College Basketball Early Season Highlights & Tuesday Preview

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00:00But college basketball, Joe, it is here.

00:03Yeah, we're still in the silly season.

00:04We're before Thanksgiving, but the games seemingly are starting to improve, Joe.

00:09How have you been enjoying this college basketball early season so far?

00:12I love it, Donnie.

00:14I've had a great string of success here early on.

00:19Teams that we thought would be good are good.

00:22There are some mid-major programs that, as usual,

00:26maybe standing out a little bit better than people give them credit for.

00:30The value in college basketball is now, Donnie,

00:33because once the cat is out of the bag,

00:36the market will take away all that value on some of these mid-major teams.

00:41So keep an eye out, especially a team like, I'll just throw it out there,

00:45Sacramento State, which is playing a very interesting brand of basketball

00:49with former NBA player Mike Bibby as the head coach there.

00:54Interesting team.

00:57Team dime right out there.

00:58And by the way, Sacramento State, that's the team with the big NIL now

01:01trying to get into that marketplace, pay some players,

01:03see if they can do some damage here, Joe,

01:05which means the AP top 25 as of this past week.

01:08Now, we might be looking through there.

01:09It's the same old, same old, but look at the top five.

01:12Purdue now number one, Houston number two, UConn three, Arizona four,

01:17Duke number five.

01:18What are we thinking about the AP top 25 this early, Joe?

01:22Yeah, that's shocking.

01:23I mean, who saw that coming?

01:25Like, come on.

01:26This is everybody on that list in that top 25.

01:30They'll just be jockeying for position from here on out.

01:35Big win by Houston against Auburn the other day on the road.

01:39And, yeah, even the defending champs, Florida, had a big test against Florida State,

01:45had a big one against Miami that they handled.

01:48So, yeah, the Blue Bloods are the Blue Bloods for a reason.

01:52And you'll see four of them tonight with Michigan State, Duke, Kansas, and Kentucky.

01:56There you go.

01:57Let's head to Madison Square Garden tonight.

01:59Early game.

02:00Love to see this, Joe.

02:02A 6.30 tip time.

02:03That's Michigan State and Kentucky from the world's most famous arena.

02:06A five-and-a-half point favorite right now live for Kentucky.

02:10As you see the graphic there, minus four-and-a-half.

02:12A total of 153-and-a-half.

02:15Michigan State and Kentucky at the Garden.

02:17Joe, how are we feeling?

02:18Yeah, well, big question here is Kentucky and their leading point guard, Jelan Lowe,

02:25and whether or not he will be able to go in this game here.

02:29But that hasn't stopped the market from thinking that, well,

02:33they are just that much better than Michigan State here.

02:36And, listen, we know what Michigan State's going to be all about.

02:40They're going to play great defense.

02:42They're going to defend.

02:43They're going to shoot from three.

02:44And they've done a pretty good job in this tournament over the years.

02:49I think it's a fascinating litmus test for these two teams,

02:51but I'm more inclined to take the points with Coach Izzo and Michigan State in this one.

02:57Yeah, let me just take a look at Michigan State again.

02:593-0 for them, 3-1 for Kentucky.

03:02Colgate, Arkansas, that's a solid win.

03:04Top 20 team here, San Jose State, and then Kentucky.

03:07And then the only loss that you saw, the blemish on Kentucky.

03:09They had three layups, which they won easily, but then lost to Louisville here.

03:12So, some competition on a neutral court site, never to blame here,

03:16because we like this type of stuff.

03:17Don't give me the bums where you're playing each other.

03:19Give me the big talent, and you're getting that in the Garden.

03:21Which game number two, Kansas versus Duke, Joe.

03:25Double-digit favorites for the Duke Blue Devils on a neutral court.

03:29The total of 149.5.

03:32What do we have from Shire and the boys tonight in the Garden?

03:34Well, we have a, you know, unfortunately, one less player for Kansas here tonight,

03:41and that is the presumptive number one overall pick in the NBA draft.

03:46And that, with Darren Peterson, he's got a hamstring injury for Kansas,

03:51which means he's not playing in this game.

03:54Bill Self already said he doesn't expect him to be going,

03:57which is why this went from about 7-7.5, Donnie, to 10-10.5.

04:01You'll love, I mean, listen, this Duke team is huge.

04:06Boozer, I mean, they've got two guys at 6'9", one guy at 6'11".

04:11They can score from anywhere.

04:14They don't allow anybody in the paint to score.

04:16They are a juggernaut.

04:18The big play in this game, though, Donnie, is going to be the under.

04:22These two teams, over the last couple of years,

04:24as much firepower as they have offensively,

04:27they're even better getting at it defensively,

04:29and I think that's what we're going to see again here tonight.

04:32Yeah, Duke crushed Texas to start the season there,

04:34so a little elevated competition there.

04:36You take a look at Kansas as they beat Green Bay.

04:38They beat Texas A&M, Corpus Christi.

04:41They beat Princeton, and they lost a game by double digits to North Carolina,

04:44so some things to dip into, Joe.

04:46Are we getting points in these two games in the Garden tonight,

04:48or do you say, hey, neutral court, two teams feeling themselves out?

04:51Maybe they stay under the total tonight.

04:53I have a feeling both of these teams are going to be bringing defense.

04:58All four of these teams expect some defense,

05:01especially with that Kansas and Duke game.

05:03How about that?

05:04One hour down, one hour to go.

05:05It's how we get down to business on a Tuesday morning radio

05:08on the early line on the Sports Grid Network.

05:10Joe and here is Donnie right side.

05:11The party is just getting started.

05:13Don't you change your style.

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