KSR - 2025-03-10- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: March 10, 2025

Matt, Ryan, Drew, and Shannon talk Kentucky's win over Missouri, look ahead to the SEC Tournament, and take your calls.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Ryan and Drew are in Lexington, guys. I listened to the post-game show, a lot of it on Saturday. I just have one question. This is my initial question. All right. Drew, were you inebriated during the postgame show on Saturday? No, not really inebriated, but that was maybe the most chaotic show I think we've ever done. Setting up in the doorway might not have been our best position because the moment we would go to talk,

we would immediately get interrupted by some kind of superhero or someone not wearing much clothes who wanted to get way too close. So it was hard to do anything that day. Well, Shannon, I'm not sure if I agree with him. I don't know if I believe Drew on that because I heard it and it felt like to me that was a Drew Franklin I've recognized over the years. But it was in celebration, Ryan, of a massive victory Saturday, going on the road against Missouri, getting a win that is huge for the season. ensures that you're not only, you know, you already had to buy through the first round of the SEC tournament, but ensures you're not on the Auburn side of the bracket, get you probably a three seed in the NCAA tournament,

makes you where you could probably play close enough to home that UK fans can drive to the first and second round of the NCAA turn, put you up against a two seed, which are not as good as the one seeds. I mean, Ryan, I think that game is one of the bigger wins you could have just because of what all was at stake? You're absolutely right. That game really goes down one of the first. the most important wins we've had all season because of exactly what you just laid out.

The fact that they're now locked in as probably a three seed getting a two in the NCAA tournament instead of a four getting a one. Huge. And to be to do it at Missouri, they'd only lost one game all year. It was their senior day. You started out playing horrible and you still came back and won the basketball game. Yeah, it was just such an odd game. I mean, in the sense of we started so bad. It looked like it reminded me of that old miss loss, even the Georgia loss at the beginning where just they look so awful on offense you thought well this is just going to be

you know a horrible day but they played well enough on defense to kind of keep them in the game and then there was a period of time that they had made something like five you know seven shots but five of them were threes and it kept them in and then all of a sudden I thought with about 10 minutes

to go into the first half Drew they locked in and I actually thought they were excellent throughout the rest of the game. Great defense and then some guys like Andrew Carr sort of playing up to their abilities. O'Way had a great second half. Amari was good. Brea hits threes and all of a sudden next thing you know,

they're able to get honestly a relatively easy victory in the sense it was double digits most of the last 25 minutes of the game. Yeah, and hand up. I thought it was going to be an ugly day when Kentucky missed what, six of their first seven shots. Missouri went up seven pretty early. I thought they were going to get run out of that hideous yellow arena. Then they just flipped the switch and turned it on.

It was that perfect recipe of what they needed. Kobe Bray hit threes. And then the guys we asked from the bench to step up, they each hit a three, and number two. You kind of got everything you need to fill that void with Jackson Robinson being out, at least in this game. Well, we do, Shannon need to talk about that.

Missouri, can we just take them out of the SEC? First of all, I don't feel like they, I don't feel like they have any connection to the rest of the league. I feel like there are now 15 teams in it that are all Southern, all have a certain, like, I don't know, culture about them. I mean, Vandy is the class nerd, but otherwise it's kind of the same thing. And then you just have Missouri, which is not Southern. I feel no connection to that state.

They have hideous colors. I mean, the colors are just awful. I vote we kick them out. Just get them out and put somebody else in. I'm totally fine with that, but who are you going to put in? Who else do you want? Anybody? I would put North Carolina in.

I think if you put North Carolina in with all of the rest of these schools, then I think that would make the most sense. But I just, as watching that game, I just watch Missouri and say, they feel so sterile to me as a sports program and with basketball. Now, with that said, I do think they're good. I think that coach is good. And getting a road win, Ryan, in those circumstances massive. and part of what they were able to do is keep the crowd out of it.

Part of that was hitting the threes. But I want to focus on Andrew Carr, who I thought played, in my opinion, if not his best game of the year right there. Obviously, he had the points, but I thought he played really good defense. Maybe the best defense I've seen him play all year, got tough rebounds down the stretch. I thought it was kind of an Andrew Carr master class performance. Yeah, we've kind of been talking about him in the last couple weeks, how he's really a healthy Andrew Carr, how much difference he makes what they're trying to do. And you're right, man, he was battling in a paint.

Maybe for the first time all year, he was the man down in the paint. Blocking shots, grabbing rebounds, scoring in traffic. I mean, that's the Andrew Car that we really have not seen all season. It was a great, I mean, it really was a great Andrew Carr. And defensively, I mean, they ended up with, what, 81 or 84? But, you know, Drew, they hit four or five threes in the last two minutes. I mean, there were 31 points scored in the last two minutes of the game, which is just ridiculous for a game that,

I mean, how many times you see 31 points in two minutes? Otherwise, I think you would have held them to like 70, which is a pretty amazing number, Drew, for this team to be able to do. Yeah, the middle of the game, Kentucky killed them. I mean, Missouri started hot and then ended hot, but other than that, it was mostly Kentucky. Back when Missouri was playing well in the beginning, I was worried about Carr when that guy backed him down and just two-hand dunked on his head.

That was not pretty. Yeah, that was bad. And that's just kind of, you know, Andrew Carr is never going to be a big bully inside. That might happen from time to time. But to finish the way he did, I mean, we need more of that Andrew Car going forward. And I hope his back can hold up as you get to play some consecutive games here moving forward, because I think they can take another level forward with him playing like that. Kobe Brea, three-threes in the first half, including ones they needed to have Amari.

Oh, way good in the second half. And Butler, you know, the starters, I've said this now since Jackson Robinson got hurt. I've kind of said, you know, the starters need to be able to be, and I think they are lead eight final four quality. We just have a huge drop off with the bench. I thought they played at a final four level. The starters did on Saturday, which gets me to my guy, you know, is this Shannon Mormon Mamba? Is this, do we have, do we have it? I got to tell you, Colin Chandler. He looked good, man. I mean, you know, there's something about him that's exciting.

Well, I can tell you what it is. It's that he's athletic and can play defense so you can keep him out there in key moments. But he had eight points, the confidence to shoot. Yeah, he made a couple, but he also missed some still kept firing. The kid, Ryan, I mean, you go back to even a month ago and look at the Chandler that would get in games, even go back to like the first Tennessee game we won and go watch how scared he looks. to now, it's like we're watching Ryan a different player. Yeah, when he checked earlier, he looked lost, didn't he?

Look like he was just completely lost sometime. Made some bad turnovers. But now, you know, when Jackson Robinson got hurt, you know, the old cliche, somebody's got to step up. I didn't know if it's going to be him, but he has stepped up and kind of filled that role, getting more and more minutes each game out. I think Pope has more and more confidence in him now. I mean, I said on the post game, Drew, if you could get,

I think Chandler can be, if not already, as good defensively as Robinson was. He's not going to be the offensive player Robinson was, but I said if you could get 60 to 70% of Robinson, then you'd have something. You know, he looked like that, Drew, on Saturday. I don't know if he'll continue to, but he's looked like that three or four games in a row. Yeah, we all know how hard it is to lose Jackson Robinson. But the way those guys stepped up at Missouri, even if you get like 75% of that moving forward. I mean, really everyone played well, picking up the slack for him, at least off the bench,

shooting threes, and Kobe Brea going lights out. But with Colin Chandler, you can go back to the Arkansas game. I thought he's been pretty good defensively anytime he gets an opportunity, but he has looked so scared the moment he gets the ball. But the way he's shooting with confidence now, I think he's had a big breakthrough that happened in the last couple weeks. And if that continues, that can be a big difference maker. It's not going to be Jackson Robinson, but it helps pick up those minutes, especially when Kobe Brea is hitting threes too. Yeah, I have no idea what happened. It's like a different, he looks like a different kid in terms of confidence.

And I don't know. I feel like they have a, you know, have a shot to be special. Now, there are two other things I want to take away from the game. First of all, I think, Ryan, I'm a big Tom Hart, Dame Bradshaw as an announcing team guy. Did you, did you, did you, I think they do such a good job. Were you in a place where you can hear the announcing? Yes, yeah. And I'm with you, man.

I wish they would do more. games. They hardly did any of our games at all this year, but I would take those guys every game. I think Dame Bradshaw is really good. Again, I hate to say that about a Tennessee guy, but I think I think he's really good. I think the SEC network as a whole, honestly, has better announcers than ESPN. You give me Dame Bradshaw, Pat Bradley, Damien Fishback. Drew, I mean, I don't want to name names of the ESPN people because some of them I'm even friends with, but I would take that group on. lot of times over the guys we hear, you know?

Yeah, and we didn't even get Ron Slay this year, but I like him in studio, and I keep hearing he's so fun on broadcast. I saw he was wearing a headband for the game he had on Saturday. So I think you can add him to that last week, even though he had done Kentucky games. I don't know what our fans would think. I've listened to a Rod Slay game, Shannon, and it's almost like listening to a Rod Slay monologue during the game. Like, he's just kind of...

He just won't shut up. Yeah, he's just kind of doing Rod Slay things. I think he's better in the studio than he is on games, but we'll probably get him at some point. And then the other thing is we've got to talk about the couple, Shannon, that had the Kentucky and Missouri shots on. Yeah, that's ridiculous. All right.

So, listen, I get it. Your kid goes to school. You got one kid at Kentucky. You got one kid at Missouri. All right, you're going to split the shirt. You know, I mean, Ryan, you go back to John Wye Brown. Didn't he wear a jacket once? It was half Kentucky and half Louisville to the Kentucky Louisville game.

Yeah, the dream game when they played, got to play for the first time. He wore a half-and-half coach. Should maybe a Reed Shepherd have done that. He wouldn't have been criticized as much. No, Reed Shepherd should have never put an Arkansas thing on. I'm sorry. He has no connection to Arkansas. There should have never been an Arkansas piece of clothing.

But I digress. But if you're going to wear a shirt of two teams, and it's going to be Kentucky and Missouri, you cannot be the man that puts on the shirt that says Miss Sucky. Right? I mean, you can't do that. That man went out of the house with a shirt on that said Miss Sucky. Shannon, you have to, if you're his wife or somebody, you go at least be Ken Uri.

You cannot be Miss Sucky. Yeah, I think they maybe cut the Missouri part off and added the Kentucky part a little, the wrong part of the word. But yeah, they could have done that a little bit differently. Yeah, or Miss Tucky. You can't be Miss Sucky, Drew. Like, I can't believe that man. And he might be listening to the show.

I don't know. Sir, I'm sure you're a wonderful guy, but you cannot be Miss Sucky on national television. At some point a decision was made where after they cut the shirts, they saw that before they sewed it together. And they had to go with Ms. It's not like it just coincidentally ended up that way. They made that decision. And that absolutely backfired. Do you think they like already did it?

And they go, well, I mean, we can't do this again. So we're just going to have to go out of the house like that. It seems like the kind of thing Ryan, honestly, I could see you doing, to be quite frank with you. It did make a great TV moment. But my thoughts were when they did it and they held it up, she's like, okay, you're wearing that one. I'm not wearing Miss Suckie. Guess what, homie? Yeah.

So what did she get? She got Ken Uri. Yeah. She got Kent. No, she got Kenturi. Kenturi. Yeah. Conturi.

Like former golf announcer, Ken Venturi. She was Kenturi. And he was poor Miss Sucy. Well, Kentucky. All right, so Kentucky now plays at 9.30 on Thursday night in the SEC tournament and has a bracket that I think they can navigate if things go well. So we will talk about that bracket. What I think this win means for the NCAA tournament and more from the weekend.

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I'm not going to lie. Latter-day Shea, he's not bad, is it? I've seen people try, and I'd say of what I've seen, it's the best. I still think we're getting to where we're forcing them a little bit, but of the Colin Chandler nicknames, that would be my pick that I've seen. He probably, I don't know if he wants Mormon in the nickname. We've already got a mamba too, so we don't need two mobas. But just the, that's the most creative one I've heard.

latter day shea one person writes mad i need your all's opinion on if i was in the right or the wrong the end of the game when dennis gates took out the one kid with the mohawk and they sat there and hugged and cried i looked over at my wife and she was crying and i told her why are you crying about this dude who's annoying having his senior day and she said it's a special moment have a heart should i have been uh more sensitive to her emotion or was i right in telling her to stop crying about someone we don't know on a senior day where we're playing against the team. He was right.

He was right, 100%. You're going to say that. I knew she was going to say that. Why was he right? Well, I mean, what connection does she have with him? Right? I mean, this dog gets his last game. He's going to play in the tournament.

So, you know, it's a senior day. They were hugging. Isn't that nice? He and his coach were hugging. Yeah, that's good. They're hugging. I'm not going to cry about it. But you're not, I mean, you're not,

her. Like, maybe she's more emotional than you are. I guess, maybe so. Fair point. But, you know, I don't think I would get too emotional about a guy that I didn't even... You don't even know who he is. You haven't even watched his games all year. You don't have no connection to him at all. Ryan, did you think that was an emotional moment worth crying about? As a wise philosopher once said, sports is awesome. And that's what makes sports awesome when you get those moments like that. So yes, I cried during the video of the guys calling their younger selves that you K put out last. Yeah, but you follow those guys. But you follow these guys all year long. It wasn't like somebody you didn't watch.

Yeah, so, I mean, we don't know this dude. Like, is it odd to cry when you don't even know this guy? No, you're crying for the moment. It's the moment. Okay. Drew, are you good with the crying? I am a crier. I've been known to cry a time or two, but I'm not crying for another team's senior day.

If you think I'm laughing because they did their senior day after the game, which is one of the dumbest things in sports. Why? Why? Yeah. You know, they do that. They do that at Indiana, too. You should do it before because if you lose. Plus, if it's senior day, you don't want to school.

schedule Kentucky at home. And nobody's sticking around for that either. After you lose, they're leaving. So you're going to have your senior night in front of an empty arena. Well, Drew and I have been to a senior night. Yeah, we were at a senior night at Indiana after they lost. And to their credit, they stayed. But it was weird because they got blown out by Nebraska, Drew, and then had to do senior night at Indiana. It was weird. And let's not forget, they cut the nets after losing to Nebraska. Nebraska won in Bloomington and then Indiana brought a ladder out.

That's right. Because they won the Big Ten, they cut out on the nets even though they lost. That was a really weird thing. All right. Let's look at the SEC tournament really quick. Kentucky now plays 930 on Thursday. So, first of all, when you don't get a double-by, this is the best you could get in terms of having your most time in Nashville. Because you got all day Wednesday.

Thursday, I have a feeling when that game tips off. First of all, the game before is probably going to be Mississippi State, Missouri, right? Which ain't going to have a lot of people. which means everyone in that crowd is going to be a Kentucky fan. There are probably going to be, I'd say, Ryan, 80 to 85% of that audience is going to be Kentucky fans. You play the winner of Georgia in Oklahoma. You know, you lost to Georgia beat Oklahoma, but both of those teams are teams you can beat. Both of them might be NCAA tournament teams.

So you can get another NCAA tournament win if you win. But that is going to be Thursday night. If I'm in the state of Kentucky and I like games, I would run for that game. I will note the tickets went for that session. Shannon, I looked before the game. They were $41 for the cheapest ticket. Yeah. You dropped up for a second. How much were they? It was 41 the morning of and now it's $167. That's what happened. That's the Kentucky effect. Ryan, don't you think it's going to be an awesome atmosphere? Yeah, you said 80 to 85% Kentucky. And think about that. They're going to our show in the morning.

and you got all afternoon to sit in bars and watch games and probably partake in some beverages, and then you go in for that game. It could be an awesome, rowdy, crazy environment Thursday night and Friday night. They win and played the same thing on Friday night. Yeah, I mean, Drew, obviously Friday night, you know, will be an underdog against Alabama, but do you expect Thursday in Nashville to be one of those, like, amazing UK days? You know, our show will be at 10 roof at 10 a.m. And then just going all the way through the day.

Oh, absolutely. You know, I've got some friends. They're like, what are we going to do all day? Oh, you're going to sit at a bar. I know exactly what you're going to do. And they're one of many that will do that and go in there and make an even better environment. So it makes it a little longer of an evening on us, but I think it's going to create an awesome atmosphere with the fans to help Kentucky win that game. Shannon, my mom says she teared up when she saw the players.

When she saw the moment. So do you feel bad now? My mom cried at the thing. No, I don't feel. I'm going to keep my stance. I don't think you should cry. She said she cried because the player's mom was crying. You remember they kept showing the mom in the crowd.

Yeah, his hair, though, that Mohawk hair, I don't think, did me any favors for wanting to cry for you. So if you didn't have a Mohawk, you would have cried. Well, I wouldn't have cried, but I think there's something about a dude and a Mohawk that it's going to be hard for me to be really emotional about. Like, he looked like taxi driver, you know, so how am I going to be emotional? Now, for the NCAA tournament, I think this did wonders for Kentucky. you throw in the fact that Wisconsin lost, I think Kentucky's in a pretty solid ground for a three-seat. If they beat Oklahoma or Georgia, I think they're certainly a three-seat. They might even be a three-seat even if they lose.

I also think for those of you that want to be able to go to the games, this makes it much more likely that we're going to be close. Right now, Lenardi has us in Milwaukee. I was kind of looking at the numbers, and basically it's between us and Wisconsin for the Milwaukee spot. So if you want to go to Milwaukee, which is not a far drive, you want to lose route for Wisconsin to lose early in a big tent tournament. If we don't go to Wisconsin, I think it's very likely we end up in Providence, Rhode Island. Those are probably the two places we end up, one or the other. But, Ryan, I think that makes it to where in the first and second round, Kentucky's got a good chance of having a crowd, whereas if it ended up in Seattle or even Denver, maybe they wouldn't have had as much of one. Yeah, I think they would travel to Milwaukee or Providence.

That's not too bad of a drive there. And the fact that we've never been to any of these two cities. I mean, Kais, other people go to a city for the first time to watch your cats play. Yeah. So if you look at it, because the way they do it, they go through the seeds and they just put everybody that's closest. So it's very likely that Alabama and Auburn are going to end up in Lexington now. And Tennessee will not. Duke goes to Rale.

I mean, you can do the math of it. But basically, it's between us and Wisconsin for the Milwaukee spot. I could see the NCAA saying, look, we want to sell those tickets, Drew, and Wisconsin is right there. I mean, Milwaukee is literally in Wisconsin, and it's six, one, half dozen the other for UK, so we'll send UK to Providence. If you made me go on the betting market, I'd still say it's likely we end up in Providence. But Milwaukee is literally a day's drive from Kentucky, and we could get a huge crowd if that happened. I think that was my first pick when we did this exercise weeks ago, where we wanted to go. I would love to go to Milwaukee, even though it's up there.

a little dangerously close to Wisconsin for us in Wisconsin. What if we win two games in Nashville, though, because that would include a win over Alabama. Like Texas Tech, I feel like that's a two-seed that we could potentially jump. Potentially. I don't know that it would change where we end up. You know, I think we can't end up in Lexington. So I just don't.

And then Wichita, which is where Texas Tech's going to go, I'm not sure that's any closer than Milwaukee. So I think even if we beat Alabama, it's still Milwaukee or Providence. I don't see us get into a two-seed. I think we're probably a three. We're going to take a break. 859-280-2287.

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Yeah, that's where we're going to be heading here all over the place in the next few weeks. if we keep making it. If you look at Joe Lannardi, we would go from, we would go from Milwaukee to Atlanta to San Antonio. Just keep getting more south every time. 859-280-2-807.

One person writes about why won't we end up in Cleveland, it's the closest one here. Well, because they go through the process and the teams ranked higher than you get to be ahead of you, get to pick their close place first. So if Tennessee does not go to Lexington, if Auburn and Alabama get Lexington, then Tennessee goes to the next closest place,

which would be probably Cleveland for them, could be Raleigh, depending on how they did it, and the Michigan State would end up in Cleveland because they'll be higher than us too. But I guess there's still a chance if you were like the top three seed, like if we were to maybe beat Alabama, that we could end up in Cleveland. But that's the way they do it.

So when you watch, if you go look at the seeds, just put them in the city closest to them, and you'll figure out kind of where people will end up as it goes through. 859-2-80-22-87. I do have to read Drew. This is who Joe Lennardi has playing in Lexington. Okay? I mean, this is an unbelievable group of teams.

All right, Auburn, a play-in winner, Memphis, West Virginia. But then what about the bottom? Alabama. Robert Moore. Kansas, Arkansas. What if Alabama, Auburn, Memphis, West Virginia, Robert Morris, Kansas, and Arkansas are all in Lexington. Do Kentucky fans just go and boo every team in the tournament?

Exactly. And I'm rooting for this. One for Arkansas, having to beat Kansas and Alabama and Lexington to get out the second weekend. Good luck with that. But yeah, especially the Kansas Arkansas matchup. I think we're like five games ahead of Kansas and the all-time wins, but then you got Cal on the other side. Rupp would just boo the entire game.

Can you imagine timeouts during commercial breaks? Can you imagine, Shannon, if they send John Cal Perry to Lexington for the NCAA tournament? His head will explode. I'm just trying to think if there's one team you would pull for, who would it be? Maybe Robert Morris, but I mean, we have history with them too, so I don't know. I guess I would pull for West Virginia. I don't really hate West Virginia, Ryan. I mean, the idea of literally Kentucky fans could buy a ticket and just boo the entire time.

Do you think these selection committee guys have a little smirk on their face when they put these brackets together sometimes? I heard Shannon earlier, and he was talking about there's conspiracy theory. I believe it. Yeah, I don't. I don't. Because the thing is you overlook, I always hear Ryan Rousselo talk about this. People talk about the one time something conspiracy theory looks like happened. But how do you explain all the other games where they didn't set up conspiracy?

Because they didn't have an opportunity to. No, they have opportunities. Like, you could set up a whole, I mean, if you're a conspiracy theory person, you have an 11-seed Arkansas, you put them, I mean, they could be the second game against Kentucky. And they had that at one point. Lannardi had that, I think. Yeah. Well, let's see.

Right. Listen, if they come out and have us, yes, if they come out and have Louisville and St. John's together or us play Arkansas, then Shannon, I'll say, well, that seems weird. Okay. But if they don't, which I don't think they will, I do think you got to get, you know, there's got to be some conspiracy matchups just by numbers, right? Yeah, but I've seen it happen way too many times where they could have easily slid one of those teams over to the other bracket. Well, when's the last time we've had a conspiracy theory matchup?

Like, for real. When's the last time we've never done far enough to have one? Yeah, you've got to win a game to have one. That's a very good point. I guess you can't really conspiracy theory again. against a 15 seed. Who's up first? Adam.

Adam, go ahead, Adam. Hey, guys. I just wanted to call in and say how big Kentucky basketball is. Saturday at the Alps for the Auburn game, I got put on a ventilator and was out for six days. My buddy, Tripp Rogers, came, and after the LSU game, came the next morning and just had your show playing because he knows how much it means to me.

I came out of incubation on Friday and was able to watch the Missouri game. And yes, I did tear up seeing I got kids, so I did tear up seeing the mom cry with the coach and all that. But it really, the post game really just brought life back to me hearing Ryan and Drew. And it just, it means a lot, man. The show means a lot. Kentucky basketball is bigger than anybody realizes. And I'm surprised Ryan didn't have a show. shirt off at the comic cons.

Well, first of all, thank you for saying that. And whatever it is, you're going through there. We're praying for you. You're going to get over it, and we're going to be here with you through the ride. So thank you for calling and letting us know that. And God bless you, my man. All right. Thanks, Matt.

There you go. That's very nice to hear. You know, Ryan and Drew, you know that you got to be cheered up when you hear Ryan and Drew acting like fools on Saturday. I did enjoy it, though. I'm not going to lie to you. I thought more people without clothing should have come near you, though, right? Because it did seem to freak you out, whatever that happened at Comic-Con.

I love the fact that you heard what was going like, okay, I got to call, get in on this. I think you have a little FOMO when we were doing the... Yeah, I was. I wish I had been there for that one. I do enjoy... I do enjoy Comic-Con, and it seemed extra freaky. And by the way, Mario got a video of the guy from Good Burger Drew. is that what's his name?

Kenan and Kell. Yeah. Yeah. So that's Kel from Keenan and Kel, who I always feel bad for Shannon, because Keenan made it. And Kel's still kind of like, you know, and Kel's dancing at Comic-Con. He's still making money, though, at Comic-Con all those years later. He's living off of that. But that video, Mario, put that video up on TikTok, and it went viral last night.

People watching Kell dance at Lexington Comic-Con, Drew, made people happy. Yeah, as fun as the post-game show was, Mario and I also went around for a couple hours. Got some fun videos. The only thing that went wrong is Tristratus had her gone to lunch sign up when I got to her booth. Otherwise, we had an absolute blast doing all that. I had a buddy say to me they went to Tony's that night. Shannon and Sergeant Slaughter was sitting there eating dinner at Tony's like eating the steak.

I threw him off a little bit. Everywhere, you know? Like he's at every one of those comic cons. I want to think, though, that Sergeant Slaughter dresses at Sergeant Slaughter everywhere. goes. I hope he was wearing the military fatigues and the mustache. Remember that picture? He made my ex-girlfriend really uncomfortable. He put her in a camel clutch. Yeah, she didn't like that one minute. She was like, why did you make me do this? She was

not happy with that. I have one behind-the-scenes story from Comic-Con. Mario and I got the video with the Reno 911 guy and he had to cut out the ending because he and the people with them said delete that video, no videos. And Marrow and had posted it anyway. But we had fun meeting Reno 911, but They did not like being on camera on the KSR camera or TikTok. So you didn't tell them you were going to be on camera? Like, we were in line and there were lots of people filming stuff.

Like we waited in line a while and Maro was recording it all. And when it got to my turn, I mean, he was engaging with being funny, but then they were like delete that right when we got done. And Mario did not delete that. Who knew Reno? You know, he was from the TV show, The State as well, which is one of my favorite forgotten TV shows of all time. A lot of guys from the state, men and women went on to other things.

and people don't realize that that's a show forgotten back in the day from MTV, but it was great. Who's up next? Danny. Danny. Danny. Hey, Matt, how's it going? Hey, a longtime listener.

So I know that I might get some Rudy Cool for this. I'm prepared, but I got a good nickname since you guys are talking my nicknames. Oh, here we go. You know my standard. Go ahead. What is it? All right. So Williams is from Nottingham, England.

You got to call that guy to sheriff. You mean the sheriff, like, you're talking about like Robin Hood? Yeah, the sheriff of Nottingham. Okay. Yeah, that's my brother. I've been calling him for the past couple months of the sheriff. Well, I didn't realize he was from Nottingham. I knew he's from England.

But I'm not doing that, but I appreciate it. It could have been worse. I was preparing myself for much worse. You know, it is weird. Ryan, he's from Nottingham. Like, you never hear of British basketball players. Like, who's the most famous British basketball player of all time? That's a great question.

Sasha Clea Jones. Luwalding, was he from Britain? Was he a British guy? Yeah, I think he was. I remember, I'll tell you a name from the past. He was really good. John Amici. Do you remember that guy from Penn State, I think?

He was British. Yeah, that's a good call. Have we had any? Was Sasha Clayah Jones British? Was he British? Yeah, I think he and Amari are like teammates on the British team or were just a few years ago. Really? Who else?

Who else have we had anyone else from Britain besides Sasha Clayah Jones and Amar? Where was Morikayo Williams from? Oh, that's right. The member. Yes, he was from England from there. We do. A little Sasha Callia Morikino Amari. Azabuki.

He was not from England, was he? Born in London, England. I'm looking at it right here. Raised in Tulsa. Really? Born in London, so I think that counts. Hang on to say he was born in London, raised in Toledo. Tulsa?

Yeah. Talking about two different ends of the spectrum. Wow. But I think that counts, though. He was born there. Okay, that counts. That counts. I didn't know, I didn't realize Ozabuki was born in London.

Here's another one. Here's another one. How about Steve Nash? No, he's Canada. He holds British citizenship. Okay. But he plays for Team Canada. I'm not counting him.

But Azabuki, I want to know how he ended up in London and then goes to Tulsa. Let's leave London. Family was international basketball players. People travel, you know. Yeah, I guess. Hey, BB in spring is sprung, and that means you're getting outside more. Whether that's doing yard work or staying active by biking or running, it also means increased

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Ryan, is Lu Alding, unless somebody gives me somebody better. For us, it's definitely Klinna. Clinta and Amari are, too, then, that we... I'm not counting. Clint, if you grow up in Tulsa, you're not British. Amari's better than Sasha and Morricino.

I think Amari will be our best. We'll take a break and be right back. It's KSR. Last night, a blown call changed a game. This morning, the internet lost its mind. Highlights are trending, opinions are flying, and nobody's telling you exactly what happened. That's where Sports Slice comes in.

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It's a great show. For you all like 30 and under who've never seen it, it's on Paramount Plus, apparently. I didn't know that. Great, like, sketch show. And a lot of the people on it you've seen. Michael Ian Black was on it. Ken Marino, the man and the woman from Reno 9-1-1. Just a forgotten show of the past that was really good.

I don't know. I haven't seen it in 15 years, so maybe it doesn't hold up. I know at least one sketch I can think of, Drew, that you wouldn't be able to do today. So, I mean, you know, but I really did enjoy it. All right, British basketball players, Ryan, Michael Olo O'Condi. Do you remember him? The number one pick in the draft. Can anybody remember where he played college basketball?

Michael O'Oconda? No, Shannon, Ryan, any guess? Michael O'Ocondi? Pacific. They should give me 100 casts. I wouldn't get Pacific. O.G. Inobi, who is good in the NBA. He played that.

That's probably the best player from Britain. It is weird, though, Drew, that, like, France has all these great players, Italy, Spain. it's odd that England never really picked it up at a huge level. Like they've never really played it very much. No, have they ever been really in the mix in the Olympics or anything? I don't think so. I don't think so. That they're even there in the conversation of basketball.

Like France, France could win the next Olympics. And yet Britain just has never really, never gotten into it. Okay, so a couple little housekeeping before I go back to the phone. Tomorrow, Mark Stoops will be live in studio. We will not be at KS Bar because we have to be in studio. Mark's going to come in right off the top. So we will come right off the top of the show with Mark Stoops because he's got to be in for the first hour because they got practice or something going on.

So that'll be right to get. Yeah. Yeah. So for those of you, pro day, that's what tomorrow is. All right. So we're going right off the top. So if you have questions you would like for me to ask, wait until after the show and then send them on the text machine, 772-7-4-5-254.

I want to use this as a chance to kind of ask all the stuff that people are thinking and see what our answer is. I think we're going to have him. I don't know if we have him for a half-hour hour, I haven't asked, but he'll be in studio during the first hour tomorrow. Also tomorrow morning, the KSR Golf Scramble goes on sale right at 10 a.m. The Lexington one. So the Lexington one, it's at the U-Club.

That's the University of Kentucky golf course this year, which is awesome. We're going to have it on two courses, but it'll be, some of us will kind of rotate through it. It should, I think it's going to be, we're like kind of redoing the event a little bit, and I think it's going to be awesome. But that will go on sale tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. So be ready for that as well.

So stoops in the golf scramble. And then Thursday will be our show at 10 roof in Nashville. We're going to do it Thursday morning at 10 a.m. So nine Nashville time. So plan on coming to that. So that's a little housekeeping schedule. for this week. If we win Thursday, Friday, I think we're going to do the show somewhere else because

how late the postgame show is going to be. That postgame show, Ryan, may go to 2.30 a.m. that night. So we're going to do the show Friday somewhere, probably private. All right, who's up next? Let's go to Sean. Sean. Hey, Matt, I got to agree with you about Dane Bradshaw. I think my favorite thing about him is he doesn't talk about violent cuts or driving to the nail.

And then second part. Yes. Go ahead. No, wait a minute. I'll hear your comeback with that. No, no, no, you're exactly right. I think, you know, I like Jimmy. But I think Dame Bradshaw, I think he's going to, I think if they keep him up with him,

he's going to be a great announcer. He's smart. He's engaging. He and Tom have good chemistry. I think he does a really good job. We used to try a Jimmy Dykes drinking game, but after three or four of us got alcohol poisoning, we just had to stop. And you're Missouri guy.

that Missouri guy, that's not a mohawk. That looks more like a circumcision than a mohawk. And I'll let you go. All right. See, you know. Shannon, I thought you, I was like, I'm not going to cry over that. That guy didn't hurt us because I would.

If it happens as an adult, you'd cry. I can guarantee you would. Who's up next? Slugger. Slugger, go ahead. I have a conspiracy theory. Otega O. Oh, Tegu, I actually had to a sense.

during the ballgame on Saturday. The first one came at the 1728 mark to Andrew Carr on a three-pointer, and the second one came at the 118 mark, the slam dunk to Kobe O'Brien. The second one was actually credited to Andrew Carr, and because of this, I lost a bet. So, of course, I'm a little disappointed with it. Okay, well, I was wondering why you were keeping up with the official box score of O-T-O-W-A's assist, but it cost you money is what you're saying. absolutely and you can watch it on youtube it's clear you know yeah i don't think i will i don't think

i'll go back and watch the assist to see if you won the bet but i'm sorry that happened that was that would probably be frustrated absolutely all right i appreciate the call by the way uh ride both of our ksr parley's hit drew's single game uk parley hit and then my multi-game parley hit. Drew's was 3 to 1. Mine was 9 to 1. If you played them both, it ended up paying 24 to 1, if you combined them. So, you know, we have had a few dry

weeks here recently, but if you played this, if you keep playing it, I've looked through the year. If you played all of our parlays this year, you'd be up about 3 to 1 overall. You have to take some losses, but then when you get a 9 to 1 win, it helps. So Drew, it was nice to pull both of those this weekend.

Yeah, I mean, I'm probably out of my three to one. That was nice, but yours was a big time. So a big hit for you. Congratulations and to everyone who bet on that. We're getting hot just in time for postseason. March Madness. Let's go. Shannon, on the stock market is crashing again. Do you want to? No, I don't want to know. I don't want to look. Yeah. Maybe we should, I don't know. You want to take our money and invest in what? Wheaties or something? I don't know. 19 to 1, SEC. I don't even know what I would invest in right now. Listen, we're making America great. Don't you forget. Who's up next?

Stan. Stan. Stan. Hey, how's it going? I love Dane Bradshaw. I cannot listen to Jimmy Dikes. It's impossible. But, oh, and the Missouri player, is he going for Beavis or Butthead?

I wasn't sure what look. Which of those three? It's a little, it's a little, it's a little Beavis and Butthead. I didn't know people still did that hair, but they do. Yeah. High and tight. The reason I called, did you listen to Dennis Gates postgame interview? I did not.

No. He talked about the foul discrepancy. The Kentucky shot too many fouls, and his team didn't get enough fouls. And that's why they lost the game. They had some turnovers in the back court, but because we bumped them. We bumped into them. The officials didn't call it. They're not perfect.

You know, they miss them sometimes. But that's how we got that early. Yeah, I didn't hear him say that. I didn't hear him say that. He spent the whole rest of his press conference talking about what a great job they've done. I think they're like one in five or one and four going into that game. It was ridiculous. He spent like 20 minutes about the crowd.

Well, I appreciate the call. I will say this. If there was a foul discrepancy, but that's because they fouled at the end of the game. You know, they were intentionally fouling at the end of the game to extend it. So I think we had six four, they fouled six more times. They kept foul on us. We'll come back.

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