00:00All right, we're going to have some fun.
00:01A little music, please.
00:02We are going to do the tier list for the NCAA tournament.
00:06And I've broken this down into tiers.
00:11And here are the following.
00:12Okay, fellas, we're going to go around the room.
00:14We're going to have some fun.
00:15Just to set people up.
00:16Okay.
00:17And I'm not asking everyone to agree.
00:19It's just kind of how I looked at it.
00:21I have nine teams that can win the whole thing.
00:26I tried to be very, I didn't want to be obstinate
00:29and be like, oh, it's just Duke.
00:31No, no, no, no.
00:32Nine teams that I think are capable.
00:34Then I have teams that I think are capable of having
00:38a meaningful Final Four run.
00:42But once they get there, they would get assassinated.
00:45Okay?
00:46That is 12 teams.
00:49Okay?
00:50Nine teams can win it all.
00:5212 teams capable, 12 more teams capable of getting to the Final Four,
00:56but then dining on the bullet.
00:59Everybody else, you're getting a Derek Jeter gift bag.
01:02Fair?
01:02Happy to get out the first weekend.
01:04That's how I feel.
01:05Okay.
01:05Okay?
01:06So you've got 21 factors.
01:10Let's see how many you guys can get and see if you agree, disagree.
01:13Kenny, whatever music you think is appropriate.
01:17That's far more respectful than I thought you were going to be.
01:21Congrats.
01:23That damn production.
01:25All right.
01:25We are going to start with Rico.
01:28You guessed the team.
01:30I tell you where they are.
01:31Now, do you want to go to the Final Four category,
01:34or do you want to go to the National Championship category?
01:37In the Guido tier list.
01:39You know what?
01:41Let's go Final Four,
01:43because I think the national title is going to be a lot easier.
01:46Okay.
01:46So give me an idea.
01:48You know what, Mike?
01:48I'm going to say Final Four.
01:50You struggled with this, but you put them in there.
01:52I'm going to go to the Michigan State Spartans.
01:54They made the list.
01:55I avoided personal bias, and even though I don't think they're getting there,
01:59do they have the ability to get there and then absolutely get demoed if they got there?
02:05Yes.
02:06That's one.
02:07Keep going.
02:08Oh, it's make it take it.
02:09Make it take it, man.
02:10Okay.
02:11I'm going to go with the Alabama Crimson Tide.
02:15Yes.
02:16I have them in there.
02:17The three-point shooting.
02:18I know with the two pounds of weed and your second leading scorer not playing,
02:23that can be problematic.
02:24But the way they play, the talent they possess, they can get there.
02:28I don't think they can win it all.
02:30That's two.
02:31I'm going to go with, let's stay in the SEC, and let's go with the Arkansas Razorbacks.
02:37He's three for three.
02:38Wow.
02:39You're going to just keep going here.
02:41Yes.
02:41He's make it take it.
02:42Acuff can power them to a Final Four.
02:45They can just outscore you.
02:47Their defensive limitations, they are going to run into somebody.
02:50They are going to clamp down.
02:52Acuff's going to go five for 23.
02:54And they're going home.
02:55But they can get there.
02:56Okay.
02:57I'm going to go with the Gonzaga Bulldogs.
03:04I do not have them there.
03:06I think they are fake as word that rhymes with duck.
03:10I just, I don't buy them.
03:12I don't buy this version of them.
03:14I don't buy the West Coast Conference.
03:16Shout out, Grammy Kay.
03:17I love you.
03:18But he's 36 years old, and he's still in college.
03:20We go to David Hall.
03:22Now, David, Rico got correct.
03:24MSU, Bama, Arkansas.
03:26So he's got three points on the board.
03:27Do you want to go Final Four?
03:30I'm sticking to the same category.
03:31Okay.
03:32Because I'm going to stay in the West, and I see what you were doing there with West teams.
03:36I'm going to go BYU.
03:38Wah, wah.
03:39Oh, no.
03:40A.J.
03:40DeBonsa.
03:41Come on.
03:42David, I really think BYU is going to struggle to make the Sweet Six.
03:46Oh, I do.
03:48I just, I don't believe in the, I love watching them.
03:53I don't know that they're going to get where they got to go.
03:55And it's probably why I chose them, because I also love watching them.
03:58I enjoyed every minute of them.
04:00I did my best to leave my own personal biases out of this.
04:03Over to Kenny Cott.
04:05Same category as these two chuckleheads.
04:08I'm going to go with Rock Chalk, Jayhawk.
04:12Kansas can make the Final Four.
04:15Now, here's an interesting stat.
04:17I have this in my notes, and I don't want to change windows here.
04:21They are 1-7 in games where Darren Peterson takes 17 or more shots.
04:29Huh?
04:31Whoa.
04:32It's kind of like when Tyson Walker scored 30 or more points.
04:35Like 1-6 or 1-7.
04:37But Kansas has that, because if you have arguably the best player in the tournament,
04:41if he decides to play three or four straight games, they could power their way there.
04:48Kenny's on the board.
04:49Make it, take it, Kenny.
04:50Can we soak it up with the Mormons?
04:54No, because Rico guessed that.
04:56I did that.
04:56Oh, he already did that?
04:57I did that.
04:58David guessed that.
04:59Well, let me try that again, then.
05:01Give me St. John's.
05:02Yes.
05:03Top of the East.
05:03St. John's can make the Final Four.
05:05I mean, if you're going to drop a bomb on UConn by 20, and they've been hot for a couple
05:11months straight.
05:12And look, people, separate what you think of the man.
05:16Let's just look at the resume.
05:18I could make a case to you, Rick Pitino's the best coach in the sport.
05:23He's a Hall of Famer.
05:24He's the only guy to win a championship at two different damn schools in modern.
05:28Look, this dude just rolls.
05:30Wherever he goes, they win.
05:31And if he breaks out the white suit, you know you're in trouble.
05:35All right.
05:36Keep going, Kenny.
05:36You're on the board.
05:37I'm on the board.
05:38I think this is the best I've ever done at a college basketball game.
05:41So this is a name of a team that I've heard people bring up constantly over and over.
05:45What about Miami?
05:46Shout out, Paul Serra.
05:49I have them in the happy action.
05:51Fun time can win a game, but I don't think they're going further than that.
05:54Back to Rico.
05:56I'm going to go through the Big Ten, Mike, and I'm going to go with Illinois.
06:02Nope.
06:03No.
06:03Because I have Illinois capable of winning it all.
06:06Whoa.
06:08I really, and if people disagree, it's okay.
06:13Teams that have like 100 point upside offensively with Wagler and the collection of, like Illinois is a team of
06:23Euros.
06:23I was about to say.
06:24They've all been smoking since they were 11.
06:25Yes.
06:26I just, I, do I think they'll do it?
06:29No.
06:30But in this cosmic world, we get hot, pull a UConn from 10, 12 years ago.
06:36I actually had them in the, they could win it all contender group.
06:39Okay.
06:40But go ahead.
06:41Keep going.
06:42Because for time's sake, we got to keep rolling.
06:43Okay.
06:44Then I'm going to go with, I know exactly what, Amish point guard.
06:49Yes.
06:49I have them in the list.
06:51They could win it all.
06:51Why don't we, why don't we just knock out the big 10 here?
06:54No, I got you.
06:54It's Purdue, Illinois, Michigan.
06:57Duh.
06:58I actually put Wisconsin there.
07:01Whoa.
07:01That backcourt with Blackwell.
07:03Can be to anybody.
07:04They, if you're going to go out and put 60 up combined.
07:09Look, man.
07:10They should have taken Michigan down in the big 10 tourney.
07:13If you have that guard play, what do we always say about the NCAA tournament?
07:18Yeah.
07:19Bruh, fun fact, I think they're the only team with two players going over 19 points.
07:24And if you have that, and you're in a game.
07:26And they're backcourt.
07:28You're correct.
07:28So, Big 10.
07:29Now, that leaves five teams in the win it all category.
07:33Go.
07:34Five teams in the win it all category.
07:36Well, we'll go with Kenny.
07:38Duke.
07:38Duke.
07:39Duke is one.
07:40I'll go Arizona.
07:41Another one.
07:42Arizona's two.
07:43I'll go Houston.
07:44Houston Street.
07:45You got two teams left, boys.
07:47UConn.
07:48No.
07:49I have them in the final four.
07:50I just, they are not the same team.
07:53And you're not going to do it again.
07:55It's science.
07:56No.
07:58I'm going to go with, well, no, I don't think, not Florida.
08:03Florida can win it all.
08:04They are a one seed.
08:05They are capable.
08:06No, I don't buy back to back.
08:07But I just, I have to put them there.
08:10And there's no way you have Iowa State there.
08:12I was going to say Iowa State.
08:14Listen, their coach wears a small polo when he should be wearing a large.
08:18TJ Otzelberger's fade.
08:20It's fresh.
08:21Dude, they have the guard.
08:23They have the inside-out combo.
08:25You got a pair of 6'8 kids, including my mom, Chilovich.
08:27You've got the guard play.
08:29They're in the best league, in my opinion, in the country.
08:33Plus, I've always wanted Iowa State to do what Diedrich Willoughby couldn't do.
08:36So, make a run, dammit.
08:38I hear you.
08:38I've watched them all year.
08:39Face Kansas.
08:40Face BYU.
08:41I've loved them, but I just don't know.
08:43That's the nine.
08:44Here are the other teams.
08:46Nebraska.
08:47That can make a crazy run.
08:49Nebraska.
08:49Yes.
08:50I think Nebraska could do it.
08:52I think South Florida could do it.
08:53Okay.
08:54I think TCU could do it.
08:56Again, 11 conference wins in the best conference.
08:59My opinion.
09:00No, no, no.
09:00Best conference.
09:02I have Vanderbilt could make a final four.
09:06Guns in the game.
09:07I do not have Texas Tech.
09:09I just think without JT Toppin, I can't.
09:13I have another Big Ten team in here.
09:16If they're healthy, think one of the only coaches in college who wears a suit still.
09:25UCLA.
09:26Yes.
09:26If they're healthy.
09:29That guard play.
09:30Yeah.
09:30The ability to break a defense down.
09:33And the other team I had in here.
09:35I hate their guts.
09:36But I thought, okay.
09:38I wanted to round it out and make sure.
09:40I covered myself.
09:42I covered myself.
09:42Could Virginia do it?
09:45Hmm.
09:46Okay.
09:47So, the teams.
09:49Now, everything else, you're not serious.
09:52What is the most egregious selection I made on the list of whether it's to win it all?
09:58Who do you disagree with?
09:59Or the potential to make a final four?
10:02Who do you disagree with?
10:03Like, you go, oh, Mike, come on.
10:05I guess I'm sitting there looking at, it's actually a pretty good list, Mike.
10:12I laughed at UCLA.
10:13I'm sorry.
10:14That's okay.
10:14I just can never believe in Cronin.
10:16And it comes down to health.
10:18And Cronin's annoying.
10:19You're right.
10:19I can't.
10:20And you had St. John's as a team that can win it all?
10:22That can make the final four.
10:23I don't think they can win it all.
10:25See, I could put St. John's on that list.
10:28I'd love to see it because at that point.
10:29They're red hot right now.
10:30At that point, you just build a Patino statue on an Italian bistro patio.
10:35And then I thought maybe Gonzaga.
10:36If you know, you know.
10:37I thought Gonzaga can make the final four.
10:41Maybe I let my bias.
10:42I'm walking past what you just said.
10:45What?
10:46Patino, comment.
10:49But I thought Gonzaga could make the final.
10:52Sir, that's not a bread basket.
10:53If you know, you know he's there.
10:55I know.
11:02Okay.
11:04Okay.
11:04Listen, that's your tier list.
11:06I think I did okay.
11:07No, it was a good list.
11:08All right.
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