Jay Bilas Talks Final Four, Flagg Vs. Zion, Early NBA Draft Thoughts, and the Future of College Hoops
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on today's pod an hour-long college basketball discussion with the one and only jay billis we'll go through all the final four teams we'll talk through the flag we'll also talk a little draft but i think the back end of the conversation good 20 plus minutes on where we're at college hoops and the ncaa and the nil and the transfer portal and we've got life advice enjoy He's the voice of college basketball for ESPN. It is J. Bill. Let's get ready for the Final Four. What's up, man? It's good to see you.
It is great to see you, Ryan, and quite a flex with the Pacific Ocean crashing on the beach right behind you. I'm very jealous.
I might be the only guy without a studio backdrop, and it's like, all right, I think this still works. Some people have accused me of CGI, and I'm in Farmington still. Just Ryan, everybody. Uh, let's just, you know, look, we've got four monster teams. We knew, uh, if you're into the Ken Palm stuff, I thought it was interesting. I was reading like, Hey, these are four historic net rating one seed teams. And if you want to go chalk with your bracket, it might not be a bad idea. And it ends up being the right idea. So I just want to start with Duke because I think they've been the most impressive. We could talk roster and all this stuff. Um, You know, whether it's Cooper, you know, sign James being the fourth option at times like I watched him going because I'm late to it. I get into the conference championship stuff, but I've been really, really excited about this tournament, even though we haven't had the buzzer beaters. But I think I just start here with impressive as they are. How do you attack this Duke team?
Well, you'd better be big and athletic and deep in order to handle them and skill. I think Florida is in a good position to be successful against Duke. Whether they win or not, we'll see. Uh, and Houston's got a chance because they are really tough and rugged and tempo control and they can shoot it. That's a big difference from last year's Houston team. I think, I think Houston would have beaten Duke last year. If Jamal shed hadn't gotten hurt in the first half of that sweet 16 game, but, uh, Duke is way different this year. Um, they're the most talented team. Uh, they're as deep as anybody, uh, And their athleticism and length on both ends of the floor is really difficult to deal with over a 40 minute period.
Uh, but look, all these teams are capable of winning this thing. Um, usually don't say that when you go to the final four, like I didn't think last year, um, I didn't think anybody was going to be Yukon once they got there, even Purdue, but I didn't think NC state or Alabama could do it. Um, This year, I think each of the four teams has a legitimate shot to walk away with this thing. They have to play well and have things break their way. But there's nobody that I think stands head and shoulders above, even though Duke has played the best since the tournament started.
I don't know if it's me jumping into it late and not being with it all the time, but when I think about the consistency of a team's effort and the consistency of their communication, like Tennessee did it really well. There's others like Michigan State's always going to be prepared for this kind of stuff. I think Houston is in that category.
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