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That's a good one.

No, we have our final We're set. Hank was devastated with Duke getting bounced.

So, so upset. It broke my heart to see how upset you were. Actually, Hank, you didn't really get mad until you bet on Duke live.

Yeah, no. Then you got mad. It was a perfect Henry Lockwood moment where he hasn't cared about Duke Duke all year. He's admitted this. Then in the second half, he decided to bet them live, and Duke gave us the worst second half imaginable, just couldn't score the basketball, which is an important part of the game. Dj Burns was your daddy all second half, and then you actually were upset. You found your way to be upset about this loss.

Which I like. I'm glad that you're mad because if you were just like, whatever, and you didn't actually care at all, I'd be upset by that.

Yeah, it was a horrible game. They shot, I think, for 75. What are you doing with your shoes? What do you mean? Are you trying to be a fashion guy? What are your shoes? What are those shoes? Nice shoes. Is he trying to be a fashion guy? What are you talking about? I know we got to talk about the final four. I've always had the best shoes in the market. I know we got to talk about the final four. I've always dressed the night in front of this podcast. I actually think PFT gives a run for the money with best shoes. When he dropped the pennies-If it was 19.

When I got the pennies, I got the Kamikazis.

Are you trying to be a fashion guy? I've had these shoes for a year. I know we have to talk about the final four, but I have to talk about these shoes first. I've always been a fashion guy.

I'm so fashion. Those look like shoes you would wear when you want to think that you're wearing golf shoes. This is a nice Easter outfit. Oh, you get dressed up for Easter? Interesting. Yeah. Interesting. Is that why are you wearing Carolina Blue today?

I don't know what you're doing with those shoes, but I'm on to you. What? I mean, these are literally just white shoes. Yeah, but something about it. They're not regular white shoes. They're like fashion guy white shoes. They're Instagram ad, white shoes. Here are the shoes you wear if you're going to work, but you want to wear shoes, but you have to dress up. That's what he's wearing.

What are you looking at, Hank? I'm trying to look at the name.

Prada? I can see it.

It's Prada. Yeah, those are fancy.

Those are Prada shoes. No free ads. No free ads. No free ads, but a dude who just totally gave It used to me. Yeah, Instagram mad.

Buy the venting machine shirt. Yeah, sorry. Buy the venting machine shirt. Your devil's lost on Easter, actually. Very sacrilegious on your part to be cheering for them. But DJ Burns is the fucking man. Yes. I love him. He's the best. On behalf South of America. Thank you. Everyone in America should thank DJ Burns for beating Duke, for just being awesome. It is funny. It's like the Drake meme when we just got done watching Zack Eady and we were like, no. Then we watched DJ Burns. Yes. Yes.

Fuck, yes. He was wearing his eighth-grade bully shoes. I think they were James Hardens, but it was a hue of green that just didn't match anything else on the court, spinning on everyone, just looking awesome. His touch is so nice. It basically came down to, could DJ Burns score more points than got scored on him? The answer was yes.

I would also say, could he score more points than got scored on him and also limit his fouls to four or less? Yes. For the last seven minutes of the game, DJ Burns would just stand with his arms straight up. He wouldn't even try to contest shots. He would just go right at him. He'd just be like, I'm just standing in the pain. I'm going to put my hands up in the air and try to avoid me if you can, please, often.

Yes. We could talk about the totality of the final four. We're going to go through each game. But This NC State run, everyone's heard it. They were tied with Louisville in the first round of the ACC tournament. I actually have a clip. This is the team that's playing in the final four. This is from the game they played against Louisville 19 days ago. Tell me, what is this celebration right here?

I don't know why anybody that's got the recent history of these guys is celebrating.

That's Jim Bayheim 19 days ago. The team is playing in the final four. Now, it's credit to Jim Bayheim. He did actually pick them to go to the final four in his bracket. He was three for four. He had Yukon, Purdue, and NC State. But the NC State team was tied with five minutes left to Louisville in the first game of the ACC tournament, they were a buzzer beater three-pointer away from none of this ever happening. Actually, even more because everyone's like, Oh, yeah, the buzzer beater when Virginia didn't foul up three. The crazier part about the whole thing that gets lost in the shuffle is the guy who was shooting the free throw for Virginia, Isaac McNeely, was an 87% free throw shooter, and not once this entire season had he had missed two free throws in a game. He had already missed one in that game. He missed the second It was the first one. So the first time all season, he missed two free throws in a game, and that let NC State get the buzzer beater over time, start of what is the most insane run.

So he bricked the foul shot. Nc State goes down the court, they don't foul, they get a three off. Banks in. Bare banks in, too. Not even a good-looking bank. Yeah. Goes to overtime. Nc State goes on. And then, yeah, I think they just start believing that they could do it because they beat Duke, they beat UNC, they beat Duke again. Now, you can't tell me that-Beet Marquette? They beat Marquette. They're actually just a good team. Yeah. They're a good team. The other DJ on the team, awesome. They're a good combination. Then they've got Diara, who's just eating up rebounds and fasting for Ramona. Yes. At the same time, which now I'm starting to think that you should have somebody on your team that is a practicing Muslim that fast during NCAA tournament games, because now this is two years in a row with Snogo from last year, and Hakeem did it back in the NBA days. There's something to it.

They're crazy. They have the most losses for a Final Four team ever. Fourteen losses on the season, and they're in the Final Four as an 11 seed. It's just fun to watch. Like DJ Burns, I don't know how anyone watches that game. It isn't like, This is my favorite. It's got to be your favorite player. He was spinning the soft touch. He doesn't even really jump. There was a couple of times where he boxed out, but he wasn't even really boxing out. He was just holding someone off and then grabbed it with his other hand. He's also the best dude ever. Do you see that clip of him taking pictures with security after? Best dude ever.

Owns vending machines.

Owns vending machines. Nc State is America's team, and they took down Duke and justice for Jamal Shed, who got hurt in that Houston game because Houston would have whooped Duke's ass.

Yeah, Houston was definitely the better team. I think the only way that you can defend against DJ Burns, maybe Ead will be able to do it just because he's huge and has long arms, but we can get to that in a second. If you're not a giant, the only way that you can defend him is something that Duke tried to do one time tonight. They never went back to it, where you just back away from him as he's putting that- They pulled the chair. You pulled the chair out, and then he gets out of control. That's the only way that you can stop him because you can't push back against him. You're not going to outmuscle him. He's going to hit you with his back or shoulder and get two feet of separation right as the time that he's spinning around with a hook shot, and you can't do anything about it.

His finish is so soft. Listen, disappointing end for Duke. They should have won that game. They were seven and a half point favorites. But John Shier, how would he have known that DJ Burns was good?

You can't prepare for a guy like that.

He's never had to prepare for a guy like that. No. Maybe he should have had someone besides Philipowski on DJ Burns who fouled out with 10 minutes left in the game.

You know what? Not only did Did NC State defeat Duke, but they also beat the refs. There was a moment when America said, Okay, here we go again. Hank's part of America, where- Barely. They blew the whistle because the ball hit the shot clock, went out of bounds. It was a Filipowski shot that went out of bounds. He threw it at the shot clock. He threw it out of bounds. He tried to take the shot clock down. They said, Out on NC State, NC State's coach just basically put his hands up and was like, What are you doing? What are you talking about? Teed him up. That right there felt like things were about to for NC State. It's hard to beat the refs and Duke at the same time. It's very rarely done. They did it.

It was an eight-point lead, and then it took it for the two technical foul shots. It was a six-point lead, and they were like, And Duke has the ball. This is going to be a four-point game. It sucks. But NC State outlasted them. It was the better team.

Shout out to Middlebrooks.

So sad for Duke.

Danny Knell's nephew. Yeah.

The most try-hard guy out there, which I love.

I was only slightly upset on NC State winning for one reason, one reason only. I would have just loved to hear Danny Knell's take on getting beaten by a guy that wears nail polish. Yeah. That would have been right in his-I would never root for that. He would have done three weeks in a row of content about how men should not wear nail polish.

Also, it would have been nice if Middlebrooks had gone to an SEC school because that would have also been a nice wrinkle for Danny to have to root for an SEC.For.

The SEC, yeah.

But he had the shirt, Middlebrooks. What was his name Ben? Ben Middlebrooks?Uncle.Yeah..

Just so everyone was clear. We should sell those shirts. Yeah. Just anyone can buy Ben Middlebrooks uncle's shirt.

Yeah, he becomes a Where's Waldo of who's his actual uncle.

Yeah, he's America's nephew.

But yeah, NC State, incredible story. This final four, I feel like, has it all. I know that the final four when we had all the Bluebloods was incredible and the ratings were crazy. But this final four has this true Cinderella. They have Purdue and the most polarizing player in college basketball is Zack E. D. Because you either are a Purdue fan and love him or you're the rest of America and hate him. They have the train of Yukon. Then they have Alabama, which Alabama, as much as I am not a Nate Oates fan, they are fun to watch when they get going, and they're absolute flamethrowers, and it's their first final four. You have two teams that haven't been, I think 83 for NC State, 80 for Purdue, first time for Bama, and then the repeat, the national champs from last year. Not to mention, redemption for Purdue.

Redemption for Purdue for losing last year. The crazy part of it is that amongst those four teams, I feel I feel like Yukon is the team that anyone without a dog in the fight is going to root for.

Yeah. Well, I mean, it's pretty crazy.

Sorry, NC State.

Nc State is America's team. I can admit that. I forgot about NC State. Yeah. Let's talk about the Purdue-Tennessee game because, boy, did people... I'm mad. It gives me so much joy watching other fan bases have to watch Zack E. E. And then I feel less crazy because I've had to watch it for four years, and it's like they join the fray. The screenshots come out and the anger comes out. Everyone's like, How do they call this a foul? Zack Eady didn't have a foul called on him for the first 30 minutes of the game. But with all that said, Tennessee, I know Tennessee fans are mad, and you could be mad at Zack Eady. I think you probably should be more mad about everyone not named Dalton Connect.

I think you can be mad about both things at the same time. I think you'd be furious about Zack Eady and how the refs call him. I think that you can also be like, It would be nice if Ziegler had made one three-point shot.

They went Dalton Connect was 14 for 31, and the rest of the team... Sorry, he was 17 for 31. Wait, what was his final stat line? He scored 31 points.

More than half of his team's points. He had 37.

He had 37 points. Fourteen of 31, six of 12 from three. Fourteen of 31. The rest of the team went 10 for 31. I'd say that that would probably be more why you lost than Zack Eady and how he was officiated. I got dangerously close. If Duke had won that game, I might have gotten an Eady Jersey and watched Purdue play Duke and been at the forefront of saying, Those are all fouls. You can't do that to Zack Eady. I would have been number one proponent of Zack Eady for one single game. Zack Eaddy makes everyone so angry, and I understand why, because I've had to go through it myself. He also is getting to a point where people are just diminishing that he's just not good at basketball, and he's very good at basketball.

He is good at basketball for sure. He has gotten a whole lot better at basketball. When I first saw him play, I think two years ago is when I started watching him, he didn't look like he liked being out there, didn't look like he had any fire, didn't look like he knew what he was doing. He was just out there moving slowly. I always would say that there's a tiny little person controlling the big robot inside of him that's thinking, Okay, move your left leg, right leg, left leg, right-hand. Now it's like he is a smooth basketball player for his size at times. He's not super quick or anything, but he has improved a whole lot. If you're Tennessee, you can be mad at the way the refs call him, but also just Zack Eady being there has a big effect on every single thing that you do. It makes you uncomfortable. Like, Zekai Ziegler, whenever he would drive to the paint, you could tell he was a second slow, either deciding whether to pass or shoot because he was thinking, there's a giant in the paint somewhere that's just going to swat me if I do this wrong.

It was always in the back of your head if you're playing against him.

He causes hesitation. He causes shots that you normally wouldn't love, a lot of mid-range shots because you don't want to go to the rim. And Purdue's defense, and same with Yukon with Donovan Kliem, they know that they've got a guy behind them so they can play more pressure up top and run you off the three point line and get you into those shots that are low percentage shots and get you into a spot where you're shooting 10 for 31 as a team. I think most Purdue fans have reached this point, and I hope they have, where Purdue fans should just say, Fuck off to everyone else. Stop trying to make everyone... Stop trying to tell us that it's something it's not. Zack Eats is really good at basketball. Purdue is a really good team, really, really good basketball team. It's not enjoyable to watch, and that's okay to have that opinion to be like, I don't like I don't like watching a foul fest. I don't like watching a guy stand in the paint and be able to just turn around and put the ball in the basket. Purdue fans should just be like, That's okay because we win.

You know what I mean? It's at a point where it's like, to quote our good friend Jay Billis, to disagree. You guys have your team. They play a certain brand that is winning basketball. It's getting you to the final four. Most of America doesn't enjoy this experience. It's okay.

I think you're being a little disingenuous there, BK.

But that's... Purdue fans trying to tell us that it's something it's not is where it's like the disconnect becomes. You could just have to put up your hand and be like, Yeah, I understand. People probably don't want to watch it, but guess what? We're winning. So fuck off.

Yeah, you don't have to worry about what people think about your score. You don't have to worry. You don't have to prove it to us. You don't have to get your dub stamp by anybody else to be like, Okay, this was really win. You guys are in the final four.

Yeah, they're really good.

And they made the win. And they suck to watch. They suck to watch. Do you see after the game, Zack Eady cutting down the nets did not need a ladder. He just stood next to it. I said they should have caught a foul on the ladder because it looked like it was impeding his weight off the net. But he was just standing on his own two feet, reaching up in the air, clipping down the net. And I just saw everyone across America saw that and thought the same thing If I was this guy's size, I would also be in the final four. Might not be true, but It's also for somebody that's on the shorter side, it's fun to think about. It's a nice soothing bomb that you can put on the burn of having to grow up being shorter than normal is just saying, Oh, if I was just a foot taller, I would be better than everyone at sports. I encourage people to do that.

He's put in a ton of work. He's got a a lot better, but it's not a fun watch. Hank actually has joined the Purdue hate crew. It's not a fun watch. Not fun at all. Yeah, but it works for them. If I had Zack Eady on my team, I would just be like, Fuck everyone. That's just the way it goes. Yeah, but I mean, imagine the national championship, how much you're going to be rooting against them and hate watching. Of course. I unfortunately think that DJ Burns probably already got his first foul in the game on Saturday getting off the bus. He's going to be out of that game so fast.

It's going to suck. He's not great defensively to begin with, and he does like to foul. He gets in harm's way a lot. But then what are they going to do?

Danny Kanae's nephew might be the try hard answer to America needs.

Just beat the fuck out of Jacky.

Yeah, just try extra hard.

Yeah, just be really annoying. Yeah. Ask Danny for some good quotes. Just record everything that Danny Kanae says between now and the game, and then just repeat that to him verbatim during the game to annoy him. He just doesn't want to play. There's one other thing about DJ Burns. Everybody in America thinks that he should play football.

Why?

He's good at basketball. Who said that? I know that when we interviewed him, when we were like, Do you think of your football player playing basketball?

Oh, yeah, he does that a few times.

But I've I've seen lots of people be like, Oh, this guy should actually try to play left tackle in the NFL.

Oh, I haven't seen that because his touch is so good that I want him to keep playing basketball.

Yeah, it would be a disaster. Yeah. He's not a football player.

No, he's the perfect big man basketball player.

Exactly. Let's just enjoy DJ Burns for what he is. Although I do understand the sentiment that the NFL is king, and so you have to be like, you see a good athlete, oh, he should play football. Because there was a while where any time there was a good basketball player, they who would want to try out for the NFL to be a tight-end. Who's the guy on George Mason?

I don't remember. You remember that big guy? I haven't seen the DJ Burns should play football take. I know that he does plays that make him look like he's a football player, but yeah, I love watching him play basketball.

Just let the man play basketball. But whoever the George Mason guy was, I remember he tried out. Are you thinking of Mo Ali Cox from VCU? No, no. He played in the Colts, right? No, I'm thinking about the George Mason player from the 2006-2006 when he made the final Yeah. So he tried out for the NFL, and they clocked him to 40. I think he ran like a 5-4, 40-yard dash time. They're like, Okay, yeah, maybe this whole NFL player, NBA, college basketball player for everybody.

Ja Lewis signed a free agent contract with New York Giants. Ja Lewis. That was who you were thinking of. I just looked it up. 2006. Yeah, no, I think DJ Burns is right where he needs to be. All right, so Tennessee fans, though, that was disappointing, but I really do think it's really the rest of your team, not named Dalton Connect, let you down. All you had to do is hit a few shots that weren't Dalton Connect shots, and he was so good. But it just... You can't... Like, produce one of those teams. You can't make mistakes against them because all their guards are older. They're just smart with what they... They have a system. They know exactly what's going to work. They spam the same play. If they're hitting their threes, too, it's just lights out. That happened on Friday night when Gonzaga was in that game, and then you looked up, and it was like, No, Gonzaga's done. Absolutely cooked.

I'm going to say something nice about Zack Ead, though. After the game, when they interviewed him, and he was talking about people that doubt him, he started screaming. I think he dropped the F bomb. He was like, We're fucking here. He showed some emotion. I hate him less after watching that.

He also said he had a boner when they were... One of his teammates was holding a phone and being like, We made it. We made it. Final four, how we feel. He's like, I have a boner.

Probably for the first time in his life. If you're that big, you got so much blood elsewhere in your body.

Listen, he's averaging 30 and 16. He had 40 and 16 today. It's insane what he's been doing this tournament run. Not a fun watch, but credit to Zack Eady because he's good at basketball. Now we have people also policing the paint touches and how long he's camped out. If you watch him play, his footwork has gotten so much better, and his defense has gotten so much better. He's getting in and out of the paint to reset his time. You can be upset about how they officiate him. Everything else is stupid to be like, he's not good.

Yeah, he actually does work. He doesn't stand perfectly still the entire time. But still, if you're NC State, you want that discussion to happen. You want the refs to be hearing that all week. That way, they're at least looking at him when you play against him.

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Never had a shot.

We know Ball.

Never had a shot.

We know Ball.

Yeah, Alabama, the great Alabama experiment has hacked basketball. It's fun to watch if you are a sicko.

Yeah, Rico is just It ruined Alabama for me because NATO should be a story that we're like... I mean, it is cool. When they were like, 11 years ago, he was a math teacher, and now he's going to the final four. You saw Alabama on Saturday night. When they get hot from three, they can be the best team in the country. That's just a fact. Clemson hit the regression monster, and we know ball.

Yeah. If you're shooting slightly less than 50%, if those backdoor cuts are working at a moderate pace, if Clemson, you're still not going to be able to beat Alabama if they're shooting the ball well. That's just a fact. It's just math. That's where the math teacher thing comes in.

Yeah, the math teacher thing comes in strong because they went 45% from three, and it felt like they were hitting big shot after big shot. I also think that Alabama, and maybe people will say this is crazy, but if you have as much football success as Alabama does, no one can, in their right mind, be like, I'm rooting for Alabama, unless you're obviously an Alabama fan.

In which case, enjoy this.

I enjoyed the hell out of this. But the regular sports fans in the world is just too close to everything nick Saban did and how much he dominated football. You can't also have basketball.

If you're an Alabama just sports fan, so you root for Alabama football and you root for Alabama basketball, probably to a significantly lesser extent than you root for the football team, what's the conversion rate? What would you trade an NCAA Championship for in basketball, in football? Like an SEC title?

I I don't think so. I think less.

You think less? Just a win, just an Iron Bowl win?

I think maybe even less than that.

Win at home against LSU? Yeah, maybe. Home win against LSU equals national championship basketball.

I mean, there will be some Alabama basketball fans that will say that we're crazy for this, but I think that if you pulled the entire Alabama fan base. I mean, football just is king there.

Yeah, I'm not talking about the diehard Alabama basketball in which if you are one, obviously, and even if you're not, even if you're just an Alabama fan This is an awesome run. This is an awesome time. Enjoy. But I'm trying to figure out what the average member of the fan base would trade this title for.

Win against Georgia.

A win against Georgia. I think that's two. Two in a row. Two times in a row for that.

That might be. But yeah, they just have... There's something about having it all, and they have it all. They do. The fact that they had a team in the college football playoff. They have a team in the final four. A lot of Michigan State fans reminding everyone they're the only other team who's done that. Oh, yeah, of course.

One day they went to college football playoff.

But, yeah, they have it all. Nate Oates is a great story in the fact that what was 11 years ago, math teacher, to have this rise this quick and be in a spot where he's in the final four in the top of the college basketball landscape, it's crazy. To make Alabama fans care about basketball. They've never been to a final four. They'd only been to one elite eight before Friday or Thursday.

Basketball school, maybe.

Clemson, the similar. I don't feel that bad. You guys have... Dabo is going to to figure it out.

Dabo will be... I don't know. Who do you think would win a national championship first? Clemson or Alabama? Sabin gone. I think Dabo is still there.

Probably Alabama. Shout out our guy, Sioux Kim tracker. He was down bad.

Yeah, it was a rough weekend for Siwukim Tracker.

He said 50 likes, and I asked the flight attendant for two sodas when he was at an airport.

He just stopped giving me updates on Sioux Kim. He tied for 17th. That's a good finish this week. Yeah, but he stopped giving me updates on Sioux Kim because he was too depressed about Clemson losing. I expect What's more out of my trackers.

Masters next week. Big week.

Big week for him.

Yeah, but he is our favorite tracker because no other tracker in the world can you get 22 feet for Ego, Birdy Birdy, and we were minus seven in the same timeline as all caps. There's no goddamn motherfucking way. That's a foul flopping fucking pussies. I hope Rico stubs his toe for five months straight. Yeah. He's just saying the man does it all.

Yeah. So Truth be told, I was rooting for Clemson. I was, too.

I definitely was.

I was rooting for Clemson because I wanted to be so wrong about Clemson. I wanted Clemson to win the national champion.

I think we would have won Ratio of the Year. It would have been one of the greatest graphics for this show ever to have the Clemson graphic thrown back in our face. But unfortunately, for the people at home, we do no ball. We know too much ball.

We do.

It sucks. It's a blessing and a curse because we have to tell people the truth about us knowing ball, and then they want to say, You're crazy. Clemson could win it all. No, they couldn't.

I expect an apology for anyone who quote-tweeted that graphic. Everyone. Be nice. Everyone that did it. How many quote-tweets does it have on it right now? Probably 200. It would be nice. I would like to see 200 people reach Reaching up in like, I apologize for quote-tweeting. Our bad. Turns out everyone that did that should be old takes exposed. Yeah. Every single one of them.

Just a simple tweet of us saying, YKB, you know ball. That's all I want.

But yeah, they're going to run up against an entirely different animal in Yukon. It is live by the jump shot, die by the jump shot. If they can make, what did you say? 46%?

They were 45%.

If they can make 45% of the three-point shots, they can win.

Yeah. The only other problem for Alabama is they take twos at the rim and threes, and twos at the rim with Donovan Clingon is an impossible feat to do because we saw it with Yukon versus Illinois. And Yukon had a A 30 to nothing run against Illinois in an elite eight. Illinois offense that has been playing lights out and had an incredible season. That was one of the craziest things to watch ever, where it spanned two halves because it was 23-23. The first half ended 29-23. Then it just kept on happening where it was, Yukon would score. And Yukon wasn't even playing well on Saturday.

We made fun of UVA when this happened to them earlier in the play-in game. A similar thing to happen, except the difference is this is in the Elite 8, so you're a good team. Illinois is a really good team. Very good team. Offensively, what were they like? Top five in the nation?

They had three guys who were very good offensively. This was number one versus number two, I think.

Was it number one versus number two?

They were in Sharon. They were out of this world for all the games up until this point.

The Illini are a great team. And then they scored, I think they went 55 minutes of real-time without scoring a basket. It was nuts. Without making a shot.

Yeah, because it spanned halftime.

In Clingon, he did. He was in his first 17 minutes on the floor, Illinois scored four points. In his first 17 minutes on the floor, they scored four points. They went 0 for 9 on field goal attempts that were contested by him.

It was actually 0 for 19.

0 for 19. I'm sorry. 0 for 19.

He affects everything. Brad Underwood, the minute he got hired in Illinois, I was like, That's a problem. He's a really good coach. With one of the most regrettable sound bites/coaching strategies of all time when they got him in the first half and he was like, If he blocks 100 shots, he blocks 100 shots. He didn't block 100 shots, but it felt like he was blocking 100 shots because every shot at the rim was fucked up by Donovan Clingon. They just kept on saying, We're going to go after him, and it kept on resulting in zero points and then points on the other side of the floor. The craziest stat from this Yukon game and how goddamn good they are, because I've been saying it, they have a solution to every problem that's given to them. Yukon didn't even play well. They shot 17.6% from three. Imagine if they had hit a couple of threes, because when you say a 30-0 run, you think this team just got nuclear from three and it just avalanche. No, that's not anything that happened. They could not shoot from outside on Saturday, and they still absolutely curb-stomped Illinois.

It was bad. The The game was over after that. You can't come back from a 30 to nothing run. No. It's impossible.

It was crazy. It was also the loudest crowd. That was- That was Bill Murray, though. It was insane how loud it was for Yukon. They're just a monster. The closest tournament game they've played in the 10 games that they've won in a row here was a 13-point victory over Miami in the final four.

You know what's crazy is we have a possibility, depending on what happens tonight on the women's bracket, but there is a possibility of getting Yukon against NC State in the finals in both tournaments. That would be incredible.

That would rock. What an afternoon for NC State fans. Back to back. They were six, seven-point underdogs in both games.

You know what? They deserve it. Nc State fans deserve it. It's been a long time.

Remember when we did Mount Rushmore mid.

Mount Rushmore Mid.

And we were like NC State football?

You remember when... Yeah, and I stand by that, by the way. But was it like 2020? It was four years ago during COVID where the college baseball World Series, didn't they get disqualified or something? Oh, yes. They had six players test positive in COVID, and they couldn't even play?

Yes. And they were really good that year. They got screwed.

Nc State, you deserve this. Yeah, you do deserve it. We're going to bring up the most losses in Final Four history just because we have to. That's cool, though. But don't let the haters get you down. No. You earned this, NC State.

It's been incredible. But yeah, Yukon is an absolute wagon. If they can finish the job, because they have to finish the job to be in this conversation, but if they When they finish the job this upcoming weekend and Monday, they have to go in the conversation of best college basketball teams of all time. It has to be said. I know that there's UCLA teams that won five straight years without losing a game. You had the Florida back-to-backs, the Duke year, Latner years. But this team, and the fact that it's like, there's some guys from last year, but there's a lot of new guys, too, it's crazy. Danny Hurley, who we have coming up on this show, is a master motivator It's a piss drinking motivator. Okay, so final four set. I'm excited.

Also, he didn't let his son shoot again at the end of the game. We're going to talk to him about that in a little bit, but just let Andrew take a shot.

Are you guys excited for the final four now? I feel like this is, especially after last year, which was a weird final four because we had all those upsets and we had San Diego State and FAU, and it was a weird tournament. This feels like we're back to order restore where it's like you have two teams that were... Purdue and Yukon were the two best teams all year, and then you have two great stories matching up against them.

Yeah. I like it set up this way because we all have one umbrella to focus all of our umbrella energy on. There were too many cinderellas last year. Not enough stepmothers.

I'm very excited. I am a little concerned for you and Dave. You guys have big futures both on Yukon, and it seems too easy at this point, which it never is. Nc State has big-time Team of Destiny vibes. Yeah. I bet Yukon in December, right after the loss of Kansas at 14 to 1. I said before we started taping that if Yukon wins the national championship, I will only have had a bad march. I need them to win the national championship. I do. I'm excited, but that-Yeah, no, it does. If that happens, that will be-What if they just keep rolling?

It seems like they should. Yeah. I don't think Danny Hurley is the coach that's going to let him take a game The one thing that makes me nervous is Alabama does have the one...

If they just go nuclear from three, they can beat any... They have that in them, the ability to beat any team any given night because of their three-point shooting, and every guy shoots, and that's a problem.

Trying to find futures here. What are the team futures? Okay, Yukon minus 195, Purdue plus 205, NC State and Alabama both 16 to one.

Yeah, NC State was 35 to one this morning. Pretty crazy. Pretty good. In the elite eight.

The vending machine, baby.

No one thought NC State was going to be able to beat Duke. You're Dukeies. So sad. I did momentarily. It's a main event time, though. It's a made event. Friday night, I became-Actually, it's the main event. Friday night, I became a lafraud Mickey Mouse reply guy for a while on Friday night.

Because that shed, that's bullshit. Yeah. Houston was going to beat him.

So I replied to Duke's final score graphic, and I was like, Duke's Mickey Mouse run. That got quote-to you a million times. I also was trying to get Duke fans to vacate the win, which I would have done if I were a Duke fan in that moment. Jamal Shed, he's going to finish as a finalist for National Player of the Year. He goes out. I vacate that win because I have sportsmanship, and I actually root for guys to not get injured, unlike Duke fans.

It's sad. Houston wouldn't win. They probably wouldn't win the National Championship. That's what I'm going to say. Maybe I'll get a refund, too. Yeah. What's worse, being a Mickey Mouse Lafraud reply guy or being a LMA-Oh-Oh-Oh reply guy? I mean, sometimes things are just funny. Yeah, sometimes- No, but when you're doing the LMAO, making fun of the person that I had that. Not agreeing, not actually thinking it was funny. Oh. But so Big Cat, if you had done the, Here's Duke's Mickey Mouse type of run, and then ended it with LMA000, laughing at your own joke. Yeah. At Duke, I think that makes it a little bit worse.

Yeah, that makes it worse.

As long as you don't level up into that guy, then you're good.

Listen, I enjoyed my time as a Mickey Mouse, the fraud guy. It was fun just to step into that world because then you have to copy and paste it and be ready to just post it on anyone who posts. Like instantly. It's got to be the first thing. Adam Schefter tweets that the Giants just signed a backup kicker. You got to be like, Duke's fraud run. Here it is.

You got to have 60 different notifications. Yeah.

Speaking of Adam Schefter, should we talk for a second about Rashee Rice just being on the run?

Yeah. He was driving a car that was in a really bad accident, I guess.

The old Lance Spriggs, where he then left his car and was like, I don't know where it is.

I was going to say he's like a coach's son on that team. Yeah.

But what's the latest? Is he still gone?

I don't know. I don't think he's been apprehended.

That's very bizarre.

They haven't caught him yet. But good news for the Chiefs, he signed a Welsh rugby star, so I guess you're receiving Corby fine.

No one died, I don't think so.

I think it was a serious accident.

A woman was injured and her kid was in the car. Okay. I mean, bad. Very bad. I just saw a lot of people being like, The Chiefs are done now. They're cooked. I'm sure Rishee Rice will probably still play.

I don't know. Depending on how injured people are, depending on what he did, you probably shouldn't leave the scene of an accident like that. I would say not. Probably not.

Pft, have you been studying for the bar?

Yeah, I have, Jake.

Because according to Jocena Anderson, she says Rishee Rice has retained Claimant Council.

Okay. Oh, so he got a lawyer. He's a lawyer. Yeah. Well, that's a smart move. You should always shut the fuck up when you're talking to the police. If they're asking you questions, it's because they don't know the answer. All right. I just love Shut the Fuck Up Fridays. That's the update. That was 26 minutes ago. Yeah. Okay.

That's a weird story, though.

It's a very strange story. I'm looking at some of the pictures of the crash site.

Yeah, it doesn't look good. It was not good. I'm going to confirm, not good. Was she right? It was a dash cam video, too. Yeah, of of him crashing. Turn yourself in. Was she rice? Do it. All right, what else is going on in the sports world before we do Who's Back?

Anything else?

Is that Jokuj Pass?

Mlb. Yeah, I saw the Jokuj Pass. I saw the Lucas shot.

Yeah, Lucas did a scoop, like bear, almost a three-pointer.

From like 20 feet out.

Jokuj also said that he was late to his press conference tonight because he was watching DJ Burns.

Game respect game. Yeah.

Big men respect big men. I like that. Huge women's game tonight. Huge women's game tonight. Yeah, lead eight. This one's going to get people angry. Oh, also, Kim Mulky.

Not that bad. Yeah. So the hit piece on Kim Mulky dropped. It turns out it was just a profile of Kim Mulky.

It was just like she's an asshole, which anyone who's a very successful coach in college sports or pro sports, you could write it and be like, Yeah, it turns out they're an asshole.

Yeah, they're very demanding. Some players don't like them because they're so demanding. They can be a dick, and they can go too far. I actually think it's a beautiful moment in just equality in America when I can look at Kim Mulky and be like, She is a dick.

Yeah, she's a dickhead.

She's a dickhead. She's a dickhead. Definition of a dickhead. I want to know how much more views this article got because Kim Mulky did two press conferences about it.

Probably a decent amount. Probably. I went and looked for it.

I looked for it, too.

Who are you guys rooting for in LSU versus Iowa?

I think I'm rooting for... I want Kaitlyn Clarke to get a championship or to get to a championship.

She got to a championship last year.

I want her to get to another one, and I want her probably to win. I think I'm going to take Iowa. Okay.

Hank?

What's the spread?

I think it's like one and a half. Let's just pick the game. I think I'm rooting for LSU because it makes people so mad.

Kaitlyn Clarke makes people mad, too.

She makes people really mad, too. But I think that that would make people really, really mad.

Iowa. If Kim Malkie won a national championship, people would be furious, which would be great. Another one.

Yeah, another one. She's on a shit.

Yeah. But I mean, now in the wake of the article coming.

Yeah, I guess maybe I'm rooting for Iowa because I think South Carolina is going to beat either of them. Yeah, you know what? I would get the revenge and get back to the final four, and it would make the final four more fun because Kaitlyn Clarke- It'd be good for the sport. Yeah, and I do like watching Kaitlyn Clarke play.

There was a very funny moment today when in the Elite 8 game, the three-point lines were different distances in the college game. One was the old women's distance, and one was the new women's distance. They didn't know. They played, I think, five games on that court before somebody.

That's way worse than- It wasn't even Why didn't an official that saw it?

You know who saw it? It was a dude that was up in the 300 level.

Well, why did a guy-A guy. It's not on the official's to measure the three-point line.

But if a guy that's just sitting up in the 300 level notices it, and he had to yell at somebody on the sidelines, texted that person, sent them a picture that he took on his own camera from the upper deck, and then they had to go measure.

It's crazy. The fact that they played five games there and no one said anything is bad. It's bad. Very bad. I feel like we could have probably been making money off of it.

We definitely could have been making money off of that. What would have happened if they went into overtime? It's a good question, Jake. I don't know.Play.

Half court.Do like two, two, 30, two and a half minute periods.Yeah.So.

They switch.Play one on one.Yeah.

I don't know.

Big three.

That was Very bad.

Yeah, we got some brawls in baseball. Yeah. And by brawls, I mean benches clearing and bullpen catchers. That's my favorite, when the bullpen catchers get involved because they do this little trot out of the bullpen.

It looked like penguins.

They're so happy that they get to see sunlight.

Yeah, the Mets are already a disaster because they got one hit on opening day. They've lost all three games, and then they also threw Reece Hoskins on Saturday after I think he was already 4 for 4 and was just unanimous Bush League. We're like, Why would you do this after he's four for four? I think their manager already got suspended. Yeah, that's tough.

Yeah. There was the Brewers Mets with benches clearing, and then the Blue Rays and Jays also had the benches clear. It's good to get it started, though. The Blue Rays. What's that? The Blue Rays.

Yeah, the Blue Rays.

Yeah, the Blue Rays did it. Also, I'd just like to be the first to congratulate Jake's New York Yankees on winning the World Series.

Four-game sweep in Houston.

Congrats, Jake.

Juan Soto got his pinstripes.

New era, yeah. Juan Soto today. Offense and defense. Actually, this whole weekend, Juan Soto has been incredible. It goes to show you when you play in San Diego, it's too nice. You can't be locked in at sports if you're in San Diego. But you go to New York, you The day sucks a little bit just getting around. The only thing you care about, again, is sports. Juan Soto is probably, I don't know, one of the best players in the game, and he's so fun to watch. I'm so pissed off. I don't get to root for him for his entire career.

Yeah, Yankees have won it all.

Congrats. Congrats, Yankees. It's coming home.

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How many? I'm opening up three days.

Yeah, open up all of them. Three days. Or three of them, four of them.

We got duct tape in case we want to kill Hank.

Yeah. No, that is duct tape for-So some gumballs. Oh, nice.

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Okay, I like that.

All right, so we got crystals here. Crystals. And then where's 11? Go to 11. This one goes to 11.

You got it. You You got it. Oh, disaster. Can you get it? Oh, no, we got a problem. This is a problem.

This is a disaster.

Hank, this is a problem. Are you watching this?

I can't get this one open.

You can't get it open. Man handled by a calendar. You're getting body by a calendar, PFT. Hank, go help him. You're getting absolutely body by a calendar. Do something. Go to 12. Go to 12.Go to 12.Go to 12.Go to 12.Go to 12. As a man, go to 12. Never open another man's calendar. Go to 12, PFT. Move on. I got to learn This is bad. Maybe you. It's like not being able to get a jar of pasta sauce open.

I pushed it in. I pushed it in.

We can't do anything until that 11. Push it in farther. No, that 11. All right, give it to me. I'll get it open. I can't go in any farther.

Try to get 11.

Oh, no.

You can't get it. You can't be done. I got 11, no problem. You got skinny little fingers.

No, I fucking manhandled it because I'm a man. You got a little Caleb Williams. Upset City. Upset City. That's PFT. We're not being able to open the thing. Yeah. Wow. If you had in your bracket a calendar beating PFT, you got the upset correct. Thank you. The chill calendar.

That was tough. It was tough. It was a hard thing to open.

It was a hard thing to open. All right, Hank, your who's back of the week. My who's back of the week is Bryce Harper. Yes. It was either game one or game two. Bryce Harper was playing first base. They had a foul ball. He went flying over to try and catch the ball, went too fast, and then basically cartwheeled head first into the dugout. Looks pretty serious. Then the funniest part of the video was that the ball landed probably 10 yards behind him right in play. It hit the net. Yeah, you know nothing. You're really dumb.

You know nothing.

No, Because I've seen a lot of people saying this. It clearly hit the net. That makes more sense because that video without context of it hitting the net was a lot funnier where it looked like he was just- He just overran it.

Yeah, and it is funny to think that, but also the ball-I mean, watch the video I'm not thinking about it hitting the net. It's funny. I saw it, Hank, and the ball is very clearly going towards the field of play as it falls down.

Wind and backspin. It hit the net. You saw it hit the net? No, I just knew the minute I watched it, I was like, That clearly bounced off the net.

It's way funnier if you think that it didn't hit the net, though.

I haven't seen a video where it hits the net. No, but- Have you? I used my brain and I said he's running directly to the dugout, and then the ball is coming at a weird angle down off what is probably the net right there. Backspin? No. Wind?

The net. Wind's not real.

The net. The net is still far away from where he made the catch. Yeah, but he misjudged where the catch was. I also think it might have... At first, I actually thought it hit-Well, if it's far enough to hit the net, then he still didn't need to be going that hard towards the dugout. At first, I thought maybe it hit the net and then hit the top of the dugout and bounced up. If the net is that far away from the dugout railing where he barreled into, did he really need to be barreled into? He's a competitor, all right? He was excited about opening weekend. Let him be. Let him try and play. He didn't play today because of load management. Well, he did not play today. That's correct. But he'll be back in the lineup tomorrow.

You know what? I'm going to agree with Hank on this because I haven't seen the ball hit the net. We don't know.

Okay, fine. It's a hilarious video. Yeah, all right, fine.

Yeah, it didn't hit the net. It didn't hit the net. Bryce Harper just misjudged it. No, Hank's an idiot. No, no, no. Let's not let Hank get off of this without being an idiot. I'm watching this. The ball- Have you seen it hit the net, Max? It hit the net. The spin on the ball- Where? Brought it back.

It hit the net. Yeah, I don't think you guys are accounting. If you hit the ball a certain way, it's going to be backspinning in the air.

But that would make it actually go further. It was top-spinning. Yeah. It hit the world's first top- It's not inclusive. We're doing the review. Yeah. No video evidence. Yeah.

You guys say these things as fact. No, I'm great with it. I'm on your side now. It didn't hit the net. He's an idiot.

Great job, Max.

Who's Back of the Week for you, PFT?

My Who's Back of the Week is country music. Country music because Beyoncé put out a country album. Yes. I finished listening to it. She's done it again. Bangers. Bangers, Bangers only. She single-handedly saved country music.

Well, in this fair, how much is this just because the song she has with Miley is the best song?

I'd say 95%. It is a great song. It's a great song. It's a really good song.

It's warranted.

I'm just going to say it. I think Miley outperforms on her own album. Yeah, I think Miley still... Miley Cyrus brought Country Music back.

Yeah, people were having a debate because Miley Sireis also covered Jolene a few years ago.

Way better. Beyoncé's Jolene sucks. She covered it on this album? She did, and it's a skip. It's a big skip. It's a skip. It's not good.

Everything's a skip for you except probably the Miley song.

True, yeah. Well, 16 Carriages is pretty good, too. But I did see there was an article that was written in the New York Post about how Beyoncé saved a dying genre, which is very funny just because you're making everybody upset.

This is like when Travis Kelsey got credit for the fade?

Yeah, or when Taylor Swift got credit for doing the Heart thing. Which, by the way, I'd like to see Taylor Swift try to make a country album. I don't think she can. Max is still trying to find a hit the net.

I don't think he can. I don't think it hit the net. He didn't hit the net. Yeah, but watch when it lands. It didn't hit the net. Yeah, no. I I don't see the ball hit the net. I just thought it hit the floor of the dugout at first, but yeah, I think, Max, you're wrong. It didn't hit the net. You could see the way...

No, whatever.

I'm not going to take this bait.

Also, the fact that...

What? The fact that-No, no, no. If we are doing this, if you really were to slow this down frame by frame, if he saw it hit the net, why did he fall into the dugout? Why did he keep going? The question, if he saw it hit the net, he would have stopped.

Hank, if you It's a slow it down, make it go frame by frame. The ball goes back into the left. You can see it. Look at that. It's going to the left. I don't think it hit the net.

Either way, we still like Bryce Harper. We want him on the show, but it didn't hit the net. But is that the end of your Who's Back?

Well, yeah. I mean, country music was dead. Nobody listened to country music, and then Beyoncé made an album. Beyoncé showed up. Now people listen to country music again. So congrats to country.

It never hit the net. My Who's Back of the Week is the commercial we all end up heading because we watch it so much during March Madness. Unfortunately- Game time. No, that one rocks. I didn't even know that we... Pft and I, if people have probably seen, we've been on, I think, TVS has run it. When we tape that, we didn't know that was going to be a real commercial.

No, so that was a commercial that me and Ron It was two years ago. It was a pre-roll for Barstool Sports Videos. Then I got a text from one of our producers saying, Hey, we want to remake that video. Can you do it? Here's when Ron is going to be in town. I was like, Yeah, I don't know why we're redoing this, but yeah, let's do it. Then Big Big Cat was here. Ron was not here. So Big Cat's like, Sure, I guess I'll do this ad.

Well, Rob beg me because he was like, Ron can't make it. And I know I annoy you. And I was like, No, Rob, you don't annoy me, but I'll do it.

And so we do this, and then a week, two weeks later, it's apparently a commercial that's on TV, which is crazy.

But that one doesn't annoy people, hopefully. The SGA, Shea Gildish Alexander and Chet Holmgren commercial is horrific. And those are two of the most fun young players in the NBA. I don't know who told them to do that, but that was a big mistake because I hate them now.

It's way, way better than Paul Misternet.

That one's good. I like that one.

Paul Misternet. I know. I love it, too. I love the look on Biz's face when Whitney hits him with that one.

Yeah. That's good acting. My other who's back is Cooper Flag because every single time Duke loses, everyone's like, You sure Cooper Flag wants to go there? It's awesome because he's getting hated before he even shows up.

Main event.

Main event? That's his nickname? Yeah. I like that nickname. Listen, I was a Cooper Flag guy. Unfortunately, he didn't take my deal of a super mega NIL offer from Stella Blue Coffee to go to anywhere but Duke. I wasn't even offering him to try to go to Wisconsin. I'm realistic. I was like, Go anywhere but Duke, and I'll give you the Super mega max N-I-L deal.

Oh, wait. Is his nickname the main event, but it's M-A-I-N-E? Yes. That's cool. I like that.

Hank, don't make PFT feel stupid.

You're making me feel dumb. He couldn't even open a calendar. You open that calendar.

The 11th. You got a body by the calendar. All right, Jake, who's your who's back?

Worst thing that's ever happened on the 11th day of the month.

My who's back of the week is spring football. It's back.

Yeah. Nfl.

Yeah. We have 64-yard field goal.

Yeah.

I don't know if you guys saw that.

I watched the highlight of the kick. I saw the highlight of the kick.

We had a fake field goal from former Steeler's punter, Brad Wing.

Yeah, that was cool. He threw a 40-yard pass.

I think he's more LSU, but yeah. I like they do. They did They did embrace a content creator and let him be a kicker, and he actually kicks in games, which I thought was cool.

Wait, what?

Destroying. Who's that? He was one of those kids back in the day, it was a few years ago, where he had a YouTube channel. He was going to play in college, but then they didn't let him play because he had a YouTube channel. He was like, Fuck it.

I'm just going to Oh, yeah. I remember that guy.

And he's with Phase Clean. He does streams and stuff, but he's super athletic, obviously. And he kicks for one of the teams, and he kicked off, kicked a field goal.

He's an actual kicker. He did well. Yeah. User of that shot. This is a Mickey Mouse League. This is a fraud bubble league. The real XFL in 2020 did not do that because they cared about football.

I've never been more confident in my take that spring football, I just don't care. I feel very good about that because every few years, they try to pop one up and be like, You should care. I respect the sports calendar more than anything. This is March Madness. This is going to be Masters. This is be NBA and NHL playoffs. Football is king. I love football more than anything, but not spring football.

I like the XFL in 2020. It felt like that was on the right path until COVID because there were a lot of people in the stands, at least for those games.

Yeah, but I still wasn't I remember when it was happening and it was March Madness.

Yeah, no, I know you're not. You're definitely not. But I think that one had a chance of maybe lasting a few years. This one, I don't know. Probably not.

Yeah, I feel confident in my take. Okay, let's do our interview with Dan Hurley. Great interview as always, with Coach. Pft, you got a couple of ads before we get to our interview.

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Okay, we now welcome on a very special guest, friend of the program. It is a tradition, two years running now to have him on on the Sunday after getting to a final four. It is Yukon Husky's head coach, Dan Hurley. Coach, first of all, congratulations. Your team is a monster and so much fun to watch. I want to start with Saturday night. From your perspective, a 30-oh run in an elite eight game. What was going through your mind when that was happening? Because that was insane to watch.

Really, man, just the way I'm wired, I'm probably in my mind just thinking next possession, just because I'm so maniacally locked into the game. But it was weird just looking up at the scoreboard and we got off to a good start. It's 23-23. You look up a couple more times and then it's 53-23. It was crazy. It was crazy. And to do that against that team, the way they've been playing, it was crazy.

Yeah.

It was so fast and so impressive that even people in the stands, Larry David included, was yelling at you to stop coaching. He told you, Stop coaching. You're done coaching for today. Did you hear Larry David yelling at you?

No, I didn't know he was over there. And everyone told me about it after. And I'm like a Larry David type of character. Like as a coach, I got all the weird idiosynchrosies. And I say whatever I feel like saying. And a lot of times it's ignorant. I would have thought he'd be on on my side. I would have thought he would be for me and not against me. And I don't think there can't be a connection to University of Illinois at Champagne, right?

No, I think he was just there as a fan. But yeah, I think- He hated me.

He hated you. He hated my style. He hated the way I went about coaching.

He said, shame on you. Did you feel shame?

I have felt shame at different points of this year, mostly after being threatened by fans in opposing arenas and then them trying to play an I got you moment with me and videoing me and trying to present me as some type of a monster.

Yeah, we've had your back the whole way when any of those videos pop up. You are a Larry David-like character. I mean, you drink You drink the piss before every game. You're going crazy on the sideline. How is that going, by the way, the mushroom tea? We'll call it mushroom tea. We know what you're drinking.

Yeah, it's all being It's quite effective for me. The cocktail that I've got over there. Everything I'm doing pregame in the back. I have actually a set up before I even get out onto the arena court. I've thought about maybe letting CBS in on that. I've got all these different sprays, aromatherapy, lavender spray, a peppermint spray, a peppermint halo. I have some Holy water back there. I got a nice little setup right around the eight to five minute mark, spritzing that gets me in a good place. It gets me smelling fresh, too.

Yeah, I like that. We can tell you look like you smell good on TV. Yeah, sure. That's a fact. I like the one quote that you had where you said that your fan base is noxious as shit on social media. So do you have somebody that monitors what's going on on Twitter, on Instagram? And do you actually show people's posts in your team meetings?

Yeah, we do. We do it all the time. Sometimes in recruiting, too, if there's things that we could use to show potential recruits that they'd be making a mistake by going to another school based on some things we've seen on social. We'll share that, too, there. But, yeah, Luc Murray, he does a lot of just fuel fueling the fire, poking the bear, so to speak. You got to have some different type of fuel that you run on because it's a long season, and you got to obviously be on your toes, especially when you're playing a single elimination tournament. We don't even get the luxury of best of five, best of seven. So you got to be on edge.

Yeah. So about that, you found motivation in very different ways this year because you guys are so good. Has there ever been a moment where your team's like, All right, Coach, you're not actually mad about this, specifically the tip time that you use this motivation for Thursday night when you're like, Oh, we're first tip? Okay. Shows disrespect. Because I was watching that and I was like, I like that Coach early is doing this, but he can't actually be mad about this, can he?

Yeah. They expect it, and they're almost aware before I come in of where I'm going. These kids clinging. My new addition here, my Camp Spencer, who also he's a mini me on the court. Yeah. So Yeah, I think for us, it's like we've won a lot. Look at what we've done since Teddy Allen knocked us out of the tournament there in that brutal rock fight in Buffalo. We've dominated and We've put guys in the NBA. We've won all the championships. Now we're in the final four. We're going to have more guys in the lottery this year. I think we do got an edge to us. We don't get talked about enough. Our season hasn't been covered, in my mind, in the national media enough. This is a team that's done historic stuff. If we were at Duke or Kentucky or Kansas, they would lead SportsCenter with it, and it would be the biggest story in sports. But because we're in Stores, Connecticut, and we're just a little grimey there. A little grimey.

Yeah, I love the chip on your shoulder. Actually, you bring up Cam Spencer. I had a question about him. The story goes that he stays in hotel rooms on the road with Caravan, and he gels at him before every game in the hotel room. At what point did you find out or figure out that Cam Spencer was a mini-you and also a psycho?

Yeah, I knew he was a psycho. Well, on the It was that you had a pretty good sense because like brother Pat, Dad Bruce, and Donna, they're all alike. I mean, they have the absolute same worldview, all of them. And it's like, go hard or shut the you know what up. And there's some weird connections, too. Both his parents were born in Jersey City, where I grew up. I think his mom went to the grammar school I went to, and then they also lived in Rhode Island for a little bit. So there's some weird connections there. But he's cursing. I think he curses a lot. He smashes and kicks the ball. He punches the basket. He could just miss this like a free throw on a side basket, and he'll just go into his straight Tourette's. So our language is actually in the way we ourselves is I think it's going to button up and clean up after he leaves. Yeah.

You guys are one in the same. That's nice to have you on the court every single time.

We're on the floor.

Yeah.

That's good stuff. Did you figure out what you're going to use for motivation this Week going inside? I know you already talked about the national media not talking about Yukon enough, but is there anything with the setup of the tournament that you found so far where it seems like they're out to get you? Because if you don't have some, I've got a couple you can use.

I do, too. I brought some for you.

Okay, so the first... Oh, you do have some?

I was just going to say it's just it's far.

Yeah. That's the first one on my list.

It's making you go way too far.

Yeah. Alabama has a much shorter trip. You have to travel so much further than Alabama. Which means, and you guys haven't really spent much time on a plane, you're going to have to be on a plane. It could be a Boeing. You don't want any extra minutes in the air.

It's far. I like it.

It's just far. The second one I had was how you feed off online hatred. You love seeing people talking shit to you. And Alabama actually has the 47th lowest broadband rate. And I think that the 46th lowest internet availability for all the states. So there's not as much stuff for you to use for motivation there.

Yes. So the fan base is not going to do it for me?

Well, I got one. I got one for you.

That's what you're saying. Yeah, I got one. I'm saying there's not enough Internet in Alabama for me to talk shit.

Yeah, I got one, though, for you. I found someone found enough Internet. Here's one. Someone tweeted, Fuck it. We're beating Yukon. You can't convince me otherwise. That was actually from the Barstool, Alabama account. Barstool, Alabama. Who said that? Barstool, Alabama said that.

How many followers they have? Did a lot of people hear that?

Yeah, they had 60,000 views on the tweet.

Because that matters a lot in terms of how angry you get over what somebody said. If the avatar is like an egg or it's like a person that doesn't exist and it's like a fake name, those people, they don't get to me. But anyone that has the courage to go with their actual face with their actual name and maybe where they work, when they trash me, that gets to me. The bot or whatever, whatever I deliver the fake person shit, the Wizard of Oz, I don't care what the guy says behind the curtain. Yeah.

This is just a message to anyone. If you want to get noticed by Coach Hurley, put a name on it. Put a name on it and a face on it.

A real person. You should have to show a driver. You should have to do a Twitter, too. I think you should have to have some type of ID. You should only be allowed to have one account and everything that you say. There should be no anonymous on there.

Let everyone back up their words.

Yeah, especially nudes and bio, which is just all the tweets now. It's just every tweet, it's under there.

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I got a stat for you. You ready for a stat? I want to know maybe if you change up. I mean, everything's working right now, but if you want to change up something for the final four, we could help you be coaches from afar. Yukon's record when Andrew Hurley plays, 41 and zero, when he doesn't 63 and 29. Have you thought about starting him?

I did on senior day.

Did you when?

Well, I didn't end up starting him, but I met with him. We talked it through. We talked it through because the fans love him at Yukon because he's not like an entitled asshole whose dad's the coach and the whole thing. He's like a humble kid. He's a funny kid. He just does his thing. So I went to him before seeing you. I said, Listen, these people, you fooled them. They're really behind you, and they celebrate you all the time. But if I start you, you play like shit, and we lose this game and blow The Big East regular season, that whole thing shifts. And he didn't want to risk it. So he cleaned it up at the end.

Yeah. My biggest qualm with your coaching recently has been that you have not let him shoot at the end. Yeah. You're on the He's your son. Now, I know what you're thinking. You want to be classy. You don't want to run the score up. I get that side of it. But I would imagine that your dad would take more enjoyment of seeing him making a shot in that situation than anybody else. And One day he might be a coach, and you're going to want to see your grandson hit a shot in a game like that. So you got to teach him. You got to let him in and be like, okay, you're going to get one shot here.

Yeah. And you know what? My dad is probably a better dad than me because he let me I think it was maybe my sophomore year, I subbed my brother out, county Championship. We were up 100, and he subbed me out at the end. And I hit a half-court bank shot at the buzzer, I think, to win by 63 or whatever. But we found that with Andrew in these games that he's been dribbling the ball out, though. And he's racking up assists and rebounds. And So he's showing that he's an all-around player, not just a shooter. Yeah.

I mean, the fact that he's gotten into every single tournament game in this two-year run is pretty awesome. I mean, he's clearly a big piece of the success. 41 and 0. 41 and0 when he's in the game is pretty insane.

41 at 0. And he's got the COVID year eligibility. So he's squeezing me hard now. N-i-l. He's obviously got tremendous leverage with with the portal. Yeah.

I'm sure that he could talk to his mom and probably get you to show some leniency that way.

He's the closer. You got to have some respect for the closer. Yeah.

He's the closer at Ted's. On campus here. That's where all the madness goes on in stores.

I had a real basketball question for you real quick. First of all, Donovan Klingon, unbelievable. You also don't get enough credit for having his nickname, which should get more More people should be talking about it. You call him Kling Kong, which is awesome. But in a basketball perspective, watching him grow, last year, he had the injuries. This year, he's been unbelievable. Saturday night, he was just an absolute force. What have you seen from his progression? And also, what does he do defensively that helps the entire team? Because I feel like he makes everything go, whether it be perimeter defense or shots at the rim, everything goes through him.

Yeah. You know what? The thing that's unique about Other than is really a couple of things. He's 7'2 plus, probably closer to 7'3. And once he got back from the injuries, we wouldn't let him back on the court until he got his weight down into the 250s. He probably came into the season like a little bit too heavy. These guys with NIL and everything, they got it pretty good. So it probably just came in a little bit heavy. But it's just rare that you see somebody that size moving around the court the way he does. With our offense, that moves a lot. Our defense moves a lot. We attack the glass, we run in transition. So we ask him to move around a lot. And I know that's what the NBA loves about him. Plus, he's like, sometimes the big guys, especially the really tall ones, they don't have a lot of pop. They don't have a lot of personality. They don't love to play. Somebody made him play because they were tall. They don't like when people ask them how tall they are all the time, they just start to turtle up a little bit in their shell.

But this dude is alive. He's up at 05:00 AM. If the weather was nice enough, he'd fish from 5:00 to 7:00, get in the gym, wouldn't go to bed till 2:00 AM, and then he's back up at 5:00. This dude is alive, so he's got this incredible energy about him. So he's going to be His games are numbered here, obviously, at Yukon, so we want to make the most of it.

Yeah, he's so much fun to watch, and it's just a great story because it's like, even last year, he could have gone to the NBA draft after last year's run. He probably sat down with you and you were like, Hey, we can show more of your game and progress you to a point where you feel even more confident. That's what I love about college basketball, and we miss sometimes.

Yeah. I mean, it's like He's not going to be in the NBA, and he knows it. And you can make some money in NIL and do real well. So it's not like you could still... If you're a popular player and an excellent player, these guys are going to be making close to what the rookies are making in college at some point soon anyway. But the guy, he loves Connecticut. He's from here. He always dreamed of playing here. He's got a chance to, if we win this thing this week, he's got a chance to stake his claim to be in the greatest Yukon player. If he gets two, comes a lottery pick, he's one of the big East, he'll have done it all. But I think he just loves being on a real team because once you get to the NBA, things change. It's a grown man world and the locker room and the commitment to... I I don't want to go.

No, you're right, though. No, you're right. I read an article where you talked about it. It's like, look, it's hard for a lot of these guys because the money is there and you can go to the NBA, but your goal is to make a lot of these guys get to a point where they can have long NBA careers, not just get drafted and make money, right? But you want these guys to be in the NBA for 10, 15 years. I think that honesty is great.

James Booknight. Do you remember him from a couple of years back, that COVID year. I mean, he was 6'5, like the perfect modern basketball, NBA. Just that guy was a freak, man. The athleticism, the scoring. He dropped 40 on Creighton during a regular season as a sophomore. And at the end of his sophomore year, he was a lottery pick. Probably deep down inside knew he wasn't ready for that world. But I didn't see my obligation in that situation to say, Hey, listen, you may need some more time on a college campus. You're not ready for that world. And I think James, maybe not going to an organization that would hold him accountable like we did at Yukon. He probably needed to go to a more buttoned up place like a Miami heat or something like that where they're running a tight shift. But moving forward with these guys, if I think they're making a mistake and I think they need more time in college, I'm going to tell them I should have book.

Yeah. Yeah. Yucon has a pretty cool opportunity in front of them. You're going to a final four, obviously. The women's team could be in the final four, too. Do you talk to Gino during the tournament? And are you guys checking in with each other? And Have you thought, have you guys talked about how cool that would be to both be in the final fours at the same time?

Yeah. I talk to Gino all the time, whether it's stopping over there and seeing him or him just dropping a call or a text. Either way, the guy is the smartest guy. I mean, just a super brilliant guy. And he's been great to me from the start. It's awkward for me with him and Coach because they obviously don't see eye to eye, him and Coach Calhoun. So I've got to try to not let either guy see me too buddied up to the other one or else that could cause some friction. But what Gino has done then is they got six scholarship players there in the elite eight. And Paige Becker's, obviously, just to see her play, It's amazing. And I know that the Queen wants her thrown back, and I know she's going to go hard for it tomorrow night.

Yeah. I mean, the run that both the men's and women's team is on is awesome, and there's nothing better.

And I love that you call him Coach. Calhoun is still Coach. How many guys do you call Coach?

Dj, my college Coach. I call my dad, my dad. I don't even know if I ever called him. I don't think I ever said anything. I don't think I ever said coach or dad during those high school years with my father, Coach Blaney. Yeah, just my college coaches, really. And then those two, they're giants, man. Coach Calhoun, he'll be in practice this week. He'll talk to the boys, and he'll give them a proper send off. He'll bring them in the circle. He'll rip a couple of guys. He doesn't like the way they're playing. He'll rip them, and then he'll tell them it ain't enough, basically. It ain't enough, man. You got to pick your shit up.

Yeah. All right. So I got one last question. This has been awesome as always, Coach. It's a rowback question, robackk. Com, promo code take 20% off your first Purchase, Q-Zips, polos, hoodies, joggers, shorts, rowbackk. Com, promo code take. It's actually not a question. It's a statement. I don't know. So this run has been incredible. We still got two games left, not looking ahead, but it's been an incredible run. I want you to know, though, probably the most incredible part of this run is Max, our producer, who's a diehard Villanova fan. You've taken all the fight out of him. You've taken all the fight out of him. You remember when you came into the studio last year and we were like, That's the guy who bet against you every single game. This year, he's just laying down. He just doesn't care. He can't fight anymore.

I heard. I listened to it. I listened to it. It made me sad, really. Very sad. Just that segment that you guys did after that Marquette game where he was a broken man and broken fan, and it was just sad. You never want to see that. There's no feeling like loving your team and believing in your team. And for a man to have that ripped from his hands, it's sad.

It's really sad. It's so sad. When you think about it, things that have happened in Max's life that are just the worst is he just has to go back to your speech when you lost to Vilanova, and then you better get us now because we're coming. That was the start of the end of Max's life.

Hey, Max, I will say this in Max's defense. Those night conference wins tremendous. What hurts them, though, is those big five games are just brutal games to have on your schedule.

Coming in six in the big five is tough.

Well, they're tough games because they're the Super Bowl of all those low to mid-majors. And for Vilanova, when you're playing Carolina in the non-conference and all these big games, and then you're getting ready the big East, it's not as circled on your calendar, and they're neutral, or they're in weird places. I wonder if you asked those guys whether they like having It was a big five games on their schedule.

That's tough. Max, is this making you reignite your hatred a little bit? The fact that your bitter rival is like they're there- Padding you on the head.

It's okay, Max.

I've been patted on the head for the past two years.

It's just what it is. I will say I haven't I haven't bet on Yukon one time this tournament, but I haven't bet against them once. You learned your lesson. I just know you're going to win, and I can't root for Yukon. There's nothing you can do about it.

But at least I'm not rooting against you like I was last year.

Last year, you were against the Syvola. Oh, The whole way.

The whole way. He bet against you every single game. He's like, They can't do it. Dan Hurley can't coach in March. I didn't say that. He said all these things. I didn't say that. He kept on saying them. By the way, so you've been standing- When did it flip? It flipped.

When did it flip, though? When did it flip?

You killed him this year. What game?

After the Big East tournament this year when Villanova got balanced, I think he just gave up all hope. Yeah, he also got up- He just said it's a baseball season.

He got up big for that Saturday night game when Villanova came to Connecticut. He was like, This is the start of the run for Villanova. That just extinguished everything. We got you guys coming off a loss. That was bullshit. Yeah, he was so mad. He lost to Creighton because he was like, No, we needed this. One thing about Max, and I actually want your take, my last question, because you have been standing up for your league, which I love that. The Big East should have had more than three teams in the tournament. Max has the take that it's actually anti-Italian discrimination because the Big East is an Italian league. Do you agree with that?

I never put that together. I had a lot of conspiracies as to why it was happening, but not the Italian thing. I thought it had more to do with not not having big time football or whoever. The weird thing is, too, is in that room with all those committee members, when the representative from your league, when they were talking about teams in your league, that person is not allowed to stay in the room. So I guess what you got to learn, we have got to learn the art of is, I guess, of how to destroy these other conferences when you are in the room. Right.

Because they refuse you. Yeah.

Because you You can't fight for your teams. You can't say a word about your teams. But you do have the ability, though, to crush the other people.

Yeah.

And what channel do you guys play your games on in the Big East? What network is that?

We're Fox.

What network is the NCAA tournament on?

It's been on CBS, or unless you're the defending national champs that have had a historic season and won almost everything, then you're a true TV.

Yeah.

Interesting. We're playing at 2:00 on Friday instead of primetime, which, honestly, whether we're able to finish this thing off and have the great week and deliver historic level stuff with a completely new team. Just when you've done what we've done, you deserve those primetime slots. You deserve the attention that comes with all the success these guys have achieved. That's all. If we come up short on Saturday or Monday, if we get through Saturday and people want to go at me for talking and being confident and believing in the team and talking a lot of shit, then they'll have that moment. But I turn my notifications off, so I won't hear the shit anyway.

Yeah, there you go. So, yeah, look into that Italian discrimination thing. It goes deeper, I think. Max is on to something. Big East is Italian League.

Max, as soon as I'm done with this season, man, I'm on that. I'm going to figure it out.

Thank you.

I need that. I need someone from the inside.

Yeah. Well, Coach, thank you so much. We appreciate it. Best of luck. I'm rooting for you guys, maybe because I put a future on you after you lost to Kansas because I was like, this team's good. I'm the anti-Max in the room. But, yeah, good luck. And anytime you're in Chicago, next time you're here, we got to have you come out because we got a full basketball court. You got to run us through some drills.

Yeah, I would love to do that. Was Coach Patino, was he in studio?

Yeah, he was in studio. Yeah. So we got to do it.

I got to get back in studio. Let's do it.

Yeah. All right. Well, best of luck, Coach. We'll be watching on a Saturday Night, the Late Game. Some respect, the Late Game on Saturday Night. Coach Dan Hurley, congrats, and let's go win two more.

Let's go.

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Okay, let's wrap up the show. We forgot one very important topic that we need to bring up. I'm not taking this lightly because we actually need to have a discussion about this. The Philadelphia Philies hung a banner for losing the World Series. The town that doesn't hang banners. It wasn't the World Series. Oh, yeah, they didn't lose. Oh, they lost the NLCS.

I forgot. I got my years. They didn't even hang the banner for the series. They hung a banner banner for a year. To just celebrate a good year.

This is coming from our good friend, Max, who has claimed that we don't care about banners for losing years. We don't hang banners for losing years. They hung a banner for a year when they choked in the NLCS and lost game 6 and 7 at the bank.

So, Max, why is this flag a different color? I I didn't get that. I don't want to talk about this.

No, no. We have a half-a-event series. You thought you were going to get through the whole show. You guys didn't talk about it. I was happy to not talk about it. You can pull up the text I sent to Hank in PFT. Right before we stepped in the studio, I said, Let's not bring it up till the end to make him think that we just missed it. Because you thought in your sick little head, we would miss this. Well, we talked about baseball. I was like, All right, nice. Yeah, we did that on purpose. Hank was like, I'm going to do Who's Back, Bryce Harper. You think we can get through without bringing up? I was like, yes, we'll avoid it because we have to have a serious discussion about the city of Philadelphia hanging a banner for a year that they lost in the NLCS, max. It's probably going to confuse some people, too. It's probably some people in the stadium being like, What year is it? Oh, it's 2023.

I'm confused right now because there's other flags out there. Some are blue. What is blue flag? Like the dark blue. I think the dark blue means lost the World Series.

Oh, that makes sense.

Then the white means won the World Series. Then the sky blue that they hung up means lost in the- Almost lost the World Series. Almost lost the World Series. They didn't even win the division.

They won nothing.

I don't know what- You hung a wild card banner.

Which is Insane. That needs to be taken down immediately.

There was a part of me that they won today.

They lost the first two games. There was a part of me that I wanted them to lose every single game that that flag was up so that something had to be done for it to be taken down. I thought that they would never win as long as that flag was up.

It can't be up. It can't be up.

That flag can't be there.

It has to be an opening series thing, and then they'll take it down by... What?

To celebrate the year that we're in? Yeah, but it was a fun year, Max. You guys made the playoffs. Yeah, you beat the Braves. This is the most pathetic thing. It's the most pathetic thing I've ever seen. You thought it was Photoshopped. No, I knew it was photoshopped. You thought, though, in your head, you were like, maybe it is. I was just looking for anything. As the mayor of Philadelphia who claims that we don't hang banners for losing seasons, where do we go from here? Everything that you stood for is gone. Are they going to give our rings for this, too? Oh, they probably should. What would the ring be? 3-2 lead in the NLCS? Nlcs Participant, which is what they did in the World Series.

National League finalist. Yeah. Like the Colts banner. I don't You're no different from the Colts.

Yeah. You are the Colts. You're the Indianapolis cult. Yeah, I don't know what you want me to say.

I'm not fighting.

You guys are…

This is… It's a direct reflection on you.

I'm on your side.

But this is representative of you, This is your city.

This is what you believe in. I might go to Citizens Bank Park, scale that poll, and take it down myself. Now we got to see that happen. I'll pay your bail.

You would probably get cheered. There would probably be Rockets applause in the stands for Max.

Have you gotten an answer on what is going on with this thing? No, I have no... I know nothing. I want it down so badly.

This is such a bad banner. I could see it affecting other sports in that city. Yeah. Yeah. Big time. You need to cut this off now.

Big down needs to take that banner down.

Yeah. I don't know.

I don't get it. It makes no sense. I don't know what they're celebrating.

I don't know why that could... The Philadelphia that I I'm sure there's Philly's fans that are like, Yes, thank you.

No. Now we can remember. Zero. Now we can remember the time Max got in overalls and pigtails and screamed at everyone.

The people of Philadelphia that I know, that I love, the diehard weirdos that love these teams, they would not let this stand. They would have already done something about it. This is your call, Phil. They're just happy to be there. I'm with Max. I refuse to believe this is real. If it is real, it's quite sad.

Quite sad, Max. I don't know what to say. It needs to be down. I need the people of Philadelphia to rally behind everyone and just say that... We need some protest so that this banner gets taken, this flag gets taken.

Were you what Hank was just saying, it sounds like they like the flag. No, that's incorrect.

Were people as outrageous as you were? Yes. Okay. Pug, you're a Philly fan. He's an Eagles fan. That's it. Oh, you're an Eagles fan? Yeah. What is he? Not Philly's. Not Philly's Pug. Okay, but Pug, this will probably infect the Eagles. This will infect the Eagles.For sure.Ce.

Type of loser behavior. It's going to infect the 76ers. Yep.

They probably won't even win a playoff series. I actually will say it right now, they're not going to win a playoff series.

You know what? It's infected the Flyers already. Yeah. The Flyers, they lost their playoff spot to the Capitals. They lost to the Blackhawks?

Maybe. I think that's right. I don't know. They got hooked by that. I watched my first two Flyers games last week.

Yeah. And is there any question that this all started to happen after this flag went up?

Next thing you know, Nova won't even make the tournament.

No, come on. All right. Come on, Biga. That's fine, Pug.

All right. That is our show. I think we're going to do a baseball preview on Wednesday, earlier than ever. Love it. We got a special guest do a baseball preview, and the boys are off to Phoenix/glendaleflash.

Scottsdale, Mesa.

Scottsdale, all that for the final four. Then it's Master's Week, boys. Then it's Master's Week. Then we're kicking into high gear. We're turning the corner on like, I love how the sports calendar works, where you get March Madness, and then you just look up, and it's all 16 playoff games on a night, on a weekend, on a Saturday and Sunday.

That's two weeks of my sports calendar year, I think.

Really?

I love the first round of NHL and NBA. Nba play-offs. I mean, NHL wasn't two weeks for you last year.

Yeah, but just as a sports fan, we don't have to talk about me, specifically.

Okay. That wasn't about you?

No. For me, I'm not worried until conference championships.

Okay.

But every night having meaningful games is the best.

It is nice.

This is going to be the most intense Celtics run. Yeah. You got to win it all.

Actually, if your city has two teams, if you have a team in the NBA play-offs, and the NHL playoffs, those weeks are just chaos for you. It's so fun. It's the best.

Yeah, no, I don't have anything. Bulls are going to be in a plane.

Bulls, Sixers, Celtics is looking pretty.

The Bulls would have to win two. And then play the Celtics. Yeah, they'd have to win two games against playing team teams. Like the Sixers. Right. They're not going to win two games. All All right. Numbers. 40.

8. 3.

20. Max, I feel like your number should be two.

What's that?

No, second place. I don't get it. Oh, I'll be two. I'll go two. Can I change my number to two today?

If I can change mine to 11.

Okay. Maybe 23. Let's just start again. Numbers. 20. 11. 2. 18. 3.

99, Pug. 21.

That's Shane. Sounded like 21 Savage there, she did. Seventy-four.

Love you guys.

Talking away.

I don't know what to say, I'll say it anyway. Today is another day to find you, shy and away. I'll be coming for your love of a dream. Needless to say. All the sentence about me is so laid away. Just let me learn that life is okay. Say I'm for me. It's no better to be.