KSR - 2026-03-13- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: March 13, 2026

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...in Nashville. Friday, the 13th, packed house in Nashville, Tennessee at the SEC tournament, where Kentucky today plays for the third time this year against the Florida Gators. It is an amazing crowd here at Ten Roof, and we're ready to go. You can give us a shout-in-Clock's Pump and Shop phone line. 859-280-22-87. is an auto glass text machine 772-77524 in this edition sponsored by the tj smith law office if you call tj'll make them pay guys let me hear you right for everybody back in kentucky an absolutely packed house and i have to tell you drew you know we originally our plan was not

to do the show here today at tin roof we were going to do it back at the house and then yesterday we saw such a sea of blue out there. I go, well, we can't not do it. So here we are to be in front of this crowd. Yeah. And it is an absolutely packed out. I love being back. I was just thinking I need to spend a little more time in a tin roof on this trip.

So it's good to see everyone. And I know last night a second wave of Kentucky fans came in for this game. So I'm expecting we already have a great group here and plenty more on the way. It'll be at the game. Yeah, I will say, at first, it was kind of like you said on Wednesday. At first at the game, I thought, well, there's not as many people here. I'm not sure. And then all of a sudden it got in.

And then there were huge moments in that game yesterday, Ryan, where that was because of the fan base, it got so loud. It kind of felt like old school SEC tournament again. Yeah, the energy in the arena and the fan base getting behind Kentucky. They started to make a run. And you can feel it. There's just a different feeling and energy up down the streets. And we've had the last couple years down here in Nashville.

That's right. Our trip to the SEC tournament is sponsored by Clayton and Kroom and Bert Tavern Brewing. And Katz yesterday beat Missouri. a little bit of a sad stat, but nevertheless, we're going to have to turn that down a little bit. That's going to no doubt reverberate through the thing. A little bit of a sad stat, but Kentucky won their second game in the SEC tournament for only the first time since 2018 yesterday. But they didn't win it. And it was a huge win, I think, for the cats.

Not just fan base, seating, et cetera, Drew, I think this was a massive one. Absolutely. And, you know, I'm not surrendering anything to Florida today, but I will say it, It's been good to at least avoid worst-case scenario. We've already had a lot of fun. I mean, we're going to go beat them today. But all those nightmares we had of what could have happened, we're past that.

Kentucky handled its business through two games. You know, we said all week, just get us to Friday. Then let's just see how it plays out. That O' Adage, it's hard to beat a team three times. We saw it last night. O'Mess came in and beat Georgia last night after Georgia beat him twice. And it was Oklahoma. Oklahoma beat Texas after Texas beat him twice.

You're going to get the game right. Oklahoma beat Texas A&M. Otherwise, you know, you've named all the teams except the one they beat, but they did beat them the third time. Last year, of course, we played Alabama in this situation. It didn't work out. But let's talk about the game yesterday to kind of get started. Kentucky, it was a lot like the first game against Missouri. Got a big lead.

Feels like we're in good shape. And then all of a sudden just falls apart. Mark Mitchell, the big man for Missouri, gets, I mean, he turns into Patrick Ewing for a few minutes. We cannot stop him. they actually take the lead and then you saw what you did not see it Rupp Arena at the beginning of the year. The team, the fight in the last three minutes.

They get defensive stops. Oway, Aberdeen make big plays at the basket and they end up pulling out the video. Oh, yeah. I'll say it because we're all friends here. When Missouri went up at two and a half left, I thought it was curtains for Kentucky. It just wasn't feeling right.

But as you said, they made the plays. Aberdeen had a lot of tough buckets. He and O'A scored most of the points down the stretch, made their free throws. So it was a little more nerve-wracking. than we wanted it to be, and certainly more than we thought it'd be at halftime when you had the lead, but at least they got it done and prove they can make the winning plays in the end. The big plays, there were three plays down the stretch that were huge.

First of all, they miss an open shot. Diabate gets the rebound. Then they miss another wide open three by O.A. Aberdeen gets a massive rebound and gets fouled. That gives us a one-point lead. He makes those free throws. We talked about it, Ryan. There is not a player that there are very few players we've had that I,

I feel better at the free throw line than Aberdeen down the stretch. He has not missed a free throw in the last three minutes of the game all season. That is amazing if you think about it. Yeah, he's money at the line. Just give him all the smoke and he's going to take it. Made the shot at the end of the game. But I feel like the two biggest plays of the game were the two defensive stops when O.A doubled down with Brandon Garrison on Mitchell.

I felt like those two stops right there. Well, that was going to be my other two, but I was doing the one in a time. Gotcha. But the, the second big. thing to me were the defensive place. Mitchell was absolutely destroying us in the post, not just in the post, hitting threes. I mean, whatever we did didn't work. Then they called time out. Pope said in the post game press conference, he decided to send O.A. to double. Both times, away the first time shades at it. The guy goes the other way, misses the shot. Second time he reaches

in and smacks it away after having no defense for 17 minutes they got it on those last two plays. help defense was huge and then Garrison I know you know I don't think he took a shot yesterday so it wasn't quite the bg time that it was Wednesday but he had huge yeah four blocks yeah four but he and marino were doing that with four fouls there at the end because the front uh missouri's front court it was just putting them through so much pain earlier in the game and then away and aberdeen down the stretch both go and score huge buckets you know those guys we can we've talked about right they can take bad shots they can sometimes frustrate you they can sometimes you go well Why don't they share the ball?

But again, with two or three minutes to go, those guys going to the basket, they've had so much success with that all season. I was so mad at Aberdeen earlier in the game. We had the big lead, and he starts playing like we're behind instead of playing like we have the lead. He came down, jacked up a couple shots early in the shot clock. But you're right. When it's crunch time, you put the ball on those two guys' hands and just let them cook, let them get to the free throw line. They're going to nail it. And I do think this crowd had a huge impact on the game, especially when it was 73.

after the Oway play, and they get the ball. It was loud in that arena. It was loud, and you can see the Missouri players, I think, get a little shaken. Mitchell, as good as he is, I thought he moved a little quick, kind of because he was a little distracted, and that's when O'Wea got the slap. This crowd played a huge advantage. It did. I mean, Mo Diabate said, no offense, I think this crowd's better than the ones sometimes when we have him in Lexington, and I agree with that.

I said that on the show yesterday after Wednesday's game. It's just such a huge advantage down. down here for Kentucky. And we wondered with this year not going the way we all probably wanted there in the beginning and we might have limped into this a little bit to have the crowd will them through the end the way they did yesterday.

It was just awesome to see. And good to know, BBN hadn't slowed down at all. Well, I think it's huge for seeding. I think Kentucky is now certainly a seven seed that makes sure you avoid the one in the second round so you can get one of the two seeds. I think if they win today, they'll get up to a six seed, at which point I actually really think you could make a run.

I mean, if you're sort of taking the most optimistic view about Kentucky this season. A win today, I think sets up the scenario where you can have exactly what you would hope for, maybe in the most optimistic views since we got blown out by Gonzaga. That's why it was such a huge win yesterday. You're right to secure that scene next week in the NCAA tournament. You were talking about that difference between just a six and a seven's a huge difference. It's a huge difference. It's a huge difference. You're going to go from playing like if you're a six seed, you'll play like a Miami of Ohio or a VCU.

If you're a seven seed, you're playing teams for major conferences that are good, Drew. And then in the second round, the difference between Iowa State or Nebraska versus Yukon or Houston is a massive difference. That you're starting to play well. We haven't talked about it a ton, but adding Cam Williams to give them a little depth and to get away from the fatigue, maybe you can spell some guys a few more minutes now with him joining the lineup in that three-point shooting. I know it was the two games ago, but him hit his first three as he came in.

I've been out for a month. That was big and having him back is going to be huge, whatever they do next. Did you think Brandon Garrison goaltended at the end? It was 100% of gold-10. No, it did not go-tint. That was completely clean. We finally get a home whistle here in Nashville. We asked for it at Rupp.

I think we got that was a big play. It was. Because it was a three-point game. That would have made it won, and they got that wrong. They showed the replay, and the replay, it was obvious. It was on this way down. It was a goal-ten. But they can't review it, right?

Because they didn't call it a go-tent. I think in order to review it, they have to call it a goal-ton, and they didn't do that. See, I always think that's a weird rule because he actually knocked it out of bounds. So the reason they don't review it is the play continues, but it didn't continue in that point, and so it was odd. Yeah, with the stoppage, you think they could.

But there was also a moment late. I think did we travel maybe get away with it? I know their coach ran all the way down the court to yell at the ref and we were trying to put it away, but that's fine. That's all right. Was that Chandler? I think Chandler did have the time. It's just good to have the whistle on our side for once.

Let's talk about Chandler. Hit two threes, one and. in the second half that was big. Nice to see him make a couple and kind of get going. Well, because he didn't wear his t-shirt. He took the shirt off and he had a normal Chandler game yesterday.

Yes, he was asked about that after the game. He said the t-shirt doesn't have anything to do with it. We'll see if he comes out in a t-shirt today. I don't know, Colin Chandler. The numbers suggest that the t-shirt really has something to do with it. So he might not believe it, but the stats back it up. So Kentucky plays floor today. I just got a question for the crowd.

What percentage of you think we can win the game today? Oh, nice. I like that. I know this sound, I did not, I definitely didn't think we were going to win in Gainesville. I really didn't think we were going to win in Lexington. I do think we have a shot today. I think that, you know, one of the things, if you look at tournaments, when you've played and they have not, as long as you're not, like, think about yesterday.

Every team that won yesterday, except one, played the day before. And the one that didn't win, Auburn, had a huge lead and just gave it. up. You almost had a scenario where all four teams start yesterday lost. I think today, Kentucky has a chance. The key, though, is they got to Drew get to halftime within five points. We cannot be down double digits at half against Florida or we just will have no show. Yeah, and with Florida, it's really the opening stretch has killed them both games. For like the last 35 minutes of both those losses, Kentucky and Florida were pretty even. I think even the second half, they were tied. But in Gainesville, you had Lee start off hot. I think they went up 10-0. And then in

up arena they got off to a big start. So if you can just not let them get out in that 10-0-11-0 beginning like they have been, I think you can hang with them. I also think, you know, look, this crowd is bigger than it was yesterday, which was bigger than it was the day before. If you were to win today, then I think tomorrow this place would be absolutely flooded with UK fans. I mean, just to give an example on ticket prices. So I told you, get in price on Wednesday was $8. Get in price yesterday at the end of this show was $45. The get-in price right now, at least on my way of the show today, was $145. So it does seem like, Ryan, you're going to get a loud crowd.

Now, part of that is Tennessee and Mandy play right after us today. So that is part of what it's going to be as well. We've talked about this SEC crowd down here is long overdue to celebrate, long overdue to go up and down Broadway all weekend. If we can get to the weekend, when's the last week to the weekend? 2018, right? 2019. 2019? I mean, it's been since long.

Two games was 2018. The last time we've been to the weekend was 2019. I mean, all the pressure's on Florida, isn't it? I mean, we can go out and just play loose and just play basketball today. I mean, they're probably going to be a one seat either way. I don't really think there's any pressure on them. I think the pressure, there's really no pressure, but this is a game where Kentucky, I think, could get away.

And look, you win today. If you win today, tomorrow you've beaten both of those teams this year. There's no reason to go, hey, why not go win the whole? Oh, if we win today, we're winning the whole damn thing. Let's just get over this hump. Nice little pop there. Just get over this hump. Sure, they've got this twice.

There's the old cliche. You can't do it three times. What was the tournament? We were going up against Florida. James Young's slip. We're down by one and had a moment to get them there. So this is going to be redemption for 2014. And that 2014, that was kind of the start of the turnaround.

I mean, if you remember, they squeezed by in the first round, they squeezed by in the second round, played Florida in the finals, played them right to the buzzer. James Young slipped. And all of a sudden the team got belief and then went to the championship game in the NCAA. So there's a lot on the line today. The big thing, though, their bigs have absolutely destroyed us in both games in the second half. Our bigs have to play better.

Moreno's got to be stronger, right? I mean, our bigs got, I know we made the plays at the end, but they got overwhelmed yesterday. And they've got to play better today. Malachi can't get in foul trouble early. He needs to stay on the floor. And Moldiabate, he's the guy that's kind of going to muscle up with him a little bit. He'll probably play a lot of minutes today. just for that reason.

No, Diabate will play a ton. By the way, Diabate talked about this. Think about this. He got up in the morning. I think he said it like, I think his awakening time was like, or excuse me, his fasting time. He had to finish eating at 7.13 in the morning yesterday. He could not eat or drink any fluids until 6.51 p.m. So he played that whole game, no water, okay, no anything.

And then he said in the post game, at 6.51, I will say, scarf down all the food in the world. I mean, that's pretty amazing, and now he's going to be on his third day in a row of that today. And I love when he was asked. I mean, 651. Not like I'm waiting to seven. Yeah, I think Pope even said they'll be in the middle of film, and they're looking forward to getting mow some food

there while they're doing it. 6.51, so he will be doing that again today. 859-280, 2287. We are here at Ten Roof. A massive crowd of Kentucky fans ready to go. We got a surprise coming here in about 30 minutes. We will take a break and be right back. This is Kentucky.

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On this stage yesterday, Shannon the dude sang for three and a half straight hours after I, by the end, I could hear it in his voice. He'll be here in a minute. I couldn't believe it. And he was rocking, and this place was rocking. After our show, fans stayed here. They didn't have tickets. Watch the game.

And it's not like he's just standing here at a mic stand. My man works the stage. He's just back and forth. He did some things that might have been a little R-rated, it looked like, but he knows how to put on the show. Oh, lots of it. One person writes, Matt, the most disappointed I've been all week was seeing Mario wearing red. I do not understand what that was. Like, what was that?

Yesterday, he walked around in red, and he, people should have been mad at you. That's the worst thing I've ever seen. This morning, I was like, are you wearing orange today? What is your problem? But, you know, he's learning. This is only a second SEC tournament, so, you know, it'll get better. Well, he had to have his fit match. He had a little patch on his hood with red.

I didn't like it. If I had known. I will also say this. Mario is staying with a group of 40-something-year-old men. There's like 10 of us and Mario. And he is a great companion for the house. However, you can see how he's much younger. We all went to bed at midnight.

And we go in, and then Mario goes, you know what, man, I think I'm going out. So he ended up coming home at like 3 a.m. making a lot of noise. Mario had a big one yesterday. Sometimes you just got to do that. You know, Nashville's got a lot going on, and you don't just want to stay in bed, miss it all the fun. I agree with you.

One person writes, Matt, maybe our best play we have is Aberdeen driving the lane, stopping, pump faking, and going up. He's as good as I've seen at that. He really is. His body control, he will drive to the basket, draw the defense, and most guys, including most guys on our team, then try to force it up. He lets the guy fly behind him, then takes a shot. I think he has been so excellent at that, Drew, and it's.

And he made a big one last night doing it as well. That's his move. I mean, you were bragging on his free throws earlier, too. He also hadn't had more than, like, one turnover since January in a game since, it's a multi-turnover game since January. Aberdeen has only had, like, six turnovers since the start of February. I mean, it's an unbelievable. Like, he has been unbelievable.

Playing 35 minutes. I know. It's crazy. You obviously having another body would be great. But I don't know that you could ask for point guard to play much better than he's played the last month or two. I totally agree with you. And, you know, our bigs, defensively, they're struggling, but they're giving you points yesterday. You know, yesterday, I'd give Moreno credit. I say this. Of course, he'll miss it today. His free throw shooting, when he gets fouled, he's become pretty much a money free throw

shooter as well. Yeah, we haven't mentioned Yellovich yet. He gave you some good minutes yesterday. He's kind of, it seems like he's getting a little more physical as we get into the postseason. But for Aberdeen, he's not even a point guard. He's a two guard. He has learned how to become a top-notch point. This season, yeah. By the way, I also think you'll have a rare situation today where Tennessee and Vanderbilt fans who go to this game might root for us. You're right. I mean, that's. Yeah.

But wouldn't you root for, if you were them? I mean, Florida's a lot better than we are. I think you're going to root. If I'm a Tennessee and Vanderbilt fan, Drew, I'm probably rooting for Kentucky today. Oh, let me catch one Vols fan with a T on their shirt cheering for Kentucky. I would love to see that. I'll go up and introduce myself and welcome to the fan club. What?

Wouldn't you, I mean. But you're making a good point. Yeah. If it was, if it was Tennessee, Florida in the first game in us, Vandy, I'm rooting for Tennessee because I would think we'd have a better chance of beating them. Yeah, I know. I completely agree.

I think that's how it should be. But it'd just be a weird sighting seeing all that orange and they're actually rooting for Kentucky. But it makes sense from their point. That's a crazy world to even think about it. But we would. Do we would? I would. We would.

I know it. I mean, I would root for them. You know, either of the, like today, if we win, I don't even know who I really want to win between those two because I think Kentucky matches up with both of them pretty well. Who's up next? John is up. John, go ahead, John.

Go for it, John. Yeah, third time could be a charm, mate. You never know. All right, you cannot put us on speaker. You got to talk on your phone. Yeah, I'm on the phone. Okay, go for it. You weren't.

Okay, sorry. Third time is. charm i think we can we can might be to beat him there i got them winning national championship but that don't mean we can't beat them the day i like it why not anything else now that's that's about it just long okay there you go he just wanted to say we got a chance to beat him third time's charm third time is uh third times of charge after the game i will say mark pope i thought seemed to be to be it a lot better like he was happy go lucky he kept saying we came here to win five and five days now we're up to number three you know he's taken criticism he's had been second

guess but if you if I think today you know if he loses I don't think it changes a whole lot but if they win today I think it's a huge notch in his belt in terms of you know they made the sweet 16 last year if you go beat a Florida team that does have a chance to win the national championship I think that would be amazing yeah and you can see it in him and the players I think maybe they might be a little tight on Wednesday first getting down here we all had that nightmare scenario on our head you lose that but then they come out they looked loose playing free I mean they gave up the big lead but had a great start so I think you go in today with some house money and just have some fun

and see what happens 13 and a half point underdog by the way Ryan the biggest underdog Kentucky's ever been in the history of the SEC tournament I saw that that's a big number and like Drew said take out that first five minutes of the game on Saturday the last 35 minutes of the game we went toe to toe with them everybody welcome my good friend Shannon the dude who just got here I heard somebody say that I just woke up. That's not true. I've been doing the pre-show from my hotel room. But it's good to be here with you guys.

Glad we made it to Friday. Yes. What did you think about the game yesterday before you started rocking all night? Hey, I mean, it was great. They got up by 16. They had multiple opportunities to just blow out Missouri. They let them back in the game. But I'm just happy that they've won back-to-back games for the first time since 2018.

2018. I can't believe it's been that long. There were three moments in that game yesterday. I got nervous. One, Chandler had an open three, missed. Cam had an open three missed. I think both those shots would have put the game away. And then I was really worried about the play where Moreno missed the dunk

because they went on a run and I thought, are we going to look back and see him miss that dunk as a big moment? But again, fought back through it. Yeah, with that dunk, it just felt like a stretch where Kentucky could not do anything right. And Missouri was getting whatever they wanted. Missouri was getting a little cocky and confident. You could see it, Mitchell especially.

But as we've said, it starts to tell. I mean, Kentucky did this a few times, LSU, several times the regular season. They made the winning plays down the stretch when it looked like maybe the script it flipped it flipped you know we the flipped it script we out of boy girl i don't let me ask you how many of you all have found let's leave cow to the side how many of you have found todd golden to kind of be the least likable coach now in the cc is everybody i know there are people who are like well we'd still want him i i get that it would be very nice to see him take an ale to us because the whining and you know after the first game

he goes, well, they paid $22 million. After the second game, he yelled and screamed and all that. I would love to see him go down at our hands today. We're going to take a break. 859-280-2287. We'll be right back here at Tin Roof for KSR. Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio here live.

Here at Ten Roof, sponsored by Bert Tavern Bourbon and Clayton and Kroom. Great crowd. It is joining us here. 859-280-2287 Kentucky and Florida play at 1 o'clock today on ESPN. Let's talk about some of the results from yesterday. Louisville Cardinals lost. That's really good. Went down to Miami.

They are out. Duke nearly got beat. They ended up winning right at the end. But the big debate is going to be Auburn lost, but so did Miami of Ohio. So Miami of Ohio now got a loss in the first round of their tournament And it looks like it literally could come down to Miami of Ohio and Auburn to get in Who do you think deserves to be in the tournament more? We'll start with you Drew Miami of Ohio 31 and one or Auburn 17 and 16

I'll be the bad guy Auburn You didn't play anybody and you just lost a UMass when you first got to your conference tournament I congratulations on your regular season but I don't think they're very good. I think they're going to get killed whoever they play. Ryan? I'm going on Miami of Ohio. I'm still riding them.

17 and 16 to get in as an at-large is almost a little embarrassing to me. But Miami-O-Hile, I know they lost, but they beat everybody else. I'm voting for them. See, I was originally against Miami, Ohio, making the tournament as an at-large. But if you tell me they're going up against the team that's 17 and 16, that team doesn't belong in there. If it was 18 and 13 or something like that, I would say you take that team. but I think at this case you take Miami, Ohio.

I would also have noted if that stupid referee had not called the push-off against Colin Chandler, they'd already be out. They would not have a chance of getting in. How many of you would rather see Miami of Ohio? Raise your hand. How many would rather see Auburn? Like three people. Where are you staying?

I flipped. I was like Shannon. Originally I said Auburn. But the reality is this is supposed to – neither one of those teams is going to win anything. so I would much prefer to watch Miami of Ohio. Let them actually play somebody and see what happens. It won't happen, but I'd like to see Miami of Ohio play Auburn.

I think that would have been must-see television. I'd say put them in the first four, because I don't think they're great, put them in the game in Dayton. I think everybody will watch it to see if they have a chance of winning. That's what I would do, right. The atmosphere could be crazy if they put Miami of Ohio there at Dayton. Yeah, Miami of Ohio is only like an hour for Dayton. That would be, that's what I would do.

Those playing games, normally nobody cares about the teams unless you're a fan of those teams. I think more people would be watching Miami, Ohio, just to see what they do. If you had Miami of Ohio against a power conference team in that game, I'd watch it. I would definitely watch it. Oh, yeah, I like their story. I'd be rooting for them if they play it. I just, I don't like rewarding that resume, especially the way they lost so quickly in their conference tournament. If they go to the championship game and lose, maybe.

But, I mean, you got knocked out right away by UMass. 859-280, 27. Who's up next? David is up next. David, go ahead, David. Go big blue, Matt. What's going on, David? Nothing just hanging out on, Brett, the counting to watch the game I come here every Marchman.

It's with my aunts. Well, good. What do you got? And they want to come to KS.S. Bar and grill, and my Aunt Angie wants to meet Ryan. Well, I hope she does. By the way, we'll have the game at KS Bar today. Had a great atmosphere yesterday. So go on and get in there.

Go ahead. Anything else, David? Yes, I'm going to say it is this. I think it's, I know it's a small feat, but it's, it's not likely that it's, that Kentucky loses three times to a team. You know what I mean? We've only lost. It rarely happened. So we've played a team.

I appreciate the call. In the history of Kentucky, we've played a team that beat us twice in the regular season in the tournament, Drew. We've played them six times. Kentucky's record is three and three the third time in those games. So we have lost to a team three times, only three times, and Alabama was one of them last year. It's a lot of threes. Also, did you know, Kentucky is three and one when playing on Friday the 13th

to keep the numerology going on. That's exactly right. It is Friday to 13th. A lot of threes here. So there's some numbers there, Shannon. I know you believe in all the weird cult and alien stuff. We've had a lot of numerology talk on the show this week. We had the guy that keeps calling in and tries to compare like 8 minus 3 is 5.

and I don't even know what that means, but we've had a lot of that talk this week. So maybe it means something. I don't know. I did note, for those of you that care about referee, they had Doug Schaus on the game last night, which means he will not be on the game today. They usually do nights and nights. But we could get Pat Adams.

He was laughing at that pop for Doug Schaus. That was a negative pop for Doug Schaus. Oh, we don't have to see Doug Shows. Yay. I feel like there's much worse in the conference than Doug these days, to be honest. I feel like since Cal left it hadn't been too bad. I mean, he loves a good monitor review. He'll pull up a chair and watch a replay anytime, but I feel like it hadn't been too bad. That's another thing with these monitor reviews. I mean, how many monitor reviews have we had just in the last

two games? It is so strange to me this like decision that even a graze to the face is now a flagrant. And yet we had the one play where Aberdeen got hit the face and they didn't call it. So they're calling it. I don't understand why he wasn't, why that wasn't called at that point. And the one where Jasper took a elbow right to the face when he went up. I mean, they didn't call that one of a flagrant foul. What do you think about Pope's substitution pattern? I actually thought yesterday pretty good.

He is now, he did not play O.A. in Aberdeen separately, except for just like a 20-second period, even though both of them had two fouls. Aberdeen, by the way, he played the last eight minutes of the first half with two fouls, and he didn't get his third. I thought that was big. That's big. And I know foul trouble played a lot with the big guys, but I thought we'd see,

De Garrison, I didn't think he played 10 minutes. I mean, he was big down the stretch, but between having four fouls, we didn't see a lot of him. I didn't think we would get a second BG game where he's hitting three-pointers, but I thought we'd get a little more than nine minutes or whatever he had.

Yeah, who's up next? Bobby is up next. Bobby, go ahead. Hey, guys, I got two quick things. So first off, someone called in yesterday on the post game and was talking about the referees and if they grade them or not, And I don't know if y'all heard, but Tom and Goose was talking about the guy right next to him was there too great those officials.

And Goose said that every time there was a call, he'd nudge him a little bit. And then the second thing is, I'm going to take up for you, Matt. Ryan keeps messing with you about the bull. Well, how about if we win, if we beat Florida today, Ryan has to get on a bull. I like it. Ryan, will you join me on a bull if we beat Florida today? I am known to ride a mechanical bull after a few margaritas. So yeah, baby.

There we go. Now I have two. I have a question. Are you all riding together, or do you go, and then he goes? It's not right. We're not in a little tandem. All right, everybody. We have a special guest.

I want you to welcome the Tennessee Titans cheerleaders are here. All right. Wow. And they, hello, Tennessee Titans cheerleaders. They are here. They have a special gift for Tennessee Titans fan, Drew Franklin. I did not know about this. Wow.

Hello. Hello. Titans cheerleaders. This is the new Tennessee Titans football uniform and they have come to present one to Mr. Drew Franklin at Tennessee Titans fan. This is awesome. Thank you. How about that?

Look at that. What do we think about that? It's very, very nice. I like it. This is a surprise to me. It's a surprise to me too. We can talk about two guys on a bowl. So the Titan, just so you know, put your microphone on there.

The Tennessee Titans yesterday. contact us and they said that they heard that they had a massive fan in Drew Franklin. So I want to correct. So not only are they bringing the uniform, I also want to say this. The only reason we're doing this show today at Tenroof, we weren't planning on it, was so the Titans could present this. Drew is one of the first people to get it. Oh, this is the greatest day of my life. Thank you. Tighten up. We're going to beat Florida. I'm going to throw this on real quick. There you go. That's really cool.

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Travis Perry had a big game last night and got Ole Miss and upset victory yesterday. Nice little lob for a dunk at one point. It was big at the end of the games. And he got the rebound that wanted at the end. I mean, he was, I literally said on the final play, I said, I can't believe Travis Perry is in here, and then he gets the end-up winning rebound. I mean, he did everything. You got the game-winning rebound, ice some free throws.

Took one to the face to get Sompto kicked out in the first half. I mean, Travis Perry was doing it all. Yeah, they gave that. That was a huge play in the game. A flagrant two against Travis. Probably his best game at Ole Miss, at least of the ones I've seen and heard about. I saw her Chris Beard in the post game. They asked him about that play.

And then went out to the Travis may have a concussion. And when he opened his eyes, he said, I can hit the free throws. Well, he certainly didn't have a concussion. He kept playing. But the bottom half of the bracket is completely exploded. A lot of the teams aren't. are out. Arkansas and Alabama debut today. But Ole Miss, you know, Travis Perry playing well, and then Oklahoma

probably playing for their coach's job. Porter-Moser keeps winning as well. Do you think Ole Miss has one more in them? I mean, if you're Alabama and Arkansas, you don't play until Friday and then you get teams that are playing from Wednesday. I think Oklahoma could beat Arkansas, but I do not think Ole Miss is going to beat Alabama today. No, I was with some Ole Miss fans last night. They thought they were leaving their first game and they were even throwing off to be playing a second. And now their heads really into pretzel. what they're supposed to be doing this weekend, but I think it'll be the end of the road with their next game.

So yesterday, I probably spent more time watching the other conferences than I had. And the Big 12, you know, they had that glass floor that they were using that actually was gray. They ended up deciding last night to pull the floor and replace it because players, you know, we talked when they first announced it. I said, aren't players going to fall down? It's glass. It can't be. Turns out people were falling down. and a couple players got hurt.

One guy said he had a migraine because it was so hard to look at the floor, and they are now replacing the floor for the semifinals and finals. You know, like for Big Blue Madness, I think this is great. But when you're playing in a conference tournament and teams are playing to get to the NCAA tournament, and they're slipping and falling, you can't sacrifice a cool-looking court for players' safety. The migraine thing was crazy to me, Ryan.

The guy said, you know, when you sit there and stare at the floor, it's kind of blinking, and he said by the end of the game, I had a migraine. I can't believe there was somebody who sat in that office and thought this was a good idea. Let's debut this floor at the Big 12 conference tournament. It's ugly, too. If you try to watch the game on television, I think it's hard to watch. For all the cool things you could do with that floor, they had this ugly color of asphalt on the floor.

I didn't really understand it. You could barely see the three-point line. I know when it's been used in the past, like in the NBA and even at madness, players say they'll be drilling, they'll just hit a dead spot on the court. It's neat, but it's not going to work out and shouldn't be a part of postseason play for sure. Weird, like, glow on the ball when they're dribbling by the logo.

They can do really cool things with it, but again, I don't think it's worth it for the tournament. Yeah, well, they're switching it now for the big games. Who's up next? Adam is up next. Adam, go ahead, Adam. Adam. Hey, what's that bad?

Go for it, man. I have a big feeling that Aberdeen's going to put up 20-plus against his former team today. And, you know, if I had to give a prediction, I'd say, like, 84 to 80, catch one. Yeah, that's a great question. How many – appreciate the call. How many points do we have to score to win today? Knowing how much they put up, what's the number that you think we have to reach in order to win the game?

It's in the 80s. It's more than 80s. I would say in the night, yeah. I'll say 87. You and I think alike on these – 87 was going to be my number two. I think you got – I think you got a hit. we have to hit threes.

Like we have to do a lot of stuff well, and I think 87 is a minimum the number, because they're going to score 80 without question. You're not going to be able to stop them from scoring 80. And one thing they did a lot in Rupp is, you know, they're so good at rebounding. Their guards just leak out and take off because they know those big guys are getting the rebound,

and that leads to some quick points by them, and Kentucky's got to try to contain that a little better than they didn't like it. One good thing is, I will say this. I don't know how much he's going to be able to play, but defensively, Williams gives us some options there that we did not have when we played them the last couple of times. I actually think Cam is, if he can give us 15 minutes, Ryan, will actually be very helpful in trying to guard all those bigs. Absolutely, just having that link out there on the wing on those guys.

He hit the three from the logo. Kind of quiet yesterday, but just having him out there, the defenses have to pay attention to him. So stretches the defense. But I'm more concerned about his defense because we, you know, when we were playing at Florida, Trent Noah was trying to. to guard those guys and that didn't really work and Jasper was trying to go to those guys and that didn't really work. I actually think Kim can give you some minutes because

your bigs are going to get in foul trouble. That's just what's going to happen. He will and it'll be interesting to see how many guys that haven't had much playing time in the first couple of games. Get minutes because of, again, the fatigue thing coming in with three games and three days. Florida hasn't played a game since Kentucky six days ago. What do you think about your boy, Brandon

Garrison with all the blocks yesterday? Is this going to be the Brandon Garrison tournament? I know he didn't score, but Is this going to be the BG time? Where's the Mario? BG time. We're living on BG standard time right now. My favorite thing he did yesterday, maybe you shouldn't do this.

But, you know, he had to let Missouri know they're going home and drew a little technical a little. Yeah, what did we think about that play at the end? Mario has the best video I've seen. And you know Brandon said something bad because Sean Phillips turns around so quick to react. I have to say, I love BG. But that was the stu-one. Once again, we did the stupidest play at the end. You're up seven.

Diabate just like scraps at the ball. If he was a half an inch from hitting that guy in the face. And if he hits that guy in the face and they get two free throws for the flagrant, two more for the foul, and then they get the ball. Like, what are y'all doing? And then Brandon Garrison, I know you want to talk trash, but let the horn go off. I mean, I couldn't believe it, Ryan. There's 13 seconds left in the game.

But what's Kentucky's record where Brandon Garrison gets a technical? I know, but like, what is it? You already had the game one, though. But the game was over, and the only chance they have is if you do something stupid right there. It's the only way they could have a shot. We need to make sure his son's there. They seem to be undefeated when he gets a technical and his son's there. Here's a crazy idea.

How about let's just get a technical to start the game for Brandon Garrison? Why not? He is Brandon Garrison. Kentucky is now 9 and 0 when he gets a technical or a flagrant foul. That woman's like, yeah, go punch somebody in the face, Brandon. I see how you. All right. Who's up next?

Freebird is up next. Freebird, go ahead. Hey, guys, wish I was down there. I called into Larry Glover live and talked to him for Mitch yesterday and asked him if there had ever been a 30 team, excuse me, a 30-win team not to get in. And the closest he could come back is a few years ago, Belmont was 264. and they beat Clemson and NC State and did not get in. No, there's never been.

I think Miami will get in. There's never been a 30-win team not get in, but there's also never been a 30-win team that had this kind of record because usually they play at least one or two good teams in Miami didn't. But you've got to put them in. Now, their numbers, if you were to just do a Mark Pope, like, analytic thing, their numbers would not put them in. They're going to, if they get an at-large,

they will be the lowest net and RPI team to ever get one in the history of the tournament. So, I mean, either way, the NCAA is going to have to set a precedent where they put them in or don't. You just took the words out of my mouth or it'll be a president said. Joe Lennardi said they will be in. Yeah, but Joe Lennardi, I like Joe Lennardi, and he'll be on my show Sunday night. He also didn't do a very good job with his bracket last year. I mean, he's just guessing like everybody else. He's better at it than we are, but he's just.

guessing. Can I ask one more question? Yes, quickly. The court. Was it hacked by Ron Jeremy there in the Big 12th? I shouldn't have let you say the second one. 859-280-2287. I appreciate the call. You don't have to try to be funny. That wasn't it. Cats in Florida, Kentucky, it's been bet down. It was 13 and a half. It's down to 11 and a half. Would you bet the cats? What do I bet at the moment it came out? I mean what I bet at the moment it out. I bet it the second I saw it was on the app yesterday at about 10 minutes after our game ended. I like Kentucky to cover the spread, Shannon. Yeah, that feels high. Both games, we have played them competitively, so I think they can cover that. I do as well. We're going to take a break and come back for the second. Actually, second 30 minutes.

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