Episode 36 - Kyle Tucker
Interrupted by Matt Jones
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2.4 • 888 Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Kyle Tucker is the Director of College Basketball content at 247Sports. Kyle covered Kentucky basketball for many years before his new position. Matt and Kyle discuss Pope, Cal, Pitino and more.
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| 0:00.0 | This is interrupted by Matt Jones on News Radio 840, WHAS. |
| 0:06.9 | Now, here's Matt Jones. |
| 0:10.4 | All right, welcome, everybody. |
| 0:12.1 | Interrupted by Matt Jones, episode 36, and now joined by the man with the fluorescent hat from 24-7 sports he's been around |
| 0:23.6 | Kentucky basketball forever and now does national college basketball and I |
| 0:30.1 | don't know if we ever have I ever actually interviewed you before this is Kyle |
| 0:34.4 | Tucker from formerly the career journal the. I don't think I have. |
| 0:40.2 | That's a good question. I know I've hosted your show a couple times when you were out. I can't |
| 0:46.2 | remember if we actually like did an interview. Anyway, maybe. Well, I'm glad. I'm glad to finally |
| 0:53.0 | get to do it. And it feels like a perfect time to do it because this is probably as newsy a time that we've had with Kentucky basketball since, certainly since Cal left. And I guess I would just start here. If you were to describe to people who hadn't been part of kind of the internet drama of the last few weeks of the portal, where is Kentucky basketball right now in your mind? |
| 1:20.8 | What would you say? |
| 1:23.3 | Where is Kentucky basketball? |
| 1:24.9 | I mean, I think squarely in the like in the crosshairs of like what is going on |
| 1:30.4 | What is going on with Kentucky, but also I think there's a larger narrative and like it was something I touched on |
| 1:36.8 | Even before before knowing what Kentucky would do in the portal. It was the second weekend of the tournament |
| 1:43.3 | I was at the East Regional, as you were, |
| 1:48.1 | in D.C. And you know, you had these like luminaries there. You had Rick Petino, you had Tom |
| 1:53.0 | Izzo, and then sort of the next generation in Dan Hurley. And who else did we have there? |
| 2:00.8 | Brad Underwood. |
| 2:02.0 | Yeah. |
| 2:02.8 | Or no. |
| 2:03.8 | No, it was- Well, he wasn't at the East Regional, but yes, you're right. |
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