2026-03-12- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 2: Welcome everyone.

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Speaker 3: It is Kentucky Sports Radio, Thursday, March the twelfth. I'm Matt Jones here in Nashville, Tennessee at the SEC Tournament at ten Rupe. For once again, a huge crowd has joined us, this time an hour earlier than usual to get ready for Thursday of the SEC Tournament. It is Kentucky and Missouri. We are here on Broadway. And how about all these folks getting up this early in the morning to come out join us.

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Speaker 2: It's eight o'clock in the morning.

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Speaker 3: Here in Nashville and they are still here getting ready for a big game. You can give shollering Clark's pumping shot full line eight five to nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, a vision auto glass text machine seven seven two seven four five two five four in this edition sponsored by the TJ. Smith Office called TJ He'll make them pay. We are on our SEC Tournament trip Clayton and Krouman twice, Burt Burt Tavern.

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Speaker 2: I will get it sponsoring our trip.

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Speaker 3: And guys Kentucky started the SEC Tournament with the win yesterday.

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Speaker 2: How many of you? How many folks were at the game yesterday?

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Speaker 3: All right, good, that's what I like to see a lot of people here. I think there are a ton of people on the way as we speak. And if you are eight five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, give.

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Speaker 2: Us a shout.

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Speaker 5: Drew.

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Speaker 3: I watched you on TV sitting uh be, you know, sitting right behind the camera acting like a big superstar, and you got to see the best Brandon Garrison game in the history of basketball.

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Speaker 6: It was incredible. I actually I was Jerry Tipton yesterday. I was the first person to the tournament they told me what I got there. You're forty five minutes early. Just stand outside and then you can come in. But I will say I saw the team come in and they were look kind of lazy tired. We all were. But in the back of the line and I wrote this, Brandon Garrison was bouncing off the walls.

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Speaker 2: Oh really, And I had a moment.

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Speaker 6: I didn't know he was gonna do that, but there was a little bit like is it beg time? So it was. He came in prepared when everybody else kind of limped into the first game.

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Speaker 3: I think he saw bam Adebayo score eighty three points and said, now it's my turn to do the same thing. You know, yesterday on the show, I said that if he scored double digits in any game in the SEC tournament, I would ride.

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Speaker 2: A bull and get up.

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Speaker 6: Let's go.

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Speaker 2: Well we'll do it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I just probably go try to get as far in the tournament as I can before I do.

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Speaker 2: But he did it. It was a classic Brandon Garrison thing.

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Speaker 3: He had a chance to get a dunk to get double digits, missed it, then goes to the line for two free throws, makes the first misses the second, and I thought, Ryan, right, I'm good, He's not gonna have to hit it. And then my man comes out and hits the two biggest shots of the game. They might end up being the two biggest shots of the tournament, two threes to get to fifteen and honestly turned the game around and got Kentucky that victory.

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Speaker 7: That's been the tale of Randon Garrison all season, Right, missed that dunk and then come back hit back to back three pointers. I mean, I think he took it personal when you were throwing him shade on the radio show yesterday.

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Speaker 3: I mean, how you let's be honest, how many people really believe that the difference in that basketball game was gonna be Brandon Garrison?

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Speaker 2: But it was. I mean, he you did who I do well? Mario was the one, probably.

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Speaker 3: Mario's if Mario's correct, and tonight's Jasper Johnson's game.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, here we go.

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Speaker 5: He played out of his mind.

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Speaker 4: Though we were talking yesterday on the show, you said, give me some random player that could be the most valuable this tournament for Kentucky. Maybe it's your guy BG. The way he was playing yesterday, he's playing out of his mind.

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Speaker 2: It was unbelievable.

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Speaker 3: What most importantly Kentucky got that win, I mean that was it was LSU played really, really well, especially in the first half.

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Speaker 2: Kentucky's defense was bad the whole time.

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Speaker 3: I actually thought Kentucky played offensively pretty well, especially when you consider that Chandler was not hitting shots. I actually thought they did a pretty good job. But LSU stays in and then the one little dude we could not stop for about thirty five.

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Speaker 2: Minutes of the game.

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Speaker 6: When you're playing the sixteen seed, a lot of times they just want to go home, they want to transfer, their coaches getting fired. They're like, please let this season end. And I walked into Bridgestone hoping we see that version of LSU, but that was not the case. They came in with some passion and tried to play for McMahon. And you know, Kentucky was scoring, but they couldn't get stops. And credit to LSU, they they brought the fight.

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Speaker 3: Well, I got to give the people here a big credit. You got that was a big crowd for Kentucky yesterday. For Wednesday at one o'clock. I mean I I actually was. We weren't even here yet. We stopped and one of my friends work at the game showed a picture. I mean it was not full, but there was a big Kentucky contingent that I was told six LSU fans in the crowd.

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Speaker 6: I think that's an exaggeration. Like I said, I was the first person in the building. I don't remember seeing one.

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Speaker 3: Well, there were two old guys. They kept showing on TV. Okay, so I know they were there, but I think that might have been in.

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Speaker 4: There were not many, yeah, I mean good crowd though for a Wednesday, probably the most people that have ever been there for the opening game of the SEC tournament.

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Speaker 5: Today, what do you think the crowd is going to be?

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Speaker 2: Like?

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Speaker 5: Do you think? I mean, I think a whole lot more.

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Speaker 2: Well, I actually think so.

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Speaker 3: When yesterday during our pregame show, if you remember, I looked at cheapest.

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Speaker 2: Tickets and they were eight dollars.

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Speaker 3: Today I just looked this morning it was forty six dollars. So I think that means a lot more. And then you know you've got going on here at the same session, Kentucky playing and then Tennessee Auburn.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, is the second game.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna assume there's a lot of Tennessee fans Auburn sometimes travels decently. Well, I would suggest Ryan that today, well, actually tonight, I think you'll be able to get in any easy. But today I actually think will be a decent ticket.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I think this ticket for the afternoon session may be hard to get a lot of fans that had already planning coming down last night, now they're coming down at a perfect time to see two good games this afternoon.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I I'll look right here now.

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Speaker 3: I'm because Mario and I have credentials where we can't even get on the floor.

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Speaker 4: Here, go ahead and brag about it. We can't get out of the door. You can't get on the floor, we can't get in the door.

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Speaker 3: The SEC tournament has now taken Well, first, Drew is sitting right behind the camera.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it turns out you're the first one there the laced anywhere, and you.

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Speaker 2: Two are not even allowed in. So I'm just looking right now.

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Speaker 3: It's well thirty nine dollars so that there are tickets available, that they are all up top.

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Speaker 2: So I'm gonna probably actually sit with the fans today.

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Speaker 4: You probably have a lot better time doing that too, And then you know, press row sometimes all that is cracked up to be at the time, hasn't been credentialed.

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Speaker 6: I got a brag on the crowd. I go to every home game and Rupp's been great this year. If you were at the Florida game, I know we didn't win, but that was RUP's fastball. Rubb doesn't hold a candle too. We agree.

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Speaker 2: It's so different. It is so different right here the fans in Nashville.

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Speaker 3: This is the best of Big Blue Nation to yelp, I mean, and that's that's nothing against that's nothing against Repperena.

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Speaker 2: But the you get so loud. I mean. They asked a couple of players yesterday.

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Speaker 3: They asked Colin Chandler, I think in the post game, what's it like with the crowd, and he sort of smiled and said, don't tell anybody, but this crowd's louder than what we have at home.

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Speaker 2: And Ryan, I think that's completely correct.

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Speaker 8: Well, we talked about that. It's a different crowd.

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Speaker 7: These folks that aren't gonna make it the Upperena, save their money, plan their vacation to come down here and celebrate with the catch.

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Speaker 6: Every year.

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Speaker 8: We're long overdue for a celebration in this town.

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Speaker 2: So this is I think tonight is a big day.

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Speaker 3: But before we do that, let's go back to yesterday and just talk about individual players. Oway did his regular twenty to twenty, you know, twenty eight point games. Big thing for me about o way he hit the most port and shot of the game. It's eighty, we're.

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Speaker 2: Up by five, there's a minute and a half left, we're having trouble scoring.

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Speaker 3: Lsu has come back from twelve to five and he hits that long two, which you know, I hate those shots, but if anybody's gonna take them through, I don't mind when Oway does.

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Speaker 2: He made a big win yesterday.

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Speaker 6: Didn't love it in the moment, but of course when you hit that pull up jumper like that. Lsu was kind of sagging off. You know, he's going right, he's driving to the lane and they wanted him to take that shot, and he pulled up and he looked right at Mark Pope and kind of gave a celebration, kind of a bang there. So that was a huge dagger for Oway and just another great game by him and Aberdeen. They're just the consistency.

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Speaker 2: Aberdeen I thought played really well.

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Speaker 3: Didn't score in the first half, but then in the second half, was able to get some big buckets, made free throws when he needed to down the stretch. And then, I mean, you have to talk about Brandon Garrison eighteen points, but hey, not.

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Speaker 2: Just eighteen points.

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Speaker 3: Played twenty seven minutes for me, didn't do anything two stupid most of the game, which makes me very happy. Threw a great pass towards the end of the game, and I played decent defense. You know, right, Not only was that his best game. I'm not gonna say can he do it all the time, because he can't, but I will say that was the most consistent game he's had since he's been at Kentucky.

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Speaker 7: And then in of it, you know, Malachai got in foul trouble early, so he struggled. He did struggle, but bgw me, he's going to get a lot of minutes. Comes in and immediately had a couple of those hook shots in the lane to start off with, and I got him going.

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Speaker 3: See those hook shots shing. I mean, that was like old school. He reminded me of those hook shots of a Jamal mcglure, like with his back to the basket, just kind of putting a little touch.

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Speaker 2: He made three of those during the game.

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Speaker 5: I'll take that.

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Speaker 4: But you know what that means that he hit one three yesterday, that means he's gonna come out to take at least two or three today in trouble.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely take When he made the first one, when he was lining up for the second one, Mario was just screaming beg at the top of his lungs and I did not want him to take it, and then he trained.

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Speaker 6: It came across on the broadcast, but in the moment there was a unison nore yeah, even a player I can remember who it was. But someone in the post game even brought it up. They said one of the players said, we heard everyone ye'll know, and Brandon went to shoot, and then we all would It was the no, no, no, no, yes, we all did it to go.

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Speaker 3: And I mean when he made his first one, folks, it was a one point game, was seven minutes to go. I mean the idea, hey dude, it's a one point game, was seven minutes to go.

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Speaker 2: He had only made Ryan.

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Speaker 3: Two threes all season and he made two and forty seconds that changed the game.

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Speaker 7: We knew as soon as he hit that first one, next time he gets the ball it's going up somewhere, no matter where he is, he's gonna shoot He just I got that mentality.

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Speaker 8: He was on a heat check yesterday. Of course he's gonna shoot it.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, he's heat checking today. Y'all get ready, we're getting We're getting several.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Do you think Colin Chandler walked at the end? Oh?

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Speaker 5: Absolutely walk.

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Speaker 3: I feel like they got about five or six walks in that game, both teams that just I guess they've just stopped calling that, but they just switched pivot foots back and forth and they wouldn't call it.

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Speaker 6: I had my guard up a little bit, and not to be negative, but remember last year they almost botched that Oklahoma game in like unbelievable fashion, and I've kind of had worried about that. There where they finished the job, but there was a moment where that five, six, seven point lead didn't feel that comfortable until the very end.

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Speaker 3: So they get the victory and now today play Missouri. Missouri of course beat US at Rupperina. I think the different I mean, if we win that Missouri game, just to show you how things have changed changed, if we win that Missouri game, we were a sixth seed in the SEC tournament instead, we're a nine seed. I think if we win the Missouri game, we're probably guaranteed a sixth seed in the NCAA tournament.

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Speaker 2: This is a big one for Kentucky today.

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Speaker 3: I think if you win today, if you go look at what's happened in the rest of the country, all the bubble teams have lost, all the teams.

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Speaker 2: Around us have not done well.

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Speaker 3: If you win today, you can get that sixth seed. If not locked up, I think very close to locked up. I would argue Ryan, this is the biggest game of the tournament for Kentucky. Florida would be great if they won, but this is the one that's the biggest.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, you laid it out yesterday.

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Speaker 7: There's a big difference if you're a sixth seed or a seventh seed in the NCAA tournament. You want that six seed for your competition. But man, when we played Missouri in January, the one thing I remember during the broadcast, Jack Gibbons saying, just fight. These guys are not they need to fight. We didn't have a lot of effort that game, so we owe them today.

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Speaker 4: We had Jalen Lowe in that game. Let's remember that don't have them. Now we did have Cam Williams. We got him back. Colin Chandler only played five minutes in that game against Missouri. He's gonna be huge day.

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Speaker 3: It was really that was the last game. He really didn't play a lot. It flipped right after that. I would note, if you win today and you're a sixth seed, I don't see they're not gonna pair us with Alabama as our three, and I bet they don't pair.

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Speaker 2: Us with Gonzaga because we've played them.

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Speaker 3: So that means Drue, you're gonna get Iowa State or Nebraska, who are both teams that if you asked me today, give me a top seed you'd like to be paired against. I would choose Iowa State or Nebraska that if you look at it, Ryan and I were looking that game would either be in Saint Louis or Oklahoma City, both places Kentucky fans can go. This really is if you want to make a surprise run to the second weekend, this is the game to win today.

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Speaker 6: And Saint Louis specifically a lot of fans last night up and down Broadway, you know, get a lot of Western Kentucky here that Saint Louis trip is easy ease, and they're already planning it. So please give us Saint Louis between Iowa State and Nebraska. You know, we're all guessing what it could be. I'd love to see Nebraska. Ioway State scares me a little bit. I'd like some Nebraska ball, but specifically Saint Louis. I think we would have a good turnout with a lot of people that were even here this week.

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Speaker 2: Love playing, but you gotta play somebody.

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Speaker 3: And if you're telling me that I can play Iowa State instead of Yukon or Houston, I'm taking Iowa State.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and then you can play them in Saint Louis where we could have all those fans.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I Kentucky's got after all the problems this year, Kentucky's got real potential to get a draw. They can do something in if they can win today A fem nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. We are at tin roof at this show. Over the years, we've had people getting gauged. We've seen fiftieth anniversaries. We got our youngest person who is eight years old. Our oldest is eighty four. We will take a break and be right back from Nashville. This is Kentucky Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: Waterback.

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Speaker 3: It is Kentucky Swarts Radio here live in Nashville at ten roof, top section absolutely packed getting ready for Cats and Missouri today. Can Mark Pope and Bill Upside, Bill Gates. That would be a different game Tennis Gates today for Missouri. Matt, Ryan, Shannon and Drew. A great crowd here this morning. One person rights, Matt, I don't want to play Iowa State because they do what we don't do.

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Speaker 2: But my question is, honestly, who do you want to play?

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Speaker 3: We've got to play somebody, yeah, I mean, pick a team that's the two or three seeds you want to play.

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Speaker 2: I mean we can't.

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Speaker 3: We don't get to choose and let's play Oklahoma in the next round.

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Speaker 2: We gotta play somebody good.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, if you want to play weak teams, you gotta be the number one seed.

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Speaker 3: Of the exactly right. So we we didn't do that. So I don't know. I mean, I'm Withdrew. Nebraska would be the best matchup against against us, But like I don't want to see us play Houston. I think we would really struggle against a team like Houston. We would really struggle against a team like Yukon. But you give us those big twelve teams that are not as physical as Houston, I'll give us a chance.

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Speaker 6: That's why in November and December when Kentucky wasn't doing well, you know, people saying they'll turn it around. But at some point you got to protect your path in the NCAA tournament because you do have to play these good teams when you're seven, eight seed whatever, they're gonna be.

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Speaker 2: What person rights? Matt, I got a question for Drew.

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Speaker 3: It seems like he's really starting to come around on Mitch Barnhart and really liking him a lot.

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Speaker 2: Am I correct about that?

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Speaker 6: No comment. I'm in a good mood. We beat LSU. Let's let's stay with the objective. Let's be optimistic. That's enough enough, Matt, I have no comment.

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Speaker 3: I mean, listen, not complaining. But this is you know this, there will be There's no other show that could get anyone to come out to anything. There are five of us, and they will only let two in the building, and we're not even allowed on the court.

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Speaker 5: Because we're all about of knuckleheads. You know that, right, That's what it really is.

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Speaker 2: It really is unbelievable.

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Speaker 6: I hate to do the silence and no comment on radio because you have to comment, but I'm not in a good place in that relationship. I'll just say that I'm happy that Kentucky's doing well, but in that conversation, I am not in a good spot.

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Speaker 3: Well versus rights Matt Cam Williams, how much will he be playing today and then the rest of the tournament?

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Speaker 2: You know a bit. He had a big shot yesterday. I thought that was good.

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Speaker 3: I think the biggest thing for Cam is you got to sit there and think, Okay, what were the minutes that we're going to Trent? Noah, They're now gonna go to Cam. And then I think when he is healthier, maybe by next week Ryan, maybe maybe he takes some of those Chandler minutes or allows Aberdeen in o way to rest. But let's remind her, oh wait, played thirty nine minutes last night. Aberdeen played thirty seven minutes last night, and ultimately that's probably what we have to do.

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Speaker 7: You know, Trent didn't even get off the bench to zero minutes. But I think Cam provided a little spark when he came in. You mentioned he's three.

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Speaker 8: Just the fact that hav Hi.

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Speaker 7: Him out there as a threat helps spread the defense out, you know what I mean?

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Speaker 6: Yes, I think with Cam coming back, you know, Trent played zero minutes yesterday and there's you know, you worry about him taking a spot. I don't know how Cam's foot will respond. Today might be a Trenton day because as good as Cam was in seventeen minutes, he hit the big three. Is good to see him. You know, he can't just throw away those. The bench is still gonna have to play Trent Jasper. They're gonna have to have moments.

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Speaker 3: It's worth noting they did say Tom Leach and Jack Gibbons on the pregame show yesterday that this may be one of those things where Cam can play one day and then not play the next day. So this might be a game where Shannon he doesn't even get in and then they try to get him to play the next day against Florida.

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Speaker 4: Yep, it would be nice to get him out there for eight to ten minutes if that's possible today, just to have a three point shooting thread out there. I just wonder, you know, we've made so much about fatigue, how's this team gonna respond today?

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Speaker 5: After you know playing Yes.

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Speaker 3: Well, also, I will say the whole analytics these guys can't play a lot of minutes. When it really came down to it, Ryan, they played O Way thirty nine minutes in Aberdeen thirty seven minutes. And that's knowing we might have two, three, four whatever games coming left.

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Speaker 2: I have to say I've always felt like.

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Speaker 3: That's kind of a ridiculous age. Remember, the question is not whether or not Oway will be a little worse at eighty percent. Clearly he will. The question is an eighty percent O way better than whatever else we have And the answer is almost certainly.

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Speaker 2: Ryan.

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Speaker 8: Yes, it's that time of year.

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Speaker 2: Man.

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Speaker 7: You gotta win the game. You gotta play your best guy on the court. Win the game, no matter what you worry about tomorrow tomorrow, but you gotta win the game.

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Speaker 8: I'll have an advance.

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Speaker 2: Let's talk about a couple of things that happened in this tournament.

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Speaker 3: Uh, you had Texas lose in the first round the old miss They are probably gonna make the tournament, but that hurts them and Auburn more importantly, Auburn wins yesterday and Indiana loss for the eighth straight time to Northwestern.

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Speaker 2: I want you to think about that.

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Speaker 3: Indiana basketball lost for the eighth straight time to Northwestern, and yesterday they had to win to make the tournament. They are almost certainly out after losing for the eighth straight time to Northwestern. The coaches kid is on the team, Drew, and they asked him what they thought about the game, and he goes, well, it's just sad that we'll, you know, probably never get to wear this Indiana uniform again.

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Speaker 2: And the announcer was like, well, you're on the bubble.

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Speaker 3: You could still get in, and he goes, oh, yeah, I mean I guess we could get in the NCAA tournaments, you know, which apparently they're clearly skipping. Yeah, but I mean if you were like, they are first team out under Lonardi and he was already like, well, we're not getting.

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Speaker 6: In, and you know, with Kentucky being on a little bit of a downslide recently, those comparisons pop up. But we're still not in that conversation whatsoever. I mean, they are in such a bad spot. You and I have been to Indiana game, well it was Nebraska where they it was the last home game of the season. I mean that that program has fallen so far.

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Speaker 2: I think I saw a stat.

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Speaker 3: Indiana has missed the tournament some like seven of the last nine years or something like that.

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Speaker 2: Ryan.

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Speaker 3: So again, when people say, well, we're gonna become Indiana, they have made the tournament twice in the last nine years.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, at least we're making the tournament. It you know, you know this. But I grew up in Indiana. I've heard that, Oh, I'm gonna be a point guard for Bob Knight. When I was a little guy, you wouldn't be and I was gonna be calber Cheney.

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Speaker 5: Anything.

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Speaker 8: Indiana basketball is all about it. I was a little kid. They were the ship.

00:20:51
Speaker 5: Well dumb, that dump that Rick?

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Speaker 2: Rick? What the hell is wrong with you?

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Speaker 6: You got it?

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Speaker 2: Okay? Rick dumped it right?

00:21:01
Speaker 5: Bull again, Let's try that again. They were What did we, ma'am?

00:21:05
Speaker 2: Did I not have a conversation with him yesterday?

00:21:09
Speaker 5: Clearly it worked what you have been.

00:21:12
Speaker 2: On here for thirty years.

00:21:14
Speaker 7: Sorry, I got a little worked up there that I apologized everybody that was bad for him.

00:21:17
Speaker 5: Indiana was the pooh, yes.

00:21:20
Speaker 2: Just we'll go to the phones.

00:21:22
Speaker 6: I love him so much.

00:21:23
Speaker 5: I remember I do you forget get a microphone?

00:21:27
Speaker 6: Feeling he's feeling it in here.

00:21:29
Speaker 2: You can't take him anywhere. All right, who's up first? God?

00:21:33
Speaker 5: Cam?

00:21:34
Speaker 2: Cam? Go ahead, Cam? What is wrong with.

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Speaker 9: Ohio?

00:21:39
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a child right there, Go ahead, cam.

00:21:43
Speaker 5: Role model here?

00:21:44
Speaker 10: All right, it's Cam from lad Man.

00:21:46
Speaker 2: I'm calling from my school's bathroom. Wait a minute, you're in the bathroom at your school.

00:21:52
Speaker 9: Yeah, I want calling really bad.

00:21:55
Speaker 6: Oh I forgot tonight.

00:21:57
Speaker 2: I forgot to write that kid's nose. No.

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Speaker 5: Oh, what a villain.

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Speaker 2: Okay, well, hopefully he still got off school. I forgot.

00:22:05
Speaker 3: He wrote me after and said, my mom is still requiring the note even though you forgot.

00:22:09
Speaker 6: This is the note speaking all right.

00:22:14
Speaker 10: Well, my fun fact is it's illegal to drive with an uncaged bear in your car in Missouri.

00:22:22
Speaker 3: Well, I'm glad you skipped class for that, Cam, I appreciate it.

00:22:26
Speaker 2: And uh, what class were you supposed to be in? So let's be a math Christian math.

00:22:34
Speaker 11: No, just like algebra.

00:22:36
Speaker 5: Oh okay, algebra math a religion on math now changed.

00:22:42
Speaker 2: Eight eighty seven.

00:22:45
Speaker 3: We will come back, hopefully Ryan will not curse in the middle of the show again and get us beeped. We will take a break and be ready back here at Tin Roof on the road.

00:22:56
Speaker 2: With Kentucky Sports Radio.

00:22:59
Speaker 3: We're back as Kentucky Swartz Radio eight nine two twenty two eighty seven. People are reminding me that you don't have to give the note until you go back to school. So I got time to write that. Yeah, I got time to write that today. When you you, you miss and you come the next day with the note. So we will write that today. He's uh, he's gonna call I think in a little while, so that's good.

00:23:20
Speaker 2: I want him to be able to uh uh to skip.

00:23:23
Speaker 3: One person writes Matt, what did we think of the calls yesterday?

00:23:26
Speaker 2: The technical on Aberdeen week that technical was weak and it could have that could have been a big play in the game too.

00:23:35
Speaker 3: He ends up missing one of the two free throws and then they didn't score, so it didn't it didn't really matter.

00:23:40
Speaker 2: But then the same thing the flagrant.

00:23:43
Speaker 3: Called on on on Diabante could have been big.

00:23:46
Speaker 2: And then even though it was against us, I thought.

00:23:48
Speaker 3: The flagrant on the dug on Moreno, you duck on a guy's face and then you get the flagrant.

00:23:54
Speaker 2: Reps were a little trigger happy, maybe well.

00:23:57
Speaker 6: Sinde where I was yesterday. You know, I'm not normally there. I could see the action up close. And the Aberdeen technical was a joke because the McKinnon guy for LSU seconds before that was cussing like Ryan over here to the ref and I'm like, how can he say the F bomb? And then Aberdeen just sticks out his tongue and you're teeing him.

00:24:16
Speaker 3: Well, the announcers kept saying on television, Ryan, Oh, he did it once and they told him to stop, and then he did it again, but then they showed the video and.

00:24:24
Speaker 2: He didn't do it again. He did do it.

00:24:26
Speaker 3: One time, but then I don't the technical was like five seconds later.

00:24:30
Speaker 2: I thought that was a bogus car.

00:24:31
Speaker 7: And of all people on the team, Abertey's probably the quietest guy on the team. He got an every kind of keeps to himself. Oh I do was Sticky's tongue out the guy? I mean, why is that any kind of worthware worthwhile of a technical?

00:24:40
Speaker 3: We have had three straight games of Colin Chandler missing shots. If Kentucky's going to make any kind of run, that does have to change, right.

00:24:48
Speaker 6: I mean, we all know how hot he got. Well, he became part of the scouting report and he has to find other ways to score because they've cut that off and we need him to drive a little bit, get some buckets in the lane. We love him as a three point shooter, but other teams to sniffed that out and have completely cut it off.

00:25:02
Speaker 3: He he had that wide open three Shannon that would have put the game away.

00:25:06
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was wide open in the corner. Then he missed it.

00:25:09
Speaker 3: Then the next time down Diabate took what I would argue is the worst shot in the history of organized pass.

00:25:15
Speaker 6: That was like seven feet past the rom I had the perfect angle it had. I mean it almost landed in the crowd.

00:25:21
Speaker 3: It was like when you play golf on you know, and they'll just show the thing hook that was. And the thing was there was no one close to him, no one, and he that was the worst shot. I mean it, that might be the worst shot I've ever seen someone take.

00:25:36
Speaker 4: It's definitely in contention. I can't think of any others that were worse than that. But to your point on Colin Chandler, if he can just play some sort of a version of how he played against Vanderbilt where he just couldn't miss.

00:25:47
Speaker 2: But what worries me. What worries me is nice missing Shannon Open shot yeah open.

00:25:52
Speaker 4: I think he's getting in his head for some reason. He's got the yips. It seems like he does.

00:25:55
Speaker 3: It does seem like he has the yips, and that's gotta I mean hit. He hit one early, so I thought he had gotten it back, but just has. Before I go to the phones, Kentucky has now hired a report say hired. Keegan Brown worked for Mark Pope at BYU to be one of his player personnel people. I went last night before I went to sleep, and I was scrolling through Keegan Brown's Twitter and read his Twitter because he's been tweeting for two years about how he thinks college basketball teams should build their roster. I encourage you, if you want to see what Kentucky's roster may look like, go read it. He goes into detail, but his basic theory is you don't need top thirty guys. You need guys who play roles and fit into positions, kind of what we've heard Mark Pope say for the last couple of years. You know, I don't know the guy, so he may be great for the job, but I think if we were hoping that they go get these superstars.

00:26:52
Speaker 2: It doesn't seem to be this guy's philosophy.

00:26:55
Speaker 8: Seems to be the mo of Coach Pope.

00:26:56
Speaker 7: Like you said, so, is this guy a quote unquote gonna be our gm ish guy.

00:27:01
Speaker 2: I don't know, but if he is, it would make you know.

00:27:05
Speaker 3: People say Mark Pope's probably gonna hire somebody he knows and who thinks like he does.

00:27:10
Speaker 2: That's probably what this guy seems like.

00:27:11
Speaker 6: I remember him very well from when Pope first got hired. I was shocked that he wasn't an assistant coach. He's got all the Utah ties, the analytics. I think he's a really good assistant coach. I hope he's not our negotiator. He's very valuable, but we need someone with the shoe deals, the agents that knows that landscape. I think King Brown is a big asset, but I worry what they're actually having.

00:27:36
Speaker 4: I don't know what the analytics say, but if you told me I could have top thirty guys or role players, I'm taking the top thirty guys all the time. I feel like we got role players on the team right now. I feel like that's what this roster is built of it's just role players.

00:27:47
Speaker 2: I agree.

00:27:48
Speaker 3: I will say this I did. He works for the Milwaukee Bucks. Drew and I we both know someone that works for the Milwaukee Bucks.

00:27:55
Speaker 2: I called us.

00:27:57
Speaker 6: One of our good friends.

00:27:58
Speaker 2: I called that guy yesterday.

00:28:00
Speaker 3: He said tell me and he said, look, this Keegan Brown is one of the smartest people, uh, that I know.

00:28:06
Speaker 2: So he did say that, So I like that.

00:28:08
Speaker 6: I remember That's what I was alluding to. When Pope got hired. There was a story written about him that I was like, can we please get this guy because from the you know, basketball analytics side, I think is a genius. But you know, GM's honestly kind of on this one's a little sleazy. We're talking about money, not basketball analytics.

00:28:25
Speaker 3: The smart one and now we just need bazy one and then we can, uh, we can come together. But this, this guy with the Bucks who I know, was like, in terms of intelligence, you're not gonna find anybody smarter than this guy.

00:28:38
Speaker 2: So that's that. That to me is good. Who's up next? Joey is next? Joey, Go ahead, Joey.

00:28:45
Speaker 9: Hey, guys man, I'm pumped up about this tournament.

00:28:48
Speaker 10: It's March.

00:28:48
Speaker 9: We're ready. Let's go Cats. But yesterday I think the best thing that could have happened happened. Brandon Garrison had a big game. And when he's playing like that, guys, we are tough to be And that's all I got to say.

00:29:02
Speaker 3: Yeah, well we did only win by five, but we are tough to beat. The good thing about him is he gives. He gives a toughness that maybe Moreno and Yellovich don't have.

00:29:13
Speaker 2: I still wish I appreciate the call.

00:29:16
Speaker 3: I still wish Drew they would split Garrison and Diabate up. I'd like Garrison to play maybe with uh with Yellovich and Diabaate with Moreno because you do lose the shooting unless he goes and makes two threes.

00:29:30
Speaker 6: Right, And thank you forgiving me the opportunity to bring him out, my guy, Yellovich, you called it, you said he didn't love him sitting down when he was three for three from the field. But we did get the Diabate Yellovich combo I've wanted since November. I still want more minutes from him he starts. Yesterday he was fancay, I mean, defensively, had some lapses, but at least scoring. And then we just didn't see much of him, but I did like the combination of Diabate playing with Yellowvich. Obviously Garrison having the game he did that took some of his minutes, But moving forward, I I still want more Chelley Tone.

00:30:01
Speaker 3: One person writes, Matt Ryan has seemed like he's been worked up more recently. Is something going on that makes him cuss and talk about his underwear as much?

00:30:12
Speaker 7: I'm just kind of frustrated, like the fan base, I think the way that of this season is gone. And when you know, you see him play so well against Vanderbilt, then two days later when I guess fatigue sets in. You can't do anything in Texas, A and m It's just been touching up and down.

00:30:23
Speaker 8: Frustrating season.

00:30:24
Speaker 7: I'm ready for having a celebration, kind of feel good again about We're Kentucky basketball.

00:30:29
Speaker 2: Man.

00:30:29
Speaker 7: It's supposed to be a celebration, not a disappointment every game.

00:30:32
Speaker 3: Well, but well we got one. We got one yesterday and hopefully that continues. Who's up next? Taylor is up there?

00:30:38
Speaker 2: Taylor, go ahead, Taylor.

00:30:41
Speaker 11: Yeah, Matt.

00:30:43
Speaker 10: Just watching the game yesterday, I felt like there were maybe five minutes in the first half. There were a lot of fun and then got stressful, and then second half started off stressful, and then we had that run where Garrison made his threes and it just looked like it was played with that energy for another five minutes, and I was like, finally, it's gonna be fun and of course in distressful. If we could just put those five fun minutes together for a whole game, it'd be the Vandy game every single time.

00:31:11
Speaker 3: Well, it would, but we're not good. I don't know that we're good enough to do that for all forty minutes. One of the things that was good yesterday Kentucky did not allow runs. You know, that's been something that's crushed us over the course of the l We allow these eleven oh runs, twelve oh runs, thirteen oh runs.

00:31:28
Speaker 2: We did not allow a run like that, and Drew, I think that was a big part of why we were so successful.

00:31:34
Speaker 6: Yeah, kreits LSU. They stayed in the fight, but never really put together those runs. Kentucky's giving up a lot, and there was a moment yesterday where LSU did have some momentum and Pope was quick to a time out, which we've been critical about in the past, and he made sure to shut that down real quick, so you know they'd go a little five zero stretch here and there, but never really threatened once we had the big cushion in the second half.

00:31:54
Speaker 2: Appreciate the call.

00:31:55
Speaker 3: Where would you say, for those of you that are out here in the crowd, where would you say, big blue mist on Broadway?

00:32:02
Speaker 2: Is it?

00:32:02
Speaker 11: Is it?

00:32:03
Speaker 2: Where it's been by?

00:32:04
Speaker 3: Because this is the first time I've been down here since we got here.

00:32:07
Speaker 2: Is it gonna be like that today? What do we think?

00:32:11
Speaker 6: You think there was one?

00:32:12
Speaker 5: Yeah?

00:32:13
Speaker 2: Guy? Well, guy saying yes worries me a little bit.

00:32:16
Speaker 3: I will say there were a lot of people there yesterday, but it hasn't felt like the takeover that it does most well.

00:32:22
Speaker 6: Ten minutes before the game yesterday, I was very worried if anybody in here was there yesterday. You agree, but they were almost like they were just pulling into town and parking and getting the arena. So I don't know how last night was. There was rain, I went to bed at like eight pm, didn't go on Broadway. Yeah, wink wink, But uh, I think it'll be much better today. I think people literally just drove straight into tip off.

00:32:41
Speaker 2: Well, and it's for people who aren't here.

00:32:43
Speaker 3: It's cold this morning, it's rainy, but that's all supposed to change this afternoon, and then you get to Friday and Saturday and it's supposed to be very nice weather. So if we can just get to that point Shannon where we are playing there, I think you'll see a lot more of it.

00:32:57
Speaker 4: You know, usually our fan base doesn't even come down here Friday because we're not used to playing until Friday. So playing on a Wednesday throws things off a little bit. But uh, I think they'll still show up for the game today.

00:33:06
Speaker 7: I think so many people, yeah, just made their plans, bought their tickets, but their hotel rooms starting last night, both their tickets starting today. I think probably we'll see a huge turnout today for the game.

00:33:16
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00:34:13
Speaker 5: If you guys want to party, come on over to the hotel room. I've got you have.

00:34:16
Speaker 2: A case here with you.

00:34:17
Speaker 5: I've got a bottle. Okay, go through that, y'all bring it out here.

00:34:20
Speaker 2: Shannon wants you to come to his hotel room tonight.

00:34:22
Speaker 5: Everyone for you guys. Three Yeah, let's go get at.

00:34:27
Speaker 3: Clayton and Croom as well, where they have a belt bar where you can make your uh make your belt.

00:34:32
Speaker 2: And and and be able to take one. Why that's you know belts.

00:34:37
Speaker 6: Yeah, we're gonna we're gonna bring out the belts on Missouri and then there we go much better.

00:34:42
Speaker 2: If I'm nine two twenty two eighty seven.

00:34:45
Speaker 3: There's some chatter online that Kentucky might have the highest bid now for tiring Stokes, the number one player in the country. And you know there's also chatter that Bill self may retire, uh Kansas. You know this has been a drama that's gone back and forth and back and forth.

00:35:06
Speaker 2: Number one player in America.

00:35:08
Speaker 3: Does anyone want to make the case that we don't want him?

00:35:12
Speaker 8: No?

00:35:13
Speaker 6: No, I mean in November, maybe we're at the point. Please just get a player, certainly the number one player.

00:35:21
Speaker 5: If you want it to be negative.

00:35:23
Speaker 4: You can look at what Peterson's doing at Kansas and him kind of determining when he's going to play and when he's not going to. But I think you still take that player if you have the opportunity to, and Pope needs to get somebody.

00:35:35
Speaker 3: It might be the case that Kansas isn't as excited to hav him because of Darren Peterson.

00:35:39
Speaker 2: But here's my view about it.

00:35:42
Speaker 3: We've gone two years with these kind of role player type things.

00:35:46
Speaker 2: Some success. You gotta have one of these guys.

00:35:49
Speaker 3: In my opinion, you gotta have at least one dude who can go get it for you.

00:35:55
Speaker 2: You know, just look at the top teams in the country. Cameron Boozer, it's gonna be the third pick.

00:36:01
Speaker 3: Yackxel at Michigan probably the best, the best senior in the country. Arizona's got two potential lottery picks in their freshman class. Connecticut's got a lottery pick. You know, Florida's got maybe one of the best returning players in the country. You just have to have one of those guys, Ryan, and we have not And because our roster doesn't have one, we're not gonna have one return So we either gotta go get a Yackxle in the portal or we gotta get a freshman. I don't know who the portal guy is. If we got a chance at that freshman, Ryan, we gotta get him. Go look at the top five teams in the country. Houston's the sixth best team. They've got a top ten pick on their team. Like basically every team that's good this year has got one of those guys, and we need to go get one of those guys.

00:36:47
Speaker 8: Here's the reason why you want Tynstokes. I wanna tell you about it.

00:36:50
Speaker 2: You're gonna tell me about it.

00:36:51
Speaker 6: I want to tell you.

00:36:54
Speaker 2: Ryan is gonna tell you about it.

00:36:55
Speaker 6: Go for it.

00:36:56
Speaker 7: Their stories out there that maybe he's not coachable, maybe he's hard to deal with in the locker room. But if you get the number one player in the country that wants to come play from you, and you get him, you can tell that to all the guys in the portal, all those other freshmen, come play with this guy.

00:37:08
Speaker 8: Look how good we're gonna be.

00:37:10
Speaker 7: The perception of you be able to get a number one player in the country is something Kentucky just doesn't have right now.

00:37:14
Speaker 8: They need that.

00:37:15
Speaker 3: I was looking there was a stat that came out yesterday, and you know, sometimes we got a little tired drew of the one and done, etc. But here's the stat that is an amazing stat in the NBA right now. Players that average fifteen points or more this season, okay fifteen and where did they go to college? Of the players in the NBA that average fifteen points or more, only five colleges have produced more than two that are currently in the NBA.

00:37:42
Speaker 2: Only five.

00:37:43
Speaker 3: Three of those colleges have three guys who averaged fifteen or more Duke has six guys that average fifteen or more. Kentucky has ten guys in the NBA right now who averaged fifteen or more. Now, I'm not saying we have to have one of those guys now, but we have not had one of those guys since what MAXI, So you know what, it's time for us to go get one of those guys.

00:38:14
Speaker 6: And yeah, maybe there's some red flags. Ryan used the word not coachable. You know what else is not coachable? Zero people that are gonna be on your team next year, So let's not be picky. And I do think there is a point to showing future recruits that we can take care of a star. I think that's very important.

00:38:31
Speaker 3: People have made the point, and I think it's a valid one. You don't necessarily have to have a top ten recruit to win. I agree with that, but I will tell you this is the most packed year of college basketball talent I can remember. The top six teams all have guys that are either going to be first team All American or top ten picks. To me, that says you better have one of those guys. And right now, how many of those guys do we have next year?

00:38:56
Speaker 2: Zero?

00:38:57
Speaker 6: Proximity.

00:38:57
Speaker 2: So if you can get one, we need to get it to Kentucky.

00:39:00
Speaker 5: Guy.

00:39:01
Speaker 6: It's just important for the optics.

00:39:03
Speaker 2: Who's up next? Jackson is up next? Jackson? Go ahead, Jackson. Hey, I wanted to call and give you an update from yesterday.

00:39:12
Speaker 3: While I was sweeping and getting.

00:39:14
Speaker 11: Ready to mop.

00:39:16
Speaker 6: My mom did let me stay home, but she said if I don't get a school excuse, she's going to be real mad at you.

00:39:22
Speaker 3: Okay, well, I don't want your mom to be mad at me, Jackson, so I will where's Mario, Mario, let's write it. Let's let's draft an excuse. I've got your I've got your mom's email. You sent it to me. Jackson will get it and we'll make it happen.

00:39:37
Speaker 2: Okay, appreciate it.

00:39:39
Speaker 3: Matt, all right, and he's at home today. That's worth a round of applause. Let your kids say. I was shocked, not shocked, but Shannon. I had probably fifty teachers right me after the postgame show saying they let their classes watch the game yesterday.

00:39:52
Speaker 4: You know, that was one of the coolest memories I have being annot too, was when it would be you know, a twelve o'clock game in the teacher would role in the old you know TV on the box and you sit there and watch the games, and uh, it's you know, it's good memories that you have.

00:40:06
Speaker 2: Yes, what are you gonna learn in school to tack skits a lot of class?

00:40:10
Speaker 6: I highly recommend it.

00:40:11
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's he failed English one O one twice and he's still writing for a living. Who's up next? Bobby is next? Bobby? Go ahead? Bobby?

00:40:20
Speaker 11: Hey guys, Uh, just a couple of quick comments. Hope said on the post game that he gave Garrison the green light, and that kind of worries me because if you look back, every time he has a big scoring game, his efficiency goes down because he tries to force it a little bit. But uh, I am happy for him. I've not always been. He's not always my favorite player, but you know, if he can keep doing this and not be real happy, then the next thing is on the floppy action that we run. If you notice dia Bote, if he's the main screener, someone always gets open, and I just worry, like, what are we teaching them that these other guys can't screen like him?

00:40:58
Speaker 3: That just well, the other guys are the other guys aren't quite as strong as Diabate. I do think Drew Diabat is a terrible shooter, but he does some things that are really positive. He's a great screener, plays pretty good defense, he rebounds. I wish he wouldn't put his head down and just take it to the basket because that rarely works.

00:41:16
Speaker 2: But the other stuff he actually does a good job.

00:41:19
Speaker 6: If you keep him in his lane as just a defensive guy, go get the ball, don't shoot corner threes. He is awesome for your team, but you don't want him kind of getting in his film himself a little bit and trying to do too much.

00:41:31
Speaker 3: And I would also say he has produced, in my opinion, the best individual player content I've seen in a long time, his TikTok videos where he shows you a day in his life during Ramadan and with the team. If you want to know what these guys do when they're not on the court, they're the best videos I've seen of him showing just how they live their lives, et cetera.

00:41:53
Speaker 2: I think it's really good stuff on TikTok. We will take a.

00:41:56
Speaker 3: Break, come back our number two here at ten roof. This is Kentucky Sports Radio