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00:00Always good to have Coach James Young with us, talking RAC.
00:03And there is a lot.
00:04We usually, like this is the week, Coach,
00:06where I think people who maybe they know
00:09college basketball has started,
00:11but they haven't really gotten to check in yet
00:14because there's so many other things going on.
00:17This is usually the week where they at least dip their toe
00:20in the water and see what's going on
00:23because some of these holiday tournaments,
00:26they got some heavy hitters.
00:27I mean, this Maui, I know they're back
00:29on the Big Island this year,
00:30and it is a great field that's underway
00:33with UConn this afternoon.
00:35So we love the Maui, Coach.
00:36You got a bunch of others.
00:37I know Kansas and Duke are playing in Vegas tomorrow night.
00:40There's just a bunch of really great games this week.
00:44Yeah, they really are curving high.
00:45And if you really look at it,
00:47we'll talk about it a little bit.
00:47There's a great game tonight.
00:49I mean, Auburn and Iowa State.
00:51I mean, this is like, I think number three and number four,
00:53number four and number five in the country,
00:55especially after Auburn getting that big win
00:57over Houston last week after the Flygate,
01:00I guess, whatever you want to call it.
01:01But yeah, I think when you get the fee sweep, right?
01:04When you get the battle for Atlantis,
01:05when you get the Maui Invitational,
01:07you know, you get the big match,
01:08like I said, in Las Vegas tomorrow night.
01:10This is when people start to pay attention
01:13as the college football regular season ends
01:16and college basketball kind of gets into that third week.
01:19That's when we start to kind of pick up steam
01:21when it comes to college basketball.
01:23You certainly do.
01:24And by the way, UConn's down to Memphis
01:27in that Maui Invitational opener right now.
01:2944-43 Memphis leads as they get going here.
01:32So we have a few games
01:34that we'll run through here, Coach, quickly.
01:36We have Fort Myers,
01:37where they've been playing games down there
01:38for the last few days.
01:39Beach Division tonight.
01:41Michigan and Va Tech.
01:43That's a six o'clock East tip.
01:45What are we like in this game?
01:47I'm going to go with Michigan.
01:48I mean, Va Tech is 0-4, gets spread the last four games.
01:51You know, Dusty May brought in some guys,
01:54the Treachery and the Michigan.
01:55I just think they're a little bit more battle-tested.
01:57Virginia Tech's only had one game,
01:59I think, versus a Power 5, Power 14.
02:02Didn't go well.
02:03Give me Michigan minus 10 and a half.
02:04I think they get a big win.
02:07The other game down there in Fort Myers,
02:09I believe, Coach, is the Xavier game.
02:12There's so many games today
02:13that it's tough to get through all of them.
02:15Xavier, South Carolina.
02:16That is the second game
02:17of that Fort Myers tip-off doubleheader after Michigan.
02:20Xavier minus five and a half tonight,
02:23as that's moved from earlier today.
02:26Yeah, six and a half.
02:27It's kind of moved down a little bit, down a point.
02:29You know, if you look at this team with Xavier,
02:32you know, they've been a little bit more battle-tested.
02:33I know they had a good win over Wake Forest
02:35by 15-a-team to beat Michigan.
02:37But if you look at South Carolina,
02:39beating Marshall by 12 is nothing to write home about.
02:42I'm not going to talk about what they did to Talzah,
02:44but the one time they played a team that was pretty decent,
02:46Indiana, lost by 16.
02:48I like what that is.
02:50I'm not that mad.
02:51What am I saying?
02:52What Sean Miller's doing over there to Xavier.
02:53Give me Xavier minus a point.
02:57I love the Maui.
02:59And you have one of the games featured here,
03:00which is of course, this heavy hitter game.
03:02Number four, Auburn and number five, Iowa State.
03:05Auburn at this very second, minus four and a half
03:08with the 144 and a half total.
03:10That's the third game of four in Maui today.
03:13So this is where people are going to think I'm crazy, right?
03:15So Auburn averages about 87.3 points per game.
03:19And then Iowa State averages about 84 points a game.
03:22So where am I going?
03:23I'm taking the under.
03:25Carver, I simply put,
03:26these are two of the top 20 defenses in the country.
03:29Bruce Pearl, great coach, obviously.
03:31Austin Berger, great coach defensively.
03:33They hang their hats on the defenseman.
03:36And I think you're going to get
03:37a really tightly contested game.
03:40Give me under 140 and a half in the contest tonight.
03:45Now, quickly, coach, what do you like in those other two?
03:47Because I know Michigan State's playing Colorado
03:50and UNC's playing Dayton.
03:51Those are the other ones.
03:52And by the way, I told you, UConn's getting a push here.
03:55This is actually like the first real team
03:56UConn's played this year.
03:58You know, they're not playing New Hampshire,
03:59Sacred Heart, and LeMoyne today.
04:02These games are going to play in Maui.
04:03You're really going to find out
04:05about the two time defending champs.
04:07No, and they're getting it right now.
04:09If you look at the fact that the two of your better shooters
04:12and Liam McNeely and Alex Carver
04:14are combined three for 12 from the floor.
04:16And, you know, so that's something you have to be worried
04:18about if you're Dan Hurley is they haven't got pushed yet.
04:21But when you talk about the other two games in Maui,
04:24I'm going to go with Michigan State.
04:25I'm going to go with Michigan State minus a point.
04:27And I'm going to go with North Carolina minus a point.
04:29North Carolina, if I'm not mistaken,
04:30what has been out there, they played at Hawaii.
04:33So they've been out there a couple of days already.
04:35So I think that was smart by Hubert Davis
04:37getting them out there.
04:38Because I know even going from the East Coast
04:41to the West Coast, three hours is something.
04:43Going another three hours, that's a lot.
04:46Smart by Hubert Davis.
04:47He took advantage.
04:48Give me North Carolina minus a point.
04:50Add to cover on Friday night,
04:51they won by 19 at Hawaii against them.
04:54So they played Hawaii Friday night,
04:55got there a little early.
04:57Nice job by them for that.
04:58All right, lots of NBA this evening.
05:00And then of course you have some NBA Cup tomorrow.
05:02Give me your NBA plays first,
05:03and then tell me about all the guys
05:06who are coming back tonight and tomorrow.
05:07There's a ton of guys who have been injured,
05:08all coming back at the same time.
05:11Yeah, we're going to go with props today, Carver.
05:13Simply props.
05:15Play number one, Carl Anthony Towns,
05:16over two and a half assists,
05:18over five in the last six games,
05:20915 to start the season.
05:21Carver, I simply put,
05:23I think he tries to take Joker off the bounce.
05:25You collapse the floor, kick out,
05:27look for Carl Anthony Towns, over two and a half assists.
05:29Next, Tyrese Halliburton.
05:30A lot of people have been talking about him.
05:32Over 12 and a half rebounds,
05:34plus a six assist, and minus 140.
05:37Listen, these other three of the last four games,
05:39you're playing a poor defensive team in New Orleans
05:41that shoots a lot of threes,
05:42and you're going to want to run.
05:43Give me over 12 and a half for Tyrese Halliburton.
05:45And lastly, DeMar DeRozan,
05:47over three and a half rebounds,
05:48over, in his last three games,
05:51and you look at the matchup tonight,
05:53playing, you know, the Thunder,
05:54they may bomb away from three a little bit,
05:56especially if he has a guard
05:57somewhere like Lou Dorton, not a great shooter.
05:59Give me DeMar DeRozan.
05:59He hangs around.
06:00Over three and a half rebounds tonight.
06:03It looks like, coach,
06:04you're going to get Porzingis tonight,
06:06Durant and Beal tomorrow.
06:08I think Ja tonight.
06:11You're getting a lot of stars back here this week.
06:13And I know Wemby came back for the Spurs last night too,
06:16and he missed a couple games.
06:18Yeah, I think that the job thinks would be interesting
06:20because they had been, you know,
06:21three and two in the last five,
06:23but he kind of drives that engine.
06:24That team, I really thought would play well.
06:27Porzingis obviously now gets the Celtics' hole,
06:29and I think that makes him even more dangerous.
06:32But you got to look at Beal and Durant.
06:35If they can stay healthy, Carver High,
06:37look what they did before these guys got hurt.
06:39If they can stay healthy, they can make a run.
06:43Carver High, the problem is they never stay healthy.