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VSiN Best Bets — A Numbers Game | March 30, 2026 | Hour 1. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
A number's told the story of Alex down, so on those idiots who believe in analytics, this is a numbers game with Gill. I like Xander gone V sent good Monday morning to you. There's a numbers game at V sent these sports betting that were V sent on calm game, plus I hard radio YouTube TV, of course, series, sex of channel 158 Gill, Alexander Kelly Bidlin. I don't know for a camera. We don't know. Oh, we are. Yeah, we're good camera. What's happening, man? Not much. How you doing? Madness, madness, madness. We'll get to that. We'll get to that momentarily. What a weekend. What a really what a game. More specifically. Yeah. More specifically. What a game between Yukon and Duke yesterday, one that will go down in the annals of March, Madness history. It's up there with Latener. It's up there with Grand Hill, the later back to Kentucky Duke days of the early 90s, 1992. But this was just epic. We will talk about it. Of course, Adam Berkel. Join us. West Reynolds will join us. Greg Peterson, sooner than
all that will join us later this hour to discuss. We got much discussed in terms of baseball as well. Our last undefeated look in pretty, pretty good here in the early going with the Toronto Blue Jays, one of five remaining undefeated. We'll get into that. Reds off to a good start from March, April. We will discuss that as well. And the unbelievable movement. I'm so glad we track this every day because there was a point last week. We were like, well, why are we tracking this every day? The NBA MVP market, where I would sort of painstakingly every day, not only change the odds, we give you here the team games remaining. Here's the games that the player can afford to miss. Well, we got to look at that MVP market because it has drastically changed over the weekend. Which was kind of my point the whole time, which is like, I don't know who's going to win it. Maybe SGA ends up winning it, but this can't be reflective. Like the gap between him and the field cannot be reflective. I didn't think of of what reality is. Who knows if it is now. We'll see. We'll get into that.
I still don't know if it's reflective. We don't know. We don't know. We don't know to the final vote, right? We don't know any of that. There's a third guy on there. You and I were texting about that. Oh, boy, does he seem pretty far away? Yeah. Well, we'll, we'll, yes. And maybe a bet needs to be made on him just out of principle as well. As far as the weekend, though, first with college hoops. Oh, by the way, yes, I am still alive and survivor. I've got to talk about that. I'm in 30th. I'm in 30th out of what was 1800 entries, really 3000 when you consider buybacks. I'm in 30th place, which was always my thing is like, I can since my mulligan, I can play this perfectly. Yeah. I might be able to get through it. I might not. I think I've played it perfectly to get the 30th clearly. Now, what do I do? We'll talk about strad. Actually, I don't want to talk about strad. It's just one of the 29 in front of me might be listening. So I don't want to talk about it anymore. But we'll discuss different roads. You could go down. Yes, we will. We'll dance around it. Formula update coming up too. What do you think? You think your life? I think that I can play it
a certain way and move up the standings and not win. And then I think there's a different way I can play it where like I've been playing it, I can risk just crapping out every time. But I actually might have a puncher's chance. Gotcha. So we'll talk about that as far as the weekend. Let's just take one at a time. We'll get through the first three real quick. Obviously, I won Illinois. I will let Illinois 51 to 50. Lest we forget with seven minutes and 27 seconds left in that first game this weekend. And then it'll Illinois score the next day to go up 58 51. I will never got closer than four, which they did with two minutes left. Illinois went on the eight to nothing run to close. It's 71 59. The ally and I the first team to cut down the nets to head to the final four. Illinois was three of 17 from three in that game. They were terrible from behind the arc. But they out rebounded Iowa 32 to 18, including 12 offensive boards. That's what they would need. Bennett Sturge 24 and defeat for Iowa. Keaton Wagon with 25. And Rish to the Archivic was 17 for the
ally and I so the ill so the Illinois squad gets their first and then Arizona. You know, we talked about again, Iowa was up by a point over Illinois with with seven 27 left. Lest we forget Arizona trail per due by seven at the half. And then at 42 to 35 in the second half, then Arizona goes on the 16 to three run to go up six at 59 53. A little later, they score the next seven to go up 13. They led by his buddies 18. They went it going away 79 64. Co-a Pete led the way for Arizona with 20 Arizona on their way to the final four under Tommy Lloyd, who rumor has it. Maybe headed north Carolina. Maybe it's not Billy Donovan them trailing at half time of that game feels like forever ago. Those those two games feel like they really dags. That's a good point. Both will feel forever ago. And then yesterday, so the third game yesterday have the have the will hill tweet standing by off you could do we have that. The third game Michigan, by the way, the Nate Burleson at half time
of the Michigan game Michigan, putting on a clinic on how to run the ball. I'm like, what's what are we watching again? It was 16 14 Tennessee with nine minutes into the game 16 14 Tennessee. Then Michigan went on a 21 to nothing run. It's a go up 35 16. Tennessee never got within 50 again. Wolverines led by 22 at the half led by his buddy is 34 win by 33 95 62 and the team that was blowing out everybody. I mean, by 30 40 points early in the year, the Wolverines as a one seed head to the final four. So at this point, you know, with Duke Yukon on the cusp, I'm thinking, okay, formula is just going to be the three of the three of the four teams. I mean, three of the teams are going to get in the only way the formulas of the ally and I win it all if Duke wins my over 14 and a half total wins for number one seeds is going to happen. And by the way, Duke leads by 1944 to 25 and by 15 at the half, I don't know when exactly Will Hill or
buddy put out this tweet, but it was somewhere in that blow out of Duke blow out of Yukon by Duke where he says at what point do we stop calling this tournament March baddest now poor will because somebody tagged from freezing cold takes after this and they got a hold of it. So I think it was Buddhist man. Was it Buddhist? I think so. I think that's what I saw this morning. Maybe it was maybe he was just one of multiple people. Maybe he was not the first. I don't know if he was the first, but either way, Will was kind of right, not kind of right. He was completely right at this point, right? This is the whole truth. The madness had completely gone out of the tournament. And then oh, funny thing happened. It also like, I mean, I know you're going to get to all the details here, but like it's a it's a two beta one. Like I don't will still kind of right. Oh, and I've always stick out for you, Will, because guess what? Welcome to the freezing cold takes club. Okay, I got your back. Yeah, I like to repeat yours. Live it. Chris singleton. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I've seen enough at college basketball this year that Chris singleton will definitely be a better
pro than quiet letter. That's Kelly's that will live it in for me. Duke leads lead led by 19. They lead by 15 at the half. You know how this goes. They led by his buddy is 17 in the second half. They lead by nine with five minutes left, but eight in a row from Yukon cuts it to 67 65. Oh, excuse me. They lead by nine. But yeah, eight in a row. I guess they were down 10th. This boy, they cut it to 67 65 with 342 left and a K and then as we continue on a cariband three with 51 seconds left, cuts it to one 70 to 69. Boos are short turn around puts duke up 72 69 29 seconds left. Duke's got this in hand, right? Then the mayhem, then the madness. Yukon takes over on their next possession. By the way, 29 seconds left. They can't get off us. They can't do anything till 10 seconds left when they draw the foul on Booser. That's the first thing, right? They get that's a botch possession. 10 seconds left. Demory makes one of two to cut it to 72 70. So Duke up to a 10 seconds
left. That's the first thing that Yukon like didn't do particularly well. Then they can't figure out how to foul Duke on this possession. The second thing that is sort of a botch. But as we all know, Kaden Boosers pass with two Duke teammates just beyond the defense gets deflected by Demory gathered by Braille and Mullins behind the timeline. He throws it to cariband. Who by the way, can I just say this? I think Alex cariband is the unsung player in all of this cariband is the veteran. You know when he gets that ball, he's thinking, this is my shot. This is my shot. The defender was just a little too close. And he had the presence of mine to throw it back to Mullins from 31 from the logo. And as the great bill raftery called it once he came to what let's see became alert again. Night on complete splash. 0.3 seconds left. They added a 10th of a second. It wouldn't matter. Yukon in one of the epic iconic games in March. Madness history.
73 72 over Duke and Yukon is headed to the final four to take on the Eli and I was Michigan. Of course, play Arizona. I have no idea how my Yukon futures 16 to one is still alive. A ticket that I have not thought about at all. Yeah. Yeah. You're a daddy. Oh boy. That was like, I don't even know. I don't even know what point in this game, Gil. I thought I thought Yukon had a chance. Like, I'm not sure it was until like the finals buzzer. Oh, Yukon. But sure, the second half, it was that slow. It was the slow come back throughout to your point. They led by you know, much they led by in this game. How many how much time 51 seconds of the 40 minute game. That's how look how much they led in this game. 51 seconds. Duke had never lost an NCAA tournament game, which it had led by at least 15 points at the half and number one seeds were 134 and oh when leading by at least 15 at the half of any game in big dance history. The 19 point come back,
the largest versus a one seeds and seating began back in 1979 and a tie for the third largest comeback in elite eight history or later. Final four championship. Yukon looking to become the first team since UCLA in the 1970s to win their third championship in four years. Trial man and then when you get to the spreads of the final four games. By the way, Michigan, Arizona has already switched through the middle, right? Arizona started out as a tick of a favorite. Now Michigan is a tick of a favorite one and a half point favorite. I believe it is. And then in the other game, it's only a two and a half point spread. Michigan one to one and a half and Illinois two to two and a half totals Illinois, Connecticut one thirty nine and a half to one forty and Michigan, Arizona one fifty seven and a half. And Kelly, I think at this point, you have to say any one of these teams get absolutely with it. I don't think I don't think any I don't know how much conviction you have
on any one of these four winning at all. But I would sort of temper that if you are really resolute in what you think. I'd be like, haven't you seen enough? And any of these teams get with it at this point. Michigan, Arizona are so good though. They are nothing would surprise me at this point. Move the forward. Coming back on a numbers game. You're here because you want an edge. That's what separates listeners from winners. But let's be real mindset alone doesn't get bets home pros win because they've got the tools, the data and the discipline. And now so can you be some programs you access to the same real time insights the sharps use no secrets no fluff just actionable info that moves markets tap the link and see why serious bettors are turning knowledge into profit with visa and pro. Numbers game on visa these sports betting network numbers game proudly brought you by profit x profit x till it's full effect with this contest sat up by April 6th purchase at least $25 get a
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during the shot when braille and mullins hits the shot so ian eagle off camera is doing his play by play which is what we hear on the actual telecast yeah and raftery and hill are catatonic they are in a stupor dare i say unresponsive as they we got to with an unresponsive it's uh it's always I'm not one of those people that looks to dunk on the dookies whatever possible but it doesn't pain me to see them upset about things enough well raftery kelly said raftery got hold of it he came on nylon right yeah and hill i think sort of processing oh dear god it's happening again yeah oh dear god it's happening again um which we'll get into here momentarily Buddhist man talking about our blue jays play for last undefeated yeah only five teams left which we'll talk about the the handicap is going perfectly so far wise guy from uh 213 gill i have a eucon future two but more at 30 to one during the tournament
my position overall is around 50 excuse me 19 to one with all futures at different prices i grabbed for eucon like you said on a and g you just never know you just never know hope all as well yeah it is man thank you appreciate it good luck jcordelini landing in a few hours might stop in this week to say hello cheers hey do a jcordelini you should i hope you do and nasty kneel i'm sorry but i'm sorry he says but why are teams still playing keep away with 10 seconds or less left on the clock just chuck it in the air the time that a waste puts the opponent has to come down and then get the clean shot off away in time seems highly unlikely dr van no straight said i mentioned you a few weeks ago i'm on illinois 23 to one do i just let it ride or hope illinois beats eucon and play some kind of game in game in championship game charles and cadet ticket thank you for the eucon recap new you'd make me smile living it again through your words try to figure out how now to afford taking my broda indy for his 60th birthday in a tenor first final forever chris he says no doubt you're going illinois for survivor if they're still available they are not
still available to me chris fake follower many are saying fire do coach shire how much do you contribute to the loss what say you thanks yeah i think that's too much yeah let's stop with that let's start with that michael oh michael says uh mike uh mike mike k four five six once has maybe time to revisit the white socks first five opponents final thing we used to do with uh bass winner no no is it still is it a thing again this year as it already started this year where they win three games win the first five and then they lose um we'll keep an eye on that we'll get to more tweets i just wanted to say this about the whole shire thing and grand hill recognizing it this is obviously the second year in a row right we're duke with the epic collapse duke against houston in the final four last year right in the semi for people who forget duke was up six with the ball with under a minute left in that semi final against houston duke misses houston hits a three to cut it in half full court pressure they steal the ball they try to shoot a
three to tie it they miss but a follow up uncontested dunk to cut it to one then duke comes down court they miss a shot and they call flag for a foul over the back on the rebound houston hits two three throws to go ahead and then flag comes up short on that mid-range jumper houston hits the other two three throws to win it by three uh it just two years in a row where it's an impossible loss this obvious this one obviously a little more dramatic but not that much more dramatic than last year's was it's it but yeah i mean you're gonna it shires fault i mean part of it is he'll accept responsibility but you go fire him come on and allay is joan kelly bidlin on college well real quick well real quick just just the idle it am i one of the sickos like am i a sicko for doing this kill where i i watched the end of that that last duke possession in the turtle for i watched that way more times than the shot like the shot was amazing it was great like you
you you broke it down perfectly i don't know shot i saw that twice was like that's a great gay winning shot but like let's go into the duke botch of this and it was incredible first of all were you well it's not only the duke botch of it as i was trying to point out it's it's that you con botched it twice too they didn't take a shot quickly and then they couldn't foul them were you surprised at all that they didn't purposely miss with the free throws uh i was not at the time from being on okay i honestly thought they could go either way with it i don't want to say i'm a shocked that they did that they didn't do go that route but um i think i to your point i think i would have thought they would have looked more together after that shot was made if that was the plan uh but it's for my man this it's just i i had to watch it over and over again kaden pooser like this is with with what do you think is happening like you know what traps coming you know that these guys are coming and it's the the worst part is kill it's like the third time I saw in the game where a double team came or they got in a paint and it was both teams and it's
like just a pass into all fence of guys like with it's like volley ball like what like where did you think it was going to go it wasn't going anywhere i just it was to the to say what you said off air about him to the tweet that we got before yeah i there are so many other things that you could have done in those remaining five six seven seconds it just like that for that to be done kaden booser you better be hoping for a finesse situation in the future man can you better hope Karen forgives you at some point because i don't know that he will can we be a little college yeah it's just brutal it's brutal the shot was amazing the turnover it's just awful to call the and the questioning of can booser i can't can booser who had looked like had been crying for days right his face was puffy and i took a shot to the eye at some point in the game yeah that's that would that exacerbated of course what was the uh did you get did you catch catch the expert medical attention he was receiving to that with the like ice cold coca-cola can I'm gonna assume it was being just being rough like i haven't seen that in a UFC quarter or anything i will say this
or i'll say one more time i thought carer band was the unsung hero of the play i i just think i just think that goes unnoticed where it's like wow dude gave it up he did to not hoist it there in panic no i know is pretty amazing so you're right you're giving a more credit than me because i guess i guess in my mind though it's like you're either hoisting something up or i mean i mean the shot went it oh we really like i mean it's all like it was the greatest shot you're gonna got it i mean it's from the logo no no i'm just pointing out that in his head right he's got to you know he's got uh there's yes he could put his running out yeah he's the veteran he's been you know he's he's 45 years old for god's things but you comfort 25 years i believe i believe my bath is correct let's check on it and to to give it up to the kid who is just ice core i co-blooded what a shot though so i mean seriously i always saw it twice but it was one of those i mean gosh in rhythm as soon as it leaves his hand for a guy would been struggling too right as soon as it leaves
your his hand you're like man that's looking pretty good uh then real quick real quick the formula so by the way i lose on this on that result so much happened not only is the Yukon futures ticket still alive improbably the 14 and a half combined wins for number one seeds which looked like it was going to be in great shape immediately loses yeah because Michigan and Arizona are on their own side of the bracket so we can't get to 15 and then the formula which looked like it was going to just be like yeah only Illinois can beat us now winning the title now Michigan and Arizona are on their own side of the bracket so this is going to come down to the final game this is going to come down to the championship the tried and true formula you see it their last 35 champs horses then turn over 32 the last 35 champs head coach with sweet 16 experience you know the big exceptions 2014 Yukon Huskies with Kevin Oli but then also two in the last three years hurly with Yukon golden with the gators last year 29 the last 30 champs went into the tournament with at least three wins versus teams of the top 10 percent of our PI last 30 champs top 75 strength of schedule and then the Ken
bomb ones top 20 adjusted offense only the 2014 Yukon Huskies the exception 22 the last 23 champs top 20 and adjusted defense only the 2021 Baylor bears the exception it's going to come down to whoever wins Michigan Arizona is going to be the formula team versus the non formula team Illinois or Yukon and it's as simple as that whereas if Duke had actually held on as I said try to beat us Illinois is what it would have been you'll sounding more open to the formula not coming through this year than me well think about where I standpoint so my my desires are because of my ticket Yukon wins it all breaks the formula my second choice is the formula wins yeah I also have bigger than all that me winning survivor right even better yes and the last thing I want is Illinois winning and none of this happening it's the so Illinois sorry I'm kind of against you
and everything so there's too many too many things formulas coming through swirly it might a numbers game on fee said these sports betting network we're down to the vital stretch of college hoops and notice and it's a great time to stay on top of every bet with decent pro you get daily best bets real-time betting splits for graph kings and circa AI-powered prop tools and matchup analysis plus 24-7 video and show replays on the recent watch app the final four matchups covered on visa.com with expert previews best bets and betting trends so you can stay ahead of the market and beyond college hoops you'll get our MLB betting guide coverage of the NBA and NHL play off races in our upcoming pga masters betting guide masters right around the corner not sure if you're aware of that Kelly I'm not sure if you're aware of golf I'm aware it's from the corner it's got an assignment start today for just $9.99 or save 50% with the annual subscription visit vison.com slash subscribe that's vsin.com slash subscribe we get to eat speedy the book
this is from Jason ice cold gambler something to keep an eye on he's talking baseball here said to these guys these guys get right ups and possibly fired after a certain number or maybe not allowed to be behind the plate what he's talking about is the athletics johnny florist junior provided a list of umpires with the highest overturned percentage already on the ABS system oh boy among those who face two challenges or more since opening day last week Chad witson leading the way Kelly if you were wondering with seven challenges all that were all overturned he's a hundred percent rate of overturn oh hey so how does this play out like sir sir how does this season play I think it's awesome good up but like this stuff's going to continue and what yeah what really does happen then when some of these umpires get absolutely exposed it's a great question it's a great question trip tepper the post game between shire and wolfson was laugh out loud funny I don't know if I've been in locker room like that before
said shire um john weren't you in the locker room after the Houston game last year strip was ell yesy boy everyone killed Tommy Lloyd his first few years for tournament fails but gives shy or a big pass an interesting point rich psm that was nor of turner coach and Duke should have used that time out to remind his players to hold the ball but then that would be careful planning besides Houston last year Duke also lost a seventeen point lead to Texas tech this year michael monosano not only was caribbean the unsung hero with the past of mullins thank you for a green monosano by the way but down four under a minute left he made the huge three from about 24 feet to cut it to one yeah I mentioned that he doesn't make that they probably lose yeah with 51 seconds left and Jim debit sorry girl I have a 26 and a half to one on ill and on the ally and I have to be op oh you on for this one hey you gotta you gotta back your your thing that's for sure you got to ticket you back you got a bag it girl just texting with with will hill who's texting us right now too yeah kaden funniest part about that though I I've made one player
prop a bet this entire head to see a tournament it was over on but uh kaden's points and assist yesterday the line was shockingly low it got home it got home at poor kid man you just think about he's just like if I had just they dribbling ball if I had just just waited for them to fat you know anything else leave you said it great into a volleyball team it's just yeah it's right this through this will get through two guys that ladies gentlemen Greg hoops Peterson joins us now courtesy of progressive guess law you can follow him on twitter at g unit underscore 81 his nickname is hoops for a reason the man has done a college basketball podcast every day for the last 200 years I believe it is that what's the exact streak Greg what is it exactly I believe we're up to 2,400 straight days god wild and now you're doing the baseball pod so though so it's coast to coast hoops wherever you get your podcast out for the basketball one and the baseball betting show which is the baseball one so you're doing both at this point a year you're doing both
in a day correct yep and I'll be doing double duty for the next 200 plus days because baseball it does not slow down and I love the baseball season when it comes to baseball it's a daily grind I do like myself just the day-to-day action so that is going to be a lot of fun okay well let's start with the college who's because I do want to get to baseball with you because I'm interested what you're playing today but but college hoops so we are where we are your you had Purdue winning at all man seven point lead and then just nothing at that point um yeah what do you make of that just beaten by a better team ultimately in Arizona I think that thanks just caught up to them and when it comes to the NCAA tournament I have noticed this in this NCAA tournament we have seen a lot of these favorites get down early heck trail in the at the end of the first half we saw it in that Iowa versus Illinois game you thought wow Iowa might pull this off there are four points as a seven or so point or a five or so point underdog and then they just completely faded into
the abyss we even saw that in the first round like go all the way back to Alabama versus Hofstra like Hofstra with 10 minutes remaining you were thinking oh the 13c might actually pull off the upset no not to be had so I think that that's the biggest takeaway for me if you've done nothing but live at these favorites I get down early engaged you have made yourself a ton of money because it just feels like these final 10 final 15 minutes the better teams have just been able put on a blitz and been able find a way to just absolutely take it to these seems late in the game so you we talked a little bit about this off air you're not having a good tournament in terms of a pre-flop ATS here is this something that you view as by the time the tournament rolls around it's just not as beatable as other times of the year or is this just sort of a one-off thing for you I think it's A and B when you have Santa Clara and the under you just toss up your hands and you're like what am I going to do here because or take away launches up a 40 point shot you lose
the under because it goes over time and then Santa Clara goes into the abyss when you've got Vanderbilt going into the final four ball goes halfway down and out you sort of toss up your hands and you're like yep this one just was not meant to be so I mean there's a lot of that that goes on and at the same time too you're not going to find bigger edges in the NCAA tournament than you are saying like the middle of shall we say January February like I'd say this with all sports this is not just college basketball this is baseball this is football this is insert your favorite sport here your small stages are going to be coming during the playoffs the the more that they allow you to bet the bigger your limits the more that they're reaching you to be able to back out those limits the more that they want you to bet because the edges they you're going to find are smaller than smaller instead of making your best size bigger during bigger games I would always encourage you to actually scale it back as the bigger games go like your best edges are I going to come in like the South blend on some random Tuesday in January rather than right now in the NCAA tournament
as for the sweet as for the sweet six day as for the final four on Saturday of course then the championship game on Monday as per tradition the ally and I are one and a half point favorites against Yukon in the first of the two semis on Saturday the totals at one thirty nine and a half and then Michigan right now after Arizona was installed remember you can't bet them unless they're installed Greg those are the rules after Arizona was installed as a favorite Michigan is the one and a half point favorite against Arizona total at one fifty seven and a half let's talk side and total for each of these starting with Illinois and Yukon with Yukon I did make them this small favor I just think that you have to take a look at the coaching match up here and I just think that Danny Hurley is the best coach remaining in the NCAA tournament like guys won two out of the last three titles guy just found a way to get the job run yesterday against Yukon two things can be true Duke absolutely yacked all over themselves that was absolutely terrible we should be calling to task what we have been seeing out of Duke over the last few seasons coach Shire he's going to
need to wear this until Duke is able very through but I need to come back from down nineteen points team was one of eighteen from three cold as an egg loop be able to find a way to get the job run as big and for Illinois this sort of environment is not great for them they entered into the elite eight fifteenth in the country in terms of percentage of their field goal times they come from three now they're playing in a football stadium have a Yukon team that is much more shall we say inclined to go down low and for Illinois they just don't jury pulp ball pressure now we find out with Illinois that was an opportunity to the freefly they are number one in the country terms of few as three third attempts allowed on a perpossession basis but they're also number one in terms of few as turnovers generated on a perpossession basis that's been a little bit of an issue here for Yukon this year so with Yukon I felt like they should have been the favorite here made them the one favorite so right now seem like plus one ten plus one fifteen I'm going to bypass the one half two points I'm going to take Yukon on the money line. Yeah I'm glad you brought up that's the one thing I didn't bring up it when I was recapping it one of eighteen for three from three at
one point for Yukon I'm going thanks for reminding me of that which is because we were talking after the game because Will has a Yukon future I have one I know so many people that that happens what's that Danny Higgins does Danny Higgins does Dave Ross does right a whole bunch of folks have Yukon futures and you know and Todd after the game you were in a group chat and I was kind of being dismissive of Yukon's chances to win it all like oh they're so they're not nearly as good as Michigan Arizona you probably want to mean you know and I brought up that stat of one of eighteen who's to say any of these teams can't win at this point just two basketball games I think Yukon you make the point about Hurley best coach by a mile left by by by margin what would you say by a little bit like you take a look at the two coaches on the full side in Michigan and Arizona and you have to give credit to both of those gentlemen what they believe about you have to wonder if the UNC rumors are going to get to Tommy Lloyd a little bit but both of those guys they do a nice job but I have to give the edge to coach Hurley because he's one to I've lies retinals if
that doesn't get you the edge I don't know what does in terms of the coaching in terms of the coaching battle yeah of course now if Arizona loses everybody's going to say oh UNC it was a distraction right so and I've been a guy who's been knocking Tommy Lloyd for years but I hope they don't immediately go to that if Arizona doesn't end up winning Greg going to Arizona Michigan on the other side we'll get his baseball thoughts as well and then I will go through my survivor at the top of the next seven I will go through what I have left not briefly because I know y'all are in this but I'm curious at this point I'm not curious I have spent zero time on any of these picks because so it's been so obvious what to pick yeah this one's a little different now coming back on a numbers game at visa these sports betting network a numbers game on fee said these sports betting network a numbers game is brought to you by paraffin x if you're not on profit x yet now's the time side up by April 6th person's at least $25 to get a free $25 once again
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land over I believe it was and there's a shot I don't know if people saw of David Aldridge you know David Aldridge there's a shot of him at the game in the stands oh no he was at a different game yeah no I'm sorry David Aldridge was at the capital center in land over Maryland I think watching a bullets game and they had a shot of him watching a TV of watching a TV of that late nerd shot going ballistic and it was just a great representation of how the country becomes completely no matter where you are right yeah comes and completely wrapped up in in an outcome like that and I think the same holds true for for yesterday's outcome man I'm watching a side by side video right now just shires face in the last moments of this he as soon as that shot went up he knew it was over he started walking away he took a glance at the clock he's like no David chalifor yo wonder how much raft lost on Duke he went white or whiter when the shot hit like I said catatonic in a stupor unresponsive Pauli 68 great week at a basketball what about the raptors
going on a 30 to nothing run last night to one of the craziest things I have ever seen that's by the way you you think about what is the all time you know longest runs in an NBA game that has to be up there we have to check well I don't know what it was but it's that now that's a record oh yeah that is right first of all was 31 to nothing yeah they went on a 31 to nothing run they look they lose to the raptors by 52 to the magic the raptors 31 to nothing run they end up winning by 52 31 to nothing you score 31 in a quarter um you know what though in the NBA a little surprise I'm actually surprised that's a record I remember you know what's so funny this is this is weird the way the brain works when the Washington bullets played the Seattle supersonic in the NBA finals they playing back to back years but the bullets at 1.1 on a 17 to nothing run I remember people making a huge deal about that and in my brain since I was a little boy have always considered 17 to nothing to be like the standard long run that if you can top that it's amazing 31 to nothing
last night that's incredible I almost said just because how much the games change right like you've got teams are just launching up three after three at each other right like okay if one team gets a ball to go one team's breaking them can happen Len go Len Glowsensky hoops Peterson spot on about early I've always said you need to handicap the coaches Dusty may close second early Michigan's the best team in the final four he says a brown tossing the ball up in the air to kill the clock not as easy as it seems forever seared in my former wizards employee brain March 30th 20 2007 Michael Ruffin tries only to have the ball land in moped hands for a game time buzzer beater yeah Raptors destroy wizards over time Washington wizards basketball catch the fever I'm honest I almost said a set highlight by the way it wasn't my suggestion throw the ball the air was a tweet earlier and there was way too much time to just throw the ball up in the air Spence Keroban also the hero in the sweet 16 again Sparty hit a huge three with a minute left couple late free throws to avoid what would have been a major meltdown Yukon desperate for the final whistle Greg Peterson kind enough to join us for a second segment here Greg um Michigan Arizona didn't give
you a chance to uh take a crack at that with this one I did set Arizona as a slim one at point favor like the this I think is the de facto national title game right here like these have been the top two teams my opinion all season long with Arizona I feel like they're more consistent I feel like with Michigan there's a little bit more upside but that's that with Arizona I just feel like they're the more complete team I feel like they've got a few more ways to be able to attack you and I think that this is the expected for Arizona I would say one of the most improved players at all of college basketball this year has been Braden Burries who's been their top scorer right around about 16 points per game I've been incredibly impressed by him and then you've got Toby a walk-on Mati is Krivas combined for about 16 or so rebounds per game I think that they match up relatively well with the big man of Michigan but I make no mistake about it this is just an absolutely massive match up and I was leaning towards making this line two and a half before what I saw to saw yesterday for Michigan just absolutely dump trucking a Tennessee team that's been really good on the last house season long that did speak to me a little bit and I felt like Michigan maybe
had a little bit of a wall in like late February early March didn't necessarily look the greatest in the big 10 tournament I think that they're fighting it once again but for Arizona long two losses this year in overtime when JT Topham was still out there for Texas Tech and Kansas on Big Monday where Kansas quite literally 41 and oh on Big Monday under Bill self so I just think that Arizona of very very micro hair better here than Michigan so I didn't make them the very slow one half point favorite right now seeing Arizona as the underdog I'm going to lean with them on the money line let's play a little hypothetical line game if we if we could here uh Arizona against either the Alianna or Yukon or Michigan against either Alianna or Yukon what do you think those numbers look like let's just say and obviously it's going to matter how they get there but let's just say it's kind of both teams get there by six seven point wins let's just make it sort of an even thing so nothing too dramatic happens result wise in the semis what do you make those lines do you think
yep no matter what you're going to be having Arizona or Arizona or Michigan as a favorite in that spot there's no question about it probably against Yukon born half five somewhere in that neighborhood for either of these teams I'll probably make a closer of five and a half six against Alanoid mainly because again with Alanoid you're playing in a football stadium Alanoid they take nearly 50% their field go attempts from three I think that does have to matter in this case and the other three teams remaining they'd like to go down low a little bit more so that I do have Alanoid as for like a better term the weakest link out of these four but probably we'd be looking at like four and a half points is what I'd be catching with Yukon and either of those spots more like five and a half with Alanoid all right let us shift to baseball for a second if we could any impressions from the first you know I want to say weekend obviously it's weekend plus let's call it of major league baseball ABS system or beyond is there a team that has caught your eye either to the good or to the bad
when we are seeing some bad bullpen pitching right now like holy crud that entire Tampa Bay race versus got right versus stainless cardinal series mad nobody could get it out of the bullpen the Chicago white socks upjoking defeat from the jaws of victory I think that that is something huge right now we like this is supposed to be your most fresh when you find bullpen's all season long there are some of these teams that they just have absolutely no bullpen pitching whatsoever so I do think that that's going to lead to some good overs some good run line spots finding these scenes with bad bullpen's I'm sorry looking at you the boss angeles angeles I think that that is going to be very fruitful both betting it before the game and finding that in game when you find these less than trustworthy relievers and these bad bullpen's betting against them in game I think is going to be very profitable it really is it's already an epidemic and we're not even five games in it's it's so bad and by the way if somebody could call if somebody could call the San Francisco Giants and let him know the season started I'd appreciate that just let him
know anything today that you bet yep we've got quite a few on the card as we've got ourselves just a little bit of everything right now with regards to the early game I did take a shot on the royals on the buddy life Chris with the K boom it was really good by us here it wasn't up at 255 year a that fielding independent was right around about a 285 by the way they move the fences in a cuffman stadium that totals right down nine and a half but I did take a shot on the under still don't have a ton of faith in this royals lineup but I do think that boobitch is able to get the job done and then I think that this one is going to be really interesting as well comes versus angels wind is going to be blowing out I just mentioned it the angels hope and not great Ryan Johnson who was a reliever last year that posted up over a 70 array they're now drawing about there as a starter we have seen some of these guys go from the bullpen to being a starter and and now working out and work a bearer makes his debut for the cubs who was actually quite good for the Miami Marlons last year you're getting plus money on that run line I like that and with the wind blowing out always want to look for that in ringly field I do like that over the gold
long cubs run line okay that's it anything else or though that suffices we've got quite a few more but we'll leave that for the website also okay the under in the Yankees versus the Mariners Luis Casio much better at home rather than away from all all right we'll leave the rest for the website thank you Greg I appreciate Greg Peterson everybody G unit underscore 81 um call your shot who wins it all Arizona Arizona there's okay say the one question that anybody asks each other we never seem to get around to one you know the basic ones well that's the betting questions Arizona wins it all from this point forward okay Greg thank you thank you so much Greg Peterson everybody G unit underscore 81 coast to coast hoops is the name of the college basketball podcast the baseball betting show the name of his baseball podcast and again record streaks on both survivor last undefeated in baseball all of that plus the NBA MVP race next
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