Well, a giant colossal to open up our week, So what else would you end your week with? Then are car crash of a podcast, but you'll have to do it with just two people. This is inside the Paint. We're going to talk about Kansas laying a giant egg. Some would even say a giant turd in Lubbock, which is the same state that one third of us is at. Nick, tell me all about what is our buddy Landon doing in a lone star state. Yeah, Landon picked up a gig
job. He is in Texas filming twelve year old dance in a dance competition. It is worth mentioning that, yes, Landon is doing videography for a professional company that is filming dance routines I dance competition. So Landon is not that's a big money. There's lots of money in that industry for him. He's getting paid a lot. He's gonna paid like two grand for like a week in there. So yeah, he's getting paid good money to go visit
Texas, the site of our Lord and Savior most recently. But also a guy from Lubbock just won a Super Bowl on Sunday, So oh yes, that that did happen that. Maybe that's why I feel like, if Kansas is gonna lose twenty nine point games, you may as well do it the day after the Chiefs win it all because I gotta tell you, I don't I don't really remember much about that Ku game. I've watched Patrick Mahomes game winning drive about twelve times, and I haven't watched a second of this game
from the moment that it ended. So I guess that was the way to do it. This is inside the Paint on Rock Chalk Blog. I'm Ryan Landruth and I'm Nick quite brute. Nick's still on his Farewell Tour podcast, and he's putting it all out there for you guys because we don't have landing and I'm sure it is very tempting, sir, to phone it in, but not on the Inside the Paint podcast. You are not pulling a Jayhawks and completely in and getting worse as the season goes along. Let's talk all
about it, AJ. I know you don't like the merry noise, but they are undefeated in WCC play, so I will play it until they're no longer undefeated. Texas Tech seventy nine, number six, Kansas wait for it, wait for it, fifty. Uh, you really can't play worse. I don't think like there's always it could have been worse guy, But I don't think that guy even appeared in the Twitter mentions because you can't play worse than that. No, I mean every single metric, it's hard to find
one thing that they did they did well in this game. And maybe it was tying their sneakers before the game, but that's probably the closest you're gonna get to. They made their way to the arena. At least the bus driver was on his game in this day, and Bill Sealth the quarter zips I thought, look good on the coaches. I like the Navy quarter zip the National Championship game vibes. But yeah, there isn't much of a game story here. Kansas was behind by nine and a half time, and that
felt like a win in itself. People on Twitter started talking themselves into well, hey, if they could come out and have a good couple of possessions early on, they may be up against the eight ball only seven scholarship players, but you know, let's see what happens should they get off to a good start in the second half, And they did not that, because then the floor fell out in the second half, Kansas got out or Kansas scored
just fifty points, shot thirty three percent from the floor, shot nineteen percent from three, and for good measure, got out rebounded by nineteen oh and their coach got ejected and they're now one in five in conference road games. But other than that, can't complain. Other than that, just that barrage of nonsense. Ugh, yeah, I mean there's really like, what do
you even start break down this game? I mean, we knew they were gonna be shorthanded, like you said, coming into this game, obviously, you know, Kevin mccohler, And yeah, like you said, it really felt like at halftime they were kind of skirting some luck. After you know,
they played poorly in the first half. We're able to keep it somewhat close at a three that Nicholas Timberlake banged in and kind of got kept them at a closer pace under ten, and then, like you said, second half, hopes that it's going to start off well, and then all of a sudden, Texas Tech rolls to like an eighteen point lead, continues hitting threes, and Texas Tech also had a guy that made all of his shots
and score like twenty points. So really, I mean, if you could talk about not your night type of game, like you said, that's pretty much not your type night type of game. Yeah, you're right. And like I've sat here and talked about how I thought Kansas has been unlucky and the road losses haven't phased me. I'm not gonna tell you that it's all gloom and doom because games like this where it all just doesn't go. I should have done a better job seeing this coming. You guys both picked them
to lose close games. I thought they'd win a close game. The schedule was brutal, having the two day turnaround again going on the road. They had just seven players, and this was kind of easy in hindsight to see coming a little bit more than we saw it, tough place to play all that, Kansas had redeeming qualities in just about all of their road games. That may just say, yeah, they may have blown that sixteen point lead to UCF, but you know, you see, it's better than we thought.
Or yeah, I know that they lost the Case State, but overtime road games are tough. Yeah, I know they lost to West Virginia, but I mean, geez, they made twelve three, so they gonna do that this one though. You really can't say a but about they just got their their doors blown off them in this one. And these type of games do happen. Sometimes they're not normally by twenty nine, but they get blown out in conference games sometimes. This is why Mildfieldhouse too. Yeah, it's
happened. Like they've had a twenty point l in each of the last like three or four seasons. It's not a doomsday scenario to have one of those. The problem is they've already racked up more than their fair share of road ls. If you had just closed out UCF and case State games, you led by double digits, you're sitting there at nine and three and we're like, yeah, just blaming on the injuries, and it's fine, but it's because they didn't take care of their business in any of the other road games.
And now you know, you can make an argument after the first couple road losses when we were like, oh, they normally win road games, and they're just one and two, like small sample size, one in five is two thirds of the road conference late, like we're running out of time to say it's a small sample size. And by the way, one in five still gotta go to Waco, still gotta go to Houston. They will be underdogs in both places. They may be an underdog in Norman on Saturdays.
So yeah, one in eight is not completely off the table in conference play for road games, which is kind of scary. I don't know, I assume that you want to say, just flush it. They're not twenty nine points worse than Texas Tech. There's a few few reasons that went, but like, it's kind of hard to give these guys the benefit of the doubt for losing on the road when that's all they've done for two months.
Yeah, the only thing you can really hang out is that they're shorthanded and they've gotten kind of a shaft when it comes to Big twelve schedule and having to play back to back weeks a big Monday on the road against very rassius raccus environments. So especially when your team's crippled like that. You know, de One Harris was injured and now mccoler has been out two games in a
row. They got no favors from the scheduling, and I'm not saying that that's some excuse, but it like it all cumulates into, you know, just kind of the reason why they just came so flat. And then also fewest points for Kansas in a conference game and herself adding to the statistics, there's only been two games that they scored less than fifty in guess the other one was I know, two thousand and five Arizona. Yeah, the five against Arizona where they still almost won in the in the end somehow. And
then of course the game of Death. I guess it is possible to play where than they did. I was hoping this was vodka, but no, just yeah, that game, the Kentucky thirty eight and O team loss in the Champions Classic. So at are. One of the better KU Twitter followers or follows is Ryan Reinhart who runs the Ain't No Seats podcast, and he talked about how this team is starting to really give off twenty twelve or Not twenty twelve twenty nineteen Vibes, which was the team that ended the streak.
I've been hesitant. I don't want to look that way because it's just it's just a bad omen Like that was the last team that was number one. We saw a guy get injured and miss extended time with Doke. Well, look at McCuller. We saw a guy have to leave the team for personal reasons. Vic that year, or Terry Morris this year. There was a blue chip freshman who underwhelmed Grimes that year, Al Marco this year. There was a big impact transfer that we thought was gonna be really good and hasn't
done much. Timberlake this year. Back in twenty nineteen was Charlie Moore. And then there was the dedrich Gloss and Hunter Dickinson who are kind of the same player doing their thing, posting all the stats, but there just seems to be something missing. That team lost six road games. That team was a four seed that got destroyed in the round of thirty two, and did it. They finished third in the Big twelve and did it make the second
weekend? Similar vibes from this team or is it kinda do you still are you still holding out some hope? You know, they've been they haven't played very many neutral site games and they haven't lost the road game yet. So I'm not saying that that the site factors in everything, but this team is kind of giving shade to that twenty nineteen team. Honestly, just kind of
how things have gone this season. Seems like they're very very that they are very thin a roster wise, and they obviously have a better couple better forwards than that twenty ninet team did. But I you know, I wouldn't rule out an unruly ground of thirty two exit this year. I think this seems a lot better than that one. I don't know if that's if that may be still me holding on to too much hope here, but I believe that this year this team is much better than that one. I believe that they'll
get it rolling in some capacity. This team has a better resume than that one did. I believe this team has a higher ceiling than that one did, and we've seen this team take it to the best teams in the conference. Also, that team twenty nineteen beat the two teams that won the league, Case State and Texas Tech Tech went all the way of the title game that year. They beat both of those teams at home by double digits.
Ironically, that was the last time a Kansas team went undefeated at home throughout an entire season, and barring an upset to Oklahoa or No, it was at Texas BYU and KSE State. Barring a major upset, this team should go undefeated at home as well. So yeah, just weird. I'm not ready to quite bang the drum there, but the similarities are are definitely real. Okay, well, let's get into the players here. We're not gonna spend a ton of time analyzing stat lines because wow, they are all terrible.
I do believe that we got to kind of put everybody in a trio.
We knew without Kevin McCuller and Jamar McDowell, who's a lesser piece, but still they have seven scholarship players, including the big twelves leading scorer out we knew that the big three that they still had left would have to play well, and instead they played the opposite of Well, yeah, a Hunter Dickinson Cage Adams into one Harris combined to go five for thirty from the floor, beginning with Dickinson, who was two for twelve shooting and had five points
and seven rebounds for easily his worst game as a Jayock. He was awful, had some disadvantages like being double team ever possession and being hacked endlessly without drawing foul calls. That's why Bill self was ejected. He made the postgame presser that he has been frustrated with the calls this season and Dickinson has not gotten a call this season, and then he was hacked in this See, like we said, it was downright awful. Minus thirty six on the night.
Oh my gosh, minus that's that's brutal. So minus thirty six I've only seen once at KU and that was Christian Brown against USC, which is that that the USC game was worse than this one. Hunter Dickinson was a minus thirty six in a game that Texas Tech only scored seventy nine points. Now only seventy nine doesn't sound that sounds a little bit like like not but in order, you normally don't get a minus thirty six unless you give up
like one hundred. So that's that's pretty wild, pretty pretty terrible, Uh, Dickinson. I'm not I know. I've been the biggest Hunter Dickinson apologist for his poor showings this year. I still think that people on Twitter who are talking about how he's soft or not good, I don't agree with that this was a bad game. He's been a better shooter. He's been in a rough couple of week strets. He can't make threes at all. It might be time to stop trying that three or four times a game. But
yeah, self got ejected because of Dickinson got fouled multiple times. They didn't call either one and they then they called the offensive foul or whatever. And that's when Seal said, you know what, I think I'd like to watch the rest of this one from the locker room. And he said after the game that Hunter Dickinson's not being not being I mean, Zach Edy has I posted this stat and it absolutely blows my mind. Hunter Dickinson is not as good as Zach Edy. Right, we can all agree on that Zach Edy's
best player in the country's the best big. He's also a system player, but he's also seven to four, which helps. Yeah, but he also has a reputation and it's this is just a completely ridiculous stat. Hunter Dickinson has taken sixty eight free throws this year in the same number of games. Zach Edy has taken two hundred and sixty one one hundred and ninety three more
free throws taken by Edie than Dickinson. Dickinson doesn't just camp under the basket like Edie does all the time, but come on, hundred Dickinson's got sixty eight free throws in twenty five games. Bill self has a beef. Yeah, No, absolutely, his rightfully sell because you know it is. I think it's a lot has to do with selling it to Hunter. Dickinson doesn't really sell it. He does, you know, kind of throw his arms up in the air after it's not called. But yeah, he's he.
I don't know if it's gonna be more aggressive, but it's just kind of who he is, like he's not He's kind of a lengey guy that just goes up and you know, gets tapped and doesn't get called for it. But I don't know, it's very odd. Another another big for ku kJ Adams entered as the Big Twelves leader in field goal percentage, went one for ten from the floor, added just three rebounds in a team high thirty six minutes. KU is minus forty three on the glass in its last three games.
You pointed this out, You had the right call on this, kJ Adams. He had nine boards in those games. Not good at early running. A big liability for Kansas on the defensive end. Yeah, that that's the problem. That's problem one. That's ground zero right now. It's the rebounding. This team can't shoot and they can't rebound. Well, who does that sound like? That's kJ Adams. You gotta be able to do that. He can jump out of the gym. He's probably closer to six six
than the six to seven they list him as. He's just not long enough. He plays pretty long at times for his uh, considering how athletic he is and considering how good of a scorer he can be. Most Knights at the basket. But I posted online if he's not going to and a couple. This was a very mixed reaction. Some KU fans thought this was a horrible take, and some agreed with it. If kJ Adams isn't gonna make shots at the rim, he's gotta sit. You can't play him. He
doesn't rebound, he doesn't shoot. If he's gonna miss shots at the basket, you gotta try to put guys like I mean, Furfey, Timberlake, and Jackson need to all be out there around to want Harris at that point, because Adams was giving them nothing. And I love kJ Adams as a player. I like so much of his game, but yes, I think that whenever your four man can't rebound. Hunter Dickinson's a very good rebounder hundred Dickens at twenty six rebounds in the last three games. By the way,
that's nine per game. He's not the problem. But whenever you put kJ Adams next to them, you can't have your your four man getting you three boards a game. As you're getting punked by minus fifteen on average for three straight nights, that is going to spell all sorts of problems. I don't know, Cam, how do they how do they fix this? Like Kj's playing a lot, Like it wasn't a problem earlier in the year, but that's because they were shooting a better percentage. How do you fix this?
He's not going to rebound. You just have to try to find other ways to score. Yeah, that's that's tough. I mean, like, I totally agree with you though on the fact that, uh, it's just he's just kJ Adams is too much of a liability, and I don't the solution isn't very clear either, because like if you're gonna sub in Parker Brown or move guys around a little bit and mix it up, go a little bit smaller. I just don't see that working well for KU either. So I
don't mind that either. I don't mind playing Dickinson and Brown together and then putting for feed Timberlake and Harris out there without mccullor. Like I know, the two bigs is very nineteen eighties of Bill. But yeah, if it's if. If kJ is not scoring, and as a result, by the way, Hunter Dickinson gets double teamed all the time because they don't bother putting
a body on kJ unless he gets within three feet of the basket. They just don't care unless he gets in the paint area at minimum, and more realistically within three feet of the basket. If Hunter's gonna get double teamed and no one's gonna care if kJ touches the ball, your best path to try to get Hunter some open shots and to get three point opportunities is to put four play four out around Dickinson because kJ is not doing anything. I don't
mind a little more Parker Brown too. I guess you just like having a cooler back. Yeah, And it sounds like yeah, right. They they avoided a loss against Baylor, but we knew that eventually, whenever you don't have your best player or your most important whatever you want to say. Mccullor is, we knew eventually there would come a day where it all hit the
fan. Hit the fan in both ways, because I think mccullor would have been the one that would have been guarding the unbelievable performance that what was the dude's name I should know this, Darian Williams. Darien Williams almost aid Damian Williams if he played for the Chiefs one hundred decads in, probably would have been the guy that would have been been tasked with slowing that down. And then you would have really really liked to have had that nineteen points per game
that mccullor has, would have really liked to have had that. Well, here is a weird stat. This is one of the weirdest stats I've seen. Kansas is five and three in their last eight trips to Lubbock. That's a winning record, but they have a minus fifty five point differential. They have either one squeakers or lost by twenty nine likes. That's right. They have twenty nine, twenty nine and ten point losses and the wins are like three, one, four, five. Little things like that have not won
by double digits in Lubbock since two than and fifteen. They're actually eight and three in their last eleven games down there. I mean, that's not a small sample size. That's winning three out of every four matchups. It's a seventy five winning percentage. They're eight and three in their last eleven and they're still minus twenty two endpoint differential. That's crazy. That's Lubbock is a tough place to play. The fans are rowdy, and they're very active on Twitter,
and they have a great fan base. But and that place has earned its reputation as one of the rowdiest arenas in the country. Yeah, and moving on, Guys who we'd hope would step up in the absence of Kevin mccollard kind of did in this game, but not enough. None of it would have mattered. They could have had Lebron James play and it probably wouldn't have gotten them to win in this game. But Nick Timberlake and Johnny fur
if you both tied the team lead thirteen points each. Timberlake had his best game of the season statistically, going five to seven from the floor with two threes and twenty nine minutes. Of course, it's in the game, they lose by twenty nine points. Yeah. So if he made his first three since Houston by going four for eight from the floor seven rebounds in thirty two
minutes, what do you digest of these wings? Yeah, you bring up a good point about how Timberlake finally plays well and the team falls to the floor. Somebody on Twitter, I think it was a case they fan found I exactly one game ago when the Psychic rock Chalk blog said if Nick Kimberlake can just average eight to ten points a game the rest of the way, I don't know if Kansas will lose it. And he goes out there and has thirteen and they lose by a mere twenty nine Yeah, oops Timberlake.
Bill sal said after the game that he didn't see any positives. Even the worst games have leading scorers, so therefore, really it doesn't matter. I do see a little bit better play with Nick Timberlake, who for the first time all year has made back to back, has made at least two threes
and back to back games. Maybe that's getting a little bit better. I posted on Twitter that I would rather go into the tournament, have Kansas go into the tournament ten and eight with a Nick Timberlake that's humming along, then went out at thirteen and five and not have anything from him. I think he's a pivotal piece and it's good to see him playing by Furfey's still in
the struggle. Bus hasn't made I think he's won for his last like fifteen from three, but he did make one in this game, and yeah, thirteen points is whatever. He's being mocked as a late first round draft pick, and that's kind of that's kind of slown down that traction in the last few games. I think Timberlake might be starting to play better. It just might be too little, too late at this point. The three point shooting
home road splits continue to be a crazy thing here. I can complain all I want about how Kansas has not guarded the three well on the road, but they've guarded it great at home at Allen field House. Conference opponents are making just twenty nine percent of their threes against Kansas, but on the road that number balloons to forty percent after twenty six. Yeah, they made eight of their first twelve, I think in this game, and that is at
Steve Doyle on Twitter, thank you for the homework on that. Yeah, is that what's that? Is that just a small sample sized bad luck or are they legitimately worse defending on the road. I mean, that's definitely not a small sample size. That's that's just there's there's there can't be a discrepancy defending on the road. I mean, they just can't like it. Statistically, there's no way that they're that different playing in a road environment. Defensively,
Yeah, I still think three. It has more. It has more to do with the home team they're facing. Have a little bit more juice and energy and start seeing the bottom of the net a little bit more. Well. In Kansas has been very poor shooting threes in Big Twelve play. I think they're at thirty two percent as a team. In conference play, they've been very poor. And whenever you are going to go play on the road, like k State didn't shoot the ball very well. They only made
thirty three percent of their threes. They were like eight for twenty three. But they still were a plus fifteen against Kansas is three of fifteen, so they had they were fifteen more points than Kansas on threes in a game that you lose in overtime, and then in this game, obviously you get blown out. The stats are going to be hideous across the board. But Texas Tech makes twelve threes, you only make three or ten threes, you only make three. That's in minus twenty one on threes in this game. Free
throws are pretty even. You make an average number of three. You make about the same number threes as they would have made. And this game is a heck of a lot different. And then you just have to be better at shooting the ball they are giving up. The first few road games were pretty close despite Kansas. How about the Iowa State game. Kansas was minus like eighteen on threes in that game and you barely lose. Like, yeah, you gotta shoot the three ball. You don't have to shoot it great,
but you can't be horrible. When they're good enough to make five or six more of them than you. You're never gonna win on the road when your opponent's making three times as many threes as you are. That's never gonna happen. Yeah, so they're one and five on the road. I mean, anyways, are we done with the embarrassing or the ridiculous stats yet?
Because Darien Williams, as you alluded to, earlier, he to Lubbock, and he hasn't made more than six baskets in a game all year, and he walks in there and goes twelve for twelve on the floor for thirty points. Because of course if you had that on your bingo card, first player to do that in a D one game in you actually know the year. Yeah, I've seen so there's some there's a lot of like mixing and matching with that stat. I saw one website say it was the first in twenty
years. I saw one that was the first in fifteen years. I think there's some variables in there, like so first when we were in we diapers, right, Yeah, it's been a long time. Yeah, there's there's some mixed stats about like, uh, first guy to make at least ten for ten while also making at least two threes. Like bottom line is this type of game has not happened in D one, especially against the defense like Kansas in an incredibly long time. That was shocking, and everything was going
in. You had shots off the backboard, you had shots that were just kind of hanging around and rolling around. And then Hunter Dickinson had a sequence where he missed three layups in four seconds. Sure, Yeah, talk more about guys who you know been scored a little bit more lately, but still wasn't the worst, but was still bad. Hair d one Harris had seven points, three assists, three turnovers in thirty six minutes. What do you
make of his game on Monday night? I don't make anything of Harris's game. He was playing hurt and he's still I mean, seven three and three is bad in any sense of the word. But he was probably if you had to give Player of the Game to somebody, if it's not Nick Timberlake, I mean, Harris was was whatever. He's clearly banged up. They've got to get him rest. Hopefully the five days off here before Oklahoma will
do him wonders because his backup ain't doing any favors. Al Marco Jackson seven points, like Harris three for five shooting in a game like this, I don't know how much it matters. I saw some people try to find a silver lining on Twitter and say, hey, he was pretty aggressive there. Yeah, they're down by twenty five and he's playing against the B team in the end, like, he played twenty four minutes and did nothing else. He had four fouls, Parker didn't score, the walk Ons did nothing.
People wanted Jank. Bill tried it for about a minute and then it was like, Okay, that's enough of that. Uh And we didn't see Jank for a while after that. Uh, I don't make anything at Harris's game. He needs McCuller and also Harris, Like, what did we say that that kJ and Hunter were together like three for twenty three or something. Yeah, Chris Paul's not gonna get very many assists if his best two guys are gonna go three for twenty three. So yeah, hard time blaming Harris.
What did you think of Self's injection? That was fun The funny thing was because he just talked about it on the last sil Yeah, we said Scott Drew and we're like hmmm. It was like it was almost like the Mandela effect because like, certainly Bill Self's been ejected from a game at Kansas before, right, yeah, right, and then he goes out there and gets a t youngs probably the softest nope double technical I've ever heard in my life rejection before. Then there is that week, right, yeah, then there
there is that. Like so Self said after the game, he wasn't trying to get run he said, he you know, he said a magic word. I guess, but I'm sure he kind of deserved the first one. It looked to me like he got the second one from standing there and smirking at the ref like I I was. If you had told me that Bill Self was gonna get ejected, I would have made time to make sure I was in front of my TV to watch it. I would have been pretty
underwhelmed. And that was Bill Sell's first ejection since he was at Tulsa in nineteen ninety nine in the game was at Wyoming. That was the only other time in his career Bill Self has been ejected, and I would only assume that one was more interesting than this one. Third time in ten days, by the way, that the Big twelve refs ejected a coach, Scott Drew, Kelvin Sampson, Bill Self, all very high profile coaches. All of them got ran self. I don't selfs was kind of weak, but also
I don't think he hated it. Scott Drews was was a joke. Samson, Okay, that that's a legit. When he stormed across, he ran out on the court and started yelling in the ref's face, that's gonna get your run. But yeah, it was pretty pretty funny how we had just talked about how that had never happened. Sale's gotten a lot of technicals this year. I swear that's like four. Yeah, yeah, I mean I
guess when the season. You know, we've talked about this before. He eases a It is a motivational tax u tactic sometimes with his teams to get a little bit fire under them. But you know, is it is a higher output this year. Yeah, I don't think that this this time was a motivational tactic. I think he was legit just kind of done, which if you were within the if you were in the final five years of being able to retire from a Hall of Fame career, I'm surprised he doesn't do
that more, especially with a team that's frustrating like this. But yeah, the big twelve rests were like, get that son of a bitch off the field right now, and and so off went Bill self in Lubbock for the for the first time in his careers. It was pretty underwhelming, though I would have I would have hoped there had been more fire and brimstone. I was wanting a Bob Knight moment. Had you told me that Bill self was gonna get ejected? Yeah? Right, So we really have blown through this
recap because there just isn't a whole lot here. Here's my attempt to kind of summarize it. I want to say flush it because every team has a game like this, Every team has struggles like this, but you can't. They're one and five on the road. They're just not good, good enough to be able to not put up a efforts and win away from Allen Field House, which is not something where normally we were used to seeing a team that the seventh or eighth guy on the bench is a four star for Kansas.
Well, now the eighth guy off the bench is I don't know if it's eight or nine, but the eighth or ninth guy in this game was a walk on. Like they're just not deep enough. You don't need ten bona fide studs to make a tournament run. You do need a bit a team that's deeper than seven guys to be able to consistently win these level of
conference games. So I think that there is I still have there's still a two seed or a high three in most metrics because their resume is so good, and because that that resume is so safe that I don't think they can fall behind like a four seed unless the floor just opens up on them. I would still bet on them going four and two or better in these last six games, assuming mccullor comes back, and there's no reason this team can't
get on a nice curve and go on a run. I mean, Yukon was really struggling at this time last year, and look how that turned up. But there's obviously I was thinking earlier today. You know, the Chiefs had what would could be considered a down year, and yeah, some head scratchers, and the Chiefs lost four of six, including that stinker to the
Raid of Oakland game. Just like Bill, just like Andy Reid, Bill self Hall of Fame coach, you never can count them out in the in the play in the postseason, and the twenty twenty two team that wasn't the best team in the country that year and then they pulled it out. So who knows, like you said, Bill's do for some positive aggression in the tournament. You know this team is gonna be playing on a neutral site.
It's not the true road games. They've got the pieces. If they can get them to stay healthy and you can get guys like Nick Timberlake to have a Malik Newman type march I wouldn't doubt this team could make the Elite eight, at least well in that Ukon team we just talked about, lost six of eight in January. Their January record was two and seven last year.
Oh I guess January thirty first counts three and seven. They were three and seven and ten January games last year, and then they obviously turned it on, Like that's how the NCAA tournament works. Perdue was the best team throughout the regular season all the way through and they lost in the first round. Like there's there's nothing that says they can't do it. They got two of the best five six players in the country. That's the glass half full perspective.
The glass half empty perspective is they have seven healthy players right now if you count Dewan Harris, who's topping a long out there. They need Kevin mccullor back, and there's doubt. If you're having injury problems like this, there's doubt that you're going to get to a point the rest of the year. The NCAA tournament selection Sundays in four weeks, so they better get it moving. And are they in too big of a hole? Are they already
too injured? We don't know. Pretty disappointing to think that this team, considering what they were at what were they fifteen or fourteen and one or thirteen to one or something like that, now to be nineteen and six. But we've seen the team's theme roll through the regular season and have early NCAA tournament exits. Who's to say that this year won't be the opposite a tougher January and February and then they start humming along when it matters most. The twenty
eighteen team is good. Is a good one that I think of that really didn't start going until right around this time. You could say the same about last year's team. Last year's team was five and three in conference play. I think they were six and four at the beginning of February, and then they started to get going. Don't doubt them, but there's definitely some stuff
there that would at least make you a little nervous. Thirty three percent from the floor, nineteen percent from three to seventy seven percent of the line, and minus eighteen on the glass, A lot of bad, bad bad. There any closing thoughts on this game? Or are you ready to flush it and move on? Ready to move on? All right, let's do it. No, I had an air horn on mute Big twelve games. Well, we had four more teams with bye week, so there are only four
other games to recap. And I believe that the cream of the Big twelve continues to rise to the top. But sadly, I don't know if the Jayhawks are in that camp. But I know a couple of teams are not these two because I did these out of order. But oh well, TCU eighty one, West Virginia sixty five, Nick. Everybody can beat West Virginia except for the team we root for. Well, wes Ninia and scored ninety
five against any of these other teams, but it wasn't interesting. Emmanuel Miller, Travion Tennyson, and jami Or Nilson all had fourteen for the Horned Frogs and Mountain years. I have scored more than seventy six points just one time, one time in conference play. Can you think of which game that that was? Was it against Case State? Yeah? I think I know, I think I know the answer, Coach Bill Sealth, You stubborn ass. So you start doing the math on this. They've only eclipped seventy six once
and Kansas scored eighty nine in that game. Wow, Kansas should be or like eighty five or whatever it was. Wow, then that should be a double digit win in any other game. But it wasn't because they scored their season high in conference playing points by fifteen against Kansas. Now that one, I won't criticize that much. That's a game they win nine out of ten times. That was just the case of stuff happens. But it's unfortunate because
a lot of stuff happens games have happened this year. TCU eh eh, right, like ye, yeah, six and five whatever, whatever, We're gonna pick them to go around too far in our brackets. That's what we do. Number ten, Iowa State sixty eight, Cincinnati fifty nine. Tell you what, Nick, You read all the big twelve games and then I'll chime in with some analysis afterwards. How about that. The Cyclones are now eight and three. They have moved into a first place tie with Houston.
Houston. They forced in insane twenty five turnovers and holed Cincinnati just thirty eight percent from the floor. That's what you get for having that nasty chili. Fifteen points from Tam Livesey and Curtis Jones. Yeah, I'm tired of Bengals fans, so that's fine. Cincinnati can lose a lot of it. But Joe Burrow is a better quarterback. If Joe Burrow had the Kansas City team,
then he would be winning Super Bowls as well. If he had Andy rid as a coach, if the Chiefs didn't have to worry about healthy Joe Burrow, then this year would have been different. Yeah, I've seen that many times. I don't even know if Joe Burrow could help Cincinnati. At this point, they're very, very bad. Four and seven. Iowa State, they're tied with Houston. They're gonna play on Monday Night. It's now the Big Monday Game. ESPN flexed a big Monday game. They took Texas
out of primetime that night. It cost the Texas boosters. I just don't say horns down. You can do literally anything to Texas, but say horns down. Iowa State is eight and three, They're a game and a half ahead of Kansas. We've been saying the whole time that they're not really a threat to win the league. I think you got to consider them. One now, they are winning on the road. They won last week, they went into Texas in one. This week they go into Cincinnati and one.
They're beating the middle of the Big twelve teams on the road, which is not something Kansas can say. I think you gotta say that this is a threat to win the league right now. Right Yeah, for certainly they're in first. I don't think they're gonna win in Houston, and I think they're gonna lose. If I'm guessing, I bet, I bet Iowa State ends the year four and three. I think that they're due to take some els. But still TJ. Alziberger, I think, I think without question TJ.
Alziberger right now is the coach of the year in the Big twelve. YEP, they're having a great year. Number twelve, Baylor seventy nine, Number twenty five, Oklahoma sixty two. We predicted Oklahoma would get squashed and we were all correct. YEP. Twenty seven points from je None, the guy that shanked the wide open three in the corner of alandfield House, Baylor made eleven threes on the night, with none making six pu do you smell
that it's Oklahoma and Porter Mooser there bums as as ass. I hate Oklahoma. If there is any team that Kansas would lose to on Saturday, Yeah, I want to talk about Oklahola being complete and total because they're six and six, and then I see who's exactly one game better than them, And therefore, if Oklahoma wins on Saturday, who will have the same record as
the Sooners? And it is damn it Bill, which is terrifying. I have never seen Oklahoma do anything interesting unless Buddy Healed or Trey Young was involved. Like, they've had two seasons that I cared about and a billion that I have not number nineteen BYU ninety UCF eighty eight. Now that may sound like a barnberer, and it was. These two teams put on a hell of a show. Nick. This was one of the weirdest SAT lines you
are ever going to see in a game. Yeah, YOUCF made thirty four shots, the BIUS twenty one and turn it over nine times the BIU seventeen, so they won by twenty right? Yeah? No again, they made thirteen more shots and at eight fewer turnovers and loss because BYU went forty for forty six from the free throw line. Good God, somebody tranquilize the freaking rafts. Forty six free throws. That percentage, though, is wild.
Yeah, they made free throw Like imagine being told going into the night that if you don't make at least thirty eight free throws, you're going to lose. And they did. They made forty. I saw a couple people on Twitter saying, oh, well, UCFL behind big. They did. BYU almost blew a nineteen point lead. They barely survived at the end the second half of this game. The score was sixty two to fifty one at one hundred and thirteen combined points. Just a barn burner there sixty two points for
UCF in the second half. Member Kansas scored fifty in the whole game this week. Different circumstances, but still, but yeah, I mean, some people on Twitter were like, oh, well this was you know, UCF had to faulty get back into it. Forty six free throws. Nobody wants that. Nobody can ever justify that. That's abysmal, Like geez, UCF should feel like they got totally hosed. Here, and honestly, the Knights have been so much better than we thought they would be in Big Twelve play.
Like the Kansas win, that's the way it happened, blew the sixteen point lead. But UCF is arguably the best of the teams that Kansas has lost to. If you take out Texas Tech, I think UCF is four and seven, but there's a five point loss, a two point loss, a seven point loss, and an eight point loss. And there they are competitive basketball team in their first year in this conference, which I think is pretty cool. Good for them. Big Twelve standings at the top, Houston
and Iowa State are co leading this league at eight and three. Yeah, and in third place we have none other than Baylor in Texas Tech to Texas team to seven and four. So, right now, the way the Big Twelve Tournament is set to go with fourteen teams, the top four teams get a double by to Thursday. There are four games on Wednesday. The five team plays the twelve team on Wednesday. So right now, Bill selfs Jayhawks sitting in fifth place seven and five would not have a bye to the quarterfinals,
and the Big Twelve Tournament got some work to do. To get that your turn. I guess you already read it. At five. Number six by U and TCU are six and five, eighth place, eternally mediocre. Oklahoma sitting at six and six and on the bubble in ninth Longhorn Network. In case theater five and six, that's the game that got bumped out of the ESPN Big Monday spot Number eleven Cincinnati and UCF they are tied at four
and seven. Number thirteen West Virginia is three and eight applicable yawn there because they are booty and number fourteen even worse. They didn't lose this week, but you know they're still they're still as Oklahoma State two and nine. A snoozefest of other games happened this week. There's really not a whole lot of interesting stuff here. The ACC race got tighter. Sarahcuse upset number seven North Carolina at the Carrier Dome, potentially the only team that is more over ranked
right now than Kansas. As UNC the tar Heels have lost three times in the last five outings. North Carolina still leads the conference, but their lead as willed away to one win. Number nine Duke did sweep their horrible Notre Dame Boston College wake for US at Cameron all in a row set and number twenty one Virginia had been on a roll, but they got upset by pitt at home to end an eight game winning streak. So the top three teams in that league U n C eleven and three, Duke ten and three,
Virginia ten and four. They are all separated by half a game, and I don't think any of them are that good. No. A team that is good though, is number one Yukon, who separated itself from the Big East pack. They unsurprisingly crushed to Paul. I wish, kay, you got to play to Paul. Yeah, I do too. Twice or they're thirteenth win in a row all Cuner before Marquette got a nice road win at Butler behind twenty seven points from Tyler Kullak, and number seventeen Creighton rolled Georgetown
at home. Surprise surprise. The Golden Eagles and Blue Jays are fighting for second place, as Yukon has a three game hold on the league race. Yeah, it's a pretty interesting league race up there. I think that Marquette and Yukon play each other this week, but it's it's even if even if Yukon somehow loses that game at home, you're still looking at a runaway Big East title for the Huskies. Who at this point, I know people are enthused about Zach Edy, the and the I just clicked on the Perdue game
and I see Zach Edy made free throw. Shocking to see him at the line. But I still think Yukon is the best team in the Big Ten. Number two Perdue did beat Minnesota, Joe Biden's favorite. They were down by eight and a half time and wound up pulling away late. Perdue is twelve and two in league play, behind them a total log jam. Number
fourteen Illinois destroyed Michigan as a butt hurt. Juwan Howard said that the only reason Terrence Shannon Junior is there is because he did not is because something about getting his offer revoked from Michigan. And Number twenty Wisconsin ended their long losing streak by beating Ohio State. Apparently, losing to Wisconsin means you have to
fire your coach, because that is what the Buckeyes did. Chris Holtman got fired mid season after Ohio State's horrendous Big Ten outing in the SEC where it just means more. Number fifteen Alabama, thirteen Auburn, and three eleven South Carolina all have nine wins, but Auburn rolled South Carolina by forty this week
proven that they're not all conference rights are as close as they seem. The Bright Tennessee blew out Arkansas to stay in the conversation, while number twenty two Kentucky ended their three game home losing skid by clipping Ole Miss at home. Meanwhile, in the it means less. Conference time is running out for Gonzaga to extend their conference streak. The number eighteen Saint Mary's Gaels beat Pepperdine,
they get to twelve and oho and West Coast Conference play. You think bill would be twelve zero and West Coast Conference player where they be one on the five in the road against the License Pacific and Diego College Bila Mary Mount, they would be twelve to zero in the in that in that conference, maybe a lot of games left. Four games left. The Zags are two games behind the Gals with a game at Saint Mary's looming on the last day of
the regular season. Yeah, it's probably over for Gonzaga at this point. Uh, They're going to have to get some voodoo magic. I mean just looking at Saint Mary's. So Saint Mary're gonna make the tournament. Yes, I do think they're gonna squeak in the tournament. I think that that went over. Kentucky will do a lot so Saint Mary's. By the way, they would need to drop at least two games in order for Gonzaga to have a chance to tie for the league title, and those remaining games Gonzaga at
home. So let's say Gonzaga wins that one and wins out, then Gonzaga would still need Saint Mary's to lose either at Pepperdine, San Diego at home or San Francisco at home. I don't see it happening. I think that
this is completely over. Saint Mary's will win the WCC and Gonzaga is very very flu Again, I guess no, Gonzaga lost that home to Saint Mary's, but if they wind up Blues in the league by a game, then they're gonna look at that one point weird ass Santa Clara loss that ended up costing them may a chance to win their what would have been their twelfth straight WCC, one short of K's record of thirteen because the fourteenth never happened.
Number twenty three Indiana State. No, I don't believe we've ever talked on this show. They lost at home as an eighteen point favorite to Illinois. Where are they ranked? Yeah? Good question. I think that this game goes to show that your question is valid. NBC hoops be bad Wichita State's not there anymore. That league is eh, really really bad. Speaking of a team that should be ranked. This week, Detroit Mercy won BABA of
course. Of course it's iup UI in Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis in a battle between two of the worst four teams in the country per kimcom. They got a fifteen point win. They're now one in twenty six. This leaves Mississippi Valley State now oh to twenty four, as the only winless team in college basketball. So did you see the If you have not already seen it,
YouTube Detroit Mercy court storm. There was one single fan that ran onto the court and started jumping up and down after their eternal losing streak came to a close. If you are a Detroit Mercy fan that showed up to support that team who was zero to twenty six, I gave you full permission to storm the floor, and I hope that you're recognized as I hope they renamed the area playing a high school basketball gym. Yeah, it looks like it
too. It definitely looks like it. Right teams to lose since the last time we did a podcast, there aren't many of them, but the ones that did got blown out. It feels like like this guy. Number six Kansas lost to Texas Tech Bill and number seven North Carolina that also want a losing skid. They lost to Syracuse. The other Carolina team, number eleven South Carolina got absolutely railed at Auburn by forty sounds like Kansas. Twenty one
Virginia they lost the pit. Number twenty three Indiana State lost to Illinois State. Number twenty five Oklahoma lost the Baylor So Zach Edy has taken thirty free throws in his last two games. Do you know how many free throws Hunter Dickinson has shot in conference play for Kansas eight in conference thirty four. So Dickenson has taken four more free throws in twelve conference games than Zach Edy has in two. I'm not saying that he's as physical as Zach Edy because he's
not. But really, we're really gonna act like that he's that less physical whatever, just completely to be expected at this point by the big twelve refs. Ask RCB, we're actually making excellent time today. I can't believe it, and we don't have very many ask arcbs. So theoretically begin to pick him though, like the pick them. This is an all time season at least for us, Like the records are pretty good. Yeah, Landon isn't last, which should surprise nobody. Landon has a six game hole to make
up if he wants to cross your one hundred and forty seven wins. I'm at one and Landon is at one forty one, so we are all pretty close. Landon's leading conference. Pick him. He's just horrendous picking other games, ask RCB at Kamlipple Golf. Do you ever spite watch in a game like that one just to see how bad it can get? Or just me? I mean yeah, when they're down by like thirty, I'm kind of
like, oh, let's see how bad this can get. I don't want it to happen, but let's see if Bill Goods ejected, oh there he goes, Well, I guess I have every I've seen everything that I could possibly need. You ever spite watch games. Yeah at Dick Underscore Taser with a our buddy, Wayne Returns, I know how much you guys like talking about the hashtag refs, So check this. I heard on the radio that every major conference except the Big Twelve has a special advisor to basketball officiating,
basically a third party reffing auditor. Googled it. It's true. Sad yep, I'm not surprised. Wayne also adds a disclaimer that that was in no way two excuse for that steaming donkey pile of basketball that we had to witness one that donkey pile. That is very true. Yeah, the Big Twelve doesn't care about the officiating. Like it's quite clear. They keep throwing coaches out and finding athletic directors when the ads are like, wow, is that
what we should be doing here? Like it's it's pretty bad, and it's always been pretty bad, and it's bad against all teams. Kansas gets great calls at Allen Field House. If anybody's watch games in Lubbock or Morgantown, I'm not sure you'd be telling me Allen Field House is the most lopsided of the Big twelve venues though it's bad everywhere. Yeah, Nick Kate's ask GARCB, so you're not gonna get him to say much if it's without land And
I'm basically going by myself at DJ Radar. What are the odds Ku doesn't make the Sweet sixteen? I will give you. I will say it's more likely than not they make the Sweet sixteen? Uh fifty fifty is furfey a one and done? Yes? You no? Ken Bill self still recruit Yeah, look at his class next year. Isn't he a number? Bill? I mean, look, Bill self kind of swung and miss with Nick Timberlake.
I don't know if you can say that's Bill selfswalt Bill self went out there and got a guy that shot forty percent from three on almost seven threes
a game for two seasons in a row. I'm not sure that. And also wasn't Nick Timberlake like supposed to be a Yukon guy and Kansas was kind of a last second at like, like, if you're gonna criticize Bill self for the misses this year, which is Almargo Jackson being a McDonald's All American and Nick Timberlake with his background not hitting I mean, these just aren't mistakes that every coach doesn't make every now and then. Right, Yeah, he's
gonna be just fine. He'll be just fine. At Travius ninety nine, I got into a debate with another KU fan about how many scholarships k you forfeited this year? Most people were like Bill self did a horrible recruiting job, But I feel like they intentionally forfeited two scholarships, and when Morris had his situation, they essentially forfeited his two down three scholarships will make any team have depth issues? Why does no one recognize this? No, you're correct,
that is part of it, obviously, the Arteria Morris stuff. I think they were still gonna do fine until that, but that is something to consider. Like they haven't had the that they've been without those those scholarships.
I think that's hurting them. Right, No, Arturia Morris is one hundred percent reason why this team is the way it's way it is right now, you think that Artaria Morris would single handedly be enough to erase all the problems, though not all of the problems, but I do think this team had him, like, they would probably not be one and five on the road in Big Twelve play at Preston's Skursik. Which current or past KU player do each of you think that you may actually be able to put up a few
points on and one on one zero the hell everywhere? No, Charlie Moore would be Charlie more can shoot like I know you didn't see it at Kansas, but Charlie Moore got buckets. Uh Wilder evers w There is not one person that's ever worn that jersey that I'm scoring anything against in a one on one game. Mayga take it to whatever number you want. I'm not putting up a point. They are just so much better. But if I had to pick one, I'll pick the worst basketball player I have seen play at
Kansas, which was probably ty On grand Foster. At Show Me Hawk, the hopium in me is saying that the recent blowout lost of Texas Tech is like when the Chiefs lost with the Raiders on Christmas and then went on to win six in a row. Yeah, we talked about that earlier. It's gonna be a lot harder for the Jayhawks do that just because the Big Twelve regular season is such a gauntlet. But I do agree with the sentiment that Hall of fame, coach, talent, and roster. Still a month ago
before the season is over, plenty of time to get it together. They just better start doing it sooner rather than later, right Yeah, Yeah, that needs to be figured out out. And the last question from at its big Drew. When mccullor is back healthy, would you be opposed to a starting lineup of Harris Timberlake, mccullor, Furfey, and Dickinson with kJ it's still playing big minutes off the bench. If Nick Timberlake's not gonna play like
he did down the Stretchkins failure, I wouldn't be opposed to it. It's still hard for me to say that Nick Timberlake is going to give you consistent enough minutes can when compared to kJ Adams, because I don't know if that's true. I think whenever Kansas is making more than fifty percent of their shots, example the Houston game, then kJ Adams fits in pretty darn well.
Where it really begins to show its ugliness is when they're having a tougher shooting day, They're shooting closer to forty than fifty percent, and each rebound becomes that much more valuable. That's when kJ Adams' liability showcase. Now, I would love to see Harris gets a pass to Timberlake, mccullor, and Furfey all on the floor at the same time. Some times maybe kJ needs to play a little bit less than certain matchups. But just saying that kJ should
go to the bench for timber Lake. Timberlake has had what like twenty one points in the last two games. Good, that's better. But that's that's that's his best two games stretch of the year, and that's what kJ averages. Yeah, I wouldn't may, I wouldn't. You know, it's not gonna happen though, because the self likes kJ so much. But I wouldn't be opposed the scene. What that would look like. Yeah, I think that's I think that's correct. If you ever have any ask rcbs, use
the Twitter hashtag ask RCB. Wow we are flying at today, sir. Look look at us just zipping ahead. Also with Landon out, do you think that Landon would date a strawberry blond with tattoos? Landon would be first in line. That might be me. Atlanta can be second in line at
that point. I know you're married, sir. I am married. It was a joke, sir, But I know that you would not would that there's still many people who are married or dead or never alive that would be in front of you in that line, because I know that that's not your thing. All right, I guess it's already time to do a preview. And this is a really lame preview because this game is going to be bad. This podcast is just lame. This podcast is interesting enough for a Kansas
Texas Tech twenty nine point l show. I think number six Kansas at number twenty five Oklahoma, I cannot believe the Sooners are ranked. Saturday, February seventeenth, at three o'clock PM, it is on ESPN. Hold on to your butts. The Stoners enter at eighteen and seven overall, six and six
in league play, one game worse in both barns than the Jayhawks. Javin McComb leads the team with fourteen points as a two guard and noncun play, he shot over forty percent from three, and he's at twenty seven twenty four percent in conference play. Their point guard is Milos you On with his eight points and nine points I cannot read it, ita and dyslexic and five assist
while doing most of his damage at the basket. Yeah, so one more time on that McCollum stat forty percent plus elite three point shooter in the non con horrendous twenty four percent in conference play, which means gear up for four for six. The rest of the Sooners lineup features wings Otega Away and Jalen Moore, who are both double digit scorers, but six' ten center John Hughley the fourth and six foot nine four man Sam Godwin have been bullied in
conference play. That's one thing I got right. I said that Oklahoma's big we're not going to hold up in Big twelve play. They have not. Hunter Dickinson abused them for twenty four points and thirteen rebounds in the game of Allen field House Nick. One would think that if Hunter Dickinson is going to get going, that a matchup in the sleepy Lloyd Noble Center against the middling Oklahoma team without a lot of front court that could be a good place to
start. You'd only hope. So Oklahoma has been exposed quite a bit in conference play. They do an excellent job keeping team off the glass. Well it's lugging for KU. Their overall defensive numbers are excellent, and they also shoot a very good seventy six percent as a team from the free throw line. They also foul out though they play at a slow pace and they don't draw a lot of contact. Kansas is just six and five in their last eleven trips to the Lloyd Noble Center. That seems low. This will be
their final visit for a while. Morgantown is the only venue where they have a worse record during the same period. I'd figure they would be in Stillwater, but that's interesting. Yeah, you would think it would be, but they have a winning record down there in still Water and everywhere but the Lloyd Noble Center other than Morgantown. I mean five losses in the last eleven years. They lost that the Buzzer on a put back by Buddy Healed in fifteen.
They lost in eighteen with Polkadoak, a game they were in control and lost late. They got blown out in nineteen when Brady Mannick went off. They lost in twenty one when I believe that was part of the three game losing streak where they just couldn't do anything right and then they lost. What else they lose there? They lose last year down There. No, when's the fifth game in the last eleven? I might be wrong on that. Fifteen This is eighteen, fifteen, eighteen, nineteen twenty one, and the
wins are the last. Have they won seven games there? Since their last fifth loss? They won? They haven't lost the porter, so that's two dubs. They beat them in twenty with Isaiah Moss random game, They beat him in seventeen with Frank Mason as a comeback. They beat him in sixteen with the Buddy Heel blow up, and they beat him in fifteen. Right, No, they beat him in fourteen. Maybet him in fourteen. That's six. They're six and four in their last ten trips, not six and
five. That's better. Okay, they've lost four times. I know that was riveting information, but it seems like every time they lose down There, something weird happened. I've picked Kansas to win every game this year. I shouldn't have picked him to win in Loveock. I really shouldn't know. That was easy to see coming, and I feel stupid for that. But I feel like this one is also kind of easy to see coming the other way. I think Kansas is going to get back on track. Here. Bill
self said that he quote anticipates having Kevin McCuller back. He said, as long as he doesn't have he said, I plan on in practicing on Friday, and as long as there's no stepbacks, I anticipate that he'll be good to go. Jamari McDowell will be back, so they'll have their full team back. And it just feels like the kind of moments where Kansas teams normally start to go. It's time for some pride, It's time to nut up
a little bit and go win a road game. You have your your whole team back at this point against a team that is sputtering the drain that's just begging for a knockout punch that you're much better than go down there and kick them in the face. I want to see Kansas. They'll show off their fangs a little bit. I think Dickinson's got a great matchup. I think mccullor having his return will help the team tremendously. And I think Johnny Furfey
is due to shoot the ball better from three. I like Kansas to win a game that down the stretch isn't super close. Kansas seventy three Oklahoma sixty two, a bounce back win for Kansas. After this, they'll play two straight at home. They get another week off after this, then they'll get Texas at home on Saturday, b Yu at home. Two games. You're gonna be favored in. Let's start to see if this team can find itself a little bit. This would be a good place to get back on track,
and I think they do it. I do too. This team's not gonna go one in six on the road this year. I just think that, like you said, the momentum, I feel like they could win the next five honestly with if they can pick up some wiminium. Obviously you could think you said, Like you said, they have that week off coming up, which be very beneficial for a team that is just nagging with injuries and exhaustion for playings so many minutes. So that'll be that'll be something to look
forward to. But I do think they won this game. Give me eighty to seventy one. Kayu has a big performance on the road. Yeah, they got to. Like if they lose this one and whatever manner, then you're done with talking about the road games. They'll be one and six and they'll have the two toughest road games arguably left at Baylor and at Houston. Like then one in eight on the road is a real possibility. You lose this game and you are almost certainly going to set a Big twelve or a
bill self record for losses in conference play. Kansas is sitting on five losses right now. They've never lost more than six, so you already have to go two and one in your last three road games to avoid what eleven and seven, geez like. Their record is really starting to look rough at this point. They've got to start winning some of these. They can't string together any winning streaks either, because they're losing all the road games. I'm with
you, I think they win this one. They really should care business. Here full slate of Big twelve and other games this week, beginning with Texas Tech at number ten. Iowa State. Boy, if this isn't easy to see coming, I think Texas Tech is gonna score about fifty eight points because they're coming off that blockbuster showing against Kansas and going on the road to Hilton. That's very hard to win. I take the Cyclones. I'm attempted to
go the other way, but it is interesting. Iowa State could be looking ahead to the Houston game a little bit. I will stay with Iowa State. Good interesting call on that. If Texas Tech wasn't coming out the Kansas game, I think that'd be a lot more. Yeah, if they didn't have a guy that just went fifteen for fifteen, I would maybe consider it. Yeah. TCU at Kansas State, I have no expectation here. I will take Case State at home. Ooh. I was gonna pick them,
but I'll pick TCU. Texas at number three Houston. I think this game will be closer than the point spread suggests. Texas has some talent and Houston gearing up for their big Monday showdown with the Cyclones. But Houston, after a week off, they get it done here. Yes, some sentiment. Number nineteen BYU at Oklahoma State. I feel like I've miss read BYU this year. I was gonna pick him to lose here, but I just think Oklahoma State might be that bad. I will take the Cougars Sam Cincinnati at
Central Florida. Do we want the Knights? Yeah? I do. I think I do too. I think I'm feeling them. They might be the better team, honestly. And number twelve Baylor at West Virginia. Everybody but Bill can win in Morgantown? Is that continue? Are you going with the fighting Bears? What's Virginia is so bad? You gotta pick Baylor? Yeah? I think you do too. I think I think Baylor is the right
call. Here we go with other games. Number nine, Duke, they played three in a row at home, not this time at Florida State. I will take the Seminoles. I will take Duke. Number four Marquette at number one Yukon Game of the Day, And how about this Yukon by ten? Yep, you Huskies win. I don't have a lot of confidence in Marquette with Shaka, They've they've been playing really well as of late, and
they have the best player in the conference. But a Dan Hurley shot, a smart coaching matchup, I feel like I know how that's gonna go. Number fourteen Illinois at Maryland. Are we trusting the Shannon juniors on the road? I don't know how good? How good? Maryland's terrible, aren't they? I don't think they're very good. Eleven ten. I will take Illinois, Number twenty two, Kentucky at number thirteen Auburn on College Game Day. I feel like, you gotta be going with Auburn, right, you love
Houston, Bruce. I do like this Auburn team. Yeah, I think they win, and I don't think it's that close Kentucky. It feels like Kentucky's just asking for the knockout shot at this point and number perdue or number number perdue, number two perdue at Ohio State, a game I think is close, but they just fired their coach. So how well, Yeah, there's a lot of turmoil in uh in Columbus. So I'm gonna go with
Purdue. Yep, I think that is the right call. Okay, So you and I are gonna do a show Sunday night, uh, and then we'll get Landing back. Right, we have one more solo show. Hopefully it's a more interesting UH game to recap the Oh okay, all right, you know what I can do that. I'm I'm feeling like we have we have some excess time here on the back end. Come on, land Come, do you miss Landing? I haven't heard that's fair yet tonight, So
I do kind of miss that. You have not heard that's fair? You haven't heard him complain about how much Hunter Dickenson sucks you haven't heard him raz you about not liking women with tattoos. It has been a weird night, but I think we did a good job and I think we got a quality show out with uh with that that not an hour and a half? Enjoy how your podcast wasn't an hour and a half tonight. This is inside the Paint on Rock Chalk Blog. I am Ryan Landreth and I am a corporate
servant. Yeah at this point probably so we will be back on Monday for you. Until then, behaviors like Landon behave yourself, Landon have fun in Texas, buddy. Oh okay, I mean if you're gonna if you're gonna say that, then I I absolutely have to How do we miss this with Landon being in Texas? Landon is in Hey, Patrick, what am I now? Stupid? No? Lin'em texted what's the difference do you think network? I bet he does. I bet you Every hotel room in the Lone
Star State has the Longhorn Network. It has to the state law. But you told me that's going away. What is going away? The Longhorn Network when they go to the SEC is Yeah. Yeah, good, good, good good behave