Good afternoon, Raleigh, North Carolina. This is Hackett's Live Sports Show with Benjamin Denton and John Hinton. And we're coming out your live on the WKNC studios. On the beautiful, awesome, amazing, fantastic campus.
I'm North Carolina State University. On 88.1 WKNC, HD1 FM. Raleigh. Oh yeah, I'm Benjamin Denton.
I'm John Hinton. We're absolutely stoked, thrilled, ecstatic, to be coming out your live. One of the premier college radio stations in the nation, giving you up the day with the latest and the greatest with all the NC State sports. John, how's it going on this fantastic Friday first of February?
That's going all right, Benjamin. How you doing? I'm doing actually really good. I'm good here.
I could say I've never been better. Yeah. Yeah. Did you have something happen last night?
I did. Yeah. What did you tell us about? I'm all yours.
I turned 21 last night. Congratulations. The kid say is a big deal. Yeah.
I've heard it's a big deal. You're no longer a kid. Exactly. That's my point.
I was able to go to an establishment legally purchase alcohol. No more Happy Meals. Yeah. I never liked the Happy Meals even when I was a kid.
It's a rip off. It's not enough food. Definitely. Definitely.
There it is. Yeah. You think it's where it's at? But anyway, that's what happened.
I turned 21 at a party at my place and I also got engaged. Yeah. Congratulations to John. That's what my best friend, he was there.
Yeah, of course I was there. Yeah. But I got engaged to love my life, Aaron, and I've been dating her for two years and seven plus months. And I finally popped the question because you know I got to lock that down.
You know, you can't let something like that get away. Also, as if there's not enough cool stuff happening, it's my dad's birthday today. So happy birthday. Yeah.
Big 50, right? Yeah. Yeah. He's old, man.
He's old. Something else. Yeah. He had to go throw you down into the bus like that.
Yeah. Right now my dad's day to be old. Yeah. You know, anyway, this is day to be old.
I like that. I'm going home tonight. So then we're going to do some stuff. Yeah.
In case you didn't catch that, my birthday is literally the day right before my dad. So that's the thing that happens every year, obviously. Yeah. Otherwise I would have thrown my party on a Friday night, but like I'm going home for a day.
It's kind of funny because the two guys on part of my take, their birthdays are January 30th and January 31st and then yours is 31st and your dad's is the first. It's just, I don't know. It's just weird. I'm going to do a big birthday.
Interesting. I should pick you off the show and then do the show with my dad. What do you think? You'd be talking the whole time.
I would. He's a very quiet guy. He doesn't say a lot. Yeah.
It'd be a one person show. Hey, that sounds great. I think I'm doing it. Yeah, I should do that too.
I could actually have a good show. Wow. Okay. That's on the diagram for today.
We got, we're going to talk about Debbie Yau, what she's meant to, you know, the program of NC State athletics as a whole men's soccer, men's tennis, swimming and diving, both basketball teams doing pretty well right now. And of course, a lot of the Super Bowl and a lot of NBA as the trade deadlines coming down to the wire. But first, of course, we start with the non-revenue sports, which includes Debbie Yau's retirement. Yeah.
Obviously for those of you that have followed our show, you know, we talk about all the sports, not just football, not just basketball, like a lot of people talk about. And that's my main thing of W.I.S legacy because last year, every single fall sport made the NCAA tournament and we have every single program is on the rise. Both of season, not necessarily the tournament. Both season, yeah.
Both season because different sports have different tournaments. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. I mean, she's been arguably, I think, very more than arguably, like the best athletic director we've ever had, I can't really think of, you know, I mean, we have never had this much success all around as a sport, as a school in terms of athletics, you know, with her sister being one of the winningest coaches in women's basketball history and her, you know, carrying on that legacy, making some great hires. Oh, yeah. Obviously, Dave Doren, you know, he's got a great job with the football team.
Kevin Keats, which, I mean, you know, I mean, Archie did want to come here, but that doesn't mean that, you know, we still like, did make the right decision. Yeah. Everyone sees those guys, but what about, you know, Kyle Spencer, who's the second-year head coach for the tennis and they just had a huge upset. Oh, yeah.
And then, you know, I mean, Brad Hollerway has been a great hire for the swimming swim team. He's been there for a while, but, you know, just allowing him to develop the program to the point where we're like a top five, top 10 program consistently for the past six years. It's just, I mean, and you look at the cross country, too. Yep.
You know, like coach tennis, she's done a terrific job. I think three straight ACC champions, just women's cross country. Yeah, three straight ACC championships for women's. We do have a new athletic director, though, I'm really excited for him.
His name's Boo Corrigan. Scary. That's a dope name. Boo Corrigan.
That's probably the most unique name I've ever heard. Which type? Yeah. That's pretty cool.
Yeah, I don't think that'll be topped. But he was the athletic director for Army at West Point and, you know, had a lot of success. Army had a terrific season in football, honestly. You know, they beat Navy, obviously, which is a big thing for them.
I think that's their only qualifier for having a good season. Yeah, but they did go eight and four. And they did win a bowl game by about 40 points. So good season overall.
I have a quote from Navy's lacrosse coach Joe Alberichy. He said this is such a home run for NC State, who's a great leader, has a terrific vision for the athletic program, or loss will be NC State's game. Nice. Very excited.
Good to see. And of course, you know, we also got Kevin Keats from Hargary military kind of like that. He wasn't there before, but that's where he's just becoming another, you know, military school. But yeah, Boo Corrigan is 52 years old, taking over for Debbie Yao on May 1st.
Agreed to, you know, a contract for five years. I had missed that. Yeah, I was retiring. So when I saw the headlines that we have a new athletic director, I was like, what are we doing?
What happened? Yeah, Debbie Yao probably has the best like Twitter of all time. It's just like biggest state fan. Is there at like this is awesome.
Yeah, but it's cool. Debbie Yao will be very missed. Welcome to Boo Corrigan. You know, we think he's going to do a great job continuing to success in like, you know, everything that we're doing right now, including the show, of course, coming out of sports.
Yeah, which leads me to the main reason. Yeah, exactly. I definitely would give us all the credit for sure. At least 40% of the credit.
Please credit. Please credit. Pack his life sports show. Please credit.
All right. So the first non-nervee sport we're going to talk about is very brief, but no, not, not less that it's amazing. I'm saying just because it's brief. That doesn't mean it's an amazing.
Yeah, many Perez is going pro. He is leaving NC State soccer. Yeah, he's signing with Celtic FC in the Scottish premiership, currently on loan to North Carolina FC now. I'm going to be honest, I don't understand a lot of international soccer and clubs from other countries.
I do know that on loan means that they are paying his contract. They're an affiliation that NC FC gives them some assets in return. So it's not just like they're letting him play, but I think it's cool. Still gets to play in Raleigh.
You can finish his career with NC State. Start his pro career. Yeah, I think he has a lot of high school. If I'm not going to go to high school.
Yeah. So he's pretty local. He's able to play for the professional team in North Carolina. Celtic FC is like the best name I've ever heard for a team.
It's also one of the best teams in the Scottish premiership as well. They're currently in first place and they've won 49 league titles. Yeah, they're 49 league titles. As Premier League fans would say, it's a farmers league, but it's a good league to graduate players to the next level.
And I think that's what we're going to see with Manny. I think he's going to get to the Premier League someday. He's got that kind of talent. He's got a lot of high-as-well speed.
He's got a lot of high-as-well speed. Exactly. You know, kind of a Luis Suarez type. It's going to be fun to watch.
It's going to be fun to watch his development. What a great thing for ACC Soccer as well. Oh, yeah. Show how great that is.
Another great thing for ACC Soccer. No, it was. I saw some quotes from the head coach, Greg Kiffers, and he was talking about like, yeah, now we can get top talent. It's coming into the ACC because if you're going to play in the United States, this is where you need to be playing.
Exactly. Yeah. And I mean, it helps the United States Soccer as a whole. Oh, for sure.
Obviously our women's team, you know, they dominate. They win the World Cup. They're probably going to win the World Cup next year. But, or this year, wow.
Yeah, they're probably going to win the World Cup this year. But, you know, the men's team lacking, obviously, are our best player, has a lot of potential, but we really don't have that much talent to develop. And it's like, I mean, you know, Manny, who knows how good he could be? I mean, he's been on the U-20 best for him.
Yeah. Rose soccer, they're very different. You know, he could rise to the ranks. He could get him to Premier League.
He could be, you know, on the national team. Yeah. I mean, he had statistically down near for us, you know, freshman year, second year's- Which is wild. Yeah.
Second team all ACC, freshman of the year, and then last year, he scored I think 3 goals, and it was 13 while ACC, but still, like he pointed out the difference in the game. Like, his- his play sounds- would translate way better in a professional league than it does in college. Yeah, he's very athletic. You know, he's going to be able to take the hits, especially in a league like the Scottish Pro like a smaller league than the Premier League.
You know, these guys are busting their butts to get to the top league. They're not going to be wasting their time flopping. Yeah, they're going to be getting stronger stuff. I think, yeah, I think it's game translates.
That's my least favorite thing about soccer. Yeah, I don't mind flopping to get a call. Really? That's your least favorite thing.
Yeah, but don't don't. Lay on the ground like your injured. Yeah, call just it's like crying wolf. Yeah.
What if you're really hurt? Now you got people yelling at you because you faked your last three. That's what the rest do. They, you know, they covered they throw a large blanket on all the calls and frittin' their all injuries.
So yeah, we should go through every sport and say what we like the least. We can do that. Yeah, different day though. Soccer, soccer definitely.
That's my favorite thing. I love watching soccer. Just to say a few of many chris accolades, which I mean, he's only, he's going to be a junior next year, right? Yeah, but he's not going to be able to play for us.
Right. Yeah, obviously, but still, I mean, he's very young. But made 28 starts, 29 official matches. That tells you something like score six goals and nine assists with the Wolfpack named ACC Freshman of the Year and second team all ACC at the end of the 2017 season.
Only the second NC State player to ever earn the honor of being the top freshman of the league. It was 13 all ACC honors last season. He did miss some of the season though. Yeah, being called off for the U-20 natural team on both our games versus number one week for us.
Yes, definitely. Yeah, it didn't help his all ACC selections, but don't think it really matters. So best of luck to Manning. That's all we got for men's soccer.
Probably check back in, you know, win their season starts again. Moving on to men's tennis. We opened the year with a couple of wins and a double header on the weekend where we did not drop a set. And we followed that up with falling to 24th ranked Michigan 41 after starting the match off losing the doubles point.
Yeah, Alexis Gallagher now, he earned the packs only point of the match against Michigan. Later on in the week, we had a huge upset. The big win for tennis ever since Kyle Spencer has taken over head coach as we have said. Number 12 in the country, Georgia, who is traditionally a very good tennis school.
Oh, yeah. And we upset them. Four to three for our highest ranked win under Kyle Spencer. Yeah, Georgia led three to two.
So we had to win the last two singles matches to do it. Alexis Gallagher, you know, our clutch guy, our go-to guy. He found himself in a three set battle with 15th ranked Emile Reinberg and Gallagher now broke his serve on deciding point to clinch the match with his 75, 4, 6, 4 win as the highest ranked player that Alexis has defeated in his NC State career. Big moment for him, big moment for the program.
Ben, why don't you go over the doubles results? We did get the doubles point, obviously, which turned out to be the difference in this match. Galin Oggdon picked up one of the wins, and then we lost the next set. The Sevelshig brothers fell in the doubles, and then Georgia Malicev and Titus Babelis also clinks to doubles point for us.
A reminder that the doubles, while we play three sets, it's best of three and the winner gets one point. Yeah, and then the rest of the six points in the tennis match are given. That's my least favorite thing about tennis. Yeah, I wish there was more emphasis on the doubles point.
Yeah, I agree. We're both outsiders. We didn't. I didn't play tennis.
I don't know about you. I mean, I played wall ball. Does that count? No, ping pong.
Are you good at ping pong? No. Dang it. I'm not good either.
So I'm not going to play some ball. Yeah, I should be good, but I'm not. Every time some of my friends are way a lot better than me. A lot better than Forrest Gump.
Good. Not Forrest Gump, good. Nobody is. That's true.
It's a legend. That's very true. Other NC State tennis players to pick up wins were Sevelshig and the singles. I see defeated Robert Leo, but Georgia.
And then Georgia Malicev also picked up a singles point. And those were the four points that we got for a very, very big. Four, three win over 12th ranked Georgia for next time. Speaking of big wins, NC State had another big win over Virginia in swimming and diving.
It was a record setting day for the Wolfpack. Virginia was number 15, I think, in men's and women's team. Both men's and women's teams before this. NC State obviously, top 10 in both.
I'm just going to recap some of the swims. Kylie Aylinds, she's a freshman. She once again led the Wolfpack women in scoring. She led a sweep of the butterfly on Saturday and took ownership of the top time in program history in that event with a 157.
She also picked up a win in the 100 butterfly with a 5293. All I got to say, Eric Knoll's dominated the distance event. Picking up where Antonipson left off, taking first place in the 1,000 and the 500-yard freestyle events. He swam the pack's fastest 1,000 freestyle of the season to pick up a dominating win in nine minutes, two seconds, and he won the 500 as well with a 423.
That is absolutely ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous. How ridiculous? Absolutely ridiculous, that is all I got to say.
Kylie Perry, another terrific performer. She swept the sprint freestyle events for the third time this season. She reset her own pool record in the 50 freestyle last weekend and yet again best at her own time in the event with a 2210. She clocked a pool record of 48 in the 100-yard freestyle.
2210. Yes. You were out last week, obviously, and I did this show with Cody. She set up a pool record last week.
Yeah. Now she's the next week. The next meet. Yeah.
She's setting another pool record. I think by the end of the season, I mean, we're talking, you know, these are dual meets in the middle of the season in January and February. At the end of the season, she could probably go 2,116. Maybe 2,120.
I think 2,116 is the fastest she could go. But just don't be surprised if, you know, at the end of the season, she has broken 22 seconds in the 53. That's insane. Absolutely insane.
Absolutely ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous. Speaking of ridiculous, Andreas Bazias probably, or definitely one of the most decorated swimmersers in the country, too. Yeah.
Picked up multiple, well, in the countries from Greece. Well, like right now, he's swimming. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're right.
That's what I'm saying. I know what you're saying. He led the pack in the podium suite of the 200 fly, meaning that we swept the men's and women's 200 fly. That's our thing.
We win the backstroke. We win the butterfly. We win the freestyle. And the relays.
And we win everything. But when it comes to comparing the other top top programs, that's where we're going to pick up our wins. But Bazias, he got a NCAA B cut with a 144. He also won the 200 back with a 145, 6, 6, once again, leading a wolf pack sweep, which it's funny because, usually, butterfly is slightly slower than backstroke, but his backstroke is slightly slower than butterfly, just showing how dominant he is in the event, still winning the backstroke.
And he's just crushing his time on butterfly. So a sweep is getting one two and three until all the points. Wow. And that's actually any swimming level.
It's called a sweep when you get one two and three, because those are all the points. Like summer swimming, a sweep is one two three. High school, club, college, obviously, in the Olympics. Yeah.
And for the women, we saw another pool record for 100 meter backstroke. 100 yard backstroke, as Elias Hahn said it was a time of 52.86. My god. Emma Muzzi had a pool record for the 100 yard backstroke.
Last weekend was N by Hahn, but she had her name in the record books in the 200 yard backstroke, as she won the event with a pool record of 154.38. Yeah, pool records getting set left and right, including Sophie Hanson, she added a pool record in the 100 yard breaststroke, breaking one minute with a 59.77, and she also won the 200 breaststroke with a 210.53. Bro, I'm imagining this is hilarious, because this is at Virginia. No, it's at home, it's at home.
Yeah, I was there. Oh, OK, no, I thought it was at Virginia. No, it was funnier if their wall had all our pool records on it. Oh, yeah.
Yeah. I mean, that's what happens sometimes. Especially when you swim like a comma. I'm sure all their pool records are Texas on the wall.
It's got a snake. But speaking of Texas, yeah, no, it was cool, though, because it was a club swim day. So a lot of club teams were there. My team that I coached with was there.
It's pretty fun. Unfortunately, the last home we had the season, so no more. Yeah, you were able to go to the last one. Yeah, it's true.
Yeah, got to see Colman Stewart swim, who did well in the 50. He's absolutely ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous. One in the 50 yard free, 100 yard free, and 100 backstroke.
He entered with the fastest ACC backstroke time for the 100, won the event in 46-9, which is not his personal record, but still. Yeah, that's only like a second behind what he won the National Championship with last year. Exactly. That's what now, February.
Mid-season dual meets. Yeah. Kobe Garcia, he earned his first individual win of the season with a 20.03, 50 yard free style time. Justin Rest picked up a win of the 100 free with 43.72.
Kobe Garcia could absolutely break. He will break 20 seconds in the 53 by the end of the year. He'll be at National Championships. I think pretty unreal.
Off the top of my head, I think Hill still has the record. Oh, yeah. Ryan Hill still has like 18 or 6.8 or something like that. I believe so.
And the homey down in Florida, Dressel, it's like a 17-6. Dresil got a 17-9. Yeah. That's the world record for 50 yard.
That's subhuman. That's subhuman. Like that's just like extra, like that's extra. I know, yeah.
That's just insane. Subhuman means below you. But I don't know. I don't know what I mean.
Final score, NC State 185, Virginia 100 on the men's side. NC State 167, Virginia 127 on the women's side. Next, we have a meet today against Texas in Arizona. And tomorrow in Austin, Texas.
In Texas. In case you didn't know. Texas top five team, both sides. I think they won the National Championship last year.
They did. They did. Yeah. I mean, we finished fourth.
But yeah. We were the second highest swimming score though. You looked at the first swimming score. So we didn't get points from our divers.
Yeah. But I think it's got changes here, honestly. Oh, for sure. Yeah.
Our divers on the way up. Yeah. I was done a great job. Obviously.
I talked with one of the assistant coaches in the bench. And he was like, yeah, we're getting a lot better. We're not going to drag the swimming down anymore. Bro, that is good to hear.
Very good. We might have a shot at the National Championship. Oh, we definitely have a shot. Yeah.
We might have a shot, dude. Yeah. Because I think that's where it's going to be fun. That's where you can get the edge.
Because like you said, swimming, people are going to swim their times most of the time. So there's not as many upsets when you get in that top five. That's why in swimming rankings, those rankings hardly ever change. And there's also so many swimmers on the team.
And there's a lot of people that are just waiting for a chance. I mean, we only talk about the top finishers because we only have an hour. But there's so many other swimmers on the team that are like half a second, one second behind. And I mean, Stacey's just cleaning up second, third place.
We got people ready to step up. We're not going to get upset. Yeah. But with diving, I think a diver can have just a meet.
He can just have a flawless meet. Exactly. And actually, we might be national champions. You never know.
Yeah. It's going to be fun to watch. Actually, no, because before I hated that, diving was counted with swimming. But now when I look at it from that perspective, I kind of like it a little bit.
It's not fair. But it's kind of like giving an automatic bid to teams that weren't as good in the NCAA tournament. It has an element of excitement to it. That is kind of cool.
I guess so. It's kind of like track and field making them the same thing, you know, like running and throwing and jumping. I never really liked all that. But I understand why I was together.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because I did discus through a couple times in high school. Really? It's just it now.
It's just a completely different sport. We didn't have javelin. Interesting fact, North Carolina, javelin is illegal. Because javelin is illegal as a sport because somebody died in like early 2000s because of a bad throw.
How does that happen? How does that work at our track meets? High school. Oh, high school.
High school. Yeah, the state of North Carolina didn't outlaw it. NCHSA outlawed it. So they don't have any high school schools too.
OK, so yeah, which stinks because, you know, I had a good arm. I would have been good at it. I think so. I believe you.
I believe you. I've seen you throw football. Yeah, so I have shoulder issues. And wrist issues.
Oh, yeah. And just being good at sports issues. Get next race. Yeah, take it now.
I'm just like getting next race on Wednesday, though, for my bones, for my hand. Nice. I'll show you a picture, but it's the radio. No, I see it in front of me.
I'm good. Yeah, it's pretty cool. It's really cool. I'm glad you think it's cool, John.
I definitely know it's cool. It tells me. All right, we're going to take a song break. This is a song selected from last week's host Cody.
This is called Keep the Wolves Away by Uncle Lucius. Back as live sports show Benjamin Denton, John Hinton. That was Keep the Wolves Away by Uncle Lucius. I'm very glad they played me that song.
Because now I'm going to listen to everything they got. Well, I wish I could take credit. That was Cody's selection. Thank you, Cody.
Thank you for doing a good job filling in for me that we're making. It's a double. It's the time when we go on break. We still play the song, but me and John will talk about what we're going to talk about next.
And we couldn't check our phones. We couldn't. Song was too good. Yes, too good.
I had to add it. I'm Spotify. But we got a lot more for you. We got a lot of basketball.
We're not taking another song break. We're going for now. Now, 28 straight minutes. We're going for it all.
We're going for it all. We're going for it all. We're going for it all. We're going for it all.
28 minutes, baby. All right, let's talk about women's basketball because I didn't get to talk about it on the show. See what I did there. Perfect.
Oh, yeah, you're right. Perfect record record. Yeah. But what I was going to say, I didn't get to talk about it last week, obviously, because I had to work.
But going to the game against Virginia Tech, this team is really good. I mean, you could look at the record and say that. But I think it's good. Yes.
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Not sad. That guy says he's saying much to his expectations. That guy says it. It's I finally got to go to a game.
I'm gonna go to the UNC game on Sunday. Oh, yeah, that's right what two o'clock And 12 o'clock and I know it I know more than everybody talking Wow I don't have time anymore, but NC State, you know, they have had some other games since we had a show haven't lost Still haven't lost had a match up with Georgia Tech on Sunday last Sunday 68 60 win close game throughout But I mean we out scored them by two one or three points every single quarter Mm-hmm, so you know it even's out to eight point differential Alyssa Canadian had a great game 17 points on eight made shots. She's a insanely good post player Absolutely She's only a freshman and she's one of the most efficient players that I've seen she's like The numbers is like white Walker except like she does one on one post moves. Yeah, she's an offensive white Walker Yeah, put it that way because why Walker just makes smart plays Yeah, we're gonna talk about why Walker because he had a great game against Virginia, but um, I mean yeah Like she's very efficient.
She never really turns the ball over. She doesn't take bad shots But say that yeah, dude. We're on the same page. Thank God Carol Leslie had 16 as well You know still had the best record in the nation obviously we'd be talking about it already But we won again at week for us last night with a 59 to 50 win that was 23 points from Leslie.
Yeah 23 out of 59 point Jordan Yeah, yeah, Jordan what 23 I thought you were just saying another person's name in 23 yeah, it's the only undefeated team of the country. That was at wake force by the way was that week for us Which is somewhere that the men can't win. Yep, but the women can't obviously so stop going to men's games Go to the women's games go to both if you got a pick one go to women's games go to both go to both I like I like the women's game so much because yeah, they're really good. They're really fun to watch and they're in Reynolds Oh, yeah, Reynolds is I love PNC, but there's not a bad seat in the house in Reynolds You can be at the top of Reynolds and it's just still so amazing.
It's Truly one of the best venues I've ever been in and I mean I've been in there stadium. You've been a Cameron, right? I've been a Cameron. Yeah Been I haven't watched the game in Cameron.
I've just walked in there, but still I called a game in the Dean Smith Center on the radio Yeah, he's always coloring less I wasn't played by play but it was a advanced grand vole versus UNC JV team Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm going down. Yeah. What shot off the Kevin Bullock at the WISES and Henderson He works in Rocky Mountain I've been to you know the spectrum center, which is a great place, you know great arena and obviously PNC But like Reynolds is just a different feel yeah, it's a different feel it doesn't feel like a pro environment Which there's nothing wrong with the pro environment don't get me wrong the NBA is my absolute favorite league But when you're a student going to a game at Reynolds like nothing beats at all nothing beats it and nothing beats He's a women's basketball team very true. What a segue.
I'm a legend. What a segue anywhere next game be a legend if you say your legend That's only when I asked if he thought he was the MVP he's got not I'm not the MVP. He's definitely the MVP Oh, come on But yeah, that's the reason why it's like, you know when we asked him he said no so we have to give it to him No, I'm no regardless. I'm just saying like yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, we got UNC on Sunday though, which they just beat Notre Dame Nothing to sneeze at rivalry game and Notre Dame is obviously one of the top teams in the country So Look at Reynolds will be popping I will be there and then we have 24th ranked Florida State on Thursday Yeah, that's a big game too.
That's a road game that could be I mean I Don't expect us to lose either of these games. I don't want to get too cocky But if we lose to UNC I could also see us losing to Florida State It's dangerous because you know losing to arrival at home That's a big you know, especially to end a win streak like that can be big and then losing you know going to a good team on the road Ever a good recipe after a loss. So I pulled up our schedule. All right remaining schedule.
We got some tough opponents We do we really do yeah, so we have UNC rivalry games are the records that are perfect Yeah, we'll leave that yeah, we got at ranked Florida State Then we have 18th ranked Syracuse then we have fifth ranked Notre Dame and that's the play for K game Yep on February 18th. I can't be there because the word wait for us again UNC again number three Louisville And then Miami to close the season so we could very well lose to Notre Dame and that still would be a great year You know realistically could we go undefeated for the rest of the year? Yes, we absolutely can yeah, will we? Not we don't know we'll find out.
We'll actually beat you con yesterday. What yeah Louisville's 21 ucons 18 and 2 that's insane very insane back in my day you can't never lost It's interesting. Yeah back in my day. Actually now freshman year.
I remember that upset though I forget her name for Mississippi State. Oh, yeah, she like 5 to 7 hit that lefty pull up jump shot Sweet yeah, but 5 foot 7 in the women's game isn't that small it's still small. Yeah, but for a point guard. Yeah That's like that's like maybe she was short in that okay.
Let's just maybe five. Yeah, let's talk men's though briefly talk about that Clemson game Yeah Never ever give up never give up. Yeah, that was good. That was been an I we're in the student section Mm-hmm behind the goal we walked up higher to get a great view one of the best sites have ever seen see I'm actually hit that shot so sweet.
I thought I broke my ankle again. Yeah, I tell you to I did screaming and then you were screaming It's John's running around screaming and then I I jumped which was a big mistake when the shot went in and I just felt This intense pain and my Achilles and then I was so I was hopping on one foot running around after John screaming and yelling and then he's screaming yelling and then I'm like Ah, I think I broke my ankle. I was like, okay And then we were like you know trying to get out there quickly so we started running and then was like hobbling and I was just yelling like Let's go. Let's go.
Let's go wait up. Let's go wait up. I was like, oh, sorry man. Yeah, I forgot your cripple No, I still I still wear the brace.
I cannot jump I can walk without paying with the brace on but as soon as I jump like that Should be a problem for basketball. Wow. I mean able to jump Wow Wow, but yeah Clemson I think that game was just a weird game in general. Mark.
Yeah, great Braxton hit a shot a win as a win moving on to Virginia on Tuesday That was a good game played by the pack a very tough game played by the pack and you know is a tough loss Very as a tough loss. I'm gonna say I mean we could have won it We very well could have won it both teams shot horribly But it was more because of good defense than great offense like I mean obviously Virginia has that defense You know what's that I really liked hit me we forced 16 turnovers. I did see that Virginia turns the ball over so little Mm-hmm. So little in fact they don't they turn it over less than anyone in the country.
Yeah, that's how they control the pace of the game It's unreal. We made yeah, we made good adjustments for us to have being for jinnia I would have told you before the game. We need to speed this game up. We played Virginia's game and we'll see almost be yeah Yeah, you're right.
This is a very good point. I am not gonna bet against NC State because I can't do that I'm not gonna say we're a final 14 because a final 14 wins these games in March. It's not March There you go. I'm a final 14 wins these games in March until we win one of these games in late February March I can't say we're a final 14.
Here's the thing I'm not really in it out we go 10 deep when you're playing tournaments where you've just come off your conference tournaments Yeah, playing three and four games in three and four days Yeah, and then you go into the late turn at the fact that we go 10 deep Yes, it's a huge advantage everyone on this team can really shoot except for white Walker Yeah, he does his own thing I'm not saying it's bad thing, but nine out of our 10 players can hit three I'm just worried about the ACC tournament getting that double by yep cuz it's gonna be tough We'll be able to get it do it's gonna get it you and see's gonna get it and Virginia's gonna get it Yeah, so we're gonna get a single by and no teams everyone the ACC tournament coming off a single by now We could be the first but we would need to win this game. Oh, yeah, but a very good point. That's a good observation of my part Yeah, but I mean teams have won the national championship without winning their conference title many times It doesn't mean and vice versa It doesn't mean I mean obviously vice versa, but it doesn't mean this as much as people think it does like obviously we want to win that Yeah, that high seed but um I mean next up. We got Virginia Tech tomorrow overrated Yeah, they got a very efficient offense, but I honestly think that we're a better team and Virginia Tech has just played a better Strength of schedule.
Maybe been a little more lucky. We'll see tomorrow. They better scheduled in us I don't they've only played like two good teams and got swamped by the way. So I'm saying they played a better schedule than us That's why they're overrated.
We've played they started the season ranked like 11 Yeah, but we have no right to rank Virginia Tech that's what I'm saying. They played an easier. Yeah, very true I'm saying we played an easier schedule and it's helped them obtain the ranking, but it's also helped us get some good wins So yeah, and I don't they are incredibly efficient and probably efficiently offensively so I'm saying I'm a new word It's a conjugation efficient. Yeah, and they're like number one.
They shoot 43% from three has a team They shoot 43% from three number one in the country their effector shooting is number one in the country and their field goal percentage is I think number one or two To zero three's and there are three point shooting team if we can do it against Clemson I think we can do it against Virginia It's just something to watch out for when you go to PNC and you're like man They're shooting so they're always going in. Why can't we play defense? Yeah, they're the best shooting team in the country Very true and they may not have played good competition except for the teams they lost you But yeah, yeah, just something to look out for yeah, all right now. Let's talk Super Bowl Okay, who's your pick and why Rams because I don't want the Patriots to win.
That's not a no give me a better reason Destiny, okay, okay, like you know the Eli Manning ones. Yeah, but like why destiny like is there any reason because I don't think Eli was destiny I think that was just Eli Jared Kaufman, okay, what about him? Wanting I'm wanting Tom Brady to lose so much. I'm finding out my okay in scenarios where Tom Brady will win You know I heard an interview with von Miller that was pretty not von Miller Mark is where that's pretty interesting and talking about weight Phillips, but of course is you know the coordinator for the Rams and Every year he dedicates a game to his dad bum Phillips and he wears the hat and stuff like that and Only one game and he is seven and oh and those games or his team is and he's dedicating the Super Bowl to bum Phillips And I've been you know reading a lot about we Phillips this week.
He's probably like the coolest guy of all time I mean just saying that he's so cool. You realize you do the show with me. Yes. You spend time with me Do you really wait Phillips is the coolest guy?
Well, it's definitely cooler than you he's calling me too. That's just hurtful. Yeah, I'm sorry Sorry, you have such a bridal stuff Oh man, but my pick since you didn't even bother to ask me I You know it's hard. It's hard because you know you don't want to look stupid with your pick I don't care and like if you picked if I pick the Rams and the Patriots come out and it's like 28 and nothing No, nothing and then the Rams come back.
Okay, don't interrupt me. He has a toy interrupt me Don't interrupt me. I heard you don't interrupt me if I pick the Rams and the Patriots are like 28 and nothing in the first Have I'm gonna think of myself. What is wrong with you?
Why how could you possibly pick against Belichate and the Super Bowl and Brady and the Super Bowl the greatest coach in quarterback of all time And they're on the same team so I Impicking the Patriots. I think the Patriots went in a close game. I think Todd Gurley has a ridiculous first half and I think the long halftime show cools him down Patriots, I think the Rams are gonna get out to an early lead and the Patriots are gonna win the game in the second half Okay, that's my prediction 28 27. Oh, you want to go any field gold gaskowski?
That's the score. That's gonna break my heart. Yeah If we're going to know I really don't hate the Patriots as much as I used to I'm kind of leaning that way as well Yeah, so I'm just gonna enjoy the game early. Hope it's a good game I was thinking about this earlier because I was on you I was talking about this with you before the show, but yeah I saw a something on the internet which showed like a little blip about the NFL power rankings That was right after oh, yeah, yeah in 2001 and the guy just had the Patriots at the very bottom own to with blood So I don't know if they have any weapons to win any games.
Yeah, and like that's 2001 and they went 13 and 3 They had but what yeah, exactly why wouldn't he have picked that because they had Tommy Brady who couldn't even beat out Drew Hanson on this again I'm a spready and was a number 199 overall pick and all this guy has done in is coming to the league Sacrifice money. I grant he is married to more money than he has very true But he has he sacrificed money. He puts the team first for the most part He does cheat and he wins yeah, and I think part of the hatred of the Patriots I guess because they're fans number one other fans are awful one hundred percent contesting that but most teams that are really good Fans are awful anyway number two is Bell check. I think Bell check is for the reason Brady is so hated because if you think about it Everything I just told you about Brady story is what people love like America loves the underdog This guy wasn't Jared golf the number one pick out of California.
Yeah grew up in California Well, I'm ready to grow up in California, but he went to school. Yeah, yeah He worked for everything he had and she did a little bit too just having to get caught But for some reason we still hate him like if Aaron Rodgers or Drew Brees very right won this many Super Bowls We'd probably hate them just as much or more We literally only hate Tom Brady because he keeps winning and I sound just like a Patriots fan right now and I hate myself for it Yeah, but I'm just trying to imagine if Drew Brees had five Super Bowls What do we feel the same way about I used to think Tom Brady was just a jerk But he just is genuinely good guy like he saw an interview He was talking with this kid and he was like kid asked him about how to deal with haters Oh man, and he was like what do we say to the haters? We say I love you and we say I hope you have a great day because we don't hate back We love that and I was like oh I want to hate you so bad, but come on like why do you do this to me? Bro, I hope if I'm like famous having like a seven year old what do we do with the haters?
We told them they suck. Yeah, we tell them to suck We tell them to keep hating while I'm Like I know he says that and that's all cute and stuff, but in real life when you got someone that's hating on you You just got a dismissed their opinion isn't valid. What's what he's doing? That's what he's doing, but yeah, he's moving speaking to keep in moving Jewish peppers announced his retirement today with a very moving video 17 years in the NFL 11 with the Panthers Probably the second greatest panther of all time.
No, definitely the second greatest panther of all time Who are you putting ahead of him right now? Smitty can we'll get there can we'll be the best panther of all time? I think he will be Oh, that's gonna take two that's a take Kecley when he's done when he retires when we have this conversation about Kecley either in two years or in ten years Yeah, right. You're right.
We could very well look at Kecley as one of the best defensive players to ever play in the NFL He already is in those Jewish peppers. I mean Jewish peppers is fourth in sacks all time first ballot Hall of Famer Absolutely. Yeah, but I mean I think Cam and Luke are third and fourth for sure and two more years They'll be first and second if we win a Super Bowl. They will be oh, yeah, it's not even close And you know Thomas Davis is up there as a top 10 panther five five Well, can't give me a rank a little don't gross.
I'm a mommy. Yeah, exactly. I'm green now. He went here long enough Steven Davis The usual Williams Yeah, I think by the time Greg and Tom's Davis try they're both gonna be top eight panthers of all time Yeah, well, I kind of Greg retired after this year.
That's another conversation for his sake maybe for his sake And our say I think it's getting older to a man Oh, yeah, yeah, or in the booth I also would be the next Tony Romo in the booth Yeah, cuz Tony Romo is gonna coach the Cowboys after next year I'm dead serious when Jason Garrett gets fired Tony Romo is gonna coach Cowboys hot take Bro, you're very hot take you're talking about weight Phillips being so cool I think one of his questions when they ask my Tony Romo and how well he's doing in the booth He's like yeah, we're gonna have an earpiece with him. Yeah, yeah, you can tell us what the other two are funny Yeah, that's yeah, let's talk NBA though We got seven minutes left some of the big storylines Krista sports thing is yesterday the Knicks announced that he left the impression That he wanted to be traded and then they traded him two hours later What do you think of the trade trader? No, you know, it's very interesting I a lot of people think that a trade has to have one winner and one loser I think that the Knicks it was a good trade for the Knicks because he was never gonna resign there Mm-hmm, and it's a good trade for Dallas because I think he's gonna want to play with Luca And I think they're gonna be unreal together assuming that he's gonna be healthy which I personally think he's healthy right now I think the reason that he wanted to be traded is that they didn't want him to play because they're tanking for Zion Can you imagine Zion Williamson in New York? I know that's like a little taste but that would be kind of cool Yeah, but that's another thing is that if Zion goes to New York Dennis Smith was involved in the trade to New York from Dallas So he's now a Nick Zion and Dennis playing together Frank Telegina.
What are they gonna do? She's gonna play the two-guard alongside. Yeah, probably play the two-guard with Kevin Knox at the three But it's interesting because you look at the Knicks and they drafted or they traded for a guy that they should have drafted anyway Okay, they took no king over Dennis Smith. Yeah, why couldn't they have just taken I mean hindsight 2020?
But why couldn't they've just taken Dennis Smith and you know, maybe forcing us to get hurt? Because it's different, you know, you can't always say it's injuries are not a guarantee that they get better or that they even have He must get swept under the rug is that the Andre Jordan is now in New York The Andre Jordan's now in New York because of his expiring contract. He sent a one-year deal So was West Matthews expiring deal. I think both of those guys are gonna be waived Do you think Jordan's gonna go to the Lakers?
I think the underdorms gonna go to Lakers I think West Matthews is going to go to either the Blazers or the Sixers because he was a longtime blazer drafted by them and Sixers need shooters either or I'd like to see it, but Dennis in New York. I think that's good for him I think that's awesome. I'm excited to see it I think you needed a change of scenery absolutely needed a change of scenery because last year They're like all right. This is Dennis's team and then Lucas like the next, you know great and they're like, okay No, it's not your team.
Sorry, you know, can you play with Luca? Oh, you can't okay? Let's straight you let's get you out of here But I think I think that so why is it a win for both teams? I mean, oh, you're right.
Give up your right. You're right. I'm arguably a transcendent talent. Yes.
Yeah, yes Forzing is The main reason that they traded him was to clear cap space. Mm-hmm. Obviously Because you know they traded for some expiring contracts. They got a poor zingis to resign him would have been expensive They're clearing space for two max free agents next summer if they only get one Forzing is sure signed his like one-year qualifying offer which means that next year not this upcoming offseason But the next one he will be an unrestricted free agent which means he could resign there If he wants to be very good welcome to the Mavericks are taking a risk So you think that this was for Kevin Durant?
I think that this is for Kyrie Irving and Kyrie Irving Ultimately is a piece to get Kevin Durant. So yes, I do I think it's for Kevin Durant I don't think he's gonna sign there I think I read's gonna sign there and I think I think that Kyrie's gonna sign their Katie is not enforcing us is gonna Resign there. I hope that doesn't happen. I would like to see Katie Kyrie in New York KP stay in Dallas so that You know, he can play with Luca like Dallas is going for kind of win now because they think Kp might be ready They could go make the playoffs this year.
New York clear that cap space got some picks. Yeah Yeah, I did Smith a good young player first run picks 21 21 and 23 As in the year so we'll see though interesting. Oh, yeah, cuz a lot of people when they saw or zenya straight What are you doing? Yeah, Anthony Davis also requested a trade which is throwing shockways around the league We're gonna talk about also we can next next week and all that stuff pretty exciting since Charlotte I'm not getting to go which is a real shame, but tickets are ridiculously expensive wait How much money like thousands of dollars for anything.
Yeah, you're not gonna be able to go wow. Yeah I can pay my rent money for that. Mm-hmm. Yeah, I'm not gonna do that about rent money.
No, okay AD I think he's going to the Lakers I'm not even a Lakers fan, but I want my Lakers hat today just so good for good luck cuz I want why you want a Lakers hat? If you're not a Lakers fan because the NBA is about players not teams Are you so like a LeBron James fan? I like yeah, I'm a LeBron fan I mean, I'm a hornet fan and a Treblazer fan, but I have a lot of teams that you know, I like to see when it's not like the NFL Yeah, for sure. I like the Mavericks.
I like Luca. You know, I kind of like the Atlanta Hawks I know we're supposed to hate the Atlanta Hawks. No, I'm going to go on Collins. Kevin Herder is probably my favorite player right now But he's a redhead from Maryland.
He's awesome. He's really good. Don't just don't just hear that and laugh. He's really good I like the Thunder Paul George my MVP Even though he said he wasn't yeah, that's that solidifies it for me All right, well, we're glad to have you back John.
I'm glad to be back. I know I'm glad to have you back as well You're her favorite. Yeah, thank you. Mrs.
Den. I appreciate it Anyway, that's all for us. We are gonna get out of here and let the next next group come in here and give you guys some great music Oh, yeah, we'll be right back here next week. Thank you guys so much for tuning in and making us a part of your week We really appreciate it always I've been to him and I'm John him.
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