00:00As the shot that almost went down as an all-timer.
00:04Shades of Gordon Hayward.
00:06I was there. I was at that game in Indianapolis.
00:08Sitting right behind the great Sean Farnham of ESPN.
00:12Right there. We had snuck in to the band pit.
00:18Where the band used to sit.
00:20Because obviously you have four.
00:21And now in the final game you only have two.
00:23So we snuck into the band pit.
00:25That's where we sat. Right under that basket.
00:27Had a great vantage point.
00:27I thought I was in.
00:28That was awesome.
00:30That was an awesome game.
00:31Vandy I thought.
00:33I mean they blew it.
00:34They had it.
00:35They had it.
00:35And then the missed call.
00:37No one talks about the missed call.
00:38On the breakaway.
00:39The Nebraska had the massive double dribble.
00:42Which cost.
00:43That would have been overtime.
00:45Right.
00:45Because that would have been a turnover.
00:47But what a.
00:48What a finish.
00:50Almost.
00:50Almost made it.
00:51And that was an over inflated ball?
00:53That was an over inflated ball.
00:55In fact that was one of the most.
00:58Most of the over inflated ball.
01:02Venues.
01:03Spots.
01:03So yeah.
01:04It was like.
01:05And that ball.
01:05That's halfway down.
01:06That's more than halfway down.
01:07That's three quarters of the way down.
01:08And the only way that pops out.
01:10Is if it's over.
01:11Over inflated Bobby.
01:13100%.
01:13It's like a state fair game.
01:15Or any of those other games.
01:17Where it's like.
01:17Oh.
01:17Why the.
01:18What.
01:18You hammered the rim or something like that.
01:20What do we do here?
01:21Why is this rigged?
01:22Joe Dirt where they spray Pam.
01:23He sprays Pam on the.
01:25On the ring toss things.
01:26And you can't.
01:27Can't get it in the stick.
01:28Yeah.
01:28But what a finish.
01:29And I do think it was the game of the tournament.
01:31I feel really happy for Nebraska fans though.
01:33And you got to feel really happy.
01:35Unless you're a Vandy fan.
01:37For the Nebraska play by play voice.
01:39This is a minute.
01:41Of an announcer's dream coming true.
01:43After 41 years.
01:45Seeing his school.
01:47Finally reach this point.
01:50Here it is.
01:51On Nebraska radio.
01:52Rebound Nebraska.
01:54Huskers have a nine seconds left to go.
01:55But across the timeline.
01:57Price.
01:58To Frager.
01:59I am.
02:00Yes.
02:01Yes.
02:02It's gone.
02:032.2.
02:04It's 2.1.
02:06Long shot.
02:07No good.
02:08With 2.2 to go.
02:11Handed the ball.
02:13Gets it in.
02:14Two seconds.
02:15Half court shot on the way.
02:17Oh my God.
02:18It's no good.
02:19Oh my God.
02:20In and out at the buzzer.
02:23Nebraska.
02:24To the Sweet 16.
02:26It is a miracle finish for Nebraska.
02:31And it was destined to happen.
02:33It was destined to happen.
02:36Nebraska's going to the Sweet 16.
02:38A half court miss.
02:40By Tanner.
02:42And it was halfway.
02:43Three quarters of the way down.
02:44It popped out.
02:47And I have never broadcast a game like this in my lifetime.
02:50And I've done this since 1974.
02:53Went about 15-20 seconds too long.
02:55Didn't know how to do the dismount.
02:58Yeah.
02:58On the call.
02:58Just started losing himself in his words and thoughts.
03:00Look, this guy is Ken Pavelka.
03:06He was the guy that we played earlier in the year where he said, I feel like I'm going to
03:09pass out.
03:10I think I'm going to pass out.
03:11I mean, he's got the two-pack-of-reds voice.
03:14He sounds like Cookie Monster.
03:17I mean, he sped up.
03:19We cut out some of that at the beginning because it was so long.
03:23But at the very beginning of this, I mean, he's...
03:26You know how we played the video last week where the guy's voice sped up?
03:31It changed the voice.
03:32It was that Joe Berthnall?
03:35Berthnall.
03:36John Berthnall.
03:36John Berthnall.
03:37That guy.
03:39It sounded the same.
03:40It sounded like he sped his voice up.
03:42But he didn't.
03:43That's just how he is.
03:44It's so raspy.
03:46Very excited.
03:47And that final shot, if it went down, may have killed him.
03:51It really may have.
03:52After the game.
03:53And by the way, Husker fans, man, they travel.
03:56They travel so well.
03:57They always have for football.
03:58The players do, too.
03:59Wouldn't you want to travel outside of...
04:01Of Nebraska?
04:02Yeah.
04:02Yeah, I would.
04:04They travel so well.
04:06Bassick is listening, by the way.
04:07Hello, Mike.
04:08Good morning.
04:10They travel so well.
04:11He said, Joppy doesn't know there isn't double dribble in basketball anymore.
04:14That's right.
04:16But the fans, the players did a lap, Cal Ripken-style, around the stadium after the game.
04:23Just shaking, high-fiving, shaking hands.
04:26Good for them.
04:27It's cool.
04:28Good for Nebraska.
04:29The most disrespected number one seed, I think, in the majority of brackets, is now gone for a reason.
04:37It's Condon to Lee.
04:38Sprints across.
04:39He's a shooter.
04:40Lee driving to the cuff underneath.
04:42Right in the lane.
04:43Can't get a shot.
04:44And Iowa wins.
04:46A Sunshine State Stunner.
04:48Iowa bounces Florida in Tampa.
04:5173-72.
04:53The reigning champion Gators are gone.
04:56The one is done in the south.
04:59And the nine is on to Sweet 16.
05:03Nine over one on Westwood.
05:05One in Florida was kind of the school that everyone had out the earliest of the big dogs, I feel
05:10like.
05:10None of us had them in the final four.
05:12None of us.
05:13And that's the, they were, I think, yeah, probably the most common one who's gotten bounced.
05:18Like, whenever you're trying to find, where can I get somebody to advance to the final four that's not one
05:22of these one seeds?
05:23That was Florida.
05:24I saw one game of Florida all year.
05:26I mean, I researched them, but I saw one game of them all year.
05:28And it was Vandy absolutely working them, which probably gave me a false confidence in Vandy and screwed me over
05:33in that game we just talked about.
05:34But also, correctly had me identify Florida was going to get bounced early.
05:38So this was good.
05:38These two coaches looked like they wanted to fight each other, too.
05:41You what?
05:41These two coaches.
05:42Yes.
05:43They were going at it.
05:44And, you know, the Iowa coach, I think he was at Drake a year or two ago, and they had
05:50a nice little run in the tournament.
05:51But this is, how do you not get a shot off?
05:55Yeah.
05:55Almost five seconds.
05:56They didn't get a shot off.
05:57I was, so Julian FaceTimed me during this game.
06:00He goes, can you FaceTime the Florida game for me?
06:04Because his mom and her husband wanted to watch a show.
06:09And I was like, yeah, sure, I'll FaceTime it.
06:11A solo TV house?
06:14They have one in their bedroom, not the kids.
06:19How many TVs are in their house?
06:21Why didn't he go watch another TV?
06:24They have two.
06:25They have one in the parents' bedroom and then one in the living room.
06:28So why didn't he go watch in the other room?
06:31I don't know.
06:32I don't know.
06:32They're watching in the living room, and they're like, you know, go in the adult's bedroom.
06:35It's one of those houses.
06:36Because, like, Sarah has our bedroom off limits.
06:39Our bedroom's off limits.
06:41Because Julian went in there one time, and he opened up her drawer.
06:43Her drawer of goodies.
06:45And, you know, asked why it was clear.
06:48Yeah.
06:49And I was like, well, you know, stay out of that drawer, pal.
06:52Put a lock on this thing.
06:53Let's not go anywhere else.
06:55So he was like, can you just FaceTime?
06:57I was like, sure.
06:58And then as this is happening, I'm like, I want you to go Google Tyus Edney.
07:03Because it was the same thing.
07:04I mean, you have five seconds.
07:06Yeah.
07:07You can dribble down the entire floor.
07:09How do you not get a shot off?
07:10This blew away Seth Davis.
07:14His mind was blown afterwards when they were talking about it on CBS.
07:17He goes like, I didn't think there was any chance I would win.
07:21Like, regardless.
07:22He said.
07:23But even still, it was like, yeah, if they knock down a bunch of threes, they can maybe pull off
07:29this ridiculous upset.
07:30He's like, they didn't even do that.
07:31He's like, I have no idea.
07:32He's like, I'm stunned.
07:33He's like, there's no way they should have won this game.
07:35And they did.
07:36All right.
07:36So that's that game.
07:38The defending champs are gone.
07:41Anything else jump out to you from the games over the weekend, Choppy, with your March Madness takeaways?
07:46Yeah, there were some things that jumped out.
07:48Like, Iowa State, I think Iowa State's a nasty team.
07:51They were down early to Kentucky.
07:53Looked like the cats were just going to be too much.
07:55But in a 90-second stretch before the end of the half, they completely took over.
07:59And they completely dominated.
08:01And I mean dominated them and opened up to a 20-point win.
08:05Six of the 10 in the round of 32, six of the first 10 in the round of 32 were
08:11decided by 10-plus points.
08:13Six of the first 10 games in the round of 32.
08:16And that continued as the night went on.
08:18We saw the favorites on Friday and Saturday.
08:22We had a stretch of 21 straight games where the favorites won outright.
08:2821 straight games.
08:3016-0 on Friday.
08:31Pei-Pei, that was when your chalky bracket made a comeback, right?
08:34I needed that one.
08:35Yeah.
08:36That is proof that he's got a chalky-ass bracket if that's when he went on the run.
08:3916-0 on Friday.
08:41Every favorite won the game.
08:43It does seem with this, there's a clear line between good and great when it comes to the tournament.
08:51Like, I think it's like A&M's a good team.
08:54But Houston's a great team.
08:55Like, Houston destroyed them, right?
08:56They just worked them in the second half.
08:57St. Louis, good team.
08:59Michigan's a great team.
09:00Blowout.
09:00Duke had a hiccup against Siena.
09:03And then they go play TCU.
09:04It was close at half.
09:06They pull away in the second half.
09:07If you're not a great team and you go up against a great team, like, the way the game was
09:11played now, for whatever reason, you're going to get run.
09:14You're going to get run.
09:15And that's what happened.
09:16And that's the reality.
09:17Ken Palm.
09:1819 of the top 21 teams in Ken Palm were still alive as of late yesterday afternoon.
09:2719 of the top 21.
09:29Vandy and the Zags were the two.
09:31And they were favorites of their games.
09:33They were upset.
09:33The Big Ten, the SEC, and the Big 12 have done the absolute best so far in this tournament.
09:39Oh, they've got majors.
09:41No, the Houston thing is the thing that's terrifying because they're the team that, through these first four days of
09:47the tournament or whatever, has just been consistently dominant.
09:49Like, even like you mentioned, all right, Duke bounced back.
09:52That's nice.
09:53Michigan looks really good.
09:54But Michigan also, like, was having some trouble in the first half when they were playing.
09:59I don't know if Kelvin Sampson gets talked about enough, but, I mean, recently, Sweet 16 now or further in
10:06seven consecutive tournaments.
10:08Yeah, I mean, that was when they were doing the selection show.
10:10That was the only thing you could get Bruce Pearl to say about anybody or anything other than Auburn was
10:16for him to just talk about how much he wanted to see.
10:18Man, please, like Kelvin Sampson.
10:20I know we're not supposed to root for anybody, but I'm rooting for Kelvin Sampson.
10:23And they are just Houston looks like a buzzsaw.
10:25Yeah, they've spent more time leading by 30-plus in this tournament than they've spent trailing.
10:31Wow.
10:32I mean, that's a remarkable stat.
10:35You know, Kelvin is, for guys in the coaching world who all, they know they all had to do things
10:42a little bit shady.
10:44You know, Kelvin would not have gotten in trouble today.
10:48Bruce Pearl wouldn't have gotten in trouble today either, you know, when he was at Tennessee.
10:52And a lot of these guys, Sean Miller, Will Wade, necessarily, they wouldn't have gotten in trouble today.
10:58Because they would have had to.
10:59You know, they wouldn't have had to do that.
11:01They could just pay him outright above board.
11:04And, you know, for guys like Kelvin Sampson who have been lifers in this, they've won everywhere he's gone.
11:09Like, everywhere he's gone, he's done a really nice job.
11:12It's tough to, you know, it's tough not to root for him.
11:14You know, he's done a really tech job.
11:14Good.
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