Robert Morris Shines Under Coach Andy Toole's Leadership

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00:00But one of these teams that's already in the dance who caught your attention

00:04Shout to my guy in the tool Bobby Moe Bobby Moe in the building

00:08Robert Morris done a great job any tools been there for a long time known him for a long time

00:12I've disciple a friend dumpy by the way shout out the friend Duffy who just coached his last game a couple of days ago

00:19Any tools did a great job at Robert Morris?

00:21They were in the NEC did a great job

00:22They had to move to the horizon because being in Pittsburgh it just didn't work for them in that league

00:28They had to get out

00:29Rebuilt that program again, and this team has been on absolute fire losing only one game

00:35Since I think January 8th, and they got they got a kid they got a kid cam woods

00:40That's an absolute dynamo and what I saw out of Robert Morris's different guys step up in different spots

00:47It's the team and a guy that is you know I know is an IT and yes

00:50It was a bad Kentucky team

00:52But this is a guy that will be ready Andy tool to have his team ready to play

00:56That could be a scary match whether they're at a 15 or 14 seed the way Bobby Mills playing

01:03They could be dangerous in the right matchup. Yeah, they can I mean they beat up on Youngstown State

01:07I know I took Youngstown State

01:09You know hoping for a step-up spot played in the neck nip and tuck for about you know 35 minutes

01:15And just let go of the rope in the final five minutes of that matchup. I've watched this team now

01:20I'm going to to Wofford in terms of this team 19 and 15 overall

01:25Smash VMI

01:27smash

01:28Furman they have very good guard play Jackson

01:30Syphilis that stepped up with a 20-point performance in the championship game you want to talk about blue-collar teams

01:37I mean Wofford to me is a team that I think could make some noise

01:41Are they gonna go to the sweet 16 probably not can they get an upset in the first round?

01:46It's possible depending upon how they match up depending upon how they play if they're catching multiple points

01:53I might be on Wofford that they impressed me

01:55They shoot well from the perimeter and have very good guard play that travels in terms of March man this guy's

02:01Okay, I think the team that that's just the most intriguing honesty is Gonzaga like like they

02:08They are the team that we didn't think they were but they're playing better. They don't have the quad one record

02:15Yeah, where do they get seated, but they're not as high like that is gonna be such a fascinating story kept come tomorrow

02:23Way, they're seated because if you see them too low, they could definitely find themselves in a sweet 16

02:28Yeah, I think stuff like Gonzaga for me and admittedly one

02:34I don't like things that are illogical

02:36But I really don't like watching the Iona gales get given no opportunity and that happened a few tournaments ago when as a 13 seed

02:44They played a four-seeded Yukon that every you know

02:48Tom Larry and Joe had a future on that they ended up winning the tournament because everybody knew that

02:53the four-seated Yukon was actually a top four team in college basketball and yet like

03:00Gonzaga's resume isn't great

03:03but if they're eighth in net and

03:05top ten in BPI and top ten in Ken pom and top ten in Evan Mia and top ten in Joe Lisi and top ten in

03:12coach and

03:12Okay. Well then

03:15Why are they on the eight what's going on here again?

03:18I understand that they're not on the one or two. You don't belong on the one or two

03:22They also don't belong in the eight nine, right? That can't be that that is it is flatly

03:29Unacceptable for something like that to take place

03:31I was just gonna say if we equate Gonzaga to college football, right when you have a dominant program in terms of a group of

03:38Five and then all of a sudden you lose your star talent a couple of years ago, right in

03:43Yeah

03:45Some of the talent that they have when they played in the final four in championship game

03:48And then you go start to go the other way like last year for me was it?

03:53You know, I was on Gonzaga last year why the expectation the bullseye wasn't on their back

03:58And you know if you can't win when that when there's you know less than

04:04Expectations right and you still underachieve

04:06That's where I start to second guess mark few and I start to second guess the program and I say are they going the other?

04:12Way, you know for years they dominated you want to say, you know the the non power conferences, right?

04:17They were there for years. They were the dark horse to potentially be that Cinderella. They got close

04:23They couldn't close the door and now yeah, they might get the talent again, but they're starting to go the other way

04:29You can't lose to say Mary's two times in the regular season beat them in the championship game

04:35This is a conference that you should be dominating. No wouldn't so I think that so, okay big picture

04:41I fear few might have missed his window

04:45Simultaneously, I cannot believe five-star recruits are picking. I'm gonna whatever I'll pile on North Carolina over Gonzaga

04:53Chet Holmgren went to Gonzaga

04:56Fantastic tournament run Jalen Suggs went to Gonzaga

05:01Unbelievable run obviously he had with the Bulldogs

05:04Ian Jackson can't crack the starting lineup of a team. That's not gonna make the tournament. I don't even so but few

05:11Can't seemingly bring these kids in anyway, right?

05:13He's it's he's not dominating the portal if you look at this year's team. It's leftovers from what they should be much better than they are

05:20So that's a bit. That's a bit tricky

05:23I want to though just use the Gonzaga point actually to make a perfect transition to the team. I wanted to talk about

05:30Which is McNeese?

05:32last year's McNeese was all the rage and

05:38Unfortunately for them you'll remember Joe we saw it's the thing we saw that's most similarly

05:44They ran into Gonzaga and all of those

05:48McNeese will win a tournament game takes got smashed right in the mouth because they ended up having to play the Bulldogs in a 512

05:57Nobody's talked about McNeese this year. I'm not acting as if they're an under

06:02That is if this is a hidden in the rough gem, but because this is what happens with betters

06:08It happens with me. It happens with you. It happens with everybody because everybody got burned on McNeese last year

06:14They're not doing it with this year's team. Well, guess who's better?

06:18This year's team they are better. They're their net rating is better

06:22They're rating relative to without the entire country last year to this year this year is better their strength of schedule last year

06:31Was around setting 72nd this year top 25

06:35Last year out of conference. They beat Michigan

06:39guess what not as impressive as going to Alabama and only losing by 8 or

06:45Playing Mississippi State on a neutral court and only losing by 3 this year's McNeese team

06:51more so than last year's team feels like the one ready to make a run and what I like coach is

06:58This year's McNeese team isn't all the rage

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