Hello and welcome to the Hoop Collective podcast.

We talk about the NBA, which we are doing actually a little bit early this week.

And we're going to be honest.

I'm out of the mix on Thursday, so we're taping this on Wednesday.

All right?

I'm just going to be honest with you.

So whatever went down on the NBA on Thursday and Wednesday night, we ain't

going to know about it here. Just being fair. Joining us from New York City, I believe, is where

Vince Goodwill is. What up, though, Wendy. That's going to be my greeting since I'm from Detroit

here in New York. What up, though, is what we're going to say. All right. And I'm very happy to

welcome back to the Hoop Collective Pod, ESPN College Basketball analyst because we're going to be talking about the college guys today, just in to Dallas, where he lives from Auburn, which I don't even know who Alburn played last night. That's how I roll. Is King McClure. What's up, King? My man, how we doing? Man, honor and a privilege. Appreciate you invited me. Who did Auburn play last night? Auburn played LSU. And, you know, when you hit that matchup, it's typically, you know, football matchup that would be like, oh my gosh, it's a high level matchup. But But basketball, both teams are kind of sort of in the bottom of the SEC.

Auburn needed that game last night in order to make the tournament.

They need probably like a few more wins in order to get in.

LSU is just completely out.

They're just ready for a rebuild there, tear the whole thing down.

So Auburn won, and they should be trying to win a few more to be able to make the tournament this year.

All right.

Well, we also know that you specialize in the Big 12.

You played the Big 12 at Baylor.

So we're talking about some Big 12 players here.

And so our draft analyst at ESPN.com, Jeremy Wu, recently came out with a mock draft. I'm not sure

which ranking this one is. But anyway, I just thought I would go over. We're just getting ready for

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