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00:00Boy, Auburn is on some run here, 98 to 70, they win again.
00:05They've been winning games, you know, left, right, center,
00:08and basically just blowing teams out as well.
00:11Very much on pace right now to be one of the number one
00:13seeds in the NCAA tournament.
00:15They'd have to significantly drop off to not be, I think,
00:17or some like crazy loss in the SEC tournament.
00:20Is this a legit team that has a chance to win it all, Mike?
00:23It's nearly impossible for them not to get a number one
00:28seed at this point, Craig.
00:29It would have to be, it's just not conceivable
00:34with the distance that they've put themselves
00:37between themselves and the rest of the group.
00:39The teams that are chasing the fourth number one seed
00:42at this point, Tennessee, Florida,
00:44aren't nearly as accomplished as Auburn is,
00:47standing there as the number one overall.
00:49And they absolutely have a chance to win it.
00:51There are a couple of things, though,
00:52that make them different than a typical champion, Craig.
00:56First of all, it's the idea of having
00:59your one true point guard.
01:01They play a couple of different players at that position.
01:04They mix and match.
01:05Sometimes they play them together.
01:07Usually it's somebody, almost exclusively,
01:11it's somebody with a point guard
01:13that is totally in charge.
01:15The old thing may be in football
01:17where you have two quarterbacks, you don't have any.
01:19Well, have we ever seen a team
01:21that basically played multiple point guards
01:24win a championship?
01:25It doesn't come up often.
01:27So there's that.
01:28And there's also the question of,
01:29do they have that NBA first round pick?
01:32You look at the mock drafts,
01:33they're all freshmen and that sort of thing.
01:35I'm not sure that's totally reliable,
01:38but I think Jani Broome eventually
01:41will be a first round pick.
01:42Their fifth year senior center,
01:45who's having an unbelievable year.
01:47I just can't see 30 teams saying,
01:49no, we can't be helped by a guy
01:51who is that mobile, that skilled, that hungry,
01:55and that interested in becoming better.
01:58He won't go in the lottery,
01:59but I just can't see that he wouldn't be
02:01a first round pick at some point,
02:03and that would fulfill that qualification.