00:00So it's a couple of these Sunday games.
00:02You're going to have to explain this to me, Rowett, where, so let me get this right.
00:06St. John's wins the Big East, and they have to fly to Villas Arena in San Diego to play Kansas?
00:12I mean, I'm not, I'm really not getting that one here, but okay, here, I guess they got to throw
00:17them somewhere.
00:17But the Big East champion has to go out west, and they go to the furthest point, and that's Villas
00:23Arena in San Diego, and they take on Kansas.
00:27They take care of business.
00:31Yeah, I mean, this is a weird one.
00:33I did not expect it to be three and a half point favorites, you know, taking on a Kansas team
00:38that at times this season has looked like a title contender.
00:41Obviously, that offense has kind of gone flat at times, which is weird.
00:44This Kansas offense, all of a sudden, it has a healthy Darren Peterson, and it plays probably the worst it's
00:48played all season.
00:49It's kind of strange, but I'd say personnel-wise, you look player for player, and I think Kansas has an
00:55answer for them.
00:56Zuby's great, of course, but Flora Bedunga's a great center as well.
01:01And then you look at guys like Peterson, Trey White, you know, their point guard.
01:06They have all these players that I think match up extremely well with St. John's, and I don't think it's
01:10going to be easy for St. John's at all.
01:11I think this is a spot where you either take the points with Kansas or you take them outright on
01:15the money line.
01:15I think I saw that at plus 140 earlier today.
01:18Like I said, at full strength, Kansas is still talented enough to win the title.
01:22I haven't seen great execution from them.
01:24I'm not asking anyone to bet a futures ticket on them now, but I do think they have value as
01:29an underdog in the spot.
01:31You know, you mentioned it at the top here about this tournament.
01:34You never know what you're going to get with some of these teams.
01:36You know, Utah State and Arizona, Utah State watching in the first game, they could shoot the basketball.
01:43Not saying that Arizona is going to be in any kind of trouble here, but in 30 seconds, Rowan, what
01:48do you think of this game?
01:50You know, this is a terrible matchup for Utah State.
01:53Yeah, they could shoot the ball.
01:54They could score inside.
01:56They also won the rebounding battle against Villanova, but those are areas where Arizona is at their best, right?
02:02They are massive.
02:03They dominate the boards.
02:04They have arguably the best interior defense in the country, and you look at what Utah State does poorly in
02:11terms of, you know, like fouling a lot, sending opponents to the line, that sort of thing.
02:15That feeds right into Arizona's strengths as well.
02:17So I think Arizona is going to have a pretty successful game and beat them pretty handily here, which they've
02:23kind of done all season.
02:24We've seen them win with margin against quality teams throughout the year.
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