Pardon My Take - March Madness, We Recap The First 4 Days Of The Tourney, Then Talk To Jack Gohlke From Oakland And DJ Burns From NC State
Episode Date: March 25, 2024The first 4 days of the tournament are in the books and we do our best to remember everything that happened the last 4 days including JMU beating Wisconsin, Izzo giving us a brief second of Izzo, Gonz...aga going to yet another Sweet 16, how Jay Wright helped Illinois get to the Sweet 16 for the first time since 2005, Purdue being a problem, Uconn dominating and tons more (00:00:00-01:12:57). Who's back of the week including rap beefs and people mad about Caitlin Clark (01:12:57-01:25:34). We then welcome on Jack Gohlke from Oakland to talk about being an industry plant for March Madness, their wild upset of Kentucky, being in the zone and more (01:25:34-01:41:30). DJ Burns from NC State joins us to talk about his team's crazy run to the Sweet 16, vending machines, and being a big man America can root for (01:41:30-01:53:00). We finish with a preview of the Head Coach picture and numbers (01:53:00-02:01:52).You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/PardonMyTake
Transcript
Discussion (0)
Hey, pardon my take listeners, you can find every episode on Apple podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime members can listen ad free on Amazon Music.
On today's part of my take we have March Madness Recap. What a four days we just witnessed. It's been crazy. It's going to be a loopy episode. Our brains are full of basketball. We also have Jack
Goukey and DJ Burns, two of the heroes from the first four days. NC State still marching
on. They beat Jack Goukey's Oakland, but he also captured the hearts of America when they
took down Kentucky. Who's back the week? And it's gonna be a great show. We're gonna put
it together. We've been watching nonstop basketball together. We're gonna do it and it's all brought to you by our friends
at DraftKings. The thrill and excitement of March Mania is here in DraftKings Sportsbook.
One of America's top rated sportsbook apps is giving new customers a shot to turn five
bucks into $150 instantly in bonus bets with any college basketball bet. We got the lines already out for the Sweet
16. Bama UNC is going to be an incredible matchup. We got Tennessee Creighton, some
great games coming up on Thursday and Friday. And DraftKings Sportsbook has it all. And
all three North Carolina teams have advanced. Raise up North Carolina listeners. Don't forget
DraftKings Sportsbook is now live in your state. NC State, Oh, North Carolina listeners, don't forget DraftKings Sportsbook is now live in your
state.
NC State, Duke, North Carolina, all in the Sweet 16.
Download the DraftKings Sportsbook app, use code TAKE.
New customers can bet five bucks to get $150 instantly in bonus bets.
Only at DraftKings Sportsbook with code TAKE.
The crown is yours with Raff King Sportsbook.
Go check it out right now.
Gambling problem?
Call 1-800-GAMBLER or in West Virginia visit 1-800-GAMBLER.NET.
In New York call 877-8HOPENY or text HOPENY467369.
In Connecticut help is available for problem gambling call 888-789-77777 or visit ccpg.org.
Please play responsibly. On behalf of Boothill Casino and Resort in Kansas.
21 and over. Age varies by jurisdiction. Void in Ontario. Bonus bets expire 168 hours after issuance.
See dkng.co slash bball for eligibility and deposit restrictions, terms, and responsible gaming resources.
Okay, let's go. It's Part of My Take, presented by Partial Sports.
Welcome to Part of My Take, presented by DraftKings Sportsbook. New customers can bet five bucks
to get $150 in bonus bets. Only at DraftKings Sportsbook with code TAKE. Today is Monday,
March 25th and my head is full of basketball. My eyes have been burning for four days. I feel like I've gained 15 pounds
I've had a headache non-stop, but goddamn it was that fun. I've had two bites of vegetable since Thursday
Yeah, to like a lot. I have not yeah, just cuz the wedding early course you get the asparagus took a couple bites of that
I have that's it
I've had I've had candy on candy on candy and we just watched basketball for four days straight and I feel great though
I feel great. I will say this
For you people listening right now
I would throw this out there maybe Monday after Super Bowl and then Monday after the first week in a March Madness
Two worst Mondays in the calendar year your body just craves day basketball
You're just sitting there like what do I do with the rest of my life? And basically you're basically red, or no Brooks
getting out of Shawshank. And you're like, this sucks. Yeah, I want to go back to just sitting
on a couch with my boys watching hoop. Yeah. If you want day ball, by the way, look at Big Cat's
blog on the coach's picture. Yes. Which we can talk about a little bit in a little bit. I'm going to be up till four in the morning tonight.
That's fun. That's a nice little like a wind down after a week in a ball. But yeah, it
was a great time. The games weren't that competitive over the weekend. Um, well it's still a lot
of basketball. Let's debate this before we go through the games and talk about all the
storylines. There's the, we, we do this as sports fans. We have to say,
well, this March Madness has been great or this one has sucked. I've seen both arguments.
I'm firmly in. Yeah, I wish there was less blowouts, but what this March Madness is setting
up, it's actually exactly what I want. A few upsets in the first round, some shocking moments.
You get a Jack Colke, you get a Yale beating Auburn, you get these weird things happening. But then you get the best 16 teams in the Sweet 16.
And you have, I know it's chalky, but we have matchups that are so, so great. And I don't
want to get to the Sweet 16 and have like a 13 seed who's going to lose by 20 to UConn.
Yeah. 30 to UConn. We got some blue bloods in there We got a national title rematch. Yeah, you caught it San Diego state one Cinderella
That's still in there is a Cinderella that we can all focus on in NC State also
Not a Cinderella anymore because they just keep winning there
I think they went from Cinderella to just team of destiny like they there was a moment when NC State in that Oakland game
They win it over time and I'm like why can't can't they just win it all? Yeah, they're good
They're like legit good the two DJs and then Diarra
They got some players who's fasting for Ramadan, which is nuts is it so they're the new Yukon
Yeah, he's he has not been he's not been eating during these games. That's any they've played seven games in 12 days
That's really impressive. I don't think I'd be able to watch basketball without eating.
No, much less play it. Definitely not. I should I sit on that couch. It's like Pavlov's dogs.
Like what are we eating today? Oh, we had lunch two minutes ago. Let's talk about dinner.
Uh, we're we've got we've got solid matchups in the next round. And also a shout out to the ACC,
the ACC, what are they eight Eight and one in the tournament.
The one loss being UVA in the first four. Well, the big East also undefeated. Big East
undefeated as undefeated six and out. Big East probably should have put more teams in
from the big East. Big East is back. Well, yeah. Yukon had Northwestern and Stetson.
Yup. But yeah, it's, we got some really good matchups coming up next weekend. I'm pumped
about that. I would have liked more close games maybe with the same results but more close games but all in all like yeah
It was a it was a weekend. Well spent. I don't I don't be second
Guess my weekend and the fact that the very last game or second to last game was the Houston A&M
Shocker that went to overtime. Yeah, that was that's a good way for me to like wash a little bit of the stink of the blowouts out of my
mouth.
Yeah, so the, the, um, yeah, I don't like it.
The years when we get to sweet 16 and we have multiple 13, 14, 15, you know, 15 St. Peter's,
that was a great story.
But then you get, St. Peter's went all the way to the lead eight, correct?
You get to Purdue and they lost by like 40 to UNC.
UNC by 50.
Right.
You get Cinderella, you get Cinderella fatigue we can we can channel all of our Cinderella energy into NC state now
Which is nice. Yeah, usually when these double-digit seeds lose they lose in big fashion, right?
They just completely run out of gas right so I'm very excited with this tournament. I'm excited with what we've watched
Where do you want to start?
Let's start on Friday. Okay. That's that we
usually go on Chronological Order. That's true. Factor Fiction. Yeah, we do on the show.
Okay, so I didn't really watch much of the games because I was flying and then I was
at dinner, but I did see one game. Yes. James Madison, Wisconsin. James Madison, Wisconsin.
Wisconsin played like fucking ass. Jamie, you played like fucking good ass,
like a really good ass.
No, that was torture for me.
It was a torturous game.
It was, they played just horrendous.
I don't think they knew what JMU was all about.
It felt like they showed up and they're like,
oh yeah, we'll just win this game.
Oh yeah, JMU is gonna pressure us on every possession
and we'll just not be able to handle the pressure. They were not ready for the fight. The fight was brought to them. They were not ready for the fight
Why are you pulling up the box score max? I was just curious. I was looking. Oh, yeah, but it sucked
It sucked and I was it was torture for me. I hated every second of it as you get older
It's weird because you think that these games should matter less as you get older
and have perspective. But I was thinking about it because I was so mad at myself, so sad
on Friday night. And I realized that they in a weird way matter more because as you
get older, your teams keep some, you know, your friendships alive and all my college
friends who I'm still very good friends with with like we watch it together and we talk about it and then like to have that performance
and that just disgusting. I would have rather have lost on a buzzer beater than the way
that Wisconsin went out because it was so pathetic. And then it's got me questioning
everything with the direction of the program and everything. So yeah, you had fun. I had
torture. Yeah, I had a pretty good time. It was a great night. Wisconsin, I would say
they weren't ready for the defensive pressure, but also Wisconsin would have been, I think
it would have been better if the game had been played on like Monday or Tuesday. Yeah,
no, when they were on a roll in the big 10 tournament, well, then they had to take a
couple of days off and they kind of reverted back. They were Jacqueline Hyde all year and
what happened in the big 10 tournament just pulled me back in and I knew that was going
to happen and it just, it just pulled me right back into being like, Oh, maybe this
team will hit all their shots and they'll be great.
And they were not.
And yeah, it sucked.
AJ store was bad.
Wall was not good.
It was the last game.
Like just sucked.
Everything sucked.
Yeah.
We had a great game.
Our big three showed up.
It was an electric atmosphere inside the Barclays.
It's the loudest that it's been inside the Barclays
Which when you look back at the history of teams that have played there
Yeah, you had the nets for a little bit and then you have what the a 10 tournament
Yeah, so yeah the biggest night in the history of the Barclays in terms of crowd noise. It was a blast
What was up with the guy behind you that you told to shut the fuck up?
Well, he needed to shut the fuck up. And so I told him to shut the fuck up
I have a lot of practice what happened after fuck up because of you Hank. I know it was
Yeah, see that and not be on the receiving end of it. Yeah, so basically what happened was max myself
My friend Brian that I went to JMU with and then Rossello met up with us. We're still put a rookie mistake
He was trying to watch Vermont Duke with a Cardinals hat on with a Cardinals hat on and he saw that picture
I was like just for so I didn't I didn't even ask I love them. I didn't question it
I just I was like, okay Ryan sir, whatever, but he made a rookie mistake
He bought tickets for the early slate
Oh, no thinking he was gonna get all the games and then don't get all and then he got kicked out and then
Then he had to be like, hey, is there an extra ticket? Yeah, we got you Ryan
So Ryan was watching the games with us and the guy behind us started running his
mouth a little bit right after we got out to an early start cause Jamie came out
pretty hot and he was like telling me to sit down, called me a C word, like the
Australian C word.
And, uh, and I was just like, this guy needs to shut the fuck up.
And I was about seven or eight cocktails deep at the time.
So I just, I let him have it.
And then after I said that to him,
we reached like a mutual respect thing, where the guy was
like, fair enough.
And he was like, are you even a Jamie fan?
I was like, yeah, I went to school there.
And he didn't believe me at first.
And he thought that I was wearing a suit,
going there to troll all the Wisconsin people
that I was sitting next to.
And so I explained to him, I went there, I liked the team.
He was like, OK, OK, that's somewhat fair.
And I was like, how about this?
How about we both agree that whoever wins,
we want the other team to beat the fuck out of Duke
in the next round?
He was like, OK, that's good.
So we bonded.
Also, he thought Rusilo was my security guard that was with me.
So he was a little bit intimidated.
He was built.
He was ready to roll.
Yeah.
Ryan was ready to rock and roll.
So it was a fun night.
And getting to see your team win a tournament game is, it's electric
and my hopes got up.
I was thinking that we were going to come out and at least show some fight against Duke.
But yeah, no, you guys suck too.
We just suck way more.
Yeah.
It was a great Friday night.
Cause that was, I actually, I did on Friday night.
You had a great Friday night. I had a torture Friday night. Hank and I almost I did on Friday night that you you had a great Friday night I had a torture Friday night Hank and I almost broke up yeah good yeah
I heard about that yeah we almost we almost actually ended our relationship but you should
thank me I actually should thank me big cat because you would have much rather lose on
Friday night to me than to beat us and then get your shit kicked in by Duke yeah no I
agree I don't think we would have Duke. Yeah. No, I agree
I don't think we would have lost by 30 to Duke, but I agree. This is 38
Yeah, it sucked. I mean I bet on James Madison. I held my end of the bargain
I rooted very hard for James Madison today and it was not good. Yeah, Hank and I had a we had we had a we had a
Grudge battle that almost ended our relationship for good. Yeah, I don't know what else supposed to do
You know, I was I was I mean I explained it to you as many times.
And it was before the game. I was just making a lighthearted comment.
No, wait, wait, wait. So just to set the table here,
Hank was rooting for JMU because in a sponsored ad deal,
we drew JMU as our team that we had to root for.
So was Hank not being a good employee?
No, he was saying it like he was going to root for JMU like as hard like he was like people want to tune in to see
Me and you go after each other. I was like, no, they don't you have no connection to JMU
I was like if PFT was here that would make sense
Like when Max has a big game
I've I've lost so much money betting on Philly sports now to riding with but to be fair
You sometimes do that because that way when you know bet bet, you know, at a max. No, I bet. I bet the Eagles because I thought
they were going to win the Superbowl. Yeah. I bet the Phillies cause I thought they were
going to win the world series. It wasn't because I was trolling max. The Villanova one was
true. But yeah, Hank, it was like, he was like, basically like I'm going to root for
Jamie. Like I've been rooting for this team my whole life. And I was like, but that doesn't
make sense. Yeah. Hank was a one man house divided bumper sticker with his allegiances
to JMU and also Duke and also Duke. Yeah. I actually have the idea that Hank came out
the biggest loser in this whole entire squad. He didn't even get to enjoy a win. Right. Because
I didn't, I didn't lose fully because I never lost to Duke. You obviously got to win. So you didn't,
and then you lost Duke, but you got to win win and Hank didn't get his sponsored deal to the point where he could win money the
team that he actually likes Duke played his sponsored deal and he just didn't
root for Duke so everyone's like wait are you Duke fan anymore? Hank was the
biggest loser. Yeah but now I can just hop back in. Okay yeah you can hop back
in and it was hard. I did think it
wasn't going to matter. And then, you know, once the game started and I saw the Duke you
you needs in action, I made you a little teary eyed Hank hop back in. I want you to root
for. Yeah. Yeah. I like it when you were Hank. I want you to root really hard for Duke. In
fact, I want you to go to their next game. Where are they playing? Oh, they're playing
in Dallas. Oh, nice. Oh, that's crazy. but Hank and I did makeup it was oh it was a tweet I have a 12-hour tip
I found Friday as well. I have a I didn't mean to say tip. I have a tweet here from oh, it's from Tiffany
She wants to know if Hank can come to Dallas to watch his beloved Duke blue devils is that actually
No, no, yes
Did she actually somebody said at Henny's and I was tagged in because it was a reply to a tweet
I had the never-ending are you going to Dallas for the next Duke game eyeball emoji at Tiffany Gomez Tiffany replied?
29 minutes ago good question dot dot dot
At Hinnies question mark you gotta go. Oh my god
I give you permission to go if you want to go Hank you gotta go
Yeah, I'll look into it. Okay, great
You always ride for Duke as he sits in his purple jumpsuit
You got to go down there and fix your wall up you got it. You got a plaster walls Hank. Yeah, I might have to
Yeah, but Hank and I did we ended our beef just the very next day.
It was a bad night for me.
I had a very, very bad time.
That was, sports should not change your mood as much as they do.
I mean, you had a bad time today.
I had a bad time today, but again, like I'm looking back at Friday.
I had a great Friday night.
I had a great Saturday.
I had a stressful, the thing about today though was I was stressed out I was I was anxious before the game and then I didn't even get a single seconds worth of joy out of the game today
Yeah, I went immediately from being anxious to being sad to dead. It was never we never got to cheer never got
I loaded up on JMU. I didn't get money line single red. I was like, let's go
You know, I had I had had the appropriate amount of time to process the debacle and torture of Friday night
I would moved on we had a good Saturday
Mm-hmm, and then yeah, that was there was no cheer Jamie was built to beat the Big Ten
We can't hang with the ACC. Yeah, that's that's the next step for us. And now is who we lose in the portal
Don't talk. Don't. If you want to be a big
cat basketball school, this is what you gotta deal with. Big cat, what did you say? What did you say? What did you say on Friday?
Give the person a day. Okay, all right. I'll give you a day. Give me a day and then we'll talk portal.
I'll give you a day. I'll give you a day. Then we'll talk portal. We were already talking about my coach
going somewhere else earlier. I didn't bring that up. I know. I know. I said, yeah, it was not you.
Yeah. But just give me a data portal sucks
No, I just I I asked that because Wisconsin just started everyone just started hitting the portal
It's like the worst part about college sports now is like, yeah
You lose a game and then the minute after you're just like, oh cool portal portal for everyone next year
All right. Let's talk about some other games with congratulations PFT. That was
You guys I mean, yeah, you took, I really was like the game started and you guys were like, we're going to play 10
times more aggressive and like fast, faster than Wisconsin and Wisconsin just looked like
they had just never seen that. And it was over from that. Yeah, it was, we played some
tenacious D Friday for sure. And it was, it was so fun to watch. I'm so glad I got to experience it.
It's something that I never thought.
Like, JMU basketball has never been a threat to do this ever.
And now we got some that we're building on.
So it's a...
Maybe it was Sweet 16.
There's nothing like that.
Second weekend.
My little Grinch heart grew three times the size that day.
Yeah.
Okay, so let's talk some other games.
Where do we want to start?
There's been all the favorites have advanced basically. Um, Oh, we could start with, uh,
North Carolina doing the, the, the narrative bowl of Tom is, Oh, in March we've had about
10 minutes of, he did it again. He's done it again. Tom iszzo, January, February Izzo.
And then North Carolina happened because we all collectively forgot that all North Carolina
does is beat Tom Izzo in Michigan State in March.
Michigan State is 0 and 6 in the tournament against North Carolina.
And it was like a 28 20 game.
I read a story where essentially it was 2820 game Michigan State and Hubert
Davis instead of calling a play during the media timeout just bitched out
everyone in the love that in the huddle was like you guys don't want this and
then they finished the half 41 30 and it was or 31 40 31 and it was just over
from there yeah there were like five different teams this weekend that had
these types of games where it's like okay if they play like this they're
gonna win the title North Carolina had a games where it's like okay if they play like this they're gonna win the title. North Carolina had a
half where it's like they're gonna win the national championship. And I'll say
for the first time maybe it is over for Izzo because North
Carolina that second half they just ran the same play over and over and Michigan
State just never stopped it. Yeah. They just kept on running the same screen down
low with Baycott and then they would just hit a three
or Baycott would go one on one and that was it.
Yeah.
That was it.
It's always been funny to me that it's January, February, Izzo, April when you would ideally
like your coach to be January, February, March, Izzo.
Yes.
Because that's when you really have to.
Yeah, you need to win the fight.
Yeah.
But he is March, but he got that one win got we got fooled for a second. Yeah. Yeah,
the first half was pretty good for Michigan State. But I North
Carolina looks like when they're playing at their best. They are
one of the five teams that are unbeatable. Yeah, they're very
good. All right. Other games from Saturday, Arizona is I I
was rooting for Dayton. I wanted to I wanted that was the type of
team that I wanted to make it but north but Arizona, they're looking like it.
Like I look at the bracket right now and I don't know,
10 out of the 16, I could conceivably see winning it all.
They're also fun when they're running.
When you're getting up and down the court,
they're one of the finest teams to watch.
And then hand up, I owe Clemson an apology.
I was not familiar with their game.
Oh yeah, that's Sunday, but yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
Hopping to Sunday, yeah, Clemson. Clemson, I'm just saying like familiar with their game. Oh yeah, that's Sunday. But yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hopping to Sunday. Yeah. Clemson.
Clemson. I'm just saying like,
They're good.
I think.
All of a sudden.
I think when they announced the bracket,
I believe we said Clemson, they stink.
They shouldn't be in here.
Correct.
I would like to retract that statement.
Clemson does not stink. Retroactively, I never said that.
We forgot that they played a Mountain West team in the first game,
which New Mexico looked like they, uh, I don't know what they, they just didn't, I don't know if they like
practice before or they didn't even sleep before, but that was one of the worst first
round showings for a team that people were picking. They were favored in that game. They
got absolutely demolished by Clemson. Yeah. And I was high on, on New Mexico too. So we,
I completely botched that one. Yes. That's March baby. I have a team for you Max
Do you hear about this story? I have a team for you to root for because you don't have a team in the tournament
Okay, that team is
Illinois and their first sweet sweet 16 since 2005 which is a crazy stat is Illinois
Yeah, historically has been good, but it has been a very rough stretch for them. Brad Underwood has been knocking at that door. I think he's an awesome coach. I actually
have like one of my only non-old takes exposed when they hired him. I was like Brad Underwood
is an awesome coach. They're going to win with him.
I know where this is going.
Illinois is in the Sweet 16 since the first time in 2005. There was a story out there that Brad Underwood was trying to. So the last
couple of years they've had a, a, a team that has not really fit the modern basketball.
So they have big man, a guard, his whole goal was we got to find more wings. We got to find
more guys that are dynamic with the ball. His entire starting fives over six, six, Terrence
Shannon is insane. He's got over
30 30 and a half points a game in the last six games. What are you averaging? And they
also have a guy to mask who's so, so good. And the story goes, they lost the game early
in the season. Jay Wright was calling the game. Brad Underwood had a meeting with Jay
right after the game. They became friends and Jay Wright was like hey this guy to mask why don't you just do booty ball with him
mmm classic Villanova booty ball where you just fucking let him get the ball
ISO and he brought any brings people down in the post like what Jalen Brunson
used to do like all those guys used to do and that has basically changed the
course of their season and that's how they run their offense and they're a lot more dynamic now. It opens up everything for Terrence
Shannon. Jay Wright has helped coach Illinois to the first sweet 16 since 2005. Max. Yeah,
no, that's great. I wish he did more for Villanova. I thought he'd be more excited about this.
You wish he had told that to Kyle Neptune. Correct. Jay Wright is such a good coach.
He's helping Illinois break their 19 year streak of not getting the sweet
16. Yeah, no, I saw that Villanova Twitter. Wasn't I mean, I'm happy. I'm happy. Is he
a trader? My eyes lit up when I saw it back on Illinois. Max, what if, what if he goes
to Kentucky? He's not going to Kentucky. Booty ball, Max. Although I do have a trade in place
for the rights to Jay Wright for John Calabari. Oh, okay. Okay. You would accept that? Well,
yeah, because he's not going to come back. So I'll give up the rights to get to get.
Do you have his rights? You want John Cal? Yes, we have the rights. Huh? You want John
Cal? Yeah, 100% Italian. He would be good in the big East. Yeah. Keep the keep the big
East Italian. Yeah, I thought you'd be I thought thought you'd be on a giant, on a red hat with giant letters.
Keep the big East Italian. I thought you'd be more excited about this revelation that
booty ball has been brought to Illinois by J via J right. No. Okay. Now also brought
to Illinois via your other team, Penn state, cause that was part of it was Brad Underwood.
Son is on the coaching staff and he's like,alen Pickett from Penn State last year did booty ball to us three times beat us three times booty ball can beat anyone
No, yeah booty ball is great. I've seen a lot of guards
Do the booty ball and it's always fun to watch
Booty ball is great. Yeah, because you just see these guards just
Someone guards don't know how to defend it it right and they and Jalen Brunson
is like is 100% when he goes to booty ball he could literally do that every possession
when he was at Nova it was awesome and then we just had shooters everywhere so he would
just kick out and would be open it was booty ball easy bucket for Brunson or kick out wide
open did he call it booty ball when he was at Villanova I I don't think I think I think
booty ball was coach Underwood's son yeah was calling it booty ball when he was at Villanova? I I don't think I think I think booty ball was
Coach Underwood's son was calling it booty ball after they got torched by Jalen Pickett at Penn State last year It sounds so much better when it's called booty ball. It's great. She's been like, what are we gonna run today?
Booty ball. Yeah use your ass in Damascus awesome at booty ball
So Illinois like that is a very big story the fact they broke through and they have a team that could absolutely beat anyone
Especially with the way Terrence Shands, the other weird story I had from Saturday
was, uh, Bill Self. Yeah. After losing to Gonzaga said for the last month, I've been
thinking about next season. So I was, I was thinking about, I actually weirdly like people
were roasting him and in my initial inclination was to roast him too.
But Bill Self, the one thing that you can say about Bill Self is he's actually like
probably too honest in his press conferences and too honest with like the assessment of
his team.
He essentially was like, we've been hurt and we are going to bring back a lot of starters
next year.
And when I bring back starters, I usually have success.
And yeah, I hated here.
Or was he saying that, who's the guard that's not playing McCullers
Yeah that McCullers like when he was out when we found out that he was gonna be out for a long time
He was like, well our seasons over. Yeah, just at that point
He's like I knew it and then Hunter Dickinson getting his shoulder torn off
Yeah, but he is a very honest coach
Remember there was a couple years ago when they lost to USC and he's like I wish Drake had beaten USC
Yeah, I knew that USC was gonna beat us. He's very honest except for the hair. Although it's actually you know what?
So we've talked about Bill Self's hair a lot on the show of the course of the years. I
About a year ago. I started to turn on it and I'm thinking that it might be real hair
Yeah, but then you see one shot. I saw one shot yesterday
I was like no because I can spot a rug and I don't think it's a rug. I've got a great great like Astro turn
Yeah, so that's what I'm saying. Like a lot of people were saying he's got a wig beforehand
No, I think I think he got a good a good surgery done. He got ravaged. Yeah, he got ravaged
Yeah, ravaged. Take that ravage. But yeah Bill self people were criticizing for that quote because Gonzaga absolutely torched him and
Mark for you deserves our credit nine
absolutely torched him and Mark for you deserves our credit nine straight sweet 16s is insane. It's hard to win a game in the tournament and he's gone. He's won at least two nine
straight years. He's also, uh, the stat is 24 straight March madnesses, 15 straight first
round wins, nine straight sweet 16s. Yeah. Anyone would sign up for them. Yeah. He doesn't
have a title, but you're basically saying to your fans, I will make sure that you guys
have that extra week of happiness every single week of happiness is huge. And not only did
they beat Kansas, they destroyed, destroyed them, played perfect basketball in the shit
pumping. Yeah, that was a great game. Uh, what other things from Saturday? I mean, I
was another, another fun stat to keep your eye on here is the Tennessee-Texas game.
Tennessee made that a lot closer than it had to be because they couldn't shoot worth a
goddamn.
And against Texas, Texas had 19 points in the first half against them.
Colorado State played Texas the game before.
Colorado State had how many points in the first half?
Was it 12?
11.
11 points in the first half? 11. Who did Colorado State had how many points the first half was it 12 11 11 points
in the first half 11 who did Colorado State play before that Virginia UVA who had 14 points
yeah first half so it's like we said that Colorado State caught UVA they caught what
we say cavid 19 yeah Texas also caught UVA from Colorado State. Yes.
So now is Tennessee going to get UVA'd against Creighton
in the next round?
Possibly.
In the first half.
I actually think that if you're a Tennessee fan,
that was the perfect way to win
because it was the way you always lose.
Like that game, they just went so cold shooting,
but their defense is so much better this year.
And they like their offense is a lot better than it was last year, but their defense,
they could rely on their defense when their shooting was bad. And that was a game that
Tennessee always loses. And Rick Barnes always loses where it's like you're up double digits in
the second half. And what just happened? We just lost this game. They survived the what just happened.
We just lost this game. And you have what just happened, we just lost this game.
And you have to do that to win like, you can not everyone's going to be like Yukon last
year where they, you know, beat everyone by double digits.
If you win a tight national title, if you look at every national champion, there's a
couple games mixed in there where you didn't have your best stuff and you just found a
way to do it.
This could be that game for Tennessee.
Yeah, they're scored connect. He sucked. He was so bad, so bad, so bad, finally made a way to do it. This could be that game for Tennessee. Yeah, they're scored connect.
He sucked.
He was so bad.
So bad.
So bad.
Finally made a three down the stretch, but for most of the game he couldn't score.
They had to rely on a do and in their defense.
Yeah.
Yeah.
A do and Viscovi.
Yeah.
On defense.
They're they're legit.
So I'm looking forward to that Creighton, Tennessee game.
Yeah.
And then we had the Oregon Creighton game, which was one of the most electric, uh, weird games because you had Creighton miss every wide open shot and Oregon try
to beat a team with two guys, Cousinard and Dante.
They took every single shot essentially down the stretch and, uh,
double overtime just ran out of gas.
Yeah. It felt like Oregon was the better team for most of the game.
They were and they just,
and then it just kept extending until they ran out of gas until the second overtime
Yeah, but yeah, yeah, they tried to win with two guys
I've never seen anything like it like who's in our death three hit at the end of the what is it regular?
No second first overtime was just an insane shot to hit and they just every single time down the floor is like one of
These two guys has to do it. Otherwise were fucked and creating just outlasted. Pick East 6 and 0.
6 and 0.
6 and 0.
All right.
Let's talk some Sunday games.
Let me do a quick ad.
We'll talk some Sunday games and then a little preview of what we got coming up.
If you're trying to go to a game, Hank in Dallas, game time, game time.
Did you know you can get tickets to Duke versus Houston
in Dallas right now for, can you go look it up? Look it up right now. That's right with
Game Time, the official ticketing partner of Barstool Sports. You shouldn't have to
worry when you buy tickets to your next big event. Game Time is the fast and easy way
to buy tickets to all of the sports, music, comedy, and theater events near you. They have flash deals for sudden discounts, zone
deals for when you're feeling flexible, and their lowest price guarantee means that if
you can find the same seats for less anywhere else, Game Time will credit you 110% of the
difference. Game Time is the best place for last minute seats with up to 60% off your
favorite events. What are you waiting for? I'm going to buy those
Duke Houston tickets.
380 is looking like the lowest.
Wow. That's all fees included too, because it's game time. So what you see is what you
get.
And PFT and I will buy you and Tiffany tickets.
Big Cat will buy you a ticket. I'll match for a guest of your choice.
For Tiff.
Yeah. You can take anyone. I actually just use game time for Madison Mad Dog, Madeline Mad Dog and
Mackenzie who went to Olivia Rodrigo. I use game time. Got them great seats with game
time. Uh, take the guesswork out of buying tickets with game time. Download the game
time app, create an account, use code PMT for $20 off your first purchase terms applied.
Download the Game Time app today.
Last minute tickets, lowest price guaranteed with the Game Time app.
We're also brought to you by our friends at Uber Eats.
Big announcements as you know, you can get almost, almost anything from Uber Eats.
And no, I'm not just talking about food from your favorite restaurant.
Uber Eats has a full range of delivery capabilities beyond just restaurant food like groceries, convenience, and alcohol. Whether you need ice cream, batteries,
highlighters, or paper towels, or maybe all four, Uber Eats can deliver almost, almost
anything. Get grocery, alcohol, and everyday essentials in addition to the restaurant food
you love. So in other words, get almost, almost anything with Uber Eats. Order now for alcohol.
You must be legal drinking age. Please enjoy responsibly.
Product availability varies by region.
See app for details.
We've been using Uber Eats all weekend.
I've been getting a lot of candy with Uber Eats.
So go right now.
Use Uber Eats.
Get almost almost anything.
All right, Sunday, we talked about your game.
That sucked.
I'm very worried about Duke, although Houston winning makes me less worried.
But that would
do played a perfect game.
Do couldn't miss.
They could have missed.
McCain was on fire.
It was it was a blowout.
There was there's no team that can beat Duke if they shoot that well.
Yeah.
The thing is, they're probably not going to shoot that well in every other game.
But yeah, it was it was just it was a blowout from start to finish.
There was no time at no point during that game.
Did I feel optimistic?
No, no, it really it actually is crazy to say that but it's a fact
I the only thing I can hang my hat on is that it wasn't the worst blowout of the weekend
Yeah, by one point who is that? Well, Houston blew out their first round opponent by a lot. Yeah
I mean like in the whole family you toss it Purdue Utah State was a 39 point victory. Yeah Purdue. I was 38
I gotta say I gotta give a lot of credit to Purdue.
Yeah, people will be like, oh, they didn't play anyone.
They played a 16 seed.
They played a Utah State team that was probably overrated
because they didn't play anyone non-con.
Purdue deserves credit because Purdue has failed so tragically
the last couple of years that to get to the Sweet 16
and to do it the way they did it, where they absolutely shit pumped both the teams along the way and
Zach Edie put up just insane, insane stats.
Uh, produce very good.
I'm not, I'm not, I'm a Purdue hater, but I'm also a Purdue Purdue realist.
They're very good at basketball.
What do you have 23 or 24 today?
And they took him out real early.
Yeah, no, really. Game. And, and he was dominant when he was in. He was dominant when he was
in the game in their opening against Grambling. Yeah, he had 23 and 14 in it against Grambling.
I think he had a double double like with like eight minutes left in the first half. Yeah.
So I was with 30 and 21. I'll say it. Produce legit. Zach Akiti has 53 points and 35 rebounds through two games
Also Jake on your wild meter. Where do we have it Purdue in the ultimate wild?
Their path if everyone wins
Who's supposed to win?
Would be they're playing Gonzaga. They played him in the Maui. They're playing they would play, Tennessee
They played him in the Maui. They're playing they would play Tennessee
They played him and beat him in the Maui and then if they great if Marquette I believe it's Marquette
Yeah, be crazy Marquette would be the final fourth game. They played and beat them in the Maui That's exactly how it went in the Maui
Well to say there was one person like they haven't played anyone
It's like they are they could easily their next three games could be games that they have already
won on the season also you can't say they haven't played anyone a you don't
control that be they earn the number one seed correct so screw those people yes
room yeah and they could then potentially play Illinois again who
they beat so yeah championship well though they beat them they did not beat
him in the championship I'm saying they could meet in the championship. Yes, they've beaten twice
So they played some really good teams that are all sitting in front of them produce a problem. Zack Edie is a problem
Yeah, and yeah, he does get some calls. That's not why they won this game
They won this game because Purdue was dominant and Zack Edie was really good even without the refs on his side
But it is it's confusing to watch the refs don't know how to officiate it
really good even without the refs on his side. But it is confusing to watch. The refs don't know how to officiate them.
Matt Painter had a comment after basically calling out anyone who says Zach Eaddy's not
good at basketball. I agree with Matt Painter. Anyone who says Zach Eaddy's not good at basketball
is a fucking moron. The guy's good at basketball, especially college basketball. I don't know.
Whatever happens to the NBA, happens to the NBA. He has put on a lot of muscle, gotten
a lot better through his years at Purdue. I've watched it. He's put on a lot of muscle, gotten a lot better through his years
at Purdue. I've watched it. He's put in a lot of work. He's very good at basketball.
I don't love how he's reffed, but I would never say exactly he's not very good at basketball.
Yeah, he's really good.
Anyone who says he's not good at basketball, he's just tall, is being a hater.
He's also got a great scowl. Very underrated look on his face. When he gets into business
time, you can tell. And he does the LeBron face where he dips his forehead and looks at you at
the top of his eyes yeah very intimidating there's also probably the
reason why that narrative is out there is there's probably two or three times a
game where he is just too tall yeah where it's like he'll be he'll pick up a
rebound he'll take it literally off the block and then just not even barely jump
and put it back in you're like he's too tall
Yeah
And and basketball is always great for that so that us five eight and a half five nine people at home can watch and be
Like if I was just as tall as that guy I would be so good at basketball
Yeah
Without taking into account the fact that your body would be huge and you wouldn't be able to move as quickly as you do correct
If you got these tiny little Mickey Mouse limbs. Correct.
And he's gotten a lot better and a lot bigger and stronger.
Zach Eaddy confirmed good at basketball.
That was my full say something nice about Purdue.
We also had Colorado Marquette, which was one of the best games of the weekend because
that was kind of similar where Colorado has been playing so many games of basketball.
They've been, I don't know, they have six games in the last 12 days or something like
that. But Marquette is back with Kolick looking like they could absolutely win the national
title.
Kolick, someone said it on Twitter, which is so perfect.
Kolick's drive and layup with his left where he kind of does a little bit of bodywork and
then extends his arm and is able to hit it off the backboard is the basketball equivalent
of the tush push
I don't know how you defend it. He's the smartest player in the tournament
Yeah, just watching the angles that he takes and like wait. He knows the situation all the time
He makes the perfect play even at the end of the game when they were just trying to they're trying to run the clock out
Take as many seconds as you could on each possession
He knew what to do he knew when to pass the ball where to cut in order to take time off
So they couldn't
foul them.
Yeah.
And so they were trying to foul Kolick.
Yeah.
And Kolick was just too smart for him getting around.
So having that guy running point for you is, it's huge.
And now that's going to be a good matchup against NC State.
NC State team of destiny, I don't know.
Team of destiny survives Oakland and yeah, that is going to be, that is going to be a very fun game.
And then the other two quick games I want to talk about was the Alabama Grand Canyon
game was one of the most chaotic games I've ever watched of not great basketball, but
I think if you're Grand Canyon, great season, credit to you.
You should just make all your players just walk around with the basketball for the entirety of the off season because they just holding on to a basketball was a very, very
hard thing for them to do.
And they, their players would be doing these crossovers, but they wouldn't actually be
doing, they would just be standing in place, but doing crossover dribbles, not actually
moving side to side, just moving the ball from one side of their body to the other.
And every time they bounce it, you thought they were going to bounce it off their own
knee cap or their shin. It was, uh, it was out of control.
And it was, it was just hands and arms flying everywhere for 40 minutes and the ball just
randomly bouncing out of bounds. Yeah. And then a basket would get scored now and now
and again. And then Alabama running the, the basketball equivalent of the spread offense,
they're doing, they're doing like some, some football shit out there. Well, and they just,
they go, they like to go ice so they like to run.
And when it works, it's nice, but they also don't play defense.
Yeah.
And I've, I've been a critic of Alabama basketball because of our good friend Rico Bosco and his
love affair with Nate Oates.
They were watching them in the end of the season.
They were soft.
They got bullied down low.
That Florida game in the SEC tournament was like they Florida just absolutely dominated
them with layups and just being like stronger than them. Alabama won this game because they
were strong rebounding the ball because it was Grand Canyon up three, Alabama comes down
and they basically had two minutes where they were on their side of the court because they
went make three throw, miss three throw, free throw, rebound, make free throw, miss free throw, rebound and one. Like they just, they were
able to out muscle Grand Canyon.
And then Grand Canyon would try to run back down and have the same pace that Alabama has.
They would pull up and take the worst three point shot that you've ever seen.
Yeah.
Hit off the front of the rim, Alabama gets the ball, they're back down at the other end.
Yeah. So Alabama deserves credit there. Oh, we forgot one. One other thing was Iowa State looks really really good
I want their coach so bad
He's from Wisconsin. Is he really? Yeah, he looks like a Wisconsin guy. He looks like a wrestler
He looks like he's been like out muscle burger. He's been out in the Sun and springtime drinking milk all day
I can tell too that that's like starting to bother cuz I've been included on some some Twitter threads where
Iowa State fans are like he already has his dream job and it was like but he wants to go
But I'm like, I don't want to get involved in this but yeah, I want him. Yeah, you could get him
What can we do? You could have him. Does he want it? Does he want to be the president of Stella Blue Coffee?
Would you make that happen easily? I've offered that job to way too many people but that's fine. Whoever takes it first gets it
The guy offered it to Big T. Is he the most jacked basketball coach who?
Passed Martin still coaching. Yeah
Is pretty Jack Jack buzz is jacked. Yeah buzz is absolutely jacked Bruce Pearl sneaky kind of jacked barrel chested. Yeah
Bruce Pearl went out sad that Auburn
Everyone's bracket got busted with Auburn. Yeah, I was the analytics darling
I was told you know Auburn was you know top five in both these things
there was I love the the week leading up to the
Brackets where it's like it's now just tick-tock
You can't go one one tick tocker Instagram scroll without some dude being like I got the perfect formula
Yeah, everyone everyone has a formula.
Everyone does.
And I believe them all.
And every year they're wrong.
Yeah.
But yeah, these games are, I'm so excited for next weekend.
What other games did we miss?
Houston A&M.
Yeah, that was incredible.
I mean, Houston almost, like that was, the fact that Houston let Texas A&M get to overtime,
that would have been an all time, all time, all time March Madness loss.
So they had a 99% win probability. Atlanta Falcons like win probability with 44 seconds
left. I think what A&M was down, was it 12?
With 11 with 148 I think.
11 with 148 left. And then somehow, through the magic of Wade, who just took every shot
possible out there, they claw back,
get to overtime and then everyone on Houston fell out.
Yeah. They, I mean, Texas A&M had a, Buzz Williams coached a perfect game in the fact
that he, from the very first whistle, their entire strategy was go to the hoop on every
possession and make them foul you. And they did.
But Shed was too good.
I mean that, that hop step by Shed where where he just I think he started almost at the three-point line ended up in
The lane for that bucket down the stretch. He was the only guy left
We had the we had the guy who was sitting on the bench named Elvin Elvin came had to come in and hit a free throw
Elvin was a name from our D&D quests Elvin
No, like you can be that's like elf like would be, would be Elvin. You can have Elvin features.
Oh, I'm Cake the Elvin Wizard!
Oh you are? Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, that's elf.
So like, you're Cake the Elf-like Wizard, Elvin.
Elvin.
Yeah.
Like that means to like, have qualities pertaining to an elf.
Gotcha.
Alright, who's gonna be mad that we didn't mention them?
Yukon's the fucking best.
Yeah, okay, so let's just suck Yukon's dick real quick.
Yukon is gonna win the national championship. I mean, they're doing the same thing again.
I mean, the San Diego State will be definitely a step up from Northwestern and Stetson. Yeah,
but I have no, I think they'll kill him. I want to be very clear. You con is going to
win the national championship, also going to win the national championship. You and C
is going to win the national championship. UNC is going to win the national championship.
Arizona is going to win the national championship. Gonzaga is going to win it. Purdue is going
to win the national championship. NC State's the team of destiny. Marquette's going to
win the national championship. NC State is the team of destiny. They're probably going
to lose at some point. Houston's, Houston is a tough out. I think Houston's going to win
the national championship and also Duke. Duke's playing great ball right now. The way they shot today. Duke is playing great ball right now. Houston's going to win the national championship and also Duke. Duke's playing great ball right now.
The way they shot today.
Yeah, Duke's playing great ball right now.
Duke is going to win the national championship.
Purdue also going to win the national championship.
Oh yeah, I forgot about Purdue.
Because Virginia lost, you know, when Virginia lost to Sweet 16.
Purdue's going to win the NAD.
It's in the script.
Yep.
Creighton's going to, if Creighton hits their threes, they will probably win the national
championship.
Tennessee and Rick Barnes.
Actually the only, to go full circle on this, the the only team that's not gonna win the national championship is the
Team we disrespected going in the tournament Clemson will not win the national champion. Yeah
zero chance
And now they will know how they will if that happens, I'll get a cat. Oh
Okay, it's exciting
I'm not gonna yeah, I think they will just because we said they won't they're not Clemson's not gonna win
I'm reverting back to my initial take. Yeah, I'm soon doesn't deserve to be here. Yeah
Alright, Jake, what do you got for one shining moment or just you know, what announcer did a good job?
What was that announcer that I motherfucked on Saturday night and your cattle on piece of shit?
No piece of shit wrong wrong. He caught he called the he called a technical foul. No, what do you call?
Yeah, he called it. Do he say there was a technical foul?
And then he's like, oh, there wasn't.
I forget.
Yeah.
There's been so many things that I've gotten mad at.
You can't do that.
Adam Lefkoe is kind of stealing your swag.
Yeah, but I know him personally.
He's a good guy.
He's a good guy.
But I'm watching the games.
Yeah, a little bit.
And there's been a few times where I'm like, I have to do a second glance.
Cause I'm like, is that big head?
And he's like, no.
Listen. Wait, it's the fact, like how is he like is that big head? And it's like no. Listen.
Wait, it's the fact like how's he stealing his swag?
He looks kind of like my advisors.
Yeah, he's got the.
He's got a turtleneck in the.
Yeah.
Yeah.
By the way.
He kind of looks like me.
Yeah.
It's just Lefkoe.
I don't know if you've heard him talk after the games on TNT are over.
He says, welcome back.
It's me Lefkoe.
I love that.
He's a good dude.
But yeah, that's all right.
You know, he's stealing my swag. It's like Cher, one name. I love that. He's a good dude. Yeah, that's all right. Yeah, you know, it's like you know my swag
It's like share one name. Yeah, that was my only other yeah, that's just my observation over the weekend was
Yeah, but I like I like Lefkoe. We're like long-lost brothers. So he's he did a good job to respect
Alright, so Jake tell us what we missed. Yeah, so
Florida Colorado
Entering the weekend that was the game of the tournament. Walter Clayton, he had three to tie it at 100.
And then Colorado hit a jumper to win it 102-100
in regulation, you never see that in college.
That hung on the rim, right?
That one?
Yeah.
This is fun, this is a trip down memory lane
because it's like, I watched all these games,
but I do remember that.
That one was like the Kauai shot.
Yes, exactly, same spot.
Who was that shot against?
I think it was that. Let's go to the next one. Yes, exactly. Same spot. Who was that shot against? I think...
What team was that?
Let's go to the next one.
Okay.
Sorry.
Yale stuns Auburn.
Nebraska's Tomanaga getting emotional.
Yeah, I mean Tomanaga, that was the best five minutes that Nebraska basketball has ever
played and then they got absolutely dog-walled.
It's just crazy to me that Nebraska, a school that big with such a good athletic department
overall has never won a tournament game.
Yeah, they never won a tournament.
It's crazy.
Grand Canyon's win over St. Mary's was dominant.
Yep.
That was Friday.
Yep.
Dante, you mentioned Al Youp.
We had a halftime buzzer beater from Clemson today,
so more flowers to Clemson.
For a halftime buzzer beater? Yeah, halftime buzzer beater. Just givingon today. So more flowers to Clemson for a halftime buzzer beater. Yeah, I'm a speeder
I'm just giving up the I'm gonna say no flowers for that given at the moments left and right halftime buzzer beater
No, and then a and a miracle forces ot and then what about your one shining moment? That was the ball was all of them
Oh, you think Clemson halftime buzzer beater's me on one shiny moment. Yeah. Yeah, okay. It was a deep one
Was that their signature moment
they had the announcer call what about Oregon's in the first game first on
Thursday halftime buzzer beater yeah I have that okay okay what do you have what
do you have no in the on Thursday oh half time buzzer beater that so not all
halftime buzzers are built the same yeah what moment do you have in the JMU Wisconsin game? Uh, I don't know if I
have probably one of our one of our 75 turnovers. Yeah. I don't have any specific. Yeah. I'd
say one of our 75. I just like you guys hitting it's three. It's probably about that guy.
You like celebrating after the guy in the stands yelling at the other guy in the tux.
Yeah. Yeah. What about that guy shutting the fuck up? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. That's good. We could create our own. What have you, how would you grade this tournament, Jake?
So I've compared this tournament a lot to the 2019 tournament where Virginia won it
all. Also good news for Purdue where it was mostly chalk in the first weekend. We had
all ones and twos advance, which this time I think it's like the fifth or sixth time ever we've had that to this year 16
but
In that second weekend. We had some crazy games. Remember that Purdue Tennessee sweet 16 game. I think Ryan Klein was his name
He dropped like 40 went to overtime
I think and then the elite eight game was the Virginia's Virginia Purdue game. Yeah with Mamadi de Akite
So like I said that yeah
he was ready correctly and then they won it all so I think we're lining up to
have an incredible sweet 16 elite 8. Calling it a shot, I like it. It's gonna be a great week to look at the
logos that are playing against each other this upcoming weekend because like
think about it if it was Yukon Yale notice respect to Yale it's like all right the battle for Connecticut yeah in Boston
but they would have won by 20 yeah they were and they might still be San Diego
State by 20 but at least like you have the storyline of the championship
rematch and all of that and then how about that Yale big sweater guy oh yeah
good for him he had some huge shoulders he He's on the moment, right Jake?
Yeah, he's gotta be yeah, that's a moment. That's a for sure moment. Also, what'd you count for?
for
Underwhelming. Oh that part's under not great
Have we figured out what to call cuz there was one one of the hoops on Thursday
Yeah, the net was too tight. The net was so tight that the ball was getting how they don't net loosen them up, but
Whatever. What do you call those? I?
think Megan said netters maybe netters be careful with that. Okay. Why it just don't say that one again
Okay, you pronounce things very well, but just just to be so yeah just to be safe the
That's that's a good list though Jake. It's been a fun tournament.
I'm excited for this week.
Definitely not the most chaotic opening weekend we've seen.
But still, the Kentucky game, like, that's 100%.
Kentucky's got to look at this sweet 16
and be like, all our old friends are there.
It's still the best.
We're not.
Yeah, tough day for Kentucky, seeing that.
Kentucky and Kansas.
Kansas, yeah.
Kansas won it all two years ago.
Yeah. And Bill Self was
worried about next year. There was a, yeah, put me down actually. I want to, I want to
do a future on Kansas for next season. No, I actually, those self's already looking ahead.
Someone hold on. You ready for this? Kansas might return four starters next year. Here's
how Bill Self did when that happens. 21-22 national champions,
15-16 number one overall seed, 0-9-0-10, or 10 number one overall seed, 0-7-0-8 national
champs, 0-6-0-7 number one overall seed.
Yeah, see, Bill Self is thinking about next year, so I'm thinking about next year.
Yeah.
Next year's, this was the season-
They're going to be a really good team next year.
This was the season before the season for Kansas.
Yes. This was the season before the season for Kansas. There was a person online, Pranav Sreeman, that asked an interesting question that I
thought I'd bring up to embrace debate here.
They said, who's the worst NBA player that could lead the worst team in the tournament
to the final?
Like who's the worst NBA player that could take, who's the worst team in the final?
Yeah, or to win the championship.
Who's the worst team? I think it was Stetson or Howard or UVA
Yeah, yeah UVA who's the worst who's the worst player in the NBA that you could put on UVA and have them win the national
Championship I think I know my answer. I think there's only like maybe like three or four guys
Oh, I think there's way more than that to take
Yeah, that could take the worst team
and beat every other team with that. I don't know, NBA players are so much better than college
baseball players. It's insane. Sam Houser? Yeah probably. The thing about it, he's the best player
and they're saying like he's gonna be a what? Fringe first rounder? Yeah. I don't know if even
that yeah. And he's the best player right now. I campaign
Camp you think campaign could win could lead UVA. I do too. Yeah, yeah based off vibes Bobby Portis
Bobby I know you need it you need to be like Virginia
No, I think such a weird system to play I think you lean into it you lean into the defensive pressure
How's it would be good.
But wait, there's gotta be more than,
I mean, Luca, Tatum, LeBron, probably Anthony Davis,
Jokic.
If you wanna lean into the UVA-ness of it all,
put Pat Bev on that team.
Yeah.
I mean, imagine Embiid playing college basketball.
Embiid, yeah.
It would be Wilt.
Yeah. Like, there's so many guys
Oh, just dominate wimby wimby. Nobody could stop wimby
There's not it there's not a team in college basketball right now that could do a goddamn thing about Victor Wimben yama
Someone did say something very mean where they're like Zack Edie is exactly like Victor Wimben yama
Minus like the shot making, the versatility, the handles, the speed, the skill. That was mean.
This the the tallness is there. The tallness is that you can't
coach tall. Yeah, no, I think there's a lot. I mean, it's not.
I think it's more than 15 or 20. Kawhi. I see. Dominate. I was
I was thinking about Kawhi earlier, but he would dominate
for sure. But could you just rely on him to single-handedly? I don't know how many would
you'd have to like triple team him. Steph, Steph almost. Yeah. Yes. With Davidson. But
Steph doesn't count because he's one of the best players in the NBA that could do it.
Yeah. No, I'm just saying there's you. You said there's only four players that could
do it. I think there's like four. I think there's like five. Twenty plus easy.
I mean the NBA is way better, I know that.
Yeah, I just, all these guys thinking about it.
Oh, Yannis would be a problem.
Yannis would be a fucking...
He'd be a problem.
He would dominate everyone.
It would be a joke watching it.
I'd like to see that.
Yeah, I mean, yeah, I just think,
cause then what do you do?
You put like three guys on them,
and then you just have everyone else stand around and shoot think of it this
Jimmer almost did it by himself. Yeah, yeah, and he sucked
Yeah, but he was good great point Gouki be Kentucky. Yeah. Yeah, it's a great point
Yeah, I think you could I think you put a lot of guys on UVA and they would fuck everyone up
Pretty bad. Mm-hmm, especially because UVA could actually play defense
So then you just add one more defensive like stopper no one would score on him
And then you just have that one guy score all the points
Yeah, I think UVA is probably the wrong example to use for that one. Yeah, but like long would
Still you put you put Lebrron on Longwood and they're in the Final Four.
For sure.
And it'll be so much fun.
I don't know if LeBron can play college ball.
That's why the coolest thing LeBron could have ever done for his career is just go to
Akron for one year and just be like how deep could we dig?
It would have been perfect just so that we could know.
Yeah.
So we could know the answer to that question.
Yeah.
And it would also be great if we just we should just do a tournament like this someone should fund this tournament
Where every team that's in the tournament we just replay the tournament again, but everyone gets to add an NBA player
Yeah, Adam Silver you get all your ideas from the internet. Here's a good one
Make it legal for NBA players to go and play one season in college after they've been in the league for like 10 years
Right. Yeah, it's my rule of bringing a graduate back
No, not even that like a guy that guy would be is a different rule because the guy goes straight to the NBA and
Then they get to choose what college they want to play for one season. Yeah, but it would be it would be sick
Yeah, be awesome to watch. Okay, anything else Hank you enjoy it. I feel like you were you have a good time
I had a good time. My mega max lock Purdue was a miraculous backdoor cover
Yeah, so that was fun Saturday night was fun Sunday wasn't as fun
But I still have fun. You see that's the thing. I'm excited for a good sweet succeed matchups
And I hope we get a good final four. I maybe it's just because March Madness is something that is so
Engrained in my head that I lose money no matter what.
When people are like, oh, you care about your bets, you decide if it's fun if you win or
lose. I lost all my bets. I had a lot of fun. I enjoyed watching basketball for four days.
I enjoyed the moments. None of it ended up good for me.
I also lost my job Friday night, so that wasn't as fun.
No, you didn't. You got fired?
Yeah, for a second. And then you kept showing up?
I was over on the precipice you monsened it. He just kept on asking me the same question
I gave him the same answer over and over and over the question
It was just like will you be mad if I go hard and I was like, yes
I care a lot about my team. So wait, so did Hank at any point go hard? No
We had a word we figured it out figured it out that it would not make sense. I was like, everyone
wants to tune in to watch me die. I will die and it will be tortured and I'm going to die.
And then I died and was tortured. Everyone watched me.
Biz was Biz, obviously, you know. Golden Retriever, he's like, what are we taking? I was like,
I think a lot of people are taking JMU. And that set Big Cat off.
Well, Hank also touched me and was like, did the Draft Kings huddle up and was like, what do
we think about JMU guys?
And touched me.
He is touchy.
He touches me and it's a technical foul.
I wanted that on the record, technical foul if he touches me.
He's been touching me a lot.
Yeah Hank gets non-consensual touching, should not be allowed in that setting.
He gets very feely.
Yeah.
Max, is it okay that I kissed you on Friday?
Yeah, it was good. Okay good at you. I came to yeah, I just had a fucking vacation weekend
Well, no, I'm on the company. Hi, I'm not sure Max was working hard working hard got some great clips out there
Yeah, that was my lowest moment when I was just like Max just fucking
Like burns our money going to New York. It was $300
Again, I said it was my lowest moment. No one was even listening to I was I said I was appalled
What what were you appalled about? I thought Max did a great job. They do a great job
Can I love Mac I do a never be mad at Matt a quick PSA cuz I was just thinking about the game
It's love love seeing the fans out in public.
If you're an AWL, love San Heidi, love taking pictures, all that stuff.
Uh, one small request though, like, if I'm actually peeing
and my penis is out and I'm at a urinal,
can we wait for like 15 seconds?
I disagree, it's a Friday Night March Madness game.
I think that's all bets are on yeah, I just yeah, okay
I think they get I think they get to touch it if they want
You only let take that back
Dick's grabbed well, okay, so it's not it's not don't do that
It's not for me
But it's for the other three guys that were standing next to me also taking a piss and there's a guy just with this camera
Out being like PFT take a picture and then the three guys are like, yeah, you're taking a picture me while I'm pissing
Yeah, that's fair. That's a fair. I think that's a fair request
That's a fair request like if I'm shitting and you put your phone over the top of the stall and get a picture me
That's one because that's just me. Yeah, it's everybody else
Yeah, it's fair request
You you agree? Yes
What's up Hank? What's wrong? Just losing today? No, I'm good. Hank's not good. He's not good Hank. You're hiding something
I can always tell what's on your mind Hank. There's nothing on my what's wrong. Come on. You're on the psychiatrist couch over there
Nothing. What's wrong? No, there's something there's something wrong
I'm talking to tiff right now. Is there you talking?
I'm been talking to Ben. Whoa, what is wrong though? There's nothing. No, there's something on your mind though
You haven't said nothing wrong. Are you still scared of big cat? I'm focused. I'm not back together yesterday
I literally saw him one second. I was like, I'm sorry. I think he's scared. No, I think he's um, I took my medicine earlier
That's usually what it is
Then nothing is yeah
Yeah
Focus I'm very focused something's wrong. No, I don't think so that
Explains it all that that's the car is very pretty much every time when I when I can't that is true every time you take
Your medicine we're like dude. What what's fucking wrong with you, and you're like nothing. I
Took the medication. I'm prescribed to take and we're like oh, okay. Yeah when Hanks healthy
We're like what the it really does go like that well
It's like yeah, I'm usually you know I have ADHD
You know you know say things or be a little more outgoing and then when I take my medicine
I'm just quiet yeah, and then we're like what the fuck's wrong with you. Yeah, I actually I did the resting anger face
That's where it gets me my perfect. My perfect tank is when he hasn't slept for like three days
Yeah, and he just has no idea what's coming out of his mouth and just lets it fly. Yeah
I like that person my perfect tank is after he does comedy
Yeah, yeah all the way to the world off of Yeah, feeling like a new man. There was there was a moment
when I came into the office on on Saturday when we were
starting the stream, I came straight from the airport and I
got in the door and it was like a morgue in the office because
the mood from last night on Friday was apparently well we'd
lost everything and I lost everything. Yeah. It was bad. We
could not have I don't think anyone won a single thing on Friday.
Well, actually you did.
Yeah.
J.M.U.
Fredell.
No, it was, we went-
And Purdue.
No, Purdue Friday I was running high.
Purdue, Purdue, we went-
That Purdue cover was, I don't think anyone else really had it.
It was was for me
Miraculous just when it was a it was a walk-on guy that never plays hit a three when it didn't matter Yeah, we went back to back on Friday night where we we got all whooped up for will in, Nebraska
What do you mean whooped up like everyone was like, let's go Nebraska
Like let's do this and then it was just was just so bad. Did you bet on Nebraska?
Yes, just for Will.
Yes, literally, I was like all week,
I was like, I think Texas AM's a better team
to win this game.
Yeah, it's a mistake.
And then I was like, you know what?
I said the quote, and I'll say it again,
and I actually believe this.
I will never be someone who wins money gambling.
I have to be rich in friends.
So like that was my whole plan,
was like, I'm not,
winners are never gonna happen for me friendship is more important
So I I'd fucking put on a fucking headband and I was like, let's do it and then it just whoo fell flat so fast
Yeah, that sounds so fast like bad vibes there
I'm actually glad I wasn't there on Friday because it would have been it would have been weird if everybody was losing everything and then
I'm just like the happiest I've ever been watching a basketball game. Yeah
Yeah, it was it was tough. It was tough, but that's March and I bounced back a day later
I was back here just doing the thing. But yeah, it just sucks. It's sports
I wish I wish I didn't care as much as I cared. I am jealous of people who can
Compartmentalize and not let it bother them. I care a lot and it just fucking sucks
I mean you were you like you were today you were you were down. Yeah, I was down. But also
in the grand scheme of things house money. Yeah. Well, you got to win. Yeah, not expect
to be there. Got a big win. Probably the biggest in program history and got to see it. So I
was I was feeling good. I was feeling good. I'll feel better tomorrow. Now I'm a little
bit down. But in the grand scheme of things, it's like, this was a good March for me. Yeah. When Hank loses
it, it doesn't shock. Yeah. It was the show. Yeah. So I mean everyone deals with their
losses different ways. Okay. I'm good. You also a big cat. I mean, oh, here it comes.
All right. Here it comes. Finally. There was a point when you were, you were, you were
lashing out and you were like, fuck everyone that's texting me. Fuck you. Oh Hank. Finally. There was a point when you were you were you were lashing
out and you were like fuck everyone that's texting me. Fuck you Max Homer. Yeah. Fuck
you. Con. Well these I would never do this way. Do that all the time. No I don't. When
have I done that. What if I text you right after a lot. We have to know. We have to know.
We have to show how many times have you texted that. Oh no. Oh wait no. Regular game. That's with max. It happens. It does happen all the time, but only to max. But
are we talking about playoffs? Cause first of all, we're watching playoffs together.
But like if it was, yeah, sell the same of the Celtics blue in the playoffs. I've done
that. I've texted you. Yeah. I don't know. I don't think that's true. I do not think
that's true. And I also don't text random people like you and I are like
our relationship different than fucking Spencer Hawes who I haven't talked to in a year just
texting me out of nowhere talking shit. That's a weird move. Captain cons. I'm not going
to talk to him for a year. I know you text someone that you don't like talk to regularly.
Okay, but wait, no, no, no. Bad loss. I would not. I'm not sure. I'm not sure if he also
texted you individually, but
he texted the group chat that we're on where he added Frank Kaminsky where he says things
about part of my take. I understand. But he added Frank Kaminsky and he started a new
group chat. I do not. When someone's losing in the middle of a game, I do not text them
in the middle of the game. Like, Oh, person I don't talk to. Is that not? That's fair.
Do I do that? Talk to I don't talk. Like I was listening to people who I don't talk to. Is that not? That's fair. That's do I do that? I don't
talk like I was listening to people who I don't talk to regularly. We're still trying
and they just start in results. So I was still trying to face in the middle. This was in
the middle of that. And it's, I was like, Ryan, hang up your phone. Like please don't
FaceTime right now. He's like, he's not going to pick up like, like even the Stanford Steve's
SCP thing. That's a regular season game. If someone wanted to talk shit during a regular
season game, I don't care. Scott, when Scott texts me after Maryland beats Wisconsin, I
don't care. A tournament game. It sucked. Now it's so hot, but I didn't want to respond.
There is also, I didn't, there is a max into this. I just didn't respond. There is a max
exception because it, those texts do happen
But strictly with max yeah, that's probably fair, but that also you do that you do that
Yeah, I do yeah, I idea for sure would you ever text someone who you don't talk to regularly?
during a bad loss
talking shit
That is a crazy move to me if it was like a friend like if I yeah if it was a friend that That is a crazy move to me. If it was like a friend, like if I, yeah,
if it was a friend that that's a crazy, maybe haven't talked to in a year, but like, yeah,
the time was right. I might still, I think that's a crazy move. And like Twitter's totally
different because you can just not look at Twitter. Like I know I'm going to get shit
on Twitter. Who cares about Twitter? The text feels personal when someone texts you in the
middle of a torture. Like if I have, I have a friend that went to Virginia Tech that like
we don't talk day to day.
You would do that?
I don't think I would.
I would wait a day and then I would talk shit.
Did you text Matt Jones from Kentucky during the loss?
No.
Fuck no.
That would be crazy.
Circumstantially, I'm not gonna say I wouldn't
because I guess maybe, I don't know.
I just can't think of the time where I've done that to someone I don't regularly talk to the only exception being if my team's
Playing their team if so if like if BFD texts me, that's totally fine if it's
Like that's that makes sense if your team is involved but like third party out of nowhere
Text that I haven't talked to this person in months. I'm like, I'm not responding to that
Yeah, I didn't do I didn I like I wasn't like I responded
Fuck you don't ever talk to me again. I'm just not responding. Yeah, would you respond to that?
Would you text someone you don't talk to I I well so Marty texted me during this game
But he's a Duke fan, right and then I was just like I don't that's kind of expected. Yeah, you lashed out
Yeah, I just said why is it texting me? I don't want to respond to this
But you know, it's if your team's playing the other person's team I think that's totally fair. But yeah, we should just clarify that with Max. That's fine. Max does not apply to these rules
Yeah, man. What would you do?
We get 90% of our joy on this podcast out of out of doing that exact thing to Max
Would you text a random person you haven't talked to in a while?
And again, it's not like I hate these people. I just not gonna respond
There's one kid in particular that I'm these people. I just not going to respond.
There's one kid in particular that I'm thinking of that I would.
So it sounds like everyone has one.
Mine's Max.
But it sounds like you're a lot of people's one person.
Well, yeah, I knew I knew what's coming when I went like the Twitter like when everyone
shits on my throat, I know what's coming.
I can deal with it.
The text just feels personal.
So I'm just not going to respond.
When home attacks at us, I just want to respond to be polite, but I did not expect you to respond to it. Yeah
I also will I will text someone during the loss being like you're getting both of you
Changed it as well because it's oh, yeah, I get it. I get the joe's I got the joke
I'll text someone like can
consoling them like when Titus when that when
Ohio State lost
that game in the Big Ten championship I texted him like an hour later I was like
the foul discrepancies insane like you guys got fucked actually this was a
funny text from Max Alma this is to me and big cat at 930 I thought it was kind
of vanilla hey just wanted to let you know I'm watching the game and I'm
rooting for your team I know he'll be bad But that makes it even better. Oh shoot. I didn't mean to send this to both of you guys. That's like alright
I mean you do that all the time. Yeah
Yeah, all right, so that's what was on your what else what else you mad at me for
Seems like you're very mad
I get it. That was my only note my only you know we know, we did come to it. We had a, we had a long conversation before the outburst was pregame, which I thought were still within
the lines of, yeah, I thought that Hank did something like laws of engagement. He just
asked me over and over in the kitchen. Will you be mad if I, if I go really hard and I
said yes, over and over and then he asked me a different way and I'd say yes. And it
was like, we had the same conversation for maybe 20 minutes where I was like,
I don't know how I can answer this differently
than I care a lot, I really want to win this game.
So you got pretty mad at him.
Well, cause it was like I was talking to,
like he was just basically gonna ask the question
until I was like, you know what, I don't care.
But it was never gonna happen.
The irony in this is that Big Cat did actually
get mad at you for asking him if he would get mad at you.
Cause he asked me so many times. You asking him if he would get mad at you.
Because he asked me so many times.
Yeah, you asked him if he would get mad too many times.
So many times that it was like, I can't, there's nothing I can do here.
We're not going to ever see eye to eye.
But that was, you know, months ago at this point.
Yeah, I moved on when I saw you.
I was like, I can't be mad at you.
I saw your face, cute ass face on Saturday morning.
Oh, so you went to bed mad. I went to bed in the worst mood ever
You can't you never go to bed mad. I went to it's like I feel like I'm pretty good for a
Really really bad mood for about 12 hours after a bad loss and then I can move on isn't that not fair?
Can we all agree that's fair? Yeah, that's that's a it feels like it's a fair thing to do
12 hours 24 hours. I mean Hank you are in a bad mood when you lose. Yeah, yeah, right. That's not dead. It's natural
We just have to sometimes get on here and talk about it
Like I would have it would I would have talked about on Friday night if we had the show and it would have been similar
We suck it would have been it would have been a bad show if we'd done that.
I thought about hitting you guys up and being like,
time capsule, should we record something?
It would have been the same thing.
It would have just been, we suck, that sucked.
It was torture.
No, but I would have been so happy.
Yeah, well you still were happy today.
I was happy, I came in happy.
I woke up happy this morning.
Yeah, you were happy yesterday.
I got all your happiness.
I've been happy for the last week and a half. Sports has made me happy every day for the last week and a half and now sports has made me sad.
Not me. Everything sucks. Everything fucking sucks. I feel like Max.
Max, I would have rather had Max's way out. The NIT would have been way better. No one gives a fuck.
Wisconsin went to the final four of the NIT last year. No one gave a fuck so much better to not have
Like a very public everyone's watching your failure and the Friday night time slot is the worst
He's meant to wait for you have to wait and then and then it's like all everyone thinks about after the first the
Conclusion of the first round is that and everyone everyone's like, man, that was bad.
And I just sat there with it.
Or if you're good, you're like, man, that was good.
Yeah, no, it's great for you.
And then you do something dumb like put a bet on JMU
to win the national championship right afterwards.
I did get one guy, one email from a guy.
Now I have to look at that future
for the rest of the tournament.
That's brutal.
Because it doesn't cash out or doesn't cancel out until, yeah.
I got an email from one guy who was like,
the badgers suck and I hope you die and your email from one guy who was like, the Badgers suck
and I hope you die and your kids die.
And I was like, that felt a little far.
But everyone else was totally fair to just shit on me.
I deserved it.
My team was an embarrassment to watch.
And I'm sorry that people had to watch it.
That's how bad I felt.
When you have to say sorry to, we were watching in the cave,
I had to move it to the little TV.
Yeah.
Because I was like, I don't want you guys
to have to watch this anymore.
Yeah, we did that today with the Duke JMUM.U. game too. It's embarrassing. All
right. So it seems like we're good, Hank. You were holding that in for a long time.
I got it out. Yeah. I could tell that something. Yeah, no, I could too. I mean, that's just
not true, but we're good. Yeah. And now we're on to bigger and better things. You got your
beloved Duke. Yeah. Now you're Duke. Now you're Duke I want Hank I want dookie Hank back Hank's just taking off a series of masks in the first one
He's just ripped off the JMU mask. I'm a Duke fan all along. Hey cuz I love Duke Hank is electric
Let's go to the final four Duke Hank. Okay
Get the jumpsuit back
I got a I actually got rid of my Duke stuff when I moved or I had one sweatshirt left and I didn't make the cut
I think that if Duke loses to Houston, you should have to jump in that pool
And put a new hole in her and and then run to the shower. I'm going to Dallas, but we'll see yeah
You're going to Dallas, buddy
You got it
You got a jump in the pool and then run through the house to the shower and try not to fall.
You have a tee time in Dallas?
Here, it's going to be like 70 degrees.
No, tee time means like Tiffany.
It's an abbreviation.
It's got tee time.
Yeah.
Yeah, it did snow.
That was the other.
It snowed on Friday here.
And I was just like, I woke up, and I was like, fucking Hank.
Yeah.
But he's right.
It's been a mild winter.
He has called it.
All right, let's do Who's Back of the Week,
and then we'll get to our interviews.
OK, Who's Back of the Week is brought to you
by our friends at Coors Light.
We have the chill calendar.
The chill islander.
For March Madness.
Got it right here.
We opened up the first two on Thursday's show, right?
On Friday?
Yes.
So all right, so we got how many more now?
Three more?
Do we have, yeah, we have, it's the, what, how how many more now three more do we have yeah, we have it's the
What how many yeah three more are we doing two more? I don't know how days were okay It works either reserved my bracket kicked off today, and I have enough on my mind without someone trying to steal my seat
Will I go to the bathroom? Oh, I like that seat so you put that in a bar seat savers
Well, you're having a nice take or slight take how many we open in max
It's more than that because the playing games were were wanted to
wanted to oh so tell me when to stop tell me when to stop so Thursday
Friday Saturday Sunday so for I got a foam no five five today's Monday I got
a home finger right here that's the size of a normal finger it says we're number
one actually Hank
This is this is Duke colors. Hmm. If you want an extra anger
No, you want an extra finger for this weekend? Yeah, sure. Okay. Okay
By the way when you choose Coors light
Choose to rise above it all choose chill choose Coors like it Coors light deliver straight to your door with instacart by going to Coors light
Dot-com slash take celebrate response we Coors Brewing Company Golden Colorado what's the next one?
Some chill tea. Chill tea. Some chill tea here you go for your tea time Hank. Chill
tea. And then we're doing six. Last one six.
Oh this is a big one. We got a flop sweat bracket poncho.
Oh like a placemat for your brackets so you don't spill stuff on it.
We got some bracket accidents, some bra accidents recently.
And some coffee, some body armor got spilled on, some Coors Light got spilled on some of
the brackets.
This is perfect.
Keep your brackets safe. Okay. Beautiful. So thank you to Coors Light, got spilled on some of the brackets. This is perfect. Keep your brackets safe.
Okay. Beautiful. So thank you to Coors Light and the Chill calendar. Again, when you choose to rise above it all, choose Chill, choose Coors Light. Get Coors Light delivered straight to your door
with Instacart by going to coreslight.com slash take, celebrate, responsibly Coors Brewing Company,
Golden, Colorado. Who's back of the week, Hank? My who's back of the week is Rat Beef.
Rat Beef or Rat Beef? Rap Beef. Rap Beef. sure you guys are caught up. I'm very interested to hear
Whose side you're on between?
future Kendra Klamar
J. Cole Drake
Say it again give us our options again future Kendra Klamar
Metro Boomin Metro
Drake J. Cole. I think I think I'm on Drake's side I like Metro woman was that right I mean it's it's you know it's it's what's the beef
dealer's choice okay are you on I think I'm on on future and Kendrick oh so it's 2v2 shit I should
have said future I think it's really 2v1, so Future and Metro Boomin released an album that was basically
all a response to Drake, and there was a song that Kendrick Lamar was featured on where
he took direct shots at Drake.
So it's kind of, you know, it's a Civil War situation.
There's obviously interpersonal beefs in between the big beef, but...
Drake is the big beef.
It's basically future and
Metro I've seen the video Drake got it apparently it's over a girl but who
knows wait so I picked future by picturing yeah pitching picking Metro
Boomin mm-hmm okay so you got two for one yeah all right who side are you on
he's a future in Metro Boomin Metro Boomer. Metro Boomer.
Okay.
Yeah.
Alright, I'm glad we got to the bottom of that.
I now feel confident knowing that I can walk around if someone asks me this question.
I'm like, future.
Drake.
Whoa.
Damn, dude.
Is this the start?
Is this the start?
Is this the start?
Hank, be careful who you root for.
Be careful.
Hank, don't you fucking root for future in front of me.
Be careful.
You don't care about future. Be careful. Hank, don't you fucking root for future in front of me. Be careful. You don't care about future.
Be careful.
My Who's Back of the Week is Dos Acero.
The US Men's National Team won the, I think it's a three-peat for us in the CONCACAF
Nations League Cup Final Trophy.
I don't know, it's a made-up tournament that CONCACAF made up, but we beat Mexico two to
nothing, which is always awesome when we beat them two to nothing.
So our team's really fucking good. Our team's awesome good our coaches a shithead geo rain is awesome, too
We got a really good team
I'm still I'm staying my prediction that we need to make it if we don't make it to at least the quarterfinals in
The next World Cup massive disappointment is there soccer in the Olympics
Yeah Yeah, there is.
I don't know.
Sure.
Yeah.
No one really cares about it.
What tournament was this?
It was the Nations League final cup trophy, CONCACAF.
No thanks.
Yeah, no.
It was, but USA winning Dos Acero was always good against Mexico.
Yeah, I just, what's that again?
Dos Acero.
No, no, no.
I know that part.
The trophy of the CONCACAF League of Nations final. If it's more than like? No, no, I know that part the trophy of the conca calf League of Nations
Final if it's more than like four words, I'm out. I think it's I think the actual name for is the conca calf Nations League
cup
Yeah, anyways, it's a made-up. It's a made-up tournament
So made a few years ago because that's what conca calf does just get more TV stuff, but we beat Mexico
I like Pete in Mexico and our young guys look awesome. We had probably the goal of the year from Tyler Adams. He shot one from like 35
yards out. Fucking knuckleball rocket. It was great. So
Whole of the year.
I'm buying stock.
We're only in March.
I'm buying stock. I'm buying stock in the national team.
Okay. My who's back of the week is Caitlin Clark. We had the women's tournament start
and I am so excited for Caitlin Clark
in Iowa to keep advancing because it's getting nuclear.
Caitlin Clark head butted a ball.
A ball?
Yeah.
People were like, what a brat.
Disgusting.
I was like, what?
I don't know.
How is that a brat?
She was frustrated.
Did she head butt out of frustration or out of what she said?
It was out of frustration.
They were struggling with Holy Cross.
They were up like 20.
Was she mad at the ball? It's just it's gotten to a point where I don't even know
How how people have found this much hate in their heart for someone again? I like it though
Yeah, no, I do too, but it's it's out of control. Yeah, I love out of control actually love it
I love it when when you can hate a female athlete enough to have takes on it for yeah
She she has like Duke times 10 hate.
Yeah.
It's crazy.
Also women's tournament,
cause Kim Mulkey did a press conference saying
she's got a hit piece going against her,
but it's not out yet.
It was an interesting strategy on her part.
No idea what the article is gonna be about.
But I wanna read it now.
Now I wanna read it.
Oh yeah.
I did not care about this article until I heard about it because Kim Olkey did a press conference to talk about
How no one should read the article that's gonna come yes, I would agree with that interesting strategy Kim
Yeah, did you guys see the story from the referee in?
Chattanooga versus NC State women yeah, yeah, that was crazy
They pulled the ref at halftime because they realized that she went to school to chat at Chattanooga
Yeah, she got her master's there, right?
Yeah, and you're supposed to disclose it and she didn't disclose it before hands. It's just crazy
They pulled her in the middle of the game. Yeah, I like that's a win for integrity though. Absolutely I wonder yeah, I wonder who found out about that. You know what? I bet I bet it was somebody online
I bet somebody online like a real freak a real like die-hard fan was like this ref has given us the worst calls
I'm gonna look up her bio and then they're like, oh shit. She actually went to that school
I bet it was like a golf thing where they called in the violation and they took action
Yeah, I don't know who alerted who in the middle of the game, but it happened respect
Oh also Donald Trump's back cuz he won another club championship this weekend
Yeah, I just saw dudes the best golfer of all time deep field deep field some of the it was a very golfing field
He said I actually respect the fuck out of him just having tournaments that he wins cuz I would do the same thing
Yeah, if I had my own club, I would just be like, yeah, let's all play and I'm gonna win
I won again and I want everyone to do a gala for me after Mm-hmm where I get my trophy. I think he won it he won a couple days ago
But now he's doing a big ceremony tonight presenting himself with a trophy that rocks
Yeah, that's if you if you have a fuckload of money
And you don't do stuff like that and you don't you either have to own a sports team
Yeah, or you have to constantly dominate your friends at sports where you get to decide the rules
I said that I've said this before but I our old friend Jericho Abbas if I was like a billionaire I'd build a
I'd build a baseball field in my backyard and I would have I would pay him a million dollars where he had to pitch to me
Like whenever I wanted just call him up like you had to come pitch to me
But he had to fucking let me just hit Dingers off him. Mm-hmm. So every day I could just like I want to hit a few dingers call him up
And he's got to give me just the the worst and he's got to act like he's upset
Mm-hmm, then like god damn it not again, but wait big cat at the stadium that you would build
Would you pay for your own fucking stadium? I would pay for my own fucking stadium. It'd be so sick
It'd probably be wiffle ball if I'm being on. Oh, I love whiffleball fields that look like major league
baseball fields.
Yeah, if we're being honest, it would be a whiffleball field
for sure.
All right, Jake, your Who's Back.
My Who's Back of the week is Michigan basketball.
Yes.
We have the coaching carousel begin and recurring guest Dusty
May is going from FAU to Ann Arbor.
People thought he was going to go to Indiana. He's an Indiana
boy.
Wouldn't it be so confusing if Dusty May, like he was a new Tom Izzo,
so it was January, February, May.
Yeah. April, May.
Yeah. We sleep in May.
Yeah, we sleep in May.
John Rossi is for sure gonna do that.
Rossi was almost on the court.
Yeah.
At the end of that A&M game.
Rossi was playing defense against the inbound guy.
Yeah.
I got comment from our colleague, Whiteboy Rick,
who's an Indiana fan because Indiana fans
I think they dusty May was on their list. Yeah
He I think he what he was on he was a manager on one of the Bobby night teams. Maybe yeah last ones
Either way, I asked him for comment and he said because I was like, oh that sucks
You probably had dusty man on your list if you had fired Mike Woods and he had a great response
He said no, this is good. He had a great response.
He said, no, this is good.
He's going to prove that he can win with the big boys.
Then he'll take the Indiana job.
Which is an even bigger boy.
So Michigan's just stepping stone for Indiana.
Yeah, yeah.
I love that.
I love the Indiana delusion.
He's going to go.
He's going to win a couple of Big Ten titles.
Beating Indiana and then he's going to be like, I want to join Indiana.
That's what Brad Stevens is doing.
He got to the NBA, learned how to coach in the NBA then he transitioned to front office
So he learns how to assemble a great team right and now that he's got like a full
360 degree view of how to actually run an operation then he'll come back to Indiana right yeah
With with dusty May I I was thinking about this when they announced the hiring is he automatically a Michigan man
Or do you have to have tweeted Michigan man? Do you have to prove yourself? Do you have to do something Michigan?
No, he's definitely he's also probably not tall enough to be a Michigan if we're honest. Yes, we met usually tall
Yeah, they're hardball like okay. Yeah, so football and basketball for me. Like Dave is not
Not a Michigan man not tall enough
Real Michigan man.
You have to earn your man.
Like strong stock.
I'll never be Michigan man.
I like the high.
You'll never be a Michigan man.
I don't wanna be Michigan man.
I think they're gonna be back quickly.
Okay, yeah, no, he's a great coach.
A great coach.
Great guy.
Is he gonna bring Golden with him?
Yeah, all those guys still have eligibility,
so it'll be interesting to see if he brings any of those
guys from FAU, from Boca to Ann Arbor. Yeah, I would not go. I'll just say that if I was yeah if I was golden
But and I'd be like do I want to move to Michigan and away from the beach? No counterpoint
You could become a Michigan man. He is in Michigan. He's tall enough. He could be a Michigan man for life
I'd rather be a Florida man Florida men have way more fun. Yeah get to do way better drugs in Florida
All right, let's get to our interviews. We got two great ones with Jack Goukki and DJ Burns and then
the other side we'll wrap up the show. Maybe we'll talk about the coaches
picture real quick because I still have to do that blog. Let's do it. Give me some help.
Before we get to Jack Goukki, he's brought to you by our great friends over
at Visible. Ever wish you could call foul on your wireless carrier for their
hidden fees? Then it's time to switch to Visible. Switch to Visible, the wireless
company with nothing to hide. Get one-line wireless with unlimited 5G data
powered by Verizon. Just $25 a month, every month, taxes and fees included.
That's a great deal. You get one-line wireless, just $25 a month, taxes and
fees included. Visible is the wireless company with nothing to hide. No hidden fees, no gotchas, unlimited 5G data powered by Verizon.
Don't let hidden fees stop you from being a fan of wireless.
Switch to Visible and save.
Switch now at visible.com, rate with service on the Visible plan.
For additional terms and network management practices, see visible.com.
Now here's Jack Goukhy.
OK, we now welcome on a very special guest. He captured the hearts of America for about 48 hours.
It is Jack Goukhy from Oakland, who
had the huge upset on Thursday night at Kentucky,
lost in overtime on Saturday night,
which we apologize for.
We were pulling for you very, very hard, Jack, but we still wanted to have you on because
we'll start here and you can tell me if this is wrong or not, but you were built in a lab
to be the perfect March Madness guy.
Like the look, the team, the beating Kentucky, the fact that literally every shot you take
is a made three.
Did you know that going in? You're like like if I have a good game like I'm gonna
I'm gonna just take over the country for a day
Well first off. Thanks for having me on guys. This is awesome
But I mean yeah, I guess looking back on it
I didn't really expect that or think about it that way
but now that you kind of lay it all out and I mean you see all the memes and all the
Just everything going around I would have never expected all that but it all kind of lay it all out and I mean, you see all the memes and all the just everything going around, I would have never expected all that, but it all kind of
just fit together like you said. And yeah, I guess the story just, it was just too perfect
and people saying it's an industry plan and all that stuff is just crazy.
Yeah. Yeah. You were, you're an industry player.
And you know what? I enjoyed every second of the CIA op. I, I really did got caught up in Gulk-E-Mania. Yeah. They finally did something right. Yeah.
The stat that was going viral was your breakdown of three-point attempts to two-point attempts this
season. So you attempted two two-point, or excuse me, eight two-point shots all year long. Do you
even practice mid-range? So I tell my teammates this year, I'm like, Hey guys, I used to shoot twos. I used to
make a couple of twos a game, but they just do not believe me. Um, ever since the year
started coach campy just kind of set me up as, as the three point specialist. And to
be honest, this whole season I have, I really haven't gone in the gym and shot many tubes
Yeah, let's just get in there get a couple form shots and then start launching three
So does that mess with your foul shooting at all because I've always thought like if a guy's a three-point specialist at some point
He's not he's not working on mid-range game. So that could impact you from the foul line
We were actually saying that you should take your foul shots from the very very top of the key like yeah back up five feet. I
that you should take your foul shots from the very, very top of the key. Like back up five feet. I, I, I definitely should, man. I mean, this was my worst free throw shooting
year in a long time. So something was, something was definitely up. Maybe I should have just
been shooting them from half court or something. Yeah. Close. Yeah. You were too close. So
going back to Thursday night, cause it was, it was an incredible game taking down Kentucky.
The way I put it is like you
know all those Kentucky guys are going to a lot of them are going to go on to be pros
make millions of millions of dollars but you basically you and your teammates can be like
yeah we had him one night. We took it. We took him down one night and that's one of
the coolest things. That's why we love this tournament. At what point in the game though
were you guys like wait we can play with them. Like this is not going to be a game where they can just overpower us.
Yeah, I think the first couple minutes of the game, they did a really good job of kind of imposing their will as Kentucky,
as like a power five school where they just kind of fed the ball inside and got a couple quick buckets on us.
But I think it was probably like the third media timeout.
So like about halfway through the first half where we might've been tied or down one, something like that. And
we're just like, Hey, if we've hung with them for 10 minutes, like we might as well just
go out here and do this thing. Like, let's just go do it. Let's shock the nation and
have some fun with it. And we kind of just ran with it from there.
Yeah. Were you, were you at any point, did you feel at any point that you were in the
zone? Cause it felt like that. Cause some of the shots you were you were you at any point? Did you feel at any point that you were in the zone? Because it felt like that because some of the shots you were making were ridiculous where it's like no one should be shooting this
Like falling away hand in the face being you know guys trying to run after you
Did you feel like you had reached the zone at any point? Yeah, it was just a classic game for me
If for anyone who's like watched my career, they know I miss open threes and I make the hardest threes
Yes, I don't know why that is, but, uh, I, yeah, I, there was a time in the first
half, I think I made like three or four in a row and a couple of them, I kind of
threw up and didn't even see them go in. I kind of thought they were bricks.
And then everyone was just like cheering and I was like, okay, I'll take it.
Like, yeah, that's incredible.
Did you know you were going to be wet before the game? Like in warmups, were
you like, yeah, tonight's, tonight's the night. Uh, I was feeling good. Yeah. Uh, a couple Did you know you were going to be wet before the game? Like in warmups, were you like, yeah, tonight's the night?
I was feeling good, yeah.
A couple of the Kentucky guys were chirping me a little bit
in warmups because of some comments I made
in the pregame interviews.
So at that point, I was like, OK, I got to show out today,
or else I'm going to be getting clowned the entire game.
Would you say pregame?
So in the pregame interview, I guess
it was the day before pre practice,
they were people were asking me about Kentucky and and I told them,
like they're obviously tremendous shooting team shoot the best percentage of the country. But I think our team shoots it better.
And they just ran with that.
Their their fans said, oh, this is ridiculous.
Blah, blah, blah.
So then before the game, their players were just saying, like, you better
you better have a good night or else you can't be saying stuff like that.
And then they didn't really say anything the entire game. No. Yeah. No. Yeah. You were
dead right. What is it? What is your range? Man. As soon as you walk in the gym, you got
to start firing anywhere. Anywhere. My teammates are going to pass me the ball. I'm putting
it up. Yeah. And we, by the way, so the other part of the perfect, like you're an industry
plant for March Madness, you had an NIL deal almost like 10 seconds
after you got off the court. You also, we go buy the shirts in our Barstool store. We
did an NIL deal with Jack. So those are, those are live right now. But what, how quickly
did that all take place? Like was it just, you were in the locker room and you're like,
all right, now I got to do an ad tomorrow. No, you guys are going to love this. So my
phone obviously was just blowing up. I didn't even want to look at it. A couple of my buddies are just like, dude, we'll just set up an
email for you and we'll do it all. So I didn't even see any of it. It was just, it was just
them going through these emails and being like, oh, let's do this one. Let's do this
one. This is a good one. This is a bad one. That's incredible. They picked it. Just my
two, two dumb guys just running the, running the email, picking the TurboTax and
I go in the hotel ballroom and shoot a video and everyone's telling me it's so amazing
because it's so bad.
Yeah, it's so perfect.
The TurboTax, that contributed to the conspiracies out there because like, wait, now he's doing
an ad where he's just getting the government paid.
Yeah.
Doing an ad right before we have to pay our taxes.
Right now. But it was, credit to your dumb friends because that's like that's
a pretty good NIL deal to just have come through at the last second. No. Yeah. Shout out to
them. They made it happen. Yeah. That's all. That's perfect. Yes. What's next for you?
What do you have on the horizon right now? Um, so I just got invited to the final four
to do a three point contest there. So I'm excited for that. That'll be
fun. Do you need one of us to put a hand in your face for it?
Because like you said, I think I would shoot better. Yeah.
Come out. Uh, yeah. So maybe I'll run into you guys out
there. That'll be awesome. Yeah. Um, and then after that,
just, uh, gonna try to play pro. I have no idea where I'm
gonna end up, but just gonna kind of go through the process during the summer and maybe I'll be overseas.
Maybe I'll be, you know, G league or whatever it is, but just going to try to keep playing
basketball and, and avoid the car salesman or insurance jobs as long as possible.
Yeah. I think I said on the stream last night, I was like, this guy is so perfect. Like he
probably already has a job at Deloitte lined up. Um I want yeah I mean I want to I want more Jack Goukhi on
the on the basketball court. I also said I was like we have to hire him so I think you
have a standing job here. I kind of got creepy though I was like I don't even I didn't want
to do anything I just want to have him and like whenever someone comes over we're just like hey you want to see our guy shoot some threes. No it's like we got a though. I was like, I don't even, I didn't want to do anything. I just want to have him. And like whenever someone comes over, we're just like, Hey, you want
to see our guy shoot some threes? No, it's like, yeah, we would be like, okay, here's
our popcorn machine right there. There's the gambling cave. There's our goal key. Yeah.
Your job is just hit threes all day long. I'll just be a prop. And then if I miss a couple
threes, you guys just gotta kick me to the curb. I mean, we might, we might need you
if we ever have to do the free throw competition
again like that. You'll be the first call. Yeah. But yeah, but from the three point line.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Great. Those for everybody else. I'll shoot deep threes. Did you get
a text from JJ watt? I did. Yeah. That was pretty cool. That was pretty cool. Oh, of
course he's trying to get, he's trying to get in the limelight here. What'd he say?
I should have, uh, JJ, don't, but that
would have been, oh, that would have been, say that would have been like flashbacks for
him. Yeah. He was like, what the fuck did you, did you grow up like watching JJ watt
play in the NFL? Oh yeah. I mean he, uh, so I'm trying to think what year he graduated
high school, but I saw him a little bit in high school. I saw him at Wisconsin and obviously
he was at Central Michigan before that
But yeah, he was just an absolute sensation in Pewaukee. Everyone
Everyone knows JJ watt. Everyone knows TJ watt. Those guys are there
They're the top standard of in Pewaukee
Yeah, did you did you ever think that did you ever try to go to Madison because I would have loved the Gulk in my life
team I root for
They never they never really reached out.
So that wasn't really, uh, that wasn't in the cards, but they don't recruit
Wisconsin very well. I'm sure you know that.
We need to get, we, you know, we need to get you an extra COVID year.
Would you play? I just want to watch more Goukki just hitting three.
I'm gonna get even more shit for how old I am. If I do one more year.
No one's going to complain. Like you could,
you could play in the next three March madnesses and people would be like, awesome. More gold.
Keep more Gouki going. And then, so a question, obviously the NCC game didn't, didn't go your
guys way. You guys fought your asses off, went to overtime. I noticed though, obviously
like it was clear that NCC was like, we cannot let this guy be open ever. Did you notice
it from the jump? Like that it was totally different than the Kentucky game where Kentucky almost
no shots a cow, but it felt like they didn't really understand that you could hit anything.
NC State was like, there was a guy glued to you and you still scored.
Yeah, it was, uh, it was definitely different from Kentucky. Kentucky was just guarding
in a different way that, um, you don't typically guard like really good
shooters but NC State, they just, they said we're gonna get physical.
We're gonna foul until the refs call it and I mean credit to them.
They were just physical the entire game and kind of mucking things up and, and I was just
trying to get loose in transition because they were doing such a good job in the half
court of, of just ruining everything to be honest.
So just try to get loose in half court pump pump fake, have the guys fly by. And luckily it worked a couple of times, but I wish we could
have made a couple more down the stretch, obviously.
Yeah. When you did the pump fake, every pump fake. And we also had a rule in the gambling
cave because we're like, you know, we were watching games for four days and I told everyone
they cannot say like, you know, wet or anything like that, unless it's a Gullke shot, because
I've never been more confident that NCC game you had one shot where it didn't even leave your hands and I was like good
three good and it was just like I was like the only person I'll do that for is like Steph
Curry and goal key. That's it. I love it. I'll take that comparison any day of the week.
Do you have like a favorite thing that you say right as the ball leaves your hands? Like
some people say water. Some people say butter wet WAP. I usually say like, like, why'd you let me get
that off? Oh yeah. I like that. Like why are you letting me shoot? You know better than
that. Yeah. Just school. Yeah. A little school. Yeah. That's a good one. What, what, um, so
are you still in school? You're not in school. Are you in school? I mean, technically, but
it's tough. It's tough to lock in guys. I'm not gonna lie. I would imagine. Yeah, we, I do want to get out of one, uh, head of one thing. I might
have said you, you said on Thursday night, we're not a Cinderella. I loved that. I was
like, let's go. You're, you're, uh, Oakland, but Oakland's president had a Cinderella slipper
in front of her. And in the heat of the moment, I might've said some things that were, you
know, anger induced. So I just want to apologize to that. If you ever see her walking around and just be like,
Hey, that guy didn't mean that. He was just rooting really hard for Goukis. What about,
so your coach also was a great story when you, what was the process? Cause you were
at Hillsdale for four years. Then you end up going to Oakland. What was, what sold you
on Oakland? Was it, was it coach? Yeah. I mean, I mean he's just had a tremendous history of guys
like me that just shoot a bunch of threes. And I mean, you guys have probably heard of
like Max Hooper and maybe even Travis Bader, guys that just launched threes. And he just
called me and said, Hey, I want you to watch this film with me and see like what these
guys have done in the past. I think it'll be a good role for you. And I just watched
it and I was like, it doesn't get much better than that. I mean, you, you guys know how it is. Like if you
can just go out there and launch threes, it's, it's a, it's a good life. So it fit really
well. And I was just like, I'm not going to find a better place than this. And I think
we could be really successful.
I had a theory that you went there because they're, they're half court logo is so big
at your gym that you were like, I'm going to hit all the logo threes.
No, you always got to walk. When you walk into gym and you got to look for the logos and be like, which spot is the
most strategic for me to hit some logo threes where I'm really only two feet behind the
line. Yeah. I think Oakland might have maybe the number one gym in America with that. Oh
yeah. We got, we got the Michigan state thing out there where you can be, you can be like
one and a half feet behind the line and you're shooting a logo three and then if you're shooting
from the bear, you can be like three feet. So you can get a bunch of
them up for sure.
I love it. That's great. All right. Well last question, rowback question, r-h-o-b-a-c-k.com
promo code take 20% off your first purchase. Q-zips, polos, hoodies, joggers, shorts, rowback.com
promo code take. If I told you open gym, a hundred th say for let's say hypothetically it's a like high school
line and it's actually it's actually our office hundred threes how many are you making high
school line honestly I'm I'm probably making more at the college line the high school oh
I just haven't shot high school line in five six years okay so you could step back you
shoot from wherever but how many you're making empty gym? Okay. Empty gym. I'm going
to set the line at, I'd say like 78 and a half. Okay. Well, we open invite to come to
Chicago and let's do that video because I mean, it's, you know, our hour and 15 drive
from Milwaukee. Whenever you're back, come on down. We'll do it 78 and a half. I'm taking the over. Yeah. Probably the over on that one. I'm taking the over all day.
I'm telling you, I'm making, if you're, if you want threes off the, off the move and sprinting,
I'll make 90, but okay, we'll do that. Yes. I love it. All right. So we're doing it.
I actually think we could put you at one end and then put maybe, uh, like our worst player at the
other end with one basketball and you would
Outscore him if all that other guy had to do is just hit layups over and over
Yeah, yeah, let's do that. Actually. I guarantee you I will make more threes than your worst player makes. All right
We'll do a Jerry after dark. Oh, yeah
You know that though, yeah
You know that though. Yeah.
Oh yeah.
I've never seen it all.
Well Jack, thank you so much man.
We really enjoyed watching you play and best of luck and we gotta have you come to the
office and do a challenge.
Yeah that sounds great.
Thanks for having me on guys and I'm excited to come in.
That'll be a lot of fun.
Awesome.
Jack Golke was brought to you by Topgolf.
It's golf.
It's not golf. It's Topgolf.
If you've never heard of them, they have all the stuff to make them legit golf.
Balls, clubs, turf, even a ball picker-upper-cart thing.
But they're very much not golf too. We're talking loud music, giant targets, climate controlled bays,
and unbeatable food and drinks day or night.
There are a lot of big sports moments coming up soon, especially in March if you're into college basketball and baseball. So if you want to
catch the games as you play, Topgolf is the place. Since they want everyone to play, they just launched
half off golf Monday through Wednesday when you book in their app. All you have to do is book a
Monday through Wednesday in their app and you're going to get half off the golf. Of course, even
they have some rules. half off golf Monday through Wednesday
applies to game play only,
isn't offered at the Vegas venue,
and it's only available when you book in their app.
For full details on the offer,
visit topgolf.com slash PMT.
That's topgolf.com slash PMT.
And now here's DJ Burns.
Okay, we now welcome on a very special guest.
He is starting center for NC State, the Sweet 16 bound NC State Wolf Pack.
It is DJ Burns.
DJ, congratulations, first of all.
And second of all, are you tired yet?
Because you guys have won now seven games in 12 days.
It's an incredible run.
Are you tired?
I'm not too tired yet.
Not yet, not yet.
OK.
OK.
Yeah, it's been a wild run, like going back to the ACC
tournament, watching you guys really
play your way into form.
It was awesome, watching you run through that tournament.
At some point, did you feel yourself like going
into the tournament? Did you know that you had it in you to
make a run or did it take a little momentum? Maybe, you
know, like hit a big shot against UVA to really buy in
and believe that this team can be, you know, a special team.
Yeah, I definitely say we we knew we could do it, but that
shot definitely sent us right over the top, man. That was the
point where we knew we just needed to fight a little bit more and we were going to get it done.
Yeah. And it's, I mean, it's, yeah, like the run is insane. Last night, you guys play in
overtime, you play 42 minutes, 24 points, 11 rebounds. Like it's just been, it's been
so much fun to watch. Do you ever find when guys go up against you, like, do they visibly,
can you tell when you got them when they're so frustrated because your moves are so smooth and you're touched, like everything
you throw up at the rim goes in. Do you know when you're like, all right, I got them. They
can't stop me.
Oh, I wouldn't say that, but I'd say I can tell definitely when they begin to, you know,
I can tell when they get frustrated because that's when they'll start to, you know, say little sleek things under their breath, like, you know, to themselves,
like they try to, you know, hype themselves up. But when we're having a game like that,
it's, it's hard to, it's hard to not keep going. Yeah. And I feel like you don't get
the calls that you deserve. Sometimes they ref you a little bit different sometimes.
And sometimes the, uh, the other team's strategy just becomes like, see if you can take a charge
from DJ. But meanwhile, they're like, they're hugging you. They're grabbing your arms.
Do you have to like dial yourself back? Cause I know you get frustrated. Sometimes
we don't get like the Zach Edie treatment on those whistles. Do you have to hold yourself back
sometimes or do you talk to the refs and let them know like, Hey, this guy's just tackling me every
time I get the ball. Yeah, for sure. I mean, I've been told by them that I'm hard to ref
sometimes because of, you know, being bigger than everyone and everything like that. So
I understand it. But you know, it is frustrating. I oftentimes have to catch myself getting
frustrated and really back in for sure. Yeah. I got it. I got to stand up for you for one
moment in this run. I thought CBS did you dirty when they tried to give you ice cream
after the game. They tried to set you up. That was wrong.
I'll keep my comments to myself. Okay. I'll just say it. I'll say it was wrong. It's been
like, but I know that you guys sometimes do ice cream after wins. Have you guys, I hope
in the locker room, have you guys said anything to coach being like, we've made you so much
money on this run? Because like I keep seeing every single win. It's like, you know, Kevin Keats
gets another bonus. He gets a two year extension. Have you at least said, Hey, what we're doing
for you? It's pretty nice.
Uh, no, no. Um, that man, that man, he's the one who put us all together, you know, who
saw the vision of what we could be. So, you know, definitely we're thankful for him as well. It is funny though. It's literally every
single game, which I, it's, it's an incredible run. I mean, the, the five games in five days.
And I was reading a story that you guys were like every day coming back to the game and being like,
we feel better than we did yesterday. Was that just a mentality that you were taking? Cause there's
no way at some point your body has to be five games in five days. You guys are just all bought in like
that.
Dude, that's just, that's just the vibe around this place right now. Um, we, we don't plan
on quitting at all. And, um, we work real hard and we did treatment, the treated treatment
the same way that we treat practice, you know, is very important. So I think that, um, we're
taking the necessary steps to keep going.
Yeah. So, so going through the ACC tournament, backing up a little bit, you know, is very important. So I think that we're taking the necessary steps to keep going. Yeah. So going through the ACC tournament backing up a little
bit, you beat Duke and you beat UNC over the span of just a
couple days. Can you power rank? Like what are your what's the
most satisfying win? Is it beating Duke or beating UNC or
maybe some other team in the ACC?
I probably say beating UNC just because we played them twice and
lost twice going into that. If we played Duke twice, I feel
like we, you know, we have, you know, we probably would have
split that. So definitely would be say UNC because we lost to
them twice.
Yeah, yeah. And I mean, the three that you hit against UNC
was awesome, too. Have you asked coach for more looks from the
outside? Like, take a few threes every now and again?
No, no, sir. I'll play my role and if the opportunity presents, I'll take one. But I don't try to
do too much outside of what I'm good at. So I try to, you know, do it, do it helps us
win.
I got a weird question for you, DJ, and it's something I'm actually weirdly interested
in. You sell vending machines?
Yeah, I have a few. I don't sell them. I just own a few. I have two of myself.
That's incredible. So how did you get into that?
That was just, you know, there's a guy who played at Auburn named Josh dollar. He's from
the Charlotte area. We used to train with this trainer named Gabe Blair and he phenomenal
guys and I was just talking to him, you know, about some things that went through and we
were just talking about what are ways to make money outside of basketball. So you're not
like one dimensional as a person. And that was one of the things he showed me
and I took after it. I mean that's awesome. So you have you have two active right now
and you just it just makes money for you. Yeah. And I've showed a few friends how to
do it as well and they take it a little more serious than I do now. What what's in your
vending machines though? That's very important because like I hope it's not. Be honest. I can't eat with some of my vendors.
Okay. All right. That's a good thing. Okay. All right.
Yeah. Don't get high on your own supply. Yeah, but it does. It sells well for sure.
Yeah. That's smart. Do you have a big Texan cinnamon rolls in there?
Nah, not right now. Although they're a moneymaker.
Wait, do you switch it up? Do you like do a different menu every month?
Not every month, but like, you know, every now and then I have two different vendors so depending on
which one I go to they have different stuff. I mean we could do a whole interview on vending machines.
I love vending machines so much. I'm interested in the snack game right now so you could also like if you
want to plug your vending machines let people know where they can find the DJ Burns vending machines
and maybe people just go to just flock to them. They're just at some schools out in Charlotte, you know, stuff like that. But it's not anything
too major. I don't really, I don't really, I'm not in, that's not my business for sure.
That's just like some little side hustle stuff.
It's smart.
I like that.
Yeah, it's entrepreneurial. And then the other one I had, which, you know, the internet might
just lie, but do you play four different instruments?
I did play four instruments.
I'm not as active in all of them anymore, just because basketball takes up most of that
time now.
So it's more of something that I'll do every now and then.
It stayed with me from high school, but yeah, that's not really something I would do as
much as it anymore.
What were the four?
The upright bass, the piano, the baritone saxophone and the alto saxophone.
That's a good variety too. So upright bass is that's an instrument that I would love
to be able to play. Yeah. Yeah. I actually went into, um, school and they were showing
me the violin and the lady, the teacher, Ms. Thompson, she was like, yo, you're going to
snap that thing with your neck. Try this. And she handed me the bass and I fell in love
with it. That's that's, I mean, to have to have that like wide, you know, debt or wide variety of like skills
is insane.
Like to be a division one basketball player going to the sweet 16 and have four instruments
that you can play and also a vending machine owner.
Yeah.
You might be the coolest dude in the world.
Hey man, I hope to be one day man, not there yet. America's big man. That's what they're calling you right now.
And I was reading your Twitter profile earlier. It says that
your, your profile says Bible books and ball, the big three
for sir, what's your favorite book?
Oh, man, I don't really have a favorite, to be honest. I read a
lot of books based on sports and then about God and stuff like
that, you know, my walk with faith. So that's mostly I I'd probably say the one I'm still, I'm rereading the Uncommon Book by
Tony Dungey right now. That's one that like a little daily devotional. So, okay. Stuff like that.
I set you up though. The answer was the Bible. Yeah. A hundred percent, man. But that's, that's
a given. I thought you meant like, you know, in general. I got another weird question for you.
I love the fact that you're a big undershirt guy
I feel like the NCAA tournament every year
You've always got a couple dudes that rock the big undershirts and now they're getting tighter
You know the most people wearing like the compression sleeves almost you still rock the old-school undershirt
You can go back and look at like Keith Van Horn
Symbol are there's just a long list of undershirt guys. Have you always been an undershirt
guy? Was that a conscious decision you made? Yeah. I mean, honestly, when I used to play
basketball, I wear a lot of long sleeve shirts and people would always look at me crazy for
wearing long sleeves while hooping. But, um, so I just kind of stuck to the undershirt. Now I kind
of get the same ones that are comfortable so I can move around in them. Yeah. What's your favorite,
uh, like way to score on the court?
Is it a dunk over someone, or is it like the spin move
when you get someone going the wrong way,
and it's just an easy layup?
I mean, again, it's so much fun watching you play,
because when you have your post moves going,
you just get people just turned around.
I wouldn't even say I have a favorite move.
I just like to react.
Whatever you're going to give me is what I'm going to take,
whether that be a pass or something about, I'm not really
looking to make spectacular plays, but I'm always trying to be smart with it. So I just
like smart plays people who play smart. Yeah. Yeah. Do you ever catch yourself? Cause every
now and then when we're watching your games, they'll be like, you'll throw in like almost
a football move. Do you realize that? Like sometimes you feel like you'll have the ball
and you'll just kind of throw a little shoulder and you'd be like, wait, and then you, and then you'll
kind of be like, all right, I'm still on the basketball court. Do you notice that? Yeah.
The thing with that is I just learned that, you know, I'm going to get fouled. So sometimes
I have to, you know, use a little more muscle than I would like to have to use. But I mean,
if that's what I have to do to score it and so be, you know, that's smart. Yeah. And your
passing is incredible too. Is that a skill that you've worked on in the last few years?
Because when I see you do like a little, like behind the back or a little like look away
pass, there's nothing that I like more than a big man that can pass the ball.
Oh, man.
I just say that's something that God blessed me with, man.
I don't know where it came from or how it got there, but I've always been able to be
a passer.
I think it just has something to do with being unselfish that's always been me man. Yeah. Alright well I have one
last question for you it's a row back question R-H-O-B-A-C-K dot com promo code
take 20% off your first purchase qzips, polos, hoodies, joggers, shorts. DJ Burns
who we're rooting for to hopefully get into the final four we want we want to
see this journey continue. Is there I'm rooting for you to get the final four. We want, we want to see this journey continue. Uh, is there, I'm rooting for you to get to the final four because then for people who don't know, you were a third in
your state in high school rankings behind Zion Williamson and John Moran. Pretty good
company. I would like to see you get to the final four, something those guys didn't. So
we can be like, yeah, they were wrong. DJ burns probably should have been ranked number
one.
Hey man, that's, that's 100% the goal. That's what we're working towards every day, man.
Yeah, I love it. Yeah, it's it's I mean, it's great. Yeah, I mean, the fact that that's,
you know, a trivia question. That's it's cool. And you're the most fun to watch of the three.
Definitely right now. Definitely the most fun to watch. Yes, by far.
I appreciate that, man. That's awesome. Yeah. Thanks for joining us, man. We really
appreciate your time and good luck.
Go Wolf Pack.
And yeah, we're going to be pulling for you.
Keep it rolling.
Keep it rolling.
Wolf Pack.
Yes sir.
Go Pack, man.
DJ Burns was brought to you by Proper 12.
Proper 12 was founded by a true Irishman, Dublin 12's own, the notorious Conor McGregor.
Make it a proper Amazon prime time. Grab a bottle of Proper 12 for the premiere of the new film Roadhouse starring Conor McGregor. Make it a proper Amazon prime time.
Grab a bottle of Proper 12 for the premiere of the new film Roadhouse starring Conor McGregor.
Proper 12 is a rich and smooth blend of golden grain and single malt aged four years in bourbon
barrels.
Anything else just wouldn't be proper.
Our guy Robbie, Robbie Fox, MMA guy, bass player and pup punk, went out to the premiere,
had a great time.
Apparently it's a great movie. No better way to catch that than with a bottle of proper 12
at your side crack open a bottle of the original rich and smooth proper number
12 or the new crisp and fresh Irish apple mix the Irish apple with ginger ale
awesome drink great drink you won't be disappointed check it out proper 12 all
right uh let's wrap up the show Hank Hank, any other grievances? Nope. Okay. Are
you mad at me for anything? No. No, he picked your side. I had two I had two the last three
months have not been great for me because Hank, when you and I went head to head, Hank
went with you and then surviving Barstool before remember when he was like, if it comes down to you and Dave, I'm going with Dave. I know
where I stand. I didn't pick her PFT third. Me and PFT got
to sign a team and PFT forced me to take JMU. Did I force you? That was mean of you PFT.
Contrast. Did I force you? Contrast.
No, no, no. I'm mad at Hank. Oh, yes. Fuck you, Hank.
Cause he definitely wanted to put you piece of shit
Yeah, you're telling you're you're going to pick NC State your spouting fake seriously you would have won 40k
No, mmm. Did he actually know he wanted and he said it's gonna be so funny when big cat gets mad. Oh
So you did pick it's fine
I made that last part of it close my circle. I my kids still like I did
I made that last part of it close my circle. I my kids still like I did
take out Shane was shooting and pick house like what's up Shane only person
Did pick JMU like that was like I like Shane. I was a dark place
I was like Shane's good that I know I still have you dude, and he's like yeah, I bet Wisconsin
I was like oh bad bet
That was stupid of you. I'll, I know where I stand with Hank. He's um third and might even be way lower than that
I think he likes memes more. I don't know. He took me. I've been falling down the chart
He took memes off the pip. Yeah, I've been falling down the charts. It did hurt
Memes catch is the most strays of anybody. Yeah, it hurts
He and Max have been like getting along recently because the sixers suck
Yeah, so it's like they're both lying down on this couch earlier when I walked in who that's together
Like snug what sixers had a big win today they were lying down together on the couch
Yeah, it's crazy
That's a weird move guys strange. Oh, that's not true I was laying on the floor and he's just laying on the couch love is love by the way
So the coaches picture I'm gonna write this blog after this is one in the morning. I'm fucked
I don't know why they released it on a Sunday
They always release it on a Monday didn't someone say they did the date wrong by accident. Yes, it's a news dump which sucks
Because yeah, I I'm fucked but give me, just something, maybe one that jumps out to
you. I mean, Stefanski's posture is atrocious. Andy Reed is still a boss.
Andy Reed's legs stand out to me.
Belichick's usually, you know, I feel like half the time he's in it when he's in it and
he was always such an alpha that it was, it was cool. So I was scanning it. And then when
I finally saw Mayo, I was, I was like, oh yeah, this is this is bad
Drought male stands out and and probably not in a good way. He's wearing a t-shirt. Yeah, and he's big I
Don't like the fact that they put all the all barrel chested
They put all the former Redskins coaches from that team together on purpose. Oh
Did they after probably loves that shit? She after probably or he probably set this whole photo up
Wait, yeah, you got you got McDaniel you got Lafleur you got McVeigh you got Kyle Shanahan
Then you got but who's in between McDaniel? Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's someone who's that's that's a new face
Who's that? It might just be the fact that Lafleur and Sean McVeigh are friends and Shanahan behind him and McDaniel right there
Yeah, I think you're seeing things
because there's a guy literally sitting in between them.
But who is that guy?
We gotta learn.
There's someone separating them.
We gotta learn the new guys.
I think it's the Seahawks coach.
Oh yeah, McDonald.
Yeah. Yep.
Yeah.
And I don't like the, I already wrote a part of the blog,
Dave Canales thinking he can go shorts next to Andy Reid.
You fucking sucked.
He got Alfie. Well, you just can't do that. You can't be, you haven't won a game next to Andy Reid you fucking suck. He got out. Yeah
Well, you just can't do that. You can't be if you haven't won a game in the NFL and you went shorts. Mm-hmm. No
David O'Connell needs an iron
Dan Quinn and
Brian Dable next to each other look hilarious
They look like the funniest either like buddy cop do of all time or we were saying they look like a team of hitmen
Or outlaws or like yeah, you you said the robbers from Home Alone.
Yeah, they would be the Home Alone robbers if they just like let's redo it but they're
both bald.
Yeah, or like a 20 like a 30th anniversary of like a wrestling high school wrestling
state championship.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, true.
They do look like high school wrestling coaches.
I got a question because I already have started looking at this one guy in between Dave Canales and what's the fucking idiot from the Saints?
Dynas Allen. Yeah who's that because he looks like a weird like like church
preacher like a not even a church preacher like a church camp counselor.
Yeah he probably an adult church camp counselor. This guy probably had the
chair turned around and he was sitting like facing you but the chairs back buddy
Or let me rap at you real quick about chess. Let's talk some football. Who is that? That can't Brian Callahan. Oh
Okay, respect dad's dad's an all-time football guy. Mm-hmm
And Brian oh, yeah Titans Doug Peterson looks like he's had about six eyes the six Dakarys every year
He looks the most comfortable and Stefanski looks the least comfortable
Yeah, I think I said it every single year
But it stands every single year Doug Peterson is he looks like a swinger and I've got that all all do respect
All do respect because it looks like he just enjoys life. Yeah to a certain level. It kind of looks like
Stefanski is an uptight husband and then and then Peterson is like his drunk embarrassing librarian wife.
Stefanski's sitting like Gerard Mayer's got his fingers up his ass.
I don't know what happened and we love Stefanski, but he's gonna get it.
He's gonna have to get it. Dan Campbell looks like he's ready to fuck. Always. That dude. Fuck or fight. That dude's a fuck or fight guy.
He's ready to go. That might be the whole thing
Mr. Fucker fight, which one you want to do brother? I don't care
We got you just you decide the hardball is next to each other. I love it. Good luck
Yeah, tough for Zach Taylor to get stuck in between two former NFL players. Yeah, but you're right now. That's Hank
That's a that's a tough fall from grace to see him
in a t-shirt. He got surprised by the whole thing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We didn't have any
classic like Matt rule Panthers year was incredible. I look back I've been doing this blog for
11 years now. Time flies. Mark Tressman was the first one. Antonio Pierce looks like a
like a magician slash sex show enthusiast and he does a little bit of both
Where's Antonio Pierce last top second row top left?
Second row top left. Oh, yeah, I see him. Okay. Yeah, he looks like a magician that like an x-rated magician
Yeah, this is gonna be fun. All right, I'll be up all night, but it'll be fun. Shane Gillis coming Wednesday
All right, I'll be up all night, but it'll be fun Shane Gillis coming Wednesday
Official don't worry. I feel like we've been a little transparent, but I we probably fucked up the timing
Taving that right before March Madness, but yeah, that will be Wednesday and we'll talk some more sweet 16
Let's finish up the show with numbers
40 How many brace? I hope you win this one. I swear
18 what the fuck is wrong with you? I hope you win this one don't do that no I do I hope you what I hope you
win all right 20 3
77
8
Hey 40
There's one up there
This doesn't count this doesn't count, but I'm curious what that was with that I'm gonna wait to know what the number is
78 78 doesn't count though doesn't count
Doesn't count
forty six Love you guys. I'm just a stage anyway Today's another day to finally shine it away I'll be coming for your love, okay
Coming for your love, okay
Take on me Take me on
I'll be gone
In a day or two
It won't be less to say
I'm all disinclined, but I'll be stolen away
Though the learning of life is okay, say after me
It's no better to be safe than sorry
I'll be gone in a day or two And I'm gonna dream