TJ Rives:
Well, hello there. Welcome in and Merry Christmas. It is the day before the day here on the BetUS College Basketball Show. Hope everybody is doing well. I am TJ Rives. I’ve got my handicappers back with me, Ian Cameron and the big man on campus, Jeff Nadu. We have much to go over from what happened on Wednesday. We do have a little bit of a limited card on Thursday, but still some gifts, some stocking stuffers before we get to Christmas because everything other than the exception of the tournament in Hawaii that will be playing out on Christmas Day, everything wraps up for the next two or three days in most of college basketball for this weekend. Anyway, guys, are you in the festive spirit? I know Jeff Nadu is smiling because he bagged on Arizona prior to the game with Tennessee last night and that one came through with a Tennessee outright win. So you have been on the launching pad since about 11:00 Eastern last night ready to go on this show. How we doing guys?
Jeff Nadu:
Doing well. Thanks as always for hosting and thanks for everyone for being here. I want to commend us and BetUS. We had our highest grossing show yesterday. I think you know that TJ, did great, very happy with it. Yeah. And look, Arizona, I’ve got some negativity around that. A lot of people weren’t happy about those comments, but I’ve lived my life doing this as a realist and I just try to be real. But yeah, I saw that one coming from a mile away. And yeah, just got to move on though, talk about it for an hour and move on.
TJ Rives:
Tennessee did get the big win. Ian Cameron, how are you? I know you took somebody blows last night. You were bemoaning just before we started the live show about Virginia Tech and Duke and that ACC game which they were winning at the half, which they were right in the game late. But then unfortunately, if you were on the Hokies as you were, Duke got the cover in the final minute or two of the game. Other than that though, how are you feeling as we head towards the Christmas weekend?
Ian Cameron:
Yeah. Well, when you have three losses by a bucket, you’re going to have a bad night, as simple as that. When you don’t get the close ones, that’s what’s going to happen. Certain nights like that, so they’re frustrating that we didn’t get a single close game to go our way, but it’s the way it goes. Credit to Tennessee, very good game. Jeff, for picking them and getting that one right there.
Ian Cameron:
I’ll be honest though, I was impressed even in defeat with Arizona. That could have easily been a game where at halftime they say, “It’s not our night. We’re going to just go away. Maybe we’re in over our heads. Maybe we’re not as good as people say we were.” But their second half, resilience, battle back, tied that game at one point. In fact, they had the ball with the game tied. It was a three pointer. Rattled in and out, and it seemed Tennessee was able to regather themselves at that point and finish out the last few minutes of that game. But it is possible to be impressed with certain teams even when they lose. And I was impressed with that second half effort from Arizona after a really poor start to that game.
TJ Rives:
Not sure if we can hear the big man but [crosstalk 00:03:32].
Jeff Nadu:
You see this in college basketball all the time. We see these teams like Arizona and Tennessee last night where Tennessee did a great job at getting out and getting a lead and then just kept Arizona at arms length. They never allowed Arizona to take a lead because when you’re down an entire game, you look at it and say, “Let’s just get the lead.” Because then it changes your psyche. We have a shot to do this. And I don’t think at any point they ever had the lead. They maybe had it for a minute or two, but Tennessee did a nice job. And I got to tell something, this a PS, Hey, to anybody that watches our shows or bet online college basketball, please stop at halftime of games contacting me and telling me I was on the right [crosstalk 00:04:12].
Ian Cameron:
Right job, yeah. I hate that.
Jeff Nadu:
Stop doing that.
Ian Cameron:
It’s Brutal.
Jeff Nadu:
I hate it. Stop doing it. [crosstalk 00:04:16].
TJ Rives:
In terms of you’re saying, if you’re on a full game, you don’t want to hear at halftime how right you are because there’s another half to go. It’s almost like a jinx. Is that what you’re saying big man?
Ian Cameron:
To further Jeff’s point? What a moron you would’ve been if you would’ve said that to me after half time of the Virginia tech game last night, could you imagine that coming to me saying, “Oh great. First half Virginia tech. You got this one, Ian.” Yeah. I had I nothing in that game.
Jeff Nadu:
Listen, TJ, here’s all you need to know about why you don’t do that, okay? For instance, last night, okay? I had a Hofstra team total, 72 and a half, okay? At the 12 minute mark, they had 65 points. And when two minutes to go, I was sweating that game. I didn’t know if I’d actually hit it. That’s why you can’t do that. Also, I’ll just say this, on this very day… What was it? 2014. Well, actually it was Christmas Eve at 2014, go back and watch The Bahamas Bowl. Western Kentucky, central Michigan. It is the worst beat I’ve ever had as a gambler. Going into the fourth quarter, Western Kentucky was up 42,14 land, two and a half, and they didn’t cover the game. That’s why until the game is at zero and it says final, you never assume anything.
TJ Rives:
Oh, it’s too good. It’s like the Army Bowl game that you were… I know you were tweeting about that.
Jeff Nadu:
Yeah.
TJ Rives:
Where Army had… They played poorly for a lot of it. They had the last second field goal, and I saw the flag fly right away while we’re talking college football. And I’m thinking, are they going to take the winning field goal away from Army and make them kick it again? [crosstalk 00:05:50]. To your point, it was the final play of the game of you don’t you don’t know. And even in football, in that case or a basketball review, you may not know with 0000 on the clock because somebody may be reviewing it or call it back because of a penalty. So again, don’t antagonize these guys at halftime with your live tweets, and your contacting, and that kind of stuff. Let’s take a look at our records as we head into the Thursday slate, see what the guys have done to this point.
TJ Rives:
Look at here, the big man on campus, back about a week ago, you were a few games below 500, now above 500 with two more wins last night at two and [O 00:06:26] night. Ian needs to be better today. We’re always positive about the future. We’re looking ahead to that. But Kyle Hunter above 500, mid-major Matt, right around 500. And so that heads us into really the final day of the Christmas weekend where we’re going to see at least numerous games. Only the Hawaii tournament again will be playing on Saturday, on Christmas day. And we are going to talk a little bit about the Hawaii tournament in this. Let’s begin though with a game involving a couple of teams in the Northeast, Fairfield and Wagner. And Ian Cameron, you’re looking all towards the future redemption here. This is a one and a half point line. Wagner is the favorite as the road team, the number at 135 and a half. What do you like Ian? As we get ready for this one later this afternoon, here coming up just a little while.
Ian Cameron:
Well, I’ll preface this by saying, yes, I want redemption. But if this is a huge card, neither of these games that I’ve got as a official plays or official plays on this show. It’s as simple as that. I mean, it’s a situation where I’m not going to come on this show and not have at least one official play. Kyle is the same way. I remember I did a show with Kyle a couple weeks ago. It was a very, very short card. He says, “I’m going to at least put out one official play there.” And that’s essentially what I’ve done. So I don’t love anything today, but I’m going to go ahead and take a shot here with Fairfield. I backed this team quite a bit. They’re now a home underdog. I know I’m going against a big sharp line. I don’t know if it is sharp, but a line move here against Wagner.
Ian Cameron:
And Wagner’s a solid team, but Fairfield’s much improved. And all they’ve been doing is undervalued since the mid part of last year, their 13 and three ATS, their last 16 games, their offenses improved significantly. They finally got guys that can make some shots for them, which was unlike early last year. They’re back home after a frustrating, tough loss against UMass. A good bounce back spot. They’ve been very good bouncing back from losses too, during this great stretch for Fairfield.
Ian Cameron:
Wagner on the other hand, I think there’s a rebounding edge too, because Fairfield does have some better rebounding statistics than Wagner. Wagner’s a solid offensive team. Probably a little bit better defensively than Fairfield. But I think that some extra possessions could go Fairfield’s way. I like the spot back home. They’re now a home dog. I like it even more at the current number. Remember it opened Fairfield laying points at home. I don’t think it’s injury-related. Fairfield should have most of their key players and starters available for this game. I’m going to go with the airfield here. I’ve backed them a lot, cashed with them a lot this year. See if we can cash another
TJ Rives:
All right. Big man on campus, any thought on this?
Jeff Nadu:
Yeah. I mean, be sure Mason’s team at Wagner, I mean, they’re pretty dead set in what they’re going to do. They’re going to press you. Fairfield has, I think the ability to break the press. Look, we never really know because when you’re dealing with the lower ends of college basketball, you never truly know what you’re going to get out of these guys. And a hyper speed press, which Fairfield doesn’t see very often could definitely bother them. We haven’t seen much a Wagner. They’ve only played seven games this year. And look, in one of their step, both step of games, they got beat up. They did beat VCU, very solid win. This is always a pretty good defensive team for the most part. Look, there’s two things that I don’t want to do. I don’t want to go against a sharp line move, as Ian discussed. This is sharp money.
Jeff Nadu:
People are taking Wagner here. And ultimately, in a toss up game, I mean, Fairfield has fallen in these kind of games. They generally find ways to lose these games. They should have beaten UMass. They had every opportunity to do it and they weren’t able to do it. I don’t know, I don’t have much in this game. In a coin flip, I’ll lean Wagner, just because I do like the principles that they have there. And I think they’re a decent team, but I didn’t have much on this one.
TJ Rives:
Fair enough. Let’s lock it in while we have the opportunity here. For Ian, he is on the home team. Fairfield getting a point and a half right now. As Ian pointed out, Fairfield was favored. You were saying that last night, they were initially favored and now it has swung the other way to a point and a half for Fairfield. Ian, that match up tonight, so that’s game number one on the docket. We go from there, all the way out to the island of Oahu, Hawaii and the University of Hawaii’s, Diamond Head Classic.
TJ Rives:
Two teams that won in the early session on Wednesday are now playing each other Wednesday afternoon in a semi-final of the University of Hawaii’s tournament. That’s Liberty with a win over Northern Iowa. Stanford also edged out Wyoming on Wednesday afternoon in Honolulu. Stanford now on the neutral floor is a two point favorite, the total 127 and a half for this one. Liberty’s a team that we’ve talked about a little bit on this show, Stanford out of the PAC 12. Very interesting here. I know you guys were looking at this game. I’m not sure if either of you have it. I don’t think either of you have an official play. Jeff Nadu, what about this here? A good win for Liberty on the neutral floor over Northern Iowa, because Northern Iowa has a couple of wins this year as well out in Hawaii.
Jeff Nadu:
Yeah. I mean, these are tough games. I mean, you look at the game yesterday against Northern Iowa. I mean it was a back and forth game. They found a way to get the job done. Look, if you made me guess on where I would go here, I would lean Liberty. I just think to presented matchup that they present is tough. I mean, I said present too much there. They present a tough matchup, let’s just say that. They play slow. They’re actually a very good defensive team. They pack everything in. They play a mover blocker defense, or mover blocker offense. And then the pack line defense similar to what Virginia does.
Jeff Nadu:
They’re going to give you a little bit of the three point line, but they’re not going to let you get much inside. And again, Stanford, I think that will work. I mean, Stanford’s not exactly an elite offensive team, but it means in a toss up game, I think Liberty presents an odd wonky matchup, especially on a back to back. Liberty though does take a lot of threes, and they live and die by the threes sometimes. Luckily, yesterday they were pretty damn efficient from 15 for 31 is damn efficient. If they shoot that way today, they’re not going to lose again. So yeah, I would lean Liberty here, but these Diamond Head Classic Hawaii games, I don’t have much Interest in.
TJ Rives:
They’ve been playing this tournament for about 40 years out in Honolulu. And again, this was the afternoon session. So the winner of this game is obviously in the championship game. Christmas night, they will take Friday off in the tournament. Ian, did you have a quick thought before we move on? We are going to talk about one of the other games in that tournament later in the show, but anything else, Ian, on this?
Ian Cameron:
Yeah. It’s a tricky one. It’s a pass for me. I just wanted to talk about it because look, we got to fill time. It’s a short card and it’s an interesting one to discuss. These are the two teams that won yesterday. The one concern for Liberty is I they had a nice, solid win against Northern Iowa, but man, this schedule’s come up pretty light for them. I mean even the Missouri win’s no big deal because Missouri’s terrible this year. I mean, how much of a big deal can you make out of that win for Liberty 66, 45, they lost to Iona on a neutral court. I mean, they just haven’t had many step up games like this. And Stanford will test them more than anybody has so far. And when you look at Stanford, they played Oregon. They played Colorado, they played Baylor. They’ve been tested this year, Stanford.
Ian Cameron:
So it’s a huge strength to schedule advantage for Stanford. But Liberty does play good defense. They’re going to slow it down. It’s exactly the way Virginia plays. It’s tough prep on a back to back when you got to get ready to play this team. So I feel Stanford should win this game because they’ve definitely been more battle tested. And I don’t know if Liberty’s been that way, but being able to play this stingy sticky, slow it down, grind it out, half court type of defense that Liberty brings is not an easy prep on a back to back. So I’m back and forth on this game, which is why it’s a pass.
TJ Rives:
Very interesting. On the scenario again, as we come to you live on the Thursday show at one Eastern time, this game is a four Eastern game that is 11:00 AM in Hawaii. It is a late morning start made for television. Again, ESPN dictating the start times, et cetera. It’s an 11:00 AM start in Honolulu. And again, a lot riding on it for the winner because you’ve got a great opportunity. I mean, for a program like Liberty, just one more time real quick, I mean, this win over Northern Iowa, a win over Stanford would be big later on in the year for at large purposes, because you also mentioned the win over Missouri. That’s quality strength of schedule playing these teams, and how did you do against them? if you’re able to get some victory.
TJ Rives:
So again, no official play from either of the guys. Semi-final number one of the Diamond Head Classic in Honolulu. You can see on our schedule, BYU and Vanderbilt are the night session in other semi-final. We’ll talk about that later in the show. Up next here and a Big East game, let’s swing all the way back to New York, Butler and St. John’s playing in the Big East here. The Johnny’s a five and a half point favorite in this one with the total at 135. We go to the big man on campus about what he thinks and why in this one tonight.
Jeff Nadu:
Yeah. So there’s a couple of things that are really, I think making me one side a lot. One of which is you look at St. John’s at home here but students are away, it’s Christmas. Coronavirus is absolutely out of control in New York City. So I don’t think… This being a home game is really only just about traveling. And you look at St. John’s. I mean, they’re having major issues with COVID-19 right now. I mean, they’re leading score, [Szampania 00:15:45] out of this game, Tareq Coburn, one of their bench players, transfer from Hofstra, he’s out. And I think probably the second biggest loss, Joel Soriano. Joel Soriano, a transfer from Fordham is their best rebounder. He’s a great offensive rebounder really creates second chance opportunities. He’s a big-bodied kid. You can put in the middle six foot, 11, seven foot tall that can and get you a bucket around the rim.
Jeff Nadu:
And he is a real… Kind of kid you could put in the middle and say, “Just stand here, your people aren’t going to come into the paint with you here.” They’re not going to have him tonight either. You look at the game without Szampania, lost to Pittsburgh, okay? I think the Butler game tonight is very similar. If I’m Butler, Chuck Harris should be back tonight, which is huge. Without Chuck Harris, I wouldn’t have taken this game, but I think he’s back and I think he’s going to play a big part in their offense.
Jeff Nadu:
I think if you’re Harris and Aaron Thompson, you’ve got to slow the tempo down. And that’s exactly what Butler wants to do. St. John’s wants to run, Butler’s going to slow it down. I think this is a real tough game to watch if you’re a fan. I trust Butler with Harris back to make shots. I think they’d win this game. I really do. I’ll gladly take the five, eight points. I’m not going to sell to you that butlers are great offensive team. They’re not a great team in general, but I think they present a tough matchup tonight again to St. John’s team that I think is just trying to get to the conference schedule intact. They’re going to be without two of their better players tonight. I think that’s a big loss. I think Butler’s the play here.
TJ Rives:
All right. Again for St. John’s, they had the last second loss to Pitt. And they now have gotten the benefit. Again, the Big East is forfeiting teams. They got a forfeit win as it stands right now, unless the Big East revises this over Seton Hall, because Seton Hall didn’t have enough players to play because of COVID-19 and the contact tracing. So they have a forfeit win in the Big East wing column right now over Seton Hall.
Jeff Nadu:
See this-
TJ Rives:
Ian, yeah, any thought here on this? Or Jeff, did you have a thought about the forfeit?
Jeff Nadu:
Real quick, yeah, I just wanted to say, this is a real problem for St. John’s because getting a win against [inaudible 00:17:50], that’s a good win, but you didn’t have to play them. So you didn’t have an opportunity to lose that game. You actually have to play Butler with three players out. If you lose against Butler, that’s a bad loss, right? I mean, you’d almost had a hope, “This was a forfeit.” That way you get a win because beating Butler does nothing for you. Losing against Butler hurts you. That’s a bad loss. So yeah, this forfeit stuff’s stupid. I think they have to figure this out, but I think-
TJ Rives:
And again, some conferences are going to retro just so we… Before getting Ian’s thought on the game, some conferences are already looking at this. The ACC being one of them, are we retroactively now going to say it’s not a forfeit because the Omicron variant, which we’ve heard over and over and over again about how contagious it is, are they going to forfeit people for now? The Big East has now done this three times with forfeit games. They apparently going to stick with it.
TJ Rives:
And there’s another further point for March. How will the selection committee look at that game later on and say, if you won by forfeit, are we valuing it the same way as you actually winning it? It does say W, it does count them in the column, but you didn’t play. It’s a subjective process from that committee. Will they look at that and say, “That’s not the same as actually beating them.” And I understand your point, Jeff, if you’re on demand tonight and you lose the game on the floor, they’ve got to consider that, but you might be better off to just forfeit yourself if you’ve got too many COVID-19 situations, because you might get the same benefit from the committee on [crosstalk 00:19:14].
Ian Cameron:
I was thinking this game could actually get postponed, believe me.
TJ Rives:
Yeah, on a forfeit loss. Yeah. So we’ll see on that. Ian, what is your thought here?
Ian Cameron:
But I think it’s going to go forward. It sure looks that way. I thought initially, because I knew St. John’s was dealing with these issues last game too, and thought, “Man, they shouldn’t play this game.” But it looks like it might go forward. If it does, it’s hard to lay points for St. John’s. This is not a game I’m betting. I mean, I hate Butler. I mean, it’s going to take a leap of faith for me to bet this Butler team. I don’t like much about them. I’m not a big fan of their coach. Bryce Enzi’s out. You mentioned Chuck here to hopefully they have him back because he’s double digit score.
Ian Cameron:
Jeff seems to think he’ll play. That would certainly help, but they’re not a good offensive team. They got destroyed by Purdue in their last game. Albeit Purdue’s one of the best teams in the country, but they’ve had some shaky games too. They lost A&M on a neutral blitz by Houston. St. John’s though, off their own bad loss against Pitt. They’re dealing with these illnesses. Julian Champagnie isn’t going to play tonight. They’ve been battling COVID there. I’m not laying points with them, but I don’t like Butler enough to take them. So it’s an easy decision for me to stay off the game.
Jeff Nadu:
By the way, according to [John Fett 00:20:17] on Twitter, this just came out recently. According to him, the Big East officially announced a change to its cancellation policy. Forfeit are no more. If a team has seven scholarship players, sponsored coach, they will play. If not, game is canceled with every effort made to reschedule. Previous four forfeited games or now no contests.
Ian Cameron:
There you go.
TJ Rives:
Now, so that’s interesting that that’s coming from the Big East after the fact. So now though, if I’m some of those schools that got a forfeit win, can we not make the game up down the road? Because you’re taking a win away from me and an opportunity to play if the other team [crosstalk 00:20:50]. Valid point, right? If the other team couldn’t play, shouldn’t they have to make it up with us because you’re taking a win from us.
Jeff Nadu:
Yeah. Well, look, as you said though, I mean in the grand scheme of things, look, St John’s is going to be a bubble team, quite frankly, okay? They’re a bubble team now, I think they’re going to be then. The committee is not going to value a forfeit win against you didn’t play, okay? We’re not valuing that win. Now, the forfeit thing’s stupid. They should have never done that in the first place.
TJ Rives:
Right.
Jeff Nadu:
Look, I have my own opinions on what they should be doing in these games anyway, but I’m not the decision maker here. Ultimately though, I’m glad they’re doing this. They need to also start looking into why are team… Every team should have to have… And again, these kids play for a school, okay? They’re not employees of a school, okay? They have to do what they’re being on scholarship to do. I think you have to have some sort of implement of, we need to know how many players have the vaccine and how many don’t, okay? It’s that simple because if a coach like Penny Hardaway, all due respect, TJ, he lied about his team’s vaccination test. He should very well know what’s going on. Look, it’s not a medical thing. I think they need to know, okay? It’s just that-
TJ Rives:
And in the Memphis case, just to clarify what you’re talking about, they couldn’t play against Tennessee. They’ve now canceled their game Tuesday, and they’re more than likely not still… They still have positive tests this week. They’re not going to be able to fill the team in another non-conference game next week. And he originally put it out there that they were all vaccinated. Now he’s had to walk that back that more than half of them are not. And your point is, do we have some kind of uniformity on, you’ve got to have this many vaccinated players and/or you may be looking at a forfeit if you don’t-
Jeff Nadu:
I think if we did that-
TJ Rives:
… because we don’t even know what that is for most teams out of 300 teams.
Jeff Nadu:
But think if they did that, then you’d be in the situation where… Because they’re going to stop testing vaccinated players. They’re doing it in the NFL already. If you get to a point where you don’t need to do it anymore, like this piecemealing together, like you have 10 players, six have the vaccine, six don’t. It’s stupid. You have to have some sort of uniformity or you’re going to continue-
TJ Rives:
A standard.
Jeff Nadu:
Yes, exactly.
Ian Cameron:
And what’s going to happen if at tournament time, we’re dealing with this still? And what do they do at college football type deal? You can’t play your tournament game, you’re out of the tournament.
TJ Rives:
Well, remember they did it.
Jeff Nadu:
They did do that.
TJ Rives:
[crossstalk 00:23:12] the Commonwealth and the COVID-19, or the 2021 tournament, they said to Virginia Commonwealth, “You don’t have enough guys for your first round game so you’re out.” And it was a forfeiture for Iowa, I believe. I think it was Iowa VCU or whoever got the forfeit.Ian Cameron:
VCU was the team. I remember it.
TJ Rives:
Yeah. Moved on, but VCU was the team that didn’t get to play an NCAA tournament game.
Ian Cameron:
Yeah.
TJ Rives:
So we may be back to some of this again. I know we’ve digressed, but it’s an important point here because again, if you’re watching this score later tonight and St John’s has 40 points at home, don’t say you weren’t warned on the BetUS College Basketball show because-
Ian Cameron:
Like Georgia guys in footballs dealing with big time COVID issues right now. They’re basically saying that, “Hey, if you can’t fill the team next new year’s Eve against Michigan, Michigan’s moving on. You’re out.
Jeff Nadu:
But again guys, this is… And the last thing I have to say, this is just the continued hypocrisy of this, but we will allow 60,000 people to come to the game and we don’t care what their situation is. This hypocrisy is ridiculous. That’s what I’m saying here. It doesn’t make sense.
Ian Cameron:
Too many inconsistencies.
TJ Rives:
Yep.
Jeff Nadu:
Yeah.
TJ Rives:
True.
Jeff Nadu:
Exactly.
TJ Rives:
All right. Fair enough. Let’s move on. We’re going to go back to Hawaii. My gosh, we’re criscrossing the country. So we’re going back to Hawaii and the two teams that were beaten in the opening game of the Diamond Head Classic for each Northern Iowa and Wyoming. They’re next up on our slate here. They are playing later in the afternoon in the consolation round, if you will, of the Diamond Head Classic hosted by the University of Hawaii. Wyoming two and a half point favorites on the neutral floor, the number 136 and a half here on this one. It’s not going to be an official play. Again, you guys were looking at the number, waiting to see what the number would be. Again, Northern Iowa narrowly lost by two to Liberty. Wyoming lost by three to Stanford. They were close games. They’re out there on the Hawaiian Islands, little farther trip for Northern Iowa, but it’s still a far trip for both of them. Now this is game two this afternoon. All right. Either one of you with a thought here. No official play from either one of you with a thought?
Jeff Nadu:
Well, I’ll say this, if I had to play a Diamond Head Classic game, it would probably be this one. I was just kind of interested in talking about it. Look, I think this would be where I’d play Wyoming. I think they’re just better than Northern Iowa. Keep in mind, Northern Iowa would trade [bur house 00:25:28] out right now. I think he has coronavirus. He’s one of their main pieces out. Look, I don’t know if Northern Iowa can guard not only Graham EK, but Hunter Maldonado. Maldonado in Wyoming are gigantic. One of the biggest teams in the country, pretty good offensively. I don’t trust Northern Iowa. They’re not the throwback team we remember. They’re not the team that gets a ton of stops defensive and plays every game in the fifties. They’re not that team anymore. I think Wyoming is better than they are. I’d lean them here.
TJ Rives:
Okay. Ian, any quick thought? No official play.
Ian Cameron:
I’m on Wyoming again. And I was on them small yesterday against Stanford and fell short. I’m going to come back to them. I agree that the defending of the perimeter’s not good. Or it’s defending the interior, I should say, inside the defense for Northern Iowa, hasn’t been good this year. In fact, you look at efficiency in terms of two point fuel goal defense, 296 in the country giving up 53% inside the arc. So that’s not good for Northern Iowa. And [Graham E. K. 00:26:24], as Jeff mentioned, he is some kind of specimen physically down low in the paint. So definitely that is a concern match up wise here for Northern Iowa in this game. And Northern Iowa, it was a back and forth game yesterday that they played, falling short against Liberty. And Liberty’s one of those teams. So we talked about Liberty previously, take a lot out of you.
Ian Cameron:
So from an energy standpoint, I think you could see maybe a little bit more on the Wyoming side. When you got to play liberty, that’s a taxing game. When you got to play that Ritchie McKay defense, that half court defense that can just grind you down. So I think Wyoming it’s worthless. I wouldn’t want to lay more than say a bucket or so, but you’re only laying two right now in this game. I’ll just go money line. When I’m talking about betting a two point favorite on a neutral floor in a new tournament setting like this, I’m never going to lay the two. I’m always going to go with the money line, which you can get around minus 135 to minus 140 right now. I don’t want these shenanigans or worry about a one point victory being a loss for me. So I’ll go Wyoming here, moneyline. Not an official play, but this is a bet for me.
TJ Rives:
Okay. So no official play from the guys here on that game in Hawaii, which is later this afternoon, Eastern time. And again, we’ll get to the other semi-final for a slot in the championship of that tournament. That’s the BYU game that you see on our schedule. Before we get there though, we’ve got a big 10 team in Wisconsin and they are hosting the George Mason Patriots. George Mason was a darling of the beginning of the season with what [inaudible 00:27:56] started an upset of Maryland. They’ve taken some lumps since then. This game in 11 and a half point line for Wisconsin at home, the over, under at 130 for this evening. And again, there was some line movement in this one as well. Ian Cameron, were right back to you on what you were looking at. I don’t know if this is going to be an official play. I don’t think it is, but what were you looking at for this game to have it on the docket?
Ian Cameron:
Not an official play, but I am on George Mason here plus 11 and a half, but I-
Jeff Nadu:
Hey Ian, you got to play these games. What do you mean you’re not on these. You got to play these. If he’s giving them out, come on.
TJ Rives:
Now. He’s on for a little he says here on George Mason. Tell us more on a little here.
Ian Cameron:
Yeah, a little. I mean, there’s two plays that I’m on bigger than George Mason or say, Wyoming the last game. So the reason why I like George Mason a little bit here is because Wisconsin’s been dealing with their own… Not a COVID issue, but they’ve had some illnesses running through the team. And look, we saw it last game against Nickel State, where they were 17 point favorite. They were life and death to win that game. They did not have Johnny Davis on the floor in that game. And with all due respect to Brad Davidson and [Wall 00:29:03], and some of the other players on this Wisconsin team, he’s their best player. I think that’s become crystal clear with the way he’s played the offensive dynamo that he is. And they missed him dearly against Nickel State. Now the good news is they expect him back for this game against George Mason.
Ian Cameron:
I lean with the points here. The one thing that kept me off George Mason, because I like the way they can play defense. I think Kim English was a terrific hire. But the more I about it, the more we’re saying George Mason’s this great team and this darling because they beat Maryland, but Maryland’s a mess. Maryland’s a total and utter mess right now. We’re going to give them credit for beating Georgia. Well we just saw Georgia lose to East Tennessee State last night.
Ian Cameron:
And Tom Crane’s on his way out. He’s got one foot out the door. He then well better have one foot out the door because they should be ready to punt him finally with what’s going on down there. So I don’t want to make too big of a deal of George Mason beating Maryland and then beating Georgia. And I read a great quote from Greg Gard, the head coach of Wisconsin saying, “We’ve had a lot of illnesses. It’s run through the team. It’s taken a lot out of us, but we’ve had a lot of days off now to get healthy, to get some rest, to get some practice in.”
Ian Cameron:
And I’m worried that after just barely getting by Nickel State at home, they take this game seriously. They want to play a lot better after just a lack luster performance. And they’re going to probably, as I mentioned, have Johnny Davis back. So with those factors in mind, I said, “You know what? Let’s pump the breaks a little bit on George Mason and just keep it a small bet, not an official play.”
TJ Rives:
Big man on campus, Wisconsin has been rolling as of late, they won the Maui Jim Invitational that was not played in Hawaii, it was played in Las Vegas, but they won that tournament. They also have wins over Marquette and Indiana at home as well. Any thought here on the badgers? I know you’re not playing the game.
Jeff Nadu:
Yeah. This is another team that in a few weeks is going to be a complete… They’re going to get slapped in the head face. I mean, Wisconsin sucks. I mean, outside of Johnny Davis, look, the good teams in this conference, Purdue, Iowa, Illinois, they’ll figure the scoop out quick. And Ian’s 100% right. I mean, I don’t know if Johnny Davis is playing. If he doesn’t play, I would be all over the nine. I mean, I don’t know if he’s going to play though, but quite frankly, with or without Johnny Davis, I think this team is a fraud. Just going to say it.
Jeff Nadu:
That Ohio state game, Johnny Davis played well, but they got crushed. He’s all they have. They almost lost to Nickel State. By the way, Nickel State, the same Nickel State that lost by 22 to Oregon State, a team that had lost 10 in a row. So yeah, that’s not a team I’m running to the window to lay almost doubled digits with. And I don’t know if they’re leading score is going to play. There’s not probably a more important player to its team than Johnny Davis. Without him, Wisconsin is a bad, bad team.
TJ Rives:
All right, again, no official play on this game, but that went tonight at the Kohl Center in Madison, pre-Christmas, couple nights before Christmas here with Wisconsin and George Mason. Shout out to my guy, Bill Roland, the longtime voice of the George Mason Patriots. A cancer survivor, underwent cancer treatment a couple of years ago. He’s on the call of the game on George Mason radio. Let’s see if the Patriots can hang in. They’re on the road. Nickel’s hung in as you mentioned with Wisconsin. That leaves one more game on our slate. Before we get to the question and answer segment of the show, back to the islands, back to Oahu. This is the late night, second semi-final to make it into the championship game. BYU and Vanderbilt, Brigham young defeating USF, South Florida out of Tampa. The bulls did not get to 40 points, we were joking about that yesterday on the program.
TJ Rives:
BYU smothered them in a quarter final win. Vanderbilt surprised the home standing hosts, Hawaii, behind Scotty Pippen Jr. Hello, scoring 21 points. I watched some of that game. Scotty Pippen Jr. got off to a great start with a three. He got a steal and a dunk early on in the game. They did not look back. Vanderbilt looked good beating the home standing Hawaii team. Okay, so this is late night in Hawaii for BYU and Vanderbilt. Again, guys, let’s go to Ian Cameron here. What do you think? What do you have for an official play on this one, Burbano?
Ian Cameron:
So I’m not usually someone that loves laying points on a neutral floor. I just think there’s a big difference between these two teams, and I’m willing to lay the five and a half here with BYU. I just think they’re much better basketball team, simple as that. And Vanderbilt to me hasn’t been overly tested this year. And when they have, it’s not been pretty. I mean, they have an 11 point loss against VCU on their resume. They lost by 11 against Loyola, Chicago. They lost at by eight against SMU. They lost as home favorites against temple earlier this year, 72 to 68 in overtime. I just think there’s a big gap between these two teams. Okay, they won and covered against Hawaii. Hawaii is not very good this year. And they forced 21 turnovers in that game. And they destroyed the Hawaii bench in terms of bench points.
Ian Cameron:
It’s not going to be that same way for them here against BYU. Again, BYU, I think the misconception here with Pope in this team is that for years, especially when Dave Rose was the head coach, great offensive team, explosives, shoot the ball well, but very suspect defensively. That’s not BYU anymore. They play very good defense. They smothered South Florida yesterday. Alex Barcelo, terrific player. Look, he only had 10 points yesterday and they still won by double digits. But they’ve got Gideon George, Traore, I mean, they’ve got other guys that can step it up on the defensive end. I like what I’m seeing from them.
Ian Cameron:
For them, it’s going to be contained Scotty Pippen Jr. I think if you do that, you’re going to give yourself a very good chance in this game. Sometimes they ask him to do too much for this Vanderbilt team. I know Jerry Stackhouse has voiced concern about sometimes getting the second, third, fourth option to consistently help his team out offensively. That’s sometimes a bit of an issue. You look at BYU, they’re a solid free throw shooting team as well. And I just think gradually they pull away here. And minus five and a half, I don’t usually love laying this kind of number on a neutral floor. I just thought if there’s bigger gap between these two teams, then the point spread indicated. So BYU for me, minus five and a half.
TJ Rives:
Barcelo is a fantastic player. Again, neutral floor game here with Vanderbilt having pulled the upset. And we’ve talked about this a couple times. You got to get ready for this in tournament play or whether you’re talking about your conference tournament, the NCAA tournament you’ll get a day between, but conference tournament, sometimes you’re playing three games in three days or you might have to. Here is that case. Can Vanderbilt replicate that? I got the feeling obviously for me and he doesn’t think they will is BYU too… I know Jeff, you do not have an official play. Is BYU too much for them? Too much size? Too much on the glass here for Vanderbilt?
Jeff Nadu:
Yeah. I think they probably will be. I had this one as a double digit BYU win. Look, if only Arizona had Alex Barcelo still, who used to be at Arizona. If only they had him now, I think they’d be a national title contender. They don’t though. Barcelo is really good. I mean, he’s not Jim Fredette, but he’s a really great BYU player. They’ve always had terrific guard player over the years, whether it was Tyler halls or Fredette, or whoever, just a fun team. What a great atmosphere that is as well. If you ever get out to that Marriot Center, great place to watch a game. But yeah, I actually like BYU. I actually like the over a little bit as well. 133, it’s been bet down. I don’t think Vanderbilt can stop BYU. In fact, if you can find Barcelo props, I’d be all over that.
Jeff Nadu:
I think he has a big game here tonight. Vanderbilt plays drop coverage. They’re going to give you the three point line. We saw BYU a couple games ago against him. I think it was Weber State. I think they had 16 threes in that game. I don’t know if we’ll see that tonight, but they should go off from three. And I will say this, I think Ian makes a good point that BYU has improved defensively. I’m not sure if individually though, Barcelo can guard Pippin. I think he’s better than Barcelo. I’d say at least defensively, Pippin can get the best of him. I feel like this game was 75, 68 or something. I think they can pull away and probably win by seven to 10 points. And I think this game find its way over, but again, we are seeing another late Thursday card. There’s some decent games, but I didn’t find much interest in this card, frankly.
TJ Rives:
All right, fair enough. And again, 10 Eastern time, five in Hawaii for this one. Winter again gets the winner of Liberty. And Stanford coming on Christmas night on Saturday night in prime time. The tournament will take Christmas Eve off to give all of the fans, the broadcasters, everybody that’s there for the fun, give them a fun off day on Christmas Eve. And then Christmas afternoon and Christmas night they’ll play the tournament final between the winner of this BYU Vanderbilt game and the winner of Liberty and Stanford. We’ll get to the Q&A in just a moment. We’re an evolving show. We’re a cutting edge show. We’re two days before Christmas. So we’ve been talking about St. John’s and Butler. What did we say about 20 minutes ago when bemoaning, whether St John’s would play the game or not. The latest now is breaking, breaking right now on the BetUS College Basketball show. St. John’s doesn’t have enough guys to go tonight. They have more positive COVID tests. So the Butler, St. John’s game is off. And what does this mean now for forfeit, cancellation, makeup? Welcome to the mayhem of the Big East.
Ian Cameron:
Yeah.
TJ Rives:
So what you were saying, Jeff Nadu was the Big East said, moving forward, it’s not going to be a forfeit, right? If we understand this correct, they’re going to try to make it up while they call it a no contest right now, right?
Jeff Nadu:
Yeah. But ultimately, the people that get screwed here are people like us who… I mean, this is stupid. I mean, and again, this is just me just being aggravated and frustrated. I’m sick and tired of this. I mean, two years now, we’re still doing this stupid stuff. And again, look, I know the coronavirus has hurt a lot of people, but the quite Frank nature is none of these kids who have any issue with this. It’s irritating. As someone that does this, this is my business. This is irritating because this is a better opportunity for me on a card that I don’t have much on.
TJ Rives:
Right.
Jeff Nadu:
And again, this hurts the listeners because we have to draw back on things. It ruins everything. And it’s stupid. But I don’t know what will happen. I guess they’ll try to replay it at some point.
TJ Rives:
They’ve got to try to play a couple of these. I mean, you can’t… Here we go again, just playing this all the way out. You can’t get in a situation where St. John’s has already lost a game, not lost on the court, but has had a game vacated against Seton Hall, whatever you want to call it. Now they have another game with Butler vacated. They may not be able to play the next game that’s coming here if it’s a conference game, with all the COVID outbreaks. You can’t have a team with three less games competing in the conference standings and trying to figure out tournament seating. You’re going to have to find ways to make them up. Unless you’re going to declare them forfeits, which they were doing, you’re going to have to find a way to make them up later in the year. And they’ve got time to do that.
TJ Rives:
So let’s see if the Big East does that. So again, breaking news, you see it on our schedule. The Saint John’s Butler game is now off. That only came down while we’re doing the show. We’re cutting edge, two days before Christmas. A lot of people are trying to get in touch with Santa Claus. We’re trying to get in touch with where are these games and are they being played or not? So there you go on that.
TJ Rives:
All right. So for the Q&A, just a remaining moment or two, a couple of people had a couple of questions. Let me scroll back up here and see what we have from couple of the viewers that were watching. Keith wants to know about Hawaii and USF. So that is the late, late game with the two teams that lost their Wednesday night opening round game. Hawaii is the host school. Didn’t look very good against Vanderbilt. Again, I’m not sure that USF can get to 50 points if you gave them a 50 minute game, not just a 40 minute game. They cant score guys.
Ian Cameron:
Yeah.
TJ Rives:
So Keith wants to know about the under. Is the under almost an automatic here? What are you guys thinking?
Ian Cameron:
I lean under for sure. It’s 121. The problem is, is the consolation game. And it could be a loose environment, not a lot of defense because again, it’s consolation game. These two teams lost yesterday. But other than that, match up wise, I don’t see either team lighting it up. I could only look under 121 personally.
TJ Rives:
Okay. Fair enough on that. Jeff, I don’t know if you have any thought on that. Again, USF time and again, can’t get to 50, 52 points in a game.
Jeff Nadu:
Yeah. I don’t have much on those Diamond Heads to begin with, especially that one. What’s the score? 37 last night?. Brian Gregory’s probably on his way out down in Tampa. That’s a rough program right now.
TJ Rives:
Yeah. They have had issues. Again, full disclosure, I’m somebody that used to do the play by play of those games. They have had issues off the court with player transfers that have hurt them and the fire power. So it’s very interesting that they play the host school. And we’ll see if… I saw in… One more closing thing about the tournament, BYU had some fans there, proximity and BYU has a Hawaii Campus as well. There’s a BYU Hawaii, a satellite campus of the school. They had some fans there. For the Hawaii Vanderbilt game, it was surprising. Again, COVID 19 going on, they maybe had 1500 people in the arena. You would think Hawaii would have some kind of home court advantage. My point is, when they lost last night, two days before Christmas, there may not be many people there at 7:00 PM prime time in Hawaii on a Thursday night before Christmas. I don’t know that that’s much of an advantage for Hawaii. You would typically think they’d have a few thousand there making noise. They may not in this game Tonight.
Ian Cameron:
Yeah.
Jeff Nadu:
It’s a rough game. This is probably the one I have least interested in today.
TJ Rives:
All right. So stay away from that. Okay. So some fun on the Q&A before we get out of here. I’m going to see if I get a quick reaction. Have both of you completed your shopping for the holidays? Point blank.
Jeff Nadu:
Yep.
TJ Rives:
Quick nod from Jeff. Ian, you’re kind of like… Okay, Ian is yes. You made a list. You checked it twice.
Jeff Nadu:
Yeah. I’m a big [crosstalk 00:43:13] look I-
TJ Rives:
Stay away.
Jeff Nadu:
I have a gigantic family actually. My dad’s one of 15. My mother’s one of five.
TJ Rives:
Wow.
Jeff Nadu:
Initially enough, just through all my uncles on my father’s side we’re all like, it’s all construction. We’re all in construction and there’s some bad blood. We actually don’t talk sadly to a lot of my family, unfortunately. And I don’t get into that. That’s my dad’s thing. And I don’t melt in, but we actually have a pretty small Christmas. I only have to buy for a couple of people. So I try to have really good gifts. I try to go out and… Because you don’t really do this much, right? Christmas’ once a year.
TJ Rives:
Right.
Jeff Nadu:
Yeah. I got all the gifts and they’re ready to go. And I want to say one thing really quick. I don’t want to make this all about basketball. I know you’re trying to have some fun here. Quickly, Fresno State I think it’s worth a look tonight. The only reason I didn’t play it, Jamari Baker, the Arizona transfer, he was out the other night. I think he’s an important part, but I know there’s a lot of sharp money coming in on the Bulldogs. Weber State is a lost cause defensively. I think they could be worth a look, but I could ask say one more thing. It’s interesting if Ben Sports isn’t in here today, I wanted to bring up St. Thomas for a second. Ben Sports came in here yesterday and said that elevation doesn’t mean anything to a team at all.
TJ Rives:
Right.
Jeff Nadu:
And let me just talk about it. Did anyone see St. Thomas [inaudible 00:44:34]?
Ian Cameron:
In that second half coughed and weezed to a very fortuitous cover at the end of the day.
Jeff Nadu:
Yeah. Well, but they lost. They were up 44, 29 at the half and got out scored 46, 30. And actually enough, the team that outscored then was Denver. Well, let’s tell us that elevation didn’t mean anything. Give me a break.
TJ Rives:
They wore down maybe in the elevation [crosstalk 00:44:54].
Ian Cameron:
The leg seized up in the second half. And when the leg seize up, you don’t have the lift on the gym.
TJ Rives:
Yes.
Ian Cameron:
You can’t get your legs under those jump shots anymore. They fall short or they hit the rim. It’s simple as that. That’s what happens when you get.
TJ Rives:
And you were talking about BYU. They play at elevation, obviously in Salt Lake or in Provo, in that area. Same thing for New Mexico playing at altitude or UTEP playing at altitude. Keep an eye on that for the games. All right. I had two more fun ones before we get to the best minutes and then we’ve got to get out of here. We watched it in my household last night, Die Hard with Bruce Willis. The late ’80s action thriller, Christmas movie or not, Burbano first, Die Hard, Christmas movie, yes, no.
Ian Cameron:
Yes. And I liked the movie. And I say it’s a Christmas movie because it’s centered around Christmas.
TJ Rives:
He’s yes on that. Big man, Die Hard, Christmas movie?
Jeff Nadu:
It might be rough, but I’ve never seen it, frankly. So I can’t comment.
TJ Rives:
You got to be kidding me.
Jeff Nadu:
Yeah. I’m a big movie guy but I’ve never seen it.
Ian Cameron:
Wow.
TJ Rives:
You have got to get in on Die Hard. I know you’re a little younger but you got to get on that.
Jeff Nadu:
But yeah, I mean it all [crosstalk 00:45:52].
Ian Cameron:
You’ve seen it once. I am surprised.
TJ Rives:
That is shocking, but this is the things we find out on the Christmas Q&A. And how long on leftovers? Leftovers Sunday, yes. Beyond Sunday, no. For all the food that we’re going to consume Friday night, a lot of people do Christmas Eve Friday night, Saturday food, Sunday is it for the NFL or leftover still around Sunday night and Monday? Opinions.
Jeff Nadu:
Wow. I mean Christmas day is on Saturday. It may be Friday night. You have a dinner. Look, I don’t do leftovers anymore.
TJ Rives:
[inaudible 00:46:24] leftovers for you, Burbano.Jeff Nadu:
And I’ll tell you why real quick.
TJ Rives:
Yep.
Ian Cameron:
[inaudible 00:46:28] leftovers. Yep.Jeff Nadu:
People remember that the key to the way I lost a lot of weight was when I had pizza, right? I still eat pizza, right? But what I used to do is I’d eat pizza, I’d put it in the fridge. And then at two, three o’clock I eat it again. I stopped doing that. Any meal that I have, I consume it and that’s it. No more of it because a lot of the meals I eat are good, they’re not great, so I don’t want to keep eating them. And leftover, generally, they’re bad. They’re very good food but they’re bad for you. So no, I don’t do leftovers, but you could do it for a few days.
TJ Rives:
Out of sight, out of mind.
Ian Cameron:
The major meals, special occasions, leftovers are good, but don’t do it every day.
TJ Rives:
Yeah.
Ian Cameron:
There’s no doubt. By the way, about Die Hard, if you ever watch the TV version of Die Hard, One of the funniest dubbed edited because they can’t have swear words on television. We all know Yippee Ki Yay.
TJ Rives:
Yippee Ki Yay.
Ian Cameron:
Other, You Know What from Bruce Willis. Well on the TV version, it’s not even Bruce’s voice, it’s someone with an accent. Yippee Ki Yay, Mr. Falcon.
TJ Rives:
Mr. Falcon. Yes.
Ian Cameron:
Yeah.
TJ Rives:
So we need Jeff to use that at another point in time on another show.
Ian Cameron:
Hilarious [crosstalk 00:47:31].
TJ Rives:
[inaudible 00:47:31] Mr. Falcon, he’ll understand what that means.Ian Cameron:
Yes.
TJ Rives:
Bruce Willis was fantastic against the terrorists at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles. Die Hard is a Christmas movie. Ian, well done on that. I think that we’re pretty well done here in a second. First of all, regroup best bets. Here’s what the guys are on. Thursday card, again, we’re not here for Christmas Eve. This is what the guys officially have. Jeff did have, and again, we’re not able to take the graphic off. Our BetUS people do a great job with getting everything ready. They’re not able to take the graphic off. So Jeff had Butler past tense, but the game is off tonight with St John’s. So Ian has the two official plays. They are Fairfield in a home game as a home underdog. BYU on the neutral floor in Hawaii, laying the points with Vanderbilt late night tonight.
TJ Rives:
Again, if you’re interested in the college basketball, basically that Diamond Head tournament is the only thing going on basically on Christmas afternoon and evening out in Hawaii. And the winners of Liberty Stanford, BYU, Vanderbilt will play in the championship game on Saturday night. Other than that guys, we have come to the end here of the program. Always love doing this with you. Any final thoughts from either of you before the Christmas holiday?
Jeff Nadu:
No, I just want to say thanks to BetUS sportsbook. Thanks to you TJ for hosting. Thanks to Ian, Kyle, Matt, everyone for coming on. And to our listeners for coming on. We’ve enjoyed this show. We’ll obviously have a great show next week in coming back. You all have a good holiday and Salute. Appreciate it.
Ian Cameron:
Absolutely.
TJ Rives:
And Cameron, anything else in closing? I know you’re in Canada, a little Canadian Christmas going on, anything else?
Ian Cameron:
Yeah. Merry Christmas to TJ, to Jeff, to Matt, to Kyle, to everybody backstage, Natalie, BetUS, everybody involved with the company, Tim, everybody. We appreciate it. Appreciate you guys putting the show together and putting us on the show to do it. And Merry Christmas to everybody watching and listening. Cash some tickets, have a great holiday and we’re looking forward to doing this show in January, because this is when college basketball heats up. Football’s winding down, conference play is underway. The rush to make it into the NCAA tournament is on. I’m looking forward to some January and beyond college basketball.
Jeff Nadu:
Also, real quick.
TJ Rives:
I know you know this, we don’t even have to wait till January. We’re going to be back on Monday off the Christmas weekend and get a few days in. But I know what you mean about the conference play. Yes, big man before we’re gone.
Jeff Nadu:
And also to the unknown people that we don’t talk about, Alejandro, [Fabian 00:49:46] and the people behind the scenes, Felise navidat to you. Thank you for your work. These are the people that put the shows on, the graphics people, the camera people, the people behind [crosstalk 00:49:56].
TJ Rives:
Hey, the bottom line is, they deserve gifts because they put up with us. They put up with us on the show, they make us look good on [crosstalk 00:50:02].
Jeff Nadu:
Could you imagine putting up a TJ Rives everyday for an hour plus?
TJ Rives:
I know, exactly.
Jeff Nadu:
Oh my God.
TJ Rives:
But we get it done. Hey and I mean-
Jeff Nadu:
We need Cameron, he tells his life story every show he does. So it’s rough.
Ian Cameron:
You can write a novel on one analysis of the game from me. Yeah.
TJ Rives:
There you go. Listen, great job guys, Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas to the audience watching here. Again, no Christmas Eve show because there aren’t games. Enjoy the Diamond Head tournament this weekend. Everything will crank back up on [crosstalk 00:50:31].
Ian Cameron:
We’re on Monday to Thursday next week. Four days, yep.
TJ Rives:
Yeah. So we’re back next Monday at 1:00. For now, we are good. Jeff, thank you. Ian, thank you. Thank you for watching on the BetUS College Basketball show.
Jeff Nadu:
Thank you.
Ian Cameron:
Merry Christmas.
