KSR - KSR Postgame UK MBB vs Florida 01/04/25

Episode Date: January 4, 2025

Matt and Billy recap the Cats' 106-100 win vs Florida.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Welcome, everyone. It is the local toy dealers KSR postgame show. That's about as good a game as you will see in college basketball, 106 to 100. Both teams in triple digits as the cats get early morning home victory against Florida. It's only like 245 and we're done for the day except for this postgame show. I'll open up the phone lines here in just a few minutes after we finish this first segment. Awesome college basketball game. I mean, really, it's one of those high, high level games where both teams played excellent. and luckily Kentucky was the team to win and just an awesome environment in Rupp Arena.

I mean, as loud as it's been consistently for a game in a long time and a fan base, really eager to get a big time victory in the arena and they got it. Kentucky's third top 10 win of the year, which is in and of itself a pretty astounding, astounding sort of stat, and they'll probably get three more chances at it as the years goes on as Tennessee, Alabama, and Auburn will all come in at some point this year. First of all, let's just go over kind of big picture the game. I thought after the first 10 minutes of the game, that is the best offense that I think I've seen Kentucky play in a long, long time.

time. In 30 minutes of action, they scored 82 points in the last 30 minutes. Actually, excuse me, that's not even right. They scored 88 points in the last 30 minutes of action. I mean, there are very few games where Kentucky scores 88 points. They did that in 30 minutes. Just an absolute clinic on offense with six different guys in double figures. I think, and we'll go over them in a minute, I think the six, main players all had massive stretches in the game that if you didn't have any of them, if one of them was not there, Kentucky would have lost. And that is just a credit to how this team is greater than the sum of its parts. Defensively, I don't think Kentucky played

particularly wonderful, but I also don't think it was all on Kentucky. I think Florida was offensively themselves pretty amazing. Those two. guards, Walter Clayton Jr. and then Martin were both terrific. And we really didn't have an answer for them. And then you throw in the fact that offensive rebounding, you know, we just got destroyed. They ended up with 17 missed shots where they either got the rebound or got the ball out of bounds. So 17 second chances, which led to 31 points. And to beat them with that stat, that's not going to happen very often. So I think Kentucky got out-tuffed a little bit on the defensive end,

but made up for it with excellent offense and creating turnovers. I think Kentucky made up for a lot of their problems, rebounding by their turnovers. Florida ended up with nine turnovers, but I think Kentucky converted eight of those nine into buckets. That's how you make it up. And then free throws, Florida got so many calls. I mean, I'm not, you know, I'm not a referee complainer.

I don't think it was, like, unfair. But the referees just decided if you threw yourself into the defender, you were getting the call, and Florida just did that more often than Kentucky, and so they got a lot of free throws. But what I loved about the game is how each of these dudes were individually excellent. We'll start with Kobe Bray, obviously, seven-threes. You know, we've waited. You know, you knew this game was there.

he's been an amazing shooter all year. But to make seven, all of them huge, including a couple where the game had gotten down to three or four points, he hits a three, extends the lead. Never gives him a chance to tie the game or take the lead. And man, every time he shoots, it feels like it's in. He doesn't force it. He took one heat check three, and I thought it was in. It kind of went in and out.

But it's just an amazing shooting performance by Kobe Brea. Lamont Butler. had, let's see, he finished with 19 points, but I thought just his defense, even though his man scored a lot, he got a couple of steals. He got fast breaks out. He made free throws down the stretch. He's kind of sneakily not been a great pre-throw shooter this year. He ended up hitting six of seven towards the end of the game when they mattered. He was massive. You know, Jackson Robinson, 14 points. You may have forgotten. he was out there, but there were two different stretches where he had five-point flurries when they

needed baskets, once in the first half when they were down 11, and then once in the second half, he got these little flurries, which kept them at one point in the game and the other point ahead. Then you had Andrew Carr. You know, Andrew obviously hit the three that pretty much sealed the game. I thought he played pretty poorly a lot of the game. He got switched a lot on those guards. He couldn't guard them. I thought he was getting out-muscled down low, but he also then hit the two most important shots. He got the back to the basket layup. He got the three in the corner. That dude, end of games, he has been money this year.

At the end of games, he has been absolutely excellent, did it again today. O way. Kentucky went on three runs. I'd never heard the phrase, Billy, did you ever heard the phrase kill runs? Have you ever heard that? No, never heard that. What is that? Never heard the phrase kill runs, but I guess that's in the analytic stathead world.

That's a phrase. Basically, it means you go on a 10-0 run. Kentucky went on three different kill runs in the game, a 10-0, 10-0, and a 16-0 run. Here's a little stat for you, Billy, from Evan Mikayawa. In college basketball in the last 20 years, if a team goes on three kill runs in a game and doesn't give up one themselves, they're 299 at 0. Wow, never lost. Never lost, like LeVar Ball.

And we did that today. We were number 299, three different kill runs, and all three of those started with an Otega-O-Way play. He ended up, it looks like, with 16 points, and I believe 14 of those 16 were at the start of the kill runs to use the phrase that I guess they use in the analytic community. He really was the spark plug that kind of would get them going on runs that really were the difference in the game. And then finally Amari Williams, a guy who I thought started the game terribly giving up rebounds, defensive mistakes, thought he was great in the second half. Good passing. Got a couple big buckets, including one where he did something, you know, Billy,

I don't like when he dribbles down the lane, but he did that on a play, finished. I think got an and one on it. He was really excellent in that second half, and I thought, still wish he'd get his arms up when he's rebounding. But besides that, really, really good game. Throw in, I thought Brandon Garrison had good moments. Ansley Almanor was plus 20 and 10 minutes of action. Not really sure how that happened, but that's a pretty amazing number.

And then Travis Perry, Travis Perry got some good minutes, hit a big three. That three he hit. It was down to a three point game. Perry hits that three kind of stopped a little bit of a run, so I thought that was a big shot as well. So really, this is a game where I think everyone on the team can be said to have contributed to the victory. I also want to give a shout out to the Big Blue Nation. Dan Shulman, who is the play-by-play announcer that everyone listening knows his voice. He did the game today. He's been doing games for 25 years, does a lot of the games with Billis. He tweeted after the game.

Now this is a guy who does Major League Baseball, he does the NFL, and he's done college basketball. He said in 30 years of games that it was one of the five best combinations of environment and game that he's ever been in. That's pretty strong words from a guy who goes all over the country, gets the best game, Every day, and he says that about Rupp Arena, and it was, he's correct. That was Rupp Arena at its best. It was 11 a.m. game, guys, 11 a.m.

I mean, KS.R would only be halfway through on a regular day. It's 11 a.m. And Rupp Arena was like it would be for a 9 o'clock tip in prime time. That is a credit to that crowd. The Rup crowd gets a lot of criticism. Some of it deserved. Some of it probably hyperbole. But when it's at its best, you get nights like tonight.

And tonight it was at its or today, it was at its absolute best. Big shout out to the atmosphere. Big shout out to the fans that were there. You know, I was at the bar. We started our pregame show at 8.30. It got full right at 9. And you just had a sense it was going to be a good crowd. And I'm told the place was packed.

10 minutes before the game. That's how you know it's going to be a great environment. And finally, you know, it feels kind of oppropos to talk about this now because we just finished winning this game against Florida on my TV screen right now. Tennessee is playing Arkansas. Arkansas down looks like 18 with eight minutes to go. And, you know, starting probably going, now going forward.

This is all going to be about this year, with the exception of February 1st, obviously, when Arkansas comes to town. But there were a lot of people last year that kind of thought, man, if we make a change, we'll set our program back. We'll never be able to be Kentucky. Kentucky basketball will move in a reverse manner. I hope that today, if the Duke win, didn't dispel that.

If the Gonzaga win didn't dispel that, I hope today dispels that. I think this fan base is totally unified behind Mark Pope. But I also think it's worth remembering something that older fans have said for years. Kentucky basketball is not about any coach. It wasn't about Rupp, it wasn't about Hall, it wasn't about Sutton, it wasn't about Patino,

it wasn't about Tubby, it wasn't about Gillespie, it wasn't about Cal, and it's not about Pope. It's about the history. It's not even about the players. It's about the fans. And it's about the state. And that is bigger than any player, than any coach, any radio announcer, any anything. Kentucky basketball is its own major thing.

And today is an example of what I mean. Today is Kentucky basketball at its best. An arena filled with people who are watching a well-coached team that can go into a timeout, come out and run a play that gets an open three that can win the game. A team where the sum of the totality, the whole, is greater than the sum of the parts. None of these players individually are great. I don't know that any of them will play in the NBA. But as a unit, they are significantly better than their individual pieces,

and they are fun to watch. And you know they care about the name on the front. All of them are making money. All of them are getting paid. And yet, this is as exciting as the teams in the so-called good old days because they love being here. And they make this fan base feel special. And that's what Kentucky basketball is.

So as I watch us win a game, 106 to 100, a well-played game up and down the floor at the pace that Kentucky likes with excitement and fun and with one of us coaching on the sidelines and getting the victory. And I compare it to a 60 to 42 game I'm watching, that I've watched a lot over the last few years, I think Kentucky basketball did exactly what it should have done and is in the place that we all wanted it to be.

859-280-2287. We will open up the phones, take your calls. I know you guys are excited about it. Usually these like Saturday afternoon post-game shows are the ones, you know, people might want to go outside before the snowstorm, so usually it's a time to get in, But this is a big win, so it may be kind of crowded. But hopefully you can get in.

We'll take your calls and be right back. It is the local toy dealers, KSR, Post-Game Show. Welcome back. It is the local toy dealers KSR post-game show. 859-28027. The text machine is 772-744-5254. Let's read a couple questions coming in. One person writes, Matt, there are a couple moments I thought the arena would explode.

I think it did explode something. Didn't it, Billy? I mean, I thought there were some loud, loud cheers. Seemed like a good crowd. Yeah. You know, I got a little nervous during the game, Billy. I, you know, I did the thing. Sometimes when we're at home and it's a close game,

almost listening to the crowd be silent, makes me nervous. Does that sound weird? A little, but yeah, continue. Well, I didn't ask you. Actually, I guess I did. But so I'll mute the game during those periods. Okay. So I did that.

But, you know, games like today, I have to be honest with you, Billy, I feel like I played at the end of them. Are you just spent? I am spent. Yeah. I'm spent at the end. I feel like I played. You know, when there were a couple threes that when they went in, I felt like I'd hit them.

You know, the Brea three, the Butler three coming out of the timeout. That was a big one. And then the car three, I felt like I hit all of them. I do appreciate the practice and the clutch gene. But I do at the end sometimes feel like emotionally I'm spent from the game. One person writes, Matt, what did you think about the fact that Ron DeSantis was on the front row? Well, you know, anytime there's a notable person at a game, I think that's cool. I don't care so much about like, you know, he's a report.

Republican politician. I mean, I'd feel the same way if it was a Democrat politician. I'm glad to have him at the game. I don't know if I like having a Florida fan, though, Billy, in the seats next to the Kentucky bench. You know what I mean? It's not about him being the, it's just about like, I don't want him putting his, his gator voodoo on it.

I doubt he was making noise and getting into the ear of the Kentucky players. He did do that thing, though, that Chris Christie did. The governor, he puts his name on his jacket. Did you see that? I did not see that. It said Ron DeSantis governor on the front of his jacket. Is that a lame move? Well, yeah, I think.

But then again, someone bought me, do you remember when I talked about Chris Christie doing it, somebody bought me a jacket that just said Matt Jones radio host? Have you wore that at all? No. I mean, I think I wore it once as a joke, but it's just an odd thing to have your name on the front of your jacket, don't you think?

Yeah, maybe. Would you get a jacket that said Billy, are shorts, radio host? Yeah, I would. It's all about promoting the brand. Oh, yeah. I mean, I wear too Mamosa Billy shirts. Yeah, but that's kind of making fun of you.

I don't know. So, no, I didn't have any problem with him being at the game. I think anyone that's in an official role should come to the Kentucky games. I'm totally good with that. I just don't know if I'd put him right next to our bitch. But other than that, I thought it was fine. All right, who's up first? Andrew.

Andrew. Go ahead, Andrew. What's up, Matt? So I'm from Knoxville, and I literally just walked out of Thompson Bowlingwell, Food City Arena, whatever. And I was close to Cala Perry today, and he just looks defeated. And after watching Kentucky win, you know, I looked at Tom Leach towards the end, and watching the madness that was going on in Knoxville today,

I'm 26, so all I've known is Calgary. And I admittedly was sad to see him go, and I didn't know how Pope was going to turn out. But today it finally turned around for me that this is the future. Caliperie is chalked. Wait, let me ask you a question. When you say it's today that was the day, and just be honest, were you one of the people last year who was like, we need to bring him back. I mean, were you in that, and then,

and now you've changed your mind, or did you change your mind before that? When did that happen? Well, truly, if I'm being dead honest, I didn't know because, like, all my life, I've heard my dad talk about Rick Bettino, Tabby, all these national championships, and all I've seen Cal, so it's like,

he was the standard to me. So it's like, what's now, what's next? Yeah, I get it. So today was just, just, I mean, what a day. And also, I mean, Tennessee fans are the worst. Sad to see him win, but I can't wait to see him rolling to wrap. They are good.

Well, I appreciate the call. I appreciate the call. Yeah, you know, that fresh energy is great. Cal's jacket is hideous, Billy. Like. I got to go look this up if it's that bad. It's awful. It looks like a picnic table.

The red. I don't know. If you coached Archive. Arkansas, would you feel the desire that you have to wear red? Oh, yeah. He feels like he has to. Can't you just wear a dark suit, though? Like, why can't you just wear a dark?

Do you have to actually wear red to every game? I mean, Kentucky coaches don't wear blue to every game. No, that's true. Why do you have to wear red? You certainly don't have to wear what he's got on today. Well, he's trying to ingrain himself with the fan base, right? They got the slobber and hog out there. He's wearing red.

They're losing by 20. Who's up next? Josh is next. Josh. Go ahead, Josh. first time long time who are what's up not much me and my son went to the game we went to the pre-show with you guys and what was it like inside what was it like inside it was so loud everybody was on their feet everybody was cheering they were booing the florida fans and it was just a great

atmosphere overall that's awesome i mean for an 11 o'clock start i was kind of worried but uh the fans brought it for sure. Yes, sir. They did. We had so much fun and wanted to say thank you for all you guys do, and we had a blast at the pregame show. Well, thank you for coming by the bar. You guys have a safe trip home, okay?

Yes, sir. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate it. By the way, we were going to have Otega Owe at the bar tomorrow for signing because of the weather. We're going to postpone that. We'll probably do it sometime middle of next week.

So keep that in mind. to have because I know some of you all want to get all the players. We're going to try to have them all the main guys at the bar at sometime during the season. But because of the weather tomorrow, we will, it was going to be tomorrow. We're going to postpone it away, you know, for sometime in the next 10 days or so. Who's up next? Jordan. Jordan. Jordan. Go ahead, Jordan. Hey, Matt. First time, long time. Who are? Hey, so took my two boys, my wife, first time we've been as a, as a whole family to a game. Before the game, we were able to go down on the floor, have some good friends, have really great seats.

The scorekeeper actually let my 8-year-old Hudson hold the game ball. Oh, wow. And Hudson was able to kind of bless the game ball a little bit. We've been shooting the ball a little poorly, so I think Hudson. Well, you've got to get Hudson in the next time. He did a good job blessing the game ball. We shot 48% from three. Now you've got to get him to put a curse on the other team shooting the ball

because they still made a lot. Well, we did one thing. We'll work on the other next time. But, you know, anytime we need to come back and do that again, the ball's in UK's court, if you want to put that out there. You know what? I'll pass on the message. They need to have you there in order to have a shoot well.

It was an awesome atmosphere. My kids had such a great time. We stayed after the game. Kobe Brea stayed and he was still signing. We got a ball sign and Pope's sign. It's just awesome. So appreciate everything. It is awesome.

All these players, the coaches, and whatnot. Glad you enjoyed the game. Appreciate the call. Walter Clayton, Jr., Billy, I'll be glad when he's gone. Good grief. Man, he's good. That shot he hit. We were up 11, and it looked like we had basically, they were done.

And he hit a contested three, and I think it was either Butler or Brea was right in his face, and he still made it. And they kind of stayed in the game from that play. That dude is unbelievable. And then the other guy, Martin, he. the Florida Atlantic transfer. He was amazing too. Yeah, Martin had 26.

Clayton, I do want to commend Butler, even though he scored 33. He was tired at the end of the game. He missed those two three throws short. And he missed an open three. Like, I think what the, I think it was a seven point game, like two and a half minutes to go. And Clayton had a wide open three. And he left it short. And I agree with you, Billy.

I thought he was tired. Normally that would be, that would be in. And I thought he was tired. And I thought you could see this sort of. of, you know, what they were able to do to him defensively. And I do want to give a shout out to our guy, Travis Perry. I mean, he allowed Butler to get rest, but we played 31 minutes. I think Perry had like eight or nine, but that allowed him, you know, we didn't have a drop-off.

I think we even were plus points in the minutes Perry was in. So there's been a drop-off at that position since Kerr got hurt. And tonight there really wasn't. Who's next? Florida, man. Florida, man. How are you? Hey, Matt.

I'm originally from Henry County. but I live down here in Florida now. I just wanted to tell you that the game has been all the talk down here for the last week or two. Ever since they played a bowl game, I live in Tampa, and that's where they played their bowl game for football. And ever since then, all the talk has been this Kentucky game, and that's all they've cared about. So I just wanted to let everyone know that this was their Super Bowl.

And just like every other Kentucky game, we brought the heat and go cats. Go cats. they're good now. I mean, I'm glad we're not playing down there. You know, we've played them twice a year for as long as I can remember. I mean, we've probably played them twice a year, I don't know, for 75 years in a row. I mean, we played them when it was the East and West, we played them twice a year. And then when we went to the rotating schedule, if you remember, it used to be you had three permanent opponents that you played twice a year. And for ours, it was Tennessee, Vandy, and Florida.

And this year it's Tennessee, Vandy, and Alabama. Because now Texas and Oklahoma are in the conference. So this is the first year we haven't played Florida twice. Billy, it's got to be in 75 years. That seems like a long time. I mean, I don't know when we wouldn't have played them twice because the SEC used to play every team twice. And then it went to the east and the west,

and we were in the east with them. And then we went to the schedule. It's been the last 10 years or so, and we played them twice. So this is probably the first time we've not played them twice. And who knows how long we went. But I'm glad we're not playing them again because I think if we played in Gainesville, we might lose.

Yeah, probably would lose, right? I mean, they're good. So I might see them in the SEC tournament. We'll see. Who's next? Ryan. Ryan. Go ahead, Ryan.

Listen, Matt. Great day. Great game. but I got a bone to creep with somebody. All right. That guy that called in last week and said that stupid mess about y'all talking about cow, here's the deal. Y'all's job is to talk about the overall storyline of the program.

Yes. And he's a part of the storyline of the program. And secondly, your personality is part of the show. That's like going to Applebee's and complaining that it's not Buffalo Wildwing. Go where you like it. And don't ask the place that you don't like to change. to what you like. Have a nice day. Appreciate the call. I generally agree with you.

I mean, in future years, the Cal conversation will get less and less. That's just going to be the nature of it. Pope will, it'll be about Pope. You know, I remember the first year that Cal was here, we compared Cal to Gillespie all the time. And Cal won that comparison very easily. That's going to happen. But I mean, look at today. We play Florida at home.

It's 106 to 100. And then right after the game is over, Tennessee Arkansas comes on, and it's 76.52. Arkansas is going to lose by 24 and scored 52 points. Like, Billy, how are you not going to note that? No, you are. You're going to. Now, that doesn't mean we're going to beat Tennessee and Knoxville. I bet we don't.

But I bet we score more than 52. Wow, 52. 52. who's next uh tristan tristan what's up tristan good afternoon gentlemen good afternoon so uh i despise florida the most so games like this are basically spiritual healing um i was there it was an incredible environment the fans chanted at the rest specifically three different times that was the loudest ref you suck chant i've ever heard at the like when they called that foul right at the end i can't remember the last time

I've heard one louder than that. Yep. Well, you know, I forgot the second thing I was going to say it was. Hope you all have a great day. Well, thank you. Yeah, I mean, what did you think about the refs? I thought, I thought they bailed them out a lot

that calls at the rim. Yeah, there was definitely a couple of phantom calls, one on Garrison that was egregious. Yeah. Well, that one, yeah, that went on Garrison. They called it so late that I thought it was on the second shot. Yeah. No, I'm serious.

I know what you're talking. Because again, I had it on mute because, you know, I was playing and I was nervous. I needed to tune out the crowd. I didn't hear the whistle because I had it on mute. So I went into the break thinking they called it on the rebound. I couldn't believe they called it on the initial shot because I went back and listened. He blew the whistle after the second guy had shot it. Yeah, just one of the many calls that you could question today.

I didn't under, I felt like they bailed them out a lot with light, light whistles. But honestly, on a couple of those, Billy, it was probably a blessing because we put the dude with the haircut that all the country singers have now. Oh, yeah. You know what I'm talking about? I do. My cousin has that haircut.

And I think it works on him. But I think a lot of these goobers that try to copy it, I don't think it works on them. I think the guy in Florida, he just looks like, well, He needs to not have that haircut. But we put him on the line and he missed a bunch of free throws down the stretch. And so I actually think some of those fouls might have helped us, honestly, because he missed so many free throws. Who's next?

Ray is next. Ray, what's up Ray? Hey, Matt. Was that the best 11 a.m. game of all time or what? Yeah. Listen, that's one of the better noon crowd. I mean, you know, we've had crowds louder than that. but it's almost always a night game.

I can't remember a crowd that good. I mean, we've never had an 11 a.m. game, but I don't remember crowds that good for a noon game ever. We complain about the early games, but the best game I've ever been to at Rupp was a noon game, and that was that North Carolina versus Kentucky game. That was a noon game, wasn't it? I forgot that was a noon game. Yeah. Yeah, that was a noon game, and that was a great crowd, too.

You're right. Matt, I'm so proud. of Amari Williams. He started off. He was making bonehead mistakes. Yeah, he was. And the way he finished, 15 points, 8 rebounds, five assists. What a line for a center like him.

Totally right. And I appreciate the call. Amari Williams probably frustrates me more than anyone else on the team because the main reason, well, too, I don't like when he dribbles. But secondly, he doesn't put his arms up. He doesn't rebound with his arms up in the air, and he doesn't always play defense with his arms in the air, and that frustrates me.

And I was very frustrated with him at the beginning. He gave up two easy baskets because he didn't rebound, and then he turned it over. And I thought, well, he's going to be bad this game. But then he went to the bench. Pope took him to the bench early. Once he came back in, he was great the rest of the day. Really was.

Take aside those last few minutes. That's the best I've seen of Mari Williams play maybe this year. outside of those first few minutes. Mississippi State, by the way, who we play next Saturday night at 830 on the road is up 30 on South Carolina right now. Wow, okay. 50 to 21. Mississippi State's good.

By the way, Pope said this in the app in the post game, and he's right, obviously. Florida was second in the country in half-court defense. second in the country in half court defense, and we scored 106 on them, most of which were in the half court. So that's pretty good. Let's do one more. We'll take a break. Who's next?

Charlie. Charlie. Charlie, go ahead, Charlie. Hey, I think that their crowd being so old, I think that 11 o'clock time, so it's perfect. To get their early bird breakfast and it's pre-nap, that's why the game went so well. You know, is that what it is? That's an interesting point. because like I wondered if we'd have people at the pregame show because it was so early

and you're right they all came and ate break you're exactly right maybe this is prime time for the rup crowd but my only worry is the rebounding it's still still a worry yeah no it's a worry I appreciate the call it is a worry they we got I mean 31 second chance points you're not going to win I'm not going to say you're never going to win because we won but you're not going to win a lot giving up that many I didn't think about that billy this is prime time for the older fans. It really is the perfect call. They go to the game.

They got their biscuits and gravy at them. After this post game show, go to Shonies at 4 o'clock for the, get a, what is it? Happy Hour, you know, early bird special. Band by 615. Yeah. That's it. That's the formula. You know what?

11 a.m. every week. I actually don't like that. That's a little early for us. Because 11 a.m. is not good for the restaurant. Like, we need it later in the day. but that's okay because we won and it was fun. 8.59-2-80-2287. We're going to take a break.

Be right back. It's the local toy dealer's KSR post-game show. Welcome back. It is the local toy dealer's KSR post-game show. Matt and Orlando just tweeted out. Kentucky scored 1.47 points per possession today. Florida had 1.39. I don't know if you guys are like,

analytic folks, but those are insanely high numbers. I mean, 1.47 is crazy high for any team, but especially against a top 10 team. And then 1.39 that Florida got will win you 99% of games. Norlander's comment is, and he's one of those, and I like Matt's a friend of mine, but he's one of those kind of nerdy analytic guys. He said, Kentucky and Florida combined for 206 points in the top 10 matchup, Kentucky shot 1.4 For seven points, Florida 1.39. Absolute lava.

There's a very good chance we don't see a more efficient offensive game between two high major teams for the rest of the season. It's pretty good, Billy. That's impressive Kentucky. I don't know. How many times do you see two teams from a major conference play and they both score over 100 points? Not in college basketball.

I mean, you see that. Well, think about the Duke Kentucky NCAA tournament game. It's like what? 104, 103 or something? That was in overtime. How many games do you remember where both teams score over 100 in college basketball? In regulation. Without regulation.

That just doesn't happen. Maybe Corey Price, if he's listening, can tell me even the last time it's happened in a Kentucky game. I mean, probably happening once or twice during Cal era, but probably not much. You probably have to go back to the Patino era when we were shooting a million threes to see it happen a lot. I can't off the top of my head think of one, although I'm sure it's happening. It doesn't happen very much. Who's next? Robert.

Robert. Go ahead, Robert. Hey, Matt. The young man that blessed the ball today, I think we need to keep him on speed dial for these Adidas balls and Wilson balls and stuff like that. That's right. Yes. That's what concerns me.

Take him when we play at Auburner in one of those games, yeah. That is correct. And then number two, you're missing it at the bar. You do breakfast. Then you get the early birds right after it. And then you can have your bar crowd at night. You can hit the trifecta that day. Yeah, we don't usually get a late bar crowd because we're more of a family place.

But I get it. We got the bingles night. That'll help some. But we like four o'clock games. That's like perfect. But you know what? For the early birds, this is perfect. And I'll give you a shot.

I'm in northern Kentucky. I'll give you, Houda. Well, I hope they win tonight. Who day. Go. I appreciate the call. Go bingles. I mean, if they win the night, then they got to have a couple things happen for them.

tomorrow but it's plausible they need what they need Kansas City to beat Denver yes and Miami City's playing there Kansas City's playing their reserves though right but still a lot of pride with that Chiefs organization and then who does who does Miami play I'm not sure I'm looking that up now they need them to lose they can't remember they play somebody they could lose to Jets at the Jets but like okay so it's going to be Aaron Rogers last game right that's what they So he doesn't want to go out, you know, he doesn't want to start his Joe Rogan podcast with off the loss. His VP nominee. Yeah, this is the only time in my life I've ever rooted for Aaron Rogers.

You know, I've rooted against him. Every game in Green Bay is a Bears fan. So tomorrow, the Bengals win, let's go. Go Aaron. Who needs facts? What's next? Gary and Orlando. Gary and Orlando.

What's up? Hey, Matt, great to talk to you. Good talking to you. That first segment of yours was, I'm doing great, buddy. That first segment of years was as good as you've ever had, buddy. That was an award-winning first segment. Thank you very much. Well, thank you.

And all I can say is it's great to be a cat fan in Florida today because maybe they'll shut up for a while. Yeah, you know, I mean, we always talk about when you live in a state and Kentucky beats the team in that state, it's extra special. Yes, it is. It's what I was going to say was, if I find the gator out tonight and down here where I live, I'll have to go to the zoo. Have a great night, man.

All right. I appreciate the call. I want to talk trash to Florida, but they are good. I mean, that team's good. We could easily lost that game. We had to have a great performance. Now, they had to have a great performance, too. They had a couple of dudes, you know, going crazy.

But they're good. And they, you know, their bigs didn't play as well as they normally play. So, although they did hit the glass a lot. But their bigs, a couple of their bigs are more talented than what we even saw tonight. Bad haircut guy being one of them. Who's next? Fox. Fox.

Fox. Fox. Hey, Matt, I just wanted to recognize how important is on inbound plays on half, half court and full court to get the ball in and have run a good play without being stressed to try to get a shot up. I mean, that played a very important part in the game of crucial points that kept conducting. Well, let's talk about those two plays for a second because I want to get to your point, Fox. Hang on because I want you to be able to comment. All right, so two plays at the end of the game, three seconds left on the shot clock both times. First time Pope calls time out.

Second time, it's an under-4 TV timeout. He comes out and Pope talked about this after the game. I love listening to him talk about basketball because he talks about it. He doesn't say you. Do you see what I did? See what I did? He like tells you what he did, right? He said, first play.

Florida plays a defense. He named it. I don't even know. I can't remember what he said. But he said they switch everything. And he said you can take advantage of that. But when there's only a handful of seconds on the shot clock, it's really hard. And he said, so it's really hard against the inbound.

We knew they were going to do that. He said we ran the first time of play a little lob so Garrison could get a hook. You may remember Foxy. missed it, but it was a good shot. It was right there under the basket. And then the next time they run that play, and we get the Butler. We got Butler in the corner. We got Butler in the three open.

Both plays got really good shots. We made one. We missed one. But in both situations, we didn't waste a possession and just throw it up. We got a really good shot. And it was because a coach recognized the defense the team is in, tried to get something that he thought would play off. of it. He said, Butler coming off the inbound is the best thing to do against a team that

switches so much because the inbounder won't have time to get there. And he didn't, and he got the three, and he ended up being a huge shock. Exactly. I mean, it's the little things like that that wins games. I mean, it's not, you know, big runs plays apart, but little things like that just keeps the momentum going that wins you games. You're exactly right. I appreciate the call. I mean, those are, you go back, Tubby Smith was great at inbound's plays. Tom Isso's great at it. We've watched Rick Barnes at Tennessee is great at it. We've watched these teams just kill us at it. And now we got a guy that's great at it. And in two major possessions, again, we missed one, but that was a great look Garrison got. And then Butler wide open, probably the biggest shot of the game, was that three coming out of the timeout, who's

next. Jared. Jared, go ahead, Jared. Hey, two quick things, Matt, and I'll hang up and listen. First, I don't think anybody will confuse this team for a great defensive team at any point, but what they do that I love, they play at a pace that in the second half, teams don't have their legs. Duke really didn't have it. Gonzaga, they affected them too.

And even Florida that wants to play fast, if they had guys missing free throws, shortened, you know, some short shots in the second half. So I think that bodes really well come marks when you're playing on short rest. I think that's a really great point, like a really great point. And you're exactly right. And even Ohio State was like that, too, it's just we weren't close enough that it mattered. You know what I mean? You're exactly right about that.

It's something I need to remember watching these games because sometimes I get frustrated at the beginning. One of the things I need to remember is you're right. We have now seen in the Duke, Gonzaga, this game, even go to the Louisville game. At the end, these guys on the other team, they kind of don't have their legs a little bit in those last three or four minutes. And I think you're right. It's because of the pace we play. And it's because Pope does a good job of even though it frustrates it sometimes stealing minutes with these other guys that allows his players to be fresh at the end. Absolutely.

And just second real quick. it just makes me laugh a little bit. Arkansas thought for sure they got such an upgrade with Cal. They've been a game from the Final Four a couple times in the last five years. Yeah, I didn't know what. I never understood why they didn't like Musselman. I mean, Musselman, like, he was good. He was good there.

I know they had kind of a blow up last year, but still, he was good there. And I appreciate the call. I agree. I think the best summary. of the situation on all that was what Drew said a couple months ago when this topic came up. I didn't know if Cal would do well at Arkansas or not. You know, they're 11 and 3. They got crushed today.

I don't think they're very good, but it wouldn't shot me if they're okay. Boogie flaying is really good. A do is good. But Drew said, and I think Drew is right, I don't know if Cal do well in Arkansas, but I know he wouldn't have done well here again. And I totally agree with that. Whatever he does there, it wasn't going to happen here. This was over.

And you see something much fresher and exciting right now. Let's do one more and we'll take our final break. Who's next? Emma. Emma. Emma, go ahead, Emma. Hey, Matt, this is Emma's dad. She totally chickened out on me.

That's all right. It happens. Billy's nerve wrecking. Two things. Two things. We had the opportunity to go the game tonight and we sat kind of in the top. But two things, it was great to see. One is the spacing of the floor and the ability that our guys have to, you know,

to either back cut or to get open and different things. It's so much better than having two bigs in there to where it clogs it up. It's just modern basketball. You know, that's the first thing. And then the second thing, we had a couple of. calls and didn't go our way, which happens in every game. But in the past, Cal would go multiple possessions yelling and screaming at the referees and totally forget to coach. And now Pope may say something, but he goes right back to coaching. And our guys, our guys just don't lose anything

when they continue to go. So he doesn't get affected by anything that goes on. He's a great model for how to keep your emotions in check. And you can see that. on our gas. I think that's another great point. I mean, how many times have you seen a referee go back and switch a play? Like, it doesn't happen. You know what I mean? So once you've made your point, you've got to move on. You can't let one bad call turn into another bad possession. And you're right, they are really, really good about that. They could have easily gotten frustrated on some of those foul down the stretch where it felt like Florida was kind of getting bailed out by like second calls and they didn't do it.

Yeah, and you know, and you saw Todd Golden today, there was a couple of times when we were down early and we made that first run, a 16-0 run. He should have called it. I was sitting next to a Florida fan. I said, man, they probably needed a timeout right here. And he went too long because he was kind of fussing at a referee. And we go down and get a bucket and then Otega hits a three. And that's five extra points while he's fussing at the referee. That's a good point.

Yeah, he's a good coach. I appreciate the call. I know he's got other stuff going on and I don't know about all that. But I do, he is a good coach, but you're right. He can, he's got a little bit of a temper too, and that can, that can cost you. It's a crazy seeing Duke, SMU is a conference game. I was sitting here, I literally just showed Duke SMU, and I was like, why is Duke playing at SMU? And then I went, oh, yeah, they're in the same conference.

Duke, by the way, could go, let me give you, look, can I make a prediction? Yeah, I think Duke could go undefeated in the ACC. Oh, stop. Who's going to beat him? I don't know, but I just, I would hate to see that. But who's going to be? SMU is probably the fourth or fifth best team in the ACC. Nobody's good.

All those teams that you think of as being good, they stink this year. Virginia stinks. Florida State stinks. Miami stinks. North Carolina. I mean, they could lose it, North Carolina, but North Carolina is not good this year. Louisville, they've already beaten Louisville on the road. So they're not going to lose any games at home.

So who are they going to lose to on the road? They're going to have road victories. If they win this game right now against SMU, they're going to have road victories against Louisville and SMU who are probably like the fourth and fifth best teams in the conference. So, I mean, North Carolina might be the second best team in the conference and they're not good. So I'm telling you, you write this down, Billy. Okay.

I'll write. I'll go on record. I'll write it down. They're going undefeated in the ACC. What happens if they're going to, they'll be, well, I mean, then they don't. But I'm just saying to you, I'll put it like this. Will you give me one and a half losses and I'll bet you whatever you want? No, I can't.

Okay, so if you think you can't do the bet at one and a half, it's not crazy to say they won't lose. That's valid reasoning. I'm just saying, and it's not because they're great. I think they're good. But no, the ACC is awful. Okay, let me look at their schedule. If they play at Clemson, at Clemson could be a game they lose. They do.

February 8th. They do play at Clemson. All right. So when is that? February 8th. If they win that game, they're going undefeated in the ACC. That's the only game that I think they could lose. I guess they could lose at Carolina, but I don't think Carolina's good this year.

We'll take a break. Be right back. Final segment. This is the local toy dealers, KSR postgame shop. Welcome back. It is the local toy dealers, KSR post game show. So Big Blue History, our friend John Scott, he gives me the numbers I was looking for. All right, how many times has Kentucky scored 100 points?

And the other team has scored 100 points as well. All right, this is the 17th time it's happened in UK history. Now, three of those were in overtime. So Billy, we're down to 14 times. All right? Yeah. Now, how about this stat? Seven of those were in the three-season period, the Issle years.

When he was dominating, yeah. I don't know. I'd love to go see the Dan Issel games, because it looks like we scored at will, but we also couldn't guard a fence post during those games. No, I'm serious. Like, you go back and look at those Dan Issel era games. I mean, we played Northwestern two years in a row,

and both teams scored 115th. No, three-point line. either. But that must mean, what kind of defense were they playing in that game? None, none. None. They really, there's no defense. I guess they had no for, for this, and then we were like, you know what, we'll just get this to the ball. We don't need to guard you. So let's go to modern, but I think modern basketball kind of changes with the three point line. So how many times has Kentucky and their opponent both scored 100? All right, three times was in that first Patino season, like I guessed, Billy, when they just like shot all the time.

once was Duke, that was overtime. So since that Duke game, since that Duke game in 92, this is only the fourth time that Kentucky and their opponent have both scored 100. The other times, one, VMI when we lost under Billy Clyde. That's not good. I didn't realize. We scored 100 in that game, too. One is North Carolina, the Fox Monk, Bam year.

That was such a great game in Vegas. You remember that? Yes. Both teams scored 100 in that. And then the other is last year at home against Arkansas. Must have blocked that out of my memory. I must have blocked. And that was one of the last regular season games in the year last year.

I remember us scoring a lot against Arkansas. I did not remember that they scored 100. So four times since the Leitner game have we scored 100 and they scored 100. VMI where we lost and then North Carolina and Rup, Arkansas. the Arkansas game also in Rupp, and then, actually, North Carolina was in Vegas, Arkansas and Rupp, and then Florida and then. So, doesn't happen a lot.

859-280-2287. One person writes, Matt, you are clearly a closet Duke fan. I've known that for a long time. You hide it to these Kentucky fans so you can make money, but I've always known that. Well, thank you. I was definitely a Clause of Duke fan when I went to every game for three years

and booed every single game. Yeah, that degree on the wall has got a big old bloop devil. Blue Devil? Duke, that's why you didn't go to Duke. Blue Devil. You say Bloop Devil. Yeah, no, I mean, I'm looking at it right now here in Little. That's my law degree.

And I cannot stand their basketball team. It's dropped below Louisville and Tennessee. But when I was there, it was the worst. Because they were really good when I was there. That was Jay Williams and Boozer. and Batti and Dunleavy and Duhon and like they were awesome and I hated them. Who's next? Well, here's another thing you can't stand.

Bob and Jamestown has found his way into the long. Don't listen to him, Bob. I like you. Billy's line. How sweet it is. I mean, this was a marquee game. All our former players came back. We had celebrities in the crowd.

What former players were there? What former players were there? I didn't see. Richie Farmer. I mean, how, How McCoy, the Dayton reporter was there. I mean,

like I say, it was absolutely. Hal McCoy, he's a sports writer for the Dayton Daily News, covers the Reds for 50 years. Hal McCoy. You're telling me,

hang on just a second. Hang on just a second. Bob. You're telling me all the celebrities were there, and the two you came up with were Richie Farmer and Hal McCoy of the Dayton Harrow,

Well, Ron DeSanis, I mean, like I say... But how McCoy is your number two? The stars aligned. I mean, Florida is a tough game. It was a tough. Lamarck Pope Air, the wind is in his sales in 2025. I mean, Mitch Barnhart could be, I mean, pleased as punch that he made that pick and got that win. I mean, it was outstanding.

All right. Well, I appreciate it, Bob. Thank you. Appreciate the call. Wow, a lot to digest there. I've never heard the phrase pleased as punch. Is that a phrase? No, but I liked it.

But is that a phrase people use? I've never heard it before that. But I am on Hal McCoy. And then what about your boy, Hal McCoy? The stars align today. How McCoy of the Dayton Herald. Do you think how McCoy his family would consider him a star.

He sounds like he's a... No, I mean it. Like, I'm sure he was a great sports writer. Yeah. But who has Hal McCoy as a celebrity? I guess Reds fans, right? And while I love Richie Farmer, he's in every game. Hmm.

How McCoy. I got to look this guy up. And have him on the show Monday. Dude, I mean, if he's a big a celebrity, he had... Ron DeSantis was. behind Hal McCoy in Bob Zubon. All right, who's next? I'm looking up Hal McCoy.

Chris. Hal McCoy, an American sports writer for the Dayton Daily News. He covers the Reds, and he was honored by the Baseball Writers Association for the J.G. Taylor Spink Award for baseball writing. Now, this is kind of neat. This is kind of neat. He continued to cover the Reds in 2003, even though he became legally blind. Now, that's very cool.

So thank you for telling me that, Bob. I would never have known that. Who's up next? Chris. How McCoy? Chris, go ahead. I'm not sure I can follow that news up. I don't know.

That's pretty impressive, though. He kept covering the team. That is kind of awesome. But go ahead. Absolutely. Chris from Jackson will here. Like Gary said earlier, it's always good when we beat Florida for us fans down here in Gator country.

We probably won't hear a peep out of it. them, but if they would have won, we would be hearing Florida about it for weeks. That's kind of how Florida fans are. I always feel like Florida might be the best basketball program whose fans don't deserve it because they don't care and they have like, I mean, they have the, you know, before Connecticut won the last team to win back-to-back titles and they don't even follow it. The one of two friends that I heard from, he brings that up every time. We've got the back-to-back.

We've got the back-to-back. But today when I heard from me, he said he didn't even watch the game. See, that's what I'm saying. They're undefeated. They're undefeated, and they don't even watch the game. That's what drives me crazy. Right. Yeah, we had a pretty good crowd at our local game watch,

probably not what Gary had in Orlando. We had about 15 where we were. But with the game so early, when Florida got out to their hot start, I did look around the restaurant, and I was glad that there were no Florida fans there yet for lunch. Well, I will say, When they got off to their hot start, I was worried, I mean, I was worried we were going to get run off a little bit. Because, you know, after the Ohio State game, but this group came back,

and the fact we went from 11 down to 10 up at halftime is pretty impressive. Yeah. I was hoping you would have been at the game so the crafts could have introduced to the governor of Sanchez. I would have said hello. I mean, I appreciate the call. I've met, you know, I've met almost every Republican. candidate over the years for president. A lot of them through the crafts.

The only one I haven't met is the one that will be president here in a couple weeks. So, but I don't think I have not met Desantis, but maybe that'll happen one day. You know, he could have had DeSantis Bashir just debate at half court, Billy, because there's people who say they'll both run in 2028. Oh, you think Bashir's ready to do this thing? I bet he runs.

I mean, I don't think he'll, I don't think he'll get it, the Democratic, but I bet he runs. That's my early prediction. That and Duke goes under the end of the agency. Who's next? Marty. Marty, go ahead and Marty. Hey, Matt.

Called in many times during the Cal era, being so frustrated. And so I have a comment and a question. Comment is the day you had Mitch Barnhart on when Mark Pope was announced made me a believer right then and there. We got on the Pope train, bought season tickets. We're actually heading home from the game now to LaGrange. Section 221, the whole up arena was, the whole arena was amazing, but seeing a full arena was even just so sweet.

What was it about that interview? What was it Mitch said that kind of got you on board? And it's interesting, too, because I've not always been a Mitch fan. He just showed his passion and just admitting, hey, we need to move forward and that Mark is the right person and totally convinced me. And I wasn't the only one. I have some coworkers that I don't think they're quite on the Pope train yet. But even that day, they said, yeah, Mitch convinced them that at least give them a shot.

But we actually put in for, well, we went to the press conference, if you can call it that day. Yeah. And, you know, watch them pull down the curtains because the place was filling up. And we put in for tickets and just, You know, we get a call 10 minutes before my first grandchild was born and saying, hey, you have tickets. I'm like, okay, this is in the, and, you know, it's in the, in the cards here. So we have to do it.

And, you know, it's a breath of fresh air for sure. And you just can't help, but just love Mark Pope and just what he stands for and things. But, you know, so I had to, it was, I just have to say that Barnhart just, you know, he kind of went down the list of things that Mark. checked off and just a passion to be there because at first, you know, we're thinking, okay, is it the Baylor coach? Oh, gosh, so glad it wasn't Hurley. Yeah, she was Hurley, yeah.

No, but you know, what's great about him, and I think this gets to, and I appreciate the call, that's good stuff. I think part of what you're getting to with that is from moment one, from that phone call where Mitch Barthart that Friday morning talked through the press conference on that Sunday, we all fell for Mark Pope the person, right? We saw that he wanted it like we do. We saw that he was one of us. We all fell for him as a person,

which is a really good first step. But since then, I think we're falling for him and have as a coach. Like he coaches now the way we want. And we're seeing the results. I mean, we've beaten Duke on a neutral court Gonzaga, basically on a home court, Louisville, and now undefeated Florida. Like, I know we have a couple losses in there, but it's a pretty good run.

Not many seasons you get a lot. I mean, if the season ended today, there's not a lot of seasons, you get a line of wins like that. We got a lot, a lot more top 10 games to come. Who's next? Bentley. Bentley. We'll do four more. Go ahead, Bentley.

This is one of. From the game. Are you driving? I just want to say that. Are you driving? No. Okay. I was about to say.

Hope not. Yeah, don't drive. You're a little young. But go ahead. I just want to say in the first half, Kobe Brea, was shooting a lot out of it. And then in the second half, he sat on the bench until nine minutes left. I feel like he should start getting a little bit more playing time than he does.

Well, I mean, you might be right. I think they probably set him on the bench. bench for defensive purposes because he's not a great guarder but you know as soon as he got in there he hit three threes in about five minutes so uh he made the most of his minutes yep so well bentley be careful how old are you Bentley 12 is that right 13 11 11 all right well five more years you'll be on the road I appreciate appreciate the call who's up next three more uh Ray is next who I believe is with Hal McCoy. No way.

Yes. Ray, no way. You're not with Hal McCoy, are you? Yes, I'm in the car. We're listening to you. Howell McCoy's in the car with me. I'm going to put him on with you now. Oh, my goodness.

You're kidding me. You're kidding. I didn't bad, Matthew. I'm impressed. Is this Hal McCoy? Yes, Matt. This is Hal McCoy. How?

First of all, what an honor. Let me ask you a question. If you were listening, what did you think when Bob in Jamestown picked you out as one of the celebrities at the game? Well, I was very honored that somebody would pick me out of the crowd and say something like that. That is an honor. And I just read your story. That is so cool. So tell me about your year covering the Reds.

I mean, you did it for how many years? I have done it for more than 50 years. So you're still doing it? You're still doing it? Still doing it, yes. Yes, I certainly am. So when did you start? What year?

1973. And you heard of the big red machine? Of course, yeah. Well, I'm the one who named them. No, you did. And if I had put a trademark on it, I would have Yes. You named them the big red machine.

I certainly did. And it picked up, caught on a little bit. And like I said, if I'd have put a trademark on it, I'd be in Tahiti right now. Yes, you would. You know, Pat Riley did that with three Pete and he made a lot of money, Hal. That could have been you. I know, I know. But here I am 84 years old and still trudging around with a laptop.

Okay. So you're still doing it. First of all, that's the coolest thing I've ever heard. I am a red season ticket holder. So you've got to tell me, are we going to be? I've been for like six years. So I haven't really seen them win a lot. Are we going to be good this year?

I think they're going to be decent, especially with Tito Francona as a manager, but he's not a miracle worker. They still need some help. A lot of great young talent, young pitching. Yeah, great young pitching staff, but they still. need a power hitting outfielder. And, you know, they've been saying they're going to acquire one, but I think they already have one.

They got Ellie Delacruz at shortstop, and they need to move him to center field. So where does he rank for you? I know obviously he's only played like a year and a half, but like in terms of talent, you've seen great ones. Can Ellie be like that? I think that Ellie Delacruz is probably along the lines of Eric Davis, who's my all-time favorite player and was a five-tool player who could run. throw, hit for power, steel bases, everything that Elie Della Cruz does.

And if Eric hadn't gotten hurt so much, he'd be in the Hall of Fame right now. Well, I agree with that. Well, first of all, Hal, Bob was right. You are a legend, and I want to come meet you when I come to a game sometime next year, okay? Well, we'll count on it. Hal, thank you very much. And tell Ray, thank you very much. much for calling. Get, is he still on the phone? Yeah.

Yeah. Ray's here. Yeah. Give the phone. Hal, hang on and get, hang on and give my, hang on and give my producer your contact, okay? Hold on. All right. I'll get, hang on and get the contact from one of them. See, first of all, Bob and James Town, you were right, and how cool is that? Very cool. That is awesome. Very, very, very cool. Who's next? Tosh is next. Tosh, two more. What's up? Tosh. Hey, Matt. Last time I called the postgame show was March of 2020 when we won in Gainesville.

And then COVID hit two weeks later. So I hope that doesn't happen again. I'll tell you what. We were going to win the SEC tournament and go to the final four. Wait, COVID hit like one week later. That's right. Yeah. I know, man.

I know. Crazy, crazy. But I love beating the Gators. You know, to me personally, they kind of replaced Arkansas as the non-Tennessee SEC rival for a lot of years. So super awesome to beat the Gators, but I have to tell you, Matt, the worst thing about these 11 a.m. tips, it's too early to get into the four roses. So hopefully this is just a one and done thing. But you got the rest of the night to. I mean, you're going to have all evening here starting in two minutes.

Oh, that's true. That's true, my man. All right. Appreciate the call. Thank you, Tosh. There you go. Let's do one more, and we'll call it tonight. Who's next?

Claude. Claude. How are you, Claude? I'm doing great, Matt. Listen, that was a great win. I think it's going to age well. Florida may have the best guards in the country, and they're going to be a tough out in March.

But, you know, Pope has talked a lot about energy and bringing energy. and I say this from an optimistic point of view. Like, in our two losses, they really did not bring it. But this team seems like they can kind of turn it on, turn off. I mean, three top ten wins. I say that because it's going to be tough to bring that over the next 16, 17 games. No, we're going to have some clunkers now. We're going to have some clunkers.

That's why I thought tonight was so important because we're going to have some clunkers. We may, we'll probably lose one of those top ten games, one or two of them at home and then win them one or two. If we can win one of our, you know, we play Bama, Tennessee on the road, and then we play what, Old Miss on the road and maybe Texas, a couple other ranked teams. If we can just win one or two of those, that'd be great. So we're going to have some clunkers, which is why tonight is so big. Well, it's just great.

Again, the star of the game is Pope. Somehow he brings the best out of these guys and these big games, man. It makes me incredibly optimistic. I'm excited for March. It's just a great day today. Thank you so much. Appreciate the call. Thank you very much.

So awesome day. Awesome day. A couple notes, first of all. If you all like having fun and excitement, tonight is our OVW Royal Rumble Billy. You can get it on, if you get on YouTube, it's like I think 10 bucks to watch at home or whatever, or if you have Fight TV.

There's probably other places, but those are the ones I know. I'm going to go out here in just a minute to historic day. Davis Arena. So that's at 7 o'clock. Shannon the dude will be on that show as well. Bingles play, obviously at 8, what is it, 8 30 or 8, Billy? 8, I believe. Bengals played 8. So there's a bingles watch party at the bar. There's always a group of Bengals fans. So if you're in Lexington.

Tomorrow's my ESPN show. And then Monday, obviously there's going to be a ton of snow and ice across the state tomorrow. Everybody, please stay safe. It looks like, you know, if you heard Chris Bailey, he said the Richmond Danville area. was the area to watch out. It's actually moved. It looks north to where we are. Lexington, Louisville, Shelbyville, Frankfurt, that basically all around the line of I-64. So everybody stay safe. And in Northern Kentucky, apparently a ton of snow coming, but snow and ice in this area kind of from just north of Lexington down to Richmond Berea. So everybody, please stay safe. And then Monday, chances are we'll all be at our house. but doing the show because of that.

But we will be here for you Monday morning. You guys, enjoy your weekend. Enjoy your Saturday night. Thanks to Hal McCoy. That was very, very cool. Great end to an awesome day. We will see you later. Cats win 106 to 100 on an awesome victory.

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