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Baylor cut down the
Nets and Gonzaga

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hopes for an undefeated
season Monday night.

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So now we shift our
attention to next year.

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I'm Madilyn Burke for Sports
Illustrated here with Ben

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pechman and Wilton Jackson.

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And guys, it is way
too soon for this,

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but we're going to do it anyway.

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Ben, watch college
basketball team.

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Are you keeping an
eye on next season?

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I'm particularly
interested in Alabama,

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who's coming off a really
successful twenty, 2020 2021

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season that ended up
in an SEC championship.

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Right you look at NATO
and his first two years

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with the Crimson tide, they were
16 and 15 in his first year.

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And last year, as I said,
26 and seven, the SEC

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champs in the regular season and
in the conference tournament.

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And they were two seed
in the NCAA tournament,

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the top two seed overall
before they lost to UCLA

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in an overtime thriller.

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And I'm just interested
to see if they

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are able to sustain
their level of success

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heading into next season.

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Right they have herb Jones, who
is going to be leaving school.

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He was the player of
the year, but they still

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have plenty of firepower
left specifically

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in the guard position.

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Right you look at
it, jean shackleford,

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who average 14 points per game,
they have driven culinarily.

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Who's coming back?

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Joshua Premo, an
excellent guard as well.

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And they have a five star
recruit, JT Davidson, who's

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joining the program as well.

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He's another guard.

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So we know the importance
of guard playing college

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basketball, especially in the
NCAA tournament in Alabama,

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has an interesting mix of young
guards and experienced guards.

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I wonder if they're going
to be able to continue

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to push forward and be
a preeminent favorite

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in the SEC for years to come.

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Yeah, and we saw them
able to make some presence

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in this tournament this year.

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We'll see if they can
build off of that.

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I'm interested to see if some
teams can find their way back

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to the tournament
like a Kentucky was

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going to be benefiting off
of that transfer portal.

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Or duke, who's got
the most five star

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recruits in the
country with three

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headlined by Paul bunshiro.

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But, well, what about you?

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What team.

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Do you have your eye on now?

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Man, I'm very
intrigued by Michigan.

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You know, kudos to
what John Howard

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did in his second season,
getting the Wolverines

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to the Elite Eight and then
also winning the regular season

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for the team.

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And, you know, right
now, we don't really

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know if Isaiah Livers or
Eli Bruce could potentially

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or if they're
going to come back,

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but they could
potentially return

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due to the ncaa, this one
time eligibility exemption.

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However, even if
they don't come back,

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you talk about Michigan has
one of the top recruiting

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classes coming in with Caleb
Houston, Moussa jabateh.

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They have a talented
caliber of guards coming in.

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And then they also have another
board by the name of wilshere

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that's coming in.

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So when you combine those that
recruiting players with one

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that, you know, 100% returns.

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as we all know, we saw
his tremendous growth

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throughout the season,
during the tournament

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and down the stretch
of the season,

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Michigan could be one to
be looked at, you know,

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to repeat in the
big team, but then

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also to see how far they get
in the tournament next year.

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Yeah, not a lot of people
gave this Michigan team credit

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once Isaiah Livers went down.

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But as you mentioned, to they do
have the number one recruiting

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class coming in twenty, 2001.

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So excited to see how this
team builds off of that.

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