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00:05 All right, the NCAA tournament, we're getting closer to sort of figuring out
00:09 who the top seeds are gonna be.
00:11 You know what's interesting is I think the tournament, once again,
00:13 Mike is probably gonna be upside down.
00:15 But I feel really confident in the top four or five teams in college basketball,
00:19 and especially after last night with Tennessee beating South Carolina and
00:24 capturing the regular season SEC title, which really doesn't happen all that
00:27 often, but congrats to them, naturally, they end up winning 66 to 59,
00:32 the rank number four in the country now.
00:36 And my guess is they probably just need to win a game or
00:39 two in that SEC tournament to lock down a top four seed.
00:42 Although I guess it is fair to say Arizona's right on their heels too,
00:45 if they were to fall to Arizona was to win, maybe they would move ahead.
00:48 >> Yeah, for me, Arizona lost their number one when Tennessee
00:54 won the SEC regular season by going to South Carolina
00:58 on top of their wins last week against Auburn and Alabama.
01:01 They have done an amazing job lately.
01:06 I've liked this Tennessee team since Dalton Connect emerged,
01:10 not as a very good player, but as a legitimately great player.
01:13 He changes their offense.
01:16 And this is a team that has been defensively at or
01:19 near elite for most of the time while Rick Barnes has been head coach.
01:24 We're on close to a decade of that now.
01:27 Defensively elite, but offensively often far from it.
01:30 They had a really good offensive team with Grant Williams in 2019.
01:35 And they were able to make the sweet 16, but
01:38 lost to Purdue there in a fabulous game.
01:41 But they have struggled in the tournament since because their offenses haven't been
01:45 able to generate buckets, Connect changes that in nearly every game he plays.
01:51 And that makes them much more dangerous because he's so good.
01:55 They can stretch the floor, Santiago Vescovi becomes a really nice
02:00 complimentary score instead of a player upon whom too much responsibility
02:05 offensively was placed.
02:07 Jonas Adu inside, really good, quick, big guy that benefits now from all that space.
02:14 So I think Tennessee is really dangerous, but I wouldn't let it let up here.
02:18 I mean, they have Kentucky coming in on the weekend to Thompson Bowling Arena, and
02:23 as well as the SEC tournament.
02:25 I don't think Arizona is going to lose many more.
02:27 I don't imagine that they'll go to Southern California and struggle there.
02:33 UCLA has not been going in the right direction lately.
02:37 SC has not been going in the right direction for most of the year.
02:40 And so I think Arizona wins there.
02:43 And if they do what they should do in the Pac-12 tournament,
02:45 I think there's pressure on Tennessee and the SEC to at least make their final
02:51 if they wanna hold on to that fourth one seed.
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