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Welcome to part of my take presented by draft Kings. The crown is yours. Today is Monday, April 6. And then there were two PFT the road ends here.
We've got Yukon, verse Michigan in the national championship on Monday night. And we got to recap everything that happened this weekend. Okay, but first the chain smokers. The chain smokers.
Hey, can you get the chain smokers? I love the chain smokers. I was so confused when that was happening and it just kept going and they kept going. And the two guys right now on stage, I was like, is this the chain smokers?
Because they respectfully, I don't want to track from the body of work that the chain smokers has done like the chain. They've been extremely successful. Hank, you're a big chain. I feel like you're about to disrespect the smokers.
No, no, no, no, I'm an absolute smoke. I'm a chain gang. I'm on the chain gang. All right.
You can be changing on the smoke. Okay. Okay. And it's not disrespectful.
I say that the chain smokers, they look the most like a podcast of any massively successful EDM group. I thought there were podcasters that were asking. Yeah. Yeah.
I was saying that as a podcaster, I was in the building on Saturday night. I feel bad for the chain smokers. That was not exactly the crowd that was set up for the chain smokers for the smokers. I don't think the smokers are going for that for the crowd.
Oh, I know they weren't, but still, they're going to check. Of course they're going for the check and they probably got a fat check, but they're still going to be a little part of them because. So Lucas Royal Stadium where the Colts play massive, massive stadium. I want to actually mention something about that in a second.
They had, they were in one of the end zones. They had, I don't know, 40 people who I think were just paid actors to come in looking like they weren't at a basketball game and dancing in front of their, their DJ set, like Booth and the rest of the crowd, because if you never been to a final four game, just imagine how many middle aged dudes can you fit in one football stadium with that? They just wear a blue bird, cues him all the time. Yeah.
That's exactly what the final four is. So then you get the smokers out there and everyone was just looking around like, what the fuck is going on right now? No disrespect smokers. Yeah.
Those are the paid actors in front. It was very bizarre. The arena was literally on fire. Yeah.
And just like burned the place down. I forgot that there was a basketball game coming up afterwards. I was like, I want to go outside smoke, cigarette after the smokers got off stage. The whole thing was weird too, because I mean, you guys were watching on TV, the pregame, they had the fake James Naismith.
Oh, yeah. Yeah. They had like nine people on a desk. I know that, you know, at Barstool, we like to pack people on a desk and as many people as possible.
But I think there was nine people at one point. We didn't enjoy the game of Naismith or No Smith. Yeah. Naismith or No Smith.
Pretty excellent game. Max has taken a set like he's upset about something. I don't like your tone when referring to the chain smokers at all. I'm smoking.
I think chains. Yeah, dude, the chain smokers like listen, you know, I've never heard an artist go on stage and be like, let's take it back to 2015 like an 11 year callback. It's usually like, Hey, let's go. Anybody out there remember the 70s?
Yeah. You remember where you were like 10 years ago? Let's get in that vibe. Yeah, 10 years ago was sick.
Yeah, 10 years ago was sick. I agree, which is why I like the chain smokers and like the concert. In fact, I think that they should take closer and that should be the new one shiny moment and just be like, uh, let's get in the. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, no, let's get in the transport portal because we're leaving Villanova.
Yeah, we leave in Villanova. I'm not being sarcastic. I thought it would just make no sense for the final four. And it was really weird and awkward in the stadium.
I'm not being sorry. I'm racist. That racist. Yeah.
Yeah, I could point out why you're against the big artist at a big sporty. Go on Hank. Keep going because I know what you're trying to do, but I there's no possible world where you're going to land this plane. I already did.
No, you didn't play land on how. How is the point? Point. Hank, guess what?
The plane doesn't land. Hank will still give you a shout out. Yep. It's facts.
No, I just think, you know that you're not the intended audience and he's at those. They're actually fantastic. I think I am the intended audience if they're at the final four. You would think that.
Very great. Right. Hank. Yeah.
I was 30 when the chase focus were rocking. I am the intended audience. I don't. Yeah.
I thought that they did an excellent job of getting paid. I'm not going to hate on them getting paid. No, definitely not. OK, let's talk about the game.
So you kind of Illinois, it was going into this final four. We all were very excited. We had this idea that the number one verse number two team Arizona, Michigan, playing the late game was going to be one of the best games of all time. We had Illinois verse Yukon, the early game, which I was saying, don't sleep on that game.
It's going to be great. Turns out both games kind of stunk and the Illinois Yukon game was just Yukon being better at what Yukon wants to do in Illinois, a combination of it felt like they were never comfortable. And they just had a horrific, horrific shot lock where I think every single ball just like rimmed out Yukon was banking threes. Yeah.
You can at one point had more bank threes than Illinois had assists. Yeah. Like halfway through the first half. Yeah.
So, but that's what Yukon does. They're offense will always find mismatches. They'll always get guys open looks. It's like the Sprelin Mullins off of the unbelievable game against, you know, the unbelievable shot against Duke on Sunday, he's back in Indianapolis is too big for the freshmen, not at all.
Like he had not only the start of the game, right? Yukon played basically a perfect first five minutes of a game. And but he also hit that huge dagger three with I think 55 seconds left. And that's just Yukon.
Like they are they just know what to do. They've been there before. And that's what you expect out of Yukon. It might not be pretty all the time.
Their defense was was very, very good all night. They were getting Illinois uncomfortable and Yukon will win a game like this. I think it's a combination of bad bad shot luck and also just really good defense by Yukon. Yeah.
So like, oh, they always never got comfortable. Yeah, they had that a bunch of like there's so many times when if Yukon, if they would turn over, miss a shot, quick rebound, Illinois pushes down the other side of the court and they just put up like the most brick of a layup that you've ever seen the ball at one point. Who had the sitter? They're like pretty much sat on the back of the rim rolled off.
Like they had a combination of very, very bad luck, bad shot selection and also just great defense by Yukon. Waggler was the only one that was able to get what resembled a good offense going. But like even he had to just like at some point, he was taking some bad shots too. Yeah.
But he was only sparked that they had the ball that rolled off the cylinder and stayed on there forever. You guys would like this in the suite that we were in. Dave just said Jake Marsh just came himself. Yeah.
It was like it was almost like a real life wedgie. Like the ball stopped. It stopped. And then he just decided, OK, I can move again now.
But it was it felt like the spread of this game should have been like seven or seven and a half. Because that's right. Every time Illinois got it back and made it like a six point game or a seven point game, then Yukon would just hit a big three and just like keep that distance in between them. So it never got close enough to really feel like like the lead was in serious jeopardy.
It was a for moments with a minute left. And but that's the thing with Yukon is that you know, they've they have had and we've talked about it. They're non conference, you know, what they do in the non conference outside of Danny Hurley's crash out in Maui last year. They've lost three total games and one of them was to the national champion last year by two points.
One of them was in Kansas on at fog Allen. They they are so good when they need a bucket to draw something up to get someone open and confuse the defense and run guys through screens and pin downs and all these things. And like even there was a moment I think right under what he didn't have his best game. I thought there was a moment where he Illinois started to get some momentum and he called the timeout was maybe like two minutes left.
And then Danny Hurley, they just they just had a perfect offensive set for Terris Reed to get a post touching score and get an easy to. So it's just that's what Yukon does. They just whenever they need it, they can get it. And that's what it felt like to your point.
Every moment that felt like Illinois was getting back in the crowd. It was 70% Illinois. Yeah. And it got loud every single time they had a little bit of a charge and then Yukon would just answer and answer with a bucket or a stop and it just kept them kept them away the entire night.
Yeah, it was Illinois. They got the lead and I think there were like seven minutes left in the first half. Yeah, back and there's 22, 21, one point lead. And then after that timeout, then it was just all Yukon from that point out.
It never really felt like it was going to be in jeopardy for the Huskies. And it's also the, and we talk about all the time in football, the end of half, start of half situations. That was, that was apparent last night as well where it was Illinois had fought back and they had made it a somewhat close game at 22, 21. And then within the last, you know, I don't know, it was like the last five minutes of the game or five minutes, the first half, it ended up being an eight point lead going into half.
So you were back right at square one where Yukon was playing a much better and comfortably in the league. Yeah. And Illinois. So they, they got shut out by by Yukon earlier this year.
I want to say I'm looking up right now. It's the last three times they scored less than 65 is all that Yukon. There you go. Cause I knew it was, I think it was 62 or 61 points against Yukon this year.
And it happened in the tournament two years ago in the Elite Eight. Yeah. So that defense from Yukon has Illinois number. Yeah.
It just does. And yeah, it was bad shots election. It was also panicking and it was shots being effective or affected. And it was just Yukon's forming defense.
The, the saddest place to be in a final four is at the team hotel after a loss. I was staying at the Illinois hotel. I went, I drove back last night, but I went back to get my bags and it's just, it's so tough because the final four is you guys all been to it. It's, it's like a festive fun atmosphere.
Everyone's having the best time. You're with your college friends. There's just a vibe to it. And then to have it ripped out of you on Saturday night and you just kind of look up and you're just like, what the fuck I just want to go home.
Yeah. It's the worst feeling. I imagine I saw Brad under would be an interview and he just kept saying that he was sad. Yeah.
Just like, I'm just, my emotions are sad right now. It was incredible season for Illinois. Yeah, it was. It was a great season and it's thanks that's ripped away from you.
But Yukon was just a much better team. Yeah. There was much, but the thing is, I don't know if Yukon is, I don't know what Danny Hurley would say if you talked about like ranking the three teams that he's coached to the championship game. My guess is that he would not say that this is the most talented team that he said.
That's where he's a championship game. I think that would probably be a second one that he put up there. But he might say that this is the best team like the way that they operate as a team to be able to get here that since they might not have the talent that they had a couple of years ago to be able to reach the championship, it might be the best overall like all around team that is that. Yeah.
Yeah. And they're, I mean, they're thinking about who they've who they've now beaten on this on this run here. They beat, you know, the firm and game was weird. The UCLA, you know, it was a little bit closer.
The third territory was unbelievable. UCLA was close, but they were, you know, McChrona, UCLA, they were, they were playing good basketball down the stretch. Michigan State was a dark horse final 14. Right.
Duke was the number one seed overall in Illinois was, you know, it just gone to Houston and bullied Houston in their house. They've had a hell of a path and they've just every time you're like, Hey, Yukon, no way. Could they keep this up? They just keep answering it.
They keep doing it. So they shot 36% from three, which I think they were happy with. What do you think they're going to need to shoot from three to when a Monday night? What would that percentage?
Probably like probably 3940. Yeah. Yeah. And he's going to, because you're going to need, I think that's the difference.
I think when, you know, solo ball, who's actually in a walking boot, but solo ball going three for seven, I think Braille Mullins was four for seven. Caravan was one for seven. You need caravan to also be four for seven. Yeah.
And then it feels like you have a chance. And then my other question was, have we reached the Ryan Fitzpatrick went to Harvard with Braylon Mullins is from Indiana. Yeah, we're pretty close. I think we're pretty close.
Did you know that Hank Braille Mullins from Indiana? Well, this is everyone's doing the thing right now. Dusty May is it's Ohio State fans and Indiana fans are like, we could have had Dusty May. Yep.
Because there is a tweet going around that Ohio State announced like they did final interviews with Dusty May and Jake Dibler. Yeah. That hurts. So Indiana fans are saying, oh, we could have Braille Mullins and Dusty May, the whole fan fiction thing hurts.
Yeah, it does. But they love Indiana fans love doing that to themselves. Oh, yeah. Big time.
And also, uh, Demery, I thought was unbelievable. He, I think he was either one who had the big rebound because that was it. The rebound when it was, um, I think before the Braille Mullins shot, we got an offensive rebound, but he ended up having seven, seven, nine and seven, which is in a final four game. He was all over the place.
That was, that was the possession. I think it was like a minute left. And that's it. That's lights out game over.
Yeah. All right. The next game was supposed to be the best game I've ever seen. And, uh, it might just be the best team we've ever seen because it was an absolute demolition by Michigan to the point where I, I questioned on Twitter and max.
I, I, I'm sure you saw this, but I was like, given the hype of this game and the one verse two and they have five losses total between them. And everything everyone was saying is this the most like thorough beat down in a final four game and people were mentioning the Oklahoma, Villanova game from 2016. Yeah. But Oklahoma wasn't Arizona.
Oh, it was good. It was a two and a half point spread that game. Didn't you and see get their ass kicked? I can't, but I think I think you and see got back in that game a little bit.
You, I just remember dog walk. This was, I guess there was a moment. It was that moment where, um, it was like maybe a six or seven point game and Arizona had two free throws, missed both of them, got the offensive rebound, then missed the front end of another foul. And then it was, it was basically from that point on, it was like, yeah, you guys have no chance.
Well, it was crazy is right off the bat, Lindeboard gets in foul trouble. Yeah. He got to fouls like instantly instantly in the game. And I thought that that's Arizona's chance like Arizona could win this game now.
Boy, it was ironic because Michigan seemed like they played better. And then he came back into the game, then got injured. Yeah, he, their best player only played 14 minutes. He played 14 minutes and when he did play, he was affected by it.
I thought he actually, he didn't play bad when he got back, but he looked. No, he hit, he hit two, three. He came in and just was a spot up jumper. He did look slow and he looked affected by it, but Michigan did not need him.
No, because they had the giant Spaniard who just put his nuts on everybody's face. Maro was unbelievable. He definitely made himself a lot of money last night and it was just everything Michigan wanted to do. It felt like the vibes from the two teams, Michigan just wanted to take it to him.
The speed they were playing with. Elliott Kado was incredible. He was at one point and this is, this is a credit to Dusty May who's having an all time run right now, because I don't know if you guys saw it like Dusty May before the game, scouting you, Con, Illinois, courtside. You got it.
Like retrospect, I should have just put everything I had on Michigan because that is such a memeable moment if you lose against Arizona to be sitting out there, not with your team, watching the first game and taking notes and keeping score. Dusty made knew that they were, they had the game plan to beat Arizona. He knew it was going to be fine because you don't set yourself up for that situation unless you have ultimate confidence in your team. But when I saw that, I thought that other coaches, they definitely have guys that do that for.
Oh, yeah. So I thought Dusty May wanted to be seen. Yeah. Right.
That's what I'm saying. Yeah. Yeah. That's, that's a meme.
That's that if you lose, you get dragged. He did not. Yes. He did that on purpose because he wanted the cameras to see him out there and he was confident.
I think 99% of the time a guy, a coach will take one of their systems to be like, this is your job is got this game. Yeah. I'm going to be behind the scenes. The so Elliott, no, to start the game.
He was phenomenal. Like one of the best five or 17 shooting performances I've ever seen. And I say five for 17 because at the beginning of the game, he ended up with 10 assists, five rebounds. He controlled the entire game.
He brought like he had them all screwed up. He got Bradley into into foul trouble, which that changed the game as well. But I like to know at the beginning of the game to start, I was like, I turned to Dave. I was like, what's going on?
Like he's just is he like getting paid by the shot or something? He just kept on checking it out. Turns out that in reports after the game, that was all part of the game plan that LA could know was essentially missing shots on purpose to like missing high on the backboard because Maro was able to clean it up. And that was part of their game plan against Arizona, knowing Arizona has all these big guys has all this rim protection that the second shot was there a lot.
And you watch it back and you're like, Oh, yeah, he did do that a few times where it was almost a direct pass tomorrow off the top of the backboard. It's a genius game plan and dusty maze on an absolute heater right now. OK, so at halftime, Charles Barkley kept talking about how could always taking these shots and missing them and they were great misses. Yeah, this part.
And they're like, he needs to shoot the ball more. These are great misses that he's putting up. There's something like the Kobe Miss. Yeah, like a shot that's more easily rebounded by your own team.
So like when I when I heard Charles Barkley talking about that, you'll have to forgive me if I didn't think that Charles Barkley has finger on the pulse of like a new wave of basketball analytics. But goddamn, if he wasn't right, he was right, that he was able to pick up on that. I guess a guy like Charles, that's where he does. He rebounds.
He can see it from that angle. But yeah, he was breaking the defense down and drawing a lot of guys. So then if you missed a shot, then yes, it's almost like a pass. Yeah.
And it was it was a genius plan and it felt like that Michigan had a genius plan. They had they also had Arizona, like the size of Michigan bothered Arizona, where Arizona was having to take threes. They don't want to take and get into shots. They don't because Arizona everyone knew what Arizona was.
They wanted to just be as close to the rim as possible, bowl you down, though, get to the free throw line. And it just felt like they never got into a rhythm and they never got into a situation where they felt good. And it is again, it's Arizona is the is the number one team in the country. Like they were their number one on Ken Palm and Michigan just obliterated him.
This is second time this year. This is where Michigan is right now. And it's going to be interesting to see what happens Monday night because you have the best team in the country, Michigan versus the best coach slash running dynasty in the country, you caught it is as much as people think. Oh, what are we going to watch?
Michigan is going to kill him. It is there is some really great storylines. We're going to have Johnny Phantom break it down as well. But Michigan has played the number one team twice this year and on neutral courts, and it was Gonzaga and it was Arizona.
Gonzaga was the beginning of the season. They beat both of those teams brains in like obliterated them. So both times that they have been against those number one teams, they have just absolutely destroyed. We're not Duke.
What was doing? Second, I think it's number one on Ken Palm, Duke was maybe one AP, but like three on camera. It took me to be in the future. But if you look at, yeah, Michigan's losses this year, the two, you have to say that they're to to juggernauts Duke, the best team in college basketball, still shocked that they lost.
And then their other loss was the Badgers. Well, in Purdue, by three by three points, regular season. Yeah. And then yeah, they lost Purdue where they got beat by eight points.
But if you throw, you can almost throw up that Purdue loss because at some point, I feel like in the big 10 turn, if you're Michigan, it's not the biggest thing in the world. If you get bounced out, you just want to win at least one game. It was playing good bass players down that stretch, but they dominated Arizona, like absolutely dominated and maybe it's because Arizona's young, they didn't have the experience. A hundred percent.
I think that plays into it. And Michigan was much, much, much more experienced than they were like, Arizona's got great players. I love Colle Pete. I love berries.
But it was, it felt like it was meeting its boys. Yeah, no, being there. I mean, this is what, what has happened the last two years with Duke where it's like you have Duke teams that are really, really good, but they are very reliant on freshmen in the freshmen and get in the moment. Yeah.
And can they, can they raise, there's the muscle memory there for these big time moments in the tournament. And yeah, I think that definitely played a part where they just weren't comfortable and they got in that foul trouble where when Bradley goes out and a lot of it goes on to Burries and he's a freshman. And so he was chucking. Yeah, it just, it was so impressive by Michigan.
They are that what we saw on Saturday night, that Michigan team is not losing to anyone. No, yeah. Now, how are they underdogs? What?
They're not against Yukon, your favorite. Oh, I mean, I mean, I mean, yeah, they're, they're not losing anyone. They're not losing to a single team. They're that now, Yukon does have the, the coach and the experience to match it.
Also, Terris Reed revenge game, because he started his career at Michigan. So that's the interesting part to me. They're going to have to muck it up because you mentioned the two Michigan losses. Wisconsin one, we just hit a million threes.
The Duke one, they slowed it down and they made Michigan uncomfortable. Yukon's going to have to probably go into a combo both where slowed down and they're going to have to hit all their threes. Right. I guess the final score that you'd be looking at would be somewhere in the like 72 to 68 range.
Yeah. If we were to think that you can go into Michigan scored 90 plus in every single tournament game, I think they're going for the record for points in a tournament and it's just, yeah, it's insane. You got the same what they're doing. Yes, you got to slow them down.
You also have to hit your three. Yeah, everything has to go perfectly. You have to hope that they have a terrible night shooting. Yeah.
And then the actual end of bird, he says that he's going to play. Yeah. He's like, yeah, no matter what, I'm going to be out there. You can't, you can't keep me off the court for the championship game, but his knees fucked up and his ankles fucked up.
And I would imagine he's going to get shot up with the best drugs. Oh, yeah. It's going to be vitamin T. Yeah.
And solubals and a boot. And solubals and a boot. So again, like the fact that you actually in the bird, because one of the top five players in the country, the fact that when he was out, they didn't miss a beat. Yeah.
It just makes me think it's Michigan. Yeah. And you can pick your number. They have so many McKinney was so hot for three, like, more Johnson, like they just have so many answers and you always playing like that.
Mars, not an offensive. It's not these bad at offense. He's not that was the best offensive game he's played all year and it was just, he was just made everything. Yeah.
He looked like he was in control. He was his dominant. The only thing that I keep thinking about with Yukon is they are... It's the mystique.
They're the consistently luckiest team, which means that it's not luck. Yeah, no, it's not luck. I do not think it's luck. But you know what I'm saying?
Yeah. They find themselves in the right place at the right time all the time, more so than any other college team. And it's really good coaching. It's really good players.
I think it's partial mystique. It's coaching. It's players knowing their roles. And it's the fact that they run an offense that you have to...
They run an offense that makes you think at all times. You can't just take possessions off whether it's like you're switching everything, you're not switching anything, you're going under screens over screens. They're running action constantly to get guys open and get good looks that you can't... Guys get lost, your communication falls apart.
That's what they can do. And it's going to be a hard mountain for them to climb on Monday night, but there's something also about Danny Hurley being an underdog that you know he's just licking his chops about. You know he loves being an underdog. And he was talking about the difference between his team and other teams.
And he's like, well, are guys know that this is a life or death struggle? It's not a game. Are guys know that they're willing to die when they step on the court? He called them the Monstars, the Michigan Arizona.
He's like, whoever's going to play the Monstars. Yeah. And so yes, I think Dan Hurley loves this. I think his team actually does believe that they might die if they lose or like the universe will get destroyed like the Monstars.
But that's the only... Like everything says Michigan is a better team. Yeah. And I think that they are a better team.
Yeah. I think they play the game if there's a seven game series, Michigan probably win 4 to 2, 4 to 1, but that doesn't matter. Michigan's got nine starters. Did you know that?
They always say that. Nine starters. Well, you know we were joking about it during the football season, the college football season. You know when a team is really, really good when the complaints start piling up for Indiana.
It was their... There's two old and oh yeah, if you can get a team that's 25, everyone's 25. Of course you're going to be the national player. And also Mark Cuban is helping them cheat.
Yeah. Yeah. Our intelligence. This one is just everyone saying Michigan bought their whole team and it's not fair.
It's like, all right, listen, do I love that yes, every team changes overnight in college basketball? No. But that's just what it is. Everyone has the same opportunities.
Yeah. So that's what the game is. But yeah, we've got nine starters. That's what the keeps going.
Nine starters. I have two other... Or a few other things I wanted to touch on real quick. One, shout out Arizona for a great season.
I'm going to be probably the worst way to go out on a team that had lost twice this season and looked like the best team in the country for big time stretches. But the good news is Tommy Lloyd turned down UNC and in his negotiations he made it so he doesn't have a boss. So he's good. That's pretty cool.
That's pretty awesome. That's pretty awesome. Tommy Lloyd does not answer to the AD anymore. That's the dream.
So who does the answer to? No one to himself. Yeah. How awesome is that?
The governor? He probably... What are you looking at? How?
He... Part of the reason why there was a lot of smoke Tommy Lloyd's UNC was not only because of UNC but that Tommy Lloyd and the AD maybe didn't have the best relationship. So they renegotiated. They had a big pay increase and part of the new deal is he does not have to answer to the AD anymore.
He will now instead report to Arizona President, Saresh Garomega. How awesome is that? He still reports to someone. Yeah, he doesn't.
You think the president is going to be like, hey Tommy, how are we doing with our... I'm saying like what if Arizona doesn't get... What if he runs out of staples? What if he runs out of staples?
What if he runs out of puzzles? I'm just saying like he can get fired still. Yes. Okay.
He doesn't have to sit and talk to an AD and answer to him. He literally comes by and he's just like, I don't have to talk to you bro. I feel like most coaches shouldn't... That should be the rule of coach.
Yeah. I think he's not going to report to his athletic director, Desiree Reed-Francois. That's not a report. I would not want to report to somebody named Desiree Reed-Francois.
No. I think this is much stronger setup that they've got. So he's not going to UNC. Dusty May just said today he's also not going to UNC.
Although Dusty May said that he's not... He informed the president of Michigan that he was no longer accepting outside bids or outside job offers. I want to get the exact... She has to retweet it because he was trying to take a victory last time.
I want to get the exact wording because I thought it was a little bit interesting. Max is looking up Desiree right now. Dusty May has informed Michigan officials that he's not pursuing any college basketball jobs. Yeah.
That's the part that made this a little interesting to me. Interesting. He will not... Why isn't it clarify?
Any college basketball jobs? Yeah. Just so you guys know, I'm not talking to anybody that works at a college. Are you looking for another job?
No, not college basketball ones? Yeah. I will not be going anywhere. Any other colleges?
Michigan's my favorite college. If I'm coaching college basketball, it's at Michigan. Yep. There's nowhere else I'd rather be in college.
So now the University of Michigan. Now we'll see... And Dusty May, again, he's on an all-time heater because you see that Paramount Plus, they did like a behind the scenes of the Michigan season. It's just unbelievable.
It's some dusty porn. Yeah, it really is. It might actually just be a green screen because it was so perfectly like fire me up type of video. We also had...
Did you guys... So they do the Hall of Fame and we had some new Hall of Famers. Joy Crawford in the Hall of Fame. Very cool.
Yeah, very cool. But then we also had... That's the guy that loves rules. You guys see the pairing that they showed on TV that just always like we should call you over now pairing?
No. Yeah, yeah. Get that over ready now. Give me the keys.
But yeah, it was good. It was a good night of a lot of basketball, not the best games. So I had one other thing... It's smoke though.
Smoke. The chance smokers were... The halftime show was incredible. I do think that...
Let's be honest, there were shitty games. Yeah, they were. The games were two shitty, final-full games. I know that you got games.
You got games got close. I mean, Prandamone's three with a minute left was like that was... If they miss... If they don't get that rebound, it's a 4.1 game.
You had to keep watching. The Michigan game was over. Oh, for sure. The second half was just like the end of the game.
Yeah. I mean, something if we don't. If it's a blowout that... If it's never close, Michigan wins by 20, get ready to hear takes for the next two weeks about how college basketball is broken.
My last thought was, do you guys ever have a moment where you agree with the take but you're just so sick of hearing this? Yes, I know exactly what you're talking about. We get a hit. I get it.
I see one. Oh, no, yeah, yeah. But I get it, guys. Okay, everyone online.
I get it. We shouldn't play the Final Four in a football stadium. Oh, yeah. We're never going to stop playing the Final Four in a football stadium.
Yeah. I think I saw that a thousand times. And guess what? I also think that here's a crazy take.
I think about it. Makes it seem like you're way farther away. I watched the court the entire time. I was in a sweet way up top.
It's not the war. Like, everyone makes jokes. It really isn't that bad. It's not ideal.
And I would rather be in a college in a regular arena, but it's just like every time I go to a Final Four, everyone's like, they got to fix this. They're never fixing it. You get 60,000 more people in this stadium. They are never going to fix that.
It's never going back. And so we just got to stop complaining about it and just be like, and actually, Indy tight just was on this. Lucas Oil. They built so that the shooting eye is better, like they built it with the shooting eye in their thought process.
It's like a Houston or some of these other places that the shooting is terrible. Also, don't a new thing. Right. That's what I'm saying.
But every year, it's just, it's the complaints are just, how are we doing this again? When was it last year that I was in a college basketball arena? The 80s? It can't be.
No. They probably had it at some point in the 2000s. 90s? No, not in the 2000s.
Never? You don't think they ever did? I don't think so. But in the 90s, I would say yes.
That's the whole title. No, because I remember like Michigan North, the Chris Weber game that was in a dome, right? Yeah, I think the Duke Championships were in domes. All right.
I'm looking it up right now. I'm going to get to it right here. All right. 91 was Hoosier Dome, Metro Dome 92 super dome.
What's the Charlotte Coliseum? I guess that would be that would be. 96 is the last time according to continental airlines arena. Yeah, that's that's in that's where the devil's in the Nets played.
So 96. That's the last time. It's never ever going back. Absolutely not.
It also should be and they'll never do this as well. So I know this is a stupid thing to say, but I'll just say it. The final four should always be in Indianapolis. It should be forever home.
It is a walking? No, because in Indiana, like I know we joke about it in 49 other states. But they make it such a big event. They care about college basketball.
They care about basketball to a level that it's the only thing that's going on. You could feel it. Maybe New Orleans, maybe New Orleans and Indianapolis are the only two, but it just takes over the city in a way that when it's when they give it to other cities, it just doesn't feel the same. You don't feel the same pop.
Like I remember I like Minneapolis, but when it was in Minneapolis, it didn't feel like it was taking over the whole city. I'm sure Vegas in a couple of years won't feel the same because it's Vegas. You know what I mean? Phoenix great weather, but it's spread out and it doesn't feel like oh, this is all that's happening when the final four is in Indianapolis.
That is the thing and it's like everyone's there for it and the streets are alive and it's just the perfect place for it. I think Vegas will probably feel pretty cool. Houston does not feel good when it's there. No, I don't feel like, yeah, I know what you're saying.
You know what I'm saying? Dallas, Dallas, it did feel like it kind of took over. You know, New Orleans is the other one. So I'll give you New Orleans as well.
Dallas, I've been to a final four in Dallas. Does not, because Dallas and then the stadium are far apart from each other. You need, it's just Indianapolis. It's just, they do a great job with it and it just feels special when it's happening there.
Yeah. So that was my last. I was going to go along with that. Oh, there's a word.
I've never heard of that word that we can use when Jay Billis is factually correct about something, but he's so smug when he's saying it, that it makes me not want to agree with them, even though I know that he's right. Yeah. Whatever doesn't, it's not disingenuous, but it's we get Jay, you one. We've been on that decided to paying the players for a very long time, but he, when he sat down, he had that conversation with Kyle and Seth Greenberg and a few other guys, Reese, and it does feel like he's your, he walks around like he's a professor all the time and like you're smart and the world is his lecture hall.
Yeah. And it's there to like take notes on everything that Jay Billis has to say, but he's right. I just need, Jay, I need you to be like 20% less of a douche bag when you're going on these diatribes. And then I can, I'll be able to watch you and be at peace with the fact that you're correct.
But he's not right anymore because we already did it. But in this one conversation, it's like it's already happening. Now he's just keeps hammering the thing that we knew was wrong that became a right. Well, so he was having a debate and Seth Greenberg, probably not the best guy to have this debate with.
Talking about like, well, what about players that make a lot of money in their college and then they go overseas and then they don't make a lot of money then they come back and they don't have any skills to fall back on and they're not in the NBA. And then Jay Beelso is like, are you saying that you'd rather that guy not have gotten paid in college? And then Seth just doesn't know what to say. So it was like, put him up as a tomato.
Yeah, it was like, yeah, Sean Salisbury, John Clayton. Yeah, I see. And they were both kind of claims. But just be 20% less small, Jay.
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I love Hockes and Betts. They dominated South Carolina legendary big 10 team legendary big 10 team and also maybe helped out with the bad PR that Gino or Emma had on Friday night because I don't think there's ever been a bigger baby ever. Oh, you're right. But I think that Don Staley actually gave Gino a run for his money after today's game.
Yeah, because her quote after they lost today. This is all time quote from South Carolina and don't see as a great coach. She says, I can swallow the loss because we lost to a really good human being and a good team and a good team that represents women's basketball well. She's still thinking about yeah about you, Khan.
That's that is maybe the biggest loser quote that I've ever heard and she's a great coach. Yeah, because she didn't have to do anything. No, she did. She won.
She won versus Gino. Gino looked like a fucking baby. Yeah, like the biggest baby of all time. And then she got her ass kicked.