Jon Rothstein
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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He doesn't win, and if you remember at the start of Karate Kid 2, his knuckles bleed because he punches them through a car when he gets in a fight with Mr. Miyagi.
I don't think Villanova is the school to give Will Wade a call, but I will say this. We have seen a number of big-time coaches get second chances for off-the-court issues, and there's many programs that are coached by them now in this NCAA tournament, and those programs are thriving. Bruce Beard at Ole Miss, Rick Pitino at St. John's, Bruce Pearl at Auburn, Kelvin Sampson at Houston.
The school that hires Will Wade is going to be the school that falls next in that line. Think about this. Here's a couple of things on Will Wade I was thinking about. I talked about it tonight on our show. Will Wade is the only coach in Shaka Smart to win an NCAA tournament game at VCU.
Will Wade won the SEC regular season title at LSU, and Will Wade, since he took the McNeese job in two years, is 57 and 10. I know that things were very sloppy at LSU, but a lot of those things are legal right now. So the school that hires him is going to be on an upward trajectory moving forward, and I'm going to have to come up with a new tagline for him.
Yeah. Oh, he's a star. Yeah. Amir Khan is a star. Yeah.
You know, I did on Thanksgiving Day, CBS Sports had a Thanksgiving game now after the NFL. Next year it's going to be Arkansas and Duke and Chicago, which maybe you guys can go to. I don't know if you want to do it on Thanksgiving, but it's a big-time game in Chicago. It is. I did the game with Ian Eagle and Bill Raftery in Kansas City, and I saw Illinois up close.
And when everything is equal on a neutral court – and, Cat, I know you know this because you know the Big Ten so well – Illinois has Final Four talent when things are clicking. Yeah. with Yakuchonas, with Ivasich. There's obviously great role players and ancillary pieces around those guys with Boswell. Will Riley, I talked to Brad Underwood last week.
He loves the way Will Riley has been playing the last couple of weeks. And this is the thing, too, you've got to like when you're looking at Illinois.
Because of Ivasich's ability to stretch things from the five spot, it's very difficult, and this is what killed Arkansas in that game on Thanksgiving, it's very difficult to play a traditional five man against them because they can extend the defense so much with Ivasich. He reminds me a lot, this is a throwback comparison, he reminds me a lot of Rafe LaFrance. Ooh, I like that, Kansas.
So much Rafe LaFrance and Tomislav Ivasich.
It's good. It's great. And you bring up a great point because a potential Illinois-Kentucky game in the round of 32 would be like a regional final. But guys, I've always felt that the round of 32 is the most intriguing round of the NCAA tournament because you are going to get, in some cases, the dreamer having a chance to dream the dream for another week. Yeah.
or you are going to get a massive showdown of powerful programs. Look, we could have in the region of toughness, you could have Houston-Gonzaga, Purdue-Clemson, Illinois-Kentucky, or Xavier against Kentucky, and then UCLA against Tennessee. If we saw any one of those matchups in an Elite Eight or a Final Four, we'd probably take it. Yeah. Yeah, you're right.
How deep do you want to go? Do you want power conference names, or do you want me to get really in the weeds here?
Okay, let's go right up right now to the top left, the region of depth. Donovan Dent from New Mexico is one of the great point guards in college basketball. That is somebody you want to put on your radar for sure. Ole Miss has a couple of players. Sean Padula, a terrific veteran point guard who transferred from Virginia Tech. Also, John Poulakidis, I told you, from Yale.
We go down to the region of prestige right now. A couple of guys, again, who are off the radar I'm trying to come up with. Bennett Sturtz at Drake, who's kind of the maestro for them. Also, Neat Clifford from Colorado State, who has been part of this incredible surge by Colorado State. He has been elite, playing like one of the top 15 or 20 players in the country over the last couple of weeks.
I will also point out in the UConn-Oklahoma game, Jeremiah Fears, the freshman point guard for Oklahoma, the brother of Michigan State's Jeremy Fears, is a name to watch. And then as we look right now in your top right, the region of firepower, I'm going to give you one for Mississippi State, Josh Hubbard, an electrifying yard. Plus Oregon, you've got Jackson Shelstad and Nate Biddle.
Max Shulga at VCU. Richie Saunders at BYU. At St. Mary's, Augustus Marshalonis is the least talked about back-to-back conference player of the year we may have in history. He's won the award in the WCC in back-to-back seasons. Ryan Nembhard we know from Gonzaga. For Georgia, a talented player, Asa Newell, who's a good freshman. I'm trying to keep going down.
Ryan Conwell at Xavier is like a poor man's Michael Redd. He will be in the first four Wednesday night in the Xavier, Texas game. And then I'm going to say, I mean, UCLA, I mean, you don't really get in the weeds here too much. But, I mean, UCLA, Eric Daly and Tyler Bilodeau, I would say, are two names there.
Right. I know. I know that. But in terms of, like, Todd was always this guy. And, like, I'll just – I talked about this with Bruce Pearl on our show tonight. When Bruce Pearl first got the Auburn job, you know, I went down to a practice and we went out to eat after. And, like, Todd was this guy who wasn't even, like, an assistant coach on the staff.
But everybody looked at him as, like, this prodigy. And he had this incredible mind for basketball. And he had these –
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