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What have the final four in the NCAA men's basketball tournament done differently than the other teams · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Kelly Ford on your radio. We'll have him next week on Wednesday, or
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  next two weeks on Wednesdays instead of Tuesdays due to other obligations he has.
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  He's kind of have to go some time today, four thirty to five,
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  k Forward Ratings, Kford Ratings dot Com. Kelley, Welcome in, sir.
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  What's going on? Hey, Jake? Thanks for having me. I
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  appreciate it. How are you today? We're doing good, doing real good.
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  All right, figure we'd go college basketball first segment. We'll do so
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  a little bit of college football here in the second segment as we kind of
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  what our palette with some spring practice notes, just get your thoughts on some
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  other things there. But let's start first off with the final four. Let's
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  go backwards though. What was your biggest surprise? Is it the run entirely
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  that North Carolina State has had? Is it? You know, we talked
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  about Alabama and you mentioned Alabama at the very beginning. They had the type
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  of team to do what they have done. Is it? Is it that
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  run? Is that another team maybe going out maybe in North Carolina? Maybe,
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  Duke? What surprised you other than the for you know, prior to
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  the four teams that we have now. So the biggest surprise I had early
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  in the tournament, Jake, was Auburn. I thought Auburn was a team
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  by my numbers, and of course the run they went on in the SEC
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  Championship that I gave them, you know, outside of Houston, Yukon,
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  Purdue, Arizona, Auburn had the fifth best chance to win the national Championship
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  by my numbers coming into the tournament seven percent. So not likely by any
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  means, but relatively speaking, my numbers really really liked Auburn. Probably would
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  have been higher than seven percent if they were at any other region than the
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  East, facing a potential Sweet sixteen matchup against Yukon. Of course, Auburn
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  didn't even make it out of the first round, lost to Yale. So
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  for me, that was the big surprise early. And you just touched on,
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  you know, Jake, you and I have been talking for months now
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  about teams that are going to be seated outside the top two three lines that
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  have a chance to make a deep run. Alabama is not that surprising for
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  me to be representing the West region. My numbers gave him the third best
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  chance to win the West behind Arizona at North Carolina, So Alabama being there
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  not a huge surprise. Yeah, I will say NC State is a big
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  surprise for me, and I know they won the ACC Championship. They won
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  I think nine games in a row. Now, Jake, they had lost
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  four straight games to end the regular season before playing in the ACC Championship.
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  Their coach is going to be fired by all accounts as soon as the ACC
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  Championship or excuse the ACC tournament run is over for them, they go on
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  to win the whole thing. It triggers his two year extension. Now here
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  they are in the Final four. My numbers only gave NC State a thirty
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  six percent chance to win their opening round game against Texas Tech. I had
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  it at less than a one percent chance to make it to the Final four.
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  Here they are now, and they just continue to prove the numbers wrong.
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  They're playing at a really high level. They're a really it's a really
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  it's a team that has a lot of composure, compatibility. They're playing really
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  well together and it's certainly been fun to watch. Purdue's going to be their
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  biggest tests for sure here this Saturday. But you can't put anything past any
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  of the teams now They've made it here. Anything can happen in one game.
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