2025-03-07- KSR - Hour 2

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Speaker 3: Quarterback number two here Kentucky Sports Radio.

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Speaker 3: Like you like. Your Majesty has has joined you.

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Speaker 5: Yes, Radio Royalty right here in front of us.

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Speaker 3: I also am reminded a couple things.

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Speaker 4: First of all, Kendrick Perkins is forty years old, So that's not as old as I thought he was.

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Speaker 3: That's actually younger than me.

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Speaker 4: So me saying hey, old man, that maybe wasn't wasn't the best I did not.

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Speaker 3: I would have thought he was much older than forty.

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Speaker 6: Well, he looks much older than forty for sure.

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Speaker 3: Oh wow, shots fired. He's gonna come after you next.

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Speaker 7: Are gonna get addressed like the numbers on a house.

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Speaker 3: That's exactly right.

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Speaker 7: All right.

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Speaker 4: So let's talk just a little bit about schedule for next week. Next week, we are we're gonna do our show at Tin Roof on Thursday morning before the Kentucky game. Uh so, so make plans to go to that. But even more than that, Wednesday, we're gonna do the show somewhere on the road to UH to Nashville.

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Speaker 3: Probably do it somewhere in Bowling Green, I think is our thought.

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Speaker 4: I'm not sure if it'll be open to the public, but we will do that, excuse me, and then we will be down in Nashville the entire time. DraftKings our partner. They have a bar in Nashville. We're gonna like be kind of hanging out there and we'll have stuff. We'll talk more about that, but let's talk about the women for a second. They play today at two thirty against Oklahoma UH to start the SEC Tournament.

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Speaker 3: It should be exciting game. Round of applause for the ladies.

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Speaker 4: I think the women today are probably playing to host the first and second round of the NCAA Tournament. They probably get to do that anyway, even if they lost, but I think a win today would certainly lock it up if they were able to do it. Kentucky is playing an Oklahoma team that I actually watched them play a few weeks ago. That was when Georgia went for like forty points or whatever sure was against Oklahoma.

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Speaker 3: The game's on at two thirty. We're gonna have it at the bar.

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Speaker 4: I think there's gonna be a group of women's team fans that'll be there, So come on out. Skip your afternoon to lunch or skip your afternoon to work, go watch the women's team. How do you think the Kenny Brooks will do in his first SEC tournament today?

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Speaker 3: Starting up against Oklahoma?

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Speaker 6: You know, great, they got that double by you know, Oklahoma beat I think they beat Georgia last night. But the team they just beat a couple of weeks ago, I think they're you know, they're on a high note right now. They played LSU pretty well, they blew out Tennessee, so you know they they deserve to get that double bie.

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Speaker 5: They've had a great season.

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Speaker 4: I watched, Like I said, I watched that game against Oklahoma. I mean, that was a special performance by Georgia. A boy that that's one of the better outside of your Caitlin Clarks. And I'm not sure I've seen very many better women's performances than Georgia had in that game. They kind of dominated it on their floor. If they can win tonight, then they would get South Carolina team they played pretty well just last week. Uh, you know, maybe a chance for Kenny to make a run here.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, help me understand, Help me understand something they I watched the Oklahoma game two. They scored ninety five points, won by like nine or ten. Georgia had forty three. Kentucky's an underdog today on the old DraftKings app two and a half point underdog. Sounds like mathing to me, So I will be partaking.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think what I think for Kenny's teams, the analytics make them not look as good as their record because they tended to win a lot of games close against teams they were kind of sink and then they have a couple bad losses.

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Speaker 3: But I'm with you.

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Speaker 4: I mean, you'd beat them on their home floor by double digits, You would think you'd be the favorite, but they are not today, Shannon, so hopefully they can get the win.

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Speaker 8: Well, I think that would be my bet today for Draft Kings. And then I think, you know, if it opens up, if Fandy gets come out and knock off South Carolina, Kentucky can win the SEC tournament.

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Speaker 4: Well, I think they can get to I think they can beat that South Carol. I mean, so I watched Kentucky. I was at the Kentucky Texas game. I don't know if there's a world Kentucky can beat Texas. I mean, those young women are big, they're strong, they're powerful. Our girls are just not strong. I just don't think we can beat Texas. But I do think we can beat South Carolina. I do think we can beat LSU. If somebody else were to knock Texas out, like if LSU were to upset them, I think we can beat LSU. I don't see us beat in Texas, but there's not another team in the SEC.

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Speaker 9: Drew.

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Speaker 3: I don't think they could beat in an end visual game.

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Speaker 7: In the women's tournament in Greenville again this year, it's right, it is. I hate that with South Carolina. That'll probably be a home game for them.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true.

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Speaker 7: I that I still the way Kentucky played them close, had them within two just a few days ago. It gives me hope they can hang with anyone, but can't look past Oklahoma.

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Speaker 4: And then with the NCAA tournament, I'd love to see them get to host in Lexington. I want you to think about what next weekend could be like in Lexington or two weekends from now. You could end up with a situation where they where we have the men's tournament going on, we host a first and second round of the men's tournament with probably a ton of Auburn and Tennessee fans in town, and then also at the same time, on the other side of town be hosting the women's NCAA tournament. You could have the men's and women's NCAA tournaments both in Lexington, Ryan at the exact same time in two weeks.

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Speaker 6: I hadn't even thought about that, but you're right. And man, you know they've sold out Memorial Coliseum like the last one four home games watching the women play. So if the women can somehow host that, it will be packed. We'll make that a great invite.

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Speaker 4: And with the girls sweet sixteen, next weekend the NCAA Tournament the next weekend, and then the Boys Sweet sixteen the weekend after that. Ryan, if you're a basketball fan in Lexington, I don't think you could ask for much more than that.

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Speaker 6: And I hear there's a place called Chas Bar and Grilled. I'll probably have all those shows on. You may want to come, have lunch, eats, a little great wing and watch the Game's there?

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Speaker 3: Look at you just doing ads?

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Speaker 7: What if they send Rick Patino's Johnny Is to Lexington for that first weekend. I've seen a few brackets have that as a possibility. You think the city would welcome the Saint John.

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Speaker 4: What if they brought if they brought Fatino to Lexing Temple, the projections happened. Okay, Also, Shannon, we like to talk about this every year Comic Con is in Lexington. Starting today, I like to read you some of the people that are coming and see if you liked, if you'd want to beat them. Okay, First of all, Uh, everybody's seen you saw Bill and Ted's excellent Bill and Ted's excellent Adventure.

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Speaker 3: One of the people in the in the movie is coming. Now.

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Speaker 4: It's not Keanu Reeves, but it's the other guy. Do you know the other guy's name?

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Speaker 3: Bill? Okay, do you know the other guy's name?

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Speaker 4: Though in real life I do not. Alex Winter. Alex Winter, he is actually the headliner.

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Speaker 3: He is the dumb He.

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Speaker 7: Gets alphabetical order. I've studied that quite a bit.

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Speaker 4: Okay, it starts with a okay, all right, So I'm gonna go through him a few more. Andrew McCarthy like an eighties sort of like you. The ladies here shaking their like in the eighties. He was kind of a sexy. He was also different guy. He was also uh in Weekend at Bernie's. He was one of the two guys that held Bernie's head up.

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Speaker 5: You're not selling me on it yet. Keep going.

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Speaker 7: There's something you're gonna like.

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Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, I'm sitting here.

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Speaker 4: Danny Trejo, you know the oh yeah, okay, you know the actor that always plays the mean looking guy and stuff.

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Speaker 3: Ryan. Do you like him?

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Speaker 6: I do like him. I thought he was dead. I was good. He's still alive.

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Speaker 7: You're gonna be real excited to see him.

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Speaker 8: That's the thing about these, all the guys you thought were dead or still. There's some photographs for Dermott mulroney. Do you know that like he You all may not know the name, but all of you have seen his face like he was in and the women know who he is.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's He's in TV shows all the time. Huh, But I can't think of one of them. What's heven.

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Speaker 6: He was?

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Speaker 10: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: We gotta get better with this one.

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Speaker 4: Okay, how about this Jason Isaac's from the White Lotus. That's the Southern dad on the White Lotus with the that's like being investigated.

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Speaker 3: You like him?

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Speaker 7: Right?

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Speaker 6: Drew has already made it a point. We're gonna get him somehow in the postgame show at Comic Com Drew. That's Drew's mission in life.

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Speaker 4: I think I don't know how many of you, all white watch The White Lotus.

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Speaker 3: But Parker Posey's accent on there when she says.

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Speaker 4: Booty ism and like Piper No, like I absolutely love.

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Speaker 8: I'm gonna eat Stiffler's mom before I get excited about this.

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Speaker 3: Keep you on, all right? How about Jeff Hardy all right, the Hardy Boys. Our friend Bradshaw is there, Okay. Jonathan Goldsmith.

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Speaker 4: You may not know him by name, but he's the most interesting man in the world. From the dose Echis commercials are.

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Speaker 5: I bet he's not really that exciting. I bet he's not. He's probably really boring.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Actually I saw him at the Derby one year and I actually sat next to him for a few minutes.

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Speaker 3: Not that interesting, Yeah, kind of quiet. Huh, he's off the clock, all right? How about Leeda from the w allright, w W Lou Diamond Phillips.

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Speaker 7: Legend.

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Speaker 3: You know, don't seem excited enough about Lou Diamond Phillips again.

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Speaker 6: And I wasn't sure he was still alive.

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Speaker 7: The people, Uh, go to T's in the essence, That's where the stars are.

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Speaker 3: So lay Moon Fry, Punky Brewster.

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Speaker 5: Ryan has a thing for Punky Bruce.

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Speaker 3: That's weird, don't She's she's older than he is.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, probably now yeah, see, would you like me to introduce you to so Lay Moon Fry?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, of course. Have you seen her?

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Speaker 3: No? Not in a long long time.

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Speaker 8: Pictures right there sting you like the singer of the wrestler Wrestler Wrestlers coming.

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Speaker 3: Out from the top trist Oh. Yeah, William Shatner will be there. Wow.

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Speaker 8: William Shatner is like ninety four years old and he's still doing these comic cons.

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Speaker 5: You talk about a guy that doesn't need to work can be still a.

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Speaker 3: Part of me wonders though, does he need to work? Which is at that age? Come on, then why does he go it's free money?

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Speaker 5: What else you could do it? Ninety four?

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Speaker 4: Okay Slaughters on there too, Sergeant Slaughter as well.

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Speaker 3: So there you go.

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Speaker 4: Now for people tomorrow on the Postgame Show, Drew and Ryan will be doing the Postgame Show live from Comic.

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Speaker 3: Con and may have some of these folks folks on, so good luck.

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Speaker 6: One of the best people watching events ever. Just sit out there in the in the hallway and watch people walk by at Comic Con. It's awesome.

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Speaker 7: Mario's first Comic Con. I know he's excited.

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Speaker 4: There'll be a lot of great videos for you at Comic Con tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: Who's up next?

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Speaker 6: Got Tyler?

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Speaker 3: Of next? Tyler? Go ahead, Tyler?

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Speaker 11: Hey, guys, Harry out this morning. Well, Hey, I got an idea that I keep thinking that I've not heard anybody else or talk about it. Uh. If the team that we play brushes the court and they have to pay us five hundred thousand dollars.

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Speaker 4: You're gonna say, why don't we just st act like we're them and then we rush the court. Is that what you're gonna say?

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Speaker 11: Yeah, just hire like one hundred people.

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Speaker 4: And you're not the first person that's thought of that the court.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you're not the first person that's thought of that.

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Speaker 4: But but the reason that would be hard is they're putting it on the school drew to stop them. Like so like the point is not so much what the fans do, it's hey, school, you have to stop them. Now there comes amount of people you can't stop, right. But I would say, and I appreciate call. If a school hired one hundred people to go storm another court, I feel like it might get investigated. When when everybody turns in their licenses and everyone's from Kentucky, there might be a thing where people go, oh, wait a minute, what was that.

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Speaker 5: Your next thirty for thirty right there?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there maybe there was something going on.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, it's usually you know, you're on your home court storm in the court. Is he suggesting a rap Ana we welcome them down or are we going to just try to fill other arenas?

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Speaker 3: Are you like, are you bummed that if all this works, we won't have court?

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Speaker 4: I do think court storming is part of what makes college basketball great?

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Speaker 6: Are you no? I am bummed. I love it when, like even in a football game and you we see all the just jumping over hedges and jumping over walls and get down there basketball games, it's it does make it special, especially you get a big win on your home court in the final seconds. It's just kind of spontaneous.

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Speaker 5: It's not going to completely go away.

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Speaker 8: It's just going to eliminade court storming that probably isn't necessary, like a top fifteen team or.

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Speaker 3: Something, but they're letting them do it.

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Speaker 4: After you get the team off the court, are saying like, get the team off the court, Okay, now you can come. Now there is like a thirty second gap, so you lose a little bit of the excitement.

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Speaker 3: But I guess that's better than nothing, isn't it.

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Speaker 7: Well, I think that's how you get your money. If you're the team that just lost, you take your time, like I'm bending down time my shoe. Oh no, I'm cramping. I can't get to the locker room. And then hopefully they storm while you're still out there.

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Speaker 4: Here live the Cornbread hemp A five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, text machine seven seven two seven seven four five two five four. One of the things I realized yesterday which I did not before. You know that yesterday was the five year anniversary of the first case of COVID in Kentucky, and we are about to hit the five year anniversary of the SEC Tournament where everything got kind of shut down that famous Wednesday night when like Tom Hanks said he had COVID, Rudy Gobert touched all the all the NBA things, and then they shut the SEC tournament down.

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Speaker 3: And then the next day, remember we were all it was so.

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Speaker 4: Well, all the athletic directors were trying to decide whether or not to cancel the SEC tournament. I remember Mitch Barnhart saying he had his UK softball team stuck in Florida and he was trying to figure out how to get him back, and like all of this stuff. It was, you know, it's basically next week is when this was. And five years ago.

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Speaker 3: Does it seem like that long ago to you?

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Speaker 6: No, it doesn't. If we remember that time, we were all scared. Man, we didn't know what was about to happen. And that night when we find out that Tom Hanks had for whatever reason, that seemed to resonate with people like if if a superstar can get it, it.

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Speaker 3: Was like it was like Tom Hanks got it, you had to go beaar thing.

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Speaker 4: I remember we were all sitting in our suite when we got the word that Trump had shut the no, all the flights down, and I remember going, whoa, they're like shutting all the flights that like there was a sense of whoa.

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Speaker 3: But still I remember thinking, well, I hope he can still play the NCAA tournament and wait, we had no idea what was in store. There was a like, well, maybe if they postponed it a week or two, they'll still be able to play.

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Speaker 6: If I remember, I didn't they stop a game in mid game at this tournamentnament was a Big East tournament. The SEC tournament.

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Speaker 4: Finished, but the Big East Tournament stopped a game right in the middle of the game at halftime and ended it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: I remember the last day in Nashville. People were starting to head home, and I thought I got one quick lap around Broadway and me and there was just a few people in bars. Think Lee and Hayley were doing their last TV show.

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Speaker 4: And we all went out to dinner on that Saturday night as like a goodbye dinner, having no idea that we wouldn't see these people for like six or eight months, uh in a row, because like.

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Speaker 7: Is this the last time I'm going to be in a bar? Like how long is this gonna last? Like I kind of probably stayed a little.

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Speaker 5: Long we had.

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Speaker 8: We had it back then, and I remember just having a conversation like, are we ever gonna shake hands again? I meanwhile, I'm shaking hands with fifty people already this morning.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I love all you folks. I'd be fine if we went back to the fist bumping.

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Speaker 7: That's I'm still five the wrong one with people.

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Speaker 4: There's something about I feel like, since I hurt my wrist, people are intentionally grabbing my wrist even.

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Speaker 5: Harder, shaking that risk.

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Speaker 4: Like it's almost like I don't know what it is with men and their desire to be like I have a powerful handshake, but I'm like now to the point that I'm intentionally being dainty.

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Speaker 3: Because when they grabbed me right there, it hurts, and like.

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Speaker 5: You can't give them the limp fish handshake.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but now there was a time we were all good fist bumping, and now everybody he's not doing that anymore.

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Speaker 3: You don't want to go back to that.

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Speaker 8: You gotta lead with it, and then when they try to go with the hand, you just get to.

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Speaker 4: Those happens if you do that, then sometimes people just do that grab my rust and that's weird, and that feels kind of strange. O.

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Speaker 7: Nine times out of ten I do that, I go for the fifth bump, they go shake or bos versa. I still haven't gotten on the same talkord with you real quick.

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Speaker 3: All right, so let's go let's talk about the Cats for a second.

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Speaker 4: Going into Missouri, Lamont Butler, uh Pope said he thinks he's like almost one hundred percent.

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Speaker 3: Are you seeing that?

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Speaker 4: I thought he kind of looked like that against LSU. It was the most normal he's looked in a long time.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it was at the Auburn game where it looked like he still wasn't quite one hundred percent. But then last week, I mean earlier this week, he definitely looked like he was close.

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Speaker 3: One he took a shot.

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Speaker 4: I saw he went up to the rim and he took a shot on that shoulder and and I kind of winced a little bit, but then he seemed okay.

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Speaker 7: So yeah, Auburn game, he had that big brace on this mention was a little too tight. Why he couldn't finish well. But with him, I'm still gonna worry because he's not a player that can go ninety percent. He's one hundred percent running through screens diving for balls. I mean, that's what you want from a player, but I still worry at any moment something could happen to that with just how he plays.

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Speaker 8: We're just you know, one little I guess hard hit from from losing Butler again is the way I feel. I mean, he's gonna go out there, like you said, and play one hundred percent.

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Speaker 5: They can't lose him though, I mean lose him were in trouble.

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Speaker 4: I think you know he's the one guy. Honestly, I mean you'd hate to lose Zmar too. I think you'd lose a lot if you lost him. But I I said this before, I wish Jackson Robinson could play. But if there was one position if you had to lose one, it might have been that one because Braa kind of plays a similar position. But like, they can't lose lam On Butler. I mean we've seen they We just are backup point because because the backup point was Jackson Robinson. Yeah, Jackson yeah, I mean we had seen that, Like, Okay, Jackson Robinson can do it, but now he can't do it either, and then when Oway has to play point, you lose the thing that he does the best.

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Speaker 3: So we just can't lose him.

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Speaker 6: No, he's so valuable to what Kentuck you're trying to do, especially on the offen but especially on the defensive end. We saw the difference as soon as he came back, how much better they were. Everybody seemed to play defense. And Marshall mentioned like, Bray is playing better defense. I think it's because you know, Lamon is out there taking a lot of that heat off in the perimeter.

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Speaker 4: Well, when Butler and Oway are playing, then Lamont can excuse me, Bray, it can take the third best right and he doesn't have to guard because because you know, when when Butler.

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Speaker 3: Was out, he was having to take the second best guy, and that's that's difficult.

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Speaker 4: Who's up next, Kentucky gas Man is up there, Kentucky gas Man, how are you?

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Speaker 12: I'm great man, Hey, I've got Tom in the question.

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Speaker 3: Quick, go for it.

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Speaker 12: I had Paul Bley has always hurked me so bad. What it is the family, but especially as an analyst.

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Speaker 10: He is as an office.

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Speaker 11: So I've got a comment.

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean Charles Barkley, you have a comment for Charles.

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Speaker 4: I don't know if Charles is listening, but you can go ahead and give give the comment, right.

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Speaker 11: Charles Barkley, let me introduce you to my friends.

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Speaker 5: Oh he's doing myron m and tell your friends about me.

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Speaker 3: No, I don't think.

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Speaker 4: You didn't get the line. The line is tell your friends about me. I mean that was in the vault.

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Speaker 3: I guess, all right, go ahead anyway.

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Speaker 10: Anyway, my question, so what worries me about Saturday is the seams.

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Speaker 12: That we've played that Mark Polton knows they're not great defensively.

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Speaker 3: I feel like he really gets.

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Speaker 10: Away from the three point ball and pushes it into Lamari or you know, one of the others.

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Speaker 12: And I worry that we're gonna be trading two's for threes.

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Speaker 4: And you know, I don't actually don't think that's a bad I actually don't think that's a bad point.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you saw this a l s U.

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Speaker 4: I appreciate the call we our team Drew is better offensively when we go four out, five out cut.

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Speaker 3: You know, handoff screens.

00:22:07
Speaker 4: I know it feels good when they post Amari up and he shoots the little baby hook. But when we start playing that style, especially against good teams, I feel like we're in trouble. Because He's exactly right, we're trading two's for threes, and I just I feel like every time we're doing that, we're getting away from what this team does.

00:22:25
Speaker 3: Even though I do think sometimes it can be effective.

00:22:27
Speaker 7: Oh there's been games where he's at a mismatch and he can do whatever you want. It's just not what Kentucky's offense is designed to do. Pope's even said that thirty three point mark, which they hit by.

00:22:36
Speaker 3: The way, because they don't hit it against that year.

00:22:38
Speaker 7: He said, if you look our three point numbers, you know if our offense is working just by the attempts, because it's just so much.

00:22:42
Speaker 4: He said that yesterday, and I think that's really important. I was glad to hear him say it. Mark says, if you look at the games where we shot thirty threes, we're always the games we play the best. And I'm glad to hear him say that because that's actually true. And I was wondering why we were getting away when we only shot seventeen in that one game.

00:22:59
Speaker 7: A couple while it's not just making them, it's just the threat of having it because it sets up everything else and opens the lane. It leads to those corner threes you mentioned with the four when they have the five out all.

00:23:08
Speaker 4: And it gets us offensive rebounds. We actually offensive rebounded pretty well. When you shoot long threes, you get long rebounds and some of our guys can get them, and uh, you know, we're just a much better team to me when we do that. When we take a break, do bracketology out. We'll tell you the Kentucky matchups. See if you think we could win. We'll be right back. This is KSR. We're back here at Kentucky Sports Radio KSR at Corn Brand Hemp. Go to Corn Brand Hemp and you use a promo code KSR and you got also if you're here, free gift bag.

00:23:44
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00:24:08
Speaker 3: Well, I guess that would be where you would wear them.

00:24:09
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00:24:37
Speaker 3: Would you like us in that game? Give me that?

00:24:39
Speaker 6: Please? Just give me that right now?

00:24:41
Speaker 7: Oh? Absolutely?

00:24:43
Speaker 6: I kind of want to go to Providence.

00:24:45
Speaker 3: Are starting to get Providence.

00:24:48
Speaker 6: We talk about Providence of Milwaukee, two cities.

00:24:52
Speaker 5: What monument and Providence do you want to go up and touch?

00:24:55
Speaker 6: Yeah?

00:24:56
Speaker 5: I mean what do you let me?

00:24:57
Speaker 3: Do you know anything about it at all?

00:25:00
Speaker 6: Providence? That's about uh, that's about it.

00:25:04
Speaker 3: That's not really a thing. You just repeated the uh.

00:25:08
Speaker 6: I think lamar Odom played it Rhode Island.

00:25:10
Speaker 3: He did, but that's not in Providence.

00:25:12
Speaker 6: No, I'm just trying to think of a Rhode Island facts that I know.

00:25:15
Speaker 3: Okay, so nothing nothing, all right?

00:25:18
Speaker 5: Good high Points twenty six and five they haven't played anybody. But how do you know this guy state at the holiday exper I don't know.

00:25:27
Speaker 3: I don't know. How do you How do you know high Points?

00:25:30
Speaker 7: Twenty?

00:25:30
Speaker 5: Am I right?

00:25:30
Speaker 7: Or am I wrong?

00:25:31
Speaker 3: I don't know, but I'm gonna assume you're right. You said that with confidence.

00:25:34
Speaker 5: Ye to say it like you made it. Nobody questions do you know.

00:25:36
Speaker 3: What conference they're in?

00:25:38
Speaker 10: Uh?

00:25:39
Speaker 7: Here, Billy? Look up?

00:25:41
Speaker 3: Where's Billy?

00:25:42
Speaker 7: Billy?

00:25:42
Speaker 3: Look up and see what high Points record is?

00:25:44
Speaker 5: I don't know who because if if they're.

00:25:45
Speaker 4: Twenty six and five, both Shannon and Ryan will blow my mind today.

00:25:49
Speaker 3: And Drew, you're on the clock, all right for some kind of fact.

00:25:52
Speaker 8: I have no idea what conference. I mean, I don't know what any team's conference is anymore?

00:25:57
Speaker 3: Are they twenty six and five?

00:25:58
Speaker 10: There you go?

00:25:59
Speaker 3: Unbelievable.

00:26:00
Speaker 6: Yeah, what I'm talking about getting four dollars, I'm gonna give you two dollars. We're gonna split it.

00:26:07
Speaker 3: I can't help believe you knew that. Yeah, how do you know their record? Okay?

00:26:13
Speaker 5: All right, I'm.

00:26:16
Speaker 6: All right now.

00:26:16
Speaker 4: In the next round, we would play the winner of Michigan and McNee State. Let me say something at McNee State Michigan. I could see McNee State knocking Michigan off.

00:26:27
Speaker 3: Will Wade's team is good. They have a lot of good athletes because he kind of recruited up.

00:26:33
Speaker 4: That could be one of those where you think you're playing Michigan and all of a sudden, it's Will Wade looking at you in that next round.

00:26:39
Speaker 7: Uh, Drew Oh, I would pick McNeese State. I've become obsessed with their team. They have a lot of viral videos from the locker room. The manager leads them out with a boombox and he's rapping and he looks like a guy that have not listened to rapp And Will Wade has done a great job there. He won't be there much longer. They're a dangerous team. I see Michigan.

00:26:54
Speaker 3: He's gonna get a big job this year from somewhere.

00:26:57
Speaker 7: Yeah, Michigan's got my favorite player that I wanted to get the poor and come to Pope. He's probably gonna go to the NBA, but Danny Woolf would be perfect for Pope system.

00:27:04
Speaker 4: I like our I like us against Michigan. If you're gonna give me a five seed, they're struggling right now. They've not played well the last few weeks. I would like that, and then we'd have to go to San Francisco, which is way far away. But then the one seed would be Florida, so you'd be playing Florida in the next round.

00:27:21
Speaker 6: I think most fans would take that, though, is to kind of stay away from Houston and Auburn. That we could particularly the.

00:27:27
Speaker 4: Two seeds, because this is why I think it's so important we win Saturday. Here are the two seeds right now, Michigan State, Texas Tech, Tennessee, and Bama. So if I assume they don't give us Bama or Tennessee, I mean, you don't want Michigan State or Texas Tech.

00:27:43
Speaker 3: I mean, I know those teams are good, but you're gonna have to play somebody good.

00:27:45
Speaker 4: I'd much prefer them then to go play Auburn or Florida, right or do even Duke in Houston.

00:27:52
Speaker 3: Any of those four teams.

00:27:53
Speaker 7: I'd love Michigan State. I mean, the Big Ten usually fizzles out in the tournament. They're not that good this year. They want a tournament in several decades. I'd like to take the Spartans, even though it is occasionally.

00:28:02
Speaker 8: Fun Kentucky has already played the hardest teams they're going to see in the tournament.

00:28:05
Speaker 3: And that's a really good point. I mean, think about this.

00:28:08
Speaker 4: We have five games this year, excuse me, seven games this year, seven against teams ranked in the top five.

00:28:17
Speaker 5: Come on, yeah, some of those teams are going to be in the final four.

00:28:21
Speaker 4: We've played seven teams and that we're in the top five when we played them. And we have seven games against teams that are currently in the top seven right currently. I mean, so we're gonna go in tested and by the way, we have a four and three record in those games too, a winning record against teams in the top seven.

00:28:39
Speaker 3: Who's up next? God, Spencer, up next, Spencer? Go ahead, Spencer.

00:28:45
Speaker 12: Hey, those have got two things. The first one, I just want to say, happy birthday to one of the greatest humans in Kentucky fans, Jordan Bray. Happy buddy, Happy birthday, buddy.

00:28:56
Speaker 3: Happy birthday. Yes, happy birthdays. Okay, go ahead, we got the happy birthday. You don't worry about it.

00:29:04
Speaker 10: I go ahead, thank you. Brother.

00:29:06
Speaker 12: If Oscar she Bay can play three games in twenty four hours, do you think at least in the tournament we can get Amari Williams to average maybe twenty twenty seven or more. Minutes.

00:29:16
Speaker 3: Wait, man, you said Oscar she Bay played three games in twenty four hours. When was that.

00:29:22
Speaker 12: Yeah, just recently played three games, two for the Jazz and one in the G League, all in twenty four hours.

00:29:28
Speaker 3: Oh wow, I didn't know that. Well, yes, well, I've talked a lot.

00:29:33
Speaker 4: I appreciate the call, right, and I've talked a lot about how the minutes distribution. It will be fascinating to me. Like, this is a game, Mark said yesterday, this is a big game for us. He was like, this is a game we need to win. I'll be interested to see how he distributes some minutes. I will note that in the LSU game, after that first line change, he didn't do that anymore until the game was out of hand, Like he kept the guys in there until the game.

00:29:57
Speaker 3: Was out of hand. I kind of wonder if he ends up continuing to do that.

00:30:00
Speaker 6: They talked a little about that yesterday. Had to learn how to do new substitution patterns and learn new rotations. But I just don't think he's gonna change with the Mari man. That's been that way since the first game. Of the season. I think he's gonna rest him and try to give him just twenty two to twenty five minutes a game.

00:30:14
Speaker 4: And even though Garrison drove me crazy drew against Auburn, he played really well against Oklahoma, and he played really well against LSU. So two of the three games of the last three he's played really well.

00:30:25
Speaker 3: Almost brought him up.

00:30:26
Speaker 7: When you were talking about Almanor and Carr hitting corner threes, Brandon Garrison hit a corner three recently. Pope also in his comments, said next year Garrison could be like a five or six three point attempts a game kind of guy.

00:30:36
Speaker 3: I'm okay with that.

00:30:37
Speaker 4: My question is will he play defense, and which he did a little bit against Oklahoma, and will he not turn the ball over. As long as he does that, I'm fine with his five or six threes. He's got pretty good form.

00:30:48
Speaker 7: And with the rest of the bench, I wonder if a lot of it playing him so much. In making these rotations, he's trying to get them ready for the tournament, just to see who he's got, get him the most experienced. But when it's a tournament time, you got to play your best guys. You go home if you don't win.

00:30:59
Speaker 4: It's interesting to heart Shannon him talk about players that could come back next year, because he talks about them distinctly different based on I guess in my opinion, whether or not he thinks he's gonna they're gonna be back here right like he like he talks with Oway and Garrison about like how they're gonna play next year, and with Kerr he's like, well, he's going to play basketball, Like he doesn't talk about him as much as if he's going to play it here with the freshman, it's hard for me to read.

00:31:29
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm gonna assume Noah and Perry are back.

00:31:33
Speaker 4: Getting crowded though with it that it's gonna be interesting to see with Chandler because like I would have I would have told you in January, there's no way that kid's back here. But he's played so well recently and Pope is starting to talk about him in a way that of like he'll be back here. I'll also note that kid, Richie Saunders that's playing so well at b YU. He did an interview yesterday where he said he was like it was fifty to fifty Kentucky b WYU almost.

00:31:56
Speaker 3: Went we could use him Wow man b Yu or Kentucky or he's he's Mormon.

00:32:03
Speaker 5: I mean I'm talking about that, not let's talk about basketball.

00:32:06
Speaker 3: I know, but I mean that's part of the Yeah.

00:32:08
Speaker 5: I mean, if you had a chance to play at BYU or.

00:32:10
Speaker 7: But if you're more man, what if your wife said she don't want to move to Lexington?

00:32:14
Speaker 5: Well, I'll see it four years.

00:32:18
Speaker 3: First of all, I actually believe that you would do.

00:32:20
Speaker 5: Exactly that had zoom.

00:32:23
Speaker 4: Yeah, if there's one person who would say, wife, stay in Byu, I'll be in Lexington.

00:32:28
Speaker 3: Who was Shada? Who's next? Sydney is up next? Cindy? What's up? Cindy?

00:32:34
Speaker 9: Hey, Matt and the rest of the gang. I just wanted to thank you all. I've just got a couple of comments five years ago by the company that I worked for, said we're gonna need you to work remotely for a couple of weeks. I got all excited about the n C Double A. Watching the SEC tournament and hearing you all talk about it brought back so many memories of that.

00:32:55
Speaker 4: Uh.

00:32:55
Speaker 9: As a matter of fact, I'm still remote and I want to thank you all for making this year fun so well.

00:33:04
Speaker 3: Thank you very much. I appreciate it, and I'm so.

00:33:07
Speaker 9: I was thinking about Richie Saunders and I was like, he could still decide to come to Kentucky for sure, for sure all these.

00:33:15
Speaker 4: People could now, b y U's got it going next year and they've got money, So I doubt he will, but yes, we all.

00:33:22
Speaker 3: These dudes are free agents basically now.

00:33:24
Speaker 9: So exactly, Well, thank you all so much and.

00:33:28
Speaker 3: Go Cat'll appreciate it.

00:33:30
Speaker 6: Uh.

00:33:31
Speaker 4: By the way, I do I meant to say this when we were talking about the fifth anniversary. I do think it's on this day or you know that this happened and with this week. It's unfortunate that, just like everything in life, COVID has in some ways in recent years become politicized with the vaccine and this and that. But I also think it's important to remember a lot of people died, Like a lot of people died, including a lot of people in the state, people who are in the sports community, and a lot we lost a lot of listeners to this show. And so you know, as we kind of hit this, because I think at the SEC tournament, people are gonna be like, you know what, that was five years ago, regardless of everything that happened after a lot of people lost their lives. So my prayers to a lot of those folks I hear, I used to it used to break my heart during that time. I would get a message almost every day on the text machine from someone who said, my at pick a person, mother, sister, father has passed away and my family list we listen to you as a way to get through. I literally would hear that every day for like six or seven months. So for all those folks, you know, my prayers are out to you. I know this will be, you know, a kind of difficult memorial time. Five years later. We'll take a break and be right back. We are here at corn Brand Hemp.

00:34:51
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00:34:55
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00:35:44
Speaker 3: It's uh is it? ESPN? Two sec network? Where's the game tomorrow? I should know?

00:35:49
Speaker 7: I know it's Tom Harden Dane Bradshaw, but slipping my mind on the network.

00:35:52
Speaker 6: I think it's one o'clock our time.

00:35:55
Speaker 7: No, No, is it done?

00:35:56
Speaker 3: Yeah, make sure you know, okay before you correct me.

00:36:00
Speaker 4: It's on ESPN. ESPN at noon we play. The pregame show is at nine thirty tomorrow morning. Remember we also set the clocks forward on Sunday, so it's already spring forward.

00:36:12
Speaker 5: Did you know that?

00:36:13
Speaker 7: I did also well Easters.

00:36:15
Speaker 3: Early this year. I guess, so it's spring forwards. Earthly would it be a noon for us?

00:36:19
Speaker 7: I think we like an eleven am local game.

00:36:21
Speaker 3: They're good at those games throughout the throughout.

00:36:25
Speaker 7: The year a dead crowd, or at least not a very energetic.

00:36:28
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it'll be eleven am in Missouri, so so hopefully that turns out. All well, all right, so the women play at two thirty. Let's let's do some predictions here. Kentucky versus Oklahoma. The Cats are a three and a half point underdog. Shandon, I'm gonna go ahead and take Georgia Amores by MVP YEA so that no one can steal them.

00:36:48
Speaker 3: But let's make a prediction. What do you think happens.

00:36:51
Speaker 8: I think Kentucky wins. I think it will be close, though I'm going to say seventy three seventy.

00:36:57
Speaker 7: I'm gonna fade Georgia in this game. I don't think she can do four three. Again, I don't think.

00:37:01
Speaker 3: They get ninety by forty three would be a lot.

00:37:03
Speaker 7: Yes, I do think the Cats win, and they will be so focused on Georgia they will completely forget about Clara Strack and she's my MVP. Cats win by eight.

00:37:11
Speaker 4: She's been great in the last few games, like she's been. I mean, we had that game where she was eleven for eleven, but she's been on a run and she just what like a sophomore?

00:37:20
Speaker 10: Is that right?

00:37:20
Speaker 7: Yeah, she's young.

00:37:21
Speaker 3: Yeah.

00:37:21
Speaker 7: Actually at RUP the other night put her on the big screen. Is pretty cool. She looked very shy. I wasn't use the attention, but the crowd gave her a place with the women.

00:37:28
Speaker 4: I mean, we're gonna miss Georgia, but the women are gonna be really good over these next few years.

00:37:32
Speaker 3: But yes, she's been great.

00:37:33
Speaker 6: What about you, Kentucky wins. Yeah. I can't believe they're a you know, an underdog in this game. So I'm gonna take them. I'll take Daja Lawrence. I think it's but only one left that I think can maybe have a good game from going with her.

00:37:43
Speaker 3: I get Georgia. I'm gonna say, uh, you know, she had forty three.

00:37:46
Speaker 4: I do think we'll go under the forty three in this game, but I think she's gonna play great. I take Kentucky wins, seventy five sixty five. What do you think about Jay Billis? He went on in the Alabama the other night said college basketball needs to go to quarters. Men's College basketball is the only basketball played anywhere in the world where it's two halves. Even the women are are quarters. Do you agree it should be quarters. I completely agree. The women did it what three years ago something like that. It's been great for them, sped up the flow of the game. It's now silly.

00:38:19
Speaker 7: It's the only basketball level anywhere any still doing halves. I completely agree with Billison. Can't believe they haven't already done it.

00:38:26
Speaker 4: The reason it would be the best for fans is it resets. Yes, you get five fouls in each quarter, so really it takes ten fouls over the course of a half to have a lot of free throws. It makes the game quicker. The women's games are under two hours almost every time. Ryan, to me, it is a no brainer that they should do it. I'm surprised it hadn't already happen.

00:38:48
Speaker 6: That you took the words out in my mouth. I thought for sure by now it have because it's been a success in the women's game. I love the foul thing about it. That's what I think is gonna push it through. It's gonna speed the game up a little bit.

00:38:58
Speaker 3: And they did it in a couple of the pre season tournaments this year.

00:39:01
Speaker 4: Like I think that maybe they did it in the Bahamas or they did it in the preseason.

00:39:05
Speaker 3: It worked fine, so to me, like, I think you gotta go ahead and do it.

00:39:08
Speaker 5: At this point, I don't know really what the argument is to keep it.

00:39:12
Speaker 3: I don't either, you know, just tradition like that, Like that's it. I feel like that's it.

00:39:16
Speaker 7: They like their media timeouts. But if you extend the gap between quarters, which I don't know what the women's is, but watching it, it feels like a longer gap than neural media time out.

00:39:23
Speaker 4: Well, the reason you lose a media time out, I mean basically if you do it like that that you know how in the second half you have that one timeout that occurs whenever somebody calls a timeout, you lose that. But you know what, just add it if that's such a big deal, I mean, or make the timeouts thirty seconds longer and add it up.

00:39:42
Speaker 7: I just I don't understand if you make the gap bigger between quarters, which I assume it is, I mean that also for teams that you don't have a lot of guy, get a little more rest there in the middle of the half, longer than a time out.

00:39:51
Speaker 3: That's a good point, A good point. Who's up next? Mike is up next? Mike? What's up? Mike? On on what's up.

00:40:02
Speaker 10: Hey, let me give you guys. For those of you haven't been to Providence in Milwaukee, I've been to them both, conservative guy, but you.

00:40:11
Speaker 3: Have nothing to do with what city you go to. I mean, this is about a city. It's not about your conservative guy. It doesn't matter.

00:40:19
Speaker 10: Well, I'm saying I enjoyed it very much, and I think you would like it as well.

00:40:23
Speaker 3: Okay, But we were up there a couple.

00:40:26
Speaker 10: Of years ago for Summerfest and saw Chris Dapleton and Zach Brown. But we were in and around, walking around where the bucks play. I think that's vizor Form or something like that, and something caught my eye. It was about twelve to fifteen people. They were all riding bicycles. This must be a thing in Milwaukee because they were all naked as gay birds.

00:40:48
Speaker 3: Wow, but now I know we're saying one.

00:40:51
Speaker 10: Yeah, that's the truth. I never told it you because they kept we kept seeing them all over to the same.

00:41:01
Speaker 4: But there you go, naked Milwaukee bikers. I appreciate the appreciate the call. I think it'd be harder to do that in Providence. I think you'd be probably a more embarrassing situation if you did it in Providence.

00:41:10
Speaker 3: It's a little colder, but otherwise otherwise I think it would be good.

00:41:14
Speaker 7: I don't want to sit on a bicycle naked. That sounds uncomfortable.

00:41:16
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, Well, we're gonna find out. I think Providence in Denver look like the two places. I think we're probably not gonna fall low enough to end up in Seattle. So I think if you're a Kentucky fan that likes either Providence or Denver, I think you're gonna end up there. Volunteers of America Mid States is part of Volunteers of America, where the region's largest nonprofit provider of human services including housing, justice, veteran support, and more.

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00:42:00
Speaker 8: In Kentucky's gonna steal one on the road. I'm gonna say Kentucky wins eighty one seventy nine. Kobe Bray has gotta have a big game, So I'm gonna eighty.

00:42:09
Speaker 3: So you got a two point winning the last second shot.

00:42:12
Speaker 5: Sure, yeah, Kobe Bray.

00:42:13
Speaker 3: And why not Kobe Brayan. Dawn one nails the three easter dus.

00:42:17
Speaker 5: Yes, yeah, that would be great.

00:42:18
Speaker 3: Let me take if Kobe Bray it hits a game winning shot, give me four dollars. I'll give you four dollars. She took to give you four dollars, and you.

00:42:25
Speaker 5: Can draft Kings does better than that.

00:42:27
Speaker 4: Come on, all right, five dollars if they end up making the shot. Pregame shows tomorrow nine thirty. Go to the bar, watch the women today, watch the game tomorrow.

00:42:37
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00:42:41
Speaker 4: Thank you the folks here at corn Bred hamp and thank you to this crowd for coming out on a Friday.

00:42:46
Speaker 3: We will see you tomorrow.

00:42:48
Speaker 4: Kentucky and Missouri Live Pregame Show nine thirty is Kentucky Sports Radio