Locked On Jayhawks - Daily Podcast On Kansas Jayhawks Football & Basketball - BIG 12 SQUAD - Big 12 Awards CONTROVERSY | How this impacts Kansas

Episode Date: March 12, 2026

Big 12 basketball faces controversy after an accidental leak reveals surprising sop, naming Arizona’s Jaden Bradley as Player of the Year over stars like AJ Dybantsa and JT Toppin. Drake Toll and th...e Big 12 Squad break down the fan outrage, call out baffling award decisions, and question credibility as West Virginia gets snubbed while SEC teams like Auburn receive favor. Is bias tilting the scales in the Big 12 and NCAA selection process? The conversation expands to the U.S. government’s attempt to “fix” college football, highlighting frustrations with NIL regulation, the SEC’s unchecked dominance, and deeper inequities in conference power. Expert voices debate potential solutions, playoff expansion, and whether college sports’ integrity can be restored. Packed with candid analysis, stats, and inside perspectives from Locked On’s local experts, this episode tackles the chaos and intrigue shaking up Big 12 basketball and football. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hey, earlier this week, the Big 12 accidentally released, like genuinely on accident, the end of season accolades, the awards for its basketball players. AJ DeBanza, the best player in America, didn't win Big 12 player of the year. This is the Dose Grande squad. Where is the damn video? You're talking ball with the Big 12 squad. From Oklahoma State to Utah, from Kansas State to BYU, from Houston to Houston to Texas. Texas Tech, it's the local experts of the Lockdown Podcast Network, bringing you scoops, breakdowns,
Starting point is 00:00:35 and the most comprehensive preview of the upcoming Big 12 weekend. Buckle up, it's the Big 12 Squad, and we have a seat for you. Know her feelings and thin skin allowed. Squad up, you're part of the Big 12 Squad. Happy Thursday night, everybody. Welcome to the Big 12 Squad. Oh, hey, that's me. I'm Drake Toll from Locked on Big 12.
Starting point is 00:00:56 Thanks for making this show your first listen every single day. If you're not, you're probably listening to that guy. Cody Stovall, Locked on Oklahoma State or Parker-Rainsworth, Locked on Cougars. Talking all things, Houston, grab a beer or whatever you fancy. Grab a Coke. I don't care what you grab, but I am incensed. I cannot believe this. I cannot believe this is real.
Starting point is 00:01:14 I hope it's not real. I'm going to preface the conversation with this. Number one, if you hit subscribe, we can keep our jobs. Number two, thank you for making our shows your first list in every single day. And for our everydayers use code March at locked on cougars. dot supercast.com locked on big 12 dot supercast.com locked on Oklahoma. You get the point. And use that code March for a free
Starting point is 00:01:33 month of the everyday air club, add free locked on shows for you. Preface. This isn't fake. The Big 12 actually posted a graphic with player of the year accolades accidentally on their website this week. By the time this drops on Thursday, they could have said
Starting point is 00:01:51 hand up. That's our fault. It was a template. We didn't actually want to give those players those awards. And I hope that's what happened because gents this is what that graphic looks like and it is genuinely stunning um jaden bradley player of the year in the big 12 i'll give a little extra context here by the way this is a situation where i'm again dumbfounded where the big 12 was trying to post the player of the week awards and accidentally the graphic they attached to it shows player of the year sixth man, scholar athlete, most improved.
Starting point is 00:02:29 Parker, how the hell would Jaden Bradley ever even be the player of the year in the Big 12th? Like if this is a real thing, we are in dangerous territory. Well, and it's interesting, so look, full disclosure, I probably would have given it to J.T. Topin, even though he didn't finish the last quarter of the season, I think
Starting point is 00:02:45 frankly, the slide of tech. Also, you know what? Cool. I'm not that. I want to say that because I'm going to sound like someone who's bitter when I say this. he's not the third most valuable guy in his own team. I'm not sure how he's in. And like, I don't,
Starting point is 00:03:00 they're a really good basketball team. They got really good players. But I'd put Burries ahead of him. I'd put Pete ahead of him. I kind of like the Karchenkoff guy, being really honest, he's a weird matchup. And,
Starting point is 00:03:12 and look, man, if you've got multiple guys ahead him and coach of the year and six man of the year, I just don't see how that shape. He's the veteran and he was available in every game. and I guess that counts for a lot. But ultimately, I just don't see it.
Starting point is 00:03:28 On Twitter, someone mentioned that his shooting splits and numbers offensively look a lot like Jamal Sheds did the year. Jamal Shed won Big 12 player of the year. Jamal Shed was also a NABC and Naysmith defensive player of the year that year. Like a national player of the year winner that year. On top of having the exact same offensive numbers, I just don't see this. And again, I'm not even trying to advocate for a cougar.
Starting point is 00:03:55 I'm not saying it needs to be sharper Fleming's or somebody. I just don't see this one. Cody, I think the Big 12 did a stupid. Yeah, the Big 12's looking for more relevance. This definitely doesn't help. This reminds me of when we did the one true champion and then we named two true champions. We got zero teams. That's what this reminds me of.
Starting point is 00:04:17 I don't think Brett Your Mark makes very many mistakes. I don't think the Big Club in general makes a lot of mistakes. but this is inexcusable 13 points a game. That's what that's what it takes. Can I give you a stat to be the best player? 13.4 points a game. Can I add a stat to that? Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:04:34 He, in his most recent game. And by Thursday, plenty of the Big 12 tournament has happened. We record these Monday night. So we're going into kind of overarching themes about the Big 12. There can be something really crazy happening. You're like, why don't they talk about that crazy thing? Because this is, it's Monday.
Starting point is 00:04:49 But it's Thursday. Hi. And this is still relevant. Cody, here's the standard to give you to defend your point. Yeah. He played 36 minutes against Colorado in the last regular season game for Arizona. Did you know you and and Jane Bradley had the same number of points in that game? Cody, you didn't play.
Starting point is 00:05:11 My hops off the couch game right now. Cody, you didn't play a single minute in that game. And you had the same number of points. That rumor checks. out. Yeah, no, I think Parker accentuated it perfectly. It could have been J.T. Toppin. That makes sense. Could have been AJ DeBonse. That makes sense. It could have been that PJ Haggerty dude for more of the worst teams than the conference. That would make more sense. And then you have Christian Anderson. There's so many other options that are clearly visibly in the running for the best
Starting point is 00:05:40 player in the conference. This has to be a typo, right? This has to be a BCS. 0.0008% kind of ridiculous. Make it make sense, fellas. I don't, I mean, I don't. I don't. I don't. I don't. get it. There's not a single statistical category where Jaden Bradley is that guy. Yeah, I don't, I mean, obviously, I don't know, folks have clicked on up here. An NBA draft person or no ceilings group has actually combined. They have a locked on no ceilings NBA draft podcast. Good listen. I know the NBA draft is not necessarily like the way to pick big 12 player the year. They've got seven big 12 players in the first round of the NBA draft in the latest mock draft. They've got two from Arizona. None of them are named Jaden Bradley. He'd be close, right? He should be close. I don't know. Please welcome.
Starting point is 00:06:31 He'd be close to like fifth place. Yeah. Please welcome to the stage. He loves a good beer, long walks on the beach, and cleavage. Cleavage, the rock kind. The rock kind. He is a rockologist, Cameron Stewart of Locked on Baylor. Maybe even the Rock's cleavage.
Starting point is 00:06:51 Hey, oh. Out of abe. Out of them. From the top rope. Look, I like that when you zoomed out. I can now see F you behind Cody. And I know that's French University,
Starting point is 00:07:01 but I like to read it as if it's up here. Yeah. Well, Falcons. Cam, if you had a top three pick in the NBA drafts. Oh, oh, oh. Roman Anthony, nuke job.
Starting point is 00:07:17 That's the future of this sport. World Baseball Classic is on. Happy Monday. I was literally like in the backstage. I was like, I really hope he doesn't bring me up during this Roman Anthony at bat. Hey, a shout out to Oklahoma State Cowboy,
Starting point is 00:07:30 Nolan McLean pitching tomorrow against Italy. Oh, pitched a couple days ago against Italy. Man, we're really getting burned by the whole Monday thing here. Oh, yeah. If you're listening to this on Thursday,
Starting point is 00:07:40 don't tell me how this game ends. Oh, just a three-run piss missile. Uh, Kim. Kim, what do you think about the, the Jane Bradley's situation?
Starting point is 00:07:50 Yeah, if you've got a top three pick in the NBA draft. You're taking Agent Abanza, right? You're taking Agent Aban. He's the best player maybe in college basketball. And the best overall basketball player in the Big 12. That's not who we give these awards to, by the way. I get it. There's some semantics things just because you're the best player. Doesn't always mean you in player the year. But damn, man, Jaden Bradley scored zero points against Colorado. And the big talk, they can't even, they can't even spell Christian Anderson, right? I mean, any issues with the rest. The restless list is fine. But yeah, yeah,
Starting point is 00:08:21 Just fine. But man, if we're, if this is, if they're going to do this, I hope the big, warning the big 12, please don't do this. Somebody at the big 12 offices is messing with JT's supply a little bit too much, apparently. Because JT's supply. I was going to say, well. Yeah, Cam, because you're not very tapped into this.
Starting point is 00:08:46 The Big 12 accidentally leaked their player of the year and accolades for the season. No Baylor. They knew we were recording tonight. Yep, no Baylor Bears. They actually. No Baylor Bears, but there are two bear bears that would have made more sense. Right? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:09:01 Carr or Yes, Foo. All right. I wouldn't have voted for them, but they would have made more sense to me. Yeah, it would have also been stupid, but this is a guy who scores 13 points in game to DeBons's 24, 24 and a half. Coming up. Yeah, guys, Anthony Roy would have been a better choice. I'm just throwing that out there. if we're talking about people that can produce.
Starting point is 00:09:23 PJ Haggerty, man. That's a pretty good shout, actually. I didn't meet Kingston Fleming. Can we just do? Did Fleming win nothing here? Nothing. Nothing on that. I believe they're saying it's a first team all conference,
Starting point is 00:09:34 but he's not on that. Coming up, this is a wild one, and I've talked about it a bit this week. The United States government wants to fix college football. Here's the problem. the United States government isn't always the best at fixing things. And it seems like we didn't really get anywhere on Friday.
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Starting point is 00:11:08 They win a lot, which is good because it means Kim Mulkey didn't. That's good. That is Parker Hainesworth of Locked on Cooggs. Cody Stovall, locked on Oklahoma State Cameron Stewart of Locked on Baylor. Yeah, so here's the deal. When I say the government's not always the best at getting things done, they're going to war. We can do war, by the way. You see Mississippi where they said Trinidad Chamble's can play next year.
Starting point is 00:11:30 The NCAA said no, unequivocally no, no sixth year. And then a judge who's probably an old misgrad said, what about yes? So we're already using the government. Yes. We're already using the government. Yes. To our advantage. Instead of no, we do yes.
Starting point is 00:11:45 And so. I'm sold. Friday. Yeah, think about it. A week, nearly a week ago, nothing's happened in the week since. We all went to Washington, D.C., with Ross Dillinger, and said, Mr. President, please save us. Tear down this one.
Starting point is 00:11:59 And you know what? Nothing really happened. Aside for the president saying he might move NIL to players making $25,000 a year, which back then was rich. 10 years ago, you were a rich college player if you're making $25 grand a year. I mean, dude, I don't know. You could be, if you're in Waco or still watching, and you're just a student making 25K? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:12:21 Not bad. Yeah. Yeah, but that pony excess movie, so I'm like ponny ax and stuff. I don't know. And then Nick Saban came to the podium was like, there's a permeating issue in college football. All I've ever been worried about education.
Starting point is 00:12:37 Like, my, no, you haven't. There's a, no, do not be the guy who stands up first and says, we got to fix this now. We got to fix this, y'all. It's like, stop. This is your fault. you did this. I was it called in the kettle black thing, right?
Starting point is 00:12:51 I want to ask a question because I look this up because I talked about on my own show earlier this week too. What is the average full-time professor salary in the United States? Anybody know? Probably 65 grand a year. I was going to go 70 to 75. So a full-time friend is actually, it's closer to 150,000. Oh, what am I? Why am I not a professor?
Starting point is 00:13:13 A professor. Yeah, we got to, like there's a lot of steps to get, the full time and then to 10, right? Like, so you're, you're pretty well in the system. Here's what I'm going to say is $150,000 a year is also known as a tenth of what has been made from Alabama and LSU just for his on the field earnings, right? Like, nobody shows up to chemistry class, Parker. All right?
Starting point is 00:13:38 Just absurd. Not even the players. Look, guys, well, conceptually speaking, I think this is a brilliant idea. I think we can all agree. College football is absolutely. out of control. And yeah, I think just the idea of it is something that needs to happen. Because otherwise, this Wild Wild West thing is going to continue.
Starting point is 00:13:58 I don't think that the SEC has any need or desire to stop doing precisely what they're doing. So without some entity stepping in to monitor thing, we know it's not going to be the NCAA. So, yeah, I think this has to happen. And it's kind of unfortunate that, as you mentioned, it's kind of gone stale recently. because I do think this would be something that would even out the playing field a little bit more, which is all, I think, the ACC and the Big 12 want.
Starting point is 00:14:25 Yeah, but Cody, I think that's the shame is that, like, there really is a handful of, there really are, a handful of problems that could be done here. Like, it need to be fixed, right? And, like, the problem is that this does not feel like it's actually any movable met. There's no way that's going to, they're not even going to incorporate present tense athletes or, like,
Starting point is 00:14:43 recent college athletes that can speak to what being an athlete in this era is like. I mean, Tim Tebow is an athlete and sure. And I guess the basketball representative is Adam Silver with the NBA. Nailed it.
Starting point is 00:14:58 Tiger Woods there. I don't understand what this is. I mean, I agree, Cody, there are actual problems and things that need to get fixed. I shouldn't like move past that. The shame is that there are actual problems and this was a lot of lip service
Starting point is 00:15:12 not doing it to me. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. A lot of talk. No action. is extremely disappointing. It's the same as the insidable A. I was just, can we call a spade of say? Sure. Yeah, there you are.
Starting point is 00:15:23 Is that, my problem is like, why would we waste our time shooting finger guns in each other at the White House? It's to say, oh, we all went to the White House. We're doing something. And you're not. Nothing's happening. Nothing's changing. College football, college, nothing did change. And we have, I don't think, I feel like we're no closer to a solution. Do you think maybe some of it is just posturing to see what the, the outcry is going to be. You think some of it is like, we're just going to put it out there that we're going to do something.
Starting point is 00:15:52 And then we're going to gauge what the national reaction is before we make more movements. And perhaps the national reaction wasn't what they thought it was going to be. And I don't know. I don't know. You know what it reminds me of the damn LED court. They say, you know what? We're going to put a TV on the court. It's going to be a TV.
Starting point is 00:16:09 You're going to love it. And then the entire country is going to talk about it. And the Big 12 can be better than the SEC. They're all going to say, wow, the Big 12 is so much. better than the SEC because the glow-in-the-dark court. And you know what? They rolled out the court. America collectively said, we A, don't care.
Starting point is 00:16:23 And B, if we do care, it's because we hate it. And then we all moved on. It did nothing. It was a PR play for nothing. I do think they're not utilizing it enough. If you have that capability in timeouts and stuff, I think they should be doing a little bit more than playing kid games. I'm just saying they should be,
Starting point is 00:16:41 they should be playing like highlights and having dragons with fire, breathing crap on the middle of the court. All right? We're talking. That's what I'm talking about NIL dollars. I'd pay for that. I, on the conversation, I guess my thought is like,
Starting point is 00:16:56 they talked about eventually, right? I mean, eventually President Trump's going to come with an executive order. That's like the big conclusion out of it or whatever. I don't know how much that, I don't know what the order would be, I guess at the time recording. We don't know what that is. Is that really the only way to solve this is like an executive,
Starting point is 00:17:14 is that the best thing we can do here, fellows, as an executive order? I mean, I don't think all parties are playing amicably, so yes, it might take something to that effect. Plus, these places get your order wrong all the time. What? There's just no,
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Starting point is 00:20:23 We have added Mountaineer Paul into the fold. Paul, look, man, again, we record this Monday night. It releases on Thursday, so we're going to miss a couple games in here. But I don't care. I don't care West Virginia won every game in the Big 12th tournament or lost every game. Can someone explain to me, I'll put our hoods on here? Can somebody explain to me, please, all you, how Auburn is going to get into the NCAA tournament and somehow. West Virginia can't even get mentioned in the same vein as these tournament teams. How is this still happening even after West Virginia beat a tournament team UCF?
Starting point is 00:20:57 I am Cornhole. It's ridiculous, man. Like if you want to make the argument that West Virginia is not a tournament team, that's one thing. But if you're trying to force me Indiana and Auburn, you miss me with that. Indiana has lost four straight games to end of the season. I've already went off yesterday on my show about DeBreeze. and that whole situation. And obviously, if we could play them in the NIT or the crown,
Starting point is 00:21:22 that would be content creation heaven for me. I can only pray for that if we do go that direction. Obviously, rather be in the tournament. Listen, it's just at the end of the day, we're at a point where first in football, now in basketball, the SEC just controls the narrative to the point to where a team like Auburn is looked upon as more favorably as a West Virginia.
Starting point is 00:21:46 because the SEC is a stronger league somehow. You know, it's frustrating, man. It really is. I would love to play them head up, but I mean, it's not when I really happened. West Virginia, I think, unfortunately, lost to too many bad teams and put themselves in this position, but I do think that we're a team that could beat a couple of teams in March as well at the same time.
Starting point is 00:22:11 So, yeah, it's frustrating as hell. Obviously, we've got work to do. and the biggest thing that sucks is we have to play Houston if we do win that game. So as much as I would love to beat Parker-Rainsworth, I mean, Houston, that would, you know, that would obviously be a tough thing. Hold on. As the expert here, the only team in this conversation that beat both Auburn and West Virginia is the Cowboys, so you know that we did that.
Starting point is 00:22:41 We did that. Um, I, I guess Paul, I want to ask, I am firmly against stretch and turn them out to more teams, right? I don't, I don't think we need to know 68. Um, although I guess if you wanted to start getting on like, you know, Field of 68.com has taken me with a field of 72, field of 76, start getting some of those, you know, rights. I guess that's the probably way to get on that. Um, I, is there a different solution here besides, like, is the only option here, West Virginia and Auburn, West Virginia and Indiana? like, look, I understand Houston's in a different spot, but I could get talked into adding a second A10 team
Starting point is 00:23:19 because St. Louis and VCU are both, you know, tied for lead in that league. Only one of those teams are going to get to go, right? Like, I get talked into that in a different kind of way than if we're going to take some bottom of the barrel Auburn team, that doesn't seem right to me. Yeah, I mean, you look at West Virginia finishing the conference. We finish seventh, right? So I think, I mean, just strictly from a West Virginia perspective, if you value the Big 12 as a conference and when you, and then West Virginia have been a seventh in that conference, that seems like a pretty good starting point.
Starting point is 00:23:53 Now, you can get into the metrics and it does get worse at times, but what did you want to say, Drake? I, so for for me, I'd like to know. That time of year, fellas. Oh, God. Would you guys put, I would put Miami of Ohio in over West Virginia. Yeah. Yes. And I, so I think that's kind of where you're going with this.
Starting point is 00:24:17 There are some teams in the major level. I want to see what they do in March Madness. Now, I would not put a 500 SEC team over West Virginia. Again, someone explaining me how the number five overall team in the Big 12 is a 2C, Iowa State. The number five overall teams are two seed. The number 10 overall team, BYU. you, they're a 60, maybe a 7th C. West Virginia, the seventh ranked team in the big 12,
Starting point is 00:24:42 not even on the bubble. You can't do that. It doesn't make any sense. It's like the same people banking the Jaden Bradley decision. I mean, and the thing about this, Cincinnati is rated a little bit further ahead of West Virginia. We beat them twice. UCF was rated ahead of West Virginia.
Starting point is 00:24:58 They're in the tournament. We beat them twice. Dude, I think sometimes people just forget stuff. Yeah. think they were like, hey, we really screwed over Darien DeVries last year. Like, remember that? We should throw on a bone. Yeah, we did get screwed.
Starting point is 00:25:15 We actually screwed over West Virginia. Yeah. Kind of late now. You guys think that there is a bias at West Virginia that other teams don't get or some teams don't get? I mean, I'm starting to feel that way. Like, and people will say you're crazy for it. But I truly do believe there is just a little bit extra bias towards West Virginia for some reason. I don't know what reason.
Starting point is 00:25:36 it is. I know if it's because Pat Mac of me. He's in the media now or like there has to be a reason and I don't, I can't figure out what, you know. Has it always existed this way? Yeah. Yeah. Like you go back to, you can go back to it. And everybody, confirmation bias is real. So I try to always remember that. But you can go back to like West Virginia played Clemson in the Orange Bowl. The end, it was a complete sweep for Clemson. We won that game 70s 33. You know, like, you know, Kirk Herb Street said, not only will Clemson win this game, they will destroy West Virginia. He literally said that you can find it online. But in basketball, and I do think one interesting about basketball,
Starting point is 00:26:16 Kelvin always used to say in the American was like, unlike football, you can win your league, get in the dance, improve it in a way that you can't do in football, right? Like you can't win the American of the conference in football and get to play your way into a national championship, the same way you can in basketball, right? Yeah. And in basketball, there is an interesting, like,
Starting point is 00:26:35 mid-majors, upsets, the tournament's kind of wonky, et cetera. Paul, I don't mean this pejoratively. Is the best non-conference win you got Pitt? That's probably the best non-conference when you got? Yeah, no, that's absolutely the case. I think that the real trick here is actually the same thing that the Miami of Ohio coach was saying last weekend, he was like, look, the deal isn't that we didn't want to play a better non-conference schedule,
Starting point is 00:27:01 that no one would schedule us, right? And these scheduling games are about TV dollars and this. And like, Yukon and Duke will play each other, right? Like Gonzaga is going to get there and play Kentucky. And like those big TV games happen. I kind of feel like Paul, you're in a spot where Westerge can't get those games.
Starting point is 00:27:19 And you get stuck playing Lafayette, you know, Wake Forest is a power conference game for you. Like we had our shots. You know, like we lost, we lost Ohio State double overtime by one point. We lost the Clemson. We were up 14 with six minutes to go and lost that game.
Starting point is 00:27:37 The context is that we lost two of a seven-man lineup. That's what we run. Two of those starters didn't play for the first eight-ish games. So we lost those two games. So I do think that's context that the committee is probably not going to see, you know, but I'm just saying I do think that we were the better team in each of those games, but unfortunately we were shorthanded as college basketball. It happens.
Starting point is 00:28:01 you know, and like most other teams, we had to flip an entire roster. And also the one thing that we have that nobody has is a fourth coach in four consecutive years. So the fact that we're even at the spot that we're at, I think speaks to the power of, you know, what Rembecker has tried to do here and put us in a position in spite of these horrible circumstances
Starting point is 00:28:23 to continuously be in the conversation. That can just a second question, though, because you mentioned the fourth coach, and I guess we can mention his name without getting fired. Stop. Don't say it. He who shall not be named
Starting point is 00:28:36 that used to coach there. I think did have a lot of respect as far as how he coached nationally. Right? Yeah. Guys, can we? We're just circling the
Starting point is 00:28:46 wagons. The reason Auburn is going to be above West Virginia is because the Tahit Pedford. When you have a potential NBA lottery pick, that draws eyeballs. That buys tickets.
Starting point is 00:28:57 You have seen that, Cody. You almost saw that. I should say. you almost saw that alive and well in 2020. Cunningham. Yeah. Yeah. That they won.
Starting point is 00:29:05 They won the tournament. The year we were supposed to be, the year Oklahoma State was supposed to be suspended, they didn't suspend us because we had Kate Cunningham. The minute Kate Cunningham left, they were like, ha ha, four years ago, we got you. It was very evident that the incidentalate tournament had a vested interest in Caj Cunningham being in the tournament. Hey, you guys noticed that Ohio State has a new all-time leading score and I've never heard of the guy. Yeah. Bruce Thornton.
Starting point is 00:29:34 Am I unc? Like, is that what's happening here? You are going on your palm in them right away, dude. Yeah. Oh, like Ohio State has sucked like his whole time there. Paul watches ball, dog. That's the difference. Pretty much all I do.
Starting point is 00:29:49 Paul is a ball noor, dude. Ball's a ball no. Okay. Like, is there a leading score? No, hey, don't mention the name that candy. in the big I don't know no free ads
Starting point is 00:30:00 don't mention Bob Huggins and don't fire oh no what are you do? Oh hello okay now of the year's over the regular season's over
Starting point is 00:30:11 she can coach she can coach they want to all women can coach Mark Kellogg and what do you say you think she can coach she's a woman I didn't know anything about
Starting point is 00:30:24 coach himself an educator I can't believe what I just heard. They won games. Cam's behind women coaching. Singling out just one. I think we should have more women's coaching. She's the first ever
Starting point is 00:30:36 women's basketball coach to be a woman. Oh, this is great. Somehow she won, man. She's Danica Pazpastrian talks about Gino. Gino R&M should be the next West Virginia men's basketball coach. That's what ESPN would do. Actually, our women's coach, I actually did a show on
Starting point is 00:30:50 should we consider Mark Kellogg, who just won the Big 12 title yesterday, didn't wasn't received well really notice i'm going i'm going with the women's coach that's actually a man of course you know just like stick it to him yeah yeah that's Cameron stewart park rainsworth mountain near paud cody stillball this has been always late locked on the dos a grande squad is that

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