The Jason Smith Show with Mike HarmonMike Harmon and Dan Beyer explain that we failed Cooper Flagg by not pumping him up more all season long. "I was surprised that Cooper Flagg's media attention did not live up to the hype that I thought it would, he has lived up to the billing...the attention on him for as great as he is, hasn't been so great."
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We're all seeing red coming out of the Texas Tech and the Arkansas Game. As we broadcast live from the tirac dot com studios. Tirac dot com will help you get there an unmatched selection, fast, free shipping, free road hazard protection, over ten thousand recommended installers. Tyrack dot com The way tire buying should be. Dan still trying to digest it as the night comes to an end. Four games, Alabama record shooting forty nine percent from three point range, twenty five of fifty one. Just an absolute barrage. They win by twenty what is it twenty five, But you look at some of the stats like wow, matches up until you get to the three point comm It's.
Like, oh, they made nine more of those.
Okay, Florida all over Maryland. We talked a lot earlier in the show. You can find the podcast for the full discord the chaos that's going on in Maryland right now. Your AD's gone, your coach sweating bullets, talking about honesty and what I'm doing or what I'm not doing. Rumored to be going to Villanova. Either way, they get housed. So the optics all around it, whether you understand the business and the rules of engagement in college basketball or not. They came out flat, played terribly lose by sixteen Duke with a win over Arizona a game closer in the second half. Wasn't a free throw parade to lead it still hitting shots and Arizona making some big shots. Caleb Love was fantastic in the loss, thirty three points, and then we just had the stunner in overtime. Arkansas falls eighty five eighty three to Texas Tech. The sixteen point comeback that was ten to twenty three left in the second half, some of the curious offensive sets in the final minutes of regulation, and then in overtime, timeout management. All of these things to where makes my head want to exploit crazy.
As you mentioned, sixtyctually got into the under ten minute mark. When you're looking at if you tuned in saw sixteen point lead, you're like, Okay, this bad boy is over. Arkansas just completely shut down their offense did in those that final quarter stretch of regulation.
And I mean, Mike, it was a thirteen point game.
The sixteen point is the second biggest blown lead that we've had in an NCAA tournament game, but that pales in comparison to Arkansas sitting there with a sixty nine to fifty six lead with four forty three left to go, You're up thirteen points. Let's put the clamps down. And Cal didn't do it. Coach Cal didn't do it. Arkansas couldn't do it. And again kudos to Texas Tech because there's every every reason to I don't want to say pack it, I pack it up, pack it in, let me begin there you go. But their offensive game was not there. Darien Williams we talked about earlier. It struggled throughout the movie. Felt this is gonna be Arkansas just parading down the stretch, and they came back, hit the shots that they needed. Played a late game situation they were up three with twenty eight seconds left. Instead of trying to go for a bucket and foul, they played for the three.
They hit it.
They forced Arkansas to try to win it at the end of regulation and they couldn't do and then they hit the shots they didn't needed to in overtime. So Texas Tech wasn't perfect by any means, but man, give them credit for hanging in there.
But it's just really.
Difficult to walk away with this and not say that Arkansas let this one completely fall through their hands.
Forty one point five percent from the field for Arkansas forty one percent for Texas Tech just eight of thirty two from three point range, a nice even twenty five percent, fuzzy math no more, but out rebounding Arkansas by twelve. As we get down to it into the devil in the details, eight turnovers to Arkansas's ten and nineteen bench points two three for Arkansas and with Texas Tech he had three starters and scoring twenty or more.
Sure, sure they've got weapons again, they got four or five guys that can can really shoot it. Plus they've got like Darien Williams is an inside outside guy.
JT.
Toppin is great at the post. He had a couple of huge buckets for them late in this contest. Yeah, at some point they were down to the shots were bound to fall, Mike, and they did for Texas Tech. But man, Arkansas just looking and for us in the studio, the replay is of these shots is just going down. It's yeah, Arkansas just couldn't get the bucket that they needed at the end. Just one of the buckets you think of, any of the empty possessions that they had would have made a world of difference in all of this, and they couldn't get it.
Done, running clock, trying to grind things out.
They were effective at the fall line nineteen of twenty two, so you can't even point to poor free throw shooting throughout that comes back to bite him. Yeah, they missed, you know, a big one late. But on the balance, if I got a team shooting nineteen of twenty two, I'm feeling pretty good right overall, as we've watched teams struggle from the foul line, but for Texas Tech, it just kept coming. And that big shot by Williams to your point, Dan eight of twenty six on the night.
And I think he was gosh.
I thought it was like three of twenty one, so he may have made his final five shots that he attempted.
If that's the case, just crazy. Yeah.
Now the biggest comeback our executive producer, Justin Prosper giving us the nugget.
It was UCLA over Gonzaga.
Hi, Calvin Sampson, See, I got it right, You're not Kevin, They're not Gonzaga.
There you go. He's not going to come attack me, right.
Jason's got enough smoke with Reddick and all these people that hate him. I don't need Kelvin Sampson coming at them. Oh man, I'll tell you he's got stuff to deal with tomorrow.
I also have to say this when and then they just showed the replay of the final possession. John Old Davis was standing at the top of the key about logoist thirty five feet away with about three seconds left.
I think he totally expected to get the ball.
It looked like DJ Wagner looked at him and then decided to go to the basket and shoot.
And he did that in regulation too, though.
Yes, Davis was at the top of the key, not quite as far out, but he was left alone, so i'd be curious, you know, hey, coach cal Mike or Dan from Fox Sports Radio explained what you were trying to draw up here and what the the end result was relative to the.
And translate to this. Translate this to the NBA.
Right, Austin Reeves takes the ball with Luca or Lebron standing.
At the top of the key.
Oh too soon.
Heys made his Where is that.
Josh Kiddy?
Yeah, yeah, look at nam Lebron for that.
Inom it just.
We would be going crazy about it, but you know, we're not going to go crazy about it because it's college basketball. But hey, I'll say this, Arkansas and Texas Tech brought us the entertainment on a Thursday night, Duke Arizona. I think it was a fun game to watch. Sure, Alabama was just so darn good. It just wasn't close, you know. I mean, when you're scoring one hundred and thirteen points and setting the record for threes made in the game, tough to compete if you're BYU. But of the four games tonight, Arkansas and Texas Tech provided what we all love in the tournament.
Just insane right after a weekend, because let's face it, you know you and I did the show on Sunday and celebrate the pageantry. Now for me, my Northwestern Wildcats, we've only danced a couple of times, and you compartmentalize things, right, and look, the show is what it's become, Jason and I night tonight, college basketball gets some run. Games are on and we'll make note when there's big but it's not focus right. So the NFL, the NBA being in Los Angeles, the push of the Lakers, the largest of where the league is right now, seventy six billion dollars TV deal, even if nobody on the Grand scale is watching. The money is there, we celebrate the heroics of these these players.
Et cetera.
Major League Baseball coming back, all of these things. Your attention is divided, yes, so trying to get people to fully invest in the tournament and even me last week I watched a lot of games set, but there were there were stretches, like what's the margin on that one? Like normally, as I was a younger man, you'd have my rapt attention forty minutes no matter what, blinders on to the rest of the world. Wait, this game's getting out of sorts, all right, I'll check back in on it later. I felt like I truly embraced the betting side of the world, even if I didn't.
Have a bet.
Sure where I was like, hey, I made the bet, We'll see what happens at the end of the game. Let's say we don't need to watch it at this point, and so you know, tonight we get.
Games and performances.
Cooper Flag and Duke moving on, which I'm sure brought a lot of asses to seats and folks wanting to see what he wanted to do. Massive game, big shots, that shot at halftime, and that was we were treated to a bunch of those yeah tonight right, And and that's the kind of funny thing going back to last night with the lebron tip in into today, like all those big moments get except for the Maryland did he travel or didn't he? Is the dress red blue or black? Some of those internet shirts?
I don't think you traveled? So but yeah, I'm.
Probably, But that's it. Which did you see?
Is that first step ish count as a step or is it whatever?
You know.
I'll let the sneakerheads get into it a little bit, the basketball guys because it's been off argued. But outside of that, we didn't get a lot of here's the last second moment of you know, do there?
Don't they correct?
And I actually, and I'll take responsibility for this, and I think that other people probably will as well. We probably should have been making a bigger deal of Cooper flag season than we have And that was my whole point about why I felt we were so ready for a hype season for the duke freshman, and I don't think that the media entities did their job with it. Tonight, in a Sweet sixteen game against a very capable Arizona team, thirty points seven assists, six rebounds in that thirty five footer that gave Duke call the momentum heading into halftime, and Frostburg.
Yeah says three blocks.
Yeah, just a great all around game.
Absolutely, like people should be talking about him way more than they are in that and that's probably the problem because we do get lost. Listen, the NFL season now goes to basically, I'm just gonna say Valentine's Day because I still feel like we're talking about the super Bowl after it happens that whole week.
Then you have an NBA All.
Star Game that we could complain about, and so it does get overshadowed. But we probably should have done a better job because he has lived up to that hype that we thought he was going to have. It's just the people around him didn't do as good of a job in, you know, hyping him up.
Yeah.
I think some of it also just comes to, I mean, look at what the end is become. As much as we talk about the games, look at all the drama, like the stephen A. Lebron stuff is slap fighting at its worst, yes, right, and you've lost any credibility that you want might have once had as a journalist. Now you're a soap opera actor or political candidate, changing your tune every five seconds to try to, you know, keep everybody from getting too mad at you. Lebron, what's the point to announce that you're going back and restarting a podcast.
Oh cares you know?
Whether you have a relationship with Michael Jordan, that's your business. I don't care like all of it. It's like, have fun, but like all of those little petty things. And then look at the Lakers Mavericks trade. Look how much oxygen that took for several weeks. Hell, we're a month what he's played nineteen games at this point for the Lakers, We're still getting more and more statements on a Nico out of executives in Dallas. And then Genie Buss did her victory lap. Jay Moore shows up on his podcast Our Old Colleague Gear at Fox Sports Radio. He talks about it a little bit like so it's still all these oxygen not of what's going on on the court.
And every once in a while.
We get back to Sga and Jokich and some of that greatness that we've seen. But it's all, you know, Jimmy Palmer does he like pat Riley anymore or not?
Yeah, you're right, versus let's play on the court.
Outside of the travel that you talked about, We've talked more about Kevin Willard. His comments made headlines why Rick Patino didn't play r J. Lewis, and it was more about Patino post game, Like that's the stuff that we are that we've talked about. And then it's been coaching carousel in college basketball. It hasn't really been about the games because of the chalk that it is and maybe maybe it's it's lending to that and the we're talking more out nil and transfer portal is affecting the game and how it all plays into it than stuff that actually happened, which made tonight refreshing and being able to talk about Arkansas's decisions at the end, Texas texts decisions at the end, the runs that Duke made, and the momentum that they had in the unbelievable night that Alabama had shooting the basketball. Yeah, it just doesn't I get it. There's so many other things that we could talk about, but you know, season like Cooper Flag had unanimous All American First Team.
Lived up to the hype player lives up to everything.
Yes, and I can tell you who's embraced him though the trading card community. I'm sure the McDonald's tops Chrome. You got a patch auto out of twenty five that's cool five grand. And I haven't seen a sale of any of the one of ones yet, but they're starting to creep into the market as well. So you got that, and then you got last year's see James getting some run.
I was gonna say, is he gonna be bigger than the Wembin Yama cards? You think the flag cards will? Yeah, okay, all right.
Yeah, as they start floating out, I believe that will be the case.
We're here in the tyrack dot Com Fox Sports Radio Studios. He's Dan Byer in for Jason Smith on Mike Carmon. As we continue talking about storylines, talking about entrees, and getting some hype. Today was opening day, a lot of curious matchups. Look, I'm want to know I'm celebrating. I still have to raise my hand on some of the theories. We'll talk about it next year on Fox. Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern seven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app. Welcome back in Fox Sports Radio, Jason Smith Show with Me, Mike Carmon, No Jason Smith Tonight, My got Dan Byer in instead at Dan Meyer on Fox where you find him you here at Middays, Doug Gottlieb's Show, and Caveno and Rich Sundays with Me nine to eleven Pacific, twelve to two Eastern. Today a huge day obviously the beginning of the Sweet sixteen for thrilling games, some more thrilling than others, the outcome more positive for some than others. Betting populous looking at the rec if you if you bet the late game, you got the.
Plus five and a half. I guess you can take some solace there.
But was also opening day in Earnest in Major League Baseball, so across the land we saw some big marquee matchups or if you could actually see it, because MLB TV left me looking at box scores.
The thing I hate most is box score.
Reading Dan Byer right, which is what a lot of shows, a lot of hosts, a lot of folks do, like you have no idea of the flow and how the game actually went down. I was like, well, the guy had twenty four points, Like, yeah, it was eight of forty, you know, not things to that.
Not great for hosting a national time show, great for fantasy sports when you say you loaded up on orioles in fantasy baseball and you're like, ohooh all right, I see twelve on the board.
Let's see how they got those juicy twelve.
Little Daily Fantasy. You certainly had some juice, you know. I mean one of the games I certainly wanted to watch. My brother is in attendance there as the White Sox faced off against the Angels. We'll get to a larger point on that in a moment. But for the White Sox over understarted this year at forty nine and a half this offseason, up to fifty three and a half before first pitch today, So a little bit of positivity, which means they could still be historically bad, just win a couple extra games.
They played the Angels, and.
Playing the Angels probably isn't gonna hurt. But here's how it sounded.
The pitch swing and.
A miss right, Gray Socks whim eight one the final They're one man old to start the twenty five campaign, Little Len Casper to get things started on the White Sox networks, so they get the big win.
If you looked at the White Sox roster for opening day as a casual baseball fan, probably like three names that you would have been able to pick out. Carlton Fisk right still there, still adjusting himself, the second coming of the human. Right now, we're gonna go all the way back to two thousand and five, Scottie pod while theirs it was your day. Yeah, no big day for me. Also a big day if you're a Dodger fan, because you got a little of this.
Here's the three to two. It's show Bay HiT's this one left, it's carrying.
He's again own somebody a home run. Tom Hanks must have called it, Page called it, and the Dodger fans are looking forward to seeing that for years to come. The league goes to two on a Tawny's second of the season.
There you go, ESPN on the golf five to four final. Dodgers beat scoobl the reigning SI Young winner in the American League. They get a start out of Blake Snell, still odd looking at him in a Dodger uniform since he was photoshopped in one by people like five years ago he finally spoke it into existence. But there he is and Otani with his heroics once again. So we're looking for the triumvirate right here. Normally Smith's sitting with me the match, great expectations, all the bluster. Hey, we got a big finish well with the game on the line, three to one, score two runners on.
Here's the pitch that way when you will run from.
First, Soto chase is a slider strike three and the Astros beat the Mets on the day Nets Network on the call, Yeah, Metsio. So there you have it. So there's your trilogy. But something you and I were debating and discussing a little bit earlier, Dan owing to something we always talk about in the NFL, or at least I've been big on this for many many years, is I don't need you to give me all the marquee games in Week one and two. We don't need to push the schedule for some of those games, because whenever we get into like the discussion of whether division winners should have home games regardless of record, whatever, you get into fights about the schedule and how it's comprised, and it's something you and I have talked about on the I Watch Your Flex podcast a ton where you get some half ass backloaded. Everybody's already hurt for three teams in the division. So whoever is the last one standing who suddenly has four division games in the final five games.
Well they're winning. Probably win in the division because there's something.
Yeah, so not a lot of balance, and then you might get the lucky division on your scorecard, say the NFC North. This year you got the AFC South. I mean the bear started with three AFS South squads right off the jump, right, So when we talk about baseball, it's the same thing because you noticed it and it was certainly something that raised my eyebrow. This morning is looking at slow like, all right, what's the schedule look like? As we get into the day, what am I getting fed? And the first game right off the jump is Brewers Yankees. Now me, Carlos Rodin, guy, I'm excited, former White Sox hurler and wife, great pillar of the the community. Right, Joe Buck was on the call. They had some schnaffoos with some audio goes, oh it's ESPN, what are you going to do this? You know that gotta having some fun with it. But that's the first game and then you start going through the rest of the slate and you get a bunch of interleague play for your first series.
Yeah, it was interesting because Brewers and Yankees used to be division rivals in the Al East.
Go back to the heart Wallbangers.
Yeah, as crazy as that was. So maybe this was a bit of a blast from the past in that way.
But I maybe.
Showing my age in saying this interleague play has been around for decades, but this full fledged inter league play where everybody's playing everybody each season, not just the Hey do the Yanks he's come to town this year? Or are the Dodgers going to be in my town? Or are we at LA or do we not even play them? It's full fledged interleague play, schedule balanced out to accommodate everybody playing everybody, and Mike, that's that's the problem that I have is because opening Day used to be this sacred day. In fact, it was so sacred that the Cincinnati Reds were traditionally traditionally the team to have the first game of the season. There'd be the parade they would have beforehand, and the Reds would open things up in Cincinnati on a Monday. It's March twenty seventh on a Thursday, and we open with inter League Baseball between the Brewers.
And Yankees after playing in Japan.
After playing in Japan, which.
Is again it's the face of the game.
It's changing the growth the international.
Play, right with.
One of the other stories coming out today was Adam Silver and the talk of perhaps it's another euro League creation as part of it. So recognizing your global audience, but it's still there's there's still something I haven't made that leap necessarily just yet.
I just I see the Dodgers wearing their gold trim uniforms and I'm like, that's cool. I think it's been done before it, but like it's neat to see that. I totally get that. So I'm not against everything that's new, But when it is opening Day, when it is the day that people are turning on sports talk radio and you're hearing people argue on is Opening Day the best Opening Day or Opening Day memories? This is a high point in the Major League Baseball season, and for them to is shoot tradition as much as it has. I mean, we used to have the start of the season on National Championship day, and now it's on sweet sixteen day.
That's crazy calendar, always changing.
I mean we're watching it the expansion and trying to build in days off and and and go through the process. We're gonna go over to the to the desk with Justin Prosberg. He says he's got a quick bit of trivia.
Yeah you guys ready, Yeah, I hit me.
Out of all the MLB games played today on Opening Day, only one game went without a home run?
Can you guess what game that was?
That show?
No?
I don't. I didn't.
I mean because I know the Yankee Brewer game was longne.
Can I look at the scores? Is that possible? Yeah?
You can look at looking at the other.
I'm gonna go Hodre's Braves.
Incorrect, Cubs Diamondbacks.
No.
The greatest part about it is you didn't even know you were right, and you were right right out of the gate.
Mic Mets, Oh well it was okay, all right?
How great is that? Right?
Answer? And then just left me. You know That's what I wanted to know. I mean, I I was trying.
My point was it was so it's so obvious, it's so obvious it was the Mats.
But he said that they when it wasn't. I'm like, okay, well maybe it was a higher scoring game.
Right, go to the other extreme, right.
Yeah, I'm like, all right, the Padres won seven to four. Maybe maybe that didn't.
No, I think Chipper Jones Homeward in the Padricks. I think we need to Tex Smith talk him off the ledge. Well, you know, that's had a good run. But we were wondering.
If he went to the NCAA tournament games. We've got no response because he was going north. No chance for a couple of days. So question of whether he went and saw some basketball or not.
Well, maybe he could go to Arkansas over the final five minutes of regulation and over time.
Sorry, Cal, he's still watching highlights of Carmelo Anthony.
It's Syracuse.
Look, you got to turn back the clock.
Sometimes you just grab hold of those great memories just so they may Hey, they're a football school.
Now though.
That's Astros once a historic NLCS now Inner League baseball. That's I just wish some things would be kept sacred.
I agree with you, by the way, I think the Dodgers, I remember when they used to open against like the rivals, either the Giants or Fat trees.
Those games were great because you're gonna play them a ton. So given a series, it's not like we're we're not right out.
Of the gate, right, yeah.
To So while there is the extreme of the Angels in White Sox and you're like, hey, everybody, come to the South side of Chicago when the Angels are in town. You're going to do it the first weekend, there's the flip side where there's probably a bunch of fans from Detroit here that are like, great, I get to spend five times the ticket price because my team is playing for the one time that they're out here this year to face the Dodgers. It happens to be opening home opener weekend for them.
But you get to avoid the weather. So there's a value proposition there, right.
Because I mean, if you're going to have to come in if you would have to come in the summer when you actually like the temperature of where you.
Live, sure, wherever you're at in Michigan.
Yeah, it was a little chilly today. I don't know Monci was at the ballpark. I'm not sure how cold it was.
You Alsho had a difficult spot at this time in the year because if you're looking to add the theme parks to stuff like Universal closes really early during the week. Oh, I would have say they're done at like six pm, so you know you're not getting the most thankful.
There as well. I just I just wish that we would have to Frostburg's point just a little bit more tradition when we're doing it, since we've changed everything else, considering there's no more Monday, there's no more red starting things off. Now we're doing it on March twenty seventh, Like.
Oh, go right out of the gate, rivalry, let's go.
Yeah, Well, I mean, the healthiest anybody's going to be wait for the juggular, right out of the gate.
I would also say this, I think there's a portion that Mike and I can understand a portion of people out there who obviously look at baseball as the right of spring, and it's not spring yet in certain places.
Now we know in the Midwest.
It could be seventy one week and then then you get five inches of snow. It's what happened a week or two ago back home where I'm from. But there's also a point of you want it to be spring because when you see baseball that means it's spring and it's not. Yeah, the calendar says that it's spring, but you're not there yet. So there is the point of it coming a little bit early and then you're like, all right, it's yeah, I guess it is spring, but it's still late March. There's a there's a bit of a there's a bit of a newness to it, in a fresh start that I don't know if you're if you could do that on March twenty seventh, that's say, opposed to April six.
Well, but that's the thing, right You're you're looking at also at school schedules for spring breaks. Easter is late this year, it's April twentieth, So trying to go and bring that all into the calendar again, owing to college buckets finishing and everything else, the NFL Draft and and prep for that and where everything fits for Major League Baseball, I'm more concerned with the the game itself. In the change, Like most of the changes they made, pitchclock learned to live with, but I used to like the strategy of the aforementioned carl toon Fiz getting up adjusting himself and pissing the batter off. Right, So now he's anxious a little bit in the box when he finally gets back in and never really gets settled because he's thinking, all right, I'm getting a beat on this guy. No, I'm gonna stand up. I'm going to stretch, I'm gonna adjust, like all of that is gone, like that part of the gamesman ship. I'm gonna walk out of the box. I'm gonna walk off the mound like that. I know it's better at television because it now fits like a soccer game.
Well, and everything is I mean, you have another round of playoffs.
Yeah, right, so now you got to squeeze at him because you don't want to be playing the World Series on November eighteenth, right, So you got to get that gi like so like you're like, okay.
We need to start. We need to have it end here. So that means we have to start the playoffs here. Okay. Well, then that's the end of September basically. And they do a great I mean, the.
Baseball playoffs fly by because there's games every day. They're not taking it, you know, two or three days off between games like you have with the NBA Finals. It's boom boom boom, boom boom, and it's over. But to accommodate some of those things and have the season end when it needs to, more days off of the season as well, no double headers anymore. All of that pushes the start of the season, you know, makes it a little bit earlier in the year, which is just I don't mind a lot of the changes. I just if opening day is such your high point, can we just leave some sanctity to it.
We still need to go out and try all that new ballpark food that everybody's been telling me about at dan Byron Foxes where you find and find me over at Swallen Home.
Let's find out. How was the weather? How was did you get to a nice little tan? Was it a little wind burn? It was going on.
It's super gloomy all day all day. It didn't feel like spring?
Did it fit? Did last year feel bigger?
I heard Matt money Smith and Petros talking about that on our AM five seventy as part of their pregame, that there seemed there there was more juice early, like once you started the ceremonies. It's a different animal, but just the build up because Otani's first time versus this year, that maybe it had more.
Juice to it.
I really don't think so. Typically on opening day it's not a day that I'm required to park like at the bottom of the hill the stadium. I had to park at the bottom today and I didn't have to do that last opening day, So I don't think so. I think today was really busy. We opened the gates three hours early. Typically it's two hours. There were people in.
Line before that.
Only tours went in before that, and then it was like the general public and everybody else. I thought it was busy. We were busy early, Okay, people got there. I don't think so. Like I said, I had to park at the bottom, which I never have to do. Rarely do I have to do that, Like you know Yankees and down, I'll park at the bottom. World Series have to park at the bottom. But on opening day typically I don't never have to park at the bottom, and I had today.
We parked at the bottom. Walk back to the top. Yeah, we're gonna say, take a couple of bars of helter skelters.
I thought he was gonna say, I started for the bottom, now I'm here, and now we're here, that's right.
Yeah.
I did walk back down to my car, but I didn't walk up.
I took the shuttle up because.
You know, anybody got tired for that. Let's check in on college hoops guys, Day one of the Sweet sixteen. We'll start in the West Region. Because it went down to the wire, we were all sweating. I mean, if you didn't care, you just didn't know what was gonna happen. But three seed Texas Tech came back from a sixteen point deficit to edge ten seed Arkansas eighty five to eighty three.
Red Raiders.
Darien Williams he hit the game tying three to send it to overtime and then the go ahead shot in overtime, but he finished eight of twenty six from the field. He was not shooting well, made those two shots for a total of twenty points. While one seed Florida defeated four seed Maryland eighty seven to seventy one. The Gators are going to face the Red Raiders in the ely eight.
Out of the East Region.
One seed Duke held on one hundred to ninety three against four seed Arizona Cooper Flag thirty points, six rebounds, seven assists, two seed Alabama Cruz Pass six seed BYU won thirteen to eighty eight. Mark Sears led the way with thirty four points and eight assists. Bama also set the record for the most threes made in an NCAA tournament game with twenty five threes. The Blue Doubles are going to face the Crimson.
Tide in the Ely eight.
In the NBA, the Thunder Region new franchise record sixty one wins after topping the Grizzlies went twenty five to one oh four. The Bulls walked it off with the logo shot from Josh Getty to edge the Lakers one nineteen to one seventeen. Giddy ended with the triple double twenty five points, fourteen rebounds on eleven assists.
In the win.
Tyler Hero dropped thirty six points, thirty six points and the Heat top The Hawks won twenty two to one to twelve. In baseball, the last game finally wrapped up. The Cubs outscored the Diamondbacks ten to six. The Mariners had afforded to win over the A's the Dodgers as the Tigers five to four. Show he Tawny with this second homer of the season. The Padres outscored the Braves seven to four, while the Phillies defeated the National seven three in ten innings. Bryce Harper and Kyle Schwarber both homeward for Philly today. Guys, it's been a day.
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World, global domination.
Absolutely no question about it, all right. A guy who didn't dominate, at least the final minutes of his Round of sixteen game, John Caliperry celebrated the old face new place here he is everything old is new again. First Round of sixteen appearance since before COVID, So that was a big part to all of it. Sixteenth I think for his career, but some questions in terms of how he managed things in the final minutes, and he was asked point blank a question Dan and I have been asking, if I may go back to one more thing, I mean, the last possession there in overtime, any consideration to calling a time out there?
Yeah, but in my career, I let that go. Let the guy get to the room. They're not going to follow you, you know, and with that kind of time, just me, you call a 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 ninety nine percent of the time I let that go.
Can we go back in time and see how that played out for him for a guy who's late game management in early exits and tournaments has been well chronicled.
Well, I'll say this.
They did have a stoppage at the end of regulation. And the shot that they got from h DJ Wagner, I keep on want call him Dewan Wagner like his dad.
But.
The shot that they got was not was not great and so to his to his point, you were hoping that you can get defense and chaos because maybe they're excited they just scored. I just I just don't think and I think he even alluded to it there. You're not looking for a fade away nineteen footer from option CE on.
Offense on the base, Yeah, looks going full Jordan into the camera pits and whatever else. And we talked about it a lot with Davis. He was up at the top of the key, look, yeah for the ball.
You'd rather have him shoot a twenty seven footer for the win than eighteen footer fall away from not John L.
Davis.
So thirteen points for Wagner. Davis finished with thirty and six rebounds in the loss.
And I think he tired, as they said, like there were points where he was trying to get to the basket, and he's savvy veteran if you want, in the college game and was finding his way. But it didn't seem like he was getting much left. Not that he has huge hops, but he had a couple of shots that were blocked. Wasn't getting the foul called, wasn't getting to the free throw line down the stretch. Sweet sixteen not so sweet with the absences for Calipyry and then just a point of the sixteen point lead that they ended up blowing. And it was the thirteen point lead that I actually think is worse with under five minutes to go to blow that lead and not come through.
Man, it's got a sting.
I believe that got all the way down to four to twenty. Yes, we'll run all the jokes we need to. Alabama shoots the lights out, they take down BYU. Florida rolls past Maryland. We talked a lot about the Maryland coaching.
And I think Florida would rather see Texas Tech than Arkansas. You'd rather see it non conference opponent, I think than they'd rather see now.
Last thing of the night I teased did big pop culture guy and nerd that I am. I'm rewatching NYPD Blue and him in the first season. So there's all these guest stars like that guy went on to do this, That guy went on to do this. There was a character named Richie that shows up and he's part of a mob crew. He would later go on to become Richie of the King of Queens. Really same guy, horrible mullet, but he's got a several Larry Ark.
It does not end.
Well, Larry Romano.
It was not related to Ray Romano, which I did not realize until recently. I always thought that they were related because there was connection with the show. Ray appeared on King of Queens, Kevin James and Danny Valentine brother you know, brothers, so I felt it was a family, you know deal.
It wasn't, but there you have it in the vein of the Tony's you know, Tony Danza and guys like that playing the same moose. Nicely done. He's dan I'm like Ben Maller. Coming up next Tear on Fox Sports Radio. Thanks for being with us
