Advertiser 2 (2:40)

Well, he looks much older than 40, for sure.

Matt Jones (2:43)

Wow. Wow. Shots fired. He's gonna come after you next.

Ryan Lemond (2:46)

We are gonna get addressed like numbers on a house.

Matt Jones (2:49)

That's exactly right. All right, so let's talk just a little bit about schedule for next week. Next week we are. We're gonna do our show at Tin Roof on Thursday morning before the Kentucky game. So. So make plans to go to that. But even more than that, Wednesday, we're gonna do the show somewhere on the road to. To Nashville. Probably do it somewhere in Bowling Green, I think is our thought. Not sure if it'll be open to the public, but we will do that. Excuse me. And then we will be down in Nashville the entire time. DraftKings, our partner, they have a bar in Nashville. We're going to, like, be kind of hanging out there and we'll have stuff. We'll talk more about that. But let's talk about the women for a second. They play today at 230 against Oklahoma to start the SEC tournament. It should be exciting. Gary. Round of applause, ladies. I think the women today are probably playing to host the first and second round of the NCAA tournament. They probably get to do that anyway, even if they lost. But I think a win today would certainly lock it up if they were able to do it. Kentucky is playing an Oklahoma team that I actually watched them play a few weeks ago. That was when Georgia went for like 40 points or whatever. Was again, was against Oklahoma. The game's on at 2:30. We're gonna have it at the bar. I think there's gonna be a group of women's team fans that'll be there. So come on out. Skip your afternoon lunch or skip your afternoon work. Go watch the women's team. How do you think the Kenny Brooks will do in his first SEC tournament today, starting up against Oklahoma?

Advertiser 2 (4:24)

You know, great. They got that double buy. You know, Oklahoma beat. I think they beat Georgia last night, but the team they just beat just a couple weeks ago, I think they're, you know, they're on a high note right now. They played LSU pretty well. They blew out Tennessee, so, you know, they're. They deserve to get that double buy. They've had a great season.

Matt Jones (4:39)

I watched, like I said, I watched that game against Oklahoma. I mean, that was a special performance by Georgia. Amore. That that's one of the better outside of your Caitlin Clarks. And I'm not sure I've seen very many better women's performances in Georgia had in that game. They kind of dominated it on their floor. If they can win tonight, then they would get South Carolina team. They played pretty well just last week. You know, maybe a chance for Kenny to make a run here.

Ryan Lemond (5:05)

Yeah, but help me understand. Help me understand something.

Matt Jones (5:07)

They.

Ryan Lemond (5:07)

I watched the Oklahoma game, too. They scored 95 points, won by like nine or ten. Georgia had 43. Kentucky's an underdog today on the old DraftKings app. Two and a half point underdog.

Drew Franklin (5:17)

Sounds like math into me.

Ryan Lemond (5:19)

So I will be partaking.

Matt Jones (5:20)

Yeah, I think what I think for Kenny's teams, the analytics make them not look as good as their record because they tended to win a lot of games close against teams. They were kind of. I think. And then they have a couple bad losses. But I'm with you. I. I mean, you'd beat them on their home floor by double digits. You would think you'd be the favorite. But they are not today, Shannon, So hopefully they can get the win.

Drew Franklin (5:44)

Well, I think that would be my bet today for DraftKings. And then I think, you know, if. If it opens up, if Fandy can somehow knock off South Carolina, Kentucky can win the SEC tournament.

Matt Jones (5:54)

Well, I think they can get. I think they can beat that South Carolina. I mean. All right, so I watched Kentucky. I was at the Kentucky Texas game. I don't know if there's a world Kentucky can beat Texas. I mean, those young women are big. They're strong, they're powerful. Our girls are just not strong. I just don't think we can beat Texas, but I do think we can beat South Carolina. I do think we can beat lsu. If somebody else were to knock Texas out, like if LSU were to upset them, I think we can beat lsu. I don't see us beating Texas, but there's not another team in the sec, Drew. I don't think they could beat in an individual game.

Ryan Lemond (6:30)

It in the women's tournament in Greenville again this year. It's.

Advertiser 2 (6:33)

It is.

Matt Jones (6:33)

It is.

Ryan Lemond (6:34)

I hate that with South Carolina. That'll probably be a home game for them.

Matt Jones (6:36)

Yeah, that's true.

Ryan Lemond (6:37)

Other than that, I still. The way Kentucky played them close, had them within two just a few days ago. It gives me hope. They can hang with anyone, but can't look past Oklahoma.

Matt Jones (6:45)

And then with the NCAA tournament, I'd love to see them get to host in Lexington. I want you to think about what next weekend could be like in Lexington or two weekends from now, you could end up with a situation where they. Where we have the men's tournament going, going on. We host a first and second round of the men's tournament with probably a ton of Auburn and Tennessee fans in town. And then also at the same time, on the other side of town, be hosting the women's NCAA tournament. You could have the men's and women's NCAA tournaments both in Lexington, Ryan. At the exact same time in two weeks.

Advertiser 2 (7:19)

I hadn't even thought about that. But you're right. And, man, you know, they've sold out Memorial Coliseum like, the last, what, four home games, watching the women play. So it's. If the women can somehow host that, it will be packed. We'll make that a great environment.

Matt Jones (7:30)

And with the girls, Sweet 16 next weekend, the NCAA tournament the next weekend, and then the boys Sweet 16 the weekend after that. Ryan, if you're a basketball fan in Lexington, I don't think you could ask for much more than that.

Advertiser 2 (7:42)

And I hear there's a place called KS Bar and Grill. It'll probably have all those shows on. You may want to come have lunch, eat some of those great wings and watch the games there.

Matt Jones (7:49)

Look at you just doing ads.

Ryan Lemond (7:51)

What if they send Rick Patino's, Johnny's to Lexington for that first weekend? I've seen a few brackets have that as a possibility. Think the city would welco.

Matt Jones (7:59)

What if they brought. If they brought Patino to Lexington?

Ryan Lemond (8:02)

A couple of the projections happen.

Matt Jones (8:03)

That would be wild. Okay. Also, Shannon, we like to talk about this every year. Comic Con is in Lexington starting today. I like to read you some of the people that are coming and see if you liked, if you'd want to make them. Okay, yeah. First of all, everybody's seen you saw Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. One of the people in the ship in the movie is coming. Now. It's not Keanu Reeves, but it's the other guy. Do you know the other guy's name? Bill. Okay. Do you know the other guy's name, though, in real life?

Drew Franklin (8:40)

No, I do not.

Matt Jones (8:41)

Alex Winter. Alex Winter. He is actually the headliner. He is the number one name.

Ryan Lemond (8:48)

I think it's alphabetical order. I've studied that quite a bit.

Matt Jones (8:53)

I guess big names on there starts with A. Okay.

Drew Franklin (8:55)

Okay.

Matt Jones (8:55)

All right, so let me go through a few more. Andrew McCarthy, like an 80s, sort of like you, the ladies here shaking there. Yeah, like in the 80s. He was kind of a sexy. He was also different guy. He was also in Weekend at Bernie's. He was one of the two guys that held Bernie's head up.

Drew Franklin (9:14)

You're not selling me on it yet. Keep going.

Ryan Lemond (9:16)

Oh, there's. There's some you're going to like.

Matt Jones (9:18)

Okay, okay. I'm. I'm sitting here. Danny Trejo. You know the.

Drew Franklin (9:22)

Oh, yeah, okay. Yeah, I know who.

Matt Jones (9:23)

You know, the actor that always plays the mean looking guy and stuff. Ryan. Do you like him?

Advertiser 2 (9:28)

I do like him, though. I thought he was dead. It's good to know he's still alive.

Ryan Lemond (9:31)

You're gonna be real excited to see him.

Drew Franklin (9:32)

That's the great thing about these. All the guys you thought were dead are still there selling autographs.

Matt Jones (9:36)

Dermot Mulroney.

Advertiser 2 (9:38)

Yeah.

Matt Jones (9:39)

Do you know that, like, he. I. You all may not know the name, but all of you have seen his face. Like, he was in.

Advertiser 2 (9:44)

And the women know who he is.

Matt Jones (9:46)

Yeah, he's. He's in TV shows all the time, but I can't think of one of them. What's he in? Well, I think he was in the wedding date, though.

Advertiser 2 (9:53)

He was? Yeah.

Drew Franklin (9:54)

All right, we gotta get better with this.

Matt Jones (9:55)

Okay, how about this? Jason Isaacs from the White Lotus. That's the Southern dad on the White Lotus with the. That's like being investigated. You like him, right?

Advertiser 2 (10:05)

Drew has already made it a point. We're gonna get him somehow on the post game show at Comic Con. Drew. That's Drew's mission in life, I think. Get him on there.

Matt Jones (10:12)

I don't know how many of you all watch the White Lotus, but Parker Posey's accent on there when she says Buddhism. And like, Piper. No, like, I. I absolute.

Drew Franklin (10:22)

I'm gonna need Stifler's mom before I get excited about this. Keep going.

Matt Jones (10:26)

All right, how about Jeff Hardy?

Drew Franklin (10:28)

All right, the Hardy Boys.

Matt Jones (10:29)

Our friend Bradshaw is there.

Drew Franklin (10:31)

Oh, jbl.

Matt Jones (10:32)

Okay. Jonathan Goldsmith. You may not know him by name, but he's the most interesting man in the world from the Dos Equis commercials.

Drew Franklin (10:42)

I bet he's not really that exciting. I bet he's not. He's probably really boring.

Ryan Lemond (10:45)

Not that interesting at all.

Matt Jones (10:47)

Actually. I saw him at the derby one year, and I actually sat next to him for a few minutes. Not that interesting.

Drew Franklin (10:53)

Yeah. Kind of quiet, huh?

Ryan Lemond (10:54)

He's off the clock.

Matt Jones (10:55)

Yeah. All right, how about Lita from the WWE?

Drew Franklin (10:58)

All right, now we're. Yeah. WWE.

Matt Jones (10:59)

Lou Diamond Phillips.

Advertiser 2 (11:01)

Whoa.

Ryan Lemond (11:03)

A legend of 90s.

Matt Jones (11:04)

You don't. Don't seem excited enough about Lou Diamond Phillips again.

Advertiser 2 (11:08)

And I wasn't sure he was still alive.

Matt Jones (11:11)

To see all these people go to.

Ryan Lemond (11:13)

The T's and the S's. That's where the stars are.

Matt Jones (11:15)

Soleil Moon Fry.

Drew Franklin (11:17)

Punky Brewster Ryan has a thing for funky Bruce.

Matt Jones (11:20)

Okay, but that's weird. Don't.

Drew Franklin (11:22)

She's. She's older than he is.

Matt Jones (11:24)

Yeah, probably now. Yeah.

Drew Franklin (11:25)

Yeah.

Matt Jones (11:26)

See? Would you like me to introduce you to Soleil Moon Fry?

Advertiser 2 (11:28)

Yeah, of course.

Matt Jones (11:32)

Have you seen her? No, not in a long, long time. Pictures right there. Sting. You like?

Drew Franklin (11:38)

Which one? The singer or the wrestler?

Ryan Lemond (11:39)

Wrestler.

Drew Franklin (11:40)

Wrestler.

Ryan Lemond (11:40)

It's coming out from the top. Yeah.

Matt Jones (11:42)

Trish Stratus.

Ryan Lemond (11:42)

There it is.

Drew Franklin (11:43)

Oh, yeah.

Matt Jones (11:44)

William Shatner will be there.

Drew Franklin (11:46)

Wow. William Shatner is like 94 years old and he's still doing these Comic Cons. You talk about a guy that doesn't need to work. He's still doing it because part of.

Matt Jones (11:54)

Me wonders, though, does he need to work? Which is why he keeps doing at that age.

Drew Franklin (11:58)

Come on.

Matt Jones (11:59)

Then why does he go?

Ryan Lemond (12:00)

It's free money.

Drew Franklin (12:01)

What else you could do at 94?

Matt Jones (12:02)

Okay.

Ryan Lemond (12:03)

Sergeant Slaughter's on there, too.

Matt Jones (12:05)

Sergeant Slaughter as well. So there you go. Now, for people tomorrow on the post game show, Drew and Ryan will be doing the postgame show live from Comic Con and may have some of these folks folks on. So good luck.

Advertiser 2 (12:18)

One of the best people watching events ever. It just sit out there in the. In the hallway and watch people walk by at Comic Con. It's awesome.

Ryan Lemond (12:24)

Mario's first Comic Con. I know he's excited.

Matt Jones (12:26)

Yeah. Mario, there'll be a lot of great videos for you at Comic Con tomorrow. Who's up next?

Advertiser 2 (12:32)

Got Tyler up next.

Matt Jones (12:33)

Tyler, go ahead. Tyler. Hey, guys. How are y'all this morning? Doing well. Hey, I got a idea that I keep thinking about. I've not heard anybody else think or talk about it. The team that we play rushes the court, and they have to pay us $500,000. You're going to say, why don't we just act like we're them and then we rush the court? Is that what you're going to say? Yeah, just hire, like, 100 people and pay for this. You're not the first person that's thought of that. Yeah, you're not the first person that's thought of that. But. But the reason that would be hard is they're putting it on the school, Drew, to stop them. Like, so. Like, the point is not so much what the fans do. It's, hey, school. You have to stop them now. There Comes an amount of people you can't stop. Right. But I would say, and I appreciate the call, if a school hired a hundred people to go storm another court, I feel like it might investigated when, when everybody turns in their licenses and everyone's from Kentucky, there might be a thing where people go, oh, wait a minute, what was that?

Drew Franklin (13:44)

Your next 30 for 30 right there?

Matt Jones (13:45)

Yeah, there. Maybe there was something going on.

Ryan Lemond (13:47)

Yeah, it's usually, you know, you're on your home court storming the court. Is he suggesting a Rupp Arena? We welcome them down. Are we going to just try to fill other arenas?

Matt Jones (13:54)

Are you like, are you bummed that if all this works we won't have court? I do think court storming is part of what makes college basketball great. Are you?

Advertiser 2 (14:02)

No, I am bummed. I love it when like even in a football game and you, we see all these just jumping over hedges and jumping over walls to get down there. Basketball games, it's first. It does make it special. Especially you get a big win on your home court in the final seconds. It's just kind of spontaneous.

Drew Franklin (14:17)

It's not going to completely go away. It's just going to eliminate court storming. That probably isn't necessary. Top 15 team or something.

Matt Jones (14:25)

But they're letting them do it after you get the team off the court. So they are saying like get the team off the court. Okay, now you can come. Now there is like a 30 second gap. So you lose a little bit of the excitement. But I guess that's better than nothing, isn't it?

Ryan Lemond (14:39)

Well, I think that's how you get your money. If you're the team that just lost, you take your time. Like I'm bending down tying my shoe. Oh no, I'm cramping. I can't get to the locker room. And then hopefully they storm while you're still out there.

Matt Jones (14:48)

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Drew Franklin (16:08)

Were all, it was so surreal.

Matt Jones (16:13)

Well, all the athletic directors were trying to decide whether or not to cancel the SEC tournament. I remember Mitch Barnhart saying he had his UK softball team stuck in Florida and he was trying to figure out how to get them back. And, and like all of this stuff it was, you know, it's basically next week is when this was five years ago. Does it seem like that long ago to you?

Advertiser 2 (16:31)

No, it doesn't. If we remember that time we were all scared, man. We didn't know what was about to happen. And we've that, that night when we find out that Tom Hanks had for whatever reason that seemed to resonate with people like if a, if a superstar can get it.

Matt Jones (16:43)

Yeah, it was like, it was like Tom Hanks got it. You had to go bear thing. I remember we were all sitting in our suite when we got the word that Trump had shut the no all the flights down. And I remember going whoa. They're like shutting all the flights that like there was a sense of whoa. But still I remember thinking well I hope they can still play the NCAA tournament. And we, we had no, no idea what was in store. There wasn't like, well maybe if they postpone it a week or two they'll still be able to play.

Advertiser 2 (17:11)

If I remember right, didn't they stop a game in mid game at the SEC tournament?

Matt Jones (17:15)

The Big east tournament was a Big east tournament. The SEC tournament finished, but the Big east tournament stopped a game right in the middle of the game at halftime and ended it.

Ryan Lemond (17:23)

Yeah, I remember the last day in Nashville. People are starting to head home and I thought I got one quick lap around Broadway in me and there was just a few people in bars. I think Lee and Haley were doing their last TV show.

Matt Jones (17:33)

We all went out to dinner on that Saturday night as like a good by dinner having no idea that we Wouldn't see these people for like six or eight months in a row.

Ryan Lemond (17:42)

I was bouncing around. It's like, is this the last time I'm going to be in a bar? Like, how long is this going to last? Like, I kind of probably stayed a little longer.

Drew Franklin (17:48)

We had no idea. We had no idea back then.

Advertiser 2 (17:50)

No.

Drew Franklin (17:51)

And we. I remember us having a conversation like, are we ever going to shake hands again? Meanwhile.

Advertiser 2 (17:55)

Yeah.

Drew Franklin (17:55)

Shaking hands with 50 people already this morning.

Matt Jones (17:57)

Yeah. I mean, I love all you folks. I'd be fine if we went back to the fist bumping that's.

Ryan Lemond (18:01)

I'm still five years later. I do the wrong one with.

Matt Jones (18:04)

There's something about. I. I feel like since I hurt my wrist, people are intentionally grabbing my wrist even harder.

Drew Franklin (18:11)

Shaking that wrist.

Matt Jones (18:12)

Like it's almost like I don't know what it is with men and their desire to be like, I have a powerful handshake. But I'm like now to the point that I'm intentionally being dainty. Cuz when they grab me right there, it hurts.

Drew Franklin (18:22)

And like you can't give them the limp fish handshake. Yeah.

Matt Jones (18:26)

There was a time we were all good fist bumping and now everybody's not doing that anymore. And I want to go back to that.

Drew Franklin (18:32)

You got to lead with it. And then when they try to go with the Just get a problem is.

Matt Jones (18:37)

If you do that, then sometimes people just do that.

Drew Franklin (18:39)

Grab my wrist.

Matt Jones (18:40)

And that's weird.

Drew Franklin (18:41)

That.

Matt Jones (18:41)

That feels kind of strange.

Drew Franklin (18:43)

Okay.

Ryan Lemond (18:43)

Nine times out of ten I do that. I go for the fist bump. They go shake or vice versa. I still haven't gotten on the same.

Drew Franklin (18:48)

It's awkward real quick.

Matt Jones (18:50)

All right, so let's go. Let's talk for about the cats for a second. Going into Missouri, Lamont Butler Pope said he thinks he's like almost 100%. Are you seeing that? I thought he kind of looked like that against lsu. It was the most normal he's looked in a long time.

Advertiser 2 (19:04)

Yeah. Was it the Auburn game where it looked like he still wasn't quite one, but then last week, I mean earlier this week, he definitely looked like he was close to 100.

Matt Jones (19:11)

He took a shot. I saw he went up to the rim and he took a shot on that shoulder and now. And I kind of winced a little bit. But then he seemed okay.

Ryan Lemond (19:18)

So yeah, Auburn gave me at that big brace on Mitchell was a little too tight. Why he couldn't finish well. But with him, I'm still going to worry because he's not a player that can go 90%. He's 100%. Running through screens, diving for balls. I mean, that's what you want from a player. But I still worry at any moment something could happen to that with just how he plays.

Drew Franklin (19:36)

We're just, you know, one little, I guess, hard hit from. From losing Butler again is the way I feel. I mean, he's going to go out there, like you said, and play 100%.

Matt Jones (19:45)

They can't lose him, though.

Drew Franklin (19:46)

If you lose him, we're in trouble.

Matt Jones (19:47)

I think, you know, he's the one guy, honestly. I mean, you'd hate to lose Amari, too. I think you'd lose a lot if you lost him. But I. I said this before. I wish Jackson Robinson could play, but if there was one position, if he had to lose one, it might have been that one. Because Brea kind of plays a similar position. But, like, they can't lose Lamont Butler. I mean, I. We've seen they. We just. Our backup point because. Because the backup point was Jackson Robinson. Yeah, yeah. I mean, we had seen that, like, okay, Jackson Robinson can do it, but now he can't do it either. And then when o way has to play point, you lose the thing that he does the best. So we just can't lose him.

Advertiser 2 (20:26)

No, he's so valuable to what Kentucky trying to do, especially on the offensive end, but especially on the defensive end. We saw the difference as soon as he came back, how much better they were. Everybody seemed to play different. And Marshall mentioned, like, Bray is playing better defense. I think it's because, you know, Lamont is out there taking a lot of that heat off in the perimeter.

Matt Jones (20:41)

Well, when Butler and away are playing, then Lamont can. Or, excuse me, Brea can take the third best.

Advertiser 2 (20:48)

That's right.

Matt Jones (20:49)

And he doesn't have to guard because, you know, when Butler was out, he was having to take the second best guy, and that's. That's difficult. Who's up next? Kentucky gas man is up next. Kentucky Gas Man. How are you?

Caller 1 (21:02)

I'm great, Matt. Hey, I've got a comment, a question real quick.

Matt Jones (21:06)

Go for it.

Caller 1 (21:07)

I have. Charles Barkley has always irked me so bad. I don't know what it is about him, but especially as an analyst, he is a. So I've got a comment for Charles.

Matt Jones (21:20)

I mean, Charles Barkley, you have a comment for Char. I don't know if Charles is listening, but you can go ahead and give the comment.

Caller 1 (21:27)

All right, Charles Barkley, let me introduce.

Matt Jones (21:31)

You to my friend.

Drew Franklin (21:35)

Oh, he's doing my Mick and. Oh, Tell your friends about me.

Matt Jones (21:38)

No, I don't think I.

Drew Franklin (21:40)

The catchphrase.

Matt Jones (21:41)

You didn't get the line. The line is tell your friends about me. I mean, that was in the ballpark, I guess. All right, go ahead.

Caller 1 (21:55)

Anyway, my question. So what worries me about Saturday is that teams that we've played that Mark Polton knows, they're not great defensively. I feel like he really gets away from the three point ball and pushes it into Amari or, you know, one of the others. And I worry that we're gonna be trading twos for threes and I'll hang.

Matt Jones (22:20)

You know, I don't actually. Don't think that's a bad. I actually don't think that's a bad point. I mean, you saw this with lsu. I appreciate the call. We, Our team, Drew is better offensively. When we go four out, five out, cut, you know, handoff screens. I know it feels good when they post Amari up and he shoots the little baby hook, but when we start playing that style, especially against good teams, I feel like we're in trouble because he's exactly right. We're trading twos for threes. And I, I just, I feel like every time we're doing that, we're getting away from what this team does, even though I do think sometimes it can be effective.

Ryan Lemond (22:57)

Oh, there's been games where he's had a mismatch and he can do whatever you want, but it's just not what Kentucky's offense is designed to do. Pope's even said that 33 point mark, which they hit, by the way.

Matt Jones (23:06)

They did hit it against lsu.

Ryan Lemond (23:08)

He said if you look our three point numbers, you know, if our offense is working just by the attempts, because it's just so much.

Matt Jones (23:12)

He said that yesterday, and I think that's really important. I was glad to hear him say it. Mark says if you look at the games where we shot 30 threes, we're always the games we play the best. And I'm glad to hear him say that because that's actually true. And I was wondering why we were getting away when we only shot 17 in that one game a couple a while back.

Ryan Lemond (23:31)

It's not just making them, it's just the threat of having it because it sets up everything else and opens the lane. At least those corner threes you mentioned with the four, when they have the.

Matt Jones (23:38)

Five out and it gets us offensive rebounds, we actually offensive rebounded pretty well. When you shoot long threes, you get long rebounds and some of our guys can get them and you know we're just a much better team to me when we do that. When we take a break. New bracketology out. We'll tell you the Kentucky matchup, see if you think we can win. We'll be right back. This is ksr. Welcome back here at Kentucky Sports Radio. KSR at Cornbread Hemp. Go to Cornbread Hemp. And you use a promo code ksr. And you got also if you're here, free gift bag. We're giving food. We got food from Wild Eggs coming here in a second. This segment sponsored by Shady Rays. They got one in Louisville, one in Lexington. You can pass the building out here. Great sunglasses. Sunglass season coming up. Shady rayshadyrays.com you they got a great. If you break them, they'll come and get you. Another pair. All that. It's wonderful at Shady Rays and they are a Kentucky based company with sunglasses for your face and all. Well, I guess that would be where you would wear them. I don't know where else you would wear them.

Drew Franklin (24:40)

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Yeah, I have some good elbow sunglasses. Go to shady rayshadyrays.com Prem polarized sunglasses of all styles at Shady Rays. Let me give you Ryan, the new ESPN bracketology just dropped. Okay. Let's hear it from Joe Lenardi. It has us as the four in the west playing in Providence. We would open up against High Point in the battle of Tubby Smith, Kentucky and High Point. Would you like us in that game?

Advertiser 2 (25:08)

Give me that, please. Just give me that right now.

Ryan Lemond (25:11)

Oh, absolutely.

Advertiser 2 (25:13)

I kind of want to go to Providence.

Matt Jones (25:15)

Are you getting. Look at this guy. Starting to get like Providence excited.

Advertiser 2 (25:18)

Before we talk about premature Providence. Yeah, Providence or Milwaukee. Haven't been in those two cities.

Drew Franklin (25:22)

What monument in Providence do you want to go up and touch?

Matt Jones (25:25)

Yeah, I mean, what do you. Let me do you know anything about it at all?

Advertiser 2 (25:30)

Providence. That's about. That's about it.

Matt Jones (25:34)

That's not really a thing you just repeated.

Advertiser 2 (25:37)

I think Lamar Odom played at Rhode Island.

Matt Jones (25:40)

He did. But that's not in Providence.

Advertiser 2 (25:42)

No, I'm just trying to think of a Rhode island facts that I know.

Matt Jones (25:45)

Okay, so nothing.

Advertiser 2 (25:47)

Nothing.

Matt Jones (25:47)

All right, good.

Drew Franklin (25:48)

High points 26 and 5. They haven't played anybody.

Matt Jones (25:50)

But wait a minute. Wait. How do you know?

Drew Franklin (25:52)

Look at this guy stated holiday. I don't know. I don't know.

Matt Jones (25:57)

How do you. How do you know? High points 20.

Drew Franklin (26:00)

Am I right or am I wrong?

Matt Jones (26:01)

I don't know, but I'm gonna assume you're right. You said that with confidence.

Ryan Lemond (26:04)

Yeah.

Drew Franklin (26:04)

Say it like you mean it. Nobody questions you.

Matt Jones (26:06)

Do you know what conference they're in? Here. Billy, look up. Where's Billy? Billy, look up and see what high points record is.

Drew Franklin (26:14)

I don't know who it is, because.

Matt Jones (26:15)

If they're 26 and 5, both Shannon and Ryan will blow my mind today. And, Drew, you're on the clock. All right. For some kind of fact, I have.

Drew Franklin (26:23)

No idea what conference. I mean, I don't know what any team's conference is anymore.

Matt Jones (26:27)

Are they 26 and 5?

Drew Franklin (26:28)

There you go.

Matt Jones (26:29)

Unbelievable.

Ryan Lemond (26:30)

Yeah.

Matt Jones (26:31)

$4.

Advertiser 2 (26:31)

What I'm talking about. Yeah, give him $4. I'm going to give you $2. We're going to split it.

Matt Jones (26:36)

Oh, I cannot believe you knew that.

Drew Franklin (26:39)

Yeah, how do you know? Their record called show prep.

Matt Jones (26:42)

Okay.

Drew Franklin (26:44)

No, I'm just kidding. Ryan talking to you.

Ryan Lemond (26:45)

Ryan.

Matt Jones (26:46)

All right. Now, in the next round, we would play the winner of Michigan and McNee State. Let me say something at McNee State. Michigan. I could see McNee State knocking Michigan off. Will Wade's team is good. They have a lot of good athletes because he kind of recruited up. That could be one of those where you think you're playing Michigan and all of a sudden it's Will Wade looking at you in that next round, Drew.

Ryan Lemond (27:09)

Oh, I would pick McNe State. I've become obsessed with their team. They have a lot of viral videos from the locker room. The manager leads them out with a boombox, and he's rapping, and he looks like a guy that does not listen to rap.

Matt Jones (27:19)

Yeah, he does.

Ryan Lemond (27:19)

And Will Wade has done a great job there. He won't be there much longer. They're a dangerous team. Yeah, I see Michigan.

Matt Jones (27:24)

He'll be. He's going to get a big job this year somewhere.

Ryan Lemond (27:27)

Yeah, Michigan's got my favorite player that I want to come to Pope. He's probably gonna go to the NBA, but Danny Wolf would be perfect for Pope system.

Matt Jones (27:34)

I like our. I. I like us against Michigan. If you're going to give me a five seed, they're struggling right now. They've. They've not played well the last few weeks. I would like that. And then we'd have to go to San Francisco, which is way far away, but then the one seed would be Florida. So you'd be playing Florida in the next round.

Advertiser 2 (27:51)

I think most fans would take that, though, to kind of stay away from Houston and Auburn, that we.

Matt Jones (27:56)

We could potentially get two seeds because this is why I think it's so important we win Saturday. Here are the two seeds right now. Michigan State, Texas Tech, Tennessee and Bama. So if I assume they don't give us Bama or Tennessee, I mean, you don't want Michigan State or Texas Tech. I mean, I know those teams are good, but you're going to have to play somebody good. I'd much prefer them than to go play Auburn or Florida. Right. Or do even Duke and Houston, any of those four teams.

Ryan Lemond (28:23)

I'd love Michigan State. I mean, the Big Ten usually fizzles out in the tournament. They're not that good this year. They won a tournament. This in several decades. I'd like to take the Spartans, even though Izzo occasionally finds Kentucky has already.

Drew Franklin (28:33)

Played the hardest teams they're going to see in the tournament.

Matt Jones (28:35)

That's a really good point. I mean, think about this. We have five games this year, or, excuse me, seven games this year. Seven against teams ranked in the top five. Come on.

Drew Franklin (28:48)

Yeah, some of those teams are going to be in the final four.

Matt Jones (28:51)

We've played seven teams and that were in the top five when we played them. And we. And we have seven games against teams that are currently in the top seven. Right? Currently. I mean, so we're going to go in tested. And by the way, we have a 4 and 3 record in those games, too. A winning record against teams in the top seven. Who's up next?

Advertiser 2 (29:10)

Got Spencer up next.

Matt Jones (29:12)

Spencer. Go ahead, Spencer.

Caller 2 (29:15)

Hey, fellas, I got two things. The first one, I just want to say happy birthday to one of the greatest humans and Kentucky fans, Jordan Bray. Happy buddy. Happy birthday, buddy.

Matt Jones (29:26)

Happy birthday.

Caller 2 (29:29)

Yes, Happy birthday.

Matt Jones (29:30)

Okay, go ahead. We. We got the happy birthday. You don't worry about it. All right? Go ahead.

Caller 2 (29:35)

Thank you, brother. If Oscar Sheepway can play three games in 24 hours, do you think at least in the tournament we can get Amari Williams to average maybe 20, 27 or more minutes?

Matt Jones (29:46)

Wait a minute. You said Oscar Sheepway played three games in 24 hours. When was that?

Caller 2 (29:52)

Yeah, just recently played three games, two for the Jazz and one in the G League. All in 24 hours.

Matt Jones (29:58)

Huh. Wow, I didn't know that. Well, yes, I. Well, I've talked a lot. I appreciate the call, Ryan. I've talked a lot about how the minutes distribution. It will be fascinating to me. Like, this is a game. Mark said yesterday. This is a big game for us. He was like, this is a game we need to win. I'll be interested to see how he distributes the minutes. I will note that in the LSU game, after that first line change, he didn't do that anymore until the game Was out of hand. Like he kept the guys in there until the game was out of hand. I kind of wonder if he ends up continuing to do that.

Advertiser 2 (30:30)

Yeah, he talked a little about that yesterday. Had to learn how to do new substitution patterns and learn new rotations. But I just don't think he's going to change with Amare. Man, that's been that way since the first game of the season. I think he's going to rest him and try to give him just 22 to 25 minutes a game.

Matt Jones (30:44)

And even though Garrison drove me crazy, Drew against Auburn, he played really well against Oklahoma and he played really well against lsu. So two of the three games of the last three he's played really well.

Ryan Lemond (30:55)

Almost brought him up when you were talking about Almanor and Carr hitting corner threes. Brandon Garrison hit a corner three recently. Pope also in his comments said next year Garrison could be like a 5 or 63 point attempts a game kind of guy.

Matt Jones (31:06)

I'm okay with that. My question is will he play defense and, and which he did a little bit against Oklahoma and will he not turn the ball over? As long as he does that, I'm fine. With his five or six threes he's got pretty good form and with the.

Ryan Lemond (31:18)

Rest of the bench, I wonder if a lot of it playing him so much and making these rotations, he's trying to get them ready for the tournament just to see who he's got, give him the most experience. But when it's tournament time, you got to play your best guys. You go home if you don't win.

Matt Jones (31:29)

It's interesting to hear Shannon him talk about players that could come back next year because he talks about them distinctly different based on, I guess in my opinion whether or not he thinks he's going. They're going to be back here, right? Like, like he, like he talks with OA and Garrison about like how they're going to play next year and with Kerr he's like, well he's going to play basketball. Yeah, like he doesn't talk about him as much as if he's going to play it here with the freshman. It's hard for me to read. I mean I'm gonna assume Noah and Perry are back.

Drew Franklin (32:02)

That course getting crowded though it's gonna.

Matt Jones (32:04)

Be interesting to see with Chandler because like I would have, I would have told you in January there's no way that kid's back here. But he's played so well recently and Pope is starting to talk about him in a way that of like he'll Be back here. I'll also note that kid Richie Saunders, that's playing so well at byu, he did an interview yesterday where he said he was like, it was 50, 50 Kentucky. BYU almost went. We could use him. Wow.

Drew Franklin (32:27)

Come on, man. BYU or Kentucky?

Matt Jones (32:32)

He's. He's Mormon. I mean, I'm talking about.

Drew Franklin (32:34)

I'm not. Let's talk about basketball.

Matt Jones (32:36)

I know, but I mean, that's part of the.

Drew Franklin (32:37)

Yeah, but I mean, if you had a chance to play at BYU or.

Matt Jones (32:40)

But if you're Mormon.

Ryan Lemond (32:41)

Okay, what if your wife said she doesn't want to move to Lexington?

Drew Franklin (32:44)

Well, I'll see you in four years.

Matt Jones (32:48)

First of all, I actually believe that you would do exactly that.

Ryan Lemond (32:52)

We got zoom.

Matt Jones (32:54)

If there's one person who would say wife stay in byu, I'll be in Lexington. Who was Shannon, who's next? Cindy is up next. Cindy. What's up, Cindy.

Caller 3 (33:04)

Hey, Matt and the rest of the gang. I just wanted to thank you all. I've just got a couple of comments. Five years ago, the company that I worked for said we're going to need you to work remotely for a couple of weeks. I got all excited about the ncaa. Watching the SEC tournament and hearing you all talk about it brought back so many memories of that. As a matter of fact, I'm still remote. And I want to thank you all for making this year fun.

Matt Jones (33:33)

Well, thank you very much. I appreciate it.

Caller 3 (33:36)

So I was thinking about Richie Saunders and I was like, he could still decide to come to Kentucky.

Matt Jones (33:43)

For sure. For sure. All these people could. Now BYU's got it going next year and they've got money, so I doubt he will. But yes, we all these dudes are free agents basically now, so.

Caller 3 (33:56)

Exactly. Well, thank you all so much. And go Cat. I'll see you.

Matt Jones (33:59)

Appreciate it. By the way, are I do. I meant to say this when we were talking about the. The fifth anniversary. I do think it's on this day or, you know, that. That this happened and with this week. It's unfortunate that just like everything in life covet has in some ways in recent years become politicized with the vaccine and this and that. But I also think it's important to remember a lot of people die. Like a lot of people died, including a lot of people in this state, people who are in the sports community. And a lot we, we lost a lot of listeners to this show. And so, you know, as we kind of hit this, because I think at the SEC tournament, people are going to be like, you know what? That was five years ago, regardless of everything that happened after a lot of people lost their lives. So my prayers to a lot of those folks, I hear I used it used to break my heart. During that time, I would get a message almost every day, the text machine from someone who said, my ex, pick a person, mother, sister, father has passed away. And my family list, we listen to you as a way to get through. I literally would hear that every day for like six or seven months. So for all those folks, you know, my prayers are out to you. I know this will be, you know, a kind of difficult memorial time. Five years later. We'll take a break and be right back. We are here at Cornbread hemp. This is KSL. Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio, 859-280-2287. Hey, just for the record, this, and I say this with love because I, I do love everybody that listens. If you're gonna write me, do not write me about COVID Like you, you think it's fake and all that. I'm serious. Like, if you write me, I'm gonna block you. Like, just for the record, I'm not that. So those of you that are doing that right now, if you can't take what was a very, what was a comment, me expressing remorse for people lost, if you can't do that without responding with something political, then I'm going to block it. So I just a little, a little note. 859-280-2287 cornbread hemp.com promo code KSR. Thank them very much for having us here. Kentucky, Missouri, we'll tip off at noon tomorrow. It's. Is it ESPN2 SEC network? Where's the game tomorrow?

Ryan Lemond (36:18)

I should know. I know it's Tom Hart and Dane Bradshaw, but slipping my mind on the network.

Advertiser 2 (36:22)

I think it's 1:00 our time.

Ryan Lemond (36:24)

No, it's not.

Matt Jones (36:25)

It's not.

Advertiser 2 (36:26)

Is it at noon?

Matt Jones (36:26)

Yeah. Make sure you know before you correct me. It's on ESPN.

Ryan Lemond (36:31)

There we go.

Matt Jones (36:31)

ESPN at noon. We play the pregame show is at 9:30 tomorrow morning. Remember, we also set the clocks forward on Sunday so it's already spring forward. Did you know that?

Ryan Lemond (36:43)

I did.

Matt Jones (36:44)

Also Easter's early this year, I guess so it's spring forwards early with it.

Ryan Lemond (36:47)

Being noon for us. I think we like an 11am local game.

Matt Jones (36:51)

Good at those games throughout the, throughout the year.

Ryan Lemond (36:56)

Dead crowd or at least not a very energetic.

Matt Jones (36:58)

Yeah. I mean it'll be 11am in Missouri, so. So hopefully that turns out all out. All right. So the women play at 230. Let's. Let's do some predictions here. Kentucky versus Oklahoma. The cats are a three and a half point underdog. Shannon, I'm going to go ahead and take George Amore as my MVP so that no one can steal him. But let's make a prediction. What do you think happens?

Drew Franklin (37:21)

I think Kentucky wins. I think it will be close, though. I'm going to say 73. 70.

Ryan Lemond (37:27)

I'm going to fade Georgia in this game. I don't think she can do 43 again. I don't think they get 95.

Matt Jones (37:31)

43 would be a lot.

Ryan Lemond (37:32)

Yes, I do think the Cats win and they will be so focused on Georgia, they will completely forget about Clara Strack. And she's my mvp. Cats win. Win by eight.

Matt Jones (37:41)

She's been great in the last few games. Like, she's been. I mean, we had that game where she was 11 for 11, but she's been on a run of. And she's just what, like a sophomore? Is that right?

Ryan Lemond (37:50)

Yeah, she's young. They actually at Rupp the other night, put her on the big screen is pretty cool. She looked very shy. I wouldn't use the attention, but the crowd gave her a big applause.

Matt Jones (37:57)

The women. I mean, we're gonna miss Georgia, but the women are gonna be really good over these next few years. But, yes, she's been great. What about you?

Advertiser 2 (38:04)

I. Kentucky wins. Yeah. I can't believe they're, you know, an underdog in this game. So I want to take them. I'll take Deja Lawrence. I think it's about the only one left that I think can maybe have a good game. So I'm going with her.

Matt Jones (38:13)

I get Georgia. I'm going to say, you know, she had 43. I do think we'll go under the 43 in this game, but I think she's going to play great. I'd say Kentucky wins 75, 65. What do you think about Jay Billis? He went on in the Alabama game the other night, said college basketball needs to go to quarters. Men's college basketball is the only basketball played anywhere in the world where it's two halves. Even the women are our quarters. Do you agree it should be quarters?

Ryan Lemond (38:43)

I completely agree. The women did it, what, three years ago? Something like that. It's been great for them. Sped up the flow of the game. It's now silly. It's the only basketball level anywhere. Anywhere still doing halves. I. I completely agree with Billis and can't believe they haven't already done it.

Matt Jones (38:56)

The reason it Would be the best for fans. Is it resets? Yes. You get five fouls in each quarter. So really it takes 10 fouls over the course of a half to have a lot of free throws. It makes the game quick. The women's games are under two hours almost every time. Ryan. To me it is a no brainer that they should do it. I'm surprised it hadn't already happened that.

Advertiser 2 (39:18)

You took the words out of my mouth. I thought for sure by now it happened because it's been a success in the women's game. I love the foul thing about it. That's what I think is going to push it through. It's going to speed the game up a little bit.

Matt Jones (39:28)

And they did it in a couple of the preseason tournaments this year. Like I think that maybe they did it in the Bahamas or they did it in the preseason and it worked fine. So to me, like, I think you got to go ahead, do it.

Drew Franklin (39:38)

At this point, I don't know really what the argument is to keep it.

Matt Jones (39:41)

I don't either.

Drew Franklin (39:42)

You know, just tradition.

Matt Jones (39:44)

Like. Like that's it. I feel like that's it.

Ryan Lemond (39:46)

They like their media timeouts, but if you extend the gap between quarters, which I don't know what the women's is, but watching it, it feels like a longer gap than normal media timeout.

Matt Jones (39:53)

Well, the reason you lose a media timeout, I mean basically if you do it like that, that you know how in the second half you have that one timeout that occurs whenever somebody calls a timeout, you lose that. But you know what, just add it if that's such a big deal, I mean, or make the timeouts 30 seconds longer and add it up. I just, I don't understand.

Ryan Lemond (40:13)

If you make the gap bigger between quarters, which I assume it is. I mean that also for teams that you don't have a lot of, guy get a little more rest there in the middle of the half. Longer than a time.

Matt Jones (40:21)

That's a good point.

Ryan Lemond (40:22)

A lot of bones. Good point.

Matt Jones (40:24)

Who's up next? Mike is up next. Mike. What's up, Mike?

Caller 4 (40:29)

Matt, what's going on?

Matt Jones (40:31)

What's up?

Caller 4 (40:32)

Hey, let me give you guys, for those of you haven't been to Providence and Milwaukee. I've been to them both. Conservative guy.

Matt Jones (40:40)

But that should have nothing to do with what city you go to. I mean, this is about a city. It's not about that you're a conservative guy. It doesn't matter.

Caller 4 (40:49)

Well, I'm saying I enjoyed it very much and I think you would like.

Matt Jones (40:52)

It as well, okay. But Bill Walker.

Caller 4 (40:55)

We were up there a couple years ago for Summer Fest and saw Chris Stapleton and Zach Brown. But we were in and around, walking around where the Bucks play. I think that's Pfizer. Pfizer form or something like that. Something caught my eye. It was about 12 to 15 people. They were all riding bicycles. This must be a thing in Milwaukee because they were all naked as jaybirds.

Matt Jones (41:18)

Wow. Well, now I know where Shannon was. Yeah. What'd you do if I see a thing?

Caller 4 (41:26)

Because they kept. We kept seeing them all over town the same.

Matt Jones (41:31)

But there you go. Naked Milwaukee bikers. I appreciate the. Appreciate the call. I think it'd be harder to do that in Providence. I think you'd be probably a more embarrassing situation if you did it in Providence because it's a little colder. But otherwise. Otherwise I think it would be good.

Ryan Lemond (41:44)

I don't want to sit on a bicycle naked. That sounds uncomfortable.

Drew Franklin (41:46)

Yeah.

Matt Jones (41:47)

Yeah. Well, we're gonna find out. I. I think Providence and Denver look like the two places. I think we're probably not gonna fall low enough to end up in Seattle. So I think if you're a Kentucky fan that likes either Providence or Denver, I think you're going to end up there. Volunteers of America Mid States as part of Volunteers of America, the region's largest nonprofit provider of human services including housing, justice, veterans support and more. You can go to VOA midstates.org Volunteers of America broke ground on a new community center care campus right here in Louisville. It's a central location downtown for a family shelter and permanent affordable housing. Go to VOA mid.org Kentucky and Missouri. We will do it tomorrow during the pregame shows. Shannon, give me a score and an MVP.

Drew Franklin (42:31)

Kentucky's gonna steal one on the road. I'm gonna say Kentucky wins 81.79. Kobe Bray has got to have a big game, so I'm gonna 80.

Matt Jones (42:39)

So you got a two point win. You the last second shot.

Drew Franklin (42:42)

Sure. Yeah. Kobe Braya. Why not?

Matt Jones (42:44)

Kobe Braya down one nails the three.

Drew Franklin (42:46)

Yes. Yeah, that would be great.

Matt Jones (42:48)

Let me tell you, if Kobe Bray hit a game winning shot.

Drew Franklin (42:51)

Give me $4.

Matt Jones (42:51)

I'll give you $4. I'm going to give you $4.

Drew Franklin (42:55)

And you can draft Kings does better than that. Come on.

Matt Jones (42:58)

All right, $5 if they end up. If they end up making the shot. Pregame shows tomorrow at 9:30. Go to the bar. Watch the women today, watch the game tomorrow. There's rodeo. There's all kinds of things going on in Lexington. Thank you to the folks here at Cornbread Hemp. And thank you to this crowd for coming out on a Friday. We will see you tomorrow, Kentucky and Missouri, live pregame show, 9:30. This is Kentucky Sports Radio.