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Welcome back to Newswire here on Sports Grid. The landscape of college basketball heats up immediately after Christmas Day, and it's usually when we start getting the conference games and all of the major games going on in college hoops, and Michael De Courcy has gotten us through this, uh, out of conference schedule, and the meat of the schedule is really set to begin. Mike, welcome back. Happy holidays. Thanks for coming. On Newswire, uh, blowouts yesterday, I guess that's where we begin. We'll start off with Tennessee pulling off the win against Louisville, so they'll move up in the polls and Louisville moved down. 83 to 62, the final. Jacoby Gillespie had 23 points in this one. He led the way for Tennessee. The Vols are right in the thick of it in the Southeastern Conference in terms of the odds. What did you make of the win last night against the Cardinals? Well, I look at it, uh, first of all, I don't wanna take anything away from Tennessee, which is a terrific, uh, basketball team, great promise, and, and one of the great coaches in college basketball, and Rick Barnes. However, it's kinda like playing the Buffalo Bills without Josh Allen. Uh, we saw that last night. Louisville without Michael Brown is not impressive. Michael Brown's one of the best players in college basketball, easily one of the best freshmen in college basketball, and plays the most important position on the floor, and without him, Louisville was lost, you could see it very early. Their shot selection was non-existent. Uh, it was just, OK, I've got the ball, let's take a shot. Uh, and that's not going to work against the team that defends, uh, traditionally, as well as Tennessee is, and that is gradually working its way in that direction. Rick Barnes is one of the really great defensive coaches who's ever worked in college basketball. You take tough shots and, and unguarded shots and one-pass shots against Tennessee or no pass shots. Uh, you're not winning the game, and you're probably getting smoked, and that's what we saw from the cards last night. Yeah, I would agree. All right, so another blowout, let's do this one. Duke takes care of Lipscomb, not a huge surprise here. 97 to 73, but every game is big for Cam Boozer, if he wants to win the Wooden Award. So what did he do last night? Easy double-double, 26 points, 13 rebounds, 3 assists. I don't know what you can take away from this game, Mike. It feels like the calm before the storm for the ACC and Duke as they get ready for conference play. Yeah, they, they, they've been through some very challenging games. They went to Michigan State and won, and you have to feel great about that. Michigan, that's the only Michigan State loss to this point. They've got some other impressive victories to this point in the season. Uh, but, uh, you, you play games like this to work on little things to try to get better, and I think it also helped, uh, to, to get challenged a little bit. Lipscomb was with them in a game for about 60% of it. Which a lot of people wouldn't have expected even that. So the fact that they had to say, OK, let's get serious about this, and they did. There may be some ACC games that play out like that. I, I don't think we'll see that from Duke when they get to the NCAA tournament, but you, that's always a possibility when you're a 16, when you're a 1 playing a 16 or a 2 playing a 15. That you might get the wrong 16 or the wrong uh 15 and maybe need to turn it on a little bit, and, and they showed the capacity to do that, that, that, those last 2015 minutes or so were absolutely dominant. It does help to have a guy like Cam Boozer on your side. I would agree. And by the way, Duke's still favored to win the ACC and Cam Boozer even a bigger favorite to win the Wooden Award at -140. His odds have started off as the favorite. They're growing a little bit by the month. We'll see where he is next month as long as he continues this, this number will grow. So maybe some value in taking that at -140. Although I like the ACC a little better at -120, to be honest. All right, uh, Mike, let's talk about the top team in the country. Boy, the Gators are feeling really good now about that opening night where they felt bad about losing to Arizona. They have just not been challenged at all, 10-0 on the season. They beat Abilene Christian, uh, 96 to 62, and, and look, UConn gave them a little bit of a battle too, but look, they crushed Auburn, they crushed Alabama, and 10-0 on the year in conference play, I'm guessing this will get a little bit tougher for them, but are we headed toward Arizona just running through the schedule in one of these 1 loss or 2 loss seasons, it appears to be that they're on track for this. Well, I love this team. I'd, I'd have to take a more in-depth look at the schedule, but at minimum, they're going to have to play BYU, they're going to have to play Houston, they're going to have to play Kansas. Uh, and Houston. Uh, those are 4 teams that all have at least, uh, have varying degrees, let's say, of national championship possibilities. They all have, uh, the ability to do it. Uh, maybe Kansas, a little bit less than Houston, etc. but all have the ability to do it. So, uh, it's going to be a challenge for Arizona, but they are special. Coa Pete coming in has been, uh, an absolute. Force in, in the front. Uh, they've, they've got a really nice roster. Uh, Bradley, uh, Jayden Bradley has been phenomenal at point guard. I, I, am I allowed to say out loud that I was one of the people that had him on my preseason, uh, Bob Cousy ballot? I don't know if the Hall of Fame will be happy with that, but, uh, he was not on the preseason watch list, and I feel like, I feel I need to be exonerated cause I did have him on there. Good stuff, Mike. Uh, all right, so we go from undefeated. To undefeated again. Who had this at the beginning of the season? Vanderbilt, Mike, 10-0 on the year, 7.5 point favorites tonight at Memphis, total of 158.5. The Commodores have been rolling this season. Well, how, how about the success for this team? You know, I was thinking about this, and, and they are like the Indiana Hoosiers of basketball. Now, that's, that's a very strange statement to make because there already are Indiana Hoosiers, quite obviously, who play basketball. But what Mark Byington is doing at Vandy is a lot like what Kurt Signetti has done with IU football. Uh, it's coming in and maybe not, uh, immediately grabbing the players that would say, wow, watch out, this team's gonna be great. Uh, but getting the right players, and in his case, Duke Miles, a guy who played at Troy and High Point, and is now leading the Commodores in scoring, uh, been a significant force for them. They've got a couple of guys, uh, who have been around for a while, uh, in the program, and, and remember, you know, a while means you're a sophomore now. If you, if you, if you're a sophomore, that means you've been, you're a veteran in college basketball now. So, they've got, they've got a, a, a roster that is, is together, they play uh smart basketball, uh, you've got a terrific coach in Byington, and they are a threat in the SEC and SEC has been a little disappointing. The SEC like Auburn and Alabama really challenged themselves in non-conference, Kentucky and have not performed at a high level, so, Vandy has to go in feeling like maybe they can do this. I, I'd be interested in what the odds are on that. Yeah, it should be a fun, fun conference play in the SEC. Uh, tonight, by the way, Alabama takes on USF. We don't have time to preview that game, but guess what? Another total, the 180s, of course. Mike, thanks for coming on the show. I really appreciate it. Thank you, Craig.

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