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Speaker 3: Welcome into our Sweet sixteen prop show on Mike Calbarys.

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Speaker 3: Joined today by Eric Binford. We've combed through these regional

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Speaker 3: let's start out in San Francisco, the number four seed,

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Speaker 3: the Maryland Terrapins taking on the mighty Florida Gators, who

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Speaker 3: escaped that showdown with the defending national champions in Yukon.

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Speaker 3: They had to erase a second half deficit. What's interesting

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Speaker 3: here in terms of travel, Maryland was in Seattle for

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Speaker 3: West coast, where the Florida Gators played in Raleigh. They

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Speaker 3: have to travel across the country. Do you think that

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Speaker 3: plays a factor in terms of fatigue? And with this

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Speaker 3: game being the second highest total in the Sweet sixteen,

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Speaker 3: are you counting on lots of points to potentially juice

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Speaker 4: I'm not counting on a lot of points in any

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Speaker 4: tough tournament for shot making. But that kind of plays

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Speaker 3: So in terms of the prop that you're targeting, where

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Speaker 2: Julian Reese notably Angels brother.

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Speaker 4: I feel like they said that about fourteen times on

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Speaker 4: Sweet sixteen. Julian Reese super under price here with twenty

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Speaker 2: You can get that at certain books.

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Speaker 4: Bet three sixty five points plus rebounds looks good to

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Speaker 4: me too. He's not a big passer, but he is

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Speaker 3: Tennessee Kentucky.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that difficult defensive matchup is really the key here

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Speaker 4: for Trey Kaffman Ren under eighteen and a half points.

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty five when it comes to Cinderellas. But I'm

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Speaker 4: No, that's one As a North Carolina fan, I am

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