Marcus Spears Jr.

You're talking about a core guy, and I know TCU has hated to lose him.

Texas puts him on the front line next to Modest with a lot of scoring opportunity, and everybody was just buzzing there about Marcus Spears Jr., the 17-year-old should-be senior in high school who was a freshman.

Each one of those players was asked yesterday about it.

He said, man, he's 17? Man, that guy's unbelievable.

I want to see Boogie have a good season this year.

Yeah, my man Marcus Spears Jr. Yeah, he's a

dog.

He's a dog.

Mm-hmm

... like a JBB from Duke, a Marcus Spears, Jr. at Texas, stuff like that.

So those are gonna be our, definitely individuals so that we can kind of give you guys, the listeners, um, kind of, you know, a preseason preview.

And then once the ball gets rolling, no pun intended, in both seasons you'll be able to definitely, as we go into doing both sports in an episode, as I said, doing a weekly recap of news, storylines, stuff that surprised us, teams that disappointed us, so on and so forth.

So that was not surprising that Florida was picked to win the league.

Uh, and, and for me, Texas being picked to finish second wasn't surprising either because they've been a little bit of a media darling this off-season with their recruiting class, both in the high school ranks, getting, uh, Marcus Spears Jr. in and him reclassifying, went out and did a lot of work in the transfer portal.

And then Arkansas picked to finish third.

Everybody falls in love with John Calipari's team every year, and rightfully so.

So like, that's a fair point.

Yeah, I mean, Marcus Spears Jr.

Is that his first name? It's not Marcus Spears Jr.

That sounds

familiar.

Hold on.

Give me two seconds to confirm that.

Marcus Spears Jr. Spears Jr.

So the number six class in the country, we talked about the spot for Kendall Weaver when he got the eligibility ruling being taken.

That's because five-star power forward Marcus Spears Jr., who was the number one player in the 27 class, decided that he wanted to reclassify and make his way to the 40 acres early.

A I think there's a lot to talk about his explosiveness.

He's really incredible on the offensive side of the glass.

Elijah Freeman, the transfer from Auburn, he got a ton of hype going into last year because he was such a good player at the JUCO level.

Um, and then you got freshmen as well, Austin Goesby, Bo Ogden, and, um, Marcus Spears Jr. who could all make, you know...

It's, it's always kind of just a guess on some of these freshmen, how will they translate, but you have option after option.

And with the front court of Vokietitis and Punch, this d- this offense is gonna be tremendous.