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Mike DeCourcy Joins to Talk the Latest in College Hoops
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1/29/2025
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Of course, he is the famed writer from the Sporting News, but he's an even bigger basketball
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fan.
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He loves college hoops.
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You can catch him on Fox Sports, doing College Rack and the Big Ten Network where he's on
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the take for my Indiana Hoosiers.
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And we luckily have him every Tuesday on Pharrell Coast to Coast, which is awesome because he's
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just an incredible guy, Pittsburgh guy.
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I love him and I enjoy having him on the show all these weeks, all these years.
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I can't count the years.
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I've lost track, Mike.
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Then again, I am getting old, but I did have 21, 8 and 5 last night, Mike, and I'm going
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to say it to everyone.
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Shut up, Mafia.
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I'll say it five more times.
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I had 21, 8 and 5 in 40 minutes of burn last night in the 30 point win.
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I'm 60 years old and I had 21 points, 10 and 13 from the far.
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Screw you, Mafia.
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Get the tequila out and my pills.
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All right, Mike.
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Sorry.
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These things happen on this show.
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There's the interruptions, the red phone ringing, people yelling at me, getting in trouble.
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I want to start with this.
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In the college basketball scene, I watched that Iowa State game last night, right?
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I just thought it was phenomenal.
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I got back late from my game and I watched it and it was just insane.
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The end of that game, the love shot from half court, even though he was throwing up bricks
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all night, he'd been throwing up bricks since North Carolina.
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I don't think they're a Final Four team at all, but I do think that Iowa State is.
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I thought they performed well in a hostile environment at the McHale in Tucson.
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How great was that game?
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Oh, it was fantastic.
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It was just a phenomenal game.
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Coming down the stretch, the great plays being made by Iowa State's guards on a day when
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Curtis Jones was having a really off shooting night.
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They got a lot more from the other backcourt players and were able to get a lead.
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They missed one free throw.
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One free throw and it completely changes the complexion.
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With just two and a half or so seconds left, you make both free throws, the game is literally
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over.
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Instead, you leave the door open just a little bit and Caleb Love, half court, come on.
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If you shot that shot, Scott, you would have said it was 90 feet.
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Let's be honest about it.
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That was a 50 foot shot plus.
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It was probably closer to 60 and he nailed it.
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I'll give him a lot of credit for that.
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It was a game changer.
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I totally agree with your assessment of his play generally.
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He was outstanding in the overtime.
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He made big shots.
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That heave seemed to give him some confidence.
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The only surprise was that the shots he made in overtime didn't come from 45.
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They came from the usual 22.
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I lost a game, a title game, a championship game on a half court heave by a fat guy and
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he threw it from his hip over his shoulder like this and it went in.
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I watched this team celebrate and jump on each other and make a pile down under the
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basket.
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Mafia and I were standing there holding our onions.
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It was the worst way to lose ever.
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It wasn't a shot for overtime.
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It was a shot to win and he made it.
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I lost that way once.
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Honestly, I have nightmares about it.
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Two really good games tonight, Mike.
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Kentucky at Tennessee and believe it or not, I think it's Oregon State and Gonzaga in Spokane.
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Yeah.
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I think that's a big game for the Zags because they lost down in Corvallis.
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They need to get that one back.
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They need to get that game because they have to keep pace with St. Mary's.
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This isn't the same West Coast Conference that Gonzaga dominated all those years and
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neither is it the same Gonzaga.
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They really need to dominate to keep pace with St. Mary's at the very least, if not
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supersede them when they eventually meet.
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They really need that and so I think that's a huge game and Kentucky goes into Tennessee
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in the worst possible condition.
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Andrew Carr, I believe he's a game time decision.
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He's their stretch for a really good player and then Lamont Butler, I believe has been
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declared out of the game.
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I don't know how they play without him.
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I think Otega Owee probably takes over most of the point guard duties, but Lamont has
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been the one guy on that team that has been basically a 30-plus minute player.
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They're built on depth and they originally had a second point guard behind Lamont, Kirk
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Creasa, but he's been absent for a while with injury.
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So now Lamont's down.
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I don't like Kentucky's situation for this game at all going into Knoxville where the
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Vols play some of the most intense defense of any college basketball team.
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Physical, they stick with you, they make it hard to do what you want to do, they make
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it no fun to play and I don't like Kentucky in this situation.
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I know Gabe said there was a lot of points and it is a lot of points to give a team that
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can score like this, but it's not the usual Kentucky contingent.
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I'd either stay away from it or I would say I would go with the Vols.
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The Vols were on full display with that defense at the Neville on Saturday.
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That was a great game, a two-point game that Auburn got lucky they got it done.
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I still think Auburn is a tough team to deal with in the NCAAs and I'm sticking with Duke
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and Cooper Flagg that they'll make the title game until I see otherwise.
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I wanted to ask you two other things.
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One about Golden at Florida and then I want to ask about the Chiefs dynasty and get your
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opinion of it before we head to New Orleans.
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SportsCrit will be there all next week starting on Monday the 3rd from New Orleans and Bourbon
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Street at the Eagles Chiefs Super Bowl festivities for 59.
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But start with this guy at Gainesville, basically, like, according to the school, they're done
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with the investigation.
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Mike, is he in the clear with this Title IX and all these allegations?
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I don't, I, apparently, he's done with the Title IX investigation by the school.
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They said there was insufficient evidence to have a finding against him.
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The original media articles indicated multiple complainants or witnesses, so I'm not sure
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how they arrived at that conclusion, but those are very private affairs and so it's hard
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to know what was involved until it ends.
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And usually if it ends in a finding like this, you're not going to find out much.
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The only thing that would go beyond that would be is if some of the people who had a complaint
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in the first place were to take it to a court of law.
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I don't know whether that would happen or not.
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I would suspect it's unlikely, but it seems to be that this is a closed issue.
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I mean, and they're a hell of a basketball team.
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They're another elite eight type team, in my opinion.
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Now let's get your thoughts on this Chiefs dynasty that's still running fully operational
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as they go to their fifth Super Bowl in six years and they'll play the Eagles again like
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a couple of years ago.
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It's amazing what they've accomplished, Scott.
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And I wrote an article about 10 days ago before the playoffs started about how the Chiefs
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were in some way chasing what the Steelers accomplished in the 70s.
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Four Super Bowls in six years.
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No one's done that other than the Steelers of 74, 75, 78, 79, and now the Chiefs have
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a chance to match that.
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But they also have a chance to do what no team has done, which is win three Super Bowls.
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We've had the Green Bay Packers in 65, 66, and 67 won the NFL championship, which in
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65 there was no Super Bowl, in 66 and 67 they were able to win the first two.
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So it's a little different than what the Chiefs are doing now.
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But what's amazing about what the Chiefs are accomplishing, Scott, is that there's free
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agency now.
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There is the salary cap.
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You can't keep a team together.
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Can you imagine what the Steelers of the 70s would have had to pay their whole team?
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I mean, in today's dollars, they'd have been like a billion dollar annual salary to try
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to keep those guys together.
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They wouldn't have been able to do it.
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So the Chiefs haven't been able to do it, but they've been able to continue to win.
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And a lot of that is Patrick Mahomes, but I don't think it's all that.
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I mean, Patrick Mahomes was excellent on Sunday, but he wasn't the elite, unstoppable Patrick
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Mahomes.
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What happened was every time the Chiefs needed to make a big stop, Spagnuolo and that defense
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and especially the defensive line came through.
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And that's what's really amazing about this group, is that even as all the personnel changes,
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I think there are six guys who could win their fourth Super Bowl ring as a Chief.
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Six guys.
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And that only began in 2019.
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So they've turned over almost their entire roster since then.
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Are you going to New Orleans, Mike, or are you going to tell me you're too soft?
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I'm too soft.
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Yeah, definitely.
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If you want to pay for my trip and maybe let me bunk with you, we can talk about it.
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Bobby, get out the checkbook and let's see if we have any money left in the till.
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