00:00All right, so let's bounce the basketball here now.
00:03How about what St. John's did to UConn?
00:05They blew them off the floor in the Big East Championship.
00:08You know, there's something special, or am I wrong here?
00:12It's going on in Jamaica, Queens right now.
00:14Rick Pitino has done a great job.
00:16What do you make of this St. John's team?
00:18You said it, Dan.
00:19I think Pitino is, like, honestly, one of the coaches of the year.
00:21What he's done with that program, and you know how good Hurley and UConn are.
00:25They're a fantastic basketball team.
00:27I consider them, like, top three or four in the nation.
00:29And these guys are going in there, dummying them.
00:31That's the thing about these conference tournaments.
00:33I don't care if you're a top seed.
00:34You can't rest.
00:35And St. John's, these guys just punched him in the face.
00:38Very, very interesting.
00:39I was watching golf, and Keegan Bradley's on the TV right now.
00:41He went to St. John's.
00:42Cardano went to St. John's.
00:44Something special is going on with the Johnnies right now.
00:47Very, very dangerous basketball team.
00:49And, Dan, we talked about Pitino before.
00:50You're like, is he getting older?
00:52Does he care as much?
00:53I think this is one of his best coaching acts.
00:55Like, I think you'd have to say, in his whole damn career,
00:57taking this team to what they've done.
00:58It's been absolutely fantastic.
01:00Who would have thought that he'd be maybe doing things
01:03that Louis Karnazeka did back in the day?
01:05I mean, it's absolutely incredible here.
01:08I mean, so, Duke, are they the stone-cold luck
01:13for the number one team in the tournament?
01:15Are they the number one team?
01:17I'm going to tell you, Dan, I think they're the number two team.
01:21I still think Michigan can beat Duke.
01:24I know they played them.
01:25I know they played them earlier.
01:27It was a tight game.
01:28Duke got it done.
01:29I think the game at the time went more for the Duke Blue Devils
01:31instead of Michigan.
01:32Michigan has bigs.
01:33Michigan's well-coached as well.
01:35I think they're deep.
01:36They're very, very talented.
01:37And you know what?
01:38We didn't even see them play their best basketball.
01:40They were blowing out teams,
01:41and the sportsbooks didn't even know what to do,
01:43making them like 18-and-a-half-point favorites.
01:46Hell, they're playing a very good Purdue team
01:47and laying seven points right now.
01:49So that's how good Michigan is, Dan.
01:50I'm not sure if you think Duke's better.
01:52I think Michigan is slightly better than Duke.
01:54I have the Wolverines one and the Blue Devils two.
01:57Well, let me ask you then about Arizona,
01:59because I saw them earlier in the year,
02:01and I was awful impressed with them.
02:02And that was a great win over Houston.
02:05First, did you learn anything about that game, you know, Arizona-Houston?
02:09First, let's start with Arizona.
02:10Did you learn anything new about Arizona?
02:13I got to tell you, Dan, I have a lot of problems with Arizona
02:15just because of the past.
02:17Like, you know, gone are like the Mike Bibby days
02:20and, you know, Damon Stoudemire.
02:21Like, those teams, every time I look at Arizona, I go,
02:25why are these guys, like, going out early in the tournament?
02:27It's just one of those things show me.
02:28You know what I mean?
02:29Like, I look at Michigan, and I look at how battle-tested they are.
02:33I look at Duke, same thing.
02:35Arizona, not a cupcake schedule.
02:37They played some really good teams,
02:38but I've also seen them falter a little bit more.
02:40So I got to be honest with you, Dan.
02:42I know a lot of people have Arizona going to the final or the final four.
02:45I think they're maybe an Elite Eight team.
02:47I think they're going to get clipped by somebody in this tournament.
02:49It's just one of those situations.
02:51Arizona is one of those teams, Dan.
02:52They look great, but they'll have this one stinker for a while,
02:55and it catches up with them.
02:57It's hard for me to lock these guys in come tournament time
02:59because I remember Arizona had some great, great teams,
03:02and sometimes they disappoint in the tournament.
03:04So I'm a little bit wary of the Wildcats.
03:06I know a lot of my colleagues here like them to win the whole thing.
