okay for primary and mike berman of why and then off then mike how are you today
and fantastic i'm now better
as i get to talk to you
place in my heart mycoplasma are just the practice everyone
uh... mike also want the farmer north and defend that i'm representing uh...
the high school very very well where we graduated from he lived in my town i've
known him for many many years so it's great to talk with him on a professional
level of course
uh... let me start off with this let me ask you this mike
uh... obviously covered the bid twelve you work in often think of a long hard
is the common ground a bath
purer four in the big twelve this year
well absolutely led the league in scoring twenty points a game
and
he's got
he's kinda got that characteristic that you needed to be a true true score
and that's that
he h_i_v_
uh... he will shoot it from anywhere at anytime
spinning
laying out his but out-and-out i mean he will shoot it
uh...
at any time
and uh...
and he is so street t but
uh... as as is the case with any great score you know he's willing to shoot
himself out of a slump
and uh... sometimes they'll do that
uh... but he was he was tasked with
with really haven't shoulder
virtually all of the offense of load for this team this year just because
no they lost three first-round n_b_a_ pics trust to toss in jordan hamilton
corey joseph
uh...
and and they were very young team so a lot of those freshmen
record capable of scoring uh... maybe like ric burns would have like dumb to
sell
should colin
shoulder the lowly average twenty points per game he had
multiple thirty-plus point james do against big teams to
so um...
uh... in my eyes
you know yet thomas robinson's a great scorer marcus stamina missouri's a
fantastic score
uh... but
chicco opens definitely going to be twelve
texas is a sixteen right now they face iowa state who of course as the three
seed in the second round
uh... i was state having a tremendous here this year with fred warburg winning
bid twelve coach of the year
uh... dating back to texas very quickly
how much does it
how much does their success rely on the supporting cast them
well uh... i mean
brown needs help
there's no question i mean there's
there's been plenty of games where he has scored twenty-five or thirty points
that they have now one because they haven't got contributions from
the rest of the team and and they're going to be down again i did there
they're starting power forward alexi won many
dislocated his wrist they were up in lawrence to finish the regular season he
dislocated his risk
and they decided used to have surgery is gonna be up for the rest of the
the season here uh... however long that lasts so
now they're down to too
veterans click chapman's there are other veteran he's a senior
to cover brown's junior but the rest of the team
six of them art refreshment
so the eastern need some help
uh... i was state as you mentioned had a really good season
under fred or the kurdish erred
coach of the year honors is voted on by the coaches
uh... with bill self of kansas and i think very deserving
maybe frank eight should have gotten some love for what he did at his new but
uh... certainly self and labor
welfare deserving of that honor
and uh... led by release white whose and incredibly incredibly tough matchup for
any team
in the country
i was state will will be tough on texas and and on the chin helped cohen brown
will need some help but they're going to get out at a mother went
michael it's that time my cousins alma mater kansas is there any scenario you
foresee
of them not getting any number one seed
indeterminate
well i think it's if they get all the way to the betwen championship game on
saturday and their they're lookin against
misery
you know that in missouri and kansas would've played three times
and uh... if missouri deeds kansas missouri would have won two of the three
matchups so i think that
that that's the one the scenario
i kind of think that if kansas
let's say blues is in the semi-finals
that could even benefit them in that
they won't have authored any necessary
or maybe they lose to them to out of three times
so i think the one
way in which that could happen
is
if k you in the suit play on saturday
at this point senator
and misery goes up to date seven and you've got misery looking at you saying
you know if you're fearless election committee you're lookin obser is resume
sample to be kansas to out three times so
uh... you know having been the you give
you give credence
to the committee to to make missouri one seed and truck and still to very good
point that i got to be honest with the i'd never thought of
that it would benefit them to possibly lose in the semi-finals
so i think that there
i'm here to remind you of things you haven't thought of have thank you so
much mike mikey
uh... with that and they were very quickly they won seventeen straight
started here
they finish nineteen six forty or in the last day
is ten there'd be the best way to sum up their team right now it
well the word you hear a lot is
quite as euphemistically estimate
it's soft
and uh...
that often applies mostly apparent jones that their artist right
uh... the preseason
big twelve player of the year who ends up on the post-season
other twelve thirteen and you had a lot of people thinking he really deserve to
be on that thirteen
it was mostly name recognition that earned in that spot
let you know what they just uh... they have so much length and so much talent
and
it really is truly a mystery how
they don't use it
better than they do uh...
i love their point guard peter jackson isn't yugo transfer
who uh... uh...
yes bns jason team
in his kind of post-season awards
words that he wrote an article about maintain most clutch player in the whole
country had a number of big shots late came winners
he's the type of guy that
that you wish his
his moxie existed inside a perry jones his body
uh...
because if terry jones had that kind of motor
encourage
i mean look out
cbbbb one of the best players in the whole country
uh...
so timid maybe tim it's kind of a good word
or i think uh...
i think it's
they are very enigmatic team
so much talent
perry jones quincy miller
literature freshman used to be a first-round pick a draft quincy aisi
three kathleen
uh...
is probably an n_b_a_ player in some capacity
appears jackson really really good so uh... cather
maybe ten that's a good word
i might lean towards soft i'd like to see them
and imax other potential by playing a lot tougher because i think if they did
but the perfect example is there two days with mizuno you know misery is
has no size
and they allowed missouri to go and uh... waco and push him around and then
when i got crushed in columbia so
yet so it's a shot at
that day
they had a good season but it's a shock they weren't even better than they were
with the talent they have in and the size that they have done well
getting the kansas state they seem like that sort of program
that could be easily win three straight and get very very hot
or they could be that team that just has a
terribly back
and lose in the first around i mean well which do you think
is more likely to happen
do you believe that they will get past the first around how do you foresee them
finishing in mister
well it's good to talk about kansas state following baylor because those two
will match up in in the uh... in their opener uh... here in kansas city
uh... interesting game i mean again taylor's length
is something that could really challenge kansas state
but kansas state is as physical a team in the conference as there is that is
what frank martin likes to do he is going to
he's going to test the referees and push the envelope as far as he can
and that can be tough on this day would team because
as i said baylor has this reputation and i think it's rightfully earned its own
at some level
that they're trying to soft that they back down a little bit
and kansas state is gonna with jordan and regis and thomas gibson
and uh... you know anyone with any size on that team they are gonna they're
gonna get nasty
uh...
and they're gonna make it tough on
on baylor
on thursday acting ticks off uh... little before noon
i mean directing kansas state is capable of
going on and on here
of course you know certainly when you're putting baylor atop
twelve or thirteen to the country but but i think you're right amin
the bracket sets up where they have to really difficult games we played a
little bit play likely kansas
uh... to they didn't eat this season
but they're a team that
these always going to be in the game almost always because they defend
uh... persistence achievement struggles offense leading havoc jacob poland
uh... their going back even farther you know you don't have a michael beasley or
or uh...
a bill walker but uh...
but they're going to defend
and they're going to they're gonna crash the boards and and they're gonna make it
extremely difficult for you to get any easy looks and and i think for that
reason they have a very good chance to be baylor
i don't bother baylor
there's no doubt
let me ask uh...
let me let me ask you this very quickly i wanna read your quote and then kids of
the question
uh... from frank martin one of the most entertaining coaches i've ever seen on
the sidelines
he said at this
could end up being the best big twelve turned in
agree or disagree
well i mean
you know you're down to ten teams this year so you've weed it out
nebraska in colorado so that already kind of
increases talent pool
uh...
and
there's this feeling of finality
at this tournament with miseries
impending move to the s_e_c_ me misery in this area the country along with
kansas kansas state
i was st
oklahoma oklahoma state those teams have been playing
each other so long
and a stage so many great conference tournaments whether it be big six seven
eight
or twelve
here in kansas city
uh...
and i think that sense of finality is
is almost placing in uh... an increased importance
uh... on the sternum ait i'd feel like the fans can feel it
the players can feel it obviously frank martin says he can feel it
you know that this has a chance to be you're really good i mean no matter who
wins the baylor
uh... can stated that's gonna be a good indians kansas
unintended
yeah go ahead
boat ride my credit report
died just i just think that the other is the potential there did you know and and
everyone's china
forecasting that missouri and kansas me on saturday for the top championship in
that would given the two games they play given the history of that rivalry that
would
that would be a inappropriate ending too
to kind of that determine as it is here in kansas city and i can guarantee you
uh...
that it would be pretty uh... pretty crazy inside sprint center
would it be prepared particularly
for those of you curb fans yes it would be at
uh... reading the blog reading articles and preparing for this interview it
seems like
the confirm in the fare troubles
had believed by money and how much fortune aunt
uh... in that time of the route role keep don't as the the consensus seems to
be of that is that the consensus seems to be that i was state is that sort of
we prepare
to co-op them up that's and possibly win the whole thing what do you think about
that these you give them uh... it would fit in the chance to win it
i mean
legitimate i mean yeah i guess i would side with sure
because like i mentioned you know released waiters he samachar nightmare
and you put a big on them
this is going to go around him
do you put a little guy on on no backing down into the post
so uh...
you know i think that teams playing with a lot of conference huge when to finish
the regular season at home
uh... over baylor
uh... debbie kansas wants this year
they grown to against missouri but played down very tight in both games
so that that's a team that believes it can win a minute scab players that are
accomplish chris allen you know is is a is a good wing player for the new plague
you know one final fours with michigan state in tom izzo so um...
you know that those are players that are
hi major recruits rice white was
unusually uh... a minnesota sidi
so i think combined with the guys they have and probably the confidence that
they're feeling
i don't see one of the they could definitely be texas they split with
texas
and they played missouri
uh...
who again they played close in both games and and i was st fans will travel
one of the sermon still have some backing their missouri eleven or given
it's in kansas city but there'll be some clones in the
misprint center seats and uh... you get past that
nosy i want him to win whether it's kansas kansas state ur baylor and uh...
that's certainly no reason why they couldn't
mike money and repair from i mean i have to ask the obviously with all by facade
we know that you work in austin
uh... i do not foresee texas winning this entire thing i believe it will come
down to most likely kansas and missouri
uh... what are your pics who do you think goes for the final who takes it
all
or where do you think there's going to be more biased the team i cover
url missouri where went to school probably misery
i mean i i i really do think kansas and missouri are on a collision course for
that and i think there finally the two best teams in the lead it
um... i think the bracket sets up nicely for missouri 'cause they don't have to
go through kansas arkansas' statement last kansas state what's
uh...
so they would have to be
uh... missouri would have to be uh...
texas tech or allstate
then the winner of iowa state texas and then there in the championship game
and i i i do believe that thomas robinson is is too much of the load anti
shot taylor's playing at a really really high level right now
so i think that those to me on saturday and uh...
uh... i don't want to sound biased but i i think missouri has so much incentive
to win this game dave really feel like the big twelve world is against them and
it is because
you know no one likes it there bolting for the s_e_c_
uh... i think given at it being the leader last big twelve tournament
certainly they'll have fan support
uh...
they nearly one lawrence in english usually but
to be up nineteen points
at allen fieldhouse a sense something
major capable of of of doing something so i i say that missouri wins a very
close saturday game
over kansas
uh... twenty big twelve championship
let me let me ask you wonder moral one more last question very quickly
i know that i have the sling you are a huge missouri venue team religiously and
insulting part
evelyn obviously um... frank eighth as he said he took over he may have got the
uh...
uh... he may have
not receive as much love it spread avoid herded for big twelve coach of the year
however it seems like he inherited a lot of players so would you say that it was
the coaching that got them there or did you just inherits and
pretty damn good bass poplars
i think i think it's a combination of both i think that the telling
for you know the telling argument for him
the most support of argument for him having done a great coaching job is
this is the same group that really really
group disinterested and sour towards one another down the stretch last year with
mike anderson and struggled
and uh... you know he came in
he can't convince them that they're going to do things differently they were
going to write more sad offense
um... they're gonna defend a little better in the half court
then they lost uh...
really good player lawrence bowers early in the season party before the season
began to any c l_ injury never played
and what dates did was he tailored
his game plan to uh... a guard oriented lined up to play four guards you know
they have to me which is about six six plays before you know if you will
uh...
and so that is where i believe he could stand
really uh... a tremendous job is
developing a game plan for a team that
has won
with legitimate lead talented big man in ricardo ratliff
no question
there are players on this team are very talented
uh...
so wasn't like he was coming into a situation where the cupboard was
completely bare so i think it's it's kind of uh...
it's kind of both both sides
are worthy of you know of
of discussion and and being recognizes the right i'd just answer here but uh...
you know i i said weeks ago i would add
didn't think that uh...
that hey food when they took which here i thought that itself what i was kinda
surprised type buckley birch shared it with them although i do believe he's a
very deserving really good job their names of season
well my catholic ira ira will really appreciate you coming on i mean for
another one
northbrook union high believes the way you could say it sounds of it sucks but
to me at some stormy cold thank you so much for coming on uh... i enjoy your
time an often and enjoy your time and not in kansas covering the term
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