Pardon the Interruption | Zion Williamson dominated as Pelicans stack wins after beat Nets – Wilbon

Pardon the Interruption | Zion Williamson dominated as Pelicans stack wins after beat Nets – Wilbon

Pardon the interruption but I’m Mike wilbon it’s the International Day of Happiness Tony what makes you happy I’m Tony Kornheiser Sunshine ice cream the suffering of my enemies I I like that suffering of my and that sounds like a line from a Quinton tantino movie where you’re going to

Shoot up the place my goodness Quinton Tarantino he made he didn’t make many movies but he made a few great movies right yeah he did impact not the most prolific guy but boy oh boy that stuff good welcome to PTI boys and girls in today’s episode the Dodgers beat the Padres Lincoln Riley

Stops coaching quarterbacks and Jay billis joins us for five good minutes but we begin today with the University of Virginia losing a playin game last night to Colorado State and scoring only 14 points in the first half and 42 for the game the entire game Colorado state

Scored 67 Virginia was never close in the second half they shot 25% from the field 17.6% from three wellan you picked Virginia to win this game yeah what does this loss say about UVA the ACC and the selection committee it doesn’t say anything about anybody but Virginia this

Is not my first time watching Virginia I picked Virginia last night against all reason Virginia’s played This Way Tony for the last 10 games and literally the last six like four the last six five of the last nine they scored fewer than 50 I mean I watch all the Virginia games

Tony Bennett’s a terrific coach he w a national championship five years ago in 2019 it doesn’t say anything even about the overall quality of Virginia it speaks to this year’s Virginia team Tony three weeks ago when I first started looking at Lunardi’s brackets and Bracketology he had Northwestern versus

Virginia in a 89 well we sort of fulfilled that Virginia wound up in a playin game because they played their way into that status so so you know this is not a surprise it doesn’t mean anything about the committee cuz they downgraded Virginia going in you could

Have taken pit instead of them you could have taken St John’s instead of them you could have taken Indiana State instead of them it doesn’t speak to anything except Virginia struggles and they are struggling we are going to be in agreement on most of this I do not

Quibble with Virginia being in the tournament they won the whole thing as you said in 2019 though I will point out that four of the last five times they have played in the tournament they’ve gone out in the first round including the first number one to ever go out to a

16 University of Maryland Baltimore County but they can’t shoot Mike they can’t shoot they missed 19 shots in a row in this game and it’s not that they can’t shoot this year they couldn’t shoot last year they don’t shoot well I don’t blame the ACC at all they’re an

Outlier in the ACC they have the lowest offense in the ACC I mean I think people have to they have to recognize that that that it’s like Tony benett when he recruits says I don’t care if you can’t shoot if you play defense and you hustle

You can play for me so I I I you know I I don’t hold anybody else responsible much like you except for then just give me 10 seconds on the other game last night because I watched Howard and Wagner I did watch that game and Howard made a terrific comeback over the last

Three minutes they were down 13 to 14 got it to where they had three shots to win in the last 8 seconds none of the shots were close but it was a a lovely ending I bring this up only because you had that one wrong too and I’m just

Saying yeah by the way Tony one more Virginia as a PS about not shooting they can’t shoot free throws I think they’re they’re one of the worst teams in the country if not lasted like 62% from the foul line that’s not that’s not characteristic of Virginia even when

They’re not getting deep in the tournament so they got to they got to they got to figure back drawing board on off score yeah we move now to the tournament at large after tonight’s two playin games we will be deluged 48 games in four days our heads will all be

Spinning with upsets and buzzer beaters so let’s take the Long View wilbon when the whole tournament is over which team will be the winner Tony we went through a lot of this on your podcast Monday morning so I know it came as a shock to you in real

Time on your podcast um and I was not like in indulge in any iasa festival or anything like that when I picked and I’m going to reiterate double down on the University of Illinois and Tony I’m gonna go largely with a player because March can be dominated by a player we’ve

Seen Carmelo Anthony do that and I’m goingon to pick a kid who’s like 21 or 22 years old Terence Shannon Jr who’s from Chicago Lincoln Park kid he’s he a Chicago in and Marcus Dom Mascus I know these are a pair of six6 swingmen and there’re they’re sort of in that you

Know you look at modern basketball and much less than point guard shooting guard small forward you have a couple of kids guys who can do almost everything if not everything that’s what they do and Terence Shannon Jr is at times spectacular on his own and I believe if

The if Illinois can get past the first game or so they can make a run first game they can make a run deep in this tournament so I’m going with the University of Illinois out of of course the big 10 yeah I would love to pick Northwestern just to see your head

Explode but I’m not going to do that I’m going to be like most everybody else I’m going to pick Yukon Yukon won last year as a four seed with a 31-8 record this year they’re 31-3 they’re better they were 10- one in non-conference games which is important because all these

Games in a big tournament are essentially non-conference games the one game they lost early in the year was at Kansas when Kansas was pretty good most of the people who are playing big minutes on Yukon this year were on the team last year as you said you went on

The podcast and you picked Illinois but you will concede because everybody concedes this that if Yukon were to lose that’s an upset which gets me to this point the selection committee did no favors to Yukon the other highly seated teams in that in the in in the East are

Iowa State Illinois and Auburn that is the big 12 Tournament champion the Big 10 Tournament champion the SEC tournament champion that’s a gauntlet to go through plus there were two final four teams right San Diego State and Florida Atlantic from last year it seems to me that the committee wants to knock

Yukon out I really have that feeling because that is a killer region Mike it’s a killer Tony real quick I’m having a slight senior moment but you whose mom is it that picks tournament winners for you all the time somebody’s momil Northwest Phil seago Phil’s Mom right

Yeah Phil’s mom pick the wild cats huh huh yeah all right saying I love her but she pronounces Marquette as marquet and uh and Duan as duesy so let’s by the way Tony love her I’m flying to I 95 to watch my wild cats we’re playing in New

York a place called Brooklyn in Brooklyn playing near playing near Friday just saying yeah make sure you get a shot before you go because it’s I95 you don’t want to catch any make sure baseball’s regular season started this morning in South Korea I trust you watch some of it the Dodgers had just

Tied the Padres at two in the eighth when Gavin lux’s Chopper toward Jake konorth went through the webbing of his glove that’s a little league situation scoring the go-ahead Run Muki bets and Sh atani would add RBI singles La 152 Tony your takeaways from opening day in Soul are

What okay you rest yourself for a while cuz I’m going to tell a story I knew that the game started at 6:05 Eastern so I got up I walked the dog I got back by seven I fed the dog I pick up the clicker and I say Into the Blue Button

MLB Network and I get MLB Network and the Giants are on and I know the Giants are not supposed to be playing in this game so I figured okay I got the wrong day I got the wrong day so I go about my business 15 minutes later I take a

Chance and I turn on ESPN and there’s the game and I I think how stupid are you this is your network you didn’t even know it was on it’s 1-1 in the fourth Tyler glaso is pitching for the Dodgers he walks two guys in a row which is

Nothing like the nine guys that the Padre’s walked and then a guy lays down a perfect button you got Bases Loaded nobody out in a one-1 game they only get one run can they get out of the inning so then I watch the top half of the next

Inning because it’s mooki it’s Otani and it’s Freeman in a row one two three mooki gets a hit Otani hits the ball to the left side and the shortstop area I think the third baseman is covering because they’re in a shift there’s a fielders Choice then Freeman gets hit

And and but they don’t score a run and then I got to do the podcast so I turn off the game I’m glad the Dodgers won I’m glad Otani had an RBI in two hits because I didn’t want to sit here and hear you use your two favorite words

Overstated overrated like the Dallas Cowboys so I’m glad I no no no Tony no I wouldn’t say that and that that that batting order I mean I don’t even know who the third member of the Ruth Garrick order was I mean I don’t lazeri I don’t

Know who that was but this is the first time since like the Big Red Machine with rose Morgan and bench or Rose Morgan Rose Morgan and Foster Ander and Foster but the Phillies had it in 1983 cuz Morgan played there for a bit Morgan Rose and Schmidt but it’s still its 40

Years to have to have former MVPs one two three very cool to see amazing I’m not going to say that I want to see them play I’m going go see them play okay good let’s take a break still to come which men’s number one seat is the wobbly we’re going to ask Jay

Bilis we also ask him if he’s got a sleeper do you do that do you press the blue button and talk into the clicker and say no you got to get network you got to get streaming you look up there if you don’t see Muki BET’s picture you

Move on to something else do you have a blue button in streaming not let’s dig back into the men’s NCA tournament with our great friend and bald Brother Jay billis first question is very short maybe it’s easy which number one seed in your opinion is the wobbly I love that word

Wobbly I think it’s two actually it’s Houston and North Carolina just because of the second round games that they have if Mississippi State beats Michigan State that’s a really tough game in the second round round uh for North Carolina because they’re big strong uh and they

Can defend at a high level and same thing for Houston they could wind up playing Texas A&M if they beat Nebraska Texas A&M is the best offensive rebounding team in the country uh they are tough and they’ve got a great score in Wade Taylor I fourth they played

Earlier in the year played to a five-point game where Texas A&M made a huge comeback to have a chance to win the game but I think those are really difficult second round games for both Houston and North Carolina well Jay we know Tony’s going to obsess over the number one seeds I’m

Going in a different direction and going to ask you about any sleepers you might like and let me declare off the top I am picking Illinois to go all the way largely because of Chicago and teren Shannon but but tell us what you who if anybody you like among anything you deem

As a sleeper I I do like Illinois I think Illinois has a great chance to get to an elite eight uh if not a final four but some of the ones further down the seed list I think uh New Mexico and 11 seed was Miss seeded I think they’re much

Better than 11 uh and they’ve got a a pretty good path to get to the Sweet 16 and perhaps Beyond uh I think Oregon is better than their seed I’m not saying they were Miss seeded simply because they didn’t have inali Dante for the first 10 12 games of the Season he’s

Played the last 20 uh and he’s been he’s been outstanding and they’re playing their best basketball right now I think Drake is a team to keep an eye on uh because have Tucker Dev um they’re a very good shooting team out of the Missouri Valley Conference and then I’d

Say James Madison who won 31 games beat Michigan State at the Brent Center at Michigan State uh earlier this year in November uh they’ve got major conference talent and they’ve won all year long they’re one of those teams they haven’t just gotten on a hot streak they’ve been

Winning since day one and I like those kind of teams J there aren’t that many stars in men’s college basketball this season the stars have been on the women’s side of the game it seems for certain but but is there a player or two or more that you

Want people to see that you’re glad folks are going to be able to get to see in March oh you’re not taking me to negative town there no stars in college basketball we’re about to have Zack Edy win his second National player of the year in a row and he averages 24 points

A game that’s the most at Purdue since Glenn Robinson but I think teren Shannon one per region you mentioned Terence jannon Jr he’s averaging 23 points per game game for Illinois this year and he averaged 34 in the Big 10 tournament including 40 against Nebraska 36 in the

Title game uh I’d say in the west look at RJ Davis of North Carolina he’s averaging 21 a game that’s the most since Tyler hansbro was there back in 2009 he’s first team All America then uh in the midwest Dalton connect of Tennessee is a 21 Point per game score

He’s had 39 a couple times this year I wouldn’t be surprised if he did that in the tournament he’s of the Roy Hobs of college basketball uh nobody from nowhere that came from Northern Colorado and now he’s a first team All-American and then in the South I’ll give you two

That are teammates Rob Dillingham and Reed Shepard of Kentucky kuy’s arguably the best offensive team in America their defense doesn’t match up to their offense but they’ve got a a very nice path to an elite eight if not beyond Behind Dillingham and Shephard Roy Hobs reference very impressed with that Jay Roy hob

Reference I will get you out of here on this but before I even ask the question don’t you think it’s great that wilbon considers Illinois like a sleeper team when there were three seed and the Big 10 tournament champions don’t you see how he did that is it’s so absurd it’s

So absurd I can’t believe you actually answered that question let’s go to this um yeah yeah who are your final four picks at this point well Tony I have four sleepers in the final four the sleeper youo uh the Cinderella Arizona uh another sleeper in Houston and then the ultimate

Sleeper in Purdue I think Purdue is going to put down the baggage that they’re carrying from the last three exits they had to double digit seeds uh I like the path that they have and I I think and believe that they’re going to play with more of a purpose not a not a

Concern of of trying not to lose but I think they’re going to play to win and you guys remember when Virginia lost to UMBC uh the first uh number one over seed to lose to a 16 seed uh they won the National Championship the next year then Purdue loses to Fairley Dickinson

Last year there’s precedent for them uh them getting there and win it at all but I like Yukon to win it all yeah yeah I like one of the things I like about Purdue is they’ve been together for a while that’s not the way it is in major college basketball I

Don’t want you win they got to beat Northwestern to do that I don’t want to see them what an upset that would be Yukon over Northwestern thank you Jay thank you thank you guys let’s take one last break still to come Lincoln Riley has stopped coaching USC’s quarterbacks has had a smart move

And Zion throws down huge two-hander the Pelicans continue to roll you wouldn’t go along you wouldn’t wear your hoodie Jay and I came appropriately dressed on hoodie Wednesday before the tournament prise happy time people happy 50th birthday on Friday Marcus cambi cambi went to the final four with

Massachusetts and John caliper in 1996 as the number one seed in the East they lost to Kentucky in the National semi-finals KMI went on to Toronto in the NBA as a second overall pick Calipari eventually went on to Kentucky where he won a national title the speed

Bump along the way was that cambi was declared ineligible for taking money from Sports agents and the final four appearance was vacated cambi spent 17 seasons in in the NBA Defensive Player of the Year in 2007 and led the league in blocks four times he was on the

Knicks team that got to the finals in 1999 and his career averages were 9.5 points and 9.8 rebounds Tony isn’t that a much more distinguished career for cambi than you thought I mean 17 Seasons first of all shocked me and then defensive player of the year I mean I’m around the league a

Lot and part of that was in Toronto when people weren’t paying nearly as much as attention but part of it was in New York where everybody was paying attention happy anniversary Texas A&M on this day eight years ago led by senior point guard Alex Caruso’s 25 points the

Third seated agies rallied from 12 down with only 35 seconds to play in regulation took 11 seed Northern Iowa into overtime then double overtime and advanced to the Sweet 16 this improbable comeback is the largest rally in the final minute in NCA a history Caruso finished his run at College Station as

A&M’s all-time leader in assists and steals although he was undrafted Caruso landed on the Lakers as a pivotal part of their 2020 title run in the bubble and was named to the NBA’s all defensive team this past season in Chicago yeah Caruso with hair is a little distracting but I love having him

In that Red Bull’s uniform Tony and listen since all the injuries Zack LaVine Patrick Williams and ball the bull can get back to 500 after starting 5 and 14 and Caruso is a big big part of that need him healthy happy trails to coaching quarterbacks for Lincoln Riley the

Kachou has produced three Heisman winning quarterbacks Baker Mayfield Kyler Murray and Caleb Williams is Shifting assistant coach Luke yard to quarterback’s coach and concentrating on fixing a broken defense usfc was 8 and5 last season its defense ranked an awful 118th out of 128 teams points allowed

34.4 a game USC ranked an almost equally awful 116th in yards allowed 432.32 year I’d CED too if I had to play with Lincoln Riley’s defense they stunk no big time School ought to ever have a defense like that would sabotage that offense and Caleb Williams so I don’t

Want to hear that junk Lincoln Riley needs to be accountable for that defense big finish here we go Zion had a huge dunk as the Pelicans beat the nets for their seventh win and eight games is that significant Tony they could pass the Clippers in the Western Conference

Standings at four five spot could be important they’re playing well the Pelicans with Zion newly signed Saints pass rusher Chase young is going to have a neck procedure in this part of Camp is that a big deal he was hurt a lot in Washington but he played 16 games this past year Marvin

Harrison Jr chose not to work out at today’s Ohio State pro day what does that mean nothing if you didn’t see Marvin Harrison play you weren’t paying attention you don’t even need to be allowed to watch him now what were you doing September October November the last couple years offensive tackled

Kaden Proctor transferred from Alabama to Iowa earlier this off season now appears to be transferring back to Alabama your thoughts transfer portal it’s fabulous like hail in a cab take it over here take me over there last one Yiannis is out for tonight’s game at the Celtics are you disappointed yes I’m

Disappointed but I’m told not to worry doc River says it’s it’s not a big deal they do expect the back it’s not a real injury I hope he’s right we’re out of time we were trying to better next time and I’m Tony Kornheiser I’m Mike wilbar we’re off to Monday knuckleheads e St

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Pardon the Interruption | Zion Williamson dominated as Pelicans stack wins after beat Nets – Wilbon