West Region Preview: First Round Matchups to Watch Out For

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00:00Those matchups to know in the opening round the upsets we might see and of course a player to highlight as well

00:06Let's start with your West region

00:08Game to watch of the opening round of 64 and the games that we will see which one intrigues you the most. It's very simple

00:14It's a nine matchup between Oklahoma and UConn because I'm so intrigued by what this UConn team

00:20Can be a problem with UConn is is we don't know what you got team is gonna show up

00:26So to me, it's an intriguing match for you got seemed I feel like if they can impose their will if

00:32Dan Hurley can have them engaged if Dan Hurley

00:36Can stay engaged in Hurley's openly talking about we see me as a coach

00:40He can't ride these kids like he's done in the past. They're a little bit younger. They're green

00:47He's got to be able to work with them and have them play through their ebbs and flows and not get them

00:52Nervous and Dan Hurley can get them composed and played a way to capable of yeah

00:58They get that win

00:59I think it'll be sort of a run and it is crazy right because this team entered top 10 in the preseason polls

01:05They entered of course hunting down a third consecutive national championship trying to make history that we have not seen in men's college

01:12hoop since the early

01:141970s in a team JY that has been the most dominant team we have seen in the month of March

01:19Possibly ever in the history of this sport in their last two national championship runs

01:25They have played of course 12 games in a big dance

01:27They've won all 12 by at least 13 points an average margin of victory just shy of 22 points per game

01:34They are 12 and Oh against the number with an average cover margin

01:39Outperforming even the expectation by 12 and a half points per game and last year a positive point differential of plus

01:46140

01:48It's a very different Connecticut team

01:50But of course, they have a lot of similar pieces that are trying to replicate the success

01:54They have seen the last few years my region game to watch

01:59that 710 matchup, Kansas and

02:02Arkansas star power brand names in this sport led by two of the best head coaches that are currently still doing it bill self

02:10For Kansas, he has won multiple national championships and John Calipari, of course for Arkansas

02:17As well. It's a really interesting matchup

02:19JY to me because what version of KU are we going to see the preseason number one team in the country for a second consecutive

02:25Year or the team that in the last two regular seasons has frankly been disappointing

02:31What Arkansas team are we going to see the team that was spurred by cows returned to Lexington?

02:36earlier in the regular season in SEC action or the team that has also faltered on

02:42Expectation five and a half point spread in favor of the Jayhawks our total at 146 and a half for that opening round of 64

02:48game, what do you think gives I

02:51Don't know

02:53Either team and you know, this is also a you know

02:56I think you know Cal may have the back end of his mind at Mario Chalmers three a long time ago on a national champion

03:03Game where they kind of blew a national champion where he was that Memphis so to me

03:08It's an intriguing matchup between these two legendary coaches

03:12Teams that have tremendously

03:14Underachieved. Yeah teams that went through the portal when you talk about Zeke mayor or you talk about AJ

03:20So are you talking about the transfers like even John L. Davis for Arkansas that has not panned out

03:26Yeah, but here's the amazing thing. You just got to get in now you're in

03:32Can you put together like Bennett's talked about just six times?

03:36Yeah, can you win six games in a row and this Kansas team was a number one team preseason?

03:43This year for a reason with Hunter Dickinson with Dwan Harris with Abrams

03:47Obviously would when they do store with Zeke Mayo, right?

03:49They have the pedigree but so does Arkansas and it still sets up such an interesting game because the winner that game

03:57It's gonna take on st. John's. Yeah, it would it be one of the wildest scenes

04:02I think of the second round of the tournament

04:03It really could be to have that matchup of Rick Pitino against either Bill self or John Calipari

04:10Talk about some marquee matchups and some star power even in the round of 32 in the opening weekend a West

04:17Region upset alert and JY if you will I'll go first hand up when we put these in

04:23Colorado State was a slight underdog against the champions out of the American in

04:28Memphis it would be an upset from the seed line component

04:32Because CSU is the 12 seed seven seed lines below the five seed in the Memphis Tigers

04:37But now Colorado State is a two and a half point

04:41Favorite really believe in what Nico Medved has done this year for CSU and they are on an absolute heater winner of eight straight

04:48And JY when you look at Colorado State according to Bart Torvik who tracks the efficiency ratings year by year

04:55Customizable tables the best team in the last month since the middle of February

04:59One of the best in the Mountain West one of the best nationally eighth best in the country. That's Colorado State

05:05So let's get to your true

05:07Upset in this opening round of 64. What game do you highlight? Oh, I'm going with the drink

05:14Bulldogs to pull off the upset when you think about drink. It's simply put

05:19Can they

05:20Value the ball this team turns them all over a lot 18.6 turnovers per game

05:25Yeah, that's a lot and that's a little worrisome for me

05:29I got the team with Missouri that wants to get steals live steals get on a transition and run

05:36so if Drake can handle the pressure and

05:40Handle the ball you start peeling away

05:44Offensive effective field goal percentage they have the advantage offensive rebounding percent

05:48Missouri does not rebound the ball while at all the fact of free-throw attempts and free-throw versus field goals attempt

05:54Yeah, they're number 11

05:56They are a team that I think Ben can get it done versus Missouri if they handle the ball

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