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Our number two here, Kentucky Sports Radio. You come on out, man. You good? Don't worry about it. I'm not trying to stop the food service here at Poppy's Palomar fountains. Great crowd here. Everybody gets, if you come before noon, a free margarita from Uncle Matt. Tomorrow's national margarita day at all Poppies locations. 350 margaritas all day. Good to see everybody enjoying the food. I'm looking forward to eating some when this is over too. Great food, Drew. Here at Poppy's, the one on campus I used to go to all the time. I pick up the. Right there next to the bar sometimes and drive through. Oh, yeah. I mean the Mexican food in the drive through, it's not something you hear a lot. Yeah. Go there often. But this is a great spot too. I'm excited to have lunch and maybe put a second margarita on your tab. No, no. All right. So I actually had. I forgot to give you all my UK basketball trivia question from last night. This one will tickle your brains. All right, Ryan, we'll start with you. All of you get an answer. All right, Start with players that played their whole career under either Tubby Smith, Billy Gillespie or John Calperi. Okay. Their whole career. Not part of their career. Their whole career. What eight players scored the most points in the NCAA tournament that played for those guys. Wow. So now think about this. You have to think about a lot of parts of that they play. So they had to win a lot of games in the NCAA tournament. Maybe an advantage. Maybe if they played multiple years, they'd have had a chance for more games. What eight players scored the most points in the NCAA tournament during Tubby Gillespie and Caliperi. Do you have a guess? We'll go down the roster and see who can get one. Nobody. Take mine. I'll go Tayshawn. Tayshawn is number one. Tayshawn Prince scored the most points in the NCAA tournament of any player since Tubby Smith. Shannon the dude, Keith Bogan. Keith Bogan's is second on most points scored since tube. They both. Both played four years, so that's not shocking. Drew Franklin drawn Lamb. Duron Lamb is fourth even though he only played two lambs. Eat D Lamb was the. Eat D Lamb School was his fourth all time. Ryan. Gerald Fitch. Wow. Gerald Fitch's eighth. Nice job, Ryan. Almost no one got that last night. That's a good one. How did you get that? Well, he played four years and he was leading scorer than the one year they were the overall number one seed. Great call there. Almost no one got that one. Shannon, you got in the top three. And number eight, Hawkins. Cliff. Yes. Cliff. No, not on the list. Or Dominique either. Terrence Jones. Terrence Jones is on the list. Terrence Jones is actually sixth all time. Excuse me. Yeah, sixth in points. We got four more. Can we get them? You got. There's one you're not thinking of that you should get. Some of these are hard, but there's one that you should get. I'll chime in if no one's ready. Go for it. One of the Harrisons. I'll go. How about both Harrison? There we go. Aaron and Andrew Harrison. Nice. Are both on the list. Wow. So now there's only one more and I'm surprised nobody's gotten it. Anybody know out here in the crowd what Terrence Jones. Somebody said, right? Yeah. Terrence Jones. There's one more. Darius Miller is the other one. Well done. Darius Miller is the other one. Those are your. Great question though. Those are your eight. See, not necessarily what you would think. Four year guys, the Harrison twins. A lot of people get Aaron maybe wouldn't think Andrew. But yes, I would have thought maybe Aaron deserved probably on that list. And Andrew, I don't remember him scoring a lot in the NCAA tournament. But remember Andrew got to play nine games versus not. Yeah, no. 10 games. Yeah. Went to the championship game and then the next year had had four. Four, five games. 11. 11 games. He played 11 games. So he got a lot of chance. Don't forget Lamb and Jones. I mean, kind of forget that run they had their first year. They had season winning the title. So yeah, that's why they were easy picks. So that's why all of them are on the list. All right, so I want to give. Let me ask you all a question. Now with five games to go, give me a percentage chance of both of these. Let's start with this percentage chance we go to Nashville and win the SEC tournament. Oh boy. Alabama, by the way, line just came out. Alabama's a 7 1/2 point favorite tomorrow against Kentucky and Tuscaloosa. I think Drew said that myself on the back. That's nice. What do you got? I'll say five. One in 20. Yeah. Even with all of our crowd and everything. One in 20? Yeah. I think that's. It's not really a reflection on us. It's a reflection on the other teams in the sec. 5%. What about you? And with three guards down, we don't know if those guys are going to be healthy or not. I'm going to. What if I told you. What if I told you they all play? That they all play. Well, Kerr's not gonna play, but what if I told you Lamont and Jackson play? I'll go up to 10. Okay. Yeah. Would that change you or still at 5? I'm probably still at 5. Okay. I'm hearing the go Big Blue chance in my head right now, so I'll go a little higher. I will say 18.7%. That's a good number. That's a high number. What do you pay? It's very important to play on Thursday, though. Yeah, I agree. Very, very important to not have that. I'm gonna say 10 because here's the thing. If we're the eight seed, I think we can win that first game. If we have Jackson, then why not, right? If we have Jackson and Lamont, we got a shot. I agree with you. Can't play on Wednesday. There's no. We're not winning five games. Nobody's winning five games in that tournament. The two teams that did it. I mentioned Kimba. The other one was NC State last year, if you remember, NC State won all the ACC tournament games and then went to the Final Four. But it does not happen. If the roster is what it is now with the injuries, I would go even lower than Ryan's 5. I'd go more like 3%. Okay, now. Now that you've given that number, what is the percentage chance we make the Final Four? Is it higher than your SEC tournament number? That's kind of. My point is, do you. Would you put Final Four at a higher percentage than sec? I would. I definitely would. Would do easier road. Hypothetically. Much easier road, actually. I mean, I. We're a three seed right now in the. In the projections, but a non seed in the SEC tournament. I actually think it's a much easier. It's an easier road. It's also not game, game, game, game, game. You have the two, the break and you know, a lot of coaches struggle with that in between on the weekend games. I like our coaching staff to be very prepared for every team in the region when they get to that Point, I would move it. I said 18, 7 or whatever. I'd say 20, low 20s, 22%, 22.3. Here's something to think about when you think about us in the NCAA tournament. I think we're going to end up a four seed. That's where I just kind of feel like we're going to end. All right, so let's say we're a four seed. They're probably not going to put us with Auburn. Right? Because we will. I, I, I can't imagine they make a Sweet sixteen game of us against Auburn. Probably not going to put us with Florida. I think there's a good chance for a four seed. Who's gonna be our one seed? Duke. Duke's probably gonna be our one seat because I don't know who you else you put with us because the others are going to probably be SEC teams. So we're probably going to end up with Duke in a Sweet 16 rematch. If we got there against Duke. Wow. Let's say we're healthy. I think we have a chance to beat them, don't you? They have not played. Luke has not played a top 25 team except Clemson since mid December. They've played one top 25 team since mid December and we match up pretty well with them. You know, they don't scare us. I think we met up with them again. And by the way, when they play Clemson, they lost. That's the only time they've played a top 25 team since December. And if you keep it close, you know Cooper flag will fall down. We'd like to see that again. But I mean, you got to play somebody hard at that point. Why wouldn't you play to rip the logo off that says Duke? Why wouldn't you want to play a team you've already beat? Totally agree. And if we stay a three seed, I look at the two seeds and I'm not scared of any of them. I don't know about you. I'm not scared of Iowa State. I'm not scared of Marquette. I'm not scared of Purdue. I mean, none of those teams really scare me at all if we end up as a three seed. I really think depending who it is early in that tournament, the SEC has been such a gauntlet those first few games. I hope I'm not jinxing this, but that could be a relief of opponent that's not an SEC team. You could see Mississippi State in the second weekend of the NCAA tournament. That's what bracketology has now. Or you could also play them on Thursday of the sec. By the way, the SEC tournament is going to be awesome. I mean, it's going to be like Nashville. I hope we win a couple games so our crowd can get into it, because I think it's going to be the best SEC tournament that there's ever been. Who's up next? Connor is up next. Connor, go ahead. Connor. Hey, Matt, good to talk to you. I want to call in and make a little statement here. I live in Fayetteville, Arkansas, unfortunately, and want to let you guys know. I think Chuck Norris would have been startled how fast these fans jumped out the bushes when they beat uk. They've been quiet all year. They can't fill their arena. Man, they jumped out so quick when they beat UK and you know, they jumped right back in the bushes since that game. Well, that's true. They have, you know, but again, appreciate the call to give you a sense of how good the SEC is, that Arkansas team has two first round picks on it and is took the number one team in America to the end of the game on their home court. And you know what? They're seeded in the SEC tournament 13th. Golly. I mean, that's kind of amazing, Drew. Yeah. And I watched most of the game the other night and at one point they said D.J. wagner is shooting under 20% in the SEC, which made me slam my head against my. Yes. Thinking of what he did in the Kentucky game. Really shooting under 20 because he. He shot well. Yeah. I was like, God. Just shows if. If you look at their percentages and their results, that is such an outlier in Lexington. It is crazy the gap between that and the rest of their games. Have you been following, by the way, the Arkansas guy, Shannon, who did his show at KS Bar? John Neighbors. I have not been so, you know, when he came to Lexington, he did his show at KS Bar. He was very nice. So I got no ill will towards him at all. But the Lexington airport lost his luggage. Oh, oh, that's heat right there. Wink, wink. The Lexington airport lost his luggage and he still hasn't gotten it back. And he tweets about it all the time. I think he genuinely believes the Lexington airport intentionally lost his luggage, but I think that's kind of funny. And of all places, I mean, I hope he. I wish he hadn't gotten his places in Lexington. They can't find the guy's luggage. I don't know. I would probably be like him. Like, let's. Come on, it's not even that big an airport. It's not that it's camp, but they don't. They cannot find his luggage. You know, now that I think of it, I did see a suitcase over on New Circle Road hanging up in the trees when I drove over here today. So. So. Well, you know, we may have lost the game, but at least we got some luggage. Who's up next? Richard is up next. Richard. Go ahead, Richard. Yeah, I'd like to know when will they have the injury report on the team? It comes out like right after our show, like they did the other night and just go, big boom. We'll see what they do. Appreciate it, Richard. It comes out right after this show, so it'll come out at like 11 30, something like that. Hope also has a noon press conference. I mean, not that he's going to reveal everything, but maybe he'll have an update, too. Do you suspect it's going to change at all? No, I don't either. I would suspect. I would. If I'm just guessing, I would spec Robinson Butler out tomorrow. I think for the Oklahoma game, you'll see Butler become like questionable, maybe even play. And then I expect this is just me to see Butler play for the Auburn game. And then I think their goal is to get Robinson for the SEC tournament. I'm taking the view of that first game in the SEC tournament, Shannon. If Jackson Robinson doesn't play, then we just have to mentally expect he's not going to play. Yeah, but. But I think Butler is going to play and I still think Robinson will give it a go before it's over. Obviously we want both back, but if you had to pick one or the other, I think I would rather have Butler back. I think that the offense just looks different when he's running the point. And obviously what he adds to defense is a big plus as well. I think Drew Robinson is huge. When you play a team like Alabama where you got to score a lot or a team like Florida, but pretty much every other game I'd rather have Butler. So I think it gets more opponents. Butler is going to matter. It's going to hurt us, not Robinson against a team that scores a lot of points. But I think against like your, you know, Auburn, South Carolinas, you want to have Butler. I don't want South Carolina, but you know what I mean. Yeah. Pope said we're not using injuries and excuse, but you can't convince me they couldn't have finished the job against Texas with Butler ball in his hand. You're up five with under four minutes to go. That's when everything just fell Apart a lot of it was in ball handling and point guards. I think they finished that game and might even have one more win of Butler never got hurt. If I were to make you predict which of those guys play in the NCAA tournament, let's just assume Chris is out. Who plays Butler? Just Butler. I think you have picking one or the other. No. Would you say both? I think they both end up playing because like I said this their fifth year seniors, man, they came to Kentucky to play in these big games. They're going to tough it out somehow. If they're hurting, they're going to play in the nc Butler plays I think and then Jackson left handed by the way. I don't think that's crazy. I actually think what I think that's to me that's the most likely scenario. We get close to 100% Butler and we get a Robinson who's doing the best he can. That's, that's kind of what I think. He's like Ricky the Dragon. Yeah, he's like Keith Bogan with his ankle. Just trying to hang on there during the tournament. I, I, I know a little more about Butler than Robinson. I don't have a clue on Robinson but I expect both by tournament time I definitely expect Butler back but with Robinson I, I really don't know. I haven't heard much. I'm just, I'm hoping there I'm expecting Butler just me for the Auburn game next week at Rupp. I don't know if he'll get into Oklahoma next week but I'm gonna expect we see him for that Auburn game. That's just me with Butler. I almost feel like they're gonna get to a point where there's hoping they've got enough wins. Like maybe, heck if you win tomorrow and surprise everyone, you keep them on ice a little longer, gonna be kind of like a breaking case emergency situation. I think that's, I, I think if, if you were to talk to UK and they were to be honest, I think they want to get a three seed and they're trying to figure out how do you piece together to get a three seed. 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That's what I like to hear. Thank you all very much for coming. You still got what, 40 minutes to get here and get a margarita on me. And tomorrow's National Margaritas Day. 350 all day on Saturday. I want to quickly a little sad note. Talk about two people who passed away yesterday. One, one of my childhood friends, probably the, the, the person I remember, the youngest grew up with, named Vance Michael. Went to church with him all through my youth in high school and played tennis. His father passed away. Been in my life for my entire life. He lives in Georgetown now. Doug Michael. So prayers to the Michael family, also in Georgetown. A sports, sort of a Kentucky sports legend that also became the mayor of Georgetown, Mutt Varney, which I always remember because of his name because my Larry would. Larry went to Berea College and he always said Mutt Varney was the best player in Berea history. And I remembered his name because as a kid Mutt Varney is a funny name. The only player in Berea College history to have his jersey retired. Mutt Varney passed away. He later became the mayor of Georgetown and so he passed away yesterday as well. So prayers to both of those families. Larry was very, very close to Doug Michael and to Mutt Varney. So he was very sad last night. You tell that story and it all comes back to me. Yeah, he was the leading score Berea till just not that long ago. Yeah, yeah. He had it for like 40, 50 years or something like that. This morning coach was Roland where Willie. That's it. And Mutt Varney. The Berea College basketball. We just don't have great names like Mud Varney. You know, people don't name their kids Mutt anymore and I. Maybe, maybe they shouldn't but it's, it's, it is, it is A great. Like Elon might name his next one, but I mean they just keep coming every few days, so. So maybe he can. 859280, 2287. Quickly, the women's team. Let's talk about their weekend. They won last night. So they have set up. They have a three game stretch. It's a pretty amazing set of opponents. Lsu, Tennessee and South Carolina to finish the year they play. They beat Missouri on the road. So tonight the gymnastics team goes against LSU's women's gymnastics team. Livy Dunn is apparently now a coach. So I guess she doesn't, she's like, she's fifth year, but I don't, I was told she doesn't, she doesn't leap and do anything anymore. She's. I don't know what I'm talking about. But she's, she'll probably be here tonight for everybody who cares about that. But either way, LSU and Kentucky gymnastics, if you've never been, I don't even know if they're sold out. But if you've never been, that crowd gets absolutely insane. It's a lot of young girls who are excited to be there and it's loud and that is tonight. Then Sunday, Kentucky plays LSU and women's basketball at Rupert. Now, I don't know if you saw Kenny Brooks last night. He was a little chesty. Did you see that in his post game? In his post game he asked him about LSU and he said something like, yeah, we're supposed to be in a game like this. And you know what? We're supposed to win a game like this. So he said, bring it on. I love that. He was like, hey, Kim Mulkey, come get some. I like that. I like that. Now, you know, we had George on the show a few weeks ago and together they went to a Final Four. So they know basketball success and they're not afraid of anyone. I love that attitude from a program that really didn't have any business being on the floor with lsu. For several years now. They're ready to take on that challenge on Sunday. So that game is sold out. That game is completely sold out. I think I was talking to the woman who covers Kentucky for the Herald Leader, and I. And she asked me when I thought they would have that. Good. And I think it's been since what maybe when Don Staley in South Carolina came in here against Matthew Mitchell and they were number one and we were in the top 10. That's probably the last time we've had an atmosphere like. Well, have Sunday against lsu. Yeah. It just doesn't happen that a lot from UK women's basketball. Pat Summit brought in a number one team. They played it rough. And Kentucky beat him one time. Beat him. That's right. That's a huge. That was with Mickey Demos. Mickey Demoss. Yeah. But you're right. It may have to go back to that. That Matthew Mitchell versus Don Staley. They didn't like each other either, did they? Did not. No, they didn't. We lost that game. It was close. But Matthew Mitchell and Don Staley would, like, stand and like, kind of yap at each other during the game. I have no idea what I'm talking about. I could be wrong, but I got the sense Drew, watching Kenny Brooks, he might not like Kim Mulkey all that much. Like, I. I couldn't tell for sure, but it seemed like maybe he didn't. So I. Maybe we'll get some of that, too. Yeah. And I think if you were to pull all the women's basketball coaches, she would probably get a negative approval rating. Yeah. I think just the way she carries herself sometimes a little off putting to everyone, but I'm excited to just see what she wears. She had an amazing sweater that looked like a net a few weeks ago. Ago. I want to buy it. I look for it online. But you were gonna back him. It's incredible. It has like a rim at the top and then like a net dangles at the bottom. It was awesome. If you. If you start wearing Kim Muli sweaters, I'm gonna. I'm gonna love that. Don't forget the hills that go with it. We're both. We're both fashion forward. I want to. So if you're going to either of those games, what we're having, like, little pregame things at the bar. I hope you'll come back. And if the Kentucky. You know that I think the women's game one on Sunday, four. Okay. So a little celebratory dinner. I think all three games for Kentucky, the Next three women's games are on regular television. You don't have to watch them online. They'll be on either ESPN or the SEC Network. Who's up next? Bob is up next. Bob. Go ahead, Bob. Hey, you guys switch topics so fast that my comments are fairly irrelevant at this point, But I'll give. They're always good. Go for it. In terms of hockey, have any of you guys ever heard the old Archie Campbell hockey here tonight? No. I don't even know what those words mean. Okay, well, you got to YouTube it or something. You got to find it. It is hilarious. You remember, Archie Campbell was on He Haw for years, and you know. Oh, okay. I did not. Now we do know Hee Haw. I do know Hee Haw. I didn't know that, but okay, I do know Hee Haw. Okay, well, it's hilarious. You got to look it up. It's called hockey here tonight. All right, I will look it up. Okay. The other comment is about the Yankees and talking about the facial hair and everything. Of course, now the Yankee. I mean, being a Yankee fan since I was a kid, you know, they even had. And even last year, the catcher, you know, might have to let you go. We got to go to break. They did allow mustaches. They didn't allow beards. That was the rule. We'll take a break and be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio here live at Poppies. We have had a great crowd. I like the bell ringing over there. Thank you very much to Mark, host and all the folks here. National Margarita Day tomorrow. You still got 30 minutes to get a margarita on me today. Shout out to Sophia in Virginia. I think your dad just said you're listening. I appreciate it. Two pieces of news. One good, one bad. Let me give the good the bad one first because it's gonna make this guy next to me really sad. Oh, Bloomberg is reporting that Hooters is declaring bankruptcy. Oh, no. It makes me sad, too. I really like their food a lot. This is on your hands, Ryan. We used to have our business meetings there, like, once a month, and it was only for you. We haven't done it in a long time. I think we're partially to blame. We maybe are partially to bl. So. So. All right, well, I guess declaring bankruptcy doesn't mean it will go away, but it just means they're going to have to. I don't know what they're going to have to do. Re. Redo something, but something's not working, huh? Something is not Working. And then I think this is good news. Shannon, I hear through the grapevine, for the first time ever, you got credentialed by the sec. Yes, I did. You know, you guys all got your email the same time you were all approved. And I go, well, I didn't get one. I guess that means they're going to send out the, you know, the declined emails later. But I got approved. So I hear that you, you actually filled it out this year and put Shannon the dude Grigsby. Yep, I put the dude in quotation marks. I think maybe that's the reason they didn't know who Shannon Grigsby was. I had to put the dude on there. I guarantee that's the reason they flat out said we didn't know who Shannon. When I went to the guy, his name is Craig Pinkerton. I think he's been doing it for like 20 years. And I went up to him last year and I was like, why didn't you approve him? And I said, he's like, I don't know who that is. And I said, it's Shannon the dude. And he goes, well, why didn't he write the dude? Yeah. Well, thank you, Mr. Pinkerton. I mean, I bet Kentucky sports radio, I would think you would see Shannon. Kentucky sports radio now. Yeah. Mario forgot to fill out his form. Oh, Mario, how could you forget to fill out your form? I'm so excited. You're what? Now here's what. Here's what's interesting about Mario. So, you know, we, my buddies, my college buddies, we all get like a house that we all stay in. I heart is getting one room, which Ryan and Shannon are taking, which means Mario is going to have to stay in this house with like ten forty year old men. And I'm sure Mario is very excited about that. Drew. He'll. I think he'll have fun, but I can see the nervousness in his eyes of him. He's like, here, nine, 40 year old men, you don't know you're staying here right now, Mario. The year was 2010 and Matt took me to the SEC tournament and he said, these are all my friends. They're going to be your friends this week. They're still my friends today. You're going to love them. Now granted, we're older now than we were back then. They might have all left the bar. In fact, it was a Hooters. It was Hooters, Nashville. They all left and left me there by myself. But, you know, over time they've become some of my best friends too. So you're just getting started. And two of those guys got kicked out of the Hooters that night. They're all odor but all still act the same. Turns out you can't fall asleep on top of a pitcher of beer at the table. You're not allowed to do that. So if you are going to the SEC tournament, we're talking about. We're probably. If Kentucky plays on Thursday, we're probably going to do our big show in public on Thursday, just in case. Because if we were to lose on Thursday, I wouldn't want to do it to an empty arena on Friday. So if you're coming to Nashville, expect to see us do our thing on Thursday. Who's up first? Do you have a concert? Is Alice. Oh, yes, we are. We're playing Thursday night, so I hope that they went on Thursday as well. So Alice Bluegown will also be playing on Thursday night at the SEC tournament as well. Who's next? Jackson is up next. Jackson, go ahead. Jackson it. Hey, guys. How are y'all doing? Doing good. Love poppies, man, they're great. And the margaritas are good. Wish I wasn't working. I'd come have one. Well, we're. Somebody will drink yours for you, but go ahead. I'm sure they will. I just had one quick question. Go for it every time. Because I always, always work and I have to listen to it on podcast. Every time I click on, it's like, release today, hour one, Release today, hour two. It always goes back to the post game show and I can't never. I don't know what's going on. Do you have any? So sometimes this happens on Apple especially, but sometimes Spotify, sometimes your thing gets stuck. If you delete the app and then put it back on, it'll catch up. It'll catch up on its own anyway. But sometimes it takes a few days if it gets stuck, stuck. So reset, unsubscribe, delete all the episodes and then come back. It'll work. I'm like Ron, I'm on Android. Amen. Well, same thing happens. Sometimes your feed gets stuck. Just delete all the episodes, unsubscribe and then resubscribe and it'll work. Well, thank you guys. I appreciate your show and appreciate you keeping the BBN rolling and all the effort and the fun that you guys put into this show makes it. Makes it worthwhile. Appreciate the call. Thank you. Tom Hart just wrote me and said, why does Shannon always put up the second hour before the first hour? They People really dislike that. That You. But you're never gonna change. Well, I'll tell you what, Tom. If you don't like it, you could come upload the podcast. How about that? Or you could have Billy do it. I mean, that'd be fine. That'd be one less thing I have to do with my other six shows. Billy is barely able to sit up over there. I can tell. Oh, no. He's already in the bargain. What are you doing? Goodness. Billy Marks. Slow down, son. Billy. The amount of Billy hate I've gotten in my feed since his filming people on the airplane has been unparalleled. If Billy was a stock. We're. We're in a dip right now. It's a little bit of decline. If Billy was a stock. Bloomberg's reporting on bankruptcy coming. He'll be back though. He might time to buy in, Billy. Right. He might need to reorganize and come back. Who's next? Todd is up next. Todd. Go ahead, Todd. Hey, guys, I appreciate it. You're talking about Mutt Varney earlier. I'm in Georgetown. I attended his basketball camp when I was a child and he was my assistant principal in high school. But one little other fact that you didn't mention about him. You remember the Hayburn Jim Barney? Yes. That was a cousin of his. I did not know that, Ernest. So was Mutt Vaught. See, we learn something new every day. Absolutely Appreciate the call, sir. Thank you very much. Volunteers of America Mid States part of Volunteers of America have a new facility they've opened in Louisville for those in with developmental disabilities intellectual or who need have needs in the community. It is located Louisville Metro broke ground on the community care campus in downtown Louisville for unhoused individuals to access a variety of service. You can learn more@voamid.org Volunteers America is a great organization. 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Wednesday is the one day that I try to try to avoid. Okay, so from DraftKings, time to make our draft Kings picks of the week go to DraftKings.com we're going to go through the SEC games. Just tell me who's going to win. Texas is at South Carolina. That. Do they. South Carolina get their first win? Yes. South Carolina gets the win. I am agreeing. I'm going to go. Yes. No, sorry. I think they're going winless. Texas kind of needs this game to be sure on the tournament. I think South Carolina gets their first win. I think it happens today. Missouri is at Arkansas. Speaking of a huge game. This is basically a win and you're in for Cal. Lose their schedule, get. They could still make it. But this is a win in your end. Do you think Cal gets the victory over Missouri? I think Missouri is playing better than anybody in the conference right now. Even Auburn. I pick Missouri. Cal's got a. You know, he wins these games. You think he has no chance. But I'm still gonna pick Missouri tomorrow. He wins the games when they're on the road. He doesn't always win them at home. Yeah, I'm gonna take Missouri to win Big Z. You don't have to make them all. You just can't miss them all like you did. I think that was their shot to pull off an upset and they fell apart at the end. They lose this one. Florida is at LSU. LSU's been playing pretty good here in the last couple weeks. Getting into our game. Any chance they went at home against Florida? I'm taking Florida in that one. Give me Florida. Florida take Florida. George is at Auburn. That won't be a game. Ole Miss at Vandy can. Your big game for Vandy and making the turns. A lot of teams playing. This is a big one for Vandy. Do they get the win? He's on the bubble, you know, last four ends. So I think Vandy does win this game tomorrow. I'm going to. I'm going to go Shannon. I'm going to take Vandy. I've only picked favorites. I'll go Vandy here. I'll go with the Commodores. Winning is. I'm gonna take Ole Miss. They'll have probably half the crowd. Mississippi State at Oklahoma. Oklahoma's been reeling. They're probably out of the tournament right now. But if they want to make it, probably got to win this game and then beat us next week. Do you think they do it? No. Mississippi State gets them. Give me the Bulldogs. Yeah, Oklahoma's done. They'll have a new coach next year and they'll lose this game. Mississippi State. Finally the game. Kentucky and Alabama is a huge game. But the other big Game of the weekend. Top 10 matchup. Tennessee is at Texas A and M. This is number six versus seven in the country. A and M wins this, they could be a 2 seed in the NCAA tournament. Nobody's really talked about it. Who you got? Yeah, Texas A and M. I think if some of the games fall right, they could be even a number one seed in the NCAA tournament. Tennessee is still kind of suspect to me. I think A and M wins this game tomorrow. By the way, we want Tennessee to win because. Or really either one of these teams because we have a tiebreaker on both of them in the end. In the SEC seating. Yeah. That A and M game and Rob proved to be a really big win, even though they destroyed Lamont Butler and they're the reason he's out. I'm going with A and m. It's an 11am local start there, which I think is kind of weird. Will probably hurt their crowd. So I will take Tennessee to get the win on the road. Who's up next? Got Noah up next. Noah, by the way, do we beat LSU in women's? Oh, yeah. I'm going to say yes. This is our game. LSU's not been playing great. We're. We're winning Sunday. I don't know about the gymnastics today, but we're winning. Basketball's done tonight. Oh, get it. Ring that bell. I don't even know how they score, but we're winning by 3.2 points. All right, go ahead, sir. Oh, you're good. How's it going? First time a long time. What's up? Shout out to Shannon for the getting confirmed with the sec. Awesome. Bullet county connection there. Secondly, prayers out Eastern Kentucky. Hopefully they can get some relief. Absolutely terrible. Got a lot of family down there. And thirdly, lastly, pretty excited about the rest of the basketball season. A little bit of a rocky road, but I think it'll all work out this time. All right. Hope you're right. Appreciate the call. Yes. Shannon's big time now. You're officially a media member. That's right. Billy, who claimed to be a journalist on the plane. You actually are a journalist. Getting to go to the game, it took me 15 years. You know. Way to go. There's still hope for anybody out here. You can ask a question in the press conference. I feel like you have to. Yeah, you gotta ask. I want to ask the first question. Yes. Who's this guy? Shannon, the dude. You may have heard of it. Wait a minute. I thought you were gonna ask the coach. Who's this guy? Yeah. Well, you should do that first game. Who are you? Who's next? Greg is up next. Greg. Go ahead, Greg. Hey, guys. How you doing? Good. Great. Did any of y'all happen to catch that documentary? We beat the Dream Team. You watched it last night. What did you think about it? I watched it last night. It's outstanding. I've never seen that footage before. Jamal Mash presented a lot, but Coach K comes out as a jerk in this one. Oh, he is a jerk. Are you surprised? He's always a jerk. I mean, he's. He takes it to another level. He yelled at my ex girlfriend like, I mean, of course. Let me ask you this. Like before you watch the documentary, did you think that Coach K is a really good guy? He's a nice guy and it just like opened your eyes, right? Well, it's just like he almost anti American in what he does. We mean he's anti American. I don't want to spoil it for you. Wow. Who knew he was anti American? Now I gotta watch it. All right. Sir. Sir. Did you think Coach K was anti American? No, but he's definitely rat face, that's for sure. Okay, well, burn a flag. I haven't seen this yet. 15 seconds. You call him anti American and rat face. I feel like that's a. Must be a heck of a documentary. I appreciate the call. Who's next? Chad is up next. Chad, Go ahead, Chad. Hello. Yes. Hey, Matt. We've been talking about all these different lineups recently and with watching the game the other night and if we don't get the car back in the lineup by tomorrow. Well, he's playing. Car played the last game. Car played in the last game. He's back Started? Yep. Okay, so what if they put Colin Chandler in as a point because he looks a lot more comfortable running that point than what Travis Perry did. Perry be at the two and you got all the way. Yeah, we're not playing. We're not playing Perry at the 2. I mean that, that, that's not going to work. I mean, if you had Chandler and Perry at your guards, you're going to get destroyed in the backcourt. Let me ask you a question. I appreciate the call. Any chance you would consider starting Colin Chandler, point guard? I know he's not really played well this year, but he played great in the last game. Would you consider that at Alabama? Maybe, but I think Travis has started games pretty well. Just the wheels fell off at Texas. I would still start Travis, but Colin has absolutely earned more minutes. Of all the freshmen and really a lot of People on the team. Defensively, he's been one of the most active players all year. It's just his offense has been so bad. So him getting seven points in the last game might have been a little bit of a breakthrough for him being all around contribution even when he was playing really bad offensively. Ryan, he was pretty good defensively, he actually would. Was decent guarding the ball. So I, I can see him. I think he's going to get minutes at Alabama, don't you think? Oh, I think he gets a lot of minutes because we talk about those Alabama's three guards. You know, somebody's got a guard, Sears, Hollowell, Pettigrew. There's three good guards. Who's going to guard him. That's why Chandler is going to be on the field on the court a lot. I think just for defensive reasons. I have to tell you, there's not been a bigger surprise to me than how Chandler played at the point. Maybe that's where you got to play him because like he, he has looked so lost on offense all year. And then all of a sudden when he was at the point, it was almost like Drew had unleashed whatever his strength, whatever that is. Yeah, he had a couple bad turnovers, but we'll forgive those for all the other stuff he did. He had a great finish at the rim where he got fouled. I like when he drove to the rim and he threw it over to I believe, Carr in the corner, who knocked down a three. Another one. The guy just missed the shot. Another one of those. And just, you know, Trent and Travis both offer a lot, but athletically, Colin Chandler is another level just as pure athleticism. And I think they need that he can. I think part of the reason Pope is so high on him is he is a good athlete like some of these other guys. Athleticism's not their straight. He is a good athlete if he, if he can get the skills. He dunked on Brandon Garrison hard in the blue white game. I mean, he looked like a different player. And that's just a practice scrimmage. You can make an argument he's like our second best athlete on the team, at least of the perimeter players, behind Owens. No doubt. So who's up next? Justin is next. Justin, I got like a minute. Go ahead. Hey guys, I'm from eastern Kentucky, born and raised in Pop. I just want to appreciate, call you all, appreciate you all for all the thoughts and prayers you had for us while we got flooded and hit with this nasty snowstorm over the week. Well, listen, I mean, we we probably haven't talked about it as enough which because of what's going on. But I hope people donate to the governor's fund. ARH but our prayers are with you. I hope we can get out there before I want to come to Pikeville before we go to the SEC tournament. But I want all of you all to know we are thinking about you, the people in this crowd. Like Kentucky is a state that comes together and I know that's going to happen for this as well. But I don't think this Go ahead. I don't think people realize this hasn't quite gotten the coverage the last one did, but I don't think people realize the amount of devastation there. Sir. Well, we appreciate this was I believe this is worse than the 22 flood we had. I think, I think in terms of widespread damage it is. It's not the same death toll, but in terms of widespread damage it may be. It may be worse. I appreciate the call. Don franklinauto.com 27 locations around the state. If you need a vehicle, go to Don Franklin. Great service, great family, great selection. It is don franklin auto.com no reason to buy a car in Kentucky if you don't go to Don Franklin first. Don Franklin auto.com the game tomorrow's at 6:00. Pregame show will be at 3:30. I expect it to be a very crowded KS bar so make sure you get there early if you want to watch the game. We'll be doing the show in studio because it's a road game but the bar will be ready to watch the game. Poppies thank you all very much for hosting us. This is a great option to watch the game too here with all the television. Margarita Day tomorrow. Thank you guys for coming out. This was an awesome crowd out here at Palomar. We will see you tomorrow at 3:30. Cats in the Tide this has been Kentucky Sports Radio. The Unshakables podcast is kicking off season two with an episode you won't want to miss. Join host Ben Walter, CEO of Chase for Business as he welcomes a very special guest, Chairman and CEO of JP Morgan Chase, Jamie Dimon. Hear about the challenges facing small businesses and some of the oh moments Jamie has overcome. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. 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