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Is it natural eron Torres to still feel heartbreak a day after a game where you really had no dog in the fight except maybe some monetary hopings? Is there anything wrong with that?
So I'm not alone? That's good to know. So I do a college hoops podcast and I literally didn't want to do it last night.
I was so sad.
But my producer had done like two hours worth of like graphics and you know, getting notes together, and I was like, yeah, that dude just busted his butt probably since eight o'clock, you know, to tow three hours.
I was like, I just't want to contest. Yeah. Absolutely.
I was on with Mike Carmen last night as I was in for Jason Smith on The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmen and saw Arkansas lose that heartbreaker in overtime to Texas Tech. And there are a lot of reasons why why we are feeling heartbreak. I don't know if Arkansas fans are feeling heartbreak or if they are just now taking what Kentucky felt like they had the last couple of years and are putting all the blame on Coach cal There's plenty to go around here. We'll talk about it as we are broadcasting live for the tierreq dot com studios. Tireq dot com will help you get there. An unmatched selection, fast free shipping, free road as a protection in over ten thousand recommended at sollers tirec dot com the way tire buying should be. If you missed it, it's our first NCAA Tournament overtime game of this bracket. This is how it ended last night in San Francisco.
Three seconds left, Wagner driving right, fine us back watch the twenty foot up at the time. That's omer Texas Tech is lone. Texas Tech is.
Going to the Elate eight. The Red Raiders.
Back from the dead.
They rally from sixteen down headed over time. Texas Tech knock saw Arkansas eighty five eighty three, and the Texas Tech Red Raiders aren't going to the Elite eight.
That's the tough part of it.
Call on Westwood One last night as Texas Tech does move on, is you have this amazing comeback more damning to me for Arkansas, And there are a lot there's a lot to break down with this. It's not the sixteen point deficit that they had with nine minutes left. It's the thirteen point deficit that they had with under five to go. That's the one that's tough to explain. I can get whittling down a sixteen point lead throughout the second half, and granted, this sixty point lead again was nine minutes to go, but Texas Tech only made up three points in a five minute span from the nine minute mark to about the four and a half minute mark, and then from there is where it all fell apart for Arkansas.
So I'll be real, you know, it's it's so interesting. We're all in Survivor pools, bracket challenges, whatever, and you know, you got to remember at the same time, Arizona's making a comeback against Duke, and I kind of was like, oh, the Hayes in the barn with Arkansas, and you kind of focus on the Duke Arizona game. You know, you see the Arkansas game, get to about seven or eight, I'm not gonna ive, ran to the bathroom real quick. Came back for the bathroom. I get a text from my sister in law. She's in all our survivor pools, so she's into it. She's like, what is going on? And I'm like, what do you mean?
What's going on? Then I look up and it's a three point game, and unfortunately the rest is history.
But it but you go back and you look and that was exactly the thing that stood out to me. Thirteen point lead, four minutes to go, Arkansas doesn't win the game.
So we know that Arkansas times was offensively challenged throughout the year, right, Like, that's that's a fair assessment to make, right Arkansas, if you're looking at them, maybe not a potent offensive team to get any bucket that they want. Is that correct? Aaron Torres? Pretty fair to say. Yeah, there were times at Kentucky shot the lights out whole deal last night. They were hanging their hat really on their defense and John al Davis like there was he was amazing. Texas Tech couldn't do anything. Darren Williams had a tough time until he came alive. And think he made his last Yeah, I had tough time un till he didn't because he was great late. But keep going. I think his last five field goals, but at one point I think he was three of twenty one from the floor. So he hits the three to tie it at the end of regulation. But how do you lose a thirteen point deficit, a thirteen point lead with four and a half minutes to go, How of your Texas tech do you erase that deficit and leaning up to it in seeing maybe a quick whistle on a jump all call, maybe quicker shots. For an Arkansas team that ended up being really good from the free throw line last night, they missed a couple of crucial ones down that stretch where any point would matter. But ultimately it falls down on your coach right and at the end of the game, and specifically at the end of overtime when DJ Wagner ended up taking not only a shot at the end of regulation, but also the shot at the end of overtime after Texas text scored their bucket, cal did not use a timeout. Arkansas had one time out lockdown eighty five to eighty three. Wagner's shot ended up being a poor eighteen footer fade away jumper that really had no chance of going in and Arkansas's hearts were broken. This was Cal after the game, explaining why he didn't take a time out in that situation.
In my career, I let that go.
Let the guy get to the room.
They're not going to fool you, you know, And with that kind of time just me, you call it time out. Now you got to worry about what he's doing, how he's playing the inbound, what are you doing? So I usually let that go now because it ended the way it is. Yeah, I wish I would have called a timeout, but nine percent of the time I let that go because now I know what they're doing.
They know what we're doing.
That's why we did it.
That's Cal's explanation. I am not fully believing it. I think in a way he's protecting his player. I just don't see any scenario, especially when you're down to erin. I think it's different if it's a tie game, but when you're down two, you have to realize the sense of your team. Can Arkansas go another overtime? Can they do they feel that they're going to have the advantage in that overtime. If they aren't, then you're like, let's run a play to get a three. Let's try to end this. We're down by two in that scenario. If you are, I think then you just run a play and try to get a two point bucket. I also don't think that he would want DJ Wagner taking the shot. I don't think that that's a realistic option, especially considering that he took the shot at the end of regulation and it didn't work out. Why don't you get the ball to the guy who had thirty points in the game. That's why I don't buy what Cal is saying there in that situation. History may have shown it, but they needed to take a time out after Texas Tech ended up taking the two point lead. That's why I think it falls on Cal's shoulders.
I was gonna say two things. One, you know, you asked a very simple question, how do you blow that lead that late? I think it was a perfect storm of things. I mean, I really do. Coaching wasn't great, execution wasn't great. You know, there was a couple of times, and I think this was more when I was maybe paying a little bit more attention to Arizona Duke where there was a couple of shots early in the shot clock. You have the miss jonas Ad free throw, you have the controversy, the conversation should you have fouled up three?
Now?
I thought it was a little early to start playing the foul game with twenty seven to twenty eight seconds on the clock.
Whatever.
Then you also have Texas Tech executing, and I think, you know this gets lost in the shuffle, and I'm not trying to make it. Oh, you know, we have to celebrate Texas Tech and not criticize Arkansas. But I think if there's a an individual criticism of cal First of all, I agree one hundred percent in overtime down to take the time out. I don't care like you said, if it's tied, let them play, don't let them set the defense, but in but but not tied down to get the best look that you can. But I think also some degree of credit has to go to has to go to Texas Tech because it was just like late in that game they got and I'm not an x's and o's guy, and you know this, but they got every switch they wanted. You mentioned Darien Williams, it seemed like every single possession late his whatever he is, sixty six, two hundred and sixty pound body is bullying a five to eleven guard in the paint. And so I think it was a perfect storm. I think Texas Tech executed great. I think it was bad coaching from Arkansas, bad execution on the court, a timeout that should have happened, a free throw that could have been made, the ref's whistle, as you said, which I think was a bigger variable in this game than people realize. That was maybe a little bit of an early jump ball call that I think a lot of people assumed was going to be a foul call. Bring it all up to very simply say, you need a perfect storm to blow a thirteen point lead with four minutes to go. And that's what happened for Texas against Arkansas.
This is why I think it falls on Cal and it falls on Arkansas. And I'm trying to sit there and you look at the full scope of things, and then you try to look at Cal's career, maybe what went right, what went wrong in Kentucky And it was always about I mean a lot of the times they had better players on the court than the other team, and I don't know if that was the case last night, it seemed like an evenly matched affair. But Texas Tech, as you said, kudos to them for being able to make the comeback. But this is why it goes on cal is to something you said about the tie up. Again, I think it was a bad call for Arkansas in that scenario where it should have been a reach in a foul, Arkansas's up six with a minute ten left. Instead, what they do is they call a jump ball situation. Possession happened to be in favor of Texas Tech. So Texas Tech gets saved in that situation, still down six. Well after the possession is given to them on the jump ball, guess what. They run an out of bounds play that sets up an open in three for Christian Anderson that gets them within three. So there's tip of the cap to Texas Tech and again col not calling a timeout. And I know there are different situations, but it shows you what Texas Tech was able to do. There's also just the point, and this is always talked about. Arkansas is up three, Texas Tech gains possession at twenty eight seconds. When do you foul up three? Right in that scenario? And I think if you would ask anybody that's in the college game, whether it's Doug sitting here, you foul up three under ten if it's on the other side of ten seconds, you don't do it.
And so by the book, they did it right.
However, the only thing that really kills them last night is is a made three. So they failed in that aspect of it, and that's what comes with the territory. So there's all these decisions and Aaron. Even out of the timeout that Texas Tech called after they tied it at the end of regulation, DJ Wagner takes the ball, dribbles up court, and they just get some random shot, just like they got at the end of overtime. So even out of a timeout, because Texas Tech is the one that called the time out when they tied the game at seventy two, they couldn't come up with a play good enough to get the ball into John L. Davis's hand or DJ Wagner just tried to play hero in both cases, which may have been the case and it just completely failed. But that then ends up falling on the coach. And that's why coach cal needs to take the heat for all this.
He does need to take the heat.
Yeah, I listen what the game end about fourteen hours ago. I mean, I am, I'm still in shock, like I'm still in shot thirteen points with four minutes to go. But yeah, no, it falls on the coaching. And you know it's funny because the thing that kind of sucks is, first of all, Arkansas pretty good story. I mean, zero to five in the sec to a play away from the Elite eight, certainly make it to the Sweet sixteen. But I will say there was a lot of I think the disappointing thing, the not fun thing is the confirmation bias that comes to it. If you think Cal's a clown, you've you know, you're you're gonna ignore what happened against Ric Petino. You're gonna ignore what happened against Bill self, and you're gonna point to that.
And so I hate to say it because I lean with you. It is what.
It's certainly on him, the number of things that went wrong. But it sucks that what was a really fun story, you know, Cali Perry kind of getting a little revival revenge against Rick Patino. He beats Bills self head to head. Now it just comes down to Cal lay in a big moment. I don't I don't think Arkansas wanted their season to end. I think Kansas did, like Audred percent, wait for that season to be over. But there was a stretch in that first round game where Kansas late turned the ball over on like five straight possessions. They were up three late in that game and let Arkansas go on like a nine to nothing run and Kansas had absolutely no answer. And it was more of the doing I felt of Kansas's unraveling than it was anything to do with Arkansas and what happens in a situation like this.
And it's not to dongrade the accomplishments of Grant McCaslin and what Texas Tech has done, but when you're looking at what coach cal has done, Texas Tech may have made all these plays, but it was there for him. And when you have a legendary coach in an era now where we don't know how long legendary coaches are staying, this is magnified in a situation of you couldn't carry your team to the Elite eight and figure out a way to do it, or at least get the message across to your players. You're right, there were shots there was a possession with three minutes to go where they got the ball after a Tevy time out. General Davis has an open three misses it, they get the rebound. DJ Wagner throws up another three. This is all within twenty seconds of each other. You could have taken You could have taken fifty seconds off the clock in that scenario. They didn't do it and out of a timeout out of it. And that's the other thing. Davis gets the three out of a timeout, so you don't. You can't tell me that you don't have an out of bounds play that you could run to try to get that shot into overtime. None of it adds up. They can make up all the excuses, but it falls completely on counts.
I hate to open wounds.
But how tough was it to be on air for it, and how tough is it to because we're doing this with fourteen hours of you know, time to think about it. I can't even imagine go ahead.
I have to bring in Jason Stewart on this because here's the real deal. I had Texas Tech in the Elite eight in my bracket, but in a survivor pool, when you're trying to live another day in trying to figure out your path to get to the end. And I think survivor pools are taking over the NCAA term. They're much more fun than the bracket is. I have to would you admit, Jason.
Stewart, I was just thinking this last night, like, my bracket is so secondary to the survivor and I would encourage people to try it. It becomes more there's the emphasis on one game. I went into that game last night knowing nothing about either team, and at the end of the game, I can name you players and coach chase strategies.
John L.
Smith, I'm gonna make my one comment about that guy. He was killing me because I was on Texas Tech. He averages like twelve points a game, right, he had like twenty in the second half or something. Jonald Davis.
Yeah, by the way to this full circle conversation, Jays, so you can stay in. So my wife and my sister in law have always filled out a bracket. You know, I'm always running a pool more in support. They are so into the survivor pool. I literally heard my wife say to my dog this morning, we're signing you up for a survivor pool. Like basically they want more entries. They're like, how do we get more entries? Why did we only do one? My sister in law literally is still alive. She's texting me right now. I had Arkansas, So whatever, I said, whatever. But the point I'm trying to make it is so fun. I'm so into it, and I know these are very valuable airwaves. And I don't want to make this about my bracket or my Survivor pool, but I am with you if you've never tried the Survivor pool format, it is so much freaking fun for this tournament.
The.
Aspect of it. And I understand you're talking to a smaller portion of the audience, but when you're trying to make your pick, you also realize what everybody else is probably meant to do, and so they're probably going to take Texas Tech. And that was the thinking in thinking the pool that I'm in is that you you know what everybody else is going to do, so you're going to go the other way. And you're almost there. You are at mile twenty six of that twenty six point two marathon, and you are in the lead, and then all of a sudden, this herd of people just come and pass you and you lose. And so when you're on the when you were on the right side of it and could have gained so much like the people who had Texas Tech like Jason, didn't gain a whole lot, except that they're still alive. If Arkansas wins last night, not only are those numbers still alive, you are so far ahead because the pool has been completely diluted.
And he just took a ten seed when there were three one seeds playing into two seed really quickly.
That was.
That was I don't even remember what I was gonna say, but no, it's so interesting exactly what you just said. Of Oh, that's what I was gonna say. I was already in okay, can Arkansas beat Floorida mode because I'm helping my sister in law with her pool, and it's like she still has Arkansas today. I was already in that mindset for Saturday. I was already on Saturday at eleven am Pacific time, making my picks for Saturday for Saturday's picks, and poof, it's all gone now.
I don't have any confidence for tonight's picks.
I felt so bad for Dan because when he told me that he picked Arkansas. It was like for poker players out there, it's like you made the right read and the one out of fifty two in the deck came up like he made the right read. He was right ninety eight percent of that game. And I felt really bad, even though I had Texas duck. I honestly felt bad for Debt.
It's it's such a kick in the you know what, but that's why we love it. And then next year will be back in another one. And I mean it's it's it's a lot of fun, and I do think that it's filled out. I think it's it's past the bracket. If you are involved into it. I know maybe I will get Iowa Sam into it. I know Manci's chopping at the bit. I think she was going to get in yours. So you're going to get an air in Survivor Pool, right, I thought, yeah, did you end up getting in?
I was?
I think I put out a tweet who would be into it? And you had like, oh I did.
You guys? Are right?
I did it did put a hand. Yeah.
There was definitely like a legally blonde or something like that meme that was that was shared.
I can't remember which one.
You know you're right.
I could, please, can I still do it?
I was, I wasn't, I wasn't crazy, but it was.
I'm excited for Iowa Sam to enter a free and then just complain to all of us that have actual money on the line. Next show, Oh man, goodness, I took Creighton and I lost nothing. Sorry about you guys, lost all your money. You can't pay your mortgage this month. You already planning your trip. I was already like, man, if I win this thing, what am I gonna do with this?
Oh?
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If you tell me, Arnie Spaniard, I'm gonna quit on the spot.
One Brady Quinn. All right, Brady sitting atop the ranking.
No, why because notre Dame isn't good, so he has no bias. He's not like a guy like me. Took you kind of go too far.
Doug Gottlieb, host of this show, is in second Alex Curry. You can hear Saturday afternoons here on Fox Sports Radio. Some dude named Doug currently in third place. So that's where we are in the the host bracket. As for the listener bracket, just second with Sam, we'll get to you. I got hot questions. Yeah, Steve Emrick right now in first place with seventy three points. Brady's in first with seventy so Steve's even beaten Brady.
In this Steve Emrick a listener, Yes, he's gonna be like, I'm not familiar with his game.
If he's a co host, I mean it must be new around here.
But ioa, Sam, what.
Happened to Steve Hartman who was having like guru level first round, first and second round just absolute like on another level. He must have made a bad pick at some point.
He and Jason Martin are currently tied at sixty three points apiece in fifth place, one point above them and fourth the one and only Bernie Fratto sitting there.
Oh, that.
Yes, Hartman, Yes, that is the case. Steve got burned. He had Saint John's in the Elite eight, that is why and byu so that's why he didn't. But you can all check it out at Fox Sports radio dot com. See where the hosts are, see where you are. It's the place to be, the place to be in the NCAA tournament. Yesterday, I felt was in Newark where Duke and Arizona played pretty good game at least four to thirty minutes. There was a ten minute span at the end of the first half and then early of the second half where it was all Duke. But other than that, Aaron, we had a really competitive contest between the Duke Blue Devils and Arizona Wildcats. In that game, Cooper flag at the end of the first half. It's a thirty five footer at the buzzer gives Duke a six point lead, giving them all the momentum. After Caleb Love shot a three way too soon to end the first half, his twenty five footer came up short, allowed Duke to have some time to get the last bucket of the half. They did six points and they carried that momentum into the second half, but Cooper Flag was well Cooper Flag again, and I feel like it's a campaign of can we just can we please go overboard? Finally, I'm looking talking about him. Thirty points, seven assists, six boards, three blocks, the momentum three last night. He has lived up to every single bit of hype that he has this season. It's just on us to hype him up more because he was magnificent last night.
So I tweeted this out during the game. Is that I am the last person in the world to over hype a freshman.
You know, I've lived through.
I don't know if you would even remember this, but when Andrew Wiggins was coming out of high school, best high school player since Lebron not even a question. Ben Simmons had a lot of hype. You know, Amani bits, Oh, he's the best freshman we've ever seen, in no disrespect to that kid, who I know is kind of trying to piece together a pro Career's funny, I was talking to Kelvin Washington about this, Who's from Yipsilani, the same town as a money baits. So I'm always hesitant to put too much on any of these freshmen. Cooper Flag's the best one and done freshman I've ever seen. Now, Carmelo won a title, so he's always gonna have that going. But the way, and by the way, Zion as physically gifted as anybody. But the number of ways that Cooper Flag impacts games, as you said, thirty points, seven assists, six rebounds, a bunch of three pointers. And I would lastly say this and I'll throw it back to you, Dan, Yes, Cooper Flag is amazing. We have to take half a second to give credit to John Shire for building literally a perfect team around him. They're big, they're tall, they're athletic, they shoot well, there's size where they're you know, there's size across the board. This is a Cooper Flag story, but I think this is a John Shire taking over for Coach K and somehow I listen.
I don't know if they're gonna win it or not.
But since Coach K went heavy on all this one and done stuff about ten years ago, I think this is the most complete duke team that I have seen.
The only games where he didn't score in double figures so far in this calendar year was the game that he injured his Wow's Georgia Tech.
That's a stat right there, So that's it.
Then thirty points in saving it for when it matters, and I think that that says something as well. Not that he was eased back in against Mount Saint Mary's, played about thirty minutes against Baylor, had six or eighteen points in that contest. But last night when they needed them, when they needed them at the end of the half, with that shot, he was there. He came through.
Here's the other thing too, And I know people have talked about this. He's the second youngest player in college basketball. He just turned eighteen. Like Dann, we do this thing, and I know, you know, but for the audience that maybe doesn't follow this stuff, a lot of kids do what they call reclassifying, which is basically, for lack of a better term, skip your senior year high school to take a bunch of online classes whatever. But most kids are already, you know, eighteen years old, going on nineteen, and all they're doing is getting back to their original class. So a lot of times when you see a freshman reclassified, oh, you know, he should still be in high school. Well, actually he's nineteen years old and he should have been in college to begin with. Cooper Flag really did move up a year one. It was to obviously expedite the process to get to the NBA, but it doesn't change the fact that he entered college basketball at seventeen years old. And I think the other thing that stands out, he's just gotten better, as you said, over the course of the season. Where I felt like the early part when we're talking about, you know, the Kentucky game. Early I was at the Kansas game. It felt like early in the season he was trying too hard to kind of show, hey, I'm not just a scoer. I'm one of the guys. I'm not going to try to just be this guy that takes over games. But he has gotten better over the course of the year, and in a college basketball ecosystem where everybody's trying to get older, try to find those veterans again, best player in the sport as the second youngest player in all of college bats and.
This from this past summer when he was on the US select team that faced the Olympians that were gonna go over and eventually win gold in Paris. We're talking about Lebron James, Kevin Durant, Steph Curry pulling up a tweet from Mark Spears on July eighth, was Cooper Flagg the best player on the USA Select team. One current NBA head coach and attendance.
Said, wow, I didn't even remember that.
So yeah, so he's done it against the best of the best and has lived up to the building. Well a billing that is.
I was gonna say really quick, I remember him hawk as I'm pulling up the quotes that because they asked him about it. He's an incredible talent, incredible player, incredible. This isn't the right quote.
There was a quote that was about me, No, no, on me on a bad first date.
Incredible person, great person. No, they asked him a hawk as right after, and he's like, oh, that kid, he's incredible. Now that this interview that I just found was clearly like two or three days later where he's trying to tamp it down a little bit.
But but yeah, no, the.
Players that were there, you know, I'm not saying he was the best player there, but maybe somebody else was implying it. But this kid is not just as good as advertised. He's better than advertised. Do I have thirty seconds on the touch push?
Yes?
Okay, because one team has a strategic advantage is not a reason to change a freaking rule. Okay, so like Josh Allen can throw the ball further than anybody else in the NFL, because Josh Allen can complete a sixty yard dime in the air. To I know, Stefan Diggs isn't on the team anymore, but to whoever his star receiver is, Keyon Coleman. That's so we're gonna are we supposed to ban the forward pass beyond thirty yards because uh, you know, whoever picked the worst quarterback? Because Daniel Jones can't complete the same pass that Josh Allen can. It's stupid. I understand they're gonna argue there's injury risk. Show me the injury. I mean, have there been injuries?
Seriously? Have guys been carted off? I mean, did I miss this?
It's not that not that I have seen.
No, it's it's I understand it's aesthetically not pleasing, But you can't just change rules because one team has a strategic advantage that others don't. If it was so easy, let me ask you a question, Dan Byer, because I was on Fox Sports Radio when the bill went roughly one for twenty on fourth down conversions in the AFC Championship game because they didn't know how to run the touch push. If it was that easy, everybody would do it. I think it's the biggest kracket, you know what, I've ever heard in my life.
I think it's the definition of collusion in the NFL because everybody else feels like they're affected by it exactly. So let's gang up and get rid of it. Just because Philadelphia.
Jalen Hurts rule.
Remember when they well you don't remember because I don't remember, but they banned dunking in college basketball for a while. Maybe it was the NBA, whatever college basketball, I think it was. They just call it the Kareem rules because Kareem's seven too and he's just dunking on everybody. Well, that's call it the Jalen Hurts Roe.
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Remember that one game that Will Levis actually played well and he was wearing the Oilers throwbacks, he threw.
For like six touches DeAndre Hopkins, and yeah, yes, I do.
Crazy times now because I remember I was like, oh, because people were like, because I was a very vocal critic of Will Levis going into that draft, and they were like, you gotta say nice things, but Will Levis, And I was like, you mean Houston Oiler's legend.
Will Levis. Of course, great game today, Let's see what happens.
You know, I'll tell you what's gonna happen right now. Game time with Matlock.
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All right, Mancy, Happy Friday, Happy Friday. What do you got.
We're gonna kick off the weekend with DIBs.
That's right.
So we've all played this. We're gonna call DIBs on certain topics here. We're gonna start with the NCAA tournament. So just yell it out if you have a dib here the non to one seed you like the most to make the final four at this point.
I got DIBs on Tennessee Tennessee.
I like that because I have them in my final four.
Yeah, I do coin flip tonight against Kentucky. Yeah, it would be a great atmosphere. But I feel like they were they were one step shy last year, not unlike another team in the bracket, but I just feel that they would have a better chance of beating Houston as maybe that other team would be of beating that other team. So I'm gonna take Tennessee.
Houston are the Spider Man meme. They're the same thing. Yeah right, Yeah, they're the same. I got dims on Michigan State.
All right.
I don't know if they will, but I have them getting all the way the title game. So taking them on that bracket I put nothing into except my time and effort in my dignity.
Pride, pride, on the line of yes, Michigan State, I'll take a little quirky one.
I got DIBs on Alabama. Yeah, I don't feel great about it. I think Duke's the best team in the tournament. You can make twenty five threes in a college basketball game.
You can be just about anybody. So even if they go from twenty.
Five to like nineteen, that's still pretty good, still pretty good, still in pretty good shape. So I don't think it'll happen, but I could see it.
Yeah, I do not disagree with you, all right, staying in college hoops here, uh the head coach left in the tournament. You are rooting for the most to win their first title.
So that eliminates like a Tom Izzo who's already won one.
Sure. Yeah, I got DIBs on Matt Painter. No nice one.
Oh well, I've been waiting.
Nobody jumped in.
So's look at all the teams. I was like, na ayters better like slow rolling?
Yeah, and then deserve it.
You know, you looked at everyone. You were like nobody Okay.
You know I wasn't gonna do side talker. You know I wasn't gonna do not yet. He's gotta pay more of his dues. He's gotta pay more of his dues in the South. Gotta get to that title game maybe and feel some heartbreak there. That's my Nate Oats. We hit ninety seven threes last night. Can you believe fifty one to three point attempts? Fifteen to two point attempts for Alabama last night?
Insanity.
I'll take DIBs on on Rick Barnes. That was my next one. Just nice southern gentleman. It's free for all.
I know.
I was just like waiting. I was like, okay, Rick Barnes, and then he Yeah, nice Southern gentleman. Everyone says he can't win in March. He's made I think for the last six Sweet sixteens, as Dan said the Elite eight last year, I'd like to see him break through and win a Natty. All right, I got DIBs on Kelvin. I want to talk to Samson.
Yeah, Kelvin Samson, Yeah, I would take that one too.
I thought he was gonna go Bruce because of his Iowa Tizze.
That is surprising. That is surprising.
No.
I took Kelvin Samson because actually have them miss my champion?
So why not?
How much is riding on this pool? Zero dollars? I want to go back because I said on Doug Show earlier this week that I'm kicking myself that I didn't My original first bracket was ole Miss in the final four. But then I told Aaron, I said, they're gonna be underdogs in every game, and they were so far, but they're two and zero. I think they can win tonight, and I think that if Auburn wins, that's the last team that they want to see, and if Michigan wins, it may be even better for ole Miss. Yeah for sure.
All right, guys, let's move on here. Baseball's officially here. So what major leaguer would you pay to see play? Dibbs, Ellie de la Cruz man just watching that guy run. I just want to see him run the bases. I don't even do anything else. I just want to see him on the bases. He's so fast and so awesome. I'll take Ellie Delacruz.
That's a good nominee.
I got DIBs. I'd only get a one in five shot of doing it. Paul Skans of course, chucking one hundred miles you know, every pitch and ninety eight mile an hour slider or whatever. I'm not a big baseball guy, but Paul Skeens would be my guy.
Nice, that's a good one.
I would go.
This is gonna sound crazy to you guys, show Hey, Otani, no crazy. The reason it's crazy is because I just have no desire to deal with any parking lines or crowds, and so I haven't been to a Dodger game in years, and I really have no desire to.
So it would any time you walk. I could, Yeah, I.
Could, I could, but that also means that I would have to deal with parking, yes, and the whole deal, and I just don't want to do it. So I haven't seen Otani in person. But my son gets older, well we'll get back into that game. But right now, right now, it's on hiatus. He'll still be playing for the Dodgers. When your son's older, they'll be here.
I got DIBs on Anthony Rendon because if I pay to have him to see him play, that means he actually have to play.
Earlier.
That one actually makes sense.
Yeah, it was really good.
It was I was about to say, cut is mic, Jason, that was stupid.
It was good.
It was good.
Jason.
You got one. You stole one.
That is a good one.
That is a good one.
All right, last one quickly here fellas a recent TV show, Binge, you recommend watching DIBs Yellow Jackets. It's about a soccer team in high school that it has a plane crash as they're going to the national championship game and the girls have to survive like they are not found.
I still don't know.
I'm starting season three, but I can't stop watching it.
It's disturbing.
It's awesome, really dark, dark and awesome.
I just finished the third season Reacher, Find It Watch It's great.
Nice.
I think new episodes of Sister Wives are coming up later on this spring, so we got to find out even more of the divide in that family.
That that is game time, that's game.
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