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Gonzaga makes their 9th straight sweet 16th apperance in the March Madness Tournament · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Let me ask this for we're going to break, we'll hit some of these
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  others. Gonzaga down there, you know, closer to the end of this
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  list, you've got sixteen point nine is a rating two percent chance to win
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  the whole thing. Are you surprised? You know, there was some chatter
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  back what a month ago that the Zags man out he makes the tournament.
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  Are you surprised now that they made their ninth straight Sweet sixteen appearance. Well,
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  it's just a phenomenal achievement that marks you and that program have been able
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  to do, I mean to sustaining excellent and we just got done talking about
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  how crazy March madness is. One game, one off, one bad performance
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  and you're done. To make it to the Sweet sixteen nine consecutive years is
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  absolutely phenomenal. Two final fours in their national championship game. I mean,
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  it's just it's really really impressive. I am not surprised, though, Jake,
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  I did have them advancing to this round in my bracket. Now they
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  have to go up against the number one seed per Due. I did have
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  Perdue winning that one, but I wouldn't be surprised if Gonzaga knocks off for
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  du I got a thirty two percent chance of that happening. But Jake,
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  I recall about a month ago you and I talking on this show. You
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  said, Hey, Kelly, who are some teams you know that maybe come
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  from a worst seed that can make a run deep in the tournament. And
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  at that time we were talking about Gonzaga potentially being on the fringe of making
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  the tournament, and I said, if they do get in, they're going
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  to be a really hard out because they've been a top fifteenth team for me
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  from a power rating standpoint. Now, of course they improved down the stretch
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  and strung together a bunch of wins. They end up climbing all the way
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  up to that five seed line, But for a while they were right there
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  on the bubble. You know, are they going to be a ten?
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  Are they gonna be an eleven? Are they gonna be left out? Which
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  seems unthinkable now when you see how they're playing, But this is a program
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  that when in doubt, you give them the benefit because they proved it nine
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  years. As you said in a row of the Sweet sixteen. I'm very
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  curious to see Pernuo got that monkey off their back, right they beat the
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  sixteen, they beat Utah State and they absolutely ran Uta State out of the
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  building. I was actually at that game here in Indianapolis. And Purdue they
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  have the monkey off their backs from last year. Will they be relaxed?
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  Will they be ready to go? I fully expect they will be. But
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  Gonzaga, that's a really good team. The winner of that game is going
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  to have a good chance to make it to Phoenix.