KSR - KSR Postgame UK MBB vs St. John's 12/20/25

Episode Date: December 20, 2025

Matt and Billy recap the Cats' 78-66 win vs St. John's in Atlanta. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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halves of a regular season game in recent memory, 7866. in Catlanta in front of a raucous U.K. crowd. You can give a shout. We'll open up the phones. This is going to be a fun afternoon. 859-280-2287. I'm not sure you're ever going to see a basketball game or a two-and-a-half-hour period

where the Kentucky fan emotions shifted more quickly than this afternoon. In the first half, the cats were bad. against a St. John's team that was not playing particularly well itself. They were down, and maybe even most importantly, Jalen Lowe looked to be not only hurt but potentially out for the season as the shoulder he hurt earlier in the year seemed to be hurt again and he went straight to the locker room. And a lot of people, if you're like me, you were on a text thread somewhere

with your friends saying, well, I guess that's it. because that's what it felt like. Once again, we were seeing a terrible muddled offense, and really it looked like a team that just wasn't going to work. And then, all of a sudden, I get a text message from a number of you on the text machine saying, Jalen Lowe's warming up at halftime. And you think, oh, wait a minute.

And in the second half, Kentucky completely changes the season, in my opinion. Certainly changes our view of what the season can be. but also for a variety of reasons, gets a win that I think will have huge impact on the year, on potentials, tournament seating, and a lot more. As Jalen Lowe comes in and is dominant, placed 15 minutes, and is plus 20. And equally as important, Jaden Quaintens in his debut looks like a beast. We've sat there and said, when will Mark Pope have that elite recruit? elite player.

Well, he's got one because we've seen a lot of great guys come through here, and that dude has that talent. The combination of low-in-quaintance, it allows Otega O'Way to get back to his more natural role, and by the way, finished with a quiet 20 points. I mean, all of us, and I'm sure we will today, we'll talk about low-in-quaintance. But Otega-O-Way has his best game of the year because he's able to do the things that he is best at. Cam Williams hits outside shots,

continues his rise on defense, has 11, and you get a Kentucky team that is not only wins, but looks a lot of fun in that second half. And now an hour later, it's a different situation.

It's a different team. So I want to go through all of it because I think there's a lot to be excited about. Even though acquaintances, I think, a top 10 pick and maybe the most exciting story. This game, to me, is about Jalen Lowe because he's the difference. I mean, in some ways our success hinges on his right shoulder.

You know, when you are going home with your family for Christmas, everybody try to give each other the gift of Jalen Lowe's shoulder health. Put him, Billy, in bubble wrap, okay? Yes. Do not. I'm telling you, we need to, I don't know what it is. Inject him with whatever shoulder juice you can. That's not the phrase probably to use. But nevertheless, he's the key.

This team is completely different with him on the floor. With him on the floor, there's ball movement, Oway moves to a secondary score. Shooters now don't have to create their own shot. he can get them the shot. Big men, their defender will have to play off to double, which allows them to get offensive rebounds. He can pass and see the open man.

And the offense goes from a muddled mess to a team that looks efficient. And you can see for the first time how the people that sort of created this team. in terms of building it, how they envisioned it going. You know, I still wonder if we're one shooter short, but now I at least can see how it can work, and it's all low. You know, Billy, I'm wrong a lot, but I was right about that, going back to the summer. This team has to have him. You can make some quibbles about should we have a backup,

point guard should we have recruited one. That's fair, but he's the guy, and he has that it. And he can get to the rim, but most importantly, he can create his own offense, draw double teams, and kick. And I thought in that second half, when he checked in, which was about the 16-minute mark, or 17-minute mark, until the end, was a master-class performance by him. floaters off the backboard hit a three pass calm the offense down i just loved it i i felt like i was sitting there watching uh i don't know if he'll be a star star but watching like a really good

kentucky player developed then parallel to that is jaden quaint's at one point he had played 12 minutes and had 10 points and 7 rebounds. And, you know, sometimes you see a guy and you go, they don't make too many of those. And that's him. There are only a handful of those in the world. Athletic can handle the ball. Great defense.

Can rebound, physical. He's a top 10 pick. That's our next NBA player right there. and watching him, no offense to Malachi, no offense to Garrison, no offense to Yellovich, that's a different dude. That's a completely different dude. And he hasn't even done some of the stuff like shooting, which I think he can do. He's a completely different guy.

And the athleticism, you know, St. John's, when he was in, especially with Diabate, I mean, they couldn't get anything at the rim, anything at all. The paint was completely shut down. And those two guys together, Lowe and Quaintons, it's like a different basketball team than throw in Cam Williams making threes, throw in O-Way being, this was the O-Way we had last year, which goes to the point that I kind of made during the summer and early fall, which is O-A-can-be-like maybe the best second or third option in the country,

but he can't be your first option. And now he gets to do that. And he had a quiet 20. And then Diabate, I thought, was great, especially in the, you know, down low doing the gritty stuff. And that lineup, which played a lot of the second half of low O-Way Williams with Aberyst, Dean kind of coming in here and there, and then Diabate and Quaintons with Moreno kind of coming in every few minutes, you know, that's a team that can be special. And some guys are not going to get to play.

I mean, I kind of think, Billy, I don't know if we're going to see much Trent Noah. You know, I don't know if we're going to see any Yellovich. I also think Brandon Garrison is going to be having to fight Moran. for his minutes because I can tell you that those five guys, they're playing. And everything's different now. It's completely different outlook. And you have two weeks here where you play Bellarmine on Tuesday, but then that's it for two weeks.

Our next game besides Bellarmine that matters is two weeks from today when we go to Alabama and the SEC play starts. And I want you to think about how much different this time. off is going to be, then it would have been if the game it ended at halftime. Literally, if the game ends at halftime, we're all sitting there going,

all right, well, maybe we invest in women's basketball. The season's over. The season's over. I mean, if the game ends at halftime and Jail and Lowe's out for the year, we're probably like, this year's just going to be about, let's enjoy the quaint's moments. Now, though, it's a different thing. You know, I do worry about a couple,

couple things, but now it's like nitpicking worries or worries about going from a good team to a potentially great team. But the floor of this team, which look to be really low, has as long as you keep low and quite and healthy, the floor has risen quite a bit. And now the ceiling will have to wait and see. But the most important thing is, keep those two guys healthy. And even though I think Jayden Quaenzel will bend up being the best player from this team long term,

I want him healthy. He's very important, but we have to keep low healthy. He's irreplaceable. And I don't know, Billy. I don't know how you help shoulders, but I'm willing to invest in shoulder help. He can have my shoulder.

Do they have, oh, can he have yours? Yes. Yeah, can't. Do they have it? NIL for shoulders. I'll donate. Yeah, I don't know. I will.

Because I cannot remember a time. You probably have to go back to Nirlins to find a time that one person's health has such an impact on a team.

Don't you think? I mean, we've had a lot of players better than Jalen Lowe. But the teams were set up that if we lost, the guy, we'd still be okay. I think Nerlins, and then, you know, Anthony Davis would have been like that, but he didn't get hurt. I don't know.

I can't think of a team where the success or failure is more on one guy's health than him. Do you? Well, Oscar never got hurt, so we never saw that team without him. Maybe. Maybe, yeah. Maybe that's right. But I don't know another one besides that. Certainly for guards.

I mean, think about it. If John Wall got hurt, you still had Eric Blitz. You know? Yeah. I don't know. Maybe like Deerrin Fox, but you still had Monk. Mm-hmm. I don't know. I cannot think of one where there's just no other option. Because the mom, if you go watch, if you rewatch this game, and by the way, I've watched the second half now twice because I got so excited. the timeout under eight minutes

I think Pope leaves low on the bench I think hoping he can get a rest real quick we come out and run two offensive possessions that are hideously dreadful they put low right back in the game and we're good and it was almost like Pope was like yeah I can't take him out I cannot take him out

and I'm excited having him and I'm excited to watch Quaintons and also am excited that we have no more games on CBS, so I don't have to watch this stupid robot basketball anymore. What was that? What is this? It's on right now.

Like, what is the point of this? I'm serious. Like, I'm not even being facetious. What is the point of this? Like, what am I learning? Too much technology. But they just show a play, and then they show robots doing it.

I can see the, why would I want to see a robot? Well, you got the POV of the player during the robots. But, well, okay, they just showed that. I mean, I guess that's something. But it's a robot. How was Bruce Pearl? I'm more mad about the robot.

Bruce Pearl was fine, although I have to say, you know how we always complain on ESPN that the crowd is too low? And you can't hear the crowd. I think on CBS, at least for this game, it was the opposite. I couldn't hear the announcers. Did you notice that?

I couldn't even really hear what Bruce Pearl was saying during a lot of the games. No, we had the same issue on radio, though. We had to turn down the effects feed. It was too loud. Do you think that's just our crowd, or do you think it's like they screwed up their effects feed? No, it was the producer's inability to turn it down. Aren't you the producer? Yes, but like there's levels to this.

So there's somebody there that turns it down. So you think the person they're screwed it. Yeah. You're throwing this. random person in Atlanta down again I didn't hear it so but yeah the effects well you're at the same problem on the radio then I just maybe other people aren't like that it just I couldn't really there were a lot of the game where now I'd almost rather hear the crowds it didn't bother me but I just couldn't really hear him a lot of the time 772

775254 is a text machine I am excited about this what I have to tell you I mean last year I got really excited when we beat Duke I got really excited at that comeback with Gonzaga. I'm trying to think of the other games in the year where I was really excited. I was really excited after we beat Tennessee on the road, although I wasn't on that show. But this one we needed, because it looked the other way, and, you know, a lot of us are going to be taking time off over the next 10 days.

This will be a lot happier of a time. And, oh, yeah, the volleyball team plays for a national championship tomorrow. 8.59, 280, 27. We will take a break. Looking forward to hearing your calls. This is the local Toyota dealers, KSR. post game show. Welcome back. It is the local toy dealers, KSR post game show. People are saying some of you guys maybe miss part of that intro monologue because of the commercial stream or something not firing.

As Billy trash is the Atlanta producer, then the show doesn't come on. Yeah, that's karma. That is karma. But it'll be on podcast, so you can catch it then. You've got to hear me gushing about Jalen Lowe's performance. People are, okay, so this is good. A lot of you on the text machine saying a player that has that kind of impact. I like the analogy to Brandon Knight. He would have been a guy that if that 2011 team had lost, they wouldn't have been good at all.

So I like that one. I like that one a lot. You know, Ulyss, his second year, maybe, but I think Murray could have played point and been all right, because he kind of plays that a little bit in Denver. So, I mean, we wouldn't have been his. good. We weren't great anyway, but we wouldn't have been as good, but, I mean, there's nobody here. I mean, nobody. So, uh, man, and he's fun to watch. He is so much fun to watch. And like he's playing

now like he did at Pitt, but much more under control. Now, granted, we haven't seen a lot of minutes because he hasn't gotten a chance to, but at Pitt, kind of some of the, his bad instincts, he had to force it. He really hasn't felt like, except maybe at the end of that Louisville game, that's the only time I felt like he's forced it. So, So the good low has been much, much better than the bad that sometimes you would see last year. 859-280-2287. Billy, I was asking what he was watching right now. There's an NFL game.

There's a playoff game. There's a basketball game, North Carolina, Ohio State, and you're watching Montana. Montana State? Yes, this is FCS playoff football, Matt. They call it the biggest game ever in the state of Montana. the get-in price was $650. That's where the tickets started. Is this for the national championship?

No, semi-final. It must not be a very big stadium. Well, Montana, Montana State. Good luck, the Grizzlies. And I'm trying to think, what is Montana State? I don't know. The somethings. The somethings.

The somethings. The Grizzlies versus the somethings. By the way, I've been practicing play-by-play. How's that going? I kind of got in my head a little bit last night. I kind of got a little nervous. service. It's just not, it's not natural to me. But then Myron talked me off the ledge. Today I did a little bit at halftime of the A&M. I'm like, I'm just calling games in my house right now.

And I've learned to like slow down. Don't try to talk as fast as like this dude on ESPN radio last night was a pro. And I was like, I can't do that. So I feel like I have my pace a little better. We'll be ready. Well, you're going to be in the Superdome and the game's going to be quick. It might speed you up a little bit. I don't want to slow down. The key is to slow down because the thing is it's the 10 or 15 seconds before they snap the ball. Like he had all this stuff to say. And it's just not natural for me to say all that.

So I'm just not going to say it. You know. Yeah. I'm not going to sit there and talk about formations because, to be honest with you, I don't know them. All right. Who's up first? Bobcats. Bobcats.

Go ahead. No, that's just Montana State's mascot. Chris is up first. Chris, go ahead, Chris. Hey, can you hear me? Yes. Yeah, so, I mean, my thoughts after this game today is that Mark Pope has finally figured out with the injuries how to put together this team. I think going forward, we need low Aberdeen, Oweigh, Moe, and JQ.

Well, do you think he finally figured it out or he just had the whole team L. I mean, I still think it's fair to say we shouldn't have been as bad as we were against Gonzaga and a couple of those. But part of it is he just has his roster now, right? He has his roster. And that's what I'm saying is that this is the roster that Kentucky paid for. And today we saw what the $22 million was for because we saw JQ rebounding, Duncan, on the offensive rebounds, blocking shots, Camillian's hitting shots, low running the offense,

away doing what he does. I mean, this is what we're talking about. It is. And like you said, we haven't had that. I appreciate the call. I mean, two things can be true. It can be true that when this team wasn't healthy, he just wasn't able to figure out how to put forth competitive performance.

But it can also be true that when they were envisioning this team, now this is what they were envisioning. So I think both those things can be true. There's never an excuse to lose by 40 against that. But there's also like this is what they were hoping for. And you'll see it. Now it is very reliant on the health of one guy and maybe the health of two, depending on how you look at the quaintiff's situation.

but you can now at least see the vision and, you know, we're still not going to be a great shooting team. I still wish we had one more guy who could knock down threes. But we're going to be really physical inside. And let me say this about tonight. Even in the first half, when we were not scoring, we were really good, Billy, defensively. They were. Right. Like, we were really good defensively this whole game.

And we were against Indiana, too. I mean, they have now played against two pretty good teams and played excellent defense both times. Offensively in the first half, it was bad. But they were still really good defensively in the first half. Who's next? Press gave us some problems, though. Well, I put that on the offense. I mean, I'm not complaining because we won.

I will complain, though. How did we not have a play to imbound the ball? Yeah, there's some bad. I mean, we were doing the old, like, cow thing and just hold one arm up in the air and lob it. I mean, we turned it over, I think, four times on the press. I mean, four times, like, just getting it in bounds. So that wasn't, I don't know if he didn't think he was going to do it or what, but they were not ready for that.

Who's next? Dustin. Dustin. Go ahead, Dustin. Hey, guys. How are you doing? Good. What's up?

I know there's a lot of doom and gloom right now with the lack of high school recruits we have next year in the GMI deal, but I feel like both the team we have. have on our team, like, we should be able to keep most of those guys next year. Yeah, I mean, you'll lose, just so people know. Let's assume nobody transfers. You would lose O-Way. You would lose. Quaintance will go to the draft.

Quaintiff. But, yeah, you could keep any of the other guys you wanted. So, yeah, I mean, you can still have quite a good roster coming next year. Yeah, I think you're another probably good backup point guard and two shooters away from being a top 10 team next year. I still think you need a, you'll need a star, but you're right. But you couldn't, I mean, I think there's a different issue about Pope's high school recruiting and next year's roster. But you're right. I mean, the thing we have to remember is we're kind of used to losing all of our players every year.

Next year, you don't have to lose all these guys. Yes, yes. And some of these guys, by the way, Cam Williams, Lowe, try to think who else am I missing? Cam Williams and Lowe, for sure, signed essentially two-year – two-year deals. So, and I don't know if Moreno and Jasper did or not, but I know that Lowe and Cam did. So that's, you know, that's a little different. But go ahead. Yeah, and I guess my second thing is, I feel like sure.

Shooting off the dribble, I feel like Jasper Johnson might be a better fit for that. Do you think Mark Phope should be more intentional about getting him in the lineup just for that reason? No, no, I don't. I appreciate the call. I think Jasper, so I was sitting here thinking at halftime what I was going to say on the postgame show if we lost. And what I was going to say then is, okay, the only chance we have is we're just going to have to play Jasper because he's the only guy who can get his own shot. and he's going to struggle some, but we just got to live with it.

Now I don't think that's true because you have Lowe. Now, maybe you teach Jaspper to play eight to ten minutes in a backup point guard role, but now with Lowe, Jasper's a luxury, not a necessity. What I know is not going to work, Billy, is Aberdeen. No offense to him. You out on Aberdeen now? Not as a point guard. I'm in on him as a two or three.

I'm with you. But he can't play point guard. He holds the ball too much. He just pounds it into the ground. He can't beat his man off the dribble. He cannot be your point guard. So, you know, he could be part of your starting five as a two or three, but he can't be your point guard. So, I mean, Jasper might be the backup.

I don't know if Chandler can do it, too. I don't think they have anybody if they don't have low. I just, I don't think there's an option really. Who's next? Red. Red. Go ahead and Red. What's that, Matt?

What a tale of two halves, to be honest. I mean, I'm driving home from Washington to South Carolina for the holidays. And that first half, I could not have been more depressed. In the second half, I'm just giggling to myself, listen to the Tom Leeds, just giggling. She should be. One thing I wanted to say, yeah, one thing I wanted to say that you touched on already is Kim Williams, is silently, quietly becoming an X-factor role. I think his hustle and his effort,

there's a lot of guys in the team that don't have that quite as much as he does. So I've been going forward, especially if he's hitting his shots. But I'm a big Cam Williams fan. And, yeah, this is a new chapter of the season, I think. I totally agree. Appreciate the call. You know, he had been weird up until the Indiana game where he had played, like, really, like,

he was like one of the best defenders to 10. statistically in the country. But then when you broke down his games, it was like that he was elite against the bad teams, and he still was struggling against the good teams. Well, then against Indiana, and now tonight, he brought what he was doing in the other games to this.

And he was great tonight. He was great. And when he hit shots, you know, but part of the reason he was hitting shots is they're open, Billy, right? Low gets him open. I think it's just all these guys without Lowe are having to do things that is not their skill set. And I think Mark is like this, you know, analytic master. And he creates this vision of a team.

But then when you take away the central piece, I think he wasn't doing a great job of figuring out what else to do. Well, now he doesn't have to do that if Lowe plays. Who's next? Todd. Todd. All right, I'm supposed to here. Camman Jalen Billy just to be clear

not two years deals not two years deals so I don't want to get that starting that be wrong I thought that was true but thank you for the correction who's next Todd is next Todd go ahead Todd Hello Matt

Billy Hello I just wanted to say that in my opinion acquaintance was the player of the game. I know Cam did well, and so did Jalen Lowe. But I thought that Quaintiff was the best player on the floor, showed the most energy.

And I tell you what, if all of our team played with his energy, I believe we'd be unstoppable. Well, I think there were other guys who played with energy. He played with energy, and he's a freak athlete. You know what I mean? Like an insane athlete. That guy... Well, he's got a nose for the ball.

He does, but he's also a freak athlete. He doesn't wait. Don't wait for the ball to come to him. He goes to end. Yeah. Again, when you're 7-3 in athletic, you can. But Kyle Mann, who's an NBA guy for the ringer, and he's also a Kentucky fan. He wrote, and this is a strong comment coming from him.

He wrote that he thought, Quaintance is the best defender at Kentucky since Anthony Davis. That's a pretty strong comment, you know? Yeah, yeah. I agree. Yeah. So, yeah, I mean, I appreciate the call. Good to hear from you, by the way.

You know, if you go back to the start of the Cal Air, I think the two best, certainly big men defenders we've had, well the three best were Anthony Davis, Nerlands Noel and Willie Colley Stein. Billy, do you think he joins that group if he stays healthy? If he stays healthy, yes. But this is one game, so. No, I know.

But we have to, like, we only can talk about what we've seen, right? If he stays healthy, he has that level of those three guys, of defense. Now, offensively, Anthony Davis was special. But, like, and Anthony Davis is also special defensively. But, like, he's got that athleticism. He's not going to hit Anthony. I don't even know if he'll hit in Ireland's level, but, like, he's pretty good.

I mean, he's, and he's big, too. Who's next? But it won't matter if Jalen Lowe doesn't stay healthy, right? I don't think, listen, without Jailen Lowe, we've been. I don't, I mean, am I wrong? Do you disagree? We're not beating anybody without him. I don't disagree, but I'm just, it's,

It's hard for me to think it's that simple. Like it still should be there. Do you have an example of us playing well without Jail? No, I don't. Not at all. I mean, just the- I mean, even tonight. I feel like tonight was the example.

You didn't play with him in the first half. And then you did play with him in the second. Would you start him? Well, I don't, I mean, I don't know. Like, why wouldn't you start him? Yeah, throw him in there. I mean, if he's going, like, if you want to hold him to, 20 minutes or 25 minutes.

Okay. But why not having him at the be... Like, we didn't start Low or Williams. Now, Quaintance, I know he was just getting going. But if it were me for that Alabama game, aren't you starting Low Williams and Quentin? Yes. I mean, you got to.

I don't know why you would. I mean, I think you would start Low Williams, Quaintons, O.A, and Diabate. Those are your five best players right now. Wouldn't you start them? Like, what's the point of starting... No offense. but Chandler and Garrison just to take them out. Oh, what was the point of starting DJ Wagner?

Yeah, but kind of different philosophy. I mean, Pope has always been free to like, Pope will change his starting lineup. So hopefully, I'd say you just start your best players, but we'll see. Who's next? Andrew. Andrew, go ahead, Andrew.

And Matt, I was at the game today, first of all. By the way, what was the crowd like? On TV, it came across like, it was awesome. Was it awesome? Second half. Second half, it was awesome. First half, not so much for obvious reasons. It was so hard to get into that first half. But there was just walking in, there was so much blue. A vast majority of the attendance there was Kentucky fans. What percentage of the crowd by the end of the game when the North Carolina and Ohio State fans had got in? What percentage

of the crowd do you think was Kentucky fans? I had to guess, it felt like 70 to me. I mean, there's nobody from Ohio State there. St. John's had a small contingent. And there were a few UNC fans spread throughout, but even the ones behind us, they know they don't travel like we do. Yeah. Yeah. So, no, great crowd. I mean, second half, we were, we were all fired up and into it. Watching, when Jaylon Lowe came and checked back, and remember, we were all in the dark, you know, outside of those of us who were trying to Google what was going on, I mean, we thought, we were sitting here wondering how to put the pieces of our season back together,

thinking Loeb was out for the year. I don't know what the rest of the world was thinking, but we thought he was no way he's come back in. And all of a sudden he gets up, checks in, and the air changed. And the second, he and Quaitans are on the floor at the same time. I mean, just two different teams, you see, when you saw the game, but, you know, two different teams

and two different game time experiences. And I really called to say, I'm just, I'm so impressed with, Jalen Lowe's character. Because after we saw what happened to his, and I didn't see exactly what happened, but we were talking at halftime and we were like, you know, I wouldn't even blame him. Well, I just assumed I actually texted, I actually tweeted something. I ended up believing it because I found out a minute later he was coming back. But I tweeted like, now he needs to be selfish and not play.

Right. Like that's kind of how I felt. So, you know, I'm with you. I give him a ton of credit. Lamont Butler did the same thing last year. Neither one of those guys could have been blamed if they didn't play. And them coming back, I think actually it is really good character. And it speaks to, and, you know, because there's a lot of talk nowadays how players, you know, play for themselves, not for the school.

And there's a lot of that. And I'm not sure how that is with any specific players on the team. But I can say with certainty after today, Jalen Lowe wants to play for this university. he wants to play for this team. And you even see as a teammate, even when he was still out injured on the bench, he's the first guy off the bench, he's smiling, he's excited. And I'll say the same for Quaintiffs, too. I mean, we all know he could have stopped the year and chosen to, you know, go be a top five.

Yeah, no, you're right. And I'll say the same thing about the guys that got benched in the second half. I appreciate the call. I mean, if you look over at the bench, when we're making the run, nobody's pouting. Like, they're all up and they're all cheering. and but yeah I mean did anyone think Lowe was going to come back

Billy did you I mean I can't imagine anybody really even suspected he might who are we talking about who do you think we're talking about Jaylon Lowe oh yeah well I was on the phone no I didn't think he was coming back

and for him seven seconds This was a ride answer by the way who are we talking about seven seconds off the bench and he's gone seven seconds I gave a half a patino joke. And I'm starting to think there's a group. There's like an age of people who don't get those jokes.

Oh, man, we've got to educate these people. Yeah, but think about that. Like, I'm getting so old that like I'm making potato jokes and there's a group of people that don't know them. Now I'm starting to feel old. All right. We'll do one more and we'll take a break. Donnie.

Donnie. Go ahead, Donnie. Hey, guys. Thanks for taking my call. Matt, you're right on on this shoulder. Make no mistake about it. We've got one point guard and he's injured. JQ and Lowe, they had their signature all over this win.

Matt, if Lowe doesn't play in the second half, I don't know if we win this game. No, we don't win. We don't win. Or if we win, it's like 57-56 or something, you know? Yeah. With Lowe out there, this team takes on a different. personality and throw in JQ, this

could be something special if, but it depends on your point guard. The other caller, I don't think it's about the coach figuring this out. He's been without two and a half players and I say the half because

of course, low and then JQ, the half I throw in there because of 0.A. I agree. I agree with you. That's a really good. I That's who I thought you were going to say. I agree with that. It's free now. It showed today, but thanks for taking my call.

I totally agree with that. That's a great analysis. That's a appreciate the call. That's a great analysis. I think two and a half is the way to say it because you were not getting the full O way. Not because I think he like, I mean, I do think he was pouting a little bit one or two of those games. But I also think, like, he is your second option. he is a great second option he's your second option that might even lead your team in scoring

but he's the second option and now he gets to be that and you saw what happened he was unleashed but also give him credit he did kind of keep the team in the game in the first half because without him i'm not sure if they would have scored in the first half so i do give him credit for that but like now he can be what he is and he did a great job to uh today 859 280 2287 text machine is 772 775254 we'll take a break be right back it's the local toy dealers ksr post game show welcome back local toy dealers ksr post game show shout out by the way they did just did the big blue deli commercial with the darius miller shout out to them i ate there again this week they have really good sandwiches they also have a picture hanging in there billy that i'm really

curious as to the origin of. Okay. Have you seen the picture of the saucy woman painting in UK gear? Have you seen that? No, I've been a couple times. It looks to be an officially licensed UK picture from either the late, I'm going to say like late 70s or early 80s. And the woman has on UK, like, I don't even really know if I can describe it because my mom is

listening. But it looks to have been. licensed by UK. I'm fascinated by the picture. I don't know where. I just wonder like I can't see UK allowing it. I mean,

not allowing it like, but it looks like they use the logo and stuff. Anyway, just if you're ever in there, you'll see what I'm saying. There's been some saucy UK hockey posters in the past. Well, that's true. That's true. They did do those. So maybe it was just

pre-Barnhart era, I guess. That was just a different way to do it. One person writes, Matt, what did you think about Diabate getting kicked out? Ridiculous. First of all, I don't understand when it became a crime to score at the end of the game. All right? That didn't used to be like that, Billy. Both didn't like it, though.

That's like in the last 15 years, this idea you cannot, you have to just dribble at the end of the game. Why? Sportsmanship. Why? Like, in baseball, do they tell you to strike out in the ninth inning? No. Thank you. No, they don't.

So why can't you? In hockey, they keep trying to score. Why did we decide in football and basketball you have to stop scoring? Maybe because it prolongs the game so much by infallowing. It prolonged a lot more by them John about it. Yeah. It's just, it's. And the other thing is, I don't like this.

This happened twice in this game. I don't like when refs wimp out and call the double technical. Just because two people arguing does not mean that they both did something wrong. The first person, if someone starts a fight and then the other person responds, why do they both get the same punishment? Well, you have to show restraint. You can't do, can't stoop down to their level. and fight back.

I don't know. I'm just telling you what the hand was. He fouled. That was a dirty foul on O.A. They ended up calling it a flagrant. So the foul is dirty. Why is it a double technical for going, hey, dude, the foul was dirty? Yeah.

I don't, I mean, Diabata ended up getting, like, kicked out for that. I didn't like that. I just don't like that call. One person writes Matt every time they say Cam Williams, I think it's Kat Williams. and it makes me enjoy it even more. I agree with it.

I like that. You know, I like Cat Williams, at least since he did that one... Shannon Sharp interview. Yeah, I never really had listened to him. Drew's always loved the guy, but I do as well. One person says, Matt, would you sit low out against Bellarmine? Maybe. Maybe.

It just depends. I don't know, you know, they know his injury. By the way, my co-MvP of the game, along with Quauntan, low the training staff for UK. Yeah. Getting low back out there and the rehab for Quaintons, they deserve a lot of shoutouts. All right, who's next?

Well, it's time for our Johnny Rocker personal injury attorney moneymaker of the game. Matt, a perfect segue here. Injured, get small town compassion with big city results when you call the Rocker at 2703-3-21-4-29. And tonight, we're picking Jane Quatins. 10 points, 17 minutes, plus 18 in the plus minus. two big blocks in the game that really energized not only the crowd but the team and also eight rebounds. He is our money, money, money, money, money. Don't sing, please.

Money maker of the game. Jayton Quaintance and Raftery, I did hear point this out, and so did Pearl. He can guard those dudes in the post one-on-one. In the first half, they were having some success, especially on Moreno, of like isolating them one-on-one and they would just beat them, just better footwork. Can't do that against Quatten's. He's bigger, he's a better defender, and if you beat him, he can still block your shot from behind. He makes a huge difference. Who's next?

Brock. Brock. Go ahead, Brock. Hey, Matt. Yeah, JQ isn't just an absolute monster. It's really insane, the amount of impact he had on the game in such a short time. But really just the team as a whole, to go from 25 points in the second half to putting up 50, or in the first half to putting up 53 in the second half.

It really just shows what happens when your team sticks together like peanut butter and jelly. Yep. I appreciate the call. That's exactly right. You know, tell your friends about Jaden Quaintens. He has been able to do it. That's another thing about the play-by-play, Billy, is me trying to figure out I don't naturally, you know how Tom Leach can just have the excitement in his voice?

I don't really do that. You don't get excited. And then the other thing is there's no one's going to be at this game. So will it be weird if I'm yelling about a play and there's no sound in the background? No, you got to bring the energy if their energy. Even if no one's at the game? Yeah. Like, you know, we talked on the NFL show about that guy that brought the energy.

His name's escaping me. He does the- But he has people at the game. He does. But he doesn't let that dictate if he's going to bring the excitement or not. you need to bring it back. Yeah, it's just not my natural. Keep my right on track.

I mean, that's not my, he may need to keep me on track. It's going to be a different experience. Who's next? Andrew. By the way, I'm sitting and reading the, like, the Southern Miss game notes. Yeah.

Not the most exciting Friday night in the world. Go ahead. Andrew. Andrew. Yeah, Matt. Yeah, hey, Matt. I called you. I'm Florida fan that follows UK.

Yes. I just want to tell you guys, you do things first class up there. And Jack Evans, excuse me for not remembering the announcers. Tom Leach. Everything you do in covering your basketball team is polished and top rate. And I just wanted to say kudos to you as a fellow SEC member. looks like you guys are overcoming some of the things that were messing you up there in the beginning

but St. John's missed their first 13 of their first 15 shots but yet they built that 16 full run you know that's where I think you need to zero in on those turnovers yeah we did have a lot of turnovers especially early we did nice to hear from you I appreciate the call we did We had 11 turnovers in the first half, but I think a big part of that, I'm being repetitive, is Jalen Lowe. When we don't have a point guard, we ended up throwing a lot of soft lobs,

trying to generate offense, you know, because guys couldn't beat each other off the dribble. We're trying to lob entry passes and lob the ball in bounds, and Jalen Blow takes all that off the table, and you don't have to do that. Who's next? Mike. Mike, go ahead, Mike. Hey, what's up, Matt? What's going on?

Hey, man, first of all, I got to say, a Gabe Pendleton from Glasgow tell me you work on your golf game. Well, I need to. He saw me the last time I played, and I nearly retired after it. So I need to, I got to get better. That's funny. I'll come down that way, so I'm known that forever. But first of all, I appreciate the, let me call.

And just to harp on it, I thought Cam Williams was amazing. But I think with Lowe coming back, hopefully you can stay healthy, guys kind of understood the role a little bit better, you know, space in the floor, where they should be. I thought Marino played really well, especially at the beginning. He kind of held us together with O'A. And then, you know, JQ, I texted, he's a man-child. He reminds me, tell me you different, Kenneth Farid, Moorhead State. The guy is a fruit.

Yeah, but he's taller. I mean, Kenneth Farid was like, I mean, I don't know what Quaintiff is. You see different, you see different heights listed with him. He's got long arms. I appreciate the call. So however tall he is, he plays taller because of his arms. And, yeah, I mean, Freed was a beast, but he wasn't as tall. I mean, this dude.

6-8. 6-8. So what do they have Quaintiff? Quaint's listed as 6-9? Yeah, it's 6-10. He feels taller than 6-9 to me. Are you just saying he's listed at 6-9? or he's listed as 610?

I said 6.9 because that's the first Google result. And then 610 under the Wildcatblue.com nation. Well, why don't you look at the, you know, there's a website called UK Athletics where they have the official ones, which sometimes are exaggerated. Yeah, exactly. 610 on the UK athletics. 610, okay. Well, I think I read somewhere he has the wingspan of somebody 7-3.

But I don't know. I don't remember where I heard that. But either way, he's just an athletic. freak who's next chip chip chip go ahead chip hello yes go ahead hey uh i just wanted to say that it was great seeing jq out there he is him and uh watching him take that dude off the dribble was so exciting that was that was i'm glad you mentioned that that was the best play of the night to me because that was you know that was an NBA move you know we've seen a lot of the NBA guys here and you see players sometimes and they have these moments where you go,

okay, now I know why he is what he's considered for the NBA. Wall had that crossover against Carolina and Yukon. You know, Anthony Davis had various blocks. I can give you some moments. That was one of those moments for me. That was a lot. That and one was like, oh, okay, there it is. And then getting the offensive rebounds, it was so refreshing to see that.

I wanted to get your thoughts, though, on possibly playing him with another big. I know in the past we haven't really been fans of two bigs, but, you know, maybe having I think that's got to be, though, I think that's got to be the, I don't like playing two bigs. But I think with this team, I think that's got to be the identity because we don't have. have enough shooters. So like I think you, I want to play a lot of, I want to play three guards, but you got to have three guards who can make a three. And right now, I mean, we don't have anybody that we know can make a three, right? So I think you, I think you just have, you have to play them with Diabate. Those are two of your four best players. So you got to play

them. And then with low, you can probably still generate enough offense for it to work. I just noticed that when he was in with BG, it was just like, you know, we've seen more physical than any team down low that I've seen all year, you know. And they're a physical team that we play. You know, St. John's is physical. So, I mean, that's a good sign. I appreciate the call. One of the good things about having him, Quaintons, is he'll be great for what we struggle with last year.

If you remember, we struggled last year with teams in the SEC's bigs that we just couldn't guard, especially if Amari wasn't in the game. Quaintance gives us a guy along with Diabate. We got two options for that. And Garrison, when he's playing well. Let's do one more, and we'll take a break. Who's next? Jay Witt.

Jay Witt. Go ahead. Yeah, Matt. JQ and Lowe are the truth, baby. Can I get a big show? Can't. But a C, A, T, A, K, Ket, Ket, get it. Woo!

I'm fired up. So everybody down here in Mielandberg County, we're fired up, baby. Let's go, cats, baby. All right. Muleenberg County's fired up. Appreciate the call. I'm fired up, by the way, about tomorrow, 3.30, Kentucky Volleyball, going for the national championship against Texas A&M.

We'll have a watch party at the bar, get there early. Lee, get your seat, Harmonica guy is going to be there, Billy. Oh, he was good. I see, he hasn't told me that, but he has to be there. Unfortunately, I'm going to be on a plane. I'm not going to be able to see most of it. I'm literally not going to know while I'm in the air what happens. My plane takes off at 445.

So, yeah, but that Wi-Fi never works, especially on regional planes. They don't, they don't ever fix those. 8-9-2-8027. We will take a break. Ole Miss leads two lanes, 17 to 3 at halftime. I'm going to go back and watch Carolina. We'll take a break and be right back. It's the local Toyota dealers, KSR, post-game show.

Welcome back. It is the local Toyota dealer's KSR post-game show, 859, 280,000, 27. One person writes, Matt Quentin's paid 17 minutes today. Is that too many minutes to give credit to the guy who said 10 to 12? Remember, I was going to give him credit, Billy, for 9 to 13, right? Right. So this was more, but I tell you what I'm going to do, though. I'm going to be generous and give him credit for the scoop because I think he played that much because he had to.

You know what I mean? I bet the plan was not to play him 17 minutes. But I think we felt like we had to because of the scenario of the game. So he said that, I think, back on Monday. And it wasn't common knowledge yet. I mean, there was some speculation. So, Billy, I tend to give him credit for the scoop. Do you?

I don't. That's very generous of you. I mean, we all predicted him coming back around this time. It was the minutes that was the funny part about it, and he was wrong. Yeah, I want to give him credit. I'm not as much of a Scrooge as you are here at Christmas time. I'm going to give him some credit. Are my bears going to win the night against the Packers?

I hope so. I'm rooting for them. Is there a football game going on right now? Yeah. Eagles fumbled the opening kickoff against the commanders. Probably as someone who's going to do a podcast about the NFL should have some notion of what's happening. My mind's on a lot of things right now. All right.

We'll do six and call it a day. Who's next? Rob. Rob. Go ahead, Rob. A couple of questions. Jelovich, I may have missed this. I'm wondering why he's not playing.

Secondly, I would like to see Jasper or Johnson play some at the two. And the third thing is a physician. I think he, I think Lowe is dislocating his shoulder. Once you start to dislocate your shoulder over time, you just pop it back in and the pain is gone. So you're saying to me that like if he's dislocates it, is there any, like, let's say he just keeps doing it? Does it have a, like, effect on him long term, or does he just, like, is it okay to wait until the end of the year and then have surgery? I mean, it's going to continue to do the rest of his life. Once he has surgery, a lot of people don't have – I guess theoretically you could develop some arthritis because you're popping it in and out of the joint.

But once he has surgery, it's going to really limit his range of motion in that right arm. So that will be his decision. And I doubt – I mean, assuming he's not going to play pro ball. I don't think you will. He'll play pro ball somewhere. I mean, he may or may not play in the NBA, but I wouldn't say it's impossible, but he'll play pro-bos.

He's going to, I mean, Ansley Almanor is playing pro basketball. Like, all these guys are going to play pro basketball somewhere. So he shoots at his left arm. So the limit his range of motion on his right, it probably wouldn't matter as much. But I would, I mean, wouldn't have surgery at the end of the year for sure. No, I don't think it's going to have any lasting damage between now and then if he just keeps playing,

assuming that's what he's doing. All right, I appreciate the call. I hope you're right about that. I would, yeah, you know, I don't, I'm not sure he's, I don't know if he's an NBA player, but like, I don't think it's impossible because he can get to the rim. He's certainly not a first round pick, but I don't think it's impossible that he would play.

He'll play. Did you see Ansela Yomner had 40 in his program? I don't know what the league is. But Hansley Almanor dropping 40, I think. think last night. As far as your other two questions, Yelovich, he's not playing because there's a lot of big guys and he's right now playing probably the worst, or at least they think gives him the least amount. I think the Gonzaga game hurt him quite a bit. I didn't see, remember, that was a game I wasn't able to see except a few minutes. I don't know how he did,

but nobody did well. And then Jasper Johnson, I think he could get a chance for some minutes at the two. I think that's plausible. But right now, my guess is they're going to roll with what they have right now, which is low with the one, and then kind of Aberdeen, O'A, and Chandler rotating at the two and three and see how that goes. Who's next? Cooper. Cooper. Cooper.

Cooper. Hey, Matt, first time, long time. Who are? So shout out JQ, shout out JLo, rightfully so. They played great. But also, shout out O.A. He was great. He worked his tail off, too, and he put up 20 and 5.

My question is, with this team fully healthy, how high do you think it raises their ceiling? Are they a second weekend team? Do you think they can make the final four? I know I think this is small, but what do you think? Yeah, so I don't want to do what I did after the Purdue game, right? And go on one game and say we're the best team in the world. Here's what I would say. I think, you know, you play at Alabama.

You could have a national championship team and winning at Alabama's good. going to be hard, right? So, but I do want to see how we play in that game, whether we win or not. Then I think the games that will tell it for me is then you have two games against teams that you should beat. I think it's like Missouri and LSU. Read me, I appreciate the call. Read me, Billy.

Can you pull up the first six SEC games? Yeah. Yeah, I got it right here, actually. Okay. What are the first six SEC games? At Alabama, yeah, versus Missouri, versus Mississippi. State. Mississippi State, okay.

At LSU, at Tennessee versus Texas. Okay, so talk to me after that at Tennessee and at, what's the next one, LSU? At LSU at Tennessee. Missouri and Mississippi State, you should be at home. So then you go to at Tennessee at LSU. Flip them. To me, or at LSU at Tennessee, to me, that will tell you where you are. Because if you're a team that can contend for the final four, you need to win at LSU,

and you probably need to win one of at Tennessee at Alabama. I mean, you could lose both those, but I want to see how they do in that. Then Texas at home, Mississippi State. Again, we've talked about this with the schedule. It's weird this year. We play the good teams on the road and the bad teams at home. The good part of that is you shouldn't lose very many home games,

maybe no home games, but you're going to have to play Alabama, Arkansas, on the road. Auburn, we play here. here. Am I correct about that? Auburn is February 21st. That is at Auburn. Okay, so we play Arkansas, Auburn, Tennessee, and Florida and Arkansas, Alabama.

We play the five hardest teams in the league all on the road. Now, we do play Tennessee back here. Do we play Florida at home? No. Just the one matchup, I believe. Yeah, so think about that. I'm sorry. The last game of the season is Florida.

about that could be the. So my point of all that is just to say, we don't have a lot of test at home, but we have a lot of tests on the road. We can't afford to lose games like at LSU. So that's how I'll decide. If you made me bet right now, fully healthy the rest of the year, this is an elite eight, sweet 16 team. But if we could just give a couple guys to make threes,

then I think the upside might be higher. Who's next? Dane. Dane. Dane, go ahead, Dane. Hey, this is Dane. I have an opinion about the three-point shot. Okay.

Okay. So I believe that Colin will be at 45% this year. I believe that Aberdeen will be about 38, 39%. what are these guys right now though i mean neither one of them shooting that right now that's true but we're talking about low getting open shots for people that's true no that'll help chandler in theory yeah and oa is already at near 40% is he really does he like it then low himself i know he shot like what 27% at pit last year but I think he can get that up to around 35% from three.

Well, in theory, he should shoot to have better shot selection this year. I appreciate the call. I mean, I don't think it's crazy to say that these guys should get more open looks with a healthy low and that their percentage should go up. Chandler's going to have to, I think long term, if you want to beat Alabama, you want to beat Tennessee, you want to beat Arkansas, you want to beat those teams, we're going to need Chandler or Aberdeen to pretty consistently not threes down. And right now that's not happening, but hopefully for one of them it does.

I have a list here if you want to hear these percentages. Trent Noah leads the team. He's 1228.429. Next is Colin Chandler at 0.404. Okay. Then you have Oway, Jasper, and then Aberdeen. Aberdeen is 14 of 43.326. Yeah, he needs to get that up. Now, Chandler, I feel like a lot of those were early in the year, and it gets bad teams.

And he's got the most on the team this year, 23 of 57. I'd be interested to see how many of those have been against the good teams, though, because I feel like they're having been a lot. Who's next? Matt. Matt, three more. Go ahead, Matt. Hey, Matt, I was watching Tennessee and Louisville the other night.

Tennessee is a force to be reckoned with inside. Do you think that Hope might try and go damage control, acquaintance, and then you've got Garrison and Marino inside just as sort of a No, you can't play all three of them. That would be. Oh, I figured, but you know, with the physical as Tennessee is. Yeah, but they don't play, I don't think they play three bigs. I think they play two.

And I, listen, I feel a lot better about playing physical teams with Jaden Quaintantin's than I did before. I think with Quaintons, Diabate, and Garrison, you have a lot more. of three guys who are not scared to be physical at all. Yeah, I mean, Garrison, I don't know what to deal with Garrison is. Pope didn't play him a ton. Granted, Quaintance was back today. Do you think that Garrison gets discouraged with, you know, he might, but you know what? I would say play better. You know what I mean? If he gets discouraged, play better. No, but I'm saying, but he wasn't an impact player tonight. Now, he was an impact player against Indiana. So, I mean, he's got it in him. But, you know, rising tide raises all ships.

My hope is, and I appreciate to call, Quaintons playing, forces Garrison and Moreno to play better because if they don't, they will not play. I mean, Diabate's playing. Quaintance is playing. So if I am Moreno and I'm Garrison and I am Yelovich, they are playing. for minutes. Those three guys are competing for minutes. And if they're competitors like I think they are, then we'll still make the best man win. Two more. Who's next? Marino was good to start the game.

Marina was good in the first half, but then in the second half, kind of got beat defensively and then didn't really play a lot towards the end. He was good scoring in the first half, but he struggled defensively tonight. And I think that's one of the reasons he didn't play a lot in the second half. Poe is next. Poe, go ahead, Poe. Hey, happy holidays, Billy and Matt. Thiles make fights, right?

Yes. Lowe, he was great tonight or today, but he's the liability on defense, Matt, and they don't have, they didn't have a point guard or some good guards to sort of, there's going to be some teams that's going to be able to shut down low a little bit more. Well, first of all, he is a liability on defense. I agree with you on that. But at the same time, you can make up for it with good offense. Good offense beats defense most of the time.

But I think we got a defensive team. I agree. So if we have one guy who's not a great defender, that's okay. because we have a really good defensive team other than him. But I'm much, but we, I mean, we know for a fact we can't score without him. We're just going to have to live with his problems on defense. That's just the way it goes. And we're going to have games.

We're going to have games, Paul, where he shoots poorly and makes stupid plays. I've watched him a lot. We're going to. We just have to live with it because without that, without him, we stink. I'm just being real. I was so impressed with Queens. Queens and Diabody and Low, I'm glad we got them back. Now we've got these other guys that's got experience.

And we can plug them in here and there and fix, you know, the dam a little bit, whatever. You know, we've got a lot of options and things are looking up. Our ceilings a lot higher. I totally agree with you. I think our floor is higher, too. I think our ceiling and our floor is high. Our floor was bad. Oh, absolutely.

Our floor was bad. Yeah, I appreciate the call. I mean, half time, I legitimately, Billy, was thinking, there's a good chance we don't make the tournament. I was in that group chat that you alluded to. I mean, I did. That wasn't me just being negative. I genuinely thought there's a world where we don't make the tournament. Mario was the worst one.

Well, but even, he wasn't wrong, though. I mean, like, you know, but I don't feel that way now. And listen, I'm telling you, Lowe's going to have some games where he drives us crazy. And he does struggle defensively. That caller's right. But we just have to live with it because we've got to have it. One more, and then we'll call it tonight. Who's next?

Luke. Luke! Oh, my goodness, Carolina. What are you doing? Oh, my good. See, we need Carolina to win this game because they beat us. Go ahead. Luke.

Yeah, I just saw that on my TV, too. I was just as stunned as you were. I want to say late win, obviously, by Kentucky. And I think that one thing we have to, that we as a fan base, I think we saw last year's team and just said, oh, this is the style that Pope wants to play.

Well, you coach to your roster. This team is a defensive first team. So this is going to be like, I'm trying to think of a guy that's a coach that has teams like this. And I would say that Kelvin Sampson has teams like this, athletic can protect them.

They struggle at times on offense, but they usually have a guard kind of like Lowe that's a coiled spring that can go one way or the other, and they do sometimes do things that make you want to rip your hair out. But I think, like you said, you got to live with it. And you saw the difference that Lowe made today. And Quentin, we haven't had a guy like that. And oh, my gosh, we haven't had a guy like him in a long time. He is very, very gifted.

I don't know who is the last guy like that. He wasn't as tall, but BAM was a little bit. bit like that. He wasn't as tall. Willie Colley Stein defensively. Yeah, Willie Colley Stanton. I think Quaeton will be a better offensive player than Willie. Willie was a great defender, though. I mean, his timing and stuff, but he was, but I think he might be a better offensive player. Oh, he's much better offensively. He's much better offensively than Willie ever was.

Willie and Colley Stein was never a good offensive player, but I was talking about defensively. I have one other thing to say, Matt, the bear still stuck. Go pack go, baby. We'll see. I appreciate the call. I do like your analysis, though, comparing it to the Houston team. Because I think that's a good call. I think that this team, at its best, this team would look a little bit like Samson's teams.

I also will know, Rick Petino had an interesting thing to say in the postgame press conference. He said the mark of a good coach is exactly what that caller said. You adjust to the roster. He said, Mark recruited this team to be one way. But he's realized that may not be the way they have. to play and he's adjusting. I think he's right, and that's kind of after the Gonzaga game, you remember a lot of folks, us included, we're kind of saying he's going to have to do that.

I think if you look at the Indiana game and you look at this game, he's done that. He has kind of adjusted to what he needed to do with this group, and now let's see if he can continue it. But either way, this will help with the, oh, now I'm not. Ohio State Billy doing something dumb. Did you see that turnover? No, I'm at halftime of Montana, Montana State here. Oh, well, you need to watch it.

Carolina's got the ball. Can I say one thing about Pope, though? Because after the Indiana game, he was like, this is not how we want to play. Well, he needs to get over that. This is how we're playing. Yeah. But I will say, with Lowe, it won't be as ugly as it was in the first half. But this isn't just going to be a team.

They're going to be gritty. They've got to beat you with defense. And it may not be how he wants to play, but I think it's how we're going to going to have to play. This will be the last post-game show I'm on until the new year. I will not be on the Bellarmine one because I'll be getting ready for the New Orleans Bo. I will be on the show on Monday.

Monday will be my last show until the new year because then I'm off that next week. So I hope I will see everybody on Monday. And tomorrow come out, support the volleyball team. Let's get this national championship. Watch it at home, pull for them, chance to hang a banner. And Billy, I guess since this is our last postgame show of 2025, I will see you in 2026. Oh, I'll see you next year, Matt. That's exactly right.

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