00:00We'll get more into the Cade Cunningham injury at 7-0-2.
00:02Pistons won last night without him.
00:04But the outlook for the postseason,
00:07seeding, beyond, we'll do that at 7 o'clock.
00:09Jim Costa, John Jansen, Heather Park,
00:11we've got Gov, Paul Serra behind the glass.
00:13And we've got one day in the books in the NCAA tournament.
00:16There are so many great stories.
00:19And there's some audio we're going to use a little bit later
00:22from that high point win.
00:24But there's also a guy,
00:28his name is Kent Pavlica,
00:30and he has been doing Nebraska basketball radio
00:33for over 40 years.
00:36He has never,
00:38Nebraska has never in the history of their basketball program
00:43won an NCAA tournament game.
00:46And you get this in college radio
00:50where people are doing radio for 50, 60 years, right?
00:56And they die in the booth.
01:00But to have that moment,
01:01to be able to actually call a tournament win,
01:04the prospects of actually getting two in the same year,
01:07because they did look good.
01:08They handled their business as good as anybody in the first round.
01:12I'm just happy for some individuals like that,
01:15along with their fans, along with the players.
01:17But what was the stat?
01:18They're the only power school that hadn't won a tournament game?
01:21Yes.
01:21And now they have.
01:22Now they have.
01:24I mean, they are a story.
01:27High point is a story.
01:28They are your Cinderella.
01:30Now, to be a Cinderella,
01:31you got to win more than one game.
01:32This is just one upset.
01:33But, John, they went toe-to-toe with the Big Ten school,
01:36and they didn't blink.
01:37They kept knocking down shots.
01:39The one can hit like a heat check from the logo
01:41in the final four minutes of the game.
01:43High point.
01:44And I love what their coach had to say after the game.
01:48And this is a badass quote from their head coach.
02:07If you watched, I don't know if you saw any of it,
02:10whether it was SportsCenter this morning,
02:12like, he was ready to fight.
02:14Yep.
02:15He was literally,
02:17and I don't know if he was so excited,
02:20he was so in the moment,
02:21and he wasn't obviously offended.
02:23He was happy to be interviewed.
02:24But it was like somebody stepped up to him,
02:27and he was ready to take on the interviewer.
02:29I was going to square up.
02:30Oh, yeah.
02:30He was just ready to go.
02:31That dude was on fire,
02:33as he should have been.
02:35But his team won 30 games this year,
02:37and it's like,
02:37I don't want to hear about how we didn't play anybody.
02:40Yeah.
02:40Who did we just play?
02:41And he pulls out Miami of Ohio, too.
02:43He's like,
02:43hey, we got their back.
02:44They got our back.
02:45You got to play us.
02:46You can't duck us anymore.
02:48We're in the tournament.
02:49We're going to kick your ass.
02:50That was awesome.
02:51I loved it.
02:52And I'm hoping that's a bit of a tone setter.
02:54So VCU's another double-digit seed that won yesterday.
02:57They had to come back and win an overtime.
02:59Didn't somebody take VCU?
03:02It's your boy right here.
03:03You pat me on the back for high point.
03:05I got to pat you on the back.
03:06I laughed.
03:07And when you said laugh all you want,
03:09I laughed harder.
03:10You did.
03:10Yet you got yourself a first-round victory.
03:13It wasn't looking so good,
03:14but they did it.
03:15And look,
03:15we could spotlight some more teams today,
03:17but I hope we get more of that.
03:19That's what this tournament's about.
03:20We nearly had it in the most epic way.
03:22Oh, yeah.
03:23Sienna, Duke.
03:25Sienna,
03:26who played five guys the whole game
03:28outside the last 10 seconds,
03:31took Duke to the brink.
03:32They had an 11-point lead at the half,
03:34and I'm going,
03:34well, hold on.
03:35Apparently,
03:35I got to put this game on now.
03:37John,
03:37I had Duke advancing in my bracket.
03:40Everybody listening had Duke advancing in their bracket.
03:42Yet,
03:43to hell with my bracket.
03:44I'm rooting for Sienna.
03:47Duke's just one of those teams.
03:48I know a lot of people feel the same thing about my team,
03:51right?
03:51And it was,
03:52hey,
03:52can Howard pull this one off?
03:55Now,
03:56Michigan,
03:56I can't remember if they were tight at one point.
03:59I know it was within two or three,
04:01but you never really kind of felt that same feeling that you felt with Duke.
04:06And you kind of felt with Duke,
04:07like,
04:08okay,
04:08they come out of halftime,
04:09right?
04:09They make the comments like,
04:10yeah,
04:10we overlooked them.
04:11You figure they're going to get refocused,
04:13and they're just going to annihilate them.
04:16Like,
04:16hey,
04:16how dare you step to us?
04:17And in the second half,
04:19we're just going to dominate.
04:21But they didn't.
04:23And it was every time Duke would pull within two or three,
04:28they would come to Sienna would come down and they'd hit a three.
04:31Like they were.
04:32And then you could see within the,
04:33like the last five minutes,
04:34that's where playing five players.
04:38First of all,
04:38that would have been an amazing story.
04:40Yeah.
04:41They just were exhausted.
04:42I don't know enough about their team to offer like a real criticism.
04:46No.
04:47Should they have given somebody a breather?
04:50So they didn't run out of gas.
04:51What's the drop off from five to six on their roster?
04:54I'm just going to be,
04:55I didn't watch any,
04:56what conferences they play.
04:57And I have no idea,
04:57but it did cross my mind.
04:59Like,
04:59man,
05:00I wish these guys had just a little more of a breather so they can finish this job.
05:05Can we just give them an extra timeout just for fun?
05:07Someone spill something on the court or something,
05:10force them to towel it down and give these guys,
05:12a chance to catch their breath.
05:14Were you rooting for Sienna or were you rooting for your bracket?
05:17I think I know the answer.
05:19Oh,
05:19you were rooting for Sienna.
05:20Your bracket be damned.
05:22because everybody else to your theory,
05:24everyone else has Duke.
05:25So you got to be able to pick the upset.
05:27And if,
05:27if everybody loses,
05:28then everybody's in the same boat.
05:30So it obviously,
05:31if you pick Duke to win it all and they had lost yesterday,
05:34now you're screwed.
05:34But if a vast majority of the,
05:37of people,
05:38more people pick Duke to win than anyone else.
05:40Yeah.
05:41I mean,
05:41they are the betting favorite.
05:43Yeah.
05:43If you get outside of the state of Michigan and you just look at what's the
05:46average person,
05:47Duke.
05:48I'm going to take Duke.
05:48Yeah.
05:48It was Duke one,
05:49Arizona two,
05:50Michigan three.
05:51Yeah.
05:51Nationally.
05:52Yeah.
05:52So if Duke goes down,
05:54we all go down,
05:55but we get one of the great moments in the history of March madness.
05:58And it was on a T for,
05:59and it could not have been happening.
06:01So like when you saw UMBC beat Virginia.
06:06Yeah.
06:07Okay.
06:07It was the first time it ever happened.
06:09And you're like,
06:09yeah.
06:10Oh,
06:10what?
06:11Okay.
06:11It was a great moment.
06:12It was a great moment,
06:13but no one has this visceral response.
06:17Tony Bennett,
06:18Virginia.
06:18I'm a like,
06:19but yeah,
06:20you sure.
06:20Yeah.
06:20Hey,
06:21great hair.
06:22Where's the suit?
06:23You know,
06:23it does all the things.
06:24I hate how they,
06:25you know,
06:26play basketball in the stone ages,
06:27but sure,
06:28but it's not the hatred that we have towards Duke and Duke even fueled it in
06:32that game.
06:33When one of their players comes out and says,
06:34we thought it was going to be a cakewalk,
06:36right?
06:36You deserve to lose.
06:38I hope you lose.
06:40I don't know that there would have been anybody other than the staunchest to
06:44Duke supporters who would have said,
06:47who would have been upset that it blew up their bracket.
06:49That's one where you celebrate and you're cheering on Sienna the entire time.
06:54I think we're also getting the answer to the question is Duke hateable
06:57post Krzyzewski.
06:59The answer is yes.
07:00Yeah.
07:00It doesn't change who they are.
07:01Nope.
07:02Well,
07:02it would open the path for Michigan state to way easier.
07:05I mean,
07:05from a local standpoint,
07:06sure.
07:07They're still going to have to face UConn before they would get to Duke,
07:09but one more demon devil.
07:12The most amazing thing from that game.
07:13I mean,
07:14you look at the box score and just five guys played 40 minutes for Sienna.
07:18No bench.
07:19My team's on the floor.
07:21Incredible.
07:22Like,
07:22I honestly wonder if that's ever happened.
07:26I mean,
07:26back in the day,
07:27I'm sure it did,
07:28but I'm talking.
07:29Yeah.
07:30Modern day,
07:30you know,
07:31when the tournament expanded to 64 teams,
07:34I'm asking you,
07:34is it like,
07:35if we're doing Sienna radio,
07:36I don't even know.
07:37Like,
07:38are they ripping the coach for not using the bench?
07:40Or is this like,
07:41no,
07:41man,
07:42like we only had five dudes that could hang with them.
07:44Yeah.
07:45In the middle.
07:46We're going to ride with you guys.
07:47But my thing is a lot of times you'll see a coach give a guy just a breather,
07:51at least before a TV timeout.
07:52Yep.
07:52You know,
07:53there'll be a follow with 1640 left in the half.
07:55The 16 minute timeouts coming,
07:57you know,
07:58they'll give them a breather or something like that.
08:00It's just amazing.
08:02Yeah.
08:03I,
08:03I,
08:04I know what knows enough about Sienna.
08:05What state is Sienna in New York?
08:08And Jerry McNamara is their coach who was on the 2003 Syracuse national
08:13championship team with Carmelo Anthony.
08:15Oh,
08:16Jerry McNamara is a huge,
08:17like a lot of people are calling for him to get the Syracuse job.
08:20Well,
08:21I mean the,
08:22the performance that the,
08:23even though it was a bench,
08:24right?
08:25Yeah.
08:26But at Syracuse,
08:27you probably have a bench.
08:29Yeah.
08:30I mean,
08:30on the season,
08:31they,
08:32they played more than five players.
08:33Oh,
08:34sure.
08:34It's just very interesting.
08:37Like if somebody had gone down,
08:38would he have gone with four teams on the floor teams on the floor?
08:42He would have pulled the Hoosiers.
08:43That would have been amazing.
08:44I mean,
08:44they didn't even win their regular season conference.
08:46They have one guy stuck in the locker room.
08:48That was still praying for going to go full Hoosiers.
08:52I don't know.
08:53I wanted desperately for them to pick that up and win that game.
08:57And yeah,
08:57we want to hear from you guys.
08:58What was the story of day one of the tournament?
09:00Two,
09:01four,
09:01eight,
09:01five,
09:01three,
09:02nine,
09:0297,
09:0297.
09:03And I think I know the answer,
09:04but can you confirm it for me?
09:05Were you rooting for your bracket or were you rooting for Sienna?
09:09It's 97 one.
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