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Off The Bench by Chatterbox Sports

John Calipari to arkansas? When i read it this morning, i wondered if it was april fools day and not solar eclipse day. No way that’s true right? Kentucky to arkansas? Apparently that’s going to happen. After 15 seasons where he won over 420 games, a national title, four final fours…..it’s bye, bye Cal. Elsewhere In college hoops….who do you like tonight…..defending champ UConn or Purdue? This is actually the game just about everyone hoped for when the season began…..a team that won it all vs a team that lost in the first round last year and had to play with that anvil around the=ir necks this entire tournament. Zach Edey has been the best player by far in this tournament so far and he will have to be at his best tonight. Tip off at 9:20 eastern on cbs. On the womens side, what a story book ending to a story book season……the most successful season by virtually every metric in the history of womens ncaa hoops. South carolina became the 10th team to go undefeated in an 87-75 win over caitlin clark and iowa. Remember the gamecocks were unbeaten when they lost to iowa in the final four a year ago. It’s the second straight season the lady hawkeyes lost in the national championship game. South carolinas bench outscored the iowa bench 37-0 . Clark finished with 30 points and ends her career 3951 points, the most ever in womens or mens division i basketball history. On to the reds…. The first full week of the season was solid. Two series wins over washington and philadelphia….a 4-2 record with some timely hitting and good pitching by and large. The start of week two…? Not so good. The new york mets did not have a single win until the day before arriving in the queen city for the weekend. Hunter greene was rock solid friday night but the reds lost 3-2. Saturday, Nick martinez was knocked around but his team railled for 5 runs in the eighth inning to win 9-7. Then came yesterday….. Series finale…rubber game….and the reds bats disappeared in a 3-1 loss. Over the weekend, the reds were 3-28 with runners in scoring position…..3-28!! Thru the first nine games, the team is hitting .242 with an on-base percentage of .319. AND They are averaging 10 strikeouts per game. In fact, of the 78 outs they committed this weekend, 32 came via the strikeout….that’s over 40 percent! So at 5-4 on the year, cincinnati sits 2 ½ games behind the pirates in the nl central. Milwaukee is in second place and guess who comes to gabp tonight? You got it…Milwaukee. The brewers beat the reds 10 out of 13 meetings last season, which was a big reason they won the division. Coming into this season, everyone says No Criag COUNSELL, NO Corbin Burns, and brandon woodruff….they’re done. Not so fast, milwaukee has a 6-2 mark to begin the year. Pitching matchup tonight has graham ashcraft for the red legs. Aaron ashby gets the ball for milwaukee.