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[00:00:00] Speaker A: Into 2. Like a math equation. [00:00:02] Speaker B: Yeah. Talk to him they thought was going on. [00:00:08] Speaker A: Welcome, everybody, to the Pit Legends Podcast. I am your host, nick Rivers. It's March 17th, it's March Madness. It's the Monday after Selection Sunday. There's only a certain type of player, certain type of athlete that knows what this feels like. And I'm glad. I'm lucky to be joined with these Pit Legends who know what it feels like. No strangers to Selection Sunday. I'm joined by Gary McGee, Jermaine Dixon, and Lavance Fields. Fellas, Selection Sunday. A lot of snubs, a lot of surprises. There was no surprise. Looked like the SEC broke our record, broke the Big east record for having the most entrance into the dance. What were some things that stood out to you guys after Selection Sunday? [00:00:47] Speaker C: For me, the one thing that stood out to me was the 14 teams. I didn't think 14 teams were going to get in from the SEC. I look at a team like Texas with a 19 and 15 record on six wins in conference. They did win some games in there in the SEC tournament. I didn't think it was enough. Also, I don't understand all the qual ones. Quarter two, qual three wins. I really don't get it too much. But I look at a team like a team like George Mason, right? They won a regular season, the Atlantic 10. They split, they shared with VCU. Then they end up playing in the championship game in their conference against vcu. And I don't know if y'all seen it. Jay Wright was like. Jay Wright was like he was ready to pick BYU to go all the way to the Sweet 16 until he seen that they drew VCU the first round and. And George Mason took VECU to the wire in that conference. They won 26 games. For me, I feel like a team like that should get in. And with them not getting in, I say the NCAA might as well just take the Power 5, the Power 5 conferences and just start their own NCAA tournament. Cause I feel like they doing no service to the mid majors. They just pushing them to the side. Like win 26 games, don't matter you out. So that. That was mine. That was. That was something that was crazy to me. [00:02:15] Speaker B: Yeah, I agree with you with that. The SEC getting 14 teams, it's kind of crazy. I felt that they would get 12. I thought 12 would be. Would be fair due to their conference was being so good. So many teams getting wins against quad one teams because there's so many quad one teams in their conference. But Texas, I like Texas you know, guys, I've been high on Texas and Johnson all season, but I didn't think they were going to make the tournament. They got the two wins in their conference tournament, so I guess that led the selection community to be, you know, willing to put them in there. But the main thing that I was really. That really blew my mind was North Carolina getting in the tournament. I thought that was diabolical. Honestly, I'm just gonna be real, like. And their athletic director is on the. On the selection committee. I think that's just a conflict of interest. I don't think that's fair. He. He claims he left the room. He had his. His boss come in there and say, yeah, he wasn't in there, but the guy got $100,000 bonus for get. For his team getting into the tournament. Like, he might have left the room, but they still knew we gotta own. So I thought West Virginia was. I hate to say this, but I thought West Virginia was good enough to make the tournament this year. They had. They had a resume. The Quad One wins, a good conference schedule. So that's what. That's what I think that was. The main two things that. That really stuck out to me is definitely North Carolina sneaking in there. Somehow. I still can't believe they got in there. I thought they needed to beat Duke in that game, that they came back, but they didn't, so. But they got in there. [00:03:37] Speaker D: GG was really my playbook. Was my two right there and that St. John's is in the West Region. I was surprised about them going out in the guard there since they're east team and they played as well as they did. I mean, they're 2C. But still, I didn't think they would draw the West Region have to go out that far. [00:03:52] Speaker B: Where is it at? [00:03:53] Speaker C: Who got the East Region? Isn't. I think it's San Fran. Oh, Duke got. No, no. But Duke of one seed. Who got the two seed on the East. [00:04:00] Speaker B: I got you. Give me a second. [00:04:01] Speaker C: Oh, it's Alabama. It's Alabama. [00:04:03] Speaker D: Alabama. [00:04:05] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:04:06] Speaker D: So I thought they probably would not be that far. G Took both of my teams. That's crazy. West Virginia as well. I thought they was good enough to be in work. They had a good resume. [00:04:15] Speaker C: Who acquire one's wings. [00:04:17] Speaker B: So quality one is the. You got a nick. You know what it is a little bit. Let's. [00:04:21] Speaker C: Let's see. Let's find it while you're looking for it. North. They said North Carolina was 1 in 12 against OD. [00:04:29] Speaker B: OD. [00:04:29] Speaker D: That's why he said it's diabolical, man. You heard it right. [00:04:32] Speaker C: I get that. So that. But how do you. [00:04:37] Speaker D: That's crazy, right? I know where you're going. I don't know how you justify that. It's conflict and interest. You heard the man. [00:04:43] Speaker C: A thousand on the line. Give my man his money. [00:04:46] Speaker D: Give him his money. [00:04:48] Speaker B: So this is what it says. [00:04:49] Speaker A: So Yeah, a Quad 1 win is a team that you beat at home. The top 30 teams, they have to be ranked in the top 30. If you beat them at home, if you beat him at neutral site, the team's ranked 1 through 50. And in a way, win of a team that's ranked one through 75. So that. That constitutes a quad one win. So North Carolina only had one of those out of 13. Wow. Still made the tournament. [00:05:14] Speaker B: And what did West Virginia have? I want to say they had five. Let's see. [00:05:18] Speaker C: So at some point, Pitt was considered a quad one team. [00:05:22] Speaker B: Yep. [00:05:22] Speaker D: When it was 12. [00:05:23] Speaker A: Okay. So West Virginia had six quad one wins. [00:05:26] Speaker D: Season five one off six. Louisville. When they beat us at home, that was a quad one win for louisvill. [00:05:32] Speaker B: Yep. Yep. [00:05:33] Speaker A: Because it's. At the time you played him. [00:05:34] Speaker C: Okay. [00:05:35] Speaker B: That's why that was a big loss for us. If we'd have been able to sneak that one out, that's big win at the crib. They definitely, you know what I'm saying? [00:05:41] Speaker C: They definitely do nothing for us. [00:05:45] Speaker D: I would have helped us still. [00:05:46] Speaker B: Because at that point, at that point. [00:05:47] Speaker C: In the season, it would be what get to the nit. [00:05:50] Speaker D: Nah, that would have helped us, bro. We would. [00:05:52] Speaker B: At that point in the season, that's just like having that, you know how to. Having that win can just build momentum. Going to a game like, that's a big win. We just blew it. You know what I mean? [00:06:00] Speaker D: That game, Clemson beating us at home was a qual one win for Clemson. [00:06:05] Speaker B: They were turning team. [00:06:07] Speaker D: We was giving up car one wins. Boy, we was living. We was right there. When you look back and you see North Carolina get in, we like all of them. Like, yeah, we could have really got in. We could have snuck in a team. [00:06:18] Speaker C: Like North Carolina, Texas, Oklahoma. Who else got in? They should be. They should be. It should be the top teams for the NIT. [00:06:27] Speaker B: So Pitt was 1 9. Oh, my bad. [00:06:33] Speaker C: They should be NIT teams. Should they not? [00:06:36] Speaker D: The teams that got in. They should be in our. [00:06:37] Speaker C: Yeah, they should be in the nit. Oklahoma, bro. Oklahoma shouldn't be a non C. And it's crazy that they made Louisville an ac. [00:06:44] Speaker B: Yeah, that's why. [00:06:46] Speaker A: That's disrespect. [00:06:47] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:06:48] Speaker A: What do you guys think about the disrespect they showed the acc? [00:06:51] Speaker D: Don't you call Oklahoma. Pardon me, Nick, hold up. Don't you call. Play Oklahoma first round? [00:06:55] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:06:57] Speaker D: You said Nick, though. You go back. [00:06:59] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:06:59] Speaker A: What do you guys. How do you guys think the NCAA committee treated the ACC? I mean, you see Louisville with an 8C. Only four teams got in. What do you guys think? How they. [00:07:10] Speaker C: I think G. I think G gonna say it's all right because G said the ACC only should have got three teams. So getting North Carolina and it was a. Was a plus and the ACC was down. So, I mean, I don't. I don't think they. I don't think they should have known the acc. And like you said North Carolina was an add on, but I just. I don't think Louisville should have been an AC though. I think they should. I think they should have been hiding that. What were they ranked? [00:07:34] Speaker B: I'm about to see how many quad. They was ranked 13th when they lost the Duke. [00:07:38] Speaker C: 13Th. How are they at AC? That's crazy. [00:07:41] Speaker B: So. So with me, like you said, I didn't think North Carolina should be in the tournament, but Louisville should have definitely been at least a five seed minimum. [00:07:48] Speaker C: If you're ranked 13th, which it lost the first four, eight 12. Those should be three Cs. The first. The first 12 should be three seeds. So they should be. Yeah, four, four, 50. If they lost, are you moving the 18 to something? They should be at least a 50. I don't. I don't get how they move to. To the eighth. [00:08:09] Speaker B: Four and six. Quad four and six and quad one. So they have four quad one wins out of ten. That's not bad. But I guess, I mean, I guess it ain't good enough. [00:08:17] Speaker D: What conference you said should be combined last time, man? [00:08:20] Speaker A: The Big east and the acc. [00:08:22] Speaker D: Yeah, they might as well just do. [00:08:24] Speaker C: Yeah, combine. Go ahead, combine them. You combine them. [00:08:28] Speaker B: Combine them and pick out some of them. Bottom. The bottom tiers. [00:08:30] Speaker C: Combine them. You got what, 17s in the tournament right now? [00:08:33] Speaker B: Yep. [00:08:33] Speaker C: Or eight. [00:08:36] Speaker B: Yo, three. Two conferences, three conferences combined. Still don't even. How many. How many did Big Ten get? [00:08:41] Speaker C: Seven, I think. [00:08:42] Speaker B: So you combine. See, you have combined the Big Ten, XC and Biggie. You still just tied the sec. Come on, man, be serious. But like you said, Lee, we'll see how they perform compared to 2011. [00:08:53] Speaker C: I swear that they need to make this just a power five. NCAA tournament, bro. [00:08:59] Speaker B: Hey, but But. But Lee, they got three other extra teams, though, to help them. They should do well. Three extra teams to let 14 to 11. Three extra teams. You should get about four in the sweet 16 thing. Honestly, you need four. [00:09:11] Speaker A: All right, well, I mean, don't you think that would take away from what makes March Madness March Madness? I mean, it's the low majors, the Cinderella stories. That's what makes it the best tournament in sports. [00:09:21] Speaker D: Yeah, man. Tripping. Can't do that. I'm not agreeing with that. [00:09:24] Speaker C: They taking out, bro. [00:09:25] Speaker D: They. [00:09:25] Speaker C: They leaving teams. [00:09:27] Speaker D: We got a couple teams in there, and they. Hopefully they strike gold. [00:09:30] Speaker B: I didn't even. I didn't even hear. I didn't even hear you on that one, man. That's a brick wall. [00:09:34] Speaker C: But let me tell you. Let me tell you what they. [00:09:37] Speaker B: They. [00:09:37] Speaker C: They bought anyway with football and basketball. They trying to go to a two conference tournament, supposedly, is what they're trying to do. So you can see the lead up given the SEC 14 teams and the Big 10, those are the two power conference that they want. And they trying to split everything, all the top teams with the money into those conferences. How many teams the Big 12 got? [00:10:00] Speaker B: Not sure. [00:10:00] Speaker D: We need the Cinderella story. Sorry. [00:10:03] Speaker B: Definitely need. Definitely need your buck. Hey, you need your butlers, your VCUs, your Loyola, Chicago's. Yeah. [00:10:08] Speaker D: It's not college football, man. [00:10:11] Speaker C: They got seven. The Big 12 got seven. That's. That's crazy. But they about to take it out anyway, especially in football. It's hidden in that direction. [00:10:19] Speaker B: Well, football, I think those big schools. [00:10:22] Speaker A: Are the only ones that can compete. [00:10:23] Speaker D: Them lower schools in football can't compete like that. In basketball for some is a little different. They get lucky. [00:10:28] Speaker B: You get. [00:10:28] Speaker D: I mean, I ain't gonna say get lucky. They get hot and it can happen. [00:10:31] Speaker B: It's one game, man, you're getting crushed. [00:10:35] Speaker D: Ohio State playing against whatever, 28, win. [00:10:39] Speaker C: A team, win 26 games on the year and can't get in, bro. It's crazy. [00:10:43] Speaker D: I agree. [00:10:43] Speaker B: They should be who they play, though. [00:10:45] Speaker D: All right, but like, I ain't gonna say I agree they should be in. I hear what you're saying, but it's like, yo, bro, that happens every year. That's like All Star Game in NBA, man. People get snubbed. You about to scrap the whole thing now? No, we're not doing it. [00:10:56] Speaker C: Well, they about to scrap the whole thing. [00:10:57] Speaker D: Well, we're not doing it no more. Shining moment can't play shining moment no more. [00:11:03] Speaker B: Hey, George Mason was one and three in quality one wins. Tell him to move around. [00:11:07] Speaker C: North Carolina was one in 12 at least. [00:11:10] Speaker B: They played 12 games. They played. [00:11:13] Speaker C: They lost 11. [00:11:15] Speaker B: Play somebody, man. You ain't even. You ain't even risking it. [00:11:17] Speaker D: Yo, man, get them out of here. [00:11:19] Speaker C: I'm not even. Listen, I'm just saying 14 to win 26 game. I just feel like they should be in. And the Atlantic 10 is. 10 is not a trash conference. [00:11:27] Speaker B: It's not a great conference. Mid major conference. That's what. You know what time it is. That's not. You got to win your tournament. [00:11:32] Speaker D: I mean, they only got one team probably. [00:11:35] Speaker B: Huh? Three. [00:11:35] Speaker C: They only got one team. [00:11:36] Speaker D: One team, man. Come on, man. [00:11:38] Speaker B: What man talk about. [00:11:39] Speaker C: Yo, that's because y'all making my point is what they doing. They giving it to all the power conferences. They putting. They giving. They putting all the top teams in. Texas shouldn't be in. Texas should not be in. [00:11:51] Speaker B: I agree. I agree with that though. George Mason is not a good. That's not a good. [00:11:55] Speaker C: Okay, I'm just. [00:11:56] Speaker D: Just give me example. [00:11:57] Speaker C: I just know George Mason won 26 games and they played in that championship game and they was confident. I'm just saying. I'm pretty sure it's more teams. I don't know. All the teams. All the mid major teams. I'm pretty sure some other teams that got snubbed. George Mason, just one. I know off the top of my head that yeah, you might could have threw them in if you don't. Yeah, they didn't have a strong out of confidence actually. But usually the comp. The out of conference might have been weak. It could have been. I don't know. I don't know who they played. I'm just saying. [00:12:24] Speaker B: But usually conferences like the 18, you gotta. You gotta win the conference tournament to get in. [00:12:28] Speaker C: In like. No, no, no, no, no, no. The A10s a few years ago got three teams in. [00:12:32] Speaker D: They say a few years ago. [00:12:33] Speaker B: That's. That's a rare case. What's. I would love to see the average of teams that get in per year, maybe three. [00:12:42] Speaker C: But that's what I'm saying. Okay. Two years ago. I'm talking about. This was two years ago. The Chicago, VCU and Dayton, they were all in the tournament. They was all in the tournament. All right. All I'm saying is this. I'm just telling y'all right now. Y'all saying all right. But ain't got nobody. What I'm telling you is they moving to taking out all the low majors, the mid majors, and they gonna focus on the Power Power 5 conversation. [00:13:11] Speaker D: It's still. I'm saying that's gonna be whack. I ain't saying it ain't gonna happen. [00:13:15] Speaker B: They always gonna let the mid majors rock. I'm telling you, they always gonna let. They're gonna get them in the automatic bid teams are getting in. Maybe not. You know what I'm saying? Maybe not. They're gonna get at large. The automatic bids, they're gonna keep that. If you win your conference tournaments, you get to punch your tickets. [00:13:29] Speaker D: They're not gonna let them in now. Like, come on, man. [00:13:32] Speaker C: Yes. I'm trying to tell you that they plan on going to two conference. A two conference tournament. [00:13:38] Speaker D: That's gonna be whack. I'm sorry. [00:13:40] Speaker C: They trying to move everybody. It's the nil. It's because of the money. They trying to move everybody to the SEC in the Big Ten. [00:13:49] Speaker B: Let's. [00:13:49] Speaker A: Let's get into some predictions. I know we are big on predictions here. First, let's recap. How did we do with our tournament champions? How did we do? [00:14:00] Speaker D: Oh, I only got one. I told you. We all got. [00:14:02] Speaker A: Let's start with. Let's start with Maine. Maine. Who Were your Power 5 champion? [00:14:08] Speaker C: I had Duke. [00:14:10] Speaker B: Everybody had Duke. And that's like varsity sports credit. [00:14:16] Speaker C: I had Hughes. I mean, I hit Arizona. They lost in the championship game, but that was me stepping on the limb. They got there, though. I had. I had Maryland. Oh, my God. I don't even want to talk about Maryland, bro. [00:14:28] Speaker B: That looked like. [00:14:29] Speaker C: That looked like Pitt. [00:14:31] Speaker D: Here you go. [00:14:33] Speaker C: Why are they full court pressing, bro? Like, what are you doing? [00:14:37] Speaker B: Hey, the same reason I watched the team in 2009, dude. Why? [00:14:40] Speaker C: We don't know. [00:14:41] Speaker B: We still don't know why. Hey, I was. Hey, didn't do it a time after that. That was the only time I ever seen it happen. Ever. What are we doing? [00:14:50] Speaker C: I don't know. Leave us out of it. I don't know what the hell Merlin was doing then. What's the other biggies? Oh, I had. I mean, Big east, I had UConn and then the Big 12. [00:15:03] Speaker B: I had. [00:15:04] Speaker C: Oh, no, Big 12. I had Arizona. [00:15:06] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:15:08] Speaker C: I had Florida. SEC. I had Florida. [00:15:11] Speaker B: I remember that. [00:15:17] Speaker A: It was unanimous. [00:15:18] Speaker D: Crazy. [00:15:22] Speaker A: No, it was unanimous. Opera. We are not to pull the tape. [00:15:25] Speaker C: It wasn't. It wasn't. It wasn't unanimous. [00:15:27] Speaker D: Armor, you did not have Florida, man. [00:15:29] Speaker B: You didn't have Florida. [00:15:30] Speaker D: Who I had if not, if not. [00:15:32] Speaker B: Alabama, Tennessee or Alabama. [00:15:34] Speaker C: I have Florida. [00:15:36] Speaker D: Full of 10. [00:15:39] Speaker C: Pull the tape. I got two rounds. [00:15:41] Speaker B: Pull the tape. And clip it in there, too. [00:15:46] Speaker A: All right, so hold on. So you had Duke? [00:15:49] Speaker C: I got two. Right? Because I got. I'm taking Florida if y'all don't give me Florida. I got one right. I know I can clip it up. [00:15:54] Speaker A: And you better make it look good. [00:15:55] Speaker D: On the editing, not say that. [00:15:58] Speaker A: Yukon. [00:15:58] Speaker B: Yeah, that part, like he just did was awful. [00:16:01] Speaker A: Duke, Florida, Yukon, Arizona and Maryland. [00:16:07] Speaker B: Maryland. [00:16:07] Speaker C: Okay. So you're. [00:16:08] Speaker A: You're claiming you were two and three? [00:16:10] Speaker C: Yes. [00:16:11] Speaker A: Okay, let's go to G. What? G? [00:16:14] Speaker B: Half, I think. [00:16:16] Speaker A: Don't even. [00:16:18] Speaker B: Yeah, I have Purdue. I was. I was. I was just. That's, you know, at the crib, I was trying to show some love, but. Yeah, Purdue ain't get it done. Acc, Duke, you know, that was the green for everybody. Houston, that's a green. I got that one done. Sec. I pick Alabama. They didn't. They didn't get it done. Florida. I definitely didn't pick Florida. I knew that was good, but. And then who else we got left? [00:16:38] Speaker A: Yeah, Biggies. [00:16:39] Speaker B: Biggie. So I had Creighton. I tried to go against the grain. St. John's was an easy pick. I didn't want to. [00:16:44] Speaker C: Brayton got there, though. [00:16:45] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, they played UConn. Of course they got there. I knew that was gonna happen. But they owe them. They own them. What, take two and two on one against them this year? [00:16:53] Speaker C: Again against Yukon? [00:16:55] Speaker B: Yeah, I think so. You played them three times. I know they beat him once. [00:16:58] Speaker C: I'm not about to make this a Yukon thing. [00:17:00] Speaker B: Oh, my bad. I was just saying because you. You know, that's the team you picked. And I told you before that. Anyways. Yeah, I went two and three. All right. Lee. Yeah. [00:17:10] Speaker D: Picked Auburn, H. They blew it. I picked Texas Tech, I think. Yeah, they ain't do it. I picked Rutgers. [00:17:18] Speaker C: This dude. [00:17:22] Speaker B: See that game? [00:17:23] Speaker D: I ain't see that game. [00:17:24] Speaker C: I didn't see the game. [00:17:25] Speaker D: They had the game up two with like, 10 seconds. Two free throws. They missed both free throws, bro. Then they scored the other team with the overtime, I think. Usc, they played, right? Yeah, we'll see. They had the game. [00:17:37] Speaker C: Ace Bailey, I was trying to tell you that they're gonna. I said, it's either USC or Rocker. You said, yo, it ain't no usc. It's Ruckus and Purdue. We ain't even talking about usc. [00:17:48] Speaker D: That's crazy, man. But them. And then I got the other two, right? I got Duke, like everybody. And I got St. John's well, they ain't had St. John's but I had. [00:17:56] Speaker B: Them, so I should have kept St. John's I had three. [00:18:00] Speaker C: Everybody went two and three. [00:18:02] Speaker B: You got one. You got one, too. [00:18:05] Speaker D: Yeah, he got one. [00:18:07] Speaker B: He did not say Florida. [00:18:08] Speaker C: So who I say who? I say Auburn. [00:18:10] Speaker A: You said Auburn. I think it was unanimous. [00:18:12] Speaker D: I remember. [00:18:13] Speaker B: I don't do no AI stuff and put you saying Florida. [00:18:17] Speaker D: He said Auburn. [00:18:21] Speaker A: Go back to the last episode. [00:18:22] Speaker C: Yeah, I said. I said Auburn. [00:18:25] Speaker D: You know, he only got one. He knew. Damn. [00:18:28] Speaker C: I'm the only one with one. That's. [00:18:29] Speaker D: I take my two. [00:18:35] Speaker C: Everyone's under 50. [00:18:36] Speaker D: No, but I ain't one. [00:18:38] Speaker B: Which you were. It's March Madness, 25. [00:18:42] Speaker C: That should be quick. Mad bro. That should be quick. [00:18:44] Speaker B: I didn't think how many times it was. [00:18:46] Speaker D: I forgot too much, man. [00:18:50] Speaker B: It's definitely looking at that screen all day. Crazy sometimes, but yeah. [00:18:54] Speaker A: All right, let's continue with the prediction. [00:18:56] Speaker C: So hold up, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. [00:18:58] Speaker D: There you go. [00:18:59] Speaker C: How UCLA getting the tournament? That's another team. Were they playing well like that? [00:19:04] Speaker D: Here and there. But losing. Remember we was talking about them, but Mick Cronin. [00:19:07] Speaker B: Early. [00:19:08] Speaker C: I remember early. [00:19:09] Speaker B: Yeah, they was losing. McCrono was getting on the boys. He said, so what do you say about him? He said something about him. Right. [00:19:13] Speaker D: Soft and all that. [00:19:14] Speaker B: Yeah. So got himself right into the tourney. Hey. [00:19:17] Speaker C: And then they turned it up. I guess I didn't pay no attention to them. [00:19:20] Speaker B: Sometimes you gotta call your team out. [00:19:23] Speaker C: You said what? [00:19:24] Speaker D: Yeah, there was a big one. [00:19:26] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. Big Ten. Yeah. And they got a seven seed, but. All right, go ahead, Nick. You know, but, you know, we all. [00:19:32] Speaker A: Love predictions, so I wanna. I have an exercise for us here. Let's say who's gonna be the Cinderella story of this year's tournament, who's the sleeper team of this year's tournament, and who's going to win this year's tournament. [00:19:45] Speaker C: Okay, who are we starting with? [00:19:47] Speaker A: Let's start with the. Let's start with the Cinderella. I want to hear these. I know. Maine, you're against the Cinderellas. You want to go to two power conferences. [00:19:53] Speaker C: Hold on, hold on, hold on. That's not. They're not. I'm not with it. I love. I'm. I'm fighting for George Mason. They telling me George Mason. I'm just telling you what's happening. But Cinderella, go. Someone go. I'm not starting. Go. [00:20:12] Speaker D: Cinderella. This year in this. [00:20:14] Speaker B: You got one. [00:20:15] Speaker D: I go. [00:20:16] Speaker B: For me, it's between. I'm having a hard time deciding between Colorado State and New Mexico. To at least get to the sweet 16. [00:20:23] Speaker D: Oh, this guy. [00:20:25] Speaker B: New Mexico got a guy that's pretty nice. I forgot his name. Good player. Somebody gonna be on the draft board. I just. I just read an article about him. Can't think of his name right now off top of my head. But either him or the Colorado State. Because they play Memphis and I watch Memphis play. They. They're not. They're okay. They. I don't know how they were gonna do in the tournament. They got some size in the front court and. Or Colorado State got some size in the front court. So I think they could possibly pull that upset. They would have to play Maryland. [00:20:51] Speaker C: Yeah. It's tough when you see them Maryland boys. [00:20:54] Speaker B: I like New Mexico over Marquette. But then they have to play Michigan State. Cinderella's is hard to find this year. Cinderella means at least make it to the sweep 16. Is that what we saying? What's Cinderella? How many games minimum? [00:21:05] Speaker A: Two. [00:21:05] Speaker C: That's. That's a good ax. [00:21:07] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:21:07] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:21:07] Speaker A: What makes it a Cinderella team? First of all, I'll probably say. [00:21:11] Speaker C: I say elite eight. [00:21:12] Speaker B: No, no. [00:21:15] Speaker A: At least a 12 seed. [00:21:16] Speaker B: It might not be no Cinderellas this year. It might not be the glass slippers. [00:21:20] Speaker D: I was looking at G. Crazy. [00:21:22] Speaker B: Which one? New Mexico. Yeah. They got a good draw. Marquette is. They ain't like that. We know they ain't like that. [00:21:27] Speaker D: Sweet. That's main team. Not the main team. [00:21:29] Speaker C: Who? Marquette? [00:21:32] Speaker D: Yeah. Yes, you are. Who's champion? [00:21:34] Speaker C: No, I just said Cam. I just said Cam Jones is nice. I. I don't. I said I ain't like Marquez. I said he muddy up the game. But offensively they stink. But I like. I like Cam John goes my Cinderella man. Well, my Cinderella, you said. Who's yours? [00:21:49] Speaker D: New Mexico. [00:21:50] Speaker C: Oh, all right. Well, my Cinderella, I'm between two teams. [00:21:54] Speaker D: Oh, I got one more, man. [00:21:55] Speaker C: Oh, go ahead. [00:21:56] Speaker D: In Georgia. [00:21:57] Speaker C: Georgia's not Cinderella. [00:21:58] Speaker B: They ain't a Cinderella. They're from the Big Dog. They're from the Big Dog. [00:22:04] Speaker D: That's my sleeper. That's my sleeper. [00:22:06] Speaker C: That's a sleeper. One of my Cinderella teams. I got two. I don't know. Yeah, I'm taking two. G did two, so I'm doing two. And I was struggling with this anyway, so I'm glad I get to take two. But McNeese. McNeese, they get clapped the first game. [00:22:28] Speaker B: But he's just trying to pick something, man. Go ahead. [00:22:33] Speaker D: Why? [00:22:33] Speaker C: Have you. [00:22:34] Speaker B: Have you seen McNiece? [00:22:35] Speaker C: Huh? [00:22:36] Speaker B: Okay. They get 12 over 5. They happen sometimes. Did you see it? I like Clemson. [00:22:40] Speaker C: Have you seen them play? [00:22:41] Speaker B: I've seen a little bit of their championship game. [00:22:43] Speaker C: Okay, Well, I like MCN. They got a good team. They finished 27 6. They got five. They got five players averaging double figures. Same thing. Kind of like Maryland. The boy, Allen Breeze is tough, averaging seven, 18 points. Go get it. He's shooting 50 from the field, 50 from the three. Boy can go. And they play hard. They got a good team. The coach, I can't think of his name right now, but he's pretty good. Wade something. Wade. You don't know? [00:23:10] Speaker D: No, coach. [00:23:10] Speaker C: I like me niche. [00:23:11] Speaker D: I'm. [00:23:11] Speaker C: I'm bad with coaches. I am. I'm bad with coaches. One thing I am bad with, coaches. Remember people name, whatever. And then the other team, VCU, I rock with the A10. They won the A10. Good team. They defend well, play solid together. They got a deep roster. And I don't think. And I don't think they would have. I think they can get. That's why I was asking. Like G said, I think they can get to 316. Elite Eight would be tough, but I think they can beat BYU. I think they can beat Wisconsin or I forget who Wisconsin play. I think they could beat Wisconsin. And then after that, it's up in the air. So those are my two teams. But I like McNeese. I like McNeese a lot. [00:23:54] Speaker B: You tapped in on McNeese State, though. [00:23:56] Speaker C: Yeah, I watched him. I watched. [00:24:01] Speaker D: Chop that up. I was already thinking, yo, that gotta go out that clip, right? Think about Tom Joe. [00:24:08] Speaker B: Hey, shout out to your research team. They did their thing with them. [00:24:12] Speaker D: He was loving it. G was like every time when you said 50. 50, 50, 53. [00:24:18] Speaker C: Just like when I looked it up. [00:24:21] Speaker B: Right. [00:24:21] Speaker C: Right on. [00:24:22] Speaker B: You looked it up there. [00:24:23] Speaker D: That boy watch that game. He know what's going on. [00:24:25] Speaker B: He got something right there. My sleeper team, you know, they snuck their way in the tournament, going Texas to the sweet 16. That's like. [00:24:35] Speaker C: That's like Levan speaking Rockers. [00:24:38] Speaker B: I'm rolling with Texas. They play Xavier. Hey, they play Xavier. They play Illinois. Illinois is okay. I watched the Illinois play because I watched them play Maryland twice. Maryland clapped them bad. And then they will play the winner of Kentucky. Kentucky is. They like Kentucky is. You know how Kentucky is this year. They. They up and down. They can, you know, sec. [00:24:57] Speaker C: They didn't. [00:24:58] Speaker B: They already beat them already. Texas already beat Kentucky. So I'm rolling with Texas to the sweet 16. [00:25:02] Speaker C: Hey, let me quick question for sleeper. What. What does their ranking have to be. [00:25:08] Speaker A: So I would say is a big school that people are sleeping on. It's still. But it's still kind of a big school that in the past have been good. [00:25:15] Speaker C: Okay. Yeah. [00:25:16] Speaker D: And they got to be like a five seater. Highest. [00:25:18] Speaker A: I would say a power five. You know, maybe a power five team or like a big. [00:25:24] Speaker C: Okay. [00:25:24] Speaker B: And I want Texas. That just. Just in case for reference, they're 11 seed. See, you know, just. Just so we know. [00:25:31] Speaker D: Let's get it. And they play first round. [00:25:34] Speaker C: Well, y'all know who I'm taking my sleeper Yukon. [00:25:39] Speaker D: Can they be considered. [00:25:41] Speaker B: Yeah, I guess they can be considered sleeper. [00:25:42] Speaker C: That's definitely. [00:25:43] Speaker B: Just asked. [00:25:44] Speaker C: I just made sure I had the right criteria. [00:25:46] Speaker B: Yeah, I know. That's what I said. [00:25:47] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:25:47] Speaker B: But I was just thinking because they defended champs. So that's why I was like. [00:25:50] Speaker C: But everybody's saying they done a whole new team. Jay Wright said Oklahoma gonna beat them. [00:25:55] Speaker D: I don't know what's going to happen. But they ain't winning. [00:25:57] Speaker B: I ain't feeling. I ain't feeling no SEC team. But Texas or actually I'm feeling three SEC teams. Let me stop. Texas, Alabama and Auburn. I'm lying. I'm feeling some teams and they is nice. Let me not. [00:26:07] Speaker C: Yeah, Auburn, Auburn. Playing with fire. I ain't gonna lie to you. [00:26:10] Speaker B: Yo. It's crazy. They got the number one overall seed after all that. [00:26:13] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:26:13] Speaker C: I don't know how they pulled that off. I don't understand how sec. [00:26:17] Speaker B: That's the ultimate heist. They said Duke, we don't care. Auburn. You. You know what? You know, you know why they did that though? Why Duke didn't get it? Because they went to the head to head Auburn, B, Duke. So they said. [00:26:27] Speaker C: Yeah, oh, Duke beat them. [00:26:29] Speaker B: Oh, they did beat them. I'm tripping. [00:26:30] Speaker C: Yeah, beat them. [00:26:31] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:26:32] Speaker B: I don't know what they did. [00:26:32] Speaker D: Who do you think could be Auburn? He said they playing with fire. Duke would be later on. [00:26:36] Speaker C: They ain't gonna play them, but Duke. [00:26:38] Speaker B: Gotta be by Louisville. [00:26:39] Speaker C: Can Louisville beat him? Can Michigan beat him? [00:26:41] Speaker D: I don't know. You the one said it. [00:26:43] Speaker C: Michigan can Michigan. [00:26:44] Speaker B: I'm just saying. [00:26:44] Speaker C: I'm just saying late in the season, they, they lost three of that last, what, four, four or five games all. [00:26:49] Speaker B: I'm just saying they, they. [00:26:50] Speaker C: They haven't been playing well. [00:26:52] Speaker D: No, I just thought you had like a team of mine that's. [00:26:54] Speaker C: Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. [00:26:57] Speaker D: Thought you was about to call around like you felt like they was going. That's why. [00:27:00] Speaker C: Oh, no, no, I won't do that. [00:27:03] Speaker D: You told us you was coming with all these bold picks. Where they at? [00:27:06] Speaker C: Well, that was. It wasn't. That definitely wasn't that. It was my McNiece. You seen that? And I threw my George Mason on out there in the limb. Y'all shot my down. [00:27:16] Speaker B: It needs to be. You know, talking about a whole bunch of nonsense about an A10 team with one one only play four quad one, man. [00:27:25] Speaker C: Come on. [00:27:26] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:27:26] Speaker D: Why you want that? [00:27:27] Speaker B: That's crazy. Somebody. [00:27:28] Speaker C: I thought y'all. I thought y'all would be with me. [00:27:30] Speaker B: No, not with you. At least on our schedule. At least back when we play. Our schedule might have been soft and non conference. [00:27:37] Speaker C: Our schedule was ass. [00:27:38] Speaker B: Yeah, when y'all. Yeah, when y'all was. [00:27:40] Speaker D: No, no, my J. [00:27:41] Speaker B: Ain't nobody either. [00:27:43] Speaker D: Who did put point over there. My junior year, our schedule was good. [00:27:47] Speaker B: What you mean? Man, we play. [00:27:48] Speaker C: Play one game. Hold up, hold up, hold up, G. Hold up, G. D. One game. [00:27:53] Speaker B: He played Duke. [00:27:54] Speaker D: That's it. [00:27:55] Speaker B: My junior Dayton is a great. [00:27:57] Speaker D: Yeah, what's. What is he talking about? [00:27:58] Speaker B: I don't know what he talking about. [00:28:00] Speaker C: All right, see this? [00:28:02] Speaker B: No. [00:28:03] Speaker D: Yeah, that's why we trying to tell you. [00:28:06] Speaker C: That's a crazy country brow, Hoda. [00:28:09] Speaker B: That would have been a quiet one. That was a quiet one win, I guarantee. [00:28:18] Speaker D: Yes, at Dayton was a point. [00:28:19] Speaker B: Dexter, Dayton, Brockman, that's Atlantic 10. [00:28:24] Speaker C: That's you. That's playing down. That's a mid major score. Okay, okay. [00:28:31] Speaker B: That's yourself. That's a 10. You just talked about 18. [00:28:36] Speaker C: Okay, now, I picked up the a 10. C. No, that was the one team. [00:28:42] Speaker D: That's the one team. [00:28:43] Speaker B: Hey, but we talking about 15 years. Hey, we're talking about 15 years ago. 20 years ago. [00:28:51] Speaker C: Y'all crazy. [00:28:52] Speaker D: G said that was the loudest massage Louisville, you remember? [00:28:55] Speaker B: I was shook, man. I didn't. I didn't want to get subbed in. [00:28:58] Speaker C: Well, G wasn't in the game. [00:28:59] Speaker B: He's gonna sound like, I want to get. And I didn't want to go in the game. [00:29:02] Speaker C: I was 18. [00:29:03] Speaker D: I was scared. It was crazy in there. Then we played Oklahoma State. Now, granted, they ain't have a good start to their season and all that, but they were supposed to be good. [00:29:13] Speaker B: What you mean? We play Oklahoma. That was just sophomore year. No, that was your sophomore year. [00:29:17] Speaker D: My junior year, bro. We played them. [00:29:19] Speaker B: So we didn't play. Okay, well, we played them at the crib. [00:29:21] Speaker D: My sophomore year. We played them in okc. Chris Paul and Rudy Gay came. [00:29:24] Speaker B: Oh, you talking about. We Played them at the crib, right? Yeah. [00:29:26] Speaker D: So slow down. [00:29:28] Speaker B: Yeah, we played them three years in a row. Then. You played them three years in a row, bro. [00:29:31] Speaker D: That's why you act like your schedule was way tougher. Come on, man, you crazy. [00:29:34] Speaker A: We played him in the 2K classic. [00:29:35] Speaker D: That's why he was like, I was scheduled, like, pointing his finger, like, please. [00:29:41] Speaker C: Now, let's go to you. Who y'all played. [00:29:53] Speaker D: At Washington. They hadn't lost a game at home. And how many. [00:29:56] Speaker B: How many games? [00:29:57] Speaker D: 100. [00:29:58] Speaker B: I remember that now. [00:29:59] Speaker D: You're. [00:30:02] Speaker C: Crazy. [00:30:02] Speaker D: Yeah, I think they lose. [00:30:04] Speaker B: I don't know nothing. I don't know nothing. I don't know nothing. [00:30:07] Speaker A: Tennessee was a big game. Remember Tennessee? [00:30:12] Speaker C: Hold up, hold up, hold up, hold up, hold up. We're not just gonna throw out any stat. So, Lee, you. You better come with some facts. [00:30:19] Speaker B: He's not just throwing out any stats. They're not always 100%. We don't know. [00:30:26] Speaker D: Look it up. [00:30:27] Speaker A: All right, what do I need to look up right now? Stat, man. [00:30:30] Speaker C: You're not gonna find it. [00:30:31] Speaker B: Us. [00:30:32] Speaker D: Us beating Washington in 09. I mean, 08. They first lost to like 100 games in non conference at home. [00:30:39] Speaker B: It probably was a crazy stat. [00:30:40] Speaker A: Was it 2007, 2008 or 2000? [00:30:42] Speaker B: 2007? 8. Yep, yep. Hey, but, hey, but, man, we played Tennessee. You heard me. Tennessee, Maryland, Texas. That's three best, three Big Dogs. Big. That's big dog. [00:30:52] Speaker C: Did y'all play Texas your senior year? [00:30:54] Speaker A: Yes. [00:30:54] Speaker B: Played in my. My junior year and senior year. [00:30:57] Speaker C: Yeah, they smacked y'all? [00:30:58] Speaker B: Christian Thompson. No, we beat him my junior year. They got to us a little bit. They ain't smack us. [00:31:02] Speaker C: No, no, they beat. They beat us by 20. [00:31:05] Speaker B: It wasn't 20. We looked it up last time. Let's look it up. [00:31:12] Speaker A: I'm still looking up. Washington game. [00:31:15] Speaker B: No, Washington was rolling, though. Who else we play, Lee? We play somebody else, too. Oh, yeah, we do. Washington, Dayton, Oklahoma State. It's a nice schedule, man. We. Now, now, man, your senior year, it was a little soft. [00:31:28] Speaker C: He's about 16. 16. Might as well be 20. Damien Jones, who was killing her. Damien Jones had 20, 20 and 9. Av Bradley, 10. He didn't do nothing but put. He strapped ass up. I remember that. Dexter Pittman and Dexter Pimping only had one rebound. [00:31:47] Speaker D: Why? [00:31:48] Speaker B: Why you think? What do you think happened? What you what? [00:31:50] Speaker C: Like, he only played 18 minutes. Then they hit. Yo, hold up. They had Joy Hamilton off the bench. [00:31:56] Speaker D: No, he's still. [00:31:57] Speaker B: You was hurt. Your foot was broken. [00:31:58] Speaker C: We won by one. [00:32:00] Speaker D: We beat Washington by one, right? [00:32:02] Speaker A: Yes. [00:32:02] Speaker D: How many games? That's the. That's the. [00:32:05] Speaker B: Yeah. What's up? [00:32:09] Speaker C: What's up? Because, you know, 11 and 10. All right. [00:32:13] Speaker B: Oh. [00:32:13] Speaker C: Oh. [00:32:14] Speaker B: Just so you know, 11 and 10. [00:32:15] Speaker C: Could have had 14. Make your free throws. Make your free throws. [00:32:20] Speaker B: When I go open the line, I think I had a decent game at the line. [00:32:23] Speaker C: Half of eight. [00:32:24] Speaker B: I mean, I'll take it. [00:32:27] Speaker C: Hey, you only got three shots, though. That's crazy. [00:32:30] Speaker B: You know. You know who was on my team. You just said. You just said it. [00:32:33] Speaker C: You know, Brad took 16 shots. [00:32:35] Speaker D: Oh, thank you. [00:32:37] Speaker C: Brad was 5 for 16. Ash was 2 for 13. [00:32:40] Speaker A: Damn. [00:32:41] Speaker C: Trey was 3 for 10, and you and Nas went 3 for 3. [00:32:44] Speaker B: Sound like we should have got more touches. [00:32:46] Speaker C: That's what I got out of that. You only played 20 minutes. [00:32:49] Speaker B: He tried to match my minutes with Pittman. He got foul trouble. What'd you say, Lee? [00:32:53] Speaker D: You know, Nas always felt like he should get more touches. [00:32:56] Speaker C: Chase Adams played 19 minutes. Of course we was going to lose. [00:33:01] Speaker B: Yay. Hit me. Oh, I knew it was going to come out at some point. [00:33:10] Speaker D: Oh, man. So let that go, man. [00:33:15] Speaker B: Let that hurt go. That was crazy. [00:33:18] Speaker D: Blame him. Nick said he don't blame him. [00:33:21] Speaker C: Nick probably led the charge. [00:33:22] Speaker D: I don't blame him. [00:33:23] Speaker A: I don't even know. [00:33:24] Speaker C: Nick knew. I didn't know. [00:33:26] Speaker B: I didn't know till you. [00:33:27] Speaker C: Are we. Are we gonna pick. Are we gonna pick a F. Oh, no, no. We gotta pick out who we think gonna win it. Right? [00:33:32] Speaker A: Okay, before we do that, let's do. Let's get a little suspense. I want the Final Fours. [00:33:36] Speaker C: Final Four. Yes. [00:33:37] Speaker A: What it's all about. Let's talk the Final Four and who's winning the championship. [00:33:40] Speaker D: I got my Final Four. I got all writing this down. [00:33:44] Speaker A: I'm a scribe. [00:33:45] Speaker D: Because they. They tricked it off. So now they got to do. Right. I got Auburn, then I got St. John's they matching up on that side. Then I got Duke matching up with Tennessee. I. Duke beating Tennessee. St. John's beating Auburn. [00:34:01] Speaker C: It. [00:34:02] Speaker D: I'm going all the way. I'm going to the. I'm going patina that. I'm going patino in the. Johnny's all the way over. Duke champion. [00:34:10] Speaker C: Wow. [00:34:11] Speaker D: Wow. Patino all the way back. [00:34:14] Speaker C: You found a 412 seeds. [00:34:16] Speaker A: Another hot take. [00:34:17] Speaker D: He mad about my. [00:34:19] Speaker C: Is that a hot take? [00:34:20] Speaker D: He said one or two. [00:34:23] Speaker A: That's a hot take. [00:34:24] Speaker D: That's a hot take, Nick. [00:34:26] Speaker C: Hold up. Hold up. So I had G.G. hold up, hold up. Hold up. St. John's is probably the hottest team in college. [00:34:35] Speaker D: So what? You know, that's when you can lose. [00:34:37] Speaker C: They're the hottest, but it's not a hot take. I'm just saying they're the hottest. The hottest team in college basketball right now. Either of them are Duke, but. All right, go ahead, G. I. [00:34:43] Speaker D: Hold up. Last thing, G. I had them winning it several weeks ago. [00:34:53] Speaker C: It cooled down. [00:34:55] Speaker D: Hey, late. My shit's still hot because I've been called it. Nah, it stays hot. Nah. [00:34:59] Speaker B: It's well documented that he been rolling with them for a long time. Since we started this. Since we started this journey. [00:35:07] Speaker C: Nick, you gotta be on my side. I feel like Lee and G been coming at me all day today and. [00:35:11] Speaker B: I ain't got nobody back me up. [00:35:13] Speaker C: Nobody back me up. [00:35:15] Speaker D: Hey, you know how this pie and go, man. [00:35:20] Speaker B: Go ahead, J. So. So me. So me and Lee was talking before, you know, before you guys production and I. I have a similar Final Four than him, you know, for the, you know, the viewing audience. I'm not going to use that one. I'm use a different one. So this is my other bracket I'm going go with. So I'm going to tell you my original one, what I had and then. What, what the one I'm going to go with. The original one was basically the same thing. The same. The same teams he had. That's. [00:35:48] Speaker C: If it's the same teams, why are you about to say it? [00:35:51] Speaker B: Because I had a different winner. I had Auburn winning. [00:35:53] Speaker A: Keep in mind, it's going to get clipped out. You're not. This is not going to get any credit for this. You're not going to get any consolation. [00:35:58] Speaker B: I had Auburn and St. John's Duke, Tennessee, Auburn, Duke for the remix. But I'm not going with that one. We scratch that and we go to the next one. The next one is. [00:36:07] Speaker C: You just had to throw that in there. All right, go ahead. [00:36:09] Speaker B: Next one is. I got Michigan pulling the upset. I like how they played in that Big Ten championship. They showed me something and I got them playing Maryland, a rematch in Final Four. Then I got Alabama and Houston on the other side got Alabama winning and I got Alabama, Mark Sears, Grant Nelson hoisting the trophy. The Natty, that's my. [00:36:31] Speaker D: Because they couldn't do it. He look, he going. He going back to his boy. [00:36:36] Speaker A: 99% of people are going to have a SEC team winning. [00:36:38] Speaker C: Oh, for sure. [00:36:39] Speaker D: Not Le Banger. [00:36:40] Speaker B: I mean, you got 14 teams. The, the, the probability is high that you will pick one well, 65. [00:36:48] Speaker C: I wish G would have stayed with his first prediction because he on my. He all on my man. [00:36:52] Speaker D: God. [00:36:54] Speaker B: Hey, we just butting his. [00:36:56] Speaker C: So the first team from the South Region, I took Michigan. I think Michigan going in with momentum. I think they're going. Tough game against Auburn, but I think they're going to pull it off in Elite Eight. Then I got Maryland. You know, I'm going with the home team. [00:37:10] Speaker B: I wanted. [00:37:11] Speaker C: I wanted to take Florida, but I gotta stick with the home team. I gotta stick with the home team. Then I'm going Duke. Just because they're the hottest team. The others. The other. The Midwest Region, I ain't gonna lie. I didn't really know. I'm just going. I'm just going with the easy pick, and I'm taking Houston. I wanted to do Tennessee, but I'm go. Houston. [00:37:29] Speaker D: Houston, the easy pick. [00:37:30] Speaker C: Yeah, I know. That's what I said. I. I really don't know with that conference. I mean, you said Houston's the easy. [00:37:37] Speaker D: Pick, which means Tennessee's not. So don't say nothing about my picks. [00:37:43] Speaker C: You're right. You're right. No, my championship game, I got. I got Maryland and I got Duke. [00:37:50] Speaker B: I'm going. [00:37:50] Speaker C: I'm going Duke for the win. [00:37:53] Speaker D: Go all the way there. And abortion. [00:37:57] Speaker C: I think Cooper flags. If he. As long as he's healthy, I'm about. [00:38:01] Speaker D: To say he gonna be able to play. [00:38:02] Speaker C: Yeah. As long as he's supposed to be playing. He's supposed to be playing. As long as he healthy. I. I don't think no one's gonna beat that. But I am scared. Not scared, but I. And Lee don't. I think St. John's have a chance to. To win a tournament. That's. That's the only outside team that I say they got a high chance. They. They the hottest team. I'm sorry. St. John's been playing the best defense in the NCAA right now that I've seen. [00:38:29] Speaker B: I think St. John's gonna run into problem. Probably in the Sweet 16. Not gonna be able to make a shot. [00:38:33] Speaker D: Who they gonna run in problem? [00:38:37] Speaker B: Somebody gonna get. Call the team. [00:38:41] Speaker D: Yeah, call the team. [00:38:43] Speaker C: You said Missouri. [00:38:45] Speaker D: Who? [00:38:46] Speaker C: Texas Tech. Great for UNC Wilmington. Are you sick? [00:38:50] Speaker B: I don't know. [00:38:50] Speaker D: He gotta be sick. I think he is. [00:38:53] Speaker C: And there ain't no way you're thinking. [00:38:56] Speaker B: Teams. [00:38:57] Speaker D: Yeah, you're tripping. [00:38:58] Speaker C: You're tripping. [00:38:58] Speaker B: So what? [00:38:59] Speaker C: Backtrack. [00:38:59] Speaker D: You're tripping. Take that back. [00:39:01] Speaker C: All right. [00:39:02] Speaker B: Texas Tech it is. [00:39:04] Speaker D: Texas Tech it is. [00:39:06] Speaker B: Texas Tech it is. [00:39:08] Speaker D: Okay. [00:39:09] Speaker B: I was gonna say Kansas, but I said I'm. Let him ride. I mean, Bill self is. Hey, no. Let's not disrespect. Let's not be disrespectful. The team might not be great, but he can coach. I might pull something out. [00:39:19] Speaker D: I don't like that team. [00:39:23] Speaker C: Hype up his two natties. But you. You on Dan Hurley. [00:39:27] Speaker B: That's crazy, man. [00:39:28] Speaker C: Bro and his back to back. You're crazy. [00:39:32] Speaker B: That's crazy. [00:39:33] Speaker D: I got him back. [00:39:33] Speaker B: I respect you more. I respect you respect anymore. Why do. [00:39:37] Speaker C: Why do you hate Yukon so much? What is it? What did Yukon do to you? Just want to know what year? [00:39:43] Speaker B: It's more than Hurley. It's more than Hurley. Why. Why you like that Me the wrong. He bros me the wrong way. It ain't. That's what it is. [00:39:51] Speaker D: Yeah. I never thought about that, man. Damn. It's like I stick against you. I didn't even put that together. [00:39:56] Speaker B: Oh, man. [00:39:58] Speaker D: That's personal. [00:39:59] Speaker B: Yeah. I don't rock with him. Oh, man. [00:40:05] Speaker A: There's college basketball players. There's college basketball players who played on good teams. There's college basketball players who've experienced the NCAA tournament. But then there was that elite class college basketball players that have been number one seeds expected to win it all on everybody's bracket in America. There's some people on this podcast who've been number one seeds twice. Talk to me, talk to the audience about what it feels like. You know, we got the weight of world on your shoulders going into the NCAA tournament. Expected to win it all. [00:40:31] Speaker B: Like what. [00:40:32] Speaker A: What goes to your mind as a. As a player on a team like that. [00:40:34] Speaker C: Go ahead two time. [00:40:36] Speaker B: Well, you know, when you get selected number one, it's a big thing. You know, like you said, only four teams a year get selected number one. The first time that I was like on the team that was selected number one, we had lost in the tournament, in the conference tournament to West Virginia. It was a game that we didn't play well, but we had a great regular season beating top five team twice. So that was kind of like what led us and having to just win it. I can't really remember what our record was. I think we only lost three games going into the NCAA tournament or something. Something of that nature. Yeah. We just excited. Just happy, you know, doing something the first time in school history, you know, I was excited. Exciting for us. We were hyped. You see the video. He probably can clip that. And it was just. It was just good just having that chance to Be everybody's looking at you to win it. I think Obama had picked us to win it or me in the final four that year. 2009. [00:41:27] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah, though, because I know you was. Two times. I don't want to interrupt you. [00:41:30] Speaker B: 2009. That's not your senior year, be dog. [00:41:32] Speaker D: All right, that's when I was gonna mention that. Yeah, it's a little different. [00:41:36] Speaker B: And then. And then, you know, two years later, you know, for some, for some reason, other number one seed came the way. You know, I was a senior. I was sitting in the front row. You could, hey, could definitely clip that. [00:41:49] Speaker A: Right next to you, Gene. [00:41:50] Speaker B: I was right next to you. [00:41:51] Speaker C: That's definite. Definite. [00:41:52] Speaker B: Right next to you. Number one seed. We got, we. We had got a. We got a good, decent draw. Had a kind of tough draw. You know, our side was a little, little, A little treacherous. But it was exciting, though, getting that one seed and being able to, you know, get that chance to go to win the championship. You know, we thought we had a chance. It's just great to be able to get. We was able to play in D.C. not too far away from where we was at. So it was just a great experience to be able to be a 1 seed. [00:42:19] Speaker D: For me, just. It was another goal and another record we broke at the school. Obviously, that's my senior year. It was a great year throughout the year. First time we was ranked number one in the country, first time we. We beat a number one team in the country. And then obviously going into the tournament to be a number one seed, it was like the perfect setup for us to, you know, go into the tournament and handle our business. Like Gary said, to make it even more special at the time, having Obama as our president, you know, they used to go to the White House and let the president do his bracket and pick his final 14. To hear him pick us to go to the final Four and mention my name as well as my other two teammates names, Sam Young and dejuan Blair, like, that was special at the time. It's like, yo, the president think we can win? It just made us believe even more. We knew everybody was picking us. It was a couple other analysts that picked us as well. [00:43:05] Speaker B: It just. [00:43:06] Speaker D: Unfortunately, we lost on a buzzer beater. But other than that, the experience was great. Once again, it's something that Gary and him, like you said, two years later, they were able to do again because now I can't say we're the only team to be a 1 seed, but it's great. It's just it's something that everybody now and the generations after should be something they aiming for. I mean, when you come to college, your goal should be high, and that should be one of the checklists. When you go into the tournament, if you have a great regular season, you want to be a number one seed. They say the path should be easier. Obviously, nothing's guaranteed in the tournament, but being number one seed is a special film. It was. It was great. Like Gary. [00:43:40] Speaker C: Yeah, he was the one seed. I ain't got nothing. [00:43:43] Speaker B: That's good. [00:43:44] Speaker C: That was good, guys. That was good. [00:43:47] Speaker B: We very special. You know, being on that. That club level with the, you know, the peak, you know, all the cameras waiting, watching you, you know, fresh dress, done. No, I don't know if that was done. Good time, Feeling good. [00:44:01] Speaker C: My excitement from the tournament, I can't say. I can't talk about. So. [00:44:05] Speaker B: You said what? [00:44:06] Speaker C: My excitement from the tournament, I can't talk about. So. Yeah, whatever. [00:44:12] Speaker B: Well, we weren't guys. This guy's crazy, bro. [00:44:16] Speaker A: We weren't always one seeds. I think junior year, well, we were three seed. [00:44:22] Speaker B: It's still. Still not, you know. [00:44:23] Speaker A: Do you still expect to win it all, though, when you're not the one seed? Did you guys feel like we had a chance to win it even when we weren't one season? [00:44:28] Speaker C: I thought we could my junior year. [00:44:30] Speaker D: I thought we could win my junior year. We won the Big East Conference 20, winning four games and four nights against Iris. I think three of the opponents was ranked. That's when the Big east was obviously one of the best conferences. We felt like the best conference. We going to the tournament, obviously, we hot. We win our first game and then our second round matchup was with Michigan State, who was a physical team. Obviously we kind of mirrored each other and they just outplayed us that day. But I felt like that year, yeah, we had. We was a dark horse. I thought we had a pretty good chance. Obviously, we lost Mike Cook, too, for the year. That was the year I got hurt as well. I felt at that time we was playing our best basketball, like everybody say you want to be doing in March. Just Michigan State played better than us that day. [00:45:10] Speaker B: Like I say, my junior year, we played Oakland in the first round. That was the 14 was a three put belt to ass, you know, real quick. Got him up out of there. And then we ran into Xavier. They was like, it kind of like you said, they mirrored us for. It was a physical team, had bigs and had a big time score that hit us for 30. Jordan Crawford was giving our guards everything they wanted, everything they couldn't handle. Gave us a 30 piece. I think we end up losing by three. You know, it was. It was a tough game. [00:45:38] Speaker A: It was his assignment. [00:45:39] Speaker C: Excuse me. [00:45:39] Speaker D: Hey. [00:45:40] Speaker B: Hey, Nick. What have we learned on this? What have we learned on this podcast? Somebody never, never takes accountability. [00:45:47] Speaker A: Let's talk about the Oakland Big, though. That Oakland Big was doing some. Now, we ain't just gonna pick on, man. We ain't just gonna pick on, man. [00:45:59] Speaker C: Hey, hey. Let's go, Nick. But before we do that, though, I did have Crawford, but we were switching one through four. We did a lot of switching. [00:46:07] Speaker B: Respect. [00:46:08] Speaker C: Did a lot of switching. We can pick that up buckets, though. But it wasn't on me. [00:46:13] Speaker B: Respect. Hey, I could live with that. Like I told you, I said, we played against Keith Benson. Yeah, he has made some good moves. But when I won, it was my assignment. He was under 50 shooting when I was guarding. I promise you. [00:46:24] Speaker D: Yo, clip. [00:46:27] Speaker C: I blamed Gilfa. I lost Xamian because he was scared. He was killing. He ain't gonna get the prop. [00:46:32] Speaker B: Yeah. After the game. After the game, Gil was talking about he going to the. [00:46:38] Speaker C: He didn't care. [00:46:38] Speaker B: It was like. I was like, man. I was like, dang, man, it's over for. I was thinking this. [00:46:44] Speaker D: Right? [00:46:47] Speaker C: Let's talk about that Mohawk, bro. We was going where we played that Milwaukee, right? [00:46:51] Speaker B: We used in Milwaukee. Was it Milwaukee? He's in Milwaukee. [00:46:55] Speaker C: We was in Milwaukee. [00:46:56] Speaker B: I didn't know. We lost my three. [00:46:58] Speaker C: We lost by three. [00:46:59] Speaker A: It felt like we got smacked. [00:47:00] Speaker B: Was it really in Milwaukee? [00:47:02] Speaker C: Yeah, we was in Milwaukee. [00:47:04] Speaker A: We were in Milwaukee. I'll never forget. That was great. It was right around St. Patty's Day. [00:47:09] Speaker B: Yo, listen, I was in the streets. [00:47:11] Speaker C: We're on the Blueprint 3 tour. And they came to Pittsburgh. And it was. It was either go get a haircut or go to the concert. [00:47:22] Speaker D: Come on. [00:47:23] Speaker C: I can't miss Hov. [00:47:24] Speaker B: Didn't we Me. You went there. It was me. [00:47:27] Speaker C: It was me, you, Brad. [00:47:28] Speaker B: Yeah, we went to that. [00:47:29] Speaker C: Me, Brad, and I think it was. [00:47:31] Speaker B: Hov Jeezy and Trey song. [00:47:33] Speaker C: Trey song. Yeah. Me, Brad. I think Gil went. No, Gil ain't go. Shane us. He couldn't get out the house. Me, you, Brad. [00:47:46] Speaker B: And somebody else. I can't remember who else. [00:47:48] Speaker C: Oh, Trey. Trey went with us. Trey. It was me, you, Brad and Trey. [00:47:51] Speaker A: Treated like a vacation. [00:47:52] Speaker C: Yeah, that was. [00:47:53] Speaker B: Yeah, they. [00:47:53] Speaker C: They just. [00:47:54] Speaker B: They was just better than us. [00:47:56] Speaker A: I think we took it for granted. We got a little too cocky. [00:47:58] Speaker B: Yeah. We smack Oakland bad. So we was like, yeah, we about to get about. We better. Straight to the 16. Yeah. [00:48:03] Speaker D: Wrong. [00:48:04] Speaker C: And we thought. I remember, I didn't think Xavier was going to be. I think they beat Minnesota. I ain't think they was going to win that game. I thought we was going to play Minnesota. We had an easy. We had an easy draw there. We had an easy draw. [00:48:13] Speaker B: No, we did, though, because who would have played Kansas State next? That would have been a tough one. [00:48:17] Speaker A: Or pull him. [00:48:18] Speaker B: 316. Good matchup for you, though. It'd have been some fun. [00:48:22] Speaker C: I don't. I hate that Dixon was switching one to four. I ain't gonna lie to you that. That was that game. [00:48:27] Speaker B: Yeah, man. [00:48:27] Speaker D: I mean, you got to clip it up, man, because he gonna keep talking about. [00:48:30] Speaker B: I was gonna say my senior year, going into the Bowler game, I knew it was gonna be a very tough game. I just. [00:48:35] Speaker C: You got the problem, man. How was the problem? [00:48:38] Speaker B: I mean, I've been playing against him my whole life. He. He won majority of the matchups. I might have played well or better. He still won. So it was. It was tough. That wasn't the reason, though. The reason. I just knew how they played. The reason, how they played. They spread the court open. They, you know, try to draw me away from the basket. So they was getting any. You know, a lot of stuff that they wanted to get. You know, had Matt Howard could shoot, had to be on him. So I opened up some lane and I mean, we was right there, though. Shelby Mack had a great game. That was the kind of the reason the first half, they got. Got up. I think they got up like 16 early, just like a quick run, and we ended up fighting back, getting the lead. And then, you know. [00:49:12] Speaker C: Go ahead and say Gil shouldn't be running his mouth on the free throw line. Go ahead and say it. [00:49:15] Speaker B: You said I was confident in the gill to make the free throws. I was trying not to. I was trying to look at him, trying not to talk to him. I showed the free throws. When he made the first one, I ain't gonna lie to you. We made the first one. I was like, cool. You know what I'm saying? You know, just, you know, basketball plays happen, and we end up losing the game. [00:49:31] Speaker C: Hey, what player. Let's get out of that, because what player do y'all think going to. Going to dominate this tournament? Give me one player who y'all think could dominate the tournament? [00:49:43] Speaker B: I would go with. I'm not gonna go with the obvious. Two guys that I Could go with would be broom flag. [00:49:50] Speaker C: Let's lead them two out. [00:49:51] Speaker B: Their first team, All Americans. I could go with. Go ahead, you go first. Let me, let me. Dude name. [00:49:57] Speaker C: I mean, you said what? [00:49:58] Speaker B: I gotta get this dude name the guy on. Let me tell you all. [00:50:01] Speaker C: Well, I'm sticking, I'm sticking in my home, my home state. [00:50:05] Speaker B: I knew you were. So that's why I just want to get somebody else. [00:50:07] Speaker C: Well, I'm not going to say Dairy Queen, even though I think Dairy Queen is going to have a great tournament. I think Jacoby Gillespie is going to, is going to make a name for himself in this tournament. You know, he's averaging 15, 5. He's been playing a lot better towards the end of the year. He's a 6:1 point guard. I think he will, I think he will shine in this tournament and make a name for himself for the NBA draft. But he's, he's averaging 15 and 5, shooting 40, 42 from the 3, 49 from the field. I think them numbers gonna go up. I think he'll, I think he'll make a name for himself this, this tournament. Put himself on the mat. [00:50:45] Speaker B: So you saying like a breakout player or are you saying a guy that's already established or you just. [00:50:49] Speaker C: He could be established or it's, you know, he's someone that's not getting a lot of recognition. [00:50:55] Speaker B: Okay. [00:50:55] Speaker C: And that's going to make a name for himself. [00:50:58] Speaker B: I was gonna go with, for me, Michigan, Trey Donaldson. I like his game. He played well in the championship. Good guard, get to the basket. Good shooter from three. He led them boys in the game against Maryland and he looked good. Helped him win the Big Ten championship. So I'm looking for him to have a good tournament. And I picked him because I wanted to Switch my final 44 up and I picked him to make it to the fourth. Hope he could do his thing. [00:51:25] Speaker C: All right. From Florida. I'm a Florida boy. [00:51:27] Speaker D: I got Kadari Richard from single. [00:51:29] Speaker C: I know it, I know it. [00:51:30] Speaker D: I'm saying John's out. Yeah, that's what's going on. He ain't no first team all American. Don't act like. Yeah, it's going down. He could get you a triple double. [00:51:38] Speaker B: That's the number one, right? Richmond. [00:51:40] Speaker A: Yeah, I like, I like him. [00:51:41] Speaker B: They was comparing him to Lou Dork. [00:51:42] Speaker C: I like his game. [00:51:44] Speaker B: Said his body size, the way he can guard, rebound. [00:51:49] Speaker D: Him and the kid Femi that we had a couple years ago that Cable recruited, they went to high school together. Where's Mimi at Now, yeah, Minnesota. Minnesota made the tournament. [00:51:58] Speaker C: No, no, right. [00:51:59] Speaker D: I think he done. I think it was just senior year, but that's why I felt like. I mean, obviously we ain't get Kadari. But I was like, yo, he gonna be. He could play, too. And it took Kadari a little bit. It ain't happened at Syracuse. And then, you know, I see how he started to play, but obviously, you see the. I mean, this is what I thought he could be as well as femi@pit. [00:52:18] Speaker C: So you wanted to darling, huh? You wanted him to go to pit? [00:52:22] Speaker D: I wouldn't say I wanted him to go to pit. I just was excited when I knew we got feminine. They're from Brooklyn, both of them. He's from Brooklyn as well. Kadari's. I knew he was going somewhere else already, but they was coming out of prep school because they didn't go straight from high school. And I was like, I wonder what Femi. When I seen we had him, like, not even. It's thinking of it like he's committed. I'm like, oh, yeah, that's a. Still, like, I done played against him, I know in the street parks or whatever, but I thought he was going to be, like I said, a really good player. He also had, you know, unfortunately, that crazy car accident, though, before his freshman year. I don't know. I always felt like that could have, you know, teared him a little bit. He never. You know what I mean? Once again, my point of making that is that now we see years later, I thought we were doing really good. Kadari, as you can see, he's part of the main reason St. John's is where they at this year. Thomas, hit or miss, man. [00:53:10] Speaker C: You see UCF not in tournament, is it? No, no, they were stinky. [00:53:14] Speaker D: Next year, them boys should get burned. Mikey and Dior, they should be getting more minutes next year. [00:53:18] Speaker C: So hopefully they stay. [00:53:19] Speaker D: Nah, they should be, because the guys were seniors. That was there. I mean, that's the only thing I think that was in their way. [00:53:24] Speaker C: Never know with and I transfer portal is crazy. [00:53:28] Speaker D: I just can't see who gonna go. Once again, who gonna go after them if they ain't really play yet? And after everything they both been in, this school gave y'all the opportunity, man. Stay down, man. Them guys leaving the seniors turn it up next year, that's it. [00:53:41] Speaker B: They make the tournament next year, you got them making a tournament. [00:53:43] Speaker D: No, I'm looking at them. I'm excited, man. You know, I'm a fan of Dior, so He going. They're going to play real minutes next year. They was playing Both of them, seven to 14, maybe seven, eight minutes. They was not spotty. Once again, they were playing behind scenes. So I'm looking forward to seeing what they gonna bring to the table. [00:53:58] Speaker B: Are they both gonna be what? They gonna meet juniors? So he did none of his year that year. Pick didn't count. [00:54:05] Speaker D: No. [00:54:05] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:54:06] Speaker D: Yeah, man. And they got that year under their belt this year, so it's like, come on, let's go. Yeah. [00:54:11] Speaker B: You got what, three years in college? [00:54:12] Speaker D: Let's go. It's supposed to be go time. Mikey, too. Like, you got a lot of naysayers. Interview with the pivot you got. I like how you talk. That's my first time. Really? I don't know if y'all saw that interview. That was a good interview. Mikey Williams. [00:54:25] Speaker C: I seen it with Angel. [00:54:26] Speaker D: All right. Oh, who? Oh, he was on what? Angel? [00:54:29] Speaker C: Bargain Angel. Reese. Yeah. [00:54:31] Speaker D: Oh, yeah. I ain't checked that one out, but I'm like, all right. My first time. Really hand him talk. Yeah, I'm looking forward to it. [00:54:39] Speaker A: Every episode. We got to talk a little bit of pit. So pit for the second year in a row, decline postseason play. Talk to me a little bit about what. What you think about this. That decision. I know it's a different era now. Name, image and likeness transfer portal. It's a whole different area than what we're used to. But what do you think about them for the second year in a row, declining postseason. [00:55:00] Speaker C: Yeah. Focus. Go get some players. [00:55:02] Speaker B: I don't. I don't agree with it. I agree they should have went. Go play. Go get some wins. Go get some. Keep building that. That culture, that winning culture. Keep. Keep doing that. Some of the players might stay. Some of the players might leave. So what? Just win. Could. They could have got. I don't know if they would have got the invitation to the crown tournament. Crown tournament. They wouldn't have. [00:55:19] Speaker C: You have in the se. What's the crown? CBI. [00:55:21] Speaker B: No, crown is the one for 300. [00:55:23] Speaker A: It's a new one in Vegas. [00:55:24] Speaker B: The one for three for some bread, some money. Turn some bread, which I like. [00:55:28] Speaker A: That's cool. [00:55:29] Speaker B: I wish we had. [00:55:30] Speaker C: They would have been. They would have been in cbi. [00:55:33] Speaker B: I'm saying, though, if they. They. I mean, we don't know what they would have got invited to. [00:55:36] Speaker A: We. [00:55:36] Speaker B: They declined before it came out. [00:55:37] Speaker D: They got a new joint for the 300k. Oh, you got. [00:55:40] Speaker B: Yeah, it's called the crown tournament, so. Got teams in that go to the crown. Get some bread. Kind of like a little. Everybody can use some extra bread. [00:55:48] Speaker C: I'm going crowd what? Go, go get some players. [00:55:52] Speaker D: I agree with man. It's time. We got to go get some hard nosed players. So we got to get guys that's just ready to excel in their roles. I know everybody think they superstars and I get it man. We was the same way from high school. We dominated. That's the reason we got our scholarships, so on and so forth. When you get to college, just like they say, the higher you go up, after that it's, it's just his levels, man. You're gonna have your two Maxim most likely maybe three guys who, that's who the offense and that's who the team is. That's what it's surrounded around. But most of the guys, you gotta, you gotta be an MVP in your role, period. That's it. You know what I'm saying? Once again, just as an example, I come from New York, I'm a player of the year. I come to Pittsburgh, I'm coming off the bench, I'm getting spotty minutes. So I realized, yo, this is how I'm gonna play the extra pass. They was in love with making the, you know, I mean, things I did naturally. But it's like, yeah, I gotta turn down this step back being contested. Kick it to Ronald who might not shoot it. He gonna kick it to Tone, who wide open. He make it. But they cheering me on like, you know what I mean? You gotta be patient, man. Like a lot of guys ready to do that, bro. [00:56:58] Speaker B: So that's, I agree with you. That's part, that's part of the game. Justin, once you get to college, you know, like I'm playing with guys that get buckets, like, you know what I'm saying? Like you said, you read the stats of that game. They shot 16, 15, 13. But able to get out there and find my way no matter what to be to help the team out because me getting 15 rebounds, only getting two. But we won. I did did my job or if I'm getting a double double figuring it out, you know what I'm saying? Like I said, everybody come, everybody come, everybody come from. In high school, you demand, you got to take all the shots. Yeah, I was dropping 40s. That happened. [00:57:28] Speaker C: You know. [00:57:37] Speaker B: Coach Oak would have seen me drop 40. So I just wanted to make sure y'all, make sure y'all know that happened. But also who was gardening. [00:57:46] Speaker C: Hey, also, also, also as a coach, as a coach, you can't be Scared to tell people what their roles want to be. You know what I'm saying? Like, when Dixon. When Dixon came down to Florida, he was like, hey, we got. [00:58:00] Speaker B: We. [00:58:01] Speaker C: We got Levans Fields, we got dejuan Blair, we got Sam Young, we lost Ronald Ramon and Keith Benjamin. We looking for somebody that can defend. If you can defend and make shots, you can put. You can get on the court. You ain't about to come in here and be the start. And that was the all American and juco. So as a coach, you cannot be scared to let people know what they're. [00:58:18] Speaker D: Oh, good points, everybody. Good job. [00:58:20] Speaker C: I like it. [00:58:21] Speaker A: I like it. [00:58:22] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:58:22] Speaker B: I got. I got one thing, though. This is. This is kind of off subject, but not. But this one subject. NCAA tournament. I was going to say, who y'all think winning the women's tournament? [00:58:30] Speaker D: Oh, I ain't. I ain't see the brackets, but, you. [00:58:33] Speaker B: Know, in the woman. The one C's are ucla, usc, South Carolina and Texas. [00:58:41] Speaker D: Yeah, I wish we would have pulled the bracket out. I mean, you know, I rock with Yukon, too. I know they ain't in 1C, but. [00:58:46] Speaker B: You know, they're like a 2. Yep. Day too. [00:58:48] Speaker C: You know, I'm rocking with baby Kobe. [00:58:50] Speaker D: You got us, baby cold. I gotta be juju. Yeah, I went. I will rock with juju, too. [00:58:55] Speaker B: I'm rocking with. I'm rocking with big lb, big Lauren. Bet six, seven. Get buckets. Double double. [00:59:02] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:59:02] Speaker B: South ucla. Ucla. [00:59:05] Speaker D: I knew it. You got s. It's a lot of them. I don't know. [00:59:09] Speaker B: I ain't good, though. They was mad they didn't get the overall number one because they got like back to the quad one thing. They got like 11 quad one wins overall number one. The overall number one is UCLA. Was mad about it. [00:59:26] Speaker D: Oh, my bad. [00:59:27] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. South Carolina had the toughest strength to schedule, so that's what Don Staley was upset about. [00:59:32] Speaker D: I didn't watch that much as this year. I caught like probably two games. I usually watch more women's games and I ain't going front, but I was, you know, watching me. [00:59:41] Speaker C: I. I ended up watching more men's game this year than I've watched in the past. I usually watch a lot of women's too. [00:59:48] Speaker B: My wife be tapped in. She like a huge South Carolina fan. She watched everything. He loved non stale. So, yeah, she be tapped in with them, so I'll be seeing the game. She was mad they didn't get the number one overall. I told her they wouldn't, though. I told her UCLA was going to get it because UCLA beat them in the head to head and they won that conference tournament, beat usc. So I was like, yeah, they probably gonna give it to ucla and they never got it before and South Carolina got it three years in a row. So I was like, yeah, they probably going, you know how that be? They want to switch it up. [01:00:14] Speaker A: Well, that concludes another episode of the Pit Legends podcast, March Madness edition. Be sure to tune in next week as we dissect some of these predictions. We'll see how long they stand, how long they last. Gary McGee, Jermaine Dixon, Levance Fields, thanks for joining us. See you again next week. Be sure to link and subscribe. Spread the word. There's no better place to get your college basketball knowledge and conversation. Peace. [01:00:35] Speaker C: Yes, sir. Peace. That was good.