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Welcome, everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio Thursday, October 24th. I'm Matt Jones here on a beautiful day at the KS Bar and Grill. Got some folks here from Oldham County. the house ready to rock and everybody's in a good mood because the cats got a massive victory last night. You can give us to Charlotte Clark's pump for a shop phone line 859-2-80-2287. A Vision auto glass text machine is 772-745-254 in this edition.

Sponsored by the T.J. Smith-Lawvis. If you call T.J., he'll make them pay. Ryan Lemon and Drew Franklin are here. Guys, you know, I think a lot of today is going to be talking about that basketball game last night. 71 point victory. Third biggest victory in the history of UK basketball. I know it's an exhibition game. I know it's Wesleyan.

No offense, Ryan. But I just have to tell you that I enjoyed watching that game as much as I've enjoyed watching a game in a long time, Brian. Yeah, you know, welcome to modern basketball where everything is predicated on trying to get an open three. Every set, every play. Or layup. Or layup.

It was amazing to watch them play and execute the way they did. Even though it was a 71-point game, the crowd was stayed and was into it because it was so much fun to kind of witness what you were seeing on the floor. It was a late arriving crowd. Because at first it didn't look like anybody was there, and then slowly by the – it was like everybody got there right at tip. It's like they timed it perfectly because then it actually ended up being a pretty good crowd and they were into it. Oh, they were very into it. I still thought it would be a little more full. The upper end zone by me was completely empty.

think that might be the students up for i don't know about that but still a great atmosphere people were just so happy going into the game so happy after the game it's the morning after we're all happy there was just so much joy in an exhibition game when that hadn't really been the case in a while yeah i mean there's a lot of different ways to to sort of talk about it but i'll i'll do the i'll do my like three things that stood out to me first number one i love the fact that they're so much fun to watch right like i mean they're just they're just fun from opening to have i've got to the point that the first six or eight minutes of most games I didn't watch. Because usually we would be down four at the end of those six or eight minutes.

The score would be 14 to 10. It would have been amazingly frustrating. Last year, we still would not have played our best players, and I would just be frustrated. This was fun for moment one. I mean, they ran for 40 straight minutes, but it's like modern running. It's not Patino you press the whole time. It's just constant energy, which will lead to up-tempo. You don't have to force it.

It just comes. Every single player makes shots. No one stands around. You're moving the entire time. On defense, you're in each other's face. Yeah, maybe you get beat off the dribble. Okay, bam, we're right back down the court, and we're going to shoot. That's number one.

Number two, analytically efficient, smart basketball. 42-3-pointers, only one two-pointer beyond the free throw line. And it was a beautiful one by design. Yeah, only one. And it was your best player that shot it. Three of the four shots that were free throw line were Jackson Robinson, who's the best player. That's pretty good. You don't just have random dudes throwing up shots from out there.

It was modern offense. It was exactly what teams, it was the way they play in the NBA, but with like college hustle and not quite as much one-on-one because we just don't have as many guys to do that. So that was awesome. And then third, it was just fun to have a happy family. base, right? A happy fan base. Not just because we won. I mean, we, it's because there was just such an excitement. If you went back and listened to that postgame show, and I'm sure the calls will be like this today, it's just exuberance, right? It's just like people are just excited. None of

these dudes are superstars, but all of them can play. All of them are fun to watch. All of them seem grateful to be here. That combination of three things made me so happy. And then it culminates with Mark Pope not only doing the post game show, but adding his own little legacy. I hope they continue this. He takes questions from the audience. Great idea. How's nobody ever thought to do that before?

That's a really, really great idea. He comes out, a lot of people stay, and then the Kentucky Wesleyan coach after the game said, I thought we'd give him a challenge, and we lost by 71. Pretty good night. You said he apologized to Mark Pope for not putting up a better fight. Yeah, he said I apologize for not putting up a better fault.

We thought we would be good. We thought we would be better. Well, it backs up everything we've heard from Jack Givens and Jimmy Daxies. These guys have gone to practice. Jack was surprised. Jack said he thought it was going to be like a 20-point game. Wow. But they all said how good everybody on this team shoots.

Everybody. And you said the word, the execution, where everything is designed, try to get somebody an open three. And they knocked them down. And the fan base usually had a blowout like that. They kind of lose interest, maybe leave early. They didn't. They were into that game until the very end. Yeah, and they had eight guys in double figures.

I mean, they had eight guys in double figures. I know it's an exhibition game, but I went over some numbers on the post-game show last night. All you got to do, I know that we should win these games. But let me just tell you quickly about Wesleyan. Last year, Wesleyan beat Louisville. Yes, they did. Beat them. Didn't just play them close, beat them.

Now, Louisville stunk. They only won six games. But you know what? That was two more than they were one year before. And they beat Louisville. They played St. Louis and lost by three last year. They lost by 25 to Western. I don't know how Western was so good.

But they, last year, played well. We played them three years ago, and we beat them by 20. We didn't meet them by 71. 71. We beat them by 20. So I went back, and somebody sent me, and I looked at the biggest exhibition wins in history. Okay.

Okay. I talked about this last night. I won't go into detail. But the years where we had our biggest exhibition wins in history. Let's go over the seasons. 2017, Fox Monk, Bam, probably the second best team in the country that year, right? Yes. 2012, national title.

Then this year, 2015, 38 and 1. 2011, final 4. 2010, John Wall. I mean, those are the six best exhibition scores in history, and you saw what those other five teams did. Now, I'm not saying this team's as good as them, but that's a pretty good sign. And then I went and went and looked at Cal teams that either missed the tournament or lost in the first round. You know what they all had in common? They had an exhibition game.

Every exhibition game was within 20. And in one case, I didn't remember this. We only beat Mills College by nine. Missouri Western State, coached by Will Martin, shout out Will Martin. Kentucky had like 28 points at halftime. It was two years ago. 26 to 18 at halftime two years ago. 26 to 18 against Southwest Missouri, Central, Eastern Illinois State.

They had 26 points at the first TV timeout last night. It seemed like. It was amazing. So I don't know how you can't be anything but excited. You have to be excited to see what you saw last night. They're not going to maybe shoot that well every single game. They won't shoot 50% from three. No.

but they're not going to be shy about jacking the shots up there. Some guys are a lot better than I thought, man. Otega O.A is much better than I think most people thought. Anzley Alamador, I think, is much better than most people thought. He was my surprise. Mario was taunting me the whole time because we went to Pro Day, and I'll admit, I was like, I don't know about this Alvador guy. I was like, because he's kind of, I mean, he's kind of built like me a little bit.

Although I think he's gotten himself in more shape in the last two weeks, but he's kind of built a little bit like me, and he just, I just was like, I just looked at at Mario, and I was like, I don't know about that guy. And then what, he hit four threes last night? Five. Five. And after every three, Mario was like, look at you guy. Look at you guys.

So I know I'm getting that all. And I hope so. I want him to give me, you know, not the fairly dickets and the full dickens. And I want him to actually, uh, oh, okay. I was, like it was a joke. I'm just saying to you. I was very excited. about how well they are well he fought i will join you in that i didn't have high expectations for him

either i'll throw myself under that bus he was my favorite to watch last night i don't know if that will translate i don't know all year long i just tell i just say it to you shoot if you'd watch pro day maybe some of you did you would not have thought that dude was going to hit those shots but when it somebody made the caught point on the post game show there's like nine guys that when they go to shoot a three i think it's going to go yes that's crazy i'm going to be betting every Almanor three prop bet the draft kings will get me. He's quick to shoot it. It's a good shot.

He's not going to hit five, and he's not going to play that many minutes. But if he's in and he's going to take a shot, I'm going to believe in it. It's a good-looking shot. Look, okay, just think about if they take a three. Okay, let's take it last year. If they took a three, did you think it was going in?

Reeves, Reed, Rob. Going in. Right? Everyone else. Yeah, screwed up a little bit. No. No. Screw up a lot a bit.

By the end of the year, DJ Wagner a little bit. But in general, that was my view. Okay. This year, Lamont Butler, confident. Brea, confident. O.A., confident. I'm told I'll be confident about Kirk Crease. I haven't seen him yet,

but confident. Travis Perry, confident. Noah, confident. Robinson, confident. Car, confident. That's pretty good. Albinore, confident. So the only guys left are, I don't. Garrison took two. That's enough.

That's enough. The announcer said, well, he's got the green light. All right, let's put on yellow. But otherwise, I love it with everybody else. Jackson Robinson, we knew about him. He's not going to sneak up on anybody. That's kind of the guy we knew would be the star. I was still impressed with his shot.

I mean, he'll just pull it up right in your face. He did that. What do you go? Five for seven, I think, from three, doing several other things. Yeah. You had a guy on your post game show last night was dead on. He's going to be that Antonio Reeves guy where he's sneaky, who he's sneaky, he took the box score when he's got 20 points.

Jackson Robinson had 19 points last night and not one caller to the postgame show, except that one even mentioned his name. He was our leading score. He's going to be Antonio Reeves. He's going to be the leading score. And people would be like, ah, did you see Trent Noah? What about that Almanor kid? Kobe Brer. And then you're like, well, Jackson Robinson did have 23.

And then it's just like that's going to be what he is. That's exactly. One of the threes he missed, he was backpedaling. It kind of rimmed out. That one should have gone in, too. I mean, he was shooting lights out. It just, there's two stats. The 32 assists blow my mind on.

How many of they shot? 32. Five turnovers. Mark Pope made a great point. I wonder how many times in the history of basketball has one player had more steals than the team had turnover. Oh, wow. Lamont Butler had six steals. Kentucky had five turnover.

That's amazing. I bet that's almost never happened. And to pass like we pass. and as much as we pass and have five turnovers? I think it's even more unlikely when you say he had more rebounds than the team had turnovers, more assist than the team had turnovers, more assist than the team had turnovers. Well, Steeles, though, is the crazy one.

Because, I mean, guys get 10 rebounds in a game. But, you know, the all-time record for steals is eight. I mean, the all-time record for steals in a game is eight, which, by the way, one of the people that has his case in Wallace, who I said wasn't a great defender. That wasn't my best moment of the night last night because he, looking back, he was better than I remember, especially for a guy that was. was injured for part of the year. But to get more steals than turnovers, which is, you know, steals is a, eight's the all-time

leader. We had a guy get more than a whole team. That's it. That's a senior leader that's been to the final game that knows how to win and how to execute good basketball. That's who Lamont Butler is going to, and he's going to bring that every single game. He's one of those guys I don't think will ever have a bad floor game. There's going to be a natural tendency for people to say, let's not always compare it to

last year. But this is, I'm just going to tell you folks they're making that point, you got to give us a few games. All right? By the time we get in the season, we'll be talking about this team. We'll be comparing them to other teams in the country. But you've got to talk about the comment, like the last few years. And the coach, just see a well-coached team. Play, you know, I defended and do defend a lot of how Kyle coached, especially the earlier years, because he had the players to do it. It made, it didn't make sense to share the ball to Darnell. when you had John Wall. But by the end when you didn't have those guys, that wasn't working.

And it is so nice to see a coach look at his players, say, I'm going to design a system for these dudes. When we call timeout, I'm going to come out with a play to not waste this possession. I just think it was such a refreshing course, Ryan, to see that because it's not been like that the last few years. No, like I said, modern basketball. where we're introduced to what modern basketball is all about, and he's got guys that fit his system the way he wants to play. We've got a couple of dudes that aren't the best defenders,

but we've got some really good defenders. Well, my ball is a really good defense. Yeah. Amari Williams is a good defender. That's exactly right. Though, there's some really good. There's some ones that, I mean, we're going to get beat off the dribble some. It just happens.

But one of things I noticed, you remember how last year we would beat guys off the dribble, and then we just couldn't finish at the rim because of contest? This group might be a step behind, but they contest everything at the rim. Wesleyan missed a lot of layups last night. It kind of reminded me of watching Rob or Antonio or DJ get to the rim and then miss a layup. I saw some of that from Wesleyan last night. Yeah, one of my favorite plays, one of them challenged to Mario Williams, and he swatted it. I mean, he just smacked that ball, but then he runs the court, gets it back, and in one touch, throws it out for a three, and they hit the three.

Yeah, he did. He spiked it. He's a great pass for a guy. Get ready. He's not going to lead the team and assist, but he's going to be close. He is a phenomenal passer, and they run it through him at the top of the key. And it's clear they have a theory, which I heard on an NBA podcast a year ago a guy talk about. It's clear we're playing like this.

Somebody ran the analytics of if you get a rebound, an offensive rebound. If nobody's on you, put it back up. But actually, if the person is still on you, let's say you rebound over someone, The analytics say you're better off kick it out for an open three than shooting a contested two. The natural inclination for tall guys is get the rebound, try to put it back up. Pope has clearly said if you don't have a layup or dunk, kick it out because somebody's open for three. And we did that like five times last night. And I think we made like four of them.

That's fun to watch. Yeah, the big guys that you've been taught your whole life when you get the rebound. Just go right back up. But if somebody's challenging you, it might be better to kick it out to a wide open, you know, In the summer interviews, I talked to Mario Williams about this. He said, I love when I get a rebound. I can turn around and look in any direction. Somebody's open.

Throw to someone that I know is very likely going to make that three. So a lot of fun. You know, I don't know how good they're going to be, but they were good last night. 8.59-28027. We'll take a break. We'll be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. Last night, a blown call changed a game.

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He calls me coach. I don't like that. Well, you did a lot of coaching in your young kid. He calls everybody coach. That's his thing. Everyone's coach. What are you doing, coach? And I'm like, why do you call?

He's like, I call everybody coach. And I don't coach. But so I just have to get in my mind all night. He'd be like, what are you think, coach? So I got to get that in my mind. But see, we want to join us seven to ten tonight. Second, I was on with Greg McElroy and Cole Kublich this morning. Okay.

Really like Greg McElroy and Cole Cubil. Cole, I consider a friend. Greg, I've always liked, I don't think he knows who I am. All right? So they bring me on, and Cole Kublett goes, and I've been on radio with Greg McRoywood, probably 20 times, but I still don't think he knows who I am because he bring him on and Cole's like, Matt Jones is here, Matt, nice to have you, and I'm like, hey. And so then Cole asked me a question.

Cole goes, all right, Matt, ACC this year, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, he starts, he asked me a question about the ACC. I don't think he knew who I was. And I wasn't going to call him out on it, so I tried to answer it, but what do I know about that? I can't even tell you what teams are in the ACC right now. And I'm like, uh, yeah. And you know, and that brings me to Kentucky Auburn, which is what I was supposed to be on there for. So, uh, I'm not going to say, I think it hurt my ego a little bit.

I don't think Colcublich was 100% sure, Drew, who I was today when I was on the show. I've been there, though. I've interviewed people on the ESPN. Cole knows you. Cole knows me. I don't think Greg knows who I am. And that shows really early. I'm surprised you were even on it.

No, I always tell them if you're going to have me on, it has to be at 930. while I'm sitting in this parking line. It's the only time I've been on it before. That's an early show. That's the only time I'm going to be on there. All right. So any other thoughts from the basketball game before we go? I have to give you all this stat.

I can't wait any longer. Corey Price, he was listening. He answered our question. The last player to have more steals than the other team. Boy, look, of course, Corey Price. Unbelievable. Since 1986, one person. One person?

Or the last, excuse me, the last person did it. Devin asked you. No. No way. No. Devin Askew had more steals. On January 5th versus Vanderbilt, he had three steals and the team had two total turnovers.

We had a game with only two turnover? You mean that COVID team only had two turnovers in a game? Not that I don't trust, Corey. I'm going to the box score myself to confirm. Wow. What was the score of that game? If anyone guessed, Devin Askew. No.

Let me see. I'm still looking for it. Okay. Corey, set it in. Well, that is unbelievable to me. Devin Askew is not the. the COVID team of all teams to do that. We would have guessed probably 50 other guards.

I would have guessed every player that ever played here before I would have guessed, Devin Askew. I would have guessed Nate, before I would have guessed Devin Askew. So, wow. There you go. All right. I didn't know that he had a game with more steals than his turnovers, much less the team's turnovers.

Did you know he's still playing college basketball? For who? Yeah, Long Beach State. Devin Askew is playing this year, college basketball. Have you seen the four pictures of them together where he looks so different every year. He's got a beard. He changes his hair. Yeah. Well, good luck to it. Beat Vanderbilt by three in that game.

77-74. Wow, we scored 77 points and only had two turnovers? Two turnovers. Olivier Sarr with 24 points. That was the... Dante Allen with 14. That was the Alette-A-Sar-Eat game. All right, who's up first? Adam is up first.

Adam. Go ahead, Adam. Hey, guys. What a breath of fresh air last night was. I'm just hearing you all bring up some of those names and past experiences from COVID or whatnot. Man, last night was fun. It wasn't, you know, should I start three, seven footers together? Should I take more 17, 18, you know, put jump shots? Yes.

It was just, it was so much fun. And then have a prediction for the year. I don't know how many minutes he's going to get, how much he's going to average. But Chandler is going to be on SportsCenter top 10 for posterizing somebody. posterize somebody this year. I agree. Chandler is an athlete. We have two really, really athletic freaks. Chandler and Garrison, they're both

Uber athletes. We talked about who would Cal have recruited? I think he would recruited Jackson Robinson to be like Antonio Reeves. He would have recruited Garrison because he was a McDonald's All-American. I don't think he would recruited Chandler, but he might have. But those are the dudes with that kind of rhyme athleticism. Yeah, Chandler didn't have his best game last night.

but he still showed a flare of what the guy's talking about. There's going to be some top 10 ESPN top 10 moments throughout this season because the guy is kind of a freak athlete. He went 0 for 4 from 3, but late in the game, he kind of got an open lane. It's like, okay, just go laid in. Might not have done. But he really punched at home. Yeah, he did.

He's got a lot of bounce, and I agree that he might end up on some highlight reels, putting somebody on a poster. Yeah, and, you know, he's been, even going back to Blue White game, a pleasant surprise. Especially for a guy that stepped away from basketball. Yeah, I mean, by the way, the new Willie Collie Stanley. dime was a wide receiver is Colin Chandler took two years off of basketball. Like that's the one this year.

That's the Willie Collie's time was a wide receiver. Hesimu Means Warrior. Colin Chandler took two years off basketball. Every time we get a new set of announcers, they're going to say that. Like, no one's going to know what we're about to say. That's the fact this year. Well, he's very valuable coming off the bench because he can play a couple different positions.

And if he can start knocking down that shot, man, that's just another weapon. Pope's got sitting there on the bench. Yeah. Who's next? Brandon is next. Brandon, go ahead. Brandon. All right, no, Brandon.

Who's next, Rick? Jesse is next. Jesse. Hey, what's going on, guys? Man, I had a blast last night. Ultimately, I don't know what the season's going to hold, but I know one thing for sure. I'm going to have fun watching the team this year,

and it hasn't been a whole lot of fun, you know, in recent, and, you know, football's been kind of tough to watch a time, and I just had a blast watching it. And one logistical question I hadn't really heard about, I noticed that they had moved the kind of media press area up in the upper deck section 235. They kind of took a section out and put the media there. Is that a permanent fixture? Yeah, they basically took.

Yeah, no, because they stole the media seats to other people. So they took the media seats, which had their own table and were kind of nice, and they sold them to people, and then put the media in the seats that often were empty for a bad game. So I'm sure revenue-wise, it was a revenue up, maybe a small capacity downgrade. probably not much. We'll take a break. 859-280-2287. This is Kentucky Sports Radio.

Okay, so Drew just showed me something that's baffling. All right, so for everybody, I'm going to give you a chance to get on Twitter and see it. There's a account called Rare Rookies that posted this. I guess they posted it yesterday morning. So you may have to scroll down to find out. I'll tell you what, Drew, you go ahead and retweet it. You go ahead and retweet it. And I want to play this game with you, Ryan.

There's a couple guys on there. I have no idea who they are. Drew just posted a picture of these are all the people that have played at Kentucky under Cal who are now playing somewhere else. Yeah. Okay, so let's go through here. Top left, that's Aaron. If you're on podcast, pause it so you can see this picture. Drew has just retweeted because I want you to play along and see if you can play.

Okay. Top left. That's Aaron Bradshaw. Yes. We'll see him later this year. Next is a do. Yes. Next is Bryce Hopkins.

I had no idea, Bryce Hopkins. How's he still in college? Is he still playing in college? Yeah, Providence. Did you know that? No. I thought Bryce Hopkins was like 32. Could be.

Didn't he beat us? Didn't he beat us a few years ago? We played him and he, uh... We beat them. We beat them. Okay. I would not have recognized by face, but I know that that other person,

because he's in Cincinnati Jersey, is C.J. Frederick. Yes. He's still playing basketball. I thought he married the girl from Minnesota. Middlesboro and they like had a farm now. But he still plays basketball. He married Blair. No, he played, yeah.

No, Blair, right? He married Blair and I thought they had a farm and he still play and be a farmer? Ain't much, but it's always right. I really thought he quit basketball. All right. LSU is that, again, I wouldn't recognize his face, but that's Damien College, right? Only because he's got the LSU jersey. If that hadn't had an LSU jersey, I would not have known it was him.

Nope. That is not Devin Askew. That is Devin Askew. Devin Askew does not look like that. He does. That man looks like an actor. Like he literally looks like he could be an actor on like when did he start like looking like that? I told you every year in his team photo, which has been four ever teams.

Would you have known that was him? No clue who that was. Okay. Next is DJ Wagner. Yes. Is that Dante? Yeah. Dantay Allen, Wyoming.

Shaved his head. First of all, when did Dante Allen go to Wyoming? Oh, yeah, this is probably when you were in Europe. It was this summer. Dante Allen went to Wyoming? Yeah. I mean, he's in Laramie? What's the bar we liked?

That was the green room in Cheyenne. Oh, and Cheyenne, okay. Bottom left, Georgetown. I don't know who that is. Those two guys in the bottom left corner. Who is the guy? Okay, well, first of all, let's go to the bottom right. That's Z.

That's a V-Sach. Kansas State, again, I don't think I would have recognized him by face, but he went to, that's Ugo. Yep. Okay, so now we have Georgetown, Ball State, and Utah State. That's Lance Ware. Texas Arlington. Lance, where is it Texas Arlington?

How about Lance. Why is he at Texas Arlington? Just trying to finish up school, you know. Wait a minute, that didn't get that announced, did it? Lance, where is it Texas Arlington? Were you not even up with the portal while you were in Switzerland? You know, when I was in Crete, I didn't get that notification. Lance where is at Texas

Arlington? All right, so now the other two are Georgetown and Ball State. I've seen the Georgetown kid. Yep. Who is at Georgetown? Is it Cameron Fletcher? It's not Cameron Fletcher. He's married to Angel Reese, right?

They dated, I think. No, they're done. Yeah, they broke up. Okay. I'm sorry. I think I was in Europe when they broke up. It's going to be my excuse, by the way, for everything over the next three years. Sorry, I was in a very.

wake up and if it's like November 6, I'm going to be like, Donald Trump is president? How did that happen? I don't know. Who's that guy from Georgetown? I don't think you're going to get those. Did you get Ball State? Do you want to? Ball State is the white kid. Oh, Joey Hart. Joey Hart. Okay. He looks like right there, he looks like an evil person on the OC at this point with his go-tee. He does look like the villain in like high school movies. I don't know who the kid at Georgetown is. Who is that? That is Jordan Berks. Jordan Berks Wow

Okay Wow Wow So there is There are 14 people Playing college basketball this year That played at Kentucky That are somewhere else

I'm telling you Half of those If we didn't get us to see their jersey I don't think we could have figured out Now how good would that team be Who would the starting lineup of that team be It would be Bryce Hopkins DJ Wagner

Aaron Bradshaw Adieu And Z Is that the starting lineup Yep. Got Damien Collins coming off the bench and C.J. Frederick coming off. How good is that team? I'm not ready to start Aaron Bradshaw.

I'm going Ogo over Bradshaw. Is that a tournament team? We had these teams. We made the tournament, but we got beat. Okay, so they lose. We are going to see five of them. You got Collins at LSU, Ohio State, Bradshaw, and then all the guys that left for Arkansas.

They lose in the first round to St. Peters. Yes, right? That team does. Wow. That's a good memory. I would not. I can't believe how Devin has. you looks. That's the one guy that I'll

think no fan would know who that was. None, none. I said I can't be still playing. Me either. Who's up next? Thomas is up next. Thomas, go ahead, Thomas. I sat in traffic this morning for an hour and a half on the Bluegrass Parkway. Did not dampen my enthusiasm from last night's game for one second. Well, that's pretty good, because that could be brutal.

Nothing. At the end of the game, the players walked around the entire perimeter, shaking the... the fans' hands, thanking them for attending the game. Mark Polk followed him up doing the same thing. Guy next to me, he said, coach, I've been in for 23 years in the same seat. I've never seen a better sign of appreciation. Yeah, I'm glad he brought that up.

I wanted to bring that up today. Coach, the players did a victory lap after the game and met all the fans. Some of the blue coats were keeping some fans from going down there. They got to let them go. I mean, if that's going to be a thing now, you've got to let the fans go down there. See, that's great. That's great. That is great.

The players should, I mean, I think there needs to be a sign of respect from the fans that the players, they're not going to be able to talk to all of you. So, like, if they come over, as many as they talk to, be grateful. But I do think the blue coats. Did I see, are there women blue coats? Is that a new thing? No, they've had women for a couple years. Okay, good. I didn't know that.

Somebody told me that, I did not know that. Good, that needed to happen. But go back to the thing. Let them go. Let the fans, we need this program to reembrace its fans on a very, like, sort of visceral level. So obviously provide protection, but they need to let them, because I'm glad the kids did that. Yeah, they did it after the blue-white game. Had no idea they're going to do it last night.

I saw them do it, and the fans all got out, you know, a high-five, maybe a quick selfie or something, as they would just walk around the court and then go into the locker room. It was really kind of cool. Do you want to increase attendance? Let people think they might. get to see a player at the end. That will help. I mean, it will.

Yeah. Not, I mean, the marketing people at UK, you all know you can use help on this stuff. That would be the kind of thing that I think could be helpful. Who's next? David is up next. David, go ahead, David. Hey, Matt, that was fun last night. It was fun.

Yeah. Is that what you got? I love it. No, I just want to say. this. Is it me or does Trent Noah look like he's 12? David. Trent Noah does look like he's 12, but he looks like a 12-year-old who can make some threes, though, doesn't he? And he scored 12.

Yeah, he does. And you were talking about Morales? I remember when that game, I was thinking, man, that team is going to win it all, and I was right. Yeah, the Moorhouse game was one of the more impressive performances. If I don't know if we'll have the people with an last championship, I don't think they will, but I think this team will scare some teams. And I'm going to make a prediction. We're going to beat Duke in November. Well, listen, the Duke game is going to be really exciting. I'm going to go ahead and tell you, and I appreciate to call it.

It's a night game. Over the years, we always play at 930. We've tried to figure out how to get people. We are all going to make it our thing. We're going to have kind of a welcome back to big time basketball at this bar for Kentucky Duke. So just go ahead and put that on your calendars. It's 9.30. It'll be late.

You'll get home late. Your kids, they don't need to sleep anyway. What are they going to learn? Yeah, the Duke game, we're all going to watch it here. We're going to make it a thing. We're going to kind of bring back big-time basketball and that every game matters for that Duke game. For me, that one's personal in here.

The first basketball game I ever watched at KS Bar was the Zion Duke Champions Cup. I remember that. When we were down by a million. So this is the same thing to be a redemption party at Kansas Bar. This one just put that on your game. your calendars when that happens. If you want to experience your healthy happy hour, how about cornbread's new blueberry breeze product for adults over the age of 21?

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I want to say, though, it's important to acknowledge your mistakes. Okay? You know, I spent all week talking about the game being on a computer, how you could get the game on the computer. Came in here on Tuesday, and I was told we could not get sound or we could not get the game because it was on the computer on the big screen. So we brought a guy in here from Nashville yesterday. Yes.

Right? He worked all day. It's the pregame show. He said, I got it. We'll have the game on the big screen. Good job. All right. Invite everybody at the bar.

Say, hey, if you don't have the game on the computer, you can come watch it here. One problem. A guy from Nashville accidentally hit a button that made it only play on the big screen. So he's already on the way back to Nashville, and none of the other screens worked. Now, we will have it fixed for Tuesday's game, but for the people that came, I'm sorry. I'm sorry about that. But we looked, you know, I can look on the camera and see into the bar. Yes.

People stayed. They just watched it on their phones in the bar. So I apologize, it'll be fixed by Tuesday, and we'll have it. And we're also going to, for the Duke game, we're going to stream our cameras in here, and people can see the video for the Duke game. But that was all day we spent, and we got it on the big screen. We just made the mistake of putting it on every other television in here, which hurt us. We were so dialed in on getting that big screen work, and we didn't get the other ones.

We forgot about all the baby TV. That happens sometimes. Somebody writes me here on the text machine, 772-745254. Matt, one of the reasons I like you. You can argue both sides of an argument, even the ones. side you don't disagree with. So I give you a challenge today. Last year, the fans were split, cow defenders and cow supporters. If you were a cow supporter, how would you argue that we would be better off if he was here? He would have better players, better five-star. Well, he probably

have the roster he has at Arkansas. Yeah. I think worse, because I don't think we'd have Davis and a few others yet. Yeah, I do would have. He had a lot of freshmen in this class coming in. That's true. We would have had... You know what? You remember Jake... This is one of those. You just go, Your Honor, I concede points two and three.

I don't know what the argument would be. Really? Do you? Boogie flan, Carter Knox. You would be Billy Richmond, Boogie Flan, Carter Knox. A dude was leaving. So... DJ would have stayed?

DJ would have stayed. Big Z. Maybe you would have gotten John L. Davis to come here. Yeah, Big Z would have stayed. Hugo was leaving. Yeah, I don't know. I don't think we would, I don't have an answer. I mean, maybe you argue we get you, he gets a couple better players in the portal here than he would have at Arkansas.

But the reality is the NIL money that both Mark Pope used here and Cal used in Arkansas would not have been here. He wouldn't have had that money to go get, like John L. Davis probably doesn't come here because he wouldn't have had the money that he had at Arkansas. So I don't, to be honest with you, you're right. I do pride myself in making the best case for the other person. I don't know. I don't have that one. I really don't. Yeah, I don't know.

Who's up next? Brian is next. Brian, go ahead, Brian. Hey, Matt. Just had a question. Kind of piggybacking off a point that you made last night, and I wanted to get everybody's opinion there on the show today. So you've made a comparison that high-scoring Kentucky teams last night

tended to do well throughout the season, high scoring in the exhibition games. Do you think that has to do with the talent that we had, or was it more about how they were coached and how that talent was being utilized? Listen, this team has talent, but this is not, this is not on paper nearly as talented a team as have been 11 or 12 of the last 14 years. So, yes, it would be a coaching. thing. I mean, if this team goes and wins 20, let's say they go 23 and 8 or 24 and 7.

That is a testament to Mark Pope's ability to both build a team but also to coach. All right. I appreciate your answer. Thank you. Do you agree with that? Yeah, a lucky point we've pointed out. There's probably only two guys on this team. Cal would have even recruited to come to Kentucky. And I think to have these guys succeed, you'd have to play this style. If you were playing a style where this team was trying to beat guys off the dribble, I don't think they would be successful.

I think you would have to play this style to win with this team. Yeah, I agree. And I'm loving just how hard they're going every single possession. With Kyle's teams, we know he had his favorites. He said he didn't, but he did. They knew they were getting 30 minutes. They could take a playoff. They could just stand out there and watch someone else dribble.

This team, you know, they're going to be sharing a lot of the minutes. I don't think anybody might play 30 minutes. Maybe Lamont Butler or someone. There's going to be a lot of guys playing. And when they're in, they can go hard and just that. so much of that motion last night on offense and so how active they were on defense. We haven't seen that for a full game in a long time. Yeah.

Who's next? Jonathan is next. Jonathan, go ahead, Jonathan. Hey, Matt. I just got to say that one of the players I would love to have on this team this year, even though I already love all the guys. They look great last night. This team would have been the perfect redemption team if we had Reed Shepard on this team.

You talk about the ultimate. But, I mean, let's be real. I mean, the Reed Shepherd stuff, that's a fantasy. The kid was the number three pick in the draft, and if the draft occurred again, he'd be the number one pick. So, like, yes, would he be perfect? But, sure, but Reed Shepherd would have left. I don't care if the coach was Moses.

You know, like, he was going to be a top three pick. He had to go. I don't disagree with that. I just wish that maybe he graduated a year later from high school. Oh, okay. All right, that's a fair one. It hasn't had him that way. No, he would be good.

him and he would be good but i will also say this i think to be honest if i'm being honest he might have had a better college career under pope but cow was the right player to get him drafted in the top three because cow played a style where he could showcase his NBA game now did that make him a better college player probably not but actually i think oddly shepherd wouldn't have been a top three pick if he was playing in this system does that make sense A lot of the NBA stuff, you're drafting guys because you know Cal and how guards turn out. That's exactly right. There's so much of a track record of players that played for Cal.

And let's be honest, there's a track record of guys. I appreciate the call who played for Cal underachieved here and then had great pro careers. Yes. There it is. You know, so it worked out right for Reed. But would it be fun to have him on this team? Of course it would. See what he wore to his first game last night?

Overalls. But they weren't. They weren't like, you know, working on a tobacco farm overlaws. They were, yeah, but the car heart's kind of a fashion thing now, isn't it? All right, who's next? John is next. John, go ahead, John. Yes, go ahead.

Oh, it's little, John. It's okay. Anyway, last night, that was the most exciting, happiest I've been watching a Kentucky game in many years. And let me tell you real quick. I felt like that game brought true joy to my heart. The reason why is my parents moved me down here to Georgetown, Kentucky, when I was six years old in 1989. I didn't know a thing about basketball. I grew up as a Brown fan and a Cleveland baseball fan, and I fell in love with Kentucky basketball

and Rick Bettino when I moved down here in 1989 with that. And it just reminisced me of my childhood last night kind of watching that game for some reason. I just felt like it was a true team, and it just made me so happy watching the game. I appreciate the call. I think that's – I think a lot of – fans Ryan feel like that? Yes, and he's in that age bracket. Like you said, 35 and over, man.

We remember the glory days of the Patino, the runny when Mark Pope was here. We feel like that's where we are again. We're back in that era of college basketball for Kentucky. He didn't wait long to tug on my heartstrings, bringing Travis Ford out to be the Y. Travis Ford was the Y. Yeah, you did the, uh, Travis Ford was Y,

didn't scream at anybody. It was perfect. Fans really like seeing him back. You know, he's been coaching him to do that. He got a good pop. It was good seeing him. Never it gets to come back. By the way, two days, I don't think until last night I knew what Jason Hedrick looked like.

I listened to that, or Derek Hendrick. Darren Hedrick. I don't think I had ever seen him. He and Cameron Mills now look like the same person. Very similar. Don't they? Am I wrong? They could be brothers.

And there was a moment where I was watching it and they looked like the same person. And then the security guard standing from looked like them too. It looked like the three triplets had been put together to call that game. I trust your judgment. I didn't see it. Well, go look. They'll be back Tuesday night. We'll take a break.

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