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Matt Jones (0:00)
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Ryan Lemons (0:30)
Welcome everyone. It is the local Toyota dealers. KSR Post Game show the Cats, for the first time since 2019 are back in the Sweet 16 with a huge win here in Milwaukee over Illinois 84 to 75. We are here just kind of hanging out in a lobby of one of the hotels. I don't. They've asked us not to say where it is because they actually don't want people to come. So. So they were nice enough to let us be in here. We decided to stick around. We're going to leave right after the show. What an amazing win. I wanted to stay because I wanted to go inside and feel the experience of a victory again. It's been a while since we've had it in March and we got it. And now the Cats move to the sweet 16 where they will play Tennessee of all teams in Indianapolis in what will be, I think, one of the hardest tickets that you will see in basketball. Kentucky, Tennessee, Purdue, all in the same region in Indianapolis. It's going to be a heck of a Friday night. You can give us a shout. Billy will open up the phones at the end of this segment. Is that all right? I'm going to have Ryan, Ryan and Shannon are actually getting us food so that we can leave right after. Drew will be here. They'll all be on before this, before this show ends. But what an amazing victory. I mean, Kentucky really controlled the game from start to finish. It was, it was about as good as you could hope for for a performance. They came out early, made buckets and then kind of got a lead that they kept five to eight points throughout the first half and then after a great run to end this to start the second half, kept essentially an 8 to 12 to 14 point lead throughout the second half. A bunch of stories, but I think the biggest one is Kobe Bray at 23 points, including three in a row shots that I don't know. I think that gets Kobe into Kind of the legend status. When you're thinking about the sort of moments from the season, I think always lay up at Oklahoma and is won in the SEC tournament. And then I think you're going to think of this little Kobe bray, a montage of the three shots back to back to back. Huge performance by him. Lamont Butler, an absolute beast. I mean for me, as great as Kobe shot, Lamont Butler's kind of the MVP to come out there, have 14 points, five assists, play the defense that he played, you know, I mean he's playing with one arm essentially and you know, listening to Mark Pope talk about him in the post game press conference where he said basically somebody asked him about Lamont Butler and he had a great quote. He said courage is real, but love is too. And he said he is playing for the love of his teammates. And I will tell you, I've talked to a lot of people around the program, they all say that, some of them say he probably shouldn't be playing with his injury, but he wants to play. And how can you not, how can you not only appreciate that but love that for his teammates, for the program, for Mark Pope, I mean, just a warrior. These dudes, these dudes are a special group of guys. They become the first team, the first team in the history of the NCAA tournament to get to the Sweet 16, having returned 00 points from the year before. Think about that. Zero. And this is the first team to ever do it. Maybe it'll happen more often in the transfer portal era, probably will, but this is the first one. And to see this group of guys, dudes from Drexel, dudes from Dayton, you know, guys who came off the bench at Oklahoma, Wake Forest, San Diego State, Fairleigh Dickinson, you know, a kid from a two year Mormon mission. Two kids who one year ago today were playing in the finals of the Kentucky high school state tournament. Yeah, that was one year ago today. It's just an awesome story and what a, what a cool thing to be a part of. And in that arena tonight, Kentucky fans were probably outnumbered 3 to 1 in that arena yet the Illinois fans could just never really get into it because of the way Kentucky played. And even though they only won by nine, I actually think, you know, if they make some layups, I mean this was, this was a double digit game in my opinion. They did exactly what they needed to do. They limited Illinois star players. Let's see, Casparis was sick, was 6 for 13, but he had a hard time getting shots all 5 or 13. Excuse me, especially early in the game, you know, their best player was little Z Billy, who had five threes. I was lighting up. First of all, he looks like. He looks like the kid Dwight Schrute's cousin from the office. Do you know what I'm talking about? What's his name?