2025-01-29- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 2: Welcome everyone, It is Kentucky Sports Radio, Wednesday, January the twenty ninth. I'm Matt Jones here on my last day in a beautiful day in New York. We got Drew is in Lexington, Shannon is in Louisville, and we are ready to go our Clarks Puppet Shop fol Line eight five to nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. Chan And tells me there's already people on the phone, but you can get on. It's gonna be a fun next three days. Hey Vision Auto Glass text machine. It's seven seven two seven to seven four five two five. In this disition sponsored by the TJ. Smith LOWFS you call Tj'll make them pay. First of all, you know, there's obviously a big thing happened in Saturday, but we gotta take a lot of time today, if not most of the time, to talk about what happened last night. Kentucky wins in Knoxville seventy eight to seventy three, in a game that makes the third straight year that Kentucky has gone into Knoxville as a double digit underdog, double digit underdog, and one on the road. Drew, I don't know, you know, I don't know the records against the spread in every college basketball game ever, but I bet you that one team has not beaten another team three straight years on the road as a double digit underdog, Drew. I bet that's never happened in the history of college basketball. It's just a guess, but I bet it hadn't happened.

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Speaker 3: I can't imagine a time that gonna happen, and even twice seems very unlikely. So to do it three straight years as an eleven and a half point doll ten and a half point dog, ten and a half point dog, that I'm gonna agree with you. I don't think that could ever happen at this point, Yeah, and I feel like this point, Kentucky just keep making us the underdog. Why not, It's fun to do that.

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Speaker 2: I would be shocked if that's ever happened and they get the victory. It is now five out of last six in Knoxville. We've gone ahead, and we got Shannon a timeshare on Rocky Top. Now, as a matter of fact, I think we own the majority of it. After a win that I think is as impressive a coaching job as we'll see, Mark Pope goes in without his point guard, Lamont Butler starting power forward, Andrew Carr plays one minute basically and then can't go. And he essentially plays five guys and then brings in four people roding off the bench, really only two of them that play significant minutes, and then finds a way to get a victory. I said on the postgame show last night, Drew, I think you know, no offense to Brandon Garrison and Travis Perry, who played, but their contributions were a little more minimal. But seven dudes like each gave a big contribution, and the five starters were unbelievable. I mean, all five guys. You don't win without any of them. Playing well, all five in double digits. D I mean, that was almost the epitome of a team win where five guys went in said look it's us and basically each of them did what they had to do to get the victory.

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Speaker 3: It's crazy, and not just any five guys. These are five guys from Oklahoma Dayton BYU, Guys that a lot of people outside of Kentucky were saying aren't talented enough, Kentucky's gonna fall. Those five went in with a bench of two kids that were in the Sweet sixteen last year and beat a very good Tennessee team in an environment where Voss fans thought all day they were winning. They went in celebrating before tip off because they thought that game was over, and to have the performance they did with Kentucky just jump on them right away. That was amazing. It's one of my favorite games in a long time.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, let's just focus on that for a second. Think about the people that went on the floor last night. Starting lineup from Oklahoma Dayton BYU, Fairleigh, Dickinson, and Drexel, and the bench Oklahoma State, a guy that was on a Mormon mission, and two kids from the Kentucky Sweet sixteen high school. I mean, that's who won the game last night. That's who went and beat a Tennessee team that was pre season number two or three, the number one defensive team in the country going in, by the way, by the way, they were number two coming out because we scored seventy eight points on them, and you go and win there. That's just an absolutely amazing job. And they had a bunch of different times during the game that they could have given it up. You know, they were up eight in the first half, Shannon, they come back terrible last three minutes the first half, were losing by three at halftime. Once again, start the second half. Great, go from down three to up six in the first segment of the second half, and then the league kind of would go up to eight or nine, come back to three, go up to eight or nine, come back to three. But Shannon, they would always make the plays they had to make. And then after a terrible sweet sequence where they get three offensive rebounds, they get four shots at it, they finally make a three. We're only up one and it looks like we're gonna collapse. They go and hit a free throw or hit two free throws, play great defense, on the next play and get the win them. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I mean, that is, without a doubt, in my mind, the most impressive win of the entire season. I know they played without Creasing, without Butler in the Gonzaga game, but that wasn't for the entire forty minutes. And to be able to go on the road in a tough environment like that and do that against Tennessee, I mean, come on, man, how does that not get you excited about the rest of the season moving forward?

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Speaker 5: Even if you don't have Butler.

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Speaker 4: They do need them going forward, but this shows you they can win if they I don't have him for the next couple of games.

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Speaker 2: And on Brandon Garrison's expletive Leyden postgame postgame locker room video, Lamar Butler says he'll be back soon, So that makes me feel better. But you know, we're probably gonna have some games where we don't have him, and you know, they played Jackson Robinson at the point guard. They played a Maury Williams some at the point guard, which made Drew my heart kind of flutter a little bit, like what are we doing? But he did an awesome job doing it. Omari had fifteen rebounds, Jackson, Robinson seventeen points, Kobe Braa eighteen points, and a diversity of game that we haven't seen going to the basket. Some he had set. You know, Drew, we've talked about he had ten free throws on the year. He had seven free throws last night. He had as many for almost as many free throws last night, Drew as he shot the entire season. Leading into the game.

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Speaker 3: I think he was listening to KSR if we called him out on that day of the game. But I think, you know, you want Butler back. I want him back imediately. The same with Carr. But I almost think the offense just had their backs against the Wallers, like, well, there's not much of a bench. We gotta do something, and maybe they found confidence in that. I think, you know, Robinson, I don't want him to be the point guard, but he's now done it in the second half against Gonzaga did well last night. You don't want to do it forever. But it seems like this group, when they get pretty limited, they play well together offensively, and.

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Speaker 2: We even beat the Banked in three curse troop. We thought that would do us in, but we even beat the Banked in three curse, they hit a banked in three, we still would, all right.

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Speaker 3: So let's talk about that, because right before the banked in three, you couldn't convince me Tennessee was gonna win that game. I mean pretty early in the second half, I was feeling great. I was already talking my talk with friends. But then when that banked in three happened, I considered turning off the TV and going to bed. I genuinely thought the banked in three has that much of a curse, that that was the final moment. So maybe earlier in the game Brea had won Rattle and kind of bank in, maybe that canceled it out. But to have it a sixth time now, I thought that was the end.

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Speaker 2: I don't know how that's possible that you could make it six threes in games. But we won this one, and that's ultimately the most important thing I will tell you, Shannon. So, I was at the Carolina Hurricanes were playing here in New York, right, So I went to the game and the plan was to watch it on my phone, and I was gonna have I was gonna watch it, but you know, I thought, to be honest with me, I thought we were gonna lose, so I was like, I'm gonna keep track of it, but whatever. Well, of course, obviously when we're winning, you know what happens to me. Right, Let yeah start. I'm literally in the middle of Madison Square Garden like.

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Speaker 5: Pacing did you find the showers in the locker round?

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Speaker 2: And I nearly went in and knocked Sebastianaho out of there and said, look, I gotta be in the shower. I'm standing in the aisle at the end of the game, like pacing back and forth. The Canes destroyed the Rangers, so I got a double dip of wins. But I was freaking out and I'm sitting there, and you know how it is when you're like in an arena. The service would go in and out, especially on streaming video. And at one point the three that Kobe Braya hit right after they had banked in the three drew, it froze with the ball in the air, right, So so no, Kobe Bray shoots a three, and I don't know whether or not it's gone in, And I remember thinking sitting there, if that ball goes in, I think we're winning. If it doesn't, I think we might lose. And then when I finally when it thirty seconds later restarted it, it got in. And I actually think that the two most important plays of the game. I said this last night. I think we're Trent Noah on the loose ball being a Kentucky player to finally go get a loose ball put in the basket because they were on a run that stopped it. And then I think Kobe Bray is three right after the banked in three. You know when that but three went banked in, all Kentucky fans probably thought, well, there we go. We're gonna lose. And then on the next play he hits the the three. For me, it froze in the air for a minute, but I thought, actually, those were the two biggest buckets of the game.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the immediate in response to the bank was awesome. It's so good to see Bray get going not missing a shot. But honestly, my favorite play of the game was Trent Noah pulling up from the e a shot he should not have taken, yeah, and drilling it. I mean, you gotta think about that's right. I heard you say on the show. Loved the Mountain Mamba nickname, but you got that kid not even this time last year, didn't have a thought of playing for Kentucky. He was going to South Carolina, didn't have an offer to pull up from the e on Tennessee's court. What two hours from your high school? Are you kidding me?

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Speaker 2: Man?

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Speaker 3: This kid is not afraid at all. And I love the effort on the loose balls too. I kind of downplayed, no I needed to play more because I thought it was a Kentucky thing. But the effort he's shown and the willingness to just shoot with confidence, I think he does need more minute.

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Speaker 2: But do you like the name Shannon Mountain Mamba? That was some guy on Chaos Board. Sorry, I don't know which one it is, or I would give you credit. I think it's a perfect name. I think it hits. It hits a perfect combination. I think people will like it. Are you Shanning pro mountain Mamba? I am? I think most people seem to be.

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Speaker 4: I was telling Billy during the pre show, maybe too many syllables mountain Mamba. It's almost the song, right, you get the song? And yeah, here's the thing. If you're trenton Nowhere, though, why not shoot that shot? You're playing with house money? What's gonna happen. If you miss it, you're gonna get benched. I mean, you've been on the bench of the entire season, so why not shoot your shot.

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Speaker 5: I'm glad he took that one.

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Speaker 3: We've got a nickname Drama.

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Speaker 2: We've got nickname Drama.

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Speaker 3: I like Mountain Mamba. But a woman at the games from Harlan Cara, she's been workshopping a nickname all season and I told her needs a it's a rough draft. But she's been calling him sweet and sweet Mountain angel baby all season. I her that that needs a little work. I think Mountain Mamba is the one. I think we put Mountain Angel Baby to the side, and Mountain Mamba is it.

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Speaker 2: What's the woman's name.

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Speaker 3: She texted me last night, Sweet Mountain.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure I'm not calling another man sweet Mountain Angels. You know I'm not. I'm gonna calling Mountain. But he looks twelve years old. He does. There's never been a player who looked younger than Trent Noah. But I did this last night. But I just want to go through quickly the players, and because I think they all deserve a shout out. Maybe Drew Amari Williams's best game as a cat. Fifteen beautifuay, twenty four minutes, twenty four minutes, fifteen rebounds. I think, what ten points, twelve points something like that. Played excellent, had to bring the ball up for a little bit. I mean, that's got to be a Mari's best game he's had, right.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, two quick fouls got him early in the half, and then at halftime he played ten minutes and he still had seven rebounds and two assists. I mean, in limited minutes, he still found a way to really help out on the boards.

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Speaker 2: And they don't.

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Speaker 3: You know, we're focusing on the threes and guys stepping up, but they don't win that game without Mario getting rebounds. Overall, they still sucked at rebounding, but Amrio was big and open out.

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Speaker 2: I thought Jackson Robinson was great. Obviously had seventeen points, hit the four threes. Thought he played pretty good defense out on the perimeter. You know, he had to play points. Some he set up. If you go look at Bray, he's in Almanor's threes and even Noah's three. A lot of times the play was set up by Robinson to get those guys looks that I thought he had an excellent, excellent game. Almanor hits the four threes. My man struggles at rebounding the defense. But if you make four threes, then you can play through that, and he ended up doing it. Kobe Braya, you know, his seven to three game at Florida. Against Florida is obviously a bigger scoring game, but in terms of his overall impact on the game, this was his best game in my opinion, scoring eighteen points, but only three of them on threes. He got to the line we talked about, I think he got a dunk at one point. Oh way, I thought played well. Little nerve wracking sometimes when he handles the ball, but he hit the four big free throws at the end that were important. And then we mentioned noah, but let me throw Colin Chandler in there. Yeah, his stat line is nothing. He didn't score, but he played fifteen minutes. It was fifteen minutes. True that unlike some of his other minutes where it's stuck out that he's out there and you're like, oh no. I actually thought he did pretty well and surprisingly, I thought he played pretty good defense, which is why I think he played fifteen minutes. Last night. That's right.

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Speaker 3: Uh, I actually owe the Chandler's calling anyone listening an apology. Even last night, I yelled at my TV a few times, why is he in the game? And he shut me up. Just about every time he had a great stop in the first half, they could have called a walk or three seconds. The guy did both. With Chandler definiting, I mean out scoring, but it's nothing that shows up in the box score there. But Chandler played great defense, had a big deflection in the second half. I just he had that open three. I wanted him to make so bad at that you go in. But otherwise he played. He played well and when a lot of people myself included, were wondering if you could play in that game.

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Speaker 2: Well, great night to beat Tennessee like that the go big blue chant at the end, like what if you're a Kentucky face, especially if you're a Kentucky fan from the Mountain. I mean, for those of us in the thirteenth region, there's not gonna be too many wins we like more than that winning at Knoxville. That was the game I always got to go to. I never got to go to get games at RUP. But my grandfather would take me my mom then later would take me at Knoxville to the Kentucky game. We usually lost, but I always loved going there. To win at Knoxville and to have a kid from the thirteenth Region make big plays, that was that's gotta be one of the best Thirteenth Region Kentucky wins of all time. And then again Mark Pope Man, I mean, that is a coaching win. Those players all played well. They deserve all the accolades. But to drop up a game plan. Tennessee had only allowed more than seventy points once and it was seventy one and we scored seventy eight. That's the game right there. And to set up a defensive game plan where you make Tennessee take forty five threes, which is not what they want to do. They took forty five threes. Dude, you can't ask for a better result. If I'm nine, two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, we're gonna take your calls. First hour, I'm gonna one it two be mostly Tennessee. We will switch in the second hour and talk about what's coming Saturday, because there's actually news on all that and the debate about well, what should we do? I have strong thoughts about it, but let's talk Kentucky, Tennessee. First. We'll take a break and right back this case.

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Speaker 5: Sweet Mountain Angel baby say it.

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Speaker 2: Come on, Matt so no, come on, no, welcome back. I'm not calling him that shit. I'm sorry. Come on, but Mount mom is a good name, and those of you trying to say something else, no, that's the one. I'll give some positive march to the Harlan Hammer. I like that. The Harlan Hammer I do like. But I'm still gonna go with Mount Mamba. I think it's I think it's the best one. One person rides Matt. Is there any chance you think Jackson Robinson should be our starting point guard? No? But here's what I like about having Jackson Robinson as a point guard Drew is that he is he's not scared to shoot an initiate offense, and Butler, I have felt like in the last few games, and it may be a product of his injury, has been very hesitant to shoot, especially from the outside, which makes him force it to the basket too much. Oway doesn't seem confident in his shot, and when you're a team that's gonna shoot a lot of threes. You can't have your two guards not shooting. The good thing about having Robinson is he'll shoot. Then you get Oway and then you get Bray at the three, and all of a sudden, you got guys out on the perimeter who are their first look is to shoot threes. And with with Butler not shooting and Oway not looking confident, we haven't had that. So I do think Robinson maybe should slide into that backup role now.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we'll see more of it. I also just think he as a player turned the quarter. Since that Georgia game, he looks like a completely different.

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Speaker 2: I agree person.

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Speaker 3: I agree he almost or may have been a little broken after that game. Pope even talked about how they got a build him back up, and then he turns around and what do he have? Like twenty seven at Mississippi State the next game he said twenty two? Since then, he said seventeen since then, I think he has just found his spot now that SEC play is rolling, and I think we're gonna get more good Robinson games moving forward.

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Speaker 2: If you go back and look at when we were rolling making threes, Butler and old Way both would just pull as soon as they were open, and neither guy has looked like he's felt like he could do that, which I think has led to some of our offensive slogs at points. With Robinson, I think you're back to everybody feeling like they can be free, and I think that there is some advantage to that. But you do miss Butler's defense, you do. I mean, we were fortunate that the guards for Tennessee went four for twenty one from three, but that won't happen every single game. A five, nine, two eighth, twenty two eighty seven. Who's up first, Brent? Brent, go ahead, Brent?

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Speaker 6: Hey man, what's going on?

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Speaker 2: What's up?

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Speaker 6: Uh Man? I was just there's a way that Jack give his talks to those players after the game that that kind of goes unnoticed. What I think he goes a long way. When Robinson started the game out yesterday, it took me back to the talk that Goose had with him after the Vandy game, And when I saw him come out like that, I felt real good. Second thing is, anybody knows me knows I love bacon, and Fryan is baking this week is gonna mean something different.

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Speaker 2: To me, and I'll hang up appreciate it. Let me say something about the postgame radio, So you know, shendon for a long time. The game ends, we have like an hour to hour and fifteen minutes, and then my post game comes on. And I used to kind of dread that hour to hour and fifteen minutes. I'm gonna be honest with you, I didn't think the show was the most exciting thing in the world. And then Cal was Cal and those interviews I think that hour and fifteen minutes now is for the most part, really good because he's right Jack Givens. They've given Jack more time to talk, which I think he does a great job with. Then when he interviews the players, it's it's like Drew an uncle or a grandfather talking to the kids. Like I love it, Like I love the way he talks to the players. He pumps them up, like I just think he does such a great job with those interviews. And then Pope is so good to listen to. It's better at home than on the road because he's always kind of in a hurry on the road. But like you get a real breakdown of the game. And I actually, you know, for people who watch it home, I'm you know, over the years. I haven't had the greatest relationship in the last few years with Jami, but I would say, actually turn that show on when the game's over while you're waiting for us to come on, because I actually think it really is the way Jack and Tom and and Pope, the way they're doing it this year, I think makes it a really fun experience leading into our car show after.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and Pope has been detailed about basketball. Anytime we hear from him, it's really awesome to know, like, oh, this is precisely what they're working on for the next game because this team does X and we need to do why. So I love hearing Pope any more what we get. But you're especially correct on the Jack Gibbons saying, like last night he had Kobe Brea and he said something like, I don't even know if I should say this to you, but I just want to say I'm very proud of you and Kobe.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I means so much.

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Speaker 3: And it was really sweet, you know, it's.

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Speaker 2: A really sweet. It's really sweet the way he talks to the guys, especially on this team. I'm not sure what it is, maybe that he's connected more with these guys, but the way he talks to these guys. I just think is really really the sweet is the best word I can use, and I I really look forward to it. I commend those guys for you know, this is not we've talked over. This is not the most talented team in the world, but it seems like a family of guys that are really going you know what, if we collectively pull each other up, we can hit a higher mark. And I just there's something really kind of nice and sweet about it. Who's next, Tody, Cody, go ahead, Cody.

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Speaker 7: Hey, Matt in the Gang things, rap me on.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we just got like a minute going.

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Speaker 7: I don't know about you guys. Yeah, I'll be quick. I'm gonna have to restock my bourbon cabinet after the game last night, both from celebration and just stress. My goodness, just the rebound in those last two minutes, Oh my goodness. So I wonder, you know, the fan earlier this season that gave Kobe Bray of their baby to like carry around the court. I wonder if they're looking back on that thing, you know, I was, I was maybe not a good move.

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Speaker 2: He can drop. That was a tough drop he had at the end, and you know that's if it was in his hands and it fell out of bounds. But they fought through that. But I thought to myself, and I appreciate the call. There was a play Amari had at Vandy where he was right under the goal he dropped it. I thought it was a key play. We ended up losing when Kobe dropped that win. I wondered if it was the same thing. But they held on and got the win. We're gonna take a break, be right back. Cats. Huge win over the Balls's k tuck you sports Radio. Great win in Knoxville last night. Five to the last six. I mean, there's probably not been many times in UK history we've won five the last six. Like I said, I bet there's no time in college basketball a double digit road dog has won three straight games in three straight years against the team. I bet that's never happened. I mean, not many teams play each other twice anymore in the modern day. And I just bet that hasn't happened because first of all, you'd have to be good to win, but then you also have to have been like thought of to not win to be a double digit underdog. So I don't think that's happened very much. I'm telling you yesterday, Shannon, you should have seen me there at the garden. I mean I went there to watch the Canes. I'm standing there in the middle of the aisle. I tried to buy seats on the end of the rows, but I was right in the middle, so I was in front of everybody, so I had to walk over them to then pace in the aisle. And the Canes were winning by a lot at the end, so it didn't matter. But like everybody had to be looking at me, like this game, why this game is four? Oh Carolina, why are you pacing?

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Speaker 4: Like this guy looks like he wants to be anywhere but here right now, not even like.

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Speaker 2: He must have a bet on him. What's he doing? And I'm standing there on my phone. We tried to like, you know.

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Speaker 4: Probably the only person in Madison Square Garden watching the Kentucky game.

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Speaker 2: No, I had to be the only person that cared. But I did care and got a double dip on those victories. We didn't get the KSR parlay. What because Owai didn't hit a three drew. I think we hit everything else, didn't we?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I really wanted Kobe Braa props, but they weren't on there. The O Way three. I think it's been a long time since he had.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I worry he seems nervous to shoot now. Granted he takes it to the basket and he drew fouls last yesterday, but he doesn't seem like he wants.

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Speaker 4: To shoo Jackson Robinson had two in the first three minutes. I'm going and he's gonna hit that over three threes.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and then I think I think we hit it all except the O Way three.

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Speaker 3: Uh oh way and double digits every game. Still very impressive for him though, every.

00:24:51
Speaker 2: Game said double digits in every single game, and.

00:24:54
Speaker 3: I think it's even like more than twelve every game. It's not even that's really amazing.

00:24:58
Speaker 2: You got to give that kid a lot of credit, I tweeted out. So there's a new show Shannon on on Hulu called Paradise. I have not seen it. I don't know if it's good, don't know anything about it. But James Marsden plays the president. Now you remember who James Marsden is. Yeah, insanely handsome dude. Uh. He's everybody listening, even if you don't know the name. If you look up his face. You've seen him in something he was in like Sonic the Hedgehog. He was in the show with Christina Applegate on Netflix. What else he been in? Yes, he's been in everything, the Notebook, James mars Yeah, a lot of people know, all right, So James Marsden. I've met James Marsden a number of times. He's like best friends with Josh Hopkins, the Kentucky fan. They both live in Austin, Texas, their buddies. When I used to go to Austin and see Josh, he'd be there, nicest guy in the world. He was also in the show You and I like Drew so much Jury Duty, right, Jerry the Amazon show Anyway plays the president. In this show, they have a scene where the president is a Kentucky fan, which, by the way, well let's play the scene. This is a scene from the new show on I think it's Hulu. Is it Hulu or Amazon Hulu? This is the new show from Hulu. This is James Marsden, who is a UK fan on the show talking than Christian Laden.

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Speaker 8: I don't off do this to name Christian ladan duke that he made the most famous college basketball shot of all time against us in the tournament single handedly killed me in every other.

00:26:43
Speaker 5: Kentucky Wildcat fan that day.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I thought i'd been lighter.

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Speaker 2: He says he thought he had been lightered. And he says he killed at me and every other Kentucky Wildcat fan. So I mean crazy he to not only say he's a Kentucky fan to bring up the Lightner shot, say it broke his heart. So I knew Drew Josh Hopkins had to have a roll with this. I knew he did. There's no way that it would be that specific. He'd be a Kentucky fan. And I texted Josh and Josh didn't say what, but he had some role in getting that in there. But it's kind of cool that this character is playing a Kentucky fan on this show. That's out right now, isn't it. It is?

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Speaker 3: And that definitely has Josh Hopkins all over it, whether it's Mars controlling him as a good buddy, or you know, Josh threw it out there. You know, Marstin's been on this show talking about Kentucky too. He's called in before to.

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Speaker 2: Talk about you remember that, Yeah, but I was gone, that's right.

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Speaker 3: So that's the first I've heard of that show. I watch it though, I like his stuff. And now you got to Kentucky and't go why not check it out?

00:27:48
Speaker 2: So very cool Kentucky. I mean, I wish it wasn't Lightner. But if he brings up Richie Farmer in season two, shame.

00:27:57
Speaker 5: That he's well know he's writing the script for that.

00:28:00
Speaker 2: Exactly right, Hopkins must get a writing credit on it. Who's up next, Kara, Kara, go ahead.

00:28:04
Speaker 9: Kara, Hey, guys, I'm Greace Freda.

00:28:08
Speaker 10: I'm the one that came up with Sweet Mountain Angel Baby, and I just wanted to thank you, thank you. I'm I'm gonna make some shirts and I but you understand.

00:28:18
Speaker 2: I can't understand, Kara. I can't call him sweet Mountain angel baby. You understand. I think I think the baby. I don't.

00:28:27
Speaker 9: I don't.

00:28:30
Speaker 10: Okay, would it be better if it was sweet Mountain Angel man.

00:28:35
Speaker 2: No, I don't think I can say sweet. I don't think I can say angel. I just can't call another man a sweet angel baby. I can say mountain, but I think the rest of it's probably not.

00:28:49
Speaker 5: Okay.

00:28:50
Speaker 10: Well, he's just a great guy. His family's awesome. He was being down on a little cloud from God himself and all of us mountains.

00:28:59
Speaker 9: I just love it.

00:29:03
Speaker 2: Did she say it was beamed down from God himself?

00:29:07
Speaker 6: Yeah?

00:29:07
Speaker 10: On a cloud Yep.

00:29:09
Speaker 2: Wow.

00:29:12
Speaker 10: In the shirt he'll he'll be on a cloud.

00:29:14
Speaker 2: Are you from Harlan, I'm.

00:29:18
Speaker 10: Actually from Clay County, but I've done some work with him on some things and his family, and I just adore them.

00:29:24
Speaker 9: They're great people.

00:29:25
Speaker 6: They're great.

00:29:26
Speaker 2: We adopt everyone in the thirteenth region. Sometimes we're not sure about Laurel County, but everywhere else is part of our understand So I appreciate it. Thank you very much, and for you one sweet mountain angel. Baby. That's all you get from now.

00:29:40
Speaker 3: And we actually have another birthday shout out to give. Did you see Twitter the one hundred year old birthday Boo?

00:29:47
Speaker 2: I did not.

00:29:48
Speaker 3: She just turned one hundred and she stayed up for the whole game last night. There's a picture of her with her balloons. So Boo in Northern Kentucky turning one hundred today, I think is worth a second birthday shout on the show tagged in it too, But there's a cool picture of her.

00:30:02
Speaker 2: Another person wrote me and said, Shannon. They that their eleven year old daughter had to go to the hospital for some emergency and was about to go into the emergency room, like into a little patient thing, and and was like and tried to get the doctors to wait so she could watch in the lobby the last minute of the game. The doctors were like, no, you need to come now, and the eleven year old was like, I want to see it. Apparently she's okay, So they told me I can tell his story because apparently she's okay. But she was like, I don't even want an emergency room.

00:30:32
Speaker 5: Case shows you how base is so special compared.

00:30:36
Speaker 2: To every other Right, that's exactly right. Who's next? Ryan? Ryan?

00:30:39
Speaker 11: Go ahead, right, Hey, Matt, you gotta turn on the Tony Basilio show from last night. Eight minutes in the first call, what is that guy?

00:30:49
Speaker 2: I've heard the call. I wanted to play it on the air, but there's there's some cuss words and it's it's like impossible to hear the man. Just this is Tony Basilio. That's the Tennessee postgame show. It seemed like he was just losing his mind on the air.

00:31:01
Speaker 11: The caller, right, he screamed for like three minutes, and when he gets done, it's quiet for a second and Tony goes gonna be all all night.

00:31:12
Speaker 2: I will give Tony credit. He lets that stuff go more than I can, and sometimes he gets gold out of it. So it did seem like that last night.

00:31:21
Speaker 11: And second thing, could you give a birthday shout out?

00:31:26
Speaker 2: I appreciate call Annabel got the one of the day, Annabel, and boo, that's it. Twenty two eighty seven. Let's talk about commonwealth causes here for a second. Club Blue now, folks, Kentucky Arkansas coming Saturday. We'll talk more about in the second hour, but let me just say something here about Club Blue. Club Blue, the official fundraising partner of the University Kentucky, is giving away two tickets to the Kentucky Arkansas game. Two tickets February first, nine o'clock. Two tickets now between now and Thursday at six pm. So here's what you gotta do. You need to go h to Club blueinisle dot com and click on giveaways right now. I don't care stop what you're doing, because we're gonna ruin the Arkansas team on Thursday. On Saturday. Go to Club Blue Inile dot com enter to win two lower level tickets for the Game of the Year Saturday Night Kentucky and Arkansas Club Blue in Ile dot com. All right, we'll take a break. We'll come back a FM nine two twenty two eighty seven more on the big win in Knoxville. It's KSR. Welcome back. By the way, that Paradise show. Two things One, James Marsden's secret service name, Drew is Wildcat. How about that?

00:32:42
Speaker 3: Oh, this is all intentional, gotta be.

00:32:44
Speaker 2: Gotta be secret service name is Wildcat? What? By the way, what are what? What? What's Trump's secret service name? Shannon? Do we know?

00:32:53
Speaker 5: I don't know? Do we know what was Biden's sleepy?

00:32:57
Speaker 3: No, A good one, I'd be a good one.

00:33:03
Speaker 2: What Obama's had? How do I not know any of these people? Because like, we know that's a thing, But do we know what they are? I feel like at some point I heard what Obama's was.

00:33:12
Speaker 4: Like if we know, like the if we know the current president's secret name, I don't I feel like that would be a security breach.

00:33:17
Speaker 2: Yeah.

00:33:19
Speaker 3: I found a list of past presidents.

00:33:21
Speaker 2: All right, so read me the ones there are.

00:33:24
Speaker 3: Oh man, these are awesome. Uh, let's see Biden had a.

00:33:28
Speaker 2: Couple start with the most recent people.

00:33:30
Speaker 3: Okay, this is just on Wikipedia, so I'm just reading off that says secret Service code names presidents. I'm gonna trust it. Joe Biden was Celtic, Donald Trump was mogul, Donald Trump Junior was mountaineer.

00:33:44
Speaker 2: Why does Donald Trump?

00:33:46
Speaker 3: Well, Jill and Hunter, Yeah, they're on there too. I wasn't gonna read all all the families. I mean all there's was Captain, Jill was Capri. Jared Kushner is the mechanic. Uh Obama was renegade. Renegade.

00:34:01
Speaker 2: Oh, that's right, because his book, his book's name is Renegade. That's right. Okay, I knew that. What was that?

00:34:07
Speaker 3: George Bush was Tumblr? I like Tumblr? Sorry, which one did you just ask?

00:34:12
Speaker 2: I would? George W. Bush was Tumblr? Yep? Who?

00:34:16
Speaker 3: I got the whole list? Just throw me a present.

00:34:18
Speaker 2: Keep going. What's Clinton?

00:34:19
Speaker 3: Clinton was Eagle? Hillary was ever Green?

00:34:23
Speaker 2: Okay, well that's good, good stuff. I don't that's I had. I don't know that I've ever even heard the other one.

00:34:29
Speaker 4: Trying to find like the worst one on here, Like there's gonna be some real stupid ones.

00:34:33
Speaker 2: I don't like who was Tumblr. I think that's a bad one. Who had Tumblr? That was w Right? Yeah, that was George W.

00:34:42
Speaker 5: Woodrow.

00:34:42
Speaker 4: Wilson's wife had Grandma as the name Grandma. That was is why Edith Wilson's secret name was You.

00:34:51
Speaker 2: Don't want to be Grandma as your as your Tumblr as your secret service name was Nixon's.

00:35:00
Speaker 5: Hmmm, I don't know.

00:35:03
Speaker 2: You're gonna have to reset. Get somebody to reset you. You're like three or four seconds behind.

00:35:07
Speaker 3: Oh boy, I don't This is a lot of buttons in front of me.

00:35:09
Speaker 2: All right, get Billy, because I this like Shandon, Why does this keep happening?

00:35:14
Speaker 5: Like because we're in three different cities.

00:35:16
Speaker 2: I know, but like I'm on a piece of machinery from the twenties and you and I are connected, and they are in a state of the art studio in three seconds behind us.

00:35:27
Speaker 5: More importantly, what would be feathers?

00:35:30
Speaker 2: No, it would not be feathers, you jerk. I'm not gonna go by feathers.

00:35:34
Speaker 5: Would That's obvious?

00:35:36
Speaker 2: Dude? No, yours? You definitely should be dude. Yeah, that's a good one, because I want mine? Did like sound tough? Law dog, law dog?

00:35:46
Speaker 5: All right? I like that Billy.

00:35:50
Speaker 2: Yeah, he used to call me law Dog. So for Billy Gillespie can name my secret service name, I'll go with law Dog. Who's next, Brad, Brad? Go ahead, Brad?

00:36:01
Speaker 9: Yes, I was hoping i'd be on in the second hour because I wanted to talk about Booing Calip Perry.

00:36:08
Speaker 2: All right, well, why don't you hang on man? Why don't you hang on Brad? Because I don't want to get to that yet. Can I come back to you in the second.

00:36:13
Speaker 12: Hour then, yeah, I've been hanging out all right.

00:36:15
Speaker 2: Hang on, Brad, I'll come back. I'll come back to you. Who's next?

00:36:18
Speaker 5: Shit, Sarah?

00:36:19
Speaker 12: Sarah?

00:36:20
Speaker 2: Go ahead, Sarah.

00:36:22
Speaker 9: Well, boys and law Dog? How fun is it to silence that ridiculous song? Like the Boys did so good last night? It was really fun to watch.

00:36:31
Speaker 2: I love it. I love that they still play it at the end even when they lose, because Tom Leach made right now. Yeah, yeah, it was.

00:36:40
Speaker 9: Great, so ridiculous, so ridiculous. You think that would finally shut them up. But I just think everybody could learn something from the way that Mark Pope talks about not only his players, but just you know, everybody, Like it's so uplifting just to even watch him talk about his players the way he did last night, even the way he does like.

00:36:57
Speaker 6: When we lose.

00:36:59
Speaker 9: And so I think, I don't know. I just think that maybe we're not realizing just how special he is as a coach, and I think he's actually going to make a big difference in the sport and the coaching occupation going forward. I just think we're really lucky.

00:37:11
Speaker 2: He has relentless positivity. Rights he somebody compared him earlier in the year to Ted Lasso, and I think there's a lot of truth in that, Like he has relentless positivity. I heard a guy Sarah on the field of sixty eight. You know, they do a show every night after the game. Yeah, sometimes I turned it on. Some don't, but when Kentucky wins, I'll watch it. And there was a guy on there who I don't even know who he was, honestly, because they never said his name. Here's a little tidbit. You all should put the names of the people up there on there, because like some of these people, I don't know. But he had this guy and he said something I thought was really good. He said, you know, Kentucky fans love of Mark Pope is actually about more than basketball. And the guy said, I think, let's say in five or six years, it doesn't work out with Pope, he doesn't win enough whatever. He was like, I think Kentucky fans will still love Mark Pope no matter what, even if things don't work out, just because of what kind of person he is. Now if they work out, like he'll be a hero unlike anyone we've had. And I kind of agree with that, Sarah. I don't see a messy ending ever with Mark Pope because I think like if it didn't work out, we'd all be sad, but we'd still really like him for the reason that you're talking about.

00:38:24
Speaker 9: It's so interesting that you that you brought that up, because I actually had that thought as I was watching the interviews last night, and I'm like, gosh, he could suck next year and we would all still love him just because of the person that he is. And it's like, you know, at first, nobody knew what to do. We don't know if he's gonna win, we don't know how it's gonna go, but like he's not turning back into a pumpkin. This is who he is, you know, and it's really great to watch it, and maybe people will learn from that, you know, I mean, he'll.

00:38:48
Speaker 2: Have to win. I appreciate the call Drew. I think Drew's back. He'll have to win, but I think like the way he is as a person has made him get a grace certainly with me, and I think it'll be with most people. That like is pretty astounding in this job if you think about it.

00:39:06
Speaker 3: Yeah, And when he first got hired, before I had any clue if it would work, I was even skeptical. I said, if it does work, but if it does work, it will be better than it could be with anyone else if it does work. With his history UK, we already have a little bit of an idea what a guy was. We didn't really know till he got here. But there was no name on the list that could reach a level that Mark Pope could reach, just because he already had that built in with the connection with the fan base and how he is as a person. And now that he's got what six or seven quad win wins, he has more than Hurley, Scott Drew, all those guys combined that we were all shopping for last year.

00:39:41
Speaker 2: More than Hurley Scott Drew and cal combined. Think about that sham quad one wins than Hurley, Scott, Drew and Cal combined. I like he could be the guy that is sitting in Joby Hall's seat in thirty years, no doubt, no doubt that like he can be that guy if he Even if he doesn't win, I think people are gonna lie. But if he wins, there'll be a specialness that he can hit that I'm not sure any of these coaches could hit. Who's next, Joe, Joe, what's up? Joe?

00:40:12
Speaker 12: Quickly? Matt, Thank you Cass Daniels for not going to South Carolina and thank you Trent Noa for not going to South Carolina. I just couldn't imagine neither one of those young men in the Carolina uniform. And secondly, the big basket that Trent had, the two point basket, Mad, that might have been bigger than that three point shot that he hit because at the time we was really it was really going bad for.

00:40:39
Speaker 2: The crowd was into it. They were wrong. I think next to the bray of three, which I think was the biggest shot, I think it was the second biggest shot in the game.

00:40:48
Speaker 12: And lastly, Mad, they almost banked in a troup pointy shot in the first half from the corner. I don't know, I forget who it was, but man, you don't see him from the corner of Very alphin By, but they almost had one. And so that's a gentleman. Y'all have a great day. Thank you.

00:41:04
Speaker 2: Yeah, we gotta appreciate the call. We gotta have the worst luck on earth, but we overcame it and got the victory. All right. When we come back, we can do more on Kentucky, Tennessee, but we got to start talking about what's happening this week. I have some strong feelings about the stories and everything coming out with the cow and whether they boo all that. We'll deal with that at the top of the hour. It's KSR.