ITP: Jayhawks head into Christmas on high note by beating Yale

Listen to all those bells being jingled, because there is no other way this is. We're gonna talk about everything on this show, but there is no topic. There will not becoming correct. Yes there is. But as far as Christmas songs, this is at the top. There is no other number one. Here is awful take and here go. I was gonna say, here comes Grandpa Nick, but apparently here comes both of my grandpa, grandma and Grandpa Nick. Oh wow, which one of you is the grandma?

I guess I'll like that? That's all right? I mean, hey, hey, you know what, this has been a very weird twelve shows, but I will not have you guys poop on this parade. Here come the bells. All that's the product of an artist with a terrible solo career that had to make a Christmas album that somehow blew up even though it just has

a bunch of bells and an auto tune on it. All right, well, you know what I was gonna say that is, I mean, I thought I had my take didn't even last a minute and worth taking me. It's a formula you essentially, when your career is washing music, Who's done? You get this studio? You get some bells behind the track, and then you have a terrible chorus and then you write a Christmas album and make money because old people like it. Wow, you know what, I tell

you what this is? This is gonna get interesting because we've been waiting a while to have all three of us back on the same show. And it's not like that Yale game got us in the mood to talk about basketball or anything. So I guess we just have to hit you with a bunch of nonsense. Christmas edition of Inside the Paint Landed and Nick so happy to be back together for the first time. They're wearing the Santa outfits that the girls were in the Mean Girls talent show scene. Have you guys seen that?

Please tell me you guys have both seen Mean Girls? No? No, but I know I look a lot of specks here in this costume. And also it's time for shopping because it's Wednesday or something like that. Does that the out think that's on Wednesdays? We wear pink? Sir? That is that? Is? That? Is the line? Nick? Have you seen Mean Girls? No? I haven't seen it. I don't watch for any

of my movies. Gosh, holy guys, that's unbelievable class. So there is a scene in Mean Girls, which is one of the funniest movies. Like legitimately, I think it's hilarious. Uh it's and it's not that it's not really a girly movie either. There's plenty of dudes. I think it's funny too. Uh So that I didn't think just because it was called Mean

Girls that it was exclusively for we just for the record. Well, so there's a scene in Mean Girls where Lindsay Lohan, who is like eighteen years old and at that point was one of the most popular sex symbols in America and a couple other girls perform in a talent show and very very short Santa

Claus skirts. And so that is what I am picturing you and Nick doing this podcast in performing for your audience, the sort of thing that if you were to walk into novelty shop and say give me your Missus Claws outfit, they would hand over. So I'm wondering, as you guys have your you guys have your uniforms on. Kansas's uniforms were pretty good against the al So you guys, like I mean Landon had to get Hurbie somehow, right,

this is inside the Paint Christmas Edition. Didn't always their names? Did we already do this? I don't remember the last take or this take. I'm Tim Allen and Christmas with the Cranks. There you go, great, and I am Clark Griswold. Okay, So, Nick, you have texted us your favorite three Christmas movies. I'd like to hear them and then we can discuss how incorrect the rest of your list is. Yeah. My number one

is going to be Home Alone, Can't beat It, Holiday Classic. Number two is National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, and then the third one would be Elf, mostly because of Zoe's Dashanel. But which is fair. That's a good take, very good reason to put something in your top three because Zoe Deschanel makes an appearance. That's a pretty solid list, Like I don't think that well. People may not agree with that list. Pound for pound, there's

not a lot of shocking takes in that land. And give me your three favorite Christmas films. I'm prepared to hear all of these be black and white films from the nineteen forties. He's gonna say, like A Wonderful Life or something miracle on fifty fourth Streets. I just watched Miracle on thirty fourth Street last night for the first time. It's really good. Oh my gosh, Oh jeez, Landing, that's a horrible, horrible take. It's good have

sentiments. There's no senti in the world. Everyone just thinks everything's ironic and funny. It is complete and total ass all the time, boring. Polar Express is good. Oh my gosh, weapons gosh, my goodness, you just gave a take so bland that Nick called it vanilla. Nick, who doesn't like who doesn't like anything that's not out of the traditionalist book, said you're bland with a take fuller. Express is good. It's a wonderful life is good and wrong. I don't really watch a lot of how is Elf

not White? Elf is like the whitest Christmas movie of all time. There's only one everybody in Elf. Every character in Elf, besides one the bad guy, is as white as the three of us. It is the whitest Christmas movie on Earth. I think it's like a cultural icon. I feel like it is. It's about and the nice and the naughty list. And what I want to know is how many more Christmas movies Nick has seen other than the three he named. Yeah, that's true, not very many.

I I a few of them, but not have you seen a Christmas Story, because that's a pretty movie. Is terrible cringe as every time every time I hear Landon talk about a Christmas Story, his opinion gets gets worse by ten, like he hates it more. But I will say when Ralphie's brother which I can't remember his name, get Ramsey dress in all of can't put his arms down, Yeah, that's hilarious. And when he rolls around in the snow after getting scared by the bullies, that's peak. That is peak

comedy. I will admit the evil Santa Claus and Elves throwing Ralphie down the slide is always gonna be one of the better moments in a Christmas film. That's an excellent part. And then he shoots his eye out because you know, I mean the the bb Gung pellet goes off the Belta sign and hits him in the face. It's pretty good. All right, we'll talk about Christmas. Yan probably thinks Diehard's a Christmas movie. I've never seen die Hard.

I've never seen Diehard either. That's probably a bad take, But I need to see it. Speaking of bad takes, we'll have a lot of them. Let's talk about the Jayhawks. Then we'll come back to the Christmas time. I feel like instead of an air horn on this show, you're gonna get Christmas bells. This is the new air horn. It's not loud enough, but that's fine. Number two Kansas seventy five, Yale sixty.

Well. On the last show, Land and I predicted this would be sixty eight to fifty four and a very sleepy fifteen ish point win for Kansas, and lo and behold, it was a very sleepy fifteen isch point win for the Jayhawks, even though it did not look like it was gonna get to double digits for a while. Yeah, it ended up being exactly what you thought. It did not look that way for a while, especially for the

first twenty seven minutes the Jayhawks trail to forty two to forty one. We'll get to whatever that was, but I'm reading this first, and we're legitimately getting out played for real in Allen Field House by preseason Ivy League favorite Yale. But thanks to Kevin mccullor, they were able to get it going when it mattered, most using a twenty three to five run to take control. Kansas scored thirty four points over the final thirteen minutes wound up pulling away from

the Bulldogs to win their seventh straight game. But uh yeah, Yale walked into Allan field House and legit like looked like the better team for a decent stretch of that game. It was weird. Well, we knew this was gonna happen, not necessarily that it'd be forty two four already won three quarters of the way through the game, But we knew that Yale was not North

Carolina Central. We knew that Yale was not Manhattan. This is a team that's probably gonna play Princeton in a battle of whoever wins is going to be the twelve seed that is predicted everywhere to be the sexy over five pick in the NCAA tournament. Right, Yale has done this before. They haven't played Kansas in a while, but usually the IVY League top couple teams are pretty good, and we knew that their experience. We know these are obviously very

intelligent players, and they got guys that can shoot the ball. We saw that in the first half. Eventually, Kansas's talent was just too much. But this was never going to be a game that Kansas won by one hundred, but definitely one that you expected them to win by about fifteen. The line closed at fourteen and a half or fifteen and a half, whatever it was. They narrowly misscovering it. It was brutal. But Nick, you, sir, mister pocket full of Sunshine about your twenty twenty three twenty four

Jayhawks. You think that a disturbing trend has emerged. You send us a text, and I really would like you to elaborate on You said, this team really hasn't played that well since the since the second or third game of the year. Tell me a little bit about your take on Kansas now eleven and one, but definitely not playing a games time after time in the last few weeks. Yeah, it's not like I've ever, you know, overreacted in the group chat before. I don't think that's something that happens that much.

But I think that this is this is exactly the formula of a Kansas team that loses in the sweet sixteen. They're gonna play some mid major, they turn it over a bunch, and they're not gonna be an Allenfield House to have them behind their backs. And you know, I wouldn't say that the Stints Kentucky that they haven't really played well. I mean, they beat Yukon, they had a great first half against Yukon. They obviously pulled through to be a top five, top ten team at home, which is great.

That was a great win. But there's I mean, you look at the rest of it. They haven't not had a good stretch of forty minutes of just playing great basketball since then. And I think that you know, you look at good wins against Tennessee. Obviously they've played some tougher teams they went in Indiana, but they throughout all of this, it just seems like there's been time so they have not figured it out to get a good stretch of offense going in the second half. It took in this game. It

took final five minutes to finally pull away from Yale offensively. You're having Kevin mccolor anchor you and try to pull you into these games. Without him, I don't know where you're at. Hunter Dickinson looked a little confused. Granted, I I kind of heard that he might be battling flu symptoms. Or something. But right now you're looking at a team who just really hasn't figured out how to have sustained runs and not disappear at times in these games.

And I think that that's definitely something to concern going down the stretch. And you know, they're eleven and one, and I don't know if you can say that eleven and one is something to you know, be disappointed about, but I am going to say that, like when you look at this team, that the potential is there, and they the Eastern Illinois game is a good example of how they just don't look since the ninety nine point wins against

Manhattan and in C Central, they just haven't looked dominant. I want to see a game where they just kind of control the tempo and control the pace and the scoring for all forty minutes, and we haven't seen that that yet this year. I know we're still the two guard is questionable. Marco Jackson didn't have a great night tonight, but got guys like Nick Timberlake stepping up.

But like I said that, there's seems like there's so many sustained moments in these games where the team just does not have consistency, have droughts, and I think that is gonna hurt them down the road. But like I said, right now, you can't you can't fault them for having wins against the top ten, and obviously the one blunder was Marquette where they did get

blown out. But like I said, I'm concerned as as we enter in the final stages of non conference play, You've got a game which which does state I want to see some progress when it comes to can this team control the pace of the game and turn it over less? And those are controllable errors too, defense turnovers, those can be improved, but a lot of things just can't be taught, and you start to wonder if this team's offense

is going to keep pace throughout the season. I think guys like Nip Timberlake playing better are definitely gonna help getting Hunter Dickinson back into the full rotation and back to his full strength. I think that's gonna be important as well. You have two All Americans on this team, so certainly no doubt they're in

the front court. kJ Adams has been beyond fantastic this year, but just as a team playing cohesively, turning the ball over less and finding ways to score, and you know, you'd hope at this point maybe they'd have a little bit better than the seventy point outing in these past few games against some of these mid majors, you know, UMKC. But it is the early on in the season and they are eleven and one, so I don't think

you can fault them for that. Landon. I I mean, on one hand, he's right, Kansas hasn't put together a quality forty minute game since honestly probably the second game of the year when Manhattan came in here and they blew the doors off. And on the other hand, they've been playing pretty difficult competition. I know they've had a couple of games, undoubtedly against teams that they should have blown out that they really didn't like Eastern Illinois and UMKC

they kind of screwed around with. But then there's also plenty of games wherever they did beat a top ten Tennessee team, they did beat a top five Yukon team, they handled Missouri, who I know isn't great but still is a big rival, and that game was their super Bowl. There are definitely I think the correct answer is probably in between that everything is fine and Nick saying, Oh, this team's got a lot of problems. Is Knicks take

pretty rational? I think it is compared to other Ku takes you may see. But curious where you come in with this. Yeah, I think it is somewhat rational. I do think he's right in the like if this was like if this was in a vacuum. You know, they've we've seen them over many years and many many different teams have completely uninspired outings that they win right before Christmas break. That's super normal. But this has been a trend

of this team since the Manhattan game. Really obviously like there's been good wins in there. You know, Yukon, Tennessee, Kentucky are those are excellent wins. But then you know, beating Eastern Illinois and UMKC and a couple of these other teams kind of the way you did, you know, it leaves you wanting more. I think in a lot of cases, I do have some real questions about this team that I thought I would, especially if

you told me they'd be eleven and one. I thought, you know, you'd probably lose a close one to Marquette or Purdue and when the rest going away, and you'd be feeling pretty strong, but you know, they did lose a game to Marquette that wasn't too bad. But other than that,

it's it's been weird. It's been really weird. I don't know how much I am putting like a lot of stock into all of these games, because I think there's a very good chance that they're just gonna be a team that doesn't lose very much in conference play either, no matter who they play, because again, we have seen them play good teams and win. I think focus and motivation has a lot to do with this for this team, because they just like when they have to. We've seen it against all every team

they've played. Really when the lights get the brightest at the end of the game and when when the chips are down, they just turn it on and they find a way to win. With one exception otherwise, like you and Case, they just turned it on when they had to. Yale, they turned it on at the end when they had to, And when they do that, they've looked quite unbeatable. And I think you're gonna see more of

that come conference play. But I am worried that if they do show up unfocused obviously in conference play, there's a much greater chance you're gonna get caught a couple times, but I don't think that'll be the case. I think they're gonna show up pretty focused once Big twelve Play starts up well, and they remind me of the twenty nineteen twenty team, which obviously was the number

one overall tournament seed waiting in line if the tournament didn't get canceled. That team wasn't just blow you away impressive Udoka kind of caught fire at the end and gave you some of those performances. But I mean that team beat UNC Greensboro by twelve, then they beat East Tennessee State by twelve, then they beat Colorado by eleven, and then they beat Stanford by fourteen, Like there were plenty of games in that non conference schedule. Also, that team was

ten to two, not eleven and one. And then Kansas just rolled through Big twelve play there with only one hiccup, But there were plenty of seventy four sixty eight or sixty nine fifty eight or ninety one seventy three sort of conference wins. Like they just didn't blow everybody away there either. I think that team's the comp right, a dominant post player, a really good perimeter player, and a bunch of role players that can't really shoot around the rest

of them. That's what the team reminds me of the most, and that team to just find. Kansas is a top ten offense from a field goal percentage perspective right now, and they are a top twenty defense in terms of field goal percentage. As long as those two things continue to be the case, they're gonna have plenty of games that they win by twenty points. That's that's just setting up dominance. The issue for Kansas has been they turn it over too much and they foul a lot. That needs to change. That's

that's one of the things that will ultimately lead to them scoring more. Nick, you mentioned Kevin ncolor. If it wasn't for him, it would have been worse. Indeed, tell me about the best night of maybe in all Americans for a season so far. Yeah, definitely. As he said, it was a crew knight for Kevin mccoller, who went for offered thirty four points and eleven for eighteen from the floor in thirty seven minutes. He was seven for eleven on twos, four for seven on threes, plus eight for

eight at the free throw line. He also added six rebounds for assists and two steals. Bill self said after the game that he's one of the five best players in America. I argue he's top three. He's now averaging twenty seven and five while shooting fifty one percent. Is he Is he all an American? I think I tend to think that he is pretty clearly in the top three of the Natesmith runner up, I mean running Obviously, Zach Edy's still in college, not being college, but yeah, yeah, he's He's

definitely an American. There aren't five players better National Player of the Year race right now? Is Zach Edy and then the field. Terrence Shannon Junior is in there. Kevin mccoler is probably ahead a Hunter Dickinson in the KU rankings honestly, But yeah, Landon, we said we needed this guy to take a step forward, and he's taken two step forward. He really did drink the Yabaji and Jalen Wilson. I'm sorry, but why why is Zach heat He's still in college? This guy, this guy needs to go to the

NBA or find a job. No, that's not an unfair take, except that he's extremely good and very, very dominant. It's also like, the dude is seven foot ten, so I hope he's good at basketball. Well do you think that? But we all watched Taco fall be not that good at basketball despite being seven to six or whatever it was. Yeah, but yeah, mcculor like he like you said, Ron, he did take that jump. He took that leap, the senior leap, and he is shooting

the ball well too, much better than we even predicted so far. No, again, we've seen a lot of guys shoot well, non con not shoot well in Big twelve play, so we'll see what happens there. But nonetheless, he has been sensational. Also, thirty four points are the eighth most in a game. Under Bill self, Nick, can you name the other seven performances? I wasn't. Wasn't Frank Mason one of them? Nope,

nope, already lost Lanton. You can play too. There are seven games I saw players, Oh Will Chamberlain, Well, it says under Bill self, Ah, this you should not go to get We covered like three of these. This. This definitely did not go like I thought it was going to. Here. DeVante Graham is one of the Yeah, Devonte Graham had two. He had thirty five against Toledo and Syracuse. That's two of seven. How many more you got? I believe there's one very recently.

Jalen Wilson had thirty eight last seasons correct at Kansas State. That's the second most, our third most, right, second third most, Yeah, third most. I also think there's a recent one too. I think Wasn'tchaia Boggi had, you know, like thirty seven in a game or something, good, good, good good. That's four you got three left? Yeah, you're missing one and two. And then there is a thirty six performance in there somewhere too. And I'm forgetting the thirty six. Who was the thirty

six? Yeah, thirty six was. Yeah, it's probably the least standout worthy of these games. It's it's an oldie. It's before you guys did the show. I'm trying to think of someone that would have been before the shows that had been like twenty fourteen, forty one, A thirty nine and a thirty six was Aaron Miles at the front end of the bille Cether didn't play on herself. I don't know. I'm Johnna blank Land and what landon? What do you got one of them is the highest recruit of all time.

Yeah, oh yeah, that's Andrew Wiggins at West Virginia. No time, Grandam Foster was actually the one that had forty one points against West Virginia. And the thirty six point one you're missing Landon was also against West Virginia. We'll trying to think because I know there's one against Iowa State. I think really it was, Yeah, it was big Wadger was Elijah Johnson at I was say, yep, that's correct, that's thirty nine and you're missing

you're missing the thirty six you're missing one. No, it was at Allen Fieldhouse. It was a blowout and it was kind of like mccouler where you look down and oh he has that many Ben Macklimore, Yep, back in twenty thirteen. That's correct. Good work. Next, I don't know if you looked up Rock Chuck blogger or not, but you got the answers right. Those are the seven performances that are better than Kevin mcculler's thirty four. Somehow, this is the only thirty four point game exactly in the Bill Self

era. Well, those are the bill ones in the Bill Self era. What is the most points ever scored in a game for Kansas and it's not in the Bill self era ever. Uh, do you have the answer in front of you. Yes, well, it's Wilt scoring like what probably something in the sixties, right, fifty two points? But who was who was he playing against? Jesu? It was Wilt so it's probably the Kansas YMCA. No Northwestern? Wow? Okay, yeah, it was fifty two points

against the Northwestern. Interesting, So Kevin McCuller was two thirds of the way to the all times score record. That's a bummer. You don't see many fifty point games in college because Tony Bennet has ruined the offense. Thanks Tony and Dick. Oh. I don't know if I can stand it on the air. I have to go back. That's yeah, drop that. That'll that'll be a drop that when we talk about Virginia in the future. Okay, speaking of those things, the Jayhawks not named Kevin McCuller, they were

all. They were that because they were bad. Forty one points for Jayhawks not named Jim they did yeah on sixteen for thirty nine from the floor, which is well, I wrote bad, but it's also as yuck. It took until the final five minutes for the rest of the team to total more

points than McCuller. We'll talk about the rest of the team in the day, but first, Landon, you already lost a prediction that you stated, so I feel like you have to eat the crow and talk about how that prediction that you made that this player would go the whole year without scoring double figures. It went, uh, hold on one second, I'm trying hold on everybody, Hold on your hold on your horses. Landon's prediction went, come on, here we go, Ali you kaboom, Saint Nicholas Timberlake.

He did finish with thirteen points, eclipsing ten, though I said he would not do that for the rest of the season. He was six for ten from the floor, which was second on the team in both Johnny Furfy was not with a team for this game September late got thirty minutes. He finally looked like the player that they thought they were getting from tausand who made three of his seven threes. I don't know what to really take at this game. It's weird, it's Yale, but it's also a lot better than he's

looked against other opponents that were worse. So it is I see Nick, What do you think of your fellow Nick having a bounce back game? Yeah, this is what we wanted to see for a while now. I mean a couple times earlier this season he'd take a shot and you think could go in and that he'd finally get the confidence back, because we know he was a great shooter at toowsand shooters shoot regardless of where they're at. But it's finally good to see him get something to go in the basket. I know

that I been wanting to see that in this game. It was basically white and white crime with those threes. But it's like Clark Griswold, you know, push plugging in the lights, and the light just came on for Nick Timberlake, Like, yeah, I cannot believe that you have not seen that movie. I can't. Yeah, that's Insane Land, and that's that's a classic. But as I was saying, the lights just came on for Nick Timberlake, like, shooters are, like I said, so streaky and a

just confidence thing. And I think finally seeing it going in the hoop is a big thing for him. He said in the postgame presser, like this, like this is what Bill self. This is the guy that Bill Self recruited from tousand to play at Kansas. The light switch flipped on, and I think, hopefully that's something we're gonna see. Yeah, as we go

forward, that right there is what I was gonna say that. Nick Timberlake also agrees with your sentiment that the light kind of came on in that game, and I think that as weird as this sounds, I don't know if I can say this. He it felt like an unlucky thirteen points. He had like two threes that roll around and bounced out. He almost had even more than that. He was really good. And this boy to the they

need this. They got actual bench production in this game on a night where Hunter Dickinson had his worst game of the year and kJ Adams had his worst game of the year. They needed that bench production badly. As Nick is pulling up him side by side with Justin Timberlake and it's honestly not the worst combination. He's gonna say, this is Nick Timberlake. You guys do not look alike. Because Nick Timberlake looks like he is forty two years Justin Timberlake

kind of have a similar nose. Thanks. I guess wow, there you go. You can hang that banner, sir, have a similar nose with Justin Timberlake. It's exciting. Yes, Timberlake was really good. Let's see if he builds on it. I love how they kept clearly. Bill self was okay having him shoot the ball. He was pretty rough on defense early on, but whenever you make threes, you make up for a lot of those sins. So it was awesome to see and happy for him. He's

worked as hard as anyone on this team. He's hurt the criticism and he wants to play well more than any of us want him to. So good to see him have a big performance and in the first semester break on a high note. Also having a good performance from a three point shooting perspective was, of course, the man himself, August Mahoney. You knew that he was gonna make some baskets. He did. Him and John pull A Kiddess combined to make five threes. The big dorky Sinner also made one, even

though he struggled for the most part. Anytime Yale comes in Allen Fieldhouse, you know why guys are gonna make threes and now Kansas can say that they've been threed by a guy named August. I've never met a man named August in my life. Never heard of that being a thing, have you? It is every month a name? I guess there's there's not any people named like February before. Yeah, October, October is a name. Decober. Sure, I will have you know that Tony, Tony Gonzalez's wife is named

October. That is absolutely a name. Yep, that is. That's the only time I've heard it. But it's I've heard it, and yeah, I've heard November. I've heard August, I've heard June, I've heard May, I've heard April. Yes, they're probably not March. I would guess not a lot of February is out there. Yeah, that's so Januaries though, I've heard I know a couple of Januaries. Yeah, that's a thing. Why on earth would anyone name their kid January? Just like so many

modern names just make no sense. Why not have some like classic throwback names or something. Let me let me find the exact stat because this is amazing. So in twenty and twenty, there were over one hundred babies worldwide that were named COVID, c ov I D seriously Nope. Like names like Noah, Well, there's also Absta. Absta was a popular name, and that is a five letter name spelled ABCDE. So people are getting all sorts of

creative with their baby names. People are weird, man. Yeah, it's it's too hard, right they they If they don't like a European city, then what else are you gonna name your daughter? Come on, there's nothing else that you can't Rules of naming of daughters Number one, pick a European city. Number two, pick a name and at an a on the end of it. If you don't like those two rules, then I guess you have to go with January said people. People can pick better names than that.

And then now here comes Nick with his with here comes traditionalistening Jane's here and they better not have tattoos. Okay, let's talk about Hunter Dickinson next. Save us. You don't like my daughters Marseille and Toyota. I wish I was named like Alpha Alpha Remo or something. But yeah, Hunter Dickinson had his worst game of the season. Or am I supposed to we? Am I supposed to read to one? Harris? Nope? No, nope, Well nicely just buy his own volition, decided to do the correct thing

in the notes, and then second kissed himself. Yeah. I mean I think I got white guys confused, so sorry for that, but yeah, that's the game. Yeah. Having his worst game of the season, though, was Hunter Dickinson, who was held to eight points and four for nine shooting in ten rebounds in thirty five minutes. He did not attempt a single free throw and turn the ball over at team high three times. This was the fifth straight game that Dickinson has been held under a season average in scoring.

Is this a concerning trend emerging here? Is it's just a product the team's committing so many resources to stop him. I think that I should file a motion with the Lawrence Police Department that I'm allowed to hit anybody who talks a baud about Hunter Dickinson in the head with an inflatable hammer unlimited amount of

times. No, there is not a disturbing trend developing here. Underhaf to get a camera to watch my house because I wow, oh okay, he sure, go ahead and tell me how go ahead and tell me how mediocre he is. When they got four fricking guys on him, and no one are on the perimeter kids worth guarding because they can't shoot land and go ahead. Now, admittedly, yes they are. These teams especially are guarding him with a lot of guys. They are committing so much to making sure Hunter

Dickinson does nothing to hurt them. But Hunter Dickinson also doesn't like do anything to create his own looks. Very often when he does, he makes them. And I'm not saying like taking guys one on one. I'm just saying like post moves, just general stuff in the post that you know, we've seen Kansas Biggs and all bigs do to create their own shots, but he doesn't do a lot of that, which is kind of concerning and is kind of weird. Again, he is double triple, quadruple teamed in the post

a lot, so we can't do that a ton. But it is a really weird thing. I noticed it earlier in the season. It hasn't really bit them, and it really didn't even invite them that much in this game, but it is a weird thing. And he he is not like an insanely high percentage shooter like period. Kind of Now he's gonna have a great, big twelve season. I have no doubt, but they're just some weird

stuff with Hunter that I'm not like, I'm questioning a little bit. I have caught he's going to be very good, but I do have some questions. All right, that's that's a tanke. I don't think it's truly fair, because man, the guy's worst game he's gonna have this year is eight and ten while being triple teamed. Like, I don't know what else you really want him to do. I think that this is a product of the other guys not being super concerned with Kansas's assortment of three point shooters, so

they don't feel the need to seal that very much. And the last few teams have been okay, letting CAJ beat them, and instead they triple team Hunter. And when CAJ isn't performing well, then this is what you get. Kansas's front court didn't play well at all in this game, and Hunter didn't play great. But I mean, my goodness, if you asked me, you gave me a piece of paper and a pen and told me write

down Kansas is ten most pressing problems. I don't think i'd write anything that has to do with Hunter Digginson, Like, I don't know how he's not one of their ten biggest problems, is he? I don't. I doubt it. No, I wouldn't think it'll develop in an actual huge issue. But there's I don't know, there's I think there's some weirdness. It is compounded by the fact that people are triple teaming him. Don't get me wrong. Everybody tells me soft and oh he would suck if he wasn't seven foot

two. Well he is, So I'm glad we're having that conversation. I mean, like, geez, it's if if that's really stupid. So like he's a seven foot two center that's gonna average that's currently averaging what nineteen and twelve? Like man find something, it finds something worth complaining about. At this point, I guess he's been he's been fine. I don't know. Like this guy, for example, we all point the pitchforks at the wan

Harris ten points, six assists, forced deeals thirty five minutes. There's not a lot to analyze here. He was three for five from the floor. He's been in that three for five, three for six the last few games. That that that regression, that we've seen the law of average is starting to balance out his game again. This looked like the Dewan Harris we expected to see all year. I assume you guys don't have a lot to say here. Uh, it was good to see Kansas make their run with the

one Harris playing well, and that's what happened. Nick. Yeah, I mean, I don't understand why de one Harris just does not shoot the ball more. He is who he identified himself as a good shooter. But I'm not concerned about him. He's fine. All right, Let's talk about everybody else Land, and I feel like let's put everybody else into I wrote in the notes, one big pile of underwhelmingness. That feels fair. Go ahead, Yeah, I think it is. kJ had six points, forces two

rebounds in thirty six minutes, only two of eight from the floor. Was definitely trying to force some things at times. Marco Jackson had a very uninspiring night, one of six from the floor, turning it over several times under his own basket when he got too sped up. Jamreal, mcdallan, Parker Brown played just five minutes each. They were okay, and they're five minutes anything else really to say about these guys. Any concerns here? I got

two concerns. One. kJ Adams doesn't rebound enough. This is going to be a problem. Hunter Dickinson is one of the greatest. He is the leading rebounder in the nation right now. And Kansas as a team right now is one hundred and thirteenth in total rebounds per game. That's a problem. They're also like and a lot of that is they don't get a lot of offensive rebounds because they shoot such a high percentage. They are fifteenth nationally and

defensive rebounds. But Hunter Dickinson's averaging over forty percent of this team's rebounds. That can't be a thing. That's going to be a problem. I guess it's about thirty percent. Kj's got to be better. If he's gonna play what thirty six minutes at the four, you got to have more than two rebounds in that because Yale was getting a lot of second chance looks as a result of kJ not getting rebounds. Second thing, why does Jamari McDowell,

Why does it take everybody else being uninspiring to get him a shot? We've said this many times. I don't get it. Yeah, and I know his ceiling isn't like the highest on the team. But with Johnny Furfey in Australia and Arco going one of six, and I know Timberlake even had an okay night, But yeah, I just I don't quite get what it's going

to take for him to get more looks. I mean, McDowell is not going to be, you know, an All America this year or anything, but he definitely is a valuable player if you want to be that defense was going to stifle opponents, and we're gonna let Dickinson and mccullor just cook opponents to death. You could do a lot worse than having McDowell on the outside just playing good defense and passing it inward to those guys. He doesn't turn

it over unlike Jackson and Timberlakes sometimes. And boy Jackson had a rough game, as you said, but overall self rides with him five times the minutes as he does with McDowell, and I think for the long term future this team, I'm getting a little bit less confident by the show. You know, Game two, Game three, when McDowell wasn't playing as much as al

Marco. My attitude was, well, self knows how important al Marco developing is to this team in March. Okay, well, now we're getting a little bit closer to the halfway point in the year, and Jackson hasn't taken the leap forward on offense that I thought he'd by now. He's a really good defender, but offensively he definitely has moments wherever he's a net negative for Kansas, and I don't think McDowell does interesting decision byself. KU forty seven

percent from the floor, forty five percent from three. They did make all twelve of their free throws. That was good one hundred percent at the free throw line. It's been a while since they were ten for ten or more from the free throw stripe, so that was good to see. Give me a closing thought on this game. They beat Yale, It wasn't particularly inspiring. The last game of the year before Christmas. Never is that inspiring.

Basically a clone of the game against Harvard last year at Allen Field House. It's just a sleep walker of an evening and they've had some sleepy games in recent memory. But overall, they are eleven and one and unless they lose to a Wichta State team that they'll be a double digit favorite, and they're gonna enter conference play with one loss through two months. Tough to be that

disappointed, right Nick? Any final thoughts, Yeah, I think KYU has a good opportunity in this last non conference game to really put things together. It just maybe well complete performance, But that's what I want to see. I want to see consistence forty minutes of basketball. I know that's not gonna happen every game. Conference play is gonna ramp up, and it's got tougher. So now's the time you buckle in. How many games wo Kansas winning

Big twelve play? Sorry, Landon, I'll get right back to you. No, you're good. What do you think, Nick? I still think it's probably like fourteen or fifteen, fifteen, fourteen. If they win fourteen plus Big twelve games, I don't care how impressive they are. I don't care. If they win all fourteen games by one, you cannot call them a week. What would that be? Twenty five regular season win team,

twenty six regular season win team. Yeah. I just think that they have a lot of winnable games coming up, a lot of the worst conference teams, so that they might potentially be nineteen and one. But this might be one of the worst nineteen to one teams we've seen. Oh that's interesting, Landon, What do you think. I don't know. I'm gonna have to see them play Big twelve games, I think before I can make a judgment like that. As a spoiler alert, they're gonna win a lot of them.

They do every year. They are gonna win a lot of them. I think it is gonna be important how they look winning them. They are gonna win most of them. I think there's a very good chance to win the league. Really intrigued to see how they look on the road against the likes of Houston and Baylor and some of these teams that they don't play for a while. Their Big twelve schedule, Yeah, their Big twelve schedule is so soft to start, unless you're a believer in Oklahoma, they really don't

have. I don't know. They're probably not gonna be a dog until geez, mid February TCU at Central Florida, Oklahoma at Oklahoma State at West Virginia Cincinnati. Like, that's six games. You're a three point favorite in all of them, at least, not saying they're gonna win them all. But boy, they play both games against Baylor, both games against Houston, both games against Kansas State, and they're one game against Texas and their road game

at Oklahoma. All of those games are second half of the Big Twelve schedule, So it's if they're not eight and one or so through nine games, then we are gonna see potentially some problems in the league race. But at least for now, I don't think there's a lot to be concerned about any other takes, any of the thoughts. No, I think this team's still good. I think they kind of can't be bothered to play teams that they know they're better than. Yeah, I think it's very chief like in that

sense. The Chiefs look very bored. Not necessarily this team because this year's team Chiefs team isn't quite as good as years pass, But how many times like the was it the twenty twenty team that had like eight straight games that they only won by one score and every game was the same. They'd lead like thirty to thirteen, and then it'd wind up being thirty to twenty three because other teams would just score late. The Chiefs would get bored because they

knew they already had it. One like that kind of feels like this Kansas team, doesn't it. Yeah, it's definitely very like Kevin Durant Steph Curry Warriors esque. Yeah, you'd expect that team to be, you know, a sixty win team, and then they'd always win like only fifty two and they'd still lose like twenty. But it was just because they did not care, because they knew that their goal was to win the championship, which they end up doing. I don't know if this team's that good, but they

do feel bored. Yep. All right, now let's talk about other games and then we can get on to the Christmas questions. Well, I said that I was going to play jingle bells every time instead of the airhorn, and I already forgot and I'm not clicking back that. Oh here it is? Look at that. Are people actually listening on Christmas? Eve? Do you do people turn this on whenever they're driving to like their family's house on

Christmas with their their relatives in the backseat? Cam Lipple, I don't think kids, I like, do you think any children have listened to it? Do you think at any point and this show's run children do you hope or do you think at some point in this show's run. Uh, somebody has been listening to this show and with their kid in the backseat of the car and one of us has started talking about something inappropriate or the ass drop starts,

where then the volume has to get turned down. Has that happened at least once in the history of Inside the Paint It must have. Nick has talked about Penn State too many times to have not come up at an opportune time for something. Okay, what did you do at school today? Well, we did, we made art prak chuers and then we did recess and let me turn up my podcast, real fist ask, oh, let me turn this down. That's that's absolutely happened at South Wait. Guys, I

have this on my on my on my resume. We can't talk about anything inappropriate today and other news. Penn State their first game in ten years against Michigan State. It was kind of a close call, if you know what I'm saying. It's been at least five years since I've said a Penn State joke. It's been at least five years. Oh boy, I Bill Belichick throwing challenge flag dot gift on that statement. It's been at least a year,

but five years is a little strong, sir. Speaking of it's been about five years since Baylor beat a good team two straight els for number six Baylor, who dropped a game in New York City to number twenty one Duke seventy eight seventy I don't remember if I said it or not, but if I didn't big twelve games, the Bears struggled to get stops late, while the Duke backcourt, not the Kyle Philipowski front court, was the ones who

did the damage. They attacked the baskets throughout the second half. Watched the last ten minutes of this game, it felt like every time I was like, Baylor really needs to stop here, they didn't yet. One While the Bears did bounce back by beating zero to twelve Mississippi Valley State by fifty nine the other night, Scott Drew's team is ten to zer against unranked teams and zero to two against rank ones. That seems to be a trend for a

lot of the top teams in college basketball. Would you be concerned if you're a Baylor fan that I'm not a top ten team? Sure, I would not be concerned about their like general quality. I still think they're a very good team, but yeah, maybe maybe not quite ten to two, maybe not the sixth best team in America. I think they're kind of what they always are. I think they're really good on offense and the defense is leaky.

Like, look what happened last year. They won a lot of games, they got a one seed, and then they lost in the second round. Like I don't know, like they just feel like that. Usually teams that have very mediocre defenses don't usually do real well in the NCAA Tournament relative to their seed. And I think that with a freshman led three point barage offensive juggernaut, I think that's kind of what you might be setting up for.

But they will beat Kansas and Waco because they do that every single year. Is that new building open, sir? It opens on January first. It's in the new year. So Kansas will get to play in that new building. No more Feral Center, at least they'll thank goodness. Yeah, the place is like two five hundred less seats because, as we always know, the Faral Center, there's no one ever there at those games. The last time that Kansas won either at Baylor or at Texas was before COVID shut

everything down. So it's been a while and they're not gonna play in Austin anymore times on the schedule, so they gotta get it done. Speaking of teams that cannot sell out their home arena, Number seven Oklahoma lost a number eleven UNC in a game that wasn't ever actually that close eighty one to sixty nine. RJ. Davis scored twenty three points in motor Porto motor or vaunted offense was held to barely forty percent from the floor. The Sooners are ten

and one. How many Big Twelve games are they gonna win? Like? Seven? Yeah, seven to eleven feels pretty right. Oklahoma is sitting the top Fraud Mountain. They planted their flag right there atop Fraud Mountain. Frauds vacation is that is? Yeah, he has a house there and they built it up by beating a bunch of tiny directional schools. They're not the number seven team in the country. I'm not even sure that the number seven team in the Big Twelve. They might be that there might not be a ranked

team though. Yeah, we'll see. Let's take a look. All the Big Twelve schedules are about the same. But here is how Oklahoma plays. So their next two games are Central Arkansas and Monmouth. Think they're gonna win that. Iowa State at TCU, at Kansas, West Virginia at Cincinnati. I predict a losing record through five games for the number seven Oklahoma so owners, as everything goes quiet, I truly did not hear your question. I was reading ahead. I was trying to be prepared, and I just kind

of zoned. That is okay, because something else that would be nice if you could zone and not have the consequences show up. That's what Houston could do because they play the worst schedule I've ever seen with my eyeballs as a result of beating Texas State by thirty five points. But the metrics, that's right. They are number one and Ken Palm and they are number one in the net. ESPN has moved Houston up to a sixty eight percent chance to

win the February third game at Allen Field House. It's like Vegas and ESPN have never witnessed games in Allen field House before. Oh yeah, no not they They think Houston's is the best mask. Chris Fridl to Houston a ninety nine percent chance and winning out for the house. Yeah, Chris Reynolds has already written him in with a sharpie on his one line for his bracket that's

coming out here in a few weeks. The Cougars are twelve and oh against the one hundredth ranked strength of schedule, and their fans were in the Rock Chalk Blog mentioned they have fans telling me how hard it is to hold Texas State to thirty seven points. Great, good for you With Houston. It's actually have a recording of Ryan Landrath then his opinions that Chris Reynolds, Wait, it's not Oh, all right, it's not working, So I guess

I may PUDs in. Oh, It's okay. Chris is very excited about how Houston's twelve and oh he's so excited about it that he's going to drop Kansas to the third number four seed. I believe. Uh, stay tuned to see how that tunes in. Oh also very hard to hold to thirty seven points. Texas State also scored forty eight points against McNee State and sixty seven against Southern Utah. They barely eclipsed seventy against Titan Miami Ohio UTSA.

Now they did put up und seven and one hundred and ten. One of those was against Jarvis Christian and the other was against Latournos as as the Latno Yellow jam ass. When I clicked them, my computer does nothing. My computer does nothing when I try to click their team name. So I was looking up Wichita States schedule because that's obviously who Kansas plays next. And they played and counted a game against Friends University in Wichita, and that is an

NAIA school that they beat by thirty points. It must be a thing. Laturno has a player named Gavin Landenberger. Oh spelled with an e, wow, spelled the wrong way. It's your long lost brother. Is Gavin Landenberger a white dude? I'm gonna see them he must be. And he scored no points in thirteen minutes. Wow. If that is that is Landon's brother, if I've ever heard of it, I think that you guys are probably related. He is averaging zero points and one rebound in two games this year.

And if I click his ESPN page, his little where his picture would be is just the school logo that checks out. He has. I look up so many players on ESPN, guys, I have used this website to look up tens of thousands of players in my lifetime, and this is the first time I've seen five eight, one fifty listed on the height Weight's me. I'm I'm taller and fatter than him. There, Hey, there you

go, There you go, sir. You know what I always say, Maybe this drop will come to reality if you get a chance to go one on one against buddy. All right. Well, somebody who's not laying laying it in much is West Virginia Land and this is this is quite sad there. They are absolutely dreadful. Yeah, pretty much a nightmare scenario here for the Mountain Mamas. They lost at home at the Horn to Radford sixty six sixty five. They are four and seven on the year. Unfortunately, Kirk

Crisa must be doubting every life choice he's ever made. Uh, They've had him on the team for the last two games. They've lost both those games. Kirk Greasa much better than what Morgantown is giving him, So that's kind of sucks as well. Yeah, really bad outing for the from Tucson, Arizona, Senny Tucson to Morgantown, West Virginia. Yeah, but Kirk Greasa is still gonna make nine threes in the two Kansas games. Are they only

playing ones? He'll make five probably and they'll go like what eight and twenty three? Yeah? Yeah yeah on purpose. Well you watch your old team be one of the four best teams in America. Yeah yeah, yeah, as Caleb Love shoots a thousand times and everyone on Twitter is like, look how great he is. Kansas State beat Wichita State at the T Mobile Center by nine. All right, you know what happens whenever they do that, we get a sandstorm. How concerned are you about Wichita State? Yeah?

I don't think it's which. Wichita State has lost to Missouri and Kansas State, so now they are trying to complete the set. Yeah. I'll be at that game, So if you guys go, then maybe we'll Maybe we'll paint RCB on our chests and we can hold up and flash the stadium whenever they put the camera on us or ip in my stomach hair too. I have no hair, so I will take the hardest letter to skuld I don't think anyone wants to see our chests. Just be using bodies, kid at

this point, just get an R into your chin hair. Maybe we'll skip the paint and just hold up pieces of poster board that say ITP I like that a lot better. We could flip it around and it says RCB, Hey look at that. We can block whatever you do. Not hold up a white sign like Evan Phillips. Yeah, I'm not making it a white sign because Evan did that and it didn't end up too well. Like anybody who holds anybody who holds up a white piece of poster board, you are

asking to be photoshopped by opposing fans. Evan has no idea how many photoshops I have him holding up that white sign on my computer. Lots of them. Oh boy, yeah, said it out loud. Was that on purpose? Nick said the quiet part of oh well, Evan, if you tweet at us and want to see them, maybe I'll have to post one. There's a lot to choose from. I don't. I don't. I'm surprised. TCU they were the only other Big twelve team to take an l this

week. Unlike Nick after saying that out loud, they lost in Nevada out in a tournament that takes place in Hawaii. Ernest Day is on an unstoppable tear Guys. He's made eight shots in his last three games, doubling the number he's made all year. That's pretty sad. Great, that was an awesome segment. Other games, I will start. We're playing conference games in a lot of leagues, including the Big East, and there were three upsets

that took place here. You had three top twelve teams in that conference. They all lost, the first of which was Shaka Smart's number six Marquette team getting trounced that Providence seventy two to fifty seven. The Friars defense held players not named Tyler Kullak to just eleven made shots. Do you guys know who Providence's coaches? I learned this this morning. Well it's not the guy with al Pecia, No, he left. He's in Georgetown now. Yeah, oh oh. I want to say I do know who it is, but

I don't. It is Kim English, the former Missouri Tigers guy. Yeah, yeah, he's He's made a pretty quick ascent up the up the charts, and after hearing some of Dennis Gates press conference, I can't believe Missouri didn't hire Kim English instead. Yeah, it seems like a layup. Yes, because Dennis Gates has lost to Jackson State and then called them the best OH to five team in the country, which is just not a statement anyone should be forced to say. They were also the only five team in the

country. But that's neither here nor that Missouri in the state exists. Yeah, yeah, I yet know at that point they were the only to five teams. Mississippi Valley State must have been OH to four at that point, sir, put some respect on that name. UH defending champion number five. Yukon also lost by fifteen at Seaton Hall seventy five to sixty. The Huskies were terrible shooting threes, made just thirty eight percent of their overall shots.

Also, Villanova went on the road and beet number twelfth Creighton sixty eight sixty six in overtime. Their three biggest teams in the top twelve, all of them lost their conference opener. Who was set to win the league? Nick, that's a tough one. I don't I don't know. It could be anyone. I maybe maybe Yukon, Marquette, maybe those two. I think Marquette's the best team. I think Yukon will win it. I think Yukon will win it because Dan Hurley is a much better coach than Shaka Smart.

Is he much better? Yeah? Yes, I don't think it's that close. Shaka Smart's won two NCAA tournament games in like the last eight years. Dan Hurley won two in a weekend last year three times in a row. Yeah, that is fair when you say it like that. I don't know Steve Marquette wins it. I think I think they tie is probably the most likely scenario. Creighton is all over the place and Villanova is a dark horse. They're gonna be They're gonna be plenty sneaky enough to ruin someone's day.

Team that won't be sneaky Virginia, nick all yours? Yeah, and putting everyone in the Christmas spirit was a number twenty two Virginia who took a lost to Memphis, blown out seventy seven to fifty four. But but but their defense is good. Ryan. Would you like to read that last line that you have about Tony Bennett? Uh, yeah, I sure do. I wrote in very large caps, you, Tony Bennet, that's for you for what you did to ruin this sport. Go sit in an outhouse with none

of your friends, you dummy. Arizona and Florida Atlantic played one of the best games of the year, probably the best game of the year thus far in college basketball. But it was the underdog number fourteen Florida Atlantic taking down the fourth rank Wildcats in two overtimes ninety six to ninety five out in Las Vegas. It was a terrific game that was going on during a very mediocre

NFL game, so I watched this instead. It was really a one on one game between Janelle Davis, who finished with thirty five points and Caleb Love, who finished with twenty six. Made a couple of big shots, but Caleb Love was eight for twenty five from the floor and really hurt his team with some misses down the stretch. Davis made nine more shots or I cannot count seven fifteen for twenty seven is much better than eight for twenty five,

though Arizona goes down for the second time in the last three games. Cause for concern for the Wildcats or they just lost to two excellent teams, two good losses. Yes, FAU is very good, like very very good once again. Yeah, don't let the loss to Bryant fool you. They're really really good. What a weird result that was? Weird? Oh okay landon I'd like you to read this next one, and I'd like you to not

omit any words. Uh, speaking of frick us, Gonzaga Bulldogs played real teams in Washington, Connecticut, and guess what, everyone shocking they lost both games. Okay, you can't be going back to our space. We gotta gotta settle down here. They took a page out of Baylor's notebook, scheduled Mississippi Valley State and Jackson State, two teams of the combined record of four and twenty, and guess what they did win both of those. Missouri could

not beat both of those teams. Zaga can so at least Gonzaga is better than Missouri. But yeah, Washington Connecticut teams with real players and athletes. Yeah. Speaking of MISSOO, they got absolutely blown out. But number thirteen Illinois out in Saint Louis, winning ninety seven to seventy three and a complete blowout from start to finish. Tarrett Shannon went off for thirty more points.

It's Missouri bad. Also, it's cool to see that while Texas, Texas has a good roster, they have count Koller and they have Terran Shannon. This must be a top team all it took was Mark Adams not being a very bad person, and Texas Tech might be very very nasty right now? Uh yeah, can we not say Bente got bent over? Is that bad? I'm not gonna say that landed that that doesn't get peped out? All right? Well then yeah that's what happened. What Nick said is fine too.

I said on a show Landon wasn't on. It was just Nick and I. I said Missouri was gonna win twenty games. No, I don't think they're gonna win twenty games. They're pretty pretty bad. Yeah, that's frustrating. It's your turn rhyme. Oh it is sorry. Another Arizona note here these were all written in a weird order. Arizona before their lost FA they handled Alabama, bouncing back from their loss to Purdue by thirteen. The Crimson Tide, though, are six and five. They have losses to Ohio

State, Clemson, Purdue, Creighton in Arizona. Wow, what a schedule. That's two decades worth of tough games for Calvin Samson. Their fans like guys, Texas State, Yeah yeah, John Shire, what a what a Goofas Notre Dame lost to the Citadel at home by twenty. That's interesting, and that team still beat Oklahoma State a couple weeks ago, and they're not even the worst team in the ACC. Because number nine Kentucky blew out Louisville

ninety five seventy six. Kenny Payne got a boost of confidence from his athletic director, as the guy said, Kenny Payne is the right guy to lead our program. I don't think that ad has watched many basketball games this season. John cal Perry said, he's just needed some time. He's had some He's got nine wins in forty four tries. Oh my gosh, that's terrible, man, John Caliperi being like, oh, yeah, he'll be great. Just keep him for a while. It's pretty funny that, oh my

gosh. That yeah. Kenny Payne before the game was like, I know Galiperi wants to beat me by twenty, but I just want to beat him by one. And it's like, well, there's your inspired vote of cost. Yeah. Yeah. Louisville really really bad ranked teams to louse since the last show. Once again, the highest ranked team to lose since the last show is number four Arizona. The Wildcats lost to fau oh sar you ruin the bit the fighting, Caleb loves the fighting. Whatever. They lost to

FAU what a weird secret. Bit Number five h Yukon white Dogs they lost to the Seatons. There you got you finally got a bit there. Number six defighting Golden Peeps lost to the priests in black outfits. I have no idea that how that's why you get you? And also the white Dog sounds like something that would you would see in a on a news article. Sounds I gonna say from the White Dog sounds like something that that you'd see on NBC, being like, can you believe that Elon allows those guys on Twitter?

Like I that just feels like a terrible name, But I guess we're doing this. Number ten white Dog forty seven is the usual name that applies to the bott account that applies to you. There you go, now you got it. Number ten Baylor lost the duke. Number seven the Oklahoma Laters lost to u NC. What the hell are we doing? And that's going backwards? You skipped We didn't do them. Yeah, you totally skipped over North Carolina in Oklahoma? What oh? I was like, how they are

you getting breese from North Carolina? Now? I get it. Number seven Oklahoma Boomers lost to North Carolina, if you would believe it. The number twelve Birds that are Blue lost to the Cats that are Wild. The most uninteresting mascot every high school uses, I don't know, like domesticated felines or uh, most boring mascot ever, what do we gonna call it? That? You could have said, growl kitties, here we go, Here comes the two seats other things. Probably take the last one. The number twenty

two UNBC Retrievers lost to the Tigers. Twenty two Virginia lost to Memphis. Our Christmas gifts? Is Tony Bennett even deserve a mascot? Our Christmas present to all of you? Is that? Well shoot ourselves after this podcast. So you guys, this eighteen us reading that level bit that was so bad And the worst part is you guys missed one game that we didn't even cover here. Number seven Oklahoma lost to North Carolina. I can't believe you guys

skipped that last weekend pick them well? Uh, Nick was bad, he was one in four Landon you picked up two games. Hey, my slow comeback has begun, as Bate Manning once said, epic comeback starts right here. Ask rock Chalk Blog short round of questions today at cam w Lippolk Golf wants to know would you rather eat twenty four tea Mobile Center chicken tenders? Boy? How bad would this second choice have to be for you guys to say that one? I like my insides existing, so that one's pretty tough.

Well, the other one is drinking an entire gallon of eggnog in twenty four hours, which is complete booty cheeks trash. I have never had eggnog, so it's that Wow. Really, you worked at cover sir. All the white people in town flock to us for an eggnog shake every single day of December. Had it? It's it's fine. It tastes kind of sweet. It just kind of tastes like sugar milk, honestly, right, Nick, is that fair? I don't know. Yeah, I mean is not

good. That's way better than pooping liquid for like a month straight if I'm eating twenty four of those tenders. So yeah, for if if one person tells us to do it, I will make Nick and land and eat chicken tenders from the Sprint Center when we go to the witch Tust They oh, I'll eat. I'm gonna faidy chicken tenders there. Oh, that feels like a horrible decision, sir. I speak from experience. You don't want that

wow Land and that feels like that. That feels like it in from his last words, Yeah, that feels like Nick's gonna have a really sad Saturday or Sunday. I'll request you to have the exact same poor that we got, which is worker comes out of the bathroom and doesn't wash their hands before they prepare your meal. I'm guessing is what happened that day, because yeah, I only ate like a tender and a half land in eight four,

and you were much sicker than I was, sir. Yeah, and just for the kicker, we're gonna have like week old honey mustard as I mean, bringing on, I have a I have the Northern European milk gut, so I'm not really my stomach's ironclad. I can handle it. That you are. You are just really, really really begging for it at this point, sir. I hope it goes well for you, but this feels like

no upside in all the downside at show Me Hawk. Very interesting conference realignment news going on recently I've heard rumors that the SEC is going to reject Florida State. Perhaps in a scenario where the ACC implodes, should the Big twelve go after Duke, North Carolina, Louisville, et cetera. I mean, yeah, Florida State. I mean, if football's the name of the game,

Florida State's better than those three. I'm still over the conference re alignment talk, but let's just get to the inn where we have a thirty two team super conference where all the best football teams are playing each other and the rest of us can just get back to our regional conferences. Like a conference re alignment is so stupid because it's literally controlled, Like Fox re alignment is

fascinating. Fox and ESPN completely control every single decision. So I mean, like, I guess it's cool to see like the normalcy implode, like teams get screwed, but like I mean, it's essentially going to turn into the NFL's you know, development league kind of like then with that, right, So yeah, we're just we're just we're sparreling towards the inevitable. Like it is, all TV contracts and all ESPN and Fox making pulling the strings.

So you know the conference conference alignment was dead the moment Conference re alignment was dead, the moment that the regionality ended the first round. So at what point does the SEC wake up and say, we don't need or want Vanderbilt in our conference anymore. We want Miami. That's fair. You could say the same thing about most Big Ten teams, though, I mean, yeah, I know, and the SEC presidents probably don't want FSU in the conference. Yeah, and they so like I mean again, it all comes down

to the Fox and ESPN. They're calling the shots. What a great world we live in at Preston Skersik. Do we think this Timberlake game will be like that random twenty point YESIFU game last year? I'm hoping not. But both guys want to get go. Want both our guys we want to get going. Boy, that's a real negative way to word it. Very well

could be. I think that Timberlake has way better of a track record than yes If who ever did, And I continue to have more optimism and Timberlake right now than I ever did after Joe YESAFU started playing at Kansas correct, But I hope that that's not the case. Bonus who would win five to one Harris's who may never shoot, versus five ku Charlie Moore's who would shoot

in volumes but only between ten and twenty percent. That's that's painful. Charlie Moore would be Caleb Love on steroids and he would they'll lose, Like, well, the Dewan Harrison probably wouldn't shoot, so it'd be pretty easy to outscore Landon. Who would win five to one Harris is or five ku Charlie Moore's Dewan Harris Because he could guard Charlie Moore, he would only need to score like ten points and he'd win. Yeah, exactly at Ryan underscore Landrith.

If given the choice between shipping his family directly to Africa or dating an attractive bronze women with a tattoo sleeve, how quickly would Nick pack his family's bags and upgrade their boarding passes on their flights to Zimbabwe? Hey, kids, we're going on a mission. Ship pack of bags, kids, kids with who I'll ship the woman with the kids to Africa? Hope they got their malaria shots. Sir, you have to say that, Oh my gosh, that's for the reference. I would totally take the girl, like I

don't hate tattoos. Why all you have to do is think that normal things are attractive and we won't get ourselves into trouble. I'll take the woman any day. Kids have fun, have fun in Africa. Oh that's funny. But what if she has a tribal sleeve like to a tag of Lowes small tattoo? I mean, I don't, I don't care, like that's fine? Like that, Okay, that's the deal breaker. I gotta pass for you. Let me inspect your arms first. I'm gonna take your pants off,

but not for the reason you think. I will say that. Cam Lipple liked that tweet within seconds of me submitting it eight hours ago. He was ready for that. So Cam, I'm glad that that we can We can go after each other. I didn't see that Cam asked the nick questions, so I had to jump in there and ask at Travius ninety nine. Does it feel like in the first half of games the Jayhawks are just experimenting with schemes and lineups, then after they don't work, they turn it on.

Yeah. I think it's kind of the point of non con games where you're a double digit favorite too. Yeah, I think they're screwing around like they probably would have beaten teams like Eastern Illinois and UMKC by more than they did if self played his best five guys for thirty eight minutes. But the point of this is to see what you have with Nick Timberlake and guys like that, so it's ultimately they're gonna win regardless. I do think that's correct

though. All right, here's a good question. Last question from at Chai and then two eyes in villain like the chillin villain. But the eyes in chillin are or excuse me, the l's and chillin are like the Roman numeral for two. What is the best and what is the worst lineup this year? That's an interesting question. We haven't talked about this yet. Well, we know the worst line up includes the one Harrison and Marco Jackson in the

same rotation. It's gonna say the worst one is probably Harris Jackson, Brown, Timberlake and somebody else. Anything Yeah, anything with Dickinson and mccullor both out. Yeah, who kau fans would be like, oh, thank god Hunter's on the bench to watch. Yeah exactly. Yeah, forget all those twenty points and twelve rebounds. At least we'll actually see guys jumping for rebounds. You don't have to when you can touch the rafters with the ony tiptoes.

I think their best lineup right now, Their best lineup right now is the one they start, and that is variable by switching out Jackson with Furfey and Timberlake. Those three are all really close, but undoubtedly their best four lineups are the ones with the normal four guys in there and then a rotating two guard correct, definitively correct. Anytime you take one of the big four

out that the floor plummets. Even though I will say an interesting lineup is el Marco Jackson at the point, surrounded by mccohler, Timberlake, Adams and Dickinson. I like watching that. That team feels fast. Yeah, that is interesting. If Jackson could actually score on his own, or Timberlakes or Furfey for that matter, could could consistently knock down threes, I would like

that line up a lot more. Yeah. I was gonna say, like for fear, Timberlake, whoever is shooting better, with Jackson as the point, and then Dickinson, mccollar and Adams down low, that would intrigue me a little bit but self loves Harris too much to not play him for more than a few minutes at a time, and rightfully so. The guy is a very good player. All right. That's it. If you ever have

any ask ARCBS, use a Twitter hashtag ask RCB. All right, now, we're gonna preview a game, and it feels like it should be more exciting than it is. It's Wichita State versus Number two Kansas on the Saturday after Christmas, December thirtieth, at three pm, and it is at the T Mobiles Center. Jayhawks returning they didn't play a game here in the non conslate last year. They returned for their annual Sprint Center, T Mobile Center,

whatever it's called matchup. The Wichita State Shakers of the American Athletic Conference enter at eight and four. Overall. The best wins are Saint Louis and Richmond. Teams that West Virginia might not be able to beat. Their losses are Liberty, Missouri, South Dakota State, and Kansas State. So a very mixed bag of schedule for the Shockers. Yeah, wing Koby Rodgers leads

the team with seventeen points and shoots forty two percent from three. He's easily their best player to set up well with looks from point guard Harland Beverly. There's also guard zaber Bell, who has fifteen points and is your prototypical slasher to the basket. The front court doesn't have the same production, but six to ten Kenny Poto from Sweden leads the way down low with twelve points and eight rebounds. Starting senter Quincy bout is six to eleven. It shoots a

goo percentage, adding seven and seven per night. Yeah, which the state's kind of a weird one. They're very good rebounding, which whenever you got two six to ten guys that start down low, they got good height, then that tells you that why that's the case. They average forty four rebounds per game, which is eleventh in the country as of recording this. They're excellent at guarding the three point line. They shoot a lot of twos,

they barely take any threes. It shows because they only shoot thirty one percent from out there. Some teams don't take a lot of threes but shoot a pretty good percentage, like Kansas, which TA State barely shoots it at all and it barely goes in the basket. The weaknesses for this theme include lots of fouling, turning it over plenty, and a mediocre offense. Feels like a game where if Kansas scored sounds like, well, yeah it's KU,

but worse sounds like a game that if KU scores seventy points. I think it's going to be a really hard time to see them losing Kansas in whichdon state they've played fifteen times and the Jayhawks have won twelve of them. They've only played once since nineteen ninety three, and that was a twenty fifteen NCAA tournament game that saw Evan Wessel upset. Rob Baker was there as well.

I'm trying to the original white guys of the game candidates too. That was awful that that trash bag played like five years of college ball and he only made four threes once. And it was that day that curly headed. They had Evans and also had a weasel for a coach and greg greg Garry Marshall. Yeah, I think self. I think self is more willing to play which toss state now that Gregor Marshall has been thrown out for I think hitting players? Is that right? It was something really bad? Yeah, do

you guys know who which toss dates coaches. It was that one, Like, is it the interim they hired after Marshall or is there a new guy in there? No, they just hired somebody new this year. It is chat gpt generated name Paul Mills. He is the He is the coach. He was an Oral Roberts assistant last year. No, he was a former Baylor assistant under coach Drew for sixteen years. He was the head coach at Oral Roberts. And anytime you can get somebody at Oral Roberts, you should

hire him. Look at Bill Self. So maybe maybe Paul Mills is the next Bill Self. You heard it here first, all right, predict this game Jayhawks. In a very lackluster slate of games this week, in case those Pickham games that we're gonna go through aren't enough of an indication, We're here to predict this sleepwalker of a game. I will say seventy six to sixty three, and your prototypical I'm gonna fall asleep watching this at the T

Mobile Center game. Uh yeah, I think that's almost exactly correct. I will say Kansas wins seventy five to sixty two in a game that was pretty close for a while that shouldn't be, and then they turn it on Happy New Year. Kansas wins by thirteen. Yeah, I'm gonna say Kansas wins this game eighty one to sixty four. I think they get a Kushny seventeen point win at a head into the New Year. So Mills was the coach of that Oral Roberts team that took them on that crazy run where they were

a fifteen seed and went to the second weekend. Right, that would have been that was Oral Roberts back a few years ago, making that up. That happened the team at beat Ohio State, Right, yeah, I think so? Yeah, there you go at which Toss says, I'll have some of that sweet Let's see if he can beat Kansas. All right, other games, these games are lousy, So enjoy what should be four dubs. Number four Arizona at California. Anybody want to feel that the Golden Bears?

Anybody feeling that one? I am not feeling. Give me the Guinea Arizona, Yeah I don't think so. Number soon to be unranked Virginia at Notre Dame. Anybody feeling and the mic brays not even there anymore? Anybody thinking this. I mean, it's gonna be a disgusting game. Virginia wins fifty six to three. Yeah, that feels right, yep, Gross number twelve, Creighton at number six, Marquettes. Somebody's trying to avoid losing two Big

East games before the calendar even hits twenty twenty four. Who's it gonna be? I think Marquette wins. I think so too. You're right, and then Duke, with the opportunity to play, you know, one last test before ACC plays starts, they welcome Queen's University into Cameron Indoor. Enjoy your what should be three free wins or four free wins, and then Marquette should win. I don't know, should be an easy one, right, I certainly hope. So I'm gonna say Queen's is gonna win this game? Just

kidding your pick you pick them? Update Nick fifty six points, first place, Ryan fifty six points, also first place, landing up to forty nine points. You've closed the gap. You were nine behind, You're now seven behind, sir. That should give you a nice early Christmas present. You're within you're within three possessions. Yay, I get to blow pick them later

this year. So next show will come out at some point after Christmas, sometime during the week, I'm sure, unless something apocalyptic happens, and then I'll go directly to these two houses and we'll do an immediate cans. I guess no, it won't matter. They don't play which test states laugh, you're Christmas, So it's gonna it's gonna be a yeah, no way. So we're not doing a show this week. We're not doing We're not doing

a show for a long time. Yeah, you know, we're not all right, probably doing a show either early New Year's Eve or sometime New Year's Yes, because I totally want to spend my New Year's Eve bringing the New year doing this podcast. Well, you've spent plenty of years doing this podcast. What's one more New Year's Eve with Inside the Paint. You're right,

this is gonna be my final calendar year Inside the Paint. So and what better way to do that than by spending the last hours of this year by answering questions about how you would never consider dating a woman with an arm tat I landon, I feel like you and I is bullying has peer pressured Nick into seeing that tattoos can be kind of hot. Low key, yeah, I think sometimes not even low key. Sometimes just on the surface, they

just they just are a small one. Maybe if I can. And Landon is still by the way, Nick, if you're starting to think tattoos are sexy, well, Landon has to get one soon because he promised that if Kansas he won that twenty twenty two title, he would get Bill Zelve's face on his butt. He did. Sounds horrible in so many ways. Yeah, you remember saying that, you yeah, yeah, and they just hurt for you can just get one of those temporary tattoos. That's so long to

have Bill Self's face on my butt. Hey, it's not as long as forever, which is what you promised. That's true, That's true. That was definitely for sure serious. Everyone took it that way. I think that it would it would suit you, well, that'd be a great first tattoo to get. Seventy years from now you would be buried in a in your casket and Bill Self would still be there on your body. Sir, Yeah, that that is upsetting. I don't think I want that. Bill Self

is not a good enough guy to earn that. I don't think. Oh, don't you say that, sir. Don't you tweet that either people are gonna cancel you on elon, Hey, the pain in your butt when they lose in the Sweet six team this year. You can just go look at your butt in the bathroom and see it, hey, or a pain in your ass? Look at that? You know you could. You could go full circle all the way back. It's happening. Hey, I can say that stupid joke. Hey, Nick one quickly about tattoos. Maybe you can

too. This is Inside the Paint Holiday Edition. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays. Thank you guys for your listen and uh hopefully your Your next present from all of us is another twenty years of this podcast. So exciting. Everybody's gonna be back until twenty forty three. Yeah, everybody, get out, yes forever. Yeah, they never stopped, never ever, ever stop. I'm Ryan Landris, I'm Clarence from It's a Wonderful Life, a good movie, and I'm done with this show after this season. In the next few

months, I don't know. I don't know how to follow that up. Don't drink too much eggnog, don't drink and drive. Merry Christmas, Happy to he