2026-03-20- KSR - Hour 1

Summary

KSR – Hour 1 (March 20, 2026)

Host: Matt Jones
Co-hosts: Ryan Lemond, Shannon, Mario
Podcast: iHeartPodcasts & Sports Talk 790 (WKRD-AM)
Air Date: March 20, 2026
Subject: Kentucky Wildcats NCAA Tournament Game Day & College Hoops

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Episode Overview

This hour of Kentucky Sports Radio is all about anticipation and analysis as the Kentucky Wildcats gear up for their first game in the NCAA Tournament, facing Santa Clara in St. Louis. The crew—Matt Jones, Ryan Lemond, Shannon, and Mario—share their game-day vibes, break down Kentucky's preparation, recap the previous day's NCAA action (with a few tournament legend stories), and riff on locker room culture, bracket luck, Coach Mark Pope’s media approach, and even share a bit of their off-air camaraderie.

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Main Discussion Points & Insights

1. It’s Game Day: NCAA Tournament Opener for Kentucky

• [02:23] Matt Jones: Kicks off the show with the morning’s excitement, taking listeners through how Kentucky’s season is now on the line:

  "By the time you get home from work today... Kentucky will either be in the round of 32 or the season will be over. Like we're in that, we're in that mode."

• [03:26] Ryan: Shares the nervous excitement:

  "When I woke up this morning, went, got in the shower and it kind of hit me like, wait a minute, this is it."

2. Tournament Atmosphere & Preparation at the Arena

• [04:11] Matt & Ryan: Reflect on the previous day watching other teams practice and share an amusing anecdote about accidentally snagging a $6 cookie from the media food area.
  • [04:30-06:13] Notable Moment: Matt’s “cookie theft”—confusion over media food being free, and returning to pay after realizing his mistake.
    • Shannon jokes: “He doesn't care. Like what?”
    • Matt: “I'm probably on video having stolen a cookie.”

3. Kentucky’s Unique Practice Approach

• [06:36-08:13]
  • Kentucky was notably the only team to run a full 5-on-5 practice during their official NCAA slot.
    • Matt: "They were the only team all day that went up and down the court five on five."
    • Ryan adds: "...I have never ever seen a team do that."
  • Debates whether it might tire out the team—Matt insists it won’t hurt (“No. Come on... 45 minutes.”).
  • General agreement that it was a good move to acclimate with the tournament’s unique basketballs and atmosphere.

4. Locker Room Vibes & NCAA Openness

• [08:46-10:22]
  • The first time media get locker room access is at the NCAA/SEC tournaments—something players must adjust to.
  • Matt to Mario: “Did you think Mario, the players look loose?”
    • Ryan: “They was joking around a lot.”
  • Highlights teammate expressions and inside-joke explanations like “get money, touch money.”
  • Ryan on Kentucky’s attitude: "I'm glad the players were loose."

5. Game Analysis: Kentucky vs. Santa Clara

• [14:45-16:43]
  • Physical mismatches favor Kentucky—bigger, stronger, and faster.
    • Matt: “When you see the Santa Clara team—We're bigger than them. We're stronger than them. We're fast—Now they might be able to shoot better, but..."
  • The key is imposing UK’s style, not letting Santa Clara dictate pace or rely on their three-point shooting.
    • Matt: “For Kentucky they've got to, like, play their style, get the ball, get to the basket. Don't just settle for jumper..."
    • Ryan: “You attack the basket, man, you take advantage of your strength."
  • Cites lessons from other first-round games (Texas A&M vs. St. Mary's, Duke vs. Sienna) as blueprints.

6. Bracket Luck, Parlay Pain, and the Madness of March

• [24:44-26:41]
  • Matt laments poor betting luck (“got every leg wrong”), while Ryan, with zero research, is in the 96th percentile.
    • Matt: “It’s really strange... I know more about college basketball than any sport and it's the worst thing I gamble on.”
    • Ryan: “You don't think about it too much. Just pick on impulse. Maybe that's the key.”
• Funny acknowledgment that NCAA brackets reward random picking:
  • [35:12] Caller relates: “My two youngest sons, 8 and 5 came in ahead of me.”

7. Coach Mark Pope & the Media Scrutiny

• [27:42-30:10]
  • Segment addresses listener questions about Coach Pope’s tense press conference remarks about the media.
    • Matt: "It's just been a tough year, I think, for Mark in terms of communicating... It was weird because it was Mark's story of the Herald asking him a question about the apostle.”
  • The consensus: winning games smooths over off-court drama.
    • Matt: “You win today and you win Sunday. And a lot of these secondary things... they just kind of melt away.”

8. Fan Turnout in St. Louis

• [31:01-31:25]
  • They notice fewer Kentucky fans than expected at practice but expect numbers to rise by game time.

9. Recapping NCAA Day 1’s Best Moments

• [19:25-23:27, 27:12-27:41]
  • Highlights from Thursday’s action:
    • High Point’s miraculous comeback and “the moment of the tournament”—with viral student-broadcaster reactions:

      "You got the one guy who gives a great call, and then the other one just looks like he's having a heart attack. He doesn't say a word in the whole video." (Matt, 21:27)

    • Sienna nearly upsetting No. 1 Duke (“would have been the biggest upset in the history of the tournament”).
    • VCU’s record comeback win over North Carolina.
    • High Point’s player hitting his first 2-point shot of the year…as a game-winner.

10. Lighthearted Moments and Locker Room Antics

• [11:22-14:03]
  • Gentle roasting over Ryan’s questionable “big blue slumber” fashion and Matt’s appreciation of Ryan’s “zero cares given” attitude.
    • Matt: "There may be no person more comfortable in who they are than you... you just, you are you. And you are fine being you."
• Dinner story: Ryan offers to approach “the most beautiful woman I have ever seen.”

11. Listener Calls & Community Connection

• Multiple callers express hope for a run in the tournament, push back against “doom and gloom” fans, and share bracket war stories.

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Notable Quotes & Moments with Timestamps

• $6 Cookie Saga

  • Matt: “I'm probably on video having stolen a cookie.” (06:14)
  • Shannon: “He doesn't care. Like what?” (06:06)

• Kentucky’s Physical Edge over Santa Clara

  • Matt: “When you see the Santa Clara team—We're bigger than them. We're stronger than them. We're fast.” (14:53)

• Ryan in Fashion Infamy

  • Matt: “There may be no person more comfortable in who they are than you... you just, you are you. And you are fine being you.” (12:32)
  • Shannon on Ryan’s outfit: “I can see man boob. I can see nipple poking through. Like there's a whole lot going on there.” (12:03)

• On Coach Pope and the Media

  • Matt: “It's just been a tough year, I think, for Mark in terms of communicating... It was weird because it was Mark's story of the Herald asking him a question about the apostle.” (27:42-29:37)

• Tournament Madness

  • Matt: “I know more about college basketball than any sport and it's the worst thing I gamble on." (25:17)
  • Ryan: “You don't think about it too much. Just pick on impulse. Maybe that's the key." (26:03)

• Caller Sam (Optimism for Cats)

  • “It's not crazy that we can win two basketball games... We've got good players with tournament experience that are old guys. So, I mean, it's not crazy.” (31:44-32:29)

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Key Timestamps

• 02:23 – Show begins, NCAA anticipation
• 04:30-06:13 – The $6 cookie saga (media row misadventures)
• 06:36-08:13 – Recap of Kentucky’s unique five-on-five practice
• 09:16-10:22 – Locker room access and culture shift at NCAA tourney
• 14:45-16:43 – How Kentucky must assert its physical/game-style advantages against Santa Clara
• 19:25-23:27 – Recap of Thursday's NCAA upsets and “moments of the tournament”
• 27:42-30:10 – Addressing Coach Pope’s media comments
• 31:44-34:13 – Caller Sam: reminding fans not to panic, path to the second weekend still open
• 35:12-36:06 – Callers share bracket agony (even 8- and 5-year-olds outpicking adults)
• 40:50-41:29 – Teasing Matt & Shannon’s “relationship podcast” and Ryan’s playful pushback

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Tone and Style

The KSR crew maintain their usual lighthearted, conversational style with plenty of inside jokes, good-natured ribbing, and deep Kentucky basketball knowledge. The show toggles between sharp NCAA analysis and tongue-in-cheek, relatable banter about road food, hotel stays, and fashion faux pas.

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Summary for the Uninitiated

This episode captures the game-day nerves, analysis, and quirky camaraderie the KSR crew is known for, mixing serious insights into Kentucky’s tournament prospects with hilarious, down-to-earth moments and interactive fan culture. From $6 cookies and media quirks to why you shouldn’t overthink your NCAA bracket, this hour is a quintessential KSR mix of hoops chat and Kentucky heart.

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[Shannon]

this is Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones.

[Matt Jones]

It is game day, ladies and gentlemen, Kentucky and Santa Clara. The NCAA Tournament tips off this morning as the Cats get started on their journey. Why not to the national championship beginning here in St. Louis. You can give us a shout on the Clark's Puppet Shop phone line, 859-280-2287. Avision Auto Glass text machine is 772-774-5254. In this edition, sponsored by the TJ Smith Law Office. Call TJ. He'll make them pay. You guys, I hope for listening on streaming or on your stations that have the pre show. For the rest of you, you might be hearing this from like 10:30 to 11:30 on the repeat version of the show, depending on where you are. But we are excited this morning. Cats with an early tip off in a big game. Ryan, we spent all day watching games yesterday. We spent all day talking brackets. We just looked at the status of all of our brackets here right now, and now it's time for Kentucky to actually play.

[Ryan]

Well, when I woke up this morning, went, got in the shower and it kind of hit me like, wait a minute, this is it. It starts for us right now. We've been, like you said, watching everybody else play. Now it's time to put our uniform on and go out and play.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. By the time you get home from work today, for those of you that maybe are either on your commute or just got in, unless you're skipping work to watch the game, which you should be.

[Ryan]

Yeah, why not?

[Matt Jones]

I mean, I can't imagine what you're doing this afternoon that is better. But unless you're doing that when you get in your car to go home today, Kentucky will either be in the round of 32 or the season will be over. Like we're in that, we're in that mode.

[Ryan]

Yes.

[Matt Jones]

And it's exciting. Yesterday we spent, we spent most of the day at the arena.

[Ryan]

Right.

[Matt Jones]

Ryan and I got there right after UK finished practicing because we were doing the show. But then we watched, I guess some of Iowa State, Tennessee State, Purdue, Queens, also.

[Ryan]

Great.

[Matt Jones]

All those schools were, were right there and we, you know, got to watch them do whatever it is they do.

[Ryan]

I bought a six dollar chocolate chip cookie.

[Matt Jones]

He's really mad about that. Shannon, the chocolate chip cookie was $6. But part of me wants to go like, what this is what. When you buy things at sporting events, they cost too much.

[Shannon]

Syntax, Ryan.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, it's a syntax. That's exactly right.

[Ryan]

Any chocolate chip cookie over $3. That blows my mind.

[Matt Jones]

Well, you, but you also understand you didn't have to pay for it.

[Shannon]

Yeah. The fact that you bought it, I mean, kind of says that's, that's the market for it then, because you bought the thing was.

[Matt Jones]

I will say this, I didn't know they were $6, Shannon. And I just took one and walked away.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Oh, wow.

[Matt Jones]

Well, quickly, I need to take a little moral high ground. All right. Normally the media. Food doesn't cost money. Okay.

[Ryan]

And apparently it is on the house rest of the week.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, it was just the first day. But I didn't know because normally we've never had to pay.

[Ryan]

Right.

[Matt Jones]

By the way, I've always thought. I've always thought it was weird that the media got free food.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

It's my entire life, I've been like, why do they give us food? So I actually one of the people not complaining about this, but I walk over and there are cookies and sodas. And I was like, oh, okay. And it looked like a big, nice chocolate chip cookie.

[Ryan]

A big knife.

[Matt Jones]

So, Shannon, I took the cookie and I took the soda and I sat down. And an hour later, Ryan comes over and goes, can you believe they charged $6 for this chocolate chip cookie that I got? And I went, well, he didn't charge me.

[Ryan]

We're all looking at you like, what?

[Matt Jones]

And he said, how did they not try? And then I realized that there was a guy there to pay. And I just walked past him and didn't know.

[Shannon]

He doesn't care. Like what?

[Matt Jones]

And he clearly didn't care. So now I have a moral quandary.

[Ryan]

Right.

[Matt Jones]

I already got the cookie.

[Ryan]

You already ate it.

[Matt Jones]

But I'm probably on video having stolen a cookie.

[Shannon]

The cookie monster came in.

[Matt Jones]

I was the cookie monster. Right. So I walked back and I looked at the guy and said, I took a cookie. I didn't know that we charged him. He goes, well, we do charge. And I was like, all right, here's $6. So I went back and paid it.

[Ryan]

You did. You did go back up and pay for it.

[Matt Jones]

But, but, but you. But Ryan was very upset. But anyway, after we had our six dollar cookie, Mario was there for the UK stuff, players, Kentucky, to the extent there was any news. Kentucky had a full practice. They. We watched Queens, Purdue, Iowa State and Tennessee State. And they did kind of what people do. They run a few drills. They shoot a lot of shooting. Just a shooting, like, you know, it's. It's a. It's not really a real thing. And I think last year that's what Kentucky did for the most part. But this year I did find it interesting. They did five on five. They were the only team all day that went up and down the court five on five. And I Thought that was. I actually kind of like that because I've always thought, it's always felt like to me it was a wasted hour. You're on the court, you're playing with the balls and guys just kind of stand around and goof off. I was like, well, why wouldn't you take it seriously? It looks like UK because I don't think they did that last year. So I do think UK took a different strategy.

[Ryan]

I've never ever seen a team do that. Like I have a full out five on five practice this little. It's like 45 minutes is all they get on the court.

[Matt Jones]

Like. Yeah.

[Ryan]

So for Kentucky though, you know, maybe a month or so ago, you heard Pope talk about how they change things up with their practice routine, try to make them ready and not fall behind early in these days.

[Matt Jones]

Did you like that? Because I actually did.

[Ryan]

I think it may be a good move on his part to try to get him more focused and ready for the game today.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. So I, I thought that was an interesting. And it, and it wasn't just Mark Pope's philosophy. I don't, I do not think they did that last year. So I don't remember anything.

[Shannon]

Are you worried about their legs at all though?

[Matt Jones]

No. Come on, come, it's 45 minutes. I mean, come on. Back to back days, the Sienna guys yesterday played, didn't make one sub the whole game.

[Ryan]

Five guys played it all four.

[Matt Jones]

Did you know that Shannon didn't make one sub the entire game. Now granted they got tired at the end, but, but, but I, no, not at all. I, I liked it. I, I think we watched all day and I probably pointed out six times, Ryan, where the ball bounced high on somebody.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Like you could watch it. So I think getting used to that is good, beneficial. So it's good.

[Ryan]

Maybe that's where going five on five up and down the court help you become more used to that basketball.

[Matt Jones]

I, I, I think that's why you do it. At least, at least to me. So then in the locker room, they open the locker rooms. It's always been unique to me that the NCAA tournament is the first time you can go the SEC in the NCAA tournament where the people are allowed in the locker room. You know, UK and UK is not the only school. I think every school in the SEC does this. Other conferences, I don't know what their policy is, but you're not allowed in the locker room during the season.

[Ryan]

Right.

[Matt Jones]

You used to be.

[Ryan]

Yes, I remember that.

[Matt Jones]

I never was part of that. Was that your era?

[Ryan]

Yeah. When I first got here, Patino in 96, you could go in the locker room after the game and talk to the players.

[Matt Jones]

So I do think there's a period of getting used to that for players. I don't know if I think those locker rooms should be open, but regardless of whether they should or not, they are right. So you have to get used to it. Again, we weren't there. Mario was there. Did you think Mario, the players look loose. No. Well, that's a little shaky.

[Shannon]

What?

[Matt Jones]

They was joking around a lot. Okay, that's good. Mario interviewed all the players, asked him what it meant by get money, touch money. And they all looked at him like, I actually thought it took guts for you to do it because that seems like something an old white guy would ask. And you are like one of their peers. And you asked and they seem. But they explained it.

[Ryan]

Yellow bitch was the best.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. Yellow bitch was like, I don't know.

[Ryan]

I honestly, I don't know what you're with. That's about. I just say it, but I don't know what I'm saying. Yeah, I just do it.

[Matt Jones]

I like that. So. But I'm glad the players were loose. I mean, overall, I don't know that there's much you can glean from yesterday. But, but, but it occurred then you have the Pope press conference thing. I, I, we just people discussed, including me online quite a bit. You know, I don't want to it the games today. There's no reason to go into it might be a conversation for next week. His comments about the axle thing, I, I don't want to get too distracted on it because it's, it's game day and so ultimately let's, let's focus on the game. But regardless, we are now ready for Santa Clara and how we feeling?

[Ryan]

I will say just one thing. If he had talked to the media after the pairing, they would ask that question five days ago. He wouldn't have to deal with it the day before.

[Matt Jones]

It is an example of why you should have the press conference Monday.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Or right at the parent. Then you wouldn't have gotten asked about it the game.

[Ryan]

Day before the game.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. So Santa Clara, how do we feel?

[Ryan]

Like I said, I kind of woke up this morning in the shower. Like, wait a minute, this is.

[Matt Jones]

You woke up in the shower? Why were you sleeping in the shower?

[Ryan]

I was in a big blue slumber.

[Matt Jones]

You woke up. You woke up in the show. Did you see Shannon, by the way, what he wore when we walked out the house for dinner last night? And that was. He wasn't trying to be funny. That is what he came out of the house in. Now, granted, we weren't going to somewhere nice, but he didn't know that. He had no idea where we were going. And we walked out and, and you said that was Dane keys jacket.

[Ryan]

It was Dane's jacket. And all the young, it doesn't fit. They pull their hoodie up over, but it doesn't fit.

[Matt Jones]

And especially doesn't fit when you put the hoodie on.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I had it. It was all kind of crunched up. I hadn't stretched out yet. You know, I just put it on

[Matt Jones]

and trying to imagine walking out of the house like that.

[Shannon]

I can see man boob. I can see nipple poking through. Like there's a whole lot going on there.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, I'm not a great dresser. I understand. Like, I wear hoodies and hats and, and, and so I'm not. I get it. But I, I, I give Ryan credit. Like you. There may be no person more comfortable in who they are than you. You know what I mean? Like, there is some value to that. You just, you are you. And you are fine being you.

[Ryan]

I don't care.

[Matt Jones]

You don't. You really don't. And I. And people say they don't care, but they can't.

[Ryan]

Of course they do.

[Matt Jones]

Like, people will say, I don't care what people think. But then you can tell by the things they do, whether it's a woman or a man. They're doing stuff because they want to look like. You know anybody who like, jacks their truck up in the air and then says, I don't care. Come on, dude, you care. I care. Like, we all like, I think most. You really don't care.

[Ryan]

That's how you should live life. Right? You know, just every day, live life, be happy. Life's too short not to be happy.

[Matt Jones]

And I said, can I take your picture? I didn't spring that on him and Shannon. He was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, let me pose.

[Ryan]

I'm trying to pose. Like, no, just stand there.

[Matt Jones]

No, I just want you to stand there because you, that's what you look like anyway.

[Ryan]

But you saw the ladies, like, lining up when they saw me will dress like Shannon.

[Matt Jones]

There was a woman at dinner.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

That Mario and I agreed might be the most beautiful woman I have ever seen in my life. Oh, okay. Oh, I have ever seen in my life. She walked by and like Mario and I completely agreed that might be the most beautiful woman I've ever seen. And Ryan goes, want me to talk to her.

[Ryan]

No, I can help you guys, but

[Matt Jones]

I actually think he would have.

[Ryan]

Oh yeah.

[Shannon]

Did you?

[Matt Jones]

No. I know because I'm not gonna bother this person.

[Shannon]

Oh.

[Ryan]

The most you did say in the

[Shannon]

world you won't talk to her. Come on, man.

[Matt Jones]

No.

[Shannon]

There's my relationship.

[Matt Jones]

See who I was with.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Shannon]

It makes you look better.

[Matt Jones]

Maybe so, but I just love the confidence that you even thought one would do that.

[Ryan]

I was go tell her a joke that Jimmy just told us at the table or something.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. The man who hosted at the restaurant.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Ryan just came up and told. Or Shannon just came up and told dirty jokes the whole night.

[Shannon]

And Ryan wanted to lay one of those on her.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. And what I thought was interesting is you walk up to a table full of strangers. This is like a 70 year old man. You walk up to a table full of strangers, just start telling jokes.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

How do you know they're going to be okay with it? I think because you see, right. You don't care and he doesn't care and so it must be okay. He literally the whole night just kept coming up and telling dirty jokes.

[Ryan]

Like really dirty jokes. Once we can't tell our mothers.

[Matt Jones]

No. And I go, man, I'm trying to eat. Anyway, all of this to get you prayer for the St. Lucas Santa Claus.

[Ryan]

Great, great pregame stuff.

[Matt Jones]

When I. When you see the Santa Clara team. Yeah. We're bigger than them.

[Ryan]

Bigger.

[Matt Jones]

We're stronger than them.

[Ryan]

Stronger.

[Matt Jones]

We're fast.

[Ryan]

Faster.

[Matt Jones]

Now they might be able to shoot better, but the way Texas A and M played St. Mary's if you watch that game, which ended up being a low scoring game, that's what Kentucky needs to do.

[Ryan]

Yep.

[Matt Jones]

Texas A and M just out athleted and played them, you know Fiz and. And that's what Kentucky needs to do today.

[Ryan]

The defense that St. Mary saw last night and what Santa Clara will see today is something they've not seen all year long.

[Matt Jones]

They just don't get that athleticism.

[Ryan]

They don't.

[Matt Jones]

But if you watch the Miami of Ohio game, if you watch the VCU game, if you watch the high point game, the common denominator in all those games is they got the other team to play their style. They got the other team to not do their advantage, which was athleticism side Mario and I were watching good zag in Kennesaw State and they had that Graham Ike who Queso State had no chance of guarding. But Gonzaga went long stretches without giving him the ball. And like you cannot play their style. So for Kentucky they've got to like, play their style, get the ball, get to the basket. Don't just settle for jumper. Like do the things that they're good at and then I think they will be okay.

[Ryan]

Yeah, you, you attack the basket, man, you take advantage of your strength. If you got strength inside on the defensive end, you know you do. You put your. That athleticism you're talking about, They've not seen anything like that before. So put a lot of pressure on the basketball.

[Matt Jones]

Duke and Sienna was the same way. Duke gets into a shooting contest with Sienna, next thing you know, they're down 13. But in the second half, they just locked them down defensively. And what did Sienna score? 18 points or something in the second half. That was it, some tiny amount because Duke was like, all right, we may not be shooting well, but we're gonna make sure you don't score. And that's what they did. And Kentucky has to do some version of that. If we play Santa Clara's game, then we give them a chance to win. We have to play the way we play and then we should be okay. As you saw in the A&M, St.

[Ryan]

Mary's yeah, we saw teams do that to us and come out, be physical, push us around. That's what we need to do to Saint.

[Matt Jones]

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[Matt Jones]

Welcome back Techie Sports Radio. Great day of games yesterday.

[Ryan]

It was.

[Matt Jones]

Yesterday was why we love the NCAA term. You know, last year, very few upsets week this the first round. People kind of thought, oh, nil portal. Does that mean that stuff's gone? It was great, you know. Still, the last top four seed to lose in the first round is Kentucky. Did you know that?

[Caller]

No.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, but, but nevertheless it was a lot of fun yesterday. Like that is what it's supposed to be.

[Ryan]

Last night we all cuddled up to watch St. Louis in Georgia and your boy Cream Abdul Jabbar.

[Matt Jones]

Dude, Cream was killing people. Let's go over the games real quick. Cream. I love seeing, I feel like a proud papa. You know, I, I say a lot that I gave him that nickname that's a little misleading. Like I, I, I gave him the nickname, I, I saw it, somebody like commented it and then I just go that's a great name. And I started calling him Ran with it. So he gives me credit for it and Wikipedia does. But I actually wasn't the technical person, but I was probably the person that Made it famous. But there was some. There's actually some listener here is probably the first one to have said it. But it's taken off and, you know, now they just keep adding to them. Milk Chamberlain, Larry Nerd. Larry Blurred. I saw Kevin McPale.

[Ryan]

Yeah, that was a good one.

[Matt Jones]

Shaquille Oatmeal. You know, we make.

[Ryan]

We kind of make fun of the guy. And you look.

[Matt Jones]

No, he's not making fun. He's awesome.

[Ryan]

But he's a good player. The dude can play.

[Matt Jones]

Shannon. Like, he is. And his. He's beat up.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

He's got, like, bruises, and he's got. He's like, me, like, I'll just get in the shower. And I'm like, where did that bruise come?

[Shannon]

He looks so unathletic.

[Matt Jones]

But somehow he.

[Shannon]

Somehow he always makes big plays and

[Matt Jones]

big shots, and he's a great passer.

[Ryan]

Great passer.

[Matt Jones]

So, I mean, they. They killed George.

[Ryan]

Ran him off the floor.

[Matt Jones]

Killed him. Like Georgia. What? I mean, why Georgia even come. Yeah, like, they. They got destroyed. Then you had High point. That's the moment of the tournament.

[Ryan]

It is.

[Matt Jones]

That's the moment of the tournament. They come. They're down 8. They come back. They win. Their student announcer screaming is the high. I mean, that's the star. Like, that's the best story so far. It's the best story of the tournament so far. Those student announcers. You got the one guy who gives a great call, and then the other one just looks like he's having a heart attack. He doesn't. He doesn't say a word in the whole video.

[Shannon]

I love that, though. Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

The second guy, like, he doesn't say a word.

[Ryan]

No, he's just very animated in his reaction.

[Matt Jones]

He's just like. And the first guy is. Go. First guy makes a great call. Actually, we'll play that as the intro to the next segment. Okay.

[Ryan]

All right.

[Matt Jones]

Because that. That's amazing. Then Sienna legitimately looked like they could beat Duke.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

That would have been the biggest upset in the history of the tournament.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Duke's overall number one.

[Matt Jones]

Yes.

[Ryan]

Dominant team, because I think Virginia was

[Matt Jones]

a number one overall seed. But it's Duke. Sienna beating Duke would have been the biggest upset, I think, in the history of the tournament.

[Ryan]

And they let him. Most of the game.

[Matt Jones]

Most of the game. And then Duke came back and won. Then you had what? VCU. VCU beats North Carolina. Another game. They were down 19 points in the first. In the second half.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

It's the largest NCAA tournament comeback in the second half ever. Wow.

[Ryan]

That was a fun game to watch also.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Okay, I'm going back to the high point game. Just one minute. Talk about the dude that hit the game winning shot.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, what has to be one of the most amazing stats in basketball history. He had not made a 2 all year. And he hits the game winning shot on a two baller. Right?

[Shannon]

I mean. I mean, talk about clutch.

[Matt Jones]

Going into the game, he had 68. Made threes and zero. Made twos. How zero? And then he gets the layup. And you could tell as he was shooting and he was like, I've never done this before.

[Shannon]

Does he even do layup lines?

[Matt Jones]

I don't. I don't know how this play works.

[Ryan]

The game winning shot to win the game is your first two all year in the NCAA tournament. That's crazy.

[Matt Jones]

That's crazy. But it's awesome.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Like that is. That is an awesome moment. And of course, John Calipari now can go to the Sweet 16 having beaten Hawaii and High Point.

[Ryan]

Oh, I didn't realize that today playing.

[Shannon]

He got the same thing in the SEC tournament.

[Matt Jones]

He did. He got the exact same draw in the SEC tournament. You don't have to play anybody. He had to play what, Ole Miss in Oklahoma to go to the sweet 16.

[Ryan]

He's doing something right.

[Matt Jones]

He's living right. Yeah. I mean, part of it is you get a seed that allows that to happen. But that's the thing about that four or five matchup. It's the hardest second round game unless an upset is pulled and there's a decent chance of an upset. So when you're a four or five, you've got a chance of that happening.

[Ryan]

Like it just happened right here and

[Matt Jones]

it happened for him. So they play the Cal can get the Sweet 16 having beaten Hawaii and high points.

[Shannon]

See what I did there?

[Matt Jones]

What? You see what I did there?

[Shannon]

That's what he's going to say.

[Matt Jones]

Dogs bark apart car.

[Shannon]

You forgot to hammer that last nail.

[Matt Jones]

My cousin from Little Rock to Jonesboro.

[Caller]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

You know, they don't poop in the Ozarks. What? Like that's what that. That's what he's gonna do. But that's all right, you know, I guess they. They earned that. What else did we see yesterday? Tcu. Tom Cream.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Dude, don't bet against Tom Crane.

[Ryan]

He picked that for you.

[Matt Jones]

With that said bet against us, I picked the KSR Parlay Shannon.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Got every leg wrong.

[Shannon]

Well, because you went against the point spread, you need to go.

[Matt Jones]

I don't like the point spread. It's hard to do the money line though in the. In the first round because the spreads are too big. Yeah, but God, if you faded me and you bet against me in every spread, you would have won.

[Ryan]

Are you having one again today then?

[Matt Jones]

We're putting one out. I think they should draft King should just put the opposite of what Matt

[Ryan]

says out the anti chaos.

[Matt Jones]

It's really strange. I'm work. I think there's something to knowing too. There's not too much about it. I know more about college basketball than any sport and it's the worst thing I gamble on. I don't know anything about the NFL and I've won our pick contest eight straight years. I don't know anything about it in college basketball. I feel like I know a lot and I. The ESPN radio bracket pool. Myron Metcalf is the college basketball reporter and he's in last. I do think there's a part of this that you like.

[Caller]

There is.

[Matt Jones]

You're in first place in our pool and I just. You don't know anything.

[Ryan]

And I just went through and picked it in like five minutes.

[Matt Jones]

He's on the 96th percentile and he doesn't know anything.

[Ryan]

Just picked it, just. So that's why you. You don't think about it too much. Just pick on impulse. Maybe that's the key.

[Shannon]

Stayed in an Airbnb, not even a Holiday Inn.

[Matt Jones]

I know. So I do think the NCAA tournament. I don't even know why I tried to pick these games.

[Ryan]

So do you have your parley already today?

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, I gave him one, but I mean, I wouldn't bet it.

[Shannon]

Say it.

[Matt Jones]

It's mine. Yeah, I might bet it if it was the exact opposite. I got every game wrong last night.

[Ryan]

How many games were on it?

[Matt Jones]

Well, I mean, I actually made money yesterday betting because I bet on high point to win.

[Ryan]

So I hit that parlay early in the afternoon.

[Matt Jones]

I hit the early one, but at night, every game wrong. How can you get every game wrong?

[Ryan]

Take skill.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. So if we do that again, if I'm over 8, that would be pretty. We'll take a break. Be right back. KSI, TJ Smith, personal injury attorney.

[Ryan Seacrest]

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[Shannon]

Now more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones.

[Caller]

Port.

[Matt Jones]

Do you believe it? I love it. I love these dudes. I love how excited they got. I love that the one guy, you don't hear the other guy's voice because he ain't talking. And just. Just an awesome set of excitement I've

[Ryan]

heard it a dozen times and still got chili bumps right there. These are students, right?

[Jay Uso]

Students.

[Ryan]

There's students at a high point.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, it's very cool. Cool because they don't have regular radio broadcaster so that their students do the game.

[Ryan]

That's fantastic.

[Matt Jones]

I wish you Katie, I wish all colleges also had a student broadcast, but they, they don't do it. Clark's Puppet Shop makes it easier and cheaper with Clark's rewards app. Download the app, turn points every time you shop, save on fuel during cold weather mornings. It's Clark's pumping Shop drive through, drive in, pump in shop family owned and local. Clark's Pump and Shop return, refresh, refuel at Clark's pump and shop. 859-280-2287. Text machine 772-774-5254. Virtually every text or many text or want to talk about Pope's comments. So let's give it one minute. I think Pope had reasonable things to say in some ways about the current media environment. He also used it as just a chance to air grievances. It was odd for me that he did it in that moment because it was the quote from Yaxel was from him. It wasn't from some anonymous source. He always brings up these AI images about like when his stories about his wife and all these things which that's just random people on the Internet. So I, I here's what I take from it. Less the specifics of it's just been a tough year, I think for Mark in terms of communicating the way he wants to communicate with the media and with the public. And it'll be interesting during the off season to see like why did that happen and how can that get better? Because it's very rarely a good idea to have that tension. And I'm not really sure who Mark's bad at in some ways, you know, and I wish that that weren't the case and hopefully that it will get better. It was weird because it was Mark's story of the Herald asking him a question about the apostle. Like it wasn't random people on the Internet in their underwear. It was like the most the biggest journalist in terms of journalism that there is at Kentucky.

[Ryan]

It's been a weird year.

[Matt Jones]

He's been weird.

[Ryan]

Mark and the media. Going back to what he talked about after the Louisville game, the Michigan State, Michigan State game.

[Matt Jones]

There's been a lot of it's just been odd. It's just been an odd, you know, again, it's not, it's not A huge deal, but it's just been odd. And I hope, again, like, if we have a good weekend here, a lot of that stuff goes away. Y win these two games, you win today and you win Sunday. And a lot of these sort of secondary things that have been in the conversation, they just kind of melt away.

[Ryan]

You're right. Right.

[Matt Jones]

So that's why I hope it happens for him and I hope it happens for our fan base. Because a lot of the stuff we worry about will no longer really matter

[Ryan]

if you just win.

[Matt Jones]

If you just win, that's. Who was it? Just win, baby. Was that. Who said just win, baby? Parents.

[Ryan]

It might have been Bill Parcells.

[Matt Jones]

Who was it, Shannon?

[Shannon]

I don't know.

[Matt Jones]

Coach just said just win.

[Ryan]

The NFL coach.

[Matt Jones]

I think it was Bill Parsons.

[Ryan]

Al Davis.

[Matt Jones]

Okay.

[Ryan]

Yeah, that's it.

[Matt Jones]

Al Davis. Another example, by the way, of the sun is always worse than the day.

[Ryan]

Oh, exactly.

[Matt Jones]

So, anyway, win today, win Sunday, and we won't be talking about. Now, one thing is I. Granted, we're not far from Kentucky, but we've seen almost no Kentucky fans. No, I saw a handful of them walking out of that practice yesterday.

[Ryan]

Yep.

[Matt Jones]

But other than that, none. Do you think that gets better today?

[Ryan]

I do.

[Matt Jones]

Okay.

[Ryan]

The times it's Kentucky's been here, the crowd has always kind of flooded the town. So maybe they came last night for the game today at noon.

[Matt Jones]

Or maybe they're driving this morning because it's not very far. Yeah, but I. I was struck, like, at the practice, there were more. I would say there were more Purdue fans than Kentucky fans at that practice yesterday.

[Ryan]

Little odd.

[Matt Jones]

Little odd. But again, we're close, so you don't have to make the right. We'll see what it looks like here in a couple hours. Who's next? Shannon? Go ahead, Sam.

[Caller]

Hey, guys. How's it going? I'm about 30 minutes outside of St. Louis. Just.

[Matt Jones]

See, there you go. It's an example. So hopefully that's right. Yeah.

[Caller]

I just wanted to talk about how some of our fans are a little doom and gloom, and you guys kind of just mentioned this, but it's not. I'll use your line. It's not crazy that we can win two basketball games.

[Matt Jones]

No, it's not crazy that we can win three. It's not crazy that we could win three. I mean, you know, I think beating Michigan is asking a lot, but it is not crazy to win three. Go ahead.

[Caller]

Yeah. I mean, seven seeds, eight seeds make runs every year. We have otega away. It's not like we have A bunch of bums out there. We've got good players with tournament experience that are old guys. So, I mean, it's not crazy. I'm not expecting us to go to the championship or anything, but people are acting like the season's over. We've got all summer to complain. Let's get excited and go win a few games.

[Matt Jones]

I'm with.

[Caller]

Just win, baby.

[Matt Jones]

Look at yesterday. I appreciate the call. Just win. Texas, place BYU. Okay, those are two power conference schools. An SEC versus a Big 12, five seed difference between Texas and BYU. And Texas controlled the game and won. Basically led the whole game. Yeah, SEC over a Big 12 school. There's a 5C difference between, you know, Kentucky and, and, and, and Iowa State, Texas A&M SEC school plays a West coast conference school in St. Mary's controls the whole game and wins. That's what we have to do today against Santa Clara.

[Ryan]

When you have better dudes than the other dudes, you should win the basketball game. Take advantage of your strengths. Like you said. I feel like we need three guys. If Ortega and Aberdeen show up like we think they are, who's the third guy? Is it gonna be Chandler? Somebody's got to step up today, be that third guy.

[Matt Jones]

What's your biggest worry? Because I have one. What's your biggest worry?

[Ryan]

Well, we mentioned how their three point percentage is similar to ours, but they shoot like about twice as many as we do. If they get hot and just start bombing them in from everywhere, then we get discombobulated and try to do too much and try to play like we're don't know what we're doing. Like we have at times when we get behind like that. That's my biggest worry.

[Matt Jones]

My worry is you cannot fall behind by double digits in this game because it will be harder for us to come back because they have, they, they shoot so many threes that if you get down 11, it's going to be hard because all they got to do is hit one and it kind of makes it even. You, you, this is a game I don't want to see us having to dig a hole.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Because that I think would make us then play a style. That's what they want where we're out there jacking threes.

[Ryan]

We don't, we don't play that very.

[Matt Jones]

We don't, we rarely play that well.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

So I, I, we cannot kind of continue our path of all of a sudden we're down 12 and the whole game we're sitting there trying and we cut it to six. And we're like, okay. And then they hit a three and it's nine. Like we can't, we can't do that. We've got to be re A&M. Yesterday was the example. Texas against BYU was the example. They came out and they led early and they just kept that lead throughout the game.

[Ryan]

I think we win it on the defensive end because I get that lead and then lock them up on the other end of the floor.

[Matt Jones]

859-280-2287. Who's next?

[Shannon]

Adam.

[Matt Jones]

Adam. Go ahead, Adam.

[Caller]

Totally agree with you on filling out brackets. Last year had a pool of about 20 family members and me and my father in law are really the only ones who followed follow college basketball. And it was, you know, my, my two youngest sons, 8 and 5 came

in ahead of me. Yeah, yeah.

[Matt Jones]

I mean on the ESPN radio when Myron is in last and I am like in 8th out of 15 and we're the only ones that watch it and the people that are winning are people who I know don't even watch the sport. And you're like, well, what are you supposed to do? You know?

[Caller]

Yeah, it's insane. Have you seen the movie the Hangover?

[Matt Jones]

Yes.

[Caller]

There is a scene in there that Bradley Cooper looks at Zach Galifianakis and is like, are you really wearing that? As they're about to go out on the town. It's like, are you really wearing that or you.

[Matt Jones]

That's what I did with Ryan yesterday.

[Caller]

I feel like that's you and Ryan.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. I mean, I appreciate the call. You're being very sort of considerate in your comparisons. If I get Bradley Cooper. But I do think Zach Galifianakis in that movie has a little Ryan in him.

[Ryan]

I thought I went to me I was Bradley Cooper.

[Matt Jones]

No, you don't.

[Ryan]

I look like Bradley Cooper.

[Matt Jones]

No, you do not. You do not.

[Ryan]

I'm Zach Galifianakis.

[Matt Jones]

Yes. Grow a beard and it's you. I will say though, when you don't pull the hood up, it doesn't look quite as bad. There was something about the hood and the tightness that combined to to make that. P Rat is locally owned and operated appliance furniture mattress store served the area for your area for over 75 years. P rats keeps getting better with age. Being voted the best appliance ret for six years in a row. Unlike the big box stores, our Pratts team are experts at helping make your house a home. They got stores in Lexington and Richmond or go to p rats.com p rats will give you more what was it you told me about Rondo's kid?

[Ryan]

He's an 8th grader start to point guard for North Laurel. He had 19 points at halftime last night.

[Matt Jones]

Wow.

[Ryan]

Finished with 25 as they won their first opening round game.

[Matt Jones]

19 at halftime.

[Ryan]

19 and halftime. In eighth grade, an eighth grader dominated.

[Matt Jones]

So there really haven't been any upsets in Sweet 16, I guess. North Laurel beating Warren City.

[Ryan]

That was probably an upset. Yeah, for sure. Marshall county one yesterday. North Oldham North Older one yesterday.

[Matt Jones]

George Rogers Clark.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

And now and then I remember the other one. Grace Grayson county beat Taylor.

[Ryan]

Grace county be Taylor County. That's right.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. 859-280-2287 Shannon and I had a big night or big afternoon yesterday, which we need to talk about.

[Ryan]

Yes, we do need to talk about

[Matt Jones]

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[Ryan]

Pierre Rondo Jr. We may have accidentally said North Laurel. He plays at North Oldham. Had several people said we accidentally said

[Matt Jones]

who's by we you mean you.

[Ryan]

I don't think it was me.

[Matt Jones]

No, I just said North Laurel 1. I didn't say Pierre Oldham.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I didn't think we messed up here.

[Matt Jones]

Rondo.

[Ryan]

Several people said we said it wrong. But he plays for north old.

[Matt Jones]

I mean I wouldn't shock me. Yesterday Shannon, I did our relationship podcast. It is on the interrupted feed. I would say to you, if we lose today and you want to cheer yourself up, listen to it. If we win, do it a celebration. Shane and I answered 15 questions from listeners about relationships. And I think Shannon, we help people.

[Shannon]

I think we saved the world yesterday with that podcast, helped everybody's relationship. And I want to pay you a compliment for a show called Interrupted by Matt Jones. You didn't interrupt me one time.

[Ryan]

Wow.

[Shannon]

Not once.

[Matt Jones]

Well, I did have somebody say who would have thought how far Shannon and Matt have come since the first show that they're now doing shows together.

[Shannon]

It only took us 15 years to get there.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. But we finally did a show together, just the two of us. I enjoyed it. I think that's a good niche for

[Shannon]

you and I. Yeah, it was a lot of fun. Really enjoyed.

[Matt Jones]

What are you laughing at?

[Ryan]

Because I was sitting over there on the couch. Listen, you guys do this show about to jump off the chair because I want to.

[Matt Jones]

You guys.

[Ryan]

Are you four years old that never been married? Yeah, I've done it twice.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Poorly.

[Ryan]

I've been through the.

[Shannon]

That means you're better. You need to listen exact podcast you

[Matt Jones]

should be listening to us.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

We'll show you how we have a combined zero divorces.

[Shannon]

Yeah. I mean you got pal you when

[Ryan]

it comes down to it, you get to be the man of the house whenever she tells you to do the laundry. That's how life goes when you're married.

[Matt Jones]

Do the laundry. What are you talking about? We didn't have any questions about laundry. We had questions that were important. Like about, you know, when you know, you have the one and. And whether or not you should stay in the sleep in the same bed function.

[Shannon]

All kinds of good stuff.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, all kinds of good stuff. And we did, we did. Sensitive topics.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

In sensitive ways. I, I, you know, the text machine is where people have been writing me their feedback.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

It's been amazingly positive and a lot of women liking it. Hearing the man's perspective, huh? Listen, if you want to do your own one good, do it. I don't know what, I adore you, but why would anyone listen to you?

[Ryan]

You know, I could see a woman listening to a man's perspective, but she's still the boss.

[Matt Jones]

She still see it's lines like that. Shannon. Yeah, no alpha. He's, he's beta.

[Shannon]

Exactly.

[Matt Jones]

He's got to be some balance. Ryan, he's got, got some bound. You got to have a little, I mean, you know, I have a, I have a beta side. You saw me on the Bull.

[Shannon]

Yeah, it was very beta, but there's,

[Matt Jones]

there's an alpha side too, being, you know, you gotta, you gotta mix and match.

[Ryan]

I did enjoy your conversation on libido.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, I mean, well, we handled it sensibly. It's a fair question that comes up in relationships.

[Ryan]

It does people.

[Matt Jones]

Someone asked, you know, what if at a stage of your life you each have different, different libidos and Shannon and I, that, that happens to people.

[Ryan]

Oh, it definitely happens.

[Matt Jones]

And you have to. And we fixed it. Who's up next?

[Shannon]

John Short.

[Matt Jones]

Perfect, perfect transition. John Short. Go ahead.

[Caller]

Okie dokie. Y' all great Americans.

[Matt Jones]

Thank you very much.

[Caller]

Well, we're gonna win today by 10. Biggins. I sorry we lost last night. We're going to beat James Master Marvin. 25 Biggins. Are we going to win baseball tonight? Our offense, defense will be ready. We need to lead the nation. Offense and defense and steals and assists.

[Matt Jones]

That's right. If you do all that, I think you got a good chance to win. Thank you, John. The baseball team did lose last night

[Ryan]

to Ole Miss at Ole Miss. The three game series started yesterday, so. Yeah, it was a Thursday, Friday, Saturday series.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. Hopefully we can get them back. Get, get them back. Today I want you to read Bob and Jamestown's test text to you because you know, Miami of Ohio won. So I was going to let him. Shannon, call the show. He's ready and he didn't. No, it's okay. We'll put him.

[Shannon]

He's here.

[Matt Jones]

We gave him the chance. Here's what Bob and James tell. Do the short version of what he said to you yesterday.

[Ryan]

So I was texting him yesterday, said Matt was gonna let you come and call in first and talk. He says Ryan, I was in the garage getting exhaust work done on a street legal Chevy Copo Camaro drag car. I crossed four rivers and two snowstorms to pick it up in Omaha.

[Shannon]

I want to hear more about it.

[Ryan]

Okay. There's more, Ryan. I'm ready for spring. And it has sprung. Weather is absolutely gorgeous today. Ready to put top down on that 700 horsepower Copal Camaro convertible and let it fly. Our local sheriff did the out of state vehicle inspection personally on this bad boy.

[Matt Jones]

Wow.

[Ryan]

That's our boy.

[Matt Jones]

That's. That's. That's great.

[Shannon]

You don't want to.

[Matt Jones]

By the way, it's get. No, it's game day. It's game day.

[Ryan]

And that is a chance to talk about Mayo, Ohio. He's talking about his new Chevy.

[Matt Jones]

Do you think they have any chance against Tennessee today?

[Ryan]

Oh, that's today.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

They shoot like they did the other night, man, they can beat anybody. They were bombing them from everywhere.

[Matt Jones]

Would be the perfect. Wouldn't a perfect day be we win and then they beat Tennessee? Yes.

[Ryan]

Maybe Ohio Beach, Tennessee, which would.

[Matt Jones]

Which would open up the possibility of us playing them.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

You know, if we beat Iowa State, they beat Virginia. I mean, that's a. It's a long shot, but like what

[Ryan]

you say every year, the final first four winner.

[Matt Jones]

Well, I said every year, first four winner wins their next game. But that's already happened. Texas did it.

[Ryan]

Okay.

[Matt Jones]

You know, Texas did. I think something like since the first four started, I think every year but one. One of those teams has won their first round game. Yeah. So that's one of the things I always look for. I ended up. I picked Texas to win the game against BYU because I thought that would be.

[Ryan]

What do you think? M. Of Ohio has a shot today?

[Matt Jones]

I mean, they have a shot, but I would pick Tennessee. Yeah, but they have a shot. Yeah.

[Ryan]

Nate, Amen is back and look good in the SEC tournament.

[Matt Jones]

What do you think about the fact that UK Santa Clara is. Is the most bet game in the tournament so far?

[Ryan]

I don't know if you know this or not, but a wise philosopher once said, we don't just move the needle, we are the needle.

[Matt Jones]

But do you think that's because. I mean, the spread is. Is two and a half. I mean, there's clearly a lot of people betting against us. Probably a lot of. I mean, obviously a lot.

[Ryan]

It went down to four and a half.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. We start it opened at two and a half.

[Ryan]

I thought I opened it three and

[Matt Jones]

a half and then it went to four and a Half. And now it's back to two.

[Ryan]

That's what I bet. I bet at two and a half.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. I mean, there's a world where we do what A and m did to St. Mary's and we just went by

[Ryan]

like 14 because we just.

[Matt Jones]

We're just stronger. But then there's a world where we get behind and with three minutes to go, the whole crowd's gonna root against us. I mean, everybody there that's not a Kentucky fan we're rooting against will be rooting for Santa Clara, including all the Iowa State fans that are there. And they'll be able.

[Ryan]

They play the second game.

[Matt Jones]

They play the second game, they'll be. There'll be a bunch of Iowa State fans there and they will be rooting against.

[Ryan]

Yes, for sure. I'm really curious to see how the crowd is. Like I said, usually when Kentucky's been here, St. Louis, you know, Kentucky fans kind of feel all those western Kentucky, Kentucky fans come over to St. Louis. Not that far of a trip for them.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, well, KS Bar, you can come watch the game there. I expect a big crowd and hopefully a happy crowd there. We had good crowds yesterday, but this is. This is different. This is a. You know, we'll talk a little more about this in the last 30 minutes, but this is a massive game for Mark. It's a massive game for the fan base. It's a massive game for Otega away, who has ended up having one of the best two year runs in UK basketball history. You know, I think it's a massive game for some of these guys about whether or not they're going to come back. I talked to somebody yesterday who I think really knows and says there's a lot of these guys that just don't know. Yeah, they said that. Like, I think there's a really good chance we have Chandler. There's a really good chance we have Cam. But for a lot of the rest of the guys, they don't know. Yeah, for real, like, not just saying that. They really don't know. This could be huge in terms of determining that. So there's a lot on the line today in one basketball game against a team we barely know. 859-280-2287. We'll take a break. Be right back. It's Kentucky select Chevy Dealers, KSR pregame.

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