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00:00DRS new college basketball AP top 25 released yesterday
00:05The AP Paul on the men's side look at the top
00:09Number one Auburn who despite losing at home to Florida over the weekend remains at number one
00:15I don't have an issue with that number two
00:18Alabama these two teams set to play on Saturday in
00:24Tuscaloosa not just the Iron Bowl rivalry now on the hardwood in basketball
00:29But DRS one versus two in the AP Paul for the first time since November
00:362021 and men's college basketball for the first ever time in
00:42SEC men's hoops
00:45history a
00:46Historic day ahead is what we are expecting Saturday afternoon in Tuscaloosa at Coleman Coliseum
00:53Yeah, throw up that graphic again. Let's let's analyze the SEC and what's going down Ben see that number one team
00:59Tell me who that is. It's Auburn where they play Ben. What conference the at the SEC answer. All right, number two, Alabama
01:05Where we at?
01:07Yes, number three, Florida. Where we at number five where we at, Tennessee the SEC no longer a football conference
01:13We gotta love this. This is fantastic
01:15Now also, it's what when we get to the conference tournament coming up, that'll be fun
01:19Then the March Madness are we at the point now?
01:22We used to say to other guy the attrition in the big 12 you beat each other up
01:26You have nothing left in the gas tank by the time you get to the NCAA to a nonsense
01:30These teams are gonna be sharpened by iron by the time they get there
01:35We're buying the SEC this year in men's college basketball
01:38For the top five teams from the SEC by the way, Tennessee plays, Kentucky tonight
01:44We'll talk about that in just a moment nine teams in the top 25 as well
01:51Donnie we had these debates right in the college football playoff first year of 12
01:55The idea of the SEC hypothetical power that did not really exist this season
02:00You want to make that argument though in college basketball all listen in 2024
02:0625 as we look at the top two teams Auburn suffered its first loss in
02:11SEC play over the weekend against Florida who by the way has two wins
02:16Against the number one team in the country this year beating, Tennessee earlier in January by 30
02:21The Tigers still remain and rightfully so hefty favorite to win the SEC
02:26regular season crown and still the favorites to win the national championship, but Alabama plus
02:32195 plus 165 to get back to a final four Nate Oates turning Tuscaloosa into a basketball town
02:40They see each other on
02:43Saturday again, it just our fifth one versus two in the AP men's poll since
02:492013 our first ever one versus two matchup in SEC men's basketball
02:55History and Donnie will get the Tennessee in Kentucky in just a moment
02:59But with all the fanfare and the notoriety in the history at stake in a rivalry game on Saturday afternoon
03:07Both teams in action tonight and both on the road as slight favorites
03:14Auburn heads to Vandy to take on the doors as a nine and a half point favorite
03:21And let me just track down the number for Alabama four and a half points spread in favor of the tide on the road in
03:27Austin against Texas if you have ever believed in the term, yeah trap game. That's what we have tonight
03:35We do and I actually Alabama has a very good matchup tonight at Moody
03:39But the fact of the matter is they're gonna play Saturday that I own the prize to get tripped up
03:43That's a tough one to look and that's one of those public specials there that you want to fade
03:47You actually don't think so. I think Alabama wins tonight to be honest still even with that look ahead
03:52Listen Vanderbilt is having a great season
03:54They have been ranked in the top 25 for the SEC powers Mark Byington in his first year from JMU
04:00Has done a great job in Nashville that could be close tonight
04:04I do think the Tigers avoid an upset against Vandy top 15
04:09Drs, Tennessee and Kentucky
04:11Insider operator in the Vols a two and a half point road favorite
04:16This is the best defense in the sport in Tennessee
04:19Against the best offense or second best offense in college basketball in Kentucky, but they don't play a lick of defense
04:27What do you see tonight in Lexington?
04:29Let's keep it simple here. It is a road game understand but from Tennessee's perspective on offense
04:34They love to shoot the three-point shot second and conference play at volume
04:37You know who lets you shoot whatever three-point shot in any gym you want to play?
04:41It's Kentucky's defense, but then you flip it over to Tennessee who will let you shoot that three-point shot
04:46But also they're gonna defend the heck out of it who makes more three-point shots that wins this game
04:51I think Tennessee comes away with the prize Ben. How about that? I
04:55Like that look DRS what a road when it would be for the volunteers
05:00Quad one spot tonight DRS have fun on the money line
05:04Enjoy the extra prep John Ross here on TTL
05:09Football season is now officially in the books at the end of Super Bowl Sunday a nation hoping for sports
05:17Look to one area and potentially one man above all else
05:22They now start to look only in February
05:25But getting ready for the month of March in college basketball, which means here on this Tuesday on the early line
05:33We are very pleased to welcome on John or Austin on behalf of the fan dual sports book
05:38Of course doing incredible work for CBS Sports John
05:42I believe it was in the wee hours of Sunday night as the confetti fell in New Orleans as
05:47Philadelphia was crowned a new Super Bowl champion that you ushered out a message to all of America. What exactly did that say?
05:56Just simply been that we are in a state of transition right now as a society
06:00And we are about to now go on and undertake
06:04The greatest ride that we will have on the calendar year and that is the lead-up from now until selection Sunday
06:12Which includes obviously all of championship week through the end of the NCAA tournament
06:17Which obviously is going to be highlighted by the highs and the lows of March Madness
06:22But Ben, you know as well as I do this is only February
06:26It certainly is fewer than five weeks away from selection Sunday
06:30But a preview perhaps tonight with how great the Tuesday night docket is of what college basketball is at its best
06:38We start in the Big Ten top 20 tilt in Ann Arbor
06:42Number 20, Michigan and ever so slight home favorite John against number seven Purdue
06:48we can see what the odds makers expect for how close this game is
06:53Anticipated to be tonight in Ann Arbor in your estimation John
06:57What is the matchup that decides the outcome tonight between the Wolverines and the Boilermakers?
07:02Well, Michigan was non-competitive when the two teams played a couple of weeks ago at Mackey Arena
07:08That was a 27 point win for the Boilers
07:11but the thing that I'm looking at right now is Purdue is quietly won 11 of its last 12 games is the
07:17Ancillary pieces in Purdue's rotation
07:19We knew coming into the season that there were three Constance for Purdue
07:23Brayden Smith who's having a first-team all-american type season Fletcher lawyer and Trey Kaufman ran who's also performing like an all-american
07:31Those three players were starters on last year's team that went to the national title game and lost to UConn
07:38But then I'm looking in the weeds
07:40I am looking at the performances over the last two games of CJ Cox and also Caleb first
07:46Those two players over their last two games combined are combining to average 18 points and 14 rebounds together
07:54Now all of a sudden we have a supporting cast now all of a sudden we have Purdue
08:00Resurgent and make no mistake about it
08:02The Boilers don't have what they had when they exact eating the mitt in the middle the first player since Ralph Samson at Virginia
08:10In the early 1980s to win back-to-back National Player of the Year honors in consecutive seasons
08:15But with all that said Purdue doesn't have what it had
08:18But it still may have enough to get back to a final four and John
08:23I think it speaks to the testament that is Matt Painter in year number 20 to lose a guy like Zach Eaddy a
08:28Two-time reigning National Player of the Year and still be leading the Big Ten at this moment and ranked seventh in the country
08:3511 and to the conference mark for the Boilermakers the team right behind them
08:40Michigan State who got back in the win column on
08:44Saturday the Spartans at home tonight in East Lansing hosting, Indiana
08:49Let's start with the game itself. How can if at all possible John the Hoosiers keep this game competitive?
08:56Well for Indiana to have success
08:58I think the one thing we need to see is a consistent flow on offense and you know consistent floor spacing
09:04Which is going to coincide obviously with outside shooting
09:07I think when you look at Indiana when it played probably its best basketball in the Big Ten this season
09:13It was because it went and downshifted into a smaller lineup that had McKenzie McBakko at power forward
09:18But look I want to take a minute here Ben and I just want to do a little bit
09:22You know of a deep dive and break out the fine-toothed comb when we look at the history of Indiana basketball
09:28Indiana I've been to the second weekend of the NCAA tournament four times since
09:341994 Indiana if you look at the coaches that have been there since Bob Knight
09:38Nothing has ever been good enough Mike Davis went to four NCAA tournaments in six years
09:45He was asked to go that included a trip to the national title game in
09:482002 Kelvin Sampson was removed from his post after a couple years after obviously he broke NCAA rules
09:54Which obviously in typical NCAA fashion shortly thereafter were ruled legal then Tom
09:59Crean three sweet 16s to outright Big Ten regular season titles and in his last year
10:06Indiana was 13 and 6 with wins over Kansas and Carolina when OGN and OB tour is ACL
10:12There was an appetite for change. They went and they hired Archie Miller who was the hot young coach on the rise
10:17He didn't go to the NCAA tournament
10:19So they wanted somebody who could make the NCAA tournament and bring back
10:23Obviously the gap that existed between Indiana and its fan base Mike Woodson
10:28Then followed somebody who didn't go to the NCAA tournament
10:31Won a game the first year in the first four against Wyoming won a game in the second year
10:36Against Penn State and now all of a sudden he misses last year and this year
10:40This is a team again
10:41That's still probably five six seven spots away from Dayton and the school ops to force them out in mid-february
10:48So my question is this why all of a sudden if those are the facts is
10:53Indiana such a great basketball job and why would somebody who is currently in a great situation of power conference
11:01Want to leave that to go to the fishbowl and as I say and I've said it before I'll say it again
11:06Just four trips to the NCAA tournament second weekend since
11:121994
11:13It's the prestige and the history in Bloomington inside Assembly Hall
11:17Perhaps if this does not result in an NCAA tournament trip for IU John
11:23That would be six times in the last eight big dances missing out on the field of 68
11:29For Indiana some history tonight perhaps for Tom Izzo two coaches in Big Ten men's basketball history have won
11:38353 conference games is oh and Bob Knight with one more tonight Tom Izzo
11:43Stands alone by himself quickly here John top 15 tilt in the SEC tonight interrupt
11:50Tennessee a two-and-a-half point favorite against Kentucky the Vols have the most efficient defense in the country the Cats
11:57Second most efficient offense in the country what wins tonight in Lexington?
12:02Guard play for Tennessee if Ziegler Lanier and Mayshak can control the game
12:07I like Tennessee on the road and I think Tennessee again
12:11Much like Houston the big 12 is flying under the radar and Ben isn't it ironic not?
12:17What a lot is more set there by chance that Rick Barnes and Calvin Sampson had all those wars against each other
12:23They were in Texas, Oklahoma
12:27Maybe coming more so in March John. Thank you more on the early line next
12:32What a Tuesday night we have in college basketball John Rothstein set the stage for it
12:38It's often difficult when you highlight only a few games with John and we only get about eight minutes
12:43It would be great to have 80 minutes to preview every game around the country and you know
12:48The walking encyclopedia of college hoops knowledge John Rothstein would be able to do so
12:53But there are so many games we could choose to preview we highlight a few we talked about Big Ten history at stake
13:00Tonight if Tom Izzo and Michigan State win Tom is who stands alone by himself for the most conference wins in Big Ten men's
13:08basketball history
13:10354 he got
13:12353 over the weekend for M
13:16Su doing so back at home after a two-game slide for the Spartans on the road in the West Coast a second-half
13:23Rally against Oregon. There's some beautiful irony perhaps in that right a new change for Indiana again
13:31Trying to replicate the success in Bloomington that Bob Knight had
13:36353 Big Ten wins for Bob Knight and Tom Izzo could surpass
13:42Bob Knight after matching the record with a victory
13:45Against the Hoosiers tonight. Just thought I would mention that elsewhere around the country
13:51Of course in the SEC each and every night you're gonna have so many top 25 matchups
13:57We talked top 15 tilt inside rep arena top 25 tilt in Stark Vegas, Mississippi State
14:03Against Florida now the Bulldogs got off to a great start this year
14:0714 and 1 perfect 2 and 0 beginning in the SEC
14:10But have dropped 5 of their last 8 remaining though in the top 25
14:15Florida has its second win of the year against the top-ranked team in the nation
14:20Knocking off Auburn on the road on the plains on Saturday
14:25afternoon the Gators tied for the third best team in the country alongside Duke in the recent AP top 25 in
14:32Florida and ever so slight favorite on the road tonight against Chris Jans and his Bulldogs. So
14:39Second win for Florida against number one this year
14:42What did they do in the aftermath of the first victory against number one?
14:46Earlier in January when they hammered Tennessee at home by 30
14:50They went on the road a few days later against Arkansas and won that game comfortably covering as a five and a half
14:58Point favorite the Gators have a chance to follow that road success tonight again
15:03We had talked about the one versus two for the first time ever in SEC men's basketball history this upcoming Saturday in
15:11Tuscaloosa number one Auburn number two, Alabama the rivalry
15:17Intensified but before we get there
15:19We've got two games on this Tuesday night for both of the top two teams in the country
15:23Auburn nine-and-a-half point favorite against Vandy the Commodores playing some really good basketball this year under Mark Byington
15:30Texas starting to figure it out under Rodney Terry only a three-and-a-half point favorite now four and a half point favorite in the updated
15:37number hosting Alabama tonight, but boy, I mean
15:42You want to talk look ahead spots trap game possibilities? Maybe the world has never seen bigger in college basketball
15:49I'm sure they have then perhaps what we have on this Tuesday evening
15:53Keep an eye on Texas A&M
15:55Back inside the top ten the Aggies seven and a half point favorite tonight against, Georgia
16:01It was a an M on the road in Columbia against, Missouri over the weekend
16:06Wade Taylor the fourth the title final ten seconds of regulation bearing a triple for the win
16:12A&M plays relentless basketball under buzz Williams going to be a team to trifle with come the NCA a tournament
16:21Let's talk about Kansas State for just a moment if we can they win the Sunflowers showdown at home
16:29in the octagon of doom in the Little Apple on Saturday against Kansas K State got off to an atrocious
16:37atrocious start this season under Jerome Tang after having a couple of big transfer portal signings none more
16:45So than Coleman Hawkins who came over from, Illinois?
16:49They got off to a 7 and 11 start from that point
16:53Kansas State has won five in a row Kansas State is covered in all five of those wins their last three
17:01outright as an underdog against, Iowa State
17:05Arizona State
17:06Kansas Kansas State has covered in eight consecutive games six of those eight as a dog
17:14They're getting three and a half tonight against Arizona at home now the Wildcats playing great basketball as well under Tommy Lloyd
17:21I'm hesitant to bet this at the moment
17:24But I do want to because of how good K State has been covering numbers a number I did bet last night
17:31Creighton two and a half point favorite now three and a half at home
17:35Against UConn the Blue Jays have won nine in a row
17:38There is no better cover team in conference play than see you this year 11 1 and 1 against the spread
17:45Wednesday the early line returns. That's tomorrow