KSR - 2025-03-07- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: March 7, 2025

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Radio Ron is there. Nice to see you, Ron. How are you doing? I like how you've been. like your majesty has joined you. Yeah, it's radio royalty right here in front of us. I also am reminded a couple things. First of all, Kendrick Perkins is 40 years old.

So that's not as old as I thought he was. That's actually younger than me. So me saying, hey, old man, that maybe wasn't the best. I would have thought he was much older than 40. Well, he looks much older than 40 for sure. Wow. Shots fired. He's going to come after you next.

You are going to get addressed like numbers on a house. That's exactly right. All right. So let's talk just a little bit about schedule for next week. Next week we are, we're going to do our show at Tin Roof on Thursday morning before the Kentucky game. So make plans to go to that. But even more than that, Wednesday we're going to do the show somewhere on the road to Nashville. Probably do it somewhere in Bowling Green, I think, is our thought.

Not sure if it'll be open to the public, but we will do that. Excuse me. And then we will be down in Nashville the entire time. Draft Kings, our partner, they have a bar in Nashville. We're going to be kind of hanging out there and we'll have stuff. We'll talk more about that. But let's talk about the women for a second. They play today at 2.30 against Oklahoma to start the SEC tournament.

It should be exciting. Yeah, a round of applause for the ladies. I think the women today are probably playing to host the first and second round of the NCAA tournament. They probably get to do that anyway, even if they lost. But I think a win today would certainly lock it up if they were able to do it. Kentucky is playing an Oklahoma team that I actually watched them play a few weeks ago. That was when Georgia went for like 40 points or whatever. Sure was.

It was against Oklahoma. The game's on at 2.30. We're going to have it at the bar. I think there's going to be a group of women's team fans that will be there. So come on out. Skip your afternoon to lunch or skip your afternoon to work. go watch the women's team. How do you think Kenny Brooks will do in his first SEC tournament today starting up against Oklahoma?

Well, you know, great. They got that double by. You know, Oklahoma beat. I think they beat Georgia last night. But the team they just beat just a couple weeks ago. I think they're, you know, they're on a high note right now. They played LSU pretty well. They blew out Tennessee.

So, you know, they deserve to get that double by. They've had a great season. I watched, like I said, I watched that game against Oklahoma. I mean, that was a special performance by Georgia Amor. That's one of the better outside of your, Caitlin. Clarks and I'm not sure I've seen very many better women's performances than Georgia had in that game. They kind of dominated it on their floor. If they could win tonight, then they would get South Carolina.

A team they played pretty well just last week, you know, maybe a chance for Kenny to make a run here. Yeah, but help me understand something. I watched the Oklahoma game too. They scored 95 points, won by 9 or 10. Georgia had 43. Kentucky's an underdog today on the old draft king's app. Two and a half point underdog. Sounds like for you.

I ain't math to me, so I will be partaking. Yeah, I think for Kenny's teams, the analytics make them not look as good as their record because they tended to win a lot of games close against teams. They were kind of a sink. And then they have a couple bad losses. But I'm with you. I mean, you'd beat them on their home floor by double digits. You would think you'd be the favorite, but they are not today, Shannon.

So hopefully they can get the win. Well, I think that would be my bet today for Draft Kings. And then I think, you know, if it opens up, if Vandy Kiss amount to knockoff South Carolina, Kentucky can win the SEC tournament. Well, I think they can get to, I think they can beat that South Carolina. I mean, so I watched Kentucky. I was at the Kentucky Texas game.

I don't know if there's a world Kentucky can beat Texas. I mean, those young women are big, they're strong, they're powerful. Our girls are just not strong. I just don't think we can beat Texas. But I do think we can beat South Carolina. I do think we can beat LSU. If somebody else were to not Texas out, like if LSU were to upset them, I think we can beat LSU. I don't see us beat in Texas, but there's not another team in the SEC, Drew, I don't think they could beat in an individual game.

And in the women's tournament in Greenville again this year, it's where it is. I hate that with South Carolina. That'll probably be a home game for them. Yeah, that's true. Other than I still, the way Kentucky played them close had them within two just a few days ago, it gives me hope they can hang with anyone, but can't look past. Oklahoma. And then with the NCAA tournament, I'd love to see them get to host in Lexington. I want you to think about what next weekend could be like in Lexington or two weekends from now.

You could end up with a situation where we have the men's tournament going on. We host a first and second round of the men's tournament with probably a ton of Auburn and Tennessee fans in town. And then also at the same time on the other side of town be hosting the women's NCAA tournament. You can have the men's and women's NCAA tournaments both in Lexington, Ryan, at the exact same time in two weeks. I hadn't even thought about that, but you're right. And, man, you know, they've sold out Memorial Coliseum like the last, what, four home games watching the women play.

So if the women can somehow host that, it will be packed. We'll make that a great environment. And with the Girls Sweet 16 next weekend, the NCAA tournament the next weekend, and the boys' sweet 16 the weekend after that, Ryan, if you're a basketball fan in Lexington, I don't think you could ask for much more than that. I hear there's a place called KS Bar and Grill. It'll probably have all those shows on. You may want to come, have lunch, eat some little great wings,

and watch the games there. Look at you just doing ads. What if they send Rick Petino's Johnny's to Lexington for that first weekend? I've seen a few of brackets have that as a possibility. You think the city would welcome the St. John's as a home team? What if they brought Patino to Lexington? A couple of the projections have them going down. Okay, also, Shannon, we like to talk about this every year.

Comic-Con is in Lexington starting today. I like to read you some of the people that are coming. and see if you liked if you'd want to meet them, okay? Yeah. First of all, everybody's seen, you saw Bill and Ted's... Excellent Adventure. Bill and Ted's excellent adventure. One of the people in the movie is coming.

Now, it's not Keanu Reeves, but it's the other guy. Do you know the other guy's name? Bill. Okay. Do you know the other guy's name, though, in real life? No, I do not. Alex Winter. Alex Winter.

He is actually the headliner. He is the number one name. I think it's alphabetical order. I've studied that quite a bit. Okay. There's some big games on there. Starts with A. Okay.

All right. So let me go through a few more. Andrew McCarthy, like an 80s sort of like, you, the ladies here shaking their head. Like in the 80s, he was kind of a sexy. He was also. Different guy. He was also in Weekend at Bernie's. He was one of the two guys.

that held Bernie's head up. You're not selling me on it yet. Keep going. There's something you're going to like. Okay. I'm sitting here. Danny Trejo. You know, the...

Oh, yeah, okay. Yeah, I know who he is. You know, the actor that always plays the mean-looking guy and stuff, Ryan. Do you like him? I do like him. I thought he was dead. I was good to know he's still alive. You're going to be real excited to see him, dude.

That's the great thing about these. All the guys you thought were dead are still there signing autographs for $40. Dermott Moroni. Yeah. Do you know that? Like, you all may not know the name, but all of you have seen his face. Like he was in... And the women know who he is.

Yeah, he's in TV shows all the time, but I can't think of one of them. What's he in? He was. Yeah. We've got to get better with this list. Okay, how about this? Jason Isaac's from the White Lotus. That's the Southern Dad on the White Lotus with the...

That's like being investigated. You like him, right? Drew has already made it a point. We're going to get him somehow on the post game show at Comic Con. Drew, that's Drew's mission in life, I think. Get him on there. He's going on there. He's going to talk a little Missouri with us.

By the way, I don't know how many of you all watch the White Lotus, but Parker Posey's accent on there when she says, Bootyism and like Piper, no. Like, I absolutely love it. I'm going to need Stifler's mom before I get excited about this. Keep going. All right. How about Jeff Hardy?

All right, the Hardy boys. Our friend Bradshaw is there. Oh, JBL. Okay. Jonathan Goldsmith, you may not know him by name, but he's the most interesting man in the world from the Dose Ekes commercials. Oh. I bet he's nice.

not really that exciting. He's probably really boring. It's not that interesting at all. Actually, I saw him at the derby one year, and I actually sat next to him for a few minutes. Not that interesting. Yeah, kind of quiet, huh? He's off the clock.

All right. How about Lita from the W.A? All right, now we're, yeah. W.W.D.D.D.D.W.D.L.D.L.L.L.L.L.L. The legend of 90s. You don't seem excited enough about Lou Diamond Phillips. Again, and I wasn't sure he was still alive. Neil Diamond would be thrilled to see all these people.

Go to the T's and the S's. That's where the stars are. Soleil Moon Fry, Punky Brewster. Ryan has a thing for Punky Brewster. That's weird. Don't. She's older than he is. Yeah, probably now.

Yeah. So would you like me introduce you to Soleil Moon Fry? Yeah. Of course. Have you seen her? No, not in a long, long time. No, pictures right there. Sting?

Which one? The singer or the wrestler? Ressler. It's coming out from the top. Trish Stratus. There it is. William Shatner will be there. Wow.

William Shatner is like 94 years old and he's still doing these comic cons. You talk about a guy that doesn't need to work. He still doing it because he likes doing it. Part of me wonders, though, does he need to work? Which is why he keeps doing it. At that age, come on. Then why does he go?

It's free money. What else you could do at 94? Okay. Sergeant Slaughter's on there, too. Sergeant Slaughter as well. So there you go. Now, for people, tomorrow on the post-game show, Drew and Ryan will be doing the post-game show live from Comic-Con

and may have some of these folks on. So good luck. One of the best people watching events ever. Just sit out there in the hallway and watch people walk by at Comic-Con. It's awesome. Mario's first Comic-Con. I know he's excited. Yeah, Mario, there'll be some great videos for you at Comic-Con tomorrow.

Who's up next? Got Tyler up next. Tyler, go ahead, Tyler. Hey, guys. How are y'all this morning? Doing well. Hey, I got an idea that I keep thinking about. I've not heard anybody else to think or talk about it.

The team that we play rushes the court, and they have to pay us $500,000. You're going to say, why don't we just act like we're them, and then we rush the court? what you're going to say? Yeah, just hire like 100 people and pay for their people. You're not the first person that's thought of that.

Yeah, you're not the first person that's thought of that. But the reason that would be hard is they're putting it on the school, Drew, to stop them. So, like, the point is not so much what the fans do. It's, hey, school, you have to stop them. Now, there comes an amount of people you can't stop, right? But I would say, and I appreciate the call, If a school hired 100 people to go storm another court,

I feel like it might get investigated. When everybody turns in their licenses and everyone's from Kentucky, there might be a thing where people go, oh, wait a minute, what was happening? That's your next 30 for 30 right there. Yeah, maybe there was something going on. Yeah, it's usually, you know, you're on your home court storming the court. Is he suggesting in Rupp Arena? We welcome them down?

Are we going to just try to fill other arenas? Are you, like, are you bummed that if all this works, we won't have court? I do think courtstorming is part of what makes college. basketball great. Are you bummed? No, I am bump. I love it when, like, even in a football game and we see all these just jumping over hedges and jumping over walls to get down there. Basketball games. It's just, it does make it special. Especially if you get a big win on your home court in the final seconds, it's just kind of spontaneous. It's not going to completely go away. It's just going to eliminate

court-storming that probably isn't necessary. Well, I do like that. But they're letting them do it after you get the team off the court. So they are saying, like get the team off the court. Okay, now you can come. Now there is like a 30 second gap so you lose a little bit of the excitement. But I guess that's better than nothing, isn't it? Well, I think that's how you get your money.

If you're the team that just lost, you take your time. Like I'm bending down to my shoe. Oh, no, I'm cramping. I can't get to the locker room and then hopefully they store them while you're still out there. Oh, that's an interesting way to do it. All right. If you would like a high yield savings account,

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One of the things I realized yesterday, which I did not before you know, that yesterday was the five-year anniversary of the first case of COVID in Kentucky, and we are about to hit the five-year anniversary of the SEC tournament, where everything got kind of shut down, that famous. Wednesday night when like Tom Hanks said he had COVID, Rudy Gobert touched all the, all the NBA things, and then they shut the SEC tournament down. And then the next day, remember we were all, it was so surreal. All the athletic directors were trying to decide whether or not to cancel the SEC tournament. I remember Mitch Barnhart saying he had his UK softball team stuck in Florida,

and he was trying to figure out how to get them back. And like all of this stuff, it was you know it's basically next week is when this was five years ago does it seem like that long ago to you no it doesn't if we remember that time we were all scared man we didn't know what was about to happen and that that night when we find out that tom hanks had for whatever reason that seemed to resonate with people like if a superstar can get it like that it was like tom hanks got it you had to go bear a thing i remember

we were all sitting in our suite when we got the word that trumped shut all the flights down and i remember going whoa, they're like shutting all the flights that. Like there was a sense of, whoa. But still, I remember thinking, well, I hope they can still play the NCAA tournament. And we had no idea what was in store. There wasn't like, well, maybe if they postponed it a week or two, they'll still be able to play. If I remember, didn't they stop a game and midgame at the S&E tournament?

At the Big East tournament. It was a Big East tournament. The SEC tournament finished, but the Big East tournament stopped a game right in the middle of the game at halftime and ended it. Yeah. I remember the last day in Nashville, people were starting to head home, and I thought, I got one quick lap around Broadway in me, and there was just a few people in bars. I think Lee and Haley were doing their last TV show. We all went out to dinner on that Saturday night as like a goodbye dinner,

having no idea that we wouldn't see these people for like six or eight months in a row. I was bouncing around us like, is this the last time I'm going to be in a bar? Like, how long is this going to last? Like, I kind of probably stayed a little longer. We had no idea. We had no idea back then. No. And I remember us having a conversation like, are we ever going to shake hands again?

Meanwhile, I've shaking hands with 50 people already this morning. Yeah, I mean, I love all you folks. I'd be fine if we went back to the fist bumping. I'm still five years later. I do the wrong one with people every time. There's something about, I feel like since I hurt my wrist, people are intentionally grabbing my wrist even harder. Shaking that wrist.

Like, it's almost like I don't know what it is with men and their desire to be like, I have a powerful handshake. But I'm like now to the point that I'm intentionally being dainty because when they grab me right there, it hurts. And like. You can't give them the limp fist. handshake. Yeah.

But there was a time we were all good fist bumping, and now everybody's not doing that anymore. And I want to go back to that. You got to lead with it, and then when they try to go with the hand, you just get to stay strong. What will happen is if you do that, then sometimes people just do that. Grab my wrist. And that's weird. And that feels kind of strange. It's okay.

Nine times out of ten, I do that. I go for the fist bump, they go shake or vice versa. I still haven't gotten on the same page. It's awkward. Real quick. All right. So let's talk about the cats for a second going into Missouri. Lamont Butler.

Pope said he thinks he's like almost 100%. Are you seeing that? I thought he kind of looked like that against LSU. It was the most normal he's looked in a long time. Yeah, it was it the Auburn game where it looked like he still wasn't quite 100%. But then last week, I mean, earlier this week, he definitely looked like he was close from 100%. He took a shot.

I saw he went up to the rim and he took a shot on that shoulder and I kind of wince a little bit, but then he seemed okay. So, yeah, Auburn game, he had that big brace on. He said a bench him was a little too tight why he couldn't finish. well but with him I'm still going to worry because he's not a player that can go 90% he's 100% running through screens diving for balls I mean that's what you want from a player but I still worry at any moment something could happen to that but just how he plays we're just you know one little I guess hard hit from from losing Butler again is the way I feel I mean he's going to go out there

like you said and play 100% they can't lose him though I mean he's him we're in trouble I think you know he's the one guy honestly I mean you'd hate to lose Amari too I think you'd lose a lot if you lost him, but I said this before. I wish Jackson Robinson could play. But if there was one position, if you had to lose one, it might have been that one, because Brea kind of plays a similar position. But like they can't lose Levant Butler. I mean, we've seen they, we just are backup point, because the backup point was Jackson

Robinson. Yeah. I mean, we had seen that like, okay, Jackson Robinson can do it, but now he can't do it either. And then when Oway has to play point, you lose the thing that he does. does the best, so we just can't lose him. No, he's so valuable to what Kentucky trying to do, especially on the offensive end, but especially on the defensive end. We saw the difference as soon as he came back, how much better they were.

Everybody seemed to play defensive. And Marshall mentioned, like, Bray is playing better defense. I think it's because, you know, Lamont is out there taking a lot of that heat off in the perimeter. Well, when Butler and O'Way are playing, then Lamont could, or excuse me, Brea can take the third best guy. And he doesn't have to guard because, you know, when Butler was out, he was having to take the second best guy that's that's difficult who's up next kentucky gas man is up next kentucky gasman

how are you i'm great matt hey uh i've got to call me the question we'll for quick go for it i have paul barclay has always irked me so about i don't know what it is about he's especially an analyst he is a knock so i've got a comment for charles well i mean charles barclay you have a comment I don't know if Charles is listening, but you can go ahead and give the comment. All right. Charles Berkeley, let me introduce you to my friends. Oh, he's doing my own, Mick. Tell your friends about me.

No, I don't think. I think you didn't get the line. The line is tell your friends about me. I mean, that was in the ballpark, I guess. All right, go ahead. Anyway, anyway, my question. So what worries me about Saturday is that things that we've played that Mark Pope knows they're not great defensively. I feel like he really gets away from the three-point ball and pushes it into Lamarie or, you know, one of the others.

And I worry that we're going to be trading twos for threes. You know, I actually don't think that's a bad – I actually don't think that's a bad point. I mean, you saw this with the LSU. I appreciate the call. Our team, Drew, is better offensively. When we go four out, five out, cut, you know, handoff screens. I know it feels good when they post Amari up and he shoots the little baby hook. But when we start playing that style, especially against good teams, I feel like we're in trouble

because he's exactly right. We're trading twos for threes. And I just, I feel like every time we're doing that, we're getting away from what this team does, even though I do think sometimes it can be effective. Oh, there's been games where he's had a mismatch and he can do whatever you want. It's just not what Kentucky's offense is designed to do. Popes even said that 33 point mark, which they hit, by the way, against LSU. They did hit it against LSU. He said, if you look our three point numbers, you know if our offense is working just by the attempts because it's just so much. He said that yesterday, and I think that's really important. I was glad

to hear him say it. Mark says if you look at the games where we shot 33's, we're always the games we play the best. And I'm glad to hear him say that Because that's actually true And I was wondering why we were getting away When we only shot 17 in that one game A couple of a while back It's not just making them It's just the threat of having it

Because it sets up everything else And opens the lane At least those corner threes You mentioned with the four When they have the five out And it gets us offensive rebounds We actually offensive rebounded pretty well When you shoot long threes

You get long rebounds And some of our guys can get them And you know We're just a much better team to me When we do that When we take a break New Bracketology out We'll tell you the Kentucky matchups, see if you think we can win.

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It has us as the four. in the West playing in Providence, we would open up against High Point in the Battle of Tubby Smith, Kentucky and High Point. Would you like us in that game? Give me that. Please, just give me that right now. Oh, absolutely. I kind of want to go to Providence. Are you getting right? Oh, look at this. Yeah. You're starting to get like Providence excitement. What we talk about? I've never been there.

Prevature Providence? Yeah, Providence or Milwaukee have been to those two cities? What monument in Providence do you want to go up and touch? Yeah, I mean, what do you, let me, do you know? Do you know? anything about it at all? Providence. That's about that's about it. That's not really a thing. You just repeated the name of the city. I think Lamar Odom played it, Rhode Island. He did, but that's not in Providence. No, I'm just trying to think of a Rhode Island facts that I know. Okay, so nothing. Nothing. All right, good. High points 26 and 5. They haven't played anybody. Wait a bit, wait a bit, wait a bit. How do you know this guy? State of Holiday Express. I don't know. I don't know. How do you know high points 26?

Am I right or am I wrong? I don't know, but I'm going to assume you're right. You said that with confidence. That's right. Say it like you made it. Nobody questioned you. Do you know what conference they're in? Here, Billy, look up.

Where's Billy? Billy, look up and see what high points record is. I don't know who it. Because if they're 26 and 5, both Shannon and Ryan will blow my mind today. And Drew, you're on the clock. All right. I'll come up with something. For some kind of fact.

I have no idea what conference. I mean, I don't know what any team's conference is anymore. Are they 26 and 5? There you go. Unbelievable. Yeah. Give you $4. Yeah.

Give you $4. I'm not giving you $4. I'm going to give you $2. We're going to split it. I cannot believe you knew that. Yeah. How do you know their record? Called show prep.

Okay. You should try it. No, I'm just kidding. Ryan. I'm talking to you, Ryan. All right. Now, in the next round, we would play the winner of Michigan and McNeese State. Let me say something.

That McNeese State, Michigan, I could see McNeese State knocking Michigan off. Will Wade's team is good. They have a lot of good athletes because he kind of recruited up. That could be one of those where you think you're playing Michigan, and all of a sudden it's Will Wade looking at you in that next round, Drew. Oh, I would pick McNeece State. I've become obsessed with their team. They have a lot of viral videos from the locker room.

The manager leads them out with a boom box and he's rapping and he looks like a guy that would not listen to rap. Yeah, he does. And Will Wade has done a great. great job there. He won't be there much longer. They're a dangerous team. But if you see Michigan, he's going to get a big job this year from somewhere. Michigan's got my favorite player that I want to hit the portal and come to Pope. He's probably going to go the NBA, but Danny Wolf would be perfect for Pope's system.

I like our, I like us against Michigan. If you're going to give me a five seed, they're struggling right now. They've not played well the last few weeks. I would like that. And then we'd have to go to San Francisco, which is way far away. But then the one seed would be Florida. So you'd be playing Florida. in the next round. I think most fans would take that, though, just to kind of stay away from Houston and Auburn, that we could particularly be in their bracket.

Let me reach you the two seats, because this is why I think it's so important we win Saturday. Here are the two seeds right now. Michigan State, Texas Tech, Tennessee, and Bama. So if I assume they don't give us Bama or Tennessee, I mean, you don't want Michigan State or Texas Tech. I mean, I know those teams are good, but you're going to have to play somebody good.

I'd much prefer them than to go play Auburn or Florida, right? or even Duke and Houston any of those four teams. I'd love Michigan State. I mean, the Big Ten usually fizzles out in the tournament. They're not that good this year. They didn't want a tournament in several decades. I'd like to take the Spartans, even though Izzo occasionally find some bad. Kentucky has already played the hardest teams they're going to see in the tournament anyway.

See, that's a really good point. I mean, think about this. We have five games this year. Or, excuse me, seven games this year. Seven against teams ranked in the top five. Come on. Yeah. Some of those teams are going to be in the first.

final four. We've played seven teams that were in the top five when we played them, and we have seven games against teams that are currently in the top seven, right? Currently. I mean, so we're going to go in tested, and by the way, we have a four and three record in those games, too, a winning record against teams in the top seven. Who's up next? Got Spencer up next. Spencer, go ahead, Spencer. Hey, fellas, they got two things. The first one, I just want to say, happy birthday, one of the greatest humans and Kentucky fans, Jordan Bray. Happy Buddy. Happy birthday, buddy.

Happy birthday. Yes, hey. Happy birthday. Okay, go ahead. We got the happy birthdays. Don't worry about it. All right, go ahead. Thank you, brother.

If Oscar Sheewee can play three games in 24 hours, do you think at least in the tournament we can get Amari Williams to average maybe 27 or more minutes? Wait a minute. You said Oscar Sheeblade played three games in 24 hours? When was that? Yeah, just recently. He played three games, two for the jazz, and one in the G League, all in 24 hours. Wow.

I didn't know that. Well, yes. Well, I've talked a lot. I appreciate the call, Ryan. I've talked a lot about how the minutes distribution. It will be fascinating to me. Like, this is a game. Mark said yesterday, this is a big game for us.

He was like, this is a game we need to win. I'll be interested to see how he distributes the minutes. I will note that in the LSU game, after that first line change, he didn't do that anymore until the game was out of hand. Like, he kept the guys in there until the game was out of hand. I kind of wonder if he ends up continuing to do that. They talked a little about that yesterday. They had to learn how to do new substitution patterns

and learn new rotations. But I just don't think he's going to change with Amari, man. That's been that way since the first game of the season. I think he's going to rest him and try to give him just 22 to 25 minutes a game. And even though Garrison drove me crazy, Drew against Auburn, he played really well against Oklahoma, and he played really well against LSU. So two of the three games of the last three, he's played really well. Almost brought him up when you were talking about Almanor and Carr, hit corner threes.

Brandon Garrison hit a corner three recently. Pope also in his comment said next year Garrison could be like a five or six three-point attempts a game kind of guy. I'm okay with that. My question is, will he play defense, which he did a little bit against Oklahoma, and will he not turn the ball over? As long as he does that, I'm fine with his five or six threes. he's got pretty good form.

And with the rest of the bench, I wonder if a lot of it playing them so much in making these rotations, he's trying to get them ready for the tournament just to see who he's got, get them the most experience. But when it's tournament time, you got to play your best guys.

You go home if you don't win. It's interesting to hear, Shannon, him talk about players that could come back next year because he talks about them distinctly different based on, I guess in my opinion, whether or not he thinks they're going to be back here,

right? Like he talks with Oway and Garrison about like how they're going to play next year. And with Kerr, he's like, well, he's going to play basketball. Like, they don't, like he doesn't talk about him as much as if he's going to play it here. With the freshman, it's hard for me to read. I mean, I'm going to assume Noah and Perry are back. That court's getting crowded, though. It's going to be interesting to see with Chandler. Because, like, I would have, I would have told you in January there's no way that kid's back here. But he's

played so well recently. And Pope is starting to talk about him in a way that of like he'll be back here. I'll also note that kid Richie Saunders that's playing so well at BYU. He didn't interview yesterday where he said he was like it was 50-50 Kentucky BYU, I almost went. We could use him so much. Wow, come on, man. 50-50. BYU or Kentucky or 50-50. He's more. He's Mormon. I mean, I'm talking about that. I'm not, let's talk about basketball. I know, but I mean, that's part of the.

Yeah, but I mean, if you had a chance to play at BYU or Kentucky. But if you're more, man. Okay. What if your wife said she doesn't want to move to Lexington? Well, I'll see you four years. First of all, I actually believe that you would do exactly that. We got Zoom? Yeah. If there's one person who would say, wife, stay in BYU, I'll be in Lexington.

It was Shaded. Who's next? Cindy is up next. Cindy, what's up, Cindy? Hey, Matt, and the rest of the gang. I just wanted to thank you all. I've just got a couple of comments. Five years ago, the company that I worked for said,

we're going to need you to work remotely for a couple of weeks. I got all excited about the NCAA watching the SBC tournament and hearing you all talk about it, brought back so many memories of that. As a matter of fact, I'm still remote, and I want to thank you all for making this year fun. Well, thank you very much. I appreciate it. And so I was thinking about Richie Saunders,

and I was like he could still decide to come to Kentucky. For sure. For sure, all these people could. Now, BYU's got it going next year, and they've got money, so I doubt he will. But yes, all these dudes are free agents, basically, now. Exactly. Well, thank you all so much, and go-cat. I'll see you.

Appreciate it. By the way, I meant to say this when we were talking about the fifth anniversary. I do think it's on this day that this happened and with this week. It's unfortunate that just like everything in life, COVID has in some ways in recent years become politicized with the vaccine and this and that. But I also think it's important to remember a lot of people die, like a lot of people die, including a lot of people in the state, people who are in the sports community, and we lost a lot of listeners to this show.

And so, you know, as we kind of hit this, because I think at the SEC tournament, people are going to be like, you know what, that was five years ago. Regardless of everything that happened after, a lot of people lost their lives. So my prayers to a lot of those folks, I hear. hear, I used to break my heart during that time. I would get a message almost every day on the text machine from someone who said, pick a person, mother, sister, father has passed away, and my family, we listen to you as a way to get through it. I literally would hear that every day for like six or seven months. So for all those folks, you know, my prayers are out to you. I know

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The pregame show is at 930 tomorrow morning. Remember, we also set the clocks forward on Sunday. So it's already spring forward. Did you know that? I did. Easter's early this year, I guess. So it's spring forwards early. Would it be a noon for us?

I think we like an 11 a.m. local game. You're good at those games throughout the year. It's probably dead crowd or at least not a very energetic. Yeah, I mean, it'll be 11 a.m. in Missouri. So hopefully that turns out all well. All right. So the women play at 2.30. Let's do some predictions.

here. Kentucky versus Oklahoma. The cats are a three and a half point underdog. Shannon, I'm going to go ahead and take Georgia Amor as my MVP so that no one can steal him. But let's make a prediction. What do you think happens to it? I think Kentucky wins. I think it will be close, though. I'm going to say 7370. I'm going to fade Georgia in this game. I don't think she can do 43 again. I don't think they get 95 again. But 43 would be a lot, yes. I do think the cats win, and they will be so focused on Georgia they will completely forget about Clara Strach and she's my MVP

Katz win by eight she's been great in the last few games like she's been I mean we had that game where she was 11 for 11 but she's been on a run of and she's just what like a sophomore is that right yeah she's young yeah actually at rupt the other night put her on the big screen is pretty cool she looked very shy I wouldn't use the attention but the crowd gave her a big applause with the women I mean we're going to miss Georgia but the women are going to be really good over these next few years but yes she's been great what about you? Kentucky wins. Yeah, I can't believe they're, you know, an underdog in this game. So I'm going to take them. I'll take Deja Lawrence. I think it's with the only one left that I think can maybe

have a good game. So I'm going to her. I get Georgia. I'm going to say, you know, she had 43. I do think we'll go under the 43 in this game, but I think she's going to play great. I'd say Kentucky wins, 75, 65. What do you think about Jay Billis? He went on in the Alabama game the other night, said college basketball needs to go to quarters. Men's college basketball is the only basketball played anywhere in the world where it's two halves. Even the women are quarters. Do you agree it should be quarters?

I completely agree. The women did it, what, three years ago, something like that? It's been great for them, spent up the flow of the game. It's now silly. It's the only basketball level anywhere. Anywhere. We're still doing halves. I completely agree with Billis and can't believe they haven't already done it.

The reason it would be the best for fans is it resets. You get five fouls in each quarter. So really it takes 10 fouls over the course of a half to have a lot of free throws. It makes the game quicker. The women's games are under two hours almost every time. Ryan, to me it is a no-brainer that they should do it. I'm surprised it hadn't already happened. You took the word right on my mouth.

I thought for sure by now it would have because it's been a success in the women's game. I love the foul thing about it. That's what I think is going to push it through. It's going to speed the game up a little bit. And they did it in a couple of the preseason terms. tournaments this year. Like I think maybe they did it in the Bahamas or they did it in the pre-season and it worked fine. So to me, like, I think you got to go ahead and do it. At this point, I don't know really what the argument is to keep it. I don't either. You know, just tradition.

Like that's it. I feel like that's it. They like their media timeouts. But if you extend the gap between quarters, which I don't know what the women's is, but watching it, it feels like a longer gap than their own media timeout. Well, the reason, you lose a media timeout. I mean, basically, if you do it like that, that you know how in the second half, you have that one timeout that occurs whenever somebody calls a timeout you lose that but you know what just add it if that's such a big deal i mean or make the timeouts 30 seconds longer and add it up i just i don't understand if you make the gap bigger between quarters which i assume it is i mean that also for teams that you don't have a lot of guy get a little more rest there in the middle of the half longer than a time

that's a good point yeah it's a lot of bonus a good point who's up next mike is up next mike what's up mike what's going on What's up? Hey, let me give you guys, for those of you haven't been to Providence and Milwaukee, I've been to them both, conservative guy. That should have nothing to do with what city you go to. I mean, this is about a city. It's not about that you're a conservative guy.

It doesn't matter. Well, I'm saying I enjoyed it very much, and I think you would like it as well. Okay, that's a better answer. We were up there a couple years ago for Summerfest and saw Chris Stapleton and Zach Brown but we were in and around, walking around where the bucks play. I think that's Pfizer form or something like that. And something caught my eye. It was about 12 to 15 people.

They were all riding bicycles. This must be a thing in Milwaukee because they were all naked as Jaybirds. Wow. Well, now I know we're sending once you gave me. That's the truth of what I ever told it. Oh, would you do that? It was a thing because they kept, we kept seeing them all over town. on the same butt.

There you go. Naked Milwaukee bikers. I appreciate the call. I think it would be harder to do that in Providence. I think you'd be probably a more embarrassing situation if you did it in Providence because it's a little colder, but otherwise I think it would be good. I don't want to sit on a bicycle naked. That sounds uncomfortable.

Yeah. Yeah. Well, we're going to find out. I think Providence in Denver look like the two places. I think we're probably not going to fall low enough to end up in Seattle. So I think if you're a Kentucky fan that likes either Providence or Denver, I think you're going to end up there. Volunteers of America, Mid States is part of Volunteers of America, the region's largest nonprofit provider of human services, including housing, justice, veterans support, and more.

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Kobe Braya's got to have a big game, so I'm going to... 80? So you got a two-point winning. He has the last second shot? Sure, yeah. Kobe Braya, why not? Kobe Bray, down one, nails a three? Nostradamus, yes. Yeah, that would be great. Let me take Kobe Braya hits a game-winning shot. Give me $4. I'll give you $4. I'll give you $4. I'm going to give you $4.

And you can... Draft Kings does better than that. Come on. All right. $5 if they end up making the shot. Pre-game show is tomorrow at 9.30. Go to the bar, watch the women today. Watch the game tomorrow. There's rodeo.

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