool or just love college basketball, we’ve got you covered with sharp analysis, hot takes, and must-know insights.

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:17

Zach from Z D Sports, Z D podcast. Zach and Dalvin back for another episode. Episode 10. A few weeks off, but getting back into it. March Madness starting up this weekend or this week. All the conference championships, conference tournaments, and everything we're going down this last week. Some solid games for sure. Yeah, I mean, I think we're just gonna be mainly talking about college basketball this episode, as there's a lot going on. Um still some still some stuff to cover in NBA too, but I just don't think we're gonna get into it. Um we'll get into that a little bit more next episode once I get once that gets a little bit closer to playoffs after March Madness is done and everything. But I mean, yeah, I think these last conference championships were all pretty solid. I mean, because I also didn't write down in this one that Duke had a scare against Florida State in the um in the semifinal game in the ACC chip. They only won by one point. I think it was like 74, 73 or something. But then they uh they beat Virginia by four in that ACC championship. Um looked pretty convincing, but Cam Boozer also didn't he didn't have a very great game. Um I mean it's a one-off. Like I don't expect him to have many, many games like that come um come tournament time, but also um it shows shows the depth from Duke. Like, like they definitely have a good amount of players that can all get it done. Um so I mean the show shows you shows you why they're a one seed. Um, I mean, Arizona. Or I mean, do you want to get in like do you want to get into that Duke game a little bit? Or like what are your feelings about Duke going into this going into this march?

SPEAKER_01 2:04

I think Duke is uh really good team. I think they're the probably odds on favorite and probably the best team. They are um Duke and Michigan and Arizona. Okay, so um, yeah, I I think Duke is a really good team. Um I just sometimes they've they've and they've had uh really good teams before a lot of times, but sometimes they stumble.

SPEAKER_00 2:29

I was gonna say like most years they just have the best freshmen recruiting class. They do all the time. I mean, I'll tell you ever since I've been watching, because I started really watching them when Zion, RJ, and Cam Reddish were all freshmen. All all three of them went and got drafted the next year, and then ever since then they've just had the best freshmen in the country. I mean they just go into the draft the next year.

SPEAKER_01 2:47

It's like every I mean, even be back before, I mean they had Jason Tatum there, they've had Kyrie. Yeah, I mean like yeah, they've yeah, Duke has just had this has been one of those uh schools or programs that's um you just go there and you know you're gonna win. Yeah. But they haven't got it done. And then last year, obviously, um having uh Kineple and fucking um and flag. Yeah, and they couldn't get it done. So I mean, you know, they've had uh great fucking teams before, but for some reason they just you know can't get it done. Um yeah, so I and I I I'm not that's why I don't know um if that's uh my team or my my favorite, uh, but I can see why a lot of people just because they have you know arguably probably the best college player on the team, and and they have uh a good supporting cast.

SPEAKER_00 3:41

But a lot of a lot of people have also been saying John Shires got good shots for Coach of the Year this year, too. Like he's um because I well I don't I can't even remember how many years he's been there, but I think he was the he was the replacement for Coach K as soon as he left. I want to say he's been there for like three three or four three or four years. So and they haven't dropped off at all. No, yeah. I mean he's he's been he's been solid for him. Um but yes, I mean it'll it'll be interesting to see what they can do. Um I mean on let me let me pull up their side of the bracket real quick, actually, because I didn't really write anything about the actual brackets. Um so they would actually go up against Ohio State or the winner of Ohio State and TCU if they if you guys both win. I mean, if assuming they beat number 16 ranked Sienna. But um TCU won't be a TCU is not gonna be an easy matchup for you guys. Them playing in the Big 12.

SPEAKER_01 4:36

No, I mean they're gonna have TCU to probably win that.

SPEAKER_00 4:40

Yeah, I mean they have a their their big wins are against Iowa State and Florida, which is number one and number two, um, and then a win against Texas Tech as well. They did lose to Kansas twice, Arizona once, Houston once as well. But I don't know. I feel like Ohio State, like Ohio State didn't really get a ton of big wins in the Big Ten. It'd be Purdue and Wisconsin. Those are their biggest wins. Um but I feel like just TCU playing in the Big 12, like just playing against that better comp like, I mean, I wouldn't even say like better competition, but um just them having those wins in that conference is big is big for sure. Yeah, but I feel like a lot of people are also saying Ohio State has a chance in that. So um the I mean the I like you guys are favorites to win that right now. So TCU is plus money. I mean, nice.

SPEAKER_01 5:29

I mean, if we could uh pull B TCU, um I don't think we beat Duke, but you know, somehow, some way find a way to beat Duke, wouldn't that be crazy? But um I think the biggest threat for them in that uh that side or that bread is St. John's. Um, up and down. Yeah, a little inconsistent. Um St. John's can't be too, but St. John's finished the season relatively strong. Yeah. And then also won their champion.

SPEAKER_00 5:58

They're kind of by 20 points. Yeah, I guess a really good Yukon team. So and and they're and St. John's is a five seed as well. So I feel like they kind of they might be taking that as a little bit of disrespect that they just beat the number two seed in Yukon by 20 points the last game, and they didn't take that into consideration at all.

SPEAKER_01 6:17

One thing though, I will say is you know that always that uh fucking um I can't even think of the word, but it's always some, it's always issues with that five and twelve seed every year. Every year a 12 seed knocks off a five. You know what I mean? So that's I always worry about that because that like after a while they happen and every year it becomes like, okay, it's like a regularity, like you come to expect it. So um I'm those are everything, every time I'm always circling at five and twelve seed. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like I just I'm always that's the first thing I look at in the brackets after I look at the number ones. I'm like, okay, who's playing at five and twelve? Um and I don't and oftentimes the 12 seed is a team that we really don't even follow. Like you look at the other five and twelve, Vanderbilt and McNeese. I've never seen one McNeese highlight all year.

SPEAKER_00 7:07

Yeah, I well maybe McNeese was in the tournament last year.

SPEAKER_01 7:10

Yeah, I know. Yeah, yeah, that's yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:12

Akron, I mean, I've really not heard much about Akron this year and then high point. Well, Akron Akron's been pretty solid in the I mean they've been the second best team in the Mac. Yeah. Yeah behind was it behind Miami Ohio. So did they make it? Miami High was I think uh 11 or 12 seed. I can't uh I looking at it. I can't remember exactly where they have first rounds. Oh, they're uh play Tennessee. Yeah, I think I mean the I mean that's definitely a tough matchup for sure. Going up against an SEC school, Tennessee's uh uh always been defensively solid. Well, actually, they have to play SMU first okay to play Tennessee.

SPEAKER_01 7:50

So they might SMU might be, I don't know, yeah, they might not even get a chance to really make it to the tournament. Um but yeah, I mean, so yeah, that's that I would be in that in that side, I would say um St. John's poses the biggest uh threat, in my opinion, for Duke or against Duke.

SPEAKER_00 8:11

Well, so in this bra I mean, so in this bracket that I picked, I picked Kansas to Kansas and St. John's to play in the second round and Kansas to beat them. But I don't know. I think I'm just a little bit high on Darren. Yeah, when you have a player like that, you always have a chance. Yeah, I mean, bro, like just when I because I was watching that when they beat Arizona, when it was in Kansas and gave Arizona, I think, on one of their only two losses, and that era like Darren Peterson didn't play. So like that that whole team is is really, really good on their day. So I think I don't know, when they get like if Darren, because I feel like come tournament time, unless Peterson actually has an injury that he can't he can't come back from, he can't play, like he's going to play this tournament. Like he like, I don't know. And he might might not get NBA futures. I get I get I get I guess, but I don't know. I'm I'm I'm a little eager sometimes. I'm a little bit high on Kansas, bro, and I picked him over Duke as well. Um we'll see how it goes. But then so we can talk about a little bit about Arizona, um, them beating Houston in that Big 12 championship. Um really good game. The Big 12 commissioner actually said a few days ago that it was the second most competitive league, like other than the NBA. Like, like, like it was kind of like a weird, like a weird statement to say, but like like it kind of makes sense. Like it has like kind of the next best competition, like, but like it's weird though because like he's compare like he's trying to compare the Big 12 to the NBA or rating. It's like what you mean.

SPEAKER_01 9:46

Okay, just rating wise viewership reviews, which doesn't really surprise me because the big 12 a lot of people have tournament time where people are watching it. Yeah, I mean, people who don't even watch college basketball is filling out brackets. Yeah, you know what I'm saying? Like it's a thing, it's something fun to do, so then it's making them kind of pay attention.

SPEAKER_00 10:06

Because you also have the women's tournament going on at the same time. It's not really that's not much competition.

SPEAKER_01 10:11

UConn's gonna run right through that. They bro, I was looking the other day, dude. They're closest. They are the game was the first game of the season against Louisville, and that was a 15-point win. Every other game, they've won by 20 plus. Yeah, bro. And they played at least four or five ranked teams, they all get decimated. Like UConn is not, dude. They're gonna, they're fucking, they're about to do what they did uh like 10, 12 years ago when they won like 70 or like not, there's like 70 or like 80 something games in a row. They won like almost three seasons in a row without a loss. What the fuck is that, bro? That's crazy, man. I'm gonna play Tico, man. I wouldn't play. I would not suit up against them niggas at all. Why are we out here playing, bro? We know we're about to lose by 60. Like, you gonna stand no chance and kill that shit, bro. Crazy, bro. But yeah, so you said Arizona.

SPEAKER_00 11:05

Um Houston, that was a good game.

SPEAKER_01 11:09

Yeah, I think Houston's gonna be another team that could find themselves uh back in that in that um championship game or even Final Four.

SPEAKER_00 11:17

Yeah, they were because they beat Duke in the Final Four to get to play Florida last year.

SPEAKER_01 11:24

And that fucking that whole conference, I mean, Texas Tech is good, Arizona is fucking good, Houston is good, like they got our Iowa State is good. Oh, yeah, Iowa State. They got fucking, bro, that that whole conference is like yeah, you know, I mean, like that's a Big Ten is good too, but I think Big 12 is a little bit a little bit better in my opinion. A little more top heavy. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 11:46

Yeah, Michigan is you know can hang with the Big Ten has a little bit more of the mid-teams, but like top heavy. One through ten, Big 12 had like top six of them or like seven of them. Big twelve. And like four or five, or like four of them were top six types of like most of the year. And like Michigan was the only team that was consistently top five in Big Ten.

SPEAKER_01 12:06

So the only one, yeah. Nebraska was earlier, and then they kind of started as I feel like I feel like state was for second. Yeah, because then didn't uh Nebraska start off like 22 and oh yeah, yeah, they started. I think it was 20 and oh or it might have been 22. Something they were lost like five or six or something in their last eight or nine or some shit like that. So they yeah, but I mean, yeah, it was just it was like top five was pretty much like three, like two, three teams fucking Big 12 almost all year, rotating between Houston, Arizona, and Iowa State. And even Texas Tech was ranked at like four or five at one point.

SPEAKER_00 12:43

You know what I mean? Like, yeah. Well, because Texas Tech also just lost uh JT Toppin, one of their best play.

SPEAKER_01 12:51

How many Toppins is there, bro? You got OB Top and you got the other one that plays. They might, I don't know. Uh maybe they're not, I don't know. It could be another little brother, but I know it's the two that's in the NBA. And I'm I don't know. Who just Obi and who else? It's another, I forgot his name. He just got drafted last year. Oh, did he? Yeah, yeah, but um, but so who was that?

SPEAKER_00 13:12

So I was gonna say also.

SPEAKER_01 13:14

He was in a dunk contest this year. He was in a dunk contest this year, NBA. Topping? Yeah, Obi Toppin's brother. I don't think there was a topping in the dunk contest this year. Pretty sure it was, bro.

SPEAKER_00 13:25

Look it up, because I was watching it. And there was some random people, but no, it was Johnson. Chase Richardson, Jackson Hayes, Kashi Johnson, and um something Bryant. Oh, okay. Maybe it was Lasher. I think it was Lash yeah when Carter Carter Bryant. I think it was Obi who was in the dunk contest.

SPEAKER_01 13:46

Lasher?

unknown 13:49

I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 13:50

Uh yeah, I mean it don't really matter like that. I just want to know what his name is. But um, no, I was also gonna mention that in the semifinal game, Arizona had to play Iowa State, and um Arizona knocked down a tough buzzer beater to I think they they either won by the Jacob Dunn. Okay, Jacob. He was in a dunk contest in 2024. Oh, okay. So that's what it was. Yeah, okay. You don't have to do you don't have to do anything to be a part of that.

SPEAKER_01 14:21

Literally. Oh, well, never mind. I guess I was wrong. They're not even related. Okay. Thought they were. Anyways, but yeah. Um yeah.

SPEAKER_00 14:32

Did you see that buzzer beater that Arizona hit on Iowa State in the semifinal game in the Big 12 championship? I did not. Or in the Big 12 semifinal. No, I didn't catch that. Yeah, no. So I mean, I like Iowa State's been hanging with all those big teams all year. So that's what I'm saying. Yeah, that's why they got the second seed. Yeah. That's why they got a number two seed. Um Yeah, and then I mean, we were talking about this St. John's UConn by 20 in that in that final. Um, and so I mean, how do you like what do you think about Yukon being ranked two at 28 and at 28 or at 29 and 5 and then St. John's being ranked at 5 at 28 and 6? I think UConn's like that's a little bit of disrespect.

SPEAKER_01 15:16

Just coming off a 20-point loss, too. That is true. And um I think UConn is beating better teams, so I think that's why uh they got the ranking. Let me pull up the big ones. Um but I think uh like I said, when I was mentioning before in that in the Duke side, I think St. John's is uh the team that what they would have to worry about the most. Um but I think Yukon being a two C is good is right where they And they lost to St.

SPEAKER_00 15:52

John's twice. Yeah, that's true. Dude. And they lost to Arizona. Dude, I mean they're gonna be. How much did they lose to Arizona by? Four. Yeah. Yeah, I mean they did beat they beat Florida, BYU, and um Kansas and Illinois.

SPEAKER_01 16:08

I mean, I don't know what St. John's wins is other than UConn. Uh but also and I think and I believe um uh Purdue to the eight. Wow, okay. I believe Dan Hurley also um is a is a factor in why I think UConn for me uh is kind of who I'm leaning towards to win it all. In my opinion, UConn. UConn? This guy for the guys, yeah. Just because they're they're history, I mean, they won two in a row two years ago. Um got bounced, I think, the second or third round last year. But they've been consistently good this year. You know, I mean they've like you just said they've they've beaten top teams, uh, and then they lost to some good teams, but um, other than that, St. John's it's the only team where they got blown up. I just don't think, and I looked at that that box score and everybody for UConn shot back. I think it was one of those games where in St. John's was hot and UConn was not, they just won their day. It happens. You know what I'm saying? Like I just in St. John's where you play the same team twice, they're familiar with you, and the chances of them playing each other again is highly unlikely, especially where they are unless St. John's makes it to the Final Four and or Elite Eight, which they could. So, I mean, um I think it I think UConn would be ready to go. I wouldn't honestly, dude, in my opinion, like I know people may say you may think I'm crazy, or the people out there may think I'm crazy, but I just didn't I didn't really think much of that loss at all for UConn. Um I just I don't know. I mean I've watched been watching UConn a little bit closely this year, especially towards the end. Plus, I think they have the best coach, like I said, in college basketball. I think Darren Hurley is the best coach. Um he's shown that he's they've been consistent every year. You know, they've been they've had they produce NBA talent, they produce good players. You know, and that's a team that great players have always went to is UConn. You know what I mean? UConn has got, I've seen them win four championships in my life. Just, you know what I mean, just you know, since I've been watching from 2010 to 2026. So in 16 years, I've seen them win four championships. You know what I mean? So that's pretty consistent. That's pretty good. You know what I mean, in my opinion. In any type of sport, any league that you play in, you win four championships in 15, 16 years, that's pretty damn good. You know, I mean, most teams don't ever win a championship. So um, I think UConn, you know, I haven't filled my bracket out yet, but I think um they can be just because it's like not been one team this year that's been like dominant. No, you know what I mean. The number one seed has switched numerous times between, you know, you guys, Arizona, Duke. Yeah, Duke is early in the year, Purdue was number one for a little bit. You know what I mean? So they started losing. So I mean, you know, it was that was only for a couple weeks, but yeah, Duke is the one probably they've held it probably the longest because they've had they've been number one.

SPEAKER_00 19:09

No, I think I think Arizona held it the longest. They were they started like they didn't lose a game for for a while, and they were the one seed for that's right, yeah, Duke for for a while. How long has Duke had it on?

SPEAKER_01 19:20

For a couple weeks, right?

SPEAKER_00 19:21

Ever since they beat Michigan. So about two, three weeks. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 19:25

So yeah, like, but still, I mean, then before number one, who was number one before there was a chance game? Okay, okay, yeah. So um I don't think it's you know, it's it's it's up in the air, you know what I'm saying? Like, so that's why I think Yukon um could find themselves in a championship game. Uh if I had to pick. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_00 19:42

Maybe, maybe. I mean, I think you gotta you gotta look at you gotta look at the bracket a little bit and see because they would have to Well I see.

SPEAKER_01 19:49

They didn't really have they don't really gotta play that many. I I looked over on their side. I look and I didn't really see.

SPEAKER_00 19:55

I also I also think UCF might be a little bit of a sleeper too.

SPEAKER_01 19:59

Well, yeah, they could. I mean it's tournament time, so it's like any That's what I'm saying. It's but other than that, I mean you Michigan State, but Michigan State got, I mean they would have to come up against UCF second rounds.

SPEAKER_00 20:10

That's if they make it past UCLA. I I I don't know, yeah. That's true. That UCLA UCF game will be pretty interesting. Interesting. Yeah, that'll be interesting. And UCLA is six or five and a half point favorite. Well, who else? I mean, they can beat Michigan State, they can beat Louisville. Yeah, but I mean I mean I wouldn't like to be.

SPEAKER_01 20:31

They don't got a Kansas or Arizona or a Duke over on their side. They don't have a you know, or even a uh a fucking Houston.

SPEAKER_00 20:39

They don't have that over. Bro, not a ton of not a ton of people want to come up against Izzo in the fucking in March.

SPEAKER_01 20:44

Yeah, Izzo ain't did shit in a while. That's the old.

SPEAKER_00 20:47

I mean, bro. Like, bro, didn't they have a good run last year?

SPEAKER_01 20:51

They had a decent run. I don't think they made it to the Sweet 16 or anything.

SPEAKER_00 20:55

I feel like he's old, like he's been pretty consistent. They might get peace making the Sweet 16.

SPEAKER_01 20:59

I think I just think his time has come in Michigan State, bro. Honestly, I think he's just there because it's just his name. At some point, a change in a guard has to happen. Like, nobody wants to see him go, but like they haven't won a championship, bro, and I don't know how long. Like, I don't care about you know that you getting there every fucking year, but at some point you gotta win it. Like that shit is a letdown. Every year you get there, that's fine. But it's like you just like, you know, when is it gonna be our year? When are we gonna win a championship? Yeah. You know what I mean? Like y'all won a championship more recent than they did.

SPEAKER_00 21:33

Also, for so like still talking about UConn. So say they beat a Michigan State or a f Louisville in a or in a sweet sixteen, then they've got a rematch for you. Then they done St. John's possibly. Or can or can't no or or or Kansas or Duke.

SPEAKER_01 21:50

Yeah, so I mean, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 21:51

No, it wouldn't be it wouldn't be St. John's until um it would be in a in Elite Eight. Oh yeah, wait.

SPEAKER_01 21:58

They would play each other. If if if you make it to the Elite Eight and St. John, they would play each other. Yeah, you're right. They're in that same, they're in the East Region. So they wouldn't have to worry about them until the Elite Eight. And a lot can happen in that time. So and that's even if you know both teams make it. You know, I mean, it could be fucking, for all we know, it could be goddamn some crazy ass shit. Like you said, it could be fucking UCF and goddamn Northern Iowa playing in Elite Eight. We've seen it before. It's happened like three, four years ago. They only had one team, one in the top five that was in the Elite Eight. It was like an 11 seed, a 16 seed, and like a fucking eight seed. You know what I'm saying? Like all the number one seeds were out by the second round. It was crazy, bro. I mean, I don't think it's gonna be like that this year, though. No, but I mean that's a beautiful thing. No, that would be everything. Like if one of those teams get put out in a view, like, bro, once somebody in this motherfucker that we not expecting is gonna lose weekend. You know what I'm saying? Or come by third. You know what I mean? Like, it's gonna be one of these that maybe it's Florida, maybe it's fucking Arizona. It's gonna be some shocking fucking.

SPEAKER_00 23:06

Bro, like let me just tell you my upsets that I picked. Okay. Um, so I picked South Florida to beat Louisville.

SPEAKER_02 23:13

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 23:13

Uh UCF to beat UCLA. Um that Clemson Iowa game is not really an upset, but I picked Clemson the 8-9 matchup.

SPEAKER_01 23:22

Yeah, that wouldn't be an upset, I don't think. Clemson's been pretty decent this year. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 23:26

Up and down, but Utah State over Villanova is another 9-8 matchup. That I picked 9. And Missouri over Miami is a 10-7. Um St. Louis over Georgia is another 9-8. And then Miami, Ohio, I think will beat SMU, and then I think I picked them to beat Tennessee as well. You're right in a Miami, Ohio training, huh? I also picked him to be Virginia, not gonna lie. Then they'd come the but then they'd come up against Iowa State, and I didn't take him there. But then I took another good team, too. Virginia's solid too.

SPEAKER_01 24:03

That that's that side over there really, I mean, other than Iowa State. Iowa State. It's gonna be a Iowa State, I think, will make it. But Virginia can Virginia can hang with them.

SPEAKER_00 24:12

And they got Texas, I mean, Texas Tech and Michigan are all on that side too. Yeah, but I'm just talking about if they make it.

SPEAKER_01 24:22

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. But they would, I'm saying just in that little, in that Midwest region bottom tier. You know what I mean? I just Iowa State is their only, I mean, Miami, Virginia, I mean, Kentucky.

SPEAKER_00 24:33

I also I also pick Santa Clara to upset Kentucky.

SPEAKER_01 24:37

I won't subscribed. Yeah, I they could. Kentucky has been uh very inconsistent this year, not good.

SPEAKER_00 24:43

So that was yeah, that was my last upset. But no, yeah. Because I mean, I know that there's always a few random teams that are I got McNeese.

SPEAKER_01 24:52

I'm I'm just gonna start off with McNeese being Vanderbilt as a five, the 12-5. I think McNeese will beat him. I ain't seen much of McNeese, but Vanderbilt ain't really been shit this year.

SPEAKER_00 25:04

Vanderbilt, um they yeah, they I mean they went to the um SEC final. SEC is kind of I mean they beat they beat they beat Florida by 15 to be able to get there. Okay, played Florida in the semifinal two two, three days ago and beat them by 15. Still, I still gonna take McNeese.

unknown 25:23

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 25:24

Yeah, they they I mean they did lose to Florida in like in January by four, only four points a few months ago.

SPEAKER_01 25:31

But so I mean it's different. We ain't never played a team, you know, you know what I'm saying? McNeese is a team, but they ain't really got much film on it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 25:38

So I'm just going quickly off the Michigan beat McNeese by 40, bro.

SPEAKER_01 25:42

So that's I mean, that's cool. I mean, like I said, it's different, bro. That's Michigan. That's how we do it. That's Michigan.

SPEAKER_00 25:48

Michigan and they have Michigan are probably 112 to 71.

SPEAKER_01 25:52

They'll probably beat Vanderbilt by 20.

SPEAKER_00 25:54

Michigan probably would. Yeah, damn. Santa Clara beat McNeese by um by 12. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 26:04

Um, that's just my first. I can see I can see South Florida beating Louisville as well.

SPEAKER_00 26:10

Yeah, I did.

SPEAKER_01 26:11

That's the one I played too. I think UCLA will pull it off against UCF.

unknown 26:16

I think so.

SPEAKER_01 26:16

Uh I don't know, man. Clemson and Iowa, that's a toss-up. Uh something telling me Nebraska might get popped just because how they've been playing lately. Oh, against Detroit? Yeah. You gotta look out for certain upsets. You got like it's just it just happens every year. You know what I'm saying? Like, so I'm I'm gonna go more on the wild, you know, I mean, worldwide.

SPEAKER_00 26:46

Troy did be Akron by time. I only lost to USC by one, 107-106. So they can put up buckets.

SPEAKER_01 26:53

Okay, so I mean, yeah, I'm I'm gonna something about Nebraska. I just think they've been funny. They started off really, really good and ain't did sh, you know what I mean? They've been kind of struggling. Really, where'd they finish at in the Big Ten tournament? Who they lose to?

SPEAKER_00 27:08

Purdue.

SPEAKER_01 27:09

By how much?

SPEAKER_00 27:10

74.58.

SPEAKER_01 27:12

Get smacked. So like Nebraska ain't look good. I think I think Troy can do some some shit to him. Uh another one to watch would be uh North Carolina and VCU. Um at some point not having their best, but I know he's have been out for a little while, but at some point that's gonna come back to bite him, I think. Uh not having old dude out for the season.

SPEAKER_00 27:36

I just VCU just doesn't have very no very many notable wins. Like they beat they beat Dayton twice, but lost to St. Louis twice, lost to Vanderbilt, NC State. None of them were really close games. Like they lost to all those games are more than 10 points. They lost by. So yeah, I mean, I was looking at that, but I mean that is a fair point. You're saying that they're they are missing their best players, so yeah. I don't know. They gotta do that. I'm not saying they got they gotta they gotta find they gotta find the production from somewhere else. I'm not saying that's an absolute also who would yeah, I mean, they would have to play against Illinois next round. I yeah, I wouldn't take North Carolina going very far.

SPEAKER_01 28:17

But I mean if Caleb Woodson was playing, it would be a different thing. Yeah, that'd be different. I'd take um St. Mary's, I think Houston gotta watch out for they got they they gotta they gotta come in there um ready to play. They can't they can't St. Mary's has been a team that's known from the past and knock off good teams. They play good, they play, you know what I mean? So I don't know. I thought that's a you know me, Houston, it's they gotta come in there like not taking that team for granted. You know, I mean like they gotta come in there as if they're playing against Arizona.

unknown 28:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 28:47

You know what I'm saying? Because St. Mary's could find himself uh because I don't think AM will be St. Mary's.

SPEAKER_00 28:53

Um I picked um no, I picked St. Mary's and Houston to play in the second round, and I picked Houston to win. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 29:00

Yeah. And then yeah, going up to this Arizona side, uh, yeah, I think that's gonna be walking the park for them to get to the Elite Eight. Uh Arkansas.

SPEAKER_00 29:15

I mean, unless unless unless unless Arkansas can do something, man, Arkansas has been playing really good.

SPEAKER_01 29:20

Wisconsin. They might lose a Wisconsin.

SPEAKER_00 29:22

No, I don't think so. Arkansas's been playing really good. That uh Darius a cuff, man. He's and they got another ESPN 102. I didn't even realize that. Malik Thomas. No, but a cuff, I mean, he's averaging 23-6 and three six and a half and three as a freshman. Really? And he's put up a few, like he put up a few 30 plus games, like one or two 40s, I want to say. He's been hooping. And they I still don't think they could beat I mean they're zona. Yeah, I mean, they won the they did win the SEC chip. They're just coming off that win. Um, I mean, I guess they don't really have a ton of big wins either, but I don't know. I think like their offense is just really good on their day. Um they beat Vanderbilt at Tennessee, Louisville. No, they lost to Duke, Houston. Yeah. I mean, so I just I just want to pull up um Darius A cup stats because I mean I've been I've been seeing a lot of stuff about him, especially like the last month or so, because he's he's probably one of the better freshmen in the country. And he's from Detroit, actually, as well. I didn't realize that. Um, but no, he's 30 points last game, 37. Uh he put up a 49-point game. Yeah, that was the big one because they scoring they had um they took Alabama to double OT. Yeah. He's 6'3. But he's he was 16 for 17, 6 for 10 from 3 against Bama and put up and put up 49. So that was the game that kind of everybody got put on notice, but no, I mean he's been putting a win against Bama? No, they lost by two. They did lose that game by two. But um No, he's been putting up the solid 20 every game, sometimes getting a little bit over that mark. Um, and I mean that conference championship, he went for 30 twice. So I I definitely I definitely keep an eye on him for sure. Um, I don't so I don't think that you gotta like that, you got a chance to far. Yeah, for sure. For sure. Um and so they play Hawaii. I don't think they'll have any trouble with that. I think like everybody from what I've been hearing is talking about high point having a little or Wisconsin might be having a little bit of trouble with high point.

SPEAKER_01 31:36

5'12, so yeah.

SPEAKER_00 31:39

Um that would that would, you know, it's tough because Wisconsin's Wisconsin's been giant killers, but they put them up against some bad teams, and they've had some losses by double digits against teams that they shouldn't be losing. That's what I was saying.

SPEAKER_01 31:54

Like if they can make it past high point, they might have a chance to beat.

SPEAKER_00 31:58

I don't think I don't, I mean, I guess maybe you gotta think they playing against uh comp every night in the Big Ten.

SPEAKER_01 32:05

It's different. You know what I'm saying? They may not look that good as far as like Big Ten because they playing against Michigan, Michigan State, Illinois, Purdue. You know what I mean? They're playing against those teams every night, but they're still good teams. You know what I mean? They're still a really good team. I mean, look at their how many do they have their losses?

SPEAKER_00 32:21

I mean, how many bad losses do they have? They lost to Oregon by 14. Okay, lost to Ohio State by 17. They lost to um Indiana by one. That's tough. They lost to Purdue by 15. Um lost to USC by two. How much did we see?

SPEAKER_01 32:43

Y'all played them right?

SPEAKER_00 32:44

Yeah, we did. Yeah, we I mean they beat us by three. Oh, that's right. And then and then we beat them in the um the conference tournament by three. What about state? State beat them in OT. Or no, no, no, no, no. No, they beat State by 20. I no, I told like I told you earlier, they're giant killers.

SPEAKER_01 33:05

Well, something that in Arkansas is a team that's on the rise. That's a team that's that's played good. They got some tough losses, but they played Alabama really well. What do they play? How'd they play against Florida?

SPEAKER_00 33:18

Who? Arkansas? Arkansas. I think they lost by they they definitely lost by a little bit. Yeah, by 30. I don't know why. One 111.77.

SPEAKER_01 33:31

I hope. I don't know. I think that might maybe it's just you know, whoever shows up better.

SPEAKER_00 33:36

But it's like you only like they were playing at Florida, like they only played them once. It's like like you're playing the like you play one of the best teams in the country one time, and yeah, if you're not on your game that day.

SPEAKER_01 33:50

One of the teams that even if they haven't had a really good regular season, they find a way to make it to at least a second or third round in the tournament almost every time. Wisconsin. Yeah, they've wanted like even like y'all in Michigan. It's been years where y'all didn't have like the best uh like regular season or conference record, but somehow y'all in the fucking Elite Eight as a number nine. You know what I'm saying? Like Michigan has done that. You know what I mean? Like they're some teams are just good tournament teams. I don't know what it is, but like they get in that tournament and they just they're kind of a different team. Where the hell are they going to run? Yeah, you're like, who the hell where this team been at all year? Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, and it's matchups and who you're playing against. Like, that's another thing. It's like, you know, and they've never seen each other, Arkansas or Wisconsin, it's gonna be it's it's unfamiliar faces. We'll be able to tell by that first half, you know, kind of how the how the tail of the tape will be. But I think that's gonna be one where you circling or choosing in that next round. Like, that's kind of that's one that's like, man, you can go either way. It also guess it depends on how they look in the previous games. You know, somehow Hawaii is able to put up some type of fight against Arkansas, and then High Point puts up a fight against Wisconsin, then you're like, okay, you're looking at two even teams. I mean, they both struggled against the teams that they shouldn't have, which they've done, um, or which the Wisconsin has done. And it's like you said, I haven't really seen, I don't know where the fuck the High Point is at, but um those are one of those sneaky teams that you know you don't really know much about. It's a 5'12. So I mean like that, I wouldn't I wouldn't be shocked um if they find a way uh against Arkansas. Um so I mean, but like I say, either way go, I still think Arizona uh is gonna walk through that that side.

SPEAKER_00 35:32

Yeah, I think I don't Yeah, I don't see anybody coming out of that yet. I don't see anybody else coming out of that. Because who's the two in that? Purdue. Yeah, I don't see pretty no Purdue's not gonna beat him. I see Purdue going out to Gonzaga. Now honestly, so in this bracket, I actually have them going out to Missouri and then Gonzaga and Missouri playing in the um Elite. Oh no, in the Sweet 16, and then Arizona and Missouri playing in Arizona winning that. But I don't know why just Missouri, because Missouri must yeah, Missouri beat Florida, Tennessee, Vanderbilt, Kentucky. Yeah, they have some they have some good wins. That's why I backed them. Okay. I think they might go on a might go on a little bit of a run. Let's tell them. I'm also just not super. I'm not super high on Purdue, man. I don't know. I know I know I know they just beat us, but they've looked a little sketch.

SPEAKER_01 36:28

Um Missouri is a 10 seed for a reason.

SPEAKER_00 36:33

I know, I know. Um Missouri could. I mean, I think Michigan State's looked better than Purdue, honestly. Like it's Michigan State's record, Michigan State's record on the first.

SPEAKER_01 36:44

29 and like six, right?

SPEAKER_00 36:52

And Purdue's a two, and Michigan State's a three.

SPEAKER_01 36:55

That's also I think two strengths of schedule. Yeah, yeah, it's I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 36:59

I mean, it's I mean, it's a good thing. It's definitely wins and losses more. Yeah, yeah, they're right. You have no choice.

SPEAKER_01 37:05

You're right. You know what I'm saying? They beat that's true.

SPEAKER_00 37:07

Yeah, they beat the one seed in the championship. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, I guess I didn't really factor that in as much as I should have.

SPEAKER_01 37:15

But um And certain teams get more rewarded for it than others. Uh St. John's didn't really get rewarded for theirs. Yeah, yeah. But uh overall, UConn has looked better over the year than St. John's, even though they beat them twice. But you know, I think they they just put in uh the eye test and just like I said, the teams that those two play, probably in the same with um a lot of these things, but it's always teams that get left out or that really shouldn't, you know what I mean, be left out, just like you know, college football. I mean, even they're doing it 12 every year. It's like, you know, Miami was fucking almost left out. Yeah, you're right. And they made you know what I mean, like they made so that they played a hell of a fucking game in that national. They almost beat fucking Indiana, you know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_00 37:59

So like they that was a great game.

SPEAKER_01 38:01

They almost got left out for Notre Dame because Notre Dame beat them in the beginning of the season. Yeah, the first game of the season. So that was really um would have been crazy. You never know.

SPEAKER_00 38:12

Yeah, Indiana could have could have had to come up against uh maybe like a Georgia or an Ole Miss or something that night. Who knows?

SPEAKER_01 38:19

Yeah, who knows? And Ole Miss looked good in that game against Miami. That was a hell of a fucking game. That was a good ass game.

SPEAKER_00 38:26

That whole playoffs create us. Um but we we already went down to the west a little bit, or not to the um to the midwest a little bit, but not like not a ton. Um I mean, so so that one's not it all. I mean, that one's Iowa State with the two seed, Virginia three seed, Michigan one seed. I don't I know St. Like I don't um I'm not worried about St. Louis, but they they're a solid team. Um I don't think they're gonna be an easy win because I think I'm tak I picked them over Georgia. Um they are Georgia's favorites, but it's still pretty close. It's an 8-9 matchup. But I think whoever Michigan, like if Michigan had to play St. Louis, um I mean I'm I'm still I'm definitely still taking Michigan, but um I think our like so like that Texas Tech, Alabama, and the Sweet 16 would definitely be our biggest challenge that we'd have to face, and then Iowa, Iowa State would be an elite eight matchup, which would be pretty solid if um if we could both make it there. Like I could see I could see a Virginia sneaking out of there, maybe making a run, but then they'd have to beat Iowa State too. Um I don't know when Texas Tech, because I think Texas Tech has another player hurt too. I don't think it's just JT Toppin. I want to say one of their guards. Um I can't remember what he did, but I think he's gonna be out for the tournament. I think that's what they said. I'm gonna double check because if Texas Tech is pretty banged up, then I wouldn't I wouldn't really take them to go super far. I don't know. Yeah, because I think let me see how long JT Top is supposed to be out at least. Because I mean he was he's their best player, like he was looking like one of the better players like in the country, honestly. He's yeah. Um so yeah, he tours ACL on the 17th. Yeah, so he's not gonna be he's not gonna be coming back um at all.

SPEAKER_01 40:45

He ain't gonna be back either playing in the NBA until midway next year, unless he stays in college.

SPEAKER_00 40:51

Um I can't remember the other dude's name or how good he was, but I'll say, yeah. Um a guard, Christian Anderson. Oh no, so he is expected to play. It was okay, so it was just a minor groin injury.

SPEAKER_01 41:06

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 41:06

Um yeah, I mean, just I mean just are tough. Yeah, especially if he's coming back to it a little bit.

SPEAKER_01 41:15

They're gonna be real weary. Or you'll be careful with them. Yeah, especially because he's gonna be his future as far as I'm growing.

SPEAKER_00 41:22

So, like, I mean, how high are you on Alabama? Um Alabama is because the SCC, the SEC definitely wasn't as good this year.

SPEAKER_01 41:30

Um Florida was the best, but Florida didn't look that good in parts of this year at all. I mean, like they didn't look bad, but it's then but also, you know, it's that championship hangover is also a real thing. Um so it's like, you know, maybe they're just now catching their stride. Let me see. Florida. Uh but Alabama, I don't know, they're like either really good or just bad. You I mean, like, I don't lose.

SPEAKER_00 41:53

Yeah, because I mean that floor Florida losing to Vanderbilt in that semifinal of the SEC was a bit of a um bit of a I mean a definitely an upset for sure. I wouldn't have thought that I would like I would have thought that Florida would have walked through that conference and won the championship, but them losing by 15, I think, puts a little bit of a scare going into like just early into the early into the tournament. They gotta get their shit figured out for sure.

SPEAKER_01 42:22

Bama, you know, they had a really bad loss in the fucking in the quarterfinals to Ole Miss. 15 and 19.

SPEAKER_02 42:30

Who?

SPEAKER_01 42:30

Bama. They lost by one point. I mean it's one point, but you lost to a bad, just you know what I mean. They lost their fucking theme is not good. And they got then they lost by 10 to Georgia. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? But yeah, so and Georgia is 20. Georgia actually, I mean, Georgia, you know, now I'm looking at it like how did how the hell Georgia's a name's a nine seed. Well, that's my point. Alabama's a four seed. Georgia's a goddamn uh uh a nine seed, but it's only one loss between the two.

SPEAKER_02 42:59

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 43:00

Yeah, yeah. That's actually interesting. Well, actually, no.

SPEAKER_00 43:03

Let me see. I didn't realize that Georgia had played that solid this year. Because they're I want to say they're a nine, but they might be it's either an eight or a nine. Oh, they're an eight. They're an eight. Yeah, they got a bad loss. Well, they lost to Texas AM.

SPEAKER_01 43:20

They got blew out by Florida. Um Florida. They got blew out by Texas.

SPEAKER_00 43:29

They lost to Florida twice.

SPEAKER_01 43:30

Oh, that's I mean, that doesn't. I'm well, I'm looking at this, you know, how much and they got smacked against Texas. Which is crazy to me.

SPEAKER_00 43:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 43:38

So I mean, it's just SEC has been like that all year. It's kind of been a little up and down. Yeah, every team is Florida's had their bad loss. I mean, so uh Alabama, I don't, I I think they could they could find themselves a little farther in in the tournament or they could find themselves out um against Akron, maybe. Well no, they play Bolship. No, yeah, they were playing both. Okay. So I mean by like 30.

SPEAKER_00 44:02

But then they would come up against Texas Tech. Texas Tech or Akron. Yeah. Yeah. And if Odoo, I mean. I mean, I feel like that Texas Tech Akron gave us a little bit of a toss-up too, because Akron Akron's been playing uh pretty pretty well as of late. I think they won they won they won their conference. The only loss in conference they had was to Miami, Ohio, I think. Um, so yeah, they lost to Miami, Ohio, Murray State, Yale, Purdue, and Troy. Those are the only five losses. Okay, so I mean, yeah, they might find themselves in Texas A. I mean, they lost to Purdue by 17. That was also earlier in the season, though. Um Yale beat them by three. I think we're Did they win their conference championship? I actually no no no. I don't think they did actually. Oh no, it was it was Akron. It was Akron, okay. Um yeah, so I mean coming off a coming off a high in that in that championship game. I don't know. I mean they're I mean they're a 12 seed too, so yeah. I mean they they have have some good I mean they didn't barely lose all year. Yeah, St.

SPEAKER_01 45:25

Louis is another one. They went from them. I'd walk, yeah. They in their own start, not only, but they're they've one or two of their five losses were to Dayton, which I mean everybody in that fucking con whatever lost to Dayton. They fucking went 31 and 0, but uh what's Dayton ranked? Or what's what's their what's their seed in the tournament? Or some shit like that. Like they gotta play fucking uh V or uh SMU.

SPEAKER_00 45:52

Oh, to get into it?

SPEAKER_01 45:53

Yeah. They're not even that's crazy. That's kind of crazy because St. Louis is like in it. You know, I mean they don't have to play anybody and they fucking lost to Dayton twice. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 46:03

So what was Dayton's record in the year?

SPEAKER_01 46:06

Dayton's record was oh wait, never mind. You know what I was I was mixing up Miami of Ohio and Dayton. That's what it was, so sorry. Uh yeah, I've Dayton, I don't think Dayton's in it. So I was, yeah, that's my bad. I was mixing them two up. God damn it. Um St. Louis, but they lost, that's crazy because they lost to Dayton twice, but Dayton is 19 and 9. Or fucking, what is their record? 23 and 11. Yeah, that's crazy. They lost in the Champions semifinals to Dayton. So they lost to Dayton twice. And they're they just for some reason got St. Louis's fucking number this year.

SPEAKER_00 46:44

Once by one point in the first time, they beat him by 15. And then did they lose their the championship? I mean, they must have.

SPEAKER_01 46:51

Yeah, they lost uh uh fucking um VCU beat that. That's how VCU got in. They beat Dayton for the championship.

SPEAKER_00 46:58

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 46:59

So yeah, that's crazy. So Dayton probably would have got in the motherfucker if they, you know what I'm saying, that they would have won that championship. I mean, they would have had the automatic bit. Oh, yes, right, yes, right, yes. That's that's crazy. That is nuts. Yeah, it's tough. But that's the you mean that's like that's that's what the automatic is. Like teams, you look at me like, so and it's basketball's a long season, so like you have like you're gonna have nights where you don't shoot good. You know what I'm saying? You're gonna have nights where players are hurt. You know what I'm saying? Like, so like you have a bad loss against a team that's fucking shooting the lights out that night. You know what I mean? Like, and that's this goes more to what I was saying earlier about like everybody kind of like nobody is a uh favorite, because every team, except for maybe fucking, let's see here.

SPEAKER_00 48:06

The only team they lost to Kansas and somebody Texas tech back-to-back games.

SPEAKER_01 48:17

And that's they're they're but they're the only team, I believe, that hasn't had a bad loss all year.

SPEAKER_00 48:24

Like they lost to Yeah, both of the games they lost were within four points. Yeah, if they had you know what I'm saying. Michigan Michigan hasn't had a bad loss either.

SPEAKER_01 48:32

No, I mean I'm talking about the teams they y'all lost to Wisconsin. That was a bad loss as far as like losing to Wisconsin. Arizona, only the the worst team they lost to is Kansas or Texas Tech. And that was a 16 C. I mean, that was the Texas Tech is.

SPEAKER_00 48:45

I think I think at the time they were higher.

SPEAKER_01 48:48

Oh, Texas Tech? Yeah. No, they're 16.

SPEAKER_00 48:51

Oh, they were 16.

SPEAKER_01 48:52

But they're 19-6, though. That's still a you know, I mean, like in a lot of other conferences, you'd be fucking in the top 10 or top five.

SPEAKER_00 48:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 48:58

But it's just that the Big 12 is such a fucking gauntlet. You know, I mean, like they've but that's what I'm saying. Like, that's their only team that didn't have a team that they or lost to, they really shouldn't have lost to. You know what I mean? Like, I guess you could say Texas Tech is they're at home, but it went the only thing.

SPEAKER_00 49:13

I mean, dude, they shouldn't have they they probably shouldn't have lost to Kansas either without Darren without Darren Peterson. I guess that's I mean, that's true. Like, I guess like that's kind of a bad loss.

SPEAKER_01 49:22

I mean, I would I would say deep, though. It could be also be if you know what I mean, the fact that Kansas, you mean have it because he also a lot of times, bro, when you have a player like Peterson that takes a lot of shots, like it kind of takes away from play, okay, so prime example, like look at like how Knupple and Flag, like how he played his role in Duke, where he really didn't shoot the ball that much, you know what I'm saying? Like he didn't, you know, but he was still high-end drafted because of his IQ and play. And then now you look at what he's doing in Charlotte, you know what I'm saying, where he can he has that green light to shoot the balls, but you know, he's averaging almost 20. Your numbers are identical as far as like flag. You know me, so I feel like you know, certain players you find out about certain players when other players aren't there or aren't available because they only play in a role. You know what I mean? Like, sure, they can shoot and score with almost just as good as this dude, but you know what I'm saying, bro is a clear-cut best. You know what I mean? Like, or your name. You know, everybody knew who the ball was going through last year with dude was Cooper Flag. His name is fucking Cooper Flag. Like, everybody knew about Cooper Flag four or five years ago when you're just playing in fucking high school and fucking middle school and shit. You know what I'm saying? Like, he's won the same thing like Chet Holmgren. You know, I remember watching videos with Chet back when he was playing, you know, against like Bronny James and shit like that, you know, four or five years ago. Yeah. And them little fucking uh the little whatever AAUs or whatever they fucking do, and they you know me those teams that they play on. But you know what I'm saying? Like, yeah, but Kansas is a good team though. You know what I mean? Kansas is ranked ninth at the time.

unknown 50:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 50:49

So you, I mean, I feel like you any one that you lose to a ninth, that's not bad. You mean especially if it's in your conference. And then they turn around and beat Kansas when they had O'Doo Peterson, didn't he? Yeah, yeah. Say and they blew him out by 23.

SPEAKER_00 51:00

Yeah, I think that's I think I think that was that game was a home, and the one they lost was at Kansas.

SPEAKER_01 51:07

Yeah, yeah, yeah. See, that's another year.

SPEAKER_00 51:08

It's the Texas Tech game at Arizona. That's Arizona. Okay, so they have one home loss and one away loss.

SPEAKER_01 51:13

Did they have uh and they had topping that game? Top and went off for 31. You know what I'm saying? So they let's give me like and they beat him in over.

SPEAKER_00 51:22

He didn't get hurt until a little bit later.

SPEAKER_01 51:23

Yeah, so Arizona's probably the only team, you know, one of the if there's, I mean, they had as far as like no slight to other teams that didn't, you know what I mean that that, you know, you look back, you buy, okay, this is like on paper, it's a bad loss, but you look at the circumstances where they're playing at, who they're playing, and you look at this, I mean, it and they played, you know, three games and and in six nights. You mean like for college basketball, that's a lot. I mean, you're traveling from fucking Arizona to Kansas back to Arizona. You know what I mean? Like in five in a week. Yeah. So, I mean, you know, like that's I mean, and a lot, I mean, that's they only play, you gotta think they only play what, is it, I mean, at the total, it's probably like 40 games after the tournament. But if you don't make a tournament, like you only playing 30, 31 games in a season. You know what I'm saying? That's not gonna be compared to like NBA or some shit like that. You're playing 80, so yeah, you don't got as you don't got as much of a chance. Right, yeah. And then also when you play, you're not used to playing them stretches, you know what I'm saying? Like you're not used to playing four, three games and five nights, type of thing. You know what I mean? Like in first school, it's there, and you in school too. So you still got homework and assignments and all that shit you needed, you know what I mean? Like it's different. Yeah, but um, no, yeah, Arizona. Um, I think that that that's a team, man. They the real dudes for sure.

SPEAKER_00 52:40

Yeah, they're gonna be a little bit more than no, they're they're for sure gonna make the final four.

SPEAKER_01 52:45

And they play as a team, like they don't have that one player that fucking just you know goes off. Everybody's it's there's a and I was when I was looking at those box scores, almost every game I looked at it was a different player that was like leading them in scoring. You know what I'm saying? Like that team can beat you in multiple ways. You know, that's what makes them dangerous.

unknown 53:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 53:04

If y'all, I can find y'all as well because of how y'all built and having those two big boys in the middle, that's gonna make it tough for teams in a tournament. When that three ball not hitting, like and the game slows down, you know what I'm saying? Like, it's there's like playoffs in BBA, like that. It's and even football, too. Like, you know what I'm saying? You notice a game kind of slows down because of possession. Each possession matters, like, you know what I'm saying? Like when you're in a regular season, it's like whatever. You know what I'm saying? Like, not saying that they don't take it serious, but it's like, you know what I mean, like they they know that we lose this game, we going home tomorrow. You know what I'm saying? So it's like this is do or die. So, like, you know what I'm saying? Like, when the game slows down, it's gonna be tough for them teams to penetrate and get inside on y'all with them two big boys down low. You know what I mean? Y'all can find y'all self, especially because y'all can, that's that seemed like a cake while Alabama over there. I wouldn't, y'all, I'm not, y'all not worried about Alabama. You know what I'm saying? There's nobody on that side uh that y'all playing against. Even Iowa State would be the team that y'all would have to, you know, if Iowa State can make it through there, or Virginia possibly. Uh, but other than that, I don't see anybody in y'all little small region here, not Georgia, St. Louis. St. Louis, like you said, that could be a team that could be, you know what I'm saying, but they got some bad losses. Yeah. You know, it it all depends on, you know, if they're shooting a light.

SPEAKER_00 54:19

They might they might give us a they might give us a stick. It might wake up in the first half or something. That's what it is. That's what it is.

SPEAKER_01 54:24

Y'all might y'all gonna cake, y'all gonna breeze through Howard or UMBC, whatever. And then, you know, it might be 35, 37 at halftime with y'all in St. Louis. You know what I mean? Or if Georgia can fuck, whatever. You know what I mean? Like then that second half like a 20 to 20 to 6 run type shit, and it wake y'all up. You know what I'm saying? So like that could be one of them type of things I I could definitely see for sure. Um, but yeah, I mean, I, you know, if I'm I gotta, yeah, I can see y'all, you know, y'all let's say y'all in Iowa State. But it's like, you know, you it's hard because like you always like you live through and it's like I don't see anybody beating y'all, but then, you know what I'm saying, or not y'all specifically, but just the teams you like, damn, come Saturday, a team already out. You like that shit. It's like damn fucking fuck tomorrow. I mean, you do this this shit hinge on everything. Like, you like, damn, I don't I'm you crumpled the goddamn bracket up now because you like fuck this, you know what I mean? Like everything is fucked up.

SPEAKER_00 55:18

That one that one one seed that you had getting to the final four is out. Bro, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 55:21

That's the one, bro. You can kind of tell too, because you like, all right, now now it's like six minutes left and they still only up by three or down by three. Like, all right, now y'all niggas, you know what I'm saying? Y'all starting to fucking, you know what I mean, like y'all playing around too much. You know what I mean? And you get work and then one mistake, one, you know, next thing you know, you like, how the hell, like that one time, who I don't remember, who was it? I don't know, maybe Duke or Michigan State. They're the number one seed. You know what I mean? Was like killing shit all year, bro. Lost to a 16 seed in the first. I'm like, bro, well, I think it was Michigan State. It might have been Duke's or no, I think Duke was a two. I think Duke was a two seed.

SPEAKER_00 55:56

I think it was Virginia. Was it? I think it was Virginia a few years ago. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 56:00

Well, I know Michigan State choked one away too, not too long ago. I think they're a three or a two seed and they lost in the first round. They never lose in the first round. So that's why everybody was like, oh shit. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like Michigan State never loses in the first round. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 56:13

That year they did. Um yeah. No, I mean, getting down on these last few minutes, bro. Let's make uh let's make some final four predictions. Um in the national championship. So I mean, I'll I'll start out. I mean, so this bracket that I that I made earlier in the east, so at the top of the bracket, the east south. I actually don't have any one seeds making it out. I have the where? Um the east the east south. So like what is it, the Duke, the Duke Florida. I don't I don't have Duke or Florida making it out. I have Kansas playing Duke in the final four, and Kansas beating them. And Michigan and Arizona playing in the in the West Midwest bracket, and Michigan beating Kansas in the final.

SPEAKER_01 57:00

Of course you do. You know, man. Of course you know Michigan win the fucking championship. I should have known. I just might just tell me who you got winning. Like you only got telling the setups and all that. Just who the hell you got circled in the final score?

SPEAKER_00 57:18

Like, uh, and I got Michigan winning by uh like six. I think how many total points will be scored in the championship. Who you got Arizona losing juice? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 57:27

You got Arizona losing a yard?

SPEAKER_00 57:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 57:33

That's great. That's a little biased right there. Uh I got you on that. East and South. I don't think Duke uh makes it to the Final Four. Um I have coming out of that side, I got fucking. I think Duke will make it to the Elite Eight, but I think they'll lose to uh St. John's or Kansas going down. I have obviously we'll go Yukon and much as I don't see anybody else. I mean, Mukon and Michigan State, and I got UConn beating them. So facing or maybe a rematch of Yukon and St. John's uh in the final four or in the fucking Elite Eight, and then moving down, I would say it's tough because I don't even know. God damn it. I don't believe in none of these. I mean, that's why I gotta go Florida, because I don't I don't believe in none of these really other teams. I mean, like, I don't believe in Nebraska, I don't believe in Vanderbilt. I got, I mean, I gotta go. There's gotta be one number one. So I mean, uh, goddamn, that's tough. I was just I'll just go Florida. Just just coming out and then going against rungo Houston. Good old one and two matchup. I think Houston will take them. Um so it'll be Houston and Yukon on that side, uh fighting in the Final Four. Obviously, I got Arizona walking straight straight to the Elite Eight. Um, I have I'm gonna go I'll go against Zaga. Um coming out of that side against y'all. Um then I have well actually they would play because Zaga would play Arizona. I think Arizona would beat them. Um I have you guys coming out of that side, and then I'll I'll take uh Virginia. Um and then I'm gonna go Michigan uh in the final four. I got Arizona beating y'all. Um and I got UConn beating uh Houston. So it's gonna be Yukon, Arizona at that point. I'm gonna go Yukon. Um we'll go 72 65.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:08

70, 70, 65, or 72, 65? Yep, 7265, UConn. Okay. Well, we'll see how these predictions go. Games start on Thursday, so come next Wednesday. Or yeah, the Wednesday is the play-ins for the ones, yeah. Yeah, but so I mean, come next podcast. Uh we'll damn near be at Sweet 16 already. It'll be somebody knocked out that we ain't. Yeah. So we'll yeah, we'll definitely have some shit to come look back at next week. But for now, DVD out.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:40

Thank you for the watch.