Club Shay Shay - Best of March Madness Part 2: Florida CHOKED, Kentucky ALWAYS LOSING in the tournament with all that MONEY

Episode Date: March 24, 2026

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Check out Game Recognized game with Stew and Miles on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Hawkeyes to the Sweet 16. And in the process of getting there, they had to knock off the defending number one seed, the Florida Gators. On the first year head coach, Ben McCullum, the Hawkeyes reached the Sweet 16 for the first time since 1999. While sending the 27 and 8 Florida Gators became the first number one seat to be knocked out in this year's March Madness. Our 23 and 12 wasted a 12 point lead in the final seconds, but rallied to become the first number nine seed to be the number one since 20. 2018 when Florida State shot Xavier. The Hawkeyes will face the number four seed, Nebraska cornhuskers,

in the South Regional Semifinals on Thursday night in Houston. Joe, how were the Hawkeyes able to pull this off? Man, obviously, I've seen Florida Big Man, he only played 20 minutes. He basically had four foul. He had four files. I know they got him in foul trouble. And, man, they were just, just tough. They weren't going to bag down. They

weren't going to bag down. They kept themselves in closing range. And at the end of the game, man, why? Why would you, why would you take that gamble and let their man get in front of you? Now you put your teammate in the huckleback to where now he got to either take the ball or take the man in the corner.

Man. I said the same thing. I don't know why you press that hard because it's not like it's, I mean, nine seconds is a lot of time. It's not like it's, it's not like It's three seconds, Joe. It's nine seconds. Yeah.

And so you run that risk and you run and you give him the side. So you don't got no cutoff point. You don't got nobody that you can direct him to. There's no interference. So he's got a clear shot. He's either going all the way to the basket or he's going to keep. Right. I don't know.

I don't know what the Boogie Flynn was thinking on that one. But, hey, give, give a kudos to Iowa, man. They play hard, discipline. and I always talk about the bigs that Florida got and they once got them bigs and hey, them boy, I was probably more physical than Florida. Okay, Ocho. Mm-hmm.

Yeah. They shot 50% from the Florida. They didn't shoot. Neither team really shot well from the three-point line. I was 29% 7 to 24. And Florida was 6 of 19 for 32%. Neither team was really good from the free throw line, 64% for Iowa, 74% from a,

for Florida. But the thing is that when you're a number one seed and the longer you let the lower seed hang around, Lord forbid that Joe will get a lead and he in the second half, they really start to believe. They're like, oh, we can beat this team. Yeah, we can hang. Confidence.

There might have been doubt in the beginning, but you didn't remove that. There you go. So now you got hell on your hand. Yeah. Go ahead, Ocho. And we're going to say, you know, the closer that game get in that second half, you know, asses get a little bit more title.

You know, everybody get, everybody get a little bit more gunshot, you know. Hey, it's a different kind of pressure. Listen, I've never been in that situation like that. I've never played basketball at this level to be, you know, in the tournament's magnitude. But I understand present situations and what it does it does to you. You know, you get a little bit nervous, you know. You've been in a pressure situation. You've had a big lead in Cincinnati and the team whittled that is down and you've got to

go back out there because you don't want to give that offense to ball. You know exactly what pressure. Yeah, I know what you mean. I know what you mean. Yeah. Oh, yeah, absolutely. You know, hey, man, Carson Taylor, you and Hoosh, man, look, we can't give them the ball back. Hey, both hands on the football.

Hey, get it, get down. We don't need no extra yards. We don't need anybody to play hero. Hey, look, but my thing is, for the Iowa and Florida game, like, why don't you just keep your man in front, make him take a tough shot? I just didn't understand them pressing like that and then gambling the way that they did. I'm like, what day? No, there was no need.

If that guy hit a shot, like the guy in Kentucky, Joe, I just threw my hand. You got to live with that. He's a 40-foot bank shot. Okay, I live with that. But why would you risk it in that situation? Most guys can probably get from one end to the other, 94 feet. They can get that about three seconds. Yeah, easy.

They can get down about three seconds. He's got nine. So now he's. all he has to do is, hey, it was, hey, the way dude shot that, like, he'd been making threes. You hear me? Hey, oh. Oh, Joe, because he could have took a dribble or two and tried to get to the basket.

That man said, you're like, you know what, we're for the, we're going home or we going to the next round. Hey, one or the other. Ain't no great area about it, dude. I love it. I love it. It takes gust to shoot that type of shot, bro. That's the same joke.

Hey, he's like, I'm all the, hey, I'm shoving all my chips to the middle of the table. You've been, like, son, damn, son, you had a couple of dribbles. You could have dribbled a couple and got a closer shot. He's like, no, I want that. I want to make it as difficult as I possibly can on myself.

Dude, dribble, like, nah, let me get this step back in here. Man, don't, hey, that's a tough shot, oh, Joe. That's a tough shot. That man took a dribble. Like, he was going in and,

I'm, I'm, man, step back for three for the game. Hey, that's my kind of guy. This March, man. That's what I'm talking about. Man, he shot that thing. Like, he was Steph Curry. That was some Steph Curry. Hey, hey, look, you got the number one C.

And we're going to overtime. They might pull out on them. But if I go and shoot this dagon, yes. Hit it. Because you're not expected to win anyway. So even if you lose, everybody's going to say you played a tough game. That's the defending champs. They got X, Y, Z.

They got NBA players on that roster. That's what people are going to say, hey, look, I know, and it doesn't do you any cons. It doesn't make you feel any better that you play it. a number one seed, the defending champ down the wire. That'll make you feel any better. But it's not as much pressure. Now, Florida had that shot.

That's pressure because now I'm the number one seat. I'm not even supposed to be. I'm not even supposed to be in this situation. Now that I think, now that I think about the Ocho and Joe, I ain't even supposed to be here. Yeah. We're supposed to be up by 10

with like 20 seconds to go. And we get some guys there that don't normally play. We normally get them. to be so they can feel what it's like to be in the March Madness. And here we are, we find ourselves in some bulldog. Oh, man. What Florida doing, bro? They don't messed up my bracket.

I know who bracket they didn't mess up. You know what? I might hire my... You had them... You had them... You had them losing... You had them losing the Iowa. I didn't have to go into the final four.

Oh, hey, Joe had the boy going to the final four? And you have Virginia going to the final four. Me? My elite eight and my final four bracket is still intact. What about mine? Mm-mm. Because you have Virginia. I ain't, I can't be that far behind, though.

No, no, no, no. Joe, I'm just saying. You can't get no more points from Florida. Okay. My final four picks and my elite eight picks, they're still there. Okay. Hold on. So is my, I can still get.

Oh, Joe, you have Florida in the finals? You, uh-huh. I had one. Florida in the finals? Man, I had that get back with Florida, boy. The way they did us during the season, I had... Oh, so you, so it was a revenge matchup for you. You let your pride get you.

Hey, hey, hey, hey, he picking with his hard. He picked away he hard. Hey, hey, hey, hey, it just would have been a perfect setup. Well, Florida made it, we make it. The racerbacks make it. And we get their get back. But now that Florida gone, we got to, we ain't even got to talk about them no more. We ain't got to talk about them no more

We talk about them Razor back Oh, oh, Joe, I don't know if you notice this But if you noticed what Joe did, he'd make basically all this damn SEC teams to go as far as he can Yeah, he did He thinks he's sleep. He's talking about you picking mascot All we did, I said, oh, that's Tennessee

Oh, yeah, let's put them in. Oh, that's Florida, let's put them in. That's bad to be. I'm like, what damn? I'm looking at his breaking. I was like, well, damn. Hey, with Joe, Joe in the back of the line. Now, ain't no way.

Ain't no way. Nah, he's still doing good. He must be thought this was supposed to ball. He took it. But now, this was a good game. This is why you like March Madness because the underdog really does have a chance.

We've seen it, not only in March Madness, but we see it in the national championship game. We see it in the semifinals. We saw what Christa Lember did. We saw that he, that he threw the ball to him, and he gets the ball and he, whew, wham. Yeah. We saw that.

I saw U.S. Reed. I think this was in probably 81 hit a half-court shot. Did you? It might have been Arkansas. Yeah, yeah, U.S. replayed for Arkansas. Yeah, it might have been Arkansas against Louisville or somebody. When the U.S. Reed hit that half-court shot

and sent them on to the next round? That was really the first time that I had seen, that understood what Mark's Madden was about. Is that, you know, an underdog winning. I think that was he beat, they beat Louisville. if I'm not mistaken. I think so. I think it was after Louisville

had won the national championship because Louisville won the national championship in 1980. They beat Louisville. Not Louisville, excuse me. They beat UCLA. Denny Crum was a Louisville coach. And Larry Brown was a, was, uh, was, uh,

which Larry Brown? 76 is Larry Brown? Yes, yes. He coached UCLA and he coached Kansas. Yeah. Yeah. That's, you have. U.S. Reed, Arkansas hit a half-court shot

to beat Louisville in 81 because Louisville won a national championship in 1980. Yeah, in 81, Indiana won the national championship. That's when they beat, that's when they beat UNC. Okay. The same year, that was the assistant, Hinkley tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan.

And they thought about calling the game, but they didn't, they played on. So that was really the first time that I understood, really understood because I hadn't seen any buzzer be just like that before. But, man, I'm sorry, Joe. What's that, man? Your team may win. No, my team won.

I'm raised. Okay. He raised. Oh, Joe, you do realize you by going to throw your back. We're not talking about you. We're not talking about else. Don't even put that bad ju-ju at that. That's why I be talking about that, man.

Y'all be, you, Hey, Hey, Joe, it's not juju. It's not a good you. No, it ain't,

Joe, you superstitious? Yeah. I don't know somebody from the South that's not superstitious. I mean,

I'm not superstitious, I mean, whatever's to be. Let me ask you question. Do y'all ever play the game? Step on the crack, break your mama back?

Back? Nah, I remember that, I remember that. I remember that. Yeah, exactly. You ain't step on no crack. If somebody,

you didn't walk between, if there's a pole, both of you don't walk on the same side. You read that pole. Right. Right. Yeah.

Boy, my grab by credit. Boy, boy, don't you split that poll. Right. Right. Hey,

hey, hey, I still do that and I don't know why. I don't know why. Hold on. I tell you what. I bet you ain't up broke

no, you ain't tried to break no mirror. You don't want that seven years bad luck. Oh, no, no, no, no, no.

Hey, when y'all play, y'all ain't had no superstitious like some good luck socks or yeah, Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Same thing, you know, they did the same thing. I had three blueberry cake donuts. I had three packs of big red gum. I had four Advil. I mean, tile it all sitting in my locker. Yeah.

Absolutely. Sox folded. They put me, give me linemen socks. Oh, Chow, because you know, it's limin socks, 660, 6.8. I go back and get running back socks because they come a little lower. So they put those socks in. I would get those socks. Take them back to the equipment manager.

He'd give me the running back. back sock, I put those in. I get ready. Yeah. Oh, what? Yeah. Get tape twice. Get tape once, medium tape.

And then when I come back in to go out for the game, I get that mold skin. I get that thing on my skin. Hey, hey, that mold skin, well, they don't know nothing about that bones skin. Boy, if you twist your ankle with mold skin, you don't broke your issue. That bone skin lock your ear. Man, hey, you ain't ripping that. Like, right? No, sir.

They got cut that with soozles. Yes, sir. I don't know. I don't know how you use that. tape, boy. Man, I don't know how bad. I told you, Ocho, I'll be looking at these guys now. I look at Devante Adams.

I look at Tyreek and I look at all these kids that don't wear no tape. They wear, they wear ankle socks. Yeah. Engels on no support. No support. Nothing. My ankles start hurting looking at them. Yeah.

I was like, well, damn, I ain't even playing. I start rubbing, I start rubbing my ankles. Hey, Joe, you, Joe, you take your ankles. Yeah, I had to, Ocho. I had a while to stop and going, cutting lateral move. Right. Man, listen, I had. I couldn't, I couldn't do it, Joe.

I couldn't do it. Now, there'd be, there'd be some pictures. You'll see me, I have spat on my shoes. But I'm doing that as for style. You want to look good. Yeah, but outside of that, if you see me with regular cleats on, you can access you the shoe, because I got in trouble with Reebok, they say you got to stop spatting your shoe because we want the look.

We want the logo to show. Yeah. I stop spatting them. I stop spatting them. Joe, I have to feel the floor. And then I had them take all the, all the, all the, all the, all the, all the, all the, all the shoe. So if I showed you my football cleat, I could take it and bend it and bend it and bend it

and half. So I, I need, I, I need my, Joe, I need him a shoe to feel like a track shoe. I need to feel the flow. You must, hey, you must want to, you weren't playing on getting touched when you were out there. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, not, no, not, not. Them feet, but I don't play with them. I don't know how he did it either. I remember in college, Ocho, we go.

practice one day. Yeah. We saw Pee and State that all the boys had that spat on. Yeah. He'll say, hell now,

home, cut that is shot. Man, we try to be like P. State, because, you know, P.N. State, all they were, they were, like, black and white and they had them shoes spatting.

Yeah. Boy, that baby, the boy, the boy was looking good. Go there's a hell, nah, home, cut that is off, cut it off. I'm like that.

I'm like, we already got it on. That little, let us pretty. Hold on. You can't, y'all, I came by there with that spat on up. Yeah, we came by that spat, because, you know, we didn't see, hey, we just saw, we don't saw P. They ain't do it.

Yeah. Hey, they say, if you ain't spad it up, boy, you ain't talking about nothing out there. Nah. Oh, boy, hey, spat was, but we, I mean, we didn't have it like that. I mean, we ended up having it because we run out of pre-rap, Ocho probably like week seven, we got to steal toilet paper. Man, sure, yeah, he told me have Ocho back. We steal the pre-rap. We don't stole pre-wrap out of that.

the girls doing, we're still about the bathroom at the hall, yeah, yeah, because we're out of pre-wrap. I remember my rookie year in Denver, Ocho, you know how they do, Ocho. Once you get down to like, they don't go all the way down to the rind or the tape. It might be a quarter

of a roll or tape still, and they just, I said, Greek, would you mind if you know all the tape that y'all don't be using the pre-wrap? Can you throw it in a box? Man, I ship like two or three, four boxes to Savannah State. Yeah. So they have Yeah. Because you don't, come on, Ocho,

Gatorade, all that kind of stuff. Man, come on, man. They just be waiting. Yeah, they do. They do. Yeah, they do. Gatorade don't get drank. They pull it out. We drink it at the bar.

You don't have to pull nothing out. But they don't make Gatorade like that. Ocho, you remember these down? Joe, you remember you had that water and they pulled the powder in there. Oh, yeah. And mix it, it makes it together. Yeah. That's what we used to have.

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Experts are suggesting that UCLA is the number one challenger to Yukon and that right after that would be Texas. SEC is so deep and so thick. just about everything. It really is annoying. So it's UCLA, Texas, South Carolina, LSU. Only ones that could possibly upset Yukon. On Flagrant and Funny, we're giving our unfiltered takes on the biggest moments of the conversations everyone's having. So whether your bracket is busted or you just want the latest on the tournament, we got you. Listen to Flakron and Funny with Carrie Champion and Jamel Hill on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Iowa State beat Kentucky, 82 to 63. After a rough start to start the game, Iowa finally got shots falling into the second half, Kentucky, was turning the ball over. The Wildcats committed 20 turnovers. They're most in an NCAA tournament game since 1993. And even though Cyclones didn't have senior forward Joshua Jefferson because of a sprained ankle to Mellipsi, 26 points. Milan Milosovich, 20 points picked up the slack to push them back to the Sweet 16.

I will stay Sweet 16 opponent, the balls. Man, okay, on you. I like Fred Hoiburg. I like their coach. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, he, uh, see, like, now, no, Fred Horiburg, he's not there. He ain't at Iowa State?

No, I think he had Nebraska. Isn't Horiburg in Nebraska? Hold on, man. He used to be at, he's at Nebraska, right? Yeah, he's in Nebraska. He used to be at Iowa State, Joe. Who coached Iowa State? I guess I was just, I ain't got no sound on.

I know I had just watched him on the, uh, doing an interview. I thought that was from Iowa State. Hmm. Hey, Joe, and I, you know, there's an, I remember I went to visit my daughter right before Traxian started at University of Kentucky. I got to meet some of the players

at University of Kentucky, and there's one that they said who was a lottery pick, right? But he tore his ACL. I'm not sure if he's healthy or not. I can't remember his name, but he was supposed to be a lottery pick and he played at Arizona State.

I think it was... Oh, yeah, yeah, big dude. Yeah, you know what I'm talking about? I don't know. I can't remember his last name. and I'm not sure if he's all the way healthy yet and if he played in the tournament. But they said, they said he was, he was that boy. So I was looking forward to watching him play, but I'm not sure if he's back.

Hey, listen. It's an Iowa State. Oh, okay. Hey, listen. This ain't, this ain't good for Kentucky. Okay, Ocho, they probably got the highest paid NIL in all of college basketball. You think they do. They spent the most money, I think.

I think like 22 million or something Yeah Whoa I'm saying amongst they players I think I think they got a couple guys making some good money That's what I'm saying In Dulc 20 Okay

Kentucky reported the guys that you talked about Ocho two million dollars to transfer Okay 20 points all season So he'd been hurt all he's been hurt all season Yeah he said they say Hey Joe they suppose he's Say he was a lottery pick

When I went to when I went to visit I had a chance to meet him real tall, dude. I had to go, I had to go watch his highlights in Arizona State. I was like, oh, my goodness. He got like some big hair or something like. Yeah, like LeBriz. Yeah, no, I seen him play, Ocho. He's a dog down now.

I ain't know he tore his ACL though. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he was recovering from something. What the thing was is that that's why they got, you know, Cal ended up leaving because of the expectation, that's Kentucky. That's Blue Blood. Right. There are certain teams that you just have with expectations. Kentucky and.

Duke and North Carolina, they have expectations. And it's kind of like Alabama, what Alabama is running into, you know, the standard is so high. Yeah. Bro, you got to get, you got to get, bro, you can't keep losing in the first round. And before you get to the sweet sea, bro, you can't lose like that. No, they don't want to see that. That could.

No. And you get, and you get the players that you're getting? Right. Think about it. Look about all the, and I'm not saying that it's easy. But when you get five-star at the five-star, you loaded or your 12-man roster,

seven, eight of five stars, and they're going number one. You got five players going in the first round. You got Devin Booking guys like that coming off your bench and Jamal Murray. Bro, I'm sorry. The fans are not going to be patient. Because they die hard in Kentucky

and they travel. They travel. What? They travel. Yes. Hey, but, hey, that's not fair. We talk about that all the time, too, Joe, when we talk about, you know, the product that's on the court is really not a reflection

to the goddamn coach. I mean, I can only do so much with the product I got on the court. He recruited them. He recruited that what's on the court. And fair, that's where you go ride the mayor and go round. You can get canned apples. Yeah, you can bar, you can bar for apples. Right, right, right, right.

And you can see clowns. Nah, I don't know about no fair. You also judge pigs there. I just saw somebody sold a cow for a million dollars. Somebody sold a pig for 500, I saw that. You saw that. You saw the pig on Twitter. Yeah.

So them fans, them boosters and alumni that gave $20 plus million, they didn't try to hear about this same man. No, son. Hey. Kentucky used to be premier. Like, when I was coming up, when Rick Patino was in Chicago, that man was winning championships, SEC championships. Like, yeah.

You go from Rick Patino to Tubby. Rick won and then Tubby turn around him. Yeah. Because I think, I think Rick won in 96 and I think Tubby won in 98 because they were very close. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And so, and look at the players that they were having coming through there, man.

Mm-hmm. Your Antoine Walker's, your Jamal Mashburns. Big, big, Anderson, your run, Mercers. Yeah. Tony Delks, they had a man. Look. They kept a little. And then you got Shay, you got Jamal Murray, you got book, you got Kat, you got A-D,

and we ain't got but one championship out of all of that John Wall, booty cousins, and we got one-on-cho out of all of that. That's how, hey, look, that's how hard it is to win, though, in college, man. It ain't easy just because you put all this talent together. Don't do not necessarily mean that it's going to lead to a championship. It's going to take great coaching with that great talent, and you're going to have to mess it together and make it work.

You know what I mean? Like a lot of these coaches, Uncle Ocho, they ain't really coaching like that. You know what I mean? But you got some great coaches out here who know how to coach, great talent.

A lot of times, if you go back and study it, I think AD, 1, freshman led, I think maybe Duke. But for the most part, it's upperclassmen.

It's junior, seniors, graduates. Guys that's played together. I mean, like Joe said, them guys coming in for one year. You already know what they're here for. They want and done.

Starting January 1st, I ain't going to no class though, I'm done. And you think that makes it difficult to win also, Unk, when there's no continuity and some of the best players they're coming in one year and they're leaving? And not only do it make it tough on your continuity, but it don't necessarily always,

they don't necessarily always turn out to be great pros because you had to learn anything. You came from high school, you've been in college, for six months, bro. You played the season. Hopefully you got some great toolage from, you know, coaches

or whatever, but once you go to the pros, it's totally different. And you get there and don't really know nothing and think it's about you, you, you, and you don't know how to sacrifice and compromise your game to be able to fit in for the team where you get lost real quick.

I mean, it's going to be, it's going to be unbelievable if Duke win the national championship. Because think about it. In the last six years, they've had three number one overall picks. Zion. Paulo Bencaro, Cooper Flagg. Yeah.

They had R.J. Barrett. They had Cam Reddish. They got Conquinepple. They had Josh Johnson. Look at all the first round. I mean, high picks. I ain't talking about no bottom to 25 to 30. And in the second round, they got high, high draft picks.

Yeah. Man, that ain't easy, bro. It ain't easy. But when the coaches making the kind of money they make it, and when they put in that kind of money, when the boost is an alumni putting that kind of money in there? Right. Hey, I told you it's like the NFL.

When they put, hey, general manager got to go. Head coach got to go. Bro, you see our salary cap? We're at the top of the salary cap. You say this is what we need. We don't spend $300 million in free agency in contracts. And we still at the bottom of the division? Nah, you got to go, bro.

You got to get up out here. That's how I go. Yeah, for sure. Tennessee beat Virginia 79-72. Tennessee fended off Virginia to escape with the wind to advance to the sweet 16. The Cavalier is capital on a couple of unforced errors

to briefly take the league with about two minutes left. But clutch free throws and shooting allow the volunteers to hold on. Virginia freshman. De Ritter did everything he could scoring a game high 22 points. He's the first Cavalier player with at least 20 points and five rebounds

in an NCAA tournament game since DeAndre Hunter in 2019 championship. Tennessee's sixth-16 opponent, Iowa State. Woo. That's going to be a good game. Who got Iowa State advancing? You do? I do.

Me too. I probably pick Tennessee here. I show hope you did. You did, Joe. No, I mean, I mean, who did the Iowa State just play? They just beat somebody. They beat the brakes off of somebody. Oh, Texas Tech.

Was it Texas State? Yeah. No, no, no, Texas, Alabama just played Texas Tech. Kentucky. Kentucky. They be Kentucky. They be Kentucky. No, I know I had Iowa State beating them.

I would state of two seed. But you're like, what you call them? You like SEC. Yeah, I know, but I didn't pick with my heart on that one. Damn. Man, they killed Kentucky, man. They blew them out. Yeah, beat them by 19.

I was surprised, uh, uh, Virginia. I mean, Tennessee did an outstanding job. They shot 39% from the field, 34% from the three-point line, 55%. First of all, when you make that, when you only get to the free throw line 11 times, Joe, you got to be down there 90 to 100%. Because the other team got to the free throw line 25 times

and they made 19 of them. So they already, they got a plus 13 just at the line. Damn. Yeah, I don't know. Tennessee good, though. Okay, Ocho, they ain't, they ain't, they ain't, There ain't no slouches. No.

I know they, I mean, I don't. 24 and 11. They got some guys who can play, man. They got some guys who can play. Yeah. Virginia just had an off night. Low scoring, 72 points. The good teams, bro, they're up in the 80s.

The high 80s. You got to. But you know, Virginia run that in Bennett. They don't get up and down like that. No. They're not. They're not trying to get up and down and they don't want you to get up and down.

Yeah, Tennessee. Tennessee looked good, though. They look good. They have a lot of guys play well. I don't even look good against Iowa State. Iowa State looked good, boy. Yeah, they did. Yeah, they absolutely look good.

So hopefully they can keep, hopefully they can keep that going. That'd be real nice. I should appreciate that. There you go, here you go. One, two, three, four. I mean, Tennessee had five guys with those figures. Yeah.

Tennessee getting it done, man. They represent the SEC. Yeah. Because you got what? You got a, uh, y'all ain't got that meaning still in there, though. Y'all got Tennessee and y'all got Arkansas. Who else y'all got? I think that's it, Joe.

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The St. Johns, they head to the Sweet 16 to take on the number one overall seed, Duke Blue Devils. Yeah. Hey, Unk and Joe, that last shot, right? That buzzet beat off the glass, right? You hear me? Why he didn't, I mean, not, why, not send him to the foul line and make him make both them shots as opposed to just let him

let him wall you off and he's a smaller he's a smaller he's a smaller person no you ain't want nobody to go to the free throw line with no time on the clock because all he got to do is make one yeah I'm gonna I rather I rather I'd rather I'd rather put young bull in that press situation as opposed to just let him hit the goddamn shot at the end of the game that was but you do realize Ocho at that point he hadn't scored a point right whole game. Right. He hadn't scored a point.

That's like some, that's like Carson throwing somebody the game winning touchdown and he ain't caught a pass the whole day. All game. Okay. And so, I mean, if what's being, if what Coach Petino said, he asked him what he wanted and he wanted power, which means he wanted the ball in his hand. Yeah.

Coach Petito, look at him like, bro, you got zero points. Yeah. And you, with the game on the line, okay, go get, go get it. Amen. And you got the big, you got the conference player of the year on your roster. Edge of four. Edge of four. I wonder if he any can to Chewy Tail.

Hey, that big boy beats down there too. Man, that dude, man, do you see how big he? Dude, look, he's by six, nine, by two-80. He is six-nine. He is by six-nine. Man, listen, St. John got some dogs over there. Yeah, he were balling, man. Hey, look, I ain't even just talking about the ball.

I'm talking about the defense they played. They were played early on. They were, oh, they was, how many times did they force them to turn, throw the ball out of bounds, Joe? On the airbound. Hey, there's one thing about great coaches, bro. They're going to have their teams ready to play. Get Rick Petino some credit because them boys came out with it on their mind. I'm talking about they busting through screens.

You can't even screen dudes. They bustling through screens cutting their man out. Defensively, they, oh, man, they locked in. Oh, they were so locked in. Ooh, they got out of them boys, man. A buddy, buddy hit that shot. He made the layup right, right at the buzzer. And the camera pan right to coach,

but he ain't showed no kind of emotion. It's like, okay. He didn't have done that, man. Rick Patino. Just another day. Ocho, he didn't have been that done that, bro. Yeah. He doesn't been a lot of stuff.

You got to think about it. He'd had this at Providence. I think he took Providence to the final four when he had Billy Donovan. Yeah. He won the national championship with Kentucky. He won the national championship with Louisville. I think he went to Iona.

I think he went to Iona after he kind of got in the couple. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, had to reinvent himself and Iona, come back to the St. John's. Now, back in the 80s, St. John's had a stick. When they had Walter Berry, they had Chris Mullen. Chris Mullen. Lefty, boy, they had a stick.

Coach Carnacek with those sweaters. The Big, the Big East was it. Big John, Coach Thompson, Coach Lou, Jim Beehime. Boy, they had a stick. Yeah, they had a stick. on a lot. And Coach Wally Massiminova.

Because if I'm not mistaken, I think one year, they got all, they got three of their 14, three of them was in the bottom four. Because Villanova might have been 85 because Villanova ended up beating, might have been 84-85 because Villanova ended up beating Georgetown when they shot that ridiculous number from the field. It's like they couldn't miss. Ed Pinkney went crazy. That's when they had, I think they had Gary McLean.

but man it was yeah it was yeah Villanova Ed Pinkney yeah but boy St. John's did it

but I was like bro I'm watching this and I'm like Joe I'm feeling good we're 14 under five men I'm like I'm feeling good

I'm like yeah we got this one man I look up I say tired I say come on St. John what did you think I just knew we had

this was going to be a cake wall what did you think about this uh potential number one pick, Darren Peterson. Oh, look, he can play. But I think people are going to look, you know,

pull himself out of the games, be it, you know, where there's cramps, his injuries or whatever the case may be. I think they're looking because when I look at DeBonza, I'm looking at the guy that's six foot nine that already, that has an NBA body right now as we speak. Yeah. And he doesn't have the issues.

Give me, giving a choice. because I'm going to entrust you to lead my team. I'm going to entrust you with $40, $60, $70 million. And then hopefully, I'm going to give you another, I'm going to give you in three, four years. I'm going to give you $200 million. I'm taking the Bonza. He got, he, uh, Darren Peterson is a great talent.

He, I think he will be a top three pick. I do, yeah. And I think, uh, in, in, in some, for him. When he get to the pros, Uncle Ocho, they'll teach him more on how to take care of his body, what he should put in, you know, and things of that sort. So they don't necessarily worry me. I just want to know, does he really love the game?

Does he really love competing? That's all I want to know, man. Yep. Hey, but, Joe, you've got to think about it, Joe. As good as Peterson is, right? Yes. You know, despite the turmoil during the season, taking himself out, cramping up, whatever it may be,

you've got to love the game to get as good as he is. You have to love it, especially when to come to competing, especially at this level, you know, you're playing college ball and you regard it as one of the better players in the entirety of college basketball. That ain't no mistake, Joe. That ain't no accident.

So sometimes, Ocho, you can have such God-given ability. And we've seen, I've seen guys that I don't, they don't love it, they just good at it. And I can make an honest leader. Because at the end of the day, Ocho, in college, you're playing 30, 32 games. When you get to the pros, bro, 82 games, it's a lot.

And I'm going to tell you something. They already talk about the rookie wall. Like, it's a lot, bro. I know they do the load management and all that, but man, mentally, physically, emotionally, it takes a lot on your body, bro. And not everybody can handle that. Yeah. And you know what the funny thing is, too, on?

Huh? You know what I was going to say, too? Remember what you just said? Most of the time, what happens when players or people are blessed by God, and they don't do the work, you know, you get exposed at some point anyway. Yeah. You get exposed.

Especially once you get to that next level. Yeah. Once he get to that, once he get to the NBA, if he don't love the game and put the working like you got to, you ain't going to be that long. No, it's real tough.

Yes. It's too. Because you've got to realize, like in high school, you're like, okay, there's some good. But when you get to college, a lot of those guys were all state players. All those guys was all region,

all county players. And as you keep moving up, guess what? There were a lot of, okay, you were a college player at a year. But guess what, on your own team, you might have had five college players over here in college. The husband trophy winner, Buckas, Benar it, Thorpe, Blitnikov. Okay. If you don't put that work in, because look, everybody at the next level,

regardless of what you, where you, how acclaimed you are, everybody at the next level can make you look foolish in a given game. Yeah. A guy that you're like, I ain't never heard of this guy before will light show up. Yeah. Yeah. So if you don't go out there and be prepared, now you look. Man, he ain't no good.

Nah, no, he's good. Yeah, yeah. Oh, boy. Oh, boy, just handed it to her. Hey, you hear what Shirm said? Sherman said, man, I went out there. I ain't really know a whole lot about Stevie Johnson. Man, by 10 catch up 165 yards later, I do a lot about Stevie Johnson.

Hey. Hey. Boy, Stevie, the real deal, boy. Yeah. And so, and, and that's the thing. And plus, Ocho, you got to realize that once you get to the pros, ain't nobody telling you what to do. They don't tell you, they don't check and see if you go to study hall.

They don't check and see if you go to Clads. They don't check and see if you're working out. That's all you. So, yeah. That's all you. So now if you don't, see what happens when you don't love something? Now all of a sudden, that dips. Yeah.

Look at the guys that love it. Yeah. You see? And people like, well, well, Yolch, he care about horses. Look at Yolich on the sideline when things ain't going his way. And you tell me he don't love it. He's yelling, he's trying to draw stuff up. Yes, absolutely.

You got to be that great for an extended period of time. It ain't nothing to burst on the team. How many guys we don't see make the Pro Bowl one year and we never hear from him again? Yeah. It's easy to make it one time. But when you make the Pro Bowl, you make all pro, guess what? The opposing teams are going to start games for your ass.

Now let's see it when they know what you're doing. Yeah. You the best receiver. Now you get our best cornerback. Now you get our undivided attention. Now you get coverage. It's called to stop your punk games. Yeah.

Yeah. Joe, you get the defense. They coming. Oh, we're going to trap Joe. We're going to bliss, Joe. Hey, y'all head's down. You show. Hey, don't let, hey, he want to run that pick and roll.

He's going to try to pin you. Hey, don't let Joe come up that pin down. Yeah. See, I know Joe love that pin down now. Hey, let me get a little separation. All I need is a little crease, Ocho, that thing can. Hey, just a little space, Joe. They can't, Ocho.

Yeah. Hey, hey, the hardest part about any sports you play at the highest level is about consistency. Thank you. It's hard. It's hard. It's hard to be consistent. The better you are, the best. you are what you do, the more discipline you've got to have, Joe, especially when you come

to your craft, boy. Man, what I find to be the toughest when you turn pro is showing up, you know, you got to show up every day, even on days, you don't even feel like it on your own-k-o-cho. You know what I mean? Not only do you got to show up, but you got to come ready to compete and play. And that's why I say, you know, through a six to eight-month season, bro, you're not going to wake up every day and want to go out there and compete and want to play or want to go to practice, but you have to.

This is part of it. And the ones that love it, they look forward to that. You know what I mean? So that's my biggest concern. I did. Man, I look forward to go, man, I wanted to see the guys, Ocho, because I don't work on some new materials and jokes. I couldn't wait to get to the locker room.

Yeah. The bus rides, being on that bus ride, Ocho, you know, hey, Joe, I don't know how y'all did it, but you know, everybody, man, Sean, what bus you're getting on? I'm getting on bus two. Don't get on bus one because that's what the head coach is. That's what they're owning his wife every day.

Yeah. Yeah. Over there. Man, we got coaches. The coaches try to get on bus too because they know we'll have that thing and rocking going to this thing. And don't let us win.

I'm, boy, I'm Dave Chappelle. I'm Dave, oh, I am Dave Chappelle. Even when the coaches, the coaches coming back in the way, what y'all got going on back here. Don't worry about what we got going on back here. We got, y'all already know, we got some.

Ooh, Jive boy. Hey, man, you appreciate great teammates, bro. I'll tell you, I'll tell you all one guy that really stick out to me when I was in my young career, like second third year, Bo Outlaw. I play with Bo Outlaw. Okay. Hey, I remember Bo. Hey, man, man, Bo used to kick it.

I'm talking about off the court in their day. But every day, Uncle Ocho, he showed up the same way, the same happy smile, cracking jokes, having a good time. I'm talking about it wasn't a day he showed up and he was pissed out. I'm like, man, how this man? He first went in the wait room, getting it, you know what I mean? Like, he was just a hardworking dude, and I learned so much from him. But he was a super cool dude, man.

Me and Bo really, we got some real stories, boy, Bo kick it, boy. Because think about it, your whole life, Ocho, you grew up, you and Joe, we all kind of grew up very, very similar situation. Yeah. Your whole life, you dream of this situation. God bless you with talent and put you in this situation. How could you not? That's what I don't get How could you not

Everything you had asked for Lord, please just let me be good enough Let me be talented enough To make it to college Let me make it to the NBA Tadah! Here we are And now all of a sudden you get lazy Because you hear

The easy part is getting there The hard part is staying there So who ass your hair What getting there not easy either that. No. You think about it. It's easy to get there and stay than to get there, get out and try to get your ass back in.

Back in. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. What they say when you leave a sporting event? No re-entries. That's the same with sports. You get your ass out of these leagues. It's hard as hell to get back in. Unless you got a homeboy working to let your ass in the side, though.

UCon. Number two, Yukon, the Huskies, beat the Bruins, 77. The wheel started to fall off at UCLA with a little more than five minutes remaining. as Yukon used the 9-0 run to turn a four-point lead into a 13-point cushion. The Huskies out-rebounded them. 36-24, outscored the Brewers

in the paint 30 to 20. Yukon's sweet 16 opponent, the spotins of Michigan State. Michigan State. Both two guys that coached, they love to play defense. Yeah. Dom Izzo,

Dan Hurley, your pride themselves on getting up into you and playing dey-os. There's going to be a game, no, boy. Only thing on, Like, you can guard playing like that. In Michigan State, their guard play is superb with little fears at the point guard for Michigan State. But, uh, yeah.

Man, Caraband had it going today, though. I know, that's what I'm saying. They got some, they got some wings. They got some shooters now. But, man, this is just hard. You look at their guard play. Like, you get two points out of your two starring guards. It's hard to win an NCAA tournament like that, man.

It is. It is. It was their front court. Man, I'm talking about a big time. They got 27, 10, 17, and then Ross came up the bench and gave you a level. But you're going to need contribution from a lot of these guys. In different games, it's going to pose different challenges. So, you know, you'll have different guys stepping up in different games. Yeah. I like Yukon.

They play the right way, play hard, tough. And they got a winning pedigree. And that young bull carabang going to have to put them boys on his back now. You're going to need a look. Who they got? Who they got to put the boys on his back? What do you got next? You say?

They played Michigan State. Michigan State. He going to need some help, Joe. Yeah, you do. I mean, he had 27 a night, but shoot, man, Reed ain't give him nothing. Ball ain't given nothing. I'm too about, oh, no, no, Reed had 10. Mm-hmm.

And she was, ball and Smith. I mean, shoot, ball ain't had no points. Smith had too. That's what I'm saying. Your guard played. One for seven and 0 from five from three. No free throw attempts. You got to be a little bit more aggressive too, right? Yeah, search yourself. And search yourself in the game fast. Set the tone early.

Because that's... You set that tone. That's the hard part, though, Joe. If your shot ain't falling early, then you're hesitant. You got damn hesitant, especially in the game like here. Man, you play 32 minutes. You got to get up more than two shots. Yeah. I'm just saying, bro.

This is it. We just win or go home. You go, hey, if you lose that game and you go home with them little two points, you're going to be mad as hell at yourself. Yeah. Damn, I should have been at that. Man, I remember I played the NCAA tournament. What did you do, man?

I had two points. No, I had no points. I had no points. And the other guy had zero points for five shots. Right, right. But they put Ross in. Ross played 22 minutes. So, you know, I guess a coach Hurley looked there in a little to see that he didn't have it

going, so he put Ross in. And he fired out. So, yeah, Yukon's going to be there, bro. They keep some good talent over there. Yeah, but they normally would be led by guards.

I know. That's why I'm surprised. That's why I tell you. You remember Shabazz Napier, and they had a, what's the name? Kimmel. Yeah.

Ben Gordon. The Rip Hamilton. Mm-hmm. You know, they normally, they don't, hey, Yukon, Ray, they didn't over to keep some guards. Man. Yeah, they do.

But boy, they got one on their hand now against Michigan State. Them boy. Yeah. Arizona took down the number nine, Utah State, 7866. Arizona's stellar guard played once again on full display. Jayden Bradley, Braddon Burrys led to Wildceston scoring with 18 and 16 points respectively. Once again, Arizona's size and relentlessness. And I rebounded them.

Utah State by 27, 53 to 26 on his way to a Sweet 16 for the third straight season. Arizona Sweet 16 opponent, Ocho, the razor back. Oh, hey, hey, Joe, what's you going to do with them with them trees down there in Arizona, right? We're sitting back resting up. Hey, we're getting ready. We feel of, I already tell you, we feel to make this run, man. This ain't nothing personal about Arizona. They're just in the way right now.

You hear me? Yeah, they're just in the way. They just know we strictly about business homeboy. We strictly about. But you ain't asking me, though. What you're going to do by them trees that's going to be in the paint at Arizona? Man, you seen that guy we got on our team named A-Cuff. Then I tell you, it's cuffing season, man.

Yeah, they y'all see that, man. He ain't letting us lose, Ocho. I'm sorry. And we got some bigs for their bigs. Yeah, we long. Let it. Okay. You know what I mean?

We grind me. We're in your face. We're going to defy. Yeah. Yeah, we're tough. Yeah. We're relentless on defense. offensively, we'll explode.

We might score 100 points. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. We might, we might score 100 points. What you plan? NBA 2K? All right. Okay. All right. Remember when we get back on him?

I mean, listen, I ain't wish you no bad, Juju. I support the team, but I'm just saying, scoring 100 and, I mean, not having an answer for the big down there in Arizona. I mean, just saying A-Cuff is going to get it done. It's going to take more than him. He's going to need some.

I think you be hating on the low. Even when you watch us play, I think you'd be kind of hate. I mean, Joe, I just said, I'm watching me right now, but I think when you be sitting at home watching the game, you'd be rooting against her. He'd be rooting for the other team, Joe? Nah, no, no. You know that man be rooting against him.

You already know what going on. Then he come on here and act like he down. No, no. He acts like he down. Well, I know what going on. I'm with you, Joe. I'm with you, Joe. Man, you already know how Ocho is.

Ocho, Ocho, go to somebody house and find out who they for, all of a sudden, he's like, Yeah, come on. Now, he's for the other team automatically. I ain't like that. I ain't like that. You know, Joe, I wish y'all boys well, though, Joe. All right, all right.

I want to see them, boy, go far as possible. Yeah. But listen, the better A-Cup play in the tournament, the better his chances of, well, he's probably going to be a lottery pick. He might sneak up there and go number two. Oh, he for sure going to be lottery. I think he won, I think he's one player

who can continue to increase his draft stop. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. In Arizona, man, they got the, who. They got some dogs. They got size. They do.

They do. They do. They had good guard play today. Uh-huh. Yeah. We got something for that, though. Y'all got to keep it off the glass. Yeah, they got to keep us off the glass.

They got to keep us out of transition. We did probably, we top two, three fast breaking team in the NCAA. What y'all talk about? Hey, man, they got to worry about. us. Okay. Okay. Joe, I like the energy, Joe.

That's good energy, boy. That's good energy. Yeah. Purdue, the number two boiler makers took down the hurricane 79-69, leave it to the scenes to bring home for Purdue. Man, they cheated.

Had a game high 24 points. Trey Carp and Red at 19 is the number two-seat boiler makers back to the Sweet 16 for the third straight season. Purdue's Sweet 16 opponent, the longhorns. Hey, he didn't had them nine assists.

I remember we betted that the bubble's going to have him nine assists. He had eight. I mean, he's supposed to get 10. Yeah. Yeah. And they were too much for the U, man. Yeah. They were too much.

The U fault, man. They fall hard. They had a great season. But do, see, teams like that, they're just too disciplined. Okay, Ocho. You know what I'm saying? They ain't never going to do nothing that's going to beat themselves, bro.

Right. 57 from the field, 53 from the field, 57 from the three. You ain't beat nobody in the team. 95% from the free throw line. Hey, listen, you ain't winning that game, brother. You let somebody shoot them percentages on you. It's a rap. Nope.

I mean, they would have shot better than that if Braves Smith hadn't shot three for 12 because you got Kauffman Wren, he's 8 or 16. Clough was 3 or 4. You got 4 or 5, 6 or 7. I mean, you got one guy was over two, Omar Mayor. But if Brayn Smith don't shoot three or 12, hell, they might shoot 60, 65% from me. Yeah. Yeah, I know.

And he was over four from the three. From the three. So he killed him. It's just a bad time to have a bad defensive game in the NCAA tournament. Because you can't get this back, bro. It's a rap. Like, you let a team shoot like this. You let them be comfortable.

You let them run their sets. and get what they want, get to their spots. You can't beat no team like that, bro. Damn. The game that we flexed out of, the Alabama Crimson Tide beat the Texas Tech Red Raiders by the score of 90 to 65. Alabama's on the sweet 16 for the fourth consecutive time.

Alabama went 19 or 42 from deep. The third most makes in any tournament game since 1987 when the three-point line was introduced. La Treyrelle White-Rite sale led the team with 24 points while three other players scored a double figure. LeBaron-Feylon Jr. had nine points, 12 assists, the second most assist by Alabama player in a tournament since 1984.

Alabama's sweet 16 opponent, the number one-in-seed Michigan Wolverine. Oh, that's going to be a 80. Well, Michigan got some trees down there too, boy. They do. Golly. It's been a start getting thick now. It's been starting getting thick.

Now, we're going to get some real, real good game. Now, Alabama been tough. Texas Tech, also they lost their center, who was a leading score and leading rebounder. He tore his ACL kind of late in the season. So it was going to be hard for them to, you know, stay afloat and continue to keep advancing. They do got a great guard and look Christian Anderson.

He can play. He didn't have such a great game tonight. But for the most part, he'd been holding it down throughout the season. But they just ran into a gritty, a gritty Alabama team, bro. Who is out of player? I don't think he'd a lead in score,

but I think he's won. I think he averaged 20 a game. It's a little guard. You know, he got into a little trouble. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. What they got arrested? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Had that scone on him.

Had that two and a half pounds of scum. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Stanyan. Oohie. Yeah, he didn't have that,

he didn't have a discontious. Oh, okay, okay, okay, okay. Yeah. So he, they got him out of that. He couldn't play. He'd probably done. Yeah. Damn.

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