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Shan, RJ, and Bobby Choppy broke down the first day of March Madness, reacting to VCU’s huge upset win over UNC and recapped all the other action. They also took a look at bracket performances, Duke’s shaky showing, debated whether the tournament is back, and more.
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00:00The long toss by Stevenson, the catch, Fesar, and that's it!
00:06Offset Madness!
00:09VCU comes all the way back to defeat North Carolina in overtime, 82-78.
00:18He threw it away, he put this!
00:23Did we just see what we think we just saw?
00:26Wow!
00:27Confetti!
00:30Is March back?
00:33I don't like that call, by the way.
00:35Upset Madness?
00:38Give me a better than, like, Upset Madness!
00:41That did not work for me.
00:42Is March back?
00:44Man, I'm not trying to blow up your segment at the very beginning, but I feel like this is...
00:50Now, I'll leave the possibility open for this being a legit segment because of NIL, but otherwise, it's a stupid
00:59question.
00:59We can do that every year.
01:02Last year was not...
01:03There were very, very few upsets last year.
01:06It was a chalky, chalky tournament.
01:08I felt like yesterday it was awesome.
01:10I know, he lost.
01:11Which is great.
01:11And Peyton still lost as a chalky, chalky bracket last year.
01:14I know, right?
01:14And that's why he lost, because it was last year.
01:16So, but, you know, yesterday...
01:18And I do feel guilty of being way too attached to judging the quality of the tournament by my picks.
01:24Now, I'm 12-2, and dominant, and I should be 14-0, and crushing again, so I'm, like, in a
01:30fantastic mood.
01:31You're 14-2.
01:33Chappie was wrong about there being 14 games yesterday.
01:35So, he said there were 14 games, so I was just counting the losses and then subtracting it.
01:38But it was 16 games yesterday, so you were 14-2, actually.
01:4114-2.
01:41I'm 14, and I'm 13-3, and so is Bobby, right?
01:45Oh, yeah.
01:46Or no, I'm 12-4.
01:47The attachment that I felt to the losses and the first loss, and I'm not watching college basketball throughout the
01:54year,
01:54and I don't have anything serious on the line, but that first loss happens, and any loss, I'm dying with
02:02it.
02:02Like, it's affecting my mood a little bit, and that speaks to the greatness of this event.
02:08It is.
02:08And how invested they get you, but, I mean, what are we going to do?
02:11Next year, if it's all chalk, do we say the tournament's dead?
02:14No, we're not.
02:15No, we're not.
02:15But it's today, yesterday.
02:17But if those offsets happen against me, I don't know if I could be able to separate and sit here
02:21this morning and be like,
02:22yes, it's freaking awesome.
02:24So, out of the, at last year, in last year's tournament, when we got to the Sweet 16,
02:28out of the potential 16 teams that would be seeded 1 through 4 remaining, 13 of them were a 1,
02:342, 3, or 4 seed.
02:36And the three others were a 6, a 6, and then 1, 10 in Arkansas.
02:40But otherwise, yeah, last year was, had gotten, like, everything was 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2 when we got
02:45to the Elite.
02:45Yeah, and look, I mean, I think the tournament is one of the few times where you're kind of cool
02:52being wrong.
02:53Like, if you pick your bracket, like, if you have, everybody picked Duke, right?
02:58Everybody picked Duke.
02:59Everybody was rooting for Siena in that game.
03:01I mean, not me.
03:02Unless you're a Duke fan.
03:03Sean was not.
03:03I was not.
03:04Very clearly in our text.
03:05I don't want to lose.
03:07Yeah.
03:07Well, you wouldn't have lost.
03:08Like, you wouldn't have lost.
03:09Because I had Duke, too.
03:10He doesn't want the Orange Magic bracket.
03:11Yeah.
03:13But, like, you know, like, it's just customary.
03:16Like, you know, everybody.
03:16I see Dawson make pastrami like me.
03:18You know, like, almost to a man, everybody roots for the underdog.
03:22It doesn't matter whether it's your bracket or not.
03:24Yeah.
03:24You're rooting for the underdog.
03:25Now, I wanted Siena to win in the moment, but I'll tell you, this morning waking up, it's like, oh,
03:31thank God I don't have to watch Siena and, you know, TCU play.
03:35That's like, or some other, or Howard and St. Louis.
03:39If we all had ended up with Duke as the champ, so, like, we all equally, we would have lost
03:45the same history.
03:46Would you have been fine with Duke losing?
03:47Then would you have been like, all right.
03:48Yes.
03:49Okay.
03:49All right.
03:49So, you would have rooted for it in that instance.
03:51Yeah.
03:51So, as soon as your bracket settled, you do want you to win.
03:52If I had Duke going out in the Elite Eight, yeah, I want Siena to win.
03:55Yeah, but, you know, at the end of the day, also, like, we want a better tournament long-term.
03:58Like, it's a short-term gain.
03:59The short-term gain is the upset.
04:01The long-term success is, you know, you really do want your top teams or your better teams, I don't
04:07care what the seed are, to move on.
04:09And, you know, yesterday we get a lot of upsets.
04:11You know, it started early.
04:12It started with high point.
04:14And then, of course, you know, you move on and you get, you know, I'm not going to consider, you
04:20know, like, your eight, nine games, right?
04:22St. Louis and stuff.
04:23But, you know, VCU coming back and beating North Carolina.
04:28South Florida made a game of it against Louisville.
04:31They wound up losing, but they made a game of it.
04:33Texas beating BYU.
04:36So, both 11s, both 11s move on, and that's right at the number.
04:4152% of 11 seeds have moved on over the last couple of years, over the last, like, decades.
04:46So, you know, you're looking at, all right, hopefully, hopefully for me, go Vols.
04:50The 11s are done winning.
04:51All right, I wanted to get the 11 wins out of the way yesterday.
04:54The VCU game was awesome.
04:57Yep.
04:57Down 19.
04:59Everyone went ice cold in the overtime.
05:03Terrence Hill with the step-back Luka type three.
05:07And last year as a freshman, he averaged three and a half points.
05:10And there he was, the man, yesterday, taking over.
05:14VCU can ball, man.
05:15I was sitting there watching the game.
05:17All right, I've lost this one.
05:19You know, I'm getting picked off here.
05:21But VCU, answer three, three.
05:23Everyone was answering back and forth.
05:25Again, they went ice cold in the overtime, but they come back to take out Carolina.
05:29Hubert Davis was freaking annoying in the postgame afterwards.
05:33We actually, I do believe, Peyton, we have some of Hubert Davis' best stuff.
05:38This is like a montage of him just not really answering any questions.
05:42Got a little bit tired there.
05:44I did not.
05:45I didn't.
05:49Hubert, why did you go to just a six-man rotation in the second half?
05:53Because that was my decision.
05:57Coach, what did you, generally, what do you think went wrong?
06:01What do you mean?
06:03Hubert, the free throws again, as you mentioned, a little bit of an issue tonight.
06:08Why do you think that was such an issue for your team throughout the season?
06:13That's a great question.
06:14I mean, we work on them.
06:19And...
06:21What do you mean?
06:22What do you mean?
06:23What went wrong?
06:24What do you mean?
06:24What do you mean?
06:25I don't know.
06:26You know what I was saying?
06:26Why did you ask him to put out first round?
06:28He had a 19-point lead.
06:29I don't know.
06:30What do you mean?
06:30Why is Jesse Holley cursing you right now?
06:33Yeah.
06:33As a reporter at that point, if it's like, what went wrong?
06:36And he goes, what do you mean?
06:37I go, I guess that tells me all I need to know about what went wrong.
06:40You're the coach.
06:41You don't even know.
06:42You don't even know.
06:42Okay.
06:43All right.
06:43You don't even know.
06:44And, you know, I don't know that Hubert was on the hot seat, necessarily.
06:46It's Carolina.
06:47You know, they don't take kindly to first-round exits.
06:50They were in the play-in game last year.
06:52I'm sorry, the first four last year.
06:53And they wound up losing in their first game of the tournament,
06:57where everybody picked them to go and make a little run.
07:00So now this is back-to-back, round of 64, losses for Carolina.
07:04That doesn't get it done.
07:05That doesn't get it done there.
07:08He's a loser.
07:09A lot of losers.
07:10Bobby has his big winner.
07:12And this is going to be Cut 12, the early star of March Madness after day one.
07:19Yeah.
07:19So we've got two clips here from this guy.
07:22Two clips.
07:22Flynn Clayman, who is the head coach at High Point.
07:26He is 37, but he looks about 52 with all the gray hair he's got
07:31and just bags under his eyes from the overdosing of cortisol in his body
07:37from all the stress.
07:39Cortisol?
07:39Man, this dude is so intense.
07:41So after the game yesterday, they win, and it's like,
07:44oh, here's the standard coach interview.
07:45We believed in ourselves.
07:46We're great.
07:47Uh-uh.
07:48No, High Point instead, this head coach, Flynn Clayman,
07:50wanted to take shots at all the higher seats.
07:53They said it was going to be a short trip.
07:59I said 12.
08:00Was I wrong?
08:01You said 12.
08:02So that was my bad.
08:0311?
08:0411.
08:05Your first NCAA tournament game, Coach Clayman.
08:09It looks pretty obvious to me that high majors need to play mid-majors during the season
08:12because they said we haven't played nobody.
08:14We've played somebody now.
08:16How'd you do it?
08:17It feels unreal because I know how good of a team we had.
08:20Stop, stop, stop.
08:21He didn't even hear the question.
08:23He didn't even hit it.
08:24Totally blacked out.
08:26He is the strongest eye contact that you've ever seen.
08:30Dude, what a close talker, man.
08:31He is six inches from his face just, like, piercing through this guy's eye.
08:36And you know after coaching for two and a half hours, he's got to have some hot breath.
08:41Oh, yeah.
08:42Oh, it's brutal.
08:43I think I asked Aaron Andrews that one time.
08:45I was like, the breath, like, out of ten players, how, I mean, how could five of them smell good?
08:52Out of ten players, six of them had that lip crud on the side.
08:56Yeah.
08:56You know, they got, like, the thick, thick, especially if it's a cold day, the thick saliva, hot breath.
09:02Oh, I mean, he is right there.
09:03He's like, he's like the Seinfeld kid.
09:05He's a close talker.
09:06And that close, he still can't hear him.
09:07Right.
09:08So let's hear that second question again, and he's not listening to anything.
09:13How'd you do it?
09:14Feels unreal because I know how good of a team we had, but nobody would play us.
09:18Just like they wouldn't play Miami, Ohio, but they got a play us in this tournament.
09:22Coach, you were down by ten early on.
09:25And what changed?
09:27We just settled in.
09:28We settled in.
09:29We got a hell of a team.
09:30We settled in.
09:32We settled in.
09:33We settled in.
09:33These players are running up, throwing towels over his head and fanning him, and he's just
09:38like, yeah, this is what we do.
09:39And then the postgame locker audio came out from CBS, and it literally sounds like he is
09:46delivering Sunday sermon at a Southern Baptist church in the 60s or something.
09:51They said it was going to be a short trip.
09:53Yeah.
09:54And it was.
10:01Hey, we ain't done yet.
10:03I told you all we did, we didn't come here to win a game.
10:06We came here to get on that plane going home to the Sweet 16.
10:09That's what we came here for.
10:11We didn't come here to just win one.
10:12We came here to win six.
10:14All right?
10:14We fought hard.
10:15We had a bad start, but we were clearly the better team.
10:17And that team has beaten five top ten teams.
10:20So guess what that means?
10:21You guys can beat anybody in the country.
10:24You guys can beat anybody in the country.
10:26I love you.
10:27If you give your life over to the Lord Jesus Christ.
10:29The first line he had, there he goes, they said it was going to be a short trip, and it
10:32was for the other team.
10:33For the other team.
10:34I love what Kenny said on the post.
10:40He was like, you know, you could have that kind of bluster and try to give your kids the
10:45overconfidence, but they see right through it if they know they're not putting in the
10:51work to get it done.
10:52Like, if they're putting the work in, if they're talented enough, you could motivate them that
10:55way.
10:55Otherwise, you know, they'll see right through that.
10:58The players will see right through it eventually.
11:00He's got a fun team to watch.
11:02I mean, they are offensively, they do a lot of things right with their pace, their tempo.
11:07I mean, it's a fun basketball.
11:08He's a first-year head coach.
11:10This is the first time he's ever been a head coach in college basketball.
11:12Wow.
11:13He'd been an assistant at Southern Utah for like five years, and then he went on.
11:17He had been with High Point for a couple.
11:18But, I mean, first year as a head coach, and that's their first tournament victory.
11:20They went 30-4 this year.
11:21It's a pretty good run.
11:22They're in Bleece Creek, North Carolina.
11:24I didn't get accepted to many schools.
11:26This is one of them.
11:27I got a Mavs alert.
11:29Uh-oh.
11:29I got a Mavs alert.
11:30They're getting Luka back?
11:31You hear that alarm?
11:32The siren in the back?
11:33Oh, yeah.
11:33Luka dropping 60 last set, 100 over his last two.
11:38I got to do more work.
11:40I dove into the highlights a little bit more.
11:43But I got a loser from yesterday.
11:45What a loser.
11:46And my loser is Boozer.
11:50Because I...
11:50Which one?
11:51Two of them.
11:52Big man.
11:52Man, his brother actually had some stones yesterday.
11:55Caden.
11:56His brother actually stepped up to put a nail in to Siena.
12:00I am a little bit worried about Cam.
12:05A little bit worried about the third best player, top three player in the nation.
12:10He was shook yesterday.
12:12He was scared.
12:13Raffery was telling him, shoot it!
12:14Raffery.
12:15Why are you smirking?
12:17Uh, I don't...
12:18I should think.
12:19Keep going.
12:20You said shook, and it just made me think of something.
12:21Keep going.
12:22Uh, Cam Boozer.
12:24He looks scared of the moment.
12:26I know that...
12:28Look, he built like a...
12:30A brick at S.
12:31He's put together.
12:32He's a tree.
12:33Yeah.
12:34He's a tree.
12:34I know he can shoot it from the outside.
12:36He's ready.
12:37Doesn't have the greatest athletic...
12:38He's ready?
12:39He's ready for what?
12:40Physically, he's ready for the NBA.
12:41Yeah.
12:42He's not the greatest athlete.
12:44No.
12:44Like, I'm not seeing the explosion.
12:46AJ, you can tell there's a much different...
12:48Oh.
12:49AJ is a, like...
12:50Oh, yeah.
12:51It's not close.
12:52To me, it's not close.
12:53And I think, you know, everybody keeps comping AJ to McGrady.
12:56That's a bit much.
12:57Yeah.
12:58It's a bit much.
12:58No.
12:59Um...
13:00McGrady's much more guard ability, and athletically.
13:04After watching Boozer.
13:06Yes.
13:06Do you like...
13:06Now, again, I'm not watching a ton.
13:08It's fine.
13:09Kevin Hagelin sitting on the beach, probably yelling in his Odyssey app.
13:12Do you like the Horford comp after watching him?
13:16Yes.
13:17I think he...
13:19Um...
13:20He's a better athlete than Horford.
13:22Um...
13:23All his dunks are, you know...
13:24I mean, all his highlights are dunks.
13:26And throwing down on people.
13:26And he can shoot it.
13:27I think he's a 40% three-point shooter.
13:29That's good.
13:30He's a good...
13:30Yeah.
13:30He's a good shooter.
13:31He's a good three-door shooter.
13:32I don't know, man.
13:32I don't know as a franchise player.
13:34I'm...
13:34I'm...
13:35I'm planting my seeds at that.
13:37I gotta go look more.
13:38But I...
13:39I do like the Horford comp.
13:41Yeah.
13:41One thing I really liked about him yesterday...
13:43I need a better athlete than Horford.
13:45I do, too.
13:45If I'm gonna take him number one, I absolutely do.
13:47Yeah.
13:47What I liked yesterday is he did not have his shot at all.
13:51He did look scared.
13:53Um...
13:53But...
13:54But he was open at the free throw line.
13:56Yeah.
13:56I'm not even talking about taking threes.
13:57He was at the free throw line.
13:59Yeah.
13:59Look in the pass.
14:00Right.
14:00Uh...
14:01You know, when you have an off-out like that, sometimes it affects your free throw.
14:03He was like 13 to 14th in the line.
14:05Which, I mean, that's not...
14:07Fantastic.
14:07You're not getting somebody...
14:08You're not picking somebody number one because they make free throws.
14:11Um...
14:11But that show would be like, alright, mentally he's strong.
14:15In that situation.
14:16Yeah.
14:16Yeah.
14:16I think he was...
14:18Um...
14:19He was...
14:19He was hesitant.
14:21You know, he wasn't just playing instinctive.
14:23He was playing with his mind too much.
14:24I would not have felt like really anybody off of Duke yesterday watching them struggle with
14:30Siena.
14:31I wouldn't have felt like many of those guys yesterday were like, oh yeah, that's certainly
14:35the number one team in the nation.
14:36They were just...
14:37I think that...
14:38Well, the halftime clip.
14:39Yeah.
14:40Oh gosh.
14:40Oh my god.
14:41That was so bad.
14:42It was...
14:43Who was it?
14:43It was...
14:44It was...
14:44It was Sarr, right?
14:45No, it was Brown.
14:46It was Brown, I think, that had done it.
14:48But it was Brown coming out of halftime was talking to the reporter there, Michael Brown.
14:54And he got asked and he goes...
14:56You didn't send it?
14:57No, I didn't.
14:58I mean, I sent him the text, but I forgot to send him the email.
15:00But he had said that he was doing the halftime interview with Tracy Wolfson, like coming
15:04out, and they were asking one of the players, they're like, so, you know, what do you got
15:06to do?
15:06And he goes, yeah, look, I mean, we thought this was going to be a cakewalk, and now we
15:11know what it is, and now we know what time it is.
15:12It's like, what are you...
15:13Who would say...
15:14Oh, Peyton's got it here.
15:15What did Shire tell you in the locker room?
15:18Oh yeah, obviously we weren't playing our basketball.
15:20Just like I said, we thought it was going to be a cakewalk going into this game, so now we
15:22know
15:23what it is, and we just got to respond back to the way we usually do.
15:25And he...
15:26Or Malik Brent, that's who it was.
15:27He had given the...
15:28He gave the quote, like sort of the DeMarcus Lawrence quote, too, right before that, where
15:33he had been like, that one didn't get clipped or sent anywhere, but it was like, he had
15:36given some quote, like it was like, yeah, I mean, we're just, we're kind of nervous.
15:39We're nervous out there.
15:40It's like, you were nervous for a cakewalk?
15:42You thought this was going to be a cakewalk, and you walked out there, because they said,
15:45why are you losing?
15:45He goes, we're just nervous.
15:46We're just...
15:46We're too nervous to play.
15:48Yeah.
15:48It's like, those are two...
15:49Grant Hill, when they cut to Grant Hill, after he said, we thought this was going
15:53to be a cakewalk, Grant Hill's on screen going, like, that is a bad answer.
15:56That's a bad answer, and I'll tell you what, that's Shire.
16:01That's part of that song, Shire.
16:03I don't think Coach K allows them to feel like it's a cakewalk, especially Coach K, if
16:08he hadn't won a title yet.
16:10What's his earliest exit?
16:11Did he ever...
16:12Oh, I mean, he had lost in the first round, but I don't think, not as a one seed, obviously,
16:16you know, he wouldn't...
16:18I don't think he would, like, let his team feel like a game was going to be just an easy
16:22game.
16:23Shire was like, after the game...
16:24He looked scared on the bench.
16:25After the game, he was like, well, I got outcoached by Jerry McNamara today.
16:29It's like, Jerry McNamara didn't even sub anybody in.
16:31Yeah, he literally made no coaching moves.
16:34He said, go out there and just try to beat them.
16:36So, I think a great day one, hopefully day two, and the rest of the tourney does deliver.
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