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Starting point is 00:00:37 and available anywhere you get your podcast, including on YouTube, where you can like and subscribe. We already had a crossover episode with Isaac Shade talking North Carolina. We're going to get even deeper into this Kansas, North Carolina game and breakdown on today's episode. We're going to do the importance of the game, top storyline, some of the top matchups, North Carolina, deep dive scouting report, and we'll get into the matchups of the game that'll determine who is going to come out on top of this one. Let's start right there. What is the importance of this game for KU?

Starting point is 00:01:08 I think really for both teams, it's actually a similar one. I think both teams are trying to show that they are, dare I say, back. I know we try to reserve that for like when Texas and Miami we were trying to get back in college football. But after a couple down years, relatively, one, you still got a four seed. But after a down year last year, certainly for KU. and for North Carolina being 11 seed that a lot of people didn't think should have made the NCAA tournament ended up making it winning their first four game.

Starting point is 00:01:36 Both these teams are looking for much better seasons than they had a season ago. That's no secret. And I think, you know, I would expect both of them to. Like, I think both teams are being slept on. It is unfortunate because I do think this could be a situation where whoever loses the game is going to continue to be slept on. It almost reminds me of last year Kansas beat Michigan State in the Champions Class. thinking that Michigan State ended up having a really good season when it was like, okay, they might be a little underrated coming into the year. And that could be the situation here,

Starting point is 00:02:04 right? And obviously, you'd take a season like that where you're a two seed and, you know, you have a shot in an elite eight game to try to make a final four. But I think this is an opportunity for both teams on kind of a national spotlight. Like the college basketball games on Wednesday and Thursday, it just sucked this week. Like there, there was nothing that was like drawing a national audience or national attention. That changes with KU and North Carolina. And so it is an opportunity to kind of, and at the end of day, like, how much does the national media hype really matter? I don't know. Probably not much. But maybe for a team and a program that, you know, haven't had as much success over the last couple years as they're accustomed to as you expect,

Starting point is 00:02:41 boosting that confidence at the early part of the season to see what you could be. I don't think that hurts, certainly, right? As long as it's kind of contained confidence in a way. But it is an opportunity to show that, yes, like, you know, I think this team is underrated, but if you lose this game, that's going to be harder to talk about afterwards, right? And if you do win this game, I know it's an exhibition game, but then you can start pointing to and being like, man, you have basically two really good road ACC wins already at this point of the season. But it also is just kind of a fun game. And obviously, we've had a lot of great memories with KU North Carolina recently, right? Last year was actually a really fun game in general.

Starting point is 00:03:19 Obviously, the 2022 national championship with the crazy comeback for KU. You think back to the 2012 Elite 8 game where, you know, Tyshaun Taylor and Thomas Robinson take KU to the national title game, and that's who they had to go through in the Elite 8. You think back to the 2008 Final 4 where Kansas just blows them out. And Brandon Rush at one point is like outscoring North Carolina and Cole Aldridge has given you contributions. There have been a lot of fun moments for.

Starting point is 00:03:46 Kansas against Carolina recently here. Can they add another one here? That's kind of the question here, right? And I think obviously beyond all that, all the hoopla and the hype, this is a very important game for a lot of individuals. I think, of course, we all want to see Darren Peterson go off in a setting like this, where it is the national setting and everybody's uggling and awing over him. And that's entirely possible, which by the way, seeing him, the picture that KU posted where he like has a banana and a gate rate in his hand, it's like they are going to try everything to keep him from cramping. And that is kind of a storyline coming into this one. Like, can he avoid the cramping? But obviously, you want to see him and you want to see some other players.

Starting point is 00:04:24 I think this is a really important game, though, for other guys. Because, like, I don't know, even if Peterson went out there and had like a bad shooting night and had like 12 points or something, I wouldn't walk away feeling that different about Darren Peterson. I'd just be like, oh, he just had an off night. I think I almost view this as like a bigger opportunity for guys like Cole Rosario or Jaden Dawson or who's going to be that. potential role player. If KU does win this game, what if there's a role player for KU that ends up having a big moment or hitting a couple big three? Like, what if Jaden Dawson came in the game and hit his first two threes and ends up playing 20 minutes and plays

Starting point is 00:05:00 really well in 20 minutes? And all of a sudden, we're talking about, okay, that's going to have an impact on the rotation. You know, what if Cole Rosario breaks out of his shooting slump? What if, I don't know, like Bryson Tiller continues to look like the guy we saw in like the Louisville game where it's like, yeah, you're one of KU's five. best players. What if Flourri Badunga dominates? Like, are we back on the, he could be an All-American train? You know, there's a lot of, I think, individual things that I'm going to be really interested to see how this goes for KU as well. Now, if we're talking to individuals, I don't know how you could get past the Darren Peterson versus Caleb Wilson matchup as far as an individual

Starting point is 00:05:34 matchup in this game as not being one of the fun ones. And I don't know how much they'll matchup on each other. Kansas does switch. So I don't know that Peterson will start on Wilson, although it's entirely possible, right? Because if North Carolina is playing their jumbo lineup, which they started with in the opener where Wilson at 6'10 was basically their three, and if that's the case, you know, there's a chance that Rosario at like 6'4 is guarding one of Kai and Evans or Seth Trimble, and then Melvin Council's guarding the other, and then you slide Peterson onto Wilson. So we might actually see that as the base matchup, but at the very least, you'll probably see it switched here there. I have no idea how North Carolina is going to defend Darren Peterson.

Starting point is 00:06:11 Now, Wilson is known as being this, like, freak, toolsy, defensive prospects. Like, obviously, he's scoring a lot right now, and you look at some of the box scores and his dunking ability and athleticism have led to that. So, I don't know, they might try to take away Darren Peterson with length. And I don't think that's the worst idea. If I was Carolina, I might throw Wilson at least at times. Maybe they'll switch it up. So we might see a little bit of them on each other.

Starting point is 00:06:35 But regardless, these are two freshman phenops. Peterson, somebody who's in the running to be the number one pick in the draft. and Wilson, who certainly looks like a lottery pick to this point in time, maybe a top 10 pick in the NBA draft upcoming. It'll just depend on what the overall offense looks like, though. Again, he has been putting up big point totals. It's going to be a really fun matchup, and it's just overall this year in college basketball, like the freshman class is nuts.

Starting point is 00:06:59 And we're going to have a lot more of these fun freshman on freshman matchups, but this is kind of the first that kicks it off. Now, we do have kind of a veteran matchup at center, and I think that's going to be a really fun one, too. it's floribodunga versus henry vsar part three now the first two times that they played it was more of hunter dickinson versus henry vsar but florrie's still playing now dickinson went off um for k u against arizona in the game in island field house and vsar really struggled he only had five points and then in the big 12 tournament game vsar was a killer uh he went for 19 points and he was he was huge

Starting point is 00:07:32 so do we see one of those two guys in this game or do we see kind of something in the middle i think that's going to be interesting. And as we kind of look to like, I don't know, if you're looking at like what centers could be potential all Americans this year, I think you look at like not necessarily the winner of the game because like whichever center is better might lose the game. But then again, if one of the two centers is definitively better than the other, it's going to really help their team to try to win the game, certainly. But I would think that, you know, whoever performs better in that individual matchup, again, it will have a huge impact on both teams. but probably that would be the first indication that, like, okay, they could be an All-American, right? Because I would say that probably Floreen and Vsar are probably both top 10 centers in the country, you know, without getting more data and who else are going to be breakout candidates and stuff like that. Like, I feel like that'd just be kind of a round answer to give to. So I think that's going to be a fun matchup. And it's one that is very different than the Vsar Hunter Digginson matchup because, you know, Hunter was certainly like stronger.

Starting point is 00:08:36 like, I don't know, thicker, I guess you would say, than what Florey is. And so did that hurt Vsar in the first matchup? Was he able to outmaneuver him mobility-wise in the second matchup? And you look at this, it's like, okay, well, Flory is not going to be out-maneuvered, you know, athletically, you would think, but can V-Sar push him a little bit? Like, V-Sar's not the thickest dude either. So I think that's going to be a really hefty match, a really fun matchup between two potential all-American centers this year to potential all-conference guys at the center

Starting point is 00:09:06 position that certainly is going to have a big impact on who wins this game as well. Let's get further into that North Carolina scouting report, and then we'll finish up with matchups and keys to the game for KU to come out on top on Locked on Jayhawks. This episode of the show is brought to you by DoorDash. It is almost the weekend. Let's look back and crown this week's MVP on Who Delivered, powered by DoorDash, just like you can win every Saturday with DoorDash streaks, saving more every time you order. these players delivered when it mattered the most. Let's break it down. I think for Kansas this past

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Starting point is 00:10:55 And then don't forget to check out some more KU football content to get you ready for the Arizona game this week. What does North Carolina bring to the table on the Hardwood? So right now they are basically a top 30 team, depending where you look like Bart Torvick, top 25 team, Ken Palm, like top 30 team. They had a 94 to 54 victory over central Arkansas in their opener. So very similar score to what KU did to their opponent under basket review, who I've been getting a lot of good preseason content from. He has the number, or they have them, number three in the ACC in their preseason pick. just behind Duke and Louisville. And they have Henry Vsar as a first team preseason selection.

Starting point is 00:11:36 They have Seth Trimble as a third team pick. And then obviously they didn't have Caleb Wilson on there, but I would imagine if they would have released that after exhibition play and how good he's looked, like maybe he would find his way on one of those teams. So point being this is a talented Carolina team. I do think it is a better overall team, certainly, than last year's team. I don't know. We'll see if you have a player as good as what RJ Davis was,

Starting point is 00:11:56 but, you know, it felt like with R.J. Davis, like it, I don't know, it feels like the peak was maybe the year before as opposed to last year. Maybe it was more about what was kind of around him, but it feels like there's better pieces overall for Carolina in the same way that, you know, you're saying, okay, well, KU has better pieces to fit around Darren Peterson. But they got Kian Evans, he's a Kansas City kid, Colorado State transfer, really can shoot it. Luca Bogovats is an international player who can really stroke it. And then Jaron Stevenson is a 6'10 forward transfer from Alabama, who's a really good athlete and defender, Jonathan Powell. He's kind of a big wing shooter that we saw against West Virginia last year. You look at four strengths for this North Carolina team.

Starting point is 00:12:37 I would say size is definitely a strength of this team. VSAR is 7 foot with length. Stevenson is like 6 foot 10, 6 foot 11. Caleb Wilson is like 6 foot 10 with plus wingspan. And those three started in the first game. Now, what we see Bogovats starting, whether we see that starting or not, we're going to probably see the jumbo lineup at a time where all three of those are out on the court. Even if it's just two of them, that is a big lineup. It's bigger than Kansas has.

Starting point is 00:13:03 KU plays a six foot seven dude for the most of their minutes at the four, right? So they're going to have the size advantage as Carolina. And even, you know, Bogovats is 6, 5, Powell 6, 6, kind of bigger wings on this team. This is a bigger team. How is Kansas going to handle the size? One of those, I guess, I don't know, a little runoff. from them being such a big team, I think, is the offensive rebounding. This is a good offensive rebounding team.

Starting point is 00:13:27 They had 12 offensive rebounds against Central Arkansas. Now, you might point to that and say, hey, they're a big team. Of course, they're going to get offensive rebounds versus Central Arkansas. They had two exhibition games. One of them was against another team that, you know, you blow out and you expect to win big. The other one was against BYU, which, you know, BYU is seen as one of the best teams in the Big 12 and in the country this year. Between those two exhibition games, North Carolina had 32 offensive rebounds.

Starting point is 00:13:50 So you total it up between the three performances they have. have, they're basically averaging 15 offensive rebounds per game. This is a good offensive rebounding team, and the size is an athleticism is a big reason why. I think also something else that size kind of turns into is I think they're going to be a really good defensive team. It's funny because when you see teams who play at upper tempo like in North Carolina, I think everybody immediately thinks of the offense, but I think this is actually going to be a better defensive team that it is offensively.

Starting point is 00:14:19 BYU only shot 41 and a half percent from the field against North Carolina. That is pretty low, albeit it was a bad three-point shooting game, and was that North Carolina, their defense is so good, or was that just BYU had an uncharacteristically bad three-point shooting game, but still, Winston-Salem shot just 25 and a half percent on twos, on twos alone. And again, it's Winston-Salem State, but still 26 percent on twos, that's crazy. Central Arkansas was, again, central Arkansas, but just 34 percent on twos. So obviously Kansas is going to be better equipped to, you know, handle the size and athleticism and they have some of their own than those two schools, but BYU struggled with it too. And this isn't an overly big, it's an athletic Kansas team. It's a lengthy and wingspan Kansas team, but it's not an overly big Kansas team. And so I can't help but wonder, does this turn into a, even if it's a high possession game, does it turn into a game that's in the high 70s as opposed to, oh, you think high transition, you know, good. transition games from both teams, athletic teams. It could be in the 80s or 90s. I don't know. I think that'll be very interesting. Next strength for North Carolina is their fast break scoring 56 fast break points over those three exhibition games. So basically 19 per game.

Starting point is 00:15:32 That's a really, really strong number. Kansas has been pretty good in transition in the early going to two. Four weaknesses for North Carolina. What's the spacing going to be? It's kind of a question that I have. It might end up totally okay because if Seth Trimble as a senior guard is you know, hitting 38% of his threes. If, you know, Kay and Evan certainly can shoot it from the outside, Bogovats is somebody who can shoot off the bench, like Powell can shoot off the bench. Like, they might just be fine in terms of that. But there is a chance.

Starting point is 00:16:01 And they did shoot well from three over the last two games, again, against lesser competition. But in the BYU game, they only have four of 19 from three. Now, it's hard to take a three-point shooting sample size from just one game. So I'm not going to like overemphasize it. I'm just trying to come up with what potentially could be. And if they're playing some of these jumbo lineups, you know how good is the shooting going to be on a night-to-night basis i don't know i don't know um how much quickness do they have at the guard spots specifically that could be one area that kansas has a

Starting point is 00:16:27 decisive advantage in this game um set trimble solid athlete but i i don't think set trimble is like russle west brook back there kion evans very efficient player a good shooter and everything um but i think melvin council is going to be a better athlete than any of the guards they throw out there just in terms of like speed quickness type of stuff i think that um i don't know col risario is going to be if you're just talking like vertically and speed quickness stuff is going to be up there with with the north carolina guards doesn't mean that the kansas guards are going to have a better performance than the carolina guards i just think if kansas is going to get a better performance from the guards we're going to look back at it and say okay kansas just had more athletic

Starting point is 00:17:09 guards right um now i think defensive rebounding is something that i have a question on for for north Carolina, Vassar didn't have a great defensive rebound rate. It wasn't horrible, but it wasn't great either for Arizona last year. So far this year, North Carolina had a good defensive rebound rate in the Central Arkansas Winston-Salem games, but again, they should in those games. In the BYU game, where you're playing a team more to your, you know, equal in terms of like length and athleticism and stuff like that, BYU had 18 offensive rebounds compared to 24 North Carolina defensive rebounds.

Starting point is 00:17:43 So what that tells me is that, and again, maybe that was a BYU is missing all these threes, long rebounds, make it a little bit harder there. But maybe that that gives me a little hope that Kansas can grab some offensive rebounds to kind of match some of the offensive rebounds that North Carolina is grabbing. Plus, I do think it's interesting. Kibakata, who is just like monster athlete down low for BYU. That's not too dissimilar than what Kansas has with Flory Budunga at the center position. But so I do think Kansas can crash the glass hard here, especially with North Carolina with

Starting point is 00:18:12 them mean a transition team that, you know, sometimes they are going to try to leak out and get in transition. And then I would say this, like, I don't know that this is a weakness. I think we're still trying to decide or define like, where is Hubert Davis as a coach? Like, okay, on one hand, you could say, hey, he's been to a national title game. Another year he got a one seed. On the other hand, you could say, okay, well, you know, it's really been one year where he's gotten better than an eight seed and, you know, the consistency hasn't been there. Regardless of what you think of Huber Davis, I have a hard time not saying KU has the coaching advantage coming into this game. So I'll mention that there. Our players to watch for both teams for North Carolina,

Starting point is 00:18:48 we're going to go with Kian Evans, former Kansas City kid who went to Colorado State last year. That was a really good Colorado State team that made the second round of the tournament. He averaged 10.6 points per game, 47, 45, 85 shooting splits. It's 45 from 3. He put up 15, 6, and 5 in the opener. He's just a good player. He's one of the best shooters on the team. efficient player overall, you know, can a player like, I don't know, will it be Rosario, will it be counsel on him? Can they, you know, prevent him from kind of going off from three? And then Henry Vassar, last year at Arizona, nine and a half points per game, five rebounds, 59% from the floor, 32 from three. He had 14 points, 10 rebounds in the opener.

Starting point is 00:19:27 He's even a solid passer for a big man, good pick and roll big as well. So that'll be interesting. And then for KU, I'm going to go with Darren Peterson, obviously, like, this is the real national everyone is watching moment he's been awesome so far to this point in the year but now it's like all the eyeballs are on him i don't know maybe he just has this like monster performance i'm also going to be interested to see who guards him from north carolina as we talked about earlier can he avoid the cramping uh like what if this is a close game and he has to go out for eight minutes due to cramping you know is that because kansas isn't as deep of kansas doesn't have that necessarily like other star you know point creator in the half court what would that mean

Starting point is 00:20:06 And then the other guy is Bryson Tiller. Going back to the idea that North Carolina has this like jumbo lineup, maybe this is a game where KU plays even more of the two big lineup to kind of counter that. Maybe we see Flory at the four and Bia at the five for five minutes. Maybe we see 10, 15 minutes of Tiller at the four with Florey at the five or MPA at the five. I think he represents a good opportunity because it's not just that North Carolina has the jumbo lineup.

Starting point is 00:20:31 It's that North Carolina's big men who, you know, they're, they're athletic, they're mobile, right? And Tiller provides somebody who can kind of counter that and match that in a real way. And we've seen him play big and play well so far this season. This would be another big moment, kind of another notch in his belt if he could do just that. Let's get to the keys to the game for KU to come out with the victory. This is locked on Jayhawks. And today's episode of the show is brought to you by Supply House. When the opening whistle blows on a new repair, get your crew moving forward with Supply House. Order today and parts on your doorstep tomorrow over 280,000 plumbing, HVAC, and electrical items from the most

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Starting point is 00:21:49 Thanks for joining us on this episode of Lockdown Jayhawks. Again, check out Locked on College basketball for a second to listen every day. All right, keys of the game for KU to take out North Carolina on the road. Let's start with the KU offense. I think you need to get those extra possessions on the offensive glass. Again, North Carolina gave up 18 offensive rebounds to BYU in that exhibition game. If your three balls aren't fallen if you're KU, which to this point in the season, we haven't really seen Kansas be a super efficient or consistent three-point shooting teams.

Starting point is 00:22:17 There's a chance that's the case. How do you make up for in other ways? One of those ways would be grabbing offensive rebounds. Plus, North Carolina, whether it was under Roy Williams or that's under Hubert Davis, they just typically you think of them as being an elite offensive rebounding team. Certainly some of the numbers early in the season, certainly, the size, length, athleticism that they have, makes you think they're going to be a good offensive rebounding team again this year. Well, if you're getting offensive rebounds, it's helping

Starting point is 00:22:39 to kind of counter and match some of the extra possessions they're getting. I would also say for the offense, like, this is, I think, the game where you're going to need at least a couple threes out of Rosario and or Dawson. Like, if you got three combined made threes from those two players, I think that'd be a big win for KU, because that has been a little more inconsistent and a bit more of an unknown to this point. But if you're trying to win one on the road against a talented opponent, it would help if you nailed a couple threes. I think for the KU defense, how does KU match up with North Carolina size on that end of the floor? Like, in general, I have no idea how Kansas is going to defend teams this year, not just North Carolina, like teams in general, with good wings

Starting point is 00:23:20 or with like big wings or a bunch of them. And Carolina kind of has both. Like if they go to Bogovats off the bench, like a good kind of big shooting wing, if you're going with the jumbo lineup where Wilson's at the three, even when they're just going with Wilson at the four or Stevenson at the four can Trey White defend a bigger guy, right? And if they do throw out a lineup with multiple wings, okay, well, you know, Kansas doesn't have a ton of wings on this roster. So how do they match up? I think if you do well today, it certainly would make you feel better about how they can match up in some future games against some of those opponents. But, you know, there's going to be a lot a matchup this year where Kansas plays against a team who has, you know, multiple big forwards

Starting point is 00:23:59 or who has a couple really good wings and how are they going to match up. And so going back to Bryson Tiller, like maybe this is a game where we see more of Trey White at the three, Tiller at the four, Flory at the five, just from a size perspective to match up or Florey at the four and Mbia at the five. I think that might actually make a little bit of sense in this specific matchup. Now, the counter to that would be, okay, you know, do you just try to outspeed it, right? do you try to the problem is like Caleb Wilson even though he's the size of a big at 610 he runs like a guard so so it's a little harder to outspeed it from that perspective but maybe that is the counter maybe Kay you just says hey you know the natural inclination would be okay match they're big maybe we need to zig when when it's zagging maybe we do go small maybe we try to beat them with Melvin council speed and stuff like that and then do you kind of cross match like is a council on Trimble or is a council on Evans is it Rosario on the other is it Peterson on Wilson is it Trey white on Stevenson or is it Trey White on Wilson and Peterson on Stevenson, who's maybe not as big of an offensive threat,

Starting point is 00:24:57 but then would have a size advantage, and then you'd be worrying about Darren Peterson, you know, banging down low all the game. So I don't know. It's kind of interesting, and I'll be very curious how KU kind of matches it up on the defensive end, but can they handle that size of Carolina, keep them off the glass as much possible,

Starting point is 00:25:12 but also, you know, keep them from getting all those easy buckets and transition runouts and dunks on the inside. Our player matchup in this one is Caleb Wilson against, I guess take your pick, Trey White, Bryson Tiller, Darren Peterson, whoever KU's three or four is,

Starting point is 00:25:26 Wilson's been a beast so far this year, 22 points in just 24 minutes in their opener, very reminiscent of what Darren Peterson did. He had similar numbers in the two exhibition games, too. He's a super skilled forward, can play the three of the four, really good athlete,

Starting point is 00:25:39 can rebound, pass, defend. He certainly looks like a lottery pick, if not higher, in the NBA draft. And in general, I don't know how KU is going to defend teams with those, you know, good wings going back to that. So I don't know who's going to defend him necessarily,

Starting point is 00:25:53 but that'll be interesting. And at the other end, who does he defend? Because he's known as being a very good defensive prospect. Does that take that player out of the game, right? If he takes Trey White out of the game, if he's guarding him, is that okay because it's not Darren Peterson? Or does he try to guard Darren Peterson?

Starting point is 00:26:09 And does that make Peterson's life rough? And then somebody else has to beat you for KU. I think that's going to be very interesting. And then our Hawk to Soar KU player, we think is set up to have a big game. I like Melvin Council here. in a game that Carolina, you know, they like to run, Kansas is a team that is kind of typically under Bill South, like they'll play either way. They'll run a little bit. They'll slow down a little bit, like usually more middle and tempo. I think Melvin Council's

Starting point is 00:26:32 transition game plays up. He is a very good transition player with his speed, his decision making. And I think that'll be good in this matchup. I also like, like again, I'm not saying Seth Trimble and Kai and Evans aren't good athletes. I think they're fine athletes. I just don't think they're like explosive athletes necessarily. And I think Melvin Council is an explosive athlete. And I think he can use a bit of that speed against the North Carolina guards. I think KU needs him to have a big game. And I think he will have a big game for the Jayhawks. I don't know for this episode of Lockdown Jayhawks. You can find our show anywhere you get your podcast, including on our YouTube page where you can like and subscribe. Don't forget

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