KSR - KSR Postgame UK MBB vs Valparaiso 11/04/25

Episode Date: November 8, 2025

Matt and Billy recap the Cats' 107-59 win vs Valparaiso.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Listen to the Clifford show on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. Welcome, everyone. This is the local toy dealer's KSR postgame show. Kentucky with a big win, getting back on track. Absolutely annihilating Valparaiso, 107.59. in Rupp Arena on rainy night in Lexington, Kentucky. We'll open up the phones here in just a minute, 859, 2807. Shout out, by the way, I just heard the commercial of the big blue deli downtown.

I ate lunch there a lot. Sometimes that Billy goes and we get it for lunch, right, Billy? Good stuff. Yeah. Good stuff. So thank you. They've joined the post-game show. It was a feel-good game for Kentucky tonight.

I thought after the poor performance against Georgetown, who by the way, won by double digits on the road tonight against Maryland. So maybe Georgetown's good. And the poor first half against Nichols was important Kentucky come out and play well, and they did. I think they made their first five shots and were excellent. Let's just go over some numbers. All five starters, all five starters in double digits. That's huge. Malachi Moreno, 18 points, gets a double double. They had 27 assists. with only six turnovers. That is a four and a half to one ratio.

You're not going to lose any game where you have that assist to turnover ratio. They shot the ball 39% from three. That's the first time they've been over 25% in a game this year. So that was a great sign. And it all for me comes down to, well, two things. One, Valpo decided to play up-tempo. I'm glad they did it because I think a lot of teams in the SEC, the good team, So Florida, Alabama, they're going to play like that.

So I want us to have games like that. But also it's a very tough style to beat Kentucky at when you're a lot less talented. And that's what ends up happening is you get run off the floor, especially when we're hitting shots. But put that to the side, the big difference in this game is clearly having low in Aberdeen. You know, in the first half, the last game, Aberdeen didn't play a lot of point. He comes in and plays it in the second half. You see the difference.

and then tonight Aberdeen right out of the gate helps and then Jalen Lowe he played you know small amount of minutes but you could tell in those minutes you could tell exactly why he's going to be so big for this team he just changes everything his penetration his passing he had five assists I think he had four in the first half and he just the way he gets the basket the way he sees the floor and he's not even really looking for his offense yet wait until he has to do that I just thought they were great. And that is the team offensively that I think we can have a lot of the year. You know, most teams will play a style where we're not going to be able to run up down the court. We're going to have to do it in the half court more often. But, you know, when you get a game where six guys are in double digits, nobody, what I love about this, six guys in double digits, but of the starters, everyone had between 12 and 15 points, completely even scoring district.

distribution load. You know, O'Way had his now standard. He'll get 13 to 15 every single game. Garrison played well. Moreno played well. Diabate was good. Honestly, every single person on the floor was really excellent. You know, poor Cam Williams still can't make a shot.

But pretty much everybody else, I thought, really showed something. You saw Colin Chandler making all those threes to start. You know, if you take the second half of the Nichols game and the first half of this game. I mean, dude was on complete fire. I think he made seven of eight if you combined those two halves. This is what you want. Now, is Valpool good? Probably not. They're probably mid-pack of the Missouri Valley Conference. But for me, I just wanted to see, I just wanted to see Kentucky play like that. Because even in the Purdue game, as good as they were offensively, it wasn't in a style like this. Half of our SEC games are going to be like this.

And half of them are going to be like Georgetown in terms of the way they play. And now we've gotten a test against both of them. We won't really play a team like Purdue in the conference. But we will play teams like this, better versions of teams like this, and we'll play teams like Georgetown. And now we've gotten a test in both of them. Thought the arena sounded great. Love the ovation that Jalen Lowe got when he checked in the game.

I watched it at home. Travis Ford, Billy, sounds just like. Jimmy Dykes? When did that start happening? Has he always sounded like Jimmy Dykes? I don't know. I don't get to hear it. So like what do you mean? Is he doing the bits and things like that? No, he literally, his voice, he sounds like Jimmy Dykes has a nasal cold. That's when he sounds like. Because I for a minute was like, oh, they got Jimmy Dykes for this game. And then I realized it was Travis. I had never noticed how much they sounded alike. Overall, though, I'm thrilled with this performance. And now you get Louisville on Tuesday. And of course,

Louisville's player. Yes, yet last night said Blankham when talking about Kentucky. I have not read quotes yet, but I'm sure the Kentucky players were asked about it. I'll be interested to see maybe between now and the end of the show, Bill, you can find me any Kentucky player quotes about Louisville. Okay. Because I would like to see what we did. But that is a team that was out there on the court tonight that even without Jaden Quayton's can beat anyone.

in the country. And I needed a game like that, and we got it. And defensively, I know this team's going to be good, but I wanted to see them shoot the ball. I wanted to see them be efficient on offense, and they were. 8-5-9-2-80, 2287, North Carolina puts a beat down on Kansas. They were down in the first half, came back one by double digits. That's good for us because we play North Carolina. So if we can win that game, helps the strength of schedule. It's very, very early. very, very early, but we're second in the Ken Palm right now. That's good. Georgetown beats Maryland, even though that doesn't really officially affect our strength of schedule,

kind of unofficially. People in college basketball know what happened with the Kentucky Georgetown game, and maybe Georgetown is actually good. But all of that is going to be secondary to play in Louisville on Tuesday. And I hate that it's this early in the year. Hate it, hate it, hate it, hate it. But if we're going to play it, We might as well beat them.

And I now think that can happen, whereas I was a little bit worried, to be honest with you, before tonight. 859-28027. We will open up the phones. It's a rainy Friday night. We got football tomorrow. Obviously, the Zach Kalsada news today was not good. He has apologized for that. But remember, we'll be on the sideline tomorrow potentially as the backup quarterback.

Another thing to watch. We'll deal with all that when we return. This is the local Toyota dealers, KSR, post-Gay. show. Welcome back. It is the local Toyota dealers KSR post game show. 859-28027. We're just talking about I asked Billy during the break if he'd ever been on a date or with a woman and argued in public at a restaurant. There's a video of this couple arguing at a restaurant kind of going viral tonight and I asked Billy, has that ever happened to you? Have you ever been in an argument at a restaurant with someone you were dating? Yeah, but it never escalated to something. What about you?

Yeah, it's hard. I think what I've done it, I've always, like, argued, but, you know, in a whisper. You know how you can sound like you're really upset, but in a whisper? Like, how could you do? You know, but you can tell. I've been in a restaurant, though, where people, well, I've been in a restaurant once where a couple stormed out from my table. Ooh, from your table.

People I were with, was with, yeah, left. And the rest of us were just sitting there. Yeah. Actually, that's happened a couple times. I've been there. luckily I wasn't the one that did it. Mark Pope says he has jury duty next week, Billy. Yeah.

The week of the Louisville game, he has jury duty in Fayette County. What Louisville clerk, county court clerk in the Fayette County Courthouse, what Louisville fan did that to us? Exactly. How are you going to give my, you know, I've lived in, I've lived my entire life in Kentucky and have never, I've never had jury duty, ever. And Mark Pope's been here a year. Drew's had it like four times since we've been here.

I have. And I've never had, you've had it. Yeah. I've never had it, which is crazy to me. You would love it too. I'm sure you'd be really interested in. Well, I would get struck immediately, though. Like, it would actually be terrible because I know, no one, no one lawyers ever going to keep me on.

That's probably true. Yeah, lawyers do not keep other lawyers on. but the question you were asking me if I thought Mark Pope was going to get dismissed, get excused. He will, probably. But it's hard to get excused. You know, because everybody thinks that they have a valid reason. And the court tends to like, you know, really the only people that get excused are, you know, maybe doctors. but really, nope.

He'll get excused, probably. So it's not 100%. Like, there is a world out there. There's a world. They say no. If he lived, like, okay, you know how Vince Merrill lives in Lexington and coaches a little bit? There's definitely a world that if he got called to Fank County Jury Duty,

they would make Vince Merrill sit there. They would not dismiss him. Yeah, that would. Yeah. Because being a basketball coach is not like, you know, You can't use as an excuse. I have to work because everyone has to work. You know what I mean?

The excuse has to be something like I have a job. I can't remember what the wording is. But it's like I have a job that cannot be replaced. And it's a serious public concern. Does a basketball coach fit that? I think it fits at the week of the UK of L game, doesn't it? Any week of the year in this state, I would say so. But I'll say this.

If he was not, if it wasn't during the season, I bet he couldn't get out of it. Yeah, that would be much tougher. Yeah. Lexington's actually hard to get out of it. Some cities are easier, but Lexington can be hard. All right, who's up first? Jeff. Jeff.

Go ahead, Jeff. Hey, Matt, Jeff and Bartsown. A couple things. We obviously looked a lot better with our two-point guards in. I guess any team would look more organized, get Colin Chandler more opportunities and just pass the ball a lot better. I guess my only concern, not even concerned really, because we've wanted to, it's hard to have a concern.

Where do you think we find the star power on this lineup? We have a lot of players that can score 15 points. Where do we see a guy that just really wooge you offensively? I don't think we have one, to be honest with you. And to the extent we do, I'm hoping it's Jalen Lowe. I appreciate the call. I love Otega O'A. I think O'A is going to finish the season with like 15 points,

and he's going to be great. But I don't think he's that guy. Now, I know he made winning shots last year against Oklahoma, and he can make winning shots, but I think you've got to have the dude that creates, and I think that's Jalen Lowe by the end of the year. But we do not have the overwhelming star. And it is the case that if you kind of look back at national championship winners, they usually do. And we don't necessarily. but we have, I think, seven or eight guys

that could get an important bucket down the stretch and I think that's, most teams don't have that. So it'll be interesting to see, but this is why I've said all year. Billy, did you see today why I've said all year, this team will go as far as how good Jalen Lowe is? Yes, yeah. I mean, that's, tonight was an obvious example.

Now, Denzel Aberdeen is better than I thought he was. he's better than I thought he was so I'm excited about that but this team goes based I think on how good Jaylon Lowe ends up being who's next angus angus how are you Angus I'm good how are you guys tonight doing good to you guys same point I think that when Denzel Averdeen run into mckele Brown and Louisville on Tuesday we've seen enough over our last 15 years to know that those true freshman point guards when they run into a grown man, they've seen the struggle. And I think Denzel Averdeen will be that grown man that McElbrown runs into.

Well, let's talk just a second. Are you very... Let me ask you about, do you know a lot about Louisville's roster this year? My family is all Louisville fans. I'm the only Kentucky fan of my family. So let's look real quick, because I will admit, I watch them play Kansas a little bit in the exhibition. I have not watched any of their games so far this year. So I'm sitting here looking at it.

I watched him purely for purely to take. talk trash to my family is the only reason I'm moving back. So their starting lineup is what? Is it going to, it's McHale Brown, it's Conwell? It could be McHale Brown and Cason Wallace, I mean, Casey and Pryor. McNeely? I'm not sure of the other two. I'm not sure of the other two.

Conwell and did it? Yeah, McNeely is going to start, yes. And then what, Frue? Is that his name, Frue, the guy? I don't know. Oh, yes, that's it. Yeah, so like, you know. They don't have its physical of a team as we have.

We have a true SEC athletic, defensive physical team, and they're just kind of rolling with the punches as they just find the offense as they go. They don't have the physicality to match up with us, in my opinion. I agree with that. Hopefully it's going to come back to bite me. I agree with that. I appreciate the call.

I mean, I look at matchups. For me, it'll be interesting to see because the best player on the floor from a talent perspective will be McKell Brown. But he is a freshman. Against Kansas, he went, what, one for 14 or whatever in that game in a preseason game. So I think it's one of those feasts or famine. We've seen over the years with cows freshmen in the Louisville game. Sometimes they play great and sometimes they don't.

Pryor's only going to be in his second game. McNeely's a good shooter. I don't know as much about Conwell. He played, who did Conwell play for last year? Is that the kid that came from Xavier? Yes. Okay, so that's the kid that came from Xavier. He's pretty good.

And he, you know, again, I have not seen them. play, except for a few minutes and they were awful, the few minutes I saw them. But I think we match up pretty well with them. I think Diabate will be a huge advantage for us. And I think watching that Aberdeen and Lowe versus Mikhail Brown, you know, that might be where the game is won, to be honest with you, how those guys go against each other. Prior, I think it's going to – Diabate Prior, well, first of all, Prior and Garrison are going to almost fight.

Would you agree, Billy? that's going to happen. Can't wait. And Pryor and Garrison are going to, they're going to fight. As a matter of fact, I, you know, I don't mind if Garrison gets a technical in that. It's all right. If he wants to establish himself, because Pryor's going to be doing that, it's going to be interesting. The crowd's going to be a big deal. I mean, this is a true road game.

If you go look, honestly, every Kentucky team of the last, well, of always, we always struggle in our first true road game. Just go back, go back through history. I mean, we over the years have lost our first true road game. Remember, we lost one year at Purdue, or excuse me, at Notre Dame, not Purdue. We lost at Notre Dame one year. We very rarely play a true road game this early in the year. I'm trying to think the last time that's happened. When's the last time we've played a true road game this early in the year?

We've always had the Champions Classic so early, and that doesn't count, right? I don't know. Maybe back in the day, maybe we played Carolina this early sometimes. I cannot remember a true road game this early in the year. So that's the one thing that worries me the most about the Louisville game is your third game of the year and you're having to go into that home environment. Who's next? Jalen Lowe was asked about Case and Pryor's comments after the game tonight and he said, we will save our chirping for during the game and after the game after we win. Oh, did he really? Yes. Oh, that's my guy. I like that. Remember, Jalen Lowe's played against Louisville twice, maybe three times.

So he knows, he certainly knows prior, and he may know more of the guys as well. I love that answer. What's who's next? Chance. Chance. Go ahead, Chance. Where do you see that quote, by the way? Dylan Ballard posted it. Okay, got it.

Yeah, I'm on? Yes, go ahead. Yeah, I'm just sitting here watching Jones. John Summerall put on a who should be a playoff. What's the score? I'm watching the NBA. What's the score? Oh, sure.

We're sitting here at a review. It was 2114, I believe. That's not really a whoopin. That's a one score. 2870, 20, 70. Okay. All right. Well, big game for Memphis.

This is there. This is there essentially. They win this. They got a good chance of making a playoff. So this is big for them. But it could be a big win for John Summar, who should be our future coach, in my opinion. Yeah, I worry about him winning games like this, though,

and maybe one of these bigger schools takes him before we can. So part of me wants him to lose for that reason. Hey, blue blood is blue blood. He's here for us. All right. But I just want to comment on just the effort we had as a whole team tonight. I mean, you just saw the complete effort of everybody. We played as a team.

and just seeing on having a solid guard run the offense is something we haven't seen all year and we just benefited at a maximum. Yeah, I mean, it is, we got to have those guys. I mean, without those guys, the offense just gets stagnant and becomes one-on-one and you can have moments where it looks good, but it's not going to be consistent. Because we don't have, without those guys, we don't have a great guy. who can just take over. So you've got to have a point guard.

The good thing is I kind of thought we had one, and now I think we might have two, and that's exciting. I mean, because Aberdeen's better than what he was. And I think you put those two guys on the floor together with Oway. You got three guys who feel good kind of controlling the offense, and I really like that. And that also helps if Brandon Garrison isn't as good at that Amari Williams role,

it may not matter as much if you have three guards who can initiate. the offense. Last year, if you think about it, and yeah, and that's, we really have won. Malachi stepping up in his role is we don't need that Amari role. If our guards are putting out what they can put out. You know, we got three guard deep. We can have a Malachi, a Brendan Garrison

that we don't need them to benefit our offense, but can just step up and play off the screen and just feed off of that and just, hey, go get you a bucket. get your rebound and play off that where our guards can benefit off our team in general. Well, I appreciate the call. I agree with you on that. And, you know, people think because last year we played with Amari Williams in that role, that means that that's the only way Pope can play.

I think there's a belief that like, well, that's how Pope played last year. So that's how he's got to play. They really haven't played that a lot this year. They have not been running the ball through the big very often. They've been letting the guards go, and it's opened up a lot of corner threes. Chandler made them tonight. Diabate made a really ugly three tonight, so, you know, I was very encouraged by the shooting and everything else this evening. What's next?

Terry. Terry, go ahead, Terry. Hey, Matt, this is Big Terry from Taylor County. How y'all doing? Hello, Big Terry from Taylor County. Hey, man. Great win tonight. I warn the fellas in the locker room.

Let's not dwell on this one. I think we saw what happened when we dwelled on the Purdue win. Louisville. Wait, me, hang on. You told who this in the locker room? No, that's what I want to tell the fellas in the locker room. They're not going to be dwelling on this. They got Louisville.

I mean, I don't think they're going to be sitting there saying, there's a big difference between beating Valpo and beating the number one team in the country, Purdue. So I don't, I'm not worried about them dwelling on a. game against this team. Their eyes are going to be set for Tuesday. Now, I agree with you. I just relate this in my past life. I did semi-professional MMA. Anytime I dwelt on a victory I had over an opponent of lesser ability, I came out and got my butt-wook the next time. So I just don't want that to happen.

What does it mean you did semi-professional MMA? Is that in Taylor County? Yeah, just around Taylor County, Columbia area, even into Marion County there. But when you say around Taylor County, where are you doing this? Where are the events? Well, Matt, if I'm being honest, some of them are in my buddy's backyard. Are you making this up? I think you're making this up.

You're making this up, right? Matt, I promise you. Matt, I promise you. I'm Taylor, Big Terry, from Taylor. County. So you're saying you do MMA events in your buddy's yard in Taylor County. This is a past life, Matt. I remember this is a past life.

Billy, I think this is more interesting than the valve. That's fine. Yeah. So explain to me how a backyard MMA event in Taylor County. How does it work? Well, I mean, you know the Campbellsville area down there, not a lot of stuff to do. we had to keep ourselves busy. One day, my buddy Noah, he just said, hey, you think we can start putting the gloves on

and kind of going at it? And before we knew it, more people would show up. I mean, we even got to the point where we were selling tickets at one point. So you sold tickets in your buddy's backyard? Yeah, I mean, not a packed house, but I mean, 10, 15 people just getting together, having a good time, watching people feed up on each other. first of all I

Billy would love to go to this do you think Big Terry you could start this back up you might I don't know you might be too old but I would come and watch well I appreciate that I have hung the gloves up

unfortunately I'm just too old for that I'm sorry all right well if there's another if you hear let me put it like this if you hear of a new Taylor County backyard MMA

group will you let me know Matt Jones you will be the first person that I call all right I appreciate uh appreciate the call see you never know what you're going to get on these shows but Friday night you really don't no idea I spent a lot of time in Campbellsville when I was younger there's a lot of people there I wouldn't want to fight

matter of fact all of them there's like nobody I would want to fight especially when the fruit of the loom factory was there that was it you wouldn't you wouldn't want to brawl with people So I would like to have seen Big Terry go at it in Taylor County. Who's next? Tyler. Tyler, go ahead, Tyler. I can't help but laugh at that Big Terry stuff.

I need Bruce Buffer calling him when he gets into the ring. Big Terry! I like, let's get ready to rumble. I don't like that. That's what I would have liked to have heard in Taylor County. But go ahead. That would have been even better. Anyway, so we got Louisville coming up, man.

And I, honest to God, I knew the game was. was early in the year, not this early. I was surprised. I was like, holy crap, it's next Tuesday. And this is yesterday. I'm like, I couldn't believe it. I just, I want to know, why are we playing this game so early in the year?

Are they afraid of when playing comes back? I think what has happened with these games. This is just a guess. I honestly don't know. I think what's happened with these games is December now, they're very hesitant to play these big time games, the weekends in December because of bowl games. So they don't want to put the TV games against them.

So now they're wanting to put them during the week. And I think when they put them during the week and it's at Louisville, we're probably going to see it be early in the year. I think when it's in Kentucky, in Lexington, it might be later. The ACC schedule. So when it's in Kentucky, if you remember, we'll usually play between Christmas and New Year, but I think the ACC schedule is actually starting between Christmas and New Year this year. So I think that's why this game is so early.

So this may be a case that when we play there, this is what it's going to be. And when we play here, it's later in the year. So I don't know if that's good or bad, but it may just be end up what it's being. But it sounds like neither coach really wanted this. So hopefully this is a one-time thing. I can't wait for the post-game handshake after we win, after we get in about 20, and we get to see the height difference between Pope and that midget that they got on the sideline. anyway. Let's hope we're winning. That's the big one.

I mean, this is, how important, Billy, is this one to you? I mean, the Louisville game is always important, but is it more, less than usual this year? Where are you on it? It's just so strange because it's so early. I'm not ready for this game to happen. I'm not either. Feels like we should be playing in the Champions Classic, too. Yeah, no, it should be Michigan State or Duke. I would much prefer to be playing Michigan State in New York City Tuesday than play in Louisville.

But Case and Pryor's comments definitely got me fired up. And, you know, I want to win. Absolutely. But it's probably about the same. What about you? I want to win. Obviously, I want to win. I think it's a big deal.

I don't think it's more, I think this is more for like just chirping purposes between the two fan bases. I don't really know that it'll say anything about either team. There's probably more pressure on them than us because it's on their home floor. Right. No, JQ. I mean, it's on their home floor. we have a guy, you know, we have a guy not out yet.

You know, they're, we might be older, but they've got guys back that are in key roles. And they got this town, talented, it's really because it's on their home floor. I think the pressure in this is just going to be on whoever's on the home floor. And they're having to defend home court. Let's do one more and we'll take a break. 859, 280, 2287. Nick. Nick, go ahead, Nick.

Hey, what's up, Matt? You got me? Gotcha. All right, I got two comments for you. then I'll go off here. Jalen Lowe, from the limited minutes he played tonight, you can really see the vision. Like the way he pushes the ball down and transition

and get the break started, he's definitely our most creative playmaker. Of course, he had some, like, first game jitters, first time being in front of that rough crowd. But he definitely changes his offense, and you saw that tonight with over 100 points scored. If he stays healthy this year, I love our team. And I know that's your MVP of the year,

but obviously he had limited minutes tonight, but what do you think about Jaylon Lowe's debut? He's great. He did exactly what I hoped. He played limited minutes. Pope says he's going to be playing limited minutes for a while, but he did exactly what I hope. He takes it to the basket. He can get a step on guys. First play he came in.

He drove the basket, kicked out for a corner three for Chandler made it. Like, that's what he's going to do. He's going to do it all year. And the great thing is, and I appreciate the call, I only saw him take one. I didn't see him take any bad shots. He only took one shot that maybe he shouldn't have, but it wasn't even that bad. Like his weakness was taking bad shots, and he's not doing that. So I can't wait.

By a SEC play, assuming he's healthy, he's going to be all-S-eC. Myr-Mitt-Kaff asked me before the year, he's like, who should I have as my second UK guy on the all-S-eC team? And I said, you're going to make a mistake if he don't put J-1-Lowe on it. And I believe that. He is going to be, in my opinion, first or second team all-S-S-C. I think he's that good. I think he's going to be our leading score in SEC play.

Now, I don't know what's going to happen between now and in. Like, he only had six nights because he didn't play a lot of minutes. So I don't know what he's going to score in the non-conference. But when we get to conference play, he's going to be, if not our best player, he's going to be our leading score. 859-280-2287. We're going to take a break. Apparently two fans got engaged tonight. They were waiting to meet Mark Stoops after the game and get an autograph.

And when they got to the front of the line to get the autograph, the guy, I asked the girl to marry. Stoops or Pope? Did I say Stoops? Yeah. It would be less of a good story if it was popes. It would be very odd to get engaged in front of Mark Stoops. At the game, yeah.

Mark Pope. They got engaged in front of Mark Pope. There's video. Dylan Bauer has it. I'm going to retweet it right now so people can see it. But it's video. They waited until they got the front of the line and then he dropped on one knee. And Mark Pope was there to be the witness.

Oh. Congratulations to the happy couple. All right, we'll take a break. 859-2-80-20-87. It's a local toy dealers, KSR, post-game show. Welcome back. It is the local toy dealers, KSR post-game show. 859-2-80-2287.

I started filming these little reaction videos after the thing. I can't call them rapid reactions because they do that with KSR, the website. Everybody's giving me a hard time, Billy, because I have a picture on the ground. behind it. Yeah, how long has that picture been on the ground? It's been on the ground for a long time. Yeah. It's probably been on the ground for, well, are we talking in this exact spot? No, no. I mean, total time on the ground. I've had this picture. I've had this picture since I did the thing where I went to every county. So that was in 2019. So I've had this thing for six years. So it has been on the ground somewhere for the last six years. Oh, that poor friend is this is hard to

hang up because it's really heavy. It's wood. Yeah. You know what I mean? Not that I could hang it if it wasn't would. But that gives me an excuse that it's heavy. It's really nice, though. Have you seen it? Yeah, I saw it.

It's a map of Kentucky, and it's made of the things each region's known for. Right? So it's coal in the coal parts, grass. It's not made of grass, but it has grass on it, right? Yeah, it's unfortunate. I can't even view what's on the picture. I can only see that it's on the floor. So it's hard for me to actually look at it.

I'm sorry. I'll take a picture of it for you sometime. Who's up next? Let's go to Aaron. Aaron, go ahead, Aaron. Hey, Matt. I've got two things for you. The first one is really just, you know, I know it's Valpo, but it just felt good to go in there and really kick their teeth in.

I know we're supposed to, but I feel like over the last few years, you know, we kind of sweated those games. And this year, it didn't feel like that. Well, it was over from the beginning. And we did it from moment one. I think that's probably the biggest difference. I mean, well, we don't win a lot of games by 50, but we've won a lot of these games by decent spreads. But it's rare that we come in and like it was over at the first TV timeout.

You know, that was kind of a unique cool thing. Yeah, and I love that. And it's just so good. And the second thing, honestly, during that game, you know, I lived in Shelbyville, and I was like, you know what, I'm going to this little bit. game because I got to be there. And my sister, who has never been to a Kentucky basketball game, I just texted her,

and I said, we're going to this game. I'm bringing you with me. And so I said, make it happen. So I bought two tickets, and we're going. And we're super pumped because I'm just, I'm so ready for a little. I won all the smacks on everything to happen. I'm just, you're going to have, I know there's going to be more, but you're going to have at least two cats fans there.

Well, that's awesome. I think there's going to be a lot. Remember, they went on sale during show when we've, basically our fans bought up all that was left. So I think there's going to be a lot. I've said this many times. It's still the case, and I hope this happens for you. Appreciate the call.

Nothing better than getting a win in another team's house, always. And if you're there, it's awesome. Sitting here looking at the scores around college basketball, obviously North Carolina beat Kansas. A couple of interesting close games. Purdue only beat Oakland by 10. That game was tied at halftime. the Oakland that, you know, different players, but that beat us a few years ago, was tied with number one Purdue.

Purdue ended up winning by 10. Missouri only beat southeast Missouri, Billy, by three. Uh-oh. Missouri. I don't know what that means for Missouri. And then most of the rest of these games, the obvious team won. There are some schools, though. We talked about how mid-majors were having a hard time scheduling, so they have to play these schools that are like Division 2, et cetera. some of these schools that played games today.

Fort Lauderdale. Did you know that was a school? I mean, I knew it was a city. I know the city. Did you know it was a school? No, I did not. Harvard played MIT. I don't think MIT is Division I.

A school named Jarvis Christian played. Evansville beat Calumet. I'm assuming that's not the farm. Delaware lost to a school. The name of the school is Wilmington, Delaware. Mm. State-de-hard. But have you ever heard of a school being named the name of the city and the state?

No. That would be like a school being named Louisville, Kentucky. Yeah. The school is named Wilmington, Delaware, and then they beat Delaware. So one city is better than the entire state. So kind of odd. Who's next? Jen May.

Jen May. How are you? Oh, I don't know. You don't know how you're doing? Oh, hey, I'm on. Sorry, I'm sorry. I'm sorry to somebody else. Oh, okay, go ahead.

Hey, I just wanted to say, yeah, so my son was playing at a concert, U of L. I had to listen to most of the show on the radio. I have to say that I was really impressed with the way that, like, the, we made so many shots. I just feel like the last game, like, of missed a lot of shots, and Jalen Lowe came into night,

which I was really happy about because, I commented on one of his posts He liked it, so I was like, he's my best friend. So you commented on a Jalen post, Jalen Lowe post, and he liked it. Well, that's probably why he played so well. I think so. You should take full credit for it.

Right. And Drew Yelovic, I think that he's going to come up. I'm a fan of the next Yelvic fan club. Let's go. Okay. All right. I thought I see he played well tonight. He hit a couple.

couple shots. I thought he looked comfortable on the floor. I like the way he plays. You know, he seems to be able to play in a too big thing pretty well. So I thought Yellow Vic was good tonight. Yeah, I wish I could have seen it. I listened to it on the radio. So how do you think they're going to play against? I haven't seen U of L play all year. How do you think they're... I don't know. I really don't. I mean, there's never been... I appreciate the call. I've always felt like I had a pretty good handle on the U of L game. Like, if I look back, I feel like I went into every one of those games thinking that the team that was going to win ended up winning.

There are only two times I've been generally surprised by the result of a U of L game. When the Fox Monk team lost to them, I was surprised by that. And then I was surprised when we won with Jorts in that year because we beat them on their home floor and they were really good. but generally speaking, I kind of feel like going into it every year, you kind of know who's the better team. And I'm not sure that I like our upside long term more than theirs, but I'm not sure who's better right now. I don't really know because we've only, I mean, today was the first game. We've had our whole team. And, you know, I do think we have our whole team.

With Quaintance, I do think he's going to play. I do think he's going to be a big deal. I don't think we can, when we signed Quentin. we knew he was not going to be here at this game. So, Billy, I don't think we can use him not playing as an excuse. You know what I mean? Like, we knew when Mark Pope signed Quatence, he knew he would not be playing in this game. So if Jaylon Lowe didn't play, that'd be different.

But I don't think if we lose Tuesday, we can't go. Well, we didn't have Jayden Quaintz. Oh, well. We didn't think we were going to have. He's still part of this team's ceiling, right? That's exactly right. But the question is today. Right.

And today, he's on the team, but no one. expected him to play. So, you know, part of when you bring in Jaden Quaints is you're acknowledging he's not going to play during the non-conference. So, um. Well, scary thought of adding that guy to this team. Yeah. Especially if he gets, if he's on the team before February. And if he doesn't join the team until mid-February, while I do think he'll play, I mean, he's not going to be, you can't base the team around him if he doesn't join until mid-February.

The question for me is, when's he's he going to play? He was doing five on zero drills, apparently. which by the way you better be able to score at a 5-0 drill back down your man if you can't you're going to be in trouble but that says he's getting some game action which is good who's next

Noah Noah go ahead Noah Hey Matt so I'm actually in the middle of watching the recap from the game was my wife's birthday today so we went out for a nice dinner and dance banquet fun thing to celebrate for her so I'm in the middle of recap watching it but for

if you if you're not able to get like from the third party streamers that are probably getting knocked off now after. Yeah, I think the one Shannon mentioned got knocked off tonight or else he didn't do it. I couldn't find him. Yeah, I else he didn't do it. Now, I will say the Islamic one had 25,000 people at one point, Billy. Who would have ever thought people were watching Arabic UK basketball?

That to me, you know, say whatever you want. The world is small, and we can all come together for basketball. But go ahead. Yeah, but I want to let people know with it. So there's a different streamer, a guy that I found, who he takes, if I'm correct from the name, if you look up just a letter O underscore ball underscore O. He basically does all, as far as what I can see, all of the UK basketball, I think volleyball and football basically takes the entire streams of the game.

records them but then takes out any commercial break. So it's not just like a highlight. I personally, I like being able to watch and sit and watch like, like I'm actually watching the game. So he has the entire stream of the full game just taking out the commercials. So it's not just like the random highlights for it. So it feels like you get the actual experience of the game. So it's, oh underscore.

Okay, be careful, though. Don't, don't narckey now. Shannon already did that to the one guy. No, no, no. He's been around for a while. I don't think he's going to get an arc. So I think it's all good with how he does it. All right.

I appreciate the call. I wonder if the guy Shannon mentioned. I wonder what happened. Was he on there at all tonight? Because I went looking for him soon after the game started, didn't see it. I wonder if Shannon scared him from even doing it. I don't know. He brought a lot of attention to it.

Did Ryan tip the Arabic one? I don't know if they said his name. That was kind of what put him over the edge, right? He did tweet that. he did tweet that somebody hadn't said his name, which makes me think he paid someone to say his name and they didn't say it. See, that's going to make him upset. That's going to make him sad.

There has to be a level of trust between the illegal streamer and the streamee. And I don't know if there was tonight. I think wins our next, when's our next illegally streamed game? We still have like two more. Yeah, I had to check. All right. Who's next? Danny.

Danny, go ahead. Yeah, so Jaden Clayton. do you think he's an immediate impact when he comes in? I mean, how good is this guy? No, I know. I mean, I think he's great, but I think any kid who hasn't played basketball in over a year is not going to immediately come in in the middle of SEC play and just be excellent. But, yes, is he an impact?

The dude's a freak. I mean, there are videos of him at Arizona State. Now, he can play a lot because he got hurt. but if you go watch him, I mean, he is a freak of nature. And he was 17 when he played last year. So, yeah, he's going to be, he's going to be one of those athletic guys where you're like, oh, my. But is he, and I think he can raise our ceiling, but I think a lot of it's going to depend on when he starts. If it's February, then I don't know.

But now if it's, if it's SEC play and he gets SEC play to ramp up, then I think we're talking about. something. Yeah, man. So I appreciate the call. Here's a picture of Jalen Lowe when he committed to Kentucky. He did a live stream video, and he threw the L's down up. See, I'm going to love this. He's going to be my favorite player.

Well, he is my favorite player. You know, now in the world of college basketball, some night when you're like, don't have anything to do and you just turn a game on, you might see a guy who will be a future cat. and I got that a couple times with Jaylen Lowe last year, and I was like, this kid's crazy, but I love it. By the way, Kentucky plays Eastern Illinois next Friday on SEC Plus. So next Friday's another illegal streaming. Yeah.

That'll be the championship of the BBN United Tipoff Classic presented by Kentucky Tourism. Kentucky Tourism. All right. Who's next? David. David. Go ahead, David. Hey, Matt.

Can you hear me? I can. Go ahead. I've been fortunate enough to go to the, the first two games this season. And I've got to say, Malachi has really impressed me. And tell me if I'm wrong here. But he kind of reminded me of Nick Richards a little bit in a way.

A little bit? A little bit? You know, catching a lot of lobs. A little bit? I mean, I think he's a better shooter than Nick. Nick was a better defender. Nick was a really good defender his last year. But, yeah.

But, I mean, part of his, their hair looks alike when they play. But they do catch the lob similarly. I think Moreno's upside is huge. I mean, it's huge. What's going to be great about him is, unless he gets too good, he'll be back next year, and he'll be like a centerpiece of the team next year. But I think he's going to be great. I mean, at 18 tonight.

And the thing is, he can catch that lob and finish it. And while guys like Nick Richards could do that easily, Willie, we've had a lot of guys over the years who were tall and they just couldn't consistently finish that, right? Just think about all the various dudes we've had like that. He can do it, and then he can shoot threes and long as he starts making free throws. I think he made his two tonight, we'll be good.

Appreciate the call. Let's do one more. Then we'll take a final break. Travis. Travis. Go ahead, Travis. Hey, Matt, really enjoying the show tonight. I know this might be a little random, him, but I really enjoyed the TV broadcast.

I got to give props to Andrew Kappas. He sounded like a 10-year veteran on ESPN with Travis Ford, and I just really enjoyed him. I thought he did a good job as well. I actually, when listening thought that, how did he end up doing that game? Didn't that other guy get hired to do those? Yeah, the NOAA guy or whatever. What happened to him? I don't know.

Well, I thought Andrew did a good job. I agree with you. I'm glad you do, and I got a question for you. I live here in Louisville. I work with a lot of U of L fans and with the game coming up. Should I be chesty with them or should I keep just kind of be chill until after the game? Cautiously optimistic, okay? Cautiously optimistic.

I would not talk trash because I don't know. Like I said, I have no idea what's going to happen in this game. I don't even know what the line will be. I'm going to assume Louisville's going to be favored, but they might not. I don't know. I mean, it is a completely. up in the air game. And you throw in first true road game, which we've not

always had the most success in, it's probably, if you look at their schedule, their biggest game of the year on their court. They might, I don't, I don't even know if they, I don't think, do they have Duke this year? I think they had them last year. So I don't even know if they have them this year at home. So this is going to, I mean, I wouldn't be chesty, because I don't know if we, I don't know what's

going to happen. But I also wouldn't like be nerd. I'm not nervous at all. I'm not nervous at all. I just need to know if I need to stay on my ground or just kind of like wait. I just kind of wait. I do like Jalen Lowe, and I appreciate the call. We'll talk after the game. In my view, we're better than them. But I don't think that gap today is huge, and we're on their home court. And I just believe in college basketball, home court means a lot. And it almost means a lot more in Kentucky games because everybody shows up when we play, whereas they don't always show up when other teams play. So I would say we're better, but the home court makes it a toss-up. We'll take a break. 859-280-2287.

Do the final segment. This is the local toy dealers, KSR, post-game show. Welcome back. Final segment, Local Toy Dealer's KSR post-game show. The NBA Cup is going on, which I'm sure most of you did not know, but

these courts are crazy. Did you see the one earlier today that was like bright? yellow. Bright yellow. That sounds annoying for a basketball court. You got to look at the picture. It was wild.

Is there a game on now? The Cavaliers scored 50 points in the first quarter in their game tonight, which is an insane amount of points. They finished with 146. Is that on ESPN or something? I can't find it. I think the games tonight are on Amazon. Oh, okay.

So I just turned on. You said turn on USC Northwestern. All right, I did that. Yeah, that's what I got on. That's exciting. Because of this YouTube ESPN thing, I don't even think to turn on YouTube TV. It's actually hurt the other channels because I don't even think to turn them on. It's funny. You start to learn you don't have to have it after a while. I wonder if, you know, you got the Arabic streams on YouTube if you need to watch anything. People are fighting other ways, yeah.

All right. We'll do six and call tonight. Who's next? Before we do, it's time for the Johnny Rocker personal injury attorney moneymaker of the game. Oh, this is a new name. New name, yeah, money maker of the game. So it's called the Moneymaker of the game. That's what Johnny Rocker. Where is Johnny Rocker, by the way? Lebanon.

He's in Lebanon. I wonder if he's, okay, so that's right next to Taylor County. You think he's ever been to the backyard MMA fight? That's a great question. I'm going to have to ask him. You have to ask Johnny Rocker. So this is the moneymaker of the game. Who are you picking?

That's right. Injured, get small town compassion with big city results when you call the Rocker at 270 321 4229. And the story of the night was Jalen Lowe. But how about the guy he played pick and roll with most of the night? Malachi Moreno. I thought David hit the nail on the head. 18 points, 10 rebounds, three assists, zero turnovers in one block in 21 minutes.

Malachi Moreno, our second ever, Johnny Rocker, personal injury attorney, moneymaker of the game. Money maker of the game. The text machine, 772-7524. One person writes, Matt, I'm from Taylor County. and Terry calling that MMA fighting semi-professional is the most generous adjective anyone could use. I like it. I mean, professional means you have to get paid.

Do you think they got paid? I guess I should have asked that question. I mean paid in drinks and food for the night, maybe? Yeah. By the way, lower, so lower-level prices for the game. You want to guess what the lower-level price for the game? For Louisville, Kentucky is? Like $400?

looks like yeah it looks like about 440 bucks per ticket for lower level good guess billy thank you you got to compliment yourself uh one person writes first rule of taylor county fight club is you shouldn't be talking about taylor county that county fight club you know it doesn't it doesn't exist anymore now one person tells me that in pike County, they do that every weekend. That's just a normal weekend for them. Another person says, Matt, you know that there are backyard fights all over the state. They sometimes stream live on TikTok.

Who? Please let me know when that happens. All right. Would love to see that. I would love to watch one live on TikTok. I promise I won't Narkew like Shannon did. All right, who's up next? Corey.

Corey, go ahead, Corey. Hey, Matt. Just curious, well, first and foremost, Lovel has been, at least at my Twitter, talking quite a bit. What do you think about their big men's matching up against ours? How do you think we compare?

So I haven't watched enough of the Frue guy, so I don't know. I do like the matchup of Diabate against Pride. I think we can win that matchup. But I don't know, like, Frue versus Gary. I just haven't seen him, so I can't really say that I would just be guessing. Again, I watched a handful of minutes of their Kansas game. It's hard because, you know, they changed the roster.

It's hard to know. So I can't. I do, I think the prior Diabate, I'll take advantage of Diabate. Whoa. We still on here, Billy? No, he's gone. No, I said, are we still on here? Yeah, we're sure.

Okay. Yeah, I think the point guard matchup, I think. I think it's likely Low and Aberdeen will play better than Brown, but Brown is more talent. Brown is a super talent. So like, if you do one of these things of let's say everybody is at their peak performance,

Brown will be the best player on the court. But I don't know if he'll be at his peak performance. I mean, he wasn't against Kansas. He has been pretty good in these two games to start the season, but they haven't been playing anybody. So we'll see what happens when he plays. You know, he's played one game against a good team and did not play well.

So we'll see what happens in this one. Five more. Who's next? Jackson. Jackson. Jackson. Hey, Matt. So great game tonight.

First things, first I saw analytically were ranked third in the country defensively, which is only been two games, but we haven't had a top 20 defense since 2019, which is kind of crazy. It is crazy. And for Mark Pope, for Mark Pope to have a top 20 defense. I mean, historically, that's not, his teams haven't done that. So, I mean, that's a really good sign if that keeps up. Yeah, I mean, it would be electric to have a great defense this year.

So, yeah, it's only been two games, but still, you know, scheduling for the analytics. I love that. And the second thing is it seems like the days of random guys coming into Rupp Arena and going nuts on us, seems to not be a thing under Mark Pope. In two years, a year and two games, we haven't seen it so far. So any comments on that? That's a great point. I think it's a skill.

outing thing, to be honest with you. I mean, I think when I think Cal's view, in my opinion, way too long into the season, sometimes even in the tournament is, we do what we do, we don't worry about what you do, and what that can lead sometimes

is the only guy that can beat you will go off. We've seen it, we've seen it over the year, especially in Rupp Arena. These, I mean, like, they're breaking down these teams. They know the tendencies. I mean, listen to Pope in a You've heard this, Billy.

Listen to Pope when he does his pregame interview with Tom Leach. Like he knows every player on the team. He rattles off the numbers, what they do. He usually doesn't say their names. He says their uniform number. But he rattles it all. Like, it's clear. He knows.

He knows everybody. He knows what they're going to do. So I think it makes it less likely. I think they come into these games and go, okay, Valpo or a team like Valpo has got one or two guys that can maybe score on us. We shut them down and we make these. other guys beat us. And usually they're going to have a hard time doing that when you're getting to the third, four, fifth, six guy on a team.

Four more. Who's next? Let's go to Brad. Brad. Brad. Brad, go ahead, Brad. Brad. All right.

No, Brad. 859, 280, 2287. Who's next? Caleb. Caleb. Hey, Matt. What's up? First time, long time.

Who? I just wanted to say, you know, we've talked. talked a lot about about who's going to be pushed out when we get all healthy and JQ gets back, but nobody's really talked about Brennan Garrison taking that role with Malachi really, really flourishing and JQ coming back at the five. You know, I want to get your take on what you think about Brendan Garrison maybe getting pushed off to the side.

I mean, I love him. I love how fire it is, but. I don't think it's impossible. I don't think it's possible. I'd be a little surprised. I think defensively they really like what Garrison does, and he's more. physical than Malachi. So I think defensively is why it's more likely to him stay on the court.

But I can see a world where you go, well, wait a minute. Malachi's offense maybe makes up for some of Diabate's offensive weakness. Diabate's defense helps Malachi. And then Garrison and Yelovich. Yovitch had some offense, Garrison defense. So I can see it. I don't think it's crazy. I think they'll stay with Garrison until.

But if Malikai scores 18 a game, he's going to be starting. So a lot of it depends on it because I don't think Brian Garrison's not going to do that. So, but my initial reaction would be I would expect Garrison to keep it. Now when Quaitance comes, if he were to start in December, then by February he'll be starting. But we'll see what happens. Three more. Who's next? Ryan.

Ryan, go ahead, Ryan. Hey, Matt. I just wanted to call and say, you know, the first half of the game, I don't know if there's a team in the country that could be first half Kentucky tonight for sure. You know, fouls and fouls kind of slowed the things down the second half. And then I did also want to call in just to take up for Taylor. I'm actually driving through Lebanon now home back to Taylor County. We're not all in our backyard's MMA fighting. We are trying to clean it up.

We're getting a Zaxis, you know, so it's not all just homeless people fighting in their backyard. You're acting like I don't think that's good. First of all, I've been to Campbellsville, next to Lexington, Louisville, and Middlesbrough. I've been there more than anywhere else in Kentucky. All right. You have the best Mr. Gatties. Is that still open? I'll give you that.

I'll give you that. You got the best Mr. Gatties. You're getting a Zaxby's. Is that right? Got Zaxby's. We just got a cookout a couple years ago. So things are looking up. Wait a minute.

That's high class. Middlesbril does not have a cookout or a Zaxpeas. So like you got, now that's a huge uptick in the quality of fast food restaurants. And that's what I'm trying to say, you know, come to Taylor County. eat your cookout, eat your Zaxby's, and if you want to stay for an MMA fight, you know, there's options there. It's just not all MMA fighting, you know. Sounds like a fun night.

Not going to lie. Appreciate the call. Lookout. See, I didn't think cookout went to places like Campbellsville. I thought that was more like of a Lexington, Louisville. Cookout's good. Anytime you get a corn dog as a side. That should be my next investment.

Bring a cookout to Middlesboro. I can see it doing well. Enough people in Middlesbrough to. Well, we got LMU over in Coverland Gas. Those kids like a good hamburger. Two more. Who's next? Jason.

Jason. Go ahead, Jason. Hey, well, let me first start off. I'll say, I'll work in Taylor County. We'd love to have you come back and do another live show there. I went the last time you were at Gadis back in, I think. Yeah, well, that usually happens in the summer, and I was gone two summers ago to Europe, and then this summer we didn't do it.

We're probably going to do some summer stops this summer, so hopefully they'll bring us there. Awesome. So the reason I called, I've got a stat you're going to love. I got a stat. I know you're going to love this. You know how at the beginning of the show you were talking about true road games? Yes. Okay. So go back to Kentucky's three title teams, 96, 98, last three title team, 96, 98, 2012. Out of those three teams only had one true road loss between them out of all. three.

Oh, exactly. Interesting. What? Indiana, right, Indiana. That was it. That was the one. That was the last second shot by Wofford, as we know. But the other ones, 96,

they lost to UMass on a New York Court. They lost the Mississippi State and the FCC tournaments on Newport. In 98, they lost to Arizona in Maui. And then the other three were Louisville, Florida, and Ole Miss at home. And then, of course, in 2012, in 2012, the Indiana game. that you mentioned.

And then 98, we lost, we lost three home games and didn't lose any road games. That's interesting. Exactly. Yeah. So I say, let's start it out with a win on Tuesday night. I want to see Road Warriors this year. We do that. And in 2012 or 2015, you know, was their other best team.

Obviously, they went on the road. Yeah, I've always judged teams by how they do on the road. And I appreciate the call, specifically how they do. their mentality on the road. Because, you know, like in 2010, we lost a couple, we lost one, two games on the road, but like those guys liked being on the road. I think part of what I want to see is, you know,

win or lose, what's their attitude in that? Because we've had teams look scared in those games. You know, we've had teams who just couldn't win on the road. You know, I think it's Robert Goulet who said anybody can win at home, but a true team wins on the road. He said that in that song, Patino and the Cats. Will you play that for me before this thing? Will you look that up?

Patino and the Cats? Yeah, it's like ESPN2. He has a song. It's called Robert Goulet. Look it up. It's on YouTube. It'll be like, Patino and the Cats, they go riding together. Let's go something like that.

Okay. If you find it, I'll be impressed. Two more. Who's next? We only have one more, and it's Brian. Well, somebody else is going to have the call because we have two more. Oh, okay. Brian.

Or did I say one? more. Well, you said six more, and this is the sixth. Oh, okay, well then this will be the last one. Go ahead. Who's up? Brian. Brian, go ahead, Brian. Hey, buddy, guys. Thank you all for your show. I love it.

My question is, what's your opinion on the portal? I mean, I know it allows us to get better players and the teams with more money get the better players. So, isn't it not affecting the Cinderella's that we'll never see a little bit? A little bit. A little bit?

I mean, it's, well, yes and no. Okay, so we lost Oakland in the portal era, right? Yale beat Auburn. Yale beat Auburn in the tournament in the portal era. Last year, there wasn't a McNeese State last year, one in the portal era. Now, what is happening is, I think you're seeing a lot less upsets here in the non-conference,

but the reason I think that's happening is less the portal, than what we talked about. Did you hear what we talked about on the show earlier this week about scheduling philosophies? Did you hear that? No. The basic is this. The basic is this. They've now changed the way they now use the net to cede the tournament.

And the net, whereas the RPI used to value the teams you played, whether or not you won or lost. So like playing a good team and losing, sometimes it's better than playing a bad team and winning. The net values winning, and it values margin of victory. Margin of victory is now part of it. In the RPI, it really wasn't. So because of that, these coaches and ADs have realized it's better to beat teams by 30 than to beat a team by 10. So there was a story on the athletic about how Belmont and schools like that,

they can't get anybody to play them. Because now these schools are saying, rather than play Belmont, which used to be a game that helped you in the RPI, Belmont make the tournament, then you could have beaten a tournament team. Now, beating Belmont by 10 is much worse than beating Valpo by 50. And so now these teams are all scheduling Valpo. So I think the kind of teams that used to pull off those games that you and I like to see,

they're just not getting to play these teams. So like the Belmonts of the world just aren't getting to play games that they can pull the upset on. And I think that's really what's happening more. There's just these huge gaps in who everybody's playing. So I think they've got to fix that because they need to make this non-conference better. And to do that, I think they're going to have to find ways to encourage teams to play the Yale's, the Belmonts, the teams like that that can actually pull off and upset. Yeah, I mean, I agree. Don't you think the portal has some effect on it?

I mean, it seems like the parody is getting center and center as the year ago back. It is, and the portal is part of it, but I think the portal giveth and the portal taketh away. One of the good things about the portal is teams can be good. New teams can be good. Think about how good the SEC was last year, right? That's also because of the portal too. Yeah, I agree with that. I agree with that.

And these teams have a lot of money and get the best players. Yeah. But it does hurt. I agree. It hurts these small schools. But I also think the kind of small schools that can win these games, they're not getting a chance to play them because of the new. They're going to have to fix that, I think.

But appreciate it. That's because of the portal? No, it's because of the new. way they're doing the tournament. It's because of the net. They've got to fix the net to make it to where teams like Kentucky want to play Belmont instead of wanting to play Eastern Illinois. That's what they need to do.

Yeah. And I always had helped recruiting for those schools. Yeah. I appreciate the call. All right. Do you have that little song? No, I couldn't find it. I only found Petino got ran over by a Wildcat.

Do you want to hear any of that? Petino got ran over by a wildcat. It's a song. It's not what you were looking for. what I asked you for, but go ahead. You want it anyway? All right. Sure.

Over by a wildcat. Leaving Freedom Hall on Christmas Eve. You could say it was a chance encounter. But as for me and tubby, we believe. Oh, how about that? That's not as good as what I wanted to hear, but I did not know that song existed. Who is it? Who is it that singing that film?

Looks like a fan-made video. Well, it's actually sound well-produced for a fan-made video. That's probably what? 2000. So that was the year Patrick Sparks. Yeah, that was the year Patrick Sparks got fouled on the free throw. So what was that? 2007?

2000. Is it 2007? What years is that? Uh. I'm sorry. I'm distracted. by this song. Yeah, just turn it on.

You can't. Do I have to me? Yes, get it off. All right. So thank you all very much for listening. Thanks for Billy for finding that great song. We will be back at 3.30 tomorrow afternoon from KS. Bar for the football pregame show. The bar opens at 11.

Get in there. Come see us. Have some of our new food, but also get ready for huge football game. Tomorrow night at this time, the game will be ending. And then we'll be coming on afterwards. We may be talking about getting a new coach, or we may be talking about having a 500 record in the SEC and a chance to go to a bowl. A swing game if there ever was one tomorrow night. We will see you later.

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