00:07all right 10 things eight minutes the 10 things rico and i are most hyped about for the tournament
00:16five from the rico beard camp five for mine alternating rapid fire are you prepared
00:21let's get people some sizzle david some tunes please
00:31all right rico i'll give you the first one we'll go from there are you prepared i am prepared my
00:36i give you an introduction to the wildest wackiest guy who looks like he's from a nebraska gym class
00:43they call him cream abdul jabbar mr robbie avila is back on the big stage along with one of the
00:50rising stars in the sports of of coaching josh shirts st louis the billikens take on georgia
00:57clash styles george's gonna fly up and down the floor play a u ball st louis they're gonna run
01:02sets to death and avila he's got the sexy specs he's got a a weird arm tattoo and he looks
01:10like
01:10the most unathletic pile on the planet but there he is at the end of the night with 23 and
01:1410
01:15i'm pumped for that matchup mike you know what we've heard about the bracket of death and that's
01:22the east the region of you know it's got duke and all of those teams in it you know what
01:27the one
01:27bracket they're not talking about the region of losers the underachievers that is the west why
01:34because i'll tell you they put all the teams mike that would always have the preseason hype
01:40they're gonna be great and somehow they stumble before they get to the final four i give you one
01:45seed arizona yep that that tracks i give you two seed purdue oh yeah i give you three seed gonzaga
01:54yes yeah do we have rick barnes uh no that's the only thing that's missing is tennessee in that
02:02bracket that would have been the chef's kiss you also have uh wisconsin's also in that bracket
02:06as a five seed so yeah we talk about oh well these teams are yeah not not necessarily and even
02:13throwing byu as well let me give you number two we talked about it briefly and i think states in
02:18some trouble no matter who they face south florida louisville a battle of contrasting styles the cards
02:24they're not a great three-point shooting team but they take so many of them they're dangerous it's
02:29the char college of charleston offense brought over usf it's playground ball they're gonna they're gonna
02:35drive the lane every time and occasionally kick out for a wide open three and they shoot it a good
02:40efficiency i love stuff like this plus you have an injury mikhail brown you gotta you gotta see if
02:46he's going to play he sat out the acc tournament on the hope and a dream he would make the
02:51ncaa
02:52tournament we don't know yet correct i think it's a super interesting game over to rico mike i give you
02:58this tournament the one thing that i've noticed there is no dominant team this is no longer like the
03:03uconn invitational we all knew it was uconn and who was the battling to play for second place
03:10mike there's no team that i can sit there and say oh well they're definitely going to be in the
03:15national title game i could probably pick 15 different teams make a case for it and you'll be
03:21like oh yeah i can i can see that hey kansas their star freshman decided he wanted to play six
03:27straight
03:27games and they won a title okay yeah i can see that he's pretty good you can make case for
03:31michigan
03:31hey they showed up and just beat the brakes off of teams by 30 points okay i can see that
03:36florida
03:36went back to back i can see no dominant teams in this year's tournament all right number three for
03:41me uh north carolina upset alert caleb wilson out vcu bit of a darling i talked about this earlier in
03:49the show i've never gotten a vcu game right in my life i don't touch them they drop a bomb
03:54on somebody
03:54i go with them they look like they've never played basketball before and for unc it's a debilitating
04:00injury but it's a game i can't wait to watch because it's a blue blood versus a nobody the
04:05injury might be the equalizing factor and reality is this unc is about a two-point favorite but i'm
04:11here for it it's a game i'm looking forward to mike what i'm looking forward to is uh which
04:17uconn team and which purdue team shows up this yeah buddy what was that against st john's because
04:23those two teams are feast or famine both teams have just gone through streaks where you're like did they
04:28realize the college basketball season is going on right now and then all of a sudden they wake up
04:33purdue woke up this weekend they look like preseason number ones but for a time throughout the month of
04:40february man they were getting beat by everybody i called this one wealth disparity you have a 22
04:48million dollar roster versus a 22 dollar roster i give you kentucky versus santa clara first time
04:56santa clara's made it since steve nash was running point for them in the early 90s uh and you have
05:02mark pope coaching for his effing life in lexington and kentucky is only a two and a half point favorite
05:1022 million dollar roster and there's a absolute 50 50 coin flip they could lose to santa clara i'm that
05:20to me is number one with a bullet for me as far as interest that game is wild well for
05:26me mike uh
05:27it's the player that unless you're a hardcore basketball fan let me introduce you to somebody
05:32who played basketball at cast tech and decided he was going to leave a cuff arkansas and darius
05:39a cuff jr stud make sure whatever you're doing when arkansas plays watch stop for two hours and watch
05:48this kid he's john morant pre guns and hand grenade gestures yeah he's just a machine this this kid i
05:54don't even want to say he's a kid he's he's special he is going to do something i don't know
05:59what he's
05:59going to be in the nba but as far as his time in college watch out last one for me
06:04i call it the
06:05setup lower seated team lousy everybody bleeping all over him i give you you got miami who's everybody's
06:14darling is the 10 excuse me the 7 against mizzou and people are like how the hell's mizzou on the
06:2010 line they're crap miami's this darling they can beat anybody you know how this goes friday night
06:25at 10 o'clock this is where mizzou does the revenge play and drops a bomb on them right right
06:31but i'm
06:32here to watch it because it doesn't make sense last one well for me you know what mike it goes
06:36by what
06:36you said this time next week are we watching a coaching search at kentucky because mark pope's
06:43been fired because you're not allowed to lose at kentucky when you have that much money invested
06:49when you have that crazy of a fan base and i wonder where they're going to reach out to and
06:54pick their next coach you hate to see will they bring back patino first round sizzle 10 10 items
07:01eight minutes he just said rick patino to lexington i'm not dignifying that 97 one
07:06you
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