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00:00To Batsa, you've seen him play 6'9 stretch.
00:04Is it true they're paying that kid over $7 million to play in Provo?
00:08Now my source says it's actually half that.
00:10It's still a lot, obviously, but my source says that those figures are overinflated.
00:17But I do have, again, reservations about that.
00:20Not about AJ.
00:21He's a terrific talent and he'll do his best.
00:24But it's been pretty rare that teams that throw one one-and-done into a mix, and not
00:31a full class of five-star guys like you've seen on occasion, and are seeing right now
00:35at Duke with Cooper Flagg surrounded by five-star guys, or at Kentucky when John Calipari was
00:43there.
00:44It's been really rare that you've had great success with teams that have brought a single
00:49such player into the mix.
00:51And it's pretty common, frankly, that coaches who've done this don't end up being in their
00:58jobs very long after this has happened.
01:01There's a long list of coaches who've tried this and within a few years found out that
01:06it destabilized their program and they're now looking for work.
01:10Mike, I watched Tennessee play Illinois and Champaign and they both shot so poorly that
01:16entire game.
01:18And then, of course, Tennessee end-to-end bucket at the buzzer to win it.
01:22They got lucky.
01:23I still believe, Mike, that Auburn's better than them.
01:25Oh, I don't buy the poll at all.
01:28Look, I really like Tennessee's program and Rick Barnes is one of the really wonderful
01:33men in coaching.
01:35But as with a lot of the teams at Tennessee, this one's offensively challenged.
01:38They are not the best team in the country.
01:40It will be very hard for them to win it.
01:42Auburn is better.
01:44As a college basketball team, I don't think they will win it either, but if you ask me
01:51to take any team to have the best record at the end of the regular season, the number
01:56one overall seed, I'm going with Auburn.