Uconn Coach Dan Hurley, Final 4 Is Set, The World Stays Mad About Zach Edey And DJ Burns Is An American Hero

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Hank is devastated with Duke getting bounced. So so upset. It broke my heart to see how upset you were actually. Hank. You didn't really get mad until you bet on Duke live. Yeah, no, it was the perfect.

Henry Lockwood moment where he hasn't cared about Duke all year, he's admitted this. And then in the second half he decided to bet them live, and Duke gave us the worst second half imaginable. Just couldn't score the basketball, which is an important part of the game. And D..J. Burns was your daddy all second half, and then you actually were upset, so you found your way to be upset.

About this loss, which I like, I'm glad that you're mad. Because if you were just like, whatever, and you didn't actually care at all, I'd be upset by that. Yeah, yeah, it was a horrible game.

They shot, I think, 19 for like 75.

Are you like trying to be a fashion guy? What are your shoes? what are those shoes? are you trying to be? a Is he trying to be a fashion guy? What are you talking about?

We got to talk about the final four. I've always had the best shoes. I know. I disagree, I actually.

Think BFT gives a run for the money with best shoes when he drops the pennies when I got.

The pennies I got, the kamikazes. Are you trying to be a fashion guy? I've had these shoes for like.

A year. I know we have to talk about the final four, but I have to talk about these shoes first.

I've always been a fashion guy, I'm so fashion. Those look like like shoes you would wear when.

You want to think that you're wearing golf shoes? This is a nice Easter outfit. Oh, you get dressed up for Easter. Interesting, yeah.

I don't know what you're doing with those shoes, but I'm on to you what I mean. Like this. These are literally just white shoes, yeah, but something about it, they're not like regular white shoes.

No free ads, no free ads, but, uh, a dude who just totally gave these to me, yeah, Instagram.

AD Buy the vending machine shirt. Oh yeah, sorry, the vending machine shirt.

DJ Burns Yes, yes, fuck yes. He and he was wearing his eighth grade bully shoes.

I would also. Could he score more points than got scored on him and also limit his fouls to four or less? Yes, because I, and for the last like seven minutes of the game. D.J. Burns would just stand with his arms straight up. He wouldn't even try to contest, just go right out.

Can please? Yes, and we can talk about the totality of the final four. We're going to go through each game. But like this N.C. state run, everyone's heard it, you know? They were down or they were tied with Louisville in the first round of the ACC tournament.

The court, they don't foul, they get a three off, banks it in, barely banks into, not not even like a good looking bank. Yeah, goes to overtime.

They are they have the most losses for a Final four team ever 14 losses on the season, and they're in the final four is an 11 seed. There's, I mean, it's just fun to watch, like D.J. Burns.

I think the only way that you can defend against DJ Burns. Maybe maybe Edie will be able to do it just because he's huge and has long arms. But we can get to that in a second. Um, if you're not a giant, the only way that you can defend them is something that Duke tried to do one time tonight, they never went back to it. Where you just back away from him as he's putting that, pull the chair, you pull the chair out, and then he gets out of control. That's the only way that you can stop him because you can't push back against him.

And listen, like disappointing end for Duke. They were. They should have won that game. There were seven and a half point favorites. But John Shire, how would he have known that D.J. Burns was good?

You, you can't, you can't prepare for it. Yeah, he's never had to prepare for a guy like that.

No, so, you know, maybe he should have had someone besides Phil Filipowski in on DJ Burns, who followed out with 10 minutes left in the game. And you know what not only did.

Did N.C. State defeat Duke, but they also beat the refs? There was a moment, there was a moment when America said, Okay, here we go again. Hank's part of America, where, uh they, uh they, they blew the whistle. Uh. Because the ball hit. The shot clock went out of bounds, that it was a Phil Palsky shot that went out of it. At the shot he threw it out about, he tried to take the shot clock down. And they said, out on N.C. State, N.C. State's coach just basically put his hands up and was like, What are you doing?

Same time it's very rarely done. It was an eight point lead and then it took it for the two technical foul shots. it was a six point lead.

Team shout out to Middle Brooks. So sad for Duke Danny Cannell's nephew, Yeah.

Should not wear nail polish also. It would have been nice if Middle Brooks had gone to an SEC school, cause that would have also been a nice wrinkle for Danny. Had to have to root for an SEC. Yeah, but he had the shirt, uh, Middle Brooks, what was his name?

Uncle Yeah, just so everyone was clear we should sell those shirts.

Can buy Middle Brooks Uncle shirts? Yeah, he becomes a Where's Waldo? of, like, Who's his actual uncle? Yeah, he's America's nephew.

The National Champs from last year, redemption for purdue, redemption for losing last year. And the crazy part of it is that, amongst those four teams, I feel like UConn is the team that anyone without a dog in the fight is going to root for. Yeah, well, I mean, it's pretty crazy. And she said, Sorry, sorry, sorry.

Uh, so let's talk about the Purdue Tennessee game, because boy did people it. It gives me so much joy watching other fan bases have to watch Zach Edy, and then I feel less crazy because I've had to watch it for four years. And it's like they joined the fray. And to, you know, the screenshots come out and the anger comes out. Everyone's like, How do they? how do they call this a foul?

Both things at the same time. I think you'd be furious about Zach Edy and how the refs call him. And I think that you can also be like, it would be nice if Ziegler had made one three point shot.

They went so Dalton Connect was, uh, 14 for 31 and the rest of the team, or, sorry, he was 17 for 31.

And he's very good at basketball, he is good at basketball, for sure, like he has gotten a whole lot better at basketball. When I first saw him play, I think two years ago, is when I started watching him. He was just he didn't look like he liked being out there.

He causes hesitation, he causes, uh, like shots that you normally wouldn't love. A lot of mid-range shots, cause you don't want to go to the rim and got in, you know? Produce defense. And same with Yukon with with Donovan Klingon. They know that they've got a guy behind them so they can play more pressure up top. And and run you off the three point line and get you into those shots that are low percentage shots, and get you into a spot where you're shooting 10 for 31. As a team, I think most Purdue fans have reached this point, and I hope they have where Purdue fans should just say, fuck off to everyone else.

It's okay, I think you're being a little disingenuous there, but that's that's like.

Purdue fans trying to tell us that it's something it's not is where it's like. The disconnect becomes like you could just have to put up your hand and be like, Yeah, I understand people probably don't want to watch it, but guess what, we're winning, so fuck off.

What people think about your squad? You don't have to worry, you don't have to prove it to us, you don't have to get your dubs stamped by anybody else. To be like, Okay, this was really win, you guys are in the final four.

But it's not a fun watch. Hank actually joined the Purdue Hate crew. It's not a fun watch, not fun at all, yeah.

Championship. How much you're going to be rooting against them and hate watching, of course, and I.

I unfortunately think that D.J. Burns probably already got his first foul in the game on Saturday. Getting off the bus, like, there he's, he's going to be out of that game so fast, it's going to.

Yeah, it's going to suck. He's not great defensively to begin with, right, and he does like to foul.

Nephew might be the the try hard answer that America needs just just beat the fuck out of.

Zach EAdY Yeah, just try extra hard. yeah, just be really annoying.

The N.FL, Oh, I haven't seen that because I mean, he, his touch is so good that I want him to keep.

Playing basketball, yeah, it would be a disaster. Yeah, he's not a football player.

Seen the DJ Burns should play football, take. Oh. I know that he does plays that make him look like he's a football player, but yeah, I love watching him play basketball. Just let the man.

Play basketball. But whoever the George Mason guy was, I remember, he tried out. Are you thinking of Mo Ali Cox from VCU? No, no, no, no, no.

York Giants John Lewis That was who you're thinking of. I just looked it up. 2006. Yeah, No, I. I I think D.J. Burns is right where he needs to be.

Going to say something nice about Zach Edie, though, uh, after the game. When they interviewed him and he was talking about people that doubt him, he started screaming and say, I think he dropped the f bomb. He was like, we're fucking here. He showed some emotion. I, I, I hate him.

Less after watching that. He also said he had a boner when they were, someone was holding a, uh, one of his teammates was holding a camera phone. And being like, we made it, we made it. Final four, how we feel. And he's like, I have a boner. Probably for the first time in his life.

Yeah, if you're that big, you got so much blood elsewhere in your body. Yeah, so I mean.

Listen, he's averaging 30 and 16.

Yeah, he actually does work, he doesn't stand perfectly still the entire time. But still, if you're N.C. state, you want, you want that discussion to happen. You want the refs to be hearing that all week. So that way they're at least looking at him when you play.

Yeah, by the way. Uh, before we talk about Saturday's game, uh, games. sorry, game time. Uh, our guy Quiggs, who's one of our best employees at Barstool. Incredible editor, N.C. State Grad. Uh. I told him that I'd pay for him to get out to to Phoenix, I was going to.

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Eharmony get who gets you? Okay, let's start with, uh, this podcast, knowing ball better than any podcast in the world. Clemson was eliminated. Never had a shot, we know.

Ball never had a shot, we know ball. Uh, yeah. Alabama The Great Alabama experiment has hacked basketball.

NATO should be a story that we're like, I mean, it is cool, like when they're like, 11 years ago he was a math teacher and now he's going to the final four. And you saw Alabama on Saturday night to when? When they get hot from three, they can be the best team in the country. Like, that's just a fact.

Shooting like 50 or slightly less than 50, those backdoor cuts are working at like a moderate pace. If you're Clemson, you're still not going to be able to beat Alabama if they're shooting the ball right. That's just a fact. It's just math, that's where the math teacher thing comes in.

Math teacher thing comes in strong cause. They went 45, uh, 5 from three, and they were just it felt like they were hitting big shot after big shot. I also think that Alabama, and maybe people will say, this is crazy, but if you have as much football success as Alabama does, you can't like. No one can, in their right mind, be like, I'm rooting for Alabama, unless you're obviously an Alabama fan, but in which case, enjoy this, enjoy the hell out of this. But like the regular sports fans in the world, it's just too close to everything Nick Saban did and how much you dominated in football, like you can't also have basketball.

Fan So you root for Alabama football, and you root for Alabama basketball, probably to a significantly lesser extent than you root for the football team. What's the conversion rate like? What would you trade an NCAA championship for in basketball, in football, like in the SEC title?

Basketball, I mean, there will be some Alabama basketball fans that will say that we're crazy for this, but I think that if you pulled the entire Alabama fan base, I mean football just.

Is King there? Yeah, I'm not. I'm not talking about the diehard Alabama basketball, in which, like, if you are one, obviously, and even if you're not, even if you're just an Alabama fan. This is an awesome time, enjoy it. But I'm trying to figure out what the actual what the average member of the fan base would trade this title for.

That might be, but yeah, they just have. There's something about having it all, and they have it all. They do. The fact that they got. They had a team in the in the college football playoff, they have a team in the final four. A lot of Michigan State fans reminding everyone they're the only other team who's done that. Oh yeah, of course.

Dabo will be, I don't know who. who do you think would win a national championship first, Clemson or Alabama? Saban gone. I think Dabo's still there.

Shout out our guy Siwoo Kim Tracker. he was down bad. yeah. that was a rough weekend for Siwoo Kim Tracker, he said. 50 likes.

At an airport, he just, Uh, he just stopped giving me updates on Siwoo Kim. He tied for 17th. That's a good finish this week, yeah.

Big week for him. Yeah, but he, he is. He is our favorite tracker because no other tracker in the world can you get a 22 feet for eagle. Birdie, birdie. And we were minus seven, uh, in the same timeline as, uh, all caps.

Hey, he the man does it all. Yeah, so, um, I was, truth be told, I was rooting for Clemson. I was, too, because, I mean, I definitely was. I was. I was rooting for Clemson, cause I wanted to be so wrong about Clemson the entire. I wanted Clemson to win the national champ.

We would have won Ratio of the year. Yeah, like it would have been one of the greatest graphics for this show ever to have the Clemson graphic thrown back in our face. But unfortunately for the people at home, we do no ball.

I expect an apology. For anyone who quotes, tweeted that, that graphic, everyone, everyone that did it. how many quote tweets does it have on it? Right now? Probably like 200..

And just just as simple tweeted us, saying, Ykb, you know, ball, that's all I want. Um, but yeah.

They're going to run up against an entirely different animal in Yukon. And it is it is like, live by the jump shot, die by the jump shot. Yeah, if they, if they can make 40, what'd you say? 46%.

Other problem for Alabama is they take twos at the rim and threes and twos at the rim with Donovan. Klingon is an impossible feat to do. Because we saw it with. Yukon versus Illinois, and Yukon had a 30 to nothing run against Illinois in an elite eight. Illinois offense that has been playing lights out and had an incredible season. That was one of the craziest things to watch ever, where it just started it would. It spanned two halves, cause it was 23 23. The first half ended 29 23..

Playing well on Saturday, so we. We made fun of UVA. When this happened to them earlier in the play-in game, yeah, and a similar thing happened. Except the difference is this is in the Elite eight, so you're a good team.

Very, very good. Offensively. This is number one versus number two. I think, yeah, was it number one versus number two? So they were in.

Up until this point, the Illini are a great, great team. And then they scored. I think they went 55 minutes of real time without scoring a basket, it was nuts, without making a shot.

0 for 19.

Curb stomped. Illinois It was, it was bad, the game was over after that.

Loudest crowd, I mean, that that was, that was Bill Murray, though it was insane how loud it was for Yukon. And they are, they're just a monster, they the closest game they've, tournament game.

Miami in the final four. And you know, what's crazy is we have a possibility depending on what happens tonight on the women's bracket. But there is a possibility of getting Yukon against N.C. State in the finals in both tournaments, that would be incredible.

Afternoon for N.C. State fans. Yeah, back to back they were, they were six, seven point underdogs.

In both games, you know what, they deserve it. N.C. State fans deserve it. It's been a long time.

Remember when we did the Mount Rushmore, Mid Mount Rushmore, like N.C. State football, you remember?

When, Uh, yeah, and I stand by that, by the way. But um, was it like? 2020 was four years ago during Covid, where the UH, College Baseball World series didn't they get, like, disqualified or something? Oh, yes.

And they were really good that year. Yeah, they got screwed. N.C. State You deserve this, yeah.

Don't let anyone don't. We're going to bring up the most losses in Final Four history just because we have to. That's cool, though, but don't let, don't let the haters get you down. No, you earned.

This N.C. state, it's been incredible, but yeah, Yukon is an absolute wagon. I don't. I mean if they can finish the job, cause they have to finish the job to be in this conversation. But if they finish the job this upcoming weekend and Monday, they have to go in the conversation. Of best college basketball teams of all time, yeah.

Yeah, at the end of the game, we're going to, we're going to talk to him about that in a little.

Bit but just let let Andrew take a shot. Are you guys excited for the final four now? I feel like this is especially after last year, which was a weird final four. Because we had all those upsets. And we had, you know, say, San Diego State in in Fau, and it was a weird tournament.

Them, Yeah, I mean, I I like it set up this way because we all have one Cinderella to focus all of our Cinderella energy on. There were too many Cinderella's last year, yeah.

Mothers, I'm very excited. I am a little concerned for you and Dave. You guys have big futures, both on UConn and it seems too easy at this point, which it never is.

Right after they lost Kansas at 14 to one. And I said before we started taping that. If you come with the national championship, I'll only have had a bad march, so I need them to win the National.

Championship, I do so, I'm excited, but that that, yeah, no, it does that happens that will.

Be. But what if they just keep rolling? It seems like they should? Yeah, I don't think.

I don't think Danny Hurley is the kind of coach that's going to let them take a game off.

The one thing that makes me nervous is Alabama does have the one. Like, if they just go nuclear. From three, they can beat any. Like they have that in them. The ability to beat any team any given night because of their three point shooting and every guy shoots, and and that's.

A problem? But trying to find futures here, like, what are the team futures? Okay, Uconn minus one, 95, Purdue plus two, oh five.

It was 35 to one this morning. Pretty crazy, pretty good. And the Elite Eight, the vending machine baby. No one thought, no one thought N.C. State was gonna be able to beat Duke.

I did momentary event time, though it's made event Friday night, I became the main event Friday.

Night I became a a likely fraud mickey mouse reply guy for a while on Friday night because.

That shed, that's bullshit. Yeah, Houston was going to beat him, so I replied to Duke's final.

Score graphic. And I was like, Duke's mickey mouse run, and, uh, that got quoted a million times. And I also was trying to get Duke fans to vacate the wind, which I would have done if I were a Duke fan in that moment. Jamal Shed is, you know, he's going to finish as a finalist for National Player of the year.

Want? They probably wouldn't want the national championship. Yeah, that's what I'm going to say. Maybe I'll get a refund too, yeah.

Then you're good, listen. I enjoyed my time as a mickey mouse lafraud guy. It was kind of fun just step into that world. Cause.

Yeah, so he got into, he was driving a car that was in a really bad accident, I guess.

The old Lance Briggs. Or. He then left his car and was like, I don't know where it is I was.

Going to say, he's like a coach's son on that team, yeah, but what, what? What's the latest? Is he still gone? I don't know.

Think it was a serious accident? A woman was injured and her kid was in the car. Okay, I mean.

Bad, very bad. Um, I just saw a lot of people being like, the chiefs are done, now, they're cooked. I I'm sure Rasheed Rice will probably still play.

Injured people are depending on what he did. You probably shouldn't leave the scene of an accident like that. I would say, not, probably not. PFT. Have you been studying for the bar?

Uh, yeah, I have Jake, because, according to Jostina Anderson, she says, Rasheed Rice has.

Retained counsel Okay, oh so he got a lawyer, so he's a lawyer, yeah.

Not good, I'm going to confirm, not good. Rasheed Rice. There's a dash cam video, too.

It turns out it was just a profile of Kim Mulkey. It was just like, she's an asshole.

Yeah, which anyone who's a very successful coach in in college sports or pro sports. You could write it and be like, Yeah, it turns out they're kind of an asshole. Yeah, they're.

They're very demanding, some players don't like them because they're so demanding, they can be a dick and they can go too far. I actually think it's a beautiful moment in, uh, just equality in America when I can look at Kim Mulkey and be like, she is a dick, yeah.

A decent amount. I went and looked for it, I looked for it too. Yeah, uh, who are you guys?

Rooting for in LSU versus Iowa? I think I'm rooting for. I want Caitlin Clark to get a championship or to get to a championship, cause you got to a championship last year. I want her to get to another one and I want her probably to win, so I'm I think I'm going to take Iowa.

Okay, Hank, what's the spread? I think it's like one and a half, just pick the game. I think I'm kind of rooting for LSU, cause it makes people so mad.

Championship people would be furious, which would be another one. Yeah, another one. She's one of the shit, yeah.

I'm rooting for Iowa, cause I think South Carolina is going to beat in either of them. So, yeah, you know what? I would get the revenge and get back to the final four and it would make the final four more fun. Cause Caitlin Clark would be good for the sport, yeah.

Caitlin Clark play Oh, there was a very funny moment today when, uh, in the Elite Eight game, the three point lines were different. Distances in the college game, um, one was like the old women's distance and one was the new women's distance. And they didn't know they played, I think, five games on that court before somebody.

Level Well, why didn't a guy that's not on the officials to measure the three point line, but.

If a guy that's just sitting up in the 300 level notices it and he had to yell at somebody on the sidelines, texted. That person sent them a picture that he took on his own camera from the upper deck, and then they had to go measure. It's crazy the fact that they played five games there.

And no one said, Anything is bad, it's bad, very bad. And I I feel like we could have probably been making money on it. We definitely could have been. What would have happened if they?

Went into overtime. It's a good question, Jake, I don't know, play half court, do like.

30 minutes, two and a half minute periods. Yeah, yeah, so they switch play one on one.

Yeah, I don't know, but that was big three, big three, that was very bad.

Yeah, we got some brawls in baseball, yeah, and by brawls, I mean benches, clearing and bullpen catchers, that's my favorite.

See sunlight. Yeah, the Mets are already a disaster because they got one hit on opening day. They they've lost all three games. And then they also threw a Reese Hoskins on Saturday. After I think he was already four for four and, uh, was like, total, just unanimous Bush league.

With benches clearing and then the blue Rays and Jays also had the benches clear. It's good to get started. What's that? the blu-ray disc? Yeah.

Yeah, Yankees have won it all. Congrats, congrats, Yankees. Uh, okay.

Let's do, Uh, who's back the week? Hey? Sports fans looking for a new show to binge? Check out Mr. Throwback on Peacock. Follow Danny, A down on his luck memorabilia dealer looking for redemption by reuniting with his middle school teammate, NBA legend Steph Curry.

My who's back of the week is Bryce Harper? Yes, yeah, I. it was either game one or Game two. uh, Bryce Harper was playing first base.

Oh, yeah, you know nothing, you're really dumb, you know nothing. No, because I've I've seen a lot of people saying, this is like, it clearly hit the net.

That makes more sense, cause that that that video without context of it hitting the net was a lot funnier, where it looked like he was just he just overran it.

Yeah, and it is funny to think that, but also the ball, I mean, watch the video without thinking about it, it's funny. I saw it hank and the ball is very clearly going like towards the.

Well, wind and like, backspin hit the net, you saw it hit the net. I'm going to No.

I just knew the minute I watched it, I was like, that clearly bounced off the net.

It's way funnier if you think that it didn't hit the net, though.

I, I haven't seen a video where it hits the net. No, but have you?

I used my brain and I said. He's running directly to the dugout and then the ball is coming at a weird angle down off what is probably the net right there.

Backspin.

No wind the net.

Wind's not real.

The net.

The net is still far away from where he made the catch.

Yeah, but he misjudged where the catch was. I also think it might've, at first, I actually.

Thought it hit well. If it's far enough to hit the net, then he still didn't need to be going.

That hard towards the dugout. At first, I thought, maybe it hit the net and then hit the top of the.

Dugout and bounced up, like, if the net is that far away from the dugout railing, where he barreled into, Yeah, did he really need to be barreling? He's a competitor.

About opening weekend, let him be, let him try and play. He didn't play today because of load management. Well, he did not play today, that's correct.

In the lineup tomorrow, you know what? I'm going to agree with Hank on this because I haven't seen the ball hit the net. We don't know. Okay, fine.

Spin on the ball brought it back, it hit the net. Yeah, I don't think you guys are accounting, like, if you hit, if you hit the ball a certain way, it's going to be, you know, backspinning in the.

Air. But that would make it actually go further. It was top spinning, yeah, he hit the world's first top spin.

You guys say these things as fact. No, I'm on your side now. It didn't hit the net. He's an idiot. Oh, great job, Max.

Music, Oh, country music, because Beyonce put out a country album, yes.

Well, in this fair, how much of this is just because the song she has with Miley is the best?

Song I'd say 95. It is a great song, it's a really good song, it's warranted.

Country music back? Yeah, people are having a debate because Miley Cyrus also covered Jolene.

A few years ago, way better. Beyonce's Jolene Sucks. Oh, she covered it on this album, she did, and it's a skip.

This is like when Travis Kelce got credit for the Fade, Yeah, or when Taylor Swift got credit.

For doing the heart thing, which, by the way, I'd like to see Taylor Swift try to make a country album. I don't think she can. Beyonce only Max is still trying to find a hit the net.

I don't think he can. I don't think it hit the net, he didn't hit the net, yeah, but watch when it lands, it didn't hit the net.

You can see the way.

If we are doing this, if you really were to slow this down frame by frame.

If he saw it hit the net, he would have stopped. Hank. If you slow it down, yeah, make it go frame by frame. The ball goes back and to the left, you can see it, look at that.

I don't think it hit the net either way. We still like Bryce Harper, we want him on the show, but it didn't hit the net. Is that the end of your Who's back? Well, yeah.

Dead. Nobody listened to country music, and then Beyoncé showed up, and now people listen to country.

Music again, so congrats to country. It never hit the net. My Who's Back of the Week? is the commercial we all end up hating because we watch it so much during March madness. And, unfortunately, game time. No, that one rocks.

Was going to be a real commercial, No? So that was a commercial that me and Roan taped like two years ago. And it was like a pre-roll for Barstool sports videos. And then I got a text from one of our producers saying, Hey, we want to remake that video. Can you do it? Here's when Roan's going to be in town. And I was like, Yeah, I don't know why we're redoing this, but yeah, let's do it.

Like AD, Well, Rob begged me, because I was like, he was like, Roan can't make it. And I know I annoy you. And I was like, No, Rob, you don't annoy me, but I'll do it. And so we do this and.

Then, like, a week, two weeks later, it's apparently a commercial that's on TV, which is crazy but.

That one doesn't annoy people. Hopefully. The SGA Shea Gildash Alexander and Chet Holmgren commercial is horrific. And those are two of the most fun young players in the NBA. And I don't know who told them to do that, but that was a big mistake because I hate them. Now. It's way, way better than.

Paul MiSthenet Oh, that one's good, I like that one, I know I love it too.

My other who's back is Cooper Flagg, because, uh, every single, every single time Duke loses, everyone's like, you sure, Cooper Flagg wants to go there, and it's awesome because he's getting hated before he even shows up. Main event.

Mega Max Nil deal? Oh wait, is his nickname the main event? But it's m-a-i-n-e. Yes, that's cool.

I like that, Yeah, Hank, don't make PFT feel stupid. you're making me feel dumb. You couldn't open that calendar.

Who's your who's back? Worst thing that's ever happened on the 11th day of a month.

My who's back of the week is Spring football? It's back, yeah, UFL, yeah.

Of the of the kick, I saw the highlight of the kick. We had a fake field goal from former Steelers punter Brad Wing. Yeah, that was cool, he threw like a 40 yard pass.

LSU But yeah, I like they do, they did, uh, they did. Embrace a content creator and let him be a kicker, and he actually kicks in games, which I thought was cool. Wait, what destroying? Who's that?

Kicked field goal. He's an actual, actual kicker. He did well. Yeah, well, this is a this is a mickey mouse league.

Did not do that because they cared about football. I'm I've never been more confident in my take that, uh, spring football, I just don't care. I feel very good about that because I've every, every few years. They try to pop one up and be like, you should care. I respect the sports calendar more than anything.

But not spring football. I liked the XFL in 2020, it felt like that was on the right path until Covid, cause there were a lot of people in the stands. At least for that, for those games, yeah.

But I just was still, I still wasn't. I remember when it was happening and it was March madness.

Yeah, no, I know, I know you're not, you're. You're definitely not. But I think that one had a chance of maybe lasting a few years. This one, I don't know, probably not, yeah.

In my take, uh, okay, let's do our interview with Dan Hurley. great interview as always with coach. Uh, pft. You got a couple ads before we get to our interview.

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Okay, we now welcome on a very special guest friend of the program. It is a tradition, two years running now, to have him on on the Sunday. After getting to a final four, it is Uconn Huskies head coach Dan Hurley. Coach, First of all, congratulations.

That was insane to watch, really, man. Just the way I'm wired, I'm probably in my mind, just like thinking, next possession, you know? Like, just because I'm, you know, just. I'm so, you know, maniacally kind of locked into the game. But you know, it was weird, just looking up at the scoreboard and you know, we got off to a good start. It's 23-23, you know, you look up a couple more times, and it's 53-23..

Way they've been playing, you know, it was, it was crazy. Yeah, yeah, it was. It was so fast and so impressive that even people in the stands, Larry David included, was yelling at you to stop coaching.

No, I didn't, I didn't know he was over there and I think everyone told me about it after. And I'm like a Larry David type of character. Like as a coach, you know, I got all, you know, weird idiosyncrasies and I say whatever I feel like saying, and it's a lot of times it's ignorant. You know, I would have thought he'd be on my side, you know, I would have thought he would be for me and not not against me. And I don't think there can't be a connection to the University of.

Illinois at Champaign, right? No, I think he was just there as a fan, but yeah, you, you, I think he.

Hated me? Yeah, he hated my style, He hated the way I went about coaching, he said. Shame on you. Did you feel shame?

Way, uh, when any of those uh videos pop up and you are kind of a Larry David like character. I mean, you drink the, you drink the piss before every game, you know you're, you're going crazy on the sideline. How is that going?

What you're drinking?

We, we can tell you look like you smell good on TV. Yeah, sure, that's a fact. Uh, I like the one quote that you had where you said that your your fan base is noxious as shit on social media. So you do you have somebody that monitors what's going on on Twitter, on Instagram, and do you?

You know, um, sometimes in recruiting, too, if there's things that we could use to show potential recruits, um, you know that they'd be making a mistake by going to another school. Uh, you know, based on some things we've seen on social, we'll share that too there. Uh, but yeah, Luke Murray, I mean, he does a lot of, uh, just fueling the fire, poking the bear, so to speak.

So you, you, you gotta be on edge. Yeah, so about that. You found motivation in very different ways this year, uh, because you guys are so good. Has there ever been a moment where your team's like, all right coach? Like, you're, you're not actually mad about this? Specifically, the tip time that you, uh, used this motivation for Thursday night when you're like, Oh, we're first tip.

Can't actually be mad about this, can he? Yeah, um, yeah, I mean, they they expect it, and they're, um, they're almost aware before I come in of of where I'm going. Uh, you know, these kids, you know, cling in and you know, my my, the my, uh, you know, my new addition here, my, uh, you know, my camp Spencer, who, you know, who also. Um, you know, he's a mini me.

Shoulder. So I actually bring up Cam Spencer. I had a question about him. Uh, the story goes that he stays in, uh, hotel rooms on the road with caravan, and he yells at him before every game in the hotel room. What? At what point did you find out, or figure out, that Cam Spencer was a mini you and also a?

Psycho Yeah, I knew he was a psycho. Um, I. Well, on the visit, you had a pretty good sense. Because, like, brother Pat, you know, dad Bruce, and and Donna, um, you know, they're, they're, uh, they're all like, I mean, they have the absolute same world view. Uh, all of them. And it's like, you know, go hard or shut the you know what up, uh, and he's, uh, you know, there's some weird connections to both. His parents were born in Jersey City, you know, where I grew up, right?

Yeah, yeah, you guys, you guys are one in the same. That's nice to have a like you on the court every single time on the floor. Yeah, that's good stuff. Yeah, did you figure?

Out what you're going to use for motivation this week going to. I mean, I know you already talked about the the national media, not talking about Yukon enough. But is there anything with the setup of the tournament that you've found so far? Where it seems like they're out to get you? Because if you don't have some, I've got, I've got a couple, you can I do, too.

So the first, oh, you do have some? I was just going to say, you know, it's it's just it's far.

Yeah, yeah, that's the first one on my brain. Can you go way too far? Yeah, Alabama has a much shorter trip, you have to travel so much further than Alabama, which means that. And you guys haven't really spent much time on a plane. You're going to have to be on a plane.

Yes, so the so, the fan base is not going to do it for me. Well, I got one, I got one for you.

Yeah, I got one saying there's not enough internet in Alabama. Yeah, talk, shit. Yeah, I, I got one though.

For you, I found someone, someone found enough internet. Here's one. Uh, someone tweeted, Fuck it, we're beating Uconn.

Lot in terms of how angry you get over what somebody said. You know if there's a, you know if they don't, uh, if the avatar is like an egg. Or it's like a person that doesn't exist, and it's like a fake name that those people, they don't get to me, but anyone has the courage to go for. Like their actual face, with their actual name, and maybe where they work, when they, when they, when they, uh, trash me, that gets to me.

It's so this is just a message to anyone. If you want to get noticed by coach early, put a name on.

It put a name on it and a face on the real person. You should have to show a driver, you should have to to do a Twitter too, you should.

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Day Oh, did you win we? Well, I, I didn't end up starting them, but I, but I met with him.

Biggest qualm with your coaching recently has been that you have not let him shoot at the. Yeah, you're on the sidelines, he's your son. Now. I know I know what you're thinking. You want to be classy, you don't want to run the score up. I get that that side of it.

One shot here. Yeah, he, and, you know what, my dad is probably a better dad than me because he let me. I think it was maybe my sophomore year. I subbed my brother out County Championship, uh, you know, we were up, you know, 100. And, uh, he subbed me out at the end. And I hit a half court. Bank shot at the buzzer. I think to win by 63, um, or whatever. But uh, we. We found that with Andrew in these games that, uh, we have, uh, he's been dribbling the ball out though.

Just a shooter, yeah. I mean, the fact that he's gotten into every single tournament game in in this two-year run is is pretty awesome. I mean, that's he's clearly a big piece of the success. 41, and oh, you can't 41, and oh, when he's in the game is pretty insane.

The coveted year eligibility. And yeah, so he's, you know, he's squeezing me hard now. Nil, you know? He's obviously got tremendous leverage with the with the portal. Yeah, and I'm sure that he, he, he.

Could talk to his mom and and probably probably get you to show some leniency that way, I mean.

He's the closer, you gotta. you gotta have some respect for the closer. Yeah, he's the closer at.

On campus here, that's where that's where all the madness goes on in stores. I had a real.

Basketball question for you real quick? Um, first of all. Donovan Clingin Unbelievable. You also don't get enough credit for, uh, having his nickname, which should get more. People should be talking about it. You call him Cling Kong, which is awesome, uh. But in a basketball perspective, watching him grow, you know, last year he had the injuries, this year he's been unbelievable.

The thing that's unique about about Donovan is, uh, you know, really, a couple things. I mean, he's seven, two, you know, plus, you know, probably, you know, closer to seven, three. But and um, you know, once he got back from the uh, from the injuries, we just we wouldn't let him back on the court. Till he got his weight down into the 250s, you know, he probably came into the season like a little bit too heavy. You know these guys, you know, at Nil and everything they got, they got it pretty good.

At UCONS, we want to make the most of it. Yeah, he's, he's so much fun to watch, and it's just a great story. Because it's like, you know, even even last year he could have gone to the N.B.A. draft.

Be in the N.BA, you know, and he knows it, and you can make some money in Nil and do real well. So it's not like, you know you, you could still, um, you know, if you're a popular player and an excellent player, I mean, you could. These guys gonna be making close to what the rookies are making, uh, you know, in college at some point soon anyway.

Right, though? No, you're right, I read an article where you said you talked about. It's like, Look, there's. It's hard for a lot of these guys because you know, the money's there and you can go to the NBA.

And I think that honesty is great. James Booknight You know, he was, uh, if you remember him from a couple years back, uh, that Covid year. I mean, he was, I mean, six, five, like the perfect, uh, modern basketball N.BA, you know, just that guy was a freak man. The athleticism, the scoring, I mean. He dropped 40 on Creighton during a regular season as a sophomore, Um, and and at the end of his sophomore year, he was a lottery pick.

College I'm going to tell them I I should have a book. Yeah, yeah, Uconn has a, um, a pretty cool opportunity in front of them. You're going to a final four, obviously the women's team could be in the final four too, are you?

To both be in the final fours at the same time. Yeah, um, I talked to Gino all the time. Um, whether it's stopping over there and seeing him, or, uh, you know, or him, you know, just dropping a call or or a text. Uh, you know. Either way, the guy is like, you know, the smartest guy.

Uh, you know, tomorrow night? Yeah, yeah. I mean, the the run that both the men's and women's team is on is awesome and there's nothing better. And I love that you call him coach.

Like, Calhoun is still coach, how many guys do you call coach? DJ? Um, my college coach.

I call my dad, my dad, I don't even know if I ever called him. I don't think I ever said anything. I don't think I ever said coach or that, uh, during those high school years with my father. Um, coach, yeah, just my college coaches, really, um.

Yeah, um, all right. So I got one last question. This has been awesome as always. Coach, Uh, it's a rollback question. RHoBCK.com promo code.

To it, it was. It made me sad. Yeah, very sad. Just um, that that segment that you guys did after that Marquette game, yeah, where he was a bro. He's a broken man and broken fan, you know, and it was just sad.

Hands. It's just it's sad, it's really sad. Max, It's so sad. I mean that, like when you think about it, think things that have happened in Max's life that are just like. The worst is is he just has to go back to your speech when you lost to Villanova. And then you better get us now because we're coming. Like, that was the start of the end of Max's life.

Max Hey Max, I would say this in Max's defense. I mean that those live conference wins tremendous, you know. What hurts them, though, is is, you know, the those Big five games are are just brutal games to have on your schedule. Yeah, I mean, six in the Big five. Well, they're tough games because you know, they're the they're the Super Bowl of all those low to mid majors and you know.

Big five games on their schedule that's tough. Is this making you, like, reignite your hatred a little bit? The fact that your bitter rival is is like, they're there and patting you on the head, it's.