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00:00Alright so
00:01Here we are back for the third hour. We're gonna be going to San Antonio
00:06To talk to Mike to Corsi of the sporting news Fox Sports and the Big Ten Network. He's on the take for the Hoosiers
00:12He looks fantastic down there off the Riverwalk. Look at him. Is that he's looking like pink
00:18I mean, he's got it all going and at the Alamo dome for the final four festivities
00:23I got a friend going down there to the final four
00:26I told him he should go to the TPC on Sunday and watch the golf at the gasoline open and then go to the game
00:33Monday's going Saturday to the hoops
00:35I said you got to go to the golf Sunday and then see the final round and then go Monday to the title game
00:40I saw your rankings for the final four teams and you obviously have Houston fourth and that's because at times
00:48They struggle putting the ball in the hole even in their
00:52Elite eight final there was a five-minute stretch where they didn't score
00:58That is who they are
00:59Scott it's it's been the nature of this team, but they have won some very big games doing that
01:04I used an example when they played on the road at Texas Tech a team you saw in the elite eight that was literally
01:10four minutes from the final four that
01:14Houston scored there. I think was their
01:1744th point
01:19Around the 16-minute mark then they scored their 46th point at about 12 or 13 and then they scored their 48th point
01:28At 9 minutes and they didn't lose the lead
01:31They that's because because Texas Tech couldn't score at all. That's who they are
01:36And so when you're playing against Houston, you have to be able and willing to fight through that
01:43They're not going to make it easy for you. They're going to make it miserable
01:48They're going to make it hard to get rebounds hard to make initial passes all of the things that you want to be comfortable doing
01:55They make it hard and if you are a if you are a team playing them
01:59You can't surrender to the difficulty to the frustration if you surrender to the frustration of that
02:07That's where they win
02:09So they're playing Duke and I just think Duke is phenomenal
02:14And I you know what they did defensively to Alabama
02:17What's we had seen him have 25 threes in the game before and you knew as a basketball
02:23aficionado that you are and that I believe I am you knew they weren't getting 25 threes against that defense and the way they
02:31play defense
02:32Is spectacular. I think Duke and Houston are the two best defensive teams in America and have been all year
02:39The difference for me is Mike is that Duke is able to score?
02:44Against good defenses. They're able to score more points than teams like Houston. They're able to put up more they finished off, Alabama
02:51I mean easily it just doesn't matter who they play
02:55Yeah, Duke is a great offensive basketball team, but they haven't had to deal with this before
03:01I mean Auburn's very good defensively and they came into Cameron or Stadium and the Devils were able to get the win
03:08but this is a different level of defense that they're going against and they know that because actually
03:14John Shire two years ago his first year
03:17he wanted to against somebody that was going to make it difficult and
03:21They chose Houston and Houston agreed to the scrimmage in Houston and they learned a lesson in that game
03:28In that scrimmage a private scrimmage that that it was they can make things really hard for you
03:34It's different then because they had Jamal shed and he was as good against the ball as any
03:38Guards been in the last 10 years or so, but this team beats you in other ways defensively
03:44They make it hard to make the initial pass to the wing
03:47They don't allow offensive rebounds. They contest everything inside
03:51I I watched JT Toppin who was an All-American for us
03:54Second teamer go against them for Texas Tech and basically say nope. I'm not going inside anymore. No fun
04:01I want to do it. They didn't say it literally, but he said it with his play
04:05He wanted no part of anything that happened within six eight feet of the goal
04:09From about the 10-minute mark of that game on and it was a big difference in why Houston was able to win on the road
04:15at Tech I
04:17Look, I think that
04:19They're spectacular. They're gonna make it very difficult. There's no denying that
04:23I just think the same thing's gonna happen to them. I think they're really gonna have trouble scoring
04:30I think we'll find a way to score
04:33Do you still believe like, you know, I don't you haven't told me do you think Duke will get past that defense and beat them I
04:41Do I think that they are the best team here?
04:44I think they are the team that looks like a national champion Scott. I think we've mentioned this before
04:49I've talked about in a lot of places
04:51You got to have pros at least that's what the history has been since my first Final Four
04:56This is my 35th. My first Final Four was was Kansas beating
05:02Oklahoma in Kansas City with Danny Manning having the game as good a game as anybody's had in the Final Four since
05:09yeah, and and ever since then you have had to have a
05:14at least one and usually multiple NBA first-round picks in your rotation in order to take home this trophy and
05:21I don't know whether any of the other three teams have that
05:25I think Alex Condon and Thomas Houck of Florida
05:28Maybe I think to hot Pettiford if they can overlook his size at Auburn, maybe Janai brooms a great player
05:34Maybe somebody takes him at the end of the first round
05:36Maybe Duke's the only team that you look at and say no doubt they're gonna take those three guys in the top ten
05:41They're gonna take Malik Evans
05:46Excuse me, Isaiah Evans either this year or next year preferably next year because if he comes back next year
05:51They're probably gonna take him in the lottery as well
05:53So that's that's what they have over every other team that's here, but they can lose to any of the other three
06:00We've seen that we've seen them lose
06:04To Kentucky to Kansas to Clemson
06:06So it's out there for everybody to try to try to sort of write the new paradigm or at least the new paradigm for this
06:13year
06:14but there's no question in my mind that Duke is the team that is built most like the
06:19Typical and be excuse me NCAA champion
06:22well, so you have Florida to and
06:26Auburn three and they're playing each other and they've seen each other. They know each other their SEC teams
06:33I kind of like Auburn their physicality. They're like a football team to me their size their rebounding
06:41They're banging their bang ability
06:43They're very tough and physical and I think Florida's a gifted talented
06:49Scoring team quick transition team that has bigs, but I actually for my money. I think they're a little soft. They're bigs
06:57Well, you know I asked Alex Condon about that today because he did look like that in the Texas Tech game for about
07:0535 minutes and then played really tough down those final five minutes when Florida won the game came from 10 down
07:11He was a big part of why they were able to come from 10 down got I think three rebounds two offensive rebounds in those
07:18Final five minutes. I think he made a bucket
07:20He was a big part of that comeback not as big as how making two threes or or Walter Clayton making two and assisting on
07:27Some others but he was a big part of it
07:29And so I I understand your point and what what Alex told me was that he didn't feel confident playing on his ankle and that
07:37Affected him and that as the game wore on his confidence rebuilt and he was able to be effective when it mattered and now his
07:45ankles had another six to this point five days and then
07:50Eventually may be up. He'll have had two formal for two more full days on top of that
07:56And so hopefully at that point he's ready to go
08:00Respectfully I have one minute. What's it like for you?
08:03You know, I've been to 30 straight Super Bowl
08:07You know Radio Rose media been to 15 Super Bowls. I've been to a lot of
08:12Final fours and national championship games my favorite being Indiana and 87 over accused of the Superdome
08:18What's it like for you to go to this many?
08:21Final fours and have as much juice as Mike the course he has in the media. You're like a god down there
08:28Well Scott today John Shire couldn't even find me wearing pink in the crowd
08:32I mean, he couldn't find me. So how much juice do I have?
08:36Unbelievable that is just that's disrespectful Mike. I love you. Have a blast at the final