Will meet with the Steelers after beating the Jets the Steelers linebacker Jarvis Jones one he's going to make his way to the Arnold although he's still in discussions with for adults or it's not yet the end Adam Schefter in turning to the a.f.c. West after 4 seasons the l.a. Chargers have released left tackle King Don last Dunlap was recently arrested violating a protective order against Bull Run and in the end c.w.a. At the top of the season's final 8 I would vote for all if Villanova which also holds one of the one peed in the end he got away from it after the Wildcats an order it got handed Arizona and then you win. All our number one team in the end get away from it and Penn State's former 80 and former vice president have both pled guilty to an inner child endangerment in their roles in Jerry Sandusky from lefties in case Tim Curley and Gary Schultz fail to report a few $1001.00 complaint that and dusty would be executing a pointer to Sal and they both face of years in prison. 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All tracks and mission bank mission banks core purpose is to fuel a vibrant and prosperous community mission bank. Life shouldn't just. Join the conversation by calling e.s.p.n. Bakersfield. 20022000 now here's your host great. Thing so I had can sag over South Dakota but here's the thing at last minute I was thinking would Princeton's often slow down Notre Dame too much so I missed out because you know in the 12th fives half the time you're going to be right with the 12 so I'm thinking this is a great spot great opportunity. And I totally regret it now moving on to West Virginia I think you should do it because your tickets. I was awesome no good knowledge of the recap because it's not hardcore sports kids fantasy teams bracket and nobody else cares about your. Even the segment is a little outdated you that no one cares about you brag about somebody tweeted out this morning like you were actually clever right you could just remind you like oh you're doing that no one cares about your bracket joke if you do the 2nd right now so I guess I'm the idiot out of both if you want to really play that shuts up the guy who tweets yesterday hey I'm not about daylight savings time it's only one hour people relax because that's an outdated one too like Bill I'd like to complain about the hour where are you in your political beliefs if you're anti daylight savings I think that you'd still pass say that like you're not the cool guy going and just an hour but well I like to complain a little bit and it's one day still to bad so you want to open that window yes a little bit like yes I have no issue with those going on but I'm sure I can you know I think it is nearly 6 years so you see that should have been the tease kinda like savings be saved. Here's a unit revamp you get to change it rotated every year have it landed a different day different time of the day so you're at work Thursday 4 o'clock Nope it's 5. Down the OSCE right so that's what we can stop burying this thing in a slow news cycle that 2 am 3 am 1 am 2 am do you like that's going to be over we're going to start cranking this thing up put it right in the middle of a Monday having a case of the Mondays right here not because now you're going to get out here an hour early it just repackage the entire thing or member used to always be Final 4 to when they moved it up like you just keep moving up the light savings mid February Valentine's Day special no I want Valentine's Day to be an hour longer. It's such a special day so the only savings you know there is a stretch when they don't even have to life savings. That when you were really young and it was early eighty's you know now they did I think it sort of Roman times it's really got like in New York they did this population publishers' was telling me there was no deal like savings and the problem was accidents increase dramatically because people can see it they're going to work it wasn't like that like 90 and we were walking. Eighty's it was by the way I don't appreciate the way you just did that or you go you probably you probably remember you know I know you're too young to remember when you're in high school in grade school like you're in such a routine this is the worst like this is the worst Monday of the entire year my things all over the place so I was like Are they good t.v. It's going to be a little bit different but shout out to all the farmers Yes and good luck with your brackets get all the help you need 24 hours a bracket coverage like you've never seen before Judy Espion sort of a challenge marathon I think we're promoting the hell out of this the fun starts tonight at 700 years been time to fill out your turnit brackets and we both ended up with Arizona winning the whole thing I haven't gone up against you and see you have Arizona beating u.c.l.a. I've got Arizona beating u.c.l.a. In the final yes man you love the Pac 12 this year I know I'm making a really spirit you have reasons I love the Big 12 it was great to be there in Kansas City for this weekend but I'm making a push to the Pac 12 guy so maybe next year I can get out to the west coast but Zona u.c.l.a. Oregon love in the pact and I got Villanova represent the Big East and the e.c.c. Representation none that seems a little weird but it does have a little where I will want to push I have I would state elite 8 with Oregon so maybe you can sway me to appeal the Big 12 nice but I really like Oregon because of Brooks but I have Iowa State in the Sweet 16 as well but that's because I have her mom beating Purdue yet let's get back to Vermont for those who are not aware Ryan you v.m. Guy very proud of it on a serious 3213213 this coach you told us earlier on sports in which I want to tell this story because I don't know enough people know this we had him on his name's John Bakker and he was so nice to me as he when he was an assistant so it was like you know he just be the assistant he would go in and he went up there with the other coach that you know since moved on. And he just loved basketball and I could totally relate to this you know granted I did have a couple kids but I think at the time I was 38 years old couple kids it works on kind of like computer tech stuff and he went to his wife is like I just want to do something that I'm passionate about I want to get back to basketball and there's a chance for me to take the staff and Good afternoon welcome to the great Kurt show on 12 30 am 98 point f.m. Yes Me and sports had a little bit of technical difficulty there apologize for that as we jump right into our show on a Monday brought you by all transmission Bank play in solar an air tailing caster on the side of the glass as we get things rocking rolling killing how you don't do an hour and then feel better this week right away absolutely that's a good thing Meanwhile we've got a lot to talk about I've got a well we're talking brackets we're obviously talk of brackets I've got to thank you I got to rant Ok got a lot going on there's a lot we're going to Corey Costello play by play man of couse a bigger field on board to talk about the county basketball season and about their loss it's a New Mexico State Of course they're in I t. Good and they will be playing at Cal tomorrow if you count so years ago by the way although this Cal has a for well I guess they had a 1st round pick them but they have a 1st round pick on their team or you know projected 1st round pick it's not going to be easy in fact Cal's a one seed Cal State bigger still an 8 seed and the way it works you always play in your home for until the semifinals the runners cannot play a home game because the lowest seed in the region 32 teams 4 brackets of 8 and the runners are 8 seed out here our side so once again they will be playing on the road at Cal Tomorrow night we'll talk to Cory Costello at the bottom of the hour so let's jump right into this because men there's a lot to cover and I'm going to get into our local stuff in about 5 minutes after we take our 1st break even though the segment got truncated because of our technical problems and we thank you for hanging on so we hear from Rod Barnes and and also Matt Smith. But I got to talk I got to talk about the. The tournament itself in the brackets and my thank you goes out to the committee thank you thank you thank you can I not say thank you enough for saying no to Syracuse I am telling you I was so tired and I listen to these guys I'm even going to give you some sound bites what we call them of guys who say Syracuse should begin and why and I think they're all full of it I'd ask you to go to the Syracuse schedule Yes They beat Duke yes they beat Florida State once again I'm going to say this slowly for the Dick Vitale the world and others for not picking the 6 the 8 best teams in the country or picking the 68 most deserving teams in the country that's how other teams get in by virtue of being in the a.c.c. With all the recruits that you get to come to the a.c.c. In the Carrier Dome in particular you should always be one of the 68 top teams but we just give you an embossed invitation every year before the season starts that's not how it works you didn't reach your potential sorry 18 wins 14 losses I think it was a bit over this before but I'll say it again yes you had some quality wins declined 6 words you could still up 50 teams they played like 15 games they had 6 wins they lost 9 they were 211 on the road they lost to a horrible scene John steam lost to Georgetown one of their big they lost to St John's by 30 So explain to be how middle you know major schools made major schools like Illinois state which did not get in. Get put under a microscope for a bad loss but these big schools don't oh just the laws they had some they had some big wins of course you had some big wins you played in like 20 big games you want a few Congratulations Now take a seat oh by the way of their other wins Colgate Cornell South Carolina state Holy Cross I mean come on you're Syracuse you played a lousy non-conference schedule so let's jump right into that because you know what . I get up at 5 30 in the morning to drive home because I was staying at Memorial Hospital with my wife and I had to go home and get a change of clothes before I had to get my work day started so I'm driving home at 5 30 in the morning I turn on the radio who do I hear you know Jim Boeheim bright nearly he's on the Syracuse coach is already being interviewed on the radio about being snubbed at the n c w chairman here's a guy who didn't even like the media he would much less just want private media than talk to him but boy when he's going to need it he goes right into the media 5 30 in the morning my time so it's 830 there so it's not the crack of dawn but still 8 30 in the morning I would gather and guess that you could probably ask Jim Boeheim for 88 o'clock interview. 30 days in a row and he'd turn you down 29 of those days probably all 30 in less it serves him so he's quickly got a point as you're going to hear from Jim behind right here about his team's performance you know he did say look we didn't have a great season had a couple bad losses but then in the same breath Here's Jim b. Hi I'm on his team's performance this season which again. And a lot of mediocre wins including lower echelon a.c.c. Teams you know when you pony up against and you start beating all the bad teams and you stack up the wins you just say well we're in the a.c.c. Well there are bad teams in the a.c.c. Too so here's Jim behind you we actually beat better teams we beat a 2 seed of 3 seed a 5 seed in each. Other in the term and of course we beat Wake Forest to ipod deserve to be in the tournament we finished ahead of Wake Forest in the league and beat them in the head to head Ok fine so you make your case there and you didn't the elephant in the room you had a bunch of bad losses you were to an 11 on the road all your wins came at home summer you didn't qualify now let's get to all the cheerleaders for the a.c.c. And certainly for Syracuse Let's start out with Dick Vitale and Mike tell talking about 1st of all the losses that Syracuse had so here's Dick talking about the Los is Baby I know to float up was St John's I noted got people I was the college I know there was the Georgetown 3 teams that struggle warrior Well let me tell you you'll be 3 teams from that conference who are the top 10 at one time come on they bore what was on what I got I don't have to like you guys I go well and I can see that they belong I mean he got a raw deal you know what to give the wrong i open Ok that's all I got to say because they're in your conference I'm good look if you don't understand this concept I can't help you you sort of it's like you know they say boats you know water rises all boats rise if you're in a conference like the a c c. You pretty much are an a.c.c. Calibers school it's not like you're playing it's not like you know County Bakersfield in the whack goes to play 8 teams in the a.c.c. And they're going to win 4 lose 4 there not because they don't get the same recruiting pool but Syracuse has the best recruiting pool in the nation this should do better then 10 Ne Ne a.c.c. They should do better than beating up on a bunch of the punk teams in the a.c.c. And then they can point to and we got a win over Duke and a win over so in Florida state they were Duke was a bank shot at the buzzer that was lucky I mean I don't want to decide for you know break it down that much because they deserve the win but and I'm not it's I Syracuse I'm anti treating everything different if it's a big school and mid major or a small school for instance St Mary's got jobbed last year they could've done much better on the resume but because they had one blip on the radar they didn't get in Syracuse has 14 losses and nobody's talking about them they're just playing to the other guy and say that guys uglier than me I'm good luck and that's what they're basically saying so here's Dick might sell one more time on the tough conference that is the a.c.c. Which it is which it is but still Here's Dickey I can not understand how you can go to be there and here you see see the profits conference of all 3 teams that were even in the pumpkin in America and be a lift up here's how you lost to the teams you talked about earlier and you played a bunch of garbage teams in your non conference and you did not live up to expectations sorry I mean if you didn't fight tells base of you say by virtue of being in the a.c.c. And winning a couple big games they should be in last I checked the play 31 games in their case 32 and they lost 14 of them. Never has a team until this year lost 15 games and gotten in the tournament that's Vanderbilt 14 the last teams rarely get in but I guess if you're a big school why not come one come all can we look at the quality of the wins before we start saying let them in Syracuse did not have a great season or they did not have a worthy season could Syracuse beat half of the field yes that's something brewing some the point in all Illinois state could beat a lot of teams in the field they didn't get in because they again had some bad losses and they didn't play anybody outside of their conference and the conference by the way is weak Missouri Valley which Dusty is the only other team in there that's worth a darn So yeah you got to pick your you know your wars or your battles Illinois state should schedule a tougher schedule and they should lose to 2 teams that are sub 200 in the r.p.i. You can't do that if you're not complaints of schedule but here's the unfair part and you know they talk about unfair to Syracuse or big schools if you are a small school or a mid major and you have one more man they just put that under a microscope but if you're a big school and you've got out face full of temples they will look away if you've got something going on right you beat Duke I get news for you there are bigger schools that have beat Duke before it's not like Duke is the be all end all they have bad days too I one more guy that's going to prop up Syracuse before I take a break now if I ever did radio in Syracuse New York I'd be fired by now. J. Williams Yes p.n. Guy former Duke player by the way is shocked it's you're accusing get him Jay Williams got him. He says and I mean great winds with it within the leave it at the same time which you have to look at is a weak non-conference schedule and we're challenged with the record there and also . You know the fact that they. The fact that they had some some issues with 211 on the road didn't win big games outside of outside of the Carrier Dome so you take those 2 combinations and that was the thing you know road wins and also how did you do how did you do with those non-conference games and that was the other half that was actually Mark policies of the in c.w.a. Was going to say no and he was explaining himself e.j. You can wait a 2nd he was explaining himself as to how the committee came to the decision to m.j. Williams Sounds like 7 seconds. I was going to say you know I please talk about Syracuse to another 2 and 11 on the rope with this team like Jay and Kara both said they can beat anybody in the country as they've been Duke at home. And that's not how you get into the tournaments you gloss over that or to an 11 on the road open but Jason Carroll said well good for Jason Carroll guess what they beat Duke Ok so I guess everybody who beats Duke if you're doing 30 but you beat Duke you're in Duke at the start of the season was not very good they underperforms they've come on like gangbusters in a plane like the preseason number one that they were put you know well if you're going to fall back on as in they beat Duke you know how many teams would love to play Duke they don't even get a chance because Duke doesn't want to play him and I'm being serious about this I'm not saying Duke's afraid of them I'm saying Duke has nothing to gain by playing him you think Duke would want to play u.n.c. Wilmington that's right around the corner no they have nothing to gain from that you think they would want to play any any teams that are really in the area they're not ne a.c.c. Probably not the point East Carolina disease Carolina is not very good. But do you think they would play Richmond or v.c.u. Do you think they would play you know teams of Betty Olcott that are considered beaters but are pretty good programs no because they have nothing to gain from it they don't play in the regular season they only play when they have to that's when they're matched up with them in a tournament so when you see these other teams oh so and so on we had one top 50 win guess what they only had 2 shots at the top 50 win because nobody wants to play I'm Wichita State's not getting a lot of tough games out of conference Good teams don't want to play them what do they have to gain from it you can't have it both ways and I will take a break when we come back we'll talk the brackets a little bit and. I guess that sounded like a rant but my real rant is about driving around Bakersfield as it happened again I got it something that happens to me every day when I come from. 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Corps Brewing Company Golden Colorado great beer great responsibility a leg or pretty much Gregor's favorite animal. Like the great courage show on 12 30 am 98 point f.m. P.s.p. And sports as we're going to jump in more to our best boss effort I got to get out this driving rant of mine because this happens every day and usually when I say I'm going to say something I forget at the end of 0 and then I forget and then I forget Yeah so so so here it is such a huge but it's something I think most people can relate to this and if you're somebody who's experienced this let's talk about it 842000. K b a k is located on West one drive it's like behind Jim Bourke Ford on Oak and so when you come out 19th Street if you will and I take a right on to Oak I drive over the overpass and trust them Ok over over over Truxton over the overpass on Oak You know I am coming to the corner of California where there's like a jack in the box on your left and. Or Marco on your other leg on the far left Yeah but there's a Taco Bell on your right Ok Ok. People. When you are in a as you come down that hill over the on the overpass toward California you're there are 3 lanes essentially for really if you come to a left turn lane but then there's the straight ahead lane then there's the one lane where you can go straight or turn right and then there's the one lane where you can only turn right so what I'm telling you is there are 2 lanes where you can turn right is that you know we follow so far Ok well the one lane on the far right the only turn right lane is usually backed up by traffic from California Avenue so therefore when those people turn right they basically are almost stuck whereas those of us who choose to use the other right turn lane which is also you can go straight you know we turn and we turn into because we're in the 2nd lane you turn on to California on to the 2nd lane you understand stay in your lane right so I turn in the 2nd lane to the 2nd lane on California Avenue making a right at that Taco Bell every stinking day somebody turns right from the turn lane on the far right and because they just see they can't go anywhere they figure that middle lane is theirs too and they will run you over they don't look they don't care and they figure if I get hit oh well and then they'll look like Why do you do that I've not hit anybody of course but I've had to avoid people who don't understand you kind of stay in your lane just because there's traffic in your lane doesn't mean you get to have a wide berth when you talked about killing when they're turning it's not they're not merging here they're just turning and they're using 2 lanes to turn because the one lanes not available Ok people quit doing it. It happens every day I'm surprised I did not see 20 accidents. A day at that place even though they would be low speed 5 mile an hour accidents in fact the matter is people do it I mean if I experience it every day and I'm not exaggerating every day I see it then it must go on 100 times a day when there's traffic you know I'm driving in the noon hour so it's busy or right before noon and my crazy call me 842000 or talk basketball man oh man that's Ok so let's jump into this bracket for or likely I said no we're going to talk about the runners look there in the end I see tomorrow at Cal if you are disappointed by that that's called progress because last year when they got to the n.c. Doubly tournament I was a high water mark and that was great and you know what it raised our expectations and now because we're not ne and see the tournaments win the nic we were a little deflated and disappointed as are the players the coaches the university I would imagine they all are that's a good thing it's not good to lose which way they were in the tournament but it's a good thing that we actually have those expectations and we're not settling for one season guys see you next year the n i c Well not the crown jewel that it once was back in the day of your dad or your dad's dad is still a reward and the runners should be pretty proud of that now what was really hard to record brain around was that game against Mexico State Man oh man they played phenomenal defense for the 1st 20 minutes phenomenal. Because he did 13 Turner was they only had 4 buckets on the field he scored all the points on the foul line all of them was 29 to 20 probably could have been worse 2nd half starts runners jump out to a 37 to 24 lead Jaylen Arrington hit a 3 which by the way was 1001 of his career they had a 13 point lead 3724 in the wheels fell off. Mexico State went on a run in Baker had a couple 3 something that 13 point lead was down to 7 and then that at that point they went on a 130 run 7 point deficit became a 6 point lead and the runners were in trouble got close got to within $25149.00 and the jailing Arrington junk but could not believe in and down the stretch just wilted and that might be the correct word because of that 4 overtime game the night before was fatigue a factor I would think because they give up 50 points in the 2nd half the runners usually don't give up 60 points in a game they give up 50 in the 2nd half after the game here's head coach Rod Barnes and a happy very much a product Braxton Huggins who of course plays for de Mexico State So Coach Barnes and then Braxton you know. We have done some things with out about them put them last night. Before and so let's not give away. Their good program you know and I think as we talk as coaches we've got to talk out of the league feels good you know they beat us last year. Every every every 2nd. Over the offseason I remember how we lost you know were and were you know I remember the spit on. Edge of feel good and good for you Braxton Hogans best of luck it's a tough assignment 1st game Baylor to their long Baylor's long they've got Mobley in the middle they've they've got nobody to go I know they had that 7 for 2 guy who is a New Mexico State a blue r. Guy but he really play as they have no in the deal with Mobley. We skim off. So the runners come home they get home yesterday. And they watch the n i t program and they find out they're going to play AK out so every action from a pretty just dejected Matt Smith about everything that happened and then head coach Dr Barnes. Sitting down. Saying it's nice to see I see myself like this sort of like us not like this. To me when I was. I was just going to be put into this if we. Can offer to do conferences it's is another game it's nicer to me so it's good for always as a competitor to your. Food so as quickly as we get back to Florida get off we're there you go and you know what it's a great opportunity and here's the thing I mean yes it beat the preference would be to be in the n c w tournament and if they did they'd be you know like a 14 c. Just like New Mexico state so that would be the preference but here's the deal 1st of all they be callous years ago yes to both different teams now but they did because years ago here's what I've sort of observed at least and again they works hired but I really believe after watching the Grand Canyon game at the end which they lost watching the Utah Valley game which they had to go for over times and then watching the. The last in Mexico state I firmly believe and there will be those who disagree but I'm just saying I firmly believe the runners are much more comfortable being the underdog they really are they're much more comfortable being the underdog as for the favorite. Events and where you are I mean that the number one seeds are Villanova Kansas. And North Carolina so those are 4 number one seeds Jay right Jay right gets interviewed so often I could see every suit that he owns Ok I mean he's a well dressed guy by the easies on t.v. So much I mean when it comes to national coverage you would think there's like 16 schools in the country. Because of the only people they talk to but it is Jay right his team is the number one seed in fact the number one overall c But the number one seed in the east that didn't play the winner of Mount St Mary's and New Orleans. Here is Jay right take. It it's a sign of our work through the season and and we're proud of it and then you know we know tomorrow we're just want to get it we've got to go to work like everybody else Ok now that's a nice way of saying not saying we're better the most the teams that are in this film are going to take a quick break when we come back Corey Castelo play by play man the biggest build. A bigger field will join us to talk about that game that transpired at New Orleans Arena and of course what's going to happen tomorrow in Berkeley when they take on cows the breakers are on 12 30 am at a point f.m. E.s.p.n. Sports 30 s p s is now on f.m. 981. 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From 7 to 11 pm all these geniuses tell you if Le Bron doesn't win this year his legacy his career all be damaged and he's never going to be Michael Jordan and. No one can take away from what they did last year. And that comeback and that 31 down legacy right there in my opinion e.s.p.n. Bakersfield 12 30 am 981 f.m. . From sensitive financial information to unique business strategies your bank knows a lot about you but what do you really know about your banker admission Bank are one on one relationship model places an emphasis on building trust through meaningful actions and consistent results we provide timely feedback and help you make important decisions exactly what you would expect from a trusted adviser here in mission bank a relationship is not just a buzzword it's our business model member f.d.i.c equal housing lender you're listening to Greg her better than the bad boys of the Detroit Pistons and that's pretty bad. Back to the record. Yes Yes Sports your own by the way for all kinds we have the 1st look we have the entire tournament going on here but the 1st 4 games will start tomorrow we have New Orleans Mount St Mary's That is tomorrow our coverage begins at 330 followed by a Wake Forest and Kansas State if you'll notice 2 schools from smaller conferences to schools and big conferences there but those rules are by the way at like 11 seeds the one you know Wake Forest think in the States or a plan to get the same thing on. Thursday. Where you've pretty much got excuse me Wednesday where you have North Carolina Central and u.c. Davis Yankees by the way u.c. Davis going to the 1st ever and suitably judgment and then Providence and u.s.c. On board as well for those games can be seen on Tru t.v. . So I find that wherever tru t.v. Is I mean I've watched t.v. But it's that channel word people are chasing Sasquatch you know you know that stuff so you know if you if you did your best well highlights in your Sasquatch coverage it's true t.v. And then maybe those detective you know you know where people get killed and they you know they will jokers Oh is that on their presidents records Ok clearly I don't watch you know tru t.v. But. Nonetheless we've got all of that for you coming up over the next 2 days he will County basketball of course will be on the road at Cal To that end we're joined by play by play man Corey Costello to talk about the runners past and present as we dip back into the black tournament and look at the nic grey you don't pretty good I'd say there's been we might be in the end I keep at least people can find it funny and be an. Alibi. Exactly if I have Directv and I tell you I don't have the time I'm going to I it takes me as long to find the channel as it does to you know sit and watch the game it was my question and to play to my 1st rabbit Oklahoma we were on Tru t.v. But it was like why do I even have that channel so now yes with me and I did not in general but we're at e.s.p.n. 2 tomorrow night for the 1st time ever and yeah I mean you can find e.s.p.n. That is sweet I can definitely find that let me let me let's go back to the terminal were you in the post-game news conference with Rod after the championship game where you in there you know I was out I was still on the air doing I really oppose good time all right but I would I would imagine maybe you asked I don't know that anybody in there asked him I'd have to double check and see John Dos since he got back from Vegas So my question is did anybody or do you know if anybody asked him about if he thought the 4 overtimes wore them down in the 2nd now yeah I know that was definitely brought up but I know I think it might have been brought up by the paper as well and I think I've actually mentioned it too I just think a lot of it I think it's hard to play not just that but if you look back to the 1st half to Mexico State game as hard as we play defensively. Coming up a 4 overtime game and it's not so much to just. Play but you know next week we cruised in their 1st few games to give a little jump on their 1st step but. Kind of blew the doors off in the 2nd half so they really didn't have that emotional aspect in it as well I mean we're you know we put on the line for 4 overtimes the night before and that emotional stuff to get told to so much as hard as we play and I think it's been a problem for us in the last couple weeks hard as we play defensively that affect our options a little bit. Been on the you know I know you have been brought up quite a bit during the broadcast on Saturday night yeah I know the off and certainly hasn't been that as you know well oiled the best at least of what we expected cows to figure out fields and what we've seen of them this year but the defense just does not seem to be in their d.n.a. To give up 50 points in one half I mean just for that just to lose that way has to be just a gut punch because that's who they are defense and again I know it all plays into what happened the night before and the intensity and have to go back to you know the brawl they had with the Grand Canyon at least you know they were tested a couple times back to back but that's it for overtime game certainly easy to say took the legs out of them but I mean they were Cruzan 2920 they had forced 13 turnovers. The Aggies only had 4 made baskets in the 1st half the rest were in the foul line you know and when Arrington hit that 3 to make it 3724 it was like wow this is unbelievable and then suddenly. The brakes they hit the brakes Yeah I think a lot of it too I mean couple things. I mean for somebody to the entire term in every game not just ours the referee had if idea they were going to be extra hard on big. What they called in terms of turning on a big men were jokes I mean they they were allowing contact when people were shooting but it was ball push type of stuff it was really really kick back and it definitely hurt us because the next day when in fact quite a bit we were involved trouble turning it in a low block so that really I think helped hurt us a bit because when you got guys like. Trouble you know guard like Baker can't drive it on him and he couldn't the 1st time but when Mo was on the bench the 2nd half begin to drive it penetrate and kick outside of. The same thing in. Bakersfield in the 2nd half of the ball Baker's hand to make the shot or make a play and he did he were able to answer offensively on Saturday night we were not able to yeah. I would imagine I mean I saw Matt Smith on the bench heard his comment when he got here back bigger still but he thought you know the left let the city down but I mean I would imagine that was one pretty bummed out bunch Yeah I mean definitely I think they they knew that they're really the better team and I just think they had one half of basketball they kind of got away from but you know I just think it's been kind of a combination of. Guys being banged up although Brett Ratner you know playing 80 percent probably played harder than anybody on the floor the other day. To do that so. Yeah I think they're you know a little bummed out but I think part of it they're being reminded that you know when you do regular season honestly when in the regular season hard and winning to whack tournaments. You win 3 games in 3 days you want to. Stand out 14 games on the road over a matter of 8 weeks and you managed to win a championship that way and doing what we did. Going going in one on the road in the wacky is ridiculous no one did that this year and very least as well I can see tickets of the. Water with it and I keep it in that kind of what they're being reminded that look this is not a terrible tournaments. This is a tournament you pay to get in like a. Bit and they're definitely not treating this as an honor to be and look for the 2nd row in the post we were in a. Discussion we weren't just sit at home waiting to purchase our ticket to the next. Part of what I said of the top of our show from the standpoint of if you're disappointed today that's a good thing because the expectations are higher now that it's not a bad thing to be disappointed that we didn't win the tournament because that means we expect more. Back to you David just got it they've been here they've been division one echo I wanted and we were yeah I mean a big bit of I mean we made the tournaments and we were a 15. Point game as a 16 feet the last 3 years and so we you know we definitely to beat out teams like Northwestern we got to turn before they did so you are under no higher end but if you look back we've been Division One of the postseason for 7 years now we've been in a post you can turn it 3 times. A tournament and now he and I get expectations around here now we're going to be in the post. Play time every year so what do we expect of this Cal game where there are one seed in the bracket the runners are an 8 seed . 2 teams met 2 years ago different rosters of course but the runners was probably their marquee win of that season what about going to Berkeley you know I think really barring the Macondo Martin probably wanted anybody but. Basically taken 2 years a grief for that loss and we were 2 and 12 years ago they were 10 and 2 at the time and we got a couple players. They were in that game played very well but yeah. I know for a fact he probably doesn't have anybody on that and I didn't want to. Go up there because of the trouble he's had with this but it's going to be a defensive battle I know there's some injuries with Cal right now coming out of the actual tournaments we're ranked 18th in the country. So this game might be $42.00 to $40.00. Like the s.m.u. Game yeah exactly it could be a repeat of the s.m.u. Game for sure and that's why I'm kind of expand expecting a lot of events in a game to get defensive teams in and all over each other and we're also playing with new rules that's what people do all that's ready. For some new college about a fallacy. The foul stuff yes so what they say it's going to happen they don't treat it almost like a women's game to limit games now or for 10 minute quarters and what they do with Dr $5000.00 each quarter you go to a double bonus at number one and one right what are going to do is you're going to have a 10 minute mark basically after the 1st 5 fouls. You can have a double bonus now when you get to the 10 minute mark that happened about that back to 0 the team 1000 and you'll build them up again. At 5 so they're treated like a limit game that point portraiture is going to be kept about a 10 minute mark also there is a ball so there's that which is big number one and want to eventually right and also there is a ball that is in the front court just a there's a foul in the front court and you know there's. Maybe 15 seconds on the shot clock . That shot clock to a full 30 for the end down the rich get it to 20. Trying to speed to game up a little bit and major rule changes or. I like the 2nd one I hate the 1st one and I reason I hate the 1st one exam thing it devalues the ability to make a 1000 I think it's great for us because. Yeah yeah yeah it is but even so I've had time but I still hate it and I get basically just says Ok if you suck a 1000 that's when you give you a 2nd one anyway it's an n.b.a. Yeah they're trying to make it more like the n.b.a. Which is you know honestly why would you call it back to most popular because it's not the n.b.a. Well let's put it this way if your wife I know you have I'm saying this rhetorical Imus that you watch in the college game and somebody go down the down the lane where they could almost get killed and then you watch an n.b.a. Game and guys go down the lane and everybody parts the Red Sea. So they're not even close to the saved game it's ridiculous. So this you know 1st of all like you said quantum art he eventually didn't want to see the runners from that standpoint but also because he could be reminded of that game you know regardless of the outcome tomorrow night it's going to be leading up to what he's going to hear all that questions are going to be right in the papers and a lot of his team to you. Ago they were very good then and so will say you know that s.m.u. Game Corey to me I think gets overlooked a lot when you see what s m used on if they've won like 25 of the last 26 they put up 101 points on a team recently and in their conference I can't remember who it was but they beat somebody like 101 to 58 and the runners held them it was a 4844 score some Ok 94945 was 4945 and I mean that just speaks volumes about hope that our ability to play with anybody I mean s.m.u. Is a very popular succeed right now everybody's going Man look at us and you you know I mean what they've been able to do this season I think is been phenomenal they've struggled off insulate and I think Rod said that coming out of the gate with Kevin Mays and Ollie I may have gone that bit off instantly there would be a little challenge they had certain games where they showed up other games they struggle and so be it but this Cal team when I look at them other than having some very good talent you mentioned some injuries but you know they ended up losing to Oregon no crime their. Game they really had to have barely beat Oregon State which is awful. But before that before they got into the tournament those were alternative games they lost to Colorado last Utah they beat organ state again which is awful but then before that they lost 3 in a row Oregon Stanford in Arizona again 2 of those. You know to make apologies to those in Arizona or Oregon Stanford's not really that good but again this is a very winnable game I think yeah for sure and I think obviously with the guys going back up there that part of the 2014 win or even the red shirting that year you know he looked at. That game and so complex that they can win this game and you go back to a lot of you thought about Arizona I mean. That came close to. That look how good they are North Dakota is in the tournament they won the big guy they had to go on a 150 run to beat at that state tournament but that was a game that we should have won but. You know run of the end there in the post we played them very well as you mentioned 4943 in that game and then And then of course the next to go in the tournament as well so we've got 4 and you know. In our schedule this year and we beat them and a couple of occasions or we were right there with them so I think there's Kalki. Their athletic and that's the thing with the Pac 12 schools and you can lose a leading player and still be very good and they definitely are but I don't think we know. Which weekend we should be Ok on the op ed today and I think eventually the shots are bound to fall I mean I think it's made it 3 in the month of March so I probably do to do something here quickly by the way real quick before I let you go. Yes be on the home for tomorrow night's game on radio or No No Ok Ok I was just curious I don't know when you guys were I know you're bouncing around and talking to the people so all right well listen Safe travels best of luck as the runners get to extend their season that is cool yet look at 40 and hopefully catch the lightning in a bottle and we'll see ourselves in Madison Square Garden if you would be swayed are there you go Gloria thanks for your time think it's great gusto of a by play man for c.s.u. B. And it was a great job and hit the road one more time quick break because we've got about 6 minutes left in the show we'll talk a little more the workers in the Spurs did you know money's worth I don't think sound is the record on 12 30 am and your point f.m. E.s.p.n. Sports to everyone to 1030 e.s.p.n. Is. One. Let. Me say. This no one can touch the. Prices they get. Sick of. Every day so caught. Up with this year. Is going to completely waterproof made with a waterproof color and would look visual only. Choice is the best price it's the absolute best service and Bakersfield dollars. Today to see army selection of the most fashionable floors and for a limited time we have next day install of a. Car but. I must. Say. You know you love Don Lemon Show on e.s.p.n. Radio just in Cornwell pick up the Denzel Washington Ethan Hawke movie Training Day The fact that I do that I really did that because we did the Paxton Pullman game before how often is that Pax the. 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I mean I say I did not want it last year anyways since I don't go with your heart Ok you can have like he's you go real far or something you just get it anyway and need I mention I don't like interaction 1st round but I think they can win. All right so the worry is play disperse Well people in those uniforms fight each other. First of all fans just so you know the n.b.a. Care about you that's one thing they really don't. Secondly this whole resting players thing is just getting out of hand. I know these people are smarter than me so I'll go I'll go with that but having said that look quite Leonard in the markets although it's not playing I get it one has a concussion the other is a heart condition Tony Parker was out with the back but the Spurs rest in a sort of started this whole resting players thing to get him ready for the playoffs it's smart but it's not good for the league it's not a good look the Warriors not transparent any way shape or form playing the Spurs rested Steph Curry Klay Thompson dreaming green under a good ol And of course Kevin Durant's injured. I mean c'mon did the like pick up 2 guys from the y. And then go over there and put a warrior uniforms it was ridiculous and you know the Warriors sit there 1st while the word is played games in 8 cities in 13 days that's just bad scheduling to begin with. But the fact of the matter is you know Steve Kerr says that the workers medical teams they track players with wearables in practice that monitor their heart and their condition Ok so I get all of that I'm not saying they don't know what's going on with their players their fatigue but I 1st I must be cut from a different cloth when I played sports when there was a game I wanted to play well you know I wanted to play Nobody said hey Greg you look a little tired or you need rest take this day off no way no how Ok Now obviously I didn't play as high a level as these guys in anything that I played but I played to play and I played to win secondly the best sign I saw in the stands some lady held up a sign that said I flew in from New York I'm tired too. I loved it I loved it just put it right in their face put it right in their face did mention that everybody who sat out this game everybody on the Warriors side Curry Thompson dream on green maybe not a good ol throw their late twenty's they're only in their late twenties I don't even know what to say after that they're in their late twenty's you're flying 1st class 3 and 5 star I'm not going to try to sound like the angry old me and I'm just sayin and I know travels tough and Jet legs tough I get all of that rest on your off days don't have morning shoot arounds do something else but don't mess with the product they messed with the product. We'll talk more tomorrow.