00:00Let's focus on the other game here real quick.
00:02Purdue, Arizona, to get to the Final Four.
00:04This was just an easy one for the Wildcats, 79-64.
00:09They win and cover the five-and-a-half-point spread.
00:12The team that a lot of folks thought at the very beginning of the season
00:15was going to win it all, they've got a shot.
00:18Yeah, I think Arizona has been one of the amazing stories of this season
00:22because when I talked about them midway through,
00:26two-thirds of the way through the season as a team
00:28that I liked as much as any to win the championship,
00:30I kept getting back, oh, you can't win it with all those freshman starters,
00:34three freshman starters.
00:35And even after Duke lost their game,
00:38there were more people trying to blame it on the fact that Duke was heavily freshman
00:43than on the fact that they haven't had a point guard since basically Tyus Jones.
00:51Tyus' brother Trey was pretty good on not as great Duke teams five or six years ago.
00:57But for a lot of this time, they haven't covered that position.
01:01Arizona, it's not about whether they're too young.
01:04It's just a question of whether they can come up with a game plan
01:08to slow down Michigan's transition game and to keep this game.
01:12Look, Arizona doesn't want to walk it up, but they want this game to be at their pace.
01:17They want Michigan to face their defense.
01:20The full force of the physicality of Coa Pete, Mo Krivas,
01:24they're going to want this game to be played basically half court.
01:27They'll take breaks when they can get them,
01:29but they don't want Michigan to be able to get up and down
01:31like they did against Tennessee.
01:33You saw what happened there.
01:34It was absolute destruction.
01:36I have seen very few games at the Elite Eight level
01:39that were as imbalanced as that.
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