Washington St. is all alone at the top of the Pac-12; Will UConn bounce back vs. Villanova

Washington St. is all alone at the top of the Pac-12; Will UConn bounce back vs. Villanova

Hey there it’s Gary Parish welcome back to CBS Sports I on college basketball podcast where we sometimes discuss camel fighting dodo birds leaky black the island college basketball podcast presented by FanDuel Sportsbook FanDuel Sportsbook make every moment more Matt Norland is here with me if you watch it

On YouTube smash the like button like your brand and Davies you have consent and don’t forget while you’re here to o subscribe to the CBS sports college basketball YouTube channel if you haven’t done that yet let’s get into it the game of Thursday night originated in uh Tucson Arizona where Washington State

Found itself in need of uh nothing more than a a win at Arizona to take sole possession of first place in a pack 12 standings problem is nobody wins at Arizona Tommy Lloyd’s Wildcats entered the game with a 13-0 record at home this season they were 13 and a half Point

Favorites at tip this was not supposed to be close but hey that’s why they play the games dead leg final score Washington State 77 Arizona 74 cougars after being picked 10th in the preseason Pack 12 poll and having zero conference championships since 1941 are now alone

At top the Pack 12 standings with just four regular season games remaining dead leg makes sense of the miracle cal Smith is pulling off in Pullman it’s an awesome game and it went it went late but your guy stayed up to watch all of it I think this thing ended at

About20 Eastern or thereabouts um I’ll go big picture on on Kyle a second but I want to talk about the game because it was uh it was a heck of a game I thought it was going to be close I thought Arizona would win but I did think that Washington state was

Going to be able to keep it close um and it was uh quite enjoyable here I think n’s got the box score he’ll toss it up in just a second um Jaylen Wells is the big name to know from this one because he was outrageously good and it was his

It was his four-point play from the corner on an offensive rebound SL busted possession that gave Washington State the lead after Arizona was up four with about a minute to go Wells was nine of 16 from the field he made six trays in this game and was just huge game high or

27 points Caleb love also had 27 Caleb love didn’t even get a chance to get off the final shot because he wind up slipping in falling while driving to the hoop there um he should not have done that that was not smart well you know I

Don’t think that was in the plan I don’t think Tommy Tommy Lloyd Drew up the Caleb drive to the hoop and fall in your ass play but that’s how it went down Washington St yeah Washington State went 7774 um and gets just a a huge win in a

Really tough environment just you know such an enjoyable game well said afterward I’ve got it here I pulled up the quotes uh early this morning because he was he was something he said this is big there’s a lot of moments we could have folded but we stayed poised kept

Fighting back I think it’s a big win for us just because people thought we were The Underdogs people saying oh you gotta go play Arizona no they’ve got to play us and as for I love that and as for the um the win put on a t-shirt they’ve got to play us yeah

You’re stuck in here with me um he said on the on the play that he won uh that he helped win the game it didn’t it wasn’t technically uh the winner in the moment but he said honestly I caught the ball I shot it I didn’t see the rim then

I was laying on the ground a dude was sitting on me I look up and hear someone say yeah dog and uh it was it was a crazy shot like it was it was really really really impressive and um I just I I can’t say enough about what Kyle Smith

Has done um this was the first time since 1983 that Washington state had defeated a team ranked in the top four of the AP Top 25 83 39 years and now Washington state is a top the Pack 12 trivia time fig you might have looked this up when was the

Most recent year Washington State won the regular season in the configuration in a prior iteration that was essentially the back pack 12 here’s your first Hint it was nowhere close to being named or being the Pack 12 at that point oh man that’s going to be like

1888 no James nay Smith had not invented basketball got in 1888 but he was thinking about it he was already he might he might have been thinking about it he might have been thinking about it he was he was already I know he was thinking about it your I know it was in

There somewhere most recent Conference Championship yeah yeah it’s not 1888 I’d probably have to go with like n 19 uh 31 you’re only 10 years away my man 1941 the I mean hold up a second I’ve already said this 50 times I thought this was some other thing you were trying to come

Up with I’m well aware they haven’t won a conference Championship since 1941 that’s what I said the last time they won a regular season in a conference it wasn’t called The Pack 12 then was 1941 but you threw some weird words in there that got me confused I’m sorry for using

The English language I’ll try I’ll try better next time just tone it down a little bit all right only dial it back you’re talking to I’m I’m a product of Mississippi Public Schools dial it back a little bit again my bad for using our common dialect here’s the deal

Washington state only has two regular season titles in its history 1917 I don’t even think that should count if I’m being honest here like that shouldn’t even count it’s I’m giving it one I’m taking that one off the books I’m sorry wazu and 1941 and they’re and they’re got a great

Chance to do it now this we we talked about Washington State recently because the miles rice thing and I wrote about that and it still I I I discovered Washington State you did not Bry only had five points um but they swept Arizona nonetheless first time since

2010 that they swept him so I’m going a little long here I’m just tossing right back to you for thoughts on on the game or the story and and just what is he merging here out of Pullman is such an awesome awesome deal and uh for them to

Get that road win boy Washington State now I think won seven in a row I want the I want the official record to SCT that I’m very aware that Washington State’s last Conference Championship was 1941 I mean it’s in the top 25 And1 this morning and that was that was that was

Filed two hours ago all right I know I know at this point I know everything about Washington State okay I thought asked it pretty clearly but it is early in the morning so you you put a word in there that I didn’t quite I thought you

Was trying to I thought you were saying before 1941 what was it I didn’t say that I didn’t say before 1941 I know but you had a word in there buddy just go back and play it there was it had it had like a bunch of syllables it got it it

Was like situation got you it a tough it a tough you put me in a tough spot very early on a Friday um I got one for you this comes from Jared Bon he invented ESPN stats and info at this point he’s like programming like 20% of your

Material by the way continue yeah yeah well this is how I learn stuff okay how else do you learn stuff sorry for trying to be smarter sorry for trying to learn I know we live in a world with no nobody wants to learn anything anymore I’m trying to learn

Still Jared buron he runs in pin stats and info forever lifetime contract over there he he tells us that Washington state is now the only School in the country that has two wins over the past two seasons on the road against a team ranked in the top five of the AP poll Bo

You ready for this before Kyle Smith did it 1941 never never 0 and 34 all time the program was 0 and 34 all time on the road against the top five opponent KY Kyle Smith moves to Washington State he’s two and0 Kelvin Samson zero Tony Bennett zero

Kyle Smith two and 0 I think I know what that means nay Smith Memorial Hall of fam or Kyle Smith well I thought you were about to say Kyle Smith is your National Coach of the Year well we’re there already oh I I saw the tweets last

Night man nothing get nobody I bet you in the in in in one college basketball season like 17 different dudes get called the national coach of the year at some point let us get caught up in the moment it was a it was a fun late night uh for

College troop’s Twitter and I think he is argu with the front runer that is our PLL chat right now we’ll give you the results here before we get out of the a black any more thoughts on uh on yeah what’s emanating in Pullman man obviously one of the best stories of the

Year well you know I was flying home last night thankfully thankfully the game started late enough I got home at halftime so I was able to watch the whole second half wow oh yeah yeah late arrival for your guy over there yeah it’s a I’m living a tough life you don’t

Even want to know you don’t know you don’t want to know what what you don’t want to know what my life dealing with right now so I get home and I’ve got uh I was able to watch the second half and what was most interesting

Is like it it played out in a way that it just felt like all right if this were a 37 minute game they’ have won it this were a 38 minute game they’ have won it but they’re not going to win 40 I mean it felt like it slipped away from them

Right yes for sure I thought alab I thought Alabama I thought Arizona was going to win that one uh down the stretch there because they they took a lead and Washington State like you’re on the road and and M looked rocking they had some like like fish show glow stick

Situation going on that I really like I hope that’s not just a one game thing if they’d been doing it earlier this season I’m sorry I just I missed on that so no yeah The Vibes are very good for Arizona they were relying on Caleb love to the

Extent where I think they probably should and need to but it it definitely was you know the Caleb love experience trademark you know it just and unfortunately like probably most people thought I thought they were actually going to have pel Larson maybe try to get that last shot off and heck for all

I know maybe that was an option on that play and it just got unlucky when he slipped and fell and they didn’t even get a chance to get the yeah listen I’m not gonna blame Caleb love for slipping all right you know he he got he I mean

He he was getting where he was trying to get to and he just slipped and he it’s not like he hadn’t made a big play just a minute earlier hit a layup with 51 seconds to go that uh that helped you know give Arizona a little bit of that’s

Right and then that was followed by the Jaylen Wells uh four-point play so you know yes it was the Caleb love experience and I guess that’s a a part of the story that he slipped with the game on the line but he slipped with the

Game on the line he didn’t take an awful shot with the game on the line he just slipped and sometimes that happens in basketball but my my larger point I was just impressed Washington State first they came out and they’re they’re in it from the jump they’re in it the whole

Game they’re controlling most of the game game and then I’ve seen it a million times the perceived better team is at home and they just flip it in the final six minutes it just it happens you you know where you really see it NBA all the time when you got these really good

Teams on the second night of back Tob backs and they’re like going through the motions and it’s like all right let’s go win this now and then they’ll play the fourth quarter and they’ll get out of there with the win I see this stuff all the time and it felt like that’s what

Arizona was going to do all right we’ve been we we’ve let him hang around but now let’s go take this and Washington State took it right back that’s like that’s how you win a conference Championship for the first time since 1941 it it’s impressive stuff and you

Know this thing can still go a million different ways but Kim pom does for what it’s worth project Arizona and Washington State to now both finish 15 and five in the Pack 12 and that would make them co-champs if it goes down that way and that would be good enough to to

Be a conference Champion for the first time in more than eight decades yeah right now here’s the FI and I’m a stickler when it comes to lock so I I I’m almost at lock status with Washington state if it were to lose its final four regular season games in its

First Pack 12 Tournament game it actually might be sticky but the it’s going to the tournament people literally needs one more win and it will be a lock they play Arizona State on Saturday ASU almost came back which I wonder if it was going to be the biggest comeback in

School history against Washington um but it they didn’t so we’ll see if Arizona State can pick itself up off the mat and uh try and give wazu a game on Saturday but yeah at this Point wazu has won all but one game since January 6 the loss

Was in overtime against Cal at 12- four and then here’s the deal it’s at ASU but GP then it’s home USC home UCLA home Washington High prob I know uh pal Mor’s got uh got Arizona and Washington State winding up tied with at 15 and five in

The league um yeah I guess that’s the worst case scenario because I mean you know barring what we just what we haven’t seen to be the case at all this season Washington State’s going to have a claim to a conference crown and a couple more thoughts on this

Whole thing I think it is so incredible that after this school and and Oregon State but Oregon State isn’t holding up its end of the uh story book uh uh portion of this whole thing Washington State just left stranded you know even you know Stanford and cow bolting for

You know the odd bedfellow situation with the ACC and then everyone that go go to the the Big 12 last night was a WCC Big 12 matchup by the way in this final year of the Pack 12 with Arizona going to the big 12 next season

And I I I think it’s just really really cool that this program in the final year of the Pack 12 as we know it is uh is on Pace to win it and I know its president has uh up until a few days ago was creating uh a little bit of a filibuster

Situation with the cfp why not man you got left in the cold and uh they won out some lawsuits so Washington state has been taking wins left and right I think that’s uh personally I hate the fact that the back 12 dissolved and so yeah any uh any flowers and and victories and

Awesomeness and great headlines that come Washington State’s way I’m more than okay with it I think it’s a really cool plot uh development uh in college sports and also also I woke up to this this morning I the game ended I was wiped I was like all right time for

Bed this is is incredible um I looked and I didn’t see any video so I don’t know if vide is out there uh this is from Matt chazanow who tweeted this at 1 128 Eastern uh he is the play-by-play voice of the Washington State football and men’s basketball program Washington

State assistant coach Jeremy Harden Tucson native just proposed at midcourt after the win here in Tucson she said yes cougs win Harden gets engaged he went to Tucson high beats Arizona gets engaged on the midcourt a logo so I mean talk about your alltime night man my

Brother shouts to Cody who listens to this pod and his fiance cayb they just recently got engaged like last week told him I’d get a mention on the show this is your this is your chance little bro so congrats to them but this is nothing on the Washington State assistant going

Back home getting what I what I would love to know is if you lost the game what’s the plan like you’re still doing this they pull off the upset and all maybe he maybe he pivoted in the moment like you know what I’m doing it now this

Is my hometown really really really cool story congrats to Jeremy Harden and his now fiance for pulling off just something amazing the fact that he’s from Tucson and they sweep GP they sweep Arizona he does it in the perfect perfect situation program almost never is in that spot so I wanted to bring

That up congrats to him really cool Vibes right now with that whole program congrats Cody on your engagement your brother thinks it’s awesome but just not as awesome as Jeremy hardens correct uh my brother did it on Valentine’s Day which more power to him uh his fiance

Didn’t think it was coming he surprised her totally which was awesome thrilled uh he didn’t participate in a rare season sweep of a of a top 10 level kind of program and then have the opportunity to propose on the hardwood so he comes in second place here that’s right you

Know what when you when you lay it out like that I don’t know how I could I don’t know how I could argue I know you’re wondering so I’ll tell you Washington state number 11 number 11 number 11 okay that’s a little aggressive because that’s not a three seed resume is it I’m

Telling you is it I’m telling you it’s closer than you think the predictive metrics aren’t there yet but in terms of quad one wins and record inside the first two quadrants and any sort of damage outside of the first two quadrants at least the way I interpret this stuff it’s it’s

It’s right up there they’re how about this I know they’re not a lock for the NC tournament yet but they’re a lot closer to being a three seed in the NC tournament than they are to being on the bubble some may call I’m a lock I’m a

Bit litigious one more win wazu and then you are officially a lock and lose every game and have zero fear of missing the tournament it’s good good stuff uh NADA real quick turn on the mic what’s the uh what’s the national Coach of the Year

Results as we get ready for this B Block here the options were Dan Hurley Kyle Smith Danny sprinkler or other and I know we had some names in the chat what is it what’s the break down here on this Friday morning Kyle Smith is winning

This 32% Dan Hurley at 30% other who and none were really listed I saw a couple of Matt payer references at 22% and Danny sprinkle not getting nearly enough respect at 15% okay still a good little race there I think I think right now you could make easy cases for any of them

Matt painer because his team is number one in the country as far as I’m concerned Dan Hurley because he lost three of his top six and is his team is actually ranked number one in the AP poll right now um Kelvin Samson like don’t forget about this is he he took a

AAC program to the best league in the country and is about to win it and is ranked number one in most of the computers yeah I mean that’s easy uh Danny sprinkle obviously at Utah State we’ve talked about but absolutely K Smith I mean you take a program that’s

Never supposed to win and you’re on the verge of winning a conference Championship and you you sweep Arizona which was announced as a one seed just you know the other day by the selection committee regular season sweep it in you win as a 13 that point under like all of

It so yeah I I don’t I don’t think there’s a dumb answer as long as your answer is you know and and there’s probably more but certainly those five guys um are are are totally worthy candidates right now speaking of Dan Hurley uh he dropped something a couple

Days ago on social media GP I feel like we have to talk about this so if uh if you’re good with that I am and not uh you know what we got to do it’s Partners time wake up to football highlights and news from around the world with the the

One and only morning footy team rise and shine football fans welcome to morning footy start your all day football craze with morning footy part of the all new Gazo Network though yukon’s Dan Hurley had a viral treat in advance of Saturday’s game with Villanova came less than 24 hours after he apparently

Apparently told a kraton fan he’d knock him out no no no I have the I have the update on that did you not see the other view uhuh okay real quick on this H not I should have sent it to you that’s okay so there was another video that came out

That is much closer to Hurley and uh you can hear more of Hurley you still can’t hear what the kraton fan is saying at least I couldn’t pick up on it and to me it seems much more logical and likely and if you hate Yukon hle I get this but

I listen to this thing like eight times okay it really really seems like what Hurley is saying there’s someone kraton fan is doing something and then he gets Hurley’s attention and and Hurley’s walking next to uh someone that’s escorting him out with security and it

Almost says like if you jump over if you jump over he’ll knock you out so he’s saying don’t try to do something stupid he will like he’s advised to put his hands on you if you come after me so I think that’s what it was if you hate

Hurley you think he’s telling someone he’s gonna knock him out but and trust me I think Dan Hurley is entirely capable it is within his mental capacity to say I’ll knock you out he’s from Jersey but I do think in this situation he was actually saying don’t even think

About it man he will come after you continue and the he of course was Luke Murray yes exactly yes of course what if Luke would have knocked out a kraton fan in defense of Dan Hurley gosh oh my goodness that’s a good one anyway continue I I cut you off there

But I wanted to least bring a little more clarity need Yukon fans on your ass even more okay yeah no I had not I had genuinely keep in mind I was traveling yesterday I had genuinely not seen the updated version either way I just laughed at it whatever the version is I

Just I just laugh at whatever version’s true like you pick and I’m going to laugh this you pick which version you want to believe and then tell it to me and I’ll I’ll laugh either way so um with all of this happening whatever the context Dana decides to jump on Twitter

Again less than 24 hours after losing atraton and and here’s the the Tweet [Applause] shame [Applause] shouts to Game of Thrones shout outs to Game of Thrones trivia time what season is that from oh man uh 1941 I think it’s season four I’m not good at remembering stuff about television shows that I watch are you the type that I you you could somebody

Could say do you remember episode s season 4 Game of Thrones and you’d be like oh yeah sure not like that but generally speaking I’m pretty decent it’s it’s season five I thought it was uh the finale of season five I think or so I will watch an entire show like I’ll

Watch The Sopranos and I’ll know the big story lines but if you’re like remember that episode I’m like I don’t know what you’re talking about well that’s binging will do that for you by the way you binge you binge you watch so much you forget things anyway Dan Hurley taking

To the Tweet machine and doing this the only thing I wish is there had been uh different photoshopped sad Dan Hurley faces as as the camera Chang but and uh simply with the caption see you Saturday shame being not not him warning about getting someone getting knocked out that’s not

Just so we’re clear that is not what he’s shamed it’s shame over getting beat by 19 on the road against kraton and we’re not going to put Yukon Nova in the final four in one so we can talk about this game here now and how much we love this in general

Villanova do are we are we going rare zero chance at a win here because I mean oh no I’m not playing that game but okay okay but I tell you um I bet you the betting markets move this number by like a point and a half because

Everybody they’re not a casual in the world who ain’t ready to delay anything any number with Dan Hurley this weekend oh my gosh I and the thing is like I just I want more of this this you know probably why I love college hoops right here man I want more of this just

Coaches and I don’t care if it’s their social media manager I don’t care how it it’ss out there just being more willing to uh admit when you’re wrong admit when you’re team has a bad game and and lean into it just lean into it this was this

Was great stuff from uh from Hurley I absolutely loved it he’s uh he’s listening from as as he likes to say it the squirrels the squirrels might have gotten to him a little bit but this was this was fantastic well like did this are are there squirrels out there like

Are people out there questioning Dan Hurley he seems like he’s almost above it at this point his I’ve actually talked with them about this um I actually randomly will just text him squirrels out don’t wherewe God I will um and to him it’s more like it’s the small talk chatter from the people

That that you don’t let AFF you’re like your dayto day and all that kind of stuff so the people that were overhyping Yukon is number one they’re squirrels the people saying that Yukon sucks now because they lost a crate there’s frankly there’s very few people but those people would also be squirrels

I’ve got a squirrel sound bite from Dan Hurley I’ve yet to update an upload on the board here but uh but that should be coming soon so so yes and now you got Nova coming in um eight o’clock Eastern Fox game and Nova it’s super weird resume um gotta go

Into GLE this is just a tall task huge ask um you know think about last week GP and Hartford different building not as even as intimidating environment frankly as gamp obviously is in a Yukon fan knows and they mutilate Marquette um I don’t know I actually genuinely don’t

Know what the kenpom line is here I’m gonna get I’ll guess I have not looked I’ll guess it’s Yukon by 13 do you have it in front of you Yukon minus 10 o that’s too little right too little it might be too little Hey listen

It’d be fascinating to me I a close game would be all the more Riv and give it to me I’ll take it I’ll take it every single time but um but I don’t know like to be a fly in the wall in yukon’s practices the past couple days because I

Do think and I think you’d agree with this um I said this on HQ earlier in the week or maybe I guess it was the night they won the game maybe he was on this pod too I think on some level like Curley does not want to lose don’t get

Me wrong but there’s a part of him that’s like all right good uh punch me while I’m down make me bleed I want to taste the blood now I’m pissed off and now we’re going to burn out this fuel for the next like five weeks so um I

Think that’s uh I think that’s a way that he’ll use this to his advantage and you’ll see that you know materialize on the floor Saturday night I mean it’s basketball you never know but I’ll I’d be surprised if they don’t respond I’d be surprised if they don’t show up it it feels

Like you know one of those 11 to two starts type of things that they do to people sometimes I I I I won’t be shocked if we see something like that but Villanova is playing better um back in the top 35 of the net back in the top

35 at kenpom um the pro they just did so much stupid damage in to their resume like in Philadelphia like if Villanova is not in the ncway tournament it’s Philadelphia’s fault Big Five man killed them pit St Joe’s those three quet three losses on P

You said pit that’s on the other side of the State pin pin 1941 a pit will take the win but it does not have it over villenova this season sure use it pick it pin St Joe’s Drexel those are three Quadro three losses on Villanova’s resumee um that’s why

They’re on the wrong side of the bubble right now but a win at Yukon could obviously uh maybe change that or at least move them in the right direction but nine and eight with in the first two quadrants with uh three quadrant one wins and three quadrant three losses

That’s not that’s not good enough right now they’ve got they got work to do we got to get to a final four- one do we not oh I don’t know if you want to because I’ve been killing well let’s you know what Partners we got we got sort a

Couple things out here but I think it’s Partners time I think it is come on one more come on let’s go Partners we need your sports news anywhere we’ve got breaking news to bring you then get your sports any anytime you want them big trade news overnight to discuss because

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Every moment more do you want to know the updated records I got them right in front of me here’s the deal for the audience so last Friday I was not on the show because I was traveling so Parish did it with Boon so um I asked Boon on

Saturday morning I said send me the games that were picked and I will pick them and I sent them to Boon actually like 30 minutes before I sent them to you and then I was like you know what that’s not good enough I got to send

These things to Paris so I sent them to you what I don’t have oh I guess I could dive back into Boon’s text message as well I picked Virginia to cover last week and it won by two against wake I don’t think that’s a cover I picked

Yukon to cover oh yes it covered I picked Kentucky to cover it covered that’s two- one I picked Purdue I honestly don’t know if Purdue covered last weekend or not and then I picked A&M which it did not so I think I was three and two GP um but for the

Listeners that didn’t get my picks I did get them in in time so our tally is even so uh if that is accurate I went three and two what did you do you went three and two I went two and three but I still have what most would consider most

Historians would consider an insurmountable lead I’m now 42 32 and three that’s 10 games above 500 dead like you’re 39 35 and three so I’ve got a three- game lead okay as March approaches I can see it just right around the corner March is approaching and I have I have what historians would

Consider an insurmountable lead in the final four do you see a lot of things coming around the corner is that is that the thing I don’t see a lot I I don’t look around the corner so much I try to stay away from Corners okay all right at

This at this stage of my life oh hear that music let’s go here we go come on now when you hear that music you know what time it is oh you know what time it is when you hear that music let’s go what’s game one game one Saturday noon Eastern it’s number two

Houston at number 11 Baylor inside Huck Pavilion you can watch it on CBS that’s America’s most watched Network it’s the network of stars Kim pom’s got a Houston minus three we got a great Saturday on CBS coming folks if you’re not already familiar you’re familiar now I will be

In studio by the way in the afternoon and deep into the evening CBS Sports HQ keep that going on your phone so will I I’ll be in studio too what but we’ll be in different Studios I guess I’m going to Florida here in a minute what I’m going to Florida in a

Minute so you’re going to the Fort Lauderdale Studios for HQ yeah okay right so here’s the deal like like like soon you don’t have your Memphis show no I gotta do that then we’re going straight to the airport I’m G talk I’m gonna talk for like four hours and then go straight

To the airport not here’s the deal here’s the deal watch CBS Sports HQ for the best highlights analysis Insider information everything Parish will be on in the morning and afternoon in Fort Lauderdale and then I will be on we have two Studios folks actually we have three

There’s also one in in England for all the Gazo stuff I will be on from conne who they sent d a cob to that one yes okay for the overnight shift all right all right we got to keep it on track here Paris will be in studio from

Fort Lauderdale on tomorrow for the morning for the morning and afternoon and then I’m on from like 4M into the night and David Cobb’s gonna handle overnight back in the day 1996 overnight Sports Center real ones no okay here we go Houston Baylor first of uh of a great Saturday on CBS obviously

Um the off awesome offense for Baylor awesome defense for Houston here and Baylor you know I think this building is going to be incredible they’re going to be ready Houston um has won four straight and nine of 10 overall and has been playing as well as any team in the

Country right now if it wins at Baylor um I think you’re going to see him number one in the polls on Monday there and this is also by the way LJ CER uh going back to play his former team he now plays for Houston obviously previously at Baylor um Baylor has won

Six straight home games versus top 25 teams it’s 4-0 against ranked competition this year in its own building I think EES Mei is the key in this game GP uh he’s averaged 15 points and shot 72% from the floor the past five games keep an eye on him Parish I’m

Gonna take Baylor in this game I will uh I’ll take him to win I’ll take him to cover Scott drew shout outs to Huck he gets a big time victory yeah Houston uh has a onegame lead over Iowa state in the standings they’re ranked number one in adjusted defensive efficiency number

One in defensive block percentage number two in steel percentage number two in effective field goal percentage number two in field goal uh two-point field goal percentage like they’re just excellent at everything they’ll block your shots they’ll take your balls they’re excellent at everything here’s my here’s my favorite they’re number one in the

Country in what amounts to defensive free throw percentage which means you can’t even score on them luck based yes yes when they’re when they’re not even allowed to guard you you can’t score on them that’s how good they are it’s crazy yes it’s wild it’s like you don’t even

Think you deserve to put a point up against them so you miss it’s it’s quite a thing Kelvin sson has developed down there I’m with you though we’ve seen what going on the road and trying to win looks like it’s difficult it’s difficult in this country and I think Houston will find it

Difficult inside hook Pavilion on Saturday I also will take the home Underdog give me Baylor plus three game two Saturday 2 p PM Eastern it’s number eight Duke at Wake Forest inside Anthony billis Veterans Memorial Coliseum you can watch it on ESPN Kim pom has it Duke minus one dude awesome

Game special shouts Anthony bis it’s a researcher CBS sports that’s a great job don’t know list anony we appreciate your work and uh great job an impressive young man those billes they sure did raise an impressive young man yeah this is his Alma moer of course and huge game

Here you see uh you see Forbes call out lunardi a couple days ago Forbes Forbes Forbes is like poster boy for he hates all the computer numbers I like him I think he doesn’t like the bracketologist I think that’s and if you don’t have wake if you don’t have wake in the field

He’s coming for your ass before the end of the day perish oh oh buddy if you if you if you want to if you want to if you want to spend 30 minutes text fors and be like say what do you think of the [Laughter] net I’m gonna do it right now

Now hey you got hey hey you got I know you got a big game tomorrow but if you got 10 minutes I was I want to get your thoughts on the net you think I won’t do this out of nowhere you’re wrong uh here we go uh I’m sending it talk about the

While I send this text real quick okay so uh as of last night W had moved to 27th of the net 21st at kpom so moving in the right direction but still not in the field according to Jerry Palm um and hey take it up with palm it ain’t got

Nothing to do with me wait wake is five and nine in the first two quadrants they only got that one quadrant one win they’ve got four quadrant two losses here’s how this is always because I think sometimes people get confused but I’ll just say um

So you might go okay wake is five- nine in the first two quadr four games below 500 in the first two quadrants but 27th in the net 21st it k out how do they how do they have these strong computer numbers when they got that kind of record against quality opponents and the

Simplest answer appears to be they’ve played a lot of close games that they’ve lost eight of their nine losses are by single digits no almost nobody just beats them bad they’re they’re in everything one of their losses is in over time mhm and of the eight losses

That are in regulation five of them are by five or fewer points so a lot of close games that’s a good way to get computer numbers to be better than your resume that appears to be wake for story this season um big opportunity I mean is

This I’m not I’m not a wake Force historian but would you call this the biggest game of the Steve Forbes era at wake it might be there’s been a couple of games where they were you know really close to the tournament and I I think those technically bigger but home game

Situation like there other ones were in the ACC tournament definitely possible I want to see um the screaming deacons the screaming demons and the freaking deacons show up big time I need tie-dye Nation going nuts in the Joel on Saturday huge game big opportunity for Wake Forest and the ACC uh Wake Forest

Yes a a metric darling in terms of 20th at kenpom Hunter Salis has been tremendous this year transferred fores has been a little bit of a miracle worker with transfers at a rate better than most other coaches in the past three or four years he’s gotten guys

Like alandis Williams to be ACC Player of the Year and just sent them Jake laravia these guys were not like super highly covered in the portal and then they go in there making the NBA man so Forbes and staff have done a wonderful job keep an eye on Hunter Salis in this

Game Andrew Carr’s also been really good Tyrese Proctor probably not going to play unless Duke’s got uh a surprise for us he’s in concussion protocol he hasn’t been practicing so Duke will be short-handed um I do the naysmith uh watch update for CVS Sports and I still

I put Kyle filipowski in the top 10 overall it’s going to be Ed’s award to win but I got to do 10 candidates and I think I had flipped like eight this week um he’s earn he’s been good it can’t be just him but this is a uh it’s really

Like it’s it’s not a Saturday overloaded with games uh like you know 13 like really really compelling games but we’ve got a again we’ve just like last week and the week before we have a nice stagger to these there’s almost like a in each TV window there’s a good

Centerpiece game to focus your attention on Duke at wake is that game um I think this is going to be an awesome watch I expect it kind of similar to Arizona in Washington state like neither team led by more than seven I almost think we’re

Gonna get that kind of game here GP uh in Winston Salem I will take what you say the line was um we’ve got it as duke minus one another home Underdog I will yeah top 10 is this a top 10 team on the road against an unranked opponent right

Now uh because of that you know what eff it because of that give me give me wake Force to win this game yeah give me wake for I’m actually surprised with them ranked that high that duk’s actually favored by want kenpom I wonder when this actual line on FanDuel comes out if

Duke will be favored or not I almost feel like this might be wake minus one but it is Duke and sometimes those lines can be influenced a little bit by public uh opinion perception and and what the what the masses May bet on so Duke might

Well be uh favored in this one give me wake straight up I’ll take him to win I will also take wake straight up to win the game give me that point game three Saturday 4 Eastern number 13 Alabama at number 17 Kentucky inside Aaron Harrison Arena okay people are saying Proctor

Played against uh Miami the game was a blowout I didn’t even realize that so Proctor’s gonna play in the game want at least correct that so thank you for the chat for [ __ ] pack did not play for Miami in back in Miami was was way down yes

Okay inside Aaron Harrison Arena you can watch it on CBS America’s most watched network network of stars Kim pom’s got this one Alabama minus two on the road woo home wonderdog caliper what what’s the post game for calip Perry going to be in this one it’s that’s become like a thing by

The way now like every game win or lose there’s some story like he’s he’s not done Media or didn’t do the postgame radio show and then last week he had the display this past he had answered three questions after they lost we can use this real quick to talk about

The loss against LSU by the way buddy buddy beat Auburn yeah beat Auburn and said hey just keep taking shots at me leave my kids alone then he lost to LSU and he’s like I got to go watch this film see which one of these kids couldn’t grab a

Ball he said he had to leave early because they had an early they had a a quick turnaround game it’s always it’s always 29 hours it’s always something um so let me run you through some numbers real quick and then get your thoughts we talked about this awesome win at Auburn

That was two straight um incredible defensive performances Miss and Auburn and UK had held those two teams last week to 79 points per possession in those two victories before those games UK’s defense was ranked 135th nationally through 23 contests and they were given up 102.6 points per 100 possessions that

Was according to torvet but the performance against Old Miss and Auburn that jumped Kentucky into the top 95 nationally and adjusted defensive efficiency 40 spot jump in a span of five days we talked about it and then we asked the question did they find something is it fixed or is it just like

That’s one week and there’s been a whole bunch of other weeks and they looked a lot different in most of the other weeks and I’ll be surprised that they don’t start looking that way more than they consistently look this way again we still don’t have a clear answer to that

Question this could have just been one bad outing but against LSU they did allow 1.06 points per possession um and if you were to take that number and then put it in the season rankings and say where were that rank nationally 167th in the country according to torvic so they

Reverted in this one and oh by the way when they needed a stop in the final seconds win they couldn’t get it it was a weird play but they needed a stop and they didn’t get a stop well on that and real quick let’s just at least address

That game it was Wednesday night uh Rob Dillingham had a couple of outrageous baskets to put Kentucky in position to win the game then Dillingham you know Tyrell Ward hits the winner Dillingham isn’t near him it’s his man technically I guess I don’t want to say with 100% certainty maybe they different setup

There all I know is this it was a broken play Dillingham wasn’t in the picture there but adier like had a great defensive play man it was a freak play LSU wins because Tyro Ward’s in the right spot after Jordan Wright gets the ball swatted right back into his hands

He’s falling out of bounds and just desperation ah you take it hot potato Tyro Wards right there they beat the buzzer congrats to Matt McMahon that’s the kind of win that you’re aching for when you’re trying to build up a program in a really tough league so um I know he

And that fan base really appreciate just getting any kind of win uh but you know till that moment Kentucky actually did a DEC enough decent enough uh job on defense in in a single possession kind of situation there but yes to your general Point GP I would agree

Dillingham is something else man uh the discourse around him continues obviously um if you if you watch watch Dillingham in this game if you want to focus in on him just notice the disparity of what he does on offense versus what he does on defense maybe he shows up and has the

Best defensive game of his life on Saturday but it is a fascinating thing and I do understand in spurts where Cal and that coaching staff might be like he’s not a 100% shooter but it’s a near 100% certainty that he’s going to his man’s going going to break free on the

Defensive end fascinating player um keep an eye on this Nate oats has given Kentucky two of its five largest losses by margin ever since Kentucky has had Cal at coach in January of last year 26o loss and in January of 21 Bama beat Kentucky by 20 both of these teams are

You know wired to get to 85 Plus this could be a race to 90 frankly I hope it is uh really really good opportunity for this to be a great game but because of the way both teams play perish we could have maybe a blowout situation I don’t

See a blowout you know blowout to me is 15 plus points but it could be double- digit margin here and these are two of the top three scoring offenses in the entire country so um Bama trying to reinforce its credentials to be on that two seed obviously three seed Level

Kentucky just trying to uh you know pick up a little bit of the pieces and and keep on its winning ways there I’m going to take Kentucky at home in this spot um I think they get it done I think you get uh a really good another good game from

Antonio Reeves I think Reeves is just in a Groove GP and I expect him to play well I I very much do I don’t think B will give a ton of resistance Bama can win the game but here at rup seeing Kentucky last weekend they showed up big

In a big spot there um I’ll take ukuk to I’ll even toss out a score for you here I’ll go uh Kentucky wins this one I’ll say 93 to 89 UK wins Nats is now three and three against John caliper since getting to Alabama the previous two

Alabama coaches combined to go three and 15 against John caliper NATO’s three and three he’s been terrific I’m goingon to take Alabama on the road um obviously Kentucky is shown themselves capable of losing at home and Alabama’s obviously best offensive team in the country um they can hurt in you

Know in in like real quickly um I’ll take the Crimson Tide to go into rera and uh maintain a okay lead in the SEC standings game four Sunday noon Eastern number 15 crate at St John’s inside laterally slow Garden laterally slow Garden Hey listen they almost blew it ined against

Georgetown they just don’t move their feet well and they’re physically weak you can watch it on CBS America’s most watchat networks the network of stars Kim pom’s got at kraton minus three at laterally slow Garden another home Underdog is is the final 41 nothing but home Underdog everyone you’ve given us so far

Is a home dog four home underdogs next one is not a home Underdog so so we will not sweep the board there again this is a Sunday game noon Eastern CBS um I think David cop’s going to be giving you the analysis from uh from the

Other side of the pond there on that um kraton beat St John’s back in January was like six weeks ago that was only a onepoint win um keep an eye on Baylor shyman in this one again uh to me he’s been like a second team All-American level kind of player and kraton has

Owned St John’s my man it’s won like eight in a row and all but two of those games have been by double digits there’s been a few margins by 20 plus points um be interested P patino is now patino had the comments on Sunday they went viral there’s all this reaction he did

Follow-up interviews with be writers and said I didn’t I’m not apologizing I meant what I said and here’s why I said it and my reasons and then at his postgame press conference after they beat Georgetown uh he then he walks some of it back so this has become again it’s

Patino it’s become this like story with legs for five days um we’ll see what he says or doesn’t say if kraton winds up walking in and uh and getting a win here I it’s it’s hard for me to take St John’s in the spot I can see I can see

The Red Storm winning this Parish I can see them pulling this win out uh after kraton had you know just you know almost like the continuation The Dominoes of like Yukon destroying Marquette Yukon gets wiped then kraton destroys Yukon does kraton go on the road and have a

Leown game against the Johnny I think kraton fans are probably have that at the front of their mind here but I will go with I will go with the blue jays and Greg mcdermitt’s team I they’re obviously a much better team than St John’s and I will trust them to win and

Yeah I’ll take them uh I’ll take them to cover that number I’m going with the laterally laterally slow Red Storm see how that works out for you I’m gonna go with the laterally slow red storm inside laterally slow guard no Rick Rick said he uh he finally talked to his

Assistants and he was like uh uh how the guys how the guys doing and they were like well you know there’s some hurt feelings in there so he was like okay I gotta I gotta apologize listen all of us when we’re FR maybe not all of us I don’t

Want to speak for all of us but lots of us certainly me um you getting you get you get frustrated you get disappointed you get upset you say things that you don’t mean um most of us when we say things we don’t mean we don’t say them into a microphone on National Television

Right um and so he he said what he said it took him a few days but he ultimately apologized you know they’re coming off of a win it should be a nice scene this weekend I’ll take St John’s at home and uh if they are to pull off this upset

It’d be a that’s a hell of a week for Rick patino it really would be and it would get St John’s back into the bubble conversation they’re not there right now they’re just not but the win here uh that would quad one win that would go a

Long way here’s your quick uh tour around Elsewhere on the dial before we pick the and one game um reminder that St John’s kraton game is a is a Sunday situation Friday Yale at Cornell Hey listen good Ivy League game rematch of an awesome game they played a couple

Weeks ago that’s the only Friday game of note there 7 Eastern Saturday BYU at Kate 2m. Eastern espm plus Kate has to win the game they don’t have an out large case right now uh they got to win the game to get on the board South Carolina plays at Mississippi three

Eastern SEC network another situation where Chris Beard’s team now has a home game against South Carolina and the rebels right on that cut line right now so that’s uh that’s an urgent game for them South Carolina just trying to get back into uh into the good graces of the

SEC Championship race uh Carolina Virginia for Eastern ESPN uh the best game that’s not in the final four- one uh Virginia which has been you know they’ve been ass lately okay their t- ball score is unfortunately Rising you don’t want a high t-ball score you want your score in

T-ball to be as low as possible but they’ve been ass lately and they’ve got Carolina coming in there uh big opportunity for the Wahoos who are in the field a loss here and that they’re going to still be in the field but they will unquestionably be a double digit

Seed depending on the movement around them uh keep an eye there that’s uh that’s a really intriguing matchup again Carolina Virginia is four Eastern Saturday on ESPN we talked about it earlier Nova at Yukon 8 Eastern Fox it’s also your rare situation where ESPN game

Day is going to a site where it does not have the game that is a fox game game game day will emanate there from earlier in the day in GLE first time it’s been there I think they said since like 2010 because ESPN doesn’t have big rights TV

Rights anymore and so that’s why they never go to Big East games um Butler at seen Hall speaking of the Big East 8:30 Eastern this is an FS2 special double bubble game Butler seatan Hall um winner is definitely uh definitely in the field a loser might well be out in the moment

But we’ll see and then Utah at Colorado 9 Eastern Pack 12 Network Parish will not be watching it uh I will get to watch it because I will be in HQ studio so I will get to see that game also a double bubble situation for the Utes and

Buffalos um that’s an intriguing one so that is your Saturday what to know Sunday our game we’re going to pick is on Saturday Sunday the only game of of note that we didn’t really get into that I think is pretty uh pretty urgent is FAU at Memphis the owls got a win that

Over SMU on uh on Thursday night that was impressive Elijah Martin had one of the best dunks I’ve seen the entire season Paris was on a flight he didn’t see when it happened but it was ridiculous uh so FAU at Memphis that’s is an ESPN tip at 2 Eastern on Sunday

We’ll uh no matter the winner or loser there we’ll definitely mention that one on our on our Sunday show SMU also plays out South Florida that’s another good game in the American at noon Eastern there’s some other ones but they aren’t as urgent the an1 haven’t said it yet

People deducing you know what it is Saturday 6m Eastern Texas at Kansas on on ESPN on Jeff withy Court this is Kansas minus 6 parish and the number from kenpom there again FanDuel line is not out yet that gu is actually smaller than I would anticipated I am got to believe

That when that line comes out it’s going to be Kansas by more than six points but here we get it at six and I will not adjust I will keep it at six who you got horns down yeah he’s doing if you’re waiting for him to talk he was doing

Horns down with his arthritic hands horns down horns down you can’t spend half the season complaining about horns down and then go win at Allen Fieldhouse I think I feel like that’s a law think that’s almost what you have to do if you’re going to complain about hornstown is you

You better win an Allen field yeah I don’t think that’s the way this usually goes I don’t think that’s how this goes we’re laying six points six points from kenpom by the way Hey listen we’re up against it but real quick uh speaking of kenpom speaking to

Bill self I talked to Bill self earlier this week because I wrote a column for with the court report Hall of Fame has contributors it’s got 76 of them and so I uh I believe I was the first person to put this out there and it might take it

Might take a while Ken pomoy should be contributor to the N Smith Memorial Hall of Fame agree or disagree uh agree of course he’s incredibly important to the the sport like like one of the most important people to the sport I mean that genuinely yes without a doubt and and

And across all of it um yeah his information is more referenced than than anyone so yeah I talked to bis talked to Bill self Sean Miller uh I didn’t realize this uh but Shawn Miller was the first coach to kind of publicly back in 2005 uh endorse kenpom oh young

Listeners Paris doesn’t remember this but I very much do back in the back in the old days when uh when Paris was a once a week guest on this podcast he used to destroy kenpom and then I don’t know what changed for you I don’t think that doesn’t feel like it’s true all

Listen to me it absolutely happened okay I think I I think I was pushing back on you nerds a little bit yeah no you loved pushing back on kenpom and then like somewhere around like 2013 14 you saw the light so I app nerd I I went from I

Went from picking on nerds to I just became one and you know what welcome to the club there ain’t nothing wrong with that uh self obviously I I got an active Hall of Famer to say that he should and self very much agreed um self we also got

Into talking a little bit about his rotations and all that stuff and rotation he don’t have no rotation exactly well just talking about talking about that that situation you know he has a starting lineup and then he just goes and then he sits down well I I know

He’s uh you looked at it every one of them dudes plays 34 minutes now all of them I’m we talked about that very thing in fact um I I know it’s it’s wild so it’s why like Texas might have a shot here I just you know what what the hell yeah I’m

Going to regret this whatever I’ll take Texas to cover no shot in hell am I taking Texas to win in fog Allen not happening if it’s six I’ll I’ll pick them inside the line I got to get back to a side mount situation anyway GP so you’ll take the Jayhawks and I’ll take

The Longhorns shouts to Devin Downey shouts to Chester South Carolina shouts to Terry meano Legend shouts to Huck larnell thank you guys once again for watching listening to the I on college basketball podcast if you’re not subscribed please go subscribe anywhere you subscribe to podcast including apple

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Washington State is all alone at the top of the Pac-2 standings! Is Kyle Smith the National Coach of the Year? Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander discuss that. Plus it’s the Final Four and One presented by Fanduel.

00:00 – Start
00:37 – Wazzu stands alone
20:30 – UConn vs Nova preview
29:48 – Final Four And 1, Game 1 – No. 2 Houston (-3) at No. 11 Baylor
33:37 – Final Four And 1, Game 2 – No. 8 Duke (-1) at Wake Forest.
38:58 – Final Four And 1, Game 3 – No. 13 Alabama( -2) at No. 17 Kentucky
45:22 – Final Four And 1, Game 4 – No. 15 Creighton (-3) at St. John’s
50:14 – Other games to know this weekend.
51:45 – AND ONE – Texas at No. 9 Kansas (-6)

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