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podcast. I'm Brandon Kravitz, your host on this fine Tuesday afternoon, back at it with my

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of the pod kentra middleton and the prime minister of degen nation stuckie stuck we had ourselves

bill self as a dog on a Monday night and he reigns supreme again which side were you on in this

big time big 12 battle uh i'd kansas uh i mean that's incredible

how good they are on monday nights but that monday night home court advantage is like

for a big conference game no joke is like five points um it's as juiced up as you can get

and yeah this houston team they, there's some issues there.

They're just, they're not as elite defensively as they have been.

They really miss some of their bigs that they've had.

And I mean, you just look at the turnover rates that they've forced.

You know, I mean, Kansas ended up, they had, Kansas ended up with an 18% turnover rate.

But, you know, they finished with 12 turnovers, but they had like seven in the first 10 minutes.

But the previous two games for Houston, they played, and they now have lost three in a row

for the first time since 2017.

They played Iowa State and Arizona, two top ten teams.

They had single-digit turnover rates.

The previous three years combined,

that only happened one time for a Houston opponent.

So this defense just isn't as elite as it's been.

And the offense, like it has a higher ceiling because of Fleming's,

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