Pardon My Take - March Madness Recap, St Peters Head Coach Shaheen Holloway And We're Dead Men Walking
Episode Date: March 21, 2022March Madness recap, we're basically dead people podcasting. Wisconsin lost, Duke advanced, Arizona/TCU classic, Gonzaga/Memphis game of the tourney and tons more memories and moments from the first 4... days. (00:02:40- 00:46:17) Who's back of the week. (00:46:19-00:56:13) St Peters Head Coach Shaheen Holloway joins the show to talk about the story of the tournament, why his team is a bunch of dogs and more.(00:57:06:14-01:13:24) We wrap up with MLB and NFL talk. (01:14:33-01:20:57)You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/PardonMyTake
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On today's part of my take, our voices are out, March Madness, first four days, incredible
action, brains have been melted, Wisconsin lost, Duke won, Hank's been just like avoiding
me for the entirety of the day, which is very funny.
We have Shaheen Holloway on the show, yeah, you know, I, I know, I know, yeah, I was like
where the hell's Hank?
I haven't seen him all day.
Oh, he's been in the other room, ah, Shaheen, when dad's mad, just stay away, Shaheen Holloway,
coach St. Peter's on the show, the story of the tournament easily.
So we're going to recap Sunday's games first, and then we will get to Saturday's games,
which we taped in the afternoon.
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This is March.
Yeah.
Unfortunately, Big Cat's voice gave out entirely so he won't be able to recap the Wisconsin
game.
I'll just do it right now.
Iowa State 54, Wisconsin 49.
All right, let's move on.
Let's talk about Ohio State.
Yeah.
And Villanova.
Yeah.
Fuck guys.
Big joke job at the end.
Yeah.
No, I, listen, I, thankfully the Wisconsin game was earlier today, so I had some time
to, to recoup with my friends, make some bets, have some laughs.
Make some memories.
I think this is one of those losses that I was, got over it very quickly.
It's an onset death or it's a late onset death.
I will, I'll be on the plane tomorrow and I'll be like, God damn it.
We shot two for fucking 19 from three because at the end of the day, everyone loses except
one team, but you don't want to lose the game that you can see is winnable.
That's the part that kills if I, if you lose your best verse, their best, you can walk
away being like, man, that was fun.
It sucks.
It hurts.
But when you lose and you're like, yeah, we could have fucking won that game.
If Chuckie Hepburn doesn't get hurt, which derailed like the entire offense, or if maybe
Johnny Davis drove more, or maybe we had one fucking three, maybe if you made any shots.
I think you were at one for 17.
Yeah, I three.
It's tough to win a game like that.
And like Wisconsin was obviously, I don't think that they were going to win it all this
year.
They were flawed team.
That's part of, that's part of like why this is, it sucked, but it's not, it was going
to happen anyway.
It's not, it's not 2015.
I would have preferred that you would have lost to Duke, but, you know, in the final,
in the final, that would have been optimal, but this really, they did you a favor by knocking
you out because they didn't give you the satisfaction now, but I still moving on and getting your
hopes up.
I really wanted sweet 16.
I said that sweet 16 was the goal.
It's not, it's not the most heartbreaking.
It's not like a double doing kids not 2015.
It's not even the Florida game when they were already in the sweet 16 because I knew I was
realistic about this team.
I knew they weren't like that crazy talented.
It just sucks because March for your team is so much the tournament is so much fun.
If you have your team in it and every game is so much fun and if you can get to the second
weekend, you get to read all the press clippings and get excited about everything, but yeah,
it sucked.
But here's what I have going for me, PFT.
I still have a team in the tournament.
Whatever team bounces Duke, that will be my favorite night of the tournament.
Are you saying any team that is currently playing Duke?
I had a smile on my face about an hour after I was like, I'm actually happy that Duke didn't
lose tonight because now I still have that in my back pocket because they will.
Their defense sucks.
Shout out Coach K who in the pregame, he was like, we only put championship banners up
in Cameron and then two seconds later they showed Coach K winning his coach banner in
Cameron because it is about Coach K.
So Hank, you did avoid me, Wisconsin lost, Duke won.
You avoided me the rest of the day.
Well, you're on edge like I don't, especially because I understand that you're way bigger
Wisconsin fan than I am a Duke fan, so I'm not trying to like glow it or rub it in your
face.
I think, wait, hold on, I do think PFT can back me up.
I would say, I would say that I bounced back after about 20 minutes because you knew that
death was coming.
You just didn't know if it was going to be immediate death, if it was going to be sudden
onset or as you said like delayed, I really do think that, and I'm doing the verbal meme
right now where it's you as the troll face putting on the mask of having a smiley face.
It's better that you lost this game than you advanced and then had your heart broken.
If you had gone to the elite eight or the final four, that would have been, it would
have been way more heartbreaking.
You bounced back.
You would not have had to bounce back in 20 minutes if it was a sweet 16 game or if it
was an elite eight game, I just go back to like Wisconsin is they're a flawed team.
They're just not good enough to win.
Here's what here's where it could really hurt me.
I watched that entire game and I watched Iowa State and Iowa State won.
I'm not taking any weight, anything from away from Iowa State.
They stink though.
I might game of the year Miami.
I might game of the year.
It might be a revenge game of the year.
ACC elite.
It might be a revenge game of the year.
So this could, this loss could cost me twice.
So as far as Duke goes though, also quickly, I would just like to say sorry, PFC Day, interrupt
your buddy.
Yeah.
Wow.
The, I was going to say the real Hank gets a win from the coach.
He's feeling himself.
No, like because of the year we're talking to the like, no, you go off Hank.
This is Hank's corner brought to you by Hank.
I can't even laugh about it sponsored by Taco Bell.
The gambling side of the Duke game, the fact that I big head had Wisconsin and I had Duke.
That was like Michigan State.
I didn't want to like rub it in his face like one and then also cover the spread.
Like I knew it was like tension, contentious times even to even speak.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Who would want to make any time to speak contentious?
But as far as the, as far as the coaching matchup, Izzo and Coach K, you know that Izzo
as, as our friend Rico likes to always remind us, he, he knows what the spread is.
He's spread guy.
I caught him looking up at the scoreboard a few times in the last seconds of the game.
What reason would Tom Izzo have to check the score with 30 seconds and under left in this
game?
I think the fix was in NCAA rigged.
I think that Tom Izzo and Coach K, Coach K has, has two friends, excuse me, three friends.
One the sports information director at Duke that keeps all of the bodies buried in the
right locations.
Jeff Cable too though.
He's the bag man for friends.
Yeah.
Well, no, I think it's more of a transaction.
I think they're busy.
Well brought on.
They're associates.
Well, no, remember, Jeff Cable did the ultimate cock move and he had the entire student section
at pit where like, thank you, K.
Sure.
Yeah.
That was, that was ridiculous.
So Jim behind is another one.
And then Tom Izzo, I think is the third.
They're like the big three in their own minds, you know, they like, they've been coaching
together for so long.
And by like any college basketball, you know, record keeping statistic.
Okay.
Let's bring up some of the record.
How many, how many sweet 16s has Tom Izzo been to in the last 10 years?
I've radicalized PFT and I love it.
He's like, I've radicalized him to help me just fight against Coach K everywhere.
Yeah.
When Duke, it's sitting in my process again.
He's got the Izzo future from like 2015.
That's right.
I've got the Izzo future on him being overrated, which is still technically wildly incorrect,
but give him two more years of getting bounced early.
And then everybody would be like, man, PFT, I'm sorry that I doubted you and I'll be
like, suck my dick.
You're not allowed on this bandwagon.
But with no, my, my radicalization process began back in 2002.
I just like I'm telling a story about like how an insole became an insole when Duke didn't
let me in.
Got rejected from attending Duke.
Not that I would have been able to afford going there.
But Coach K is, you know, he is making it all by himself.
There's no debating that.
I'm just rooting for the most hilarious way possible for him to get bounced.
And so in the next round, Duke is playing, hang on, pulling up right now.
It's been a long weekend.
Texas Tech.
Texas Tech.
That's right.
Texas Tech.
And then they would get Gonzaga.
I'm just seeing if it's possibility at all for them.
When would they play UNC?
Uh, then they're meant in the tournament.
Final four.
Final four.
That's what I want then.
I want UNC to beat Duke in the final four.
Either way, um, I still have, I still have the Duke loss in my back pocket, which will
be great.
This was a great turn.
Great four days though.
Uh, we should talk about other games.
I'm sad about Wisconsin or whatever that's in the past.
Um, what next?
My brain is so dry.
Villanova, Ohio State.
That was.
Villanova is just such a consummate like their attorney team.
They, when, when we, when we say before the tournament starts, Villanova is number one
in free throws.
Where it shows up is when Ohio State comes roaring back and it's a two point game.
And then Villanova was like, no, we're just not going to miss free throws and we're going
to just win this game because we're steady and we, we don't panic ever.
I just trust Villanova.
When did that start that Villanova became known as attorney team as soon as they won their
first title?
I, I think it was, I think it was a Scotty Reynolds.
No, because no, no, no, they always choked.
It showed big time, but they were, they were never like expected to win.
Oh no, they had it.
No, they were the one seed the year before they won the, they were the one seed the year
before they won their first title and got bounced in the second round.
No, I'm saying back 2009 or whatever that was, they were not expected.
That's when they, that's when they took the next step.
There was a big Villanova chokes thing that went on for a very long time.
Alan Ray.
Yep.
But yeah, Villanova, they are just, there's something about them where it's just what
they, yeah, 85% from free throw.
They were the team that nobody was talking about.
The team that was probably the most disrespected going into it, because as a two seed, they
were still very, very good.
They had, he was the biggest player of the year, right?
Colin Galaspia.
Galaspia, yeah.
Yeah, Galaspia.
And so, but nobody was talking about him going into the tournament.
Except us.
They were just, well, we spent 99% of our time talking about them by saying nobody's talking
about them.
Yeah.
Which is better than most.
Yeah.
The, I'm trying to think what other games, it's all blur.
Illinois, there was a technical foul on the dunk in the Illinois game.
Also, my position is that if a referee can't even get rim, they should not be allowed to
call technical fouls for hanging on their backs.
I'd agree with that.
Houston's just a man's team.
All they do is just fucking, like everyone on their team just crashes the boards and
just mans up people.
Purdue, I want to say, shout out Purdue, I'm hard on Purdue.
That was actually a very impressive win because Chris Beards, an incredible tourney coach.
Texas, you know, brings crazy defense.
Purdue did enough to win and like Purdue is one of those teams that they've always been
right there.
Sweet 16 never been able to break through.
They now have St. Peters, which we'll get to Sheeheen Holloway, but on paper, you have
to think you have a Jaden Ivey who's a lottery pick.
You have two guys in, in Williams and Edie who are fucking monsters.
You'd have to think Purdue 12 point favorites to get to the elite eight, to be on the doorstep
of a final four.
Hank is shaking his head.
He's going to bet St. Peters.
Money line.
Hell yes.
I think I've got to take state painters too.
Yeah.
And then we, all those guys think they should be at Purdue.
Yeah, that's true.
We'll get to that later.
No, Kentucky.
Oh, yeah.
Well, no, if you think you should be at Kentucky, then you don't want to be at Purdue.
True.
So exactly.
They're better at Purdue.
I just made fun of Purdue.
I just said a mean thing about Purdue when I was trying to be nice to Purdue, but also
also in this game, you're very generous to give them credit, by the way.
They did shoot 40 foul shots.
Yeah.
And I think what did Texas have like 10 now that you can't, you can't make a team foul
and the refs, I don't think we're doing like a, it wasn't the worst ref job of the tournament,
but that's still a shit load of foul shots for one team to attempt.
I had no problem.
I really didn't have as much of a problem with it because they're physical and they
got big dues.
Yeah.
So in the game against St. Peter's, I'm going to just, I'm, there's no reason why I should
bet St. Peter's against this team.
Like you said, like with the physical mismatch, it doesn't make you listen to the interview
you conducted.
Yes.
No, no, no.
I'm telling you right now, Hank, there's no reason for me to do it.
Physically, it's a complete mismatch, but I'm still going to do it because fuck it because
I ride.
Yeah.
You have to.
Sometimes you just got to take the part of your brain that thinks that it's being smart
and tell it to shut the fuck up.
And that's what I'm going to do.
No, they, uh, no pressure.
No pressure.
No pressure.
All the pressure is going to be unproduced.
That's right.
Um, and then we had, uh, Notre Dame got bounced.
That was a nice story.
Texas Tech, they are my hope now.
They already fell apart at the last minute of the game.
Uh, yeah, they did.
And I also have a lot of Texas Tech gear that I'll be wearing whenever Duke plays them.
What's that Thursday, Friday?
What's, what's the guy's name?
Jeffrey.
Yes.
Jeffrey the mascot.
Shout out Jeffrey.
I'll be going guns blazing for Texas Tech.
We can have the conversation now of whether or not Texas Tech is better off without Chris
Beard.
Yeah.
Cause they've advanced.
By the way, Chris Beard, do you think that he has to have a beard?
Yes.
Cause his last name?
Yes.
Like I don't think that he can shave it.
It would just be really weird.
It would make no sense.
He's not Chris Mustache.
Right.
Like if Bruce Arians wasn't white, right, it would make no sense.
You were leading to that.
No, no, you brought up Chris Beard.
Not me.
No, you, you said Chris, you just said, do you think Chris Beard would be weird if he
didn't have a beard?
You brought him up.
What?
We'll review the tape.
I wasn't leading into it, but I did have the conversation earlier today about the beard,
whether or not the name affects the person's style.
That was a nice, you led yourself, you walked yourself into that one.
And then I gaslit you.
Yeah.
You just walked yourself right into that joke.
To tell you that I didn't do that.
That one might be in the drafts.
Yeah.
Definitely in the drafts.
Oh, we're going to be, you should have, you should have stayed in the drafts guy.
He's definitely in the drafts.
You know who's worse than staying in the drafts guy is how long have you had this one in your
drafts for?
Yeah.
At least what?
Five hours, you said.
No, I, I wasn't thinking about Bruce Arians five hours ago.
And then, oh, we forgot to mention Auburn got kind of exposed.
I mean, that was the big storyline is SEC, like the big 12 and the ACC punked the SEC.
The big 10, yes, wasn't great, but they do have two teams into the sweet 16.
The SEC was the basketball conference all year.
Our must bus is still riding, but everyone else, Alabama, Arkansas, Alabama, Kentucky,
Auburn, Tennessee, LSU all out.
Did I just kick something?
Did you?
No, I just kicked something all out Miami.
That was never even close.
That was never even close.
Like they beat Auburn convincingly.
It wasn't one of those games where you're like, Oh man, plucky upset.
They were a seven point dog and they won by 18.
I was surprised by that one.
Yeah.
Maybe it's because I just don't know anything about Miami.
They have good guard play.
And I think that's probably the weakness that kind of did in Auburn all year.
And people were shitting on the ACC this year.
Yeah.
They got no respect.
None.
That's true.
That is true.
And now they have three teams into the final, uh, to the elite air sweet 16.
And they had Notre Dame knocking on the door.
What game do we miss?
I don't think we missed any other games.
Oh, we in the, uh, in the recap segment that we did about the, the Saturday games.
I don't think that we talked about Arkansas at all and that, and that shit game that they
played it was in Buffalo.
It was the worst game I've ever watched.
That entire arena is completely dead to me.
Yeah.
I'm never going to be betting on a single game that's played in that place.
It felt like there were stretches of time where it was like 30 minutes between a basket.
I didn't see a ball go into a hoop.
Well, here's the thing.
It's one thing to watch like Iowa State and Wisconsin was a rock fight, but you knew it
was a rock fight going in.
Arkansas and New Mexico State had the pace.
They just dribbled the ball everywhere and never scored.
That was just a wild game to watch.
It's like what I would imagine the first game of basketball looked like.
Yeah.
I'm trying to, I'm actually going to look it up.
Oh, speaking of that, here's a fun fact that I learned, uh, yesterday.
Okay.
So there's only one coach in the history of Kansas that has a losing record.
Do you know who it is?
No, I Williams.
No, absolutely not.
Dr. James Naismith, the guy that invented the game of basketball has a losing record.
That's crazy.
What a weirdo.
That is crazy.
Cause he created a league with parody.
He did.
He created the league.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Dr. Naismith.
Um, all right.
Well, now we got to wait for Jake.
I'll do the ad.
You didn't talk about the last game.
Oh, Arizona.
Yeah.
Arizona TZU.
What a game.
Crazy.
We got Mathurin fucking crazy, 30 points.
I just love any, any tournament game and in a second, we're going to talk about the Gonzaga
Memphis game where one guy's like, I'm not letting my team lose.
Like I'm just not in TCU had the same thing with big Eddie.
Like he was an absolute monster.
Two guys going toe to toe, Arizona survives.
I still think Arizona is championship caliber and it just shows you how fucking hard this
tournament is.
Yeah.
They're the, you know, maybe the second favorite behind Gonzaga and they play TCU who's just
a tough ass team and they give them everything that like that game easily could have been
won by TCU.
That game probably set a record for the most offensive rebounds in the last 10 minutes
of the game because both teams, bigs were really good.
That was the difference.
Arizona finally figured out how to offensive rebound in the overtime.
Yeah.
I mean, TCU was doing it too, but they just, they, they were doing all game TCU, the difference
would be TCU would miss like three layups in a row, get two offensive rebounds and then
lose a third.
Arizona would get three offensive rebounds and then make their last one.
Right.
That game, that game was crazy to play at the end of the game where there was a turnover
at mid court, which I still think was a foul.
Has nothing to do with the fact that I put a live bet on money line TCU.
It was kind of a flop and then should have been a back, backdoor, back court violation.
Yeah.
I'm not going to let the facts get in the way of a take.
Yeah.
I'm going to give it to the whole as the buzzer sounds, he goes up for a dunk.
This is why you should never dunk.
This is why I don't dunk, lay the ball in and the game's over.
Turns out he was like probably like 0.2 seconds late.
It was, yeah, just lay it in, lay it in.
No reason to do that.
If that ends up being a TCU win, that guy will never, ever live that down.
That screenshot is like the most painful screenshot you could have.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Hand fully around the ball, red light on the back.
There are probably some Arizona fans in the background of that screenshot, like jumping
in the air, celebrating.
Yeah.
Or even the screenshot.
It would be like the screenshot of when he got the ball and it would be like two seconds
left and he has a clear path of the basket.
Yeah.
Like we lost this game.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right.
We're going to have Jake come in.
Jake's going to give us his recap and his one shining moment list.
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Let's do it.
Your one shining moment recap.
What else you got?
Give us just the lowdown.
Great games.
Oh, amazing.
I mean, it was the first four days.
It's crazy how every year it's, it always delivers.
I know it's like cliche.
A lot of people say it, but we didn't have a true buzzer beater.
Sure.
We didn't have like an all time moment, but there are plenty of great moments.
There was.
Plenty of shining moments.
Yes.
So give it to us.
So I have 20 right now.
Last year, I want to say I went around 50%.
For total?
Yeah.
Do you know how many roughly are in the video?
Oh, there's a couple of hundred shots because everything is just so quick.
So it's impossible to predict everything.
I'm just trying to see whatever I say is in.
Okay.
Yeah.
All right.
So go ahead.
Give it to us.
I'll go quickly here.
Take your time.
Okay.
It's your time.
It's literally Marsh Madness.
Oh, I appreciate that.
I'm just going to walk.
The ball is tipped.
Yep.
Just.
One for one.
Yeah.
That's like the free space on the.
From the first game, though.
I did say the first game.
Yes.
Wait, wait, wait.
When you say the first game, are you talking about the first four, Texas Southern vs.
Texas.
Okay.
So I could be wrong.
Seven years ago.
I could have been more generic, but I wanted to try to be on the dot.
So I'll be wrong in that sense.
Fine.
But they're going to start off with that.
That one or sometimes they do the first, the national championship.
No, they always do the tip of the national championship at the end.
Credit to you by the way.
Yeah.
Credit to you.
Credit to you for not losing your voice.
It's, it's a little shot.
He's a trained broadcaster.
Big guy.
That's where they teach you at Newhouse.
We have an alley.
No, but still.
Excuse me.
A nice alley up from Indiana against Wyoming in the first four.
Okay.
We have the Paul Atkinson game winner Notre Dame vs. Rutgers.
Yeah.
That might be game of the tournament too.
Not a lot of people.
No, I already counted my Memphis Gonzaga.
My game of the tournament so far.
What about the, like the, uh, leprechauns coming onto the court at midnight for St.
Patrick's.
Yes.
The, the call of that happy St. Patrick's day with Tom McCarthy, voice of the Phillies.
He, that's going to make it.
Okay.
Yeah.
That's what we're doing an audio version.
That would make it.
Okay.
Um, John Fulkerson, a big one-handed slam against Longwood for Tennessee.
Yep.
Um, we have again, maybe not specifically, but this will happen.
A player diving into a table.
Yes.
In this case.
A week of New Mexico state.
Um, Richmond and one against Iowa.
That was the first big upset of the tournament.
Benchman was going nuts on that one too.
Um, Brady Manic from North Carolina, the one who got ejected against Baylor.
He had 28 points against Marquette.
Just him making a three is going to make it.
Yeah.
Because he's had a good opening weekend.
The Indiana cheerleader also a lock.
Yes.
That one is the moment of the tournament.
Yeah.
Yes.
That's automatic.
Indiana against St. Mary's.
Uh, deep three to take the lead in overtime for, uh, Boye of San Francisco against Murray state.
That was a great late night game.
Yep.
Yep.
Um, Barstool athlete, Devin Cambridge with a big block for Auburn against Jacksonville
state.
Okay.
Uh, Jabari Smith, big time hammer slam.
The event reaction.
Awesome dunk.
Yeah.
I love that big time hammer slam.
Um, Malik Wilson of Texas, texted a 360 dunk.
Any 360 dunk plays.
Yep.
Um, sorry for the boring people.
No, no, no, no.
Powerful.
Um, Marcus Carr.
Yeah.
Marcus Carr's half time buzzer reader for Texas.
Yep.
There was a shout out Rico.
That was a big one.
Uh, big block for Eric Ains of LSU against Iowa state.
That was one of the coolest blocks.
If you have not seen it, go back and search it.
He like, it was like one of those videos where someone does an invisible box.
He, he kept on going up.
It was crazy.
Yeah.
Yeah.
A lot of good blocks.
He's still levitating right now.
Yeah.
Nuts.
Um, the end of North Carolina Baylor.
He's not watched the regulation buzzer beater attempt from North Carolina.
Close his eyes and then screams.
Uh, yes, we're going to lose an overtime instead.
Yeah.
I'm going to tweet a cock tweet.
Yeah.
That's right.
Um, John Howard's handshake redemption.
The heart.
He tried to squeeze.
Yeah.
I think he was even dead.
I think he was whispering his ear like I'm going to murder your entire family.
That's why he was crying.
He was like, if you don't keep hugging me back so that I can get PR back on my side.
Yeah.
I will have you dead.
Um, I'll pair these together.
I didn't include this one in the thread, but, uh, the locker of celebrations,
John, after beating Tennessee and then Kelvin samples and shirt lists.
Taking his shirt off.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I missed that one.
It was right away.
Yeah.
Uh, more from another table dive, more from Houston against Illinois.
So compare those together.
Um, Fabian White for Houston against Illinois has this incredible save from going out of
balance down the stretch against Illinois today.
Yup.
That was a good one.
And then I went into a layup and then, uh, just now Benedict Matheran's dunk was also
could be a dunk.
Yes.
That one was sick.
What about, we got to have a Doug Eater, uh, three.
There's going to be, yeah, definitely left out some some, but St. Peter's going to have
a moment.
Uh, yeah, you can always tweet at me if you have any recommendations to add as well.
Okay.
Appreciate the help.
We're going to go over 50%.
I think, I think so far this will be over 50%.
That's the goal.
The goal is get Jacob up 50%.
Trying to think of any other thing is like the, the back.
The last like 30 seconds of like the three minute montage are always like the final force.
Yeah.
I would throw in, I think there'll be like a Drew Timmy, uh, spin move bucket against Memphis
because that was such a great game.
Have a long shot.
Yeah.
The shot of the TCU guys, like no bleeding.
Like that's just a good quick shot that you just throw in there.
I was considering that.
Is that too graphic for such a happy video?
That's the thing.
I know you're fighting for your life.
Yeah.
Is there a line in there about having a grotesque facial fracture?
I don't think so.
Although coach K going out to see his player and he whispered in his ear like, get the
fuck out.
It really did look like he was plugging his nose like it was Tony killing Christopher.
Holding up his last championship.
It's not going to happen.
But imagine if it did.
I, okay.
Nope.
Can't imagine.
Um, yeah.
He was that, that moment, um, I tweeted and people got very upset at me because they
said I was making fun of a kid's injury, which is like.
You got to be brain dead.
If you think I'm making fun of the kid, make fun of coach K.
He was using his medical training that he received in the army.
Oh, speaking of which, any, you think maybe coach K's wife assaulting his grandson.
I did see that.
Yeah.
That was graphic.
Yeah.
You think that'll be in there?
No.
Put it on the list.
I can add it.
For me.
I'll find it.
Okay.
Um, and then generic lock is someone crying.
Yeah.
Oh, put HEP on the list.
HEP.
Yeah.
Yep.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So, so, so far.
Oh, who are the kids that you were laughing at, Hank?
Who were crying?
You laughed so hard at like a five year old crying so.
I think it was a Kentucky fan, maybe.
Yeah, it was.
Yeah.
You were just like, ah.
That is one really nice thing to see again coming back to the tournament.
I literally love like you live for videos of people getting injured and like hurt.
Yeah.
Adults.
And sometimes kids.
But like we, we don't realize how much we missed that last year.
It was a sad fan reaction videos.
Yeah.
The Northwestern kid.
Yeah.
The Villanova flu girl crying.
We missed these moments without the fans.
I always think about it from the like control room, like the all business Pete, the person,
the truck, that's like, find the cry.
And then when they get it, they're like, zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom.
There's another big return that we're seeing this year too with the fans.
The stands is horny camera guys.
Yeah.
That are just like looking for a hot person in the crowd so that it cuts to them and
they're like, look at this.
Look who's at this game.
Yeah.
I'm bonking every cameraman that works for, for the entire Turner network.
Any, any.
Yeah.
I'm trying to think if there's any other moments.
No, I think that's a good list.
My brain is completely.
Oh yeah.
It's, it's fried.
But it was so much fun.
Jake is like so sharp right now.
I'm, I'm dead.
I'm a dead.
The high and low adrenaline.
I'm gambling that much.
It's like, it's not really.
The adrenaline is.
Yeah.
It's pretty.
It's peaking right now.
Oh yeah.
I'm out of gas.
Out of gas right now.
Think about what we just did.
We were on the couch for a long time.
Last four days.
Oh yeah.
Why would that make your adrenaline peak?
No, I'm just saying because of what we did.
Like without adrenaline, I don't know how.
Oh yeah.
But you don't gamble.
So that's the crazy part to me.
You just live off of the sport, which I love.
It's pure.
He loves the excitement of the game.
Yeah.
And there's something weird about sitting like there's a sweet zone that you can sit on your
ass for and not get more tired from sitting on your ass.
But if you're on your ass for 12 hours a day for three, four days in a row, it actually
makes you exhausted to be sitting for that long.
It was important to stand up and just like.
I didn't do that ever.
Yeah.
All right.
Great recap, Jake.
Thank you guys.
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Memphis Gonzaga game was the game of the tournament.
Uh, yeah, that was that was one where I wanted to keep just live betting the live over no
matter what it was going to be.
It was so awesome.
Just up and down, up and down.
I do have.
So I still hate Drew Timmy for the record.
He played.
He played awesome yesterday.
He did miss some foul shots, but I'm I'm doing the thing from Memento to myself where
I'm like tattooing on my body.
Don't believe Drew Timmy's lies.
He will come back and he will hurt you eventually.
Yeah.
But you're right.
Yeah.
He played an awesome game.
He basically was like, I'm going to put the entire team on my little narrow shoulders and
we'll carry us into the sweet 16.
He also had, uh, Jake Marsh approved post game speech.
Let's let's put it in right here.
All right, Drew, I heard you in the hallway.
Motivate this team.
What did you say in that locker room?
I said, I don't give a fine.
What happened?
What happens at the end of the game?
Whether we lose or win, we're not going out is no, uh, soft guys.
Leave it on the floor because it could be your last 20 and, hey man, if you go all out and
we still lose, play with no regrets.
And, uh, we took that to heart and, uh, you know, we came out the wind, fortunately,
but give credit to Memphis, man.
They, they really brought it in the way they turned their season rounds.
Pretty remarkable.
Just finding every way to not swear, even though it was clear that he went in the halftime,
was like, you bunch of pussies, we got to fucking win this game.
Otherwise I'm never going to look at you motherfuckers in the face ever again.
I'm a Czech guy though.
I'm, I'm team chat.
Chet's not in a position where you can give that type of pump-up speech yet.
Yeah.
Chet's a perfect guy to give a pump-up speech to.
Dude, Chet.
All right.
So obviously it's very easy to say, Chet, Holmgren, Skinny, we all know that.
I thought like his defense is already at a point where it's like, okay, this guy can
be an elite, uh, rim protector because he was playing guys who were 70 pounds heavier
than him.
And yeah, a couple of times they got, you know, got the best of them, but I think he
was like a plus 18 in a four point game.
He was so good defensively and, and even every time they went in the post, the guys are
way heavier than him.
He's finding ways to block shots, alter shots.
I'm a Chet believer.
I'm a full-on Chet believer.
I like Chet.
I love Chet.
Chet's my favorite player on that team and there's, there's not really a close second
for me.
He's like, it's like trying to shoot a layup.
Barfew's dogs.
Well, I like the one that jumped in the front seat.
Yeah.
The one that's act, the one that caused him to get the DUI.
Correct.
Correct.
Not the passive.
It was wrestling.
Watching Chet play defense.
He's like trying to shoot a layup over a tree.
He's very, very slender, but he is like, I think all the mass that's on his arms is
actually muscle.
There's just not much of it.
Well, you know what I'm saying?
Like he's, he's got like a, if you took a marathoner and just stretch them out on a
table and made them into be like a six foot 10 person, that's kind of like the biotype
he has.
Here's the thing too.
You can always, you can always gain weight.
You can never get taller.
Yeah.
And he doesn't, you know what I mean?
Like he's got the height.
Well, that's the thing.
He can't not be done growing yet.
Cause he's like 18 or 19 years old.
Yeah.
I keep telling myself that.
I'm a big, yeah.
You do love, you do love the delayed onset grow.
Yeah.
No, sometimes you've heard stories like there's some guy in China that grew a foot when he
was like 50 years old.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It happens.
Um, but that game was incredible.
The pace was so awesome.
And Gonzaga, like that was a true, true test for them.
So they're in the sweet 16, I think seven straight years.
So I guess they're okay.
Yeah.
We won a lot of titles.
Yeah.
Exactly.
The other games.
Um, shout out, John Howard's PR team.
Cause that was now, and I know people be like, he knows Kennedy Chandler.
He coached, you know, his son played with him when they were kids.
He wanted to get him on Michigan.
Kenny Chandler star on Tennessee after the game.
He has like this long embrace, which I, I think he was trying to hug him to death,
uh, knowing his anger problems.
That's probably what was happening, but talk about a spin for like public
opinion.
You're all, you're down 10 in the first round of Colorado state.
You win that game.
You beat Tennessee.
Now you're, there's always one of those moments in March where basically
if you can get Seth Davis to tweet, like, this is what March is all about.
It's about the kids.
You've won the public opinion battle.
It was actually faith in humanity restored.
Yeah.
My faith in humanity was so restored when he was hugging that kid who was crying.
It's unbelievable how quickly it got restored.
They should give me a job on TBS doing the halftime coverage at the desk.
Yeah.
If, as long as you can just say that your faith in humanity has been restored and
tweet out a video, that's, that's really the qualification for it.
But you also can't kill anyone who's still alive.
That's also true.
Cheryl P. Killen still alive.
So real quick though, the whole like restored faith in humanity, you have to
lose your faith at some point.
Well, we did.
You can't.
When he smushed Joe Krabbenhoff.
No, but he can't just Rex Chachatman can't just like continually have it be restored.
It goes back and forth.
He has to lose it.
He has to like tweet out a picture of like a cat dying and be like, Oh no, I hate
humanity now.
I think it's every day he goes on Twitter and someone tweets him like Rex, you're
like a mask loving loser.
And he loses his faith in humanity.
And then someone tweets him a picture of a dog and he's like restored restored.
Brought it back.
Yeah.
We don't deserve.
We don't deserve masks.
But let's get this mask on this dog, please.
Yeah.
So as far as the game goes, I love the guys.
I think he was my favorite player in college basketball this year.
Five nine short king.
Electric just extreme lateral quick.
He's so much fun to watch.
I'm sad that I don't get to watch him anymore in this tournament.
That's my biggest takeaway.
My second biggest takeaway is that Rick Barnes is still Rick Barnes.
And I fell for Rick Barnes is trick, which is the most Rick Barnes thing that he can
do is to make me forget that Rick Barnes is Rick Barnes.
It's it's when we had Titus on last week and we talked about narratives and, you know,
Titus watches a ton of college basketball and thinks about it, you know, in a deeper
level than we do.
So I think someone like him, he's like, well, it's not all narratives, but at some point
you should have to trust the narrative.
Like Fran McAfrey doesn't go to the sweet 16.
Rick Barnes is 25 and 25 all time in the tournament.
And I saw some Tennessee fans being like, how many other coaches have 25 wins?
Well, I mean, yeah, not many, but when you have teams consistently, they're going to
do the same thing next year.
They'll be like top five at some point.
They'll probably beat Kentucky.
And I follow way too many fall fans.
I shouldn't say it that way.
I follow a lot of fall fans.
I am fall for life.
I love Tennessee.
When I went there, it was awesome.
Watching their meltdown on Twitter, I felt very bad for them because it was essentially
that like we fell for this again.
Well, yeah, they knew that in the back of their head, they knew it was going to happen,
but they had been just like lying to themselves all year saying this team.
It did feel a little bit different.
It felt like after the run that they made in the SEC tournament, like that seemed like
what's the difference between...
You're also Tennessee leveraged heavily.
I am very leveraged in my future fandom.
Oh, you had a future.
Goodbye to all of our futures.
I had my future.
I work closely with Big T. His happiness is important to me, but I was fooled a little
bit too.
They pulled the wool over my eyes.
The hot team going into the tournament.
But like what's the difference between being able to coach a team in the SEC tournament
as opposed to coaching a team in the big dance?
Well, he couldn't until this year.
They hadn't won the SEC tournament in like 40 years.
Yeah, but I'm just saying like, it doesn't make any sense to me how bad Rick Barnes has
been in the NCAA tournament over his career, considering the talent that he's had.
Yeah, I know.
And the teams that he's had have been good, like well coached teams during the regular
season.
And Michigan deserves credit.
Michigan is, if you asked a Michigan fan in November, would you be happy with the Sweet
16?
They'd be like, no, we expect that.
If you asked them in January, they'd be like, please, we'd love that.
We're spiraling.
Preseason is a bizarre season.
My national championship pick preseason.
Really?
Yeah.
How's the bracket doing?
Well, I mean, it was dead.
That wasn't the bracket pick?
No.
You had two picks?
I had a preseason national championship pick on the bracket.
Which one is your secondary pick?
If died on Thursday, Friday was Shiva.
Okay.
So you had two picks for winner.
No, I mean, if you want to look at it that way.
You're like Drake.
Yeah.
You love them all.
Yeah.
You'll come out on top.
I do like watching Hunter Dickinson play.
Yeah.
His little fucking hooks on the baseline are so sweet.
The hooks are incredible.
He's a good passer too.
I think he made a very, very smart decision.
He got off the black shoes and now he's wearing the white shoes.
That's the guy that when he's wearing the black shoes, he seems like Chris Mullen back
in the day just like stopping like the Jolly Green Giant running down the court.
But he looks more fluid now and he's fun to watch play.
I have a question for you.
So Baylor lost to UNC.
They came back.
It was a all time ref show.
UNC fans were very upset, rightfully so in some parts, but like it still was a 25 O run
or whatever it was.
So afterwards, so this is now since Florida, uh, repeated with Billy Donovan and joking
knowing on those guys, there's been no repeat national champion.
There's actually last five years.
I think the, the national champion has failed to get out of the round of 32.
There's been like you, you have a list of teams that either didn't qualify for the tournament
after they won the title or they didn't get very far in the tournament.
I know all of this because Scott Drew tweeted it, which I feel like is just major loser
energy.
He tweeted a graphic that I think was made by Fox showing all the national champions,
previous national champions last 15 years.
He tweeted 358 division one teams, not easy to repeat.
Thank you for all the supportive messages to the team.
They gave a great effort all year long.
We couldn't have done it without your support.
Thank you.
And then it's a graphic saying defending men's champions in NCAA tournament since 0607 and
just a list of all of their failures in the next tournament.
That's a weird thing to do.
That's you let your fan base say that because it is hard to repeat.
No, you let your burner say that.
Right.
That's where your burner.
You, you tweet out like congratulations to the UNC Tar Heels.
They played a great game.
We're disappointed with how our season ended, but we will fight and work harder in the off
season and come back and look to restore Baylor to our once proud traditions of last year.
Right.
And then you reply to that tweet with your burner and then you like that tweet from
your real account so that people see that you like that tweet and then they retweet.
Yeah.
That's how the game is done.
You don't tweet it out yourself.
It's tremendous cock energy.
No, I followed everything.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You gotta, you gotta, you gotta slyly signal boost with the like.
Yeah.
The ghost retweet.
Right.
And then just be like, Oh, thanks.
You know, I appreciate that.
Wow.
Yeah.
People are gonna say that for you.
Or you can even reply to that and be like, wow, that's a great point.
I never thought of this.
Yeah.
That's insane.
At not Scott Drew.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I just, I saw it and I was like, wait, why is he tweeting this?
Let other people say that.
Yeah.
I don't like that at all.
But you're right.
It was a ref show.
There was something weird going on.
I hope that those officials aren't going to work for the rest of the tournament because
although like I didn't really have a dog in the fight, I took Baylor on an alternate
line.
So that was dead before it even started.
But it's so disappointing to see a team come back from like 22 points down and then lose
an overtime.
Like I think.
Run out of gas.
Yeah.
I think they were up in overtime and UNC was the underdog.
So like it was, oh, no, sorry, UNC was leading in overtime, but they were still the underdog.
The college basketball has a ref problem.
It just does.
Like we all know it.
There's stupid, you know, that technical foul that was called earlier today against Illinois
or against Houston.
No, it's against Illinois for hanging on the rim.
Charge calls are very hard to like figure out what is, what exactly is going to be a
charge in this game.
None of it really makes sense.
It just every game you go into in college basketball, you could just tweet before the
game.
It's a ref show and like 90% of the time you'd be right.
Ref show.
Yeah.
Ref show.
It's a ref show.
That's a double layer in my head.
Now, but we do have the blue blood, uh, sweet 16 now, UCLA versus UNC, Mic Cronin.
People need to start putting more respect on Mic Cronin's game for being a great, I'm
going to call him a tactician.
Dude, he's a, he's a tactician.
He's a great coach.
He's a great guy.
In-game tactician.
And his dad, Hep is back.
Yep.
Oh, Hep C in the stands.
Yes.
That guy's awesome.
He was like hugging people left and right around him.
Jake, what?
That was his last laugh when he said Hep's back.
I think it's a funny storyline.
You like Hep C, right?
No.
That is his name.
Yeah.
He's Hep C.
It is Hep C.
Yeah.
But yeah, he's, Hep is, uh, he's a good basketball dad and Mic Cronin, we were right about Mic
Cronin.
Yeah.
And by right, we mean like we just happened to interview him and we liked him.
Yeah.
At some point we said he's a good coach and we've been proven right time and time again.
That's going to be a great matchup though.
Yeah.
I'm, I'm worried about, uh, you really don't know what, uh, is wrong with Hakez is, uh.
I can check right now.
I also just love UCLA cause they have Jaime Hakez and, and Juzang and it's just fun to
say their names and then Tiger Campbell.
Tiger Campbell.
They got a fun name squad.
It's like Wofford a couple of years ago when they had all those guys.
Storm's Bruin.
Yeah.
Storm Murphy, who's now Virginia Tech.
Um, all right.
Should we do who's back?
Where are you going to find me?
I'm looking right now.
All right.
Day to day, right ankle sprain.
Day to day, right ankle.
Fuck.
Okay.
Um, they do play Friday.
Extra day.
There we go.
So yeah.
That's a lot of rest.
That's extra day of rest.
Um, all right, let's do who's back.
We are obviously not talking about St. Peter's cause we're going to have Shaheen Holloway
on.
So we're giving St. Peter's a ton of shine in a second.
Probably the story of the weekend in terms of, you know, like even oral Roberts in Florida
Gulf Coast, they took the world by storm, but St. Peter's is by far the smallest of
the schools.
Yeah.
I think after you see you, you was just the flashiest because of the way they did it.
Right.
They did everything.
I saw it somewhere.
St. Peter's is like one of the least funded basketball programs in the country.
So yeah.
We're going to have Shaheen on.
We'll talk about it cause it has been an incredible, incredible ride for them.
Um, all right, let's do who's back the week.
Hank, would you like to start?
I have a few.
Oh, nice.
Came prepared for once.
I don't, yeah.
I think you're going to have one though.
So I don't want to, I don't want to take it necessarily.
You're for it.
Yeah.
Go for it.
What do you think mine is?
Fadadi.
Oh no, but we are back.
Ferrari's all the way back first, uh, F1 waste of the year.
They finished one, two, one, two, push, push, push, push and P1 P1 P2 couldn't, couldn't
be better.
Hamilton was P3 and Verstappen, uh, I, I could listen to Verstappen bitch on the radio forever
because he's, he's an ultimate, he's an ultimate like something's wrong, not me guy.
It was his car was wrong.
Like fucked up.
He actually had to get disqualified or whatever.
Retire.
Retire mid race or end of the race, but, uh, Ferrari, that was, that was a good long play
by me because they were like the Yankees and I was like, they were, they suck last year.
I was like, I'm going to get in now.
Ferrari fan for life.
You guys know me.
I love Ferrari.
This is the first race of the year.
Yes.
Bob Rain.
When's the next one?
Probably two weeks.
I saw, I did see the, uh, post race interview with Toto Wolf.
Yeah.
That guy, that guy is not real.
He's awesome.
There's no chance that he's a real human being.
He's like a, he's like a super villain.
Yes.
Yeah.
I've been saying for a while, just by, he's a, he's a white whale accent for this podcast.
Like he would be all time.
I would listen to him and, and, uh, Morton Anderson do a podcast together.
Yeah.
Just about like secret layers that they have.
But yeah, it was fun.
It was fun to see, uh, F1 back.
I learned about DRS.
That's like, apparently there's just a NOS button that you can hit if you're within
like a second of the person in front of you.
Yep.
You can hit a NOS.
Yeah.
Well, it's like, I think it's the flaps, right?
On the back.
Hit a button.
You just hit that button the entire time.
That's what I was asking.
You have to hit the DRS zone.
You have to.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I would just hit it the entire time.
I was, I was, I had some questions on how like that could be definitely exploited.
Like, whoops.
I accidentally hit the NOS button.
Oh, you get a penalty.
They, cause remember the best part about F1 is those guys bitch about each other more
than any sport ever.
Oh, wait, wait.
Do you see the last episode?
It's unbelievable.
Yeah.
Christian Horner basically spends half of his job is to say, Toto's cheated.
It's the ultimate rough show.
Yeah.
Yes.
Okay.
Good one.
My other one was Patty.
That was mine.
That was mine.
All right.
So Patty the baddies back.
I'll do mine real quick.
Patty the baddie back.
Uh, our, our colleague, Patty the baddie put on an electric show.
Making the meatball.
Making the meatball.
His friend, um, who I think is going to also be our colleague, but Patty the baddie is going
to be a star.
I'm so excited.
He, he choked out the guy and what, like three minutes.
It looked bad for a second.
Yeah.
He got tagged early and, and kind of fell to the ground, got a little wobbly.
He recovered.
He's so fun to watch when he gets into these like weird submission poses cause like he'll
jump on your face.
Yeah.
He will do.
He's so crazy flexible.
He's got these long legs.
It looks like either a snake or like some sort of bug, just like wrapping somebody up
and making them completely helpful.
It's got to be the most helpless thing in the world to have like Patty just draped on
your neck and you can't do shit about it.
He's wrapped around every limb, just slowly choking you out.
Who do you think he called out next?
I don't know.
UFC podcast.
He called out Mark Zuckerberg.
So he said, who do I want to fight?
Mark Zuckerberg.
Lad, I'm going to punch your head in.
I'm sick of you.
Lad, sick of you shutting my Instagram accounts down.
All I do is I help charities and help people with mental health problems.
You're the biggest bully in the world, lad.
So let's get it.
Let's do it.
I, I just love Patty too because his haircut and just how he looks and then he kicks your
ass.
It's got to be so demoralizing.
For sure.
Yeah.
He's the best.
Yeah.
I was going to do Patty the baddie.
I think, I think we all had Patty the baddie.
Our brains basically have just like a bouncing basketball around back and forth and then every
now and then Patty's face shows up and it's like, Hey, remember me?
Yeah.
I mean, we've been, all of us have been staring at the exact same screens for the last like
two and a half days.
So I think we're probably on the same wavelengths with like your brain getting drowned out by
techno music.
Yeah.
That's true.
I had like a little PTSD today when I went to the bar and I was like, Oh my God.
I think I can do this.
I think I'm done with bars for forever.
I think last night I went to my last bar.
There you go.
Congratulations.
I'm officially retiring.
No farewell to her.
Very good.
No farewell again.
I just can't outlast you.
When you know, when it's time, you just know it's time.
Yeah.
PFT went out to the bar last night and ordered 20 beers.
That's true.
At one time.
That's true.
Yeah.
I walked upstairs and there's a lot of us.
Well, no, let's, let's tell the full story here.
We had, how many people were with us?
Like a shitload of people.
No, no, this was at the.
No, I know.
Yeah.
At least five people were with us and the place was like a little bit crowded.
People are still feeling it out.
We didn't know what the vibe there was yet and I thought, let's make a move.
I went up.
I got 20 beers and I got 20 cups and then I found a little table and then I got a game
of flip cup going.
Everybody had a great time.
That's awesome.
Such a great time.
You never want to go back to a bar.
Never again.
Never again.
And on a high note.
Well, I also got into a fight.
A bar fight at the end of the night.
A real bar fight.
Almost.
Almost.
Almost getting arrested.
No, I mean, to ask Tom Lee would happen.
The guy was in Tom Lee's face and I was like, I said, if you got a problem with Tom, you
got a problem with me.
And I think about that if I were you.
Wait, so White Sox saved us back down after that?
Yeah, he just tucked tail.
No, last night was last night was a movie man.
I enjoyed myself.
Yeah.
Did you get drunk?
Jake got a little drunk.
Oh man.
I noticed.
I don't talk to any girls in their ear forcefully.
No.
I noticed that Jake was not not mixing in waters.
I was just going full diesel beer.
I had to go home because I got way too drunk on Friday night for the basher game in that
live stream.
Yeah.
Also, of course.
Of course, Jake is just the best at flip coat.
Yeah.
Of course.
Yeah.
Without a doubt.
Just get it every time.
Also, Jake was Jake was being very, very honest as a flip cup player where he saw his
teammate cheating and after the game was over, he falls mid game.
Yeah.
You called him out.
You called him out and he said restart integrity of the game.
Yeah.
He was policing the game.
Yeah.
It's like little league.
All right, Jake.
Who's your who's back?
My who's back is the master's hype, not commercials plus the commercials.
Where are they doing it this year, Augusta?
Yeah.
They moved it from TPC Sawgrass.
So Rico Bosco original.
Our brains are just so fine.
So the part three.
My brain.
My brain.
I saw.
I actually saw the master's commercial and I said his stupid fucking joke in my head.
I was like, oh, they're doing it Augusta again this year.
My brain is actually shockingly like 50% just Rico Bosco quotes.
Yes.
Yes.
Okay.
Sorry.
In the tank.
Three contests is back.
The grandstands are back.
So the Roars will return.
Oh, nice.
Yeah.
Nothing like a Sunday Roar when tigers chasing after his prey.
Is there a chance he plays?
No.
No.
Brooks Brooks.
This is a year.
Max actually guaranteed that he was going to max personally guaranteed to me that he's
going to make the cut.
So what about he's got to retire.
He said, if I don't make the cut, I'm retiring.
So everyone hold him to that on Twitter.
So on Wednesdays, that's when they do the practice round, right?
Right.
And that's a part three.
Yeah.
They usually have like the father's son go, Max should, Max should bring one of us along
as his son.
Yeah.
He'd probably be sick of the part three because it's not actual golf.
Right.
It's right in the middle of the week.
Yeah.
The PlayStation open.
It's as far away from the weekend as you can possibly get.
That's for Max.
It's good.
It's a good thing to deal with the depression of college basketball ending.
Just having the.
Wait.
Whoa.
No, I'm just saying the hype around it like.
We're still in the middle of the tournament.
I know.
I'm just saying.
Don't get depressed yet on me.
I won't get pretty depressed.
Okay.
I'm sorry.
That's very Jewish grandmother of you.
Like when you go visit, like when do you, when will you visit me?
We're here.
We're in the tournament.
Yeah.
You got this.
We still got games left.
Yeah.
We're good.
We're going to go to the final four.
You're credentialed at the final four.
I am.
All right.
Good.
Good.
Yeah.
I'm excited.
Cheer up.
Yeah.
I'm good.
All right.
Pick yourself up.
I don't give a fucking beat.
I don't give a fucking beat.
I don't give a fucking beat.
I don't give a fucking beat.
I'm going to give a fucking at them.
You love that speech.
It was a great speech.
You ever go on a vacation and like when you're on the way to your vacation, you start thinking
about how much it's going to suck coming back to work.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Don't, don't do that.
Yeah.
Okay.
So we've all been there.
So I'm sorry right now.
It's a natural thing to think.
I listen.
I always get a little sad after the first four days because it is the right, my favorite
four days of the year.
Yeah.
So I, I'm supposed to be the positive guy here.
So disgusting that I said that.
I apologize.
Thank you.
Sanctions.
Are you sanctioning yourself?
Self-imposed ban, uh, next Wednesday from watching college basketball.
Wait a second.
Are you sure that's not an IT?
In IT?
CBI?
If it is.
If it is, it is.
Shout out to that guy who gave me a CBI lock of the day yesterday.
Are they still doing the pineapple thing?
Like is it a tournament for swingers?
I don't know.
The, the, it wasn't like the golden pineapple was the trophy for the CBI.
I think it was.
Yeah.
He really like hit it in my heart strings where if you just are in public and see me
and tell me a lock convincingly enough, I'll just be like, okay, I'm in.
Also shout out to the guy that I met at the bar last night.
They kept coming up to me and telling me that he had a lock, a lock of the millennium today
because he went eight and no yesterday.
And his lock for today's games was UNC.
And I kept telling him UNC played earlier today.
I watched the game.
Moneyline.
And then he kept coming back and telling me, you got to bet UNC tomorrow.
He was right.
He was a time traveler.
Yeah.
He was right.
Who's exactly correct.
Yes.
Yes.
I think Bubba, he gave you that lock too, right?
About 15 times.
Yeah.
You guys should have taken it.
Yeah.
We played Monday and the women's tournament round of 32.
They're a five seed.
Oh.
Against Arizona.
He might have been talking about the women's tournament.
Yeah.
We're going to bet it now.
We got to bet it.
We got to bet UNC.
Yep.
All right.
Um, PFC, you got a quick ad before we get to Shaheen Holloway, coach of the St.
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Okay.
We now welcome on a very special guest.
It is head coach of the St. Peter's Peacocks.
Shaheen Holloway, who now has his team as a 15 seed into the Sweet 16.
They are the story of the tournament.
Coach, should we start with your quote?
Because that quote went viral.
It was incredible when you said you've got guys from New Jersey and New York City.
You think we're scared of anything.
How, how tough is your locker room?
Because I know that, you know, you could say that, but is it really that tough where guys
are just going to these games against Kentucky and saying we got this?
Well, let me clear it up first.
First of all, fellas, thanks for having me on, man.
I'm a big fan.
You guys do a tremendous job.
I love the fact that you guys say what y'all mean, mean what y'all say.
Like, that's big time to me, man.
That's, you know, I'm from Jamaica, Queens, New York, so that's up my alley.
So, cool, cool to you guys for that.
Second of all, excuse my voice a little bit, you know, it's been a long weekend.
I'm a little hoarse, right?
So, but, so that, like that quote is funny, right?
Cause you get the, the end of it, but you don't get the whole quote.
So the, the question was asked, you know, how'd you guys, you know, handle that?
You know, Murray State is a very physical team.
They know how to beat people up.
They know whatever.
And I said, you know, what I said, like, come on, man.
Like, I got guys from New York and New Jersey.
Like, this is what we do.
And especially if you watch my team, cause I've been there, that's what we build up.
We build off our hustling people.
I was scrapping people, you know, being a tougher team.
So the answer to the question, yeah, I got, I got, I got some dudes in my locker room.
I love it.
I got some dudes in there.
I love it.
And being a guy that, that's from the area, the winter school in the area, it's coached
in the area.
It's, it's good to see like the, the players from the city of New York playing in the area.
Cause I feel like a lot of times, you know, there's a lot of great players that come out
of this area, but they end up going, you know, getting recruited by a blue blood or they go,
you know, all across the country.
It's just good to see them staying local and like kind of putting something on the map here
in New Jersey for you.
I'm curious, like what, when you're going into that game against Kentucky before it, before
the game even started, are you a pump up speech guide?
Did you, did you have anything special planned to motivate your guys?
I mean, I'm with you big dog.
Like if I got to pump you up to go play against Kentucky and they say the radio tournament
something's wrong.
Right.
Um, you know, we, I told these guys, listen, if you guys go into the game and not worry about
the game on the fun in New Jersey, we're going to be fine.
Go in there and play your game.
Do what you do.
Act like it's open jam.
Just go out there and play and ball, you know, and, and don't worry about it.
Have fun.
Like we got nothing to lose.
Like nobody expected us to be here.
Like if we make the game, if we make the game close, they're going to get a little tight
and they didn't get to happen.
But also to tell you to also know, like my guys, I got a bunch of guys on my team and
this is like, this is funny.
You guys won't laugh.
I got a bunch of guys on my team that think they belong at Kentucky.
Yeah.
So they think they belong at schools like that.
So, okay.
Here's your time to show it.
Yeah.
Go out there and prove it.
And, and that's why, I mean, March Madness, that's why this tournament is so special is
because you have stories like this.
We've seen the stat thrown around.
This was the first time a New Jersey team won a tournament game since 2000 when you were
playing the point guard for Seton Hall.
Now, is that, that's kind of a like sneaky, uh, like insult stat because you also coached
an assistant coach at Seton Hall.
So do you take that status?
Oh, that's cooler.
Wait, they're basically saying when I was a coach under coach Willard, we didn't win
any games in the tournament.
Oh, here we go.
You know what?
It's funny, right?
Because like you could, you could take it both ways, right?
Um, I didn't know that until, um, late last night.
Well, early this morning.
So my I told that to me.
Um, that's incredible.
You know, with all the success that we had at Seton Hall, you know, when I was there with
coaching and after I was there with Coach Willard and what Rutgers are doing right now,
it's phenomenal.
I didn't know that, you know, and that's kind of surprising.
It's surprising to me to tell you the truth.
Because, um, you know, man, you're right, man.
You think about that's a crazy stat and like people could take it all kind of ways.
Like you could take it all kind of ways.
I don't think that we could knock the suspect that Coach Willard had at Seton Hall.
It's been a phenomenal one.
I mean, the things he's done there was, it's big time.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I know that that was, I'm not going to make you talk about another job, but your,
your old boss, Kevin Willard, kind of, kind of screwed you on Saturday morning when he's
like, Sheen would be great for the Seton Hall job right before you have the biggest game
of your life.
It's funny because, you know, I didn't even, so I kind of just take off social media.
I took my pleasure to stay on social media.
Um, my wife actually told me about it.
And you know what?
I said, that's cool.
You know, that's what I'm trying to, you know, he, I don't think he meant anything by,
that there's something trying to, you know, pump me.
Um, you know, I worked on for 11 years.
I'm an alumni of the school.
Right.
So if, and nothing else, I could chair for Seattle.
Like I'm an alumni.
Like I'm alone.
Forget anything else.
Forget working there.
I'm an alum.
I want those guys to do well.
Um, but I thought that was just him just trying to, you know, his mind trying to help me out.
Yeah.
By the way, I just got to correct.
That's, that was last time Seton Hall won a game because I know Rutgers fans are going
to be all up in my ass.
Cause I said New Jersey by accident.
And our stat guys looking at me right now being like, you're an idiot.
We've, we've had a long four days too.
So sorry.
I'm just going to correct myself.
Yeah.
I'd like to apologize also for our voices because if you think, what do you think is
harder to do coach two games in the NCAA tournament and win them as a 15 seed or watch
32 games be played, uh, over the course of two days, screaming at your television as
loud as you can in a bar drinking beers.
Well, I'll be honest with you.
I don't drink, right?
So I would say coaching because like when you're coaching, there's a rush that is hard
to explain.
Now I've been on the other end watching games and yelling too.
So I get it.
Trust me.
I definitely get it.
Yeah.
It's been a battle out here.
Who is, um, who's the guy on your team right now that's the biggest dog?
Who's the guy that is the one that is, uh, like the toughest, the one that gets his teammates
up.
The one that was the least intimidated going up against some of these big schools.
Well, like none of them is intimidated.
So let me put that out there.
You know, I got two twins that this is what they love to do.
Like they, they love to go out there and mix it up.
Um, obviously Casey Deffo is our emotional leader.
I think the toughest guy people laugh.
I see it.
It's done better.
You know, people laugh about as much as people laugh.
Doug is one of the toughest guys on my team.
Um, but he, he loves this.
He, he built for it.
But like, I'll be honest, like my whole team, man, like, I like, like they kind of follow
my personality.
I played this way.
Right.
I played with the triple martial being five, 10, having something to prove.
You know, God telling me I couldn't do this.
I couldn't do that.
And, you know, being the McDonald's on American and a top five playing my class.
The best point guard.
Like I took all that stuff.
That's few to the fire.
And these guys played that same exact way.
Some of these guys didn't get recruited heavily.
Some of these guys didn't get recruited at all.
You know, same piece with the only school.
So some of these guys have a chip in the show.
Yeah.
I mean, the, the fact that you guys beat Kentucky and, and the guy's name is Doug.
And he's got that terrible mustache.
And I think I said, he looks like a guy who, who should be like, uh, you know,
selling you cigarettes at a seven 11 instead.
He just, he just shot a hundred percent from the field against Kentucky.
That's, it was so great.
And you could tell Doug is a dog.
Like that guy's not scared of anything.
He is a perfect March badness player.
Like the story and everything behind it is just so perfect.
No, that's, that's Doug.
Doug.
I first got the job.
Um, Doug play you for a guy.
You should play for us.
I only with the role on this.
And he told me he had a kid and I went to a watch him and I loved him.
I mean, I loved everything about his game.
His toughness.
He can make shots.
He was fearless.
He was, you know, not backing down.
I'm like, yeah, I gotta have this kid.
When you took over the job, I have to imagine that, you know, you,
you step in, you have to like change the culture.
We hear coaches talk about culture a lot.
What did you do?
Like what, what from the, from the get go was your mindset in,
in telling the guys, okay,
this is what our culture is going to be here.
Well, first thing first, you know, I thought coach Dundee unbelievable
job here, John Dunn at St. Peter's.
Um, but I just wanted to get local players.
Like that was my main thing.
Anywhere I've been as a coach, um, when I coached at Iona, we had local players.
And both of those places, we had lots of sets with local players.
So my main thing was to get local players.
Like you said earlier in the show, make sure that the guys stay home.
So you look at my team.
My, my team is kind of built around guys from the New York, New Jersey,
Connecticut, Philadelphia area, DC area.
Like I want guys like, like those guys, um, are guys that I want to play guys
that like, like I said earlier, have something to prove chip on each
shoulder under recruited, tough, hard nose.
Cause you got to be tough to play for me.
If you ain't tough, you can't play for me.
When it, when it comes to Dougie dirt, and that's what I call him now.
He's just in my mind.
He's just Dougie dirt.
Uh, we do love the mustache.
The mustache, has that been there all year?
Or is it something that, cause I can't have him shave the mustache before
the next round.
He's got to keep it.
No, no, he starts shaving the mustache.
So we went on.
We paused, um, the end of Christmas around New Year's time.
He started growing.
I was, he was in COVID.
Um, when he was in quarantine and then he just kept it.
And then I think his girlfriend like it.
So he, you know, he's, he's taking on what it, I don't like it.
But you know what?
Right now it's, it's, it's big.
You know, it's helping him.
He's helping us.
So keep it, you know, let it grow some more.
Yeah. Yes.
Yeah.
Change it now.
I was reading an article because when I saw St.
Peter's, we've all had this moment.
We saw St.
Peter's pop up.
You guys beat Kentucky.
Uh, Hank, our producer sitting right next to me, he lives like down the
block from St.
Peter's.
He's like, Oh my God, that's right down the block.
I read an article.
Okay.
Stand up, Hank.
Stand up, Hank.
Yeah.
Jersey Hank.
Yes.
Jersey Hank.
I, I was thinking about it too.
I was like, why are they so familiar sounding?
And then I was reading an article and it dawned on me that in 2009,
you guys played that game at six a.m.
You weren't there, but that's what St.
Peter's basketball was.
They played a game.
They literally scheduled the game at six a.m.
To try to get eyeballs on it.
And they gave out free bagels.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The 24 hour marathon.
Yeah.
And I was like, whoa, oh, this is a team.
But it's like, you guys are probably the, one of the lower funded
schools in terms of basketball program in the country.
Is that, what does that look like when you play against a Kentucky?
Is it like uniforms?
Is it, is it sneakers?
I mean, is it that hard?
You know, the uphill battle you have fighting against these,
these big teams.
You know what?
You know, we are, you know, since I've been there, I've been
trying to, you know, make the place better for the kids.
I understand that the kids love having things.
You know, so we had a gentleman, Tom McMahon, who donated a
lot of money for a new arena.
You know, and there's a lot of people that was responsible for
that, but he was the guy who gave the biggest gift for that.
And, and my thing to talk to him was, listen, like, we got to make
this place a place where people call us stay home and they
appreciate it.
Like, so we got a brand new locker room, you know, brand new
weight room, things like that.
So since I've been here, we kind of like, right now we got
three uniforms, you know, multiple sweats, sneakers, kids
care about that stuff.
Right.
So when you're going to put the Kentucky's of the world, yeah,
absolutely.
Like they got big town stuff.
It's Kentucky.
But like I said, some of my guys think they belong there.
So in their mind, they're not even looking at it like that.
They mind it.
They're looking like, oh, I, well, I could show Coach Kyle
while he got trying to recruit me next year.
Yeah.
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
And now I try to make my job extra hard because now they're
going to be being in the traffic border.
Like, what are we doing?
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah.
Yeah.
When are you going to start watching film?
When does that process start for you for the next round?
So tonight we're going to watch the game for doing Texas
game, see who we play.
Once the game is over, right away.
Just snapping right to it.
And I like the fact that you're a point guard head coach.
I feel like point guards make the best head coach.
Is that a fair statement?
Wow.
Well, I appreciate that.
You know, I don't want to say that because that might come
off sounding crazy, but thank you for saying that.
But I think, you know, being like being a point guard,
like being a quarterback, like so you out there, you
understand the game, you know, every position where everybody's
supposed to do.
So we kind of make the, you know, good coaches.
So I won't say they're the best coaches, but I think it's something
to it for sure.
Yeah.
All right.
I had one last question.
It's a rowback question.
Go to rowback.com right now.
Put in code PMT.
Hank, we have a Q zip for you that Jersey Hank is going to
personally drop off for you for coming on.
So we appreciate that.
So we're sitting here right now, Texas Purdue, haven't played yet.
Has it dawned on you though that you're in the sweet 16 and you're
not only in the sweet 16, but also in your bracket, in your region
is North Carolina and UCLA, like two of the four or five blue
bloods of college basketball and your St. Peter's.
Has that, have you had a second to look at that and be like,
huh?
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
Has that, have you had a second to look at that and be like,
holy shit.
You hurt them.
Yeah.
You hurt them and you're St. Peter's.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's crazy.
Again, it's why I love this tournament.
Like how many titles North Carolina UCLA have between them but
and then there's St. Peter's and we're America's rooting for St.
Peter's.
Now, you know what it's, you know, where I'll be honest with
you, you know, last week we won a Mac tournament, the Mac
Championship and that still hasn't hit me yet.
you know, everything that happened so quick.
And this hasn't hit me yet either.
You know, I'm just enjoying the ride.
I don't want the dream, I don't want the dream to be over.
You know, I just want to see it out.
But I will tell you this, it don't matter who we play
and I said this before we went to the tournament,
it doesn't matter we play.
My team is not going to be intimidated.
We're going to go out there and play as far as anybody
and give it everything we got.
I love it.
I love it.
One thing I find fascinating about your team
is you're the Peacocks, the St. Peter's Peacocks.
But you have maybe the most understated jerseys
in college basketball.
It's like, you know, just the solid blue.
Is there any sort of alternate uniform
or any sort of team gear that kind of struts off
more of that like Peacock flair?
Now, you know what, when I first got here,
I wanted to change out around to tell you the truth.
Right?
Peacock is what it is.
So we got three uniforms.
We got a navy, we got a gray, and we got a black.
This year is the first year I was having a black.
I think the black is sharp, it's smooth.
But the blue, we've been winning with the blue.
So that's why we kind of stayed with it, right?
So going into the Mac tournament,
we won four straight games.
And in the Mac tournament, we was like the higher seas.
We had to wear gray.
So the whole team wanted to wear blue.
I mean, black going into the NCAA tournament.
I'm like, are y'all nuts?
We just won four in a row in blue.
Like we're wearing navy.
So we, we just gonna stick with the blue.
I like it.
Keep with the blue, keep with Dougie Dirt's mustache too.
Yes.
Don't change horses in the mix.
That's staying, man.
Like he's a phenomenon because of that.
I don't think, even if I'm trying to get in the cutoff,
it's not coming off.
I love it.
I love it.
Well, coach, we appreciate you taking your time with us.
We are all rooting for the Peacocks,
the least intimidating mascot in the world,
but we're rooting for them.
It is soft to be like the fighting Peacocks.
Here they come.
What?
Okay, you guys should get a live Peacock,
like Mike the Tiger.
You should have a live Peacock in the new arena.
That'd be sick.
Now, you know what, man?
I definitely appreciate you guys having me on.
I know you guys are super busy.
I know you guys got, you know,
a lot of people you won't have to interview.
This is humbling.
I'm very humbled by this.
I'm very, my team is very humbled by what's going on
with us right now.
Like we in the moment, we wanna stay in the moment.
Like it's been an unbelievable ride.
People has been behind us.
I appreciate you guys being behind us.
Friday night, tune in, lock in, man.
Let's get it going.
Hell, we love it.
Hell yeah.
We're rooting for you.
We want you to be Texas or Purdue.
Then we want you to be UNC or UCLA and keep advancing.
And enjoy the shine.
You really deserve it.
And that's the, you know, this is your week.
So enjoy the shine and all the kids
and yeah, best of luck Friday night.
We said you guys, man.
Keep doing what you're doing, man.
It's great, brother.
Take care.
Thank you, man.
Thank you, coach.
Good luck.
Thank you.
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OK, let's wrap up the show.
We got NFL free agency, MLB free agency.
I have Jake has a whole list of that.
Let's start with some NFL.
Deshaun Watson to the Browns.
Well, Deshaun Watson to the Browns after the Browns
have conducted an extensive investigation.
Yep, exhaustive.
Exhaustive investigation into how much they really
want Deshaun Watson to be a Browns quarterback.
I all say is that you would never
see the Roonies make a move like this.
No, absolutely not.
Absolutely not.
But yeah, they're a team of class.
Yeah, what's so big or may feel does he even get,
like if he wanted to work out in the Browns facility right now,
would he have a key card?
I don't think that he's even in Cleveland.
I think he just kind of left.
Yeah.
I think he actually managed to do something
that you don't see a lot in the NFL, which is he pulled
an NBA on the NFL.
And the NFL usually doesn't take too kindly that.
But I think that since the Browns were
able to get the guy that they wanted,
in the first place, then they're
going to be happy to just try to get whatever they want.
I actually saw a hilarious take.
I forget.
I need to look and see who it was.
It's one of the usual suspects from ESPN.
But they said that the best thing what the Browns should
do if they really want to help Baker in the long run,
if they want to treat their former player well,
trade him for a shitty pick.
Like the shittiest pick that you can get,
like a sixth or seventh rounder.
And then he will use that as motivation to come back
and then play better in the future.
They should intentionally tank their trade value for him
just to motivate him down the line.
I like that.
And also let the new current team not give up
a huge draft capital.
I don't know what would even go for him.
He has one year.
I think his fifth year option is coming up.
So he's a third rounder.
I'm thinking maybe two third rounders.
Maybe.
Or maybe a guy that just got traded for two third rounders.
Ooh, interesting.
That'd be very funny.
I've reached a point where I don't hope that that happens
just because it'd be very mean to do to Carson Woods.
Yes it would.
What other NFL news did we have?
Was there any other big trades or anything?
Robert Woods to the Titans.
So no big trades or anything.
Stafford re-signed.
Oh, you'll never win one in LA.
No, this is throwing money away.
I don't know what the Rams are doing with their cap right now.
Like they don't have any draft picks.
Whatever the fuck they want.
They're just trying to sign people.
I don't see this working out in terms of a cogent team
building strategy.
No chance.
All right, Chief, give us the MLB.
Carlos Correa was crazy.
Yeah, so I'll just do a quick running down the line
of new team.
This is from CBS with the rankings.
So it's predatory.
Carlos Correa from the Astros to the Twin.
A plus.
Oh, I'm going to say B plus.
Oh, A plus.
Because he can opt out after every year.
So I don't even know what the twins are doing.
I also like that he's just leaving the Astros.
That's why I give it an A plus.
Corey Stieger from the Dodgers to the Rangers.
F.
I'll go with a D minus.
Listen, some people are.
10 year deal.
Some people are two.
Oh, that's an F.
Yeah, that's an F.
10 years.
I'll include the deals, yeah.
Okay, that's an F.
Chris Bryant, Giants, Taraki, seven years.
A plus.
A plus, quality guy.
Solid A.
Marcus Simeon, Blue Jays to Rangers as well.
Seven years, Rangers.
Oh, I'll say a D minus because clearly
they're building something.
Yeah, and they have a new ballpark.
At least they're trying.
Freddie Freeman, Braves to Dodgers, six years.
A plus.
That's a, I like that.
Actually, no, I hate it for the Braves.
I love it for the Dodgers.
The Braves, many people are saying,
are they better without Ronald Acuna?
Maybe they should have got rid of him.
They won the World Series without him.
Freddie Freeman, the heart and soul,
the beating heart of that franchise for so many years.
Sad to see him go.
I think the, I like this like Braves, Dodgers,
weird rivalry that's gonna start.
Cause didn't the Braves then get Kelly Jansen?
I'm pretty sure.
All right, give us three more because I'm already bored.
Okay, fair.
Not so you.
Yeah, no, I understand.
Spore, absolutely.
This is old, but it's still a notable one
that we need to refresh our memories on.
Mack Shers or Dodgers to Metz, three years.
F minus.
That actually does need a refresh.
Yes.
F minus.
Okay.
It makes me so angry.
Another old one, but still important.
Javi Baez, Metz to Tiger, six years.
I didn't know that.
I did know that, but I forgot it, so thank you.
And lastly.
I did. Wait, when did he sign that a while ago?
Yeah.
Javi Baez is going to look weird
in the Detroit Tigers uniform.
Yeah.
It's like two plain form.
Yeah.
Nick Cosianis.
Where?
Reds to Phillies, five years.
Oh, and the Phillies got Schwabber too.
I like the Phillies.
They're going to mash some taters.
You know, the Phillies are,
they have the longest streak in the national league
without making the playoffs.
That's crazy.
Yeah.
Is that true?
I think so.
It didn't hank the one.
It was on the dozen.
It was the dozen.
It was on the dozen.
I'm plagiarizing.
Jeff DeLoe.
Yeah, you just stole that.
Yeah.
Oh, you credited it, so you're fine.
Yeah, there you go.
Thank you.
There we go.
You almost wrecked Chapman.
Well, I wanted somebody else to say it.
Oh, thank you, Jeff DeLoe, for being born
and having a birthday,
because I actually took a future on the Browns last week.
And I got it at like,
I got it at like 30 to one or,
and it just cut in half when they got to Sean.
Thank you, Jeff DeLoe.
Damn.
Okay.
That is our show.
We'll see everyone.
Back in New York, back in studio on Tuesday,
talking a little sweet 16.
Don't give up.
Don't ever give up, Jake.
So excited.
Madness, we still got.
For the sweet 16.
That's how you said it?
For the sweet 16.
You just went so excited.
You are.
You're mad that we've already eaten half of the cake.
What?
The March Madness cake.
You're sad about the half we've eaten.
No, we've eaten a third.
One weekend, sweet 16.
Games wise, we've eaten more than a half.
And final four weekends are gonna be awesome.
Yeah, it is.
Yeah, it is.
All right, numbers.
25.
Give me a 69 for Billy.
60.
22.
52.
Oh my God.
It's a dynasty.
Whoa.
Nice time.
What?
We had 47 at seven, 52 at eight.
Now 52 is at nine.
Wow.
Just running up the score.
52 is domination.
You know what?
52 is a blue blood.
Wow.
It really is.
52, 47 are the blue,
the true blue bloods of numbers.
Yeah.
Wait, I read that wrong.
It's 54.
Oh.
No, I'm just kidding.
It's 52.
All right, we'll see everyone on Wednesday.
Love you guys.
Today is another day to find you, shine your way.
You're welcome.
Come to me, love, okay?
Say, love me.
Say, love me.
Say, love me.
Say, love me.
Say, love me.
Say, love me.
Say, love me.
Say, love me.
Say, love me.
說, you'll find me, shine your way.
Tell me, I hear your voice.