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00:00We'll start the night in Atlanta where Michigan State and Ole Miss are going to get together.
00:05Of course we heard from Tom Izzo earlier in the week, he made it very clear he wasn't
00:09talking NIL yesterday, but he is talking about how all that matters to him at this point
00:16is you gotta win championships.
00:18Winning tournament games, that's for the birds.
00:20I gotta bring a title back to East Lansing.
00:22Once you win a national championship, winning a tournament game means nothing.
00:27I mean, to our fans it doesn't mean much, but to me it doesn't mean as much.
00:34Finishing third in the Big Ten a couple times, or fifth, was okay, because maybe we weren't
00:38that good, but it just doesn't turn me on, it doesn't do anything for me.
00:42So I have to figure out a way to try to win championships.
00:48Well, we won the Big Ten by three games, which, if I was to be very honest, was shocking to
00:53me.
00:54Probably if I really looked at all the teams that are left, there's gotta be some common
00:59denominator.
01:00I mean, somebody could have just an incredible amount of talent, but the gist of it is you
01:05better be pretty focused, pretty disciplined, pretty accountable, and pretty together and
01:11connected if you're going to move on unless you have unbelievable talent.
01:17And maybe there's one or two that do, but most of them don't.
01:21Listen, I agree with him.
01:22The one thing that he always talks about, and I've heard him talk many times, is about
01:27the focus and the communication on the court.
01:30You have to talk, you have to know everything that's going on at all times in a game of
01:35this magnitude.
01:37In a game, a regional semi, a regional final, a Final Four game, a title game, you have
01:43to have the ultimate level of focus and communication between the players and the coaching staff.
01:50Everything has to be zeroed in on that.
01:54Talking, knowing, everything has to be precise.
02:00There can't be mistakes made.
02:02You watch that Florida team last night with 17 turnovers, they're lucky they won.
02:07I gotta tell you, you turn the ball over 17 times in a game, you deserve to lose.
02:11So he knows he can win this if they focus and communicate enough.
02:16I think they got their hands full tonight.
02:19I think this Ole Miss team shoots better than Michigan State.
02:22I think Michigan State beats them with rebounding and physicality and defense.
02:28That's how they're going to beat them.
02:29And they got to communicate, because this Ole Miss...