So we normally only play this when they win. They lost, but I still feel like it and I'm breaking all the rules. So here we go. Tell me you don't miss this a little bit, a little bit. Can somebody tell me that you don't miss it? Okay, not even a little bit. I mean it's always fun. I always enjoy a sandstorm. Now again, well at Case State, the sandstorm sound a little different.
They sound like this, and you know what they're saying instead. Right now, they're saying Bill self, Bill's self because he doesn't shake hands with Jerome Tang. Have you not heard that soap opera going on this week? It's the hottest story on it. It's the hottest story in town these days. All right, I haven't heard it actually, So that seems like it's for people that are too addicted to sports, which is a podcast. Definitely not you're not on X. That's the only solution, Nick, Have you heard
about that? Heard about? What? You guys haven't heard about? Handshake gates? Oh? I did I did hear? I did hear that? Drum? Tang snuffed Bill self. Yes, that's the uh, that's the the thought process. And honestly, props to Jerome props. I can all right, Well, he didn't really snuff bill self. He he kind of
gave him a very quick handshake. Somebody asked Bill self about it after the game, because if you remember a few weeks ago, there was some sort of dust up between the coaching staffs in the tunnel in the game at Brambleage
after it ended. So I would only assume this is a continuation of that where Tang is going through the handshake line and he gives bill Self a quick, quick handshake, and then it looks like he either kind of skips over or just blows by the assistance of the Jayhawks, and Kay's assistants are just kind of looking there like what and that was kind of that, And both fan bases are like pulling out video clips of all the times that their coaches
have the other guy's coach has done a fly by handshake. And I just can't imagine caring. I feel I can't imagine caring about a sports topic and telling you that I don't care about it on a podcast. That's how it works, right, Yeah, I think so this is inside the Paint on Rock Chuck Blog semi uh semi final edition of the regular season. We're almost at the end. I am that Kansas will be in. Oh, it's quite sad. I'm sad now, I'm sad. I don't even I don't know who I am. That's who I am. Mm, well, we've
already gone off the rails. This is a three person show. You may not believe it is. We have a third person here today. He just doesn't want to talk. Hi, we're off and running. Let's talk about Kay, you beat and k State? I guess, because what what else would you do after that? Kansas State at Allen field House effort of an intro. I don't even know what to a. This is why I still believe the show peaked in the Job Daniel era. This is a I mean,
let's be honest, also because of me. But that's that was a good era. But this era is not a total until like the last thirty seconds. If we're being honest, I don't know what we're doing here. There's a lot of farts with reverb sound effects. If you guys don't start talking and fill in space, I will push them. I know, I don't care. Yep, you got my attention. Let's go. Let's roll, Let's roll. Here we go. Number fourteen Kansas ninety Kansas State sixty
eight as an advertisement on my very slow computer just popped up. It says Blue Cross Blue Shields partners with the k State Wildcats to bring you winning solutions for your health insurance needs. And I don't know which one of those two things is more ironic, because Kansas State's basketball team isn't very good, but they are the freaking john Wood in UCLA teams compared to Blue Cross Blue Shield Health Insurance. Getting off the rails a little bit here. Number fourteen Kansas
ninety Kansas State sixty eight, Well, guys, they're back. Problems are solved, fangs out. Sure, the Jayhawks did desperately need a dominant showing. They got one. The home matchup with k State definitely proved to be what Ryan deems a get right recipe for Kansas. I definitely think a bounce back performance for Kansas. We'll see if it's get right or yeah, it's
probably a better way to put it. Yeah. The Jayhawks use a lot of free throws and contributions from their secondary pieces, including one that we've deemed brick timbuns Lake, but he was neither of those things in this game to blow Kase State and get back in the wind. Calm Nick, They're back,
right, it's all fixed. Well, what is continued? It's not back as forty one straight Senior Night victories for the Jayhawks, who haven't lost their home finale since nineteen eighty three, that is, when Lannon was a wee negative seventeen years old. They've also beaten k State eighteen straight times at on field House and twenty nine out of the last thirty. Man is what that is. That's a lot of dubs. Yes, it was a good game for the Jayhawks. I don't know if it's going to be the moment
that turned around their season. The Chiefs beating the Bengals on New Year's Day barely that propels them to superstart them. I don't know if it'll be that or if it'll just be like they'll lose by fifteen to Houston and will be like, oh, yep, they just were good at home and played dead on the road. That's what always happens. But this they absolutely had to have it. I compared it on Twitter two. Have you guys ever played the game bean boozled the jelly bean good and bad game? Yeah? No,
I know of it. I do not play. It is absolutely awful. Nick, I can't believe you've survived it. I refuse to partake after eating. I believe one that was called old Bandage a couple of weeks ago and it is. I still taste that damn old bandage in my mouth. It's awful. I can't believe that that's a game that normal people play. Tell me your bean boozled story. I just remember tasting one that was like
rotten eggs or something. Yeah, that exists. There's one called stink Bug that makes the whole table smell like a stink bug when you bite into it. I don't know how it's fun. Anyway. I compared this game to Kansas playing bean Boozled. There's a strawberry banana kind of peach looking one, and then there's a doppel ganger that's dead fish, and you don't know which
one you're gonna get. And in this case, it was gonna be either the yummy strawberry banana smoothie that got them back on track, or it is gonna be the dead fish and the floor falling out on this season, and it was the good bean. It was a very good showing. Really, the twenty two point final score does not indicate how dominant of a game this was for Kansas. I think case State hit their last like five shots or something against the walk Ons, the game was like eighty seven to sixty or
something like that at one point, a dominant showing for Kansas. Were used to seeing them take care of business against the Cats at Allen Field House. Haven't lost to the Cats at Allen Field House since you guys were like five years old or something like that, But still it was one that you needed to see, right Any any upward ascent that's going to happen from Kansas had to begin with a handling of K State at home. Yeah, I mean we talked about on the last show, like if they lose to K State
then that would be really bad. None of us really believed that was gonna happen. But for the first time in a long time, there was like just a little more doubt than usual going into a K State KU game and that felt really weird. So yeah, it was, And that was really never ever ever the case in this game outside the first few minutes, really like k you did truly come in. They were all business as I expect them to be on Senor night they dominated. They rolled Kase State. I
mean that's kind of all they say, adout. They got some real nice performances from people. And I think one of the reasons they rolled was Nick Timberlake. Didn't think I'd be saying that, but here we are. If you were leading off with I think leading off with Nick Timberlake, he gets one. I thought we might do this a couple of times this year. He's gonna get on at least eighteen points. Wow from Timberlake, six of seven, shooting four of five from three in twenty three minutes. He's made
ten threes in the last seven games. Are we buying this at all? Or is this just you know, Charlie Moore had a twenty point game or whatever against Texas Tech that once it can happen, he did, yeah, Or it's legit? Is this legit? Is he actually turning around? Okay, go ahead and lead off. Okay, go for it. I told you guys a couple of weeks ago that I think that that he's going to hit it, get it going in March. I think the pieces have been
there. It's you know, these close clanks on the rim, if he gets an ounce of confidence, I think that his season trajectory is going to shoot up towards the end of this this time here at Kansas, he's you know, had a couple of spurts in these games where that you know, like we said, this is the first time we're leading off because it's the first time Kansas has won a game where he's played very well, but he's played some pretty scrappy minutes as of wait, and this was just a culmination
of that, and the shots, you know, came down like the normal make Timberlake did a thousand, and I think this is like I said, we've talked about it. Shooting is kind of cyclical. It's very streaky, and I think that he could I see, this is a guy shooter.
Shoot can get a streak going here. Maybe my favorite part about Nick timberlakes night on a game where he made four threes was that he made sure to think the ku Berner Twitter accounts in his senior night speech, because there's a lot of Berner Nick Timberlake accounts out there that always have the guys back. I think that's funny that they that he noticed that Bill self said he's been playing a lot better. In a press conference in the middle of this week,
he said his defense hasn't proved a lot. I don't know if Bill self happened to throw away the tape that was Baylor home game when he said that, he may have misplaced it. But ever since then he has played a lot better. And he said, you know, hey, and every one of our deep march runs, there's a guy that kind of underachieves throughout the course of the year, that comes up strong when it matters, like
Remy Martin and Malie Newman. The last two times K's made a Final four, we saw guy who had disappointed through the regular season come and play up to his potential in the postseason, and it elevated the team significantly. Nick Timberlake and why I think Nick had more confidence and why Landon and I have
still had a little bit more confidence. We've said you have to continue playing him because this is a guy who's done it at the college level, not at the power five level, but he has made hundreds of threes in his career. There's at least a track record there if you give him some confidence. The ball splashed through the net four times in this game. They were great makes. Maybe they're not gonna get eighteen a night out of him. Can they get ten? Can they get ten bench points off? Can they
get a free? Yeah? What and two threes? They need two threes? What do they make in this game? Six? And Timberlake made four and it felt like plenty. If they can get multiple threes most nights from Nick Timberlake, that elevates their ceiling in a huge way. Yeah, And like if you can get eight points and okay defense and not turning the ball over, I mean that would be huge. And especially like Elmarco Jackson has also played like marginally better in the last couple of games. He's given you
a couple buckets. Not like he's been sensational or anything, but the bench I think has has shown a little bit of growth. And yeah, if Timberlake can knock down two or three threes, then you might be in business on the bench. But also it's case date on Senior Day, so a lot of it might just be that. Yeah, Nick Hardy said it forty one straight Senior Day victories. I don't know if I've done anything forty one straight times. Maybe wake up if you're going based off dates forty one years.
That's true. I'm on hundreds of straight podcasts. Yeah, I have. It's it's been it's been a long time since I last missed one. So I'm looking at the because the next talking point we're gonna have is that Jerome Tang and Bill self had a short post game handshake. Jerome Tang is barely over five hundred if you take out games that do not go to overtime. That is such a hilarious number. He's thirty one and twenty three in his career when they go to when they do not go to overtime, and
he's twelve and zher when they do. That seems impossible that, like, the dude is this close to being a five hundred coach. He's not gonna be there every game in overtime. He's not going to be there much longer, is he. I think he's a great game in Manhattan for a long time. See. I think it'd be a mistake if Kansas State. But Kansas State has done this before. They had Frank Martin, who got into a fight with the athletic director, Bob Huggins, only stayed a year.
They couldn't get that figured out. They had Dana Altman, they had, Long Krueger, they had, They've had great Cobe has one recruit for next season, though, so it's kind of like that. Well, there's been a weird relationship with him in the AD ever since the Nakwon Tomlin stuff happened.
Like I think that. I think Jerome Tang has to feel like that he in some respect doesn't have the final say in his own program, which Travis Goff is a hell of an ad and big difference in the track record of Jerome Tang and Bill Self. I get this, but Travis Goff's best thing that he does with basketball is he does nothing with basketball. He stays out of Bill selves way and lets his all star coach run his program.
Case State hasn't done that with Tang, and I guess if you're not gonna give a guy that kind of control to decide which players he has on his roster, I could see how that'd be a real problem. I don't know where's Tang gonna go. I mean, he's he's Texas gonna say deuces to
Rodney Terry. I listen to that. I think Tang has to get a head coaching job because Case State I still think has a very difficult program to consistently win at, so I think he'd be worthy of getting a shot somewhere if I mean, if I was an ACC school at the end of this year, if Tang's still around, I'd give him a call if he's on the market. I mean, I think Case State has a little bit better NCAA tournament case than some people think. It's they're running out of time.
They're seventeen and thirteen. Do I think they have to get to case They've lost like eight of the last ten conference games. Yeah, we can't be put k State in the tournament. Well, I think. But here's the thing though, I think if they get to twenty wins, Oklahoma is like two wins better than them. I don't TCU is a win better than them. Okay, Like I really we're gonna act like that's they're miles apart and
they're safely in right now. K State has Iowa State at home on Senior Day, and then they gotta win two in Kansas City, at least one of which would be an upset. If they get to three more wins, they should be in the dance. Case State's better than Oklahoma. I don't care that Case State lost to Oklahoma, they're a better basketball team. Yeah, I don't disagree with that. I don't think either of those two teams
should be in. No, I'm fine if you want to leave them all out, but I'm telling you it's a I don't understand the world where Texas, TCU and Oklahoma are safely in right now and Case State's not even close. I don't think that's that. Let's talk about Hunter Dickinson. He had fifteen points, twenty rebounds, and five blocks hello in thirty four minutes,
and he was only five for sixteen from the floor too. It's the first twenty rebound game in conference play by a Jayhawks since Jeff Withe in twenty twelve. He gave us a very brief Senior Night speech that I don't know. He said he wanted to take part in Senior Day festivities in case he wasn't here next year. Bill self kind of hinted at hey, if he comes
back next year, he's gonna get to three thousand career points. And to me, if hundred decads is planning on going, which a lot can change in the next weeks for a guy that's planning on going, I don't think you give a ninety second senior speech that you kind of leave the door open unless he figures it's more likely than not he'll return. He was great. Uh, he was all right. He was really really good. He was actually really good. Defensively, he was waiting, hold on, hold on.
He was alright, are you just trying? Are you just trying? At this point? Seen, Oh my gosh, I quit. I quit. I'm done. The last podcast. It's in you guys's hands. I got to run to the bathroom anyway, So you guys get a three minute, you guys get a sixty second. Look what life would be like without me pushed in the because I quit. If you think Hunter Dickinson was all right after fifteen twenty and five, Hunter Dickinson is a product of his own
greatness. And then obviously he is great. Obviously he is one of like the three best offensive centers in the history not history but Wilt Chamberlain played here, but in the Bill Self era. Certainly, But I mean, I don't know, I just he's not above criticism. But sure certainly, fifteen twenty and five is like an all time level night for a center, and it just so happens that he's so good that he can actually play pretty mediocre
offensive basketball and still drop fifteen twenty and five. So I think that's kind of where I'm coming from, which is tough. I mean, when you play really really it's kind of when Patrick Mahomes has like one hundred and fifty yards passing and a touchdown and a pick. But it's like that's a bad example fifteen twenty and five. That's if Mahomes has two hundred and eighty yards
and three touchdowns but you interceptions. Do you have one thing there that you could be like, well, that wasn't great, but other than that he was great. Yeah, I think that's fair. I mean, obviously he's great, and obviously he was very good in this game. He is hyper inefficient. I think that's gonna lose on the tournament game, though, Nick, what say you? Yeah? I mean I would disagree. Actually,
hold on, hold on what hyper inefficient? Do you realize that Hunter Dickinson this year is like top five in the Big twelve and field goal percentage's shooting fifty six percent from the floor. I did not realize that. I guess that's he's He's fine. We've agreed before that he seems a little lazy. Land and I have but I I don't know how you look at fifteen points and twenty rebounds and say he was all right. I get your sentiment,
you know, not the best shooting field goal percentage in this game. A lot of that's pattered by free throws, but at least which he made. When he misses the free throws, we crucify him for that too. But I don't get the critics for Hunter Dickinson. He's not the problem on this team. Yes, yes, yes he's he's a little lazy, But I the the sore thumb is KG Adams in this lineup. It's not Kevin. It's not sorry, it's not Hunter Dickinson. I we'll talk about kJ twos
so Hunter. The most common criticisms I've heard recently won his defense. I thought he was great defensively in this game. Two. He's not a rim protector. He has nine blocks in the last two games. There's your rim protecting. Now the current beefice. He's not efficient, He's missing a lot of shots. He did miss a lot of shots in this game. It was one of his two worst games of the year. Only the Texas Tech game was was a lower field goal percentage. So you know he's gonna do
against Houston. He's gonna go seven for nine and have eighteen points and twelve rebounds, and but he's not gonna have any blocks. And people are gonna be like, yeah, he's seven too. Of course the ball goes in the basket, he's seven to. He can't block anybody. It's just it's it's you're you're correct when you call him a victim of his own success.
He is not the perfect basketball player, but he is one of the five best basketball players in college And if you don't agree with that because of his effort or as hard or his rebounding or whatever, then that says more about the state of the college game than it does about Hunter Dickinson. Hunter Dickinson is a great basketball player and anybody who does not want him back, he
is priority won this offseason. Yeah, the sexiest three point shooter you can find on the portal, that the bluest blue chip recruit, they're all back seat to getting Hunter Dickinson back. He is priority A and I think they're gonna get him back, and they need him bad. He's a stud. He is he'll probably average over twenty a game next year if he comes back. Somebody who's averaging twenty this year is Kevin mccullor. He wasn't very efficient.
Nineteen points in twenty nine minutes on five for fourteen shooting. I believe he had. I think he had all nineteen of those that like the first TV timeout in the second half, and then just kind of went quiet. He made a couple threes. He was seven for seven at the line plus three assists threes fields. There were some questions about his free throw shooting as of late that went away with seven for seven here. People thought maybe he
tweaked his knee a little bit. He said he was fine afterwards. Self said he's been in out of practice. We'll see. He doesn't have the explosiveness that he had. But still, Nick, Yeah, I feel pretty good having this guy back in your lineup, picking up right where he left
off, scoring about twenty points a night, right, yeap. Kevin mccohler for his his warts sometimes just any of the injuries just setting him back this season, but overall, whether you believe he was sitting out because of his own doing or if he's actually hurt, he has had a He's put together a great campaign this season and going out in a good fashion for KU. So Landon, you said that Hunter Dickinson's gonna cost Kansas a tournament game when
he's inefficient. If I was to ask you right now, in the eventual loss, who is the guy we're gonna blame the most? Could you name? Would you name every player on the roster before he got to Hunter Dickinson? Honestly, maybe except Parker Brown because Parker Brown just simply doesn't do enough to count all the ones that count. I think that the guy we're talking about first in the season ending loss, if it goes bad as McCuller.
I think McCullers going five for sixteen or something like that, we're gonna be like, well, damn, they lost by seven and he missed all those shots. Yeah, and I think you could I think in a loss, I think you could even see a worst night kind of thing from mccullor where he's like three of sixteen or something atrocious. Then the next most likely is kJ with the rebounding and all that, and then Harris is gonna have four points on three shot. It's I think all those things are And then the
threes, Timberlake does nothing for fees quiet. I think all that's way more likely than Hunter Dickinson's inefficiency, which has happened in two out of what thirty one games? Thirty games. I think that's a way Hunter Dickinson is the safest bet to have a good stat line in their loss. That is probably true, though, I mean, I wouldn't put it past any KU player to have a bad night in the We've seen it all go wrong together. It will likely all go wrong at the same time, because that is what
happens when loses NCAA tournament games. I want to talk about the NCAA tournament though, Well, we'll talk about the NCAA tournament first and then the Big Twelve Tournament. Here a little bit. What do you think the best possible outcome for Kansas is NCAA seed wise they win in Houston and they win the Big Twelve tournament, or and then on the contrary, what is the worst see that they could get They lose in Houston and lose their Big Twelve tournament
opener. Probably a four seed is the worst and the high if they went out two. Yeah, I think that's true. I think I think they could flirt. I don't. I think it's possible they could flirt with a two if they win the Big Twelfth Tournament. I think they can far with a one if they went out. I think four is a three or four is where you're probably going to be. You'd probably have to win the Big
twelve tournament to get a two. See I think if they win in Houston and then they'd be the four seed in case, so then your path is like b YU Houston again, Iowa State. If they if they're able to do that, I think they're gonna unless you have Tennessee and Arizona, And I guess that's the really that the three three of the one seeds are really locked up right now, right like Yukon Purdue and they have eight losses, and I just I find it very tough that even if KU does beat Houston,
like seven ye lost. Yeah, but I don't know, I feel like their losses. I mean their losses last year they had some mediocre ones too, but there wasn't a u c FL and they were a Big twelve champ and they lost the tournament, but they didn't have their coach, so all that went there. That's why they got seated in front of Houston, right, damn it, just just remembering that fun region of death. Uh. I think that I think that you're right when went best case scenario is
maybe if everything goes right, the last one probably a two. Uh. And the worst, yeah, they if they lose to Houston and then they lose again on Wednesday night, they're probably a mid four. Now let's talk about Big twelve tournaments, because as of right now, Kansas is the five seed. But obviously they have a brutal last game with Houston, and the teams that they could be tied with, Texas Tech and BYU are both teams that beat them this year. Without the round robin schedule, the head to
head matters. So I'm curious if Kansas. Here's my take on this. Here's a little mini monologue. I think that Kansas is better off from a Big twelve tournament perspective losing to Houston, where they would be the sixth seed and playing Wednesday, then winning at Houston and falling into a four seed. Okay, maybe I'll take the four seed first, but a five seed would
be the worst. Here here's my thinking Kansas, if they are the sixth seed, would get the winner of the eleven v. Fourteen game on Wednesday night. Right now, that's UCF and Oklahoma State. You would definitely think that Kansas would handle either of those teams at the Team Mobile Center in front of that crowd. Then you're right back in the Thursday round anyway, you'd play the three seed, who's probably going to be Baylor at this point,
could be Texas Tech, depending on how the weekend plays out. I don't think anybody thinks there's a stark difference between Kansas and those teams. They're all gonna finish about the same record. It's just tie breakers at this point. And then if you're the six, you'd be on the other side of the bracket from Houston, who is the team that you're trying to avoid seeing until
Saturday. I actually think that that's the better path for Kansas than earning the four or the five seed, potentially getting that double by getting one last chance to add a win onto their resume against an inferior opponent and seeing Houston potentially a game earlier, does all that kind of check out. I think the sixth seed might be their best path to avoid Houston. Yeah, go for it. Anything you can avoid Houston on neutral floor. I would try it.
I also don't know how much it matters. We're talking about justifying how it'd be a good thing if they're the six and the Big Twelve Tournament, that's an unusual spot. Kansas has never been lower than a five in the history of the Big Twelve Tournament, which is going on thirty years old. So they're gonna have to win in Houston for that to uh, for that to not be the case. So it'll be it'll be interesting, Okay,
Land, and tell me about kJ Adams. Yeah, he had sixteen points, five rebounds, two steals in thirty one minutes, five of ten shooting, and a very nice six of six at the line. We thought that this matchup might have some success for him. It's exactly what happened. He was pretty solid stilling five rebounds, but he was pretty solid, good outing for kJ. He did a lot of the things you want him to do.
Rebounding doesn't matter for kJ. If Hunter's gonna pull down twenty by himself, you need those two to combine for about twenty and Hunter is gonna get you sixty seventy percent of it. Most nights. You just need kJ to get a few in this game. He did, and he was utilized as a dunker against the very good front court that is not super tall and pretty athletic. It's a good matchup for kJ because he's a better athlete than most of those guys that he's gonna play against. Nick I, that's awesome.
That is huge right there. Yeah, three for six of the line against six of six at the line, big difference, nick I assume you're pretty happy with k performance, albeit still skeptical going forth. Yeah, you can't fault that sixteen points? Is that? I mean the Statland's great, no glaring things sticking out in this game. Like you said, the free throws for Kansas in this game really propelled them for twenty eight for thirty one from
the line over ninety percent. Mccluur and Dickinson were ten for thirty from the floor and they still hold ninety on the top twenty kimpom defense. It is amazing what free throws will do if your offense. It's amazing what will happen when refs actually call fouls when people are fouling. Hunter Dickinson actually do that. Yes, Hunter Dickinson's gotten a better whistle since Bill self got thrown out of a game and complained about Hunter Dickinson not getting a better whistle, isn't
that interesting how that works? Let's talk about let's talk about Tojwan, there's not much to analyze with the free throws because you know they're going fourteen of twenty eight in the season ending loss anyway, So I'll go ahead and talk about Dewan Harris, who has been really, really good in conference play, and I don't think people realize it. Eight point seven assists, two steals, just two turnovers, and thirty six minutes three of eight from the floor.
He was one of the seniors that did not partake in the festivities of Senior Night because Bill self said he will be back next year. That's already been stated. In conference play, Dewan Harris is averaging ten points, six assists, less than two turnovers two steals, which people talked about that rate going down the stright back where it was from last year. He is shooting
forty five percent from the floor. He's shooting fifty percent from two. Remember that whole non conference spiel where we talked about how he couldn't make any floaters. He hasn't shot the ball very well from three in conference play, only thirty percent, but he's improved. That's the only week number here over eighty four percent at the free throw line. Two. That's been good. He's
been a clutch free throw shooter. This is a guy who is playing very Dewan Harris like in conference play, and I think that that's you know, his assist number should be better if people could make shots, Like how good he looked in this game when guys were making shots. He's been great. He quarterbacked a great game in this They were running and out and they were out and running against case Harris that it is gonna be first draft it. Are you guys? Are you guys under a point guard one Harris? Are
you guys unhappy that Harris is gonna be back? No? I mean he's only a guy of his style, Like he makes me think of of like the sixth year quarterbacks that are coming back in college football and stuff. I'm a guy that's just not gonna mess up a ton because he's just super savvy and he's seen everything and he seen that's Bennett Harris. But uh, I I do think that we're gonna have moments next year of having a lot of
the same conversations as this year unless he completely changes his play style. Well, if you would you so? You would? Right now, let's say you're in charge. I'm just gonna take his stats over the year. Would you trade? Would so? Would you say you can either have this the one Harris, or you can have the field. Here's what he's averaging on the year, nine points seven assists, two turnovers, forty four percent from the floor, thirty nine percent from three, seventy eight percent of the line.
Uh would you would you take question mark and try to find someone better? Or would you take that? Because I'm taking that, especially with the weapon taking that It's too high of a floor, way too high of a floor to to like that line? Nick, is that fair? Like like Dewan Harris, isn't that's fair? That's fair? I was, I'm very curious enough. It's fair, Nick, No, it's fair, it's all that's all Landon says. I think that is fair. Uh, Nick,
tell me about Johnny Furfey. There's this is kind of everybody else group together here, but uh, you know, I kind of Furfey in the last few weeks has actually been in like not exclusive paragraph territory. Uh. Johnny Furfey did not give a Senior Nite speech, even though it was his last game in on field House. At eight points forty downs to assists in thirty minutes, not much to report. Jamary mcdell also didn't do a speech,
didn't a score, and played just three minutes. A Marco Jackson should give a speech for how bad he's been uh hit a jump only played six minutes, and Parker Brown didn't I can into the final minute, presumably because of an ankle injury that's been bothering him for this past week. Yeah, it was unusual that Parker didn't play. It just it actually led to Bill self utilizing kJ Adams at the five a little bit and tint, uh these guys, I don't know, man, I'm not so sure about Furfey. Like
Furfey had a really quick ascent. And remember people were talking about with O Chai too, They were like, hey, you might go throw up for one. Yeah, so uh eighteen nineteen, Oh Chai, it's so similar. I'm I'm just reading what Nick says and this is all that's going through now it relates to Johnny Furfey. I think I think that top twenty is the answer. If Furfee is going to be a top twenty pick, he
will leave right now. I've seen it in about half and half. If he's less than that, I think he comes back, and he is priority too, more than any recruit out there, because I think Furfey feels like a lock for most Improved Player candidate. He would go off if they brought him back, he would be like a seventeen points a game next year. Seventeen points a game guy next year. I think I think that's very on the table. If he returns, he'll be at least be in the mid
teens. At least Patrick Cassidy will return the name. I don't know if we have said on the show. Yeah, I don't know either. But you know, he had one more basket in this game than Tyler Perry did. He needed a goaltending call to get there, but yeah, Perry was zero for six. Also, Mike Djenkovic made a free throw. So here's a question for you. Michael Djankovic has played ninety seven career minutes. How many points has he scored in his career? I don't know, like thirty?
Nick, Nick, you got a guess are you still thinking? I don't know? Thirty five? Michael Jenkovic has scored fifty points in his career. He never ever would have guessed that. He also has made fourteen threes fourteen for thirty three in his career. He's made five threes this year. Would you like to guess how many Elmarco Jackson has made this year? Hie twelve. It's not he's well. Thank Oklahoma State for that, because that would be a lot closer if it weren't a week ago it was. It
was more interesting. Yeah, closing thoughts on this game. It was good to see them squash Case State and extend the senior nights streak. Forty five percent from the floor, forty six percent from three six of thirteen there, ninety percent at the line, plus ten on the glass, and just six turnovers. All of those stats very very good numbers. I assume we are pleased two thumbs up with hanging ninety on a top twenty defense. Indeed,
I'm doing two thumbs up. They looked really good. It was really nice to see hopefully Nick Timberlake. Maybe that breaks him out. Maybe that's his Malik Newman moment. Maybe that's his Remy Martin moment, and he's gonna be a great player in the rest of the season. He doesn't have to be anywhere near as impactful as those guys to have a huge impact on what Kansas can do in March. Incoming up one for eight game at Houston with four
turnovers, I think that's decently possible. Yeah. I had a couple of people in the mentions too. This is just proof that k Twitter is never going to be happy. I was like, ky State is a top twenty to ten pound defense, which they were before this game. People are like, yeah, but they gave up eighty to kill West Virginia and it's like, oh my god, I don't make this up. I just report the
news. What do you want? All you do is complain on the Twitter webs about one hundred Dickinson sucking ass and Bill self not knowing how to recruit and everything's bad and they're gonna be a three seed, Like, seriously, what do you want? Kansas? They want? They want they want perfection. They want forty to zero with championships every season, no flaws, team that shoots forty percent as a team from three uh and a guy that goes
for I don't know, like twenty and fifteen a game. People really don't know how good they have it with Bill self, Like, yeah, I think now on the court, you think this season is is some Just wait until they have like an actual like a new coach and an actual down stretch like the Louisville Louisville I don't know if you remember this game. It was
right before Christmas in twenty nineteen, right before COVID struck. Louisville was number one in the country and they lost to Chris Beard's Texas Tech team in Madison Square Garden. They were first nationally. That was three years and two months ago, and they've won like nine games in the last thirty six months. Like it is not by any stretch out of the possibility that you can fall
fast and Bill Seal's not gonna be here forever it is. It blows my mind how Kansas fans kick and pout and moan and they're gonna be a three seed with a high ceiling, Like, man, I just don't know one hundred acats in the expectation is thirty points, twenty rebounds, and twenty blocks. And if he got that, we'd bitch about how his effort sucked and if he's diving on the floor for loose everything. We complain about his attitude,
like there is just no way for these guys to win. And then you see Patrick Cassidy yeat himself out of bounds to try to get Mike Jenkovic another shot at a senior night bucket, and you're like, wow, I feel kind of stupid acting like these guys don't care. Come on, it's just sports, and they're really good. Kansas's worst teams? What are they ranked? Fourteen? This is the worst team in the self era according to
Twitter. It's not but according to Twitter, and they're top fifteen. Yeah, the fact that this team doesn't have Marcus Garrett on it does mean that it is not the worst phil self team. Hey, that's so, what would you do if Marcus Garrett announced he was coming back to Kansas to play next year? At the point, would you be like and retire? Yeah? I think i'd. I think I'd go find like the closest Creighton outlet shop and and for the team up in Omaha. I like that. I
like it. Tell me before I blow the air horn, see if you remember what were Marcus Garrett stats his last year at Kansas, because you remember him for being quite bad. Do you remember his final season stats? Take a guess. I think he averaged He averaged like an okay amount of points if I remember well, it was like twelve or thirteen, and he had like four rebounds and like six sists or something like that. He was actually
worse than you remember him and you hate his guts. He was. He averaged as a senior ten point nine points, three point seven assists and shot thirty four percent on three how many points? Ten point nine? Man? He was No, he was worse than to one Harris and it's it ain't close, which is wild wild I should post, I should post on ku Twitter who was the better basketball player at Kansas, Marcus Garrett or Hunter Dickinson. Well, that is people there. There will be people who are like
delusional that say Marcus Garrett. They that'd be crazy, but you will get people to say that, Yeah, I know what, I don't know. Guys. On one hand, I got the conference leader in points and rebounds and field goal percentage and a guy who's gonna score three thousand in his career. And on the other hand, I got I just wanted to dribble around for twenty seconds of the shot clock and then get swatted by a much better basketball player at the rim. Say that's too close to call. I don't
know, Like that's you know who knows? All right? Now? The ad at the top of my screen it was about Kansas State Blue Cross Grouse shield. Now it says fentanyl is dangerous, not all pills are real, and one pill can kill Landa's like, sign me up, Marcus Garrett highlights. If Landon suddenly starts watching more Mark Scarrett tape, then I'm gonna know that some fentanyl has been sent to his house. What the interview pill?
Big twelve Games? Well, guys, I don't know about you, but I think that I am about done this year with Big twelve games, because seriously, if you gave me a pen and a paper and you said, right down, five interesting Big twelve games this year, honest to god, I don't know if I could get there. What interesting Big twelve games not involving Kansas? Can you remember? I remember? There's two had immediately come to mind, the Baylor TCU triple overtime game. Yeah, that's one,
Yes, that was that was the other one. The game at aimes. Yeah, Like, seriously, what Oklahoma beat Oklahoma State on a buzzer beater at the end of overtime and no one cares because it's Oklahoma. And I feel like every other game in this conference has been Houston or Iowa State beating somebody six sixty seven to sixty two. Just probably had a couple interesting ones that were decently high scoring that I can't remember. Uh, b okay,
let's just let's just throw it. I remember so BYU basketball schedule. I remember one game in particular that they played and involved they want to Yeah, it involved Bill self and at Alan Fieldhouse. That's that's what I remember about that one. Uh BYU basketball schedule. Uh they beat Let's see nope, Landa. There's absolutely nothing interesting here at all, Like there's there's just nothing that's too bad. Oh maybe the BYU UCF game that was ninety to eighty
eight, because they were like seventy five free throws taken. I don't know. I think that eliminates it from this from discussions right on. That alone, just a lot of fouls. And speaking of a lot of fouls, how about this game number eleven Baylor ninety three Texas eighty five. That was Kansas's best shot to get into the top four five with a loss on Saturday,
and there it goes. Despite trailing for double digits most of the night, Baylor used a twenty one to two second half run overcome Texas, essentially lock up third place in the Big Twelve. Jalen Bridges huge night on senior Day. He had thirty two points for the Bears run. You guys are gonna have to sit down before I tell you this. Before Landon said this, but Rodney Terry led Texas, blew a lead. I know that's amazing. But he did have one based thing, and that was blaming the refs
after this loss. That might be the best thing he's ever done. He was probably right. Baylor took forty two free throws. Texas was called for twenty seven fouls. That's absurd. A thirty three point effort from Max Asmis was wasted. And I feel bad for Max Asmis because he's a really good basketball player. He's one of the best basketball players in the country. Uh, and he plays for Texas, and that's really sad. He's just he's
wasting what would otherwise be an extremely notable college basketball career at Texas. So Texas has Max Asmis, who's three thousand points scorer, like a top ten scorer ever in the NCAA. I know he's got an extra year, but a stud. They got Dylan to Sue, who's a monster. They got Dylan Mitchell who's very good. They have a Tyree Hunter who was Big Twelve Defensive Player of the Year and Big Twelve Freshman of the Year. And they
still suck. But Rodney Terry just needs to complain in the postgame presser about the other team. That's all it matters, right Ryan, Yeah, he's been more focused on horns down than he has on getting his team to win. How the heck is this team considered safe in the NCAA tournament discussion? Do you know who Texas's best non conference win was? On the top of the top of your head, it's not good. Yeah, that was That's
who I think it is. Let's see here, a quick Google search shows that they got blasted by Yukon. They got blasted by Marquette, LSU and Louisville are the only Power five teams that they beat. Yeah, they're and they're in the Big twelve right now. I think they have a losing record. They're eight to nine. How is that team? You cannot tell me that that team has a better resume than Kansas State. No, they should not be. They should not be. Just that's the dollar sign effect.
I guess somebody who will definitely not be in the loser of this game. Texas tex seventy five, Oklahoma State just awful fifty eight. Nick. This game was never close. No, a lot of these games this week aren't that close. But it was thirty five to seventeen, thirty five to thirteen, nineteen points in pop Isaacs. Texas Tech will clinch a double bye in the Date twelve tournament if they can beat Baylor on Saturday. That is a tall task. Must be nice. They only have to play Kansas and Iowa
State one seats. Uh huh. Oklahoma State, they are buns. Yeah. If you look up the fart sound on the soundboard, you get fart with reverb. I think that should be renamed Mike Boyton at Oklahoma State because just a they are so bad. Got to be done. He's got to be done with Oklahoma State after this year. Yeah, I would think it'll it'll be a black Monday in the NFL kind of situation, I assume, Yeah, who is I knew Nick was gonna pull that out. Yeah.
Who is the worst coach in the Big twelve? Probably Porter, Moser or Ron everybody, Terry. Yeah, I think it is too and I would listen to Porter or Boyton. Boyton's been there longer, but he's made a Sweet sixteen. Porter is gonna make the tournament this year. I have no idea why people would want that. H and he's never made a tournament at OU and they're just there. I feel like Oklahoma State has at least had a couple of teams in the last couple of last handful of years. I've
been like, oh, they're kind of a scrappy bunch. I I can't remember anything interesting Oklahoma basketball has done since Buddy healed. Trey Young was interesting. I always think that Trey Young was first because I feel like he's been in the league for so long. But yes, they have not and that team was lousy too. That team was not good. Remember when they were ranked like fourth in the country there for a second. Yeah, and then
Kansas thirty ball them. I think that was they did one hundred and four to seventy four one of the more satisfying victories. Yep, that was whenever they were starting to assent at the end of the year. So if you're looking for Trey Young's alma mater, not as exciting anymore. Oklahoma seventy four, Cincinnati seventy one. This game was an overtime. Really ticked me off because I wanted Cincinnati to win, because you have to understand, I hate
Oklahoma. I was rooting for Oklahoma to not make the tournament. And this this friggin centner gets fouled when they're down too with a second left, and he bricks the free throw. He could deem latin's his way to I got this, and then here comes for the tie. No, the Bearcats led by five with two minutes left and lost it. Oklahoma forced overtime after said misfree throw, and then they got eighteen points from la Trey Darthird. This
is their twentieth win of the year. That should be enough to get in the NCAA Tournament. But they haven't beaten anybody good. They didn't beat Baylor, they didn't beat Kansas, they didn't beat Houston. Like, are okay have fun? There're gonna be a ten seed that gets handled by whatever seven mid major seed. They get yuck, right, any no one thinks Oklahoma is doing anything in March. No, and they very very rarely have when they when they make an Elite eight with Buddy, is that is that the
final fourth? Buddy, that's right? And they just got oh my goodness bent over by Villanova that night. Yep, they experience with that happening against Villanova in the final four. Definitely not and especially not in that same tournament to Villanova's I even have that on the board. Ah, it's not on the new soundboard website I use, so you suck on. That's big for club. Basically, there's no proof of that on this soundboard. Sir.
What is the last time Ocalhoma made the tournament? They make it? They were like a three with Krueger, right, they didn't do anything where they are Austin last time they Oh, yeah, that team I do think made it, didn't they in twenty twenty one like the COVID year. Let's see here, this is not relevant. Yeah, that team was sixteen and eleven. They were nine and eight in the Big twelve, and they gave him an eight seed. They beat Missouri and then just got depants by Gonzaga.
Gonzaga is like almost perfect team. Oklahoma's played the worst Big Twelve schedule I've ever seen. They've got to play Cincinnati in West Virginia twice. Yeah, and uh, they did play Kansas twice, but I think they they avoided a trip to Houston. They avoided at trip at Houston. I don't know. They only played Iowa State once. No, they played Iowa State twice because they beat Iowa State that they played them once and beat them. So Oklahoma was a nine seed two Austin games. OHU was a nine seed in
twenty twenty one. They they were a nine seed in twenty nineteen with Trey Young. They were a ten seed in twenty eighteen. Like, I don't need this absolute booty cheeks of a basketball team to get any run in the NCAA tournament. That is exactly what they're gonna be this year, and they're not gonna win a tournament game. They are complete ass. I just have
passion for it. A team that's certainly not as Kansas's next opponent Number one Houston sixty seven, Central Florida fifty nine a little closer than we thought. It'd be Yeah. The Cougars were tested trailing for the first twenty seven minutes of the game, but they use an eight to ho run midway through the second half to build an insurmountable lead. L J. Cryer scored twenty five. Houston's twenty seven and three. Overall, they won eight straight conference games
and thirteen in the last fourteen. They started one to two in conference play, and they are twenty seven and three. The only loss since the one and two start is at Allen field House, something that I don't think will happen spoilers from my pick. I don't think that's gonna happen Saturday. No, It's gonna be a real tough matchup for Kansas on Saturday. Houston is the take that I got the worst. I got the most wrong. I thought that they'd be pretty good. I just thought that they would wear down
in the Big twelve. Over the course of the season, we've seen teams like Central Florida and Cincinnati really kind of wilt down the stretch. It's just not something they're used to. Houston has just taken their style that worked in the AAC and they picked it up and plopped it right in the Big twelve, and it's continued to work an incredibly impressive run. I'm a little skeptical on how far they can go because I don't think that their talent ceiling is
as high as some of the other elite teams. They just play really, really within their limits as a team, and they're very well coached. We'll see what can happen. But yes, they are excellent and a slam dunk. Number one seed in the NCAA is twenty seven and three, number six Iowa State sixty eight, number twenty BYU, Nick, tell me about this because I want a monolog about Iowa State. The Cyclones were down fourteen early in the second half, but they roared back behind nineteen points from tam and
Lipsey to escape. BYU. In stand the B twelve, I A would say when eighteen to know what a Hilton costum this year? How good are they? Exactly? Land on you first. I think they are pretty good. I think what Ryan is going to get at is that they're a little lucky, which I think is actually probably somewhat true. I don't know if they're thirteen and four good, but I don't think you can go thirteen and four in the Big twelve and actually suck. So I think they're they're pretty
good team. I think they're gonna be a pretty deserving two seed. That is all about what I was gonna say. Yeah, it helps whenever you don't have to go to Lubbock or Lawrence. This year, probably the two toughest home court environments Iowa State could play at because you take Hilton off their list. I think that they Iowa State, Baylor, Texas Tech in Kansas, and probably BYU for that matter. They all feel about eleven and six, do they not? Yeah, some are a little better. I think
that's not unfair to say that's Landa's NAE take I don't. I think that's not unfair. Instead of just saying that's fair, I think I'm gonna say that's not unfair. Like Iowa State has gotten a nice scheduling draw for the most part with the road games for sure, and they've they've obviously taken care of business. They lost their conference open or to OU, and they've won
thirteen of the last sixteen. But yeah, it feels like that, you know, some of these teams are on the wrong end of some four point l's. Iowa States on the right end of those four point wins. Part of it absolutely credit to them. They're playing great basketball. They're very well coached. I do not think there is anybody who you can with a straight face put in front of TJ Olzelberger for National Coach of the Year. Definitively right now. But when it's done, you if they're a three seed,
I don't know. If they're a two seed, by the way, Land and look at the non con schedule, it's one of the sixth worst in the country. If they bow out in the Big twelve tournament and they're a three seed, what it's done. You a six seed Creighton took them down. I don't think it would. I think they're kind of fortunate, fortunate.
I could see it. I could see it, and it would be, you know, super uncharacteristic of Big twelve teams to show in the oh right, Yeah, that does not happen, not on and not as long as Damnit is in charge. And honestly, he's one of the ones you can count on to go further than the rest. TCU ninety three West Virginia eighty one. Good game for the horn Frogs. They got to play West
Virginia twice. Must be nice. TCU made a season high eleven threes and Emmanuel Miller scored twenty one points as they won at West Virginia simply because they are not coached by Bill who has his head up as so much they the Mountaineers are nine and twenty one. They are just just awful. Just a wet dog. The smell of wet dog that is West Virginia dog. Oh yeah, yep, excellent drop one of Nick's best three contributions to this show.
If one of my three best contributions to this show is the Villanova take of death, then you at least getta get that. Oh not that one, this one. Eleven years later. Yep, eleven years in and I still don't know what buttons to press. Big twelve standing the Penn Ultimate List. Houston is fourteen and three. Will do you even talk about TCU West Virginia? Yep? You were too busy thinking things were fair to listen. You're watching. So Louis Suarez just hit a game in Nashville, So I
said, West Virginia is a wet dog. Number two Iowa State They're thirteen and four. Number three Baylor is eleven and six. Fourth place is Texas Tech and Kansas but they are behind the Red Raiders and the tie breaker because they only played them once. They're ten and seven, number six the two uh no, there's there's three three letters, b y U, TCU, very horny, nine and eight Yeah, in eighth place, goodbye, you're heading to the it means more conference. Texas and Oklahoma trash trash exit to
the conference. They're eight and nine yeah, as nick or another way you could say that is in eighth place is and they're eight and nine. Tenth place is also Kansas State is seven and ten, in eleventh, six and eleven, Cincinnati and UCF and in thirteenth in the seller Oklahoma State. I can't believe Mike Poyton hasn't been fired yet in West Virginia four and thirteen. Yuck, just a bunch of awful. There's gonna be several new coaches in
the Big twelve next year. First of all, you're adding four teams. Second off, Mike Pointon's definitely done. West Virginia. I'm sure is gonna make a higher I would think that. I don't. I don't think that anybody else is gonna get fired. But I mean that's that's a handful there. Sixteen I don't know, teams is too many for a basketball conference. The play is eight ye season games. Who knows what's going on with your home tang And I don't know about Cincinnati's situation. I can't wait for one.
I can't wait for Houston or Iowa State to play all of the worst teams in the conference and play maybe Kansas once. Yeahs and Kansas is Kansas is gonna draw Arizona, Baylor, and Houston as their to literally play home and home with every top team in the conference in Oklahoma State where they've never had trouble. Yeah, not recently, but maybe not without bointing. I guess other games, Well, I know you guys are sitting there on pins
and needles waiting to see who's gonna win the Atlantic Coast Conference. But you're gonna have to wait till Saturday. As number nine Duke impressively beat North Carolina State by fifteen on the road and number seven North Carolina whipped Notre Dame at home. Both teams are fifteen to four. They will play for the conference crown and ESPN's wet dream this weekend. And yeah, this is This is truly their most sensual desire. Yeah, it's Duke in North Carolina play for
the ACC title. Which of those two teams is the better bet to go further in the Turney and I think it's obvious? Yep, I think it is too. I didn't. I was underwhelmed with Duke. I still think their coach is kind of a dunt. So would it stun me if they do something stupid? No, but they're more talented than North Carolina. They are a that roster's loaded. They should be twenty four and six. R. J. Davis is the reason why I say North Carolina. I think
they both could go out very early get compared to what they're expected. I think they both are flawed, but I think Duke's the better team. I think they're gonna win on Saturday too. Number three Perdue clinch their second Big Ten title in a row, winning at number twelve Illinois on everyone's favorite streaming service, Peacock, where you can definitely watch the game. Everyone definitely has that and everyone knows how to get it. Seventy seven to seventy one.
I hate sports on streaming, by the way, like screw off anyway. Twenty eight points from Zachi Edy. They shot over fifty percent from three. The Boilermakers are twenty seven and three. Are we more confident in this year's Perdue than in previous years? Absolutely? Yes, yes, I am too. This is the most lopsided lopsided top teams. They're so separated from the pack. Houston, Yukon and Purduer by far and away the best teams in college basketball this year. Yeah, but every year we could say that it
doesn't matter. Perdue has never won. One of those teams is winning the national championship. If I gave you those odds, if I said those three teams of the field, what would you do them? I think the smart bets always the field in the NCAA tournament. I'm getting six I know that, Okay, they're not all way to Usually a one seed wins the title, though, So that's three of them. I'm getting sixty three of sixty six options. I'll take the field Landon, We'll say you, yeah,
I'd have to go field. I'd want to do some research on that and see what percentage of the time does one of the top three seeds win it. Now it's fifty to fifty, you'd probably get about even odds on that. Uh, if somebody maybe could be this team. The SEC is also wrapped up number four. Tennessee followed up their big win in Tuscalosa by I think doing something even more impressive, coming back on an emotional high and winning
again at number seventeen South Carolina sixty six to fifty nine. Dalton next scored twenty six points and made five threes. The Balls have as good of a resume as anybody in the country and they lost the Kansas. Are you feeling better about them than you were in past years? I wouldn't be if it weren't for Dalton Next. He gives them an X factor they don't normally have. That's the answer. They have one of the five best players in college
basketball. I think Tennessee is dangerous and I will have them going to the Final four in my bracket. Oh, I can hear that Curb your enthusiasm music loading from there. But Michael penciland Purdue to play them in the title game? Oh yeah, what the final four? Two? Are you gonna go Purdue, Tennessee, Houston, Kansas in the Final four? That's I gotta final four. I gotta have Kentucky in there somewhere, sir, do you know who we are on this show or A? Yeah, Nick,
Nick knows all about that. And I picked and I had the Prince. Yeah, okay. Elsewhere in the SEC. Number fifteen, Kentucky, number thirteen, Auburn, number sixteen Alabama, and number seventeen South Carolina got all that. They're all tied for second at twelve and five, two games behind the outright champion balls. Bama gave up a bucko five in Gainesville, and Kentucky blew out Vanderbilt. Which one of all those teams is the best,
And tell me why it's Kentucky. As I played Kirby your enthusiasm. Kentucky's the most talented, they really are. But their defense is their defense apocalyptic. Yeah, it's almost as bad as Alabama's. And we're gonna pick them to go too far in the tournament. Again, Neither one of those two things are as bad as Missouri, though. Who are on the doorsteps? They're they're well passed futility, but they are on the doorsteps of truly historic
futility. Would you say they're on the knocking on your door? We're busting in a futility. We own seventeen an sec play after getting blasted at home by number thirteen Auburn one oh four to seventy four. The game that was only a five point game at half. Uh they got absolutely stoned. One to go to not be the Cleveland Browns or Detroit Lions. Yeah, you could have won that. You could have gotten into that game for four dollars. By the way, miss uppertun too much, too much? Why are
they charging people? They should be paying people to go? That's true. Not a bad point. Someone breaking into another guy's window, car window to put tickets in it. Take my Miszoo tickets? Please, Nick, tell me about the Big East. The Big East Race has been over for a while, but number two Yukon put another exclamation point on it by beating Shaka Smart in Milwaukee seventy four to sixty seven. Tyler Coliff didn't play, so
the Huskies were favored. But they're now twenty seven and three and locked in as the number one seed. Very very good twelve part. We can also skip the West Coast in general and go to ranked teams to lose and slash show. Oh but we have to talk about the WCC. We just have happened ten o eight pm on a Well, let me just go ahead and go to the box score. I just want to make sure that I didn't miss anything. Okay, here I go. I'm gonna click kick click on
that. Oh, there's only one game. I'm sure it wasn't that bad. Let's take a look at what happened in Oh my goodness, Pepperdine in the was this Pacific? Pacific lost? Pacific scored thirty four points in the second half. How many total points do you think they have? Well, I know how many they had in the first half. And if you want anything that'll make you go, it's the fact that Pepperdine led Pacific by scores of twenty six to zero, fifty six to nine, and in the end
nine one, one hundred and two to forty three. And a basketball game. Boy, I have no idea how Gonzaga manages to win that Balance League every year, good Lord Marrison, Gonzaga rack up so many wins. Oh my gosh. Pacific was only an eight point dog in that game, by the way, and they not that good yet. Pepperdin's bad. Pepperdine's a twenty lost team. Here in twenty four hours and they beat Pacific by fifty nine frickin' points. We have to do some box score analyzing here. Pacific
made fourteen baskets. They shot twenty five percent from the floor. Pepperdine shot a nice Pepperdine shot a nice sixty percent to that, by the way, and the really the rebounds fifty to twenty six. Somebody be like, that's what happens. If you had a whole team one Hunter Dickinson's, they'd get shred on the glass because he sucks. Pacific will in their season six and twenty six. I don't think they're gonna make the tournament. One of just
four teams that did not win a single conference game this year. Another one of those teams. Well, and also DePaul, who's going for oh for twenty this weekend, I think. And yeah on the PAC twelve, that little week long spurt where we're like Washington sit Nope Air at number five, Arizona wrapped up the outright title tonight they blew out UCLA on the road, and number eighteen wash Ington State dropped the turn at home to rival Washington.
That ended fast zonas still not a one seed. Give it to Tennessee ranked teams to lose since the last time we did a podcast. Number eight Marquette they didn't have Tyler Cullock, but they still lost to Yukon. Number twelve Illinois they lost to Purdue. Number sixteen Alabama lost to Florida, Wrong place, wrong time, Number seventeen South Carolina they're gonna be the five seed that loses to A twelve lost to Tennessee. Number eighteen, Washington State lost to
Washington. Number twenty BYU lost Iowa State, and number twenty one San Diego State lost to UNLV team who would should be in the dance, but they lost the Air Force at home, so they probably won't be. And last weekend pick them. Oh my goodness, Nick, you have just decided to vintage Bill self Big twelve, run away and hide from everybody in clutch time in the race. Yeah, I saw eleven plus twenty two over Lanin.
So this is the eighth year or the seventh year that the three of us have done this show, and we add up our pickup scores every year, and we all have about the same number in the grand scheme of things. Nick has won it out right three times. Now I've won it out right three times. Now, Nick and I shared a title once and Landon somehow
against all odds. If I ask for survey, says, then this is what would happen on If the question was players who have won pick them and I answer land and Fields, it would go no, you've never won it. Yeah, and I'm not even obviously this year. I'm trash and Nick is also the goat this year. So two things are happening. But like, I've not been this bad most years, Like I've been close ish many
times. Yeah, you lost by a single game. In twenty twenty, all four of us ended up within a one game when one game of each other. Yeah, and that was when the last however many games or whatever being canceled. We would have had about twenty more Pickham games that year, but everything got canceled. Uh So yeah, very close, Landing close, but no cigar. Maybe with Nick out of the way next year as a regular, I think we should still have Nick pick all the games, even
if he's not on the show. You have to beg Yeah, you have to. We're gonna call it. We're gonna call it Nick them. And then this point, because he owns my win, he has to come back. Oh, I like that season fourteen, Nick is back, ask GARCB. Yeah, ah, that's right. I keep thinking it would take me two years to win. Yeah, that's if we add up all this points. Yeah. At Stefan Timmy seventeen just sends us a picture of Nick Timberlake's headshot. That's the question. Uh, yes, please, that's my that's
my Please get going, please get going? At this is this is good. This is a good question for both of you guys. At b Hilsey three, I don't think we've ever had this question, and I like it. Rank the following channels to watch, Hey, basketball games on the ESPNS, Fox, CBS, ESPN plus what was the last one? ESPN plus? Oh okay, Well, I think I think CBS does the best broadcast. It also makes me think of March Madness, so that's a plus.
Also the best score bug and the best music probably ESPN. After that, they're fine. They also the most game so I'm the most used to them. Fox is his third. Fox is fine. I think they do okay stuff. I like that Gus Johnson calls games on Fox. I think that's fun. I think I would go with like, uh like CBS Sports Network. That's somewhat different than CBS. After that, I think I'd rather watch KU basketball on two B or free v oh, rather like of those kind
of things like Plex. Can you get a KU basketball game on Plex? I think I would try that before I would ESPN Deportest. I would try before Mundo I'd watch it in a foreign line enguage first, whatever, whatever coversion of ESPN might be. Give me TSN, the Canadian Sports Network. I would try TSN. They've probably together an okay broadcast ky Sports, the Australian one. Yeah, that's the vertision Australian one. Yeah, I try
that. That's that's way better. Probably ESPN Plus probably sitting around three four hundred on the list. Yeah, ESPN Plus is no one needs any of that, Nick, I assume you agree. Yeah. I So here's here's the thing. Love CBS's broadcast. Even though the Jayhawks normally lose. I'm trying to think they don't play often on Fox, but when they do, it's pretty good. And then as far as the ESPN Plus broadcasts, yeah no, just yeah, I think we've I think we I think we've don
I think we're done here at k Eeden fourteen. How many wins would an all KU team win in an NBA season. Starters are Graham, Ubrey Wiggins, Marcus Morris, and Embiid and your bench is Brown, Abagie Dick, Sphie Wilson, the other Morris and Udoka. Eighty two games? How many they win and in a regular season? First number that came to mind was thirty five? Yeah, they're winning a frick ton thirty four. Yeah, you wait, Land and you said they're winning a lot. Yeah, I
think they'd win a ton. That thirty four is not a lot in the whole season. Yeah, maybe I missed the question. Maybe I was distracted again. Eighty two games. That's your that's your two for eighty two games. Oh oh, I see, I see the MBA's really good. What'd you think the question was? I thought it was a college season. I miss? Oh, yeah, No, the answer would be about the same
in both college and yeah, they would may, they'd be probably. I think they could maybe go slightly above five hundred, but that would be about No. I don't think that's a five hundred team unless Embad is just well you think, I mean, graty grandy. Dick's been playing better too that he's kind of the wild card. Maybe he could give you something that Bozzi hasn't done much fee and a lot of bench guys. Who the second best player on that team is Wiggins and that wouldn't work? That's true. Yeah,
they might not be five Probably how many games? How many games did all those Timberwolves teams win with a being the best player? They're they're the Timberwolve teams. They have a stud center, Wiggins is their second best option, and they had a lot of nine or tenth best team in the conference seasons. The timberwo should draft Nick Timberlake just for fun. That is NBA GM Nick? Who? Yeah? What? Why not? What would he shoot in the NBA? Yeah? At least that's better than us at Matt
Underscore Gallantine. Who are your favorite March Madness announcers? Says Ian Eagles very good or Ian Eagles very good? Kevin Harlan and Reggie Miller are great. I think it's probably Harlan and Miller. That's Kevin Harlan is just a jewel. Kevin Harlan's one of like the three best announcers working current Maybe just the best. Nance is done though he's done right? Last year? Was it?
Yeah? But all time he is one of the best anything that's not Sparrow Didas because oh my gosh, nothing screams Panthers versus Colts at noon on a Sunday like Sparrow Daisies calling the games. I don't need that. Harland is Reggie, They're they're the best at Chris Underscore Easter. If Kansas beats Houston and Tech beats Baylor, who gets the three, four and five seeds in the Big Trial Tournament? The answer would be Tech three, Baylor four,
Kansas five. The Jayhawks the game that's doing them a ton of damage right now. That Jayhawks absolutely had to have the BYU home game, that is the one that killed your conference seed, because that's a team you're competing with. You lost the head to head, you lost to lost ground a bunch of other teams. I think the only way KU gets a four seed in the Big Twelve Tournament is if Baylor wins over Tech to lock up the
three, and Kansas would move into the four if they win. I think that a Texas Tech win eliminates Kansas from a top four seed, even if Kansas wins by one hundred. I think also Kansas losing to two of the bottom four teams in the league doesn't really help them here. Hey, UCF's what like seven to ten or something like that. They almost speaks. I don't know. They're not horrible. The West Virginia one you want back? I would like the sixteen point lead back against Central Florida, But that's fair.
I get that at Preston Skirsick. Do you think that we are done with the twenty twenty four incoming class? No, because I don't know if you heard what happened today, and this would be the last piece that I think you're gonna see. Thanks to Mike Woodson's absolute incompetence. Liam McNeely, who is the top fifteen blue chip small forward shooter, de committed from Indiana. And there's a lot of smoke about how Bill self is involved here.
He was originally between Indiana and Kansas. And this is a guy who looks like he was born to be in the movie Hoosiers. So if you're looking for the three point three point specialty, that could be a nice piece. That's the name to watch. Other than that, though, this is a really really good class. He looks like if Grady Dick had an even wider kid. Right, Yeah, that would be a lot of fun at Kansas.
And if he goes anywhere where they play Kansas, well, dude making all the baskets with two hands at an arcade gift at Rock Chuck AJ. What is the closest senior night win in the Bill Self era? Well, there's one that stands out, that Oklahoma comeback. Forgot about that one? Yeah, the West Virginia home eighteen point comeback when Jamari Trailer went nuts. That's counting on his fingers. Yeah, Yeah, that was that team.
They barely got past Chris Beard's lousy ass Longhorns because o Chaya Baji was like, oh for twelve or something a couple years ago in overtime, Remember that that was the title team. I think Remy played. I think I think Remy played seven minutes shocking So Texas Kansas, twenty twenty two Senior Day Basketball. Yes, the final score of that game in overtime, mind you, in overtime, seventy to sixty three was the final score of that nothing short
of atrocious basketball game. The only time in my life that I've ever seen Kansas score more points at the free throw line than points from two point Land or points from three point Land. Yeah, that's pretty pretty terrible. And the fact that Texas lost by seven in an overtime game is also terrible. At Casey Sports, kingdo one, if you could be guaranteed an easy cupcake draw in this NCAA tournament or next year, which one would you take?
Oh, that's a good question there, I take it this year. I know we think they're gonna be real good, but there are gonna be a three seed this year. There's no guarantees it's better than that next year. Nick has just checked out at this point because he has to get up for work soon. So let's move along at Cope fraud in a tournament format where we get longer TV timeouts, Oh, we know, each possession is more important and the team is fully locked in. Does this team have a chance
to go to the Final four if they get a good region? Yeah? That. I don't know how much any of that really helps, but I think they're one of the ten most likely teams to go to the Final four. Four of them will make it. Yes, their floor does not help them, but they do have an insanely high ceiling when they play well. Also, kJ Adams should be the permanent backup five. Change my mind next
year. Yeah, this year, you have no choices unless you want to start timberl Yeah, and then you start Furfy at the four and well he loves kJ but maybe at show Me Hawk. What do you think of the T shirt designs Adidas makes from when Kansas wins a Big twelve championship or bowl game. Uh, they're normally kind of lousy, Nick, Almost every every championship tea shirt ever is lousy. Chiefs had the same hats back to back Super Bowls, back to back years. It's the same thing. They just
change the font like all the way too busy. They have so much happening. Yep, Yeah, they're disappointing at Matt Underscore Gallantine. How would Isaiah Moss or Jalen coleman Land change the current team? They'd make it a lot better and fast. Yes, they would be basically Nick Timberlake what we thought
he'd be at Casey Sports Kingdom one. If Nick Timberlake was guaranteed to make four out of five threes for every game the rest of the year, how far does they does Kansas go in the NCAA's I'd bet on a final four. At that point, I think, ye, that's big, Like that's real big. That that seals up the problem with this team. Just a couple more here at rockchuk aj Hal matter, are you that they aren't going
to catch Kentucky in all time wins this year? I mean, in my mind, they already have it. I don't care what that what that flip says, what he's talking about. Yeah, the Landon refuses to acknowledge it down to the final three here at Show Me Hawk. I just looked at Leonardi's bracket over on ESPN, and you're not even going to believe who they have as the ten seed in Kyu's region. They also have a white guy. Oh boy, who's who's the ten seed? Let's find out? Uh
they have? Oh oh no? Oh please no, no again, no more of that team in the NCAA tournament. I don't now it's same first letter clean the drop. I don't have it. I don't have it on the board. But Landing, there's a drop about them, and they love them. I love this Kansas. Please, no, no, no, no, I have a one year Kansas gets shipped out to the West. It's the most difficult region in the history of the NCAA tournament. Yep, get waiting for it to happen again too at Chris Underscore Easter if Kansas or
we just read that one. Sorry. Last questions from our buddy at Dick Underscore Taser outside of being at the game, what's the best and worst place to watch a March KU game? He says the worst has to be at a bar, annoying people, no sound, it's expensive. The best back deck fireside, and then there's a picture of a TV with a fire pit and a couple of wood benches and looks like a real cozy back porch. That does look awesome. I'm also a cold person and March is not the
warmest month of the year. Landon's been at my house enough times during the NCAA tournament to know that it looks like a best buy. We throw all the TVs up in the living room. Yeah, that's the way to do it. Get five TVs up. I think the most fun way to watch is in the living room. But have a few people over, not too many, just have a couple over and that's really fun. Well, if it's specifically a KU game, so you only need one TV, anything's better
than a bar, I agree. I'm I'm a watch at home kind of guy. I don't lie, And honestly, there are some benefits to watching at home over going to the games. But yeah, we've all been to
Allen enough times where I think we kind of get the GISTs. It's amazing, and I don't want to sound like it's not amazing, but sometimes it's kind of nice to watch a game on a TV where you have Would you rather walk in the cold from Laurence High School to sit on a hard bench where your butt's gonna hurt, or if you're feeling lazy, just turn the TV on and listen to ESPN Plus broadcasts if you want to snack or go with bathroom. It's just right there and not you know, at a game.
Yeah, no, I completely agree. All right, Well, if you ever have any Ascarcb's Twitter hashtag, askcarcb, all right, preview me a game and the Jayhawks have a chance to do something that they haven't done and for you, which is win against the number one team in the country, number fourteen Kansas at number one Houston Saturday, March ninth, Senior Day at three o'clock PM. It is the regular season finale, and they saved
the toughest for last. The top ranked and Big twelve champion Houston Cougars, who need to win to secure an out right title, but otherwise have locked up at least the share are twenty seven and three overall, fourteen to three in league play Land and told you earlier they haven't lost since the game at Allen, which is eight wins in a row ago. It's been a long time since Houston walked off a basketball court as a loser. Jamal Shed he
is likely going to win Big twelve Player of the Year. Thirteen points, six assists, plays all American caliber defense. LJ. Crier is the leading scorer with sixteen points and a thirty nine percent three point rate, and he dropped six on Kansas and Allen. Emmanuel Sharp is the wing with twelve points, eighty five percent free throw shooter. Emmanuel Sharp, It's among the best bass backcourt trios in the sport. They're very, very good. Almost no
weaknesses there. Yep and uh hmmm, good effort. I believe you got it right there. Anytime, I'm so tired, I'm sorry. Jamal Shed is likely to be without a loss of size in the front court, Houston thrives on athleticism. Juwan Roberts and Javier Francis, both six s, started at the four and five. They are both tremendous offensive rebounderies, combining for a total of twelve boards per game. Damien dun dundun Woa, whoa, he's up, Damian done. Guys, you can't even leak Mileak Wilson and
Joseph Tuggler all get minutes off the bench. Houston is Ken Pump's best defensive team top ten nationally and field goal defense, two point defense, steals, points allowed. They also hold opponents to just thirty one percent from three. They are college basketball's best offensive rebending team with fourteen points per game and we are fourteen per game. And they're elite at protecting the ball. There hur't a lot of weaknesses, but they can be bad on the defensive glass.
That's pretty much. They're pretty much average on offense overall, uh with with just a forty four percent fuel goal rate and a dreadful sixty eight percent free throw shooting team. This is why I'm leaving the show. These eight to three shows are doing it in for me. That's on pisas, Oh Go ahead, this is this is yet Timberlake, oh for seven to night for me, and I mean, yeah, that's the stat right there. They're bad shooting free throws. Kansas is gonna have to turn it into that game
and all time six and two and eight games. But they've only played them twice since eighty seven, haven't lost since eighty three. Yay, so it's gonna you know, we'll see what happens. I'll go first, will that stat will not hold. I will go ahead and lead off. I will say that I don't think Kansas will win this game. I think that Houston will beat Kansas. However, I think Kansas is gonna play in an opportunity
that they don't ever get to play in. They're a consensus underdog, given a very little chance to win this game in the eyes of just about everybody, and Houston's got revenge on their mind and all that. But the Jayhawks are starting to play a little bit better over their last few games. We
saw him play a lot better against Baylor. The BYU game wasn't great, but before that you got Texas. They've played legitimately fine in four of their last five games, and I think they match up pretty well with Houston. I think Hunter Dickinson is a good is a good counter for what Houston does. Very good defensively, but Hunter Dickinson's very good offensively. You gotta make threes. They're gonna have to draw some fouls and produce free throws as well.
But I think Kansas's defense will be fine. It's a matter if Kenny offense get the seventy. Houston's only allowed seventy four times all year. If Kansas gets the seventy, I think they got a fifty to fifty shot. I will pick Houston to win seventy four to sixty nine. However, I think this is a close game that leaves us all going you know what, six seed draw UCF, see what happens after that. They can keep Houston
closed on the road, they can win just about anywhere. I think it's a one of those losses that leaves us feeling okay, but still nonetheless a loss. Now a win that would be pretty freaking cool. Yeah, I'm also gonna say Houston, I'm gonna go seventy to sixty three. I think Kansas will keep it pretty close for the most part. I don't think they're gonna get like ran out of the gym or anything. But I think Houston
wins comfortably in the end. I just don't know if this KU team hesitant them to win this kind of game, which is not a sentence I usually say that's pretty weird, but I think that's true. That's right. I'm gonna say, Houston seventy three Kansas sixty eight. Do you guys think that at any point after the final ten minutes that we're watching that game saying, Wow, they're right in this game, they got a real shot to win in the final ten? Yeah, I think it's very possible in the final
ten. But that's about wherever you think Houston goes on that run. I think I think Houston probably really pulls away in the last five or six minutes. If you think that's the case, and that's a that's a game that will leave us plenty of things to be encouraged about. That is not the sort of game that we will be pushing to lead off the next show, unless, of course, you know, Bill goes all and does something like, hey, I want Nick and Johnny on the bench so kJ can try
to rebound with those Houston Marco developmental minutes guys. Oh my gosh, then I will eat myself out of the window. All right, So we're all picking Kansas to lose. That hasn't happened. I don't know if that's happened in the ITP era. I'm sure it happened to the Marcus Garrett season Land and I just haven't I don't remember off the top of my head. That's
Nick's unemployment insurance job here. When he's off the show, he can go back and listen to the last time we all picked Kansas to not win women Insurance. I'm the one that actually has a job that you know, unemployed from this show, sir, it matters here. We have we have very strict policies to follow here. Big twelve games finale for all these teams.
Number six, Iowa State at Case State. I will pick the Wildcats at home to upset Iowa State, swing up pendulum back to a little bit of regression for the Cyclones, and I think Case State makes a tournament push. Uh, I'm gonna start doing the whatever. The opposite of my instinct is what I'm gonna do. My instinct was to take Iowa State. So I'm gonna pick Ky State Iowa State. Then easy for me. Oklahoma at Texas. They're buns the buns Bowl, but I will take Texas because they're less
buns. Yeah, I do. Actually I have to take Texas here, Hookham West Virginia at Cincinnati and then who cares Bowl. I think we want three on the bear Cats. Yeah, I get sure. Gross UCF at TCU. I think we probably also want three on the Hornfrogs. Right. Oh, what a lousy slate. Yeah yeah, horn Frog's big. By the way, UCF's gonna be out of gas after giving all they had in the Houston game. Ooh, good one here. Number eleven, Baylor at Texas Tech. I will go with Baylor on the road. I know it's
a road game. I think that they're that much better than Texas Tech and they win. Yeah, Tech's kind of in free falling. I'll take Tech. Oklahoma State at number twenty. BYU, we want three on the Cougars. I do sure that one's gonna be close. Though. BYU has played such high level basketball recently. They obviously want an Allen Field House. And then they came home and they ripped out TCU's throat, and then they should have won at Iowa State, Like eventually they're gonna have a game that they
don't quite get up for. I think that's a sneaky like sixty eight sixty five game. And Kansas, by the way, should really be rooting for. Oklahoma State feels like a horrible thing to root for. But the only way they're gonna get ahead of BYU with a loss is if Oklahoma State wins other games. Number ten Creighton at Villanova, Wildcats really need a win to solidify an NCAA birth. I think they get it. Uh No Jays Creighton, Number fifteen. Kentucky at number four Tennessee. This is a fascinating spot
for Tennessee, who has had two straight huge victories. Kentucky going in there, does it like they've already locked up the league? Yeah, in my home. Not on Dalton next Senior night. No, well, okay, I'll go with the balls, but I hate this. I'm going with Kentucky. They have they need a win like this more than Tennessee does well. And Tennessee can't keep getting up and winning these top twenty games, Like eventually, it's just not eventually, it's just not gonna happen. So I like
that spot. Here, here's a good game. Number seven North Carolina at number nine, Duke, Who do you guys want the Tobacco road showdown? Duke Duke at home? Yeah, I think Duke wins pretty easily. Yeah. Number two Yukon at Providence Friars need a win to get in the tournament. I'll say they get it. How focused can Yukon really be at this point in the year Yukon, Uh, I'll go Providence, Sure, why not? And then number five years Hey, I'm just as close to you
as I am the land and sir put some respect on that name. And it's the number five. Number five Arizona at USC. Normally this to be a laugher. So yeah, but Arizona Williams dad gonna negotiate him to play the USC basketball team they get is getting an equity stake in the university. It's a pretty good Arizona have to travel. They're in La already, they're
playing UCLA and smashing them. So give me Arizona. Yeah, probably, even though I pretty Yukon or Arizona or Tennessee one of them is gonna lose. All right, Well that's that next show. Nick, you're out right you're going on a business trip. Well, this weekend, I'm gonna be in uh on a fun trip. So fun trip. Oh, that's your trip, be gone a lot. That's right, It's that it's net you'll be gone, so I should be I should be able to I should be
able to be on the show. Next week during the tournament, I'll be sitting in a hotel in the evening. So what else is there better to do than talk with my friends? And you're an hour behind because you'll be in the Mountain time zone, so that will enable it to be a little earlier for your seventy five year old boy away my location. Like that is kidding it? So all the time zone could be in Yellowstone, the most overrated and boring national park in the United States. Oh yes, I am
throwing zingers at the twenty seven hundred beat mark. Uh So, Nick, you're for sure out this weekend? Correct? You're not? You're not gonna be are okay? Landing? And just you and I we can go at three am if we want. I don't want. No one wants to talk about Houston. Yeah, well only some days, sir, not when we already have Kansas. I think Ryan actually sleeps because Ryan is up asking for the podcast link at like eight am, and he's like, oh, I go to you know, my wife gets home at two am? Like,
Ryan, do you not sleep? I average a nice eight hours a week, could be worse. Gotta get your eight hours right. That's what everybody always said. There's door dash to be delivered. It's got to be somebody anytime. I can get eight dollars for three miles. Man, I am out of that bed and into the car. This is ins the paint on Rock Chuck Blog, door Dash and all other editions. I'm Ryan Landreth, I'm John Jacob Jingle hammel Schmidt. I like that, And I am Lennon's
wife. I like that. Lest This is because I want to know. I want to know about I mean, she does you know she doesn't know that yet. Theoretically she might, that doesn't Landon said he doesn't want to get married, so possible. I didn't think I didn't want to. I just said I didn't know if it was going to be a thing. No, I thought you said, I don't even know if I want to get
well, I probably have said that. That's so you're telling me that you don't want to get married, as in that's that's right, w if it's that I'll get married each and every day, and all right, I didn't mean you think that mean Nick Nick behave on the on the western half of the United States to not disclose his location.