On today’s show, Gary Parrish joins the show in-studio to talk about everything around the NCAA Tournament. College Basketball Wiseguy Alan Boston joins the show via Skype to go through all of Thursday’s games and give us his best bets.
3:00–Gary Parrish in-studio on speeding tickets, driving a Tesla, Virginia’s inability to score, problems with tournament seeding and a few teams he thinks are better or worse than the seeds they received.
36:40—College Basketball Wiseguy Alan Boston joins the show via Skype to preview all of Thursday’s NCAA Tournament games and give us the games he likes the best.
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Wednesday March 20th 2024 edition of the show today on the show one of my favorites uh of the year are longtime Vegas Wise Guy Allan Boston Oh I thought you were talking about me Alan Boston is going to be going through the NCAA tournament game by game with us
We’ll do half the bracket today half the bracket tomorrow Gary Paris is also going to be in studio with us as the NCAA tournament is upon us it is going on at FedEx forum on Friday it is going on everywhere starting tomorrow well we got another first four night that is going on
Tonight I watched some of those games last night as well as uh Minnesota and Denver Grizzly’s going to be back in Action tonight as well they are playing against the Golden State Warriors we’ll get to all the news and notes of the day G be’s going to join us Al Boston’s
Going to join us it’s a Wednesday it’s beautiful out smile let’s do it turn it [Applause] up on on in your your life won’t you do what feels right instead of waiting for the next things to St run in your mouth get out of the house get yourself down
And yeah yeah yeah yeah hope everybody’s having a good day Deon Walker still out on the road with the Grizzlies but before I get to anything I welcome John Roser to the show John broser aka the cologne Ranger the b band in your set aka backat the Grim
Broser John Lance John pistol he’s y Roser swag cover my body like it’s a disease not really uh hello John Gary Paris here in studio you can watch him every morning at 10 o’clock unless he gets a ticket on the highway then it’s going to be more like 10:08 then it’ll
Be like 10:08 uh man they’re handing out tickets man ever since Gary got that El must car they are on him they are on him I thought I was going to save money on gas NP I’m spending on tickets every time they see that electric thing they say you don’t know
How fast you’re going it’s weird it’s a weird deal it’s like a super siiz golf car it’s it’s wild like I’m not a golf I drove my wife’s car the other day and she was like do you not know how to drive anymore and I’m like I’m not used
To driving fuel cars it’s like it’s a it’s a experience it’s like I’m a big go-kart it’s a big go-kart that goes 150 mph it’s like you don’t you don’t I’m not exaggerating I used to look at when you see professional athletes get these tickets and be like he’s going 130 and
I’m like why is somebody going 130 they probably have an electric car you like I look up all the time and I’m going 111 and I don’t even know it I don’t even know I swear to God I got a ticket a few month two months ago you’re
A hazard I’m A Hazard I know I got pulled over to was like you in a hurry I was like no no sir he was like well I clocked you at 100 oh no I said I didn’t even know I said I’m not even I’m not in
A hurry I’m not in a hurry I’m not trying sending these to Elon I’m not racing I’m not in a hurry I just genuinely had no idea I was driving 100 miles per hour this morning I was actually in a hurry there like traffic like there were two construction sites
It took me an hour to get here usually takes me 25 minutes and I got a ticket like a six iron one of your six irons not my or mine you’re six iron from FedEx forum you got to watch out down around here yeah there’s a girl that works with us they
Gave her a ticket yesterday on Danny Thomas 40 and a 35 I’m like come on bro I I just I think I mine was Danny Thomas 53 and a 35 53 in 35 come on 18 over five 40 and 35 and that so it must just be are we at the
End of the month I don’t know are they trying to hit a quote or something because look this is not what the mayor intended I’m appreciative of all the new cops that we have let me get Paul Young on the phone but hold on a second now
Right they gave her 40 and 35 right and then pulled her over and and gave it to her there he was like I clocked you going 40 into 35 to which my response would have been like and and what what are we doing here and he’s like look U
Just show up to the court date they’ll throw it out why are you what are we doing what are we doing he’s hitting his number he must be I guess so yeah there must be my guy didn’t even want to talk to me he just walked right up and he didn’t want
To know why I was speeding or what I was doing or what I’m up to he just said uh you got a driver’s license I said here you go buddy he said I’ll be right back he came right back with that ticket that’s tough that’s tough he said here’s
Your ticket white boy that’s what he did no no he I don’t think I was racially discriminated against I didn’t feel racially discriminated against I didn’t feel that way I didn’t take it that way um but but I he thought you were the boiler
Maker i’ I got a I got a boiler maker yeah just outside Indiana fan he’s mad he didn’t get into the tournament you know what hey it was my fault it was your fault I was going 53 and a 35 that’s terrible how dare you it’s how dare
Ions is dangerous on dny Thomas because there’s people out in the street all the time there’s a every time I walk through every time I trve P there I’m terrified will you guys please just stand on the side of the road I I want to be part of the solution not part of
The problem and for years I mean we’ve been talking about crime in a city that’s right and it’s like you know when people start talking about crime they’re like those Teslas going 53 and a 35 we got to do something about that right so they got me and now hopefully we’ll be
Living they got me so now we got to hopefully we’ll be in a safer Community Sunday I watched the selection Sunday uh program that I told you I would watch uh on CBS Sports and one of the things that I’ll give you credit for is immediately
After it all took place and the and the and the bracket came out Jared Palm who who’s like the nerd side of it but even the non- nerd side everybody there was like why is Virginia in this like everybody like I honestly think the tournament committee has not watched him
I even texted you while you were on that show I said what the hell is going on that seem’s terrible Memphis be 5,000 they’re terrible and Memphis we they’re not even close to the bubble and they beat that by a thousand and it’s wild because you’re right the nerd people
Know that the data doesn’t support it and then the basketball people who just watch basketball they’re like that team sucks like Wally zerak has no context for anybody’s efficiency numbers right he just watches he goes they suck so one thing everybody agreed on and then we
Had to watch them in the first four last night and they get blown they had 14 and a half time they had 14 with 17 left in the game and True TV throw up a graphic that says these dudes ain’t scored in 52 minutes I’ve never even seen that
Graphic before I’ve been watching basketball my whole life there’s a clock there’s a shot clock they said these dudes they scored since 940 you get the possessions like it’s not like they hav you could put us out there as three of the players I feel
Like we would at least get two they they went 0 of 19 in this in this stretch where they were stuck on 14 points for 52 real time minutes they went of 19 like and this is one where I’m a I’m a big believer in what it’s like they
Angola playing the Dream Team I mean it’s out it’s outrageous like when Purdue loses to Fairley Dickinson people want to pile on Purdue but it doesn’t mean that Purdue was overrated or shouldn’t have been a one seed Purdue clear if you went and redid that bracket
Again you would have to make Purdue a one seat I don’t believe that what happens in the tournament is a referendum on the bracket in other a six seed goes to the final four it doesn’t necessarily mean that six se was UND seated it just means that sometimes six
Seeds get you know a favorable draw and a lucky bounce and whatever this is one you know it does have an impact because you even asked the guy I’m going to prove my watch you asked the guy I can’t remember which one it was one of the
Mountain West guys you had on like don’t you guys feel like you need to prove something Danny sprink the Utah State coach yeah yeah cuz they don’t respect you bro obviously oh yeah Boise State was in the first four should not have been I had him as a seven seed they had
To be in the first four they will play tonight um Utah State I had as a four they’re an eight as an outright conference champion of a a league that puts six teams in the you would say they can get this wildly wrong yeah yeah yes
No they do get it wildly wrong that that I I I think uh I me they miss saying it or you’re M hearing it let me be clear I don’t always point to this one seed got upset they shouldn’t have been a one seed or this eight seeds in the sweet 16
They shouldn’t have been an eight seed sometimes you advance or fall short of where you’re supposed to be just cuz that’s the way these things work that’s fair my point with Virginia is it is 100% an indictment of the committee this is one everybody agreed on this isn’t Monday morning quarterbacking if you
Will everybody on Sunday said why is this team in the field there are 18 spots worse at kenpom than any other at large team in the field like you go to what’s the what’s the worst at llarge Team besides Virginia they’re right here okay where’s Virginia you got to go 18
Spots lower to find them big gap that’s not normal they were four and five in their previous nine games had failed to score even 50 points in four of their previous eight um 50 50 like that is such a low bar they just played two overtime games in the ACC tournament and
Couldn’t crack 60 in in either one of those games or or 70 in either one of those games um they only had two quadrant one wins so it’s like hey also PS if you want to sell me on hey you know what it’s a TV product they’re the worst thing to put
On TV and you can’t even put them it’s not like you’re putting them on a Thursday afternoon window where there’s three other games on it’s the only thing on we’re all just watching this [ __ ] and so and and like it’s like what are you doing so it’s like why did you put
Virginia in is it because of their big wins no they only had two quality one quadrant one wins oh well then it must be they had strong computer numbers no they were actually 18 spots lower at kpom than everybody else oh well then it must be they’ve been playing great
Lately no they’re four and five in their past nine then what are we doing what are we doing why are they in like Jerry Palm who was beaten down Sunday cuz he missed two all right beaten down like like actually genuinely depressed like I just can’t but before the selection show
I swear to God I said Jerry does this make it when the bubble shrinks like this does it make it harder for you or easier he said I think easier cuz like now like there’s no way to miss more than one that’s what he said to me he
Said there’s no way to miss more than one now look I obviously went out of my way to watch Kem Abdul Jabar Larry blur as it were Robbie Avala I I watched that Missouri Valley Conference tournament and again as you’re saying nobody has to come in here afterwards I watch that
Game and Ros will tell you I texted them during the game I said bro my guy has just run into the freaking 16 Warriors Drake has made their first seven threes of the game like what are you supposed to and I think it ended maybe a four or
Fivepoint game in the end but if you watch that game right again not even knowing anything about those if you watch that you would go bro both these teams good yeah and dangerous right Indiana state had a better resume than Virginia Indiana like last night we could have been watching Indiana State
St John’s Sean Hall Pro anything would have been better than thato and Robbie aala right been great the committee just messed up and I don’t know why they messed up yeah well and how don’t they just go and this could go for Clemson who’s going to be here too I think
Automatically like if it’s you look at their schedule and you say lost to Memphis you’re either out or you’re like getting dropped down a SE line right there every bubble team’s going to have a lost to Memphis on there somewhere yeah but me I will say anybody that was
In this the only ones I texted you about were people that Memphis played and I was like bro FAU got a freaking will they get a eight that’s outrageous fa if you would have told me on Sunday afternoon Florida GP one of these things
Is true tell me which one and if you get it right you get to live if you get it wrong you’re dead Okay what are the statements fa is is is an eight seat or fa is out of the tournament one of those is true which one fa’s out of the
Tournament but they lost a temple yeah I would have said fa’s out of like two days ago literally two days ago what are we doing you ready for this I I I don’t think I had the numbers exactly in front of me now FAU is a eight seat the other
Eight seats I think I’m just off the top of my head here Utah State Nebraska and Mississippi State all right first off let’s just start here Utah State n tell you nobody would try to tell you they had the same year Utah state has twice as many quadrant one wins won an
Outright conference title in a better League fifu couldn’t win the ninth best league in the country couldn’t win the ninth best Conference tournament in the country ter like not great computer numbers not bad but not FAU and Utah state have the same seed they did not
Have the same season it’s crazy FAU has three losses outside of the first two quadrants all right without Conta TT that might not matter to you listen to what I’m about to say Mississippi State Nebraska and Utah State the other three 8 seeds are a combined 44 and one in
Quadrant 3 Quadrant 4 with the loan loss being a onepoint loss by Mississippi State to Southern when Mississippi State’s best player too Smith wasn’t playing outside of that the eight eight seeds they don’t lose to quadrant 3 and quadrant four except except FAU which has two quadrant four losses in a quad
Three they don’t belong there at all I don’t know how they got there we know they we we know because of the run last year that’s it I mean they were a final four team yeah I mean I just and they brought everybody back and so they’re
Just like all right they’re better than what we think they are yeah but they’re not better than you think they are they’re just they are they are you literally lost to Temple the day before you had to do this this is all I got to tell you just know that they they look
Nothing like the three number eight other eight the three other eight seeds they look resumes look nothing like him it’s like Utah State’s resume is similar to Mississippi States is similar to Nebraska’s then you look at Faus and it’s like this one doesn’t belong with the you asked the guy tournament
Committee guy and I told he basically told you to kiss his ass you can’t ask him anything I he basically told you to kiss his ass he gave you literally no legitimate reason as to why FAU had the seed that they did no the problem that and I actually I’m I’m hesitant to
I I I’ve thought about bringing this up I don’t know if I’m just being candid I don’t know if I’m important enough to bring this up but what I would like is on that selection show because the way we do it whether it’s on the main selection show or the three-hour show we
Have afterwards on the main show it’ll be Seth Davis and Clark Kellogg um asking and Jay Wright oh yeah asking the committee chair questions then they do one after the another so setho ask a question and here’s the way it goes how did North Carolina get the fourth number
One C committee chair says a bunch of stuff doesn’t answer the question then you just move on to Clark then you just move on to Jay and then you just move on to Seth and it’s just all right now it’s your turn your turn what I would like
And I’d be happy to do it follow up let me handle that interview or or or let Seth I don’t need I’m not trying to jump the line that’s right but like Let It Be a one-on-one so that when I’m talking to you you’re my committee chair and I say
North Carolina Iowa State here are the resumes how did you land on North Car in one seat in Iowa State the worst number two you talk and you say a bunch you don’t answer my question and then I say I appreciate what you just said but my
My question was why Iowa State over North Carolina I didn’t hear you answer that give me give me actual reasons for why I then we can get into some interesting stuff because they don’t have answers they cherry-pick criteria to do what they want to do but if you
Ever try to then catch them in a contradict it’s easy to catch them if you say cuz they’ll say things like well I Iowa State’s this is literally what they said well Seth Iowa State’s non-link strength of schedule ranked in the 300s and that was well behind North
Carolinas and ultimately we just thought that that’s what sent Iowa State down to the worst too my followup would be I understand there’s other five other things you ask us to care about no no but but what you always tell me is that the entire body of work is what matters
Not just your conference schedule not just your non- league schedule not just your conference record not just your non- league record the entire body of work so I understand your emphasizing non- League strength of schedule but Iowa State’s total strength of schedule ranked in the top 20 in the country it
Was 20 spots better than North Carolina why are you holding Iowa State’s schedule against it when it actually has one of the 20 best schedules in the country now we’re talking right but you don’t get that when you’re just rotating questions I wish we would do it like
That so that I could I could catch every committee chair and these are all smart people it’s just they have jobs that they get themselves in positions that are indefensible I could make I could create a viral moment every selection Sunday with committee chair if you just
Let me ask followup questions but they don’t want that not going to let you do that you’re in business with yeah they want that doesn’t do us any good for to look stupid say I will say they never come to us like literally never and say don’t criticize soften it up none of
That I can go on the podcast or tweet anything I want they don’t care but they don’t want that guy looking stupid I don’t think they want me making that person look stupid on CBS all right yeah and that totally fair right right nobody even knows that guy except for that one
Time on TV now I’m just going [ __ ] all you know what I mean um you have to make all these picks like literally 15 minutes after the bracket comes out right and you have to go on TV to a board and make the pick too right so
It’s not like you’re getting to sit there through kenpom and S and if I did I would reach the same conclusions or or slightly different ones and and they would be off and whatever but not being able to look at like the Sagarin ratings and the kpom ratings and who oh well
This team is terrible at offensive rebounding this team is a great offensive rebounding team so maybe they could give him problems what like you don’t have time to do all that so you’re just doing it kind of you know on on a whim then you do it all on a whim and
Then yours gets published and everybody can see it like now everybody will say either you’re stupid or you’re a genius based upon that right you have to do it all so quickly like you see mine I still have half of the thing to fill out right
Cuz I I just I overthink it and take the time with it and I underthink it figure which probably to your benefit that being said you turn in this like what comes the official gear P but you got to do it so quickly and you’ve done it on
TV so you can’t change it now right if there’s something in the bracket that you would go back and change you go ah now that I’ve had you know a couple days to talk about these teams that digest this I wish I wish I hadn’t picked what I picked okay well
One and I made this point like three weeks ago and then I forgot it as I was filling out the bracket but St Mary’s got off to a rough start they were like four and five they took two quadrant three losses very early but if you run
The data like Hey we’re going to start the season on Christmas Eve because I think they took their last quadrant 3 loss on December 23rd so if you say we’re going to run the data from Christmas Eve December 24th through today and just see who the best teams in
The country are from an efficiency uh perspective it won’t surprise you Houston Yukon Purdue they’re all going to be up there St Mary is top eight in the country so for several months now they’ve been performing from an efficiency perspective like a top eight team in the
Country and you get them as a five seed yeah so if you wanted to push them pretty deep there’s some data to support that in my bracket that I did right off the top I got Grand Canyon beating them so like you know I might undo that but
Whatever I can live with that the one obviously I think I would change now is I’ve got Kansas in the sweet 16 and after Bill self ruled Kevin mcculler out last night for the whole tournament I think I would take Gonzaga over Kansas in the round of 32 and I guess I what
Was that whole big letter was he just worried that people were going to start saying he’s sitting out for the NBA draft I think that’s what people are saying and I I think that’s what his coaches think it was interesting really strange just an odd letter it was like
If I could play I would be playing and this is not because of I want to be there for my teammates tell remind the hell is this guy talking about who put that a letter they’re going to miss the T if you go watch Bill self’s press conference from last night um he
Okay so the the whole leadup to this matters Kevin mcculler has been banged up for about six weeks and he would miss he missed five regular season games towards the end but he’d come back and play and then it’d be like he’s not right so we’re GNA sit him down and it’s
Like well he’s gonna try to play him then it’s like ah we’re gonna sit him down eventually last week Bill self says hey he’s not right we’ve been trying to get him ready we’re just going to let him sit out the Big 12 tournament he actually said he could play in the Big
12 tournament but we’re going to set him out him and Hunter Dickinson as well let him rest up and then they should be heal than they’ve been in a bill s said this last week we should be for the start of the in tournament as healthy as we’ve
Been in a long time and that’s that’s our best course of action now so then last night he just announc us like like he even really asked about it he just can’t wait to bring it up you can tell he said and Kevin Kevin’s out oh Jesus
Are we are we about to move into the I’ve already gotten my money this is like bowl games well just what yeah I mean so then a person follows up with the question a reporter and says so how disappoint pointing is that Kevin you know he’s giving you everything comes
Back to school and he’s given you everything he could give you and then here it is inly tournament and he’s not going to be able to play at least in the first game what the reporter was searching for like you know what he was after was you want the coach to then say
This is heartbreaking this young man has given this school everything he has and to have him too injured to play right now it’s just crushing because he’ll never get this back PS the final four could be in a month you know what Bill self said oh no he’s done we’re shutting
Him down for the tournament he’s done okay literally a week ago he wouldn’t even rule him out for this week now he’s ruling him out for three weeks from now even if it that was a coach who’s fed up and do you and do you pick up on the way
He said what he said the word are very important they ask him about Kevin McCulla you know what he said we talked to Kevin and he said the pain in his knee has not subsided he tried to go but he said he couldn’t he never I Ted to
Shaka smart two days ago about Tyler Kik who’s been injured and I said so what’s what’s going on with Tyler he said he’s painfree now but GP that’s a tough mfer oh the oblique thing yeah he said he said he said that’s a tough dude and he
Was like hurting to breathe like man feels like you’re getting stabbed yeah yeah every other coach would be saying can you believe this this young man was on track be a first team All-American he’s in his fifth year of school he came back became an NBA Prospect and now he’s
Too Hur to play in the N tournament this is heartbreaking Bill self didn’t say nothing like that he said he said he’s too hurt to play so and they said well you know what if he’s okay next week no we’re done we’re done let’s go Samford he said we’re done you
Know what it reminded me of Roser you might remember this you might remember this 2002 Memphis dwan Wagner Chris Massie scooter mcfaden Antonio Burks team was ranked 12th in the country 12th in the country they were 20 and4 Kelly wise got hurt they went two and five in
Their final seven missed the tournament won the n i I will never forget this because this is what reminded me of last night every time you would ask John caliper about Kelly wise it was like a daily thing kelly didn’t play down the stretch and they were losing they were
On the verge of missing the tournament you’d ask John about Kelly wise so what’s the latest with Kelly oh he says he says he’s hurt well he says he can’t play so if you say he says that’s it wow that’s it you’ve never heard Shaka smart
Say Tyler Kik tells us he’s too hurt to play he says he’s too hurt to play remember there was a thing on this with the who was the guy like day of the game did it reddish cam reddish yep yep and I promise you trust me the Duke coaches
Thought that was he was being a b the Memphis coaches thought Kelly wise was being a b that’s what I remember back then it was 20 years ago but I remember them going yeah he says he’s too hurt but is he that’s what I would get every
Time so what’s going on with Kelly he says he’s hurt so he says he’s hurt and I said well how about it’s such a rude thing thing to say and you would I would be talking to one of the Memphis coaches and I would say well how hurt is he and
This is what they do all right that’s what I heard from Bill self last night damn he says he can’t play so the NCAA tournament is a new bowl game well think well well I think about this though just logically Bill self last night said he hasn’t hurt
His knee his knee has not he hasn’t made it worse so what changed then in the past week a week ago you were leaving out hope in fact you were optimistic that he’d be ready to go now now you’re already ruling pulling out that he’ll ever play for you again that’s just a
Coach who said I guarantee you there’s a conversation somewhere with Kevin mcculler or somebody connected to Kevin mcculler where Bill self went you know what I’m tired of this [ __ ] just we’re done it’s all right it’s all right we’ll just move on well the other thing is who
Writes letters oh yeah that’s to fans a guy saying basically hey it’s not cuz I’m getting ready for the NBA you ready do a do do a Twitter search Ros or whenever you’re bored just go into Twitter search and do Kevin mcculler quit and hit return oh it’s all Kansas
Fan say he quit on us oh and so that’s why he was compelled to post that letter but the reason Kansas fans think he quit is because that is that’s what everybody thinks it’s and it’s the impression that bill self left us with it’s it’s certainly the impression he because you
Ready and it’s not like Bill self is freaking Bobby Knight right no no no yeah right there is no reason by night you could imagine thinking a guy with like half of his head blown off as being a p there is no reason that’s all it is
By the way when you Google Kev all Kevin M you don’t even have to put quit if you just put Kevin mcculler Kansas it pop first thing that pops up was fans feel the same way about that bill self what basically what bill aach because it makes no sense for six
Weeks Bill self has been saying we like we think Kevin’s just he’s right there he’s almost ready to go for six weeks you’ve been saying that and suddenly two days before the N tournament you say he’s done well what if you make they even said what if you make the sweet 16
You wouldn’t play again for a whole another week yeah no we’re done it’s over wow yeah he just like do you think and now let me just I’ll just bring up something that we have not brought up regarding this yet is Kevin mcculler scared of bucky
Ball could be could be and like this is you don’t want bucky ball bro this is a it’s a real problem for Kansas ultimately Kansas is Kansas Sanford is Sanford so like they should win the game that’s what you think that’s what you think but Kansas has no depth and this
Is bucky ball bro and this is buy Ball five and five yeah okay they have no depth all right so now they have less depth than they otherwise would have and Sanford does play all seriousness top 15 Tempo in the country they about shoot at thre about like 40% a little more than
40% of the shots are coming from three it’s Bucky Ball’s a great story this guy’s a this guy was a dynamic High School coach it is cool and now he’s coaching against Bill self in the NCAA tournament I mean and I mean not like high school coach like he started as a
High school coach I mean he was a high school coach like if your kid was a is a senior in high school he might have played for Bucky as a freshman like that’s where we’re at Bucky bu all right uh Alan Boston is going to join us safe
Travels brother oh what’s your TV schedule like uh oh I’m gonna be late oh yeah Thursday Friday Saturday late the damn Warriors and then I’m going to go to these games well tonight I am uh I’m just I’m flying the hotel and D hotel room tomorrow night uh Thursday Friday
Saturday Sunday after the games at night we’re on during the games I’m not sure why I know it’s it it is what are we doing it feels like empty television like like who would be watching us when all the ins tournament games are on but
We are sports bars right we’re on WE and then we do carry this is kind of interesting we carry all the postgame press conferences oh so it’s like and now we go live out to Memphis where Kelvin Samson just sat down and that’s the only place you can see those that’s
The only place you’ll see those and then we’ll have at midnight Central 1:00 Eastern we’ll be recapping the entire night every night for an hour on CBS Sports Network and I’m on those shows so and those will replay in the morning as well yeah so like I’ll be working damn
From 1 Eastern to 2 Eastern every morning turn up turn up and then uh and then heading over to Club what is it 57 no buddy that is right hey there is a good documentary on Netflix uh Studio 54 because I stay on 54th I stay right
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Featured in the book the odds he is featured in the movie The Best of it he’s been with us for many many years Allan Boston joins us on the show Allan you feel him better uh I’m I’m yeah I’m better I’m fighting it but uh might not be at my best but
Little flu no big deal I understand by the way by saying I did it for my life you’re assuming I had a life oh come on Allan you’ve got a life I I’ve I’ve read the book I’ve watched the movie you’ve lived a you’ve lived a fun life that’s for
Certain some might use a different word but that’s all right all right all right here here’s how we’re going to do it so we’re going to go through half the games today half the games tomorrow I’m just going to do it where we go through the Thursday games today and then we’ll go
Through the Friday games tomorrow and we’ll just go in order of when they are going to I think gramling’s got a good shot tonight by the way okay yeah the we’ve got two tonight right Grambling who I read this morning is this is their first uh NCAA tournament appearance ever
As a school so that’s kind of a cool uh deal for them uh Grambling plays against Montana State and Montana State’s four and a half and then uh Boise State plays Colorado Colorado three and a half so you got any thoughts on either of those yeah I think
Gramley I think gry’s got a good shot I think the programs are are typically pretty comparable except for uh Montana State’s last last couple years but the the sprinkle went away but the guy that hired Loi is fantastic he won he won big
At uh at a D2 school I think it was Fort Lewis something like that but he was a big winner there and and uh they definitely got hot at the right time late in the year they they Uh it it’s just a matter whether you believe the three games in that conference tournament where they played to a very elevated level or is it the rest of the year is has the coach elevated the program that much with now a four and a half Point favorite over
Grambling I say no I grambling’s uh uh is very comparable to them program Wise by by what I mean program wise I’ve talked before about how if you think about it as a golf handicap you know what’s the team’s handicap and these teams handicaps would be very very
Similar so so Montana State went out and and shot even par as a 10 handicap uh three games in a row and and but Grambling played well in that tournament too it it feels very even to me and I I am uh pretty big on Grambling tonight
Wow all right pretty big Dante Dante Jackson’s done a good job there he’s really uh it’s there there they’re so far up against it these swack schools and meak schools is there’s so little funding and and and now it’s you know it’s all about Monday money and they got
To go play all these stupid pay games on the road to keep the programs going which is nice but it’s with all the money being bounced around you think they might be able to figure something out a little that’s a little better anyway my two cents on
That uh anything on Colorado Boise State I I bet Colorado minus a135 in the money line but it’s just more Instinct than anything they’re upside is humongous they’re healthier now I’m not sold on Boise again they they uh their coach is terrific he’s a an old Mark F assistant
He’s been there a long time and Visually they don’t they never look great to me but but he certainly he must know what he’s doing because they they they get better every every year they get better as the year goes on and uh this year is
No exception but it just feels like the talent Gap and and uh is just a little too uh robust to for boys that overcome I was Colorado when they were healthy was very very good and they’re pretty close to 100% now so they should win this game there’s an NBA Mock DFT I
Was looking at the other day Colorado two of the top 20 guys in the mock draft I was like gez Louise it’s not the end all be all but certainly to your point about them having talent they got some high-end Talent there yeah yeah they got some monster recruits this year and and
Uh he knows what he’s doing too so all right they should they should win they shouldn’t be in a playing game by the way I did I did write out all the all what my seeds would be but then I I left it at breakfast so oh my God how about
How about everybody I will I will give I would had I would had Colorado as a six seed I’m gonna give college basketball media uh Kudos on this every one of them on all those shows is was saying why the hell is Virginia there much less a 10
Seed and then they got blasted last night and everybody watching was going this is what we watched instead of Indiana State this is gross yeah Indiana State not getting in was was reprehensible and uh one might hearken to they you know the whole way the whole approach every year the
Approach they they claim to make it better but every year it just makes it so it’s better for the for the bigname schools although six Mountain West schools got in and I would argue that maybe that wasn’t correct but I’d prefer that than having a a team like Virginia
In or you know a team that failed miserably in that conference getting in St John’s is the one that got screwed the most they they were the highest rated team to be left out but in in spirit Indiana State got screwed too when they when they went to Alabama and
Played they were down two starters and Alabama destroyed every single team at home in non-conference they LED Michigan state for a long long way at Michigan State now guarantee if you ask gizo if they should be in he would say yes uh he might be worrying about shirts uh as he
Might get the Indiana job or some other big job the Indiana State coach he he definitely is going to get scooped up by somebody he’s terrific but uh they’ll have to win the NIT instead I guess yeah even the NIT they screwed that up no more no more automatic bids to the team
That won the conference it’s the top two net rated teams from the Power Six conferences get automatic bids and home games in the NIT so anyone that doesn’t think this is all about money and getting the money to the right places is is delusional all right let’s try to get
Virginia was was was ridiculous that they were in we’re gonna try to go through every single well and they got blasted last night Colorado state was really good though Colorado state was very very good last night they got athletes on that Colorado State team I was kind of impressed with they have a
Great coach all right let’s try to get through all these one by one uh if if any of them are not that interesting or you don’t have any thoughts on them let’s just blaze through them uh all right we are going to get kicked off tomorrow morning with Michigan State
Mississippi State Michigan state looks like they’re slight favorite it’s like one or yeah I made it uh I made it pick uh both teams kind of Miss seeded I’d have them both like a six seed oh wow I think I have Mississippi State a five seed borderline five six seed these two
Teams so uh definitely didn’t get a very fair shake and they got a brutal draw the fact that they’re paying each other they both Miss seeded low and now they’re playing each other in the first round and have to play a one-seed NE so neither one of they didn’t do the either
One of these teams any favors uh I did bet Mississippi State plus two and a half but that doesn’t exist anymore so if it goes back up that’s what I bet I think the game should be pick yeah you want it take two for a little In
Fairness this does not fit into your the theory that they’re just screwing the little guy because this is two teams that are no they screwed they screwed both these guys you can’t get any bigger than the SEC and the Big 10 though Allan like I mean I will say that that yeah m
I I don’t know why they want I I I don’t know why they’d want uh sticking Michigan State but no it doesn’t fit my theory at all all right State plays a slow grinded out game that they claim that you know that they would claim is bad for viewership but
Uh the guy the guy at mate’s a great coach I wouldn’t uh I I would always want to bet on Chris Jans so he did Miracles at New Mexico state with far less Talent than he has here all right so they’re they’re the one team I bet to
Win at all them and St Mary’s uh neither one of them got very good draws so I’m not thrilled with it but I I thought Miss State’s upside was humongous I you think they who they Mississippi state would then draw think they have a one seed well they have they’re eight n yeah
Right so they’re eight n uh North Carolina oh God that’s not so bad oh they could definitely be North Carolina you you will be slaming if Mississippi but the problem is Mississippi state would then run into St Mary’s they would if they both Advanced they would meet in the uh sweet
16 well that would be good at least I have a good sweat for one of them yeah oh my God I can’t imagine the amount of money you would put on Mississippi State against North Carolina if they get past Michigan State depends what the line is
But I probably can’t either it might get it might get irresponsible I I know I notice who’s coaching B Teams that’s to go much further than that uh Duane BYU duan’s the team that you text me over the weekend and I won big on uh looks like they’re catching nine and a half
Yeah like too high they bet it up and uh I’ll say this DAV uh coach Davenport at bellerine when they when he played BYU and he knows a lot more than I do he’s uh he’s pretty he’s pretty good like maybe even better than that uh he
Thought beu could win the whole thing he thought they had the uh the talent and the and the Dynamics to win the whole thing I think that’s a bit of a stretch but uh if they get hot at the right time and they they bomb in threes like they
Can that they can beat anybody however uh Dam bro Dam BR at Duane retiring his wife is is ill and and he’s gotten Duane to the tournament which is what he wanted to do and uh he was LeBron James old high school coach so you know there’s that but but he’s a fantastic
Coach not because of that because he just knows what he’s doing do coach du Kane’s coach was his high school coach yeah I didn’t know that he was at akran for years very successful if you listen to his press conferences he clearly knows what he’s doing he’s brutally
Honest he’s a throwback old school guy I love him he’s one of my favorites and I think this line is very very inflated and I I I give Duan a very good chance to cover this game I did take nine and a half for a pretty pretty decent bet akan
Kraton kraton’s 12 and a half yeah that’s way too high oh it is way too high yeah kraton kraton kraton was good at at burying teams that they were way better than but they they showed a lot of holes this year and akan uh I believe the first
Game of the year they went to Celtic OTA State and won which is no easy task and they just played to a very very high rating all year uh there was some one other game they played that was good uh oh yeah uh they beat Bradley at home that that’s
A that’s a really good win of course Bradley got a little better after that and they went to UNLV and and and only lost by two so uh this team can definitely play and this line is really high this is one of the definitely one of the Best Bets of the tournament I
Took uh 13 and I expected to win wow in fact if if they won the game it wouldn’t shock me I’m I’m not this Craton team ain’t great they’re not as good as last year and uh you just think that that’s way too high of a line yeah way too high
All right uh think nine is like tops all right yeah I’ve got that marked as I’ve got that marked definitely bet that one uh Arizona is a 20 and a half Point favorite against Long Beach another coach that uh is leaving the school for a different reason what a
Great story that is though they said they said you can coached the conference tournament and then the guy won the damn thing he said all year that this team had a very high ceiling I’ll say that and they they had injuries uh scattered throughout the year and they’re healthy
Now he knows what he’s doing you know clearly Arizona is uh lays over them talent-wise but that line is is a little too high and Arizona doesn’t defend that great although I like this story mck cron you know he’s he was I mean this guy’s really good Monson he’s he’s
Coached Big Time programs before yeah and they they and the Pack 12 stunk like Arizona might not be that good it’s possible cin say it better than last year and by by my ratings they are better than the last year he says they defend better at all at all five
Spots I I I don’t know I watched them play I wasn’t I wasn’t Blown Away by Arizona right that I think long be state will uh he runs really good offense Monson they they they could hang in there for sure that Wagner team that hung on for dear life last night a
Furious comeback in the game by Howard uh but they’re able to hold on after Howard misses that three that game was actually pretty entertaining uh I’m glad I didn’t watch it because I bet Howard and I I gave it up I I turned it off I couldn’t stand watching him anymore they
Were so bad I know they’re down like 17 or something uh they not play well it was very very uh surprising yeah wag Wagner Wagner’s uh they only use like six or seven guys and you know after watching them I thought they’re gonna this team’s gonna lose by
50 if they were cracking at the end of the game I I imagine they’ll crack a lot sooner against Carolina in Charlotte yeah so that’s probably uh I’m not weighing 24 and a half with North Carolina but all right some people have thought this Morehead team is dangerous Morehead is playing against Illinois
Illinois 11 and a half yeah that whole bracket is nuts like all the like all all the danger teams are in yukon’s bracket which we’ll get to in a second uh yeah morehead’s very good had a very good year the coach is terrific Spradlin they uh control tempo always a good
Thing in the NCA tournament uh Illinois is definitely has uh holes in their defense and if you don’t turn moead over and and I’m not so sure they will then uh they’ll keep this game low and they have a definitely definitely have a good chance to uh to cover the point spread I
Think the line’s a little bit too high you think it’s a little high I think illin o is also a very good team they’re they’re super dangerous they’re they’re hyper athletic and and the coach knows what he’s doing uh but defensively they seem a little uh suspect Illinois does
Just feel they just feel like the kind of team that plays like close right like we’re going to look and they’re somehow it’s like 64 to 60 or some crazy yeah they play play play to the level I think the term they use yeah they’re guilty
That a little bit sometimes for sure uh so that would that would make it even better for Morehead I don’t think it’s a great bet because it’ll only talent wise is really lays over him but the line’s slightly high South Carolina’s one and a half against
Oregon yeah I I uh It’s Tricky Oregon again if you go off their conference tournament where they beat Arizona and beat Colorado they’d be a cinch to win this game and and uh they did get healthier at at the Year’s End and Dante finally got into form he was he’s their starting
Center fivestar recruit ex festar recruit uh who’s had injury problems but he was very healthy during that tournament and and was very dominant and I would definitely uh in fact I’ll definitely bet uh or I don’t think I bet him yet but I’m going to bet Oregon plus
One and a half I I I actually believe they did get better Alman knows what he’s doing I don’t I don’t know if alman’s ever like he he always wins first round games when he was at kraton he always pulled off some uh upset and
And at Oregon he’s uh done very well too he’s he’s a good coach and uh well the South Carina coach is fantastic too but I think he’s a little out manned here they they overachieved all year South Carolina and oftentimes that comes crashing to a to an end they bowed out
The SEC tournament pretty badly and I I I the more I talk about it I actually think Oregon’s probably a really good bet here Oregon you think maybe a really good yeah they really good bet all right here’s they think it’ be better their talent’s way better and the coaching’s
Pretty pretty Prett much to wash here’s one that uh the lower seed is actually favored in I’m interested if you think this is right uh Nevada is the 10 and Dayton’s a seven but Nevada is a one and a half Point favorite uh I bet Dayton I bet a lot on
Dayton hoping their point guard is healthy which he should be he hurt his hand uh towards the end of the year so you think this is wrong you think this isong yeah I’m not sold on aad and Steve Alford I’m not I’m not even though he
Played for Bobby Knight I I uh watching his team’s play he didn’t learn a heck of a lot from them I I like this one of my buddies coaches at Dayton so I’m I’m I’m happy to hear this I want them to win well they have a very good coaching
Stuff I’ll tell you that they definitely know what they’re doing it’s Anthony Grant’s old group too yeah he’s great yeah I do want to tell to your point on Oregon and Dana Alman I just looked it up he has made the NCAA tournament this will be his eighth time he’s made it at
Oregon the previous seven times he has always made the round of 32 never not made the round of 32 Alan Allan’s lived a hard life but he’s got a steel trap brain no only for this not not anywhere else my memory sucks actually elsewhere we get into it uh I I think he
Did well at kraton too by the way I remember him uh beating Billy Donovan in the first round that that made me a lot of money actually what he has made the NCAA tournament the previous 14 times he has always made the round of 32 at least it
Is nine 10 10 of them 10 of them 10 total times in 14 tournament trips he’s made the round of 3 D just taking Dana Alman in the first round’s been a good bet he used he was he was uh Craton he was wildly creative he he pulled out
Like five different presses and he had a million different defenses and again you got to dumb it down a little bit when you start coaching uh the higher athletic teams you have to all their athleticism to shine which I’ve talked about but he knows what he’s doing but
So does in Paris Paris is Paris worked miracles at South Carolina this year they’re not that good South Carolina they they really should uh that should be the end of them you remember when Dana Alman took arget all job for three days that was crazy he showed up to the press
Conference he’s like calling H all those fans are there call those rednecks are there calling the Hogs and Dane Al was like yeah I’m not doing this [ __ ] I’m out of here I’m going to Oregon bunch of rednecks wearing hog hats and yelling Pig like where am I too many too many
Sooes right yeah that’s right it was enough for him he was out LLY fville yeah uh all right so we got Dayton in that one uh Texas is a 2 and a half Point favorite against that Colorado State team we watched last night that looked pretty damn good
Against Virginia they yeah I mean I know Virginia sucked but Colorado state was part of the reason they sucked they were very impressive that D2 kid Joel Scott I think his name is wow what a what a beast but they’re so smart the whole te they didn’t make Billy made a mistake
The whole game like I like their coach too what’s that dude’s name I like him medb is great yeah he follows me on Twitter and I think it’s because drafted David Rody last year you remember and he loved David and he loved David Rody so
Much so I think he was just trying to keep up with what was going on in Memphis but that uh yeah that niik M dude he seems cool he seems like a cool dude oh he’s fantastic coach yeah he he was he was at Ferman prior really work
Miracles there too yeah uh Colorado States becoming uh that whole Mountain West is is a brutal brutal conference like I don’t I’m surprised they haven’t tried to get Gonzaga and St Mary’s to join the Mountain West that would that would be uh would be the logical
Approach to try to get one more power conference so they can do whatever even they have lurking but as you know for sure they tried to set this up for Tennessee to play Texas so the question is is Texas gonna get by Colorado State Colorado State plays like did last night
Like plus look who’s coaching gez you don’t like Terry you don’t like Rodney Terry no no no not at all okay it’s it’s a complete mismatch of coaching and Colorado State I mean earlier in the year they played uh who do they beat back back to back to back they beat crate
Jesus kraton Washington and and Colorado back to back to back not in that order kraton Colorado Washington that’s what it was yeah again that’s uh that’s from memory but I I think I got that right and and and murdered kraton like they looked like a top five team back in the
Day and last night looked like they were back to that level uh it’s hard to maintain that you know Skyhigh level the whole year and uh kind of once I think they felt they were in they were in they they maybe didn’t play their best but
Last night that that was that was again Virginia maybe was not the best opponent but they they completely toyed with them like they were I can’t tell you how good they looked that effort last night will beat Texas it Craton Colorado Washington backto backto Back Games you looked it
Up they beat the piss out of kraton they did by 21 godon 4 that up following that up beating Colorado and Washington uh is you know it’s hard to maintain like three games in a row like that you figured to have a clinker in there and
And they were a little hurt they were a little hurting for the last two games too I think so have we talked ourselves into taking them plus two and a half against absolutely I bet I bet I bet a lot on him actually okay all right we’re
Gonna take him all right yeah I think it’s a pick them game all right Colorado Colorado place that Lev last night they’re not losing to Texas no I’m down I’m down with it [ __ ] they gave up 14 points in a half last night yeah Tony Bennett might need to
Rethink his offense did you see did you see that said on True TV that at one point that they had not scored in 52 minutes like of real time like of actual 52 minutes they went 0 for 19 that’s impossible yeah that’s impossible that’s not optimal is it yeah they suck uh they
Suck but they certainly didn’t bong in this tournament I’m still mad at him for not letting me see my goggles guy at Indiana State the guy they’re called creem he’s great the whole team’s great Indiana State’s one of the funnest teams to watch they run the best offense in
The country and and it’s it’s just it’s a crime that they’re not in it really is all right I their rating high enough to be in they they’re rated higher than a lot of these teams including South Carolina including uh some of those Mountain West teams Boise Nevada etc etc
They’re higher rated in Nebraska by my numbers so you know they they should have been in I thought of you as soon as this next one got announced you said Oakland can run a tricky Zone and then they drew Kentucky which uh their 13 and a half Point favorites Kentucky is against
Oakland does your guy that you love so much at Oakland have a punchers chance or no well just because he’s coaching and it’s against Cal Perry you always have a puncher chance uh however I mean the talent Gap is is rather immense I will say this they get
Ra you know I listened to His Radio Show uh campy’s radio show and they are getting rocket Watts back for this he he will matter a lot he’s one of the more athletic players on the team ex Michigan Stater ex pretty high recruit actually uh and yeah that that zone They Run is
Very tricky and but calip Parry has a very good outside shooting team this year however they are prone to taking bad shots and doing a lot of dumb things and that could allow Oakland to hang for a while and then there’s always the choke Factor when The Underdogs hanging
For a while so I mean it wouldn’t shock me if Oakland beat him and it would certainly make my day a lot better but a lot of people days a lot better but if I had to pick one team to win the whole thing that’s maybe an outsider it would be
Kentucky so there’s the irony I I think Oakland probably has a good chance to cover this game but I think if I had a bet one team to win the whole thing after the draw came out Kentucky has a very very good draw and a very talented
Team like everyone in their bracket kind of sucks FL has lost the Center Marquette marquette’s one of the weaker two seeds uh who else is in there you know the whole bracket’s terrible Duke not that good Texas Tech NC State Wisconsin James James Madison’s good but not good enough Nebraska Texas A&M
Houston Longwood that yeah that’s the easiest bracket by a mile and there’s no reason why Kentucky can’t make the final four against that group that is if they beat Oakland A lot of people love MCN and then they wind up on that 12 line for a 125 possible upset MCN and Gonzaga
Gonzaga is a six and a half Point favorite you think uh will Wade has a chance at uh being one of those 12 five upsets I don’t think so I did I did watch them play though they’re very impressive like uh like they guard like really well they guard the
Three-point line extraordinarily well but on the other end is Mark Fu who I’m sure has watched a lot of film on him and and will will will solve uh any kind of issues uh of scoring he’s rather good offensive mind you don’t like you don’t like this as a trendy pick you don’t
Like this as one of the this is a very trendy pick people picking mcne well that’s good I’m glad no you know I’m I’m an icono class I don’t do Trends I got you no I do reality uh I think the line’s about right okay I mean a six-point favorite isn’t isn’t
Impossible to lose right it’s just a little of a two to one so yeah that’s right it’s not uh it’s not impossible if mcnees beat him but and they were impressive I watched them in the conference center that they were very very good and that Wells kid the TCU transfer is
Fantastic uh Iowa so they have the tools to to pull an upset just Gonzaga are hard out I gotta Iowa State 16 and a half against South Dakota State the line is way too high but I’ve given up trying to beat Iowa State in a point spread beat they beat oh ridiculous
Their defense is is insane uh and and when they they there when they have an edge on you it becomes a humongous Edge because they just you just don’t score that’s pretty much it they don’t give up any points it’s crazy uh I think I think otberg yeah otberg is from South
Dakota State I forgot about that he actually coached there back in the day before he went to UNLV for a pit stop but he’s really uh he’s become a really good coach the line too high I’m betting South Dakota State because the line’s too high but when they get when they’re
Down 22 to2 I won’t you know be mothering myself and saying I told 22 to2 you’re already predicting the score and the fact that you are going to hate yourself oh I hate myself anyway but it’ll just be a little little amped up after it’s 22 to Iowa State
That’s usually what it is when they play teams but South Dakota State ain’t that bad like like I only the game should be about 12 and a half like that’s like what it should be I think I cannot wait to text you if it becomes 22 to2 to just make sure you’re
Okay oh yeah I’ll be fine it wasn’t so fine the last two days I’ll tell you that that’s clu Tennessee is playing St Peters St Peters has uh scared some people in the past not this year next game it’s a mismatch Tennessee gonna kill get through it
Right no there’s nothing to talk about here okay we’ll talk about Tennessee losing later okay but you prob well they probably will if Rick Barnes holds true to form okay making no adjustments during the game and running piss poor offense but he does have that neck kid from Northern Colorado but connect yeah
Whatever is that his name connect yeah D connect yeah uhuh connect I like that yep uh Texas Tech connect dots that’s that’s how you say it uh Texas Tech I wonder why k can is usually no like no and knowledge is yeah no need doesn’t make any sense no it should be necked
Yeah I’m calling him next screw it all right go ahead uh Texas Tech four and a half against uh NC State who had that unbelievable ACC tournament run yeah know it shows what a farce these conference tournaments are it really is it’s a joke like you know I can’t state
Do you think they stink no good for them they won five games in five days but I think that gets here I I I I I don’t have any chart on it but I I I would I kind of my gut kind of says the teams that going these five
Game and five day runs you have to pay the price at some point you’re a human being you have x x number of energy in you and their energy has to be sapped never mind you know they play five in five days and now travel to wherever uh
Do all the the the the NCA you know nonsense with all the interviews and everything and and and it’s just going to be a hard it’s very a very hard Dynamic for them and McCaslin at Texas Tech is among the best in the country
And I just give him a huge Edge in this game and I think that those five games in five days will catch up to NC State and I think Texas Tech will kill him you do yes are you gonna lay four and a half yes I’m not betting a lot because the
Price is right but that’s just my hunch is Texas Tech kills them I think I think I think I think that I think they will crack at some point this might be the this might be the most interesting one Kansas who is now without their best guy
McCullers uh who is a projected top 10 pick in the NBA draft it’s very obvious the fan base thinks the kid is quitting like you know just quit on them Bill self did not defend the kid at all and it makes it sound like the kid is just
Like planning for the NBA draft and is just bowing out on the team and here’s Samford with bucky ball and the 10 guys and they’re playing in Utah I’m I’m hopeful that you like Sam in this spot I I think the line I think it’s priced about right but I do notice who’s
Coaching uh I also I don’t think dick in I mean you know a separated shoulder like that I I would imagine that’s a little dicey too I’m not a doctor but right you go over your head and and it just feels like that could be an issue
Too not that I think he moves the needle a lot I I think like I think I mentioned before he’s been out before and it hasn’t mattered much McCullers does though McCullers does for sure and and you know what you know with all this and all the money they’re being paid if they
Opt out like that screw them just take away their money screw you I think we hired you I think it’s already cleared this is why this why they need contracts right this is very Bowl gamees right the kid from Providence oped it out last night the the the Big
East Player of the Year caught her he Jesus they said it was an injury but it wasn’t damn he just opt it out like I don’t want to play like what a what a bunch of [ __ ] like play the game seriously what is going on in this world
What you’re privileged enough to be good you’re privileged and talented enough to play basketball you put all that effort in and and now here’s a team that that that recruits you and and is like family and you say well I got the NBA ahead of me even though I’m making a million
Dollars in college uh you know I got my NBA career screw you I would tell them to go f themselves and just take their money away you broke a contract no that’s why they’re gonna they’re gonna end up signing contracts that’s exactly how about not paying them how about doing
That how about you’re getting a $300,000 scholarship for four years College like what do you want this is the way that there this the way it’s all going to go I don’t like it either but what it is so we’re not we’re not taking Samford
Seven and a half no damn it I want well take him then I mean you know it’s I just want I just want to root for them bucky ball they they if they won it wouldn’t shock me all right you know the whole the whole can the whole Kansas the
Kansas was terrible on that Cincinnati game but I thought that was smart getting knocked out early but they were completely uh they were completely lost on that court and any kind of repeat of that and and they’re going to get Sanford will beat him all right we got uh not unreasonable clearly there’s
Issues at Kansas if the kid is is just like you know oh woe is me I hurt my ankle or something sort of like the kid when we talked about the court storming who played the next game by the way with his big injury during the court
Storm Philip fo guy ran into the seven foot guy oh my God I hurt my ankle stop the court storming give me a break Jill was going to throw everybody in jail for doing it yeah that’s your guy Jay bis I know you’re a big fan oh God he is so
Reprehensible he was Shilling Pittsburgh big surpriser in the ACC right well In fairness pittsb Pitts Pittsburgh would not have been worse than Virginia there’s no way not much St John’s got screwed the most they were the number one team that that got left out which is crazy because it’s patino you’d figure
They’d want patino in the tournament I don’t know if they’re a big fan of his yeah maybe not hearing him made it all worth it though all right uh here’s another one where the low I’m at Iona for the rest of my life I want to build the Gonzaga
Of the East oh wait a minute St John’s wave that money at me see you yeah the uh the next the last one that we have on Thursday is a lower seed that is the favorite in the game and that is Drake Drake is a favorite in their game uh
Against Washington state is that justified I told you I watched that Drake team and I loved them in the but I might I might have seen their best game ever I mean they they did not miss any threes against Indiana State so I might have caught him on the best day no they
Don’t take too many bad shots like that D is just a great coach his kid’s terrific they run great offense they actually defend pretty well too unfortunately on the other side of the ledge there’s another mirror image of them another team that that’s extraordinarily well coached that
Overachieves you know the the the sum is greater than the parts uh the the the schools are are similar in that regard they’re not Uber talented but they play like it uh Washington state had this amazing run through this year when they went to Arizona and beat them in
Arizona that kind of locked up their NCA seating uh it got them into the tournament they kind of fell apart after that but I have a hunch that they’ll go back to that game where they want an Arizona and if that’s the case I think they’re just slightly better than Drake
And I definitely bet Washington State plus one and a half oh no oh no well they I mean it’s a bad draw it’s a bad draw for Drake they could have drawn uh two of the other seven seeds they could have gone uh yeah I’ll tell you hold on
Actually Florida they would they they definitely would have liked playing Florida without the starting center there we’ll get to that they they would not want to play you like Dayton yeah I’m a Dayton fan but Texas you know they they they lost maachi Smith the start the year and then their other point
Guard got hurt and be a little they could be a little fractured too the other one’s Texas yeah well playing Texas is always a good thing isn’t it I don’t know I haven’t seen them enough and they’re playing Colorado State all right so you like you like you
Won’t have to worry about it after the next game they won’t won’t be Colorado State you like the you like Washington State against Drake though yes I do I bet Washington State plus one and a half I don’t like I don’t I I don’t like doing it I love Drake too okay it
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if Indiana state was in there too these are ones that I sense that you took and you uh and you bet you you seem to really like duaine plus the n and a half that’s not one of the stronger ones but yeah I I
Bet I bet it decent you just seem to yeah okay you loved akan yes that one that I I triple starred that one as like something that I thought that you cared about a lot like you you talked about that one more effusively than the others
Um yeah and croch done well in the tournament but I don’t like I don’t really like him as a coach but that’s that that’s the thing that’s on my mind but the line is really high akan aran’s legit all right and kon’s not some World beater who’s just gonna blow him off the
Court athletically so and I I could see that game very close for a long time they won in South Dakota state akan that’s enough for me make sure that I don’t uh have anything wrong here uh it seemed like you liked Morehead plus 11
And a half n n no no not at that price I took a lot higher okay you liked Oregon Oregon one and a half you like that yeah that’s like yeah mediumish okay you you liked Dayton one and a half yeah bet a lot on that one okay you I’m pretty I’m
Pretty comfortable that they bet a Nevada again though the point guard issue is a little bit of a concern If he if his hand isn’t healed then they’re already short-handed you like Colorado state two and a half yes yes yes and then it seem and then Texas
Tech and Washington State it didn’t seem like you were over the moon for those but that you’ll bet them I’m betting them and Washington state for a little more than Texas Tech although I I after I talked about it I guess uh I don’t know they all kind of make sense I
Really think they’ll crash I probably will battle out on Texas deck actually it’s McCaslin against Keats too I gotta do that Allan I went I went so far while you were doing this every one of your picks I bet him you took all these don’t go poor Morhead Morhead I took 14 with
Morehead not 11 and a half except no no no I didn’t do that one no no no I didn’t I didn’t do that one I and I took Drake I love Drake I love Drake I love Drake Drake a couple years ago made me so much money when they freaking covered
Like the first 19 games the season that I will forever love them that is terrific like they did do you remember that of course of course you remember it match up for him because the other coach is so so good that that like all the edes he’d have against a lot of the
Teams in this tournament are are Gonzo you have to remember of course it’s a game you have to remember that they they did two years ago they started off the season 19 and0 against the spread it was something cost money for sure because I wouldn’t catch up with
Their rating that fast who was the one that you said you couldn’t catch up with the rating oh Iowa State but then that team have they have they beaten you the most Iowa State I had him against Houston in the finals but we’ll get into the reasons why tomorrow when we talk
About Houston perfect I remember that Drake team they ended up they ended up barely making the tournament and they made the play in and they won their playin game but they absolutely could have been a big time like sleeper that could have done sweet 16 or lead eight
But they lost their point guard and they lost their leading score like towards the end of the season and they just they were never the same dang yeah exactly all right shout out Drake All right look we’re gonna know they’re great they’re fun to watch they’re great
We’re gonna go through all I have my toxic was shirt on by the way I see that I love tox autograph though that’s right it’s opposite here yeah that’s uh that’s Jonathan Greece so that’s llo J Greece uh that was uh this is from the movie Real Genius yeah with
Val Kilmer and uh but I went to a uh they had a a a a meet and greet for the crew of the cast of Napoleon Dynamite and Jonathan Greece was there with the two others and uh I walk in with a shirt he looks at it he says wait a minute I
Said right I came for the wrong movie but here I am and and we and we he was great we talked that I told him and he made the good point is is the effect that Real Genius had on me was the effect that Napoleon Dynamite had on on
Others Co Classics both yeah I didn’t I didn’t I didn’t Napoleon Dynamite didn’t do it for me like it did for others but Real Genius was it that was it for me top 10 movie of all time in my eyes there you go all right hey we’re gonna
Go through the other uh we’re gonna go through all the Friday games tomorrow on the show so we’ll talk to you then excellent thank you thanks Alan good good luck you’re the best uh Alan Boston lifetime Las Vegas wise guy you can uh if you want to see the movie that was
Made by it’s called the best of it there’s also the book by Chad milman called the odds which is a great great read for any sports yeah when you just ran through there at the end the the ones that he liked I started I was like
All right cool I had it pulled up and I was like I’m I don’t bet a ton like I I I don’t bet like he does or even like you do seem like akan was waning about I only bet a ton if it’s momes vers the or if it’s anybody playing the
Cowboys in the playoffs you prick for that jerk for that I mean I I he’s an underdog three weeks in a row Patrick Mahomes it sucks it was like a gift from God win that game they won that game because of their defense truly a gift
From God it was like God was saying you know what Chris I feel bad about what’s happening with the Cowboys I’m going to make sure that Mahomes is I’m just going to end the show what are we doing here do we’re talking about my success and we’re
Talking about why I bet a lot it’s because my War chest is built up thanks to Patrick momes you’re War chest my that’s what they call it you’re War chest chest this is my war no I bet him I bet him all I didn’t take the Morehead
Game cuz he said he got he said he when he said he said he clarified he said no I don’t like it there cuz I got a better number so I didn’t I didn’t touch it there you go some of those I did was thinking about cuz I’m like the lines
Are the only one on I’m worried about are the UAB or wait no it’s not U what’s the other one of the five 12 James Madison he was talking about James Madison the public is all over the twel all because it always happens I did bet St Mary’s
Gary convinced me on St Mary’s okay okay when Gary said St Mary’s is playing if you look at they’ve been playing like a top 10 team in the country I was like I’ll rock with St Mary Randy Bennett’s awesome do it for delova and Omar Sam
Hand Omar Sam Han all right it’s good to do it for today’s show uh thank you D Boston thanks to Gary Paris we’ll be back tomorrow oh 9:30 tomorrow morning yeah Jess will be on at 8 and then y’all do a little crossover segment and then
9:30 and then we’ll bring on Alan Boston and he’s going to go through all the Friday games yes we’ll get you ready for those all right what’s up Jaylen talking J back in the studio until tomorrow we gone
