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College Ball Show: 1st and 2nd Round Preview, Debate, & Predictions! Toughest Region West or Midwest? · The Rope A Dope Radio Podcast

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Speaker 1: College basketball fans, Welcome back to the College Ball Show.
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Speaker 1: He's Marshall, I'm Chris, and we're here to talk about
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Speaker 1: the best time of the year. It's marsh Madness. Baby
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Speaker 1: Tomorrow the Playans play, but we know Thursday and it
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Speaker 1: all goes down baby NCAA Tourney.
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Speaker 2: It's here.
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Speaker 1: Like I said, best time of the year, man, I
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Speaker 1: can't wait to get into it on this show. We're
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Speaker 1: gonna start with a little recap from the weekend. Man,
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Speaker 1: that Friday slate on paper that looked crazy, but that's
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Speaker 1: why they put them on. That's why they play the games. Right,
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Speaker 1: it didn't really turn out to be all that great.
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Speaker 1: But we're gonna go over the weekend. You know, Florida
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Speaker 1: wrapped it up in style, Auburn stumbling too the finish.
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Speaker 1: No team has lost three or four down the stretch
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Speaker 1: and won the chip. And you can look at that
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Speaker 1: two ways, I guess, but you know that that's not great,
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Speaker 1: that's not ideal. And then some health stuff with Duke. Right,
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Speaker 1: there's a variety of things that we'll talk about. We're
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Speaker 1: gonna predict. We don't do the whole bracket, we do
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Speaker 1: the first and second round. We basically get you to
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Speaker 1: the sweet sixteen. That's what we're gonna preview and predict
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Speaker 1: on this one. And then we'll also kind of talk
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Speaker 1: it through. Who's got the toughest region, who's got the
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Speaker 1: easiest region? Right, what's the best possibility for the Cinderella
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Speaker 1: story to make it to the sweet sixteen? Which top
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Speaker 1: two seed is gonna get beat? Because that's what happens
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Speaker 1: to the two seeds for quite some time. And it's
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Speaker 1: kind of interesting because the two seeds are bombed this year,
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Speaker 1: like the top eight, and you can even make an
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Speaker 1: argument the top sixteen are fucking really good. So, like,
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Speaker 1: who's gonna get beat? And we'll just talk it through.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go ahead and shut up for a second
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Speaker 1: and bring in my co host Marshall. Marshall, we'll hear
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Speaker 1: your squad made the attorney. Whether West Virginia should have
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Speaker 1: gotten in or not, they made They made the attorney.
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Speaker 1: And you know what, it appears they may get to
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Speaker 1: the second round. Maybe you never know. It looks like
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Speaker 1: it's there for him to do something. But first and foremost,
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Speaker 1: how you doing as we kind of talk about what
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Speaker 1: happened in the conference attorneys.
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Speaker 2: My friend, So this is the best time of the year.
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Speaker 2: As you know, I normally go on my March Madness trip.
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Speaker 2: This is the first time in ten years I'm not gone.
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Speaker 2: So of course, what does my group get to see. Well,
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Speaker 2: my group has three former guys who did play college
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Speaker 2: basketball at Wisconsin and they're going to Denver.
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Speaker 3: They get to see Wisconsin in person.
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Speaker 2: So I'm very sad I don't get to be there
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Speaker 2: because that would be unreal experience. I do the financial stuff.
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Speaker 2: I wasn't able to pull the trip off this year.
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Speaker 2: I will not miss San Diego next year because I
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Speaker 2: would hate myself for that, but.
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Speaker 1: Very grateful for me and you or San Diego. So
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Speaker 1: there's not my My.
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Speaker 2: March brotherhood will be in to see the team they
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Speaker 2: love in person. Now I think that team's gonna have
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Speaker 2: a tough game, but I'm very grateful for that. But
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Speaker 2: that's tough. But hey, the best.
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Speaker 3: Time of the year. Excited to do this podcast, Carol.
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Speaker 2: I did make it in.
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Speaker 3: We'll talk about that here in a second. But hey,
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Speaker 3: life is good.
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Speaker 2: I got a bracket there. There's so much worse things
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Speaker 2: going on right now in this world. So let's talk
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Speaker 2: about something we love, which is the March Madness bracket
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Speaker 2: my friend.
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Speaker 1: Yes, sir, and I'm obviously, like I mentioned that Friday
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Speaker 1: nights that looked like it was going to be crazy.
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Speaker 1: You know, it really looked like you know, I always
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Speaker 1: say every year, the realignment and all that, And although
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Speaker 1: I thought we've said it for years, the Big East
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Speaker 1: did what they had to do, and they turned themselves
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Speaker 1: into what they were for quite some time. They kept
5:25
Speaker 1: it being a basketball conference, right, they kept it and
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Speaker 1: they did their best, right it blew up, They did
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Speaker 1: their best. It's still a damn good conference. After all,
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Speaker 1: it has produced four championships in the past eight years. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: so there you go. I mean two Nova's and two
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Speaker 1: yukon So there you go. So it's still legit obviously,
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Speaker 1: especially in the top half of it, but it's just
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Speaker 1: not as deep. But yeah, every every Friday and Saturday
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Speaker 1: comes along, and for those who know that Big East
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Speaker 1: Tournament Madison Square Garden, there's just nothing like those Fridays
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Speaker 1: and Saturdays. Just just no matter what you say, it
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Speaker 1: just it's just not it's not the same. I can
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Speaker 1: just envision guard after guard breaking somebody down off the dribble,
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Speaker 1: pulling up hitting a buzzer beater or you have you know,
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Speaker 1: Syracuse winning five and five nights and then you know,
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Speaker 1: because they're exhausted, lose the first round the next week.
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Speaker 1: But just in general, the matchups, the rivalries, the crowd,
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Speaker 1: the East Coast basketball standing out, it can never be replicated.
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Speaker 1: It just it just can. However, this Friday night, since
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Speaker 1: that time frame, right, since we haven't had that in
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Speaker 1: a while, this gave me those vibes because of the
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Speaker 1: sheer volume. And you know, there's some negativities about the
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Speaker 1: conference realignment, no doubt, and in basketball and football and
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Speaker 1: I'm sure other sports, but that's we focus on. But
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Speaker 1: there's also some positivities in college football week after week.
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Speaker 1: The amount of top fifteen matchups, the amount of top ten,
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Speaker 1: the amount of top five against five, I mean ridiculous, right,
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Speaker 1: and then this to have that many when you have
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Speaker 1: sixteen and eighteen, you know, teams in a damn conference.
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Speaker 1: Guess what, There's gonna be some matchups, dude. So Friday
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Speaker 1: night I got admit, I was like, oh shit, dude,
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Speaker 1: we got some matchups. Man and Boise State ended up
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Speaker 1: beating New Mexico. North Carolina slid by without their guy.
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Speaker 1: There was some clubs games. I'm not trying to say
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Speaker 1: that Houston beat the shit out of BYU. That kind
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Speaker 1: of surprised me. So some of these, you know, Auburn
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Speaker 1: did what they had to do at that point. So
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Speaker 1: some of these games, like Arizona Texas Tech, that was
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Speaker 1: a good game. So with Louisville Clemson, I'm not trying
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Speaker 1: to say was a garbage but on the surface, it
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Speaker 1: was like, here we go, dude, this is gonna be big,
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Speaker 1: and it turned out to be just okay, it is
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Speaker 1: what it is though, no big deal. But really Saturday
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Speaker 1: and Sunday, you know, some of those championship games, you know,
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Speaker 1: Arizona had been struggling, Michigan had been struggling. They had
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Speaker 1: great showings. Creighton got to the final, got beat by
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Speaker 1: Saint John's. Saint John's we wondered, just like Houston in
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Speaker 1: a sense, Okay, you got it, You've won your division,
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Speaker 1: you've won your conference for like a little time. Now,
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Speaker 1: how are you gonna come out and play? You know,
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Speaker 1: are you gonna have that same urgency? Are you gonna
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Speaker 1: go with the hump? And Tennessee beat Auburn as well.
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Speaker 1: Now we've seen three out of four games they've lost
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Speaker 1: and we talked about that last week. Just getting the
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Speaker 1: finals would that help? Do they now need to get
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Speaker 1: their confidence fully back. We'll see. And you know, Michigan,
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Speaker 1: I said, they've been struggling. Wisconsin has been playing pretty good,
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Speaker 1: but they had a little faulter there too, And for
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Speaker 1: those teams to make the final, that was pretty big
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Speaker 1: for him. The second half was really fun. The first
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Speaker 1: half it reminded me of about eight years ago college basketball.
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Speaker 1: But Florida they just want to beat everybody by a
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Speaker 1: bunch of points. So yeah, I mean, overall, a fun weekend,
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Speaker 1: no doubt, and some teams kind of overachieved. Like I said,
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Speaker 1: I'd say Michigan in Wisconsin getting the finals kind of
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Speaker 1: surprised me a little bit. Maybe not Wisconsin, but definitely Michigan.
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Speaker 1: So can they take these good vibes, Marshall, not just Michigan,
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Speaker 1: but just in general right in parlay that and maybe
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Speaker 1: the bad vibes like oh, Auburn, I mean, they still
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Speaker 1: got the overall number one seed. Yes, I am aware
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Speaker 1: of that Duke beat him. It was a long time ago.
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Speaker 1: I just I don't think you can that resume is ridiculous,
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Speaker 1: and so I think it would be disrespectful not for
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Speaker 1: them to be that number one seed. But it's still
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Speaker 1: number one overall seed, I should say, but du basically
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Speaker 1: got the number one overall seed based off you know,
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Speaker 1: their their potential route as long as they're healthy. What
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Speaker 1: did you think about this last week and what stands
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Speaker 1: out to you?
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Speaker 2: Sir? Uh Well, I think the basically it says violations,
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Speaker 2: is that what it is?
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Speaker 3: Jesus, I'm not I'm not going there.
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Speaker 2: Because you know, I've seen a lot of stuff my life.
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Speaker 2: I don't I don't think I've ever seen a Laine
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Speaker 2: violation at the end of the game, Like I know
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Speaker 2: what happens, but normally it's like in the NBA, where
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Speaker 2: like you do see a dude drag his foot, you're like,
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Speaker 2: oh shit, you know, but in that clutch moment, man,
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Speaker 2: that's that might be a first. And a good friend
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Speaker 2: mine sent me the same thing. She's like, I don't
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Speaker 2: think I've ever seen that. I was like, I know, so,
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Speaker 2: but I guess I feel good about my picks. You know,
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Speaker 2: this was what you know. I always you always give
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Speaker 2: me a little bit, not even great, but you always
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Speaker 2: like like to know who I want to make a
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Speaker 2: deeper on determine who can win it all, and my
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Speaker 2: my picks have been I think Florida and Saint John's
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Speaker 2: me for the past like three weeks have been the
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Speaker 2: two best teams in the country. So of course they
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Speaker 2: both do their business, they play good, they can put
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Speaker 2: in the same bracket. But hey, I did think that
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Speaker 2: Florida impressively. Hey again, if you're an SEC team this year,
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Speaker 2: that was like Florida, Bama, Auburn, Kentuck, You dude, take
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Speaker 2: your foot off the gas, Like, let's go rest for
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Speaker 2: a bit, watch some film. You know you're gonna have
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Speaker 2: a great seed one two or three or four something
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Speaker 2: like that. Who gives a ship. They didn't view it
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Speaker 2: that way, Chris. They're like, dude, we're gonna try and
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Speaker 2: win the conference. And and to give their credit, they
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Speaker 2: did so I did, sure did. Florida showed out. Now
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Speaker 2: there's something who said, hey, you stand your heater. Now
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Speaker 2: hopefully they're not too tired, but hey, Florida showed out.
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Speaker 2: They want they're conference shape. Saint John's dude, I bet
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Speaker 2: Marquette was like, dude, can you give us just kind
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Speaker 2: of a free pass?
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Speaker 3: Like, hey, we got it.
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Speaker 1: So well too. And then by halftime, nope, they caught up.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so I think that's credit to Patino. I know,
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Speaker 2: I've been highing this team all year. I did not
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Speaker 2: want to put them my Final four pit prediction because
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Speaker 2: I love them. I don't want to. I don't want
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Speaker 2: to drinx it. But they got some dogs, man, they
12:29
Speaker 2: got some dogs. So uh. And of course they're with Florida,
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Speaker 2: so that's not gonna be easy. But hey, Saint John's
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Speaker 2: took care of business. And you know, as as I've
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Speaker 2: learned now in my older years, Hey, biggest tournament at
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Speaker 2: the garden. Man, that's a lot of fun and it was.
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Speaker 1: Man.
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Speaker 3: Speaking of locations, Uh, the ACC needs to go.
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Speaker 2: Back to Greensboro because when I was growing up in
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Speaker 2: my high school years, middle school years, even early college years,
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Speaker 2: that's where that tournament's meant to be. I know it's
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Speaker 2: kind of fluctuated around a little bit, but for the
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Speaker 2: AC Tournament, it needs to be in Greensboro, North Carolina.
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Speaker 3: That's like just the hard and soul of that conference.
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Speaker 1: That too, I think.
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Speaker 2: Unfortunately, you're right, You're right. There were some laws of
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Speaker 2: political issues, which is unfortunate because I do think that
13:20
Speaker 2: at the hard and soul of basketball, which if you
13:22
Speaker 2: look past people just being you know, difficult with each
13:24
Speaker 2: other in government law. Yeah, that's unfortunate. You're right, you're
13:27
Speaker 2: a good call, but I wish i'd go back there
13:31
Speaker 2: in a in a just pure basketball mindset. You're right
13:34
Speaker 2: to avoid catastrophes offline, but it just felt right for that,
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Speaker 2: for that, for that tournament.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know what you're saying.
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Speaker 2: Yah. Yeah, So that's just uh, I'll never forget listen
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Speaker 2: to otus ready and sit on the dock in the bay.
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Speaker 2: Like I remember watching that video when I was like young,
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Speaker 2: and I was like, this tournament's that's where it's at.
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Speaker 2: But hey, hats off to Duke. As much as I
13:58
Speaker 2: want Carolina to win. Hey, how many teams in the
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Speaker 2: country Chris can lose their two arguably two best players
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Speaker 2: or their first and like top three or four best
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Speaker 2: and then still won the tournament. So they deserve that credit.
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Speaker 2: Carolina was down twenty four. They almost came back to
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Speaker 2: be Duke, but they didn't. And then Duke took care
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Speaker 2: of business against Louisville. But hey, Cooper flag was out.
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Speaker 2: So that does show that this team is not just
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Speaker 2: completely one guy that they won't expected. The Duke is
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Speaker 2: a bunch like Scrubs. But I'll tip my cap because hey,
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Speaker 2: that was a good win. I think a lot of people,
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Speaker 2: including myself, thought that hey, with Cooper flag out, caroly
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Speaker 2: is gonna be able to knock them off. And they
14:32
Speaker 2: almost did, but they didn't. They came up short. And
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Speaker 2: it does seem like every every year Memphis, who's always
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Speaker 2: a pretty good team, gets an eight or nine seed.
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Speaker 3: The Committee liked them this year.
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Speaker 2: They for once got a free pass and they did
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Speaker 2: win their tournament on Sunday, and they got a five seed,
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Speaker 2: so which is cool.
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Speaker 3: But now they're also a dog, which I don't get.
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Speaker 2: We'll get to that. And man, you know, I wish
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Speaker 2: I would have bet the under because I done this
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Speaker 2: in the Big East before. But Wisconsin Michigan you could tell, dude,
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Speaker 2: they were tired that if you watch that tournament, you're like, dude,
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Speaker 2: these teams sucked.
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Speaker 3: They don't suck.
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Speaker 2: Well.
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Speaker 3: I think Michigan may suck a little bit, but.
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Speaker 2: That was the effects of mission of Wisconsin playing.
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Speaker 3: Four games and four nights.
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Speaker 2: Like I do think that team will regroup and be
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Speaker 2: ready to go to Denver for my crew to watch them.
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Speaker 1: It was a rough first half, I will say that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it did. It did when you got
15:31
Speaker 2: team shoot like four twenty three on threes and like,
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Speaker 2: you know, five to thirty on shot, it's like, dude,
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Speaker 2: they're not that bad. But that it goes to show
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Speaker 2: that when you're playing four games and four nights, like
15:41
Speaker 2: you aren't gonna get tired. Like that's natural. Those three
15:43
Speaker 2: point shots are come on short because your caps are
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Speaker 2: burned a little bit.
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Speaker 1: So.
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Speaker 2: But hey, Chris, we predicted before the before this year
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Speaker 2: got going. We said, hey, if you watch the Big
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Speaker 2: Tall Tournament, the Big East and the Big uh sorry,
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Speaker 2: Big twelve, Big East SEC, you're gonna enjoy your tournaments.
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Speaker 2: And I thought the SEC produced every day, especially.
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Speaker 3: Those first couple of days with some buzzer beaters.
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Speaker 2: Uh. The Big Twelve produced some phenomenal games, and the
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Speaker 2: Big East was fun too. So all the conference tournaments,
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Speaker 2: maybe the championship games weren't the best, but to get
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Speaker 2: to that point, yeah, which kind of basketball, Yeah, it
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Speaker 2: really was a good one watch absolutely hundred percent.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, all in all, it definitely was. Though it was
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Speaker 1: a big one and you know, you look at West
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Speaker 1: Virginia out of uh, there's a there were the field
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Speaker 1: of sixty eight said there was one hundred and eleven
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Speaker 1: bracket ologists right, one hundred and eleven out of one
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Speaker 1: hundred and eleven had West Virginia in the field, which
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Speaker 1: is that's pretty crazy. And then I think there were
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Speaker 1: six and ten in Quad one games. We know North
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Speaker 1: Carolinas they won ten games in the Big twelve, UH,
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Speaker 1: they beat Alua State, they beat the Zags on nuture
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Speaker 1: floort that Arizona clearly, and this is the squad you
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Speaker 1: actually talked about.
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Speaker 3: Too a lot at large and.
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Speaker 1: Obviously they got they got screwed, man, they got screwed.
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Speaker 1: If you look at this stat I sat on a
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Speaker 1: college basketball report on Twitter just ranking Q one wins
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Speaker 1: as far as the amount, Auburn had sixteen, Houston had fourteen. Michigans.
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Speaker 1: They had thirteen Michigan at twelve, Florida had eleven, Tennessee
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Speaker 1: had eleven, Bamitt In Kentucky had eleven, Texas Tech, Iowa
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Speaker 1: State and Arizona had ten. And then Duke and Ukula
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Speaker 1: watch out for Ukula had both nine. So you know,
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Speaker 1: Houston sitting up there like, hey, dude, we will lost
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Speaker 1: some early games, but we still have fourteen Q one wins.
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Speaker 1: Obviously the Q one wins come around more often in
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Speaker 1: those two conferences, especially the SEC. But ultimately to get
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Speaker 1: fourteen out of sixteen is pretty far fucking wild man,
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Speaker 1: there's no way around it. And the old record was
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Speaker 1: twenty eleven, where it was eleven out of sixteen, I
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Speaker 1: believe from the Big East. Uh, And it will be
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Speaker 1: interesting to see and the people are gonna be all
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Speaker 1: about that stat to see how they're gonna do and
18:23
Speaker 1: how they did which which obviously you got to pay
18:26
Speaker 1: attention to that stuff. But I think they were thirteen
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Speaker 1: and nine that year in in the tournament, thirteen and nine,
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Speaker 1: the Big East was overall. Now obviously they had to
18:38
Speaker 1: they had to take on each other at times. They
18:41
Speaker 1: did produce Yukon though the champ so that you know,
18:44
Speaker 1: that does play into it. But you know, we knew
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Speaker 1: they were gonna get a lot Marshall obviously deservedly, but
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Speaker 1: I didn't think it was gonna be fourteen, And you know,
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Speaker 1: it's probably too much. We're gonna find out styles make
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Speaker 1: fights though, as we know. But fourteen Big Ten got eight.
19:09
Speaker 1: We thought maybe they get nine, to ten. Big twelve
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Speaker 1: only got seven. Big East five, right, which is maybe
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Speaker 1: a little more. At times during the seasonia ACC got four.
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Speaker 1: We weren't positive about that. The Mountain West got four
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Speaker 1: in we definitely weren't positive about that one true based
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Speaker 1: off their recent showings too. So you know, all in all,
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Speaker 1: you know, we're we're gonna we're gonna find out how
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Speaker 1: they do. But people are gonna be really interested to
19:43
Speaker 1: see in those second round matchups and tradition in general, how
19:47
Speaker 1: many people got knocked off because going back to that year,
19:51
Speaker 1: the first year or the first round when they got
19:54
Speaker 1: eleven bids at the Big East twenty eleven, they were
19:57
Speaker 1: seven and four and there were no there was one
20:03
Speaker 1: matchup Xavier and Marquette. Actually that then though Xavier wasn't
20:11
Speaker 1: I don't think Xavier. Were they in the Big East
20:13
Speaker 1: yet or were they in the other conference USA, God,
20:18
Speaker 1: I I don't know, but either way, then in the
20:23
Speaker 1: round of thirty two they were two and five. Now
20:26
Speaker 1: they did have they did have some matchups there. Someone
20:32
Speaker 1: had to lose to Marquette and Yukon and they were
20:36
Speaker 1: one and one, but they won the chip. But overall,
20:39
Speaker 1: like I said, overall, they were thirteen I'm sorry, thirteen
20:42
Speaker 1: and ten, not thirteen and nine. I think the year
20:45
Speaker 1: after that they were thirteen and nine but didn't win
20:48
Speaker 1: a chip, So they have to have a chip out
20:51
Speaker 1: of this. If you have fourteen teams, is that that's
20:54
Speaker 1: not really like putting a lot of pressure on them?
20:58
Speaker 1: Am I correct that. If you're gonna be called the
21:01
Speaker 1: best conference of all time, right, you gotta have at
21:05
Speaker 1: least one Well you're only gonna have one, but you
21:08
Speaker 1: gotta have at least one final four and then or
21:12
Speaker 1: you know, I think you got it. I think you
21:14
Speaker 1: got that one. That ship man, there's just nowhere around it.
21:18
Speaker 2: Yeah. Oh, by the way, Xavier joined the Big East
21:21
Speaker 2: in twenty thirteen.
21:23
Speaker 1: There you go.
21:24
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, uh so for Carolina, that's my team.
21:29
Speaker 2: But I'm gonna be an honest fan. I'm not gonna
21:31
Speaker 2: be a doucebagger. You'll cover up a lot of my team.
21:35
Speaker 2: I do think the reason why Carolina made the tournament
21:39
Speaker 2: was because if you looked at the computer analytics, they
21:43
Speaker 2: said Carolina deserve to be in Okay, that was from
21:46
Speaker 2: what the computers said. But computers are not people.
21:50
Speaker 3: They're not.
21:53
Speaker 2: So if you look at quad one and like ranks
21:57
Speaker 2: of wins all that stuff, it should have been West Virginia.
22:02
Speaker 3: So again, if you look.
22:03
Speaker 2: At what the computers at, which what the committee said,
22:06
Speaker 2: Carolina deserved it, but quad one, West Virginia should have
22:14
Speaker 2: been in. Again, I think Javon Small is probably my
22:15
Speaker 2: favorite guard of the year, who I didn't know when
22:17
Speaker 2: the year started. The dude played great that, you know,
22:19
Speaker 2: like the start of the year tournament. I fell in
22:21
Speaker 2: love with the West Virginia shit Chris two weeks ago.
22:26
Speaker 2: They were a ten seed and there was no bubble
22:30
Speaker 2: talk for them. So obviously that Colorado loss was big.
22:35
Speaker 2: But I will say that Carolina got in for some
22:36
Speaker 2: home cooking. That was a sign of just hey, it happens,
22:41
Speaker 2: the sports happens for Bama.
22:42
Speaker 3: Hey he got in.
22:43
Speaker 2: And when the committee did say, well, West Virginia was
22:48
Speaker 2: out with the Tucker degrees, he was out for like, well, shit,
22:51
Speaker 2: he's been out since December eighth, and he's been out
22:53
Speaker 2: for almost, you know, four months. So if you're gonna
22:58
Speaker 2: try to cover up your tracks of like weird stuff, like, dude,
23:01
Speaker 2: you can't tell me that West Virginia missed a tournament.
23:04
Speaker 3: Because their best player was hurt.
23:06
Speaker 2: Well, First of all, Javon Small is one of the
23:08
Speaker 2: best guards in the in the country this whole year,
23:11
Speaker 2: and if Tucker Reese missed some tournament affected them, Like
23:16
Speaker 2: the dude didn't place in December and that was before Christmas,
23:19
Speaker 2: so it was some home cooking. I'm not proud of it.
23:23
Speaker 2: I really didn't think Carolin is gonna miss tournament. I'm
23:26
Speaker 2: happy my team's in, but it was kind of shady
23:29
Speaker 2: and uh but again, you know, as I also heard
23:33
Speaker 2: wrap this up, if Memphis had lost to UA b
23:36
Speaker 2: UAB would have bumped out UMC. So UNC did walk
23:39
Speaker 2: in the back door, and obviously it could have been UMC.
23:43
Speaker 3: It could have been Western.
23:46
Speaker 1: Knocked Boise stayed out.
23:49
Speaker 2: It may it could have been Boise, and it could
23:51
Speaker 2: have been Indiana. So like yes, like yes, there's upbrade
23:55
Speaker 2: that can.
24:00
Speaker 3: Some ways.
24:00
Speaker 1: Yes, Yeah, North Carolina made the finals, so.
24:08
Speaker 2: You know it's it was I didn't make the semis. Yeah,
24:13
Speaker 2: but you do look like, well, look at the name
24:14
Speaker 2: on their sweatshirt. Well, the name on the sweatcher didn't
24:16
Speaker 2: matter for our team, and I think it helped. And
24:18
Speaker 2: I just wish they would not have said, well, Tucker,
24:20
Speaker 2: Debreeze got hurt, We'll do it. You can't justified injury
24:23
Speaker 2: when it's like from like you know, before twenty twenty five.
24:26
Speaker 2: So I do think the kind of struggled there a bit,
24:30
Speaker 2: but it is what it is. A week from now,
24:32
Speaker 2: this will be no longer talking point. I do feel
24:34
Speaker 2: bad for West Virginia, though I do think they deserve
24:36
Speaker 2: that they should be in So I mean a humble
24:38
Speaker 2: fan because I did think Carolina got lucky. Western he
24:41
Speaker 2: got screwed. But uh, that's that's sports. Dam has done
24:45
Speaker 2: that to a couple of teams in football, Like it is,
24:47
Speaker 2: what is it? Sometimes your name and your patrick gets
24:50
Speaker 2: to places you don't deserve to be and that's ever
24:53
Speaker 2: gonna change. But I'm just is what it is. So
24:56
Speaker 2: what overall is that? From that? Yeah? Yeah, Like the
25:01
Speaker 2: committee overall did I think a pretty good job like
25:05
Speaker 2: they usually do. Linardi, I think have pretty much people black,
25:08
Speaker 2: you know, I think overall it was pretty straight. The
25:10
Speaker 2: only thing I'll say for my random this is people
25:12
Speaker 2: were bitching about, uh Louisville, like Louisville get eight seed.
25:19
Speaker 2: Well their quad one record was similar to Carolina.
25:23
Speaker 3: It was like one leg.
25:27
Speaker 2: Yeah, and the issue I have with Louisville was, like,
25:30
Speaker 2: you want to bitch, dude, they gave you a home game, Like, yeah,
25:34
Speaker 2: oh my.
25:35
Speaker 3: God, Louisville's night seed.
25:36
Speaker 2: Dude, you get to play a home game like you're
25:39
Speaker 2: you're Lexington. Maybe maybe the committee screwed you over a bit,
25:45
Speaker 2: but dude, you're you're literally your fans are going to
25:47
Speaker 2: pack the stage. So if it is Louisville Auburn, like, dude, Auburn,
25:52
Speaker 2: you're the number one seed the whole tournament. You're going
25:54
Speaker 2: into a hostile road environment. So because I've listened a
25:58
Speaker 2: lot of different pas, theres lots of show. Almost every
26:02
Speaker 2: person I've heard said, dude, Louisville got screwed. Louis got screwed.
26:05
Speaker 1: No, shut up, they got a home game. They just
26:08
Speaker 1: got back to this year. Like, yes, I think people
26:11
Speaker 1: are thinking Louisville. You know, they're thinking, like dude, they're
26:15
Speaker 1: always getting well, hold on, dude, like you can't just
26:18
Speaker 1: live off your name one too. They don't really have
26:21
Speaker 1: that many quality wins. Man, We've given them credit, but yeah,
26:26
Speaker 1: you know what should they be, you know, a fifth
26:29
Speaker 1: seed or something.
26:30
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm with you. So yeah, just like Carolina like Carolina,
26:33
Speaker 2: I mean they were at eleven, like they suck it,
26:35
Speaker 2: but like a see was down this year. So that's
26:37
Speaker 2: really myaldy rants just Louisville hated. Is like, dude, you
26:41
Speaker 2: get a whole game. How many teams will love to
26:42
Speaker 2: have a whole game, Chris, I don't know how far
26:45
Speaker 2: like seats today from Louisville, but that place is gonna
26:47
Speaker 2: be jabbed. If you're Auburn, you can't be like, dude,
26:49
Speaker 2: what the hell with a number old seed and we
26:52
Speaker 2: got to play a road a true road game for
26:55
Speaker 2: our second round? Like that's not fair at all?
26:57
Speaker 1: You know, yeah, that's true, I mean somewhat true. You know,
27:03
Speaker 1: like you are in Lexington.
27:06
Speaker 2: You should get some home cooking if though you know,
27:08
Speaker 2: oh yeah, no doubt about it, no doubt about it, dude.
27:12
Speaker 2: That is a that is a one hour, fifteen minute drive.
27:17
Speaker 1: There you go.
27:18
Speaker 2: That is there's gonna be lots of red and away that stadium.
27:20
Speaker 2: And obviously Auburn will travel too, and it's not that
27:23
Speaker 2: far from Aubard. But so if you're a Louisville fan, okay,
27:26
Speaker 2: hey our fine, you're a sixteed. But now you're going
27:29
Speaker 2: to Denver or Seattle, dude, you got you got home cooking,
27:32
Speaker 2: so call him down on the rants about where he
27:34
Speaker 2: got seated. And if you're Auburn, dude, hey again, can
27:37
Speaker 2: I beat Louisville? Yes? Again? Louisville's quad one record was
27:41
Speaker 2: like one to twelve. So Auburn, you're a better team,
27:45
Speaker 2: but it will be kind of a crazy environment just
27:47
Speaker 2: for the situation that it is.
27:50
Speaker 1: And as we get ready here, if you look at
27:53
Speaker 1: the round of sixty four results since twenty eighteen. Okay
27:58
Speaker 1: this was on the March Madness CBS stuff. They do
28:01
Speaker 1: it every year. It's funny to see that stat. But
28:06
Speaker 1: twenty two and two is the number one against number sixteen,
28:09
Speaker 1: So we've had two now, whereas years before we never
28:12
Speaker 1: had one.
28:13
Speaker 2: That's crazy.
28:14
Speaker 1: So since eighteen, which is yeah, two since eighteen, that's
28:18
Speaker 1: a lot, it is. And then the two against fifteen
28:22
Speaker 1: is twenty one and three in favor obviously of the
28:26
Speaker 1: of the two seed, the three seed three and fourteen
28:29
Speaker 1: is twenty two and two, so they're actually a little
28:32
Speaker 1: bit better. Obviously, the four thirteen drops down to stay
28:39
Speaker 1: seventy one percent of the time they win. The four
28:42
Speaker 1: seed seventeen and seven, okay, and then the five. You know,
28:47
Speaker 1: ever since I was a kid, the five to twelve
28:49
Speaker 1: is always the thing, but that has been trending a
28:53
Speaker 1: little away now. It's still pretty good. Sixteen of eight,
28:58
Speaker 1: sixteen and eight. The twelve seed's won eight times. But
29:05
Speaker 1: the two stats that really stand out are the six
29:09
Speaker 1: and eleven. That's what's trended of late. That's twelve and twelve.
29:14
Speaker 1: I mean, fifty percent of the time the eleven seed
29:17
Speaker 1: wins since twenty eighteen, and the seven to ten is
29:21
Speaker 1: fourteen and nine, so that's sixty one percent the seven
29:26
Speaker 1: seed wins, and then the eight to nine. This one
29:29
Speaker 1: threw me for a loop, and I think I'd have
29:31
Speaker 1: to go and check out the stats mate, or check
29:34
Speaker 1: out the matchups. Maybe it would throw me for a
29:36
Speaker 1: loop as much. But the eight to nine matchup, the
29:40
Speaker 1: eight has only won thirty three point three times or
29:44
Speaker 1: percentage times. I should say eight of sixteen, correct. The
29:48
Speaker 1: eight to nine is eight of sixteen, dude, And you'd think,
29:52
Speaker 1: like you mentioned, it's around fifty to fifty. Yeah, that's
29:56
Speaker 1: six and eleven is fifty to fifty, which is just nuts.
30:00
Speaker 1: So I'm not saying don't pick a five to twelve
30:06
Speaker 1: a twelve seed, but since two thousand and five, the
30:10
Speaker 1: eleven seed is one. At least one eleven seed since
30:13
Speaker 1: two thousand and five is one in the first round.
30:17
Speaker 1: And some of that is that eleven plane too. I
30:20
Speaker 1: think with VCU and others.
30:22
Speaker 2: You get that swag going, get that little.
30:24
Speaker 1: Swagger going, get that little prime time going, and you know,
30:29
Speaker 1: obviously I mean it happened before it because that used
30:32
Speaker 1: to not exist. But yeah, man, just to just to
30:37
Speaker 1: kind of, you know, catch you up with all the
30:41
Speaker 1: scenarios and stuff like that. But any other thing before
30:44
Speaker 1: we get into this. And by the way, if you're
30:46
Speaker 1: at home listening and a lot of people fill out
30:49
Speaker 1: different brackets, obviously a lot of people do the ESPN
30:53
Speaker 1: one or the CBS Sports or whatever. We're literally going
30:56
Speaker 1: down the line of the ESPN do your own bracket.
31:01
Speaker 1: So if you want to kind of have fun and
31:03
Speaker 1: follow us and do your own picks, that way cool.
31:06
Speaker 1: Like I said, it's just the first and second round picks,
31:10
Speaker 1: and we're not picking Tuesday and Wednesday games. If you
31:13
Speaker 1: feel like a twelve seed is gonna go, then that's
31:15
Speaker 1: what you go with, or whatever seed. You know, the sixteen.
31:18
Speaker 2: My only hot take is I do think that.
31:23
Speaker 1: Minnesota. I agree, man, I think it's messed up.
31:28
Speaker 3: So go ahead this Saturday and Sunday.
31:30
Speaker 2: I think it's gonna be one of the best Saturday
31:32
Speaker 2: and Sundays in the past like five to ten years.
31:35
Speaker 2: I do think will be very chalky, or I'll be
31:37
Speaker 2: very chalky Thursday Friday. But I think that, like I
31:40
Speaker 2: said last week, I think this is one of the
31:43
Speaker 2: best years ever of having like a bunch of B
31:46
Speaker 2: plus teams, which means that this Saturday and Sunday, which
31:50
Speaker 2: is like four to five days from now, whatever, is
31:53
Speaker 2: gonna be incredible basketball, because yeah, you might win your
31:56
Speaker 2: first round games versus your lower seeds, but then dude,
31:59
Speaker 2: it's freaking game on. Like once you make past round one,
32:03
Speaker 2: it is balls to the wall.
32:05
Speaker 3: Like who's gonna beat who?
32:06
Speaker 2: Just because I think that we have that kind of depth,
32:08
Speaker 2: which I think should make for an incredible tournament. In theory,
32:11
Speaker 2: if I say that that means the sweetest heel on,
32:13
Speaker 2: I was about.
32:13
Speaker 1: To say that, that only means it's gonna go down hill,
32:17
Speaker 1: you know, stee at all, So that means the sweet
32:20
Speaker 1: sixteen and lead eight. That's why when you look at
32:23
Speaker 1: that statum like a top four seed gets beat this
32:26
Speaker 1: that like the top four seeds are legit this year, dude. Yes,
32:32
Speaker 1: in the top two seeds, they just seem so fucking legit.
32:36
Speaker 1: I saw a lot of chop. You know, we could
32:39
Speaker 1: get all this shit happen and then still get like
32:42
Speaker 1: three number one seeds in the two seeds.
32:44
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what I mean.
32:46
Speaker 1: So we could get all this crazy shit happening, and
32:49
Speaker 1: then at the end of the day you're like, that's
32:51
Speaker 1: pretty shocked. It's like, well, not really, but because I've
32:54
Speaker 1: seen from the I don't know if you've seen it,
32:57
Speaker 1: but I haven't seen a three or four make it. Yeah,
33:01
Speaker 1: and I've seen probably uh four round table picks of
33:07
Speaker 1: professional people doing it. Yeah, I've mostly seen one three
33:12
Speaker 1: ones in a two, and that two is usually like
33:15
Speaker 1: Saint John's or Michigan State or something.
33:17
Speaker 3: True.
33:19
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can do that. I think that. And obviously
33:22
Speaker 2: the first the first two days are always the best.
33:25
Speaker 2: On Thursday and Fry is gonna be batch sheet nuts.
33:28
Speaker 2: As you said, some eleven seat's gonna win, some twelve
33:31
Speaker 2: seats and thirteen's gonna win.
33:32
Speaker 3: But I think for after the first two days.
33:35
Speaker 2: It's gonna be one of the best terms we've seen
33:36
Speaker 2: a long time, just due to the parody of the sport, which.
33:39
Speaker 3: Will only spoil us as fans.
33:41
Speaker 2: So you're ready, You're ready, kicking off the front.
33:44
Speaker 1: Hold on, hold on. Toughest region is it the Midwest
33:51
Speaker 1: or the West?
33:53
Speaker 2: Is sure as f a Duke. Statistically speaking, Duke has
33:57
Speaker 2: the easiest path to make to the final four as
34:01
Speaker 2: usual now normal, It's always been a rumor growing up
34:03
Speaker 2: my lifetime. Duke has the easiest cakewalk they this year.
34:06
Speaker 3: Statistically they do.
34:08
Speaker 2: It's a shame. It truly is a blunder Chris that
34:12
Speaker 2: you know, you gotta give Cooper flag this walk down
34:16
Speaker 2: to the final four, which is an embarrassment to the sport.
34:20
Speaker 1: But I'd out there, guys, just so you know. So
34:24
Speaker 1: here's my answered the question.
34:27
Speaker 2: I think the West is the toughest. I do think
34:30
Speaker 2: that Florida is my best team in the country right now.
34:34
Speaker 2: I think Saint John's is my second best. I do
34:36
Speaker 2: think the Texas win it all. This is my opinion.
34:40
Speaker 2: Texas Tech is strong. Uh, Maryland had a great year,
34:44
Speaker 2: so the Memphis. Yeah. Overall, top to bottom of Ukon's
34:47
Speaker 2: former champs. I do think the West was the toughest,
34:50
Speaker 2: and I do think statistically speaking, analytically speaking, Duke has
34:54
Speaker 2: the easiest bracket.
34:56
Speaker 1: Do you manage to book in that segment? Yea, SA,
35:00
Speaker 1: So Memphis without Tyres Hunter lightens the load at the
35:07
Speaker 1: five seed, right, so that Yukon Oklahoma eight and nine
35:12
Speaker 1: could get funky? Yeah. Now, the other argument is the
35:17
Speaker 1: Midwest obviously, and and I'd say Tennessee is pretty right
35:22
Speaker 1: there with Saint John's you know, yes, sir, Yeah, and
35:27
Speaker 1: then Kentucky. It's kind of funky now against but that.
35:35
Speaker 2: You think Kentucky's there, you do in theory, but.
35:39
Speaker 1: It is kind of funky because we know that will
35:42
Speaker 1: they hold up on the defensive side of the ball,
35:45
Speaker 1: like we said, we talked about last week, how that
35:48
Speaker 1: it looks like they're improving, But can they do that
35:51
Speaker 1: game in and game out, especially going against Houston? You know,
35:55
Speaker 1: and Houston may be able to, like I'm saying, for
35:58
Speaker 1: them to get out of there, they'd have to beat
36:00
Speaker 1: Tennessee obviously, which is not gonna be easy. And then
36:06
Speaker 1: you know, can they even go crazy scoring against Houston
36:09
Speaker 1: or Tennessee?
36:10
Speaker 4: Right?
36:11
Speaker 2: Yeah?
36:11
Speaker 1: If if they're pretty good at offense rather than elite,
36:15
Speaker 1: BA can fuck up the whole thing. In they're a
36:17
Speaker 1: little banged up, they're fully banged up. Now, Clemson kind
36:20
Speaker 1: of the sleeper there. I do like on the other
36:26
Speaker 1: side on paper, Memphis, but I do think Tech. I
36:30
Speaker 1: favorite Texas Tech over Kentucky and then Maryland over Clemson.
36:35
Speaker 1: I think that's kind of the six and seven, though
36:39
Speaker 1: Ukula could be could be a little scrappy in Illinois.
36:42
Speaker 2: You never do.
36:43
Speaker 1: If Illinois puts it together. They're a good team, but
36:46
Speaker 1: they can also get their ass beat, so you really
36:49
Speaker 1: don't know what's going on with them. But I think
36:52
Speaker 1: that Zags, Bulldogs, Georgia and Goetzag at the eighth ninth.
36:59
Speaker 1: That's pretty shy. Fifty two bulldogs. We've seen them. They
37:02
Speaker 1: beat Florida, right, they beat Florida recently. That's Florida's last loss. Correct.
37:10
Speaker 1: I think that's your squad you should know. No, I'm
37:14
Speaker 1: just kidding. And then you know, Gonzaga not the team
37:17
Speaker 1: they normally are. However, they're uh they got a point guard,
37:22
Speaker 1: so kind of kind of interesting. But yeah, Cinderella Sweet sixteens.
37:27
Speaker 1: A lot of people saying Akron, Liberty, BCU, Colorado State,
37:33
Speaker 1: especially d're on a heater. They've won eleven in a row,
37:36
Speaker 1: and especially without Tyres. I don't know that that's kind
37:41
Speaker 1: of the ones that I'm thinking any Cinderella Sweet sixteen.
37:45
Speaker 1: Are we going to witness this as we do the picks?
37:49
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's stay it for the picks.
37:51
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, that's okay because a lot of people are
37:54
Speaker 1: talking about Akron and Liberty meeting in the round thirty two.
38:00
Speaker 1: But we'll get it. We'll get it all right. We're
38:03
Speaker 1: gonna start with the South and I'll lead and then
38:06
Speaker 1: and then you you know, we'll just go every other region. Yeah.
38:09
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna pick. I'm gonna go out on a
38:13
Speaker 1: limb and pick Auburn as the number one seed. Okay, Okay,
38:18
Speaker 1: Louisville Creton. This is interesting to me, and the fact
38:25
Speaker 1: that they got the home court and all that, and
38:27
Speaker 1: they're playing pretty good. They they did make a nice run.
38:32
Speaker 1: I'm gonna just because of all that, I am gonna
38:35
Speaker 1: go Louisville and then this is where it gets fun.
38:41
Speaker 1: And I think I'm gonna steal some of your thunder.
38:44
Speaker 1: I didn't even think about this, but uh, you know
38:47
Speaker 1: the up I mean this, this little upstart. You see
38:53
Speaker 1: San Diego. You talked about San Diego next year. That
38:56
Speaker 1: is my five twelve. I'm going with the twelve there
39:00
Speaker 1: and I probably missed you up. A lot of people
39:02
Speaker 1: are either picking that one or the next one. A
39:06
Speaker 1: and M and yale. I'm gonna go A and M
39:08
Speaker 1: in that, but that's gonna be Those are tough games
39:11
Speaker 1: for four and three in five and twelve. Maybe we
39:14
Speaker 1: get that twelve and thirteen in that one. Actually, what
39:17
Speaker 1: says you, sir.
39:21
Speaker 3: Man, I I hate saying this.
39:23
Speaker 1: He kills Michigan.
39:25
Speaker 2: Huh, Well, you know it's because I've ripping that team.
39:29
Speaker 3: All year and I don't think they're that good.
39:32
Speaker 1: But don't fade them here.
39:35
Speaker 2: Here's the issues.
39:36
Speaker 3: The fact that.
39:39
Speaker 2: They have there are two best players who I have
39:41
Speaker 2: said this, there are two best players or their bigs.
39:43
Speaker 2: They have two seven footers and San Diego is kind
39:46
Speaker 2: of like a short team, right. Some other thing of
39:48
Speaker 2: the fact is that if if if you can't guard
39:52
Speaker 2: there are two best players, Uh, how are you going
39:55
Speaker 2: to stop them? So you have Wolf and that? Uh
39:58
Speaker 2: uh what that Vlad? Like?
40:02
Speaker 3: I actually do think Michigan wins and I.
40:04
Speaker 2: Know I called him to lose, but if you don't
40:07
Speaker 2: have the height, that's where they can take advantage of you.
40:09
Speaker 2: I don't think Michigan's guards are that good. I think
40:11
Speaker 2: people realize that after the past few weeks. Now I'm
40:13
Speaker 2: with him theory. I know they did win the Big
40:15
Speaker 2: Ten tournaments. I can't talk too much trash, but they're
40:18
Speaker 2: two best players at their centers. But San Diego does
40:21
Speaker 2: have the height to match that. So I do think
40:24
Speaker 2: Michigan skates skates by round one. I'll say that, so
40:29
Speaker 2: I will take Michigan. And I do think that my
40:34
Speaker 2: guy Wade Taylor, who I saw in person last year,
40:36
Speaker 2: who I would be seeing this year again if I
40:38
Speaker 2: was going to Denver, which kind of bothers me because
40:40
Speaker 2: I love way Taylor. I think he'll be Yale, because Yale.
40:44
Speaker 2: I watched Yale. I watched that Yale Harvard IVY League final.
40:48
Speaker 2: They canna shoot threes, but A and M plays defense,
40:51
Speaker 2: and even though they can't actually the ball that well,
40:53
Speaker 2: they're the best offensive rebound team in the country. And
40:57
Speaker 2: if you look at A and M's bigs compared to Yale,
41:00
Speaker 2: that's a different beast of a player. I'm Sam, I'm
41:02
Speaker 2: gonna take Auburn to win. They will not pull the
41:04
Speaker 2: third once he never lose. And Chris, this is the
41:09
Speaker 2: one I've torn on the most out maybe any game
41:11
Speaker 2: in the first round. Yes, because I don't think Louisville's
41:17
Speaker 2: is as good as people hype them up as they
41:19
Speaker 2: are because they see us down this year in Crayton
41:21
Speaker 2: when they play well, they're really good, but they also
41:25
Speaker 2: really only have two players. Uh So I'm gonna give
41:28
Speaker 2: this slight edge Louiso just because they'll have a home crowd.
41:31
Speaker 2: So I'll go Auburn, Louisville, Michigan in Texas, A and M.
41:36
Speaker 1: I think we're gonna have to do the rest of
41:37
Speaker 1: Nines then because we have that fat true you know
41:42
Speaker 1: what I mean?
41:42
Speaker 3: Right, Yes, good call.
41:45
Speaker 1: I am gonna send your squad through or San Diego State,
41:49
Speaker 1: okay with old miss all.
41:51
Speaker 2: Right, yeah, momentum from your Wednesday night or Tuesday night
41:56
Speaker 2: game tomorrow.
41:58
Speaker 1: And you know a lot of people will be down
41:59
Speaker 1: to talking them and am n but but you know,
42:03
Speaker 1: and they may get beat by Santygo State, but either
42:05
Speaker 1: way they're gonna feel some team's gonna feel good about
42:08
Speaker 1: Themselue No, I don't think Iowa State's gonna go as
42:12
Speaker 1: long as they as far as they could because due
42:17
Speaker 1: to injury, they're still not getting it back. But I
42:19
Speaker 1: do think they got enough to win there, So I
42:23
Speaker 1: got Iowa stayed over or over go to o Lipscomb
42:29
Speaker 1: and this marquette. New Mexico, dude, I mean that guard
42:32
Speaker 1: matchup's ridiculous, man, and I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go
42:37
Speaker 1: with New Mexico on that one mine or upset. That's
42:42
Speaker 1: gonna be a fun game, that's one of the best,
42:44
Speaker 1: like I think competitive games.
42:47
Speaker 2: And then I'm gonna go, of course Sparty, Okay, I
42:51
Speaker 2: will back you on Sparty for sure. I'm gonna bite
42:56
Speaker 2: my words again, Gavis like a hypocrite. Jesus, people gonna
42:58
Speaker 2: want to roast the li uh. I do think that
43:02
Speaker 2: Shaka finally pulls one out. And I'm just saying this,
43:05
Speaker 2: christis because I saw New Mexico last year, and last
43:08
Speaker 2: year they had two NBA lottery players, they could win
43:11
Speaker 2: a game. So like now that they digress a little bit,
43:13
Speaker 2: like you're telling me that a team that had two
43:15
Speaker 2: lottery guys last year and now better.
43:17
Speaker 1: This year is Marquette better this year.
43:23
Speaker 2: They lost to last year. That You're right, they lost Colon.
43:26
Speaker 2: Now they got that Camp Drones. H Man, that's good call,
43:29
Speaker 2: good counter.
43:31
Speaker 1: But no, that's fair though. I mean, yeah, I think
43:34
Speaker 1: that's a great matchup with the dude you mentioned, you.
43:37
Speaker 3: Know, and then Den Cam Jrones and Deb.
43:39
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a great guard matchup. And you know, that
43:42
Speaker 1: might be triple overtime in the in the conference or
43:45
Speaker 1: in the in the tournament, because once you get the
43:47
Speaker 1: guards in there, if it's a guard battle, who knows
43:50
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen.
43:51
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I'm gonna god, I'm taking freaking Marquette Michigan.
43:55
Speaker 2: Holy shit, I might be buying my words and laughing
43:57
Speaker 2: at myself.
43:57
Speaker 1: Are we gonna move out here a little bit?
43:59
Speaker 2: All right?
44:00
Speaker 3: Uh yeah?
44:01
Speaker 2: Markquenton's party and uh okay, my first gamily pick of
44:05
Speaker 2: the of the year. I always stayed Lipscomb over first
44:07
Speaker 2: half in full game over, Lipscomb makes forty percent of
44:11
Speaker 2: their points on threes, and I would stay true three.
44:13
Speaker 2: So first half and full game over, it's like one
44:15
Speaker 2: forty three, which is low for college. So I will
44:18
Speaker 2: stay to advance. And obviously Carolina's advanced too.
44:22
Speaker 1: Obviously. All right, you take over in the West, buddy, Okay,
44:28
Speaker 1: every other Florida, Florida check it.
44:32
Speaker 2: Uh, you know, I I do feel that everyone's gonna
44:35
Speaker 2: be paid. I'll take Yukon even though they they they
44:41
Speaker 2: only have they really only have two guys to shoot
44:43
Speaker 2: the ball. That well the scene. Uh, I gotta take Memphis.
44:47
Speaker 2: I don't think that's further a dog. I think they
44:49
Speaker 2: are more athletics skillful team than Colorado State. And I
44:52
Speaker 2: will take the Crab five, which gets for calling Meryl
44:55
Speaker 2: now because Grant Kenyon is not as good as they
44:57
Speaker 2: were last year. So I'm doing a lot of shock.
44:58
Speaker 2: That's fine.
44:59
Speaker 3: So, yeah, Florida, you called and for the Turtles and
45:02
Speaker 3: Petty Hardaway.
45:05
Speaker 1: So I have North, I have Florida, I have Yukon,
45:11
Speaker 1: I have Colorado State. I'm I'm I'm going, I'm I'm
45:15
Speaker 1: going again. I'm going five to f the six eleven.
45:17
Speaker 1: We're going five. So but I have no Malorado State
45:21
Speaker 1: just because of the combination of they're hot and the
45:26
Speaker 1: guy who runs that team might be the Gophers next coach.
45:30
Speaker 1: It sounds that way anyway, and it would just you know,
45:34
Speaker 1: it'd be It's just such a Minnesota sports thing for
45:37
Speaker 1: this dude to go to like the Elite eight, you know,
45:39
Speaker 1: and then we get we gotta wait for him, you know,
45:42
Speaker 1: and it's like, oh shit, oh now the other candidates
45:45
Speaker 1: are gone, and then I have uh so, I have
45:49
Speaker 1: Colorado State, and then I have Maryland to get her done,
45:54
Speaker 1: and then I gotta get my six eleven in. Dude.
45:57
Speaker 1: So I got Drake dre beating uh Miszoo. I don't
46:02
Speaker 1: love it, but sometimes in these first rounds, it's like,
46:07
Speaker 1: do you see that team advancing? And if you don't,
46:12
Speaker 1: then say screw it now? And out of two brackets,
46:15
Speaker 1: I'm a little too risky. Obviously, way too risky, like
46:19
Speaker 1: if I'm doing this for money, but yeah, I'm going Drake,
46:23
Speaker 1: and then I'm going to Texas Tech, mostly because I
46:25
Speaker 1: think Texas Tech will beat Missoo. Okay, uh oh yeah
46:31
Speaker 1: yeah we still got two more is dude, talk about
46:36
Speaker 1: the coaching here, Jesus. We got cal we got Bill self,
46:43
Speaker 1: and we got Patino the Great, the god doll.
46:47
Speaker 2: And the Providence fans got spoiled. I will take Missoo.
46:53
Speaker 3: I hope they win.
46:54
Speaker 2: This is just my heart as a fan speaking, I opin,
46:58
Speaker 2: But Drake is a great ass tude, and I think
47:00
Speaker 2: Texas Tech is really good at USC willing to watch
47:03
Speaker 2: them play in their championship game. They don't play defense, dude,
47:07
Speaker 2: text Tech can whoop your butt. So I'll take Texas
47:10
Speaker 2: Tech and bazoo uh. As we scroll down, I think
47:14
Speaker 2: Saint John's is gonna possibly win it all, so I'm
47:16
Speaker 2: gonna pick them to way versus om. And I do
47:19
Speaker 2: think that coach cal beats the lifelong KU coach Bill self.
47:26
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I got Saint John's and I'm going Razorbacks too.
47:30
Speaker 1: Maybe forty eight we're going forty minutes? The hell two
47:35
Speaker 1: point oh, that's what we're doing. I almost like, almost
47:39
Speaker 1: like forty eight minutes. That wouldn't even be overtime. That
47:42
Speaker 1: wouldn't even make sense for overtime, all right, unless like
47:46
Speaker 1: the lights went out or something like that. I got
47:50
Speaker 1: Puke where I'm the we're in the easiest one now,
47:54
Speaker 1: I got I got Duke, I got Baylor. I like
47:57
Speaker 1: how they've been playing down the stretch, and then this
48:00
Speaker 1: is where we're at here Buddy the Liberty or where
48:06
Speaker 1: King James is from, which one of these are gonna
48:09
Speaker 1: pull the upset. Oregon was on and popping, then they
48:14
Speaker 1: lost like five in a row. Now they're like eight
48:16
Speaker 1: and one. Zona was popping where they weren't popping, then
48:20
Speaker 1: they were popping, then they fell apart, but then they
48:22
Speaker 1: did make it to the conference final. I don't know, man,
48:28
Speaker 1: I'm stuck on this. Honestly. I wish I wish it
48:33
Speaker 1: was flip flop. And I've been so risky lately that
48:40
Speaker 1: I'm actually gonna stay away from both of them.
48:44
Speaker 4: Hold on, I wanna, I wanna, Hey, yay, I want do,
48:53
Speaker 4: I do Liberty, I'm gonna go Oregon, Arizona.
48:55
Speaker 1: Fuck it, I'm going chopped, man, I'm gonna chalk it up.
48:58
Speaker 2: I'm gonna chock it up.
48:59
Speaker 1: Well, we'll let you go for a little bit and
49:01
Speaker 1: I'll I'll finish it up with.
49:06
Speaker 2: Obviously, Duke, Yes, I do know that Mississippi State just
49:10
Speaker 2: listen to a Vegas pod today, is getting a ton
49:14
Speaker 2: of money because Baylor opened up is a one and
49:16
Speaker 2: a half points favorite. Now Mississippi State is favored, so
49:18
Speaker 2: the money's coming out of the dak University. So I
49:21
Speaker 2: will take the Bulldogs to beat Baylor. Oregon.
49:25
Speaker 3: Man, Dude, their coach knows.
49:27
Speaker 2: How to coach. In March every fucking year that team
49:30
Speaker 2: wins a couple of games. I will, I will bet
49:32
Speaker 2: them just off Pride, and I will say I know
49:35
Speaker 2: I ripped on Tommy Lloyd a lot, but I do
49:38
Speaker 2: think they're watching Arizona play that this is a better
49:41
Speaker 2: team than usual. They play defense, they have guards, and
49:45
Speaker 2: I was just really impressed with how they kind of
49:46
Speaker 2: buckled down against Texas Tech. So I'll take Arizona. So
49:51
Speaker 2: I will.
49:51
Speaker 1: I'm with you.
49:52
Speaker 2: We're chalk across the board as we scroll down. This
49:57
Speaker 2: is where it could get fun. Yeah, sorry, yeah might
50:01
Speaker 2: shine bro.
50:03
Speaker 1: Yeah. VCU is another one of those Cinderella Sweet sixteens. Really,
50:08
Speaker 1: this whole down part of the bracket is, this whole
50:11
Speaker 1: bracket has a bunch of sweet sixteen maybies as far
50:15
Speaker 1: as what the professionals are telling us. But Byu just
50:18
Speaker 1: played two damn good man. So I'm picking Byu. I'm
50:22
Speaker 1: going Wisconsin, you know I, And I'm gonna go Bama.
50:27
Speaker 1: I want to pick Vandy, I really do. Saint Mary's
50:30
Speaker 1: been solid, man, so I'm gonna go Saint Mary's. I'm
50:36
Speaker 1: gonna go Saint Mary's. So I'm I'm pretty choki ish here. Besides,
50:40
Speaker 1: I had to pick a nine. Dude, you realize you've
50:43
Speaker 1: picked three eights just so you know, damn thirty three
50:47
Speaker 1: point three percent of chance happening. So yeah, I actually
50:52
Speaker 1: besides the nine, I chocked it up.
50:56
Speaker 2: I'm living on the edges here, sir, and I don't
50:58
Speaker 2: mind that.
50:58
Speaker 1: Uh well, I lived on the edge of the first
51:01
Speaker 1: two brackets, so I gotta I gotta call him down
51:03
Speaker 1: a little bit.
51:04
Speaker 2: I think I'm going with the people from Utah, Okay,
51:08
Speaker 2: They're gonna play the Badgers, and then I am taking Vandy.
51:11
Speaker 2: I do think they had a lot of impressive wins
51:13
Speaker 2: this year. I thought they finished the year on the heater. Yeah,
51:16
Speaker 2: and I'll take role Tide. So now, Saint Mary's hat
51:19
Speaker 2: off to you, But I do think that Vandy's I
51:22
Speaker 2: like their guard playing and they just had a lot
51:24
Speaker 2: of good wins this year and they have a higher caliber,
51:27
Speaker 2: So I will take Yeah.
51:28
Speaker 3: So b Yu Wisconsin.
51:30
Speaker 2: Again, a lot of talk, but again I think it's
51:32
Speaker 2: gonna lead to an incredible Saturday Sunday.
51:34
Speaker 1: So do we have an s C s CC team
51:38
Speaker 1: losing yet?
51:40
Speaker 2: Uh over Baylor? Uh? ANIMI vial.
51:51
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't I have miss that's it miss too. Yeah,
51:57
Speaker 1: I guess I'm anti.
51:59
Speaker 2: I got to we both took us yeah yeah, yeah,
52:02
Speaker 2: so yeah, you're right.
52:05
Speaker 1: All right, go ahead and uh finish this Midwest off
52:08
Speaker 1: in the first round.
52:09
Speaker 2: With front Okay, Houston, is they better f and win?
52:13
Speaker 2: If not, dude to a lot of people are gonna
52:14
Speaker 2: be pissed. Ah, here we go. Georgia Gonzaga, Ken Palm
52:20
Speaker 2: rankings head Gonzaga like top twelve the whole year, which
52:23
Speaker 2: makes no sense because they were not ranked top twelve
52:25
Speaker 2: all year.
52:25
Speaker 3: Uh.
52:26
Speaker 2: The analytic people in Vegas people and Kim Mom people
52:29
Speaker 2: think this team is fucking good.
52:31
Speaker 3: I don't quite get it because they're an eight seeds.
52:33
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna for I'm gonna follow the computers here,
52:39
Speaker 2: like computers got Carolina in the tournament. I'm gonna follow
52:41
Speaker 2: the computers to bet the Zags against the Bulldogs, you know,
52:44
Speaker 2: hands down against Kirby.
52:46
Speaker 1: Uh, all eights, we have all eights, just so you.
52:52
Speaker 2: Know, all right, I'd like to be different hy Man.
52:56
Speaker 1: Maybe that's just the year the stat turns around.
52:59
Speaker 2: Could be orright, just go over. I'm gonna think will
53:02
Speaker 2: Wade just because we'll Wade's a fun dude.
53:04
Speaker 3: He does know how to coach.
53:05
Speaker 2: I do think that last year with Clemson had a
53:07
Speaker 2: great run. I think that a great year. But I
53:08
Speaker 2: got to pick one upset. I can't be too late.
53:10
Speaker 2: So I'm actually here's my upset part. Mcneesse beats Clemson
53:14
Speaker 2: at a high Point beats Purdue because Purdue, I do
53:17
Speaker 2: that team without he, He's a different team. They don't
53:20
Speaker 2: play defense that well. I don't know shit about high Point,
53:23
Speaker 2: but I've taken him to win. I gotta be a
53:24
Speaker 2: little balls a year. So McNee in high Point advanced
53:28
Speaker 2: and Houston or goat Zaggers. They have a cake walk
53:30
Speaker 2: in the in the sweet sixteen round.
53:34
Speaker 1: All right, So I got Houston. I got the Bulldogs
53:38
Speaker 1: going with the ninth again. McNeice is another one that
53:43
Speaker 1: folks think that can pull an upset. Not on my watch.
53:46
Speaker 1: I got Clemson. I have high Point with the upset
53:49
Speaker 1: as well. You know Texas and strappy. Xavier has been
53:54
Speaker 1: playing pretty good, but I think Illinois will be focused enough.
53:59
Speaker 1: They are. We are pretty young though. If they're not
54:03
Speaker 1: knocking down their threes, it can get weird. But I'm
54:06
Speaker 1: gonna go Illinois, Kentucky and Utah statement watch out for them.
54:13
Speaker 1: I know they're Mountain West. I know the Mountain West
54:16
Speaker 1: doesn't have a good rep when it comes to finishing
54:18
Speaker 1: the season and the big against the big dogs. But
54:22
Speaker 1: I'm stuck on that one. I'm going to Ukula just
54:24
Speaker 1: because same reason you said about Oregon. It just oh
54:28
Speaker 1: boyd knows what he's doing. And then I got Tennessee too, Okay,
54:34
Speaker 1: so then we'll start with the round of thirty two.
54:37
Speaker 1: I'll start on top. We'll just keep doing the same order.
54:40
Speaker 1: I got Iburn beating Louis.
54:42
Speaker 2: Though for you get you let me, you let me
54:44
Speaker 2: pick the bottom of the Midwest.
54:47
Speaker 1: Oh my bad, I thought you picked it all.
54:50
Speaker 2: Oh no, no, no, no, no, I bet he bet
54:53
Speaker 2: you're good. So I will take Tennis. Well, I might
54:55
Speaker 2: be fall you anyways, But Tennessee la h. You know Kentucky, man, dude,
55:02
Speaker 2: you have you had your slip up last year. You
55:04
Speaker 2: better not dude against Troy like you big Blue venations
55:07
Speaker 2: guys hurt uh burning up like a dude. They can't happen. Okay,
55:13
Speaker 2: And hey, uh, this could be one of the best
55:15
Speaker 2: games in the first round. Illinois versus whoever they play.
55:17
Speaker 2: Illinois can drop an ID on you, but they don't
55:19
Speaker 2: like to play defense. So yeah, I'm actually gonna actually
55:23
Speaker 2: I'm gonna I'm gonna take Xavier. I'm gonna go by
55:26
Speaker 2: big East blood. Xavier beats Texas, hornste this is the
55:31
Speaker 2: biased this okay. So Xavier beats Texas and they walk in, Say, dude, Illinois,
55:36
Speaker 2: you ain't nothing boy, They're gonna walk in. So it's
55:38
Speaker 2: gonna be Xavier versus Kentucky. I gotta get my biggest
55:42
Speaker 2: boys move a little bit and then U c l
55:44
Speaker 2: a Tennessee.
55:46
Speaker 1: But it counts as if Texas wins, it still counts.
55:50
Speaker 2: You're you're you're yeah, you're right, true, true, true, Yes,
55:54
Speaker 2: I hope not, but yes.
55:58
Speaker 1: So we're going around to No, We're going round thirty
56:02
Speaker 1: two in the South side. I got Auburn beating Louisville.
56:08
Speaker 1: I still just I know they've you know, it's been
56:12
Speaker 1: funky for him, but I don't know you see, see
56:17
Speaker 1: and diego. This is one of those that people have
56:19
Speaker 1: identified they've been on a run, they're new to the game.
56:23
Speaker 1: I think the Aggies are gonna get it done. So
56:26
Speaker 1: there's two SEC teams in the Sweet sixteen going against
56:31
Speaker 1: each other in that Sweet sixteen round and Iowa States
56:35
Speaker 1: banged up. Okay, so I'm picking that eleven baby, gotta
56:40
Speaker 1: go with the elevens. I'm going San Diego State or
56:44
Speaker 1: North Cacilaca, North Cacilaca. Hear about it the next handful
56:48
Speaker 1: of days. They don't deserve it. Well, we'll see. Personally,
56:52
Speaker 1: I hope they get beaten the first round. Sorry, but
56:55
Speaker 1: I'm not kidding.
56:57
Speaker 2: But I got it either way.
56:58
Speaker 1: I got some eleven seat going the whole way, or
57:02
Speaker 1: not the whole way, but to sweet sixteen. And then
57:03
Speaker 1: I got Michigan State in a grind it out overtime
57:07
Speaker 1: game to finish that that bracket off. Putting this in
57:14
Speaker 1: in sweet sixteen. My friend, okay, let's says you. Uh,
57:22
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna do it fit.
57:24
Speaker 2: Who cares? Whatever I mean it? This is ain't fam
57:26
Speaker 2: millions dollars. Someone's gotta have the ball, stupid all right. Auburn.
57:30
Speaker 3: They came in losing three out of four.
57:32
Speaker 2: They go home to Louisville. I think Louisville is that good.
57:34
Speaker 2: But the home cooking fans and the cards and the
57:38
Speaker 2: ul hand signs or Eagle goes home weekend one, so
57:44
Speaker 2: Louisville wins the SEC eight or nog wait no, well,
57:50
Speaker 2: Wayde Taylor's gonna be Michigans. Like I'm not paid all
57:53
Speaker 2: of them, so it's gonna be it.
57:54
Speaker 1: You take out the number one overall scene. What are
57:56
Speaker 1: you talking about?
57:58
Speaker 2: Yeah, I got I got way to the moving back
58:00
Speaker 2: to Michigan, Candy Waye Taylor.
58:03
Speaker 3: Uh, and then obviously Sparti wins and if Doude.
58:10
Speaker 2: Squad. I do think Iowa State advances past whoever they
58:16
Speaker 2: whether it is UNC, San Diego State or Old Miss.
58:20
Speaker 2: I think Iowa State advances to the Sweet sixteen.
58:25
Speaker 1: All right, you you got the West Side, sir?
58:31
Speaker 2: All right? Florida, well, I think they're one of the
58:33
Speaker 2: top two teams in the country, so I think they
58:35
Speaker 2: beat Yukon. Okay, I do think that. Oh man, Uh,
58:41
Speaker 2: I think that Maryland's offensive lack of having really only
58:45
Speaker 2: five guys hurts them. So I got Penny Hardaway gold
58:47
Speaker 2: Sweet sixteen versus Florida.
58:50
Speaker 3: Uh in the bottom?
58:52
Speaker 1: Hold on, what did you just say?
58:54
Speaker 2: Their their their lack of depth, they'll only having only
58:57
Speaker 2: having five guys from Maryland really hurts them.
58:59
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, I forget it. I heard the Florida at
59:03
Speaker 1: the end go ahead.
59:05
Speaker 2: Oh, okay, okay. And I do think that Saint John's
59:10
Speaker 2: beats coach cal and had Miszoo Texas Tech. Shoot, uh,
59:18
Speaker 2: this little bit of hold cooking. I will take Miszoo
59:23
Speaker 2: to go dance into the Sweet sixteen over Texas Tech.
59:26
Speaker 2: I think Texas Tech's guard play looked a little bit
59:28
Speaker 2: sluggish to me. So I think Miszoo shocks people a
59:31
Speaker 2: little bit, gets by Drake, which is gonna be a
59:33
Speaker 2: tough one, but they will face Rick Potito in next weekend.
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Speaker 1: So I had the Florida Gators moving on against Yukon Maryland.
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Speaker 1: Great story. I'm gonna bandwagon with the next coach with
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Speaker 1: the Gophers, Colorado State pulls the upset. That is the
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Speaker 1: Cinderella that gets in Wait, did I put another Oh no,
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Speaker 1: I got the Roads in the Sweet sixteen, and I
1:00:03
Speaker 1: got to and then I'm chocked Texas Tech in Saint John's.
1:00:08
Speaker 5: Oh okay, all right, and then I got the east
1:00:13
Speaker 5: side right or wait, yeah, you get right right, yep, yep,
1:00:17
Speaker 5: So you got Duke moving on.
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Speaker 1: I would have the star of the show on the sidelines.
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Speaker 1: I would wait to see how the first round went,
1:00:29
Speaker 1: or the first maybe ten minutes ago. Maybe I wouldn't
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Speaker 1: start him, but I could see see what you're gonna
1:00:37
Speaker 1: do against Baylor. Maybe a half. He comes in and
1:00:40
Speaker 1: says that I don't know, but it's really just to
1:00:44
Speaker 1: get that two full weeks because he did it on
1:00:46
Speaker 1: a Thursday night, and the earliest you'd have to play
1:00:49
Speaker 1: the Sweet sixteen is Thursday that night, So you could
1:00:53
Speaker 1: literally get two weeks on this. But Baylor, you know,
1:00:55
Speaker 1: I got him here so that they're not chumps, and
1:00:58
Speaker 1: neither is the other team that you know eight. So
1:01:01
Speaker 1: I got Duke and then I'm gonna I'm gonna Duck
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Speaker 1: one pick real quick. I got BYU beating Wisconsin just because,
1:01:13
Speaker 1: and I got Bama moving on. But I don't know
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Speaker 1: how much further. I'm gonna pick him next week because
1:01:20
Speaker 1: of that. That was a Nelson. That center a little
1:01:23
Speaker 1: banged up in the moment. Oregon Arizona, Man, oh man,
1:01:28
Speaker 1: something tells me Oregon. But I just think Zone is
1:01:33
Speaker 1: a better team. But like you said, man, they just
1:01:36
Speaker 1: do well on attorneys. I'm gonna go. I am I'm
1:01:39
Speaker 1: pretty choky over here. Besides BYU, So yeah, I got
1:01:44
Speaker 1: Duke Zona, BYU and BAM.
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Speaker 2: I have Duke and Zona as well, and I have
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Speaker 2: Yu Bama's Hey at copy and paste, I hate to
1:01:55
Speaker 2: do it, but paste yep. Yeah, all right, So going
1:02:00
Speaker 2: down to the Midwest, obviously, I do think Houston beats Gonzaga.
1:02:05
Speaker 2: Could be a close game, yes, but I do think
1:02:07
Speaker 2: they win. All right. Now, I got my twelve thirteen.
1:02:11
Speaker 2: Hell yeah, I got will Wade going to the Sweet sixteen.
1:02:14
Speaker 2: I have MCNs to beating high Point, UCLA versus Tennessee.
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Speaker 2: I think that should be a fun one. But I
1:02:22
Speaker 2: do think that man ustily they like short term in
1:02:26
Speaker 2: time too. But I do think that Tennessee gets to
1:02:28
Speaker 2: the Sweet sixteen and Kentucky does enough to get past
1:02:34
Speaker 2: the first weekend. They have so much skill on that team. Defensively,
1:02:39
Speaker 2: they're not always at their sharpest, but I do think
1:02:41
Speaker 2: they have enough to get to Tennessee and Kentucky Tennessee
1:02:46
Speaker 2: Sweet sixty game would be a lot of fun. So
1:02:48
Speaker 2: I will take Rocky Top versus c Ats cast cast Cats.
1:02:54
Speaker 1: So I have the Houston Cougars. Did they have the
1:02:57
Speaker 1: Clemson Tigers beating High Point? And I gotta admit I'm
1:03:02
Speaker 1: stuck on this Kentucky, Illinois.
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Speaker 2: But oh that old rudder could be like one seventy five. Seriously, Yes,
1:03:11
Speaker 2: that'd be fun.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna go Kentucky. I'm gonna chock it
1:03:15
Speaker 1: up and I'm gonna go, uh gonna go Tennessee as well.
1:03:21
Speaker 1: So that puts one, two, three, four, five, six, six
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Speaker 1: out of the sweet sixteen or sec.
1:03:37
Speaker 2: Okay, hey, let's see for me, it is well obt
1:03:44
Speaker 2: s the Auburn's out. But you know booo uh one, two, uh, three, four,
1:03:55
Speaker 2: five six, Yeah, I got six as well, my friends
1:03:57
Speaker 2: six as well. We just got there a different way, yes,
1:04:00
Speaker 2: see exactly. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Interesting all right, man, that about thumbs it up. Baby.
1:04:07
Speaker 1: We'll be back next week. I'm looking forward to this. Man.
1:04:11
Speaker 2: Hey, I think this Saturday and Sunday is gonna be
1:04:13
Speaker 2: the best term we've had in ages. So I hope I'm.
1:04:18
Speaker 1: Told it twenty we didn't get it.
1:04:21
Speaker 2: I know this is the COVID year we were wanting.
1:04:24
Speaker 2: We're gonna get. It's gonna be credit Saturday and Sunday
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Speaker 2: must watch TV. The boys are out Peace