Nick Girimonte and Davis Wilson talk TCU's disappointing week, what went wrong and what the team needs to do to bounce back.
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00:00 Yeah.
00:00 Hello, you're good.
00:05 You're good, alright.
00:06 Yeah.
00:06 Okay.
00:07 Okay, we're gonna talk to you.
00:12 Pretty tough to put it simply.
00:17 I'll let you start because you're at that Baylor game.
00:19 That was a game that was at least by us.
00:23 And you'll hear it when we talk to Colin.
00:25 This was a high anticipated game.
00:28 I think, I mean, you can say more about the atmosphere and the crowd that was there.
00:32 But yeah, watching on TV was completely deflating, especially because it was just a zone.
00:40 And we'll get into this all later.
00:41 But it was a zone that completely fooled this team.
00:44 But yeah, take it away.
00:46 Tell me.
00:48 Yeah, I mean, we talked about it last week.
00:53 We talked about it on the call and interview.
00:55 It was one of the most highly anticipated games of the year.
01:00 And I think coming off such a good outing against Cincinnati, you're feeling optimistic
01:06 about this team.
01:07 And you already beat Baylor at Baylor.
01:09 So you're feeling good about it.
01:12 Obviously a tough team, but huge crowd.
01:17 And then just a straight up letdown, to be honest.
01:19 Like, usually I try to find positives about every game.
01:23 But in this game, there literally was pretty much none.
01:28 I guess the fact that everybody stayed healthy who was playing.
01:31 But yeah, it was just a complete letdown of a game.
01:36 As you noted, the zone just completely screwed us.
01:38 And even Meesee was eating us inside.
01:40 Ray J had 9-9-9, I believe.
01:44 That's awesome.
01:45 Jacoby was good.
01:46 I mean, Jalen Brady was hitting threes at the start.
01:51 And it's not like-- and I even think, too, that Baylor was kind of missing shots at the
01:55 start of that game.
01:56 It was closer than it seemed.
01:59 But we just completely dropped the ball.
02:02 And especially in the second half when it rolled over.
02:04 I think we had an 8-0 run to end the game, which is like-- I guess that's the silver
02:08 lining, that the score looked better than it was.
02:11 But 54 points in a Big 12 game is unacceptable.
02:16 And you have to be able to do better than that.
02:19 Yeah, the thing is about this game, we've talked already a lot about how good Baylor's
02:24 offense is.
02:25 But they really weren't-- I mean, that wasn't what got TCU, which is the pressure.
02:31 Yeah, that's what I mean.
02:32 They were missing shots, exactly.
02:34 So they allowed us to be in that game.
02:37 We would just drop the ball.
02:38 They shot like 37% from the field.
02:41 They did shoot 41% from three, which is good.
02:44 But when you hold Baylor at 62, especially a team like TCU that you're not known for
02:51 your defense, you're known for this offense that flies and that scores.
02:54 I wonder if someone had told us three when we were talking to Colin on Monday, you hold
03:01 Baylor at 62, and what do you think happens?
03:06 I think we'd probably all say that there's a really good chance TCU wins.
03:10 Because that's all you can really ask.
03:13 No one could make a shot for TCU.
03:18 TCU was 33% from the field, 26% from three.
03:23 They were 15 of 18 from free throws, which is 83%, which is good.
03:28 This team has trouble with free throws.
03:32 So I guess it was fine to see them hit some free throws.
03:35 But nobody can make a shot.
03:40 Trey Tennyson, 0-8, 0-5 from three.
03:45 Emmanuel Miller, he shot the ball six times.
03:50 He's your best guy.
03:51 And he had 10-5 and one.
03:56 But you got to find a way to give him the ball, get him some looks.
04:03 I guess one of the other things, Xavier Cork was pretty decent.
04:06 He had some good moments.
04:08 Especially early on, too.
04:10 Yeah, only played nine minutes, or 14 minutes, scored nine points.
04:14 Your guards didn't get, I mean, Jameer was okay at 11 and four.
04:22 Avery was not great.
04:24 He had seven points in five turnovers.
04:27 So just a complete letdown, to put it simply.
04:32 Yeah, it really came down to simple execution.
04:35 Like Jameer said, after the game, they had the game plan.
04:37 They just didn't execute to exactly what the game plan was.
04:39 Again, it's simple stuff.
04:43 AAU, you grow up doing this.
04:44 When you're in the zone, you get the ball inside to the guy at the post or upper key,
04:50 like free throw line.
04:51 They collapse, you kick out, get open shots.
04:53 That kind of simple stuff.
04:55 And they had the right set.
04:56 They just weren't hitting E-men at the post, I think.
04:59 Who was in that position a lot, or Jacoby, too, when he was coming in.
05:04 But yeah, and especially when your top three-point shooters, they shot five, 19 for three, and
05:11 especially Trey going 0-5.
05:12 We'll get into the BYU game later, but that was kind of a silver lining of the BYU.
05:17 Trey was kind of back there, and he was seen shooting late after that Baylor game ended.
05:23 So he's at least a little back from where that was.
05:27 But yeah, it was simple execution, simple stuff.
05:30 And to your note on E-men, I thought about this a lot.
05:34 He was only used on 18% of the possessions, which is insane, because I think we've talked
05:41 about it again and again.
05:42 E-men's by far the best player on this team, and one of the best players in the Big 12.
05:45 So I don't know if he even realizes just how good he is and how important he is to this
05:50 team.
05:51 Because when your offense is going downhill and you have nothing left to go, he should
05:57 be more aggressive.
05:58 He should be taking way more than six shots in a game where nothing else is falling for
06:02 you.
06:02 You know, just kind of give to him, let him work.
06:04 And if he misses some shots, that's fine, but at least getting him in rhythm.
06:09 Because you can live with E-men missing shots, but I'd rather E-men go like three of 15 than
06:16 like one of six.
06:18 So yeah, I would want him to be more aggressive.
06:22 Also, too, with both games, I think we really miss Uday.
06:26 And I think this little skit has showed us how much he means to this team.
06:31 Because as much as Issam's been a nice little piece, as much as Axe has had his moments,
06:37 Uday is by far the best five-man, big man on this team.
06:41 Just being as a rim protector, like he would have defended Meecey better.
06:44 He was huge in the 3-0-2 game against Baylor that allowed us to come back.
06:49 And he was the best defender, rebounder.
06:51 He was even getting better on the offensive end as the season was coming on, which makes
06:55 his injury even worse.
06:56 But he should be back soon.
06:59 Whenever Jamie gets asked about him in the press conferences, he keeps saying it's up
07:03 to him.
07:03 He's out of his boots.
07:04 So just whenever he feels comfortable, I guess.
07:06 But I would like to see him back soon to help this team, because these next few games are
07:12 going to be massive for where we're live.
07:14 Because dropping these two games, you're back in that little bubble conversation, especially
07:19 if you're not scared.
07:20 It's not looking good.
07:23 I think this is when you start to really miss a guy like Mike Myles.
07:28 Yeah, for sure.
07:30 You talk about how when you're struggling to score, the game plan should be find your
07:39 best player, find your best score, and let him try to score.
07:43 Yeah.
07:43 I mean, E-man was two of six.
07:46 He made two baskets.
07:47 He made five free throws.
07:49 So that's where all those points came from.
07:51 But in a game like this, I just imagine that Mike is going to demand the ball, and he's
07:58 going to do what he can, even if he misses.
08:02 Shoot it.
08:04 Be aggressive.
08:04 And I think we've talked about it.
08:07 Maybe it was this interview with Colin.
08:09 Maybe it was the last one about how this team's interesting, because you really don't have
08:15 that star, I guess.
08:18 And E-man's a star.
08:20 I don't think we said star.
08:21 You don't have that completely dynamic score that can take over a game at any point.
08:28 And we've seen E-man have huge games.
08:31 But I think it is something that I think TC needs him to improve on.
08:38 And they need to improve on it, too.
08:39 They need to just give him the ball, because they didn't get it to him in the high post
08:43 a lot.
08:44 I saw he was there in that zone.
08:46 Yeah, the guard is where he got it to him.
08:48 Yeah, you get it to the high post, it opens everything up.
08:50 The zone crashes.
08:53 And like you said, you kick out or you take that shot.
08:56 But yeah, I'd love to see him have a bounce back week against two teams that are pretty
09:05 favorable.
09:06 He could bounce back.
09:09 He should bounce back.
09:13 But yeah, it was just so crazy to see an offense like TCU with a coach like Jamie Dixon,
09:23 completely like they'd never seen his own before.
09:29 It was crazy.
09:29 It was really difficult basketball to watch.
09:34 I mean, it was terrible basketball to watch.
09:39 It was really confusing to me that they could not seem to define an adjustment.
09:44 Yeah, you know, as we talked about before, it was there.
09:48 We just weren't executing.
09:49 I think the guards maybe better.
09:52 And yeah, to your point, with Mike gone and the start together, E-Man is the guy.
09:59 Yeah, he's the guy.
10:01 Should be able to handle doing more.
10:04 And it's nothing on him except for just be more aggressive.
10:10 It's as simple as that.
10:11 I mean, he goes two for 10.
10:12 Fine.
10:14 I just like to see him shoot the ball.
10:16 Yeah.
10:16 And then they give more attention to him and that frees up other guys.
10:19 But when he's being more reluctant in that role, and I mean, he literally has not had
10:24 a game under double digits all conference season.
10:27 So he's been amazing.
10:28 But to even take it to that next level, he could be an even better score or he is a great
10:34 score and he could even show that more than he is.
10:37 So I think playing through him would help this team a lot more, I think, especially
10:43 in the half court, because we said it again and again, half court was stuff like that.
10:48 But yeah, just a super disappointing game.
10:52 And the thing you take from that is just at least you know that you're vulnerable against
10:58 the zone now so you can fix it before the tournament because you don't want it to get
11:05 to kind of take you by surprise when it happens.
11:09 And I think that's the silver lining from it.
11:11 You know, your your weaknesses a little more, especially from both these games that you
11:17 can fix it before March, because all it takes is just getting hot at the right time.
11:21 And this team is so inconsistent, but they've proven that when they're on, they can be as
11:26 good as it comes.
11:28 You know, they've beaten the Houston, they've beaten Baylor.
11:32 You know, which I think I think they're like when they're on.
11:35 I think they're in that tier that you created with like, for sure.
11:39 Yeah, the Kansas, the Iowa State, I really do.
11:42 Yeah, probably at the bottom end of that tier when they are on, but it's just so hard to
11:46 get them to stay on.
11:49 They haven't stayed, you know?
11:51 Yeah.
11:51 And if you want to go to the BYU game, and that was in a nutshell in the BYU, they were
11:55 unbelievable, especially like later in the first half, they were hitting everything.
12:01 I think they were like six or seven from three, one point.
12:03 Everything was going well.
12:04 BYU was kind of like missing open shots at the start.
12:09 But I mean, it just showed like they were going into Provo and they were up what 16,
12:14 17 at the half, whatever it was.
12:16 17, yeah.
12:18 Yeah.
12:18 And then it was just a complete letdown.
12:22 Like your offense wasn't going as good and they were just leaving.
12:24 Like they just had defensive laps, defensive laps, which plays more into the traditional
12:30 struggles that they've had all year, which is defense, which Jamie's talked about it all year.
12:35 You know, their offense wasn't really the problem.
12:37 In the second half, I guess a little bit it was, but really it was just letting up open
12:42 threes because BYU has been vulnerable.
12:46 And also, Fouse Traore, given us 21 on 8 of 11, he was just bullying our big men.
12:50 So then that's having Uday out.
12:54 The Uday effect is massive.
12:57 He's so, he's mass, he's so important to this team and I hope these last two games showed
13:03 him and he'll get back soon.
13:05 But yeah, I want to see this team healthy with Uday before I really.
13:10 Yeah, I guess you have to a little bit panic now because these two games were about as
13:16 bad as it gets.
13:16 And that collapse was about as bad as it gets specifically in the BYU game from going up
13:21 17 and feeling good at half to just like at all time.
13:26 I don't know what they had 58 in the second half.
13:28 I think it was 58 to 29, which is unbelievable to be able to let up on defense that much.
13:34 And they just like defeated at the end of it.
13:36 So not a week.
13:39 You can't take a lot of positives, but the positive I'm taking is that it happened now.
13:44 So you can correct it coming in and you have, you know, these last couple of games.
13:49 I don't want to say get right games because you have to win them.
13:52 But yeah, I guess they're at least a little bit more favorable.
13:56 Yeah, I mean, yeah, I was not able to watch this game.
14:01 I kept up with it and I it was halftime.
14:04 I texted you like, whoa, 46 points a half.
14:06 They're taking it to BYU like BYU think was a six and a half point favorite and TCU.
14:14 I didn't watch it.
14:15 I've since watched the highlights, but 46 to 29 at half like, whoa.
14:21 Yeah, Trey was hot.
14:23 Yeah, yeah.
14:24 She coped.
14:24 Everyone was playing good.
14:25 It was like smooth living.
14:27 And I'm thinking like this is the exact type of bounce back that you need to have after that
14:34 crap, crap show of the Baylor game.
14:37 And then I'm checking my phone and it's getting closer.
14:42 Like, okay, what's going on here?
14:43 And then all of a sudden it's not even close.
14:45 Like BYU is winning comfortably.
14:47 I'll just say allowing 58 points and a half.
14:51 I don't know what the record is for like a big 12 game, but that is one of the worst things.
14:58 I mean, like, especially after you kind of handled Baylor's offense a little bit.
15:05 And a lot of that had to do with Baylor not hitting their shots, but 58 points and a half
15:10 in the second half when you allowed 29 in the first half is a complete meltdown.
15:15 That's literally.
15:16 Oh, let's see if I do my math here.
15:19 I think that's literally double.
15:21 Yeah, going from 29 to 58, they're doubling their score.
15:24 And it's just an all time collapse, all time meltdown.
15:28 And it's just, yeah, not a lot of positives to take away.
15:33 Yeah, the vibes are down right now with these.
15:36 The vibes are down.
15:37 I will.
15:39 So here are the positives.
15:41 I've come up with a couple.
15:43 TCU has lost two games in a row on three occasions this year.
15:49 The first time was Cincy and Iowa State.
15:52 They responded to those two losses by beating Oklahoma State, Baylor and Texas Tech,
15:58 three game win streak.
16:00 Right after that is their second back to back losses.
16:04 It's Texas and Iowa State.
16:06 They respond to that by beating West Virginia and Kansas State the very next week.
16:11 So now you lose to Baylor and BYU.
16:16 This team has shown that they can and they have bounced back after horrible weeks.
16:23 And they get West Virginia and UCF, two games that they should win.
16:28 You've kind of coined the phrase, can't lose.
16:32 I would go as far to say these are actually must wins.
16:36 You have to win these or else, even if you drop one of these, you're probably OK.
16:43 But you've got to win a game in the big, tall tourney too if you drop one of these.
16:49 It's getting way too close for comfort, especially after that stretch of West Virginia,
16:56 Kansas State, that heartbreaking loss to Texas Tech, handling Cincinnati.
17:01 The vibes are high.
17:03 We're thinking, what if they close this out winning 7 of 8 or whatever we said?
17:07 It's falling off the rails.
17:11 These are the first must win games of the season for TCU.
17:14 I think they got really lucky that it's West Virginia and UCF because those two teams should
17:20 not be beating TCU, especially at this time of the year.
17:24 What's at stake for TCU?
17:26 Hopefully, like you said, Uday is back.
17:28 It sounds like it's just going to be whenever he feels right.
17:33 That's at least encouraging that it's nothing that should be keeping him out
17:40 super long.
17:41 I guess the bright side is they've lost two in a row before, twice, and both times they
17:51 responded really well.
17:52 Hopefully, that continues this week.
17:58 But I don't think it's a gimme, especially because you're going to West Virginia, which
18:06 is still as bad as West Virginia is still the best home court advantage in the country,
18:12 according to Ken Baum.
18:13 That's not a guaranteed win.
18:16 And then you got a frisky UCF team that could score the ball and that their only shot is
18:25 if they win literally every single one of their remaining games.
18:28 They're going to have that something to play for.
18:31 It's an opportunity for TCU.
18:36 They should be beating both these teams, but with the way they played this week, I do not
18:40 think it's a guarantee that they win both those games.
18:43 Yeah, another thing I'll add to that.
18:47 I don't know if it's positive, but like both Baylor and BYU are not like bad losses.
18:55 They're both elite teams.
18:58 I think it's the way they lost.
18:59 Yeah, exactly.
19:00 It's the way they lost.
19:01 But when you look at it from a broad perspective and for what the committee is looking at,
19:06 it's like on Sunday, it's like, "Oh, you lost to Baylor and BYU, nothing bad."
19:10 And they haven't lost to a team worse than, I guess, at Cincinnati or Nevada are your
19:18 worst losses, but they haven't really had a horrible loss at this point.
19:23 They haven't lost to a team that's worse than West Virginia and UCF, and they've taken care
19:28 of the subpar team so far.
19:30 So hopefully that heaps up.
19:32 I don't want to jinx anything.
19:34 Yeah, looking at West Virginia and UCF, we talked about these teams before a lot.
19:41 Yeah, West Vaughn's, they're both frisky, especially at West Vaughn.
19:46 And at UCF with, I guess, a little bit of hope left.
19:52 They're kind of on 65, not really, but you're still playing for something.
19:57 You want to play spoiler at this point.
20:01 Yeah, and then the game against UCF, even at home, the home crowd's not going to be
20:06 great for that first Saturday of spring break and all that kind of stuff.
20:11 People are going to be out of here.
20:12 So the intensity of that, you can sleep on one of these teams.
20:18 Hopefully these losses have sparked something and have maybe figured stuff out on how to
20:26 adjust these issues we've had.
20:31 One thing that I would actually be interested to see if we do is have a tighter rotation.
20:36 I don't know if it's any specific guys, but I would like to see E-Man play 40 minutes a night.
20:41 I would like to see Mike and Peavy play 40 minutes a night.
20:45 You know the guys that work for you.
20:47 I don't know if you have to be giving, especially if Uday comes back, like a game of Mustafa.
20:55 Yeah, or if Chuck, I don't know, like Chuck's so hit or miss if he's on, I guess roll with
21:02 him.
21:02 But yeah, I don't know if you want to have like a 10-minute rotation going or play that
21:09 many minutes.
21:10 Like they all play double-digit minutes.
21:11 It's not like even just a spark for a couple minutes or so at the end of a half.
21:16 Just play your best guys at this point.
21:19 There's no playing out process.
21:22 Yeah, I'm okay if they go and they play and Jamie plays like six or seven guys.
21:27 Yeah, exactly.
21:28 That's fine with me.
21:29 You got to start making those decisions, I think.
21:32 Yeah, because E-Man's proven he can play a lot of minutes and he's in great shape.
21:36 E-Man does not get in foul trouble.
21:39 So there should be no reason to take him out because he's your best player.
21:43 I think you played Jacoby.
21:45 I think he's proven that he's been great, especially later in the year.
21:49 I think you played Trey, the other guards.
21:52 And other than that, I don't know if anybody has earned substantial minutes.
21:57 So you run those Jacoby and Trey off the bench and then your starters.
22:01 And then in my opinion, those guys should be the only ones getting substantial.
22:05 But we'll see how it goes.
22:07 One thing that's proven to be big with this TCU team is that you can't get too low in
22:14 the lows and you can't get too high on the highs because they're so inconsistent.
22:17 So right now they look like an awful team coming into it.
22:20 But hopefully when we're recording the pod next week, you have two nice games and you're
22:24 feeling optimistic going to the tournament.
22:25 I think a lot of fans are discouraged right now, but you got to keep a broader perspective
22:31 that they're still in good position to make the tournament.
22:34 And you still have a lot of ball left.
22:37 And if you just get hot on the right time, which this team has done, you can make a run.
22:42 So if they take care of business this week, they still go 10 and 8 in the Big 12.
22:47 10 and 8 in the Big 12.
22:48 So that's the best.
22:49 I think that's an awesome year.
22:50 So they have a lot in front of them.
22:53 It feels like this is worst case scenario.
22:57 Things are, I mean, like the world is ending, but it's not.
23:03 It's not really.
23:04 I'd also add to like even broader perspective coming into this year.
23:08 I don't even think we're in a lot of like tournament pictures.
23:13 I think just being with the loss of all your Eddie, Mike, DB, all these massive guys that
23:20 you had on your team in such a big roster turnaround that a lot of braggartologists
23:25 didn't even see us.
23:26 We're either just missing on the bubble like we were a lot in that range.
23:30 So we've had a solid year and we put ourselves in position that if we take care of business,
23:37 we'll be in.
23:38 And I think that we can bounce back.
23:40 As you said, we bounce back before we can bounce back again from this and then maybe
23:45 we'll be too optimistic next week again, but I'd rather be too optimistic and too down.
23:49 So yeah, yeah, we still a lot of ball left to play and I'm still hyped for it.
23:53 Yeah.
23:54 Before we preview the West Virginia UCF games, I have a couple questions for you.
23:59 Yeah.
24:00 My first question is, what is it with this team playing in the second half and being
24:08 significantly worse because we saw the BYU game.
24:11 We saw it like I think of that Texas Tech game last week where they're up 10 with like
24:16 six minutes left fall apart.
24:18 I think of that Cincinnati game where they basically have the win if they make one free
24:23 throw, but they fall apart.
24:25 I'm probably missing a couple more, but what is it with this team in the second half?
24:32 Just not being consistently good.
24:34 Yeah, I think you just said, you know, the word there is not consistent.
24:39 Like another thing with this team is that before the Baylor and BYU games, we were the
24:46 comeback guy.
24:47 We were six and four before those one being down 10.
24:50 So we either start super slow and come way back or restart good and bad.
24:58 We're just we are not a consistent thing.
25:00 We've only put it together.
25:02 I don't know a couple West Virginia and Cincinnati, the only two games I can think of where we
25:06 really put together a complete game or wasn't stressful because it's like watching TCU.
25:13 You got to have like a heart monitor next to you.
25:15 It's insane.
25:17 Like football, too.
25:18 Like every TCU sport, they make it tough on you.
25:22 Baseball right now.
25:23 Yeah, baseball is going crazy.
25:25 Yeah, shout out baseball 11 and 0.
25:27 But yeah, they're coming back from every game.
25:30 They just play teams close.
25:32 And I think it's, you know, if they're going to be a big and have a good half, they're
25:35 going to make you been you should never feel comfortable or out of it if you're TCU.
25:43 Like you should never feel like unless it's until the fat lady sings at the end, you should
25:47 never feel good about what you're at.
25:49 So I think it's just that I think it's the style of team we are.
25:52 We can go like five minutes to where we could put up like 25 and five minutes.
25:58 Yeah, it's it's crazy what this team can do and both good and bad.
26:04 And yeah, I think that's just been shown throughout this year.
26:06 It's a weird dynamic.
26:08 Like the game is never over for TCU.
26:10 Yeah, in either direction.
26:13 So yeah.
26:13 All right.
26:14 My second question is.
26:17 So we've done that in or out segment.
26:21 We haven't done it, I guess, the last two weeks, but we did for a long time.
26:25 And a while ago, TCU was in that conversation.
26:29 We haven't included them in a long time.
26:31 But my question for you is, are they now back?
26:34 Do they now get to come back and be in or out or have they have they done enough?
26:42 Is this I guess the question is, is this team back on the bubble?
26:45 I yeah, I think they are back in the bubble.
26:48 And I think that, you know, they've yeah, those two losses are bad and they drop their
26:53 metrics for sure.
26:54 They're 32 in Kenpom.
26:56 I'm interested to see what their net is.
26:58 They were 25 in Kenpom last week.
27:01 So yeah.
27:02 So you were feeling pretty safe last week.
27:05 And as you said, it's not really the losses, but the way that yeah, they're 38 net.
27:10 I think you'd be ignorant to say they aren't.
27:13 But I do believe if you take care of business, they're in a position where they should be
27:17 fine.
27:17 But as you said, I agree with you must win these last two.
27:22 And you want to win at least one in the big 12 tourney, especially if they're in a spot
27:28 where they play a worse team.
27:30 But yeah, they have they still work to do.
27:33 They're not a lock by any means.
27:34 And I would say they're definitely back in the bubble, especially if there's a lot of
27:38 bid stealers.
27:39 You know, conference tourneys are starting as soon as tomorrow, as soon as when people
27:44 are listening to this.
27:45 So you got to be on the lookout for bid stealers.
27:48 And hopefully we're not stressed out in selection Sunday, but we'll see because we're back
27:55 in the bubble for sure.
27:56 Yeah, it's crazy.
27:58 The comparisons like this team and TCU baseball, what they've showed us last couple weeks or
28:04 last couple days, like they make you feel really good.
28:08 I think I don't know the exact stuff, but they're up big on I think it's Arizona State.
28:13 Yeah.
28:13 And I love life.
28:15 Yeah, the comparison basketball, you know, after that Cincinnati win, you and I are feeling
28:20 really good and confident about this team.
28:23 And we feel, you know, like they can finish it out really well.
28:26 And then Arizona State comes back, takes the lead.
28:31 And I think now in the basketball side of things, you lose two straight in a really
28:38 bad way.
28:39 And then baseball at least has been able to overcome their meltdowns.
28:46 And TCU has kind of been able to do that too with the way they respond to back to back
28:50 losses.
28:51 So it's kind of funny how TCU athletics is just trying to do as much damage to TCU fans
28:58 hearts as they possibly can right now.
29:00 Yeah, they make it interesting for sure.
29:02 Yeah.
29:04 But you want to get into predictions for this week?
29:08 Yeah, let's talk.
29:08 Let's let's talk about these these two games, West Virginia, UCF.
29:12 We've talked a little bit about it.
29:14 West Virginia is a tough place to go play, but it's West Virginia you should be winning.
29:18 And then UCF, UCF is a team where they have to they have to win their next two games against
29:24 Houston and TCU.
29:25 And then they have to go win every game in the conference tournament.
29:28 So very unlikely, but they're not.
29:30 I mean, none of these teams are technically out of it, whatever.
29:32 But I guess it's two teams who are going to want to beat TCU.
29:36 What do you think about this week?
29:39 What what do you want to see different?
29:42 What do you want to see better?
29:43 And then, yeah, give me your prediction.
29:46 Yeah, I mean, I want to see everything better.
29:48 Yeah, I mean, it was all of it.
29:52 Yeah, everything.
29:53 But just do what you did in the first game against West Virginia.
29:58 Like that was one of the good games where it was a complete game.
30:01 But I mean, what I really want to see is Uday back in the lineup.
30:04 I want to see a healthy getting him work back in and see where we're at to be able to to
30:10 know exactly where our guys lie.
30:12 Yeah, West, you know, right on battle, the guy there that takes the majority of the shots,
30:17 Jesse Edwards is good, which will need to do it for because he's one of the best big
30:21 men in the conference, honestly, especially as of late.
30:24 Kirk Reese is always fun to go against.
30:26 Low rivalry there.
30:29 But yeah, West was super tough to play and that crowd's going to be into it.
30:32 Even last year, we had a little bit of a.
30:34 A little fight against him to like, I it's kind of like an underrated little basketball
30:41 rivalry, like we don't like each other, which is fun, their offense is bad, but I would
30:47 put Micah on Raekwon and hopefully that makes you find UCF.
30:53 This at first I'm playing.
30:54 It's funny playing in the first time in the last game of the season.
30:59 Yeah, but Darius Johnson, Jan Sellers, that's a very underrated backcourt of two guys.
31:04 They can kill you.
31:05 Shamari Allen is good.
31:06 Little third piece there.
31:07 And then Ibrahima Diallo is one of those rebounders in the in the conference.
31:11 So another guy you want.
31:14 Yeah, I want to back for so.
31:16 Yeah, to got two teams that can kill you or two teams that can get you if you're not on
31:23 your game like that's what's so tough about being the Big 12 but two teams you should
31:28 win and.
31:29 I'm.
31:31 Yeah, I don't want to say I'm confident just because of how we played last couple games,
31:36 but yeah, I still think we should win this.
31:38 Yeah, yeah, Darius Johnson, Jalen Sellers for UCF.
31:43 We talk about that Kansas duo in the Big 12.
31:46 This is one of probably the better do I was in the Big 12 and the chance that both those
31:51 guys are back for UCF next year.
31:53 I'm just I just want to talk about UCF.
31:57 We didn't talk about we didn't get to talk about them enough just because they're, you
32:00 know.
32:01 But maybe next year we'll talk about a little bit more.
32:05 But yeah, last week you predicted one and one.
32:09 I predicted two and oh, so we both we both miserably failed.
32:13 You see, I've had a good road when I should add at Oklahoma State this this week where
32:20 they were on the dogs and that so I mean they've proven they can win on the road, which is
32:25 as a recent too.
32:26 So even at home you're not comfortable.
32:29 They give I would say a little bit of a scare and the thing about UCF like they're out
32:32 late.
32:33 Yeah, yeah, yeah, they have those two scorers Darius Johnson, Jalen Sellers both can score
32:39 the ball really well, but I think a lot of people don't realize that their defense is
32:43 really good.
32:44 Like it's legitimately really good.
32:45 Their defense, the current Kim Palm is the 10th best in the whole country.
32:49 It's just the offense is 178th, so you're not you're not getting enough offensively.
32:54 But they're dangerous team man and if TC messes around, which they they completely
33:01 messed around all week last week.
33:03 So if they keep messing around it.
33:06 There's a scenario like if you I don't even want to really talk about it, but if you lose
33:11 both these games, things are getting things are getting really crazy and it's yeah, you
33:15 know it'll be quite a pod next week.
33:18 But I think that I really do trust this team's ability to bounce back, especially if you're
33:24 getting a day back, which it seems like you should have him at least for that UCF game.
33:28 Yeah, I hope so.
33:29 And that that West Virginia game is on Wednesday, I think so that gives you a couple more days
33:34 for him to get ready and healthy.
33:36 I think I mean it's silly.
33:40 It's crazy predicting this team to go undefeated after the after what we just had to watch
33:46 from them.
33:47 But I do think that they I mean they're going to be favored in both these games probably
33:52 fairly comfortably.
33:53 Like it's not.
33:56 It's not really a mystery.
33:58 They should they they should be winning these games.
34:00 So I'm going to go to and oh it's crazy.
34:03 But if they go to and oh we're back here talking about a 10 and eight in the in the in big
34:07 12, which is the best that TCU would have ever done.
34:11 And I think they have a chance to I don't know really bounce back here and.
34:17 Help TCU fans forget about what what the week was that they just had.
34:21 Yeah, no, I agree.
34:23 I'm going to pick him go to know to as crazy as it is, but it's just a testament to how
34:28 this team has been all year like we play crazy game after crazy game and it's been up and
34:33 down.
34:34 You know the fan base has gone both ways of being.
34:36 Hype about this team and down on this team and it's I think it's going to happen again
34:41 and I think we're going to be back hype on this team come next week.
34:45 Yeah, two and now I think we're playing for more than more than they are, which should
34:51 make us win or should give us the benefit you know that we're kind of back against the
34:57 wall at this point and kind of prove the doubters wrong a little bit.
35:00 But yeah, I think we should take care of business and.
35:04 Yeah, I'm excited for it.
35:06 Yeah, yep, should be.
35:09 I mean you mean it should be a good week for TCU should be but.
35:15 Who knows who knows the way they're playing right now.
35:17 Well.
35:19 Should we get to Colin?
35:22 Yeah, yeah, I want to add again.
35:25 Yeah, thanks.
35:26 Thanks to Colin for coming on.
35:27 He I yeah we talked about every two but I met him in person for the first time the other
35:32 day which is cool and yeah I guess he's a recurring guest now for the show just another
35:37 fun conversation with him a lot more fun at the time you know I mean but yeah no it was
35:44 great we talked some more broad stuff to if it's not just.
35:46 TC this year and we should have some fun guests lineup we should have a little bonus
35:52 woman's episode yeah dropping right before the tournament yeah we're gonna have Tori
35:57 back on and then hopefully we have another fun guest next week so yeah.
36:01 This is March so I'm excited for it and hopefully yeah hopefully the vibes are back high next
36:08 week that'd be that'd be hype.
36:10 Yeah yeah I I will join you in thanking Colin he is always really.
36:15 Fun to talk to you basketball actually just any basketball with he's yeah a super like
36:22 you know he's a great basketball mind and he knows what's he's covered basketball for
36:27 years so.
36:27 It's always cool to get his insight on not not only TC but the conference as a whole
36:34 he yeah kind of laid out the conference for us which was cool and yeah like you said it
36:39 was I mean he was high on taxes before.
36:42 Texas had the week it did so what we won't spoil anymore but it's a good interview stick
36:49 around for it and again a little warning the vibes were the vibes were way different than
36:54 than they are now so yeah just keep that in mind as you listen but yeah let's definitely
37:00 let's take a break and get the call interview going yeah let's kick it to him cool.
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