Aaron Torres & Jason Martin react to Duke’s BIG win over Alabama, What Happened to Texas Tech, & MORE!

Aaron Torres and Jason Martin react to Duke’s win over Alabama, and discuss what happened at the end of the Texas Tech v. Florida game, where Cooper Flagg fits in the history of Freshman College Basketball Players, what was the point of LeBron’s interview with Pat McAfee, is there pressure on Deion Sanders after his new contact & MORE! 

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eight Saturday to everybody listening. As de Segre just told you,
Duke now up fifteen points with under four minutes to go.
They are up now sixteen points, seventy four to fifty eight,
Alabama trailing in the early game. Florida survives one ticket punched.

(00:47):
It looks like we're gonna get a second here momentarily.
Jason Martin, my man, I know you were on early
this morning with Jason Fitz. But how you doing, my man?
You do a good yep, doing well?

Speaker 3 (01:00):
A lot of I'm sure we're gona be talking a
lot of basketball on this show, and a lot more
of it has been good than has been not so good.
So it's been very easy basketball to watch, a lot
of basketball being played at a high level. And I
think that's what you want at this point. Even though
this game maybe hasn't been quite as competitive as you
would have hoped, it kinda is exactly the way I

(01:22):
thought this game was gonna go.

Speaker 4 (01:24):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
So two things really quick before we start talking about
the games. One, I so freaking agree with you man Is.
And we talked about this last week. I think we
were maybe I don't want to say we were ahead
of the curve, because it was a big conversation coming
out of round one.

Speaker 4 (01:37):
No upsets, what does it mean?

Speaker 2 (01:39):
And it's like, here's the thing, like, listen, we all
love a good March story. Nobody argues that, but I
will say that because there have been no upsets now,
part of it is.

Speaker 4 (01:51):
And we talked about this last week too.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
I think the top of the sport is probably better
than it's been in a long time because you have
so many upperclassmen stays in college transferring up. We saw
the Walter Clayton heroics earlier in the day. By the way,
JT Topp in Texas Tech's best player was from New Mexico.
Duke has a player named Sion James who came from Tulane.
Mark Sears. Of course, came from the MAC a couple

(02:14):
of years ago. But what I will also say is,
independent of where these guys came from and independent of
why they're staying, it's because of nil whatever. I'm sorry,
but these games have been so awesome, so competitive. I
think pretty almost every game after Round one to me,
has been relatively entertaining.

Speaker 4 (02:34):
Now you get a couple blowouts.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Tennessee, Kentucky last night was kind of a dud on
Friday night, but you know, Auburn Michigan was back and
forth for about thirty five minutes before Auburn pulled away.

Speaker 4 (02:44):
Texas Tech Florida.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
Certainly, if you're a Tech fan, you don't want to
talk about those final two minutes and fifty seconds or so.
But I was even watching the beginning of this Duke
Alabama game today and I was like, maybe it's it's
what is it called recency bias. I don't remember eight
games looking like this when, with due respect, when George
Mason was in it, and when this team was in
it and that team.

Speaker 4 (03:05):
Was in it.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
It's just really high level basketball. A lot of future
NBA players, older players that are now able to transfer
up and kind of help, you know, kind of fill
some holes on these these these elite teams. I just
think the quality of basketball has been awesome the last
probably three rounds, dating back to once we got through
the first round of the tournament.

Speaker 3 (03:26):
Yeah, I mean we did say this last week, and
Fitz and I said this this morning, and here we
are saying exactly the same thing, like, look, I can
watch Cinderella on Disney. Plus, let's just be real, we
have to sacrifice the Cinderella in order to have this.
And even though I understand that in a vacuum, those

(03:47):
moments are the NCAA tournament, the problem is we don't
live in a vacuum, because there's a tournament where games
have to continue to be played until there's a champion crown.
And when you get down to it and you've got
one versus two, one versus two, one versus two, one
versus three in these heavyweight fights, and even the round
prior to the Sweet sixteen was absolutely just beautiful to watch,

(04:08):
like you just saw the highest level. And I think
that other points that you made about there's a lot
of future pros that we're watching tonight, that we're gonna
watch tomorrow. There's all sorts of guys. There's all sorts
of storylines, there's all sorts of brands, there's coaches and
the other thing. There's really not a team to hate

(04:28):
in this group. The one thing this thing is missing.
Fitz made this point this morning, and then I made
the obvious analogy. It's missing Dan Hurley. It's missing a feeling.
There's not really anybody to dislike that's here, Like whoever
wins unless you just happen to dislike them. Yeah, a
lot of people are still gonna like dislike Duke, but
this is not a very hateable Duke team. Like Cooper

(04:51):
Flag is not the hateable Star. I even said, I've
been trying to figure out what it is about Cooper Flag.
I can knock what is it about Cooper Flag that
is dukish? And this is what I came up with.
This is how far I had to dig to come
up with something. It's the shirt underneath the jersey.

Speaker 4 (05:09):
He sweats a lot.

Speaker 3 (05:10):
That's the one thing is a little too Keith van
Horn for my liking in that reference. But like even that,
there's nothing wrong with it. It's just it's the only
thing I can do. It's like, dude, you don't need
to do that. It's like you don't. I was a
fat kid. I know what it's like to have the
T shirt on in the pool like you you don't
have to do that Cooper flag. But at the same time,

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when you play like that, if that's where you're comfortable,
you do what you gotta do. There's really there's nothing
to dislike about any of these teams. So whoever wins,
not only are you probably gonna be able to feel
good for them and for their stars and for what
they've done, but you're also gonna feel like it's an
incredibly worthy champion because these are heavyweight fights that we've

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been watching.

Speaker 4 (05:53):
It's a great point, right.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
You know, you come off that Alabama game on Thursday
night where they set the record for number of three
pointers twenty five fifty one total attempts, and you know, listen,
I know that the guys on the set, Charles Barkley,
Kenny Smith, they picked Duke to win this game. But
I just bring it up because you know, Duke beating Alabama.
There's no again, excuse me, there's no well, you know

(06:19):
Alabama lost, no, no, no, Duke just went through an
Arizona team.

Speaker 4 (06:22):
And by the way, this is not done yet.

Speaker 2 (06:24):
Back to back turnovers have cut the Duke lead to
fifteen with under two minutes ago. John Shire is not
very happy with his team. But you know, Duke just
beat a team in the Sweet sixteen, Arizona that probably
has minimum three to four NBA players. Say what you
want about kayleb b. Love, but we all remember him
from the North Carolina days. He's a dude that can
get hot in an NCAA tournament game. Arizona played about

(06:46):
as good as they could and Duke just took care
of him and this Alabama team again. One hundred and
thirteen points, twenty five three pointers on Thursday night and
Duke's cruise into this victory. And so I think it's
a great point by you. The one thing that you
said is that you can't say that the good teams
haven't played each other. Obviously, the winner of this game
will face Florida in the next round. Real quick, you

(07:06):
said that this game is largely going the way that
you expected it to go, not necessarily quite by the
margin of victory. Duke now up sixteen with under two
minutes to go.

Speaker 4 (07:17):
What was it?

Speaker 2 (07:19):
What was it about this game that gave you confidence?
That Duke would be able to handle Alabama after the
night that they had a few weeks a few nights ago.

Speaker 3 (07:26):
Well, I mean, you're just not gonna shoot that way
on a consistent enough basis, and we know that Duke
plays solid defense. Despite the fact that these were both
teams that were averaging ninety coming into this game, and
I think the over under was somewhere close to one eighty,
somewhere in that neighborhood in terms of total points scored.

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Like Alabama's defense can be a little bit spotty, but
they're streaky, Like if they show up and can't hit three,
they're gonna get beat. And look, mar Sears has just
been terrorized in this game. He actually took him out,
and they took him out and sat him down for
about four minutes. And I knew this was not an RJ.
Luis situation, where by the way, he's now in the

(08:09):
transfer portal, big shot, he's gonna go into the NBA Draft,
but he's also in the transfer portal if he decides
he's gonna stay in college. But he sat him down
because I mean, Seriars was just he was just ice cold,
and I think it was time they just wanted him
to sit down and maybe watch the game for a
couple of minutes and then get back into it, because
I think he was in his head a little bit

(08:30):
too much. But Sears has had a rough night, and
a lot of that is attributed to Duke. I mean,
the thing about this game that's amazing is Cooper Flagg
has had a very average, if not even subpar night,
and then you've got K two and you've got some
of these other guys that are stepping in and making
big time plays for them. But I think the most
impressive thing about this game thus far as it's nearing

(08:53):
a close, is that Alabama was having to work so
hard not to get blown out, like eight or nine
different times, and they do it. They would make a shot,
they would get some kind of a rebound, maybe hooping
some harm or something like that that would keep this
thing within shouting distance, and then on the flip side,

(09:14):
there'd be a little mini four to zero run or
something like that from Duke that would push it back
to eleven. It was like, man, they had so much
effort to get this thing to about six seven points.
You look back up and it's eleven. It's like this
just has to be so demoralizing. I just feel like
Duke is so complete. They are and we're seeing it
like that's my final was Florida over Duke. But if

(09:34):
it was played right now, I would, you know, definitely
not have fingernails by the time the game tipped off,
because I feel like Duke is really rounding into form
right now.

Speaker 4 (09:45):
I'll tell you what, j Mart, you just mentioned.

Speaker 2 (09:47):
Something I want to talk about is the completeness of Duke,
the fact that, by the way, they're one of the
best defensive teams in the country. To go along with
Cooper Flag, what we're gonna do. We got about a
minute thirty left. We will come back. Duke is up
seventeen points with a minute thirty to go. We think
by the time we come back this game, we'll go final.
We'll talk about Duke, the history that we're seeing with

(10:10):
Duke go into the first Final four under John Shire.
It's not official yet if they if they pull an
Arkansas or Texas Tech, don't yell at me. But up
seventeen with one twenty six to go, Duke is in
pretty good shape. As J Mart said, Cooper Flag good,
not great today with sixteen points eight rebounds three say
it's not bad for a kid who just turned eighteen
years old playing in a grown man's college basketball.

Speaker 4 (10:31):
That's an off night for him.

Speaker 2 (10:32):
But Duke up seventeen points one, twenty six to go.
Looks like Alabama's not even going to try to file.
We'll come back react to the finish of this game.
Duke very likely making its first Final Four under John Shire.
That's next, Ertorris Jason Martin Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 4 (11:10):
Two tickets to the Final Four Punch.

Speaker 2 (11:12):
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The guys will be, of course previewing the two big
ones on Sunday. Auburn versus Michigan State is the late one,
the early one Houston, Tennessee. We will preview those later
on in the show. But we got to get back
to Newark because we have a final in the East Regional.

(11:55):
The Duke Blue Devils beat the Alabama Crimson Time. Remember
that Alabama team that what up one hundred and thirteen
points on Thursday night on fifty what was it, twenty
five of fifty one three point shooting? Well, Duke holds
them to how about this eight of thirty two from
beyond the three point arc. Duke wins eighty five to
sixty five. J Mart, They are headed to the Final four.

(12:19):
Your first thoughts on Duke joining Florida in San Antonio.

Speaker 3 (12:24):
I mean, these are two schools, these are the two
schools I have playing in the final. I'm just not
surprised to see either one of them. Although Florida will
talk about that, we won't talk about that one yet.
But as it relates to Duke, they're very complete. Like
we talked about in the last segment, they commit on
the defensive end as good an offensive player as Flag

(12:47):
can be, even though he wasn't in this game. Defensively,
he's outstanding as well, and he plays with a ferocity
and he plays with the love for the game. But
you just look around that roster. I mean, every thing
is challenged. Alabama again, they had to work so hard.
It looked brutal to play for them tonight, like because
it was just so difficult to get even you know,

(13:10):
bunnies inside to drop because everything was challenged. They're so
well coached. They space the floor incredibly well defensively but
also offensively. They move it, They're unselfish. This is the
kind of team that you look at and you say, yeah,
they should probably win it all, and I would have
them doing so. I just felt like Florida was playing
better entering the tournament. Now right now, I think Duke's

(13:33):
the best team in the country. And I might have
thought that from a talent perspective before this tournament started,
but you ride that hot hand and I do think
Florida can easily win this thing. But man, it is
hard to see a universe where Duke does not win this. Now,
I do have Duke in Tennessee in the final four
and what I think could be an outstanding basketball game.

(13:55):
We'll see what Tennessee is able to do tomorrow. But
even if it turns out to be Duke in Houston's
still gonna be pretty entertaining. But Duke right now looks
very juggernautish. That's not a word, but everybody knows what
it means. It's just they just look the part of
a champion right now.

Speaker 4 (14:12):
So they do.

Speaker 2 (14:13):
And I think we kind of touched on this in
the first segment, but I think my big takeaways. First
of all, I agree, and what I would say is
anybody who did have questions coming into this tournament, like,
I think they were fair. You know, I think it's
easy with revisionist history hindsight now for tournament games. I
mean one, you know, Cooper Flagg didn't play in the
AEC tournament. We didn't know what he was going to be.

(14:36):
And I think the other thing is like the ACC
was truly bad. Now credit to Duke because it doesn't matter.
Maybe the ACC, I would say, maybe the AEC wasn't
as bad in hindsight as we thought it was.

Speaker 4 (14:47):
Duke was just that good.

Speaker 2 (14:48):
But the AEC did have literally zero teams make the
second round of the NCAA Tournament outside of Duke, So
I think it was fair to question this team. But
I'm one hundred percent with you, J Mart is just
the idea that it's just hard to see anybody beating
this team. I go back to what I said in
segment one. You know that Arizona team that that you know,

(15:09):
that that they beat in the sweet sixteen, probably has
four or five NBA players on it, you know, maybe
not high high level NBA players, And it was you know,
the final score was seven, but it never really felt
like Duke was gonna lose that game. And just watching
that game, I was just like, this is the best
team in college basketball. And what I what I my
real takeaway with this Duke team. And I might have

(15:30):
said this in the first segment. All these shows are
starting to run together. We got to give credit to
John Shire, right because to me, yes, you recruited one
of the best freshmen we've ever seen. And by the way,
I think there's already a conversation to have if he's
the best freshman that that we've had in college basketball,
because he's the best one that I've seen. I'll just
be honest in terms of full, you know, complete product

(15:53):
as a player. But I bring it up because you
have to give credit to John Shire because to me,
he built basically a perfect team around him. And you know,
it's one thing to land the number one high school
player in America. I'm not gonna sit here and say
anybody could do that, but but you know, there have
been good players before. But you look at the size
around him, the shooting around him, the way that all

(16:13):
the pieces compliment each other, the way that they have
those two or three veteran guys who were bought into Hey,
it's okay if I'm not a superstar.

Speaker 4 (16:21):
You know they have.

Speaker 2 (16:22):
Mason Gillis was part of the Final four team at
Purdue last year where he played a similar role where
he was kind of a role player on that team.
He could have gone somewhere else and you know, maybe
been a star, maybe been whatever. He comes off the
bench for this team. You know, the Sion James kid
number fourteen, who's been in the starting lineup, was a
starter last year at Tulane and a guy that a

(16:42):
lot of people thought was an NBA player. He comes
in kind of plays a role. The two veterans that
have been there, Tyres Procter, are playing a role. But
I just look at this team and I think you
use the words J mart in the first segment, I
don't know what that team's weakness are is excuse me?

Speaker 4 (16:58):
And I'm with you. I don't know what this team's
weakness is.

Speaker 2 (17:01):
They are headed to San Antonio, they are going to
the final four, they are joining Florida, And I'm with you.
Whatever you thought before the tournament, I don't care what
happens tomorrow. I don't care what happens happened with Florida
earlier in the in the day. I think with the
way that they have taken care of business in the tournament,
and I think today doing what they did defensively against

(17:22):
that Alabama team, it leaves no doubt. There's no guarantees
once you get there, but they are the favorite in
my opinion heading into San Antonio.

Speaker 3 (17:29):
Yeah, and look, yeah, exactly right. Like the best team
doesn't always win and oftentimes doesn't always win, but it
does feel like this is a team that should win
at this point. But again, if you win this tournament,
you've earned it because you have had to battle, especially
as it's gotten closer and closer to the finish line.
But just incredibly impressed with the job Shires done. Incredibly

(17:53):
impressed with Flag. Just curious your point about him potentially
being the best freshman that you've seen in terms. I
was gonna ask you, yeah, product, who else is on
that list? Well, who else is on who else would
you put like in consideration at that at the very least?

Speaker 2 (18:08):
Okay, So what I would say is is that you know,
Mello won a national title. So if you say something
like Cooper Flag is the best freshman that we have
ever seen, people say, oh, you know Mello won a
national title, Well, you know, I get it, But you know,
I don't know that he impacted games the way that
Cooper Flag does at every stop. Kevin Durant averaged twenty

(18:32):
six points per game as a freshman, which is, you know,
just patently absurd.

Speaker 4 (18:37):
I don't care, you know, I mean, he's listening.

Speaker 2 (18:39):
He's an all time great obviously, but you know, he
averaged twenty six a game. Anthony Davis, I think Anthony
Davis would be the guy that you could argue impacted
games the most. You know, Melo was a score KD
was a score listen, and then Zion was just a
physical freak. But Zion, I I don't know that he

(19:00):
impacted games across the board that Cooper Flag does. What
do you think of I mean, those are probably the
five that come to mind that I've watched out I'm
not old enough to remember. Grant Hill certainly not Patrick Ewing,
a cheme, nothing like that, but I'm curious where based
on and by the way, there's others that I missed.

Speaker 4 (19:18):
I'd love to hear him, but I think he's probably
the best one that I've seen.

Speaker 3 (19:22):
So Grant Hill might be the answer for me. I mean,
there have been some guys that have just had outrag
like David Robinson would be a guy that I might
suggest at least you could discuss Kyrie Irving only played
eight games I think it was at Duke, but obviously
didn't even need to be there, could have gone straight
to the NBA and we already knew what his skill

(19:44):
set was on the offensive side. But you talk about
a complete product, and obviously Kyrie's defense is not something
that has ever really been discussed in a positive sense,
So you could potentially argue Flag there in terms of
what he can be on the next level. That's where
really Latner doesn't qualify. As a college player, Layner did everything,

(20:05):
but as a pro it was not going to be
quite the same. He didn't have that level of athleticism
and what he did wasn't going to translate, although he
did carve himself out a half decent career in the NBA.
Carmelo is another good answer, I think. And then you know,
you can look at guys that clearly came out that
you knew were likely to be studs, Like we knew

(20:27):
Dwayne Wade was probably gonna be good, like watching him
in college what he ended up doing in the pros.
I don't think that anybody is particularly shocked there's but
I think Grant Hill's probably my answer if I had
to pick one.

Speaker 2 (20:39):
Dwayne Wade was a fourth year player though that you know,
like by the Marquet year. As a matter of fact,
I saw stat I don't think I'm gonna be able
to find it. Whatever Cooper Flag did on Thursday against
Arizona was the first time a play I think it
was thirty ten and five or something like that, and
it was the first time that anyone had done it
in a college game set or in an NCAA tournament game.

(21:01):
Excuse me since Dwayne Wade and that iconic, that iconic
Elite eight game against Kentucky back in two thousand and three.
So Cooper flag with thirty six and seven, by the way,
I just looked it up Anthony Davis's Kentucky stats.

Speaker 4 (21:17):
By the way, how about this. Let me make sure
I have this right. I want to.

Speaker 2 (21:21):
I want to double check it because there is one
stat that stands out here and I'm a bad radio,
bad radio.

Speaker 4 (21:27):
Forgive me, give me a second. I want to make
sure I have this right. I believe what I saw
fourteen points per game, ten rebounds per game, five blocks
per game was what I believe I saw. Let me
make sure I have that correct.

Speaker 2 (21:38):
Yes, fourteen points on sixty two percent shooting from the field,
ten and a half rebounds per game, four and a
half blocks per game, with a steal and an assist
per game. And obviously, you know, like like Mellow, he
does have the hardware. So you know, I guess if
Cooper flag goes two for twelve next week in the

(21:59):
in the final four, maybe the conversation is different, but
I'm just here to say, like, I don't know, I've
seen a guy impact games in more ways than he does.
And you know, he's great defensively at a couple of
big blocks today and he also had a bunch of rebounds.
Again the quote unquote didn't play well. Sixteen points, nine rebounds, three.

Speaker 4 (22:20):
Assists for Cooper Flags. So yeah.

Speaker 2 (22:23):
Fox Sports Radio Erra towards Jason Martin broadcasting live from
the Tireck dot Com studios. Jmart will come back wrap
for a little bit on Duke and of course talk
about the.

Speaker 4 (22:32):
Early game, and there are takes on that one too.

Speaker 2 (22:36):
Before we do it, though, first time for the evening
for us, Steve Seger, what is trending?

Speaker 3 (22:40):
My friend?

Speaker 6 (22:41):
Good evening to you both. And by the way, I'm
glad you mentioned Patrick Ewing as a fresh Yeah.

Speaker 4 (22:45):
I'm just too young to remember.

Speaker 6 (22:46):
Or Shaquille O'Neal for that matter. Yeah, I'm going to
talk about a product that we knew what he was
gonna be.

Speaker 2 (22:52):
The craziest thing. I was like looking one day, I
just came across it Shack. I know it was a
different here. Shack averaged like twenty nine and fourteen as
a sophomore and came back to college.

Speaker 4 (23:04):
Can you imagine, I'm gonna look at why you talk.

Speaker 2 (23:07):
I'll see if I can find it really quick. But
it's like I understand again, it was just a different era.

Speaker 6 (23:11):
Yes, but well, I mean Kobe Bryant wasn't drafted in
the top ten.

Speaker 3 (23:15):
Right there.

Speaker 4 (23:15):
You go at a different era. Let me see if
I can find it really quick. Okay.

Speaker 2 (23:18):
Shack's sophomore year averaged twenty seven point six points, fourteen
point seven rebounds, five blocks per game and said, you
know what, I'm coming back to college for another year,
the good old days.

Speaker 6 (23:31):
Michael Jordan hit the game winner and came back for
a second year during the Caroline That's true, Kevin loves.
Freshman year at UCLA was sensation well, and then he
let up to the final four.

Speaker 2 (23:40):
And Derek Rose is another one too that probably deserves
He was phenomenal as a freshman. So there's been good ones.
And again we'll see what happens with Cooper Flag. But
I mean he is really really good too.

Speaker 3 (23:49):
Chick you forgetting that we were talking about freshman. I mean,
that does change it. Grant Hill, I still think I'm
probably going with Grant, but yeah, there's there's, there's a few.
But flag being on the short list at all, and
potentially you can argue to him being number one, just
shows how stellar he's truly been.

Speaker 6 (24:03):
And I had to look this up. I did not
realize that Trey Young in his freshman season only season
at Oklahoma led the nation in points and assists.

Speaker 4 (24:14):
Oh wow, that I did not remember.

Speaker 6 (24:17):
Was twenty seven points nine assists. Forget nine assists in
college basketball is a ton.

Speaker 4 (24:22):
It is, You're right.

Speaker 6 (24:24):
But the name that I obviously thought of, Wow, this
guy was sensational, literally was Chris Jackson, who wound up
having an NBA career. Looked it up. He was thirty
points a game as a.

Speaker 4 (24:35):
Freshman at all.

Speaker 3 (24:35):
You know.

Speaker 2 (24:36):
You know what's really funny is I don't know what
prompted it, but I went on a Chris Jackson slash
Mack mood Up Duel Rau Google rampage the other night.
I think I saw like an interview with him, and
I was like, I remember him being good in college,
or at least hearing it at the time.

Speaker 4 (24:53):
Crazy good school.

Speaker 2 (24:54):
Yes, yes, so I did a deep dive on him
literally probably within the last.

Speaker 6 (24:57):
Ten And keep in mind context as we talk about
great freshman seasons, people like Pete Maravich and Kareem and
Walton weren't eligible to play as freshman. By the way,
the Cooper Flag stat it was first since Dwayne Wade
over twenty years ago to in an NCAA tournament game
have at least thirty points, five rebounds, five assists, and
three blocks.

Speaker 3 (25:18):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (25:19):
Okay, and he did it again.

Speaker 2 (25:20):
And this is not to diminish what he did, but
he was a I believe, a red shirt junior that year.
Cooper Flag, I believe is the second youngest player in
college basketball.

Speaker 6 (25:29):
It's wasn't Wade as a senior the final four team
with Marquette. You're right with the four years in college
before the NBA. Well, Florida and Duke advance. And by
the way, it's Florida facing either Auburn or Michigan State
in a national semi final.

Speaker 4 (25:42):
I screwed that up. I want to podizepop.

Speaker 6 (25:44):
Florida the one seed wins the West Region Final in
San Francisco, beating Texas Tech eighty four. Seventy nine All
American Walter Clayton looking the part again like last weekend,
thirty points tonight, one seed in the East. Duke won
that regional final in New Jersey, downing Alabama eighty five
sixty five. Duke's lead was nine with under seven minutes

(26:05):
to go. Duke faces Houston or Tennessee in the final
four next weekend in San Antonio to the Women's Sweet sixteen.
USC wins to night without injured star Juju Watkins sixty
seven sixty one over Kansas State. Yukon gets forty points
from Page Beckers.

Speaker 4 (26:22):
In a win over Oklahoma.

Speaker 6 (26:23):
Victories for Texas and TCU in the NBA. Oklahoma City
won its ninth game in a row. Boston won it's
eighth straight. Lakers got to win at Memphis, even though
John Morant returned and had twenty two points ten assists.
Brooklyn ended a six game losing streak with a narrow
win at Washington. Among the NHL contest, Saint Louis won
it's ninth in a row, two to one at Colorado.

(26:45):
The Padres shut out the Braves tonight on Fox TV
for part of the country one nothing. Padres are three
to zero, but Manny Machado left with calf tightness. The
rest of the country saw Houston win two to one
over the Mets. Mets offense went one for twenty eight
at the plate. The Dodgers have one of the Lake games.
They were tied to two in the fifth against Detroit.
It's now seven to three LA in the bottom of

(27:06):
the eighth, solo home runs for Freddie Freeman, Will Smith
and Tommy Edmund and also still going the A's. Don't
call them the Oakland A's. They've moved.

Speaker 4 (27:15):
Are they fishing in Sacramento?

Speaker 6 (27:16):
Now they are in Sacramento. They're just not the Sacramento A's.

Speaker 4 (27:20):
I know.

Speaker 2 (27:21):
I saw Dan Byron and I were on yesterday and
we saw the Tampa Bay Rays at the Yankees Ballpark's.

Speaker 6 (27:27):
Gutting a sell out of ten thousand again there today.
Good for them well in the Big Stadium in Miami,
ten thousand.

Speaker 2 (27:33):
So really, Buyer brought up to point, he's like the
white Rays uniforms really pop with sunlight because you're used
to seeing the home whites in that dark, old.

Speaker 4 (27:43):
Poor Tropicana Field, which I know is not in very
good shape.

Speaker 6 (27:45):
Right, Yeah, destroyed what the hurricane going through there, which
is why Spring Training Stadium for the Rays and Sacramento
sharing a Triple A stadium for the A's for a
few years until the move to Vegas. Anyway, Athletics in
the seventh leading three at Seattle, and I must mention
the Yankee game today, nine home runs against Milwaukee and

(28:06):
they beat them Brewers twenty to nine. Here it is
Nestor Cortes, the guy who gave up the World Series
Grand Slam to Freddie Freeman. I should have looked it
up if that was his last pitch thrown as a Yankee,
but we do know his first pitch thrown against the
Yankees was a home run, and then his second pitch
home run, and then his third pitch home run. Aaron

(28:27):
Judge wound up with three homers.

Speaker 2 (28:28):
Hey, really quick, not to make this a Sacramento as segment.
Don't call him Sacramento. Have they even figured out the
ballpark situation in Vegas yet? I know it's maybe more
of a Bernie Fratto question.

Speaker 6 (28:39):
Figured out as in financially it's.

Speaker 4 (28:41):
A go all of it.

Speaker 2 (28:43):
It's like, do they have a site? You know, they
said they were going to do the Tropicana and.

Speaker 6 (28:46):
Then torn down last summer. Yes, so in theory, we're
getting a Major League Baseball stadium, small, but a stadium
with a roof, of course for desert heat. Right across
the street from the MGM, on that court where New York,
New York.

Speaker 4 (29:01):
Is of course, who doesn't know that corner? Dora spent
a lot of late nights on that corner.

Speaker 6 (29:06):
Walking distance from the hockey arena.

Speaker 2 (29:08):
Another yes, well that is excuse you, j mart I
Actually I love Vegas. I usually go during Conference Championship week.
I missed it this year.

Speaker 6 (29:16):
Four or five conference is there every year.

Speaker 2 (29:18):
One less for now with the PAC twelve. So that
was why I didn't go, But now that I'd like
to be.

Speaker 3 (29:21):
There in a couple of weeks.

Speaker 6 (29:23):
By the way, Final Four is in Vegas in three years.

Speaker 4 (29:27):
Oh, I knew that. I did not know, Russell me.

Speaker 3 (29:30):
I got to mention something on Saturday. How many times
have we talked about the City Connect uniforms that the
braves wear on Saturdays during years past?

Speaker 6 (29:41):
They pop?

Speaker 3 (29:42):
Yeah, the beautiful ones. Did you check out the Padres
threads on Friday?

Speaker 6 (29:50):
Give it to me?

Speaker 3 (29:52):
No, I mean you need to look it up if
you haven't seen it. You need to look it up
because as good as the Braves were, the Pink Ones. Yeah,
the Pink Ones with the green which team is thelies
I've ever seen in life.

Speaker 6 (30:09):
Yeah, not their first year for this, And as soon
as they debuted, I thought, this looks like Miami Tropical.
This doesn't say anything about San.

Speaker 3 (30:16):
Diego to me.

Speaker 6 (30:17):
These are horrible and light green caps.

Speaker 4 (30:20):
I think I saw this.

Speaker 3 (30:22):
Like real bad. Yeah, that's horrible. It looks like Lucky Charms.

Speaker 4 (30:26):
It looks like, uh, what was that movie where Will
Ferrell was in the A B A.

Speaker 3 (30:31):
This is what?

Speaker 4 (30:32):
This is what myro Yeah, this is what those uniforms.

Speaker 6 (30:34):
There's a report that this is their last year wearing
the stupid things in San Diego.

Speaker 2 (30:39):
I mean there's no come tools that you're required to
wear them going forward, like and Rob Manford's not coming
down with a gavel if you just decide to cannon.

Speaker 6 (30:47):
Well, there are contracts with sales and.

Speaker 3 (30:51):
All right. I saw a bunch of people wearing them.
I saw a bunch of people wearing the hats. Yeah,
the crowd.

Speaker 6 (30:58):
Oh I know somebody who bought one, Yeah you got me.

Speaker 3 (31:03):
Do you still know him or did you cut ties
at that point a time.

Speaker 4 (31:08):
This looks like the semi pro uniform.

Speaker 2 (31:10):
All right, Fox Sports Radio, bro it is these are
these are actually very very very bad.

Speaker 6 (31:16):
And to the point, say absolutely nothing about San Diego, right, yeah, no,
it's it's a.

Speaker 3 (31:22):
I was hoping maybe you would have some insight as
to what it represented.

Speaker 6 (31:27):
You got anything to I mean, this is a surf city.
The ocean is not light green or pink.

Speaker 2 (31:33):
Yeah, all right, Fox Sports Radio Air Towards Jason Martin,
broadcasting live from the tirec dot com studios, will come back.
Tell you what as dominant as Duke was, we got
to talk about the end of that Texas Tech Florida game.
Texas Tech nine point lead with two fifty to go
and lost.

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Speaker 4 (32:36):
Jmart. Do it brag about your bracket.

Speaker 2 (32:40):
Nobody, you know, Listen, in life, nobody wants to hear
about the guy with the good bracket, just like they
don't want to hear about your fantasy football team. I
want to hear about Jmart's bracket of that's on fire
right now, go ahead, go ahead, tell America.

Speaker 3 (32:55):
Look, I had the Elite eight exactly right, and right
now I have the Final four set right like, we'll
see what happens on Sunday. But I got both the
Saturday games right, so everything is still rolling now the
way that they got there. Some of those I didn't
get right, which is why I'm not even in first.
When it comes to the Fox thing, I think it
was fourth last night. I think Brady Quinn was number

(33:18):
one if I'm not mistaken. So I guess it just depends.
But look this, I assume right that most people, if
they didn't just feel like they had to pick a
bunch of upsets because it's usually chaos, their brackets are
probably be in better shaped than usual because the general
bracketbusters don't exist, like we haven't seen them throughout this tournament.

(33:39):
So my guess is a lot more people are doing
well with brackets, which then makes it less less exciting
than it would be because I picked one two one
two one two one three's that's what I picked, and
it turned out to be accurate. But at the same time,
you know, I just assume there's a lot of other
people that did very some things.

Speaker 4 (34:01):
Well, I'll tell you what I will say.

Speaker 2 (34:02):
First of all, congratulations, I was not in near I'm
not in nearly as good shape. I had a couple
of different things. I did have Alabama Duke in the
Elite eight, and I did have actually I did have
Alabama winning. But I bring it up because I do
think that this is just again, this is just a
world that we have to accept that this is where

(34:24):
college basketball is going, is the best teams are going
they're just so top heavy right now and it's just
a different world really quickly. I'm trying to remember because
I think last year it was something pretty similar. I
think last year was more about basically all the ones
through fours essentially made the second weekend, we had let's see,
a one versus two with Purdue Tennessee in the Elite eight,

(34:48):
one versus three, Illinois and Yukon. Then we did have
a four versus eleven with NC State and Duke, which
was just a weird one. So yeah, I guess it
wasn't quite like that last year. I do remember the
the first weekend being pretty top heavy last year, but
j Mart with all eight Elite eight all to the
two final four teams so far, Torres zero for two

(35:10):
on the final four. I had Saint John's and Bama
coming out of these two brackets.

Speaker 3 (35:14):
I do have.

Speaker 4 (35:14):
Auburnd and Houston, So I'll see what happens tomorrow. Speaking
of the brackets. Speaking of we haven't talked about the
first game, and there's a lot to talk about Texas Tech.
They were up seventy three to this is by the way,
remember Texas Tech overcame a thirteen point deficit with four
minutes to go against Arkansas in the Sweet sixteen, they

(35:34):
were up nine with two fifty to go. J Mart
seventy three to sixty four. I'll be quick here. They
missed two front ends of one and ones. Not good.
There was the ten second call where they were down
three and I think they were down one.

Speaker 2 (35:53):
Maybe needed to foul, but Florida's taking its sweet time
getting the ball up the floor.

Speaker 4 (35:59):
They were realize it. They make a move.

Speaker 2 (36:01):
Texas Tech follows with twenty one left on the shot clock,
so in other words, one second left they would have
forced a turn over. Then Florida made the two free
throws to go up three. Darian Williams, who I feel
bad for because he was awesome in that game, but
misses a wide open three. Just bring it up to
very simply say Texas Tech again up up nine points

(36:24):
with two point fifty to go. Not only lose, but
lose in regulation.

Speaker 4 (36:27):
Just an absolute heartbreak.

Speaker 3 (36:29):
Yeah, so Florida took advantage and won the game. But
I don't know how else to put this. Texas Tech choked.
They just choked. And I hate to use that term
because it seems harsh and it seems mean, but we
watched the game. I told you in the text. I

(36:51):
was just like, man, this is about four shots for
both teams. And then you mentioned a couple of other things,
including that ten second deal, which was unreal because basically
they let a bunch of time a lapsed off the
clock and then committed the foul on top of it.
If you're gonna foul, you better foul immediately. If not,
because what actually happened was Florida didn't seem to be
They weren't pushing the issue, and I'm not sure they

(37:13):
understood the ten seconds were coming. They weren't going to
make it. That foul came with twenty one seconds left
on the shot clock. If you had just gotten it
down to twenty, that thing would have been a ten
second violation. You would have gotten the ball back. But
you mentioned Williams. He missed two wide open threes, so
they missed two front ends of one and one's when
they were down, when it was a when they were

(37:35):
up six, and then on the other side Clayton went crazy.
They end up hitting four threes, So it was four
misses for Alabama and it was four big time. Makes
all of them threes for Florida, plus you had the
ten second deal. It just everything that possibly could have
gone wrong for Texas Tech did and it was all

(37:56):
because they just couldn't hit anything, couldn't make shots like
if you can. And honestly, you could almost sense it
because they started playing a little ragged. They started all
of a sudden, their footwork didn't seem to be quite
the same. It was almost like that moment where they actually, man,
we're actually about to beat this team. And then they
lost it. And that's the problem with beating a team

(38:20):
that is heavily favored. Like it's not that they didn't
come in confident, but they got into that situation where
they were just trying to drown out that clock because
the game wasn't over yet. It's just like, man, we're
about to beat them. We can beat this team, we
can beat this team. Man, why is it not over?
Why is it not over? And before you know it,
you look up and you've lost. And it was heartbreaking
for them. That's the right way to describe it. But

(38:40):
they lost this game more than Florida won it. They
should have won this game. Charles Barkley even said that
in the postgame, I agree with him. He said, I
don't think the better team won this game, and I
think he's right. Texas Tech let this slip through their fingers,
and credit to Florida because they had to snatch it
and not just let it hit the ground. But that's
exactly what they did, and they have a closer in

(39:01):
Clayton that finished them off. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (39:03):
I actually did not see those Charles Barkley comments, but
I agree with them one hundred percent. You feel awful
for Texas and to your point, you want to give
credit to Walter Clayton, who is absolutely unbelievable. You know,
Walter Clayton doesn't get Florida's to get out of the
second round. If Walter Clayton doesn't go crazy against Yukon
and then crazy against Texas Tech thirty points on Saturday

(39:25):
in the Elite eight win, bring it up because at
the same time, when you have a nine point lead,
I don't think there's any way other to describe it,
Jay Martin, to say exactly what you did, a little
bit of a choke job for Texas Tech. More tournament
coming up, but also we got to talk Interview of
the Century McAfee Lebron next.

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(40:28):
Eight in the NCAA tournament, Duke and Florida, as de
Segre just told you, have advanced to the final four.
They will be joined by the winner of Sunday's Auburn
Michigan State game and Houston Tennessee game. By late Sunday
we will have a final four. But right now two
bids are set. We will get back to college basketball

(40:49):
in just a minute, Jmart. But before we do, we
got to talk about the interview. You know, rock the
world shook up, the Internet, shook up America. I don't
know what the verbiage is here, but earlier this week,
Lebron James and the Los Angeles Lakers were playing the
Indiana Pacers in Indianapolis. Great finish. By the way, the

(41:14):
Lakers actually wanted the buzzer. But why I bring it
up is because that wasn't really the story of the
Lakers trip to Indianapolis. Instead, it was Lebron doing an
in person sit down with Pat McAfee of the Pat
McAfee Show on ESPN, and our long interview lot of
ground covered some criticism of Stephen A.

Speaker 4 (41:36):
Smith.

Speaker 2 (41:38):
Basically, it was acknowledged that Lebron really has no real
relationship to speak of with Michael Jordan. There was an
interesting quote about Giannis that Yannis responded to that we'll
get to a little bit later in the show. I'm
just curious for your perspective, Jason, what do you think?
I have some thoughts, but what do you think was
the purpose of that interview, Like why do you believe

(42:02):
that Lebron on a road trip and listen. To be clear,
no jealousy, know nothing. McAfee has a huge audience. He's
built this incredible platform for himself, and now obviously he's
on ESPN for three hours a day or two hours
a day or whatever it is. But I just bring
it up to ask you, what do you think the
purpose of that Lebron interview was? Because it was certainly interesting,

(42:24):
it certainly created quite a few headlines. I just don't
know exactly why he did it, although I have some thoughts.

Speaker 3 (42:31):
Go ahead, Jamar, Well, it's annoying if you're a Lakers fan,
and almost has to be right because I need you
focused on trying to win a championship.

Speaker 4 (42:44):
So can I cut you off on that real quick?

Speaker 2 (42:46):
Yeahhad go right ahead, because I was thinking about that,
and I don't want to be the guy that never
played in the NBA that's pretending like I know what
NBA players are thinking.

Speaker 4 (42:54):
But I bet the players on the.

Speaker 2 (42:56):
Team didn't know that that was going to happen, that
interview was to happen, And I was literally thinking about
it today as I was prepping for the show of like,
how do you think Luca felt? That was just like, oh,
We're here on a road trip trying to get healthy
for the playoffs, and you're just doing an interview for
an hour in the middle of the day. Maybe he
didn't care, but I feel like if I was one

(43:18):
of those players, I'd be like, dude, can we lock
in on the season? We can we do something that's
not all about Lebron. So I had that thought today.
I didn't want to steal the thunder from you. Go
back ahead and go wherever you were going.

Speaker 3 (43:28):
J Martin, No, I mean that's right. I mean, look,
all this stuff was Stephen A. Smith, even the the
windhorse comment, which I thought was really lame, just all
of what he's doing right now, and you said you're
not sure what he's doing. I don't get the end
game of it, but it just seems like he's focused

(43:50):
on the wrong things. And even though it's possible it
doesn't affect anything, you can't tell me it doesn't knock
a couple I said this to fits this more this
morning when we were when I was filling in for
Anthony Gargano, Like, you can't tell me it doesn't knock
a couple of focus points off, A couple of focused
percentage points off if Lebron is worried about his social

(44:13):
media feed and these beasts and putting up videos of
Stephen A. Smith badly boxing in some training deal, and
they're going back and forth like they're like, it's a
pro wrestling angle. And I said this, like, as somebody
that worked in pro wrestling as long as I did,
I can spot a work from a mile away. And
even if the initial confrontation was what it was, Dude,

(44:35):
this is not Drake versus Kendrick Lamar. This is two
guys that are just kind of doing everything out there
in public so that everybody can see it. It's being
talked about like crazy. Meanwhile, you're losing to the Chicago
Bulls twice. Meanwhile you're escaping. You mentioned that buzzer play
that last thirteen seconds against the Bulls wasn't very good.

(44:58):
And steven A's eating this up because this is what
he he does, Like, this is what he does for
a living. He gets paid very hand lead to do it,
and a lot of people watch him. He may not
be your cup of tea, but no question, he draws ratings,
so they wouldn't be paying him the money that they're
paying it. So you look at it from Lebron's perspective,
maybe it doesn't affect a thing, but you can't tell me.

(45:19):
You can't prove to me that it doesn't affect anything,
Like it's possible the Giants would have lost that game
anyway had they had Odell in Company not taken that cruise.
But they took the cruise and then they lost the game,
and then all of a sudden, Okay, you can't deny
anything because you can't prove a negative. And in this case,
it's the same way with what's happening with the Lakers,

(45:40):
and everything is so magnified right now around that franchise.
They win a game's the greatest thing ever. They lose
the game. How in the world did they do this?
They win the next game, They're gonna win the championship.
They lose a game, they're incomplete, and their disappointment and
all this other stuff, like everything is so magnified. I
do not begrudge anybody for saying what they want on

(46:04):
their own time, But during the season, I'm just gonna
say it, man, shut up and dribble, Like, at this
point right now, your job is to go win a
championship as a Lakers fan, And I'm just kind of
at a stand in at this point and saying, if
I was a Lakers fan, this is not what I

(46:25):
want to see. And to your point, if I'm Luka Dancic,
if I'm Austin Reeves, if I'm one of these other guys,
this is not what I want to see. This is
the Paul George doing the podcast during the season. Can
we stop, like do this during the off season. I
don't need Draymond having a podcast during the NBA season.
I don't need anybody doing that. I need them focused

(46:47):
on the job at hand, because what they're being paid
handily to do is hopefully to bring a championship to
the team that they play for. And if you're in
all these weird media beefs and you're gonna stop by
and talk to McAfee and do that whole deal, and
you're just sort of all over the place, I don't
really understand. I just feel like your priorities are all

(47:11):
out of whack and you are looking like someone that's
gonna be an early exit from the NBA playoffs because
you're not dialed in as good as you are. They
just don't look dialed in right now. And if he
and Luca aren't at top form, they've got no shot.

Speaker 4 (47:28):
Yeah, it's interesting.

Speaker 2 (47:30):
I hadn't even thought of it from the distraction to
the team perspective outside of what I said a minute
ago about just thinking about it this morning.

Speaker 4 (47:36):
But I'm just trying to figure out again, what is
the endgame?

Speaker 3 (47:39):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (47:40):
Because Lebron has his own platforms. It's like, if he
wants to bash Stephen A Smith, you know, he can
bash Stephen A Smith. But at the same time, you know,
the only thing I could think of is listen again,
this is not a criticism. McAfee's great at what he does.
You know, McAfee's created this great brand of oh you
know what of the bulls and you know, you know,

(48:01):
basically we've all seen the show. If you haven't watched
it closely, it's a bunch of dudes sitting around talking sports.
And it was weird because I feel like Lebron did
it because like he wanted to somehow seem more relatable.

Speaker 4 (48:16):
I'm just one of the guys. I'm gonna come in.

Speaker 2 (48:18):
But then all he did was kind of talk crap and,
let's be honest, kind of pretend to be the victim right,
he's mad about the steven A thing, which again, the
steven A stuff I still go to. At the core
of it, steven A is dead right. You can disagree
with how the message got out, but steven A was
criticizing Bronnie the NBA player.

Speaker 4 (48:38):
He's allowed to do that. That's part of his job.

Speaker 2 (48:41):
And oh, by the way, he was one of the
most defensive people of Bronni during the draft process, which
we've talked about a million times. But you know, again,
lebron goes, I want to be one of the guys.
I'm gonna drop a few f bombs. I'm cool, I'm fun,
I'm hip, I'm this, I'm that. Then, like I said,
all he kind of does is complain about, Yeah, don't
have a relationship with MJ. Yeah, I had a tough
coming out of high school. Yeah, me and steven A whatever.

(49:03):
And it's like he didn't come off as one of
the guys, like, I don't know, it's just that was
the weird part to me was again, everybody wants to
be in that McAfee orbit because it's kind of a loose,
fun environment. But I didn't like outside of dropping a
few f bombs, like I didn't feel like he was loose.
I felt like it was now it was a longer

(49:24):
form platform for him to talk about some things that
he wanted to talk about. And if he just wanted
to say, hey, look, you know, don't blame me for
having you know, if I have no relationship with MJ,
don't blame me if whatever. But I just I feel
like I don't know. I just I've said it a
few times. I'll throw it back to you. I don't
need to say it again. But I just feel like
it seemed like he did it because he wanted because

(49:47):
he could do any inner, he could do any media anywhere,
But it felt like he did it because he wanted
to be one of the boys. And I don't think
he came like, maybe I'm just an an I don't
think I'm an ante lebron guy, so I'll stop correcting.

Speaker 4 (49:59):
Myself, mitz.

Speaker 2 (50:00):
But I don't feel like he came off more likable.
And maybe that wasn't the intention, but it seems like
that's probably what it was. I don't think it really worked.
I don't think it made him necessarily more unlikable, but
I don't think it made it more likable.

Speaker 3 (50:12):
Either it might have made it more unlikely. I thought
that I didn't want to say it to be a giant,
it might have made it more I feel like he's
becoming more unlikable by the day. He's becoming more polarizing
by the day. Everything that he's doing is kind of
it feels like sampaper, It feels like nails on a chalkboard.
And I don't know that he's actually trying to do that,

(50:33):
Like there's something about it. It's like this veneer is
off of Lebron James and he's just kind of irritating
now sure, and he's also like out here with these
weird personal beasts taking strange shots that he doesn't need
to take. Like his legacy is already intact. It is
what it is now. All he just does is go

(50:55):
win some championships if he wants to continue to play basketball.
But like the way he showed up and you talked
about him not being one of the boys, that's because
he's not one of the boys exactly. I mean, that's
what it is. And you could see through it in
that moment, like there's a there's a carefully curated image
about Lebron James that sometimes gets very much shattered, and look,

(51:18):
we can we can't even fathom what it's like to
be him and to have had a camera in your
face since you were basically in ninth tenth grade and
everybody telling you you're great, and you knowing it and
you going out improving it and going through all that
you've gone through, Like, he has had a very unique
experience that we cannot relate to. And he's probably tired

(51:40):
of he's getting a little bit older and all these stuff,
and now the browny thing is happening, and I think
at some point he had to realize and this is
the problem with the stephen A thing. And we've talked
about this, you know, for a couple for a couple
of shows. Now is to your point about what stephen
A's saying being true and you know where he's coming
from being accurate and certainly of being legitimate criticism. The

(52:03):
issue here is like Lebron's like, don't talk about my son.
It's like, dude, you put him in the NBA like
they're going to talk about him. That's that's the way
that it's going to be. He is not going to
be off limits. And it's ridiculous for you to assume
that he is, like, you can't be that naive at
this point. And I feel bad, and We've said this

(52:23):
multiple times. I feel bad for Bronni. I do, because
it's not really on him, but he's gonna always be
tagged this way because of the way that he came
into the NBA, and so Lebron's out here trying to
protect his son and all this other kind of stuff.
It just comes off lane and it comes off very
hypocritical because and I also think, and I said this

(52:47):
to Fitz this morning, where he asked, you know, why
does Broni matter? Because he thinks it's ridiculous anybody even
cares should be talked about, And he makes a valid point,
but I said, it's not about Bronnie. Nobody's actually criticizing
Bronnie is a proxy to Lebron James. Everything that they
say about Bronni, everything that is said negative about.

Speaker 7 (53:08):
Bronnie is actually geared to go straight to Lebron. The
whole thing is about it's criticizing Lebron. It's not criticizing Bronnie.
And the reason why Bronni is.

Speaker 3 (53:20):
Talked about so often is because everything involving Lebron James
has talked about all the time and has been for
two and a half decades almost at this point in time.
So you look at all of that and then it's like,
so I'm going to go on Pat McAfee. Dude, you
can just go on your own podcast and say all

(53:40):
of these things, and instead you're doing it on Pat
McAfee's show, and you're doing it wearing all black and
the whole like Johnny Cash is up here, Like the
whole thing it just rang completely wrong. It rained completely false,
like he was trying to present some kind of a
persona that just didn't work. Speaking of the podcast, like

(54:02):
you and Steve Nash, why don't you do that in
the offseason and don't worry about this like everybody is
gonna hinge on every word that you say anyway, at
least all the people that you care about Your podcast
for the next couple of months shouldn't be a focal
point at all. Just go play basketball, That's what I'm saying. Like,
you can have your opinions, you can say whatever you
want in your time, but as it relates to me

(54:25):
as a sports fan and somebody that just consumes this
as entertainment, shut up and dribble.

Speaker 2 (54:33):
Well, I'll tell you what one. I'm with you. I
don't think it made him look any better. And to
your point, apparently the media tour isn't over because he's
reviving the podcast. And my first thought was, while he's
just auditioning his next head coach, because JJ Reddick, who
previously hosted the podcast with him, is now the Lakers coach.
So Steve Nash will step in, and I want to

(54:54):
bring in our special Steve Nash correspondent producer Bree give us.
You know your son's Finn. You're a Steve Nash fan.

Speaker 4 (55:03):
How are you?

Speaker 2 (55:03):
How are you handling the fact that Steve Nash is
about a four game losing streak away from being the
Lakers head coach?

Speaker 4 (55:09):
How are you holding up?

Speaker 8 (55:10):
I just think it's kind of sloppy. Seconds For me.

Speaker 9 (55:12):
It is because it's like I wish it was like
a Steve Nash kind of podcast, like that was like
he originated it, Like he just kind of like feel
like he's just kind of just throwing them in there.

Speaker 8 (55:22):
So that's just my take. I was a little irritated,
but I mean he's all for it, So congrats to him,
but I don't think it like helps him or anything
or it helps.

Speaker 4 (55:31):
His I also just don't think why would Steve Nash.

Speaker 2 (55:34):
Maybe I'm being sarcastic about him being the next Lakers
head coach, but like pretty bad experience with Katie and Kyrie,
So maybe this is just a way to stay involved
in basketball without actually coaching, because I can't imagine it
was fun coaching Kadi and Kyrie. And I think he
was there for part of the James Harden experience as well.

Speaker 8 (55:51):
But and he was with the Warriors, he was like
a special like a coach, one of the coaches. He
won like a few rings with them. That's where I
think he's like his skills really are you know?

Speaker 2 (56:04):
Yeah, well all I know Lebron's podcast revamped with Steve Nash.
So if one hour with Pat McAfee was not enough,
apparently you're getting more Lebron in season. By the way,
I'll put a bow on it by just saying this, Jamrt,
I agree with you. The player led podcast during the
season is really cool when you win, like when Draymond

(56:26):
and the Warriors won the twenty twenty two Finals and
you were getting immediate reaction from Draymond after the game.

Speaker 4 (56:31):
Sort of cool.

Speaker 2 (56:33):
Not nearly as cool when you're Micah Parsons, when you're
Paul George, or when you are Lebron James in the
middle of an up and down stretch run here, but
it appears as though it doesn't matter Lebron James and
the Steve Nash will continue his podcast Fox Sports Radio
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(56:55):
continue this conversation because the Lakers on Saturday night we're
in Memphis, Memphis was certainly in the headlines this week.
We'll discuss and we'll discuss that next very weird coaching
decision that's next.

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I will discuss all that and more in a moment.

(58:07):
Before we do, though, let's get over to the news
desk to SEGA what is trending.

Speaker 6 (58:12):
On to the final four for Duke and Florida. Duke
one seed in the East put away Alabama eighty five
sixty five Earlier in San Francisco, the West Region final
went to one seed Florida, eliminating Texas Tech eighty four
to seventy nine, thirty points for Walter Clayton. The final
four is next weekend. At the Women's Sweet sixteen, things
ended with a USC win tonight a victory without injured

(58:34):
star Juju Watkins, who's out for the year. Kansas State
the victim sc sixty seven sixty one. The final next
up in Spokane for Monday. Two seed Yukon, which got
forty points from Page Beckers and beat Oklahoma eighty two
to fifty nine. Sooners with twenty two field goals made
and twenty three turnovers in this loss. In Birmingham, One
seed Texas a winner over Tennessee sixty seven to fifty nine.

(58:58):
Tennessee scored just one point in the last four and
a half minutes. Today, Lady vols from three point range
five of twenty six. Two seed TCU advance beating Notre
Dames seventy one sixty two to the final. Hayley van List,
seemingly on her fifty second college basketball team, had twenty
six points Notre Dames. Hanna Hidalgo three of nineteen shooting
from the floor. She had averaged twenty four points a

(59:20):
game this year. Among the NBA Finals, Oklahoma City won
thirty two to one eleven over Indiana thunder of one
nine straight. Boston won its eighth in a row one
twenty one one eleven at San Antonio and The Lakers
won at Memphis one thirty four, one twenty seven despite
John Morant's return, and he had twenty two points ten
assists in defeat. By the way Kawhi Leonard and the

(59:42):
Clippers will not play Sunday due to knee injury management.
As for late night baseball, just one game still going
to the bottom of the ninth A still lead at
Seattle four to two. Dodgers are five and zero after
beating Detroit seven to three. LA hits three solo homers
by Freddie Freeman, Will Smith and Edmund The Dodger starter
was young Roki Sasaki from Japan. No decision, but he

(01:00:05):
was bad again. One in two third innings, four walks,
a wild pitch, the first two runs allowed, sixty one
pitches thrown in inning and two thirds. Cubs won four
to three at Arizona. Cubs had been one and three
on the early season, but shows to Imonaga got the
wins seven innings, just one run allowed for the Diamondbacks.

Speaker 3 (01:00:24):
Say you.

Speaker 6 (01:00:24):
Hennio Suarez has homered in all three games so far,
including a two run shot bottom of the ninth to
at least get him close. Tonight Houston two to one
winners against the Mets. Mets offense went one for twenty
eight at the plate. San Diego won nothing over Atlanta.
The Padres now three to ohero Manny Machado, though left
with calf tightness. Texas for to three over Boston. The

(01:00:44):
losing pitcher X Dodger Walker Buehler and Red Sox dh
Rafael Devers, the former third baseman in his first three games,
has struck out ten times already for the Rangers. Adolas
Garcia three for three, home run three RBIs Miami and
twelve innings beet Pittsburgh five to four, and the Yankees
at nine home runs in a win over Milwaukee twenty

(01:01:06):
to nine. In late night NHL action, Dallas leads to
one at Seattle. End of two. Saint Louis won it's
ninth straight game to one at Colorado.

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about the Los Angeles Lakers weird Week buzzer beater win
over Indie buzzer beater loss against Chicago Sandwich jen of course,
with a trip to the Pat McAfee studios for Lebron
James Well, they returned to the court on Saturday night

(01:02:26):
in Memphis to face the Grizzlies. Why is that significant,
you ask, Well, it's because this was the first game
since the Grizzlies decided to fire Taylor Jenkins, their head
coach Taylor Jenkins was fired on Friday with the Memphis
Grizzlies in fifth place in the standings in the NBA Finals.

(01:02:48):
Made no sense to me. I have some thoughts, but
I want to defer to you. What do you think
about the Taylor Jenkins firing.

Speaker 3 (01:02:57):
Definitely strange timing of it. I think they were the
fifth seed to the West and now they haven't played
particularly well in this last stretch. The one thing about
Tabard Jenkins, and this kind of goes back aways, is
he's he has said a lot right like, he's kind
of been out front. He's been a little chesty at times,

(01:03:20):
and that's really good when things are going great. But
behind the scenes, if things aren't all rosy, that can
become a detriment real fast, and you can wear you're
welcome out a little bit faster maybe than you think
you're going to, and then something crazy like this happens.
But again, this is a guy who had taken the
team to the playoffs. Looks like he's going to take

(01:03:41):
them again. But in the off season, they were all
sorts of changes made in terms of yeah, we're pretty
much gonna cut your staff, We're going to take it's
either five or six guys or something off your coaching staff,
and we're going to bring in something, and we're going
to change the offense, by the way, an offense that,
according to every article that I have read, John Morant

(01:04:01):
absolutely hates and made no bones about it, and at
practice and on games, there's even been you know, other
players that are just kind of like, yeah, sometimes he
wants to play and sometimes he wants out of here
because he can't stand this offense. So there were some
things going on, and of course the jaw problem is
is going to continue to be a job problem. But
you've also had like Desmond Bang cursing out a teammate

(01:04:25):
for not playing defense and things like that. So some
of these things that maybe we're behind closed doors are
out there a little bit more now. There's not really
any protection from those kind of comments. So that's there.
And again we aren't privy to everything that's happening behind
the scenes. But Taylor Jenkins is pretty headstrong and again

(01:04:47):
talked a lot and maybe all of that kind of
came back to bite him. I have to think though,
that Jah, like, you're not going to do this to
upset jaw. Oh, He's the key, He's the crux behind
this whole deal is trying to find a way to
make sure that you keep him. The only reason that

(01:05:09):
you would do it without that is to try and
encourage him to leave, and I just for whatever reason,
don't really see that being the case. It's a weird one,
you know.

Speaker 2 (01:05:19):
First of all, of course, the GM says no player
input in the firing of the of Taylor Jenkins. But
I will also say I saw this kind of cracked
me up. Jared Jackson said, I thought I was NBA
sentineled with this news. That of course is one of
the burner fake Twitter accounts with fake news, so it

(01:05:40):
certainly caught everybody by surprise. My only two thoughts really
are are a couple things. First of all, you referenced
the staff shake up a year ago, and it's funny
because you just see by the way, I guess it
was Gigi Jackson, not Jared Jackson.

Speaker 4 (01:05:56):
So I apologize about that, but.

Speaker 2 (01:05:59):
I bring it up because as you see this happen
sometimes where last year John Morant gets hurt very early
in the season, Okay, basically from that point on, its
total tank mode, as it should be. And then the
GM went over Taylor jenkins head and basically shook up
the entire staff, bringing in basically the entire staff. Really,

(01:06:20):
you know, Taylor Jenkins had some say but not much,
and one of the staff members that was brought in
was of course the guy who was brought in to
replace him. But to me, I'll just say this is
one again. I know the GM has said that the
players had no say in this. I get all of
that whatever. I guess my counter to that would be,

(01:06:40):
like you said, I think if John Morant was adamantly
wanting Taylor Jenkins, then that would be the case. But
I'll just say this is like a couple things. One
is I'll just say my only real takeaway is this
is we don't know exactly what's going on behind the scenes.
I do think it's preposterous. I don't know why anybody
would want to be an NBA head coach. You're just

(01:07:02):
getting hired to be fired. And I look at this
particular situation is I understand sometimes a team isn't jiving whatever,
And I know the Grizzlies have not been playing great.
They are in fifth place in the Western Conference right now,
and so to me, like it's one thing, because I've
seen some comparisons about you know, let's say joh had

(01:07:23):
a little something to do with it, like Giannis with
Adrian Griffin a few years ago, when basically it was
clear that Adrian he didn't want Adrian. That happened in December,
I think maybe even November. It was like fifteen games
in the season, and you had plenty of time to
figure things out.

Speaker 4 (01:07:38):
Now you're bringing in a new.

Speaker 2 (01:07:39):
Head coach two to three weeks before the playoffs start,
and I just look at it as basically you're punting
on a season of John Morant's prime.

Speaker 4 (01:07:49):
Like John Morant is going to be.

Speaker 2 (01:07:51):
Twenty six years old later this year, given the injury history,
given you know, kind of how he plays, a lot
of athleticism, a lot of hard falls to the ground,
Like how many years do you really have left of
Job Morant's prime? And to basically blow it up with
three weeks left of the regular season or whatever it is,

(01:08:13):
it's just preposterous to me. And so listen, I'm not
some Taylor Jenkins stan I don't really care what he
does one way or the other. And I'm sure he's
gonna get another head coaching job after this, but it's
just like you're three weeks from the playoffs, you have
the five seed. It just feels preposterous to me. And
again I listen, I know it pays well. I just
don't know why anybody would want to be an NBA

(01:08:33):
head coach.

Speaker 3 (01:08:36):
Yeah, I mean, you're gonna take the blame and you're
almost never gonna get the credit. If there's a star
in town, the star is the one that's gonna soak
up all the oxygen and certainly is gonna get the credit.
But if there is something that goes wrong, then you'r
Darvin Ham. So that's just one of a myriad of
examples where we've seen this kind of thing happen. So

(01:08:59):
I wasn't the biggest Taylor Jenkins fan again, just because
I felt like he talked a lot before they had
done a lot. But maybe that's what they needed. That's
kind of the way that that team thrived. They always
played sort of on the edge. You didn't want it
to be dealing Brooks level on the edge for too long,
but just that cockiness, almost arrogance about it. He kind

(01:09:22):
of had that as well. So now you have an
interim coach and you're entering the playoffs, and it's kind
of a signal. You don't fire the guy if you
think they can win a championship. So it's almost a
signal from your ownership to your team, Yeah, we don't
think you can get it done, so we're just gonna
go ahead and cut this cord now. And it does
seem very strange. It's just it doesn't it's certainly not

(01:09:47):
a winning move in the short term. But I don't
know if that's the case, Like, I don't even know
if that's what we're trying to do. It seems transparent
that something is wrong with that organization right now.

Speaker 4 (01:10:00):
Yeah, And I think, to me, whenever the again, we're just.

Speaker 2 (01:10:06):
I'm just reading the athletic report, and so I'm sort
of speculating.

Speaker 4 (01:10:10):
Okay, I get that.

Speaker 2 (01:10:11):
But when you have coming off of a season in
which you're actively trying to tank and you have the
GM demanding that the head coach fire his assistant coaches
and hand picking the assistant coaches himself, it means that's
just dysfunction. That's That's the only way to put it.
Is the GM hires a coach to do a job.
The GM's job is not to coach the team. It's

(01:10:33):
not to put together a staff. And so to me, again,
I'm not standing for Taylor Jenkins here. I mean, maybe
the GM's right, maybe this guy is the best head coach,
you know, you know, the new interim head coach.

Speaker 4 (01:10:46):
Because that's the other thing too.

Speaker 2 (01:10:47):
And we'll be quick here because I want to get
back to Segar. But it cracks me up is that
it's like, oh, you know, well, this this new assistant
he came I think he came from Finland, and it's like, oh,
and you know.

Speaker 4 (01:10:57):
He's very into it.

Speaker 2 (01:10:58):
It's like, dude, all these guys are innovative, and then
a year later you fire him. Taylor Jenkins was innovative
a year ago. So I just I could go on,
but it's clear there's some again, some level of dysfunction.
If the GM is demanding the head coach fire the
entire staff and then hand picking the staff for him,
that's the sign that things aren't good, and it showed

(01:11:19):
this week with Taylor Jenkins being fired.

Speaker 4 (01:11:21):
With the Grizzlies in fifth place in the West.

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in the evening to Sager take it away.

Speaker 6 (01:12:06):
My friend, hello once again, and any guest, gentleman on
who might have had the number one scoring offense in
all of college basketball this season, the only team in
the country in Division one to top three thousand total points.

Speaker 4 (01:12:22):
In their games.

Speaker 6 (01:12:23):
Let's stat right there, that's Alabama Crimson, So.

Speaker 4 (01:12:26):
Three thousand total points, so just under one hundred a game.

Speaker 6 (01:12:29):
Huh, I'm not ninety one a game out of thirty
three games.

Speaker 2 (01:12:32):
Because I was going to say yeah, yeah, because they
played right around thirty, So yeah, ninety one points a game,
and they scored sixty five tonight against Duke.

Speaker 6 (01:12:40):
Duke one seed beats Alabama, two seed to win the
East Region eighty five sixty five. By the way, Duke
only allowed sixty two points per game this season, and
if you're looking ahead to some of tomorrow's matchups, the
Houston Cougars allowed under sixty points a game. Tennessee only
allowed sixty three points a game. Duke is going to

(01:13:02):
be facing Houston or Tennessee in the Final four next
weekend in San Antonio. As far as defense, field goal percentage,
the number three and four teams in the entire country
this is about three hundred and fifty college basketball teams.
Where Tennessee and Houston they each allowed just thirty eight
percent shooting. So yeah, Duke scored eighty five tonight, not

(01:13:22):
expecting eighty five in that Tennessee Houston matchup with a
Final four bid on the line. The other game was
the West Region final in San Francisco today and Florida
advances notable where the game was in the Sweet sixteen
before that a couple days ago because Florida coach Todd
Golden played in the Bay Area at Saint Mary's and

(01:13:43):
was an assistant at the University of San Francisco and
then head coach at the University of San Francisco. He
is triumphant winning the West Region final there tonight with
a Florida team that trailed Texas Tech by ten with
five and a half minutes left, and then Walter Clayton
look like an All American again. He made three three
pointers in the next four and a half minutes wound

(01:14:04):
up with thirty points. I'd mentioned it on the previous show.
My impression of that close win for Florida over this
past weekend was that a lesser team would not have
advanced last weekend because time and again they needed to
come through on offensive possessions in the second half just
to stay in it. And they kept doing that. And

(01:14:25):
it's a great offensive rebounding team as well. Florida tonight
with a late fifteen to two run, It was down
nine with under three minutes to go, and yet they're
going to the Final four in a close game. These
were the free throwing numbers. Gators twenty five for twenty seven.
Texas Tech was seven for thirteen from the line. Florida
will be facing either Auburn or Michigan State again next

(01:14:49):
weekend in San Antonio. We mentioned in three years the
men's final four will be in Las Vegas. Next year
it'll be an Indy. Twenty twenty seven, the final four
will be in Detroit. The College Basketball Tourney starts Monday,
new tournament sponsored by Fox that includes teams that did
not qualify for the NCAAs. This year, it's a sixteen
team field, all in Las Vegas one week only, starting

(01:15:11):
Monday the thirty first, with Utah against Butler games on
FS one and then on Fox TV. And by the way,
the men's NIT semifinals are Tuesday in Indianapolis. No, it's
not in New York anymore. Indy is hosting the NIT
final four. Now it's UC Irvine against North Texas and
Loyola Chicago against Chattanooga, with the NIT title game on Thursday.

(01:15:35):
I mentioned earlier that Kawhi Leonard of the Clippers is
not playing tomorrow due to knee injury. Management. The Pistons
Kate Cunningham with a sore cafe doubtful for Sunday. He
could be sitting out a fourth straight game. Zion Williamson
of New Orleans, with a bruise back, is out for Sunday,
missing a fifth straight game. Anthony Davis for the Mavericks
tonight seven of twenty three shooting, but in a narrow

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win at Chicago one twenty to one nineteen, Davis eighteen
point points that ends the Bulls four game winning streak.
Boston won its eighth straight game. The Celtics record is
fifty five and nineteen After a victory at San Antonio
tonight one twenty one to one eleven. Jason Tatum twenty
nine points. He had ten rebounds, eight assists, and just
one turnover. Oklahoma City won its ninth straight game, blitzing

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Indiana one thirty two to one eleven. MVP candidate Shay
Gilgis Alexander thirty three points, eight assists and no turnovers.
His OKC team has a record of sixty two and twelve.
Ja Morant returned had twenty two points ten assists, but
at Memphis the Lakers beat him one thirty four one
twenty seven. Notable because the Lakers blew yet another lead

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in this game, but got the w They were up
twenty in the first half. Lakers were down with about
seven and a half minutes left in the game, but
did win on the road. Ja Moran had missed six
games with a hamstring injury. Of course, Memphis coach Taylor
Jenkins was just fired yesterday for La Austin Reeves thirty
one points, Lukadancic twenty nine points, nine assists, and Lebron

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James Tonight twenty five points, eight assists. The Philadelphia seventy
six ers. Oh man, if you are a Philly fan
this past decade of NBA basketball, feel sorry for you.
Seven straight losses, record of twenty three and fifty one
for whoever's left on that roster lost at home to Miami. Well,
all the tickets are sold, so something's going well for

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the franchise. One eighteen ninety five heat the final, Tyler
Hero thirty points. Brooklyn ended a six game losing streak,
trailed at Washington with under ten seconds left, but won
the game one fifteen to one, twelve fifty one losses
for Brooklyn. That's now fifty eight losses for the Washington Wizards.
Orlando beat Sacramento easily today, one twenty one to ninety one.

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The UFL Spring Football League started last nights and Today
there was a game Arlington thirty three to nine over
San Antonio, Nashgar's on FS one again. The next three Sundays,
Austin Hill took the Xfinity Race at Martinsville. The IndyCar
Series is off until mid April. Old Messi scored as
a sub in Miami's MLS victory two to one against

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Philadelphia Atlanta one it's soccer game four to three over
New York City Arena. Sabalanca took the tennis final in Miami,
sweeping American Jessica Pagoula and taking the first prize of
one point one million dollars. Golfs in Houston this weekend.
Minwu Lee now up by four strokes Scottie Scheffler five
back Lee shot a third round sixty three. The Buffalo

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Bills gave defensive back Christian Benford a four year extension.
The Texan sign linebacker EJ. Speed from the Colts an
NHL team as a nine game winning streak. Now Saint
Louis was a winner at Colorado two to one, and
among the Lake games, Dallas now up three to one
at Seattle with ten minutes to go and a reminder
that we do have women's basketball regional finals Sunday and Monday,

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USC and Yukon each won sweet sixteen games tonight. The
women's one seed UCLA will be in action tomorrow. South
Carolina is still alive. Texas a unseed gotta win today.
TCU advanced Hayley van Liz for TCU twenty six points
in the win over Notre Dame. By the way, the
top sixteen seeds hosted first and second round games and

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now they have just two neutral sites at this point.

Speaker 4 (01:19:14):
Tell you what U C L A L s U
U con USC without you know, juju true and South Carolina,
Texas I meantriguing, intriguing final eight for for the women.
So thank you very much to say.

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We will reset college hoops, Florida Duke to the final four.

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lot about Lebron and McAfee. We talked a lot about
the NCAA tournament, and we're actually gonna return to the
NCAA Tournament right now because two tickets to the men's
Final four are officially punched. They came in the South,
or excuse me, the West, in the East Regional Florida
winning eighty four to seventy nine.

Speaker 4 (01:20:34):
We are certainly gonna get to that one in a minute.

Speaker 2 (01:20:36):
Texas Tech had a nine point lead with two point
fifty to go and not only lost but lost by five. Meanwhile,
duke a dominant win over Alabama eighty five to sixty
five to sagre told you last hour. Alabama led the
country in scoring with ninety one per game this season.
They put up one thirteen in the sweet sixteen, Duke

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holds them to sixty five points on eight of thirty
two to three point, shooting eight of thirty two from
the three point line. I should say Duke headed to
the Final four where j Mart I'm just here to
tell you, I don't care f Houston, Tennessee, Auburn, Michigan State.
I don't care who wins tomorrow. Whoever gets to the

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Final four, they will not be the favorite, because Dukes
should be the rightful favorite in my opinion heading to
San Antonio.

Speaker 3 (01:21:25):
Yeah, I mean, I think that's probably right. They just
look like the champion right now. They look like they
are flawless when it comes to just trying to pick
them apart. What is it that they don't do well.
They're well coached, they're disciplined. They can score on the inside,
but they can also absolutely be lethal from deep. They're

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a good defensive team. They shoot very well from the
free throat line. It doesn't all have to run through
Cooper Flag Like. There's so many different ways that they
can just kind of dismantle you. They can play bully
ball down low, but they do have some athleticism. But
everybody can do multiple things for them. There's a good

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enough mixture. And we talked about this last week. Even
though there are some absolute stud young guys, there are
some dudes that have been around the block a bit
that are perfect compliments and everybody works in synergy. Does
that mean they're gonna win it all. No, but they
have the look of a champion right now. In my bracket,
I've got Florida beating them in a championship game after

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Duke beats Tennessee and Florida beats Michigan State. That's how
I have it set up in terms of my final four.
And I still think that's very possible. But if you
ask me who the favorite should be and who the
team that looks the part the most is right now,
it is one thousand percent Duke.

Speaker 4 (01:22:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:22:55):
My biggest takeaway just in general, besides the fact that
they look the part eighty five points again six holding
Alabama to sixty five.

Speaker 3 (01:23:04):
Listen, you knew.

Speaker 2 (01:23:05):
Alabama was going to regress to the mean after shooting
twenty five of fifty one from three. By the way,
that is still j mart. That's one of the craziest
things I've ever seen. I think Alabama attempted fifty one
threes the other night and eleven two pointers.

Speaker 4 (01:23:19):
I want to actually check on that. I'm pretty sure
that's accurate. Though you knew they were going to regress
the mean a little bit. Let's see here, Alabama took
fifteen to two pointers fifty one to three pointers, so
you knew they were gonna regress the mean a little bit.

Speaker 2 (01:23:34):
But to me, the story of this game, the story
of this tournament so far, is Duke and the way
that they did it on Saturday, I think to me
shows why they're such a unique team. Is that it's
one thing to have a number one overall draft pick.
We've seen, you know, every year, somebody's got the number

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one overall pick. But even with Duke, we've seen a
team with Zion, We've seen a team with this guy.
I've seen a team with that guy. But it's all
the other pieces around him. First of all, and I
think you just mentioned this, but Cooper Flag was okay
on Saturday night. Six of sixty yeah, six of sixteen
from the field, sixteen points, nine rebounds, three assists is
a down game for this freshman superstar ACC Player of

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the Year. And it was other guys, you know, kan
Kin Nippull twenty one points, two to four from three
to five, rebounds, five assists. Malawatch, who I just am
so impressed by fourteen points, nine rebounds, two blocks. Also
Tyree Procter, I thought he set the tone early seventeen points,
seven of ten from the field to three pointers. I
think he hit both those three pointers in the first

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five minutes to really set the tone.

Speaker 4 (01:24:41):
But when I look at.

Speaker 2 (01:24:42):
This Duke team, what continues to stand out to me
is just the fact that like they're just so well built.
First of all, the positional size that they have. It's
been a well talked about stat but they are the
tallest team statistically in college basketball. I think Jay right
side of the pregame, the average height of the team
is six foot eight. Basically, they don't really play anybody

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smaller than about six four six five. Sion James, who's
basically their starting point guard, is six to six h
Tyrese Proctor, who's obviously as a player I just mentioned
plays off the ball, he goes at about six five
sixty six. I think that to me is the thing
that they're just so big, which which makes it so
tough defensively. I mean, I even go back to and
I don't remember how much we talked about Duke during

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the regular season, but I remember the first Carolina game
where it's like, you know the cliche of like you know,
you never you never count out a team in a
rivalry game and you throw out the records, and it's like, no,
I think we could throw out the records in this one,
because yeah, yeah, Carolina.

Speaker 4 (01:25:43):
Was we saw it. We know their story of the season.

Speaker 2 (01:25:46):
But they were a fine college basketball team, below average
whatever for Carolina standards. But you know the thing about
Carolina is they were just small. I mean their guards
were six two sixty three and you could just see
it on the floor. There was just no way for
them to get shots. I wouldn't quite say that was
the case with Alabama tonight. I mean, I'm sure there's
some that they would like to have back, but that

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size creates so many problems. And I said it in
our one, but I just think we have to give
Shire a ton of credit. Is I know he inherited
a good situation at Duke, but to me, he has
built It's one thing to land the number one recruit
in the country as the Duke head coach, but he
has built basically, in my opinion, a near perfect team
around Cooper Flag.

Speaker 3 (01:26:28):
Yeah, all of that is true, and that's exactly what
you need. Cooper Flag. I said this at the time,
like him going down for a couple of games, it
probably helped Duke just a little bit, not that they
needed it, because they were already playing well as a team.
They weren't just standing around watching hero ball. They were

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all involved, They all had a role to play, and
they were unselfish. On one given night, it might be Knippel,
next night it might be Cooper Flagg, and every night
it was going to be Cooper Flag. But at the
same time, without him, they still won the ACC championship.
They still were doing all the things that you would
expect a championship level team to do, and they saw

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themselves do it without Cooper Flag. And Flag's not the
type of guy that's going to change things when he
comes back. He's just going to enhance them. He's just
going to make them that much better. So the talent
that already existed, that played together as a team without
him then just brought him back into the fold. And
it was like Voltron. At that point in time, everything
was there and everything was set up for them, and

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that's just what they've done. They've rebounded a high clip,
they shot at a high clip. They've played, to your point,
really outstanding defense. They've used their size to get down
low when they've had to. But they've just been able
to beat you. And they've been able to take away
the thing that you do best. And look when you
come off of shooting the way that Alabama shot in

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the previous round and then you hold them to about
thirty points left than that, and Mark Sears just has
maybe the worst game I've ever seen him play. And
it's not just because he missed a bunch of shots, Aaron.
A lot of it is because they challenged every shot.
Watching Alabama, every bucket was tough. They looked like they
were just unhappy, Like it's just like, man, this is

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just not fun. It is not fun playing against these
guys right now. Certainly they didn't give up. They competed
as hard as they could, but they were doing everything.
And this is just a dynamic team, this Alabama team.
They were doing everything they could to keep it to
single digits. And then Duke would just go on a
little mini run over a couple of possessions. It would

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blow that thing back up to about eleven thirteen somewhere
in that neighborhood. It was just like, man, Alabama just
cannot get closer than about seven points. Duke's not going
to let them get this thing within five, within four.
And it was never in doubt, Like you knew it
almost immediately if you didn't know it before the tip,
but two minutes in, it's just like, Duke's just a

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better basket caball team Alabama is really good. Duke's just
on a different level.

Speaker 2 (01:29:04):
A game that didn't feel in doubt with about two
minutes to go was Texas Tech against Florida. Texas Tech
a nine point lead with two fifty to go. In
the first quote, I guess you call it a regional
final Elite eight game. It was in San Francisco, number
one seed Florida Gators facing Texas Tech. Texas Tech has

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a nine point lead with two fifty two to go. Jamart,
you know it's funny you and I weren't on air
for actually Arkansas's meltdown against Texas Tech, but I bring
it up because I go back and look at that
game and it was basically in my opinion. Everything that
could go wrong for Arkansas did. The coaching I didn't

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think was great, but also you miss free throws. There
was that weird call where I think everyone thought it
was a file gets called a jump ball. Texas Tech
immediately converts. I only bring that up that was Thursday night,
but to me, the Texas Tech meltdown, that's the only
way to call it. Against Florida, I think it was
a I think it was another one. It was a

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perfect set of circumstances that led us to a Florida
victory over Texas Tech. Texas Tech up seventy three to
sixty four with two point fifty two to go. You know,
they miss a couple one in ones, they start to
play tight. They then missed three pointers that they had
been making.

Speaker 4 (01:30:25):
All game long.

Speaker 2 (01:30:27):
There's a weird play in the backcourt where basically they
need to file, but then Florida's about to commit a
ten second violation and they file with one second left
before the ten second rule violation would have hit and
forced a turnover. And then, oh, by the way, Florida
also made some really clutch plays, headlined by Walter Clayton
with thirty points.

Speaker 4 (01:30:47):
I feel awful for Texas Tech.

Speaker 2 (01:30:48):
That's not to say that Florida didn't deserve to win
in the end, but ultimately, in my opinion, it was
just everything over the final three minutes that could go
wrong did which resulted in Texas Tech lose using Florida
advancing to the Final four.

Speaker 3 (01:31:02):
Yeah, and that's why I used that term, because everything
that you could have done to possibly lose that basketball
game when you were up double digits, you found a
way to do in the last four or five minutes.
I mean, it was yours. It was not going to
be taken as great as Clayton turned out to be,
that was not going to be enough without you handing

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it away. And so there's only one way to describe it,
and it's choke. And then I hate to say it
that way because they played so hard, but they came
apart at the precise moment when they realized they might
be able to beat that team. It just felt like that,
like all of a sudden, there was like an anxiety.
There was just a some kind of confidence shift, and

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you could sense it in Florida too. You could certainly
sense it in Clayton. Clayton went for the kill shot
like Clayton knew. He was just like, oh, okay, wait
a second, this is not over. As a matter of fact,
certainly he was confident anyway, but you could see cracks
showing in Texas Tech. They did all the little things wrong,
and they did the thing you can't do, which is

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I think Dan Bonner said this, He's right. You left
the door open for Walter Clayton. You left the door
open for Florida when you went to the line twice
and miss front ends of one in one's when you
were up six. That could have pushed that thing at
least to seven, but maybe to eight. At that point
in time, you gave it there. And then after that
six what happened on the other end? Three ball, and

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then all of a sudden it's one possession game and
the crowds getting back into it, and before you knew it,
Florida had just kind of put on a deluge and
Texas Tech continued to trip over its own shoelaces right
out of this tournament.

Speaker 2 (01:32:42):
Nothing else really to add there, just you feel bad
for Texas Tech fans. It was in their hands and
they have no one to blame but themselves. As Florida
advances to the Final four along with Duke. Two games
on Sunday, the early game in the Midwest region, Houston
takes on Tennessee in a again the early game that's
about a two to twenty Eastern time start. Auburn and

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Michigan is the late one at four about five zho
five Eastern time. We will have a Final four by
this time tomorrow, but two tickets have been punched to
San Antonio. Two number one seeds Florida and Duke, by
the way, first time since potentially the first time since
two thousand and eight. That was the only other time
all four number one seeds made the Final four. That

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is certainly in play. Two number one seeds there, Houston
and Auburn trying to do the same. On Sunday, Fox
Sports Radio air towards Jasmartin broadcasting live from the Tyreck
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talk college football here in late March. Yes, college football,
not college basketball. But we got a new man in
the ten million dollar club for coaches, coach bron with

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that new contract.

Speaker 4 (01:33:51):
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Prime in a second, But there's actually a little bit
of pseudo late breaking basketball coaching news. John Rossteam is
reporting that Maryland has scheduled a team meeting for Sunday morning.
Expectation is that, uh mary that Kevin Willard will inform
his team that the Terps are that he is leaving

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Maryland for Villanova. Would also add that Maryland's twenty four
to seven site is reporting that it's inside Maryland Sports
Kevin Willard is Villanova bound. After leading the Terps to
the Sweet sixteen but finishing with an odd saga of
public hints at his impending exit. He leaves Maryland needing
a replacement, and then they get into the replacement real quick.

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Not often that we'll probably talk a Villanova coaching search here,
But what did you make of how Willard handled this week?
Especially in the light of what happened with will Wade
a few weeks ago where he basically just said, yeah,
I talked to the NC State and yeah, probably gonna
go there after the season, felt like a lot of
unnecessary drama in my opinion for Kevin Willard at Maryland

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this week.

Speaker 3 (01:35:43):
Yeah, it was. There was way too much of it
that it just seemed I'm not even sure exactly like
it was just it seemed unfortunate and it seemed like
an unforced are like let's hit this thing into the
nets doing it. It was awkward, and it seemed very
obvious where it was going, and it's kind of disingenuous

(01:36:08):
not to just own up to it a little bit more.
It seemed to just actually almost magnify it, like what
will Wade did. It was just okay, all right, cool,
Now they're gonna go and they're gonna do whatever they're
gonna do and then once McNeice is out, then he'll
go ahead and leave. There was an honesty to it,
just a blatant integrity kind of It was a positive

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and usually you don't think of integrity when it comes
to will Wade. But look, rules have changed at this
point in time, and will Wade is just going to
tell you exactly how it is. And then you look
at the Kevin Willard thing, it's just like, I don't
know what he was doing. Was he trying to string
Maryland along? Was there a possibility something wasn't gonna work out?
Like the whole of this thing, it just doesn't reflect

(01:36:52):
very well on him. I mean, he did a really
nice job at Maryland, but the exit strategy leaves a
lot to be desired.

Speaker 2 (01:37:00):
Yeah, I don't really have a ton else to add
to it. I know there's no perfect situation, and I
do think there's a difference between will Wade leaving a
high major, mid major job for an obviously better high
major job, Like it is just different. But yeah, it
also just felt unnecessarily weird, like you said, and you know,

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listen again, I don't know if there's a perfect way
to handle things. There probably isn't. But it was just
unfortunate because it was a cool moment for the school
you went. You went on a buzzer beater on Sunday,
You're going to the Sweet sixteen and you're just gone,
and so it's strange.

Speaker 4 (01:37:42):
Yeah, we'll see what happens with Maryland. Tell you what.
Let's let's pause on the Dion stuff. And it's a
little early, but maybe we get to Saga out of
here a little bit early.

Speaker 2 (01:37:55):
So what we'll do now, get it over the news
desk to Saga. We'll get you out of here three
minutes earlier than normal.

Speaker 4 (01:38:01):
So you know what can we do for you?

Speaker 6 (01:38:03):
Well, everything's final now because the NHL Lake Game goes
to Dallas five to one at Seattle, the Stars have
clinched a playoff spot. Earlier, Saint Louis won it's ninth
in a row two to one at Colorado. Edmonton won
in overtime victories for Vegas and Toronto in the NBA
Oklahoma City when it's ninth straight game, Boston won it's
eighth in a row. Lakers blew an early twenty point

(01:38:25):
lead but still won at Memphis one thirty four, one
twenty seven Miami sent Philadelphia to a seventh straight loss.
Brooklyn had lost six in a row but got a
narrow win at Washington. Kawhi Leonard and the Clippers will
not play Sunday due to knee injury management. Onto the
men's final four next weekend in San Antonio for Duke
and Florida. Florida beat Texas Tech to win the West

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Region final eighty four to seventy nine. Gators were down
ten with five and a half minutes to go. Gators
were great on free throws in this close game. Twenty
five for twenty seven. Duke over Alabama, one seed, beat
the two seed in the East Region. Finally, New Jersey
eighty five to sixty five. Duke will be facing either
Houston or Tennessee in the Final four. Florida will go

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up against either Auburn or Michigan State next weekend. Women's
Sweet sixteen is over as USC has advanced sixty seven
sixty one over Kansas State sc wins without injured star
Juju Watkins. Yukon got forty points from page Beckers and
beat Oklahoma eighty two to fifty nine. A note on
Beckers from stat Zinc this century be it men's or

(01:39:32):
women's NCAA tournament. Only one other person had had a
game like she had today. That is, at least forty points,
at least five three pointers made, and at least five
what they call stock steals plus blocks. The other person
to have that kind of stat line in the tournament
was Steph Curry two thousand and eight against Gonzaga. In

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this century, the only one to have a game like that.
Texas beat Tennessee. I've all scored one point in the
last four and a half minutes. TCU over notreed. Aime
Hanna Hidalgo of the Irish three of nineteen shooting. Minwu
Lee leads the golf in Houston by four strokes. Arena
Sabolenka took the tennis final in Miami. Baseball's late game

(01:40:13):
to the A's four to two. At Seattle, Cubs got
onto the winning side. They'd been one in three. They
got to win at Arizona four to three showed to
Imanaga the win seven innings of work. Roki Sasaki knew
from Japan to the Dodgers, another poor outing four walks
in an inning and two thirds sixty one pitches. He
was pulled early. The Dodgers did win with three solo homers,

(01:40:34):
seven to three over Detroit. Dodger record five and oh.
The record for a defending champion is starting the next
season seven and oh the nineteen thirty three Yankees. The
Tigers in nineteen eighty five were defending champs and started
a season six and oh. San Diego and Houston each
with narrow wins. Miami won in twelve. Cleveland star third

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baseman Jose Ramirez day to day with a spraying wrist.
He was injured on a slide. Lost four to three
at Kansas City. Philadelphia shortstop Trey Turner was scratched from
the lineup tonight due to back spasms. Philly did win
eleven to six at Washington. Cincinnati three to two over
San Francisco. The Giant starter was Justin Verlander, no decision,
but five innings, two runs allowed, five strikeouts. Not such

(01:41:18):
a great day for Max Schurzer. It his Blue Jay's debut.
He left after the third inning lat soreness and an
injured thumb. No decision. Toronto lost at home nine to
five to Baltimore. Colorado a two to one winner at
Tampa Bay. The Rays play stutfielder Josh Lowe on the
al with a strained oblique. He was heard on a swing. Friday,
Saint Louis five to one over Minnesota. The Twins offense

(01:41:39):
went three for thirty. The Angels Kenley Jansen got the
save one nothing the final at the White Sox Chicago
White Sox lineup went two for twenty seven. And then
there's the Yankee lineup today. Nine home runs, four in
the first inning. Yanks beat Milwaukee twenty to nine. The
lost to X. Yankee pitcher Nestor Cortes, who lasted two innings,
allowed three homers on his first three pitches. Today, Aaron

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Judge finished with three home runs eight RBIs back to you.

Speaker 4 (01:42:07):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 2 (01:42:07):
Steve sag have a great Evening'd be back in I
assume tomorrow with the Gang, Willard and Niphram, Arnie and
Plank Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 4 (01:42:18):
They'll be it.

Speaker 2 (01:42:19):
But Segreby all night on Sunday as well. We are
broadcasting live from the Tyreck dot Com studios here, taking
it till two am Eastern. Hey, Jmart, I keep teasing
this Dion thing, but I do have one good question
for you. Am I crazy or is the vibe and
this is not disrespect. It's just a fact women's tournament.

Speaker 3 (01:42:39):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (01:42:39):
Like I don't know. I don't want to.

Speaker 2 (01:42:43):
I don't want to be negative because I still think
it's a great event. But I think you and I
were kind of on the lightning in a bottle, Caitlin Clark,
Angel Reese two straight years. Does you know we'll see
what the ratings reflected. The final four doesn't feel like
the sport has anywhere near the same juice post Kaitlin Clark.

Speaker 3 (01:43:02):
Nope, I man, look, Page Becker's is great and I
like to watch her play, but it's not the same
and you lose Juju Watkins. That doesn't help. But Caitlyn
Clark is a unicorn, and anybody that acts like she
isn't is just not telling you the truth where they're

(01:43:23):
living in fantasy land. And this is why when all
these people now, we're gonna like right here in the
city where I do the show from, in Nashville, there's
a push to bring a WNBA team here to expand.
It's like, for what, there's not even a regular NBA team.
This is not really a basketball area, and Nashville is

(01:43:44):
not a particularly strong sports city. It's a great party city.
They come out for the great parties, and when the
parties involve sports, they become that, so's a WNBA gonna
be a great party in Nashville. No, Caitlyn Clark brought
every up to a different level. The entire country paid
more attention to women's basketball as a whole writ large

(01:44:08):
because Caitlin Clark interested them enough to stick around here
and there, and of course they wanted to see who
she might face and all these other things. And her
absence is just something you can't you can't fill it,
like there's not someone there. And we knew, I mean,
Page Becker has been good for a long time and

(01:44:28):
has a super bright future in the WNBA and going
forward like very likable, great competitor, all that kind of stuff.
But it's not the same. There wasn't that rivalry. There
was not that Austin McMahon, you know deal that you
know made so much money for WWE. You didn't have that.
And we call it lightning in a bottle because that's
exactly what it is. And it's out of the bottle

(01:44:50):
now and you can't get lightning back in the bottle. Actually,
the bottle may have just broken because yes, this tournament
is here and it's happening, and I see no interest anywhere.
And I also don't see the columns telling me about
how special women's basketball is right now. And it's the

(01:45:11):
same way that I was hearing six months ago, exactly right,
Like none of that is here, Like all of a sudden,
it's crickets left and right, and we all know why.
It's not going to be something that's going to be said.
But Caitlin Clark was bigger than the sport. She was
bigger than the sport. I just saw a story her
like rookie card is the most valuable women's sports card

(01:45:36):
in the history of any sport in the world. Like
you look at all this, it's like you're not going
to replace that. You're not going to find something like
that again that that was a unicorn, And I honestly
you look at it now. If she had stated iowaish,
she'd have made a ton of money in nil but
she would have made a ton of money for everybody

(01:45:58):
else in college athletic before even going to the w
NBA to become persona non grata around all those other people.
But I it's it's one hundred percent right like, who's
who is paying attention compared to who was paying attention
last year, and it's just not even close.

Speaker 2 (01:46:15):
I don't disagree. Yeah, yeah, I'm not trying to be mean.
It's just the truth. Yeah, it's just it's just it's
just it's crazy to think about how big everything else
was because of Caitlin Clark. Lsu felt so big. South
Carolina felt bigger.

Speaker 4 (01:46:32):
And it just doesn't. And it is what it.

Speaker 2 (01:46:33):
Is really quickly, since we we've taught, we've teased it.
Now twice, let's pay off coach prime coach prime. Dione
signs a five year, fifth or forty five year, fifty
four million dollar extension. I'll just be quick because we're
a little bit short on time here. My first reaction
when I saw it was, Okay, I understand the value.

(01:46:54):
I understand the value that he's brought to that university.
Would like to see him without the top five pick
a quarterback in Shaudor, and I still think Sor is
gonna be a top five pick. Then I remembered, oh
wait a second, Lincoln Riley makes ten plus million, Brian
Kelly's right around ten million. Kaylin de Boor, who I
still think is gonna be good after a slightly disappointing
first season, makes right around ten million, and.

Speaker 4 (01:47:17):
I realized, if we're gonna pay Lincoln rally.

Speaker 2 (01:47:18):
Ten million, there is no doubt that Coach Prime has
a significantly bigger impact on his school in his community
than Lincoln Riley does, than Brian Kelly does, than so
far Kaylen de Boor does.

Speaker 4 (01:47:29):
And so you know, it's a home run.

Speaker 2 (01:47:31):
And Colorado keeps a guy that I think everybody thinks
is going to go to the NFL, gonna go to
maybe another college job. If he does, they're gonna get
a pretty penny and buy out money. And I think
Coach Prime is there for the foreseeable future.

Speaker 3 (01:47:45):
Yeah. Look, I mean it's a no brainer for Colorado
because nobody is going to bring more eyeballs to that program,
put them in more spots where people actually want to
watch them on top. I mean, when's the last time
Colorado Colorado football was relevant, Dion Sanders. I mean, there
have been a few moments. It's not as if they've
had no history, but it's been a long time and

(01:48:09):
there's now interest to your point about what's it gonna
look like without Shadoor, what's it gonna look like without
Shador and Travis Hunter, and how much pressure is now
on Dion Sanders to kind of show that because we
know what he had at Jackson State and then you
look now at Colorado, but now this post Colorado. But

(01:48:33):
the good news is they stumbled right into another very
top prospected quarterback. So maybe they're gonna be okay. But
I do think that there's interest there and there might
be some added pressure there because you don't want the
bloom to fall off the roads because then the job
offers aren't nearly as enticing. But anything else, I mean
in terms of Colorado, of course you're gonna do this,

(01:48:55):
Like why in the world would you not. There might
be other people out there that can win a lot
of but there's not a lot of other people out
there that are Dion Sanders, and that still carries weight.
It still carries weight with a lot of today's athletes,
and it just makes them a much more interesting and
marketable university program.

Speaker 2 (01:49:15):
Yeah, it's funny you mentioned, you know, coach prime with
you know, potential other jobs. That was kind of one
of my big takeaways the more that I thought about
it is part of the reason that you have to
do this one. In hindsight, I think my take was
wrong originally. I think when you look at the economic
impact whatever, I think he's worth every penny.

Speaker 4 (01:49:34):
But two.

Speaker 2 (01:49:34):
The other thing, and I mentioned this the other day
I was filling in, or I mentioned on Friday when
I was filling in, is that the other thing with him,
and he's maybe totally unique in this job. I think
he's maybe unique in this in all of college football,
all of college sports, maybe in all of coaching.

Speaker 4 (01:49:50):
You have to.

Speaker 2 (01:49:51):
Pay him handsomely because he probably has more options than
anybody else out there, and he's maybe the only coach
in college that maybe the only coach anywhere outside of
the guys that are on the verge of retirement, he
doesn't have to coach.

Speaker 4 (01:50:10):
And so it's like if he's making I think he
was making like.

Speaker 2 (01:50:13):
Four four and a half something like that, five whatever,
and that's still for people who don't know, that's pretty
low for a college coach at the power conference level.
Is one, there's always a threat he's gonna go to
the NFL to coach Chador. There's always a threat that
he's gonna take a Florida State or a Florida or
whatever job opens up.

Speaker 4 (01:50:28):
He could also just say, you guys, don't treat me
with respect.

Speaker 2 (01:50:32):
I'm out, like I'm just gonna go be Dion Sanders
and probably make seven figures a year comfortably being Dion Sanders.

Speaker 4 (01:50:40):
And so you have to pay him market.

Speaker 2 (01:50:43):
Value above market value, because I would argue he has
more options than anybody else. He's always going to be
a candidate for bigger jobs. He's always gonna be a
candidate for the NFL. Whether it's accurate or not, there's
always the perception that teams want to hire him. The
Cowboys want to hire him. Whoever drafts shador is gonna
want to hire him. And so you kind of have
to do this because he is a guy that, probably

(01:51:03):
more than any coach in sports, has a lot of options,
including the option of I could make millions without coaching
just by being me.

Speaker 3 (01:51:12):
That's right, Yeah, And everybody else knows that. Colorado knows
that as well. So they're going to take care of him,
and you know, we'll see how long he's there. We'll
see if Florida State were to open up, for example,
or maybe there is an opportunity to coach Shador in
a couple of years and maybe he would leave. But

(01:51:34):
if he is able to win again without his son
there and without the Heisman Trophy winner, the reigning Heisman
Trophy winner there as well, if they go out this year,
even if they take a step back, as long as
he's still having fun, I could still see him being there.
The only question I have is how is Deion Sanders
going to react if they're mediocre and Chador's not there? Yep,

(01:51:56):
that's the thing that I don't think that we have
seen as of yet. And if it's not fun for him,
to your argument, he'll leave because there's nothing that he
needs necessarily from there. So he's gonna do it because
he's enjoying doing it. He likes coaching football, he wants
that to be added to the trophy case and all

(01:52:17):
that other kind of stuff. But the second that thing's
not fun anymore, he'll just disappear. Well.

Speaker 2 (01:52:22):
Yeah, and the other the only other last thing I
would add is that is one hundred percent true. The
other thing for people who will say that he could
still leave.

Speaker 4 (01:52:29):
For another job. If he leaves next year, the buyout
will be twelve million dollars, which certainly somebody could pay.
Oh yeah, but it would put them in pretty good
position to get another head coach.

Speaker 2 (01:52:41):
And you know you're never gonna get another Deon Sanders,
but you know, all of a sudden, then you have
twelve million in the call fers for the next guy.
If that's the case. So I think the more that
I really read into it, it's a it's a best
for all parties involved. Dion Sanders now one of the
highest paid coaches in college back in college football, excuse me,
making well over ten million a year. Fox Sports Radio

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Speaker 4 (01:53:59):
All right, let's put a bow on the show.

Speaker 2 (01:54:00):
Eleven minutes left until Bernie Fratto of The Bernie Fratto
Show follows us. Cannot wait to hear Bernie on all
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have plenty on the NCAA tournament and much more. With
that said, Jay Mart, let's talk. We got two Elite
eight games.

Speaker 4 (01:54:18):
I think everybody knows by now, But if you're just
joining us, Florida and Duke both advanced on Friday night,
the question become or on Saturday night? Excuse me?

Speaker 2 (01:54:27):
What happens on Sunday? The early one Tennessee and Houston.
It's a Midwest regional game. Houston survives on that out
of bounds play. Brilliant je Can we.

Speaker 3 (01:54:37):
Can we stop for a second appreciate that like Okay,
what a finish like. I'm surprised it took us this
long to get to it. I was thinking about doing
a break like. Man we haven't even talked about that,
and it happened, you know, at one am Eastern time,
which is its own problem. But my goodness, man like,
that's about as well executed and out of bounds play

(01:54:59):
is you will ever see and broken down after the
game by Jay Wright and Candas Parker. Right, yes, magnificent
just saw that.

Speaker 4 (01:55:07):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (01:55:07):
They were phenomenal breaking that thing down from all angles
and showing just how much nuance was involved in it.
But just that's that's about as good as it gets,
man like. As a finish. I couldn't believe it when
the past went back because it was just, oh, he's
gonna score. This game's over like. It was perfect, absolutely
pitch perfect. Didn't mean to interrupt you, but that deserved

(01:55:29):
a second.

Speaker 2 (01:55:29):
Well, and I'll tell you this, thank you for the music,
Mary look perfect perfect theme song here.

Speaker 4 (01:55:35):
I'll tell you this.

Speaker 2 (01:55:35):
I actually if people missed that Candas Parker Jay Wright breakdown,
I'm sure it's available somewhere on the internet. They just
did such a good job explaining how Milos who's in
ended up so wide open on that final play Houston survives.
They are facing the Tennessee Volunteers. J Marty said that
you have Tennessee in the final four in your bracket,

(01:55:59):
by the way, going into the day, try to pull
up the points spread here. Let's see here it looks
like Houston is a.

Speaker 4 (01:56:05):
Three point favorite. What do you make of this game?
Who do you have winning and advancing to San Antonio.

Speaker 3 (01:56:11):
I got Tennessee winning, and I know how good Houston
can be. I've also seen them come back in some
games where it looked like, you know, they were really
on the verge of getting knocked out of this tournament,
and Tennessee really hasn't been in that position. But Tennessee's
just lethal to me when it comes to what they
can do to you. This is gonna be a war

(01:56:32):
because these are two defensive minded teams and they can
both be streaky offensively as well. But I think Chaslneers
is potentially kind of ready to have one of those
kind of games for them. And Zekai Ziegeler just screams
march to me in a way that just you just
can't imagine that the run that he has had in

(01:56:54):
Knoxville and the storyline surrounding it is not going to
get him to a Final four at least one time.
And so I just I just feel like this Tennessee
team is built for this moment to get there. Now.
I don't think they will beat Duke, but I think
they will get past Houston and we'll should be an
excellent game.

Speaker 4 (01:57:10):
Yeah, a little bit like last year. The offense has
come around late.

Speaker 2 (01:57:14):
They are They're always good enough defensively, the question is offensively,
and it just feels like the last probably month or so,
they've hit another level. And I'll say this completely dominant
victory over Kentucky on Friday night, and You're right, s
Kyle Siegler just feels like a guy would be perfectly
encapsulating or capstoning his career getting Tennessee to a first

(01:57:36):
Final four in school history. So that would be a
cool story. I picked Houston win the national championship. I'll
be real, you know, I guess I'll stick with them
solely because I picked them to win the national championship.
I think Tennessee has been the better team since the
start of the tournament. The late game, alburn A five
point favorite over Michigan State in Atlanta.

Speaker 4 (01:57:54):
Who you got, j Martin?

Speaker 3 (01:57:55):
I got Michigan State. I have the two twos winning
way my bracket was set up, and look, Auburn hasn't
been I mean, they've been tested and they've gotten through it,
but there have been a couple moments where you're looking
at it, like, man, they are really on the ropes
here and Michigan State has two So the question is
who can survive that if it happens against the other

(01:58:16):
one in this game. I think Auburn has more talent,
but there may be more heart at Michigan State just
a little bit. I've seen something from them from a
toughness perspective that I like, and I just kind of
when I had to make this selection, I just went
with Michigan State on This could totally be wrong, but

(01:58:38):
I think the Spartans are gonna get it done. I
don't think it's going to be a blowout either way.
I think this one's gonna be one that goes down
to the wire.

Speaker 2 (01:58:45):
The old they got more heart the old College try.
I actually do like Auburn in this one. I think
that it seemed like they flipped a switch on Friday
Night against Michigan. In that second half, Michigan State is
an incredible story though I love that Izzo is just
still Izzo. They play crazy defense, they rebound crazy well,

(01:59:06):
and they don't shoot a bunch of threes, but they
have made it work for them.

Speaker 4 (01:59:09):
I will take Auburn to win this game.

Speaker 3 (01:59:11):
Go.

Speaker 2 (01:59:11):
We gotta get out of here. What I thank the
crew Mary on the board. Great music choice for this
final segment. By the way, producer Brie also our Steve
Nash Insider. We had her on earlier in the show
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A lot of fun coming up. Bertie Fratto of The
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Speaker 4 (01:59:33):
Are you