KSR Postgame UK MBB at Arkansas 1/31/26

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Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to the local Toyota Dealers KSR postgame show. What a night as the Cats go down to Fayetteville and defeat the Arkansas Razorbacks eighty five to seventy seven. Mark Pope gets his revenge on John Caliperi. We'll talk about it all tonight. Give us a call eight five nine two eight zero two two eight seven and joining me tonight in the celebration. Is the only KISR personality to pick the Cats to beat Arkansas today. That is Nick Rausch, who is live and living color in studio.

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Speaker 2: Woo feels good, It feels great. You know, there's a lot of haters. There's a lot of doubters out there. I never had a doubt Billy, not for a second. And you know a lot of people they criticized me a year ago because I was the only one who picked Cal and Arkansas to come to up and win. Because here's the thing. I know, Cal, I've seen this before. It's been it's fifteen years of it. Right. Sometimes he does the thing where he gets to play the underdog card us against the world, no pressure on and he gets his guys playing great. Well, what happens when the shoes on the other foot, and he's playing a team that's got really no pressure on him at all. They had nothing to lose down there at bud Walton. It just come off a tough, tough loss, and Pope got his guys ready to go cal they were not ready to go and I could feel it. I could feel it, my plums. We knew this was gonna happen. All the doubters out there, I'm sure all of you are going to call in and say I knew the whole time, don't kid yourself. Everybody expected oh loss, but not everybody's ballner, Billy, and you brought in. You were smart. You hit me up today and said I need a ball noer, and so you got me in the seat and we're I'm so excited to talk about this one of the biggest wins of the Pope era, one that Kentucky fans are gonna be talking about for a long, long, long long time.

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Speaker 1: I think you're exactly right, Nick, I mean, this win exercised some demons.

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Speaker 3: There's no doubt.

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Speaker 1: I mean it's not going to completely correct the season and some of the struggles that they've had, but this could be a launching point for what the rest of this year could be. We saw some great play again by otega Oway. We saw Mark Pope get a technical, we saw a disgusting ref show that I'm sure we'll get maybe one or more call on day.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's good to see you, buddy. Thanks for joining me here.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm happy to I just I'm oh man, it's just this is this is gonna be a great night, So please join us. Eight five twenty two eighty seven. We're gonna be talking about this for the next hour. It's gonna be so much fun. Pour yourself an ice cold beverage and enjoy the spoils of war. Tonight's night. We get to relish, we get to enjoy, and let's just let's do the mat thing. Let's talk about the how it all happened, the anatomy of an upset. How do you go on the road and beat a top fifteen team when you're an underdog. Well, first things first, you need your best player to play like it, and otega Oway did that tonight. In non conference play. You could tell something was a little off with him, right, Like something was just wasn't really there. You know. It's like Okay, you got sixteen points, but it took you thirteen shots to get there. Otaga was a little off. He's been awesome in SEC play and he was awesome again tonight, twenty four points. And the funny thing I thought, Billy, is you know Frank for Shilla, he gets paid much more than we do to provide basketball analysis, and he's just just put your head down and get to the rim. And it's like, it sounds really dumb, but just just do it and Otaga away. He did it over and over and over again. Here's another thing too, If you want to go on the road and win, what do you need to do? Don't start slow? Can you?

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Speaker 3: I can't believe it? Yeah, I can't.

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Speaker 2: Every I mean, it felt like the last month they've just been walking out there like Malik Thomas with a shovel, going to work and digging themselves in a hole every single game. By the time that ESPN flipped it over, Kittucky was up twelve to five. There was a lot of people who were just like, I don't want to flip it over to esp and you this game is almost over anyway, I'm not gonna miss anything. They're gonna be done. Oh no, Kentucky starts hot. They put game pressure on Arkansas, and when you're the underdog, you gotta pot pressure intense moments. And the other part, like basketball is a shot making game. It's very simple. The team that makes shots, they're going to win. Kentucky made fifty four percent of their shots. More importantly, they outscored Arkansas by nine points at the three point line, and they also made three more free throws, none of the best free throw shooting night for either team.

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Speaker 1: Mister Rutlich, Well, you talk about this fast start, I mean they started ten of eleven from the field, ten of eleven.

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Speaker 3: I mean, how bad was.

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Speaker 1: The start versus Vandy. I think they were three to twenty to start that game. To then go ten of eleven. I mean, I don't know if this team only thought that they had one game this week and they were just so focused on beating Cal in Arkansas. But to go into your arena and beat your team, Yeah, heard that one before.

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Speaker 2: I heard it before.

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Speaker 1: It was just sweet and and just how much the loss last year was crushing. We spent the entire year saying they had to win one game last year was Arkansas at Rop Arena. For Pope to win this game now in Arkansas, when Arkansas is the highest rated team and the AP right now in the SEC at fifteen, and with how bad Kentucky's been playing, this is just it's a momentous occasion, there's no doubt.

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Speaker 2: And the other part when you get in these games against big time teams, so like, let's face it, they're more talented the Kentucky right this is a fall of Kentucky basketball team, probably not going to be winning SEC championships and going to final fours, but they're good enough to beat good teams. It's just how how do you react when things get tight? And let's be real, there was a moment there where a lot of that doubt that first have joy and jubilation, people started thinking, oh god, they're gonna lose the cal again because things got off the wire. When you want to upset a team on the road, you got to weather the storm when things aren't going your way. And Black Guy Billy, I don't know if things could have gone worse for that short little stretch where three technical fouls were called in thirty eight seconds.

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Speaker 3: Right wrong, up and down, up or down.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if anybody could predict what Doug Shows was gonna do in those thirty eight seconds.

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Speaker 2: So the first one, Brandon Garrison, he earned he did a brain and Garson.

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Speaker 3: Was a tough guy thing like which, like, dude, you.

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Speaker 2: Just you just played awesome defense on Darius a cuff. Okay, but you don't have to just flex dim bones right over top of him like to That was a very dumb beg thing and like, okay, I get it. Let's move on the technical that Doug Shows called on mo Dia Bote. I'm so glad, so so glad that we are talking about this after a win. Yeah, because you sound like a sore loser to talk about bad calls after a loss. But Billy, it's not how perbly to say that that might be the worst call in the history of officiating. I mean, the the hook I guess it was last Saturday. Yeah, the hook that where Oway was getting grabbed. I mean it was, it was. That was a terrible call. Mod just swatched the shot in Flexes in the crowd and Doug Shows season up. What what in what world?

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Speaker 4: There?

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Speaker 2: That is never ever ever a technical And it happens every.

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Speaker 3: Single time that something like that happens this is.

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Speaker 2: The most basic basketball player ever in Doug Show's like, you know what, time for me to be the center of attention and then to make matters worse Denzel Aberdeen. Can we get a little urgency in the back court right? Like, I mean, come on, get it up the court. I I thought he got across. I thought he made it in time. They called it ten second violation. Pope loses it, he gets teed up. You know what, Good on you, Pope, stand up for your guys. That the fact that they had all of that go wrong for them seven O Arkansas run. It feels like all hope is lost. Credit to this team who how many times have people called into this show and complained to about the mental makeup of this team often? I mean, look at him. They kind of smiled, They almost smiled. In a press conference, they said touch money when they were breaking the people nitpicked this team to death. But they have showed some real emotional resiliency this year and they deserve credit for that, especially in this one, because they could have packed their bags, they could have called it a day. You know what they did and said Colin Chandler went down there, hit a huge three to really do the sham wou and plugged the leak. Right, it calmed everybody down. It was nice. They had a couple of timeouts on the floor, but the fact that they weathered that storm. Shout out to this Kentucky Wildcats team, thank you for delivering a win that we can all celebrate tonight, because that was that was one hell of a win.

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Speaker 1: Well, you know, Tom and Goose thought the same thing about the mo technical foul. I think we all did, But it was the double tech in the first half that got Goose's attention. You know where oh Way got into a scuffle with the other guys. He's not letting to take in anybody's bs in this game. That is exactly what Jack was looking for. He talked about on the broadcast, how I wanted to see some fight from this team. Yeah, maybe not just figurative fight, but an actual fight, Like sometimes enough is enough, And maybe Kentucky had finally reached that breaking point going on the road, everybody counting them out except Nick Rausch in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. When you're back is against the wall, you see people play their best and maybe that was a little bit of that tonight for Kentucky.

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Speaker 2: Two players that deserve a shout out. Obviously we're gonna shout a bunch of them out. But Chandler hit that big three. He had a huge n one right before half two. That's gonna get overwooked. But I don't know how the hell he made that. And then end of the game, it's a six point game. Things are getting all tight, right, we might be getting into a free throw shooting competition. I don't think anybody want to see either of these teams of the free throw shooting competition. Who knows what would have happen. He comes in cold off the bench, hits the little fade away that gets it to eight and really delivered the dagger. And then the other ones who Goose talked to in the post SAMs trip note that guy.

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Speaker 3: He looked great. I mean he did what he needed to do.

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Speaker 2: Tough, Yeah, every tough rebound he gets. I know everybody wants to talk about his shooting ability, and frankly, it's if there's one real big X and OZ thing Kentucky needs to do that. Guy's a great shooter. Run plays to get him shots, right, can we do that? But it wasn't the threes that he hit. It said, he was gritting and grinding some tough, tough rebounds. He's an undersized guy who is just out there against these NBA dudes, like, no, I'm getting this rebound, You're gonna found me. I'm gonna go down and make two free throws.

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Speaker 3: At the other end, he was shushing the crowd.

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Speaker 1: I love that and hopefully, you know, maybe shushing some former Wildcat players who were very vocal online when Arkansas came into Rupp Arena and beat Kentucky. Didn't see much of that after the game, which was strange.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, funny how that works out, you know. It was speaking of funny, it did hilarious to just look at the Arkansas bench. I mean.

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Speaker 3: You mean, like Chin Coleman's.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's all of those guys. I mean, I wish we got a little bit more crowd work from ESPN. They're terrible at their jobs. They don't know how to run a college basketball game. You think with all the games they have they would know how to really maximize the broadcast. They stink at it replays whole nine yards. I hadn't seen a lot of cow shots. And there was the one time out where they go towards the bench, they see Col and then you see Kenny Payne just sitting there doing nothing. His signature look right, and then Chuck Martin his pocket square it looked like a bouquet of flowers, like Chuck, you don't have to be that loud man, like I can hear you through my TV and your your mouth's closed, and usually it's Bruiser who's chomping on that gum oh Chin, just that poor gum oh, poor bastards.

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Speaker 1: Well, you know, as you were looking at the sideline, people were also looking into the stands where there was a Kentucky fan with a sign that said, well is it we miss you?

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Speaker 5: Cal?

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Speaker 3: I miss you Cal.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, And I think that would have had a little bit more gravity if Kentucky would have lost that game. But now you know, Cal said Mark Pope was the perfect man for this job. And I'm not gonna wipe away all the criticism we've given Pope.

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Speaker 3: This year, because he deserves plenty of it.

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Speaker 1: He hasn't lived up to expectations, especially with this roster. But is there a chance that he is the right guy for this job.

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Speaker 2: I think it's silly to do a lot of the torches, pitchforks, we're gonna throw him out of town thing when pretty much every important player he's had has gotten injured so like, and that's not mistaining Jane Quaint's criticize them all you want. That's a risk he took for that guy. But I will give Pope a lot of credit for masking his mistake. His big mistake this offseason was that he got away from his formula right like the way that Mark Pope coaches basketball teams. It's not what the roster built like this. He felt like he needed to build a like this to win games like tonight against Arkansas and the SEC. Well, you know what, he didn't really know how to coach that way though, So that's what's gotten us into this predicament to this point because he's not used to coaching guys like this, not a lot of shooters in space, the flour out. But you know what, he's figured it out, and you got to tip your cap to him. Give him a lot of credit. Another top fifteen win. I know Corey Price had a stat for that, but last year you could tell you set the record for top fifteen wins against a p opponents. So add another one to him. I guess that's ten so far in his short two year tender. He has still plenty to prove and a lot to work on. But to go out and get your guys to bounce back after that Vanderbilt game, right because a lot of what people question Pope about Billy is it's that intangible stuff. See pumpsft is even screaming. Is he built for this? If he can do it? He he took one to the chin his team. They they got their ass kicked. That was as bad as it could get on Tuesday. And what did he do. He got his guys back in the gym. They didn't waiver, they didn't flinch, and he got him ready to play. They started fast for the first time forever. They fixed some big problems, the concept. It's not a perfect team, and it's not going to be a perfect team, but they're going to deliver some fun wins. And I know there's a lot of people out there right now listening probably said, hey, we're not gonna get a lot, but if we could just get one, get the one at Arkansas. If they didn't say that, they said get the one at Tennessee. Well he got both of.

00:14:32
Speaker 1: Them and then embarrassed against Vandy, But then you come back and win a big game like this, Like it's impossible to predict unless you're Nick Rausch, unless you're Nick Roush predicting making the picks.

00:14:43
Speaker 2: Well, they pay me the big bucks, Billy.

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Speaker 3: Are you ready to take some calls?

00:14:46
Speaker 2: Oh? Cannot wait to take some calls. It's going to be a glorious postgame show, drinking Arkansas tears. We're gonna be calling the Hogs.

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Speaker 6: Two.

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Speaker 3: Give us a call.

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Speaker 1: We'll hand the reins over to Nick rous some more here on the Local Toyota Dealers KSR postgame Show.

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Speaker 2: This is the Local Toyota Dealers ks OUR postgame Show. I'm Nick Roush. You think I'm a football guy, but I'm also a basketball noer and I'm hanging out with Billy r Sports, Billy Rutledge and the beautiful look at that that scenic downtown. You all got a great up here.

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Speaker 1: Now you got to see the behind the scenes on game day too. I know that you get to see the operation out there.

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Speaker 2: People. You work hard, Billy. There's a lot of cutting and editing. There's there's a lot going on here. Well, thank you and you deserve a tip of the cap. It was very cool driving in and there was some college guys who were bounce around between bars doing Cat's Chance on Vine Street.

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Speaker 3: It feels right, doesn't it?

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Speaker 7: Oh Man?

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Speaker 2: Feels so good to get a big win. We're gonna talk about all night. We're gonna talk about it with you. Give us called eight, five, nine, eight, twenty two eighty seven? Who we got? Who got it first? Billy?

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Speaker 3: All right, let's start with Richard. Richard, you're up first.

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Speaker 7: Hey, what a night. Isn't it great to be a Kentucky fan? Three injuries of our best players. We don't get any of the players we go for first, we get. I mean, how much adversity does this fan base go through? And you know what, I appreciate you talking about the people who have doubted pope or unfairly criticized them. Yes, we've had bad games and bad decisions and mistakes, and we've laid eggs. But you wouldn't have thought we just came off a five game winning streak. You wouldn't have thought that we beat the best Duke team since Zion Williamson with a bunch with a roster of you know guys, who weren't great, weren't big targets, and weren't big players. But they came here and Pope coached them into a win over Cooper Flag. He coached them over He coached them through a win over the Florida Gators who won the national championship. We won against Tennessee three times, now beat Illinois. I think Pope. If you don't think Pope is the guy, what else do you want? This is going to be a long term culture build. Were like Izzoe and Michigan State in five years, He's not going to have to preach to anyone, not fans, not recruits about what Kentucky is. He's going to have built it. It will be self evident in our wins, in our you can already tell the rough atmosphere has changed. I mean we boo players because we're amped. No other fan base in the country's going to do that. No other fan base in the country is going to light up like we do in those games where we did boo when we get hot. We are a very loud crowd. And I mean no matter and if you're a recruit looking at this, what else do you want? I mean, literally, what else do you want.

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Speaker 2: I want more wins like this, And that's that's what's beautiful is that it can change so quickly. It can change on the drop of a hat. You can think that everything is going down the toilet, and then you go on the road you beat your former code who's got his best point guard. Like that's the thing with Cal. Cal's at his best when he has an outstanding point guard. He's got one of those guys in Kentucky. Did he make a shot in the first half billion.

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Speaker 3: I don't think he did.

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Speaker 2: Kentucky brought their a game.

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Speaker 1: They did, they did, And I gotta say, I mean for a fan base that was told that they're unrealistic.

00:18:24
Speaker 2: Yeah, we got to talk about that.

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Speaker 1: For a fan base that you know, went through Cal and him coming back to up and getting that win, I think this was cathartic. I mean, in a lot of ways, this is I think if people were teetering on getting off maybe the the Pope bus, maybe they're they're jumping back on it after a win like this.

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Speaker 2: It's very funny, Billy, because I tried to look up Seth Greenberg KSR. And there are like ten articles of him explaining to fans there's one unworn and arrogance where he just thinks Kentucky basketball fans expectations are too hot, Billy. How many years did it take John Period to win a national championship? Uh?

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Speaker 3: Not many?

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Speaker 2: Three? Three took him two to get to a Final four. How many years to take Tebey Smith to win a national championship?

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Speaker 3: Not many at all?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, took him. One. Took Brick four years to get to a Final four, and one of those was on probation. Jobey Hall. It didn't take him long to get to a Final four either. Kentucky fans have final four expectations because we are Kentucky basketball. We set the standard. It's a very high one. I don't care if it's gold, silver, platinum, whatever it may be. We have high expectations. We do not like when Kentucky loses about twenty five points. We are going to be pissed. That's right, and you deserve to be mad for that. But you know what is long? I feel like if I'm not going to tell you how to fan, I'm just only going to stay mad at the things that I think actually matter, and one of those is, hey, Pope, you can't keep digging yourself into double digit deficits and expect to pull a rabbit out of your hat. You did it twice and you got really lucky with that lsu wont my god, so let's be yeah, it was really yeah. Yeah, So you couldn't keep doing that, and you know what, you got it fix. And you know I don't. I probably disagree with that caller on like five years. Then we'll judge it. No, no, no, this this is a different time in college basketball. But it's good to see his coaching chops come out.

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Speaker 1: Well and also guys that you thought may have checked out still be really involved. I mean, Modiabatte was screaming at his teammates recently, and he's making some of the biggest rebounds every game. And you can talk bad about Brandon Garrison, and he makes some stupid mistakes at times. He had a pass today that that was one of the best passes I've seen all year.

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Speaker 2: Oh and then like a possession or two later, he misses his first shot and then banks it in off the glass.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I mean he's going bank it like you know that's gonna happen. But like easy for those guys to go a different direction.

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Speaker 2: Especially mod when they sent him to the bench and we thought he was just checked out for the rest of the year. But no, three blocks a night and a huge box.

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Speaker 3: That's out your three best players, too incredible.

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Speaker 2: Who got up next? Billy?

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Speaker 3: Eate is up next?

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Speaker 6: What's up?

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Speaker 8: Hey?

00:21:00
Speaker 6: You call me exactly the way people call me here, Mount Sterling.

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Speaker 9: How's everybody doing tonight?

00:21:04
Speaker 2: Shout out Mount Sterley, Let's go.

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Speaker 6: So basically, I just want to call in and talk about they came out and they fought despite the Doug Show show. Obviously, he always wants to put on a show. He wants to I guess he wants the crowd to look at him. But also, I'll touch on another couple of points real quick. There was no me and team tonight. They shared the ball.

00:21:24
Speaker 9: Well.

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Speaker 6: If Yellowviitch can score seven to nine points every outing, along with the bench, especially Trent Noah, that surplus, we can beat anyone. Also, I think the freshman, especially Jasper Johnson coming up with those two quick bells. They're still learning college ball and that's a problem. I'll hang up and much you I'll talk.

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Speaker 2: Oh, thanks, Nate. I think the for me, Billy, the role players work. If you get two of them to play. Well, they don't have to do it every night, right, Like, I forget what game it was where Jasper had like eleven points in the first half that really kept the boat to float. These games kind of all run together. Uh, But tonight he came in two thousand and four seconds.

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Speaker 3: It was it was not.

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Speaker 2: Gonna be his night. And you know what, it wasn't Yellovich's night either, Right. Yellovich he does some things that are whoa, oh, okay, that's pretty nice, like that three that I don't know how the hell that thing went. That was a prayer. But he gets lost in the interior defense. His the interior defense of Kentucky is so late on rotating. No one want to go. I mean the amount of lobs they got in the first half because Yellovich got caught with his hands in his pockets. It just couldn't happen, right, So Trent Noah comes in and he makes the scrappy plays. Now, when you go to the three two zone, okay, sometimes Trent Noah, the six foot ten guys are going to catch the ball over him and score, right, But you take the good with the bad. You get two of those role players to step up, play well, and next game it might it might be Jasper's game next time out right, as long as you got two of them stepping up ready to go, then you can then you can make this thing successful.

00:23:05
Speaker 1: There is a next man up mentality with his team, and there's nothing that better encapsulates that.

00:23:10
Speaker 3: By a quick quiz. Nick who was the plus minus leader by Kentucky ooh.

00:23:14
Speaker 2: Oh man, I'm gonna I'm gonna guess Noah.

00:23:19
Speaker 1: Malachai moreno oh was plus sixteen and twenty seven minutes, played terrible against Vandy.

00:23:25
Speaker 2: Nick, Yeah, he was unplayable against.

00:23:28
Speaker 1: Andy, and now he is the plus minus leader with eleven points and seven rebounds. I mean, that is a mentality that can take you a long way. If other guys are gonna pick each other up a couple.

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Speaker 2: Of big box and the way they use him another pick and roll too. Got a couple dunks that stopped Arkansas from building momentum, right, because that and that's the when you got a big lead like that, just don't let the other team go on a ten oh run.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Now, sometimes Doug Shows might show up and give you three texts and they go on a seven oh, run in the blank of an uh, but you can get him back, which we didn't talk about that the other tech Nicoll they called on Arkansas.

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Speaker 3: The un Tech where he threw the ball.

00:24:03
Speaker 2: And then stepped on his head. Yeah, and now, I do you think he meant to step on his head.

00:24:08
Speaker 3: I don't know. I think he meant the ball. I don't know.

00:24:11
Speaker 2: About the step in. Yeah. Yeah, but it was definitely a oh yeah, you got a game being called.

00:24:17
Speaker 1: It had he had to get a tea, had to, had to and I mean Moe got a tea for screaming at the crowd. Arkansas guys were doing the exact same thing later in the game, and they weren't getting a tea. That is really a testament to a human ego impacting a game when they're not one of the team's playing.

00:24:35
Speaker 2: I will say, though, Billy, you know this is not an easy job. I dabbled in officiating back in the day.

00:24:43
Speaker 3: Don't stand up for the refs on this one.

00:24:45
Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you what, there's no more difficult game to officiate than third and fourth grade girls basketball and Dixie Highway. Okay, let me tell you when when you got to tell him all right. You can't just run all the way to the rim like you can walk. You can shuffle feet of it, you can't run to the risk when you called him for a travel and their parents are ready to run out of the stands and tackle you. That's a tough gig, all right. So that Doug shows I know you like to be the center of the attention, but I can relate to how hard it is sometimes to deal with you.

00:25:16
Speaker 3: Well, he better be at the final four.

00:25:18
Speaker 2: Who do you think who do you think he hates more?

00:25:21
Speaker 1: Kentucky or cow That was the question I think we were supposed to learn tonight, and I think it's Kentucky.

00:25:27
Speaker 2: The funny part of it all, My favorite thing that college basketball reps do is when they call it one way for one half and then the second half they're like, no, no, no, we are calling it completely different. I mean they were just.

00:25:38
Speaker 1: The whistle tightens up a little bit and it just completely changes the game.

00:25:41
Speaker 2: Well, and you know what, credit to Kentucky for realizing, hey, they're gonna call everything. Well, we're gonna get to the free throw line. We're gonna put our heads downhill. Like frankfs Shills said, We're gonna get to the rim. We're gonna draw some fowls. And that technical that second one, it was a five point possession. Kentucky got a lot. I mean it felt like they got whatever back that they gave up from that earlier sething.

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Speaker 3: And I mean, hell, Trent Noah is getting slung around at the end of the game too.

00:26:05
Speaker 2: Yeah, you could. If it was tighter, Doug Shows would have taught. He would have tied him up so quick. But it was like, Ah, there's fifteen seconds left, we don't need to be here any longer. Let's just get out of here.

00:26:15
Speaker 3: Let's take it out of the call.

00:26:15
Speaker 2: Nick, what's good?

00:26:16
Speaker 3: Jay is up next?

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Speaker 10: What O?

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Speaker 11: Jay?

00:26:20
Speaker 12: Hey, thanks for taking my call. Nick, and Billy. I just had to call in with a great win for the Cats. I'm actually calling in for my aunt Doris. My aunt Doris was ninety four years old. She lived in Bringen, Kentucky and Mulenberg County. She died earlier this week, and we had her funeral earlier today. And I'm actually a pastor, and she wanted me to speak at her service, and so at the end of my remarks, I said, I sure hope she's pestering Saint Peter to help the Cats find a way to beat those nasty Razorbacks. And so I think at least part of the credit needs to go to my Aunt Doris, and so I wanted to shout her out on this night of victory for the Cats, and shout out to my Aunt Doris Jones in heaven and thanks for taking the call, and let's go Cats.

00:27:10
Speaker 2: Shout out to Aunt Doris, who's uh Muhlenberg County's fine is certainly celebrating in Paradise tonight.

00:27:17
Speaker 1: Needle and Saint Peter's up there, oh man, hoping for a little help.

00:27:21
Speaker 3: I love that.

00:27:21
Speaker 2: And that's uh, you know, Kentucky basketball. That's why Seth Greenberg irritates me so much when he tries to lecture us on our fandom. You don't know how much it means to us. You have no clue. It bonds, It brings families together. We live and die with this stuff. And so if we're gonna get a little irrational from time to time, so be it.

00:27:43
Speaker 3: Stephen Peak and his video.

00:27:45
Speaker 2: I mean, this is this is our thing. And you know what, if you think we're bad, Seth, go ask to Eagles fans how they feel about their team right, Like, did you think that Kentucky's the only fan base. I'm watching the tennesseevolunteers right now. You think they're a bunch of angels? No balls go Seth lectures old man. Man. We gotta do, we gotta get your break.

00:28:10
Speaker 3: We do, but let's take one more.

00:28:11
Speaker 2: All right, one more call.

00:28:12
Speaker 3: Badger is up next.

00:28:16
Speaker 4: Hey guys, uh, real quick, thanks for taking my call. Shout out and Doris, Uh, my old man used to say on the road in the sec el e eat what they feed you, and uh, our boys are are eating on hog tonight. And I grew up in the Patino tubby Smith era, and uh this this was a throwback win. Marquise Astelkeith Logan, Stayshaun, Prince Nazi, Mohammed, Jeff Shepherd, Cameron Mills, all my heroes. They're eating on hog high tonight and I appreciate it. Boys, And hey, go cats.

00:28:56
Speaker 2: Go cats. Billy, you ever been to a road wind, I know you're you're usually cooped up in here.

00:29:01
Speaker 1: No, I've only been to like two games period because I can't get out of here.

00:29:05
Speaker 2: Well, one day we're gonna get you out of here. We're gonna get you to a road game. I will contend I like that lot too, eat what they feed you. I will contend that there is no more intoxicating drug in the world than winning on the road, because it's such a there's a small band of brothers there and then when you just get to see those fans leave so sad it is. Oh, it's so satisfying. I I've been to bud Walton. Don't do as many basketball games because we've got an army at KSL. Yeah, yeah, I go to all the football games. But back in twenty twenty, one of the road games that did was at Arkansas. Broh, my dad. It's kind about tickets. We'll sit together in the uproad deck after the game, I'll work and we'll figure it out. And that was the game that cow got ejected.

00:29:58
Speaker 3: Okay.

00:29:59
Speaker 2: And it is, without a doubt, the loudest I've ever It's it's the loudest experience of my life, maybe except for like a show at Cosmic Charlie's when I was in college, where you're right next to the speakers and it's just hammering you in the ear drums. But we were, I mean we were sitting next to each other having to cover our ears. It was so loud, and the if you go back and watch the replay menu quickly covers his ears. It was that loud. And then Kentucky went in a seventeen to two run in that place you could you couldn't hear anything, and then you could hear me Mlo Man screaming from the upper deck. I mean it was. It was so satisfying to watch them leave such a big game. They thought they probably got col and they didn't.

00:30:35
Speaker 1: And you see another Kentucky fan, maybe you give them a high five, a high five with a random stranger.

00:30:41
Speaker 2: Oh and your hand almost hurts afterwards because you smack it so hard. And then to see them, just to wave by by to them as they're leaving the stands.

00:30:49
Speaker 3: They've been probably trash talking the entire game.

00:30:52
Speaker 2: To see them pack up, grab their coats and leave early tonight, it's beautiful, well done cats. Shout out to all you paid. If anybody made the trip to Northwest Arkansas, I've we'd love to hear from you A five nine two eighth twenty two eighty seven. I want to hear how you got to celebrate the big win by the Wildcats, Ed bud Walden Rita eighty five seventy seven. We're gonna take a break and get to your calls right after this. Welcome back into the local Toyo de Deers KSR post game show. Nick Roush filling in for Matthew Harper Jones standing alongside sitting alongside Billy Rutledge here in beautiful downtown Lexington, where it might be the coldest it's ever been in the Commonwealthy.

00:31:37
Speaker 3: It's it's freezing. It's freezing out there.

00:31:40
Speaker 2: I have one of those guys too, you know, a big football guy, you know, like I'm a big dude, like six six. Do you know there's the refurry guy like I love when it's like forty thirty degrees, Like, oh perfect, just throwing a white jacket. We're good to go. No, this is have your parka or else you will free if how do the people live in Chicago, Minnesota.

00:32:03
Speaker 3: They're just tougher than us and maybe may be more used to it than we are.

00:32:06
Speaker 2: This is it's been so called for so long, and uh, I'm glad that it's it was hot inside Bud Walton Arena fifty four from the field. Uh. One thing that I didn't want to overlook when talking about the game tonight, Denzel Aberdeen, I don't care what the rest of his tline was. Zero turnovers zero. Now, I guess they didn't give him credit for that ten second call. What happened?

00:32:30
Speaker 3: Oh, I don't They didn't. They didn't give him the turnover, I guess.

00:32:35
Speaker 2: But it says zero. It says zero next to his name. He had ten points, hit a couple of threes. We needed that second three to two billion.

00:32:43
Speaker 1: Well, while you're highlighting Denzel Aberdeen, why don't we give away a Johnny Rocker personal injury attorney, moneymaker of the game? Ooh, Nick injured, get small town compassion with big city results when you call the Rocker at two seven zero three two one four four two nine. And I think it's an obvious choice tonight, Nick, it's gonna be the guy that led you in points.

00:33:03
Speaker 3: We don't always do that for the Johnny Rocker.

00:33:05
Speaker 2: But here's the thing, though, otega Oha didn't just lead you in points. And I thought this was a great point that Goose made afterwards he was tesked with guarding Darius Acuff most tonight. Yes, and you know if a couple of those free throws up short because he was playing good defense on a cuff, so be it. It took twenty shots for a cuff to get what twenty two points?

00:33:26
Speaker 3: Yes, he was.

00:33:27
Speaker 2: Great and you need you needed that, You needed the Is it the rockaway player that was a Johnny Rocker money maker, the money maker of the game. Well, you need your best player to be your money maker. You need him to be the obelisk that everybody looks to.

00:33:42
Speaker 1: I mean, how money is twenty four points on twelve shots. I mean he didn't make three, but guys, was efficient. He had eight rebounds, eight well, leading the team a warrior minutes, one turnover.

00:33:53
Speaker 3: Otega showed the fight tonight and that's why he's our money maker of the game.

00:33:57
Speaker 2: Until the battle is won.

00:34:00
Speaker 3: That's right. I apologize I haven't played any tom t Hall yet. Well, yeah, we've been busy. I'll play it.

00:34:07
Speaker 2: Yeah, promise. I want to call the hogs too.

00:34:10
Speaker 3: Oh you want to do the woo pig Suye?

00:34:13
Speaker 2: You know we can. We can adapt it.

00:34:14
Speaker 3: I mean, we make top. Drew was singing Rocky Top.

00:34:18
Speaker 2: On this Oh man, how funny is it? Cal? Watching Cal sand over there? And have to call the hogs. You know, cal is a fun run. But have fun down there with chin, right, yeah, chomping away on that gum man. How how swaggy was Brad tonight?

00:34:33
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean he's he was going to bring it for the Kentucky game, you know that.

00:34:37
Speaker 2: Who do you think he lines up his own beard or does he having barber?

00:34:42
Speaker 3: Oh barber?

00:34:43
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's no way he can line that up himself, right, yeah, no, no, not Brad.

00:34:52
Speaker 3: Back to the phones.

00:34:53
Speaker 2: Let's go back to the phones.

00:34:54
Speaker 1: All right, we got loaded lines. Let's keep him rolling. Fuzzy is up next.

00:34:58
Speaker 10: Hey, guys, appreciate taking the call tonight. It was an awesome night, as frustrating as one of the more frustrating games I've ever tried to watch, with all of the technicals in the back and forth, just trying to take the air out of the game. But I couldn't be more excited, more happy after losing the cow last year at home, finally getting to take him down, especially at Arkansas. I mean, we beat Tennessee at Tennessee. That's my dad's favorite game of the years. Every time we get to beat Tennessee, especially on the road. But We also beat Louisville in our home gym last year. Like, I've been big on Pope ever since he came in. I think he's done a lot to turn his program around. Yeah, he's still got a long way to go. Yeah, this team's still got a long way to go. But I think we're doing an awesome job. So I'm happy. Everybody's happy. Ryan Lemon's definitely happy. That dude's my spirit animal. When he yanks's shirt off at the bar, and then last thing is, you know, shout out Aunt Doris. I'll give you a high five when I see you in heaven. You know, go cats, go kats.

00:35:51
Speaker 3: Amen to that.

00:35:53
Speaker 2: Ryan Lemon was certainly he was having a good time tonight.

00:35:56
Speaker 1: He predicted a blowout loss on the pregame show. We all did besides Nick Rousch. By the way, but I mean, when Ryan takes his shirt off at Chaos Bar and Grill, is there a happen more happening celebration spot intelection?

00:36:09
Speaker 2: I just when you is that a good thing that we want people to know? Like, Hey, come to Chaos Bar, you might get to see Ryan take a shirt off.

00:36:18
Speaker 1: Well, if you ask Matt No, I think he would he said, we're going to do a New Year's Eve resolution where we're not going to talk about nudity on the air or take your shirt off. And then I mean after you beat Arkansas, Dick, I mean you got to do that.

00:36:31
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe eat some Tyson Chicken nuggets. Diet starts tomorrow, Yeah, oh, definitely tomorrow. We'll know. After next Sunday, the Super Bowl, you get the apps out, you know, there's still time to get to the New Year's resolution. We'll get to those times.

00:36:43
Speaker 1: I saw matt retweet his video of thanking the Arkansas the Chickenman.

00:36:48
Speaker 3: He's been getting a lot of crap for that.

00:36:49
Speaker 2: Oh man, well the chicken Man. I hope you enjoyed that last night, buddy, hope it tastes good eating that.

00:36:55
Speaker 3: L We got next packetthew Matthew's.

00:37:00
Speaker 13: Next good evening, gentlemen. So Billy was there, of course, last time I called for the Billy R Sports post game show after the Missouri Lake Missouri loss, I called in and said that our program was broken and we're not making the tournament. And I want to take this opportunity to apologize to Mark Pope, the staff and the players for that. As a lifelong Kentucky and I know that we are never out of the fight. We always find a way to defy the odds. And while this team is not perfect and we may be down right now, we are most certainly not out great unexpected Ever tonight by Trent Noah, It's an effort that we're going to need going forward this season. I love the grit we saw from this team tonight in battling adversity and battling the rest, of course to accomplish what they did. Don't want to get my hopes up too high just yet, but in the words of our former coach, I like my team. Let's take care of the next two at home. Let's break some hearts and games along Valentine's Day, go cast and to Arkansas.

00:37:55
Speaker 11: Max.

00:37:55
Speaker 2: Eat it, Yeah, eat it, Max, Thanks so much for calling in pat you. I think it's worth noting that, as I mean, Kentucky's won six out of seventh, they will be todd for second in the SCC correct standings right now. I've been in seven, six and three, and does A and M play tomorrow? Who's no Tomorrow's Florida and Bama. I believe I was thrown off whenever I was seeing a yes, a Sunday SEC game. That's weird, but it's more as note to, Kentucky has the most difficult schedule in the country going down the pipe. But your point, you got Oklahoma coming into town, Nigel Pack Porter Moser, that's a winnable game. And then the balls.

00:38:39
Speaker 3: At least you already beat them.

00:38:40
Speaker 2: You have already beat them, You've least got of split them. I think the other part that we have to remember to whenever everything is bad and you're kicking rocks down the street. Oh, this isn't a tournament. Team may stink. You know what. There's a lot of at large bits. I believe thirty seven if I'm not mistaken. They got to go to somebody, and Kentucky is stacking up Quad one wins this one, Tennessee. That's Saint John's mind like that they are stacking them up. This resume is not going to be the prettiest. But you know what, the SEC's pretty a wide open right now. Take care of business at home, Steal a couple here there on the road. I mean, South Carolina looks down right bad. You gotta win that one. Auburn is I mean Stephen Pearl's their coach, so anybody's got a chance. It reminds me, you know, I don't like a lot of things Bobby Knight said, But there was one quote he had after a game where Indiana they've been trailing to LSU. He said, were you ever worried? He's like, you know, just looked over the other bench and I saw Dale Brown, coach, and I knew we had a chance. That's how I feel when you look over there and you see Stephen Pearl right Like, there's always a chance when Stephen Pearl's on the other sideline. So the SEC's wide open, and uh, Kentucky second right now at the end of Jannywhary who.

00:39:58
Speaker 3: Without their three best players, who who would.

00:40:01
Speaker 2: Have thought this about to go exactly? So, like, is it's imperfect and it's not. It doesn't look like the Monstars by any means, but you know what, they're getting the job done.

00:40:13
Speaker 3: Todd is up next?

00:40:14
Speaker 2: What's up? Todd?

00:40:17
Speaker 14: Hey? Tonight? Before the game, I kind of prepared myself for a loss after hearing everybody give their predictions and everything, and then after seeing what we did against Vanderbilt, and I was very pleasantly surprised and just tickled to death. We still need to work on our help.

00:40:43
Speaker 2: Defense, no doubt.

00:40:45
Speaker 14: Uh, you know we we did well tonight. And I don't think I have ever seen a game where there were six technical fouls called?

00:40:56
Speaker 2: Have you Todd day? It's one of those were I don't want to be prisoner of the moment, but I think I can safely say that I don't think I've ever seen a game with six technical.

00:41:06
Speaker 3: Things outside of a brawl or something like that.

00:41:08
Speaker 2: Y R like that. That was unbelievable, Todd.

00:41:12
Speaker 14: Right, And I don't know why they didn't throw Brazil at when he found no way after. Now, that was malicious. That was absolutely a sore loser acting like that.

00:41:29
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it certainly was. And I think that's one of those times where they're just like, you know what, there's ten seconds left, just get him off the court. Within this game. Go cry in your locker room, hogs.

00:41:41
Speaker 14: I'm not one more question and see if you if any of you all know it, you were a billy. I've been noticing here lately where players get the ball and they're falling out of bounds, they call time out. Now you to we could you know it? Could be done, and they changed that rule to where you couldn't do it anymore. And it's evidently they must have brought it back. Do you know if they had brought that back or and when they brought it back?

00:42:17
Speaker 2: I think, Todd, you just have to have a foot on the ground. You can't be jumping out of bounds mid air and call the time out. So like that that one play where they threw it down to O Way in the corner. If his foot doesn't touch out, he could have called it time out. He could have burned one there, but instead he got his got his toe on the line. It was a turnover that that made fan time out right, correct? Correct?

00:42:38
Speaker 14: Yeah, But I wasn't really talking about our game to night on that. I just have watched other college games and guys be appear to be in the air flying out of bounds. They called time out and refere it gives them the time out, And I thought, well, I didn't think that was I thought they stopped that, you know, And then I saw it again. I thought, well, maybe they brought it back. I just liked to know when they brought it back.

00:43:04
Speaker 2: Well, I don't know if they've actually brought it back or not, Todd, But I do appreciate you calling in and hanging out with this on the local Toyota Dealers KSR post game show, I did. I do like that they brought out the coaches challenge rule and another one give credit where credits due, Pope. Sometimes you're like, are you sure you.

00:43:21
Speaker 12: Want to do this?

00:43:22
Speaker 2: But he is, he is a good challenger.

00:43:25
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's two for two the other night, right, Yeah, and now he's he got that one and.

00:43:29
Speaker 2: And you're just you worry seven minutes in the first half, are you really going to do it now? But the guys knew, the players knew, and it was clearly out on a cuff that was a quick, quick reversal.

00:43:37
Speaker 3: Yeah, no doubt. Let's keep it rolling before we gotta take a break.

00:43:40
Speaker 2: Let's go. Let's get rolling rolling like biscuit.

00:43:42
Speaker 3: Zella is up next.

00:43:46
Speaker 4: Hi, Hey, Zella, sirs, time long time?

00:43:55
Speaker 2: Who ah?

00:43:58
Speaker 15: After going one in one, where do you think we sit on seating?

00:44:05
Speaker 9: Hmmm?

00:44:06
Speaker 2: Uh so, Zella. I don't know where the bracketology might have us exactly. I feel like this is a team that's probably around a seven six seven and could get his high as a five. But I mean, you got to be near the top of the SEC at the end of the year. You got to be playing for one of those top four bys. So I predict that Kentucky's going to be in that seven to ten games. So with the two seed waiting for him in the round of thirty two.

00:44:38
Speaker 15: Hey, here's my sister.

00:44:40
Speaker 7: She wants to say something.

00:44:41
Speaker 13: Okay, how about that, dear Bote technical.

00:44:46
Speaker 2: That terrible, so bad, But you know what, you were so good. I appreciate your calling in and hanging out with us tonight. Go Cats, Hey, Coquets.

00:44:56
Speaker 3: Look at that. Yeah, that was a good call.

00:44:58
Speaker 2: Yeah, although I mean it's the eleven, it's probably right.

00:45:03
Speaker 1: You got to let the kids stay up after big wins. That's core memories.

00:45:06
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you also are so excited. You got to run the energy out too, just kind of run it out. There's no run outside. It's too called to be running around outside.

00:45:14
Speaker 3: It run around.

00:45:16
Speaker 2: So we we had we called it Rausch Arena and the the basement where we had a full court of Fisher Price goals. And when I say full court, I mean is the size of this small room right, you know, ten feet to the next But hey, you could get you could, you could run, you can run full.

00:45:31
Speaker 3: Court, get after it, get them started early.

00:45:34
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I have to have to.

00:45:36
Speaker 3: Uh, let's take a break.

00:45:37
Speaker 2: Let's do it.

00:45:37
Speaker 3: And then we got six calls on the other side, and that'll be it.

00:45:41
Speaker 2: That's it, This is flying by.

00:45:43
Speaker 3: We've already got having so much fun.

00:45:45
Speaker 2: And you know what I will say, I'm a little disappointed. I thought we would have a few more people who have been, you know, getting after it.

00:45:52
Speaker 1: They may be just getting started, like you know, it may just be time to celebrate now.

00:45:56
Speaker 2: Like Mark Stoops, it's getting started. Bro.

00:45:59
Speaker 3: Hello, Nick.

00:46:02
Speaker 2: Oh, we'll get to your calls in the final segment A five nine twenty two eighty seven one final segment. Here on the local Toyota Dealers KOs are postgame show with Nick and Billy. Right after this.

00:46:14
Speaker 5: Here, I am this dang bit.

00:46:16
Speaker 2: Who's gonna feed them home? Mark Poe, He's feeding them hogs with a big old hell because the cats went the bud Walton Arena, sold out crowd ready to dance on the wildcat's graves. But not so fast, my friends, Kentucky escapes with an eighty five seventy seven win. We've got one final segment here on the local Toyota Dealers KSR postgame show. I'm Nick Rousch, he's Billy Rutledge. Man, this has been fun time fives. When you're having fun, Billy.

00:46:46
Speaker 3: It does.

00:46:47
Speaker 1: And it's great to have you in studio. You know you drove up for this. Yeah, so I appreciate that.

00:46:52
Speaker 3: And Kentucky wins a game where they only hit six three pointers.

00:46:55
Speaker 2: Nick, which when they went on that five game winning streak, A big part of that was because of their three point shooting. Okay, it's got hot, right when you're making a bunch of threes, it's easy. They had to grit and grind this one out classic college basketball game where forty five fouls are called in a forty minute game. The Dug Show show, everybody and you know what have been informed. Todd was right. They brought back the you can jump up in the air and call a time out rule.

00:47:26
Speaker 1: Okay, well you don't even need to have a foot down.

00:47:27
Speaker 3: Is that what you're doing?

00:47:28
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, they brought that back a couple of years ago.

00:47:30
Speaker 3: Once you have the ball, yeah, all the time out.

00:47:32
Speaker 2: As long as you have possession, you can give it a go. I didn't realize that either. So everybody's learning something. We're getting learned here on the local Toyota Dealers ks R postgame Show. We've got some people who've been waiting a while, so let's not making way much longer. There, mister relichs we got.

00:47:48
Speaker 3: We've got six on the line, so let's get to all of them before we leave.

00:47:51
Speaker 2: Brian six or seven? Six?

00:47:53
Speaker 3: Oh, well, we'll see, We'll see six. Even Brian is up next.

00:47:58
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I'm sorry. People have children.

00:48:02
Speaker 11: Hey, gentlemen, how you doing.

00:48:04
Speaker 2: Or jubilant, joyous, slap happy almost awesome.

00:48:09
Speaker 11: Well I'm glad because let me tell you something. I have been a KSR listener for a very long time, and I've also been a listener of the KSR postgame pre game you name It podcast blah blah blah. This is the very first time I have ever called in to a UK postgame show because I know how hard it is to get in, especially if I match there. So this is my inaugural effort.

00:48:37
Speaker 2: Soky me, you did it, you made it.

00:48:43
Speaker 11: I finally made it in and it's it's awesome. Let me let me tell you something, like, guys, I have a unique perspective. I moved to Little Rock, Arkansas in two thousand and one for a job. Was down there till end of twenty fourteen. The first eight games that Kentucky played Arkansas after I moved to Arkansas, we won. So I was flying my flag loud and proud. So I have a unique perspective on what Arkansas is, what they think of basketball, you know, so on and so on.

00:49:19
Speaker 2: You know how much they hate Kentucky like they they probably hate Kentucky more than any other school, right because they don't they don't really have a rival, like a true rival. It feels like, particularly in basketball, they they get their knives out for Kentucky. There's no whin They want more than to beat Kentucky every year and it doesn't happen often.

00:49:40
Speaker 11: You are correct. And I'll tell you this long before I moved there. Obviously, the epic Kentucky Arkansas SEC championship game Robert Grose miss as the free throws goes over time, We're down nine with like ten mint their ten seconds left, come back and win it. I mean, it was a huge robbery in nineties obviously, Patino and and uh and uh it you know, And I was there when when Norman Richardson unfortunately lost that game in O one, and that's when he kind of you know, I don't want to get into that stuff. Yeah, he he lost his wig there and it went south and blah blah, and you know, Arkansas fans didn't care much for basketball after that. She's sure they were huge in the nineties. Obviously he won a title and and when the next year they came back and lost in the championship game. But anyway, it's it's interesting I had such a unique respect. But what I want to kind of get at for this game at least, is that, uh, you know, we we suffered that lost last year at home to Cal and and it was funny. I was. I listened to a lot of radio shows during the during the week and and everybody's like, you know, Cal always kind of left his guard down in one big game where he's huge, you know, he's a huge favorite, and YadA, YadA, YadA. And I'll be honest, I didn't think we had a shot. But after the first few minutes when we were fourteen to five, I think I was like, man, this just feels like one of those games. And it played itself out referee tried to referee tried to alter it.

00:51:22
Speaker 8: Man.

00:51:22
Speaker 11: I you know, I have I know two shows. I know, a good shows and the bad shows. And the bad show showed up at the worst time, and I thought he's gonna cost us. Man, our guys came back. Man, I don't know where this team's gonna go. It's flawed. We have a lot of injuries and all that kind of nuts and everything everybody talked about. But it was it was very satisfying watch at the night. I'm only I'm only two days removed for my birthday, so I'm taking this as a birthday present. Very happy, very happy about it, very happy about it. Nick, You're the man.

00:51:55
Speaker 5: I know.

00:51:56
Speaker 11: I think last year you're the only one to pick the game the other way, but she picked it the other way this year too, So good on you, brother, keep doing what you do.

00:52:06
Speaker 2: I appreciate it, man, and I'm glad you got to drink up that birthday win, even though it is a little bladed. Yeah, birthdays you get a little bit older, Billy, they don't it don't matter as much.

00:52:16
Speaker 1: Yeah, do they mean anything? After twenty six because then I had to get my own health.

00:52:19
Speaker 2: Care, you know, you hit thirty. Like thirty, it's like, okay, we'll do something fun for it. So you know, you maybe you make an excuse to go out a little bit more. But no, they don't matter as much. What does matter is when you go out you get a big win on the road, and the Cats they got one tonight. Man, tastes so sweet.

00:52:38
Speaker 3: It sure does.

00:52:39
Speaker 2: Oh, I do wish. So it's not this week, but it's the next week where there's not a midweek game. Kind of it would have been nice if you just got to sit in this one a little bit, roll around in it, bathe in it a little more. But Oklahoma, They're coming to Reparna nine pm, late tip off on Wednesday night.

00:52:56
Speaker 3: A rup Evan is up next.

00:53:00
Speaker 9: Nick rash Evan, my man. I was telling my wife before the game, how excited I was about you doing the postgame tonight, because I said, if the Cats somehow pull off an upset, I'm calling in because Nick rash is the absolute man.

00:53:19
Speaker 2: About that.

00:53:20
Speaker 9: Yeah, so all this chatter about Pope, I mean, obviously there are some deficiencies there. We all know about them. We're concerned about recruiting next year.

00:53:30
Speaker 2: Got to be my all, my family.

00:53:32
Speaker 9: Members and friends that are a huge UK fans. For some reason, they will not give enough merit to the fact that Pope is coaching a team without three starters right now? Yeah three And listen, we listened to Goose Givings on the Leach Report or postgame talking about practice and timing and everything. How important is to have your team spending time together and jailing. The fact that we go out there and win a road game against the top fifteen team with the Hall of Fame coach and get that win without three starters is absolutely massive for a program and I'm so happy for Mark, Pope and the entire team. The second about this, Take the Chicago Bulls when they won the six titles. Take three starters off that team. Do they win any titles?

00:54:24
Speaker 7: No?

00:54:25
Speaker 2: I mean they figure it out. If it's you know, Horace Grant and Steve Kerr and who's another one of those random three? But Bill Cartwright there you go. Maybe they could figure it out because you know, Otega is our Jordan. But it's it's hard to do it. And I think the other part that makes it hard to evan that we overlook it's not just that Pope got a different kind of player this year he got. It's a very young team, a very inexperienced team. I mean the minutes that Trenton and Malachi Mareno like these guys, they don't. They didn't have a bunch of minutes under their belt going into this year. They Mo did.

00:55:03
Speaker 9: Bonte Moe was smarter from tonight because he didn't take any goofy outside shots, played his ass off, got huge rebounds, played great defense, and then Otega's defense on a cuff was spectacular tonight. But let me finish the call by saying one thing. I've got a crazy cousin in Russell County, Kentucky, Jonathan Grider aka Jy Rock, my two man partner for the infamous Rolling Hills two man championship that we won this past year. He sent a text to my famous stream this morning he called this win this morning. So tudos to Jay Rock Grider. Congratulations, he won a bunch of money.

00:55:46
Speaker 2: Yeah, Joe kat go, congrats. It feels good to align your pockets with DraftKings. Money always feels good.

00:55:55
Speaker 1: Who else predicted the Cats win today?

00:55:58
Speaker 2: I know a guy who was Danson jumping up and down line in his pockets with some DraftKings cash. The problem.

00:56:06
Speaker 1: The hard part is Otega away is your Jordan. I mean normally he should be your second or third guy, right, not the guy, but.

00:56:15
Speaker 2: I mean he was the guy down the stretch last year. He was awesome and they did into Oklahoma games. Now the part where you can be like that, yes, Pope's down three starters, but let's be honest, it was a gamble that he was ever going to have one of those guys. But Jane quaints, which I know you'll heard the comments earlier this week that he's kind of a shutdown mode. Like it's, uh, if he's back great, If not, so be it. But Pope did only get one ball handler and that guy got hurt in Jalen Law. Yeah, and so I think if you were like, well maybe in a pinch, Aberdeen can get us a game or two, well he's having to do a lot more of that this year. And you know what, to his credit, that guy, there's a time Billy where he was like, what are these shots? He's taken leaps and bounds, But he is, Yes, he is. He has rained it back in their figure. Now they're figuring out their roles. They've got a good feel for how to play with one another right now. And that's what's gonna make the end of this year fun. And I know this is a sea, this is this is a sport that's defined by postseason success. But we got to enjoy the rock. It's gonna be a wild one. There's some more ups and downs, there's gonna be there might be another twenty five point loss, but you know what, there's probably gonna be another crazy woe like this.

00:57:23
Speaker 3: So it's been a crazy year.

00:57:25
Speaker 2: Yep. Who else? We got Billy Crystal, Crystal, Hey, how are we doing?

00:57:31
Speaker 11: Hello?

00:57:32
Speaker 15: I'm doing well. How y'all doing?

00:57:34
Speaker 2: Just fired of Crystal, So happy you're talking to us today too.

00:57:38
Speaker 15: I'm so honored you take our call.

00:57:39
Speaker 14: Thank you.

00:57:40
Speaker 15: So I'm married into Big Glue Nation. I'm West Virginia girl, and my husband's a Kentucky fans and I just we listen to y'all every day, two hours a day, and we love you and we respect you, and we're thankful you'd take the Carl. But I predicted we would win this game, and he's like, there's no way, no way, And he, as practical as he is, went through all my rituals. We hung our flag, we got our cross, we did all the things and we won, and I'm just so stoked and I'm so excited and.

00:58:12
Speaker 14: Just so happy.

00:58:13
Speaker 2: So yeah, well, we're so happy that you got it figured out. You married right, you married in the right family, you know, And it could be it could be tough too. Sometimes you get like a split household. I you know, a house divided. I married a uf L cardinal bird, so I got to deal with the house divided. Soff sometimes Crystal can be taught.

00:58:35
Speaker 15: Oh my goodness, We're just so happy. And I want to say, pants off, dance off to Ryan. We are on his side.

00:58:43
Speaker 2: I would Ryan to keep his pants on. Thank you, Crystal. I don't you mean Crystal. Now I'm thinking about rhyme with his pants off. We don't need that that image in people's minds.

00:58:56
Speaker 1: Like I saw these videos from Mario of Ryan celebrate and taking a shirt off, standing on the bar like always, and then like Mario uploaded another video forty minutes later, he still got a shirt off. He's still running around party and there's a conga line of people with their sharetop.

00:59:11
Speaker 2: It tarps off for the night. It could be a late one. Let's do it. Paul is up next, Paul, y'all, what's up man?

00:59:20
Speaker 5: How are we doing?

00:59:21
Speaker 11: An?

00:59:21
Speaker 2: I fellas.

00:59:24
Speaker 14: I got just a.

00:59:25
Speaker 5: Couple of things ended on Doug shows is the most worthless piece of human flesh on the planet. The guy shouldn't be calling special Olympics dodgeball matches. And going back to one thing you mentioned earlier in the show about the Arkansas bench. Is it just me or does Brad Carey where Brad Calipari look like a total Louisville man.

00:59:48
Speaker 9: He does have a good night.

00:59:50
Speaker 2: He does have a little bit of that Louisville manaqua, the Louisville man. I mean, would anybody be shocked if there was a little mini bottle of Coron Royal in that inside pocket?

01:00:02
Speaker 3: Well, you're living in Fayetteville.

01:00:04
Speaker 2: Now, maybe a little garbage cane juice, garbage, remember that one? That one?

01:00:12
Speaker 3: Yeah?

01:00:13
Speaker 2: Oh Brad, what a jim earned? Not giving.

01:00:18
Speaker 3: Two more? Two more?

01:00:19
Speaker 2: Nick, let's do it?

01:00:20
Speaker 3: I finish strong here?

01:00:21
Speaker 2: Oh so strong?

01:00:22
Speaker 3: Hunter is up.

01:00:23
Speaker 6: Next, Billy.

01:00:27
Speaker 16: It's great to talk to you guys. I think we need to have a petition for Nick to take over fade this with both predictions in back to back years oh hey. I mean if he's good with it, like I say, let him go, let him cook potential. That's the biggest thing that we've heard this entire year is like this team has potential.

01:00:50
Speaker 7: We've seen him beat.

01:00:51
Speaker 16: Like the bad teams by thirty forty, which most great teams do, but when it came time to show it in the actual good games, they haven't shown that potential that we know that they have until the last two weeks, until the Tennessee, until today when we went out and we showed whose boss. I'm loving the Arkansas Tears Doug show can eat it. I hope he stubs his toe. I hope that both sides of his pillows are warm today tonight when he goes to bed, and I'll leave, I'll leave with this a quote from our previous from a former player who tweeted this when Arkansas won last year. Good old Tye ty Washington walked into the trap, took over their trap.

01:01:36
Speaker 2: I'm a good night, guys, taking that dog back to the Lex. Shout out Tyrese Maxey. He did that back in twenty twenty two. Took that dove back to the Lex.

01:01:46
Speaker 11: Uh.

01:01:46
Speaker 3: Tom had a good line tonight.

01:01:48
Speaker 1: He was talking about shows and he said shows spoke on the PA more than the PA announced.

01:01:56
Speaker 2: Oh man, Dug shows great whipping boy as easy to gang up on him because that guy, he loves to be in the middle, middle of it all. We really lost something. We lost TV Teddy, but Doug shows he's picking up the slack boy.

01:02:09
Speaker 3: But I was going through it those during those thirty eight seconds, we all were very different post.

01:02:14
Speaker 2: Question you know what exactly? Now we just get to laugh at him for being bad, not mad at him for causing us a game, because this team showed toughness. His team showed fight, and they showed it against a team that was more talented them or saw was a very talented team, and the Cats controlled went the entire way. Hell of a win. Hell of a win. We got one final call. Who's gonna wrap us up? Let's make it a good one?

01:02:38
Speaker 3: Bones?

01:02:39
Speaker 2: Oh Bones, what you got for us? All right?

01:02:44
Speaker 8: That's up, guys. First of all, I got a couple of real quick things.

01:02:48
Speaker 9: I want to back up Matt.

01:02:49
Speaker 8: And if they want to post it on Twitter, go ahead. Thank you Tyson Chickens for taking town. This is the same thing that he's done for the last four or five years here at UK He's gonna get you in the top fifteen, twenty five. I projict the first round exit for Arkansas and the number two. Me and my daughter got one last thing to end the show with this.

01:03:12
Speaker 2: You ready, we ready.

01:03:15
Speaker 9: See a t Cats, Cats, Cats, Let's go go Cats.

01:03:22
Speaker 2: Thanks Bones for calling in. This was a lot of fun. Man feels good to go. Walk in their trap, take over their trap. Beat him at their own game, put it on him. It was eight on five and they still found a way to find a way. Colin chandler Ice in his veins, Trent Noah, it's the little old mountain boy. Mahaller is a horror one. It don't matter. He's tough. He's tougher than steal toe boots. He don't take no crap from nobody. He was in there, he was gritting, he was grinding. Malchoimerno another one of Kentucky's finals, dunking it on their faces. Denzel Aberdeen took care of the ball and Otega Away was a bully and a badass who looked like the SEC preseason player of the year. Who got it done? Who got the Cats at w and whoo feels good to celebrate tonight. It's been a pleasure, so much fun hanging out with you all on the local Toyota deers ks our postgame show Go Cats