Nightcap - Best of March Madness Part 2: Florida CHOKED, Kentucky ALWAYS LOSING in the tournament with all that MONEY

Episode Date: March 24, 2026

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Our 23 and 12 wasted a 12 point lead in the final seconds, but rallied to become the first number nine seed to be the number one since. 2018 when Florida State shocked Xavier. The Hawkeyes will face the number four seed Nebraska Corn Huskers in the South Regional Semifinals on Thursday night in Houston. Joe, how were the

Hawkeyes able to pull this off? Man, obviously I've seen Florida Big Man, he only played 20 minutes. He had basically, he had four foul. He had four files, so I know they got him in foul trouble. And, man, they would

They were just tough. They weren't going to back down. They weren't going to bag down. They kept themselves in closing range. And at the end of the game, man, why? Why would you take that gamble and let their man get in front of you? Now you put your teammate in the huckleback to where now he got to either take the ball or take the man in the corner.

Man. I said the same thing. I don't know why you press that hard because it's not like it's, I mean, nine seconds is a lot of time. It's not like it's three seconds, Joe It's nine seconds Yeah And so you run that risk And you run and you give him the side

So you don't got no cutoff point You don't got nobody that you can direct him to There ain't no interference So he's got a clear shot He's either going all the way to the basket Or he's going to keep it I don't know what the Boogie Flynn was thinking on that one

But hey Give a kudos to Iowa man They play hard, discipline and I always talk about the bigs that Florida got and they once got them bigs and hey, them boy, I was probably more physical than Florida. Okay, Ocho. Mm-hmm.

Yeah. They shot 50% from the Florida. They didn't shoot. Neither team really shot well from the three-point line. I was 29% 7 to 24. And Florida was 6 of 19 for 32%. Neither team was really good from the free throw line, 64% for Iowa, 74% from a,

for Florida. But the thing is that when you're a number one seed and the longer you let the lower seed hang around, Lord forbid that Joe will get a lead and he in the second half, they really start to believe. They're like, oh, we can beat this team. Yeah, we can hang. Confidence.

There might have been doubt in the beginning, but you didn't remove that. There you go. So now you got hell on your hand. Yeah. Go ahead, Ocho. And we're going to say, you know, the closer that game get in that second half,

you know, ass is. get a little bit more title. You know, everybody get a little bit more gunshot, you know. Hey, it's a different kind of pressure. Listen, I've never been in that situation like that. I've never played basketball at this level to be, you know, in a tournament's magnitude.

But I understand present situations and what it does to you. You know, you get a little bit nervous, you know. You've been in a pressure situation. You've had a big lead in Cincinnati and the team whittled that is down and you've got to go back out there because you don't want to give that office the ball. You know exactly what you're. Yeah, I know what you mean. I know it's me, yeah, yeah.

Oh, yeah, absolutely. You know, hey, man, Carson telling you and Hoosh, man, look, we can't give them the ball back. Hey, both hands on the football. Hey, get it, get down. We don't need no extra yards. We don't need anybody to play hero. Hey, look, but my thing is, for the Iowa and Florida game, like, why don't you just keep your man in front, make them take a tough shot? I just didn't understand them pressing like that and then gambling the way that they did.

I'm like, what they did? No, there was no need. If that guy hit a shot, like the guy in Kentucky, Joe, I just put my hand. You got to live with that. He's a 40-foot bank shot. Okay, I live with that. But why would you risk it in that situation? Most guys can probably get from one end to the other, 94 feet.

They can get there about three seconds. Yeah, easy. They can get down about three seconds. He's got nine. So now he, he, he, all. All he has to do is, hey, it was, hey, the way dude shot that, like he'd been making threes. You hear me? Hey, oh, Joe, because he could have took a dribble or two and tried to get to the basket.

That man's right. Yes. Like, you know what, we're going to, we're going to the next round. Hey, one or one of the other. Ain't no great area about it, dude. I love it. I love it. It takes just to shoot that type of shot, bro.

He's like, I'm all the, hey, I'm shoving all my chips to the middle of the table. You build that, like, son. son, you had a couple of dribbles. You could have dribbled a couple and got a closer shot. He's like, no, I want that. I want to make it as difficult as I possibly can on myself. Dude, dribble. Like, nah, let me get this step back in.

Man, that's a tough shot, oh, Joe. That's a tough shot. That man took a dribble. Like, he was going in and, I'm, man, step back for three for the game. Hey, that's my kind of guy. This March, man. That's what I'm talking about.

Man, he shot that thing like he was Steph Curry. That was some Steph Curry. Hey, hey, look, you got the number one. one C, and we're going to overtime. They might pull out on it. But if I'm going to shoot this dagon, yes.

Hit it. Because you're not expected to win anyway. So even if you lose, everybody's going to say, you played a tough game, that's the defending champs. They got X, Y, Z, they got NBA players on that roster.

That's what people are going to say, hey, look, I know, and it doesn't do you any cause, it doesn't make you feel any better that you played a number one seed to the defending champ. down the wire. That'll make you feel any better.

But it's not as much pressure. Now, Florida had that shot. That's pressure because now I'm the number one scene. I'm not even supposed to be. I'm not even supposed to be in this situation. Now that I think, now that I think about Ocho and Joe, I ain't even supposed to be here.

Yeah. We're supposed to be up by 10 with like 20 seconds to go. And we get some guys in that don't normally play. We normally get them off the bench so they can feel what it's like to be in tomorrow. Madness. And here we are, we find ourselves in some bulls down. Oh, man. What Florida doing, bro? They don't messed up my bracket.

They didn't. I know who bracket they didn't mess up. You know what? I might hire Michael Buffs. You had them... You had them... You had them losing the hour? I didn't have them going to the Final Four. Oh, hey, Joe had the boy going to the Final Four? Yeah. You had Virginia going to the Final Four. Final four. Me?

My elite eight and my final four bracket is still intact. What about mine? Mm-mm. Because you have Virginia. I ain't, I can't be that far behind, though. No, no, no, no, Joe, I'm just saying. You can't get no more points from four. Okay.

My final four picks and my elite eight picks, they're still there. Okay. Hold on. So is my, I can still get. Oh, Joe, you have Florida in the finals? You are, huh. I had one. Florida in the finals?

Man, I had that get back with Florida, boy. The way they did us during the season, I had... Oh, so you, so it was a revenge matchup for you. You let your pride get you. He, hey, hey, hey, he picking with his heart. Hey, hey, hey, hey, it just would have been perfect setup. Well, Florida made it, we make it. The racerbacks make it, and we get their get back.

But now that Florida gone, we got to, we ain't even got to talk about them no more. We ain't got to talk about them no more. All right. We talk about the Brazenberg. Oh, Cho, I don't know if you noticed this, but if you noticed what Joe did, he picked basically all this damn SEC teams to go as far as he can.

Yeah, he did. He thinks he's slick. He's talking about you picking mask off. All we did, I said, oh, that's Tennessee. Oh, yeah, let's put them in. Oh, that's Florida, let's put them in. That's bad to be. I'm like, what, damn?

I'm looking at his bracket. I was like, well, damn. Hey, well, Joe, Joe in the back of the line, there ain't no way. Ain't no way. Nah, no, he's still doing good. He must be thought this was football. He did it.

But now, this was a good game. This is why you like March Madden's because the underdog really does have a chance. We've seen it not only in March Madden's, but we see it in the national championship game. We see it in the semifinals. We saw what Christa Laper did. We saw that he, that he threw the ball to him, and he gets the ball and he, whew, wham.

We saw that. I saw U.S. Reed. I think this was in probably 81. hit a half-court shot. Did you? It might have been Arkansas. Yeah, yeah, US replayed for Arkansas. Yeah, it might have been Arkansas against Louisville or somebody.

When did the U.S. Reed hit that half-court shot and sending them on to the next round? That was really the first time that I had seen that understood what Mark's Manning was about. Is that, you know, an underdog winning. I think that was he beat, they beat Louisville, if I'm not mistaken. I think so. I think it was after Louisville had won the national championship because Louisville won the national championship in 1980.

They beat Louisville. Not Louisville. Excuse me. They beat UCLA. Denny Crum was a Louisville coach. And Larry Brown was a, was, uh, was, uh, was, uh, which, which Larry Brown? 76 is Larry Brown? Yes, yes.

He coached UCLA and he coached Kansas. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's, U.S. Reed, Arkansas, here to have courts. shot to beat Louisville in 81 because Louisville won a national championship in 1980. Yeah,

and 81, Indiana won the national championship. That's when they beat, that's when they beat UNC. Okay. The same year that was the Hinkley tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan.

And they thought about, they thought about calling the game, but they didn't, they played on. So that was really the first time that I really understood, because I hadn't seen any buzzer be just like, that before. But, man, I'm sorry, Joe. What's that, man?

Your team may win. No, my team won. I'm raising. Okay. He raised. Joe, you do realize you by going to throw your bag. We're not talking about it. We're not talking about it.

Don't even put that bad juju at that. That's why I be talking to your au rea about that, man. Y'all be. Hey, hey, Joe, it's not juju. Joe, you ain't no. No, it ain't. Joe, you superstitious? Yeah.

I don't know somebody from the South that's not superstitious. I mean, I'm not superstitious. I mean, whatever's to be is going to be. Let me ask you question. Do y'all ever play the game, step on the crack, break your mama back? Back? Nah, I remember that, I remember that. Yeah, exactly.

You ain't step on no crack. If somebody, you didn't walk between, if there's a pole, both of you walk on the same side. You got that pole. Right, yeah, yeah, right. Yeah. Boy, my grab by grade. Boy,

don't you split. Right, right. Hey, hey, hey, I still do that and I don't know why. I don't know why. You know, I tell you what, I bet you ain't never broke. No, you ain't tried to break no mirror. You don't want that seven years bad luck. Oh, no, no, no, no.

Hey, when y'all play, y'all ain't had no superstitious, like some good luck socks or, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Same thing, you know, they did the same thing. I had three blueberry cake donuts.

I had three packs of big red gum. I had four Advil. I mean, tile it all sitting in my locker. Yeah, absolutely. Sox folded. They put me, give me linemen socks, Ocho, because, you know, it's liming socks, 660, 6.8. I go back and get running back socks because they come a little lower. So they put those socks in.

I would get those socks. Take them back to the equipment manager. He'd give me the running back socks. I put those in there. I get ready. Yeah. Oh, yeah. What?

Get tape twice. Get tape once, medium tape, and then when I come back in and go out for the game, I get that mold skin, I get that thing on my skin. Hey, that mold skin, they don't know nothing about that bones skin.

Boy, if you twist your ankle with mold skin, you don't broke your is. That bone skin lock it in. Man, that, hey, you ain't ripping that, like right on the tape. They got to cut that with soozles. Yes, sir. I don't know.

I don't know how you use that tape, boy. Man, I don't know. Bad. I told you, Ocho. I'd be looking at D. guys now. I look at Devonte Adams. I look at Tyreek and I look at all these kids that don't wear no tape. They wear

ankle socks. Yeah. No support. No support. Nothing. My ankles start hurting looking at them. Yeah. I was like, well, damn, I ain't even playing. I start rubbing, I start rubbing my ankles. Hey, Joe, you, Joe, you take your ankles. Yeah, I had to old Joe. I had. While

stopping going, cutting lateral move. Right. Endless. I had. I couldn't, I couldn't do it. You couldn't? I couldn't. do it. Now, there'll be, there'll be some pictures. You'll see me, I have spat on my shoes, but I'm doing that

as for style. You want to look good. Yeah, but outside of that, if you see me with regular cleats on, you can access you to the shoe, because I got in trouble with Reebok, they say you got to stop spatting your shoe because we want the we want the logo to show. Yeah. I stopped spatting them. I

stop spatting them. Joe, I can't, I have to feel the floor. And then I had him take all the, all the, all the foam and all the pat on the shoe. So if, if, if If I showed you my football cleat, I could take it and bend it and bend it in half. So I need, I need my, Joe, I need him a shoe to feel like a track shoe. I need to feel the flow. You must have, hey, you must want to.

You must want to plan on getting touch when you were out there. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Them feet, but I don't play with them. I don't know how he did, he either. I remember in college, Ocho, we went out there to practice one day. Yeah. But we saw Penn State there. All the boys had that spat on.

Yeah. Bill said, hell, no, home. Cut that is your off. Man, we try to be like P.N. State, because, you know, P.N. State, all they were, they were, like, black and white, and they had them shoes spattered. Yeah. Boy, the boy, the boy was looking good. Go, there's a hell, nah, home, cut that issue off, cut it off.

I'm like that. I'm like, we already got it on. That little little spread. Hold on, you can't, y'all came by there with that sped all up. Yeah, we came by this back. Because, you know, we didn't see, hey, we just saw P.S. They didn't say if you ain't spat it up, boy, you ain't talking about nothing out there. Nah.

Oh, boy, hey, spat was, but we, I mean, we didn't have it like that. I mean, we ended up having it because we run out of pre-rap Ocho probably like week seven, we got to steal toilet paper. Man, true. Yeah, he told me have Ocho back. We steal the pre-rap. We don't store a pre-wrap out of the girls' dorm. We don't steal about the bathroom at the hall. Yeah, because we're out of pre-rap.

I remember my rookie year in Denver, Ocho. You know how they do, Ocho. Once you get down to like, they don't go all the way down to the rind of the tape. It might be a quarter of a roll or tape still. And they just, I said, Grie, would you mind if you know all the tape that y'all don't be using the pre-wrap? Can you throw it in a box?

Man, I ship like two or three, four boxes to Savannah State. Yeah. So they have some? Yeah. Because you don't. Come on, O'O. Joe, Gatorade, all that kind of stuff. Man, come on, man.

They just be wasted. Yeah, they do. They do. Yeah, they do. Gatorade don't get drank. They pour it out. We drink it at tomorrow. You don't have to pull nothing out.

But they don't make Gatorade like that. Oh, Joe, you remember you used to have, and Joe, you remember you had that water and they pulled the powder in there. Oh, yeah. And mix it, it together. Yeah. That's what we used to have. That powder?

Yeah. You don't drink it all. It'll be right there for you tomorrow. Why hasn't a woman formerly participated in a Formula One race weekend in over a decade? Think about how many skills they have to develop at such a young age.

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They're most in an NCAA tournament game since 1993. And even though Cyclones didn't have senior forward Joshua Jefferson because of a sprained ankle to Mellipsi, 26 points. Milan Milosovich, 20 points picked up the slack to push them back to the Sweet 16. I will stay Sweet 16 opponent, the balls. Man, okay, on true. I like Fred Horberg. I like their coach.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, he, uh, see, like. No, no, Fred Horiburg, he's not there. He ain't at Iowa State? No, I think he had Nebraska. Isn't Horiburg in Nebraska? He used to be at, he's at Nebraska, right? Yeah, he's in Nebraska.

He used to be at Iowa State. Oh, who coach Iowa State? I guess I was just. I ain't got no sound on. I know I had just watched him on the, uh, doing an interview. I thought that was from Iowa State. Hmm. Hey, Joe, and there's a, I remember I went to visit my daughter

during, right before Traxian started at University of Kentucky. I got to meet some of the players at University of Kentucky, and there's one that they said who was a lottery pick, right? But he tore his ACL. I'm not sure if he's healthy or not. I can't remember his name, but he was supposed to be a lottery pick and he played at Arizona State. I think it was young.

Oh, yeah, yeah, big dude. Yeah, you know what I'm talking about? I can't remember. I can't remember his last name and I'm not sure if he's all the way healthy yet if he played in the tournament but they said they said he was that boy so I was looking forward to watching

him play but I'm not sure if he's back. Hey listen is Iowa State Oh okay hey listen this ain't this ain't good for Kentucky okay Ocho they probably got the highest paid NIL

in all the college basketball They do They spent the most money, I think. I think like $22 million or something. Yep. Whoa. I'm saying amongst their players, I think they got a couple guys making some good money.

That's what I'm saying. In the Luce 20. Okay. Kentucky reported the guys that you talked about, Ocho, $2 million to transfer. Okay. He's 20 points all season. So he's been hurt all, he's been hurt all season, huh?

Yep. Yeah, he's, they say, Hey, Joe, they suppose he's saved with a lot of, pick when I went to, when I went to visit, I had a chance to meet him real tall, dude. I had to go, I had to go watch his highlights at Arizona State. I was like, oh, my goodness. He got like some big hair or something like. Yeah, like, LeBriz.

Yeah, no, I seen him play, Ocho. He's a dog down now. But I ain't know he tore his ACL though. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he was recovering from something. What the thing was is that that's why they got, you know, Cal ended up leaving because because of the expectation, that's Kentucky. That's blue blood. Right.

There are certain teams that you just have an expectation. Kentucky and Duke and North Carolina, they have expectations. And it's kind of like Alabama, what Alabama is running into, you know, the standard is so high. Yeah. Bro, you got to get, you got to get, bro, you can't keep losing in the first round. And before you get to the sweet sea, bro, you can't lose like that. No, they don't want to see that. That could tell.

No, and you get, and you getting the players that you're getting? Right. Think about it. Think about all the, and I'm not saying that it's easy. But when you get five-star at the five-star, you loaded on your 12-man roster, seven, eight of five stars,

and they're going number one. You got five players going in the first round. You got Devin Booking guys like that coming off your bench and Jamal Murray. Bro, I'm sorry. The fans are not going to be patient. Because they die hard in Kentucky and they travel.

They travel. What? They travel. Yes. Hey, but, hey, that's not fair. We talk about that. We talk about that all the time, too, Joe, when we talk about, you know, the product that's on the court is really not a reflection

to the goddamn coach. I mean, I can only do so much with the product I got on the court. He recruited them. He recruited that what's on the court. And fair, that's where you go ride the mayor around. You can get candid apples. Yeah, you can bar, you can bar for apples. Right, right, right, right.

And you can see clowns. Nah, I don't know nothing about no fair. You also judge pigs there. I just saw somebody sold a cow for a million dollars. Somebody sold a pig for $500. I saw that. You saw the pig on Twitter. Yeah, that's the fair.

on Twitter. Yeah. So, them fans, them boosters and alumni that gave 20 plus million dollars,

they had tried to hear about this same man. No, son. Kentucky used to be premier. Like, when I was coming up

when Rick Petino was in, also, that man was winning championships, SEC championship, like, yeah.

You go, because you go from Rick Patino to Tud. Rick won and then Tubby turned around in one. Because I think I think Rick won in 96 and I think Tubby won in 98 because they were very close. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. And so and look at the players that they were having coming through there, man. Mm-hmm. Your Antoine Walker's, your Jamal Mashburns. Big, big Anderson, your Ron Mercer's. Yeah. Tony Delks.

They had a man. Look. They kept a will. And then you got Shay, you got Jamal Murray, you got book, you got Kat, you got A-D, and we ain't got but one championship out of all of that John Wall, booty cousins, and we got one Ocho out of all of that. That's how, hey, look, that's how hard it is to win, though, in college, man.

It ain't easy just because you put all this talent together. Don't do not necessarily mean that it's going to lead to a championship. It's going to take great coaching with that great talent, and you're going to have to mess it together and make it work. You know what I mean? Like a lot of these coaches, Uncle Ocho, they ain't really coaching like that.

You know what I mean? But you got some great coaches out here who know how to coach, great talent. A lot of times, if you go back and study it, I think AD, AD1,

freshman led, I think maybe Duke. But for the most part, it's upperclassmen. It's junior, seniors, graduates. Guys that's played together. I mean,

like Ocho, Joe said, them guys coming in for one year. You already know what they're here for. They didn't want and done. Starting January 1st, I ain't going to no class, though, you know? I'm done. And you think that makes it difficult to win also, Unk?

When there's no continuity and some of the best players, they're coming in one year and they're leaving? And not only do it make it tough on your continuity, but it don't necessarily always, they don't necessarily always turn out to be great pros. Because you had to learn anything. You came from high school. you've been in college for six months, bro.

You played the season. Hopefully you got some great toolage from, you know, coaches or whatever. But once you go to the pros, it's totally different. And you get there and don't really know nothing and think it's about you, you, you, and you don't know how to sacrifice and compromise your game to be able to fit in for the team where you get lost real quick.

I mean, it's going to be, it's going to be unbelievable if Duke win the national championship. Because think about it, in the last six years, they've had three number one overall picks. Zion, Paulo Bencaro, Cooper Flack. Yeah. They had R.J. Barrett. They had Cam Reddish.

They got Conquinepple. They had Josh Johnson. Look at all the first round. I mean, high picks. I ain't talking about no bottom to 25 to 30. And then the second round, they got high, high draft picks. Yeah. Man, that ain't easy, bro.

It ain't easy. But when the coaches making the kind of money they're making, and when they put in that kind of money, when the boost is an alumni putting that kind of money in there, hey, I told you, it's like the NFL. When they put, hey, general manager got to go. Head coach, got to go. Bro, you see our salary cap?

We're at the top of the salary cap. You say, this is what we need. We don't spend $300 million in free agency in contracts. And we still at the bottom of the division? Nah, you got to go, bro. You got to get up out here. That's how I go. Yeah, for sure.

Sure. Tennessee beat Virginia 79.72. Tennessee fended off Virginia to escape with the wind to advance to the sweet 16. The Cavaliers capital on a couple of unforced errors to briefly take the league with about two minutes left. But clutch free throw than shooting allowed the volunteers to hold

on. Virginia freshman Derritter did everything he could, scoring a game high 22 points. He's the first Cavalier player with at least 20 points and five rebounds in an NCAA tournament game since DeAndre Hunter in 2019 championship. Tennessee's

16 opponent, Iowa State. Woo. That's going to be a good game. Who got Iowa State advancing? You do? I do. Me too.

I probably pick Tennessee here. I should hope you did, Joe. You did? No, I mean, I mean, who did did? Who did did the Iowa State just play? They just beat somebody. They beat the brakes off of everybody.

Oh, Texas Tech. Was it Texas State? Yeah. No, no, no. Alabama just played Texas Tech. Kentucky. Kentucky. Kentucky.

They be Kentucky. Yeah, but like that. No, I know I had Iowa State beating them. I was state of two seed. You, but you like, what you call them? You like SEC. Yeah, I know, but I didn't pick with my heart on that one. Damn.

And they killed Kentucky, man. They blew them out. Yeah, beat them by 19. I was surprised Virginia. I mean, Tennessee did an outstanding job. They shot 39% from the field, 34% from the three-point line,

55%. First of all, when you make that, when you only get to the free throw line 11 times, Joe, you got to be down there 90% to 100%. Because the other team got to the free throw line 25 times and they made 19 of them. So they already, they got a plus 13 just at the line. Damn.

Yeah, I don't know. Tennessee good, though. Okay, Ocho. They ain't, they ain't, they ain't no slouches. No. I know they, I mean, I don't. 24 and 11. They got some guys who can play, man.

They got some guys who can play. Yeah. Virginia just had an off night. Low scoring, 72 points. The good teams, bro, they're up in the 80s, the high 80s. You got to. But you know, Virginia run that in Benedict. They don't, they don't get up and down.

Like that. No. They're not trying to get up and down and they don't want you to get up and down. Yeah, Tennessee. Tennessee looked good, though. They look good. They have a lot of guys play well. I don't need them to look good against Iowa State.

Iowa State look good, boy. Yeah, they did. Yeah, they absolutely look good. So hopefully they can keep that going. That'd be real nice. I should appreciate that. There you go. Here you go.

one, two, three, four. I mean, Tennessee had five guys and those figures. Yeah. Tennessee getting it done, man. They represent the SEC. Yeah. Because you got what?

You got a, uh, y'all ain't got that meaning still in there, though. Y'all got Tennessee and y'all got Arkansas. Who else y'all got? I think that's it, Joe. Alabama, yeah.

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that Johnny's did enough to survive thanks to Dylan Darling's buzzer-beater. Bryce Hopkins scored 18, added seven rebounds, and most importantly drained a season high six of his nine three-point attempts. St. John's defense also shut down Kansas for most of the game,

fourth into Jayhawks and the 16 perinovers. The St. Johns, They head to the Sweet 16 to take on the number one overall seed, Duke Blue Devils. Yeah. Hey, Unk and Joe, that last shot, right? That buzzet beat off the glass, right? Yes. You hear me?

Why he didn't, I mean, why not send him to the foul line and make him, make both them shots as opposed to just let him wall you off? And he's a smaller, he's a smaller person. No, you ain't want nobody to go to the free throw line with no time on the clock because all he got to do is make one. No, hell not. I'd rather put Young Bull in that pressure situation as opposed to just let him hit the goddamn shot

at the end of the game. But you do realize, Ocho, at that point, he hadn't scored a point the whole game. Right. He hadn't scored a point. That's like Carson throwing somebody the game winning touchdown, and he ain't caught a pass the whole day.

All game? Okay. And so, I mean, if what's being, if what coach Petino said, he asked him what he wanted and he wanted power, which means he wanted the ball in his hand. Yeah. Coach Petito, look at him like, bro, you got zero points.

Yeah. And you, with the game on the line, okay, go get it. Amen. And you got big, you got the big, you got the Carver's player of the year on your roster. Edge of four. Edge of four. I wonder if he any kind of Chewy tail. Hey, that big boy beats down there too.

man that dude man do you see how big he do look he's by six nine he is six nine he is by six nine he is by six nine oh he's he's saying that man

listen you're saying jill got some dogs over there yeah he was balling man hey look I ain't even just talking about the ball I'm talking about the defense they played they played out early on they was oh they was how many times did they force him to turn

throw the ball out of bounds on the airbound hey it's one thing about great coaches bro, they're going to have their teams ready to play. Get Rick Petino some credit because them boys came out with it on their mind. I'm talking about they bussing through screens. You can't even screen dudes. They're bussing through screens cutting their man out.

Defensively, they, oh, man, they locked in. Oh, they were so locked in. Ooh, they got out of them boys, man. Hey, buddy hit that shot. He made the lay up right, right in the buzzer. And the camera pan right to coach, well, he ain't showed no kind of emotion. It's like, okay. He didn't have done that, man.

Rick Petino. Just another day. Ocho, he didn't have been that done there, bro. Yeah. He hasn't been a lot of stuff. You got to think about it. He'd had this at Providence. I think he took Providence to the final four

when he had Billy Donovan. Yeah. Yeah. He won the national championship with Kentucky. He won the national championship with Louisville. I think he went to Iona. I think he went to Iona

after he kind of got in the club. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, had to reinvent himself in Iona, come back to the St. John. Now, back in the 80s, St. When they had Walter Berry, they had Chris Mullen. Chris Mullen.

Lefty, boy, they had a stick. Coach Carnacek with those sweaters. The Big, the Big East was it. Big John, Coach Thompson, Coach Lou, Jim Beehime. Boy, they had a stick. Yeah, they had it on a lot. And Coach Wally Massimino, Villanova. Because if I'm not mistaken, I think one year,

they got all, they got three of their 14, three of them was in the bottom four. Because Villanoa might have been, because Villanova ended up beating, might have been 84, 85, because Villanova ended up beating Georgetown when they shot that ridiculous number from the field. It's like they couldn't miss.

Ed Pinckney went crazy. That's when they had, I think they had Gary McClellan. But man, yeah, it was, yeah, Villanova Ed Pinkney. But boy, St. John's did it. But I was like, bro, I'm watching this. And I'm like, Joe, I'm feeling good.

We are 14 under 5 minutes. I'm like, I'm feeling good. I'm like, yeah, we got this one. Man, I look up, I say, Todd. I say, come on, St. John. What did you think? I just knew we had this. What did you think about this potential number one pick, Darren Peterson?

Oh, look, he can play. But I think people are going to look, you know, pull himself out of the games, be it, you know, where there's cramps, his injuries or whatever the case may be. I think they're looking because when I look at DeBonza, I'm looking at the guy that's 6'9, that has an NBA body right now as we speak. Yeah. And he doesn't have the issues.

Give him a choice, oh, Cho, because I'm going to entrust you to lead my team. I'm going to entrust you with $40, 50, 60, 70 million. And then hopefully I'll give you another, I'm going to give you in three, four years. I'm going to give you 200. million dollars. I'm taking DeBonza.

That's just... He got, he, uh, DeAnd Peterson is a great talent. He, I think he will be a top three pick. Uh, I do, yeah. And I think, uh,

in, in some form, when he get to the pros, Uncle Ocho, they'll teach him, teach him more on how to take care of his body, what he should put in, you know,

and things of that sort. So they don't necessarily wear me. I just want to know, does he really love the game? Does he really love, That's all I want to know, man. Because if you, yep. Hey, but Joe, you got to think about it, Joe,

as good as Peterson is, right? Yes. You know, despite the, despite the turmoil during the season, taking itself out, cramping up, whatever it may be. You got to love the game to get as good as he is. You have to love it, especially when to come to competing, especially at this level, you know, you're playing college ball,

and you regard it as one of the better players in the entirety of college basketball. That ain't, that ain't, that ain't, that ain't a mistake. That ain't no accident. No, sometimes, Ocho, you can have such God-given ability. And we've seen, I've seen guys that I don't, they don't love it. They're just good at it. And I can make an honest leader. Because at the end of the day, Ojo, in college, if you're playing 30, 32 games,

when you get to the pro, bro, 82 games, it's a lot. And I'm going to tell you something. They probably do what they already talk about the rookie wall. Like, it's a lot, bro. I know they do the load management and all that, but, man, mental. physically, emotionally, it takes a lot on your body, bro. And not everybody can handle it. Yeah.

You know what the funny thing is, too long? Huh? You know what I was going to say, too? Remember what you just said? Most of the time, what happens when players are people are blessed by God and they don't do the work, you know, you get exposed at some point anyway. Yeah. You get exposed.

Especially once you get to that next level, once he get to that, once he get to the NBA, if he don't love the game and put the working like he got to, You ain't going to be that long. No. It's real tough. Yes. It's too. Because you got to realize, like in high school, you're like, okay, there's some good.

But when you get to college, a lot of those guys were all state players. All those guys were all region, all county players. And as you keep moving up, guess what? There were a lot of, okay, you were a college player a year. But guess what, on your own team, you might have had five college players over here in college. The Hizman Trophy winner, Buckas, Benar it, Thorpe, Blitnikov. Okay.

If you don't put that work in, because look, everybody at the next level, regardless of what you, where, how acclaimed you are, everybody at the next level can make you look foolish in a given game. Yeah.

A guy that you're like, I ain't never heard of this guy before, will light show up. Yeah. Yeah. So if you don't go out there and be prepared, now you look, man, he ain't no good. No, no, he's good.

Yo, yeah. Oh, boy. Oh, boy, just handed it to her. Hey, you hear what Shirms said? Sherman said, man, I went out there. I ain't really know a whole lot about Stevie Johnson. Man, by 10 catchers 165 yards later, I knew a lot about Stevie Johnson. Hey.

Hey, boy, Stevie, the real deal, boy. Yeah. And so, and that's the thing. And plus, Ocho, you got to realize that once you get to the pros, ain't nobody telling you what to do. They don't tell you, they don't check it to see if you go to Steve. They don't check and see if you go to clads. They don't check and see if you're working out.

That's all you. So yeah. That's all you. So now if you don't see what happens when you don't love something, now all of a sudden that dips. Yeah. Look at the guys that love it. Yeah.

And people like, well, well, Yolch, he care about horses. Look at Yolchch on the sideline when things ain't going his way. And you tell me he don't love it. He's yelling, he's trying to draw stuff up and he's, Yes, absolutely. You got to be that great for an extended period of time. It ain't nothing to burst on the team. Ocho, how many guys we don't see make the Pro Bowl one year

and we never hear from them again? Yeah. It's easy to make it one time, but when you make the Pro Bowl, you make all pro, guess what? The opposing team's going to start games for your ass. Now let's see it when they know what you're doing. Yeah.

You the best receiver. Now you get our best cornerback. Now you get our undivided attention. And now you get coverage, it's called to stop your punk a ass. Yeah. Yeah. Joe, you get the defense. They coming.

Oh, we're going to trap Joe. We're going to bliss, Joe. Hey, y'all head is there. You show. Hey, don't let, hey, he want to run that pick and roll. He's going to try to pin you. Hey, don't let Joe come on that pin down. Yeah.

See, I know Joe love that pin down now. Hey, let me get a little separation. All I need is, all I need is a little crease, Ocho, that thing. Hey, Jay, Jay. Just a little space, Joe. Yeah. Hey, hey, the hardest part about any sports you play at the highest level is about consistency. Thank you.

It's hard. It's hard to be consistent. And the better you are, the better you are what you do, the more disciplined you've got to have, Joe. Especially when you come to your craft, boy. Man, what I find to be the toughest when you turn pro is showing up, you know, you got to show up every day. even on days, you don't even feel like it, okay, Ocho. You know what I mean?

Not only do you got to show up, but you got to come ready to compete and play. And that's why I say, you know, through a six to eight-month season, bro, you're not going to wake up every day and want to go out there and compete and want to play or want to go to practice. But you have to, this is part of it.

You know, and the ones that love it, they look forward to that. You know what I mean? So that's my biggest concern. I did. Man, I look forward to go. Man, I wanted to see the guys, Ocho, because I don't work those on some

material, some jokes. So I can't, I couldn't wait to get to the locker room. Yeah. And the bus rides, being on that bus ride, Ocho, you know, hey, Joe, I don't know how y'all did it, but you know, everybody, man, Sean, what bus you get on? I'm getting on. Yeah. Don't get on one because that's what the head coach is, that's what they're owning his

white hair every day. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We got coaches, the coaches trying to get on bus too because they know we're going to have a thing going to the state. And don't let us win. I'm, boy, I'm dating.

Dave Chappelle. I'm Dave, oh, I am Dave Chappelle. Even when the coaches, the coach is coming back here with what y'all got going on back here. Don't worry about what we got going on back here. We got, y'all already know we got some boojide going on back here. Hey, man, you appreciate, you appreciate great teammates, bro. I'll tell you, I tell you all one guy that really stick out to me when I was in my young career, like, second, third of year, Bo Outlaw. I play with Bo Outlaw.

Okay. Hey, I remember Bo. Me and Bo just kick it. I'm talking about off the court in the other day. But every day, Uncle Ocho, he showed up the same way, the same happy smile, cracking jokes, having a good time. I'm talking about it wasn't a day he showed up and he was pissed out. I'm like, man, how this man, he first went in the wake room getting it, you know what I mean?

Like, he was just a hardworking dude. And I learned so much from him. But he was a super cool dude, man. Me and Bo really, we got some real stories, boy. Bo kick it, boy. Because think about it. Your whole life, Ocho, you grew up, you and Joe, we all kind of grew up very, very similar situation. Yeah.

Your whole life, you dream in this situation. God bless you with talent and put you in this situation. How could you not? That's what I don't get. How could you not? Everything you had asked for, Lord, please just let me be good enough. Let me be talented enough to make it to college. Let me make it to the NBA.

Tadda, here we are. And now all of a sudden you get lazy because you hear, shh, man, please. The easy part is getting there. The hard part is staying there. So who is she here? Well, getting there not easy either then. No.

You think about it. It's easy to get there and stay than to get there, get out, and try to get your hands back in. Back in, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. What they say when you leave a sporting event, no re-entries. That's the same with sports. You get your ass out of these leagues.

It's hard as hell to get back in. unless you got a homeboy working to let your ass in the side dope. Yukon. Number two, Yukon, the Huskies, beat the Bruins, 7357. The wheel started to fall off at UCLA with a little more than five minutes remaining as Yukon used a 9-0 run to turn a four-point lead into a 13-point cushion. The Huskies outrebounded them, 3624, outscored the Bruins in the paint 30 to 20. Yukon's sweet 16 opponent, the spottings of Michigan State.

Michigan State. both two guys that coaches they love to play defense yeah Dom Izzo Dan Hurley your pride themselves I'm getting up until you and playing there's gonna be a game no one only thing all like you can guard playing like that

in Michigan State they guard players superb with little fears at the point guard for Michigan State but uh yeah you man Caraband had it going to I know, that's what I'm saying. They got some wings.

They got some shooters now. But, man, this is just hard. You look at their guard play. Like, you get two points out of your two-starring guards. It's hard to win an NCAA tournament like that, man. It is. It is. It was their front court.

Man, I'm talking about a big time. They got 27, 10, 17, and then Ross came up the bench and gave you a level. But you need, you're going to need contribution from a lot of these guys and different games, it's going to pose different challenges. So, you know, you'll have different guys stepping up in different games. So, yeah. I like Yukon. They, they play the right way, play hard, tough, and they got a winning pedigree.

And that young bull caribang going to have to put them boys on his back now. You're going to need a look. Who they got to put the boys on his back? What do you got next? You say, they play Michigan State. Michigan State. You're going to need some help, Joe. Yeah, you do.

I mean, he had 27 at night, but, shoot, man, Reed ain't given nothing. Ball ain't given nothing. I'm too about, oh, no, no, Reed had 10. Mm-hmm. And shit, ball and Smith, I mean, shoot, ball ain't had no point. Smith had two. That's what I'm saying, your guard played. One for seven and 0 from five from three.

No free throw attempts. You got to be a little bit more aggressive, too, right? Yeah, search yourself in the game fast. Set the tone early. Because that's... You set that tone? And that's the hard part, though, Joe. If your shot ain't falling early,

then you're hesitant to, you got damn hesitant, especially in the game like here. Man, you play 32 minutes. You got to get up more than two shots. Yeah. I'm just saying, bro, this is it. We're going to go home.

Hey, if you lose that game and you go home with them little two points, you're going to be mad as hell at yourself. Yeah. Damn, I should have been at that. But man, I remember I played, I played the NCAA tournament. What did you do, man?

I had two points. No, I had no points. I had two points on two shots and the other guy had zero points for five shots. Right, right. But they put Ross in. Ross played 22 minutes.

So, you know, I guess a coach Hurley looked early on and could see that he didn't have it going and so he put Ross in. And he fired out. So, yeah, you kind of going to be there, bro. They keep some good talent over there. Yeah, but they normally normally would be led by guards. I know.

That's why I'm surprised. That's why I tell you. You remember Shabazz Napier and they had a, what's the name? Kimmer. Yeah. Ben Gordon. The Rip Hamilton. Mm-hmm.

You know, they normally, they don't. Hey, Yukon, Ray, they normally keep some guards. Man. Yeah, they do. Boy, they got one on their hand against Michigan State. Them boy. Yeah. Arizona took down the number nine, Utah State,

78 66. Arizona's stellar guard play once again on full display. Jaden Bradley, Bradden Burries led to Wildcasting scoring with 18 and 16 points respectively. Once again, Arizona's size and relentlessness. And I rebounded them, Utah State, by 27, 53 to 26 on his way to a sweet 16 for the third straight season. Arizona Sweet 16 opponent, Ocho, the razor backs of Arkansas. Oh, hey, hey, Joe, what are you going to do with them? with them trees down there in Arizona. We're sitting back resting up.

Hey, we're getting ready. We feel, I already tell you, we're going to make this run, man. This ain't nothing personal about Arizona. They're just in the way right now. You hear me? Yeah, they're just in the way. They're just in the way.

We strictly about business homeboy. We strictly about. But you ain't asking me, though. What you're going to do by them trees that's going to be in the paint at Arizona? Man, you've seen that guy we got on our team named A Cuff. Then I'll tell you, it's cuff and season, man.

They answer that. Hey, they y'all said that, man. He ain't letting us lose, Joe. I'm sorry. And we got some bigs for their bigs. Yeah, we long-tholic. Okay. You know what I mean?

We grind me. We're in your face. We're going to def- Yeah. Yeah, we're tough. Yeah. Okay. We're letting this on defense offensively. We'll explode.

We might score 100 points. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. We might. We might score 100 points. What's you, what you plan? NBA 2K? All right. Okay.

All right. Remember when we get back on him? I mean, listen, I ain't wish you no bad, dude you. I support the team, but I'm just saying scoring 100. And, I mean, not having the answer for the big down there in Arizona. I mean, just saying A-Cuff is going to get it done. It's going to take more than him. He's going to need help.

I think you be hating on the low. Even when you watch us play, I think you'd be kind of hate. I mean, Joe, I just said, I support you team. I know what you're telling me right now, but I think when you be sitting at home watching the game, you'd be rooting against her. He'd be rooting for the other team, Joe? You know that man be rude to guessing. You already know what's going on.

Then he comes on here and act like he acts like he down. Well, I know what going on. I'm with you, Joe. I know what you, Joe. Man, you already know how Ocho is. Ocho go to somebody's house and find out who they for. All of a sudden, he like, yeah, come on. Now he's for the other team automatically.

I ain't like that. I ain't like that. You know, I'm with your boys well, Joe. All right, all right. I want to see them boy go far as possible. Yeah. Listen, the better A-Cup play in the tournament, the better his chances of, well, he's probably going to be a lottery pick.

He might sneak up there and go number two. Oh, he for sure going to be lottery. I think he, I think he won't. I think he's one player who can continue to increase his draft stock. His best stock, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. In Arizona, man, they got the, who.

They got some dogs. They got size. Yeah, they do. They do. They do. They had good guard. play today. Uh-huh.

Yeah. We got something for that, though. Y'all got to keep it. Y'all got to keep them off the glass. Yeah, they got to keep us off the glass. They got to keep us out of transition. We did probably, we top two, three fast breaking team in the

NCAA, what y'all talk about? Hey, man, they got to worry about us. Okay. Okay. Joe, I like the energy, Joe. That's good energy, boy. That's good energy. Yeah.

Hey, Purdue. The number two, Boilermakers took down to Hurricane 79-69, leave it to the scenes to bring home for Purdue. Man, they cheated. Had a game high 24 boys. Trey Carver Redhead 19 is the number two C boiler makers back to the Sweet 16 for the third straight season. Purdue's sweet 16 opponent, the Longhorns. Hey, he didn't have them nine assists.

I remember we betted that the Bulls were going to have nine assists. He had eight. I mean, he's supposed to get 10. Yeah. Yeah. And they were too much for the U, man. They were too much. The U fault, man.

They fall hard. They had a great season. But do, see, teams like that, they're just too disciplined. Okay, Ocho. You know what I'm saying? They ain't never going to do nothing that's going to beat themselves, bro.

Right. 57 from the field, 53 from the field, 57 from the three here. You ain't beat nobody in the team. 95% from the free throw line. Hey, listen, you ain't winning that game, brother. You let somebody shoot them percentages on you.

It's a rap. Nope. I mean, they would have shot better than that if Braine Smith hadn't shot three for 12 because you got a Kauffman Wren, he's 8 or 16. Clough was three or four. You got four or five, six or seven. I mean, you got one guy was over two, Omar Mayor. But if Braine Smith don't shoot three or 12, hell, they might shoot six.

65% from the movie. Yeah. Yeah, I know. And he was 0 or 4 from the 3. From the 3. So he killed him. It's just a bad time to have a bad defensive game in the NCAA tournament. Because you can't get this back, bro.

It's a wrap. Like you let a team shoot like this. You let them be comfortable. You let them run their sets and get what they want, get to their spots. You can't be no team like that, bro. Damn. the game that we flexed out of the Alabama Crimson Tide beat the Texas Tech

Red Raiders by the score of 90 to 65. Alabama's going to sweet 16 for the fourth consecutive time. Alabama went 19 or 42 from deep. The third most makes in any tournament game since 1987 when the three-point line was introduced. La Treyreau Wright-Sail led the team with 24 points while three other players scored a double figure. La Baron Fillion.

Junior had nine points, 12 assists, the second most assist by Alabama player in a tournament since 1984. Alabama's sweet 16 opponent, the number one seed, Michigan Wolverine. Oh, look, man. Well, Michigan got some trees down there, too, boy. They do. Golly. It's been a start getting thick now.

It's been a start getting thick. Now, we're going to get some real, real good game. Now, Alabama been tough. Texas Tech. Also, they lost their center who was a leading score and leading rebounder. He tore his ACL kind of late in the season. So it was going to be hard for them to, you know, stay afloat and continue to keep advancing. They do got a great guard and look Christian Anderson.

He can play. He didn't have such a great game tonight. But for the most part, he'd been holding it down throughout the season. But they just ran into a gritty, a gritty Alabama team, bro. who is out of player. I don't think he'd a leading score, but I think he's won. I think he averaged 20 a game.

Who that wife's that? It's a little gar. You know, he got into a little trouble. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. What they got arrested? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Had that scumion on him. Had that two and a half pounds of scum.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, he didn't have that, he didn't have a distance. Yeah, there he goes, they. Oh, okay, okay, okay, okay. Okay, okay. Yeah.

So he, they got him out of that. He couldn't play. He'd probably done. Yeah. Damn. He might be playing with a team with strikes on. Boy. Ready for a different take on Formula One?

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