00:00The Arizona and Texas Tech, Arizona suffering their first defeat of the season.
00:05Listen, no harm done, right?
00:08It's hard to go unbeaten unless you maybe have a certain MAAC team's schedule.
00:15Losing on a big Monday against Bill Self, it's what everyone does.
00:20But you don't want this to become a habit.
00:22As we had just talked about this strength of schedule in conference for Iowa State,
00:28Arizona is a bit similar.
00:29Again, I want to be clear.
00:30I am talking about in conference.
00:32I understand that Arizona beat a bunch of great teams, including winning at UConn in the non-con.
00:39But now this is going to ramp up.
00:42Texas Tech, BYU, Houston, Baylor, Kansas, Iowa State are this team's next games here.
00:49It's a gauntlet, JY.
00:52How do you see Arizona bouncing back?
00:54Or maybe they don't against Texas Tech.
00:58Kevin, it's amazing because when we looked at Arizona, this is the part of the schedule, right,
01:04that we talked about where I even said that there's a chance that this team will go on a 3
01:08-4 game losing streak
01:09after this game versus Kansas.
01:11So when you look at it with Texas Tech, Texas Tech's got to drag this game into the mud.
01:17If you look at Arizona, I think Arizona can win this game both ways.
01:22I think Texas Tech can only win it by really bringing this and making this a rock fighter.
01:28When you start looking at the Ken Palm, and folks, if you don't go to Ken Palm to get your
01:32information,
01:33and even just for me, and I'll just give people how I do things.
01:36When I look at Ken Palm, I take all of the out-of-conference games out.
01:43I want in-conference because why, folks?
01:45Then you get team versus team, and everything equals out.
01:49So when you look at defensive efficiency, Arizona's number one, Texas Tech's number five.
01:55You look at effective field goal percentage defense, Texas Tech's number one.
01:59I'm sorry, Arizona's number one, Texas Tech's number four.
02:01Neither team turned to ball over.
02:03Both teams rebound the ball really well.
02:05So what does that tell you, especially effective when Texas Tech has the ball?
02:10They are 12th in the Big 12 in pace.
02:14That tells you how they have to play.
02:16Slow it down.
02:18I also think Kansas showed that at times, making that game a half-court game
02:22because Arizona hasn't been dragged into the deep water a lot during the season.
02:27So now they don't know how to get themselves out of it.
02:30So that's why, if anything, Texas Tech plus the points, order better play, take the under.
02:35Grant McCaslin knows that he's got to slow this game down and make this a half-court game.
02:42So it's interesting, JY, because I simultaneously think I might agree with everything you said.
02:49I'm playing it the other way.
02:50And this is exactly what I did earlier this week.
02:54I loved Kansas the whole way.
02:57And ultimately, I just got scared of what a win would mean.
03:03It was pre-Darren Peterson injury.
03:05And I pivoted to an Arizona team total.
03:08I felt, hey, you know what?
03:09I can focus in on this team a little bit more because Kansas is a little bit wonky.
03:15And Kansas won, but I was able to sneak over my team total.
03:19I looked at this game and I have wanted to, my dream scenario to some degree, JY, once I was
03:27not betting Kansas on Monday was for them to actually have Arizona win that game and us get a very
03:33inflated plus the points Texas Tech number.
03:37I don't necessarily feel like that's what we have here because now I have Arizona, who in their two step
03:43-up conference games, right, at BYU and at Kansas, have had double-digit leads in each of those games.
03:49And that tells me they're probably going to have another double-digit lead here in this game.
03:54And as I go through it, this is a conference, just so people understand the Big 12 right now, 50
04:01% of the 10 best defenses in the country are in the Big 12.
04:06So Texas Tech, JY, to stop Arizona, you're right, it's about pace, but it's not really about defensive talent.
04:14And Arizona, who, against comparable defensive teams, right, TCU, West Virginia, 86 on TCU on the road, 88 against a
04:28much slower West Virginia in their building.
04:31I took an Arizona team total tonight, even though I totally understand every single thing you're saying about the game.
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