Preview: Kentucky at Tennessee & Gonzaga vs. Oregon State

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00:00Two really good games tonight, Mike. Kentucky at Tennessee and believe it or not, I think it's Oregon State and Gonzaga in Spokane.

00:08Yeah. I think that's a big game for the Zags because they lost down in Corvallis. They need to get that one back.

00:15They need to get that game because they have to keep pace with St. Mary's.

00:20This isn't the same West Coast Conference that Gonzaga dominated all those years and neither is it the same Gonzaga.

00:29They really need to dominate to keep pace with St. Mary's at the very least, if not supersede them when they eventually meet.

00:37They really need that. And so I think that's a huge game.

00:41And Kentucky goes into Tennessee in the worst possible condition. Andrew Carr, I believe he's a game time decision.

00:47He's their stretch for a really good player. And then Lamont Butler, I believe, has been declared out of the game.

00:53I don't know how they play without him.

00:55I think Otega Owee probably takes over most of the point guard duties.

00:59But Lamont has been the one guy on that team that has been basically a 30 plus minute player.

01:05They're built on depth. And they originally had a second point guard behind Lamont, Kirk Creasa, but he's been absent for a while with injury.

01:13So now Lamont's down. I don't I don't like Kentucky's situation for this game at all.

01:19Going into Knoxville, where the Vols play some of the most intense defense of any college basketball team.

01:27Physical. They stick with you. They make it hard to do what you want to do.

01:31They make it no fun to play. And I don't like Kentucky in this situation.

01:36I know Gabe said there was a lot of points and it is a lot of points to give a team that can score like this.

01:41But it's not the it's not the usual Kentucky contingent.

01:45I'd either stay away from it or I would say I would go with the Vols.

01:50The Vols were on full display with that defense at the Neville on Saturday.

01:54That was a great game, a two point game that Auburn got lucky they got it done.

01:58I still think Auburn is a tough team to deal with in the NCAAs.

02:02And I'm sticking with Duke and Cooper Flagg that they'll make the title game until I see otherwise.