Club Shay Shay - Nightcap Hour 1: Iowa UPSETS Florida & Moves to SWEET 16 + St. John’s BEATS Kansas on BUZZER BEATER + Ocho LIKES BIG Women + Tennessee TAKES DOWN Virginia + UCONN ADVANCES Past UCLA

Episode Date: March 23, 2026

Shannon Sharpe, Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson and Iso Joe Johnson react to the Iowa Hawkeyes upsetting the Florida Gator to advance to the Sweet 16, St. John’s beat the Kansas Jayhawks at the buzzer to head to the sweet 16, and Tennessee upsets Virginia to advance to the Sweet 16 and much more! Subscribe to Nightcap presented by PrizePicks so you don’t miss out on any new drops! Download the PrizePicks app today and use code SHANNON to get $50 in lineups after you play your first $5 lineup! Visit https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/NI... 05:45 - Hawkeyes to the Sweet 1622:35 - St Johns beats Kansas50:40 - Tennessee beats Virginia54:27 - Iowa St. beats Kentucky (Timestamps may vary based on advertisements.) #ClubSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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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 2018 when Florida State shocked 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, he had four files. He had four files. I know they got him in file trouble.

And, man, they were just tough. They weren't going to back 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 take that gamble and let that man get in front of you? Now you put your teammate in the huckle buck 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, that's, I mean, nine seconds is a lot of time. It's not like it's three seconds, Joe. It's nine seconds. Yeah. And so you, 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 could direct him to. There ain't no interference. So he's got a clear shot. He's either going all the way to the back. ask you or you're going to keep it. Right. I don't know what the, uh, Boogie Flynn was thinking on that one. But, hey, give, give a kudos to Iowa, man.

They, they play hard, discipline. And, and I always talk about the bigs that Florida got. And they once got them bigs and, hey, them boy, the hour was probably more physical than Florida, okay, Ocho. Mm-hmm. Yeah. They shot 50% from the floor. 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% for Florida. But the thing is that when you're 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. Yep.

They really start to believe, they're like, oh, we can beat this team. Yeah, we can hang. Confidence. There might have been down. out 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 gets a, everybody gets 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 of its magnitude.

But I understand present situations and what it does to you. You know, you get a little bit nervous. You know. You've been in pressure situation. You've had a big lead in Cincinnati and the team willed that is down and you've got to go back out there because you don't want to give that office the ball. You know exactly what you mean. I know what you mean.

Yeah. Yeah. Oh yeah, absolutely. You know, hey, man, Carson telling you in Hoos, 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.

But my thing is for the Iowa in 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 they did? No, there was no need. If that guy hit a shot like the guy in Kentucky, Joe, I just put my hand. You got to live with that. You live with a 40-foot bank shot.

Live with that. But why would you risk it in that situation? Most guys can probably get from one end to the, of it, 94 feet. They can get there about three seconds. Yeah. They can get that about three seconds. He's got nine. So now he, all he has to do is, hey, it was, hey, the way dude shot that like he'd been making three. You hear me? Hey, uh, oh, Joe, because he could have took a dribbler to and try to get to the basket. That man. Yeah. You're like, you know,

way, we're going home or we going to the next round. Hey, one of the other. Ain't no great area about it, dude. I love it. It takes gust to shoot that type of shot, book. That's the same, Joe, hey. He's like, I'm all, hey, I'm shoving all my chips to the middle of the table.

You've been there 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 care on myself. Dude, dribble, like, nah, let me get this step back in. Man, don't, yeah, that's a tough shot, Ojo.

That's a tough shot. That man took a dribbled. He took a dribble. Like he was going in and, I'm, oh, man, step back for three for the game. Hey, that's my kind of guy. It's March Madden. 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 dagger. 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 cause, it doesn't make you feel any better that you played a number one seed

to the defending champs down to the Y. 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 seed. 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, well, like 20 seconds to go, and we get some guys in that don't normally play. We normally get them off the bench so they can feel what it's like to be in the March Madness. And here we are. We find ourselves in some bull-down. 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 Michael Buff. You had them. somebody saying, and knew. You had them losing the hour?

I didn't have them going to the final four. Oh, hey, Joe had the boy going to the final four? Yeah, and you have Virginia going to the final four. Me? My elite and my final four bracket is still intact. Wait, 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. Okay. My final four weeks and my elite eight picks, they still there. Okay. Hold on. So is my, I still, I can still get.

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

He, hey, hey, he picking, he picking with his heart. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, it just would have been a perfect setup. Well, Florida made it. We make it. The Razorbacks 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 anymore.

We talk about the racer bag. Oh, oh, Joe, I don't know if you noticed this, but if you noticed what Joe did, he picked basically all this their SEC teams to go as far as he can. Yeah, he did. He think he's sleep. He's talking about you picking mask up. All he did. Oh, that's Tennessee.

Oh, yeah. Forgive me here. Oh, that's Florida. Let's put them in. That's bad. 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. There ain't no way. Ain't no way. Nah, no, he's still doing good. He must be thought this was football. He's doing it. But, nah, 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've seen in the semifinals. We saw what Chris DeLay. We saw, we saw that, that he, that they threw the ball to him and he gets the ball and he, who, whew, bam, 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, under the undercuttale.

I understood what March Manning was about. Is that, you know, an underdog winning. I think that what, 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 Crumb was a Louisville coach, and Larry Brown was, was, was, Which Larry Brown? 76 is Larry Brown? Yes, yes. He coached UCLA and he coached Kansas.

Yeah. Yeah. That's U.S. Reed, Arkansas hit a half-court shot. Yeah. He beat Louisville in 81 because Louisville won a national championship in 1980. Yeah. And 81, Indiana won the national championship. That's when they beat, that's when they beat UNC.

Okay. The same year that was the assist, uh, uh, uh, uh, Hinkley tried to 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 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 raising, I'm being raised. Okay, okay. He raised a beat. He raised a- Oh, if long as a-

Joe, you do realize you by where to throw your, and Arkansas lose is over for you. We're not talking about it. Don't even put that bad juju at that. That's why I be talking to your an a outro about that, man. Y'all be, you- Hey, Joe, it's not juju. It's not a juju-you-n't-you.

No, it ain't, do you, are 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, though. I remember that. I remember that. You ain't step on no crack. If somebody, you didn't walk between, if there's a pole, both you all walked on the same side of the pole. You read that pole.

Right, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Boy, by grab by, great, boy, don't you split that pole. Right, right. Hey, hey, hey, I still do that and I don't know why. I don't know why. You're, I don't know. I tell you what, I bet you ain't never

broke no you ain't tried to break no mirror you won that seven years bad look oh 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 oh yeah oh yeah same thing you know uh they did the same thing i had three blueberry cake donuts i had uh two or three packs of big red gum i have four ad bill i mean tile it all sitting in my lock yeah absolutely socks folded they put me give me lime and socks oh chok oh because you know, it's Laman 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 socks. I put those in there. Get ready. Yeah. Oh, what? 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, they don't know nothing about that bones skin. Boy, if you twist your ankle with mold skin, you don't broke your, their bone skin locky in.

Man, that, hey, you ain't ripping that like no. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know how you use that tape, boy. Man, I don't know. I bet.

I told you, Ocho, I'll be looking at these guys now. I look at Devonte Adams. I look at Tyriek and I look at all these kids that don't wear no tape. They wear ankle socks. Yeah. With no support. No support.

Nothing. My ankle start hurting looking at them. Yeah. I was like, well, damn. I started rubbing, I start rubbing my ankles. Hey, Joe, you, Joe, you take your ankles. Yeah, I had to, oh, Joe. I had to, all the stopping going, cut, lateral move.

Right. Manless, I had. I, 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 a regular cleats on, you can access you to the shoe, because I got in trouble with Reebok, they say you got to stop spatting your shoe because we want the logo to show. Yeah. I stop spatting them.

I stop spatting them. Joe, I can't, I have to feel the floor. And then I had them take all the, all the foam and all the pat on my shoe. So if I showed you my football cleat, I could take it and bend it and bend it and have. So I need, I need my, Joe,

I need them a shoe to feel like a track shoe. I need to feel the flow. You must, you must want to plan on getting touch when you were out. out there. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, not, not, not. That them, them feet, but I don't play with them.

I don't know how he did either. I remember in college, oh, Joe, we went out there, practice one day. Yeah. Man, we saw Pee and State that all the boys had that spat on. Yeah. You'll say, hell no, that is y'all. Man, we try to be like Pee and State,

because you know, P, and they were, they were like black and white, and they had them shoes spatting. Yeah. Boy, that thing, the boy was looking good. Coach Davis, a hell, nah, home, cut that in-shy off, cut it off. I'm like that, I'm like, we already got it on. Then let us speak-in-old.

Hold on, you can't, y'all, you can't, yeah, we came by there with that spat on up. You know, we didn't see, hey, we just saw, we don't saw P. and State do it. Yeah. Hey, 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-wrap, Ocho probably like week seven, we gotta steal toilet paper. Man, sure. Yeah, he told me of Ocho bag. We steal the pre-wrap.

We don't store a pre-wrap out the girls' dorm, we don't steal about the bathroom at the hall, yeah, yeah, because we're out of pre-wrap. Man, you got to. 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 of the tape.

Right. It might be three, a quarter of a row. or tape still, and they just, I said, Greek, would you mind if you know all the tape that y'all don't reusing the pre-wrap? Can you throw it in the box? Man, I ship like two or three, four boxes to Savannah State.

Yeah, so they have something? Yeah. Because you don't, come on, Ojo. Gatorade, all that kind of stuff. Man, come on, man. They just be way-in-ish. Yeah, they do. They do.

Yeah, they do. Yeah, they're getting it out. We drink it at the bar. You don't have to pull nothing out. But that don't make Gator Ray like that. Oh, Joe, you remember you used to have, and Joe, you remember you have that water and they pulled the powder in there.

Oh, yeah. And it makes it together. Yeah. That's what we used to have. That powder. Yeah. You don't drink it all? It'd be right there for you tomorrow.

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St. John's defense also shut down Kansas for most of the game, forcing the judge. Jayhawks and the 16th Pernovers. The St. Johns, they head to the Sweet 16 to take on the number one overall seed Duke Blue Devils. Yeah. Hey, Aunt and Joe, that last shot, right? That

buzzer 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 person. No, you ain't want nobody to go to the free throw with no time on the clock because all they got to do is make one.

I'm not. I'd 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 the 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 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 it. Amen.

And you got big, you got the big team, you got the Carver's player of the year on your roster. Edge of four. Edge of four. I wonder if he any kind of Chewy tail. Hey, that big boy beats down there too. Man, that dude, do you see how big he? Dude, look, he's by six, nine, by $2.80.

He is by $6.9. I mean, listen, St. John, got some dogs over there. Yeah, he was 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 were. How many times did they force him to throw the ball out of my own, 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 bussing 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 for them boys, man. Hey, buddy hit that shot. He made the lay up right, right in the buzzer. And the camera pan right to coach, well, he ain't showing. show, no kind of emotion. He's like, okay. He didn't have done that, man.

Rick Patino. Just another day. Rick Patino. Ocho, he didn't have been that done that, bro. Yeah. He done 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. 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.

I think he went to Iona after he kind of got in. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, had to reinvent himself in Iona. Come back to St. 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 Beehine, boy, they had a stick. Yeah, they had it on a lot. And Coach Wally Massimito in Villanova. 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 final 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 McClein. But man, yeah, it was if, Villanova Ed Pinkney, yeah. But boy, St. John's did it.

But I was like, bro, I'm watching this. And I'm like, No, I'm feeling good. We are 14 under five minutes. I'm like, I'm feeling good. I'm like, yeah, we got this one. Man, I look up, I say, Todd.

I say, come on, St. John. What did you think? I just knew we had this. It was going to be a cake wall. What did you think about this 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,

whether it'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 6'9 that already, that has an NBA body right now as we speak. Yeah.

And he doesn't have the issues. Give him a choice, oh, Cho, because I'm going to entrust you to lead my team. I'm going to entrust you with 40, 50, 60, 70 million dollars. And then hopefully, I'll give you another i'm gonna give you in three four years i'm gonna give you 200 million dollars i'm taking the bondser he got he he uh damn peterson is a great talent he i think he will be a top three pick uh i do yeah and i think uh in in some form when he get to the pros okay also they'll teach him

teach him more how to take care 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. Because if you... 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 itself 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, better players in the entirety of college basketball.

That ain't no mistake, Joe. That ain't no accident. No, sometimes, Ocho, you can have such God-given ability. And we've seen, I've seen, I've seen guys that I don't, they don't love it. They're 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 pro, there are 82 games, it's a lot.

And I'm going to tell you something. They've got two and a half a half time. You talk about the rookie wall. Like, it's a lie, 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 long? Uh-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 you 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 got to realize, like in high school, you're like, okay, there's a good,

but when you get to college, a lot of those guys were all state players. All those guys were 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, had five college players. Right, right, right. 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. Well, light your butt up. Yeah. Yeah. So if you don't go out there and be prepared, now you look, man, he ain't no good.

No, no, he's good. Yo, yeah. Oh, boy. Oh, boy, just added it to her. Hey, you know what Shirm said? Sherman said, man, I went out there. I ain't really know a whole lot about Stevie Johnson. Man.

By 10 catchers 165 yards later, I knew a lot about Stevie Johnson. Hey. Hey, boy, Stevie the real deal, boy. Yeah. And so, and that's the thing. And plus, Ocho, you guys. 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, that dips.

Yeah. Look at the guys that love it. Yeah. And people like, well, well, Yonk, he care about horses. Look at Yolich on the sideline when things they go. this way and you tell me he don't love it. He's yelling, he draw, he's trying to draw stuff up. And yes, absolutely.

You got to be that great for an extended period of time. It ain't nothing to burst on the team. Oh, 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 gonna start game. Yeah, yeah, now let's see it when they know.

Yes, uh. 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 hedge 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 on that pin down. Yeah. See, I know Joe love that pin down. Yeah. Hey, let me get a little separation. I need a little crease, Ocho. That they can't care.

Hey, just a little space, Joe. Yeah. Hey, 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 to be consistent. And the better you are, the better you are what you do, the more disciplined you've got to have, though.

Especially when you come to your craft, right? Man, what I find to be the toughest when you turn pro, it's showing up. You know, you got to show up every day. Even on days, you don't even feel like it, Uncle Ocho. 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. You know, and the ones that love it, they look forward to that.

You know what I mean? So that's my biggest concern. man I look forward to go man I wanted to see the guys oncho because I don't work on some new materials and jokes so I can't I couldn't wait to get to the locker room yeah and the bus rides being on that bus ride ohcho you know hey Joe I don't know how y'all did it but you know everybody man what shot what bus you get on yeah I'm gonna bus too don't get on bus one because that's what the head coach is that's what I'm owning his wife every day yeah yeah over there man we got coaches the coaches trying to get on bus too because

They know we're going to have that 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 coach is coming back here with 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 boojib going on back here.

Hey, man, you appreciate great teammates, bro. I'll tell you, I tell you all one guy that really stick out to me when I was in my young career, like, second. 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 there 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 wake 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 do, 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

with 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 talent enough to make it to college.

Let me make it to the NBA. Tadda, here we are. Hey. And now all of a sudden you get lazy because you hear, man, the easy part is getting there. The hard part is staying there. So who is she here? What, getting there not easy either then.

No. You think about it. It's easy to get there and stay than to get there, get out and try to get your hands back in. Back in, 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 dope. Yeah, I'm like, bro, man, hey, couldn't tell, hey, I couldn't wait to work out because I've always been the guy. I love to work out. So I was a guy that once I was done with football. Now, there's some people that look, they look at it like,

I play a sport, I work out because I have to play a sport. Once I'm done with sports, I ain't working on no more. Damn that. That was the opposite of me. Right. I'm like to work out. That's why people that they really like that really like to work out. They don't give them them half a million,

$750 million bonuses, Ocho, to do off-season conditioning. They get them the guys that don't really care about it because we got to, we got to encourage them to work out. You got incentivize. Me, they want to give me $50 a day. No, I'm good. I don't work my last $50 a job, bro. I don't work.

I don't work that. I work my last $50 a day of job when I live in Bill of Joe. There's no more $50. Yeah. Hey, hey, you say you love to work out, but hey, me too. I was the same way, Uncle. I like to look good in the summer too. Hey, okay, Joe.

Hey, I hit the beach, Ocho, you know, come off. I got that eight-packed jumper. You hear me? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I like to stay in shape now. Yeah, I was one now. Yeah. Yeah.

Man, I'm going to come on that, Ocho. How do you go, I mean, do we got them guys, they shot with a t-shirt on? I'm saying? I'm like, come on, man. We're in college. He got, like, bro, you ain't getting clean. How you getting clean? This joke is scrubbing his ass.

He got a t-shirt on. Yeah, he's terrific. How you get, he watching, bro, how are you getting clean with a t-shirt on? Oh, bad. And then, you know, lady come out and you're like, damn, you know, you want your lady, like, okay. Right, you know what you're talking about?

You don't want to let you get up there in the broad day, like, pull the shade down. I don't want to look at that. Come on. I can't, Hey, Joe, I can't help butt work out too, boy.

I, I don't know, I don't know what it is. If you don't work out, you'll be 150. Say it again? You're going to be 150. Exactly.

Hey, but it's therapy, though. Hey, Joe. Huh? Yeah, Joe, I don't understand. When I don't lift no weight, Joe, I get small.

Like, I get skinny. I wish, I wish, I don't know at what point, you know, I would hit the age where, when I don't work out,

I actually gain weight. You know what I mean? I look at all my other homies that play, you know, don't nobody lift, everybody, a little healthy now. You know, they got a little shaw. Yeah, they look tight in the offensive line. Yeah. Yeah.

They got a little stomach. Like linebackers. Lionbacker look like D. Lionbacker look like D. I can't, I can't. I don't know where age is going to hit me on, but I'm waiting. It's body types, Ocho.

You probably just got that body type of high metabolism. He don't, he don't got that body type. Yeah, you don't. Like, boy, I'm telling you, Ojo, if I don't do nothing for a week or two, shh. Well, I ain't got no problem. no weight now. Man, that's why I had to stay.

I had to stay on myself, man. I can't be playing. Yeah, see. Do you know how much weight you can put on a six nine frame, Motto? Yo, you eat a lot, huh? Nah. Hell no. Man, Joe be faster. Joe be, you know, Joe in that yoga, you know, Joe in that heated yoga, so Joe probably eat like two meals a day. Okay, okay. Yeah, not even, okay. I eat one nice, big ones, like full of good proteins, greens, little carbs, You know what I mean?

I eat four-five, I eat four-five times. Hey, your meals be small, though, aren't you? Yeah, I eat about, each meal probably about 500 to 700, 750 calories. See, I don't, I don't know I do all that calories. I was trying to keep that. He's trying to keep that girth on. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I already know.

I still, I don't like to care of, I like to care of around, you know what I did. Don't you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hey, oh, hey, I'm about two. right now, Joe, but... No, you ain't enough... I'm 200. Nah, I'm 200.

You saw how big I was when I took the shirt off the day? Hey, Joe, I got a little size of me right now, Joe. They say, but you look like, you look like one of them little walls, though, because the little legs you got, them little bit. Nah, not, be a little, my leg. You got to look like Johnny Bravo.

Nah, hey, hey, hey, hey. Hey, Joe, you remember Brian Horny on a fat album? Hey, hey, you got an, Joe, I'm a gazelle, Joe. You know, when you watch the Kentucky Derby, you ain't seen a horse with big legs. No, no, no, no. You don't see a horse with big ankles.

Oh, yeah. Clisdale's got big ankles. Belgium's have big ankles. Shires have big ankles. Those are willing horses. Yes, sir. Race horses, that's why they fracture so easily. Because you're asking about 1,000,

1,300 pound animal to run on ankles to size of a human. And run 35, 40, 45,000 hours. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, that's me. That's me. You not know, Belgian. I'm a greyhound.

Yeah, I'm a greyhound. Hey, Joe, look at Zell, Joe. Hey, I gotta stay right, Ocho. You know, I mean, you know, I still do squads or even on my knee. What? What? I can tell. Oh, Joe, you don't do no squads, man?

How you keep your legs on your leg, press or nothing? No, Joe. He can't pick nothing up. He can't pick it, he can't pick, uh, Cambodia probably pick him up. Joe, I didn't do no squats, Joe. I mean, there are other, there are other exercise you could do to implement to get to work the same areas, but putting that goddamn rack on my back.

Oh, they got machines, oh, Joe. Huh? They got machines. They got machines. They go around your waist. Yeah, they got, they got, they got the belt squat. They got pendulum squat. I'm talking about when I was playing.

Oh, yeah. I didn't have all. I can't do no squads either when I played. Oh, okay, okay. I'm not playing with that. Yeah, I do them now, yeah. All my work is heel and band work, Joe. And healing band work, Joe.

Yeah, I miss what they're here. They, they hear. They hear. Man, hey, Joe, I can fly right now. Yeah. You hear me? May I tell you no, I ain't going to play? We had the scrimmings the other day.

We had 11-11 skimmers on the field. And I'm talking to talk about soccer. Obviously, I played the nine. I play the striker. So the striker would, I mean, trying to think in basketball terms, it really wouldn't be the point because I don't get the ball much,

but it's all about... You're on the wing. No, no, not the wing, not the wing. In the center, in the center, in the center. I'm in the center, like in the center. That's the nine position. So it's like almost like a center in basketball damn near. So the wings at time, they facilitate to me.

Yeah. At time, but it's all about me being able to find and create space. And the point guard would be the center mid. You know, so, but either way, I just played 90, minute, Joe, running up and down. I had maybe one or two, three, two balls.

Joe, I was out there flying, Joe. Oh, my goodness. I was out there flying, boy. I ain't, I was like, you know what? The B-58, boy, I still got it. I mean, I don't know. So how you're going to get you, when you get mad, how are you going to carry through the threshold?

Carry who? Cambodia. Oh, man, like this. Oh, man. Like this. Hey, Joe, you, you seen me do 225 with ease like this, like nothing. But you got to realize no, no, no, no, no, no. You got dead weight like this.

Oh, that's easy. Unk, I don't mean to be rude. I know, listen, I don't mean to be rude, Joe, right? I'm listening. Joe, what Unk don't understand is in the past, I only dated BBWs. So if you want 200 a better, I ain't really playing with you. You know, because that's what I was attracted to,

Unk. BBW's, pretty face, pretty feet. I mean, man, that's a joke, that's what I met. and you know one of them a go-to movie, Joe? Remember baby boy? Remember how Ving Rames had Tyrese mom in the kitchen? God! What we're talking about?

Hey, Joe, we like this. Hey, Joe, what we're talking about, Joe? Not the baby boy. That's what me. Hey, Joe, some of 220, 2.30? Ooh. I think you look, if you notice, a lot of times big women like skinny men.

Big men like skinny women. Hey. Yeah. But who you telling? Yeah. I know I ain't go, man. I know how I go. Yeah.

But see, Ocho, what I said, that people, oh, man, bro, if you look, if you look at women, look at discus throars. Yes, sir. Look at shot putters. Look at volleyball players. What you think, how much you think those women be weighing? They don't weigh.

The average woman weigh about is 5'4 away about 170. That is the average woman. Right. So you start getting a woman that's 58, 59, 511, 6 foot. How much do you think she weigh? She ain't doing something for Vogue or Victoria's Secret. How much you think she wait? Right, right.

Man, y'all better get out of here. Y'all better work up to the real world. Because I promise you, the lady that y'all probably with, She don't weigh no 130. Which is where? Probably one. The average woman, when you project all women, the average height for a woman is 5'4.

The average weight is about 170. What? Yes. I like this. Hey, listen, 170 look good. Y'all Google it out there and see if I'm lying. Google it. I know the funny thing is too long?

Hey, Joe, 5-4 and 170. And if it's proportionate to, and everything in the right areas. Huh? You got hell on your hands. Boy, who you telling? What? You got hell on your hand.

Wee. Boy? Hey, I told you, man. Look, I told you. Oh, I told you what to put, bad the way, bad the one to pull that pistol on your boy. Yeah.

Smooth like this. Not a plan. Not a dimple, not a pimple, not a wrinkle, not a crease, not a divv it, nothing. Oh, man. Oh, man. Oh, them, so. A, right.

Mm-hmm. Bounce quarters off a booty. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Boy, them to a, boy. Hey, hey, what Google say? What Google say, y'all? I know y'all Googled it because you thought I was lying.

What did Google say the average, high, average weight for the American woman is? I'm going to be quiet. Y'all tell me. Yeah, five, what do they say? I'm, I'm, Google it right. We're Googling it right quick on. You, Joe, put it down. All right.

average average height weight for american woman yeah and that shit came up fast what's there what you got uh average height 5 3 to 5 4 average weight 168 to 171 1751 pounds not okay now now that's athletic you get you get you one that's athletic you get you one that's athletic. Oh, talk to me. She weigh 150, 150, 160, 17, 180. Lord, have mercy. Boy, you got to check, you get, don't forget to check the ankles now. Check the ankles. Oh, okay. Hey, when I'm checking the ankle, I level, I can look at, look at a little look to be right and see a mocho. I'm just saying, if that was you talking about check the ankle, that must be what you're talking about. That got to be it. I didn't look left or right. Yep.

look good to me. But they I love, right? Yeah, yeah. Hey, Ocho told me to check the ankles. I did just what my partner told me to do. Oh, shit. Hey, boy.

But, but that's the thing. I don't know why if people have these ideas in their head, they see these women and they think, no, no. It's not like that. These women today, they're not built like these. They ain't not built like these women like with you. You hear me? You hear me?

Yeah, it's different. It's different now. What? Hey, I know exactly what you're talking about. And the teachers, these teachers, man, we had teachers, man, I teach you was 70 years old when I was in third grade. Now they got teachers 24, 25. Hey.

I have no teacher. I think I had one teacher. I think I had one teacher. one teacher, maybe two, that was under the age of 30 when I was a kid. Yeah. All the rest of 40 had horn rim glasses, had come to school, came to the class with an right on. Like, what is that you see somebody?

You see somebody teachers now boy. Hey, hey, I wouldn't have missed one class. I wouldn't have missed one class with some of the, some of the teachers I've seen today, you know, on Instagrams. Yes. And Twitter sometimes. Wait, you, and you know there's always the discourse and there's always dialogue. about what they wear

because they're curvy that. Yeah, yeah, you're right. You're talking about skipping school. Skip what, skip who? And, hey, Chad, present. Every day. Hey, Joe, not in the back. I already know.

I already know it. I already know it. What we're talking about? Hell, I think I missed, I went to class anyway. That was me. They got free meals. So I wasn't missing class because, hey, you must ride miss class and stay home.

You don't starve. You might starve that day. I ain't missing. them turkey sandwiches and all that food. But man, it's a different time of a different era of that, man. Woo. But boy, them athletic women, I did, hey, I got to reset. I got to reset my algorithm on IG.

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Derritter 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. is DeAndre Hunter in 2019 championship. Tennessee's SWIC-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'll probably pick Tennessee here. I sure 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.

Oh, Texas Tech. Was it Texas Tech? Yeah. No, no, no. Alabama just played Texas Tech. Kentucky. Kentucky. They beat Kentucky.

They be Kentucky. No, I know I had Iowa State beating them. I was 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. To beat them by, yeah, beat them by 19. I was surprised, 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, 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 80. You got to. But you know, Virginia run that in Bennett. They don't get up and down like that. No. 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 need them to look good against Iowa State. Iowa State look 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. She'll appreciate that. There 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. Alabama, yeah. So y'all got three because Vandy's gone. Kentucky's gone. Yeah. That's all right. We got the winning team, too. He,

he, he, he, he, yeah, okay. Iowa State beat Kentucky, 82 to 63.

After a rough start to start the game, Iowa, finally got shots falling in 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, with Joshua Jefferson because of a sprained ankle to Mellipsy, 26 points. Milan, uh, Milosovich, uh, 20 points picked up the slack to push them back to the sweet 16. I will state sweet 16 opponent, the balls.

Man, okay, I'll, I like, I like Fred Horiburg. I like they coach. Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah, he, uh, see, like, no, no, Fred Horiburg, he's not there. He ain't in 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 at Nebraska. He used to be at Iowa State, Joe. Oh, who coached Iowa State? I guess I was, I ain't got no sound on. I know I had just watched him on the, during the interview.

I thought that was for Iowa State. Hey, hey, Joe, and there's a, I remember I went to visit my daughter during, during, right before Trachson started at University of Kentucky. I got to meet some of the, some of the players of 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 you're 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 if he played in the tournament. But they said he said 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, I'm sure. They probably got the highest paid NIL in all the college basketball. You think they do.

They spent the most money, I think. I think like $22 million or something. Yep. Whoa. I'm saying amongst their players, I think they got a couple guys making some good money. That's what I'm saying. And Duluth 20. Okay.

Kentucky reported the guys that you talked about, Ocho, $2 million to transfer. Okay. He's 40 points all season. So he's been hurt all, he's been hurt all season, huh? Yep. Yeah, he said, hey, Joe, they suppose he said he was a lottery pick when I went to, when I went to visit,

I had a chance to meet him real tall, dude. He got it. I had to go watch his highlights at Arizona State. I was like, oh, my goodness. He got like some big hair or something like. Yeah, like LaBraid. Yeah, no, I seen him play, Ocho. He's a dog down there.

But I ain't know he tore his ACL though. 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 the expectation, that's Kentucky, that's Blue Blood. Right. There are certain teams that you just have with the expectations. Right.

Kentucky and Duke and North Carolina, they have expectations. And it's kind of like Alabama, what Alabama's running into, you know, you know, the standard is so high. Yeah. Bro, you got to get, you got to get, bro, you can't keep losing in, 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. They couldn't tell. No, and you get, and you getting the players that you're getting? Right. Think about it. Think 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 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. They try. Yes. Hey, but, hey, that's not fair. We talk about that. We talk about that, we talk about, you know, the product that's on the court

is really not a reflection of 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 go round. You can get candid out. Apple. 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 500,000. I saw that. You saw that.

Yeah, that's the fair. Yeah. Yeah. So they, them, the fans, them beat, them boosters and alumni that gave 20 plus million dollars, they tried to hear about this same thing. No, sir. Yeah.

Kentucky used to be premiered. Like when I was coming up, when Rick Petino was taking, Uncle, that man was winning championships, SEC championship, like, yeah. Because you go from Rick Patino to Tubby. Rick won and then Tubby turned around and one.

Because 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.

Your Antoine Walker, you Jamal Mashburn. Big, Big Anderson, you run, Mercer's. Tony Delks, they had a man, look. They kept a will. 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, Boogie Cousers, 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. 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 of here who know how to coach, great talent. A lot of times,

if you go back and study it, I think AD1 freshman led, I think, maybe Duke. But for the most part, it's upperclassmen. It's junior, seniors, and 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 to done. Starting January 1st, I ain't going to no class, though, Joe. 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 don't know how to sacrifice and compromise your game to be able to fit in for the team. Well, you get lost real quick. I mean, I mean, it's going to be, 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 Ben Carroll, Cooper Flack. Yeah. They had RJ Barrett. They had Cam Reddish. They got Concaneple. They had Josh, Josh Johnson. Look at all the first rap.

I mean, high picks. I ain't talking about, no, no. no bottom to 25 to 30 into the second round, they got high draft picks. Yeah. Man, that ain't easy, bro. It ain't easy.

But when the coach is making the kind of money they're making and when they put in that kind of money when the boosters and alumni putting that kind of money in there. Right. Hey, Ocho, 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. a billion dollars 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. Yukon, number two, Yukon, the Huskies, beat the Bruins, 7357. The wheel started to fall off at UCLA with a little more than five minutes remaining as Yukon used a 9-0 run to turn a four-point lead into a 13-point cushion.

The Huskies out rebounded them, 3624, outscored the Brewers in the paint 30 to 20. Yukon's sweet 16 opponent, the spottings of Michigan State. Michigan State. Both two guys that coached, they love to play defense.

Yeah. Dom Izzo, Dan Vernon, you proud of themselves, I'm getting up until you and playing DECD. There's going to be a game, no, boy. Only thing on like, you can't guard playing like that. In Michigan State,

they guard players, curve with little fears at the point guard for Michigan State. But, uh, yeah, you, 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-star and guards.

It's hard to win an NCAA tournament like that, man. It is. It is. It was their, it was their front court. Man, I'm talking about it. 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.

And different games, it's going to pose different challenges. So, you know, you'll have different guys stepping up in different games. So, yeah. I like Yukon. They play the right way, play hard, tough, and they got a winning pedigree. Hey, that young little carabangle had to put them boys on. He's going to need a look. Who they got?

Who they got? Who they got next? You say? They play Michigan State. Michigan State. You're going to need some help, Ocho. Yeah, you do. I mean, he had 27 at night, but shoot, man,

Reed ain't give him nothing. Ball ain't given nothing. Tobolize, oh, no, no, Reed had 10. Mm-hmm. And shit, ball and Smith, I mean, shoot, ball ain't had no points. Smith had two. 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, insert yourself. Insert 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 to... You got damn hesitant, especially in the game like that. Man, you play 32 minutes. You got to get up more than two shots. Yeah. I'm just saying, bro, this is. We're going to 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, I played the NCAA tournament. What did you do, man? I had two points. No, I had no points.

I had no points. I had two points on two shots, and the other guy had zero points for five shots. But they put Ross in. Ross played 22 minutes, so, you know, I guess a coach Hurley looked early on and he could see that he didn't have it going, and so he put Ross in. And he found out.

So, you kind of 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, you call Ray, they normally kept, they normally keep some guards. Man. Yeah, they do. but boy they got one on their hand now I get Michigan State

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