ITP: Kansas survives Samford in wild NCAA tournament opener

Well, that's a dub and there were absolutely no doubts, Land and you watch came at my house and you were confident the whole time. Oh for sure. When it was down to one point and Sandford was getting ready to knock down like their seventeenth three of the night, never doubt. Nick. I didn't watch it with you. You were you were up at like five in the morning yesterday and then stayed up like a zombie to watch the longest non overtime game by time in Kansas basketball history. And it fell two hours

and forty nine minutes. Yeah, and half of those were Windy's Sandskin Geene Territory giving a monologue while the raps are standing staring at the monitor. So yeah, I did nothing but watch basketball through the first three quarters of this round. Then I went out. My wife wanted to go to the gym. It's a Friday night. I do some food deliveries on the side, so I'm like, yeah, I'll drop you off with the gym and spend

an hour doing some deliveries whatever. So I turn on the Duke Vermont game on the radio, and the before I can even turn it up, I hear Dave singles Dave singles, get it for a buck. They play it on the bleeping radio. It's endless. But so this is inside the paint. You know, all the all the GISTs, you guys want to give fake names? Or do we just move past that they know who we are or maybe they don't if you've only been listening this season? How's your bracket?

How are you guys's brackets? Nick, don't answer that. I have the answer. I have something teed up landon you first. How's your bracket? Ah? Not as bad as I thought, and not as good as I hoped. Okay, that feels That feels fair as you would normally say. Now, I do have something teed up and ready to Oh no, I closed it. Oh I think I closed it. I was so ready for this I did. I closed it. Okay, you guys talk amongst yourself and give a little bit of an intro. Will I tea something up

Land and tell Nick? Somebody tell us what we're gonna do on today's podcast. We're gonna talk about how Kansas almost lost in the first round for the first time in a long time. Then we're gonna talk about the entirety of the first round and we're we're gonna talk about how Kentucky can't play defense.

That's gonna be a fun portion of the show. And then all right, we're gonna talk about how Kansas will lose in the round of thirty two according to me uh for like the hundredth time in the last ninety tries to the absolute last team that the Inside the Paint Podcast wants them to lose to in any tournament setting, but well down the website level game if it happens, Hey, the Russian porn pornobots have already shut down their website, sir.

The podcast is all that's left, all right. So here, nick I did not ask you how your brag a pretty big time on the on the Rock tuckblog dot com if you're into that sort of thing. The comments tell you where you can buy Viagara for five percent of the cost, and like many different languages. So nick I did not ask you how your bracket is doing. Because I want to throw back to something on the last podcast, which is this moment here. I think John Calipari is making the Final four

this year. They cut it. Whatever you need to do, and you have to play it. I don't care. This is my last season. I'm going all out. My nusts are on the tables. Only that sixty six of the podcast knew what you were doing. Nick. And then, in true fashion, sir, I know that you you want to go out on your own terms, But get that son of a bitch of the podcast. I think we have Hey, I win the bracket pool last year you did. You went from bracket pool champion to putting all of your eggs and

who else but Caliparia Godden self is a dwarf. Incredible. Norm Roberts has more postseason wins than John Calipari in the almost in the inside the pain era, you have to go way back. Kenny painally has won less. Oh my gosh, I do like that'stat love that stat. All right, So yeah, let's talk about the Jayhawks and then we'll we'll definitely get to that one. Oh gosh, that score is so gross. Number four Kansas ninety

three, Number thirteen Samford eighty nine. That is the third most points the Jayhawks have allowed in a game under Bill self, and it was a dub. How about that barely prove Kansas's closest first round game since two thousand and six. Which did not end in a win. The Jayhawks raced through the first three quarters of the game, leading by as many as twenty two.

Looked over thought it was done. It was a seventy one to fifty four lead with twelve minutes to go. It was at that point that a wild and three point laid in Samford rally, fueled by those ridiculous three points shooting and just insane offense, that Bucky ball finally seemed to prevail. It looks like they were gonna make a run. They really did. They got all the way back in it. Kansas made just enough free throws down the stretch, got a nice and by nice, I mean most egregious miss I've seen

all tournament call on Timberlake dunk block. That was as clean a block as you could ever hope to have. That gets Kansas a very very close call right at the stroke of midnight. I showed up at Ryan's house at six pm to watch what should have been about four hours of basketball, and I left twelve, yeah, to go back home. That was insane. That was an insane game Like that was over. It was over, and then it just wasn't. Because Kansas refuses to hold double digit leads. How are

we feeling though a dub is a dub? How are we feeling after that one the exact same? I don't really feel any and I feel impartial. I mean Stanford rally, I mean unbelievable, Like, obviously we knew that the three point barrage was coming at some point, but I mean Kansas played well enough in the first you know, thirty eight minutes of the game or not thirty eight twenty eight minutes of the game to pull out the win.

I mean, that's what you're gonna hang your hat on. They're up by they're up at twenty two at one point in this game, looking fantastic, And yeah, I mean, what are you gonna do about it? At teams your you're then you have basically six rotation players. You're playing against a team who's pressing you the entire game. So you're running up and back the front court twenty million times in transition, and of course it's gonna wear on

you. The shooting goes cold, which we know it typically happens with this Kansas team, very streaky offensive team this year, even with Kevin mccolor. Yet regardless, they find a way to pull this one out, I win. As with this with the roster the way it is right now, for the twenty point loss to Cincinnati, they're thirty point lot lost to Houston. This is this is this is Okay. I think at the end of the

day, it's okay win. Yeah, I would mick at this point, I'm going down with the ship, like I'm not gonna analyze what's sustainable and what's not. It's the NCAA tournament. You win or you go home. You'll take some good fortune, and I don't believe that Kansas got a lot of good fortune in this game, other than the one call their opponent. Like, let's think about this. What Landon will tell you, and what the pessimists will tell you, what the haters and the doubters, and we'll

tell us over here. Hi, it's that they only beat a thirteen seed by four points and they blew a huge lead. Okay, yes that is true. Here's what the optimist in me says. They won a game where their opponent made sixteen damn threes. Entering this game, teams that made at least sixteen threes were nine to oh in NCAA tournament history, Like this is not supposed to happen, and they they held on literal hobbits on their team,

like what's his name? Gratziani though, well, but we thought Beca was a nidget But he turns out to be apparently the same height as me. So yeah, guy his taller than all three of us, and he was tiny out there. I joke to Land and like, you know, with the shaved head and everything. We always joked about what would happened if you put a make a wish kid out there against Kansas? Could he make a bunch of threes? And lo and behold. I thought that's what we

were witnessing with anybody can make threes against Kansas. Now, the thing that we said that we were the most concerned about was the offense going into this tournament. The offense hung ninety three on these guys, like, I don't know, I think that there's some positives to take away. Okay, okay, okay, pessimist time, pessimist time, clear out, lebron jay yea, let me dance on them. They they scored in ninety three. Because

Sanford's own style defeated Samford in the first half. Sanford had to move away essentially from their own style of basketball because and this was this was the thing that I said again, I picked Kansas to win even though I had severe doubts, because ultimately Sanford just didn't have the size, and I was thinking, if Kansas can get out and run, they're gonna score a lot.

And that's exactly what happened for the vast majority of the first half in the early second half was that Sanford had no response for Kansas running in transition, and they had no response for Hunter Dickenson and kJ Adams. They really didn't have a response for either of those guys all night. It just happened that they eventually they slowed the tempo down a little bit, they slowed the pace, and that got him into an obviously, then they started making barrage after

barrage with three pointers. But the ninety three means nothing. It means nothing

against Samford. Frankly, like Sanford was playing at as high a pace as you will see in this tournament, and Kansas had a super super distinct advantage in two particular areas in that they were way faster than them in the open court, and they had two guys that Sanford had no chance to defend at all, that's a win, that's a win that gets you at w and it absolutely did, and that's why Kansas won largely, and because the ref's

missed one of the most egregious misses I've seen in a long time. But regardless of that, the ninety three I think means almost jack to be honest, in comparison to what I thought I thought Kansas would be able to score. I was not afraid of Kansas only hanging like fifty in this game. That was never really in doubt for me. And honestly, it hasn't to do with defense either. I just feel the exact same. I don't think Kansas really has has it done them to win much more than maybe they'll be

Gonzaga. I doubt it though. Well, I lets talking about the threes, because Samford made sixteen of them, sixteen for thirty seven, which is forty three percent. We said entering this game that Samford they make a lot of threes, and they definitely take a healthy amount, but they don't go in just looking to launch threes for the sake of shooting threes. They want

to shoot the first open shot that becomes available to them. And then when they fell behind in the second half that shifted to we need to just launch threes, and you made sixteen of them. Why wouldn't it. I don't think Kansas's defense was really that poor. You just saw this team launch and they made forty five forty three percent of forty three forty three percent of thirty

seven shots. It's a lot of points. We It's the most threes made by one team and any NCAA tournament game since Auburn Rest in Peace made seventeen and twenty nineteen in the game that they beat North Carolina. Nick, I think you were at that game, right, because you bought the tickets thinking Kansas is gonna be Yeah. I was, yeah, Yeah, that was Auburn just blitzed you and ce in that game. Kansas, though, in their uh you know, they made their first three threes and were like,

wow, here we go. The lit came off the basket in March. Maybe then they ended three for fifteen shot six for eighteen themselves, so they are there's sixteen threes against six. There's a nice minus thirty in the points on three point shots, which has been a problem. But yeah, as Landon said, Dickinson and kJ were too much inside Nick, I don't know. I I you've heard both of our takes. Landon's probably too pessimistic.

I'm probably too optimistic. I don't care how they win games, win and move on in the tournaments like that, I'm not any Look how many eleven seeds are in the second round already? Like it literally it's it's a one game sample size. This tournament is the way it is because it is a one game sample size on a neutral court with lots of fan excitement and lots

of energy for an opposing teams who have nothing to lose. This is a samper team who a lot of people were circling in that was gonna be a potential upset because of bucket ball and how good at they are shooting threes. Kansas won the game. You want to call the reps calling a bad foul? Okay, that makes sense. That might have gotten built out. They won a game in the first round with a depleted roster team. Kansas fans I don't think have any expectations for this tournament. So now that you're in

the round of thirty two, you're playing with house money. Like, I don't see the complaints. I just don't see the complaints right now. They just got beat by twenty by Cincinnati two weeks ago in Houston by thirty. The season is over too many people's minds. If you win a couple of games in March, that's cool. Oh, it's not complaining. It's just I'm not complaining about a win. I'm simply just not convinced it is it

is. It does stink to see them give up a twenty point lead, absolutely, but they were up twenty one in this game, and I know that that's probably why a lot of people are disappointed. But I mean stuff, like you said, stuff happens in the NCAA tournament. They played well enough in the first twenty eight minutes of this game that helped them hold on

to win the game. I think that that's something people should look at and less about the last ten minutes when the Buckey ball made all their threes and all of a sudden, you know, it's like a blitzkreek from behind the

three point line. I just don't get it, Lannon, Do you really feel a lot better if they make thirteen threes instead of sixteen and Kansas winds up winning this game by like ten or twelve, like that league gets cut a little bit late, and we're just sitting here saying the garbage time shots made it look closer to be fair. Almost no result would make me change my mind that they're going to lose in the round of thirty two. Okay, even whenever they run twenty two much, I just don't think they have

it. I just don't think Kansas well. Well, before we analyze the game itself, let me give one more stat which they deserve. Their credits are more specifically, they deserve this sound South because that is seventeen straight opening round wins for the Jayhawks. Nick, you just graduated master school. The last time that Kansas lost in the first round, you were five years old.

They've won at least one NCAA Tournament game every year since two thousand and six, Bill self, many times is John Calipari lost in the first round since I was five years old? Oh man, I can think of at least three. Off the top of the dome. Speaking of Bill zelf and his fifty seven NCAA tournament wins moved into a tie for the fifth most ever with of all people, John Caliperi, who has been at fifty seven.

Yeah, well, John Caliperi made four finals five years Like that number rose quickly and is that k Yeah, I guess that counts Memphis as well. And then and you mess whatever. Yeah, yeah, Cali Perry's been Cala Perry's been winning NCAA tournament games longer than Bill self. He's older than Bill. So washed, he is so washed he needs And then in which we told you like three days ago as you predicted them to go to the finals, Well, no cares, no regrets. This is my second to last

show. This is like, I am the long beach steak coach who just got fired by the athletic director. I'm playing with house money. I'm not getting paid for this. That's true. And they hung in there for half and then the floor fell out, So maybe that that's Kansas Stanford is your first half where you were competitive. Ad took credit for them getting legit, said that the reason they made the tournament is because of them. Firing the coach motivated the players. Yeah, he was like, it's because of his

decisions. Yeah, he was like new levels of narcissism are being He said something like I was hoping that they get fired up and play better, and it worked out like he was trying to spin it that way. Yeah, I did see that. Is that coach still fired even though they made the tournament? Are they going to reevaluate or I'm sure he's done regardless, I wouldn't want to coach it. Yeah, I know I would. I wouldn't.

And we we talked about this a little bit with how Jared Hass got fired like eight minutes after Stanford season ended, before he even made it to the pros game presser. We saw a women's coach, I forget what school say that in her presser, like, I don't really have any answers for y'all because I got fired. I don't understand why eighties are in such a hurry to fire these coaches, Like can you not do the We'll give it a few days and have a meeting with the team and all that, Like

it's not going to help you. Those extra forty eight hours are not going to help you land a better coach. If anything, I think they're gonna hurt it because I think people are gonna be turned off at the prospect of working for someone like that. But yeah, pretty weird. Uh, But yeah, we talked about that. The stat that's great let's get back to it, Nick, tell me about Hunter Dickinson. Landon doesn't deserve to read about Hunter Dickinson because he's a big negative Nancy at this point. Yeah,

Landon thinks should have twenty more rebounds and not seven. Yeah, ridiculous, what a soft guy, Hunter. Yeah, just twelve days after just looking his shoulder, Dickinson had one of the best tournament performances in Kansas history. Had a line of nineteen points, twenty rebounds, five assists, four blocks, thirty seven minutes. He went with nine for fourteen from the floor and

undersized Sanford front court. Predictably, had no answer. Yeah. And he was asked a couple of days prior, we haven't had a podcast and saw this went down. He was asked a couple of days prior if he was feeling healthy and he said, yeah, I'm feeling healthy enough to be out there with my teammates and oh boy, if you could hear it drop and that mm, yeah, no idea what he could have possibly been talking about. We'll talk about my collor at some point. I'm sure. Oh,

I never submitted an ask RCB question for this. I never asked people for questions. I'll have to give him an hour to do it while you guys analyzed Hunter Dickinson's game. Good. He was great. He was genuinely very good, sensational night. I I never want to hear anybody call him soft again. Whenever he looks like a Transformer out there with his arm in a

sling and he's and he's playing and putting up these kind of numbers. I never want to hear anybody complain about how he's not good, because he quite literally was brilliant in this game. Yeah, and Bill was like, as the league was shrinking, Bill was like, hmm, you know, I think I'm in a city. Was literally like it was like fourteen, wasn't it. Yeah, something crazy. They were really good with him in the game, and there isn't a lot to analyze with Hunter. He was really

good. Landon, I will let you read about Nick Timberlake, who had a very very good outing. He picked a great time to look like talsand Nick Timberlake he did. Yeah, he was genuinely, really solid as best performs of the season. In his first NCAA tournament game. Nonetheless, he scored nineteen points, which is a season high, five of eight from the floor, three of six from three to six of seven at the free throw line in twenty six minutes. And best of all, he didn't suck out

loud with turnovers or defense either. So he had a really good night and I think it was probably his best game of the season, certainly in the biggest spot. They needed every one of his baskets in the end. Yeah, he was He was great. Nick. Do you think that's gonna keep going or do you think that he played Sanford and he played well against the bad team? Dude, I told you like three shows ago, watch out for a Nick Nick Timberlake March March run, kind of like Malik Newman.

I think that, I I We're not there quite yet. I do think though, that he's starting to turn it on. We've said that before, you know, like pump the brakes. He's gonna have a bad out he again. But I genuinely do think that this guy is starting to figure it out, getting a little bit more swagger. You could see it in this game. He obviously the teamers are relying on him a lot right now,

and I think he's kind of leaning into that. I have a confident outlook on Nick Timberlake at least, you know, if they have one more game. I do think that that this is trending upward for him. Maybe a little late, but Timberlake was great. And if they're gonna have any chance of winning any games beyond the one they've already won, they need Timberlake to

average double figures. I mean, he's pretty much the only guy that's giving you I trust him more than Furfey right now if I need a guy to make threes, which is kind of scary, but he's been a better shooter than Furphy over the last month of the season, and he's the senior. He's the guy that's starting now in wake of Kevin mccullor being out for the year. They need this. As Landon said, he didn't turn it over. He got into some foul trouble, but cheez, who didn't get in

a foul trouble in this atrociously called basketball game. He was great. There is no criticism with his game. One of his biggest plays of the night didn't even lead to any points because kJ brick the free throws, but he had an all out extension fighting for a loose ball to give him an extra

possession down the stretches of the lead was shrinking. Clearly. I have so much respect for Nick Timberlake, a guy who came here with the expectations to win it all and be a star player on the number one team in the country. It hasn't worked at all like they thought it would. He's obviously seen the tweets, he's heard the backlash, He's heard people saying he's the reason this team hasn't reached its full potential, and he hasn't let it break

his attitude or his effort. I would love for to see it Timberlake have a baller March, kind of like Remy. It was great to see Remy have a great March run after what he had been through. I would love to see Timberlake do the same thing. And I think it says a lot about his character, which history will show is more important than how many times

he put the ball in the basket. I think it says a lot about his character that he is out there as banged up as he's been, playing as hard as he has after a season that did not go the way that he wanted it to. I think he's a lot of fun to root for. He's a very easy guy to root for, and I hope he has a great next couple of weeks. It would be easier to get a character Kevin mccollar zero. Yeah, we don't even touch about the callake. I no, I don't know. I'm not I'm not the teen doctor. So

so this is all I'm gonna give one very short Kevin McCuller monologue. I don't care if you think he's soft and doesn't want to play. I don't care if you think that he's legitimately trying to play and can't, or anything in between. This is damn fault and almost exclusive leg damn Bill's fault because he gave that cryptic weird he all he had to do is that the tweet that he put on out about how mccullor is actually trying really hard to play,

That's what he needed to say in the presser. That's where everybody jumped on it and was like wow. And a couple of his teammates had a chance to be like, yeah, he'd play if he could, Are you kidding me? And they didn't, like there's clearly something there. I don't know if it's mccullar or his advisors or the doctors, there's something there. I believe that Kevin mccullar tried everything he could to play, and the decision was made. We don't know who's say in this decision. It is probably

a mixture of a lot of things. I think Kevin mccullor would play if everybody thought he could, and it's lousy to see people jump on him on Twitter like he's a quitter. At the same time, when Hunter Dickinson says stuff like I feel good enough to be out there with my teammates, and Bill self has every chance in the world to say the doctors don't think he can play, or I've never seen somebody try so hard to play, he

just can't do it. He has, they have chances and they don't and J bummer like a novel length response when like, if it wasn't any deal at all, two sentences probably would sufficed, but it didn't. The question was do you think it's fair to say he'd be out there if he could, and the fact that kJ Adams answer wasn't yes, and it was instead this lot long worded but actually saying nothing thing about how great of a teammate he is. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Well and then and then freaking

like, how distracted is this team? You got Bill self tweeting the morning of their tournament opener about this. Almarco Jackson says today in a in a press conference, He's like, yeah, as a team, we're not really

concerned about what the outside noise is. Dude, your coach yesterday tweeted something specifically because of the the outside noise, like, it's I think Marcus Stimore should be more concerned about the noise that his misshots clink off the rim with yeah, or turnovers which there were a lot of them in this game for El Marco. Uh, yeah, it's weird. It's I think they're distracted.

Love to see him get Paskins Zaga. And then I'm I'm not saying I think mcculler's definitely playing again, but I at least think that a conversation has had, Even if it's as simple as hey, Kevin, can you play? Nope, Okay, just asking I think what this is pure speculation. What most likely happened, in my opinion, is mccoler was trying to play, couldn't get feeling the way he wanted to. Bill and him were talking about it, and he said, yeah, I don't think I'm good

enough to go. We'll see in a week or so. And Bill said, no, I gotta have my roster for the tournament. You're either in now or you're done. And mccullar said, okay, then I can't play. And that was that. Uh is that a if you're lined up with number one perdue in a couple of days. Absolutely, you ask him, Hey, so can you at least put on a jersey and be ready when

Timberlake fouls out in fifteen minutes? Like, yes, that's a question you ask, right, you guys agree the answer is probably going to be no, but it's at least something you ask. If your bill self, Yeah, I will just say though, sorry, go ahead, No, that's all I was gonna say. Yeah. I think I think you do have

to reevaluate if you beat Gonzaga, especially if it's Purdue. I I just I think it's important to reiterate like, K, you fans are delusional, like the fact that like people like people are K you fans are so so worried about like locker room stuff and like drama. It's like like just like root your team on, like like if they won a national title two years

ago. If Kevin mcclull has heard, he's heard, if he's like like like the amount of like vital troll like that they're throwing at him like vitriol, Like they throw it like vitriol. Sorry sorry, sorry grammar please, but like like maybe not like what Landa's been saying, but like you know, they hate the Hunter Dickinson's guys, like Kansas fans are never happy about anything. There's always something to co very, squ utiful, the crowd like

just so many things to complain about. It's like Kansas is the most successful team in the twenty first at least in the past decade in college basketball. I think you'd argue maybe Yukon's have been a little bit better national championship wise Villanova, but outside of that, Bill self has had the best run of

any college coach. And you are complaining about a down year where they still made the NCAA Tournament as a four seed and the guys hurt, like just come on, like it's just always complaining and it is fair, by the way, especially with these guys making money now, it is fair to question what is going on with Kevin right right. I do think that's weird, like people who have no idea what's going on, just throwing assumptions out there.

Right, you can absolutely want guys to come to Kansas. Do you want guys to play for KU if you're tweeting hate like like literally the point where the head coach has to say, guys, knock it off, that's not true, like come on, well and see I think see. I

think there's an angle with that too. I think that Bill self knew that his words were kind of what fueled this, And that seems to me like even if Kevin mccullor flat out quit and said yep, I'm not gonna play coach and you can do about it, Bill self is still going to defend his guy. So I don't think Bill's tweet had anything to do with clearing anything up. I think that's just a public display of defense for his player, his twenty three year old player who's getting hammered on Twitter, even if

it's the truth and it's not. They've done that in the past, like they covered for la Gerald Vick when he easily could have said I threw his ass off the team by taking the No, he's got a sick kid, right, you know, he's done that before. It's fair to question the Kevin mccullor thing. We saw ty Sean Taylor play basketball eight days after the tormaniscus. We saw Devontae Graham miss six games whenever they said he's done for

the year with turf toe. Guys who have battle Hunter Dickinson just this week playing two weeks after disocated shoulder. Some guys have higher pain tolerances. Some guys. We saw Patrick Mahomes play a Super Bowl on a brilliant rolled ankle, and you see guys like Ben Simmons scrape a fingernail and miss an entire season, right right, every player saying that I'm not saying that he like, I'm not like arguing that people don't have a justified reason to be questioning

this. But it's like the amount of anger, and just like right, you can question it. You can question it without stupid being attacking at somebody who has still given two very very good years to your program. And and you don't need to tweet. Don't tag Kevin McCuller on Twitter and call him soft. That's that, there's no point to that. It makes you look like a jackass, and it makes him feel like a jackass, and neither one of those things is fine. I think society would be better if X

just didn't exist. We correct lot of reasons on that one. Yeah, you know what else as a perfect segue for this, you know what, I also be society better if it didn't exist. The Oh yeah, we need to talk about the refs. So Kansas got the most pivotal call in the game. Of course they did. You know why, it was the most important call of the game, because they won. If they had lost

and they call that foul and then Samford goes on and wins. You know what everybody's talking about, refwise, the calls that they didn't call for Kansas, like the mistravel on the dunk at the very end of the game, or El Marco getting shoved in the back when going after that final game ceiling loose ball, like they called forty two fouls in forty minutes, And all KU fans talk about whenever people bitch about the refs is, well, one

teams shooting threes and the other team's trying to go inside. Of course the foul counts, and even well, then, how in the world did they call more on Samford than Kansas There were horrible, horrible calls up and down the floor in this from assistant coaches getting teed up to the neck, Timberlake call to miss travels to kJ just got the shaft a couple of times, like they were awful, maybe the worst officiated game of the entire first round

of the tournament, which is saying a lot because they're bad at everything, but just horrible. It's always bad. KU got the worst whistle of the two teams in the game, but they got a monumental break with that last call, and Land's right stop trying to defend it and saying like, well he may have been tapped on the wrist. That is a horrendous call considering what the one that. It just wasn't Sorry, it wasn't a foul to

the stake in the game. That's the point where KU fans defend whenever you freaking how many times did we see Doke like get away with a lot of fouls in the final minute and they were like, well, yeah, it's the final minute. It's gotta be a gree just if you call it, then you can't call that. Yeah, yeah, right, I agree. They were really bad. They were really bad all around. Much more than just that ending call. But that was just the exclamation mark on top.

Nick, tell me about kJ Adams. He was an exclamation mark in himself. Yeah. Twenty points in thirty nine minutes, ten of thirteen from the floor, mostly dunks and layups, had six assists. Uh. He and Hunter carved up an undersized Samford team lots of dunks. kJ did miss all fours free throws though I only had four rebounds, but overall, he did what he needed to do, and that was play a two man game with

Hunter Dickinson down low and just destroy a very undersized Samford team. kJ can get four rebounds, if Dickinson's gonna get twenty of them, I need him both to combine for twenty ish. So that'll that'll do the job just fine, especially twenty points. Right. Yeah, kJ was great in this game. We knew he would be. He's gonna be pivotal against Gonzaga. Okay, Nick, how about the floor can be yours here for the Yeah, today's White Guy of the Game sponsored by ITP the three white guys for the

least. We had a all timer in this one as reserve center Riley Allenspotch, who entered six for twenty five as a twenty four percent career three point shooter, win No. Four for in this game. He hadn't made one since February fourteenth, and he had never made more than two in a game before obviously walking in and playing the Jayhawks. That's that's an Alzheimer. That it's not it's gonna get lost, like it won't stand out like some of

the others because they wound up winning. But the guy who had six all year that goes four for four in the tournament against them, that's that's one of the two or three best ever. I think it asked to be. Yeah, yeah, if the running list would be among that might be the

worst ever. Do you want to run a listing list of all these white guys database The i still will forever hang on to the worst of all time being Northern Iowa center Jordan Eggleseter, who was one four to nine entering the game and made two out of two in the first half over Cole Aldridge. UH And obviously they lost that game, so that stood out. That is an Alzheimer. Also, Nathan Adrian made like twelve in a row over like eight games against them. That's also in there. At least was a decent

shooter. But obviously yea, and they sucked. Like we thought for a while that one wasn't so bad because like they were good. The Tanner Grove sucks at shooting threes and he had thirty thirty and never been nor was ever again that good. Yeah, yeah, that Mitchell Solomon of Oklahoma states there did West Virginia have another white guy that made six out of six at Allen

field House that made rock chalk plug tweet the F word. Yeah, yeah, McNeil, Sean McNeil, McNeil, Yeah, that one was good tournament ones. I don't know how many more. I mean, Jerry McNamara, but that was before Uh are you forgetting Archidiacono? Yeah, Archie Diaco had some Yeah, Villanova's got a chapter in that book that you want to write, Nick, that was brutal. Oh yeah, and we're talking like I think that Colin Gillespie made a bunch of threesh in two different Final four games

against this team. Just yeah, it is what it is, Villanova. It doesn't discriminate white black. Yeah. Eric Pascal was not white, and he was a lousy shooter that made four out of five against Kansas. That's it's all. It's because they play such bad defense, right, all right, Let's talk about the next two guys here. Dwan Harris thirteen point seven assists, four turnovers, most of which were questionable offensive foul calls. There's

some more of that refs being bad both ways. In thirty six minutes, he was three for eight from the floor. I lumped him in here with Furfey, who had sixteen points on five of nine, eight rebounds, three assists, sixteen and eight is very good. The only blemish on his night was four head scratching turnovers. He also learned that you cannot throw the ball back across the mid court line. And it's just like that's one where the press just ate them alive. Both guys were good, though, Like I

don't have a lot to analyze here unless you guys do. They both played well, They both put up good offensive numbers. They did whatever we needed them to do. Yeah, I think both pretty solid. I don't think anything incredibly notable. Yeah, have you guys ever seen a guy like throw the ball a solid twenty five feet back over the half court? No, that was crazy. I've never seen that. It is like he forgot. He totally forgot that you can't do that, probably because he's not used to

the full court press. It Probably if you catch that in the half court, you can throw that pass well in the lamb down under that's allowed because it's opposite rules, that's right. And then Furfey had another just horrible turnover down the stretch. I think it was right under the basket. Whenever Kansas's lead was melting down to just a couple of possessions. You know what happens. I trust timber Like more than Furfey right now. As weird as that is to say, uh nay, I don't know, maybe equals so I

equally believe they will make only one three a game. Nick is posting very funny things here in the notes. We only have it talking about one player, and that is El Marcho jacks up a shot who made three jump shots. He did. He's he is freaking great at that mid range jumper and horrendous at everything else basketball. He had six points and an incredible five turnovers I think they were all in the first half, and four fouls in twenty

two minutes. He was he was rough. I he said he's coming back for sure next year, and I'm like, oh, can we can we can can hunter say that instead? Anybody please like, oh, hel Marco? Like el Marco's gonna have to play. Elmarco's gonna be a big reason in how the game against Gonzaga goes, how it goes if if if el Marco gives him eight and four and doesn't turn it over more than a couple of times, big advantage Kansas. If he plays this game, they're they're

in trouble because they need him. Yeah, he was not great. I have a less than no amount of faith. What that's syntax? Speaking is hard, sometimes very hard. My brain refuses to function. I believe that al Marco could be better than completely awful next year. Do you have a comp do we interview, Like, let's say all Marco turns into a good player at Kansas. Is there a comp for like a guard that really doesn't

shoot. The first thing that popped in my head was Marcus fricking Garrett kind of a combo guard that can play point, that doesn't ser very much in different kind of basketball than him, though I think the style is kind of similar. Though he's going to have to beferentlayer. Then do you have a comp like maybe a Russell Robinson's hype. I don't like guy that wasn't great shoot the ball but kind of handled the ball well but way worse but early

maybe because ty Shan was a great athlete like El Marco is. Yeah, yeah, if he turns into ty Shaans. But look at next year. You have Harris who's coming back to play the lion's share of the point minutes. You're bringing in le Baron, who is a stud freshman that can shoot.

He's one of the best shooters in the class. If if I don't want to see El Marco come back and play over a freshman point guard that can shoot, I'd rather have the shooter get the minutes is gonna be, That's right, and who knows what they'll get in the transfer portal, Like I still would be surprised if al Marco comes back. Just history says struggling

McDonald's all American freshman will not return. But if he does, great, Remember how much we thought it was a slam dunk that they'd get Quinton Grimes back and that didn't happen. Yeah, that's what I say, And tie my ty waits on my ankles and go out into the ocean. If Kansas didn't get Quinton Grimes. Yeah, Dotson. Dotson wasn't wasn't a particularly great shooter, but he had so many other Dotson I was thinking about him the

other day. He gets completely lost when we talk about the great KU point guards. And Devon Dotson was a second team All American as a in his sophomore year. He was fast because was the COVID year. Nobody remembers anything from COVID. Yeah, yeah, And that may be why I say Hunter Dickinson's better than dok as a senior, which I think he is, But that may be part of it. If we got to see that team make a Final four and those guys starred, maybe we'd feel differently. I don't

know. In this game, Kansas sixty percent from the floor, though that number shrunk. It was like ninety percent in the first ten minutes, and it was in the high seventies in the first half. Then they started missing threes thirty three percent from three, sixty three percent from the line. They were plus nine on the glass. We knew they'd crush him there and also

a season high eighteen turnovers. That was a big problem too. They couldn't stop turning the ball over against a team that would that would flip it. Early on in the game, Kansas was killing them in transition, and then it changed fast closing thoughts. You guys got closing thoughts. Landon's like, yeah, they're buns, and Nick's like, yep, I have them going to the final four. So split the difference. I don't. I don't have them one to the final four. But I do think that this was

an okay thed The result was a win. That's all it matters. They got it done. They looked good at times and at times Bucky ball prevailed, but they had a twenty two point lead. They won in the first round. That's all that matters in March is stringing six ws together. Nothing else matters. Yeah, I agree with that before Lanta gives his stick, and that's what I don't. I'm not gonna sit here and be like yeah, but it makes me nervous if this happens against So it's a win in

March, you're a win away from making the Sweet sixteen. I don't care if your preseason one or whatever. If you make this Sweet sixteen, your season was a success. They have only made one since twenty eighteen. They have the opportunity to make the second weekend of the tournament by beating a team that is seated lower than them, should have been seated lower than them by a couple of marks if it wasn't for the BUYU think, I think you

take that. And if they win against Gonzaga, I don't know how you can say that this was just like Bourne in the USC. I think it's you know, pretty likely that that might happen again. Yeah, they're not gonna lose by that many right now, they won't lose. No, they're not gonna get thirty ball. But there's not a lottery pick in Gonzaga, as far as I know, there's that, and there's not a Mitch Lightfoot to put on said lottery pick over and over again, just hoping and wondering

why it's not work. That's twenty nineteen Big twelve Player of the Year, Mitch Lightfoot to you, sir, what a horrible take is my? That's literally talk about going full circle. That was before I started on this podcast. Ryan's like, Nick, can't wait for you to join the show, and we'd preview Mitch Lightfoot winning the Big twenty nineteen Big twelve Player of the Year. Oh wow, this is a there's a reason that this drop is on is on the oh, I don't even have the sad sad loss drop.

Least Villanov is not the two seed. Okay, here comes the two seeds. Not doing that again. Other games, well, this is the time of the year. We're Big twelve, and other games are all mapped into the same category. I say, mopped into the same category. I guess I just defitted. We're gonna roll with that, all right. So I got the bracket up here on my computer screen. I don't have my own bracket up because well, if you want to know what my bracket looks

like, it looks like this. I hope her Due wins the national championship. So one shining moment is just three minutes of Zach eighty dribbling at the free throw line and shooting free throws. The worst song ever recorded to the worst way to watch basketball. It should just be the rest of the monitor for five minutes, reps at the monitor calling a charge. Then the the Windy's ad is just snuck in there. I hate that. We'll get there.

There's some questions about that Oh gosh, I'm looking at some of the questions that are it's not the worst song in the whole wide world because sand Storm exists. But all right, Sandstorm is better than it was before the wind. He's ad, Now it's not I get that, I get that much worse. All right, So I had the bracket up. I guess we'll kind of do it the same way we predicted. These regions all drive

in the East region where number one Yukon absolutely whipped poor Stetson. Game was fifty two to nineteen at halftime and Dan Hurley, as he was walking off the floor goes, they ask him as his team's up thirty two points at halftime or thirty three at halftime on a poor sixteen seed, And the lady interviewing him is like, what'd you think? And he goes, I'm not too happy those last few minutes. We really let our guard down there. I'm like, oh, great, he's Nick Saban is what he is.

All he does is win, and he's a total dick. The best combo, the winningest combo. Right, yeah, perfect for that part of the country, I guess. But Yukon was impressive, as was number nine Northwestern who in a stunning comeback, took down the eighth seeded Florida Atlantic Owls. Northwestern led for most of the game, only to see the Owls pull ahead with a minute left. They forced overtime in the final ten seconds, and

then they ran away and hid in overtime. One of the names of the tournament so far, Ryan Langborg close to my name Doppelganger, with twenty seven points. You guys got this game right. Northwestern was impressive. Fau fraud Mountain capital of the world. You guys give a Northwestern any shot to beat Yukon. No, it would require Ryan Langborn and Boo booye great name combo to go off for about fifty five or sixty points, and I really really

doubt that's happening. I believe all the nine have won. So the Utah State TCU game is going on now because we can't record this at three in the morning. All the Nines have won thus far three eleven's one and at least only one ten one. So yeah, that middle seed line between six and twelve or so was just a headache to seed, as it typically is. And then continuing on there, Number five San Diego State held off twelfth

seeded Alabama Birmingham. They'll always get the easiest path. It's like last year San Diego State didn't play anyone. Yeah, they are always a five seed and it always opens up nicely. UAB had a nice comeback here after trailing for most of the night. They led in the second half, but ultimately could not make enough baskets down the stretch. The Aztecs defense holds them under

thirty eight percent shooting and they will draw. One of the biggest upset darlings of this tournament thirteen CDL, who comes back on Auburn and they were down by ten ten with seven minutes left, came back and won despite the refs trying to make this game go on for four hours. The IVY League schools are always pretty scrappy. They don't always get it done, but they're at least always close. And Auburn, what's your takeaway? Are you more impressed

with Yale or more like, really with Auburn doing this? I think more impressed with Yale. Auburn always does this, except for the one year they got to the Final four. Jayhawk killer John pull A Kitis. We saw this team play at Allen Field House made six threes I think in this game, and they were just money down the stretch. We wanted to see how this region would play out. With each of the top four seeds all winning their conference tournament, usually at least a couple of them are quite flat in

their NCAA Open after that, and there you go. People were trying to figure out why Auburn was a four seed. They are so sexy. Daddy ken Palms says they're the fourth best team in the country. They entered last week with one quad one win. Their metrics were shiny, little Gonzagai like, beat up on the bad teams, didn't exactly beat the good teams. And look what happened Yale, Yale was the better team down the stretch. You guys, give Yale a chance to beat the Aztecs San die State.

He usually plays extremely sound defense. It's gonna be a tough draw for Yale. I think to get a lot, But when you have guys that can snipe threes from anywhere, you always have shot. So guys are going yukon San Diego State. I do think that's most likely. Yeah, that'd be my pick though, Yeah, No, Northwestern's fisty. They have good guards, which we just pointed out you need you need guards like that to make

a move. It's just Yukon. Like if they were playing North Carolina or even Perdue, I think it's a little feistier, but uh yeah, Yukon's just crushing everybody as a team of terminators. They've won seven straight NCAA games by at least thirteen points, So we'll see how that goes. Another upset in the bottom half of this bracket. Number eleven. Ducaine pretty much controls this game. It was close, but they were really never behind, and they take down Yeah they were. I don't think BYU ever led, and

they take down the sixth ranked Cougars seventy one sixty seven. The whole thing got screwed up with BYU needing a specific draw to be a Thursday Saturday exclusive team, and it may have cost them because Dukane won their first game in the nca tournament in over fifty some years, forty five fifty years. I think that was stunning, Like I was stunned to see BYU shoot the ball

that poorly. Yeah, that was that was pretty surprising. I was also I was not impressed with Dukeane in the A ten championship game that I watched, h and so I was also surprised to see them come out and play pretty well. Yeah, did not see that coming BYU was one of my didn't really even think about the upset very much picks. And they will now have to deal with third seeded Illinois, who got a challenge from Morehead State

but pulled away in the second half. Terrence Shannon Junior just continues his ridiculous postseason. He scored twenty six points. This game was tied at forty eight apiece, So that would tell you that Illinois ended the game on a thirty seven to twenty one run to run away and hide from the Eagles. Illinois probably going to take care of business against the Ducane, right, I think that's one of the easiest calls of the second round. I would sure hope

so. And then the bottom half of the bracket, or the bottom quarter of this bracket is Chuck number seven. Washington State used the nice comeback to beat Drake by five, and Iowa State, the two seed blue passed South Dakota State. Their offense hung eighty two points on the jack Rabbits and tj Olzolberger Bowl. And this is the most boring game for me here. Iowa State I think could be on upset watch. I don't see Wazoo doing it.

I think the Cyclones move on right, Yeah, I would agree, all right, Land and dry in the I guess that's due to South Region next, which, oh boy, is there a fun game to read about in that one. Yeah, we'll get to that one in a bit. Couple games that are alive as of recording in the South Region. We have Houston leading by almost thirty one as of that sentence, and James Madison leading Wisconsin by double digits currently, So those games certainly look to be headed in

a certain direction. But the games we know for sure are done. Texas A and M in the nine to eight put up ninety eight points against nebrasktball. That's exactly the performance we thought Nebraska was headed for. They can shoot pretty well. They did shoot pretty well. They like to play fast, but they can't play a lick of defense, nor did they. Three players hit twenty points for the Aggies, led by Wade Taylor, who is seven threes and had twenty five points on his own. It was really fun to

be introduced to what was his name, Kese Tominaga. Fun to watch, expressive player from Japan for Nebraska, but he will not be advancing as the Aggies roll to a victory ninety eight eighty three. Let's move on here and any takeaway from that game, Nick, that was a pretty fun one, much more fun than Duke and MT. Yeah, lots of points. They're gonna challenge Houston. That's a horrible matchup for Houston. The way to beat the Cougars is to is to shoot. Is to shoot the ball ball.

We saw these teams play in the non con and A and M only lost to them by four points. Like Nebraska also has never won an NCAA game. They're oh and eight and yeah, that's that's Hoiberg ball for you. They're fun to watch, but they cannot stop a nosebleed. Duke, in maybe the most boring game to watch this tournament so far, took down the Catamouse. Ryan, You and I did not get that one right. We thought Vermont win the game, and they were in it for a minute,

and then Duke pulls away and they win more or less going away. Not a particularly close finish there, Texas Tech, I got that one right, as they go down to NC States eighty to sixty seven. The game the NC State led by multiple possessions for I think almost the entire second half. It was not particularly really disappointing by Tech. Like I thought the bracket, especially with what you're about to read, the bracket really opened up nicely for

Tech to make a run. I thought they had the offense to do it, and their offense is what killed them in this game. They could not make anything. They we They made just seven of thirty one to threes, barely twenty two percent. They couldn't make anything, and they kept fouling too. It was bizarre. Tech kind of hit the wall at the end of the year. Is still a pretty good year for them and NC State.

As you said, the run continues. They have a nice smout of the Sweet sixteen because a fourteen seed awaits the Look, what did the fourteen seed beat? Uh? No one that you picked? Nick, don't worry about that, Okay. Oakland Cam Lipplet's Oakland Love You Cam takes down Kentucky to School There eighty to seventy six. A player that I am. Everyone knows that Nick loves Remy Martin Remy parkon his Nick's favorite player. I feel similarly

about Oh, it's Goalkey. What's his first name? Jack Golkey of Oakland Golden Grizzlies, because this man has only taken eight two point shots all season, and he took nineteen threes against twenty Kentucky and he made ten of them. I think he took twenty made ten for thirty two points on the night, leading Oakland to a massive upset victory. What a game. That was. My biggest takeaway is that Kentucky does not actually run offensive sets. They

simply dribble and then eventually someone is halfway open and they shoot. Let's talk about Kentucky for a minute here. John Caliperry since making the Final Four with a thirty eight and O basketball team, four Final four and five years they lost in heartbreaking fashion to Wisconsin, and some would say he hasn't recovered. That was nine years ago. The few years after that they continue to put

forth respectable but not elite tournament performances. They lost in the second round, they made the Elite eight, they lost in the Sweet sixteen, and they lost in another Elite eight. Not great, obviously, but there's still seven or eight NCAA tournament wins in that stretch. There's nine, actually nine NCAA tournament wins in that stretch. Not great, but they still managed to put up respectable results since Yuck twenty there was no tournament. Twenty one was their

worst season in fifty years because the COVID team. They didn't make any postseason tournament twenty two they're an elite title pick and they lose to a fifteen seed in the first round. Last year, all the talent in the world underachieve all year, don't make the second weekend, did beat Providence within the lost the case eight and then this year they lose to a fourteen seed. Cali Peris buy out thirty three million dollars and Kentucky fans want him gone. The

rough Rafters forums were hilarious. Nick made a video of Caliberry's face on the Saddam Hussein's statue in Kentucky fans. Oh you see Kentucky fans pulling it down. Hilarious. I think you have to figure out a way to get this over with like this. He's as washed as it gets. I think you have to pull up Pete Carroll And didn't you even say that was in his contract? Ryan that he can be like the special assistant to the ady or something like that. He can, but he forfeits almost all of that salary.

He's not making his ten million dollars a year to do that. I think it's they said it, it'd be a forfeiture of like seventy five percent of his salary. He can if he just happening, if he wants to just be done, which he's sixty five and it's a high pressure job there, he very well may want to. He also may not want to walk away. And it's not like he's back, Bryan. There's families he's helping out with all those NBA draft picks. Think about the families. It's stunning

though. It's stunning, as you said, Land and how disorganized this team is. They are They just don't run set reached Shepherd when they were down. Yep. Yeah, the arc of Calipari is fascinating. Oakland looked like the better team. If you had taken swapped their jerseys, or taken their seeds off, or taken their names off the jerseys, you would have said that Oakland came in as the higher seeded team. They looked better. They

looked like clearly not as athletic, but they were organized. They got their best players the ball when it mattered most, and the freshman let Kentucky down again because Shepherd and Dillingham and bratch Off for that matter, didn't do anything. Yes or no? Is Cali Peri back at Kentucky next year? I think it has to be Yes. What do you think, Nick? Yeah, I think he's back, but he shouldn't be. I would love to see Patino coach Kentucky and calgo to Louisville. How fun would that be?

Be hilarious? I don't like, but that'd be amazing. I don't know how you can like Caliperry and not Patino like I don't know if there's a huge difference there, mostly because Rick Patino is kind of a jerk and Cal Perry doesn't seem to be that much of a jerk. Also got somebody on the staff pregnant at one point, right that? Where was that he paid a girl to get an abortion at one point when he was a coach. I don't remember. Yeah, I don't remember what school it was. Let's

take a look this. This is from the Wikipedia page. So in two thousand and three, whenever he was. Where was he coaching there? He was at Louisville. He was he had just begun his career at Louisville. This is from the Wikipedia page he uh, let's see here. Uh the wife of an equipment manager he had an affair with and paid her to have an abortion because she did not have health insurance. I apologized press conference for his indiscrection, but did not step down as coach, and the AD said

that he would stand by him. Yeah, that was two thousand and three, for there was some reason of beating other eighteen to twenty two year old's basketball well, and then obviously the whole strippers and cocaine thing, and he's a vampire and all sorts of other things. But he's a good basketball coach at that. And yeah, Kentucky, Kentucky was better in with the Kentucky may just be better with They were better with Patino than they have been with

cal It's pretty wild. Oh, that was a great game to watch, super fun, very entertaining, and had what forty less points? More than forty less points? Then Florida and Colorado Game of the tournament. Florida scored one hundred and lost to Colorado, who scored one hundred and two sensational finish in this game. As Colorado hits a game winning jumper with two seconds left, Florida was down was it seven with like forty seconds in a minute to

go. It was late and Colorado looked like they had it wrapped up. Florida hits a couple insane threes to get back in the game. They tie it, only for Colorado beat them essentially at the buzzer, although a three quarter court heave a lot closer than it had any right to be. But no Colorado, just Colorado. There was bust Whenever whenever people say that Kansas doesn't play defense, and they make it sound like they're just choosing not to,

That's what Florida kind of did in this game. Like Colorado scored on like fifteen possessions in a row, like there was just no resistance whatsoever. They also made almost all their free throws. Eddie Lampkin has turned into a do everything kind of player in the paint for them, and yeah, they look awesome. They got out of their first four game twelve times in thirteen

years. When you are filling out your bracket every year but one since the field expanded in twenty eleven, has a play in team won at least one game in the round of sixty four. Yeah, and unfortunately Florida on the wrong end of that. But the SEC does not like to play defense win that many games. It's turned out, no thanks. And then rounding out the South here, Marquette takes down Western Kentucky eighty seven sixty nine. Again,

that was a little too close for comfort for a while. Western Kentucky, even led by double digits at at a point in the first half, had Marquette sweating it a little bit. Then Marquette turns it on in the second half and runs away for a ultimately pretty comfortable win. And they will play Colorado turns out On turns out having Tyler Cullak matters, he's pretty he's pretty good. Huston versus A and M. Who do you guys think that's the closest of the one to nine games. I think Houston Houston in an

absolute dogfight. James Madison is beating Wisconsin by seven right now with eight minutes left. We don't know what the final result of that will be. I think James Madison takes down Duke. I think if it's Wisconsin Duke wins. I would love that. Dukes and Duke, Yeah, I'll take I'll take James Madison. Why not? I think that was if wis constant play Duke, they'd win. They if they get past they're now down just three too,

so that that game could get a lot closer. In NC State, Oakland were going with the wolf Pack to end this little run here and go to the Sweet sixteen. Yep, I think NC State dances on and then I think, here's my upset call. Colorado beats Marquette. Did you know Shaka Smart has not made the Sweet sixteen in any of his last nine NCAA appearances. I say the street continues. Buffalo's win. I had Florida beating them, and I will have Colorado beating them. I think it's Marquett's here

to get out all right? Next to get to the sixteen, read me what happened in the midwesty Midwest, and starting with a game that happened tonight the Purdue boiler Makers. And if you didn't get enough of the refs of the monitor, you sure probably didn't get enough of Zach Eedy at the free throw line, because he was there every second of the game. UH, Perdue won by twenty eight. It was close at times, but they pulled away from Grambling. Nobody cares UH. And currently halftime in the Utah State

TCU game, UH, the Aggies are up six. Who knows what's gonna happen in that game, So to be determined who Purdue will be facing in the round of thirty two, but we know who will face eight. He had thirty and twenty man that's the first n c A tournament thirty and twenty games since nineteen ninety five. Also, as Nick was saying, shot more free throws by himself than Grambling did as a team, and that's that's refereeing, folks. Perdue was called for six fouls in this game. Six.

To be fair, they are very good and Grambling isn't. But still Zach e d fouls no times. We know that Ku is going to be facing a arch nemesis of the rock Chuk blog Twitter account, and the account will probably burn down because of pitchforks and torches if Zaga ends up winning, I don't want to be Maybe they forgot. Maybe it's been a couple of years, yes in Washington, but go never forgot anything this This was a sexy upset pick for a lot of people. But Gonzaga comes in shoots the lights

out beatza McNee State team who only had three losses by twenty one. And then obviously we just pre recapped Kansas slipping past their thirteen seed and this game, yeah, we will previou this. Yere in a little bit landon why did you think that Gonzaga was gonna lose this game? This is the type of team Gonzaga puts a meat necklace around. They kill these crappy little mid majors. It's the Power five teams they struggle with. Yeah, that is

usually true. McNee State was was branded as a team that could make a lot of threes play fast, and Gonzaga, I thought was way overseeded. So usually games like that have some upset value. Not this time. And you're right. This is usually, of course the type of team that Gonzaga loves to beat because it's the type of team they play all season. Moving on to the bottom part of the bracket, South Carolina six seed upstart that sec. It just means more, except when it comes to winning round of

sixty four games. They lost to number eleven seed Oregon, Dana Altman. They actually showed highlights of the Kansas then meeting Kansas with Tyler Dorsey and the Sprint Center. Oregon does it again. They win by a convincing fourteen point margin to get to the round of thirty two and Argon was finally healthy and they look great. They will be playing the Creighton Blue Jays out of Omaha. Creighton beats Akron and Lebron unfortunately didn't play at Akron. They beat Akrons

by seventeen. Though that the Akron could have used Lebron, they probably won. I think Oregon beats Creighton. Yeah, that sets up an eleven to three Oregon Creighton game. Sexy upset pick your organ is a really good team. Creighton kind of struggling at times. Landon, do you think that the Blue Jays are gonna pull it out or you think the Ducks have a dark horse chance at this I think this is gonna be a real game. I think I would lean Creighton, but Oregon's going to have a real shot to

win. And Faly Dante versus Ryan Kulkbrenner it is fair. Yeah, that's a good take. Yeah, Oregon Folly Dante versus Kulk Brenner. That's gonna be a very interesting matchup to watch. I would go kulk Brenner just because Dante is seemingly more fragile. He has the injury history. He even got a little banged up a couple times in the South Carolina game. But hey, if he can stay on the floor and he can hang with Kulkbrenner, they have a real chance to win. But I think I Dante's lean Creighton.

Dante's a better set, a better athlete than calk Brenner. And that's that's why this is so interesting. Is not a lot of teams have a center that can go toe to toe with Calkbrenner. Oregon does, and Oregon also has the best player on the floor. Creighton's loaded with talent, but I mean, geez, the dude dropped forty the other night. Like Oregon may have two of the best three players. I think they win. I actually also think they're better. Coach Greg McDermott usually takes an l there.

I think Oregon wins. I gets thee Oregon going into the led eight. Speaking of taking El's, we have a setup a Rick Barnes Invitational. After Texas beat TENN seed Colorado stateon and ugly fifty six to twenty game. Of course that's how Texas wins. Yeah, just a complete fart sound. Tennessee won pretty convincingly against Saint Peter's the darling from the twenty twenty two tournament who made the ELI eight twenty. I guess that's a thirty to thirty. I

can't count thirty four point win. So Texas Tennessee hood Harry Potter versus former Texas Longhorn. Who's gonna win this game? Orange Bowl? This has to be the year for Tennessee. It Haavy, although I wouldn't. I don't think Texas actually has it in them, but they are a very talented team. I would not be like thrilled to play Texas if I was Tennessee,

but I don't think Texas actually is capable of doing that. It'll be close for a little bit and then they'll do what they always do and Dalton connect will will do his thing. I will go if you had to pick it the lead eight out of this bracket after watching one round, what would you go with? I think I would go. I think I would go Perdue Oregon. Is that crazy? Yeah, Tennessee, I think I think Tennessee. Yeah, we'll see. I would love to see Oregon Tennessee. That

would be a lot of fun if it happens. Now in the West Region to Kansas. Oh, I pushed this over times here, but god, no, don't want any part of that because we'd pump ourselves into how that's a good matchup too, don't I don't like that for Kansas in the West Region. Uh. North Carolina crushes sixteen seed Wagner because Armando Baycott played his three hundredth career college game. Congratulations Armando. So he was in Zachy That

almost numbers Zachie's four hundred and seventy five. Armando Baycott was in a commercial. I think it was for a renta car place, and I asked Angie, I said, how old do you think that guy is? She said he's thirty five. I said, no, but he basely is because that so many years he's been playing college basketball. He looks like a little car salesman. He does. Yeah, also very good at basketball. They will be playing Michigan State Spartan. But it may sound like that that was purely

off of No, he does. He looks like a guy that you'd see in a polo with his hair up, and he would he would be like, Hey, can I interest you in this hummer to drive for the week while you're in town? He does well. Alndo Baycott will attempt to drive North Carolina into the Sweet sixteen, but they'll have to get past the spartans of Michigan State, who crushed Mississippi State in a MSU beat MSU game. Only saw that joke five thousand times. Tom Izzo has won almost seventy percent

of his NCAA tournament games when he is the lower ranked seed. Does that continue? I think they give Carolina a real game, but ultimately close. No cigar Michigan State. The two things that accompany these kind of upsets, and that is a very good coach and a guard that can get you a bucket at almost any moment. So I I think Michigan State is going to be in this until the very end, and they I don't. It's a tough game to pick, but there that's gonna be a game that's gonna come

right down to it. Nick, uh uh, that seems like a good upset pick. I'm gonna I'm gonna pick North Carolina though, Uh Yeah, I think and I don't, and I think we all kind of think Izzo's overrated. But his teams are well coached at this time of year, especially compared to Hubert Davis. I'm not particularly fond of that. Well, I was told is good in March. He's had He's definitely had more than one championship since the Clinton administration. Right, So Saint Mary's and Grand Canyon just

tipped off? Uh, I actually didn't. I thought it was twenty four to twenty and assume it did. That's through seventeen gross minutes, not to keep over using, but that's what that deserves. So we don't know who's gonna win that game, but we know they're gonna play number four Alabama, who in Alabama fashion beat Charleston one hundred and nine to ninety six. I think that Grand Canyon would be a fascinating draw for Alabama. The over ownder

in that game would have to be like one sixty. I think that Grand Canyon would beat Alabama. But if it's Bama Saint Mary's, I think I'll go with Nadoes agreed. Sure, Clemson was everybody's upset pick. They all thought that, Yeah, Well, we kind of wrong. In my bracket. Guys, I definitely didn't mention how I took Mississippi State to the Elite eight, like I'm in Florida. Don't forget Florida, Florida. Of course, picking two middle of the pack SEC teams to the Elite eight is always

the move. When you got, when you can, you have to the one year that the SEC doesn't have a ton of teams going deep in the tournament. New Mexico really represented the Mountain West? Who they what? Colorado State loss, New Mexico loss? Who else? Yeah, Nevada blue, We'll get to Nevada. Good lord. Not a great showing from the Mountain West. And they were never in this game. Clemson ran them over seventy seven to fifty six and advance to play the Bears. A Baylor who pretty

much always impressed in the first round. Now that used to not be a thing. They obliterate Colgate, who continues to make this tournament just to serve as roadkill for whoever. The three seed they draw is the Bears. Crush toothpaste ninety two to sixty seven sets up a Baylor clemsing game. I have Baylor in the final four, and I saw nothing in that game today that would make me think that I want to change it. I'll go with Scott Drew, Sure I agree. And then the best for a last maybe the

best game of the tournament. Number seven Dayton certainly the best comeback. Saw themselves down by what it was like fifty nine to forty two or something, and they come back and beat number ten Nevada sixty three to sixty as Mark Alford just our Steve Alford. Mark Alford was the former weatherman here, who's a Congress guy now Steve Alford is the coach there. Nevada didn't know what

hit him. They blew a huge lead, and the Flyers guys, I really didn't know what to do with myself in this game because I never have been a part of Dayton putting the comeback to beat my favorite basketball team. Never that's never happened. Nope, not once. Flyers will play number two Arizona, who crushed Long Beach after a close first half by twenty in a game that tips off at nine forty five am Arizona time. Great work,

schedule makers, Yeah, really really well done there. That will make this closer than I would pick dateon to cover the spread, but I think Zono advances. If Caleb Love is inefficient, like at six pm, he's gonna be very inefficient at nine am. I like the team that wears oren red and blue. Well said, don't go out on eleven two too much there, buddy. All right, we're gonna have to go really really fast with

ASKCARCB because I'm looking at the beats. There's eleven questions submitted with I don't have a charger, so better better run here at Matt Underscore Gallon time favorite double digit seed team this year? And why James Madison go dukes Oakland or Grand Canyon because of TGF. We don't know if Oakland Longwood or if Grand Canyon one Longwood. If Longwood gets the forty, the Wood will be a little less shure o. I have one real quick. I have one from

at Fields Underscore Orlando. What do you make of l J. Sneaed being traded to the Titans for a third and seventh? Did that just happen? What you say, Ryan, that that just happened? This did happen? This is real? Yep, that's that's lugarious theme got traded all right? Well, lagerious Yeah, and it's not. It's not until next year either. Well, he would be a very good player on the Jayhawks. He would give them some depth. I would take that as an ad just popped

up on my soundboard that says fentanyl is dangerous. Not all pills are real. Kansas Department of Aging and Disability Services has paid for the content in the sad at speaking of it makes me want to pop fentanyl. Looking at this question at Matt Underscore gown time, what is the most annoying commercial of all time? Well, it sounds kind of like this. Just if you just in case you don't know where I'm going for a buck dollars singles, Dave

singles, Dave singles. Oh, I want to kill all of those ads. That's the worst add of the tournament. Though I don't. I really don't like any of them. They're all bad, That is the answer. That's all a c B. If you have any questions, I gotta I gotta blow through a few of these, sir. These people work overtime to give us these questions. At Kimbelopoe Golf, you drop John Calipari into a Division two conference with a slightly above average roster. How fast is he working

for the local car dealership a year and a half. You suck at on Cali Peri John and John's got this attorney at law looks like he kind of looks like a guy that could do that. Serco too. At what point of the Stanford comeback did you think they were gonna win? Never got there, Landon did? I never thought. I thought, I never You guys, I hope they would win. I was rooting for Sanford, Go Dogs, but I didn't think they would actually, So you guys had at Bentley

Hunt fifteen. Probably a long shot. But do you think Kevin plays if they get to the next weekend? Maybe? Probably not. I think they'll have at least a genuine conversation about it. Yep, that's right at Preston skirt sick. Not a question, but wanted to thank Nick for all he has contributed to the podcast. Gonna miss him on the show. Look at that. I do not have that. I do have this. That's what we'll do with the end of your career. Shotguns rude fashion, But uh

that look at that. You wanted to skip the rest of the questions and you got a shout out. Preston does have one that says, what's the best name for Robbie Avila, who's not in a tournament? Thank god we got to watch Virginia says Larry Nerd and Steph Blurry are candidates, which is great. But the answer is cream abdul Jabbar. That is an awesome nickname. And they died. I forgot I shot nick but Landon should at least be able to answer. I didn't really even understand the question you cut out.

I think for the first the Indiana State dude with the huge cross tattoo. How they call him cream abdul Jabbar. Oh, they call him cream abdul Jabbar. That's really good. Yeah, yes, yes, in that cream colored At show Me Hawked, there are three contestants of Life Death Taxes and Bill selves winning in the first round. I still can't believe people actually picked against Kansas in the first round by one with one minute left. It

wasn't exactly a lock. Damn damnit, Yeah it was. Could you imagine if the Big twelve has three national title winners in four years, Baylor, Kansas, and maybe Houston this year. I'm concerned about Houston's scoring, and they are in a region where there's a lot of scoring. But it would be cool best conference in the country if they can get that. Yeah, like that begins to be sec levels in a sport where it's much more difficult to win like that. Here is your final question from Matt k tweets and

news. How lucky are we that we don't have Fran for Scilla and Jean Sterretur on the same broadcast? Very great? Is one of my favorite things about March is that Fran doesn't call the games. They would take turns, feeling the refs crotches. That's all they would do for two and a half hours on National TV. Gene, I didn't get a Gene rant in and it's eleven o'clock at night. Jean for j billis I would trade Gene for a bucket of elephant turns I cannot. And Jean's sterotor, who exists for

no purpose. Not even his wife would notice if Jean's sterotor disappeared, she wouldn't. She'd probably be like, Oh, thank God, he's not gonna man explain all the rules of everything to me. Now, more of a note, I'm curious to see how good Gonzaga is. They haven't played anyone for a few months. Other than Landon. Go ahead and say name of team they've played. Yeah, they played Mary. It's hard to do the high pitched song command. I feel a little bit like a trained dog at

a certain point. That's so okay. I'll have to have to work on that, sir, And that's in your contract. But okay, because we don't know how good? Yeah, I'll get there. How good was mcmee? Not bad? Is your answer to that? If you ever have any asscarcbs? All right? Oh and just because you asked for it, Number five? Where is it? Ken Zoga, I don't want to prave you this. Yeah, it's the bracket. Number five Gonzaga versus number four Kansas

in the Rock. In the Rock, shock Plug has to decide whether or not they're gonna leap to their Deaths Bowl Saturday, March twenty third, at two fifteen in the after and what the hell's that they gave him the two o'clock game? After that game, Mark Feuse Gonzaga Bulldogs enter at twenty six and seven overall. They have won nine of ten, but they're two and five in quad one wins this year because they aren't athletic and they play nobody

and then lose to athletic teams. The Bulldog's front court is anchored by six ' nine two and forty pound four man Graham Eke, who leads the team with seventeen points and seven rebounds. He shoots over sixty percent from the floor, but he's a sub seventy percent free throw shooter, and he only plays twenty four minutes per game because he does struggle with fouls. The three man is six eight Anton Watson, who hads fourteen and seven while posting an elite

forty percent three point mark. He's dangerous on the wing, and then six to eleven Ben greg his nine to six start at the five. Bradon Huff gets the reserve minutes now and again creaton transfer. Ryan Nimhart is the point guard, averaging thirteen points and seven assists, but he's only a thirty three percent three point shooter. The two guard is Nolan Hickman, who serves as Gonzaga's best shooter at forty one percent. Both of these players are excellent free

throw shooters. They're top preserve is surefire white Guy of the Game Dusty Stromer. Gonzaga is a very good off romer, very good offensive team. Struggle at times on defense against a lackluster league slate. You want to tell Ryan twice they are experienced and have very little death as they played just seven guys more than eight minutes per game. Only Kansas has more two point baskets than

Mcgoldogs do this year. They're a good rebounding team thanks to their size, and they shoot a good thirty six percent for three despite shooting less than twenty per game. They're They're also very careful with the ball. Their biggest weaknesses all come with the defensive end, also the fact that they play McDonald's employees fast food workers financially by bakers, Yeah, investment bakers. But the defensive is also an issue for they don't force turnovers. They found more than usual.

Their coach gets the UIs and their transition this year that was so good there that last one last he does he has one at least amazingly Kansas and Gonzaga. For as good a history as the these teams have, they've only played twice. K You beat him at Allen in nineteen eighty eight, and then the number one, almost undefeated Gonzaga team beat the Jayhawks and Fort Myers to open the twenty twenty twenty twenty one season. I do not care if

Kansas loses this game by one hundred. That team is still worse than this one. All right, let's let's let's pick the game. Let's pick this game. So some analysis here. Gonzaga is an excellent offensive team, but Kansas is a really good defensive team. Gonzaga is not a threat to just shoot a billion threes. That's not their game. I know they shot well

against McNeice, but that's really not what they do. They like to throw the ball inside and hundred Dickinson staying out of foul troubles is gonna be important, but I don't think that they necessarily are a poor matchup for Kansas. Gonzaga has been had on the defensive end, though they weren't able to stop teams like Santa Clara. That's what cost them in a game there. That's unusual because normally they're able to just overwhelm these CRAPPYWCC teams with their talent,

not as much on defense. Kansas hasn't been very good on offense this year, but this isn't a brutal defensive matchup like some of the other teams in this range. We thought they could draw Saint Mary's much better on defense than Gonzaga, and they beat him two out of three times two of them not that close. What do you think Kansas has to do to win this game? I think if they make six or seven threes, they have a great

chance. I think the interior game kind of washes out. I think Kansas's guards need to be as good as Gonzaga's guards on offense because I think Kansas has a defensive edge. I agree with that. I think the defensive edge is definitely there for the Jayhawks and Hunter Dickinson. I don't know if he's gonna have nineteen twenty five and four again, but I do think he is going to have a solid night and out play. Gonzaga is BIGS, But

I don't know. Man, It's a tough one to pick because if this was anyone other than Gonzaga, I think I would absolutely bet the farm against Kansas. But I think Gonzaga is way overseeded. But then again, I also just kind of think Kansas isn't that good. That's not to say Gonzaga is. Like I said up top, I don't think Gonzaga is good either. I so This makes it a very difficult game to pick, because I think I would pick against either of these teams against a lot of other teams

that remain in the tournament. But we have to pick the game, and this is what I have to do, So I have to decide, and I'm still Let me. Let me tell you who. Oh, you're already making picks. Your laptop's dying, I get it. Let me tell you who the most important player in the game is. It's kJ Adams. Hunter Dickinson to be effective needs some space. Gonzaga is a very tall team.

They're bigger than Kansas from a hype perspective, doesn't necessarily mean it will matter my because Hunter can score with anybody, and especially if they win and they play perdue, they're gonna need some experience going against a tall team. Kj's got to be productive. He's been really good his last two games. He's a better athlete than anybody. Gonzaga is gonna throw at him, but he's smaller. Can kJ rebound? Can kJ get five rebounds? Can he get

to the free throw line a couple times and make those shots? That's huge. Hunter's gonna get close to twenty and ten. He does most nights against matchup. He's matchup proof. Can kJ be effective and get you sixteen and eight? If he does, they win? If he only has nine and two, I think they lose. I think kJ is the most important piece in this game. Close second is Nick Timberlake. Can he continue it up?

Because you know, whenever you have guards like nim Hard who Harris is probably gonna take care of, and then you also have Nolan Hickman, he's the three point guy. Can Timberlake match that? I think these teams are pretty even. Who am I going with the team that's been in this spot more often? They've been better in this spot. Don't let the noise fool you. I am going down on this ship like it or not. Gonzaga gets to this point every year they play a Power five team and they get

exposed. This year is no different. Kansas seventy eight, Gonzaga seventy three, Jayhawks to the Sweet sixteen behind a gritty effort by Adams and Dickinson. Against my better judgment and everything I've said on this podcast so far, I also kind of think Kansas wins. No, No, you can't do that. Then they're gonna lose. Well too, bad. They're gonna lose eventually. Anyway, I'll take Kansas. I don't feel great about that. Pick

Kansas wins seventy four to sixty eight. I think I think it is probably more likely that it is Gonzaga that chokes a way of a game and it gets a little bit outclassed and out coached, and Kansas comes up with some big possessions down the stretch and gets a win. Nick, go ahead, pick the game. What do you got? Yeah, I think Kansas is gonna win this game. Let me give me eighty three to seventy six. I think that this Kansas team can beat this Gonzaga team. I like the

matchup. I think people are a little sneakily underrating this Kansas team. I know it was a close, it's around a sixty four game, but I I have a sneaky suspicion that they win. All right, all right, Well we'll see what happens. I have made fun of Gonzaga on the show for their march chokes enough I can't possibly turn away from Kansas now. And what I'll also say is this, I believe the Jayhawks are due for a game where their opponents just misshots. They haven't for a little while. Kind

of like that Houston game. They just don't make that. Sometimes that happens. We've seen app with Kansas lot why not here? Why not hear with Gonzaga. We'll see what happens. All right, This is the Inside the Paint Podcast. We will be back on Monday, win or lose. Who's hopefully talking about a sweet sixteen appearance for the Jayhawks. And if not,

it's because rock Chalk Blog you don't see a show. It's because Rockchalk Blaw got deleted from bowllying by the Gonzaga fans, which will kind of be well deserved, honestly. If that, if of all teams, Gonzaga asides, they're gonna start beating uh that that you've heard of, It's gonna start with Kansas. For Nick Whippert, who's not here, I'm Ryan Landrid, this is inside the bank and I am bad at brackets, but so are you.

Nick is still on the phone and says he is Mike Field, who is very near and dear to Land's a hard Yes, all right, so we'll be back. Everybody sign us off. Good first round. Keep you haveing, don't John? Oh? Mary? Yes,