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Condiment FMK & March Madness Mistresses with Michael Calabrese · The Favorites Sports Betting Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Favorite's presented by Draft Kings.
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  Speaker 2: The Crown is yours.
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  Speaker 1: We are an Action Network podcast. I'm Brandon Kravitz, back
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  Speaker 1: at it with the crew. The first Lady of the pod,
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  Speaker 1: Kendri Middleton, the Prime Minister of DJEN Nation. Stucky, pulled
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  Speaker 1: out of the deepest depths of his NCAA tournament breakdowns
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  Speaker 1: to join us. Mike Calabrese hopping on today's episode as well.
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  Speaker 2: It's up, Mike. My people here put the mad in madness.
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  Speaker 1: I love swooping in this time of year and cramming
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  Speaker 1: for the tournament like it's a final exam in college.
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  Speaker 2: And I feel like I'm almost there.
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  Speaker 1: I have filled out an online bracket, but I have
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  Speaker 1: not filled out the Once I put pen to paper,
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  Speaker 1: that's when it's officially official, and that starts tonight. Kendra,
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  Speaker 1: how are you doing in terms of your bracket?
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  Speaker 3: You're already you just started. I'm not even close and
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  Speaker 3: I've been watching college past.
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  Speaker 2: Well don't we well, don't we have?
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  Speaker 1: We have to fill this out within the next The
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  Speaker 1: tournament starts tonight, so I like to have it filled
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  Speaker 1: out before your.
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  Speaker 3: Bracket Okay, yeah, yeah, it's just a crapshoot anyway.
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  Speaker 4: But sure, that's all right.
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  Speaker 5: We'll controversial.
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  Speaker 1: I'll do it for us here, say something controversial, Kenja.
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  Speaker 6: I think this is the least excited I have ever
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  Speaker 6: been for March Madness.
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  Speaker 5: Does anybody else feel that way?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 5: No, I'll go fuck myself.
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  Speaker 2: Anyways, see you, I uh, I can't wait.
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  Speaker 3: For the F one season. That's the Yeah, that's that's
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  Speaker 3: what I'm really.
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  Speaker 6: Excited for already two races in maybe, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: My excitement usually starts and ends with what am I
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  Speaker 1: doing on Thursday and Friday, And the last couple of years,
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  Speaker 1: I've had at least Thursday completely off, where I've been
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  Speaker 1: able to just lock down in my house and obsess
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  Speaker 1: over every second of round one. And that is not
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  Speaker 1: the case this year. So I'm not as excited, but
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  Speaker 1: that's just schedule based. I'm still just as pumped to
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  Speaker 1: fill out the bracket and all of that. I imagine
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  Speaker 1: that your reasoning, Kendra, is because you feel like the
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  Speaker 1: underdog is dead, and that is definitely a topic that
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  Speaker 1: we'll get into a little later on in the pod.
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  Speaker 2: You're nodding along, you would be correct, Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I haven't no joke on everything that I love and
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  Speaker 3: care about. I have missed a second, one second of
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  Speaker 3: the tournament since fifth grade. Starting in sixth grade, my
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  Speaker 3: my parents will always let me take off school.
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  Speaker 5: You've missed a Super Bowl, Yeah, I.
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  Speaker 3: Slept there a super role, But I've never missed a second.
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  Speaker 3: Never worked when I actually worked in finance right out
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  Speaker 3: of college, I never Those are the first two days
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  Speaker 3: I took off every year.
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  Speaker 4: I used to not.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't go on to spring break in college, which
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  Speaker 3: was the same week as the first weekend I went.
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  Speaker 3: I went home, Uh, chilled with my mom for a
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  Speaker 3: couple of days, and then went to our guest room.
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  Speaker 3: I had some one year at a keg, uh, and
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  Speaker 3: just in in the guest room and watched and just
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  Speaker 3: sat for four days.
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  Speaker 5: And bets of choice.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what I had. I'm not a beer
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  Speaker 3: I'm not a beer joker. For some reason, I got it, uh,
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  Speaker 3: I think I Uh, I don't know why I had
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  Speaker 3: a keg, though I did have a keg one year.
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  Speaker 2: Did you have a cup or were you just drinking.
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  Speaker 3: A cop I've read it was a red Solo too.
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  Speaker 3: I mean I was in college. I don't know. I
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  Speaker 3: get so uh. Yeah, I haven't missed the second and
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  Speaker 3: I will not miss a second this weekend, and I
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  Speaker 3: can't wait. I mean, it does, it does. We are
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  Speaker 3: getting to a point where the upsets are fewer, uh,
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  Speaker 3: and you expect them to be less frequent. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: we have the thirteenth through fifteen seeds are all thirteen
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  Speaker 3: and a half plus point underdogs as of right now,
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  Speaker 3: and we've never had a tournament where they've even all
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  Speaker 3: been double digit underdogs. And now they're thirteen and a
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  Speaker 3: half plus point and they all lost last year before
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  Speaker 3: then at least one at one, and I think in
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  Speaker 3: fifteen to sixteen tournaments, so the gap is growing. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: even if you look at top twenty five Power Conference
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  Speaker 3: teams against top one hundred mid majors this year, and
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  Speaker 3: that's basically the five twelve games, not even talking about
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  Speaker 3: thirteen to fifteen this year, they dominated the average point
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  Speaker 3: average margin victory of close to twenty points. So the
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  Speaker 3: gap is growing, so we can expect to see fewer upsets.
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  Speaker 3: I think we've seen a little bit more casts this year,
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  Speaker 3: but that does make the first tow days to lose
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  Speaker 3: a little bit of a sluster. But were still vetting
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  Speaker 3: there's still contests, there's still brackets, and there's still everything
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  Speaker 3: that goes with it. I will never it will always
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  Speaker 3: be my Christmas, and then on paper, it will make
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  Speaker 3: for more exciting matchups down the line, because a lot
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  Speaker 3: of times when you see these exciting Cinderella runs, they
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  Speaker 3: usually end in disaster. You'll see these teams in the
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  Speaker 3: Sweet sixteen Elite eight just get sand blasted. So there's
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  Speaker 3: a give and take there, but I do I would
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  Speaker 3: obviously that that's nostalgia, and I would prefer crazy Thursdays
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  Speaker 3: and Fridays. But it's going to be a thing of
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  Speaker 3: the past. We're gonna get some craziness, but nowhere close
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  Speaker 3: to what we.
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  Speaker 2: Used to get.
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  Speaker 6: Can I ask a question quickly off the top, how
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  Speaker 6: many brackets do you fill out? And how many are
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  Speaker 6: fair game? Because I said on Twitter that you get
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  Speaker 6: one bracket in one bracket, only the Bracket of integrity.
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  Speaker 6: I don't give a fuck how your thirteenth bracket is doing.
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  Speaker 6: How many brackets do you think are fair game? Do
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  Speaker 6: you do multiple or do you just do the bracket
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  Speaker 6: of integrity? As my Golick would say, let's.
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  Speaker 1: Get Mike Calvaries in here, where do you land on
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  Speaker 1: bracket integrity.
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  Speaker 4: I cap myself at two two varieties. Usually I'm trying to,
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  Speaker 4: you know, push closer to one. And you know, because
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  Speaker 4: everyone's done this, you get are more immediately, Like you know,
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  Speaker 4: you go through, you fill out your bracket, then you
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  Speaker 4: hear one talking head on TV or you hear one
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  Speaker 4: piece of injury news, and it has this ripple effect
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  Speaker 4: where all of a sudden, you're changing in an entire region.
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  Speaker 4: But I think the brack of integrity is the way
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  Speaker 4: to go about it. And also I'm involved in like
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  Speaker 4: six different kind of pools during March Madness, so I
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  Speaker 4: already have to do the you know, beautiful minds, you know,
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  Speaker 4: math equation in my head to begin with. So if
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  Speaker 4: I have like four or five brackets on top of
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  Speaker 4: that with conflicting interests, then then all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 4: it starts to take away from the fun if you're
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  Speaker 4: trying to do it. Just like in fantasy football season,
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  Speaker 4: if you have more than two or three fantasy teams,
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  Speaker 4: then every single Sunday is kind of a wash. And
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  Speaker 4: I don't want that to be March madness for me.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I kind of view it like a relationship, like
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  Speaker 1: I think you can have You can have one that
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  Speaker 1: you flaunt, one that you take out to dinner, one
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  Speaker 1: that you discuss.
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  Speaker 5: How many girlfriends do you have, yam gravits.
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  Speaker 1: You can have bracket mistresses, but you can only have
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  Speaker 1: one wife. So you can fill out as many brackets
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  Speaker 1: as you want, but you can't just.
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  Speaker 3: Submitting to adult troop.
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  Speaker 5: No, I have your wife's number.
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  Speaker 4: Do you have a bracket with little bracket children in
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  Speaker 4: another state that you visit on a business trip every
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  Speaker 4: two months? Like what is going on here?
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  Speaker 2: But hey, you pay your bracket baby child support people.
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  Speaker 2: That's my point. That's the whole version of this podcast today.
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  Speaker 3: So when I was younger, Yeah, I'm a team one
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  Speaker 3: bracket like your main bracket. Now I usually have three
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  Speaker 3: because I'll join a bunch of like contests, bracket contests
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  Speaker 3: like on ESPN where you can buy like three, so
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  Speaker 3: but they'll be close, because you really want to get
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  Speaker 3: like the Elite eight, you know, to win, you want
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  Speaker 3: to get like seven of the Elite eight, of the
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  Speaker 3: Elite eight, three or four final four ideally four but
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  Speaker 3: it's very difficult, and then hit the national champion my
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  Speaker 3: like main uh, you know, end of the bracket will
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  Speaker 3: be similar, and then I'll just have like little derivations
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  Speaker 3: of that with like maybe change one of the upsets
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  Speaker 3: that I'm going for and uh, and then change one
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  Speaker 3: of the games I'm very conflicted on that might have
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  Speaker 3: a ripple fact. But I'll have my one bracket that
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  Speaker 3: I'll enter, like for like a high stakes bracket pool
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  Speaker 3: where I'm only entering one and that's my main bracket.
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  Speaker 3: But like Calvarys, I have, you know, Calcuttas and other contests,
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  Speaker 3: weird contests, auctions like I don't I never know what's good.
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  Speaker 3: So the only thing I really care about is my
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  Speaker 3: bets on the first couple of days. And then from there,
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  Speaker 3: well I'll reassess where I stand. And then but I
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  Speaker 3: will say when I was growing up, I fell. Every
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  Speaker 3: year when I was in like high school, I would
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  Speaker 3: fill out one hundred brackets on ESPN, so you could
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  Speaker 3: fill up up to ten for like the contest to
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  Speaker 3: win a million dollars, you could fill up up to ten.
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  Speaker 3: So I would do ten under my name, you know,
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  Speaker 3: my dad, my mom, their email address, my brother, my sister, right,
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  Speaker 3: I would like my aunt and I would fill them
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  Speaker 3: out of a hundred brackets and then see which one
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  Speaker 3: I had a really root for after like the first weekend,
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  Speaker 3: which one was in like the ninety nine percentile, the
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  Speaker 3: close ever got to winning it. I was in first
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  Speaker 3: place going into the elite game between Illinois and Arizona,
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  Speaker 3: and if Arizona won won at all, I was going
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  Speaker 3: to win the ESPN contest. But they blew an enormous
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  Speaker 3: lead my guy Salem Staudemayer and one of the most
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  Speaker 3: the best tournament games of all time. So I used
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  Speaker 3: to bult a hundred brackets, but now I'm Team one.
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  Speaker 1: Quick aside, we're going to get into the assist that
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  Speaker 1: all of you need. If you have not been checking
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  Speaker 1: out BBOC by the way, make sure that you go
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  Speaker 1: and do that full tournament breakdowns in depth, game by
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  Speaker 1: game and all of that. We're going to give you
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  Speaker 1: the casuals view to help you quickly fill this thing
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  Speaker 1: out and hopefully have success with it.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to do that. In a moment.
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  Speaker 1: We've got Kendricks Question of the Week. We had breaking
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  Speaker 1: news right before we went live here. The Broncos are
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  Speaker 1: trading for Dolphins wide receiver Jalen Wattle Cash. The ticket
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  Speaker 1: we're bringing up the Dolphins. Here on the podcast, Denver
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  Speaker 1: receives Wattle in a fourth round pick in this year's draft.
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  Speaker 2: Miami got Miami got a first round.
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  Speaker 1: Pick along with a third and a fourth round pick
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  Speaker 1: in this year's draft.
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  Speaker 2: I was originally.
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  Speaker 1: Upset about this, Kendra, but this is a haul for
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  Speaker 1: Jalen Wattle.
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  Speaker 2: I think the Miami Dolphins made out quite well here.
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  Speaker 5: I agreed.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I agree. I put that in our chat. I
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  Speaker 6: think that the Dolphins. And it's hard to like we
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  Speaker 6: say all the time, all this team won this trader,
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  Speaker 6: all this team lost this straight We don't know, but
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  Speaker 6: on paper, I feel like this is good for the
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  Speaker 6: Dolphins without question.
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  Speaker 5: But like you said, who who is your point of
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  Speaker 5: leak going to be throwing too?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Two? Two? At Well, what'd you think of the deal? Stucky?
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  Speaker 3: I have no thoughts on anything other than the tournament
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  Speaker 3: right now. I agree with the Dolphins selling everything and
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  Speaker 3: starting over, but I will not be wasting any more
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  Speaker 3: brain cells on thinking about the NFL. Until April, I.
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  Speaker 1: Thought I thought I could drag I thought I could
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  Speaker 1: drag into some Dolphin stock before we get there, wouldn't.
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  Speaker 3: I also disagree with signing Willis like I just would
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  Speaker 3: have full tank and but I agree with them just
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  Speaker 3: selling assets and building for the future. It's what they
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  Speaker 3: needed to do.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's why I was surprised to see them trade wattle,
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  Speaker 1: because it felt like when they brought in Milik Willis
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  Speaker 1: it was their attempt to at least be halfway decent.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm not sure that that is the case. We
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  Speaker 1: have NCAA tournament breakdowns to get to. But Kendra, what's
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  Speaker 1: on your mind?
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  Speaker 5: But stuck, He's gonna hate this, so we don't have
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  Speaker 5: to make this long.
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  Speaker 6: However, I was going through my refrigerator this weekend and
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  Speaker 6: throwing out all of my sauces, and the last time
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  Speaker 6: I did an f Mary kill, it was the most
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  Speaker 6: response I've ever gotten from any question I've done on
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  Speaker 6: this show.
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  Speaker 5: So FMK, honey mustard barbecue ranch.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, last time you had me fucking the snow. So
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  Speaker 2: that was a sort of a weird day for me.
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  Speaker 1: Hopefully no AI images based off of these responses. So
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  Speaker 1: we get honey mustard barbecue ranch. Yeah, I'm definitely killing
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  Speaker 1: honey mustard. They're all great, but I would kill honey mustard.
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  Speaker 1: I just put that on the least amount of things.
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  Speaker 1: I have to have ranch and barbecue in my life.
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  Speaker 1: So I think.
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  Speaker 2: I am I am marrying ranch because of its utility.
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  Speaker 1: Great on a salad, great with chicken tenders, all the above,
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  Speaker 1: and then I think barbecue would be kind of fun,
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  Speaker 1: a fun one night stand with some barbecues, especially to
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  Speaker 1: get that spicy barbecue.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, all right, Calibreese, I'm.
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  Speaker 4: Marrying honey mustard. That's my og. I love honey mustard.
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna have that one night stand with barbecue as well.
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  Speaker 3: Ranch.
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  Speaker 4: Like listen that.
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  Speaker 2: Night stand, by the way, my great name for a
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  Speaker 2: barbecue joint.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I do. I do agree with that assessment. I'm
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  Speaker 4: not coming necessarily for the ranch people, but I do
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  Speaker 4: have to say, the people that love all ranch, you're.
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  Speaker 1: Not suspicious that that was reserved for the.
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  Speaker 4: So like I mean, the ranch to me has the
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  Speaker 4: highest you know variants, like we're gonna talk about this
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  Speaker 4: in March Madness. Some teams can shoot, you know, and
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  Speaker 4: beat anybody, and some people can't throw ball in from
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  Speaker 4: from anywhere. Ranch? Is that to me? Like crappy ranch?
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  Speaker 4: I would rather just eat a chicken tender dry. But
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  Speaker 4: on the other end, it can get pretty good where
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  Speaker 4: you get like the housemade ranches and milk and all
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  Speaker 4: that stuff. Do I get it, But I'm killing it
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  Speaker 4: just because the floor is.
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  Speaker 5: So I'm with you Lockstep Stucky.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm marrying like I think I'm marrying Ranch because
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  Speaker 3: you want that steady, versatile really like you can use ranch.
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  Speaker 3: It's very versatile in so many different scenarios and that's
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  Speaker 3: what you need to be in your marriage. And so yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I mean I think I use ranch the most for
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  Speaker 3: like many different things. And what do I use, like
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  Speaker 3: enjoy just every once in a while is is probably
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  Speaker 3: and then enjoy it a lot for like the one
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  Speaker 3: I'd say it's probably honey mustard. I'd cut barcue. Well,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not a huge like being in Lexington. I mean
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  Speaker 3: there are there are I do we actually have a
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  Speaker 3: really good barbecue place here in Lexington. Uh so Blue
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  Speaker 3: Door Red State's pretty good too. But if you're in
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  Speaker 3: Lexington some really good barbecue, go to Blue Door. But
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  Speaker 3: I don't really cook barbecue. My wife. My wife isn't
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  Speaker 3: really a big barbecue My wife's like fantastic look which
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  Speaker 3: he's not a really big barbecue person. I like barbecue
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  Speaker 3: going and getting it like really really good barbecue, Like
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  Speaker 3: nothing beats good brisket. So I get my barbecue fixed
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  Speaker 3: when like I get just occasional takeout or in traveling,
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  Speaker 3: so we don't. I don't, I can't remember. I I
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  Speaker 3: will occasionally buy barbecue sauce and use it on like
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  Speaker 3: I think it's underrated with like fries actually sob but
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  Speaker 3: I use it the least. So I'm gonna kill barbecue sauce.
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna come to see you, Kendra, real quick. So
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  Speaker 4: you have like the the ogs. You go to any
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  Speaker 4: fast food place, you're gonna have barbecue, You're gonna have
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  Speaker 4: honey mustard, You're probably gonna have ranch. And there's always
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  Speaker 4: like a new sauce that's competing to get in the mix,
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  Speaker 4: like sweet and Sour had its moment kind of thing.
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  Speaker 4: What do you think is the next sauce to jump
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  Speaker 4: up to the big leagues. And I've always said to
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  Speaker 4: Zeke has a marketing problem, and it didn't have that
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  Speaker 4: tz that scares away most of the Manila whites in
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  Speaker 4: this country that I, oh, no, that's that's too much.
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  Speaker 4: I can't pronounce it. If they rebranded and named it
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  Speaker 4: something else, I think it would be absolutely everywhere. So
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  Speaker 4: that's my pick.
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  Speaker 6: I feel like hot honey has to be the answer,
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  Speaker 6: but I would prefer if it was sweet chili.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, hot honey. I feel like may have jumped the shark.
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  Speaker 4: It's everywhere right now. Every place is trying to just
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  Speaker 4: force it in McDonald's KFC, like I think it's it's
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  Speaker 4: gonna burn out, but right now, I feel like that's
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  Speaker 4: the leader in the clubhouse to be What about like flavored?
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  Speaker 1: Uh?
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  Speaker 3: You know when I think, really it makes a really
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  Speaker 3: good sandwich, like when I get an Italian or something like,
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  Speaker 3: or I make sandwich, I use both mayo and I've
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  Speaker 3: always been a mayo and olive oil guy. But you know,
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  Speaker 3: the best, like really gourmet, fantastic sandwiches, in my opinion,
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  Speaker 3: have some type of flavored aoli so like you know,
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  Speaker 3: could be an a with avocado, could be with garlic,
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  Speaker 3: could be like Chipotle, So like flavored. I know that
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: BBOC lifer Mike Calabrese on with us today as we
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: finalize our brackets. Mike, I think this is arguably the
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: most fun time of year to be a sports fan.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: I know that is perhaps a weird thing to say
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: for a football betting podcast, but this is just it's
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: such a joy to fill out the bracket. We're all
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: pretty much, even if you're an expert, you're just guessing
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: and to see it all play out and so much
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: of it go to shit in two days. It's just
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: it's a beautiful tournament. It's a reason why it's as
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: popular as it is. But where should people start in
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: terms of putting their brackets together. They're just starting to
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: dive into college basketball, they're doing their prep, they're listening
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: to you and Stucky and all of that. Where should
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: they start as they begin to assess the bracket.
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: I think where they should start is there's the human nature.
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: If you see the one seeds just advance into the
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: final four of the recency bias of last year, all
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: the one seeds won their region. At least do the
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: deep dive to figure out what's the weakness for those
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: four teams. Duke has their injuries, Arizona does not shoot
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: the three point shots. So if they get into a
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: ten or fifteen point hole, god forbid before the second weekend,
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: can they shoot their way back into a game. Michigan
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: in terms of their depth, and Cado has not played
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: very well and has you know, basically proven if you
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: leave him open, he's not knocking down shots. And then
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: Florida flaming out in the SEC tournament in such a
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: public way, getting beat like a drum by Vandy. Those
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: are legitimate questions, and at least I think when you
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: start that way it relieves a little bit of that pressure,
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: perhaps as a casual to say, well, I have to
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: put the one seed at least to the elite eight,
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: if not the final four. No, you don't. Just don't
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: feel any pressure in that regard. And as you brought
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: up at the top, this is one of those events
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: where everybody gets to talk about it. You can be
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: locked in throughout the entire season or someone who just
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: watches marsh Madness and have roughly an equal chance to
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: go ahead and win your bracket. And if you go
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: ahead and flame out, no one knows. It's fine. Like
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: make sure to pair it like a couple talking points
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: so you can just like blend into the background. But
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: after that have fun with it. And that's why after
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: the ONEC conversation, I immediately go to find your favorite Cinderella.
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: You know, bone up a bit on you know their background,
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: their players, their coach, maybe a little school history nugget
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: or two, throw it out there and just have some
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: fun with it. I mean, I lived in New York
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: City for over ten years, and one of my favorite
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: things to do during football and basketball season was if
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: I was on a team and I had a significant
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: financial investment, find the watch party bar. There's nothing better
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: than rolling into a place where everyone's rooting for the
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: same thing, because that's really what this event should be about.
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: It should be enjoying it. You know, there's all kinds
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: of ways to make money from this, but really it's
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: just a crapshoot. If you treat it more like a
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: lotto as opposed to, you know, grinding out an NFL
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: Sunday card or something like that, you're just gonna have
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: more fun with it.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: So with the one seeds, we've got some good ones.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: Duke Michigan, Florida, Arizona, you said we should try and
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: poke some holes. Can you give me the fatal flaw
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: for each one seed?
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: So, Duke, as I mentioned injuries, Gungba is probably going
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: to come back. You know, is he one hundred percent?
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: What does he do defensively for them? It allows them
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: to move Boozer around, not necessarily have him be the
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: rim protector where he could potentially get into foul trouble.
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: But then Foster not being there at the point you
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: saw them grind out wins in a weaker year of
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: acc play in the conference tournament without their point guard.
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: He is projected to be back, maybe by the Elite
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: eight if he comes back. This is a team that
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: absolutely can turn the corner and win the national championship.
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: But if you're looking for them to potentially get knocked
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: out in the sweet sixteen, they could draw Kansas, they
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: could draw Saint John's. There's no reason why they couldn't
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: be upset in a spot like that. Then you go
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: to Arizona. As I mentioned the shooting, it's just interesting
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: from a resume and cistical profile, it's very rare for
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: a team to have reached the heights that the Wildcats
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: have this season without being able to consistently shoot the
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: three point shot. It's not that they can't, you know,
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: in terms of their season average, they're very healthy in
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: terms of knocking down threes, but it's just not been
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: a part of what they needed to pull, you know,
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: a game or two out of the fire. They do
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: it by hunting really good two point shots, So as
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: I mentioned, if they get into a higher scoring game
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: and all of a sudden they're down by five, eight
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: points and that pressure starts to turn where they need
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: to make threes really for the first time this entire
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: season consistently, I think that's an issue. Then Michigan, as
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: I mentioned, I'm not a Cado guy. You know, their
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: backup point guard is out, so it's going to mean
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: more time potentially for their freshman playing you know, a
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: little bit of point guard time being the primary ball handler.
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: All you got to do is watch that perdue game
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: in the Big Ten Championship, when there's a team that
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: is locked in defensively and can kind of structure it
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: so that they're taking Lendeborg away. I think there's an
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: opportunity for Michigan to potentially flame out before the final four.
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: And then finally with Florida. Yes, absolutely, I mean, and
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: that's a Cado bugaboo as well. It's not just that
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: he'll have those three for twelve nights, it's that he
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: can turn over five or six times and then finally Florida.
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: This is a preference for me. I'm not enamored with
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: their guards when they were playing better, really for about
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: a two month stretch. They did seem unbeatable because their
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: floor is so high, because they have the best front court,
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: the best offensive rebounding maybe in the last ten years
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: of college basketball, so that gives them the opportunity to
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: win games even when they're shooting, you know, around forty percent.
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: But if Lee and Flans do not bring it in
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: the second weekends, they could lose. And certainly if they
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: draw a Houston or in Illinois, you can't have an
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: off night from an offensive perspective and expect to sneak
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: by those teams. So that's kind of the capsule for
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: why these one seeds aren't necessarily bulletproof. And a part
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: of it, too, is the two and three seeds are
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: historically really good, so it's not as though there's a
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: big gap. There is a big gap between the mid
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: majors and the top twenty five teams this year, but
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: in terms of like you know a team that's the
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: last four seed and you know the second or third
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: two seed, it's pretty close.
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: Which one of the number one seeds do you think
• 23:59
  Speaker 6: is the most fraudile because I personally think it's Florida,
• 24:02
  Speaker 6: and you seem to think it's Florida as well, based
• 24:04
  Speaker 6: off of what you said, But I think that there's
• 24:07
  Speaker 6: possibility for maybe one or even two of these teams
• 24:10
  Speaker 6: to be eliminated before maybe a Final four.
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: I will actually flip just because of the path Florida.
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: I think, you know, in a potential rematch with Vandy,
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: they're not going to overlook them. They played, you know,
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: a fifteen round about with Vandy in the regular season,
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: and then obviously they got wiped off the face of
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: the earth in the SEC tight championship, you know, conference championship,
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: So I think they'll be locked in for that. And
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: Vandy is one of those teams that if their shots
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: aren't falling from the perimeter, it can get pretty ugly.
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: Duke on the other side, though, their path can be treacherous.
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: I mean, you look at that region. There are seven
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: national championships split between four coaches in that region, so
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: the coaching acumen is there. And if they are not healthy,
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: and it's it's not even as simple in a binary
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: sense of you know, does gungba and does Foster play?
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: If they play, what do they look like, are they
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: you know, laboring through in or they shell themselves? Because
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: if they are I don't think Duke is good enough
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: because then all of a sudden, from a game planning perspective,
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: you can just throw bodies at Boozer and hope that
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: he gets into foul trouble and he has to play,
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: you know, at like a thirty and fifteen kind of
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: level from a production standpoint to cover up those personnel losses.
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: What many wants you're talking about, I'll go ahead and stop.
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: I was just gonna say, from a bracket perspective, you know,
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: if you're in like a bigger pool, one like the
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: biggest thing to focus on, I think is to get
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: an edge is just the game theory of it, so
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: you know, you can find out who everyone is picking
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: to win. So I mean, if you just go to
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: like ESPN, like twenty six percent of the entries have
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: chose have picked Duke to win it, twenty percent have
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: picked Arizona. So like half the entries picked Duke in
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: Arizona in a big pool. So one of the things
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: you can do is not pick one of those two teams,
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: and then it's gonna be hard to bust your bracket.
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: Early in this new era, like before, you could have
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: a one we've seen ones go down and you know,
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: like six seven years ago it seemed to twos threes,
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: Like that's not gonna happen as frequently. So there's more
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: emphasis on getting the national champion right. The finalists, the
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: final four of the Elite eight, that's where you're gonna separate. So,
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: you know, one of the easiest things that you can do,
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: like it would be, are you gonna, like cram and
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: know all these teams in a couple of days and
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: all the matchups and injuries and is just pick a team,
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: like pick a horse that's not popular, and then maybe
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: you still have Duke. You know, you want to have
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: Duke in Arizona going to the Elite eight. It's not
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: gonna hurt you too much. Everyone's gonna have that. But
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: then you cut them off there and then have a
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: popular an unpopular horse, and that's basically you're rooting for
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: and if they win it, you're gonna have a good chance,
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: like someone like Perdue, I mean like they're they're probably
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: gonna be picked in one percent of brackets. I don't know.
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: H So you know, Houston was like they're now they're
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: probably a little bit more popular for it too. But
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: like Florida's at seven percent as a one seed, Michigan's
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: fourteen percent, but you know the Yukon is three and
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: a half percent. So one of the things you can
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: do is just and it's so easy. It's like, all right,
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: I'm going to take one of those teams that's not
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: picked as a national champion if you just want to
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: get a little bit of I had heads up on
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: a leg up on the competition in a bigger pool,
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: right like in a huge pool like that's that's one
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: thing that I would just do focus on, you know,
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: Michigan or Florida as your winners. If you want to
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: go with the ones or if you want to go
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: with the twos, I would look at Purdue.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the last eight champions have been top six in
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: adjusted offensive rating, So if you wanted to follow that trend,
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: and I'm curious caliberys who on this you would nominate
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: as one of those off the beaten path options, because
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: clearly you can very easily take Duke Arizona as stuck.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: You was mentioning the top six this year, Purdue, Illinois, Alabama,
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: Duke Arizona, and Arkansas.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: Of those, is there a.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: Team there you'd say, I can actually see them pushing
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: through and making it to the final.
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: I mean Arkansas. All you have to do is watch
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: their SEC tournament, you know, Yeah, I mean woopig suey
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: Acuff is. In any regular year, he would be the
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: runaway number one pick, you know, presumptive number one pick
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: in the upcoming NBA draft. But this year is so
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: loaded that I think he flew under the radar at
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: least until like a last ten days or so. He's
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: somebody who can average thirty points per game and they
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: can outscore people. Now, they have plenty of flaws, as
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: many of these, you know, teams that are offensive heavy
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: due but I could see that Illinois, you know, in
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: terms of their offensive ceiling, they were at a point
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: where they were one of the highest Ken pum rated
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: teams offensively in the history of the database that goes
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: back to nineteen ninety seven. Now, they had some issues
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: closing out games, and they were snake bit in overtime games,
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: But realistically, I think that only pumps in some value
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: to their number, because if they had had better luck
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: in those colose games, they would have been a one
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: seed and they would have been what five or six
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: to one to win this tournament, but instead you're getting
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: them at a nice price as a three seed, and
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: in a matchup against Florida, I think they have the
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: perimeter shooting to get it done.
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: I would also say Arkansas their defensive metrics are very worrisome.
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: They don't fit the profile of a national champion. What
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: are they like fiftieth overall and in order to beat
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: we've certainly seen Cal get out coached in the tournament,
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: which is another factor to consider. I will say Illinois,
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: like Illinois has just as electric i mean, more efficient
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: offense than Arkansas, a better defense. And the thing that
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: Illinois has that because you're you're gonna have to take
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: out one of these four ones at some point, like
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: someone's gonna need to do. Who are like a step
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: above everyone else. But like because of Purdue's offense, they
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: could beat one of them. We just saw them destroy
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: Michigan on a neutral court. Because of Illinois offense, they
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: could beat one of them. And Illinois has bigs that
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: can shoot, so if they just get hot for a
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: couple of games. But these these elite teams that we're
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: talking about, the ones, what do they all have in common?
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: Florida Arizona, Michigan. Excuse me, Duke Arizona, Florida and Michigan
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: elite front courts and right they have elite bigs. One
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: of the things that could give a lot of those
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: teams trouble is bigs that can shoot and get hot
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: from the outside and pull their bigs away from the rim.
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: We just saw Vandy destroy Florida with their bigs and
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: their other non guards making a ton of shots. Florida
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: was giving them those shots. But you have to choose
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: that like and Vannies making it. Illinois, if they're bigs,
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: can start making threes again, pose some matchup problems, and
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: they can just outscore any one of those ones on
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: a good night. So the Illinois and Purdue are interesting
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: looks for your bracket and for any future's regional futures.
• 31:22
  Speaker 6: I was going to say what about Saint John's because
• 31:24
  Speaker 6: I feel like they got kind of screwed.
• 31:25
  Speaker 5: In their seating.
• 31:26
  Speaker 6: I think that they easily could have been like a
• 31:28
  Speaker 6: three or a four. They're someone I'm kind of looking at.
• 31:30
  Speaker 6: What are your thoughts about them?
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: I'm terrified as as a Johnny fan, my mother went
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: to Saint John's law. It's a team I've rooted for
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: which I was in obscurity for a good twenty years,
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: and nobody was on that bandwagon. But yeah, you're absolutely right.
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: They got hosed because not only are they on the
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: five line, they have to travel all the way to
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: San Diego. So they go from that absolute zoo at
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: Madison Square Garden for the biggiest final against Yukon all
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: the energy they're playing, biggies, hypnotize me for the you
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: know intros. The aorro was off the charts, and they
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: played the exact kind of game they wanted to and
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: that's what is seared in everyone's memory coming in. Now,
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: they go across the country against a team that plays
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: super slow three hundred and sixty third in overall pace
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: for I or Northern Iowa. I should say, and what
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: are they going to do. They're going to make sure
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: that they rebound the basketball. They're going to play that
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: pack line defense, and they're gonna say, go ahead, Saint
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: John's make some jumpers to beat us. They are outside
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: the top two hundred and three point shooting accuracy, and
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: a lot of what they do offensively to get momentum
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: is they create turnovers and then they get those runouts
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: and then all of a sudden, they're you know, slamming
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: the ball and you can feel the energy shift away
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: from the opponent. You and I is not a team
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: that's going to do that. They protect the basketball, they rebound,
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: and they play slow, and it's kind of you know,
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: the atmosphere difference at Viejas in San Diego. I think
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: it could be a sleepy start for the Johnnies. I'm
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: worried they're even going to get out of the first round.
• 32:49
  Speaker 6: How do you choose which Cinderella story you're going to
• 32:54
  Speaker 6: follow or how do you pick your Cinderellas? Because I
• 32:56
  Speaker 6: think that that's the thing that everybody wants to talk
• 32:57
  Speaker 6: about in the tournament, because that's the most exciting thing
• 32:59
  Speaker 6: is watching big seeds go down.
• 33:01
  Speaker 5: Do you have a strategy or is.
• 33:03
  Speaker 6: It just this is all the basketball I've watched all season,
• 33:06
  Speaker 6: So this is what I'm going to pour into it
• 33:08
  Speaker 6: because it's hard, But you really do have to pick
• 33:11
  Speaker 6: these upsets. And yes, statistics will point towards certain matchups,
• 33:14
  Speaker 6: but do you pay attention to those or is it
• 33:16
  Speaker 6: just this is what I've seen, this is what you've
• 33:18
  Speaker 6: shown me.
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: So this is how I'm going to choose my bracket.
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: So living through the entire college basketball season, doing the
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: BBOC shows, the live shows, you get emotionally connected to
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: a few teams, and what I try to do is
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: hold on, hold on, let it go. There's just some
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: teams that did not get the right matchups. Hawaii is
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: one of them. I love the Rainbow Warriors. Their defense
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: is great. Their defense is special in that they play
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: no help defense. So because of that, they force guys
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: to finish one on one and they never collapse in
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: and allow those kickout open looks. For three. They're playing Arkansas,
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: you have to play a different defense because a cuffle
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: score fifty points, so all of a sudden, that's not
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: a good draw. They're fifteen and a half point dog.
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: I think that's justifiable in terms of, you know, the
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: setup that they have. But then there are some matchups
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: that are kind of perfect. And I look at South
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: Florida against Louisville, and Louisville maybe down their point guard
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: or if Mikel Brown is back. He's been dealing with
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: that sore back for the majority of the season. When
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: he had that month long layoff, he came back and
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: he had a stinker in his second game against Duke.
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: I think he shot one for thirteen from the field.
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: He's the offensive engine and South Florida is a team
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: that plays at a breakneck pace. They want up the possessions.
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: They have such versatility in their lineup. All five starters
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: average over eleven points, and unlike a lot of these
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: mid and low major teams, they have one big that
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: they can hang their hat on. Isaiah Nelson is six',
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: ten super. Athletic he's who goes for fifteen to ten
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: and three stocks per. Game he won't necessarily be intimidated
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: by a power conference team Like, louisville SO i look
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: at them as a sleeper to potentially make it to
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: the second. Weekend it's ten to one on The. Bulls
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: it's a team that got super hot in the second
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: half of the. Season in games that ended in, regulation
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: they finished seventeen in. One they had a couple of
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: bad breaks in, overtime but other than, THAT i mean
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: this team is ready to. Go. Ennis you, know their
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: leading scorer is fantastic as. WELL i like the coaching,
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: staff SO i try to look at the overall, resume
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: what they've accomplished that's. Great does it fit in terms
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: of the? Matchup do they take away the strength of
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: the opponent or are they in a position where they
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: can play their exact brand of? Basketball in some cases
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: the answers yes and others you know you're drawing dead
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: from the opening.
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: Tip IF i had, to we just talked about. It
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: there was no thirteenth or fifteen seats that won last,
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: year and now all of them are thirteen and a
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: half plus point. Dogs IF i offered you a. Wager,
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: oh by the, way we didn't mention my brain's all.
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: PLACES qp man as MANAS i think should be more.
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: Popular it's fire And Saint john's.
• 35:45
  Speaker 5: STUCK qp mann is.
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: Slaps, wait it's Like japanese j.
• 35:51
  Speaker 5: Mayo it's like. Creamier it's so. Good all.
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: Right so a lot of talk about the lack of.
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: Upsets last year we had no thirteenth or fifteen seats,
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: win and this year they're all thirteen f plus point.
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: Underdogs IF i gave you even, money would you take
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: would you on both sides of the? Bet would you
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: take yes or? No we get one. Thirteen we'll include
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: the sixteenes in, there but that's not, happening but you never.
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: Know, uh no one.
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: Expected fairly that consend a beat p due will one
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: thirteenth through sixteen seed? Win are you taking yes or?
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: No and if, yes and even if, no who could?
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: You what do you think is who could you really
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: realistically see is the one going?
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: Down SO i would bet, no AND i would hedge
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: On hofstra Over. Alabama alabama's second leading scorer got pinched
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: for not putting.
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: A tax STAT i, mean do you think one is gonna? Win?
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: NO i. DON'T i THINK i THINK i Think hobster
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: will Make bama, sweat BUT i don't think we get.
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: One AND i think it's might Be.
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: Hofstra, YEAH i Mean hofstra's matchup looks really, good particularly
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: With bama's the second leading scorer out for not putting
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: a tax stamp on a bag of, weed which is
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: like is this nineteen forty? Five LIKE i don't understand the.
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: Laws let the kids.
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: BURN i let the.
• 37:10
  Speaker 4: Kids burn For christ's, Sake. Alabama BUT i mean it
• 37:14
  Speaker 4: wasn't outside of, THAT i mean. Stuck i'm interested to
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: hear your. Take what would be the next one up
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: for you that you feel could really do? It troy Against.
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: NEBRASKA i, MEAN i don't like the match of For,
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: troy But troy's gonna shoot a ton of. Threes nebraska
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: gives up a ton of. Threes nebraska shoots a ton of.
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: Threes there's a lot of three point variants in their,
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: games so, naturally you, know And troy can match up.
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: Athletically nebraska's not gonna overwhelm them. Athletically that's ONE i could.
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: SEE i Think hasha's the most likely because number, one
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: one of the things that will kill teams is shot,
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: volume and that's just can you get up as many
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: shots as Your opponent's the easiest way to equalize. Things
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: and a lot of times these undermatched teams are going
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: to be at a disadvantage in that. Aspect like if
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: you go up against Of. Florida, uh you, know we
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: just talked about these teams like, that they're gonna dominate
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: on the offensive glass and then win the turnover. Battle
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: they're gonna get up more shots than, you and they're
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: more talented. You that's. Problematic, Well bama is a shot volume.
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: Loser there are shot volume. Clowns they never turn you. Over,
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: uh they don't get on the defensive. Glass they can
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: fail too much of, times like they're they fit the
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: profile of the, team you, know and their defense is.
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: Shaky their second leading scores out If hobster's. Guards they
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: have a really good Backcourt Cruz davis the freshman that
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: means been incredible if like it's gonna be a jump shooting.
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: Game And hobster's rim. Defense that's another thing that a
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: lot of these imagers on. It hobster's rim defense is
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: elite And bama wants to get to those And.
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: Hobster it's interesting too because if you are just looking
• 38:49
  Speaker 4: at their entire, season their stats on, defense, like, okay
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: for the first two months of the season they were
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: outside the top two hundred in a couple of. Metrics
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: they are top five in effectiveield goal for. Defense SINCE
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: i Believe february first or the first week Of, february
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: they've made some changes schematically and in terms of their,
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: rotation and all of a sudden they were just playing phenomenal.
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: Defense and as you, mentioned to go with that, backcourt
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: they have the firepower to get by one other Caveat
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: and this is kind, of you, know piggybacking on WHAT
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: i was saying To kendra. Earlier it's the matchups LIKE
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: i would have loved to have ridden with The Penn. QUAKERS.
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: Tj power absolutely put the team on his back in
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: THE ivy you know, tournament and that is Without Ethan,
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: roberts who's really their best player if he's.
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: Back from a.
• 39:30
  Speaker 4: CONCUSSION i was all excited to put them through the
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: round of thirty two and then they Draw. Illinois if
• 39:35
  Speaker 4: it was The zags against you, know you, Know Mark
• 39:37
  Speaker 4: few Without huff in the, LINEUP i potentially would have
• 39:40
  Speaker 4: pulled the. Trigger but it's just kind of a nightmare
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: matchup Because illinois just does everything that they, do but.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: Better, Mike what about a team like Cal Baptist kansas
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: has been one of the sketchiest power teams in college
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: basketball this. Year who knows what you're gonna get From Darren,
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: peterson who is their best? Player what is that a?
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: Look as far as if we're if we're going to
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: attempts to get one of these thirteen seeds or lower
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: advancing is Cal baptists do they have a shot in?
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: Hell?
• 40:13
  Speaker 4: So in, short, No BUT i do like where your
• 40:16
  Speaker 4: head's at Because kansas clearly has the widest range of
• 40:19
  Speaker 4: outcomes in this. Tournament if they went to the final
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: four And peterson played thirty plus minutes and played, GREAT
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: i wouldn't be. Shocked they clearly have the you, know
• 40:26
  Speaker 4: the coach with the experience to be able to get
• 40:28
  Speaker 4: them through. It but when you look at Cal baptists
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: in terms of playing up against power teams this, year,
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: yes they Beat Oregon, state who's in THE. Wcc But
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: colorado they lose by. EIGHT byu they get boat raced
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: by thirty. One utah they lose by. SIX i just
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: think they're going to be in deep. Water And Dominic,
• 40:44
  Speaker 4: daniels their point, guard is. Great he's a little bit.
• 40:46
  Speaker 4: Undersized if self and the staff can take him away
• 40:49
  Speaker 4: and he doesn't, score he would need to score thirty
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: in this game for The lancers to, go you, know
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: the full forty minutes With. KU i JUST i don't
• 40:57
  Speaker 4: see it, necessarily BUT i understand From AT's, perspective if
• 41:00
  Speaker 4: you want to Bounce kansas in the very next, ROUND
• 41:03
  Speaker 4: i think that's a solid.
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: PLAY i don't hate picking picking Cow baptists to win
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: if you want to do that in your, bracket like
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: is one of the because here's the. Thing THERE'S i,
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: mean they're they haven't been the same team away from.
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: Home they're three hundred and forty eighth out of three
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: and sixty five. Teams perhaps the metrics been away from home. Metric,
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: NOW i do think that if you just take Away
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: Don daniels and they like they have the size to do.
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: That Dom daniels one of the highest hug usage players
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: in the. Country, now Cal baptist does have some size.
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: Inside they're really good two way rebounding. Teams like they're
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: good shot volume, wise so like they can compete. There
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: But kansas might probably just has too much athleticism and
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: Cal baptist isn't a great shooting, team so like self
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: can just Take daniels, Out but they haven't been the
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: same team away from. Home you never know if like
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: something flares up For. Peterson kansas has been a weird.
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: Team AND i mean this is it's A i mean
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: Cal baptist wants to slow the game. Down they do
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: have a guarden and get. HOT i, mean he scored
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: forty seven in the game earlier this, year and it's
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: like a Weird that game is nine five eastern on
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: The West. Coast so like Cal, baptists they're their like
• 42:14
  Speaker 3: their body clocks will be more. Adjusted just a weird
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: spot For. Kansas SO i don't. HATE i DON'T i
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: think Cal bathist is gonna get blown, out BUT i
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: could see it If daniels goes off And kansas just
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: has one of those weird. Games and the REASON i
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: don't hate if you wanted to pick that one is
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: like The kansas would then have to Play Saint john's,
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: presumably Although Saint JOHN'S i think has a tricky match
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: with you AND i Is michael. Loser they play a
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: pack line defense for you to shoot. Threes, now maybe
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: the athleticism is too. Much Maybe vitino ramps up the press.
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: Here they've kind of dialed back their press rates late
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: in the, season and there's just too much. Athleticism but
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: you AND i very very, experienced connected. Group we'll see
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: how they handle the. Layoff it's been a while since they.
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: Played but they don't turn it. Over they don't let
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: anything up in, transition they don't, go they won't go
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: after any offense. Rebounds they just get. Back they allow
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: the second lowest transition rate in the. Country and they're
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: very good in the defensive glass because they pack everything
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: in and they force you to beat them from the.
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: Outside Saint john's not a good shooting, team so you,
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: Know Saint john's a bricking a ton of threes that
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: the game could be ugly low. Scoring that's there's a
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: Chance Saint john's gets. Upset, now there's probably too much
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: athleticism and and talent for that to, happen BUT i
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: could see it in a ugly low scoring. Game so
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: there's a lot of casts that could happen. There but
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: if you presume the chalk moves, on like Then kansas
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: would have to Beat Saint john's and then they would
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: have to beat Presumably. Duke so, like if you chose
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: Cal baptist to Beat, kansas it's probably not going to,
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: be you, know a death blow to your.
• 43:50
  Speaker 5: Bracket is the era of the blue blood?
• 43:53
  Speaker 4: Dead in terms of do we need to like hand
• 43:57
  Speaker 4: out new blue blood names because like technically still counts
• 44:01
  Speaker 4: as a blue, blood but they are not. ANYMORE i
• 44:06
  Speaker 4: do think we probably need a new cutoff for. It,
• 44:10
  Speaker 4: also just in terms of the way that the nil market.
• 44:13
  Speaker 4: WORKS i want to bring this. Up there's going to
• 44:16
  Speaker 4: be some kind of reform either From washington or you,
• 44:20
  Speaker 4: know reformation of THE, ncaa they're going to get some
• 44:23
  Speaker 4: kind of guardrails on. THIS i think the most likely
• 44:26
  Speaker 4: outcome from legislation is that they're going to force kids
• 44:29
  Speaker 4: to have to sit on their second transfer the way
• 44:31
  Speaker 4: they used to for a year of academic. RESIDENCY i
• 44:34
  Speaker 4: think what that's going to do is it's going to
• 44:36
  Speaker 4: calm down the open free agency every single year because
• 44:39
  Speaker 4: as of right, now it doesn't matter if you're a blue.
• 44:41
  Speaker 4: Blood it matters how much money you. Have now in
• 44:43
  Speaker 4: a lot of, cases the blue bloods do have the
• 44:45
  Speaker 4: money to keep. Up but you can see these teams
• 44:47
  Speaker 4: being put together spending a ton of money Like kentucky's
• 44:50
  Speaker 4: SPENT i, believe the most money on their roster in
• 44:52
  Speaker 4: college basketball this, year and what did it account? For
• 44:55
  Speaker 4: like they weren't necessarily bumping up against the, Elites whereas you,
• 44:59
  Speaker 4: know Like, arkansas you know some teams that don't necessarily
• 45:02
  Speaker 4: have the recent, success they've been able to just go
• 45:05
  Speaker 4: to the market and buy some, players but buy themselves
• 45:08
  Speaker 4: a coach in another case and be able to compete
• 45:11
  Speaker 4: at the national. Level so, YEAH i think the blue blood,
• 45:14
  Speaker 4: thing unless they get everything set in terms of player,
• 45:18
  Speaker 4: movement it's it means nothing at this point because a
• 45:22
  Speaker 4: lot of these players are no longer thinking about THE
• 45:24
  Speaker 4: i want to go To North carolina Or duke for
• 45:26
  Speaker 4: three years and then go to THE. NBA i want
• 45:27
  Speaker 4: to get the right, coaching like they. Won't they can
• 45:29
  Speaker 4: get paid right, now so why wouldn't they and kind
• 45:32
  Speaker 4: of go to the highest.
• 45:33
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• 45:49
  Speaker 6: HORN i am gonna go With. DUKE i know that
• 45:52
  Speaker 6: you guys have been shitting on them this entire, show
• 45:55
  Speaker 6: but they have the best. Player if they're huge and
• 45:57
  Speaker 6: can gain confidence on a tougher track to A sweet
• 45:59
  Speaker 6: six or An elite, eight they're just stacked because of
• 46:02
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• 46:05
  Speaker 6: feels like it's A duke, here and If i'm going
• 46:09
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• 46:12
  Speaker 2: Safe, Calabreeze i'm gonna Go.
• 46:15
  Speaker 4: Houston it's a team That i've basically been in love
• 46:17
  Speaker 4: with the whole. Year Kingson flemings as a, GUARD i,
• 46:20
  Speaker 4: mean it's a guard dominant. Tournament you want to be
• 46:23
  Speaker 4: able to have people with the ball in their hands
• 46:24
  Speaker 4: making things. Happen he can, facilitate he can knock down big.
• 46:27
  Speaker 4: Shots all you have to do is go back and
• 46:28
  Speaker 4: watch some of his battles in The Big twelve this
• 46:30
  Speaker 4: year to know. That And Chris Sinak, JUNIOR i think
• 46:33
  Speaker 4: is the wild card in the. Mix he had a
• 46:35
  Speaker 4: huge game Against kansas in The Big twelve. Tournament if
• 46:38
  Speaker 4: he can stretch people out a little, bit make some,
• 46:40
  Speaker 4: jumpers and give them more versatility on the offensive, END
• 46:43
  Speaker 4: i know What i'm getting with The sampson. Defense these
• 46:45
  Speaker 4: guys are junkyard. Dogs they're diving on the floor for
• 46:47
  Speaker 4: every loose. Ball they're blitzing every ball. Screen they're putting
• 46:50
  Speaker 4: constant pressure on. Teams and that's what it'll take to
• 46:53
  Speaker 4: probably get Over illinois just to get to The elite.
• 46:55
  Speaker 4: Eight the road is, rocky but at this price, point you,
• 46:58
  Speaker 4: know with this, Boost i'm gonna go with The.
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: KuPS, Stuckey.
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: I've boosted. Up i'm gonna go With. PURDUE i think
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: that they're peaking at the right. Time the number number
• 47:09
  Speaker 3: one offense right, now they just destroyed one of the
• 47:12
  Speaker 3: four ones on a neutral. Court AND i mean WHEN
• 47:16
  Speaker 3: i say, destroy they embarrass them this. Offense you have
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: one of the best point guards in the, country a
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: very good, coach a experienced. Team and the other thing
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: is their, Path like they Got, queens Then miami Or,
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: missouri Who i'm not in love, with and then above
• 47:34
  Speaker 3: then you have LIKE byu who has, Injuries gonzaga who has.
• 47:37
  Speaker 3: Injuries that's the that's the three and the six. Above
• 47:41
  Speaker 3: don't TRUST Nc state Or texas's, Defense Kannessas. STATE i
• 47:45
  Speaker 3: Think purdue walks to The elite. Eight, now they're probably
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: gonna Get. Arizona but at this, price like having A
• 47:51
  Speaker 3: purdue ticket to win The final four, Nationally i'd be
• 47:53
  Speaker 3: fine with having that ticket Against. Arizona they can score
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: and win that. Game and Then ARIZONA i think has
• 47:59
  Speaker 3: been your land. Mines LIKE i Think arizona's by the
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: the most consistent team in the. Country they have been
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