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Speaker 2: Ah, it'sach Christmas Day for college basketball, That's what it is.

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Speaker 2: Aaron Torres, welcome in. We are an hour away from

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Speaker 2: and I get together on this selection Sunday, there's something

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Speaker 2: happening in the Big Ten tournament that we feel could

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Speaker 2: play a part in the bracket. But not only do

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Speaker 2: we not have that, at least in the top lines. Erin,

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure if this entire day has anything to

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Speaker 2: change what we would see on maybe the top two

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Speaker 2: lines of the bracket that comes out in sixty minutes.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was interesting, Dan. I hadn't really thought of

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Speaker 3: that until I saw you here in the lobby as

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Speaker 3: we were getting ready to do the show. And it's

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Speaker 3: just funny because you know, obviously YESTERA was just sheer

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Speaker 3: chaos from the perspective of Oregon winning the PAC twelve,

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Speaker 3: NC State winning the ACC the AAC Florida Atlantic was eliminated,

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Speaker 3: meaning that somebody was going to get this bid that

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Speaker 3: was not expected. Same in the A ten. So you're

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Speaker 3: reacting to all that, not thinking about the trickle down

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Speaker 3: effect to Sunday, where at this point teams are, if anything,

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Speaker 3: maybe playing for a seed line, maybe in Auburn, maybe

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Speaker 3: a Wisconsin, but other than that, not much at Steak.

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Speaker 3: But doesn't mean there won't be a ton at Steak

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Speaker 3: at six pm Easter when that bracket is dropped.

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Speaker 2: All right, So here we are right now, just after

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Speaker 2: five o'clock Eastern time, and I think that we know

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Speaker 2: three of the number one seeds for sure, no doubt

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Speaker 2: about it, locked in Yukon, Purdue in Houston, likely in

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Speaker 2: the East, Midwest, and South regions. Is that fair for

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Speaker 2: how we think this is gonna play out.

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Speaker 3: I'll give you a hot take. I think not only

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Speaker 3: is that one thousand percent accurate, I think that was

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Speaker 3: you're going into the conference tournaments, and it speaks to

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Speaker 3: how good those three teams had as a regular season,

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Speaker 3: they all enter their conference tournaments at twenty eight and

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Speaker 3: three overall, they all had good resumes out of conference.

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Speaker 3: And so to directly answer your question, yes, I believe

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Speaker 3: that is set in stone and I believe it was

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Speaker 3: set in stone before Yukon got to New York, Perdue

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Speaker 2: And the only thing that would maybe have changed is

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Speaker 2: the number one overall seed, right Like, if Yukon would

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Speaker 2: have lost in the Big East semis or and Houston

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Speaker 2: ends up winning the tournament, maybe they're the number one

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Speaker 2: overall or Purdue. But instead here we have Yukon winning

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Speaker 2: with Houston getting run over by Iowa State in the

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Speaker 2: Big Twelve title game yesterday. So that's where we believe

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Speaker 2: we are going to see or what we are going

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Speaker 2: to see when the brackets are unveiled in hour from now,

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Speaker 2: And you can already tie into some of the locations

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Speaker 2: as well. I'm pretty sure Purdue is going to be

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Speaker 2: playing their first two days, first two games in Indianapolis,

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Speaker 2: so that'll be a welcome site for them. They should

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Speaker 2: have a home crowd advantage and not a home court advantage,

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Speaker 2: and not have a crowd rally like you get sometimes

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Speaker 2: or like last year when everybody was behind Fairley Dickinson.

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Speaker 2: Aside from just the Purdue fans, you should be able

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Speaker 2: crowd behind them can go out the window. You got

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Speaker 2: to buy up those tickets with the matchups coming up

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Speaker 3: To our point, I imagine they were bought up, you know,

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Speaker 3: months ago. But yes, no, I think that you know, listen,

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Speaker 3: we all know it's at stake for them. But being

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Speaker 2: You kind of likely to be in Brooklyn. Yes, So

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Speaker 2: let's get to the other number one seed, because that

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Speaker 2: is that is the big question. And I've seen a

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Speaker 2: sure we hear North Carolina we hear Iowa State after

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Speaker 2: winning the Big Twelve championship Arizona as well. So of

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Speaker 3: So you're eliminating Arizona from that conversation, No, I.

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Speaker 2: Have Arizona, So it's North Carolina Iowa State, who I

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Speaker 3: So you've eliminated Tennessee then yes, okay, and really quickly.

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Speaker 3: I'm not trying to be rude. I'm just curious what

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Speaker 2: I actually think it's down to two. I actually think

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Speaker 2: think you're going to see a late push on Iowa State.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think you know, because the first three

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Speaker 3: uninspiring fashion, Arizona losing to Oregon, North Carolina at least

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Speaker 3: you the whole tweet, but he said, though Iowa State

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Speaker 3: is in many ways deserving of a number one seed,

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Speaker 3: putting a team there with the number three hundred and

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Speaker 3: dangerous precedent. And he expands on that a little bit.

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Speaker 3: But this was and I know you're a college basketball

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Speaker 3: die hard, Dan, but for people who are not as

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Speaker 2: And I'll tell you why. I laugh at a second,

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Speaker 3: No, and I won't bore people with too many details.

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Speaker 3: But one of the numbers that that really matters is

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Speaker 3: obviously once the conference tournament started, they were all playing

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Speaker 2: So the I bring all of that up.

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Speaker 3: To say that that that four minute preamble to say

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Speaker 3: I don't know that Iowa State gets reward, especially with

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Speaker 3: North Carolina. Look, they played a new against Yukon, they

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Speaker 3: I think that's why I probably ultimately believe North Carolina

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Speaker 2: The Here's here's the tricky part of this. As we

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Speaker 2: Kpe was giving in the hallways earlier. This we at

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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio bought the big manipulating the net, setting

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Speaker 2: themselves up so then all of their games and conference

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Speaker 2: tricky part in this, where I look at Iowa State

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Speaker 2: not winning the conference tournament doesn't help things. Either not

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Speaker 2: so I wonder how much the Iowa State win does

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Speaker 2: Yukon beating Marquette doesn't change much, but Marquette playing without

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Speaker 2: Tyler Kollik will be a question in the tournament obviously,

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Speaker 2: But in terms of how those seeds changed, I'm wondering

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Speaker 4: Yes?

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Speaker 2: Now the question is how much of the games last

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Speaker 2: So that could be something that's held against Iowa.

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Speaker 3: Let me ask you a question on that. So, first

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Speaker 3: of all, this is a big clamoring of SEC fan bases.

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Speaker 3: Cali Perry really started it when Kentucky was actually winning

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Speaker 3: believe maybe George Reister were all on air on selection

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Speaker 3: Sunday twenty twenty two, when Tennessee wins the SEC tournament,

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Speaker 3: Duke gets the fourth number two seed, Tennessee gets a

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Speaker 3: number three seed, and Tennessee fans were apoplectic. That was

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Speaker 3: also the year that Texas A and M got left

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Speaker 3: all up to say, even if it's the truth, is

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Speaker 3: that something that publicly the committee should be saying, because I.

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Speaker 2: Think we all want to think.

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Speaker 3: I think we all know in our heart of hearts

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Speaker 3: most everything is pretty set probably by mid to late Saturday,

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Speaker 3: and then you're waiting to see who wins this. You know,

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Speaker 3: does Oregon win that? But is that something you should

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Speaker 3: say publicly, even if it is the truth, because I

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Speaker 3: just feel like all it does is make people mad

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Speaker 3: and feed into conspiracy theories that aren't realistic. It only

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Speaker 3: feeds into it more. Or do you just thinking it

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Speaker 3: doesn't matter.

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Speaker 2: I I like that they said it so so we

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Speaker 2: know it. Like, I don't know if it's anything that

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Speaker 2: you would brag about. But the reason why I think

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Speaker 2: they can say it arin is because of a criteria

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Speaker 2: that has long been eliminated. But I actually think maybe

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Speaker 2: know why. It's why it's not there anymore. But last

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Speaker 2: you know exactly what I'm gonna say.

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Speaker 3: I could do another forty five minutes on last ten games,

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Speaker 3: and maybe we should talk because I will tell you, you know,

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Speaker 2: just you know, I think Arizona needs to be in

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Speaker 2: that West region, and I think that the only way

437
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Speaker 2: to solidify it would be to put them at a

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Speaker 2: number one. I think they have the least case of

439
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Speaker 2: having a number one, especially with the PAC twelve and

440
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Speaker 2: them bowing out in the semifinals like they did. But

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Speaker 2: I think you could also say, well, to your point

442
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Speaker 2: about Iowa State Tennessee, Tennessee lost to North Carolina, so

443
00:21:55,920 --> 00:21:58,399
Speaker 2: maybe they had to head, maybe they're completely out of it.

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Speaker 2: That would be a way that you could make that case.

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Speaker 3: I need you to do me a favor, either before

446
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Speaker 3: after we get to Manci, I need you to pay

447
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Speaker 3: off that tease because I have a very interesting developing

448
00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:09,480
Speaker 3: update on what you're going to talk about.

449
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Speaker 2: So, okay, it's up to you. I'll pay it off

450
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Speaker 2: right now. I think the NCAA tournament needs Rick Patino

451
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Speaker 2: in it. And I think, and it sounds crazy because

452
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Speaker 2: it's just one game, but they may have Tom Izzo,

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Speaker 2: but I think that Patino there's more cache. And when

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Speaker 2: you think of all the head coaches that have moved

455
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Speaker 2: on over the last couple of years and who's playing,

456
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Speaker 2: and Jim Beheim the latest to move on from Syracuse,

457
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Speaker 2: whether it be his choice or not. Last year you

458
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Speaker 2: lost another familiar face, and now here comes Patino in.

459
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Speaker 2: And Patino gives you something to be drawn to, something

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Speaker 2: to be excited about. Because we know everybody's going to

461
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Speaker 2: be paying attention to Caitlin Clark and the women's bracket.

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Speaker 2: I think you're gonna want some of that in the

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Speaker 2: men's bracket. And so I think Saint John's gets in

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Speaker 2: because of Rick Patino.

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Speaker 3: All right, So I kind of knew what you were

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Speaker 3: gonna say with your teas, and I've been thinking about

467
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Speaker 3: a few different bubble scenarios that could play out today,

468
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Speaker 3: and so I want to read you what I tweeted

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Speaker 3: eight minutes ago. I said my bubble predictions, Saint John's

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Speaker 3: gets in, Patino effect, Indiana State gets in. So the

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Speaker 3: committee say set can say we don't pave favor Power

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Speaker 3: six teams even though we do. And then I said,

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Speaker 3: either TCU or Oklahoma will be left out as the

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Speaker 3: committee unofficially confirms that the Big Twelve manipulated the net,

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Speaker 3: which is what we just talked about. Why do I

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Speaker 3: bring it up? It is because another network's bracketology expert.

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Speaker 2: ESPN or is it by.

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Speaker 4: The name.

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Speaker 3: Just quote tweeted me and said, as we proved with

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Speaker 3: legitimate math a couple of weeks ago, this isn't true

481
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Speaker 3: the Big Twelve manipulating net. Only five of forty two

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Speaker 3: Big Twelve non con games against sub three hundred teams

483
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Speaker 3: were outside the expected mov for said games, not enough

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Speaker 3: to move the needle.

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Speaker 2: Listen.

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Speaker 3: I will leave the heavy calculations to him. I just

487
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Speaker 3: love that ESPN's bracketologist in the last twenty nine minutes

488
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Speaker 3: of relevance for him until basically next February, is worried

489
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Speaker 3: about what the Fox Sports radio.

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Speaker 2: Host has to sell yourself short. And I actually do

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Speaker 2: mean that, But I get what you're saying. Joe Lunardi's

492
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Speaker 2: got other fish to fry. But isn't his work all done?

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Speaker 2: Isn't like that? The point like, hey, it's my work

494
00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:39,600
Speaker 2: is done here, Like when you're playing golf and you

495
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Speaker 2: just have to wait for the other players to finish.

496
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Speaker 2: My work is done here. I've done what I can do.

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Speaker 2: Whatever happens may happen. Just like Scottie Scheffler sitting there

498
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Speaker 2: in the clubhouse at the Players Championship after shooting sixty four,

499
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Speaker 2: He's like, all right, if somebody comes and catches me,

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Speaker 2: then so be it. Is that what you're saying, I mean,

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Speaker 2: that's what you're saying. Is that's what I'm saying that

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Speaker 2: Lunardi is See.

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Speaker 3: I saw him in his bunker with like a calculator

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Speaker 3: and that gift with all the strings pointing in all

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Speaker 3: the directions, and then he saw my tweet and he

506
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Speaker 3: was so triggered that he decided that rather than continue

507
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Speaker 3: these calculations, I'm gonna respond to that bozo on social media.

508
00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:20,520
Speaker 3: And you're just telling me, no, he's chilling with a Corona.

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Speaker 3: I think, Okay, that's what it tax me down.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna take a look and see where his last

511
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Speaker 2: updated bracket is because it was at one o'clock Eastern

512
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Speaker 2: time this morning. You know what I will do if

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Speaker 2: it was refreshed.

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Speaker 3: When we get to Mancy, I will respond and say

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Speaker 3: we're actually breaking this down now on Fox Sports Radio

516
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Speaker 3: and leave a link in his mention.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there you go. Perfect. Because I'm a I'm a

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Speaker 2: corporate I'm a corporate guy. That's the way to work. Eric.

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Speaker 3: Can we please make sure that our bosses find out

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Speaker 3: about this, please?

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Speaker 2: We are alive for the TIREQ dot com studios. Find

522
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Speaker 2: him on Twitter or on x as Joe Lunardi did

523
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Speaker 2: at Aaron Underscore Toys. You can find me at Dan Bayer.

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Speaker 2: On Fox. You can find Mancy Bolanos at Monty Bolanos.

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Speaker 2: Already took carely golf. I told you Scotty Chef was leading,

526
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Speaker 2: you know on Brian Harmon's a shot back, Xander Schofflee's

527
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Speaker 2: two back. You didn't even have to worry about that. We'll

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Speaker 2: get care of everything else.

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Speaker 6: There is a lot going on.

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Speaker 4: That's a lot going on, and the players championship has

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Speaker 4: been up and down, so yes, we got that covered.

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Speaker 4: Let's check in and college hoops because the Big Ten

533
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Speaker 4: Final is going down to the wire.

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Speaker 6: One minute to go.

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Speaker 4: Illinois up on Wisconsin, eighty eight to eighty five, one

536
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Speaker 4: minute left. UAB punched their ticket to the Big Dance,

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Speaker 4: beating Temple in the AAC Final eighty five to sixty nine.

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Speaker 4: Auburn no issues with Florida in the SEC final eighty

539
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Speaker 4: six to sixty seven.

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Speaker 6: Was the final, Yale, did you guys watch that one?

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Speaker 2: With a yesh, you're crazy crazy?

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Speaker 6: I was thinking.

543
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Speaker 4: I was like, if I would have shot that shot

544
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Speaker 4: without banking it, my coach would have yelled at me

545
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Speaker 4: because he didn't bank it. He just shot it and

546
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Speaker 4: if you would have missed that, it would have been

547
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Speaker 4: so bad. But he got it, punching their ticket in

548
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Speaker 4: the IVY League Final, beating Brown sixty two to sixty one.

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Speaker 4: Now Ducaine, forty seven years since they've been to the

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Speaker 4: Big Dance.

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Speaker 6: They won, but they got none. Did you see why?

552
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Speaker 2: Yes, because it already went off. Oh my gosh, so

553
00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:07,680
Speaker 2: that Confeeddi falling. Confeddi's falling on the floor. They're gonna

554
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Speaker 2: have to stop playing recamps. HEO, No, it's the players

555
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Speaker 2: cap come thirty years O.

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Speaker 1: We were.

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Speaker 2: Of course, Kevin Harlan's doing the game. I know, of

558
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Speaker 2: course the wrong button.

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Speaker 4: CBS TV on the call so good, but I'm sure

560
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Speaker 4: they're fine with the beating VCU in the Atlantic Atlantic

561
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Speaker 4: ten final, fifty seven to fifty one was the final

562
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Speaker 4: on that one. We do got some NASCAR going on.

563
00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:34,400
Speaker 4: You catch all the action on Fox from Bristol.

564
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Speaker 6: Corey la Joy just took the lead.

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Speaker 4: Actually two hundred and thirty eight laps in, they're still

566
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Speaker 4: in stage two. It's five hundred laps so we still

567
00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:44,800
Speaker 4: got a way to go. In the NBA, the Besties

568
00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:48,600
Speaker 4: are playing guys Luka Doncic and Nikola Jokic the besties.

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Speaker 3: Has that always been a thing because I saw that

570
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Speaker 3: was like the big promo. Yeah, and I didn't like,

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Speaker 3: I've never heard of that. But I'm not like a

572
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Speaker 3: die hard Nuggets or MAVs fan.

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Speaker 6: It's it's Deephanie only got more attention like the last

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Speaker 6: year or so. But it's been a thing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, all Star Game, they.

576
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Speaker 4: Were just yeah, BFFs for sure. Dallas has taken the lead.

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Speaker 4: It's been back and forth Dallas on top eighty eight

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Speaker 4: to eighty one. Still early in the fourth quarter, the

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Speaker 4: Heat just beat the Pistons. Bam At of Bio hit

580
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Speaker 4: a buzzer beating three and they took down the Pistons

581
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Speaker 4: one of four to one oh one.

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Speaker 6: I feel like that's all I've got for you right now.

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Speaker 2: There's just so much about the Bucks taking out the

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Speaker 2: Suns today without.

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Speaker 6: Yannis Onto Takuboy. It's funny. Actually, double check that everybody

586
00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:35,840
Speaker 6: was playing for Phoenix. Yes, Spucks one nine. Everybody played

587
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Speaker 6: for Phoenix. KD was there, but he ended with only

588
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Speaker 6: eleven points.

589
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Speaker 4: He was four of ten, so not the greatest shooting

590
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Speaker 4: Damian Lillard thirty one points sixteen.

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Speaker 6: Are you looking for the haters?

592
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Speaker 2: Oh here, dude, we were on top of this like

593
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Speaker 2: three four weeks ago.

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Speaker 3: I'm not like a doc apologist, but I'm like all

595
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Speaker 3: these like, oh he melted down in the playoffs. It's like, yeah,

596
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Speaker 3: I was on air when Ben Simmons was a afraid

597
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Speaker 3: to shoot. I'm sorry that I'm not going to put

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Speaker 3: that on Doc Rivers. I wasn't on air. I think

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Speaker 3: you and George and Monzie probably were. When James Harden

600
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Speaker 3: went like three for eighteen in Game seven last year.

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Speaker 2: Because because James aren't choked in.

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Speaker 3: Game seven, that means he's the worst coach that's ever

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Speaker 3: walked the face of the earth. I'm sorry, I'm not

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Speaker 3: I'm not like, I'm not like pro doc rivers, like

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Speaker 3: you know, I got his marquette jersey hanging in my closet.

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Speaker 2: But like, the slander against this guy is unbelieved. If

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Speaker 2: they buy a bow out earlier. The playoffs all fair games,

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Speaker 2: for sure, But it was just he was so low

609
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Speaker 2: hanging fruit that was actually just sitting on the ground

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Speaker 2: and rotting. Yeah, that people were to take shots, and

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Speaker 2: that's why it doesn't matter.

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Speaker 4: One more thing. I'll tell you that the NFL network

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Speaker 4: just reported on the Justin Fields trade to the Steelers.

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Speaker 4: Four additional teams inquired about getting Fields. The Field's representation

615
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Speaker 4: asked for him to not be traded, that he wanted

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Speaker 4: the Steelers, and so the Bears did right by him.

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Speaker 6: That's the NFL network, right.

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Speaker 2: The Bears didn't have to do that, But what they

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Speaker 2: did respound to Joelenardi, by the way, all right, we'll

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Speaker 2: tell them it's all right. So he ended the tweet.

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Speaker 2: He ended the feat with blah blah blah.

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Speaker 3: I said, I never said the theory that the Big

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Speaker 3: twelve has manipulated a net is true, just that the

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Speaker 3: committee would leave one of those teams out to a piece,

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Speaker 3: though those who believe it is also we're discussing this

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Speaker 3: on Fox Sports Radio right now. Come join the party

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Speaker 3: to party emojis with a link to our show.

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Speaker 2: Can I ask you this? And I'm not gonna I

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Speaker 2: guess I'm kind of putting Joe Lo Lonardi in the

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Speaker 2: in the crosshairs here. Net is a big thing that

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Speaker 2: we look at, right. It's not the end all be

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Speaker 2: all that it is. And you want to know how

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Speaker 2: I know it's a big thing because the nc double

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Speaker 2: A on their website and talking about the selection process,

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Speaker 2: talks about the NET, breaks it down on how they

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Speaker 2: look at the NET, and then has this line the

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Speaker 2: number of Quadrant one wins and Quadrant three and four

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Speaker 2: losses will be incredibly imported when it comes time for

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Speaker 2: NCAA tournament selection and seating. And so the reason I

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Speaker 2: bring this up, Aaron, is because entering yesterday's play, Indiana

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Speaker 2: State and Auburn had the same amount of quad one wins.

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Speaker 2: Sure they had one, yes, and so here it's written

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Speaker 2: here in this and I understand Auburn had seven losses

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Speaker 2: strongest the point in that, and maybe it's looking at

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Speaker 2: it too much in a vacuum or too close into it.

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Speaker 2: Auburn was a three seed before they even won the

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Speaker 2: conference championship today, and then you have Indiana State on

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Speaker 2: the outside looking in with a net that was around

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Speaker 2: top thirty. So I think there were twenty nine in

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Speaker 2: one of the rankings that I saw. Just the point.

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Speaker 2: The point is is Auburn is up so high and

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Speaker 2: here's Indiana State maybe not even making the tournament. I

653
00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:57,920
Speaker 2: wonder if they should be more correlated, you know what

654
00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:01,680
Speaker 2: I mean? Like, where does Auburn get as much love

655
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:04,720
Speaker 2: because of you know, as they should, And if Indiana

656
00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:06,880
Speaker 2: State is going to deserve their love, or if Auburn's

657
00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:08,720
Speaker 2: gonna get a high seed, then maybe Indiana State is

658
00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:11,080
Speaker 2: a team that ends up needing to be a bit

659
00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:12,920
Speaker 2: higher considering their net reflects it.

660
00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:15,160
Speaker 3: So it's funny. I was in Vegas this week for

661
00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:17,680
Speaker 3: the PAC twelve tournament, and my producer is an Auburn fan,

662
00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:21,479
Speaker 3: and we talked way more Auburn basketball than probably anyone

663
00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:24,480
Speaker 3: you know, but we had this conversation. Is like, you

664
00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:27,240
Speaker 3: look at their resume. They lost the only game to Kentucky,

665
00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:30,960
Speaker 3: they split with Alabama, they lost at Alabama one at home,

666
00:32:31,640 --> 00:32:34,000
Speaker 3: they lost their only matchup with Tennessee, and so it's

667
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:36,760
Speaker 3: like they really didn't have the great wins. I just

668
00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:40,720
Speaker 3: think that's a metric or a tool to be the

669
00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:43,960
Speaker 3: It's their unofficial way of saying, we're gonna judge you

670
00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:45,680
Speaker 3: based on how many good teams you beat and how

671
00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:48,080
Speaker 3: many bad teams you lost too, So I know where

672
00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:50,680
Speaker 3: you're going with that. I just think that that's like,

673
00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:53,960
Speaker 3: that's an easy way to paraphrase what they're actually trying

674
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Speaker 3: to say.

675
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:57,920
Speaker 2: We shall find out in twenty minutes or so on

676
00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:00,880
Speaker 2: who makes it, who does not, as the field of

677
00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:05,600
Speaker 2: sixty eight will be revealed. Illinois your Big Ten Tournament champs.

678
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:08,840
Speaker 2: So Championship week is over. And Monzi was just talking

679
00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:12,680
Speaker 2: about the Yale win against Brown today and the shot

680
00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:16,640
Speaker 2: that was made at the buzzer. Absolute heartbreak for Brown,

681
00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:19,240
Speaker 2: who had their own Cinderella story. What did I read?

682
00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:22,560
Speaker 2: Six wins as of mid February, and they go on

683
00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:24,760
Speaker 2: this run and then they make the final four, because again,

684
00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:27,800
Speaker 2: the IVY League tournament isn't hey, everybody's in the tournament,

685
00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:31,200
Speaker 2: it's the top four. And so they end up knocking

686
00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:34,200
Speaker 2: off Princeton yesterday over the weekend, whether it was yesterday

687
00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:37,080
Speaker 2: or Friday, and then ended up playing Yale for the

688
00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:42,600
Speaker 2: championship today and literally losing at the Buzzer thirty two

689
00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:47,240
Speaker 2: years ago. It's the most crushing defeat of my sports fandom.

690
00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:50,480
Speaker 2: Ohio State lost to Michigan and the Fab Five in

691
00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:55,240
Speaker 2: the regional final Southeast Regional rupp Arena, Lexington, Kentucky on

692
00:33:55,360 --> 00:33:58,040
Speaker 2: a loose ball that squirted out to Chris gent who

693
00:33:58,120 --> 00:34:01,360
Speaker 2: is on the baseline, and that shot that Manzi talks about.

694
00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:04,400
Speaker 2: The Yale guy was three feet away. But it was

695
00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:08,600
Speaker 2: that shot, by the way, not easy in the nick

696
00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:10,799
Speaker 2: of time. She said her coach would have yelled at

697
00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:12,880
Speaker 2: her if he didn't use backboard. I didn't even think

698
00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:16,120
Speaker 2: he had time. But just that baseline shot when you're

699
00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:19,600
Speaker 2: down there, tough shot to hit, even though it's point blank.

700
00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:22,640
Speaker 2: Yale hit it in isando the tournament. Ohio State didn't

701
00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:23,640
Speaker 2: and lost in overtime.

702
00:34:24,160 --> 00:34:26,520
Speaker 3: Well, that was an incredible finish. I'd be lying if

703
00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:28,239
Speaker 3: I said, I remember the Michigan O House States went

704
00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:28,920
Speaker 3: very well.

705
00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:31,279
Speaker 2: It sounds great. No, I can't expect anybody here too.

706
00:34:31,680 --> 00:34:34,440
Speaker 3: No, but it is it shows you like it's so cliche,

707
00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:37,880
Speaker 3: but it's what makes this tournament. This tournament is how

708
00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:42,080
Speaker 3: many teams have those moments, good or bad, best worst

709
00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:44,200
Speaker 3: memories ever. You know, it's just it's what makes this

710
00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:45,120
Speaker 3: tournament so crazy.

711
00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:46,920
Speaker 2: And Jens was about a ten foot or this was

712
00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:49,200
Speaker 2: about three feet, so this was a little bit easier,

713
00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:52,480
Speaker 2: a little bit closer, but still not easy to finish off.

714
00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:55,680
Speaker 2: He's Erintoris, I'm Dan Bierria live from the Tairaq dot

715
00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:58,000
Speaker 2: com studios. All right, who's bubble will burst? When we

716
00:34:58,120 --> 00:35:00,359
Speaker 2: found out the bracket coming up at the top the hour.

717
00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:02,719
Speaker 2: We'll talk about that next year on Fox Sports Radio.

718
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Speaker 2: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio, Fox Sports Sunday

719
00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:11,880
Speaker 2: our Selections show special bracket to be released at the

720
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Speaker 2: top of the hour. Field of sixty eight. One point

721
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Speaker 2: about bracketologists is he's Aeron Torres and I'm Dan Byer

722
00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:22,120
Speaker 2: live from the Tirek dot com studios. You get forty

723
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Speaker 2: eight correct off the bat, I mean, the heck, there's

724
00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:28,920
Speaker 2: thirty two automatic qualifiers. I wou'd even say, you get

725
00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:33,279
Speaker 2: about fifty five off the bat, and then it's trying

726
00:35:33,320 --> 00:35:35,880
Speaker 2: to figure out how do we fill in this bubble

727
00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:39,440
Speaker 2: here with the last ten or so selections. Sure, and

728
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:43,040
Speaker 2: so that's where that's where bracketologists make their money. And

729
00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:48,359
Speaker 2: then aaron of the final thirteen I think seven are automatics.

730
00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:51,799
Speaker 2: So when you see a bracketologist and no one goes

731
00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:55,800
Speaker 2: fifty one of sixty eight, you only you go sixty

732
00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:59,680
Speaker 2: seven of sixty eight, sixty six of sixty eight. The

733
00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:02,399
Speaker 2: ones go sixty four of sixty eight, where they miss

734
00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:04,800
Speaker 2: out on four of them, but you'll see them touting.

735
00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:06,759
Speaker 2: And we got sixty seven of the sixty eight, well

736
00:36:07,080 --> 00:36:09,919
Speaker 2: fifty five of them are givens on the geometry test.

737
00:36:10,239 --> 00:36:11,040
Speaker 2: It's unbelievable.

738
00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:13,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, And this seems to me like, you know,

739
00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:17,120
Speaker 3: you're mad that Joelnardi had the audacity to come after me,

740
00:36:17,239 --> 00:36:19,480
Speaker 3: and so when he does the victory lap at the end,

741
00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:21,879
Speaker 3: you just want everybody to know he's so busy taking

742
00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:25,080
Speaker 3: shots at torres, you know anybody could do his job.

743
00:36:25,120 --> 00:36:25,520
Speaker 2: No, I'm just kid.

744
00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:27,480
Speaker 3: By the way, Jolenardi was very nice to me the

745
00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:29,640
Speaker 3: last time I spoke to him. So I'm just giving

746
00:36:29,680 --> 00:36:31,040
Speaker 3: you a hard time. But no, you're right, You're right?

747
00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:31,320
Speaker 1: Is that?

748
00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:34,799
Speaker 3: Listen, we have thirty something automatic bids. It changes every

749
00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:36,440
Speaker 3: year with the conferences. It will be one less next

750
00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:38,359
Speaker 3: year without the Big ten or without the PAC twelve.

751
00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:42,520
Speaker 3: Excuse me, but you know. And then really, if there's

752
00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:44,480
Speaker 3: thirty six at large, as I mean, we're talking about

753
00:36:44,520 --> 00:36:46,399
Speaker 3: thirty that are no brainers, I will say this year

754
00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:50,160
Speaker 3: it feels like there is genuine fluctuation with that about

755
00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:52,640
Speaker 3: final eight where some people think of Saint John's and

756
00:36:52,719 --> 00:36:54,360
Speaker 3: some people think they're out, some people think in Indiana

757
00:36:54,440 --> 00:36:56,160
Speaker 3: State is and some people think they're out, some people

758
00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:58,920
Speaker 3: think Seaton Hall is in. So I just bring it

759
00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:01,759
Speaker 3: up to say, this might be the one where guys

760
00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:03,560
Speaker 3: miss out on a few more than normal, and I'm

761
00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:04,520
Speaker 3: not going to hold it against them.

762
00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:06,160
Speaker 2: Do you want me to give you some bubble teams

763
00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:08,680
Speaker 2: to say if they're out or in sure in your

764
00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:12,160
Speaker 2: mind if we will? And again, when you look at

765
00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:15,480
Speaker 2: a bracketology, I love it because it's the way that

766
00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:17,759
Speaker 2: you have to do it, But just realize that none

767
00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:21,120
Speaker 2: of the matchups actually do matter, like in terms of

768
00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:23,960
Speaker 2: very rarely do they get an actual six to eleven

769
00:37:24,080 --> 00:37:28,400
Speaker 2: matchup correctly, Like it's completely different and off the board.

770
00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:31,520
Speaker 2: How they should really be judged is how they do

771
00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:34,719
Speaker 2: on saying who's going to make the field, because the

772
00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:37,840
Speaker 2: actual seating process there's a bunch of different things that

773
00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:41,640
Speaker 2: go into it. All right, bubble wise, Tom Ise in

774
00:37:41,680 --> 00:37:43,800
Speaker 2: Michigan State, do you think they are in? I do

775
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:46,840
Speaker 2: think they're in, and I'll tell you why because this

776
00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:48,920
Speaker 2: is very weird. But they have the head to head

777
00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:51,520
Speaker 2: win over Indiana State. I think Indiana State gets in.

778
00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:56,840
Speaker 2: You can't credit you can't. You can't basically say Indiana

779
00:37:56,880 --> 00:37:58,560
Speaker 2: State lost to Michigan State. Put them And I think

780
00:37:58,640 --> 00:38:00,400
Speaker 2: tom is in Michigan State are in?

781
00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:05,040
Speaker 3: What about Virginia out? I just they you know, a

782
00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:07,360
Speaker 3: couple of decent wins out of conference. They beat Florida,

783
00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:09,640
Speaker 3: But the ACC is bad, Like why is no one

784
00:38:09,719 --> 00:38:13,719
Speaker 3: talking about the ACC is bad? They lost too bad teams. Uh,

785
00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:15,920
Speaker 3: they didn't beat the good teams. They went oh and

786
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:19,400
Speaker 3: two against Carolina, zero to two against Duke. I believe

787
00:38:20,040 --> 00:38:22,719
Speaker 3: it's like they don't have a resume and it's a

788
00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:24,359
Speaker 3: bad league. So I think they're out.

789
00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:27,439
Speaker 2: Was that the same with Pitt who did beat Duke.

790
00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:29,839
Speaker 3: They did beat Duke. I think they're out though. Yeah,

791
00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:32,480
Speaker 3: I don't think they had very much on the resume.

792
00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:34,759
Speaker 3: I thought they had to beat Carolina on Friday in

793
00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:37,759
Speaker 3: the ACC tournament. To their credit, uh, they did do

794
00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:41,239
Speaker 3: a good job of making that a game. But I

795
00:38:41,320 --> 00:38:42,160
Speaker 3: don't think Pitt is in.

796
00:38:42,560 --> 00:38:44,400
Speaker 2: Okay, a couple of more Wake Forest, we'll stay in

797
00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:44,880
Speaker 2: the ACC.

798
00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:48,399
Speaker 3: Our Buddy Steve Forbess, remember whenest him. That always sticks

799
00:38:48,440 --> 00:38:49,640
Speaker 3: with me. I don't know if you remember this, but

800
00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:52,360
Speaker 3: he was on the bubble that year. So I was

801
00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:54,319
Speaker 3: at twenty twenty two final four. That was the year

802
00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:56,920
Speaker 3: Duke and Carolina made the final four. They played each other.

803
00:38:57,280 --> 00:38:59,080
Speaker 3: We had Steve Forbes on. We were asking about Duke,

804
00:38:59,120 --> 00:39:02,400
Speaker 3: Carolina coach k whatever, and I vividly remember you asking

805
00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:04,840
Speaker 3: him what is it like being on the bubble and

806
00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:07,040
Speaker 3: he said, honestly, we were kind of in that last

807
00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:10,000
Speaker 3: four in first you know, last first four out, next

808
00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:12,279
Speaker 3: four out to begin the week, and then teams kept

809
00:39:12,320 --> 00:39:13,920
Speaker 3: winning and by the end of the week we knew

810
00:39:13,920 --> 00:39:15,759
Speaker 3: we had no shot. I think it's the same this week.

811
00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:18,480
Speaker 2: Colorado, who lost in the PAC twelve title game last

812
00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:21,840
Speaker 2: night to Oregon. Do you like Colorado in the field.

813
00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:24,839
Speaker 3: I will say, I think they're one of the fringiest.

814
00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:28,040
Speaker 3: I will say in but that is one that I

815
00:39:28,120 --> 00:39:29,399
Speaker 3: truly could see going either way.

816
00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:33,879
Speaker 2: All right, Northwestern bounced by Wisconsin. Oh yeah, they're in there,

817
00:39:33,920 --> 00:39:40,000
Speaker 2: They're in all right? And then final one Saint John's the.

818
00:39:40,080 --> 00:39:42,920
Speaker 3: Dan Bayer rule. If you have a chance to get

819
00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:45,360
Speaker 3: Rick and by the way, not just the NCAA tournament,

820
00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:47,800
Speaker 3: you have a chance to get Rick Patino in Dayton

821
00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:52,080
Speaker 3: on a Wednesday, you gotta take advantage. By the way,

822
00:39:52,120 --> 00:39:55,080
Speaker 3: there was a lot of Patino versus Patino buzz. If

823
00:39:55,239 --> 00:39:58,520
Speaker 3: New Mexico had not won the Mountain West last night,

824
00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:00,680
Speaker 3: now because they won the automatic bid, they will not

825
00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:02,920
Speaker 3: be in Dayton. But I saw a lot of that.

826
00:40:03,040 --> 00:40:04,759
Speaker 3: I think a lot of people believe that was gonna happen.

827
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Speaker 2: All right, he's Aeron Torres, I'm Dan Byer, and who

828
00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:10,239
Speaker 2: would have thunk it that the we could The only

829
00:40:10,560 --> 00:40:12,400
Speaker 2: team that we could get in the tournament from Pittsburgh

830
00:40:13,040 --> 00:40:15,600
Speaker 2: is Ducane and not pitt Like. But we'll find out.

831
00:40:15,680 --> 00:40:18,680
Speaker 2: Pitt still has an opportunity as the field of sixty

832
00:40:18,719 --> 00:40:21,440
Speaker 2: eight will be revealed coming up at the top of

833
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Speaker 2: the hour. Aaron Torres and I are not going anywhere.

834
00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:27,480
Speaker 2: We're gonna reveal when we find out. We will reveal

835
00:40:27,560 --> 00:40:29,960
Speaker 2: to you what the field of sixty eight is, what

836
00:40:30,120 --> 00:40:32,920
Speaker 2: is the matchups, and then once the brackets were released,

837
00:40:33,040 --> 00:40:36,160
Speaker 2: we're gonna break it down, plus some big time conversations

838
00:40:36,440 --> 00:40:38,719
Speaker 2: to be had about some of the big teams in

839
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Speaker 2: this bracket, including the number one seeds that we think

840
00:40:41,520 --> 00:40:44,320
Speaker 2: and again I'm just gonna say we know Yukon Purdue

841
00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:47,479
Speaker 2: Houston probably gonna be number one seeds. I'm just taking

842
00:40:47,560 --> 00:40:50,200
Speaker 2: the flyer on Arizona and watched North Carolina to be

843
00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:53,040
Speaker 2: placed in the East. He's erin Torres. Hit him up

844
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Speaker 2: at Aaron Underscore. Torres, you can find me at dan

845
00:40:56,280 --> 00:40:59,880
Speaker 2: Byer on Fox. It is almost time for the field

846
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Speaker 2: of sixty eight to be revealed. We bring it to

847
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Speaker 2: you next here on Fox Sports Radio. The Field of

848
00:41:05,760 --> 00:41:08,200
Speaker 2: sixty eight about to be revealed, and we'll tell you

849
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Speaker 2: what it's going to look like. Welcome in as we

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855
00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:29,160
Speaker 2: about to find out the field of sixty eight, I.

856
00:41:29,239 --> 00:41:32,440
Speaker 3: Told you my bracket projections, my bubble projections. Saint John's

857
00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:34,520
Speaker 3: in the Dan Bayer rule. If you can't, if you

858
00:41:34,600 --> 00:41:37,040
Speaker 3: have the chance to put in Patino, you do. I

859
00:41:37,120 --> 00:41:39,800
Speaker 3: believe Indiana State will be in as a way to

860
00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:42,399
Speaker 3: prove no, we love the small schools even though they don't.

861
00:41:42,719 --> 00:41:45,560
Speaker 3: And I think either TCU or Oklahoma of the Big

862
00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:47,759
Speaker 3: twelve gets left out. I also think Texas A and

863
00:41:47,880 --> 00:41:48,880
Speaker 3: M is on the wrong side of a.

864
00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:51,319
Speaker 2: Lot of the bracketologists on the same page that they

865
00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:54,040
Speaker 2: feel the sixteen seeds that we'll have to play in

866
00:41:54,160 --> 00:41:57,520
Speaker 2: Dayton in the first four will be Grambling State, Wagner,

867
00:41:57,680 --> 00:42:01,759
Speaker 2: Montana State, and Howard. I think three of those. I

868
00:42:01,880 --> 00:42:03,800
Speaker 2: think one of those is actually just going to be

869
00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:06,640
Speaker 2: in a regular one sixteen game. But if you look

870
00:42:06,640 --> 00:42:09,120
Speaker 2: at where conferences are, you look where net are, those

871
00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:11,360
Speaker 2: would be the four worst teams that you could have.

872
00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:14,440
Speaker 2: But I think we're going to see a different matchup there,

873
00:42:14,560 --> 00:42:18,040
Speaker 2: So I think three of those Eron Torres. No, that's

874
00:42:18,080 --> 00:42:20,759
Speaker 2: all right, it is that time. Here we go. The

875
00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:24,200
Speaker 2: number one seed in the East Region Erin Torres is

876
00:42:24,360 --> 00:42:27,799
Speaker 2: Alma mater, and the number one overall seed, the Yukon Huskies.

877
00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:31,120
Speaker 2: They will play Friday in Brooklyn, New York. And that

878
00:42:31,360 --> 00:42:35,840
Speaker 2: Friday Sunday matchup, so Yukon the number one overall seed.

879
00:42:37,239 --> 00:42:39,800
Speaker 2: No surprise there. We figured that was gonna happen. We

880
00:42:39,920 --> 00:42:43,480
Speaker 2: touched on it earlier. They will face Stetson in the

881
00:42:43,680 --> 00:42:47,760
Speaker 2: one sixteen matchup. Stets In making their first ever appearance

882
00:42:48,040 --> 00:42:51,120
Speaker 2: in the NCAA tournament out of the A Sun. That's

883
00:42:51,160 --> 00:42:54,920
Speaker 2: going to be a Friday game in Brooklyn, eight to

884
00:42:55,040 --> 00:42:59,520
Speaker 2: nine game in Brooklyn on Friday. The winner of the

885
00:42:59,719 --> 00:43:02,120
Speaker 2: uk On Stetson game will face the winner of this

886
00:43:02,360 --> 00:43:07,040
Speaker 2: eight to nine matchup. FAU, last year's darling in the

887
00:43:07,160 --> 00:43:10,759
Speaker 2: NCAA Tournament, in an eight to nine matchup again this time.

888
00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:13,480
Speaker 2: They're the eight seed in the East Region. So Florida

889
00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:16,680
Speaker 2: Atlantic is in. We felt that they were in, but

890
00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:19,360
Speaker 2: some happenings over the last couple of days made you wonder.

891
00:43:19,719 --> 00:43:23,040
Speaker 2: They've got Chris Collins boo booie in the Northwestern Wildcat.

892
00:43:23,160 --> 00:43:25,799
Speaker 2: So you just said it a few moments ago. Northwestern

893
00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:28,799
Speaker 2: absolutely in despite some of the bid Steelers that we saw,

894
00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:32,120
Speaker 2: that will be the case. They will play FAU coming

895
00:43:32,200 --> 00:43:37,320
Speaker 2: up on Friday in Brooklyn. These games coming up five twelve,

896
00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:41,239
Speaker 2: four to thirteen matchups Friday in Spokane, Washington. Also in

897
00:43:41,320 --> 00:43:44,920
Speaker 2: the East Region, the East Regional, by the way, will

898
00:43:44,960 --> 00:43:49,040
Speaker 2: be played in Boston. San Diego State, last year's National

899
00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:53,440
Speaker 2: Championship runner or Championship runner up, will take on UAB

900
00:43:53,600 --> 00:43:55,680
Speaker 2: in a five to twelve game. Again. These games are

901
00:43:55,719 --> 00:43:59,440
Speaker 2: in Spokane on Friday and then on Sunday. But San

902
00:43:59,480 --> 00:44:02,440
Speaker 2: Diego State, who fell to New Mexico last night in

903
00:44:02,560 --> 00:44:05,920
Speaker 2: the Mountain West Championship game. The fourth seed in the

904
00:44:05,960 --> 00:44:09,440
Speaker 2: East Region the Auburn Tigers. So Auburn's gonna go to

905
00:44:09,520 --> 00:44:13,120
Speaker 2: Spokane and take on Yale, who won the IVY League

906
00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:17,560
Speaker 2: earlier today over Brown in that buzzer beater. Yale gets

907
00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:20,640
Speaker 2: a thirteen seed. They will play again in Spokane. Coming

908
00:44:20,719 --> 00:44:25,160
Speaker 2: up on Friday, Thursday games in Omaha, Nebraska. This is

909
00:44:25,239 --> 00:44:28,040
Speaker 2: a three fourteen to six to eleven matchup. The sixth

910
00:44:28,080 --> 00:44:31,279
Speaker 2: seed in the East Region, the BYU Cougars, of the

911
00:44:31,440 --> 00:44:35,800
Speaker 2: Big twelve playing in Omaha on Thursday. This is not

912
00:44:35,880 --> 00:44:39,640
Speaker 2: where we're gonna find some bubbleness. Ducaine, Actually we don't

913
00:44:39,880 --> 00:44:43,640
Speaker 2: automatic qualifier by well winning the conference tournament earlier today

914
00:44:43,680 --> 00:44:46,239
Speaker 2: winning the A ten. Ducaine is in at they are

915
00:44:46,280 --> 00:44:49,720
Speaker 2: a number eleven seed and the three seed in the region.

916
00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:52,520
Speaker 2: Your Big ten tournament champs, the Illinois fighting a Lini.

917
00:44:53,120 --> 00:44:55,920
Speaker 2: Illinois comes in as a three seed. They literally just

918
00:44:55,960 --> 00:44:58,239
Speaker 2: cut down the nets era and five minutes later they

919
00:44:58,320 --> 00:45:00,719
Speaker 2: found out that there'll be a three seed in the

920
00:45:00,840 --> 00:45:05,080
Speaker 2: East region playing a Thursday in Omaha and their fourteen

921
00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:10,319
Speaker 2: seed matchup will be Morehead State. So Morehead State will

922
00:45:10,360 --> 00:45:14,880
Speaker 2: face Illinois in that three fourteen matchup. Also Thursday games

923
00:45:15,040 --> 00:45:18,320
Speaker 2: Thursday Saturday games in Omaha, Nebraska coming up in this

924
00:45:18,560 --> 00:45:23,320
Speaker 2: next block seven ten two fifteen matchup makes you wonder

925
00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:27,879
Speaker 2: on if this is at Omaha, who the two seed

926
00:45:27,960 --> 00:45:31,000
Speaker 2: could be. Washington State ends up being the seventh seed.

927
00:45:31,760 --> 00:45:34,760
Speaker 2: So Washington State is the seventh seed playing in Omaha

928
00:45:35,560 --> 00:45:41,160
Speaker 2: coming up on Thursday, and the Tennessee that Washington State

929
00:45:41,200 --> 00:45:45,160
Speaker 2: will end up facing is These picks are coming quicker

930
00:45:45,200 --> 00:45:49,440
Speaker 2: than I imagine. Aaron Drake, the Drake Bulldogs. That's not

931
00:45:49,440 --> 00:45:51,239
Speaker 2: going to be too far for them to travel from

932
00:45:51,280 --> 00:45:54,719
Speaker 2: Benois to Omaha. They should have a sizable crowd there

933
00:45:54,840 --> 00:45:59,280
Speaker 2: following Drake, so winners of the Missouri Valley Conference. Drake

934
00:45:59,440 --> 00:46:03,319
Speaker 2: ends up getting the ten seed. Iowa State the two

935
00:46:03,480 --> 00:46:08,640
Speaker 2: seed in the East. Iowa State is playing in Omaha

936
00:46:08,840 --> 00:46:12,080
Speaker 2: coming up on Thursday, and we'll find out who their

937
00:46:12,120 --> 00:46:15,160
Speaker 2: fifteen seed was. That's what that little glimpse of you wondered.

938
00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:18,040
Speaker 2: All right, if it's in Omaha, who's gonna get that advantage?

939
00:46:19,320 --> 00:46:23,839
Speaker 2: Could set up an interesting matchup. All regionally done well.

940
00:46:23,960 --> 00:46:27,840
Speaker 2: Iowa State taking on South Dakota State two fifteen matchup

941
00:46:28,040 --> 00:46:31,640
Speaker 2: coming up on Thursday. So both sdsus are in the

942
00:46:31,719 --> 00:46:35,239
Speaker 2: East region. They're your first sixteen matchups. Aaron Torres taken

943
00:46:35,280 --> 00:46:36,200
Speaker 2: away two quick thoughts.

944
00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:39,280
Speaker 3: One Iowa State coach tj Attsberger first ever head coaching

945
00:46:39,360 --> 00:46:42,960
Speaker 3: job South Dakota State. So that's one two. Top half

946
00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:44,839
Speaker 3: of the bracket, which they are showing now on TV.

947
00:46:44,960 --> 00:46:47,320
Speaker 3: We know you can't see it. San Diego State is

948
00:46:47,360 --> 00:46:49,239
Speaker 3: the five seed. Remember, of course, played Yukon in the

949
00:46:49,320 --> 00:46:52,520
Speaker 3: National Championship Game last year. A potential rematch of that

950
00:46:52,719 --> 00:46:55,200
Speaker 3: in the Sweet sixteen. San Diego State would have to

951
00:46:55,239 --> 00:46:58,480
Speaker 3: get by the red hot Auburn Tigers. Very likely to

952
00:46:58,560 --> 00:46:59,120
Speaker 3: make that happen.

953
00:46:59,239 --> 00:47:02,120
Speaker 2: San Diego State. As these brackets you will print out

954
00:47:02,440 --> 00:47:05,439
Speaker 2: your office will be in the exact same spot Aaron

955
00:47:05,480 --> 00:47:08,040
Speaker 2: as you mentioned as they were a year ago, because

956
00:47:08,080 --> 00:47:09,880
Speaker 2: they were in the same region as Alabama, who is

957
00:47:09,920 --> 00:47:12,719
Speaker 2: the number one overall seed knocked off the Crimson Tide.

958
00:47:13,000 --> 00:47:15,560
Speaker 2: They came from that top left corner bracket. If you're

959
00:47:15,600 --> 00:47:18,520
Speaker 2: watched you're looking at your bracket at home, that's where

960
00:47:18,640 --> 00:47:22,320
Speaker 2: San Diego State comes from. How about a potential again potential.

961
00:47:22,400 --> 00:47:26,319
Speaker 2: We just talked about the geography a Drake Iowa State game.

962
00:47:26,840 --> 00:47:30,280
Speaker 2: Let's just take that one. Move it down to Omaha

963
00:47:30,440 --> 00:47:33,440
Speaker 2: like they have that in Omaha. Could have Drake and

964
00:47:33,600 --> 00:47:35,840
Speaker 2: Iowa State, who are just miles from each other in

965
00:47:35,880 --> 00:47:36,760
Speaker 2: the Great State of Iowa.

966
00:47:37,239 --> 00:47:38,920
Speaker 3: I didn't even know that, to be perfectly honest, So

967
00:47:38,920 --> 00:47:41,560
Speaker 3: I knew Drake was in Iowa, and I know that

968
00:47:41,760 --> 00:47:44,319
Speaker 3: both those teams are very geographically close. I just think

969
00:47:44,680 --> 00:47:46,520
Speaker 3: if it plays out, it's gonna set up some really

970
00:47:46,600 --> 00:47:50,080
Speaker 3: interesting things. I think Auburn actually relatively speaking, doesn't match

971
00:47:50,160 --> 00:47:52,800
Speaker 3: up terribly with Yukon. They have size, they're tough, they're physical,

972
00:47:52,840 --> 00:47:55,000
Speaker 3: they can match that toughness. And then Iowa State in

973
00:47:55,040 --> 00:47:58,800
Speaker 3: Illinois a fascinating contrast and styles. Iowa State that elite

974
00:47:59,200 --> 00:48:01,560
Speaker 3: defensive team. Illinois could put the ball in the basket

975
00:48:01,600 --> 00:48:02,080
Speaker 3: with anybody.

976
00:48:02,719 --> 00:48:07,840
Speaker 2: Yukon the pre tournament favorite with an interesting path. I

977
00:48:07,920 --> 00:48:12,719
Speaker 2: think the four seed Auburn interesting there the bottom half

978
00:48:12,760 --> 00:48:15,719
Speaker 2: of the bracket I think is you Coon wouldn't have

979
00:48:15,760 --> 00:48:18,440
Speaker 2: any troubles with It's Auburn that seems to maybe be

980
00:48:18,520 --> 00:48:19,040
Speaker 2: the bugaboo.

981
00:48:19,160 --> 00:48:20,960
Speaker 3: One thing I do want to mention about that bracket,

982
00:48:21,040 --> 00:48:23,920
Speaker 3: the nine seed floor at Atlantic. Now, again neither of

983
00:48:24,000 --> 00:48:27,240
Speaker 3: us are bracketology experts, but there was some real buzz

984
00:48:27,320 --> 00:48:29,839
Speaker 3: that if you really looked at their resume. I saw

985
00:48:29,920 --> 00:48:33,279
Speaker 3: Seth Davis from ESPN talk about it or CBS talked

986
00:48:33,280 --> 00:48:36,839
Speaker 3: about it yesterday, that maybe there wasn't as much meat

987
00:48:36,960 --> 00:48:40,319
Speaker 3: on that bone as people thought. And so they get

988
00:48:40,440 --> 00:48:43,080
Speaker 3: the eight seed. They play in the eight to nine game,

989
00:48:43,360 --> 00:48:45,520
Speaker 3: which means that it was never really even a debate

990
00:48:45,640 --> 00:48:47,600
Speaker 3: that they were in. By the way, this speaks to

991
00:48:47,680 --> 00:48:49,919
Speaker 3: what we talked about in hour one something. For people

992
00:48:49,920 --> 00:48:52,920
Speaker 3: who are just joining us, the Committee chair Dave Gavitt

993
00:48:53,080 --> 00:48:56,640
Speaker 3: essentially acknowledging that most of the bracket was largely done

994
00:48:56,719 --> 00:48:58,359
Speaker 3: by the time they went to bed last night, maybe

995
00:48:58,400 --> 00:49:02,520
Speaker 3: even before that, having Florida Atlantic, which Joe Lenardi most

996
00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:04,400
Speaker 3: of the experts had as kind of last four in,

997
00:49:04,960 --> 00:49:07,480
Speaker 3: you know, next four in. So we're talking a ten

998
00:49:07,560 --> 00:49:10,319
Speaker 3: eleven seed in that eight to nine game. I don't

999
00:49:10,360 --> 00:49:12,759
Speaker 3: think that is going to help the reputation at a

1000
00:49:12,800 --> 00:49:15,279
Speaker 3: lot of these games on Saturday and Sunday ultimately don't matter.

1001
00:49:15,400 --> 00:49:17,120
Speaker 2: We're going to take an early time out since the

1002
00:49:17,440 --> 00:49:21,360
Speaker 2: brackets are as well. He's erin Torres. East region is full, Midwest,

1003
00:49:21,400 --> 00:49:24,080
Speaker 2: South and West regions to come. He's erin Torres. I'm

1004
00:49:24,160 --> 00:49:26,120
Speaker 2: Dan Byer. It's all up next here in our Selection

1005
00:49:26,280 --> 00:49:31,200
Speaker 2: Show special on Fox Sports Radio. It's our Selection Show

1006
00:49:31,280 --> 00:49:33,879
Speaker 2: special here on Fox Sports Radio. He's erin Torres. I'm

1007
00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:36,399
Speaker 2: Dan Bayer. We revealed the East region. Let's get into

1008
00:49:36,440 --> 00:49:39,239
Speaker 2: the South region. This will be the opposite side of

1009
00:49:39,280 --> 00:49:41,440
Speaker 2: the bracket and the number two overall seed in the

1010
00:49:41,520 --> 00:49:44,480
Speaker 2: South region, the Houston Cougars. They are the number one

1011
00:49:44,520 --> 00:49:46,680
Speaker 2: overall seed in the South. And on Friday and Memphis,

1012
00:49:46,760 --> 00:49:51,080
Speaker 2: Tennessee they will be facing Longwood in that one sixteen matchup,

1013
00:49:51,400 --> 00:49:55,160
Speaker 2: also in Memphis. Coming up on Friday, Nebraska takes on

1014
00:49:55,320 --> 00:49:58,879
Speaker 2: Texas A and M in an eight to nine matchup. Wisconsin,

1015
00:49:58,960 --> 00:50:02,520
Speaker 2: which just lo that's the Big ten title game to Illinois,

1016
00:50:02,560 --> 00:50:05,560
Speaker 2: will play on Friday in Brooklyn. They will face James

1017
00:50:05,719 --> 00:50:09,560
Speaker 2: Madison in a five to twelve matchup. James Madison automatic

1018
00:50:09,680 --> 00:50:12,879
Speaker 2: qualifier the fourth seed in the South Region the Duke

1019
00:50:13,040 --> 00:50:18,320
Speaker 2: Blue Devils. Duke will take on Vermont coming up on Friday,

1020
00:50:18,480 --> 00:50:21,440
Speaker 2: again in Brooklyn. That is the four to thirteen matchup,

1021
00:50:21,760 --> 00:50:24,360
Speaker 2: Texas Tech in NC State, the six to eleven matchup

1022
00:50:24,400 --> 00:50:26,440
Speaker 2: in Pittsburgh on Thursday, with the winner of that one

1023
00:50:26,760 --> 00:50:31,600
Speaker 2: facing the three seed in Kentucky Wildcats or possibly fourteen

1024
00:50:31,680 --> 00:50:35,480
Speaker 2: seed in Oakland. That's Thursday in Pittsburgh. Friday seven to

1025
00:50:35,560 --> 00:50:37,920
Speaker 2: ten matchup. We don't know the ten yet, but Florida's

1026
00:50:37,960 --> 00:50:40,960
Speaker 2: the seven to ten matchup. Boise State and Colorado will

1027
00:50:40,960 --> 00:50:43,000
Speaker 2: play one of the first four that will take place

1028
00:50:43,160 --> 00:50:46,799
Speaker 2: Wednesday in Dayton, So the winner of that one then

1029
00:50:46,840 --> 00:50:50,520
Speaker 2: will play Friday in Indianapolis against Florida, and then Marquette

1030
00:50:50,560 --> 00:50:53,719
Speaker 2: is the two seed Western Kentucky ends up being the

1031
00:50:53,920 --> 00:50:57,360
Speaker 2: fifteen seed. So Aaron Torres, we now have a South

1032
00:50:57,480 --> 00:51:00,560
Speaker 2: region where Houston's number one, Marque he had his two,

1033
00:51:01,280 --> 00:51:04,480
Speaker 2: Kentucky three, Duke four in that South region.

1034
00:51:05,239 --> 00:51:07,800
Speaker 3: Couple things that stand out. One, listen Duke. If you

1035
00:51:07,880 --> 00:51:10,839
Speaker 3: really break down Duke's resume, you're talking about a team

1036
00:51:10,920 --> 00:51:13,040
Speaker 3: that lost to Arizona, and the out of conference lost

1037
00:51:13,040 --> 00:51:15,719
Speaker 3: to Arkansas, and the out of conference got swept by Carolina,

1038
00:51:16,200 --> 00:51:20,239
Speaker 3: lost their ACC tournament opener. I don't know how much

1039
00:51:20,600 --> 00:51:22,879
Speaker 3: I use this term previously, so I apologize, but meet

1040
00:51:22,960 --> 00:51:25,640
Speaker 3: there is on that bone. I don't think they should

1041
00:51:25,640 --> 00:51:28,040
Speaker 3: have been, you know, seven seat or anything. But Vermont

1042
00:51:28,160 --> 00:51:30,120
Speaker 3: is a team that is there every year. They've pulled

1043
00:51:30,160 --> 00:51:33,040
Speaker 3: off upsets before. That is not something that would shock me.

1044
00:51:33,440 --> 00:51:36,920
Speaker 3: The other one Kentucky a potential second round matchup with

1045
00:51:37,000 --> 00:51:41,680
Speaker 3: Texas Tech. Texas Tech has size, has physicality, has veterans.

1046
00:51:42,120 --> 00:51:43,880
Speaker 3: I think it was the stat was. I talked to

1047
00:51:43,920 --> 00:51:46,919
Speaker 3: their coach, Grant McCaslin over the summer. They took five

1048
00:51:47,160 --> 00:51:49,920
Speaker 3: or six transfers, all of them played in the NCAA

1049
00:51:50,000 --> 00:51:52,359
Speaker 3: tournament last year, so they brought that winning culture with them.

1050
00:51:53,040 --> 00:51:55,279
Speaker 3: I'm not saying Kentucky will lose that second round game,

1051
00:51:55,680 --> 00:51:57,560
Speaker 3: but that is not the kind of matchup that Kentucky

1052
00:51:57,600 --> 00:51:58,120
Speaker 3: wants to see.

1053
00:51:58,680 --> 00:52:00,960
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Speaker 2: So half the bracket is set up, and what is

1064
00:52:32,040 --> 00:52:36,359
Speaker 2: so interesting to me, Aaron Torres, is the first four

1065
00:52:36,480 --> 00:52:39,520
Speaker 2: game feeds into the ten spot on the bracket. So

1066
00:52:39,600 --> 00:52:41,600
Speaker 2: this is where we get so many bid steelers that

1067
00:52:41,640 --> 00:52:44,960
Speaker 2: we've talked about. So now you're talking about teams that

1068
00:52:45,160 --> 00:52:49,560
Speaker 2: didn't make the NCAA tournament that normally without those bid steelers,

1069
00:52:49,600 --> 00:52:53,200
Speaker 2: would have been ten or eleven seeds. We the ten

1070
00:52:53,280 --> 00:52:55,319
Speaker 2: line is the first time that I can remember. I thought,

1071
00:52:55,560 --> 00:52:57,600
Speaker 2: I think it's eleven and twelves that we've only seen

1072
00:52:57,640 --> 00:53:00,759
Speaker 2: in the past. But the play in tournament, the excuse me,

1073
00:53:00,920 --> 00:53:04,440
Speaker 2: the first four in Dayton will feature a matchup of

1074
00:53:04,520 --> 00:53:05,440
Speaker 2: two ten seeds.

1075
00:53:05,800 --> 00:53:09,680
Speaker 3: Eleven seed NC State has already confirmed UAB, which won

1076
00:53:09,719 --> 00:53:12,440
Speaker 3: the conference to USA today, was a twelve seed AAC

1077
00:53:12,520 --> 00:53:15,760
Speaker 3: excuse me, it was a twelve seed. I would suspect

1078
00:53:15,840 --> 00:53:18,160
Speaker 3: Oregon is probably on that eleven line as well, so

1079
00:53:18,280 --> 00:53:20,120
Speaker 3: that is why we have what I would also say,

1080
00:53:20,200 --> 00:53:22,120
Speaker 3: there's a lot of teams that were on that bubble

1081
00:53:22,160 --> 00:53:27,439
Speaker 3: that we have not heard yet. Michigan State, we haven't heard, TCU, Oklahoma,

1082
00:53:27,880 --> 00:53:31,120
Speaker 3: Indiana State, Saint John, Seaton Hall, Providence if you think

1083
00:53:31,120 --> 00:53:33,600
Speaker 3: they're on the bubble. The ones that we have heard

1084
00:53:33,719 --> 00:53:35,799
Speaker 3: Texas A and M was comfortably in in that eight

1085
00:53:35,840 --> 00:53:38,960
Speaker 3: to nine game in the South, Florida Atlantic that eight

1086
00:53:39,000 --> 00:53:42,000
Speaker 3: to nine game in the East, and as you mentioned

1087
00:53:42,040 --> 00:53:45,200
Speaker 3: when the bracket came out, Dan Colorado will be in

1088
00:53:45,360 --> 00:53:47,399
Speaker 3: that first four game on Wednesday and date.

1089
00:53:47,800 --> 00:53:52,279
Speaker 2: This is crazy. Of the bubble teams that I wrote down,

1090
00:53:52,320 --> 00:53:54,520
Speaker 2: and I'm just doing the quick math here, I wrote

1091
00:53:54,560 --> 00:53:58,000
Speaker 2: down about fifteen or sixteen four are off the list

1092
00:53:58,120 --> 00:54:00,000
Speaker 2: right now. And again we had a big bubble because

1093
00:54:00,160 --> 00:54:01,839
Speaker 2: we weren't sure on how it was going to break out.

1094
00:54:02,320 --> 00:54:05,759
Speaker 2: But now we've got half the field already in. There were,

1095
00:54:05,920 --> 00:54:09,400
Speaker 2: as you mentioned, there were a lot of the bid steelers,

1096
00:54:09,440 --> 00:54:12,120
Speaker 2: if you will do Caine placed NC State already placed

1097
00:54:12,160 --> 00:54:15,440
Speaker 2: in the bracket. But well, yeah, we'll end up seeing them.

1098
00:54:16,200 --> 00:54:18,640
Speaker 2: We'll seeing these field out. And yeah, you mentioned UAB

1099
00:54:18,800 --> 00:54:21,399
Speaker 2: as well as a team that is in. So we're

1100
00:54:21,400 --> 00:54:24,719
Speaker 2: waiting for the West Region and the Midwest Region if

1101
00:54:24,760 --> 00:54:27,919
Speaker 2: you are curious. The East Region will end up likely

1102
00:54:27,960 --> 00:54:30,080
Speaker 2: playing the West Region, who we think, and then the

1103
00:54:30,160 --> 00:54:33,120
Speaker 2: South Region where Houston was the two seed, likely to

1104
00:54:33,200 --> 00:54:36,600
Speaker 2: face the Midwest Region in the final four that comes

1105
00:54:36,719 --> 00:54:41,600
Speaker 2: up in Phoenix, Arizona coming up what three weeks from now?

1106
00:54:42,239 --> 00:54:44,640
Speaker 2: All right here we are. Now we will get a

1107
00:54:44,719 --> 00:54:47,359
Speaker 2: look at the Midwest Region where the number one seed

1108
00:54:47,760 --> 00:54:51,960
Speaker 2: in the region is Purdue. No surprise there. The chalk

1109
00:54:52,040 --> 00:54:54,279
Speaker 2: that we talked about Aaron so far holding true with

1110
00:54:54,320 --> 00:54:57,120
Speaker 2: the number one seeds all three that we all projected.

1111
00:54:57,160 --> 00:54:58,640
Speaker 2: I think it was done before they even got to

1112
00:54:58,680 --> 00:55:01,560
Speaker 2: the conference tournaments. They have a fe actually been confirmed

1113
00:55:02,360 --> 00:55:04,600
Speaker 2: I think by the way, we'll get either Tennessee will

1114
00:55:04,600 --> 00:55:07,080
Speaker 2: probably get either Tennessee or probably Tennessee is the number

1115
00:55:07,080 --> 00:55:10,040
Speaker 2: two in this region, which maybe gives Arizona that final

1116
00:55:10,120 --> 00:55:13,120
Speaker 2: number one as you projected. Grambling State will take on

1117
00:55:13,280 --> 00:55:17,200
Speaker 2: Montana State in a first four matchup coming up. I

1118
00:55:17,360 --> 00:55:19,800
Speaker 2: believe that is going to be on a Wednesday, but

1119
00:55:19,920 --> 00:55:22,239
Speaker 2: we'll get confirmation, but the winner of that game will

1120
00:55:22,280 --> 00:55:24,920
Speaker 2: face Purdue on a Friday. That's a one to sixteen

1121
00:55:25,040 --> 00:55:28,399
Speaker 2: matchup in Indianapolis. But the first four Montana State against

1122
00:55:28,440 --> 00:55:32,600
Speaker 2: Grambling State. Utah State from the Mountain West Conference, the

1123
00:55:32,800 --> 00:55:36,239
Speaker 2: number eight seed in that region. Again. These first round

1124
00:55:36,320 --> 00:55:41,440
Speaker 2: games happening in Indianapolis on Friday and Sunday. For the

1125
00:55:41,560 --> 00:55:45,320
Speaker 2: second round, Utah State will take on TCU. We assume

1126
00:55:45,440 --> 00:55:47,880
Speaker 2: TCU was in, but you never knew where everything was

1127
00:55:47,920 --> 00:55:50,120
Speaker 2: going to lay out. So TCU gets in, So the

1128
00:55:50,239 --> 00:55:53,359
Speaker 2: horn Frogs are in as a number nine seed now

1129
00:55:53,440 --> 00:55:57,439
Speaker 2: in Salt Lake City coming up on Thursday Saturday. First

1130
00:55:57,480 --> 00:56:03,960
Speaker 2: two rounds in Salt Lake City. Twelve matchup is featuring Gonzaga.

1131
00:56:04,160 --> 00:56:05,560
Speaker 3: A little bit higher as a five seed than I

1132
00:56:05,600 --> 00:56:06,400
Speaker 3: would have expected.

1133
00:56:07,080 --> 00:56:09,200
Speaker 2: Did come on late, but they ended up losing in

1134
00:56:09,280 --> 00:56:12,839
Speaker 2: the conference tournament title game to Saint Mary's. You mentioned

1135
00:56:12,920 --> 00:56:15,600
Speaker 2: McNeese earlier and will Wade mcnease the twelve seed, So

1136
00:56:15,680 --> 00:56:17,920
Speaker 2: that's who Gonzaga gets in Salt Lake City coming up

1137
00:56:18,000 --> 00:56:18,640
Speaker 2: on Thursday.

1138
00:56:18,840 --> 00:56:21,080
Speaker 3: That will not be an easy game. Mcnease thirty and

1139
00:56:21,280 --> 00:56:24,799
Speaker 3: three this season they play that number one field goal

1140
00:56:24,840 --> 00:56:27,000
Speaker 3: percentage defense in the country. Believe it or not, is

1141
00:56:27,040 --> 00:56:27,960
Speaker 3: actually McNee state.

1142
00:56:28,200 --> 00:56:31,080
Speaker 2: The other four to thirteen matchup Thursday in Salt Lake

1143
00:56:31,160 --> 00:56:33,080
Speaker 2: City or the other matchup will be a four to

1144
00:56:33,160 --> 00:56:38,000
Speaker 2: thirteen showdown, and the four seed in that Midwest region,

1145
00:56:38,560 --> 00:56:41,600
Speaker 2: as we await the reveal will be the Kansas Jayhawks,

1146
00:56:41,760 --> 00:56:44,920
Speaker 2: banged up in the Big twelve tournament austed early now

1147
00:56:45,000 --> 00:56:49,640
Speaker 2: get a four seed overall. Kansas will play Thursday against Samford.

1148
00:56:50,160 --> 00:56:54,759
Speaker 3: Sanford very high scoring press. That's the kind of team

1149
00:56:54,840 --> 00:56:57,000
Speaker 3: that could give Kansas fits. By the way, the rare

1150
00:56:57,239 --> 00:57:01,799
Speaker 3: outdoor watch party from the Sanford Bulldogs really respect that's right.

1151
00:57:01,960 --> 00:57:04,960
Speaker 3: They're not afraid of the elements down there in Birmingham, Alabama,

1152
00:57:05,040 --> 00:57:05,880
Speaker 3: baby ha ha.

1153
00:57:06,719 --> 00:57:10,200
Speaker 2: So your Midwest region perdue the one seed. Kansas ends

1154
00:57:10,280 --> 00:57:13,360
Speaker 2: up getting a four seed, Gonzaga a five seed. Some

1155
00:57:13,560 --> 00:57:17,200
Speaker 2: name value in that bracket. I'm really curious to see

1156
00:57:17,240 --> 00:57:20,800
Speaker 2: on how the bottom of this bracket plays out. Thursday

1157
00:57:20,880 --> 00:57:23,720
Speaker 2: games in Pittsburgh. So this is six to eleven and

1158
00:57:24,200 --> 00:57:29,120
Speaker 2: three fourteen. South Carolina gets the sixth seed from the SEC.

1159
00:57:30,120 --> 00:57:32,360
Speaker 2: Curious now to see if this will be another first

1160
00:57:32,440 --> 00:57:36,000
Speaker 2: four game Aaron Torres or if we will have that

1161
00:57:36,240 --> 00:57:40,040
Speaker 2: come be fed from the ten line Oregon. You'd called

1162
00:57:40,080 --> 00:57:43,320
Speaker 2: it Oregon, didn't you say Oregon about eleven seed? Yes,

1163
00:57:43,560 --> 00:57:46,120
Speaker 2: is just doing the math on you know who's available?

1164
00:57:46,240 --> 00:57:48,200
Speaker 2: You wonder we have a seven to ten game in

1165
00:57:48,240 --> 00:57:50,400
Speaker 2: This is the ten of play in as well. Creighton

1166
00:57:50,520 --> 00:57:52,840
Speaker 2: is the three seed. They'll play in Pittsburgh coming up

1167
00:57:53,240 --> 00:57:56,240
Speaker 2: on Thursday. So the Creighton Blue Jays, who made a

1168
00:57:56,400 --> 00:57:59,320
Speaker 2: valiant run to the Elite eight last year, falling to

1169
00:57:59,360 --> 00:58:03,440
Speaker 2: San Diego State in that regional final. Creyton hopes to

1170
00:58:03,480 --> 00:58:05,680
Speaker 2: get another step further and maybe some after that. They

1171
00:58:05,720 --> 00:58:08,080
Speaker 2: are the three seed in the Midwest Region playing in

1172
00:58:08,120 --> 00:58:12,120
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh on Thursday, and Creighton's got Akron winner of the Mac,

1173
00:58:12,520 --> 00:58:14,880
Speaker 2: and boy that Mac. At some point we have to

1174
00:58:14,920 --> 00:58:18,280
Speaker 2: look back on Championship Week and what happened. But Akron,

1175
00:58:18,360 --> 00:58:21,680
Speaker 2: one of the big benefactors from one of the bigger situations.

1176
00:58:21,800 --> 00:58:22,960
Speaker 2: Akron's the fourteen seed.

1177
00:58:23,080 --> 00:58:25,360
Speaker 3: You see where this two seed is playing in Charlotte

1178
00:58:25,720 --> 00:58:29,200
Speaker 3: makes you wonder something specific, But we can get to

1179
00:58:29,280 --> 00:58:29,960
Speaker 3: that one at afficial.

1180
00:58:30,120 --> 00:58:32,960
Speaker 2: Texas is the seventh seed playing Thursday in Charlotte. As

1181
00:58:33,000 --> 00:58:36,520
Speaker 2: Aaron mentioned, Virginia will take on Colorado State in a

1182
00:58:36,640 --> 00:58:37,680
Speaker 2: first four matchup.

1183
00:58:37,880 --> 00:58:39,480
Speaker 3: Virginia was on the bubble, so there you go.

1184
00:58:39,640 --> 00:58:43,800
Speaker 2: So your last four teams in we're Colorado, Boise State, Virginia,

1185
00:58:43,880 --> 00:58:46,320
Speaker 2: and Colorado State, two of which coming from the Mountain

1186
00:58:46,320 --> 00:58:49,440
Speaker 2: West Conference. Winner of that matchup will face Texas on

1187
00:58:49,560 --> 00:58:53,200
Speaker 2: Thursday in Charlotte. Virginia Colorado State to play on Tuesday,

1188
00:58:53,520 --> 00:58:55,520
Speaker 2: and I think, as you were alluding to, Tennessee ends

1189
00:58:55,560 --> 00:58:58,120
Speaker 2: up being the two seed you figured, having to not

1190
00:58:58,680 --> 00:59:01,960
Speaker 2: having to travel too far from Knoxville. They'll be in

1191
00:59:02,120 --> 00:59:08,400
Speaker 2: Charlotte on is the two seed on Thursday, awaiting their

1192
00:59:08,480 --> 00:59:11,960
Speaker 2: fifteen seed matchup. So that leaves the Arizona North Carolina

1193
00:59:12,000 --> 00:59:15,720
Speaker 2: dilemma for the one two. Saint Peter's who likes that

1194
00:59:15,840 --> 00:59:18,919
Speaker 2: fifteenth seas? I sure do. They played an SEC team

1195
00:59:18,960 --> 00:59:21,919
Speaker 2: in a Round one as well. Oh man, that would

1196
00:59:21,960 --> 00:59:24,680
Speaker 2: that would make Kentucky fans feel at a little bit

1197
00:59:24,800 --> 00:59:27,600
Speaker 2: better if Saint Peter's also did that to Tennessee. A

1198
00:59:27,640 --> 00:59:29,720
Speaker 2: lot of orange in the bottom corner of that bracket

1199
00:59:29,760 --> 00:59:33,360
Speaker 2: as well. There's your Midwest region Purdue, the one, Tennessee,

1200
00:59:33,400 --> 00:59:35,680
Speaker 2: the two, Creighton, the three, Kansas, the four.

1201
00:59:36,040 --> 00:59:38,520
Speaker 3: I know you hate when we do the when when

1202
00:59:38,800 --> 00:59:40,880
Speaker 3: you know, oh that they're going to the elite eight

1203
00:59:41,000 --> 00:59:42,680
Speaker 3: right off the top. But I will say the top

1204
00:59:42,760 --> 00:59:46,360
Speaker 3: half of that bracket Gonzaga versus McNee state Gonzaga, as

1205
00:59:46,440 --> 00:59:48,320
Speaker 3: I said, they've been up and down all year. McNee

1206
00:59:48,400 --> 00:59:51,680
Speaker 3: the number one field goal percentage defense Kansas. Sanford is

1207
00:59:51,720 --> 00:59:54,000
Speaker 3: the exact opposite. Sanford wants to play fast, the one

1208
00:59:54,000 --> 00:59:57,320
Speaker 3: of college basketball's highest scoring teams. That Kansas team is

1209
00:59:57,400 --> 01:00:01,240
Speaker 3: banged up. Would not be surprised to see either or

1210
01:00:01,360 --> 01:00:03,760
Speaker 3: both of those upsets happen. By the way, fun fact,

1211
01:00:04,280 --> 01:00:07,320
Speaker 3: Sanford is coached by a former high school coach named

1212
01:00:07,360 --> 01:00:10,640
Speaker 3: Bucky McMillan. He coached Trenton Watford who's now in the NBA,

1213
01:00:11,040 --> 01:00:14,160
Speaker 3: who to TRND and Watford playing college LSU and Will Waite.

1214
01:00:14,320 --> 01:00:16,840
Speaker 3: So those two are very good friends. And I just

1215
01:00:16,920 --> 01:00:18,840
Speaker 3: bring it up because I don't think we'll get the

1216
01:00:18,880 --> 01:00:21,200
Speaker 3: twelve thirteen match up there, but I don't think it's inconceivable.

1217
01:00:21,440 --> 01:00:25,280
Speaker 2: So we are waiting on what the final first four

1218
01:00:25,400 --> 01:00:27,680
Speaker 2: matchup will be, but that will be sixteen seeds. So

1219
01:00:27,800 --> 01:00:31,880
Speaker 2: we know the two first four again, Boise State taking

1220
01:00:31,960 --> 01:00:35,480
Speaker 2: on Colorado. That's going to be on Wednesday. On Tuesday,

1221
01:00:35,640 --> 01:00:38,760
Speaker 2: Virginia taking on Colorado State. So what this means is

1222
01:00:38,800 --> 01:00:43,200
Speaker 2: we have seventeen spots to fill, but they're not Seventeen

1223
01:00:43,240 --> 01:00:46,400
Speaker 2: of them are not up for all of these bubble teams,

1224
01:00:46,640 --> 01:00:49,520
Speaker 2: probably about two or three of them are. And you've

1225
01:00:49,560 --> 01:00:51,640
Speaker 2: got at least ten teams that are looking for an

1226
01:00:51,680 --> 01:00:58,200
Speaker 2: opportunity to break through. Michigan State, Mississippi State, Saint John's Pitt,

1227
01:00:58,560 --> 01:01:02,960
Speaker 2: Seaton Hall, Indiana State, Oklahoma Wake Forest, Dayton, all waiting

1228
01:01:03,000 --> 01:01:05,040
Speaker 2: for their names to be called. Yet they have not

1229
01:01:05,240 --> 01:01:05,800
Speaker 2: been called.

1230
01:01:05,960 --> 01:01:08,080
Speaker 3: There is a lot of teams that are gonna be uhappy.

1231
01:01:08,080 --> 01:01:10,480
Speaker 3: By the way, in Nevada wolf Pack probably in that

1232
01:01:10,600 --> 01:01:11,960
Speaker 3: seven eight nine range, go ahead.

1233
01:01:11,960 --> 01:01:14,360
Speaker 2: No, that's fine, he's here, and Torres, I'm dan Byer.

1234
01:01:14,400 --> 01:01:16,959
Speaker 2: They're going to take a time out as they unveil

1235
01:01:17,000 --> 01:01:18,720
Speaker 2: the bracket. We're going to go over to the news

1236
01:01:18,800 --> 01:01:22,840
Speaker 2: desk a bit earlier than we normally do. Monty Belanios though,

1237
01:01:22,920 --> 01:01:26,080
Speaker 2: following all Things Bristol, Following all things Bracket and so

1238
01:01:26,200 --> 01:01:27,600
Speaker 2: much more. What's going on, Mancy?

1239
01:01:27,680 --> 01:01:29,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm glad you guys are here because this bracket

1240
01:01:29,760 --> 01:01:30,520
Speaker 4: stuff is a lot.

1241
01:01:30,760 --> 01:01:31,240
Speaker 2: It's a lot.

1242
01:01:32,680 --> 01:01:34,760
Speaker 6: It does go quick. I thought I was gonna have

1243
01:01:34,800 --> 01:01:35,560
Speaker 6: a little bit more.

1244
01:01:35,520 --> 01:01:39,480
Speaker 4: Time to digest, but no, they just definitely shot those

1245
01:01:39,480 --> 01:01:40,720
Speaker 4: out real real quick.

1246
01:01:41,360 --> 01:01:43,480
Speaker 2: Yeah. And I'll tell you, and I'll tell you you

1247
01:01:43,560 --> 01:01:45,480
Speaker 2: don't even have to worry about it because when you're done,

1248
01:01:45,560 --> 01:01:46,280
Speaker 2: we'll recap.

1249
01:01:47,440 --> 01:01:49,240
Speaker 6: I won't even so I won't even go there.

1250
01:01:49,320 --> 01:01:51,880
Speaker 3: Expra Savior mc knee State breakdown for hour three.

1251
01:01:52,160 --> 01:01:54,640
Speaker 6: Okay, so how about we just go here? Because Kyrie

1252
01:01:54,720 --> 01:01:55,760
Speaker 6: Irving called.

1253
01:01:55,720 --> 01:01:59,000
Speaker 1: Game, jumping up and down, waving his arms, Cleveland looking

1254
01:01:59,240 --> 01:02:01,720
Speaker 1: trying to get it to it's Tyrade turning.

1255
01:02:02,600 --> 01:02:04,720
Speaker 6: He got away tiny as.

1256
01:02:08,880 --> 01:02:14,440
Speaker 4: That was pot swing the swag the freak Mavericks Radio

1257
01:02:14,600 --> 01:02:15,760
Speaker 4: network on the call.

1258
01:02:16,080 --> 01:02:19,720
Speaker 6: Lefty floating in the air makes the shot.

1259
01:02:20,120 --> 01:02:23,280
Speaker 4: The Denver Nuggets lose to the Dallas Mavericks one oh

1260
01:02:23,360 --> 01:02:26,000
Speaker 4: seven to one oh five. Luca Doncher's thirty seven points

1261
01:02:26,040 --> 01:02:28,400
Speaker 4: and nine rebounds in the victory. Bam out of Bio

1262
01:02:28,520 --> 01:02:30,560
Speaker 4: had a three point buzzer beater as the heat edge

1263
01:02:30,560 --> 01:02:32,440
Speaker 4: of the Pistons Earlier today one oh four to one

1264
01:02:32,520 --> 01:02:35,080
Speaker 4: oh one without Yama Santa Ttakoupo. The Bucks beat the

1265
01:02:35,120 --> 01:02:38,080
Speaker 4: Suns one forty to one twenty nine as well, and

1266
01:02:38,480 --> 01:02:39,760
Speaker 4: we had one more game also.

1267
01:02:39,640 --> 01:02:43,120
Speaker 6: In the NBA. As I refreshed my my page here,

1268
01:02:43,720 --> 01:02:47,720
Speaker 6: h what did you do keep Pistons? I did bam

1269
01:02:47,840 --> 01:02:49,640
Speaker 6: bam Outa Bio bam Oude Bio had it.

1270
01:02:50,160 --> 01:02:50,280
Speaker 4: Oh.

1271
01:02:50,320 --> 01:02:51,880
Speaker 6: I guess those were the three that finished. We just

1272
01:02:51,920 --> 01:02:52,680
Speaker 6: have ones going on.

1273
01:02:52,840 --> 01:02:54,400
Speaker 2: That's what we're talking about. That's what it is.

1274
01:02:54,640 --> 01:02:56,800
Speaker 4: Celtics with the early lead against the Wizards thirty two

1275
01:02:56,840 --> 01:02:58,880
Speaker 4: to twenty one late in the first quarter, the Magic

1276
01:02:58,960 --> 01:03:01,840
Speaker 4: up on the Raptors twin seventeen, also late in the

1277
01:03:01,920 --> 01:03:04,840
Speaker 4: first quarter. But I guess Scotty Scheffler has made history,

1278
01:03:05,000 --> 01:03:07,000
Speaker 4: the first player to defend his title at the twenty

1279
01:03:07,040 --> 01:03:10,800
Speaker 4: twenty four Players Championship. Today eight under sixty four, he

1280
01:03:10,960 --> 01:03:14,800
Speaker 4: came back steals the win. Good for you, Scotty Scheffler.

1281
01:03:15,360 --> 01:03:18,640
Speaker 4: I saw he was way under today as the day started,

1282
01:03:19,080 --> 01:03:20,560
Speaker 4: and I also saw that he was projected to.

1283
01:03:20,560 --> 01:03:22,600
Speaker 6: Win and I was like, really, he's projected to win.

1284
01:03:22,640 --> 01:03:23,880
Speaker 6: I couldn't believe it. He pulled it off.

1285
01:03:23,920 --> 01:03:26,440
Speaker 4: So my bat, I'm not believing in Scotty Scheffler. At

1286
01:03:26,480 --> 01:03:29,120
Speaker 4: the NASCAR Cup Series out of Bristol.

1287
01:03:28,880 --> 01:03:30,080
Speaker 6: We are in the final round.

1288
01:03:30,200 --> 01:03:32,920
Speaker 4: Denny Hamlin is in the lead after two three hundred

1289
01:03:32,960 --> 01:03:33,960
Speaker 4: and seventy two laps.

1290
01:03:34,200 --> 01:03:36,520
Speaker 6: You catch all the action on box.

1291
01:03:37,000 --> 01:03:39,440
Speaker 2: Back to you guys, Thank you very much. Monsie Wyndham.

1292
01:03:39,480 --> 01:03:42,680
Speaker 2: Clark had a putt that went in and then curled

1293
01:03:42,760 --> 01:03:46,160
Speaker 2: out that would have tied it on eighteen. The definition

1294
01:03:46,280 --> 01:03:48,760
Speaker 2: of Golf's bubble would have put him in a playoff,

1295
01:03:48,840 --> 01:03:52,720
Speaker 2: but instead, as he mentioned, Scotty Scheffler takes home the trophy.

1296
01:03:52,880 --> 01:03:55,000
Speaker 2: Thank you very much. This is this is how the

1297
01:03:55,080 --> 01:03:57,840
Speaker 2: bracket looked so far. Again, three of the regions have

1298
01:03:58,000 --> 01:04:01,800
Speaker 2: been revealed, the East, South, and West regions. Yukon the

1299
01:04:01,880 --> 01:04:04,200
Speaker 2: one seed in the east, Houston the one seed in

1300
01:04:04,280 --> 01:04:06,880
Speaker 2: the south, Purdue the one seed in the midwest. The

1301
01:04:07,000 --> 01:04:09,800
Speaker 2: two seeds Iowa State in the East, Marquette in the south,

1302
01:04:10,040 --> 01:04:13,560
Speaker 2: Tennessee in the midwest, the three seed Illinois in the east,

1303
01:04:14,160 --> 01:04:16,680
Speaker 2: Kentucky in the South, Creyton in the Midwest, and the

1304
01:04:16,760 --> 01:04:19,880
Speaker 2: four seeds Auburn in that Yukon bracket in the East,

1305
01:04:20,000 --> 01:04:22,640
Speaker 2: Duke and that Houston, Brecken in the South, and Kansas

1306
01:04:22,840 --> 01:04:25,840
Speaker 2: in that Purdue bracket in the Midwest. There is one

1307
01:04:25,920 --> 01:04:28,440
Speaker 2: region to go. It is the West region and it

1308
01:04:28,640 --> 01:04:34,160
Speaker 2: is about to be revealed. The final region to be

1309
01:04:34,320 --> 01:04:36,880
Speaker 2: revealed and it is North Carolina. They will get the

1310
01:04:37,000 --> 01:04:40,600
Speaker 2: number one seed. North Carolina will play their first round

1311
01:04:40,640 --> 01:04:44,480
Speaker 2: games Thursday in Charlotte against the winner of the other

1312
01:04:44,760 --> 01:04:47,240
Speaker 2: first four to sixteen matchup. As we are about to

1313
01:04:47,520 --> 01:04:50,680
Speaker 2: find out who will play in that one again, Wagner

1314
01:04:50,880 --> 01:04:55,640
Speaker 2: likely there. Yep, Howard against Wagner. Hey, kudos. Everybody was

1315
01:04:55,680 --> 01:04:58,040
Speaker 2: picking those four teams and that's who ended up being

1316
01:04:58,080 --> 01:05:00,560
Speaker 2: the final four. Howard and Wagner will end up playing

1317
01:05:00,680 --> 01:05:03,840
Speaker 2: on Tuesday in the first four. Winner gets North Carolina

1318
01:05:03,920 --> 01:05:08,920
Speaker 2: in Charlotte on Thursday. Mississippi State is in comfortably so

1319
01:05:09,040 --> 01:05:12,240
Speaker 2: as an eight seed, so Chris Jans and the Bulldogs

1320
01:05:12,280 --> 01:05:14,400
Speaker 2: after a nice run in the tournament to get in

1321
01:05:14,560 --> 01:05:17,360
Speaker 2: as an eight seed, They'll play Michigan State to the

1322
01:05:17,480 --> 01:05:19,280
Speaker 2: nine seed. A battle of MSUs.

1323
01:05:20,080 --> 01:05:23,080
Speaker 3: Clear that this was done I don't know. It's just

1324
01:05:23,600 --> 01:05:25,480
Speaker 3: you look at Michigan State. A lot of these teams

1325
01:05:25,520 --> 01:05:27,400
Speaker 3: that we thought were last four in first four out

1326
01:05:27,480 --> 01:05:30,120
Speaker 3: Michigan State, Florida, Atlantic, Texas, A and m all in

1327
01:05:30,160 --> 01:05:33,000
Speaker 3: these eight nine lines. You know, makes you wonder how

1328
01:05:33,240 --> 01:05:34,840
Speaker 3: you know how much this week really mattered.

1329
01:05:35,040 --> 01:05:38,360
Speaker 2: In Spokane, Washington on Friday, the fifth seed Saint Mary's,

1330
01:05:38,440 --> 01:05:42,320
Speaker 2: winners of the West Coast Conference. Well, there'll be the

1331
01:05:42,440 --> 01:05:45,240
Speaker 2: five seed taking on a twelve seed and again expecting

1332
01:05:45,640 --> 01:05:51,760
Speaker 2: an AQ in automatic qualifier here as Saint Mary's will

1333
01:05:51,920 --> 01:05:55,120
Speaker 2: end up facing a little bit of a travel. They'll

1334
01:05:55,160 --> 01:06:00,880
Speaker 2: be facing the loops, the Antelopes of Grand Canyon GCU,

1335
01:06:01,560 --> 01:06:03,760
Speaker 2: Bryce Drew and the crew back in the tournament as

1336
01:06:03,800 --> 01:06:04,440
Speaker 2: a twelve seed.

1337
01:06:04,360 --> 01:06:06,160
Speaker 3: Third tournament in four years. They got a bunch of

1338
01:06:06,240 --> 01:06:09,000
Speaker 3: high major guys that have transferred. They have the talent

1339
01:06:09,040 --> 01:06:10,120
Speaker 3: to pull off that up set.

1340
01:06:10,160 --> 01:06:14,840
Speaker 2: Friday in Spokane, four thirteen matchup. I'm curious to see

1341
01:06:14,840 --> 01:06:18,360
Speaker 2: where this one falls. Likely a leftover of a four

1342
01:06:18,520 --> 01:06:23,320
Speaker 2: seed and it's Alabama. Now we're just filling in spots.

1343
01:06:23,400 --> 01:06:25,720
Speaker 2: Yeah right, you're trying to remember who hasn't been named,

1344
01:06:25,960 --> 01:06:28,000
Speaker 2: who has been named a little bit of a travel

1345
01:06:28,080 --> 01:06:30,760
Speaker 2: for Alabama, a little bit more travel for Charleston who

1346
01:06:30,840 --> 01:06:33,439
Speaker 2: left to travel with Spokane to face the Crimson Tide

1347
01:06:33,720 --> 01:06:37,240
Speaker 2: that comes up on Friday. Fly together. So now there

1348
01:06:37,320 --> 01:06:42,960
Speaker 2: are eight spots. Here we go Friday, Memphis, Tennessee. Clemson

1349
01:06:43,240 --> 01:06:48,160
Speaker 2: the sixth seed. No surprise there. Clemson in from the

1350
01:06:48,280 --> 01:06:54,840
Speaker 2: ACC that likely would take out another ACC school because

1351
01:06:54,840 --> 01:06:57,240
Speaker 2: you're not going to have a conference matchup. New Mexico

1352
01:06:57,400 --> 01:07:02,640
Speaker 2: and Richard Pertino. Patino winning the Mountain West Conference Tournament yesterday,

1353
01:07:02,880 --> 01:07:05,520
Speaker 2: So New Mexico comes in as an eleven seed.

1354
01:07:05,880 --> 01:07:07,680
Speaker 3: That means that they would not have been in had

1355
01:07:07,720 --> 01:07:09,880
Speaker 3: they not won that game yesterday, falling with them on

1356
01:07:09,920 --> 01:07:12,320
Speaker 3: the eleven line. They were the Mountain West Conference Tournament champions.

1357
01:07:12,360 --> 01:07:15,959
Speaker 2: Stand and now we are waiting Baylor, the three seed

1358
01:07:16,200 --> 01:07:20,120
Speaker 2: coming up on Friday in Memphis. The Baylor Bears are in.

1359
01:07:21,280 --> 01:07:25,200
Speaker 2: They will take on Colgate. The only drama that we

1360
01:07:25,320 --> 01:07:27,640
Speaker 2: really have because we know Arizona's going to be the

1361
01:07:27,640 --> 01:07:30,640
Speaker 2: two seed in the region comes in theas next two

1362
01:07:30,720 --> 01:07:34,439
Speaker 2: windows here Thursday, seven to ten game in Salt Lake City.

1363
01:07:34,920 --> 01:07:39,320
Speaker 2: Dayton is your seventh seed. So Dayton is in Andy

1364
01:07:39,640 --> 01:07:40,560
Speaker 2: right here, ten seed.

1365
01:07:40,640 --> 01:07:41,000
Speaker 1: This is it.

1366
01:07:42,160 --> 01:07:45,160
Speaker 2: Bubbles will be bursting after this Dayton on Thursday in

1367
01:07:45,240 --> 01:07:49,400
Speaker 2: Salt Lake City will play Nevada. So Nevada gets in

1368
01:07:49,640 --> 01:07:53,120
Speaker 2: as a ten seed. Nevada is in the Mountain West Conference,

1369
01:07:53,240 --> 01:07:55,920
Speaker 2: getting their love a lot of heartbreak.

1370
01:07:56,480 --> 01:07:58,880
Speaker 3: Well, I'll tell you it really feels like they weren't

1371
01:07:58,880 --> 01:08:02,040
Speaker 3: as valued as maybe the bracketologists thought. Nevada ten seed,

1372
01:08:02,160 --> 01:08:04,919
Speaker 3: and then Colorado State and Boise State in that last

1373
01:08:05,000 --> 01:08:06,520
Speaker 3: four in games.

1374
01:08:07,200 --> 01:08:09,640
Speaker 2: Arizona is the two seed. As we told you, we

1375
01:08:09,760 --> 01:08:12,760
Speaker 2: expected that either they are North Carolina would be the

1376
01:08:12,800 --> 01:08:16,080
Speaker 2: one of the two, and Arizona in a two fifteen

1377
01:08:16,200 --> 01:08:20,680
Speaker 2: matchup on Thursday in Salt Lake City. Sometimes Salt Lake

1378
01:08:20,720 --> 01:08:24,920
Speaker 2: City and Arizona have not been good together because of history.

1379
01:08:25,880 --> 01:08:30,240
Speaker 2: We've seen it happen. Log Beach State is the fifteen seed,

1380
01:08:31,680 --> 01:08:35,960
Speaker 2: getting the automatic bid from the Big West. Long Beach

1381
01:08:36,040 --> 01:08:39,080
Speaker 2: State your final team to fill out the field of

1382
01:08:39,200 --> 01:08:43,599
Speaker 2: sixty eight. So by my count, Aaron Torres, Saint John's,

1383
01:08:43,680 --> 01:08:48,560
Speaker 2: Pitt Seaton Hall, Indiana State, Oklahoma, and Wake Forest on

1384
01:08:48,680 --> 01:08:50,160
Speaker 2: the outside looking.

1385
01:08:50,000 --> 01:08:52,720
Speaker 3: In, a couple things stand out on that one. You know,

1386
01:08:52,800 --> 01:08:54,720
Speaker 3: you and I both thought Saint John's they would find

1387
01:08:54,760 --> 01:08:58,200
Speaker 3: a way to put them in Big East. Three NCAA

1388
01:08:58,320 --> 01:09:01,600
Speaker 3: tournament bids, three NCAA tournament bids. The acc ended up

1389
01:09:01,640 --> 01:09:04,839
Speaker 3: with more NCAA tournament bids than the Big East. Marquette,

1390
01:09:04,960 --> 01:09:05,960
Speaker 3: Yukon Creighton.

1391
01:09:06,200 --> 01:09:06,479
Speaker 2: That's it.

1392
01:09:06,960 --> 01:09:08,519
Speaker 3: I think the other thing that stands out what I

1393
01:09:08,680 --> 01:09:11,200
Speaker 3: just said. It's clear we've been talking about how exciting

1394
01:09:11,240 --> 01:09:14,080
Speaker 3: the Mountain West is on a night tonight basis Boise State,

1395
01:09:14,120 --> 01:09:16,880
Speaker 3: Colorado State last four in New Mexico and eleven seed,

1396
01:09:16,960 --> 01:09:19,640
Speaker 3: meaning they would not have gotten in without winning that

1397
01:09:19,720 --> 01:09:23,840
Speaker 3: conference tournament. And Nevada was a ten seed, which means

1398
01:09:23,840 --> 01:09:25,600
Speaker 3: they weren't way closer to the bubble than any of

1399
01:09:25,600 --> 01:09:28,839
Speaker 3: the bracketologists projected. On the flip side, a Florida Atlantic

1400
01:09:28,920 --> 01:09:31,760
Speaker 3: at Texas A and M on those nine lines makes it.

1401
01:09:31,920 --> 01:09:34,200
Speaker 3: Michigan State on the nine line makes it clear that

1402
01:09:34,280 --> 01:09:37,679
Speaker 3: those teams were more comfortably than anybody thought.

1403
01:09:39,080 --> 01:09:42,160
Speaker 2: Man, this is something else, and Buzz Williams does not

1404
01:09:42,240 --> 01:09:44,479
Speaker 2: have to complain this year. Yeah, Texas A and M

1405
01:09:45,040 --> 01:09:47,559
Speaker 2: ends up getting in. But you just wonder what coaches

1406
01:09:47,640 --> 01:09:48,439
Speaker 2: will have a gripe.

1407
01:09:48,640 --> 01:09:51,360
Speaker 3: I will tell you this, My Twitter mansions are about

1408
01:09:51,360 --> 01:09:52,680
Speaker 3: to be a disaster right now because I said I

1409
01:09:52,720 --> 01:09:55,240
Speaker 3: thought Saint John's and Indiana State were getting in. Neither

1410
01:09:55,439 --> 01:09:58,920
Speaker 3: does I guess I was right on the bubble, you know,

1411
01:09:59,040 --> 01:10:03,439
Speaker 3: the Big twelve bracketology Net conversation, because it looks like

1412
01:10:03,479 --> 01:10:06,639
Speaker 3: the Oklahoma Sooners with Portamoser are on the outside looking

1413
01:10:06,720 --> 01:10:07,120
Speaker 3: in as well.

1414
01:10:07,560 --> 01:10:11,080
Speaker 2: Yes, there's a lot to break down when I am

1415
01:10:11,200 --> 01:10:14,479
Speaker 2: curious in seeing and how we look at things as

1416
01:10:14,520 --> 01:10:18,400
Speaker 2: sometimes those second round matchups and who do we expect

1417
01:10:18,640 --> 01:10:20,720
Speaker 2: a lot from? So there it is. The field of

1418
01:10:20,800 --> 01:10:24,519
Speaker 2: sixty eight has been revealed, the first four taking place

1419
01:10:25,080 --> 01:10:29,080
Speaker 2: on Tuesday and Wednesday in Dayton. If you miss that,

1420
01:10:29,400 --> 01:10:34,040
Speaker 2: Virginia will take on Colorado State on Tuesday. The other

1421
01:10:34,400 --> 01:10:38,080
Speaker 2: first round game the two sixteen seeds Howard against Wagner.

1422
01:10:38,360 --> 01:10:41,720
Speaker 2: On Wednesday, Grambling State will take on Montana State, and

1423
01:10:41,800 --> 01:10:45,960
Speaker 2: then the other first four we'll have Boise State against Colorado.

1424
01:10:46,080 --> 01:10:49,040
Speaker 2: How about this for the first four out they are

1425
01:10:49,120 --> 01:10:52,160
Speaker 2: showing them right now. Oklahoma was the first four the

1426
01:10:52,280 --> 01:10:56,400
Speaker 2: first one out, then Seaton Hall, then Indiana State, and

1427
01:10:56,560 --> 01:10:58,680
Speaker 2: then pit Well, I.

1428
01:10:58,680 --> 01:11:00,960
Speaker 3: Mean Saint Johnce was nowhere near the bubble, which is

1429
01:11:01,400 --> 01:11:05,120
Speaker 3: shocking to me. And again I think that what you're

1430
01:11:05,200 --> 01:11:07,559
Speaker 3: doing late in the season should be of more value.

1431
01:11:07,680 --> 01:11:10,000
Speaker 3: Virginia was up and down for the last month of

1432
01:11:10,040 --> 01:11:13,160
Speaker 3: the year. Colorado their credit, they did sort of get

1433
01:11:13,280 --> 01:11:16,960
Speaker 3: hot towards the back half. But I'm stunned that Texas

1434
01:11:16,960 --> 01:11:18,519
Speaker 3: A and M was on that eight nine line. I'm

1435
01:11:18,640 --> 01:11:20,720
Speaker 3: stunned that Florid Atlantic was on that eight nine line.

1436
01:11:20,720 --> 01:11:22,519
Speaker 3: I'm stunn that Michigan State was on that eight nine

1437
01:11:22,560 --> 01:11:23,040
Speaker 3: line as well.

1438
01:11:23,479 --> 01:11:25,679
Speaker 2: I look at these first four that we just mentioned,

1439
01:11:26,200 --> 01:11:28,080
Speaker 2: and are that are going to be playing in that

1440
01:11:29,000 --> 01:11:31,960
Speaker 2: those ten seed matchups. Not only do you have two

1441
01:11:32,160 --> 01:11:35,960
Speaker 2: teams two schools from the state of Colorado, because you

1442
01:11:36,000 --> 01:11:39,040
Speaker 2: have Colorado and Colorado State mentioned it earlier, you have

1443
01:11:39,120 --> 01:11:41,920
Speaker 2: two from the Mountain West and Colorado State and Boise State.

1444
01:11:43,200 --> 01:11:47,160
Speaker 2: Really the committee focused in on the Mountain time Zone

1445
01:11:47,479 --> 01:11:50,320
Speaker 2: and is like, all right, we're locked in. You talked

1446
01:11:50,320 --> 01:11:52,960
Speaker 2: about the Mountain West and the success that they had,

1447
01:11:53,439 --> 01:11:56,360
Speaker 2: but there was no East Coast biased in any of this.

1448
01:11:56,920 --> 01:11:59,960
Speaker 2: The bias that did not happen. I don't want to

1449
01:12:00,120 --> 01:12:03,519
Speaker 2: say Middle America because I feel Middle America is more Midwest,

1450
01:12:03,840 --> 01:12:04,600
Speaker 2: but the Mountain.

1451
01:12:04,400 --> 01:12:06,800
Speaker 3: Time Zone getting love from the committee. Well, and you know,

1452
01:12:06,880 --> 01:12:08,400
Speaker 3: there's just so much to break down. I mean, you

1453
01:12:08,400 --> 01:12:10,160
Speaker 3: even look at like a Texas, A and M. I

1454
01:12:10,320 --> 01:12:12,679
Speaker 3: thought I actually thought they were on the wrong side

1455
01:12:12,680 --> 01:12:16,880
Speaker 3: of that bubble. You look at you know the metric

1456
01:12:16,960 --> 01:12:19,800
Speaker 3: that you mentioned earlier DAN quad one wins and quad

1457
01:12:19,840 --> 01:12:22,760
Speaker 3: three and four losses. Those are that basically means did

1458
01:12:22,800 --> 01:12:25,160
Speaker 3: you get really good wins? Did you take really bad losses?

1459
01:12:25,520 --> 01:12:27,240
Speaker 3: A and M, to their credit, had some really good wins.

1460
01:12:27,280 --> 01:12:29,320
Speaker 3: They beat i With State out of neutral, they Beata

1461
01:12:29,520 --> 01:12:32,599
Speaker 3: Tennessee at home. They beat Kentucky twice. They also had

1462
01:12:32,920 --> 01:12:36,640
Speaker 3: five quad three losses. They got swept by Arkansas, they

1463
01:12:36,800 --> 01:12:39,519
Speaker 3: lost to Vanderbilt. I don't think a team like that

1464
01:12:39,600 --> 01:12:42,040
Speaker 3: should be rewarded. I know their highs were really high

1465
01:12:42,400 --> 01:12:44,800
Speaker 3: and their lows were, but their lows were really well

1466
01:12:44,840 --> 01:12:48,200
Speaker 3: as their lows were really low as well. You feel

1467
01:12:48,280 --> 01:12:51,200
Speaker 3: bad because so what were the last three out? It

1468
01:12:51,320 --> 01:12:52,840
Speaker 3: was Indiana State, Oklahoma?

1469
01:12:52,920 --> 01:12:55,960
Speaker 2: What was the Oklahoma's the first school out Oklahoma's number

1470
01:12:56,000 --> 01:12:59,240
Speaker 2: sixty nine, Seaton Hall would be seventy, Indiana State seventy one,

1471
01:12:59,280 --> 01:13:00,240
Speaker 2: and pitt seventy to.

1472
01:13:00,400 --> 01:13:03,280
Speaker 3: And so keep in mind those four teams factor in

1473
01:13:03,960 --> 01:13:07,960
Speaker 3: Oregon stole a bid, NC State stole a bid UAB

1474
01:13:08,320 --> 01:13:11,240
Speaker 3: in the AAC stole a bid. And then of course

1475
01:13:11,439 --> 01:13:14,800
Speaker 3: also it looks you know, it looks like New Mexico

1476
01:13:14,840 --> 01:13:16,080
Speaker 3: stole a bid. It looks like they would not have

1477
01:13:16,160 --> 01:13:18,439
Speaker 3: been in. So those four teams are the ones with

1478
01:13:18,520 --> 01:13:20,880
Speaker 3: the biggest scribes. I'm stunned by Saint John's and i

1479
01:13:21,040 --> 01:13:24,240
Speaker 3: know the last ten doesn't matter. But and for people

1480
01:13:24,280 --> 01:13:26,840
Speaker 3: who missed it earlier, we were talking about the last

1481
01:13:26,880 --> 01:13:28,680
Speaker 3: ten games used to be a metric. They wanted to

1482
01:13:28,680 --> 01:13:30,600
Speaker 3: see that you were playing well down the stretch. But

1483
01:13:30,720 --> 01:13:32,800
Speaker 3: Saint John's had won six in a row. They played

1484
01:13:32,880 --> 01:13:35,840
Speaker 3: Yukon down to the wire. It's just stunning to me.

1485
01:13:35,880 --> 01:13:38,040
Speaker 3: They weren't even in the next four out, first four out.

1486
01:13:38,080 --> 01:13:41,280
Speaker 3: Excuse me. That is stunning to me. And three teams

1487
01:13:41,320 --> 01:13:43,600
Speaker 3: from the Big East. I'm sorry, but that is just

1488
01:13:43,760 --> 01:13:45,960
Speaker 3: that's not the finest day from the committee. It just isn't.

1489
01:13:46,080 --> 01:13:48,599
Speaker 2: He's eron Torres. I'm Dan Byer. The field of sixty

1490
01:13:48,640 --> 01:13:51,559
Speaker 2: eight is set. Will continue to break it down. Hit

1491
01:13:51,600 --> 01:13:53,720
Speaker 2: them up at Aaron Underscore Torres. You can find me

1492
01:13:54,160 --> 01:13:56,680
Speaker 2: at Dan Byer on Fox. It's all next here on

1493
01:13:56,800 --> 01:14:01,120
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio Selection Sunday specially on Fox Sports Radio.

1494
01:14:01,200 --> 01:14:03,559
Speaker 2: He's Aaron Torres, I'm Dan Byer. The field of sixty

1495
01:14:03,600 --> 01:14:07,439
Speaker 2: eight is out. Wow. And we mentioned a lot of

1496
01:14:07,680 --> 01:14:10,240
Speaker 2: the schools that didn't make it, Saint John's, Pitt Seaton Hall,

1497
01:14:10,280 --> 01:14:14,599
Speaker 2: Indiana State, Oklahoma ends up being the first team out

1498
01:14:14,640 --> 01:14:17,760
Speaker 2: of the bracket. I love that the tournament does that.

1499
01:14:18,479 --> 01:14:24,000
Speaker 2: And the reason why it started, Aaron, was remember when

1500
01:14:24,160 --> 01:14:28,040
Speaker 2: COVID happened, we weren't sure if every team would have

1501
01:14:28,120 --> 01:14:30,400
Speaker 2: been able to fulfill their spot because of a possible

1502
01:14:30,439 --> 01:14:35,000
Speaker 2: outbreak in twenty twenty one, and so then teams were

1503
01:14:35,080 --> 01:14:38,360
Speaker 2: lined up in order. As it ended up happening, we

1504
01:14:38,439 --> 01:14:43,200
Speaker 2: had Virginia Commonwealth had a breakout or a situation where

1505
01:14:43,240 --> 01:14:45,880
Speaker 2: they had to forfeit their game against Oregon, but it

1506
01:14:46,040 --> 01:14:52,240
Speaker 2: was past the deadline to find a replacement school. But

1507
01:14:52,600 --> 01:14:55,000
Speaker 2: I remember it happening during COVID, and I love that

1508
01:14:55,120 --> 01:14:57,560
Speaker 2: feature of it to show who's in and who's out. Yeah, no,

1509
01:14:57,720 --> 01:14:59,800
Speaker 2: I I like it.

1510
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:01,240
Speaker 3: I mean I feel bad for the schools, but you're

1511
01:15:01,240 --> 01:15:04,120
Speaker 3: absolutely right. I remember that being a thing of like

1512
01:15:04,439 --> 01:15:07,760
Speaker 3: if teams aren't able to play. By the way, we're

1513
01:15:07,760 --> 01:15:11,200
Speaker 3: starting to get some reaction here. I'm seeing a singular report.

1514
01:15:11,320 --> 01:15:13,320
Speaker 3: I don't I don't want to quote it just yet,

1515
01:15:13,439 --> 01:15:16,839
Speaker 3: but it looks like Saint John's is going to refuse

1516
01:15:16,920 --> 01:15:20,519
Speaker 3: an invite to the n T. And if that's the case,

1517
01:15:20,560 --> 01:15:24,960
Speaker 3: obviously they're not very happy with their situation. Just some

1518
01:15:25,479 --> 01:15:28,439
Speaker 3: very interesting, interesting, interesting stuff here. I mean, again, the

1519
01:15:28,520 --> 01:15:30,599
Speaker 3: thing that stands out to me. I know, I've said

1520
01:15:30,600 --> 01:15:32,240
Speaker 3: it a few times and we can get into the

1521
01:15:32,280 --> 01:15:35,320
Speaker 3: matchups and everything, but the Big East as a three

1522
01:15:35,439 --> 01:15:37,880
Speaker 3: bid league, to me is just comical. I just I

1523
01:15:38,800 --> 01:15:39,960
Speaker 3: don't know how you can justify it.

1524
01:15:40,360 --> 01:15:40,840
Speaker 2: I'll say this.

1525
01:15:41,320 --> 01:15:44,479
Speaker 3: You know, the gripe generally is does anything that happens

1526
01:15:44,520 --> 01:15:47,720
Speaker 3: on Sunday matter? I'm starting to wonder if anything in

1527
01:15:47,720 --> 01:15:50,320
Speaker 3: the last month matters with the fact that Michigan State

1528
01:15:50,720 --> 01:15:53,400
Speaker 3: A and m Florida Atlantic. I know, I keep saying it,

1529
01:15:53,439 --> 01:15:55,439
Speaker 3: but these were teams that were projected as those last

1530
01:15:55,520 --> 01:15:58,240
Speaker 3: four in first four out. You know, the Colorado State's

1531
01:15:58,240 --> 01:16:01,799
Speaker 3: comfortably in, the Boise States comfort in well, the Florida Atlantics,

1532
01:16:01,840 --> 01:16:03,320
Speaker 3: Michigan State's A and M's are on the eight and

1533
01:16:03,400 --> 01:16:07,519
Speaker 3: nine line. Colorado State last four in Boise State last four,

1534
01:16:07,600 --> 01:16:12,240
Speaker 3: and I just unless all the bracketologists were wrong. I

1535
01:16:12,479 --> 01:16:15,800
Speaker 3: just it just feels like a very bizarre setup for

1536
01:16:16,240 --> 01:16:16,759
Speaker 3: the committee.

1537
01:16:16,880 --> 01:16:20,479
Speaker 2: I also find this time interesting and I don't want

1538
01:16:20,520 --> 01:16:23,880
Speaker 2: to be like hockey fan. I get this with golf,

1539
01:16:24,080 --> 01:16:26,280
Speaker 2: and I get this with where.

1540
01:16:26,120 --> 01:16:27,240
Speaker 3: We all pretend we know what we're doing.

1541
01:16:27,520 --> 01:16:30,679
Speaker 2: Yeah, and there's ano there's something that Aaron Torres said

1542
01:16:31,280 --> 01:16:35,800
Speaker 2: throughout this program because Aaron understands the breakdown of it.

1543
01:16:36,280 --> 01:16:38,960
Speaker 2: And if you follow college basketball and just understand how

1544
01:16:39,040 --> 01:16:42,880
Speaker 2: things work, that's the way that it is. And it's

1545
01:16:43,000 --> 01:16:45,479
Speaker 2: not news, you know, like when don't you hate that one?

1546
01:16:45,600 --> 01:16:48,519
Speaker 2: Stuff like isn't news, but it becomes news.

1547
01:16:48,600 --> 01:16:49,800
Speaker 3: Oh, I'll give you great you want me to give

1548
01:16:49,840 --> 01:16:50,639
Speaker 3: you a very quick.

1549
01:16:50,640 --> 01:16:54,599
Speaker 2: Example, because there's this is the point that I'm making.

1550
01:16:55,320 --> 01:16:59,920
Speaker 2: Is Charles McClelland, who's the chair of the selection can

1551
01:17:00,360 --> 01:17:04,960
Speaker 2: he's the the SWACK commissioner was asked on CBS, which,

1552
01:17:05,000 --> 01:17:07,280
Speaker 2: by the way, we'll bring back next hour some of

1553
01:17:07,320 --> 01:17:10,479
Speaker 2: those comments to lend more insight and how they came

1554
01:17:10,720 --> 01:17:14,000
Speaker 2: up with a field of sixty eight. Mentioned that New

1555
01:17:14,080 --> 01:17:17,360
Speaker 2: Mexico was a bid stealer and that they would not

1556
01:17:17,479 --> 01:17:20,200
Speaker 2: have gotten in if they didn't win the Mountain West. Well,

1557
01:17:20,280 --> 01:17:24,280
Speaker 2: that's obvious if they were on eleventh seed by winning

1558
01:17:24,320 --> 01:17:27,439
Speaker 2: the conference and the cutoff was the ten seed, that's

1559
01:17:27,520 --> 01:17:31,240
Speaker 2: not New like that. That point is obvious, and you

1560
01:17:31,400 --> 01:17:34,439
Speaker 2: mentioned it as it happened, because we saw the line

1561
01:17:34,479 --> 01:17:37,280
Speaker 2: of demarcation of this is where the first four games are.

1562
01:17:37,520 --> 01:17:40,160
Speaker 2: They're at the ten seed. So yeah, so New Mexico,

1563
01:17:40,200 --> 01:17:41,840
Speaker 2: which by the way, would have if they would have lost,

1564
01:17:41,880 --> 01:17:43,880
Speaker 2: would have had a worst case it would even have

1565
01:17:43,960 --> 01:17:47,320
Speaker 2: been further down the list. Obviously they were a bid stealer.

1566
01:17:47,479 --> 01:17:50,599
Speaker 3: Well, and it's funny because, and for people that aren't

1567
01:17:50,600 --> 01:17:52,880
Speaker 3: following what Dan's saying, we have those four games and

1568
01:17:53,000 --> 01:17:56,280
Speaker 3: day and two on Tuesday, two on Wednesday, two games

1569
01:17:56,320 --> 01:17:59,639
Speaker 3: feature sixteen seeds, but those last those those two other

1570
01:17:59,760 --> 01:18:03,679
Speaker 3: games feature the last four teams in on the bubble.

1571
01:18:04,200 --> 01:18:06,680
Speaker 3: And so because they're ten seeds, that means that New

1572
01:18:06,760 --> 01:18:08,240
Speaker 3: Mexico being a eleven, they would.

1573
01:18:08,080 --> 01:18:08,720
Speaker 2: Not have gotten in.

1574
01:18:08,880 --> 01:18:11,120
Speaker 3: So yeah, a lot to peel back. By the way,

1575
01:18:11,120 --> 01:18:13,120
Speaker 3: it would have been an interesting week for the Patino family.

1576
01:18:13,240 --> 01:18:15,760
Speaker 3: If you know, Rick and Richard both got left out.

1577
01:18:15,800 --> 01:18:17,960
Speaker 3: We were talking about them as a potential first four matchup.

1578
01:18:18,280 --> 01:18:22,679
Speaker 3: Could they play there? The fact that, yeah, the fact

1579
01:18:22,720 --> 01:18:25,600
Speaker 3: that I just it's still a lot to digest in

1580
01:18:25,680 --> 01:18:28,599
Speaker 3: real time. I think what is interesting again, I keep

1581
01:18:28,640 --> 01:18:31,439
Speaker 3: going back to the Big East with three conference bids.

1582
01:18:31,840 --> 01:18:33,560
Speaker 2: You know, Virginia getting in.

1583
01:18:33,600 --> 01:18:35,040
Speaker 3: I think a lot of people thought when you lose

1584
01:18:35,120 --> 01:18:37,519
Speaker 3: to NC State on Friday night in that in that

1585
01:18:37,640 --> 01:18:41,240
Speaker 3: ACC tournament, you're out. I thought Michigan State had much

1586
01:18:41,280 --> 01:18:44,479
Speaker 3: more of a bubble argument that they did A and

1587
01:18:44,600 --> 01:18:48,439
Speaker 3: M as I mentioned five Quad three losses and Quad

1588
01:18:48,520 --> 01:18:51,559
Speaker 3: three are lower level bad losses. They got swept by Arkansas,

1589
01:18:51,680 --> 01:18:54,400
Speaker 3: lost to Vanderbilt. I thought they were closer to the bubble.

1590
01:18:54,920 --> 01:18:57,800
Speaker 3: But again, I think the theme here, which is is

1591
01:18:58,360 --> 01:18:59,519
Speaker 3: what you and I have been talking about for the

1592
01:18:59,560 --> 01:19:02,559
Speaker 3: last two hours, is NC State winning the ACC, Oregon

1593
01:19:02,600 --> 01:19:06,200
Speaker 3: winning the PAC twelve UAB, and not Florida Atlantic winning

1594
01:19:06,240 --> 01:19:09,680
Speaker 3: the AAC leads to these crazy situations.

1595
01:19:10,560 --> 01:19:12,799
Speaker 2: When I saw the bracket as we saw it revealed.

1596
01:19:13,320 --> 01:19:16,320
Speaker 2: One of the things that I just didn't love was

1597
01:19:16,360 --> 01:19:20,479
Speaker 2: there was never a point where I said, wow, wow,

1598
01:19:20,720 --> 01:19:23,160
Speaker 2: oh okay, like that matchup could be pretty good in

1599
01:19:23,200 --> 01:19:25,400
Speaker 2: the second round. Usually we see the committee set stuff

1600
01:19:25,479 --> 01:19:27,519
Speaker 2: up like that. There wasn't too many of that. Outside

1601
01:19:27,520 --> 01:19:30,080
Speaker 2: of that. Drake Iowa state that got me Texas Tennessee

1602
01:19:30,160 --> 01:19:30,639
Speaker 2: one as well.

1603
01:19:30,880 --> 01:19:31,080
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1604
01:19:31,200 --> 01:19:33,719
Speaker 3: Yeah, nothing really stands out. I mean obviously we mentioned

1605
01:19:33,720 --> 01:19:37,479
Speaker 3: in the East, well, we'll have a potential matchup. First

1606
01:19:37,479 --> 01:19:38,800
Speaker 3: of all, I thought this was interesting in the East.

1607
01:19:38,840 --> 01:19:41,439
Speaker 3: Other people brought it up. Number one seed, your Big

1608
01:19:41,520 --> 01:19:44,160
Speaker 3: Eiast Tournament champ, number two seed Iowa State, your Big

1609
01:19:44,240 --> 01:19:46,720
Speaker 3: twelve Tournament champ, three seed Illinois which won the Big Ten,

1610
01:19:46,840 --> 01:19:49,240
Speaker 3: and all burned the four seed which won the sec

1611
01:19:49,439 --> 01:19:54,120
Speaker 3: SO four Power Conference Conference Tournament champions. In the top

1612
01:19:54,160 --> 01:19:58,439
Speaker 3: four seeds there. Yeah, I think we definitely need hour

1613
01:19:58,560 --> 01:20:01,600
Speaker 3: three to fully break down, fully think about this bracket.

1614
01:20:01,880 --> 01:20:04,519
Speaker 2: And that's what we will do. Send in your questions

1615
01:20:04,600 --> 01:20:08,240
Speaker 2: or comments at Dan Byer on Fox or at Aaron

1616
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1627
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Speaker 2: Tough luck for Oklahoma, Seaton Hall, Indiana State, and Pitt

1628
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Speaker 2: the first four out in this year's NCAA tournament stick around.

1629
01:20:52,960 --> 01:20:54,400
Speaker 2: We're going to break down more of the field of

1630
01:20:54,439 --> 01:20:56,760
Speaker 2: sixty eight. We'll hear more about what the committee chair

1631
01:20:57,120 --> 01:20:59,840
Speaker 2: has to say in so much more. It's the Selection

1632
01:21:00,320 --> 01:21:07,880
Speaker 2: Sunday Show special right here on Fox Sports Radio. All right,

1633
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Speaker 2: whole bad boy. They also get the first opportunity to

1640
01:21:31,640 --> 01:21:35,599
Speaker 2: question Charles McClelland, the chairperson of the twenty twenty four

1641
01:21:36,600 --> 01:21:41,160
Speaker 2: NCAA Men's Tournaments and the Selection Committee and he had

1642
01:21:41,240 --> 01:21:43,920
Speaker 2: some interesting answers. Aaron, We're going to hear his thoughts

1643
01:21:44,040 --> 01:21:46,680
Speaker 2: on how the bid Steelers played a part in all

1644
01:21:46,720 --> 01:21:48,639
Speaker 2: of this, and also how they came upon the number

1645
01:21:48,680 --> 01:21:51,160
Speaker 2: one overall seeds. Well, the number one seeds, excuse me,

1646
01:21:51,240 --> 01:21:53,840
Speaker 2: number one overall was Yukon. That really wasn't a question,

1647
01:21:54,160 --> 01:21:56,000
Speaker 2: But there was a question when we started this program

1648
01:21:56,080 --> 01:21:58,479
Speaker 2: two hours ago about who would get that final number

1649
01:21:58,520 --> 01:22:01,480
Speaker 2: one seed in the end. I don't think it was surprising,

1650
01:22:02,000 --> 01:22:04,519
Speaker 2: but it was North Carolina. I thought Arizona had a

1651
01:22:04,600 --> 01:22:06,840
Speaker 2: chance to do so. But Arizona is the two seed

1652
01:22:06,920 --> 01:22:08,920
Speaker 2: in the West region with the tar heels.

1653
01:22:09,000 --> 01:22:10,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, somebody who was at the PAC twelve tournament this week.

1654
01:22:11,000 --> 01:22:15,000
Speaker 3: I don't want to speak for you know, Arizona fans,

1655
01:22:15,040 --> 01:22:17,519
Speaker 3: but I think the big concern was just get us

1656
01:22:17,560 --> 01:22:18,519
Speaker 3: in the West. Are we a two?

1657
01:22:18,600 --> 01:22:19,160
Speaker 2: Are we a one?

1658
01:22:19,280 --> 01:22:22,120
Speaker 3: It doesn't matter. It does set up the interesting thing

1659
01:22:22,200 --> 01:22:25,040
Speaker 3: that you brought up earlier, Dan, of North Carolina being

1660
01:22:25,080 --> 01:22:27,599
Speaker 3: the one seed, but if both teams were to advance

1661
01:22:27,680 --> 01:22:30,920
Speaker 3: to Los Angeles, North Carolina would have a very big

1662
01:22:31,479 --> 01:22:34,040
Speaker 3: home court disadvantage, if you will.

1663
01:22:35,360 --> 01:22:35,920
Speaker 2: Why that is.

1664
01:22:36,040 --> 01:22:37,280
Speaker 3: We'll hear what the committee has.

1665
01:22:37,280 --> 01:22:39,360
Speaker 2: To say and all that, but were you to say so, yeah, no,

1666
01:22:39,520 --> 01:22:42,599
Speaker 2: like with that and honestly, like I could even change

1667
01:22:42,680 --> 01:22:45,800
Speaker 2: my tune because I thought, I thought it would just

1668
01:22:45,880 --> 01:22:52,080
Speaker 2: be tough to convince North Carolina fans of this situation.

1669
01:22:52,680 --> 01:22:55,320
Speaker 2: How if you are a North Carolina fan, are you

1670
01:22:55,920 --> 01:22:59,519
Speaker 2: are you happy with this? In possibly playing an Elite

1671
01:22:59,600 --> 01:23:03,200
Speaker 2: eight game in front of an opposing crowd YEP, And

1672
01:23:04,120 --> 01:23:06,559
Speaker 2: I realized as I was getting my bag of Cheetos

1673
01:23:06,600 --> 01:23:08,479
Speaker 2: from the vending machine down the hall, it's where you

1674
01:23:08,520 --> 01:23:10,800
Speaker 2: do your best, thinking well, where we all do our best,

1675
01:23:11,120 --> 01:23:15,160
Speaker 2: that it was truly the only way, because think about

1676
01:23:15,160 --> 01:23:18,200
Speaker 2: it this way. If you did go my original route,

1677
01:23:18,240 --> 01:23:21,160
Speaker 2: which I'm fine with admitting that I was wrong, if

1678
01:23:21,240 --> 01:23:23,840
Speaker 2: you put Arizona as the number one seed in the West,

1679
01:23:23,920 --> 01:23:28,400
Speaker 2: what North Carolina would say was, not only did you

1680
01:23:28,560 --> 01:23:32,240
Speaker 2: put us behind a school that we felt was we

1681
01:23:32,360 --> 01:23:35,840
Speaker 2: were better than in Arizona, but you put us out west.

1682
01:23:36,320 --> 01:23:39,400
Speaker 2: They're saving grace as they get the one seed path.

1683
01:23:39,680 --> 01:23:41,679
Speaker 2: But why did Arizona have to be a two seed

1684
01:23:41,920 --> 01:23:45,080
Speaker 2: in the West. That's my and maybe there's a reason,

1685
01:23:45,160 --> 01:23:46,760
Speaker 2: and maybe the way the bracket lines up, they were

1686
01:23:46,800 --> 01:23:49,240
Speaker 2: considered to be the first two seed, North Carolina last one.

1687
01:23:49,280 --> 01:23:53,840
Speaker 2: Maybe that's it, But there was no rule requiring Arizona

1688
01:23:53,920 --> 01:23:55,800
Speaker 2: to be in the West region. You know what I mean? No,

1689
01:23:56,000 --> 01:23:58,519
Speaker 2: I know, yeah, exactly, I get it. I think that

1690
01:23:58,640 --> 01:24:01,120
Speaker 2: they do try to lessen travel. I also think that

1691
01:24:01,200 --> 01:24:03,880
Speaker 2: they don't want to East Coast teams playing a game

1692
01:24:03,920 --> 01:24:06,360
Speaker 2: in LA. It really is. Yeah, Like there's when you

1693
01:24:06,439 --> 01:24:10,600
Speaker 2: think of other seasons in what the western part of

1694
01:24:10,640 --> 01:24:13,400
Speaker 2: this country is, you could have had a Gonzaga Arizona

1695
01:24:13,680 --> 01:24:17,080
Speaker 2: right in most years, Ucla Gonzaga. How many times were

1696
01:24:17,160 --> 01:24:21,160
Speaker 2: you know, those schools playing Arizona's been you know, high

1697
01:24:21,240 --> 01:24:24,080
Speaker 2: seed at times. You know they ran into Wisconsin, you

1698
01:24:24,120 --> 01:24:27,000
Speaker 2: know a couple of times out here, and so you

1699
01:24:27,120 --> 01:24:31,200
Speaker 2: have like these matchups, but you just couldn't. You couldn't

1700
01:24:31,240 --> 01:24:35,240
Speaker 2: have it where you had your biggest matchups. And I

1701
01:24:35,280 --> 01:24:38,120
Speaker 2: mean even even to the to the you know fact

1702
01:24:38,200 --> 01:24:41,439
Speaker 2: of the matter of Saint Mary's. Let's just say Saint

1703
01:24:41,479 --> 01:24:43,439
Speaker 2: Mary's makes a run to the Sweet sixteen, they go

1704
01:24:43,520 --> 01:24:48,519
Speaker 2: through Spokane. Saint Mary's isn't a big enough school to

1705
01:24:48,680 --> 01:24:51,840
Speaker 2: have the following that it would dwarf you know what

1706
01:24:52,160 --> 01:24:54,639
Speaker 2: North Carolina would have like there would be there would

1707
01:24:54,640 --> 01:24:57,559
Speaker 2: be Saint Mary fans more so in a West Region

1708
01:24:57,600 --> 01:25:01,240
Speaker 2: game in La than say East Region in Boston. But

1709
01:25:01,360 --> 01:25:04,439
Speaker 2: it's not anything that would be overwhelming. I still would

1710
01:25:04,479 --> 01:25:06,240
Speaker 2: want the path and I don't think that you can

1711
01:25:06,760 --> 01:25:13,320
Speaker 2: panalize Arizona just to appease the number one. Yeah, because

1712
01:25:13,360 --> 01:25:17,800
Speaker 2: it throws the two seeds. Quite honestly, Aaron set up

1713
01:25:17,920 --> 01:25:21,880
Speaker 2: pretty nicely in terms of like how it plays out.

1714
01:25:22,560 --> 01:25:25,280
Speaker 2: Marquette ends up getting the two seed in the South

1715
01:25:25,840 --> 01:25:27,960
Speaker 2: a little bit there, but Arizona's the two seed in

1716
01:25:28,040 --> 01:25:31,519
Speaker 2: the West in the Midwest and ends up being Tennessee.

1717
01:25:32,160 --> 01:25:35,760
Speaker 2: That's not too far from Detroit. So like you've got

1718
01:25:36,240 --> 01:25:39,799
Speaker 2: like there's I mean, it doesn't it's not too shabby.

1719
01:25:40,200 --> 01:25:44,400
Speaker 2: I mean in terms of travel wise, Iowa State would

1720
01:25:44,439 --> 01:25:47,040
Speaker 2: have to go out and Yukon's got that huge advantage

1721
01:25:47,080 --> 01:25:51,760
Speaker 2: with you know, Boston. But yeah, I just I think

1722
01:25:52,080 --> 01:25:54,840
Speaker 2: because of the fan aspect of it, they didn't want

1723
01:25:54,880 --> 01:25:56,559
Speaker 2: it empty arena. Yeah.

1724
01:25:56,640 --> 01:25:58,519
Speaker 3: No, I don't think there's any doubt and they would

1725
01:25:58,560 --> 01:26:00,360
Speaker 3: never say that publicly, but I think that's why it is.

1726
01:26:00,400 --> 01:26:04,240
Speaker 3: By the way, we are getting some reaction Providence coach

1727
01:26:04,560 --> 01:26:07,200
Speaker 3: uh Kim English is he.

1728
01:26:07,320 --> 01:26:08,120
Speaker 2: Single by the way.

1729
01:26:08,800 --> 01:26:09,880
Speaker 3: I don't know why you ask.

1730
01:26:10,320 --> 01:26:14,080
Speaker 2: Did you see that you were busy? Somebody asked him

1731
01:26:14,400 --> 01:26:17,360
Speaker 2: what his marital status was last week in a pre

1732
01:26:17,520 --> 01:26:20,600
Speaker 2: postgame press conference. Really, yes, yes, it's like one of

1733
01:26:20,640 --> 01:26:21,240
Speaker 2: those emails.

1734
01:26:23,400 --> 01:26:24,200
Speaker 5: No, it was.

1735
01:26:25,160 --> 01:26:28,040
Speaker 2: It was just wrong. Yeah, yeah, it was ridiculous. But

1736
01:26:28,080 --> 01:26:29,639
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, what did English have to say?

1737
01:26:29,760 --> 01:26:32,559
Speaker 3: No, he he had a very similar quote to something,

1738
01:26:32,600 --> 01:26:37,120
Speaker 3: but he said, I think the analytics are bull something.

1739
01:26:38,240 --> 01:26:39,760
Speaker 3: And you know that is a team that lost one

1740
01:26:39,760 --> 01:26:41,880
Speaker 3: of their best players early, played in the Big East,

1741
01:26:41,920 --> 01:26:44,280
Speaker 3: and I think I think these Big East coach is

1742
01:26:44,320 --> 01:26:47,360
Speaker 3: going to be very outspoken. I think everybody thought they're

1743
01:26:47,400 --> 01:26:51,519
Speaker 3: getting a minimum of four probably five. Villanova or excuse me,

1744
01:26:51,640 --> 01:26:54,880
Speaker 3: Villanova was probably out after this week. Providence probably needed

1745
01:26:54,880 --> 01:26:56,840
Speaker 3: to beat Markettel though at this point who even knows.

1746
01:26:58,080 --> 01:27:00,280
Speaker 3: I think everybody thought Saint John's was going to be

1747
01:27:00,360 --> 01:27:03,920
Speaker 3: in and then Seaton Hall was probably in that conversation

1748
01:27:04,479 --> 01:27:08,240
Speaker 3: to go from everybody thinking there's five maybe six to three.

1749
01:27:08,479 --> 01:27:10,160
Speaker 3: I hate to keep bringing up the point, Dan, I'm sorry.

1750
01:27:10,200 --> 01:27:13,840
Speaker 3: It's not the Yukon bias in me kicking in. But

1751
01:27:13,960 --> 01:27:16,160
Speaker 3: this was the number two conference according to Ken Palm Moroy.

1752
01:27:16,280 --> 01:27:19,400
Speaker 3: This was a conference that everybody has agreed is special

1753
01:27:19,479 --> 01:27:21,280
Speaker 3: all year, and I think we're gonna get a lot

1754
01:27:21,280 --> 01:27:25,280
Speaker 3: of reaction between Patino, Shaheen Halloway, Kim English, the commissioner,

1755
01:27:25,600 --> 01:27:25,920
Speaker 3: and more.

1756
01:27:26,120 --> 01:27:28,080
Speaker 2: I think a lot of conferences are mad because of

1757
01:27:28,120 --> 01:27:32,120
Speaker 2: the bid stealers, honestly, and where when you look at this,

1758
01:27:33,080 --> 01:27:36,320
Speaker 2: I'm wondering if it's the weakest bracket we have seen.

1759
01:27:36,520 --> 01:27:39,799
Speaker 2: Could be no doubt because of the bid stealing aspect,

1760
01:27:39,880 --> 01:27:43,400
Speaker 2: because there were better teams that were left out. And

1761
01:27:43,720 --> 01:27:44,920
Speaker 2: I'll tell you and it's something that we can get

1762
01:27:44,960 --> 01:27:47,160
Speaker 2: into in a little bit here, But you want to

1763
01:27:47,200 --> 01:27:50,479
Speaker 2: talk about a push for seventy two or seventy six, Yeah,

1764
01:27:50,720 --> 01:27:52,880
Speaker 2: this is the weekend that it happens like this, of

1765
01:27:53,600 --> 01:27:56,760
Speaker 2: coming off the heels of that, I'm actually for. As

1766
01:27:56,840 --> 01:27:58,479
Speaker 2: much as I could be old school and set in

1767
01:27:58,560 --> 01:28:01,800
Speaker 2: my ways, I I can accept a seventy two or

1768
01:28:01,920 --> 01:28:07,040
Speaker 2: seventy six team tournament field. I don't think it's going

1769
01:28:07,080 --> 01:28:09,040
Speaker 2: to mess up our bracket pools like we think that

1770
01:28:09,160 --> 01:28:12,160
Speaker 2: it could, and we've already got sixty eight and like

1771
01:28:12,560 --> 01:28:14,560
Speaker 2: we figure out a way to make it work. I

1772
01:28:14,600 --> 01:28:17,000
Speaker 2: think you just have more basketball on Tuesday and Wednesday,

1773
01:28:17,040 --> 01:28:19,639
Speaker 2: which isn't a bad thing. I think that this sort

1774
01:28:19,680 --> 01:28:24,479
Speaker 2: of breakthrough forces Now the NCAA gives Greg Sankey and

1775
01:28:24,520 --> 01:28:27,920
Speaker 2: maybe those ammunition to say. And Greg Sankie was looked

1776
01:28:27,920 --> 01:28:31,200
Speaker 2: at as the bad guy, the evil Empire in wanting

1777
01:28:31,280 --> 01:28:33,200
Speaker 2: to take up all these spots. But now if you

1778
01:28:33,240 --> 01:28:35,639
Speaker 2: have the Kim English and the providences of the world

1779
01:28:35,720 --> 01:28:37,920
Speaker 2: in the Big East and all these other schools saying like, yeah,

1780
01:28:37,960 --> 01:28:40,479
Speaker 2: this is garbage, doesn't that open it up to a

1781
01:28:40,800 --> 01:28:42,240
Speaker 2: seventy to seventy six.

1782
01:28:43,280 --> 01:28:45,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, you can look at it one of

1783
01:28:45,120 --> 01:28:47,519
Speaker 3: two ways. So I don't disagree. I do wonder if

1784
01:28:47,560 --> 01:28:50,559
Speaker 3: it's solely because of the bid stealing. You know, if

1785
01:28:50,680 --> 01:28:54,160
Speaker 3: if those four teams, so let's say, Florid Atlantic wins

1786
01:28:54,240 --> 01:28:56,920
Speaker 3: the AAC, Arizona wins the PAC twelve, North Carolina wins

1787
01:28:56,960 --> 01:28:59,160
Speaker 3: the ACC and what's the fourth one? I can't not

1788
01:28:59,240 --> 01:29:02,000
Speaker 3: New Mexico day and yeah, Dayton wins the A ten.

1789
01:29:02,560 --> 01:29:04,960
Speaker 3: You know, then all of a sudden, Oklahoma's in Seaton

1790
01:29:05,040 --> 01:29:10,120
Speaker 3: Halls in whoever, and we're really only talking about Saint John's. So,

1791
01:29:10,320 --> 01:29:13,759
Speaker 3: by the way, you know, I'm not necessarily in favor

1792
01:29:13,920 --> 01:29:15,760
Speaker 3: of tournament expansion. But I do think if you're just

1793
01:29:15,800 --> 01:29:18,800
Speaker 3: adding a game or two to that Tuesday Wednesday field,

1794
01:29:19,880 --> 01:29:22,160
Speaker 3: it's not the worst thing in the world. But I

1795
01:29:22,200 --> 01:29:24,360
Speaker 3: wonder if this this year will be the push that

1796
01:29:25,400 --> 01:29:29,400
Speaker 3: that ends up getting it. I still and forgive me

1797
01:29:29,479 --> 01:29:31,240
Speaker 3: for reiterating some of the points I made an hour

1798
01:29:31,360 --> 01:29:34,920
Speaker 3: two when the bracket came out at six Eastern, I'm

1799
01:29:35,439 --> 01:29:38,040
Speaker 3: as upset with some of the seeding within the bracket.

1800
01:29:38,920 --> 01:29:40,800
Speaker 3: You know, in Michigan State being in an eight to

1801
01:29:40,920 --> 01:29:43,240
Speaker 3: nine spot, there's just nothing on the resume that reflects

1802
01:29:43,280 --> 01:29:44,760
Speaker 3: that they should be. I mean, the Big ten was

1803
01:29:44,800 --> 01:29:48,040
Speaker 3: down this year. We thought they were potentially a bubble team.

1804
01:29:48,560 --> 01:29:51,960
Speaker 3: Now you're looking at them, you know, in their current

1805
01:29:52,040 --> 01:29:55,040
Speaker 3: position of being in a nine seed in the West

1806
01:29:55,080 --> 01:29:58,479
Speaker 3: Region Florida Atlantic. I think when you really break down

1807
01:29:58,520 --> 01:30:00,800
Speaker 3: the resume, it's probably not as strong as people think.

1808
01:30:00,800 --> 01:30:04,160
Speaker 3: They're the eight seed in the East. I just don't

1809
01:30:04,160 --> 01:30:05,920
Speaker 3: think it was a solid job across the board by

1810
01:30:05,920 --> 01:30:09,320
Speaker 3: the committee unless ultimately all the metrics that we think

1811
01:30:09,360 --> 01:30:11,400
Speaker 3: they're using, all the metrics that the Jerry Palms and

1812
01:30:11,439 --> 01:30:14,240
Speaker 3: the Joelnardes and the mic De Corsi's use were not

1813
01:30:14,360 --> 01:30:15,800
Speaker 3: as important as we thought they were.

1814
01:30:15,840 --> 01:30:19,519
Speaker 2: But if we're now celebrating the Mountain West in their success,

1815
01:30:20,840 --> 01:30:23,360
Speaker 2: like think of the flip side. Like I'm just trying

1816
01:30:23,400 --> 01:30:27,800
Speaker 2: to look at if let's just say Boise State, Colorado State.

1817
01:30:27,840 --> 01:30:30,000
Speaker 3: But real quick, is it success if all of those

1818
01:30:30,000 --> 01:30:32,160
Speaker 3: teams are mis seeded in the eyes of the people

1819
01:30:32,160 --> 01:30:33,920
Speaker 3: who do this stuff on a day to day basis,

1820
01:30:34,000 --> 01:30:38,800
Speaker 3: and like, so all six got in, but if four

1821
01:30:38,960 --> 01:30:42,439
Speaker 3: of them, I mean minimum, feel like they were mis seeded.

1822
01:30:42,520 --> 01:30:46,439
Speaker 3: I mean, nobody had you know, Colorado, maybe Colorado State.

1823
01:30:46,479 --> 01:30:48,120
Speaker 3: Nobody had Boise as one of the last four in.

1824
01:30:48,560 --> 01:30:51,360
Speaker 3: Nobody had Nevada as essentially one of the last eight in.

1825
01:30:51,840 --> 01:30:55,080
Speaker 3: Nobody had New Mexico as a team that needed to

1826
01:30:55,120 --> 01:30:57,760
Speaker 3: win yesterday. Maybe that's the one where whatever. But I

1827
01:30:57,800 --> 01:30:59,439
Speaker 3: think you could call it a success story because they

1828
01:30:59,479 --> 01:31:02,439
Speaker 3: got sixteen teams in, But if for the six feel

1829
01:31:02,479 --> 01:31:05,559
Speaker 3: like they were completely misseeded once they got there, then

1830
01:31:06,040 --> 01:31:07,479
Speaker 3: you know, I don't know if it's as big of

1831
01:31:07,520 --> 01:31:08,479
Speaker 3: a success as you think.

1832
01:31:08,520 --> 01:31:10,760
Speaker 2: Beggars can't be choosers though, in terms of like you

1833
01:31:10,840 --> 01:31:14,400
Speaker 2: look at the alternative of where Saint John's and pitt

1834
01:31:14,479 --> 01:31:16,559
Speaker 2: and Oaklahom but.

1835
01:31:16,680 --> 01:31:18,640
Speaker 3: Any of those teams were really in the position at

1836
01:31:18,680 --> 01:31:21,400
Speaker 3: Saint John's and Oklahoma were in except for New Mexico

1837
01:31:21,400 --> 01:31:22,160
Speaker 3: if they didn't win yet.

1838
01:31:22,240 --> 01:31:25,160
Speaker 2: Sure, but the point in maybe we're talking about two

1839
01:31:25,200 --> 01:31:27,439
Speaker 2: different things because you're talking about seating. My point is

1840
01:31:27,479 --> 01:31:30,000
Speaker 2: if the Mountain West Conference only has three schools in

1841
01:31:30,760 --> 01:31:33,639
Speaker 2: and we're looking at the last four or the first

1842
01:31:33,720 --> 01:31:37,920
Speaker 2: four out as being Colorado State, Boise State, you know,

1843
01:31:38,080 --> 01:31:40,720
Speaker 2: and Utah State was at an eight seed, this sees

1844
01:31:40,800 --> 01:31:43,240
Speaker 2: them as an example, maybe not a good example, because

1845
01:31:43,240 --> 01:31:45,479
Speaker 2: of how well they fared during the year. The point

1846
01:31:45,520 --> 01:31:47,200
Speaker 2: being is we're saying, how can you leave the Mountain

1847
01:31:47,240 --> 01:31:49,080
Speaker 2: West out, Like, look at this right, what is what

1848
01:31:49,200 --> 01:31:51,240
Speaker 2: are we doing here? Like it's just a big boys club.

1849
01:31:51,280 --> 01:31:53,360
Speaker 2: You miles ago off and start your own tournament here.

1850
01:31:53,439 --> 01:31:56,080
Speaker 2: The Mountain West had exciting basketball all season long, and

1851
01:31:56,880 --> 01:31:59,360
Speaker 2: you know, Boise State and Colorado State, they're sitting there

1852
01:31:59,400 --> 01:32:02,400
Speaker 2: on the outside looking in, like you're in, and I

1853
01:32:02,479 --> 01:32:04,720
Speaker 2: know you're in a first four, but you're in. And

1854
01:32:04,800 --> 01:32:08,120
Speaker 2: I think that you know, Oklahoma and pitt and Indiana State,

1855
01:32:08,200 --> 01:32:11,320
Speaker 2: would you know, in a heartbeat trade their places for

1856
01:32:11,400 --> 01:32:12,120
Speaker 2: where they are right now?

1857
01:32:12,280 --> 01:32:14,960
Speaker 3: So there are some surprises though, Virginia being in I

1858
01:32:15,200 --> 01:32:20,639
Speaker 3: was very surprised by them. Yeah, TCU, I thought, again,

1859
01:32:20,680 --> 01:32:22,160
Speaker 3: they're another team that ended up on that eight and

1860
01:32:22,240 --> 01:32:25,280
Speaker 3: nine line. Very surprised by some of the decisions of

1861
01:32:25,479 --> 01:32:27,320
Speaker 3: these bubble team.

1862
01:32:27,439 --> 01:32:29,760
Speaker 2: Let's let's hear a bit from Charles McClelland, who did

1863
01:32:29,840 --> 01:32:33,519
Speaker 2: speak with CBS Sports after the bracket was revealed, and

1864
01:32:33,680 --> 01:32:36,000
Speaker 2: first let's get his take on North Carolina again. North

1865
01:32:36,040 --> 01:32:39,800
Speaker 2: Carolina the final number one seed. They were in the

1866
01:32:39,920 --> 01:32:43,600
Speaker 2: West region. North Carolina gets the one, Arizona ends up

1867
01:32:43,640 --> 01:32:45,680
Speaker 2: getting the two in the West Iowa state, it's a

1868
01:32:45,720 --> 01:32:48,559
Speaker 2: two in the East and Yukon's region. This is Charles

1869
01:32:48,640 --> 01:32:51,040
Speaker 2: McClelland talking about the tar Heels getting that number one.

1870
01:32:51,280 --> 01:32:53,760
Speaker 2: I want to know how much kerfuffle was there in

1871
01:32:53,920 --> 01:32:56,280
Speaker 2: Carmel over that fourth one seed.

1872
01:32:56,880 --> 01:33:00,639
Speaker 7: There was a lot, a lot of discussion. Obviously North

1873
01:33:00,680 --> 01:33:03,040
Speaker 7: Carolina got it. We looked at some head to his

1874
01:33:03,360 --> 01:33:07,839
Speaker 7: with Tennessee, but overall, North Carolina had a magnificent season.

1875
01:33:08,240 --> 01:33:09,880
Speaker 7: They did what they were supposed to do in the

1876
01:33:09,920 --> 01:33:12,880
Speaker 7: regular season, fell a little short in the tournament, and

1877
01:33:13,040 --> 01:33:16,599
Speaker 7: that's ultimately why we gave them that number four line seed.

1878
01:33:16,720 --> 01:33:19,040
Speaker 2: On the number one, excuse me, the number one seed

1879
01:33:19,200 --> 01:33:23,719
Speaker 2: on the fourth line. So interesting comments there in saying

1880
01:33:23,800 --> 01:33:26,080
Speaker 2: that North Carolina, if they would have won the ACC Tournament,

1881
01:33:26,160 --> 01:33:29,280
Speaker 2: actually could have moved up maybe higher than a Purdue

1882
01:33:29,560 --> 01:33:32,679
Speaker 2: in that Purdue being the third overall seed.

1883
01:33:32,960 --> 01:33:35,719
Speaker 3: That's another one I don't really get, you know, Purdue.

1884
01:33:35,880 --> 01:33:38,000
Speaker 3: I've been critical of Perdue, but out of conference and

1885
01:33:38,120 --> 01:33:39,920
Speaker 3: we won't you know, I'm not gonna give all the metrics,

1886
01:33:39,960 --> 01:33:42,559
Speaker 3: but beat Alabama on a neutral, beat Arizona neutral, beat

1887
01:33:42,560 --> 01:33:46,920
Speaker 3: Tennessee on a neutral, beat Marquette on a neutral, they

1888
01:33:47,040 --> 01:33:51,439
Speaker 3: probably still had the strongest resume overall, especially if we're

1889
01:33:51,479 --> 01:33:54,000
Speaker 3: now considering that Yukon basically played in a mid major

1890
01:33:54,080 --> 01:33:55,920
Speaker 3: league in the Big East because they only got three teams.

1891
01:33:55,920 --> 01:33:58,800
Speaker 3: So it's like that would be surprising to me if

1892
01:33:58,880 --> 01:34:01,599
Speaker 3: we didn't have Doe as one of those top three

1893
01:34:01,640 --> 01:34:05,280
Speaker 3: teams from throughout the season, just because they did have

1894
01:34:05,360 --> 01:34:07,800
Speaker 3: a great resume, even if some people kind of question

1895
01:34:07,960 --> 01:34:09,880
Speaker 3: some of the basketball stuff, like I do like.

1896
01:34:09,920 --> 01:34:11,920
Speaker 2: It or don't like it. Zach Edy, we talked so

1897
01:34:12,000 --> 01:34:14,880
Speaker 2: much about Caitlyn Clark, he'd be the face of college basketball.

1898
01:34:15,439 --> 01:34:17,920
Speaker 2: People know Zach Edy, he knows size, they know who

1899
01:34:17,960 --> 01:34:21,920
Speaker 2: he is, and you know there's number one seed. They're

1900
01:34:21,920 --> 01:34:24,920
Speaker 2: gonna draw attention in that Midwest region, number one seed

1901
01:34:24,960 --> 01:34:28,559
Speaker 2: playing in Indianapolis coming up on Friday and Sunday. Here's

1902
01:34:28,600 --> 01:34:32,000
Speaker 2: one other point by Charles McClelland in talking about another

1903
01:34:32,200 --> 01:34:34,160
Speaker 2: potential number one seed that was Iowa State. And the

1904
01:34:34,200 --> 01:34:36,280
Speaker 2: only reason I bring this up is because when they

1905
01:34:36,280 --> 01:34:38,479
Speaker 2: asked about North Carolina, and you heard Adam Zucker in

1906
01:34:38,520 --> 01:34:41,680
Speaker 2: that question, they're asking about the tar Heels. He only

1907
01:34:41,800 --> 01:34:44,760
Speaker 2: mentioned the Tennessee angle of it of them going head

1908
01:34:44,800 --> 01:34:47,040
Speaker 2: to head in North Carolina winning, but he did bring

1909
01:34:47,120 --> 01:34:50,280
Speaker 2: it up as a point. Didn't necessarily address Arizona or

1910
01:34:50,360 --> 01:34:52,800
Speaker 2: Iowa State, but this is what likely hurt Iowa State,

1911
01:34:53,360 --> 01:34:55,360
Speaker 2: putting them as a two seed despite winning the Big

1912
01:34:55,400 --> 01:34:56,000
Speaker 2: Twelve tournament.

1913
01:34:56,960 --> 01:35:01,080
Speaker 7: A very difficult process, Clark, And ironically it wasn't four teams,

1914
01:35:01,160 --> 01:35:04,040
Speaker 7: it was five because the Mountain West actually got to

1915
01:35:04,080 --> 01:35:07,040
Speaker 7: be that's right in Mexico coming in. So when you

1916
01:35:07,120 --> 01:35:11,240
Speaker 7: started talking about the selections process, this is the first

1917
01:35:11,280 --> 01:35:13,639
Speaker 7: time since I've been on the committee that we've had

1918
01:35:13,840 --> 01:35:15,799
Speaker 7: five bits that have been stolen.

1919
01:35:16,320 --> 01:35:18,080
Speaker 2: That's a little different cut. It's all right, we'll get

1920
01:35:18,120 --> 01:35:20,280
Speaker 2: the Iowa State one. He was talking about the bid

1921
01:35:20,320 --> 01:35:22,200
Speaker 2: Steelers in that scenario and listen.

1922
01:35:22,320 --> 01:35:23,960
Speaker 3: And that you know, I can have a big ripe

1923
01:35:24,040 --> 01:35:25,880
Speaker 3: with c and Hall or Saint John's or even in

1924
01:35:26,000 --> 01:35:30,160
Speaker 3: Indiana State being out, but the committee is right. Five

1925
01:35:30,320 --> 01:35:33,000
Speaker 3: teams we're talking about that if you include New Mexico,

1926
01:35:33,400 --> 01:35:35,400
Speaker 3: which many thought would have been in, but they clearly

1927
01:35:35,439 --> 01:35:37,280
Speaker 3: would not have been in. Those are five teams that

1928
01:35:37,400 --> 01:35:39,000
Speaker 3: stole BIZ that wouldn't have normally otherwise.

1929
01:35:39,040 --> 01:35:40,280
Speaker 2: And I can tell you because I heard what Charles

1930
01:35:40,360 --> 01:35:42,479
Speaker 2: McClellan said about Iowa State. It's what you talked about

1931
01:35:42,479 --> 01:35:45,320
Speaker 2: earlier in the show. Their non conference schedule and who

1932
01:35:45,360 --> 01:35:48,040
Speaker 2: they didn't play earlier on in the season did not

1933
01:35:48,200 --> 01:35:51,519
Speaker 2: allow them the opportunity to advance past. And by the way,

1934
01:35:52,320 --> 01:35:56,120
Speaker 2: they're in the Yukon's region. So of the number two seeds,

1935
01:35:56,320 --> 01:35:58,360
Speaker 2: they got the toughest spot. Now how they get there,

1936
01:35:58,439 --> 01:36:01,519
Speaker 2: and you know, I'll play out, but as we look

1937
01:36:01,960 --> 01:36:04,280
Speaker 2: at it on paper, of one and two, they're in

1938
01:36:04,360 --> 01:36:06,679
Speaker 2: the toughest region. If you're just taking the top two seeds,

1939
01:36:06,800 --> 01:36:07,160
Speaker 2: no doubt.

1940
01:36:07,560 --> 01:36:10,080
Speaker 3: Two wins against Houston if you include both the regular

1941
01:36:10,120 --> 01:36:13,280
Speaker 3: season and yesterday but I thought it was a little

1942
01:36:13,280 --> 01:36:14,680
Speaker 3: bit of a tougher argument than you. I know, we

1943
01:36:14,720 --> 01:36:16,120
Speaker 3: talked about it earlier in the show. I thought it

1944
01:36:16,160 --> 01:36:18,360
Speaker 3: was a little bit of a tougher argument. But you know,

1945
01:36:18,439 --> 01:36:19,960
Speaker 3: you're still two seed. You still got a chance to

1946
01:36:20,000 --> 01:36:20,360
Speaker 3: make a run.

1947
01:36:20,400 --> 01:36:22,920
Speaker 2: He's eron Torres. I'm Dan Bayer. The Field of sixty

1948
01:36:23,000 --> 01:36:25,920
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1949
01:36:26,200 --> 01:36:28,439
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1950
01:36:28,560 --> 01:36:31,040
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1951
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1952
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1953
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1954
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1955
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1956
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1957
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1958
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1959
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1960
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1961
01:37:00,840 --> 01:37:04,120
Speaker 2: where college fans stay. We hope you stick around because

1962
01:37:04,160 --> 01:37:07,000
Speaker 2: there's one team that's gonna have to put up or

1963
01:37:07,080 --> 01:37:09,000
Speaker 2: shut up when it comes to the big dance. We'll

1964
01:37:09,040 --> 01:37:11,120
Speaker 2: tell you who that is next here on Fox Sports Radio,

1965
01:37:12,760 --> 01:37:16,960
Speaker 2: a special selections show here on Fox Sports Radio on

1966
01:37:17,040 --> 01:37:20,320
Speaker 2: a Fox Sports Sunday, He's aeron Torres. I'm Dan Byer,

1967
01:37:20,760 --> 01:37:23,160
Speaker 2: still trying to figure out this field of sixty eight.

1968
01:37:23,800 --> 01:37:25,880
Speaker 2: Hit him up at Aaron Underscore Torres. You can find

1969
01:37:25,880 --> 01:37:28,559
Speaker 2: me at Dan Byer on Fox. I always talked about

1970
01:37:28,560 --> 01:37:31,360
Speaker 2: the Glamour Bracket, Aaron, because I just think that they

1971
01:37:31,479 --> 01:37:36,679
Speaker 2: set it up for TV whatevern. I think it's the West.

1972
01:37:37,720 --> 01:37:40,880
Speaker 2: I think, well, yeah, I think it's the West with

1973
01:37:42,160 --> 01:37:44,519
Speaker 2: but I could actually get the South. It's just tough

1974
01:37:44,600 --> 01:37:48,200
Speaker 2: for me to make the Glamour Bracket have Houston be

1975
01:37:48,280 --> 01:37:50,799
Speaker 2: the number one scene. It's not meant the disrespect Houston,

1976
01:37:50,840 --> 01:37:53,280
Speaker 2: who very well could cut down the nets in Glendale.

1977
01:37:53,760 --> 01:37:56,680
Speaker 2: At the end of this whole thing. It's just the

1978
01:37:56,840 --> 01:38:01,840
Speaker 2: name brands that they usually will put together. And North

1979
01:38:01,880 --> 01:38:04,599
Speaker 2: Carolina on that one line, Arizona on that two line,

1980
01:38:04,680 --> 01:38:08,439
Speaker 2: Baylor on that three line. It's just evenly distributed. You

1981
01:38:08,520 --> 01:38:12,680
Speaker 2: don't have a North Carolina, Kentucky, Kansas group. You good,

1982
01:38:12,720 --> 01:38:14,559
Speaker 2: but you know, Kentucky and Duker in the same region,

1983
01:38:14,600 --> 01:38:16,280
Speaker 2: but there are three four in that region, with Houston

1984
01:38:16,320 --> 01:38:20,160
Speaker 2: and Marquette being the number. So I guess I would

1985
01:38:20,400 --> 01:38:24,360
Speaker 2: have to say the West. Well, that's usually it's usually

1986
01:38:24,880 --> 01:38:27,240
Speaker 2: sticks out like a sore thumb. There's one region that

1987
01:38:27,320 --> 01:38:29,559
Speaker 2: will have the name brands, and then there's one region like, well,

1988
01:38:29,680 --> 01:38:31,240
Speaker 2: I don't believe in that team, so that's where my

1989
01:38:31,360 --> 01:38:34,400
Speaker 2: crazy team is going to come from. Uh, this one

1990
01:38:34,520 --> 01:38:37,599
Speaker 2: is a little bit more difficult to decipher in my mind.

1991
01:38:37,880 --> 01:38:39,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I was actually thinking the opposite. I

1992
01:38:40,040 --> 01:38:42,560
Speaker 3: know it's not the sexiest name brands, but you know

1993
01:38:42,960 --> 01:38:46,160
Speaker 3: the East, where Yukon, the biggest regular, our biggest conference

1994
01:38:46,200 --> 01:38:48,920
Speaker 3: tournament champ is the one seed. The two seed is

1995
01:38:49,000 --> 01:38:50,960
Speaker 3: Iowa State, which just won the Big twelve. The three

1996
01:38:51,040 --> 01:38:53,240
Speaker 3: seed is Illinois, which just won the Big Ten. Auburn

1997
01:38:53,320 --> 01:38:58,120
Speaker 3: won the SEC. That's what I was thinking. But Iowa State,

1998
01:38:58,400 --> 01:39:01,160
Speaker 3: Auburn not the sex right.

1999
01:39:01,280 --> 01:39:05,080
Speaker 2: But yeah, it doesn't mean no again, no offense to

2000
01:39:05,160 --> 01:39:09,639
Speaker 2: those schools, but I think there's cachet obviously with Yukon

2001
01:39:09,720 --> 01:39:11,920
Speaker 2: at the top. I think the North Carolina Arizona, Like

2002
01:39:12,439 --> 01:39:14,800
Speaker 2: if you're to again to your point picture what a

2003
01:39:14,840 --> 01:39:18,719
Speaker 2: Sweet sixteen. If you had a Sweet sixteen of Houston, Duke, Kentucky,

2004
01:39:18,800 --> 01:39:21,120
Speaker 2: and Marquette, that's pretty good. If you had a Sweet

2005
01:39:21,120 --> 01:39:25,240
Speaker 2: sixteen of North Carolina, Alabama, Baylor, and Arizona, that would

2006
01:39:25,240 --> 01:39:27,240
Speaker 2: be pretty good, but maybe not matching up to what

2007
01:39:27,320 --> 01:39:28,439
Speaker 2: we had seen in previous years.

2008
01:39:28,520 --> 01:39:30,680
Speaker 3: Let me ask you a question. You know, I think

2009
01:39:30,880 --> 01:39:34,519
Speaker 3: yesterday after Yukon won the Big East at the same

2010
01:39:34,600 --> 01:39:36,400
Speaker 3: time that Houston was kind of getting blown out and

2011
01:39:36,479 --> 01:39:39,280
Speaker 3: Arizona lost and Tennessee lost in North Carolina. We didn't

2012
01:39:39,280 --> 01:39:40,640
Speaker 3: know at the time, but they didn't even play well

2013
01:39:40,680 --> 01:39:42,760
Speaker 3: in the semi finals. I think there was a thought

2014
01:39:42,800 --> 01:39:45,040
Speaker 3: because j Mart said it on our Saturday show, is like, well,

2015
01:39:45,280 --> 01:39:48,160
Speaker 3: everyone's gonna pick Yukon, but now you see how the

2016
01:39:48,200 --> 01:39:50,519
Speaker 3: bracket falls. I think albert is a tough matchup for

2017
01:39:50,640 --> 01:39:53,160
Speaker 3: Yukon and the Sweet sixteen. I think that Iowa State

2018
01:39:53,200 --> 01:39:54,920
Speaker 3: would be a potentially I think Illinois. I think any

2019
01:39:54,960 --> 01:39:58,120
Speaker 3: of those top four teams the other three would be

2020
01:39:58,160 --> 01:40:00,760
Speaker 3: a tough matchup for Yukon. Do you think like I

2021
01:40:00,840 --> 01:40:03,080
Speaker 3: think if you had asked me without seeing a bracket,

2022
01:40:03,920 --> 01:40:05,439
Speaker 3: I'm not saying this is a Yukon guy. I think

2023
01:40:05,479 --> 01:40:08,320
Speaker 3: the consensus was, like, it's hard to see the scenario

2024
01:40:08,439 --> 01:40:10,639
Speaker 3: with how they've played all year, with how they played

2025
01:40:10,640 --> 01:40:13,400
Speaker 3: in the conference tournament. I'm not at least being in

2026
01:40:13,560 --> 01:40:17,080
Speaker 3: Phoenix to potentially play a Houston as somebody else. But

2027
01:40:17,160 --> 01:40:18,840
Speaker 3: I think that bracket is pretty tough for you uk.

2028
01:40:18,840 --> 01:40:22,400
Speaker 2: With the Yukon. Yeah, I just circle the Auburn potential

2029
01:40:22,479 --> 01:40:26,040
Speaker 2: Sweet sixteen because if Auburn was in any other region,

2030
01:40:26,360 --> 01:40:28,720
Speaker 2: I would not have felt bad putting them in the

2031
01:40:28,760 --> 01:40:31,680
Speaker 2: final four. Sure you know, you know, And so now

2032
01:40:31,760 --> 01:40:37,280
Speaker 2: they have a Sweet sixteen matchup where I Illinois had

2033
01:40:37,280 --> 01:40:39,320
Speaker 2: a great run of the Big Ten tournament. I think

2034
01:40:39,320 --> 01:40:41,160
Speaker 2: at times you can see teams run out of gas.

2035
01:40:41,800 --> 01:40:47,639
Speaker 2: I am not a complete lover of Illinois. I think

2036
01:40:47,680 --> 01:40:49,559
Speaker 2: that there's wartz there, So I don't love them as

2037
01:40:49,600 --> 01:40:52,960
Speaker 2: a three seed. The Yukon problem is that, you know,

2038
01:40:53,040 --> 01:40:55,679
Speaker 2: if you would have switched spots of Man Auburn Yukon

2039
01:40:55,840 --> 01:40:58,000
Speaker 2: Elite eight, that would have been great if you had

2040
01:40:58,000 --> 01:41:00,519
Speaker 2: Auburn as the three seed. In Illinois is the four seed,

2041
01:41:01,200 --> 01:41:03,640
Speaker 2: I don't. I'm I'm not a huge believer in the

2042
01:41:03,960 --> 01:41:07,960
Speaker 2: fighting a line. I despite their Big Ten tournament win today,

2043
01:41:08,080 --> 01:41:10,559
Speaker 2: and I honestly I think that that ends up playing

2044
01:41:10,880 --> 01:41:15,479
Speaker 2: a part of how things play out here Illinois. Now

2045
01:41:15,520 --> 01:41:17,599
Speaker 2: I'll have to go and play on Thursday. You got

2046
01:41:17,640 --> 01:41:20,720
Speaker 2: a shorter week. Then pretty much everybody else does good thing.

2047
01:41:20,800 --> 01:41:23,840
Speaker 2: They only have to go to Omaha. So you're in Minneapolis,

2048
01:41:23,920 --> 01:41:25,760
Speaker 2: you go to Champagne, you know, get a couple of

2049
01:41:25,800 --> 01:41:27,679
Speaker 2: nights rest, and then head over to Omah, which isn't

2050
01:41:27,680 --> 01:41:30,760
Speaker 2: too far. But still you're playing on Thursday. You know,

2051
01:41:31,040 --> 01:41:32,360
Speaker 2: you could be out a you could be out of

2052
01:41:32,400 --> 01:41:35,000
Speaker 2: gas maybe by Thursday or Saturday. Yeah, I think Iowa

2053
01:41:35,040 --> 01:41:37,639
Speaker 2: States the other one. I could see him meeting Yukon.

2054
01:41:37,760 --> 01:41:40,160
Speaker 2: I just think with Yukon there is a degree of

2055
01:41:40,320 --> 01:41:43,200
Speaker 2: mental and physical toughness that you have to have. And

2056
01:41:43,640 --> 01:41:46,559
Speaker 2: I mean even Yesterday, like Marquette is small in stature,

2057
01:41:46,600 --> 01:41:49,839
Speaker 2: but they're they're tough as nails. And I think between

2058
01:41:50,040 --> 01:41:52,280
Speaker 2: Auburn and Iowa State, I think those are both teams

2059
01:41:52,320 --> 01:41:54,200
Speaker 2: that can give you con trouble. So for people that

2060
01:41:54,320 --> 01:41:56,519
Speaker 2: heard me for this entire hour complaining about the Big

2061
01:41:56,600 --> 01:41:59,200
Speaker 2: East only getting three teams to get some big Big

2062
01:41:59,280 --> 01:42:02,280
Speaker 2: East homer or apologist, I don't think that's the easiest

2063
01:42:02,360 --> 01:42:04,280
Speaker 2: draw for you Ukon. Of here's something that I look

2064
01:42:04,360 --> 01:42:08,280
Speaker 2: back as well, and I've thought about at any point

2065
01:42:08,400 --> 01:42:12,679
Speaker 2: during this college basketball season, I think we had six

2066
01:42:12,760 --> 01:42:14,719
Speaker 2: different schools be the number one team in the country.

2067
01:42:14,720 --> 01:42:16,120
Speaker 2: At some point it was it was five or six,

2068
01:42:16,200 --> 01:42:19,040
Speaker 2: it was you know that number. But at what point

2069
01:42:19,280 --> 01:42:21,640
Speaker 2: was a team considered did you think, man, they may

2070
01:42:21,680 --> 01:42:24,280
Speaker 2: be the best team in college basketball? And I think

2071
01:42:24,320 --> 01:42:26,760
Speaker 2: when you're filling out your bracket, you have to think

2072
01:42:26,800 --> 01:42:29,720
Speaker 2: of those things. I think, you know, Arizona is a

2073
01:42:29,760 --> 01:42:31,280
Speaker 2: two seed in the West. I think there was a

2074
01:42:31,320 --> 01:42:34,640
Speaker 2: point where we thought, man, Arizona, maybe they may be

2075
01:42:34,720 --> 01:42:35,639
Speaker 2: the best team in the country.

2076
01:42:35,800 --> 01:42:39,479
Speaker 3: And it's not to say can I interrupt them? Yeah, yeah,

2077
01:42:39,640 --> 01:42:42,160
Speaker 3: because I was thinking about this. I think what North

2078
01:42:42,200 --> 01:42:44,599
Speaker 3: Carolina did this year was impressive. They were the one

2079
01:42:44,680 --> 01:42:48,400
Speaker 3: team besides Yukon and the other three number ones. They

2080
01:42:48,520 --> 01:42:50,920
Speaker 3: consistently went on the road. But I never looked at

2081
01:42:50,960 --> 01:42:54,040
Speaker 3: them and said they just overwhelmed teams the way that

2082
01:42:54,160 --> 01:42:56,000
Speaker 3: Yukon does, the way even as to your point that

2083
01:42:56,120 --> 01:42:59,000
Speaker 3: Arizona did it, points, that Tennessee did it, points. So

2084
01:42:59,160 --> 01:43:00,920
Speaker 3: that was one where you know, I never try to

2085
01:43:01,000 --> 01:43:05,120
Speaker 3: get too locked in on predictions before I see a bracket,

2086
01:43:05,920 --> 01:43:07,320
Speaker 3: but that was one North Carolina.

2087
01:43:07,400 --> 01:43:09,120
Speaker 2: I just did not feel like.

2088
01:43:09,240 --> 01:43:11,080
Speaker 3: I just don't think they have the juice of even

2089
01:43:11,120 --> 01:43:13,479
Speaker 3: some of the better two seeds, like even in Iowa State,

2090
01:43:13,640 --> 01:43:17,040
Speaker 3: like Arizona, like a Tennessee. Not saying the bracket can't

2091
01:43:17,080 --> 01:43:20,040
Speaker 3: break right for them, but in that North Carolina is

2092
01:43:20,080 --> 01:43:23,639
Speaker 3: the perfect point, very consistently good team all year.

2093
01:43:24,160 --> 01:43:26,880
Speaker 2: Were they ever great? Were they ever the best team

2094
01:43:26,920 --> 01:43:27,320
Speaker 2: that you saw?

2095
01:43:27,400 --> 01:43:29,320
Speaker 3: Remember in the Auto Conference they lost to Kentucky, they

2096
01:43:29,360 --> 01:43:32,040
Speaker 3: lost to Yukon in the out of conference, So the

2097
01:43:32,200 --> 01:43:35,640
Speaker 3: best teams they played outside of the ACC they struggled with.

2098
01:43:36,120 --> 01:43:38,120
Speaker 3: But I think that's the counter to that example that

2099
01:43:38,160 --> 01:43:38,760
Speaker 3: you just used, right.

2100
01:43:38,880 --> 01:43:41,599
Speaker 2: You know, Purdue is a team that we thought was well,

2101
01:43:41,640 --> 01:43:44,120
Speaker 2: it was number one at times throughout this season. It's

2102
01:43:44,160 --> 01:43:46,800
Speaker 2: a conversation that you and Jason had last night on

2103
01:43:46,960 --> 01:43:49,479
Speaker 2: your show as well and talking about Purdue, and I

2104
01:43:49,560 --> 01:43:51,479
Speaker 2: was going to tell you what I thought about. You know,

2105
01:43:51,560 --> 01:43:53,960
Speaker 2: what Purdue has to do to succeed in this tournament.

2106
01:43:54,880 --> 01:43:58,200
Speaker 2: They the goal from here on out, no matter if

2107
01:43:58,200 --> 01:44:00,720
Speaker 2: they're a one seed or a three seed, Purdue just

2108
01:44:00,800 --> 01:44:03,840
Speaker 2: needs to get to the final four. Is that is

2109
01:44:05,680 --> 01:44:09,720
Speaker 2: to relate to try to erase what happened last year

2110
01:44:10,479 --> 01:44:13,160
Speaker 2: in the number one you know, in losing as the

2111
01:44:13,240 --> 01:44:16,880
Speaker 2: number one seed to FDU. By the way, we won

2112
01:44:16,960 --> 01:44:20,760
Speaker 2: the first four game to play in that contest. Were

2113
01:44:20,760 --> 01:44:22,479
Speaker 2: they didn't win their conference tournament last year? Do you

2114
01:44:22,520 --> 01:44:22,880
Speaker 2: remember that?

2115
01:44:23,080 --> 01:44:26,519
Speaker 3: Yes, they played Merrimack, and Merrimack, because of the transition

2116
01:44:26,680 --> 01:44:28,920
Speaker 3: period of four years, was not eligible. So after you

2117
01:44:29,120 --> 01:44:32,400
Speaker 3: doesn't win the conference tournament, has to play in Dayton

2118
01:44:32,520 --> 01:44:33,600
Speaker 3: and still beats Perduboka.

2119
01:44:33,680 --> 01:44:37,519
Speaker 2: Yeah, quite the run. Purdue needs to make it to

2120
01:44:37,960 --> 01:44:42,040
Speaker 2: a final four just because that's been that's been their

2121
01:44:42,200 --> 01:44:43,960
Speaker 2: hurdle they have not been able to get over. So

2122
01:44:44,439 --> 01:44:46,839
Speaker 2: erase last year. Don't think of it as a Virginia

2123
01:44:46,960 --> 01:44:50,400
Speaker 2: twenty nineteen redemption Tour sort of thing, which, by the way,

2124
01:44:51,400 --> 01:44:54,960
Speaker 2: a still and I'll see it on TikTok every now

2125
01:44:55,000 --> 01:44:58,040
Speaker 2: and then again and I'll see it again. How crazy

2126
01:44:58,120 --> 01:45:01,080
Speaker 2: that regional final was in twenty nineteen. Yeah, with Virginia

2127
01:45:01,160 --> 01:45:03,680
Speaker 2: and Purdue is just I mean, you thought Purdue had it.

2128
01:45:03,800 --> 01:45:05,800
Speaker 2: I mean you thought it. Kya Clark has the ball

2129
01:45:05,840 --> 01:45:07,800
Speaker 2: in the back court with three seconds left, You're like,

2130
01:45:07,880 --> 01:45:11,080
Speaker 2: it's going to happen, and then it doesn't happen. That's

2131
01:45:11,120 --> 01:45:14,320
Speaker 2: still the mark, like that is still the barrier. And

2132
01:45:14,479 --> 01:45:16,439
Speaker 2: if your Purdue just to get to that point, they

2133
01:45:16,439 --> 01:45:18,479
Speaker 2: don't even have to win it all, Aaron, Quite honestly,

2134
01:45:18,520 --> 01:45:20,519
Speaker 2: they just get to the because that wasn't It's not

2135
01:45:20,640 --> 01:45:23,760
Speaker 2: only Matt Painters bugaboo. It was gene Caties as well.

2136
01:45:23,920 --> 01:45:25,840
Speaker 2: Right Like when you had Glenn Robinson and that team

2137
01:45:25,880 --> 01:45:27,800
Speaker 2: in nineteen ninety four, you end up losing the duke

2138
01:45:27,840 --> 01:45:30,720
Speaker 2: in a regional final. You had other opportunities of you know,

2139
01:45:30,920 --> 01:45:34,280
Speaker 2: getting close. It's they were number one seeds, you know,

2140
01:45:34,520 --> 01:45:36,960
Speaker 2: and and you know it didn't work out for him.

2141
01:45:37,000 --> 01:45:40,559
Speaker 2: So there's they were pushed at times as the number

2142
01:45:40,600 --> 01:45:43,439
Speaker 2: one seed last year they end up losing a final

2143
01:45:43,479 --> 01:45:45,200
Speaker 2: four is the only thing that could put sav on

2144
01:45:45,280 --> 01:45:46,200
Speaker 2: the wound for Perdue.

2145
01:45:46,360 --> 01:45:48,160
Speaker 3: So I agree with you one hundred percent. And that

2146
01:45:48,280 --> 01:45:50,080
Speaker 3: was where me and j Mart settled last night. Is

2147
01:45:50,160 --> 01:45:53,680
Speaker 3: that you think about the tournament expands in the mid

2148
01:45:54,000 --> 01:45:55,920
Speaker 3: nineteen eighty, so they haven't been to a final four

2149
01:45:56,000 --> 01:45:58,880
Speaker 3: since the tournament expanded technically nineteen eighty. I don't even

2150
01:45:58,880 --> 01:46:00,639
Speaker 3: know what the tournament even looked like at that point.

2151
01:46:00,680 --> 01:46:02,479
Speaker 3: I'm not trying to be disrespectful. It's just a fact.

2152
01:46:03,240 --> 01:46:05,760
Speaker 3: Is you know, you look at a Florida Atlantic, you

2153
01:46:05,840 --> 01:46:07,760
Speaker 3: look at a Wichitas That, you look at all of

2154
01:46:07,920 --> 01:46:10,800
Speaker 3: the teams that have advanced the San Diego State last year,

2155
01:46:11,240 --> 01:46:13,599
Speaker 3: Purdue is not one of them. I think, look at

2156
01:46:13,680 --> 01:46:15,920
Speaker 3: this point, we know what happened last year. We know

2157
01:46:16,000 --> 01:46:17,960
Speaker 3: it can't be a race. We know that. By the way,

2158
01:46:18,000 --> 01:46:20,000
Speaker 3: probably not even the best team in the country right now.

2159
01:46:20,479 --> 01:46:23,240
Speaker 3: Yukon's probably better, Houston's probably better. But if you don't

2160
01:46:23,280 --> 01:46:25,960
Speaker 3: get to that final four, it is something that is

2161
01:46:26,000 --> 01:46:27,280
Speaker 3: going to continue to be held against you.

2162
01:46:27,520 --> 01:46:30,760
Speaker 2: He's erin Torres. I'm Dan Byer. Moncey Belanos is hanging out.

2163
01:46:31,200 --> 01:46:34,479
Speaker 2: We're taking a look at this sixty eighteen bracket. There's

2164
01:46:34,560 --> 01:46:37,559
Speaker 2: a ton tons of other stuff happening on the Saint

2165
01:46:37,600 --> 01:46:41,040
Speaker 2: Patrick's Day. Moncis here to bring us the latest. Hello, Monzy,

2166
01:46:41,080 --> 01:46:41,640
Speaker 2: what is going on?

2167
01:46:42,000 --> 01:46:42,439
Speaker 6: Fellas?

2168
01:46:42,680 --> 01:46:46,960
Speaker 4: You guys are like doctors when it comes to this bracketology.

2169
01:46:46,520 --> 01:46:49,240
Speaker 2: Surgical work. Literally, we're cutting the committee of park. We're

2170
01:46:49,240 --> 01:46:49,920
Speaker 2: cutting committee.

2171
01:46:50,560 --> 01:46:52,920
Speaker 6: You really are. I'm impressed.

2172
01:46:53,040 --> 01:46:55,160
Speaker 4: But you guys will cover continue covering that or you

2173
01:46:55,200 --> 01:46:57,120
Speaker 4: want me to give you anything of this, barackt Yeah,

2174
01:46:58,120 --> 01:47:01,600
Speaker 4: you mean, I really have much to say. Again, you

2175
01:47:01,640 --> 01:47:04,680
Speaker 4: guys are like doctors over here. I gave you the

2176
01:47:04,800 --> 01:47:08,439
Speaker 4: top number one seeds. There's four, but is the number

2177
01:47:08,520 --> 01:47:11,519
Speaker 4: one overall seed out of the East region, Houston is

2178
01:47:11,560 --> 01:47:13,960
Speaker 4: the number one seed out of South region per Duke

2179
01:47:14,040 --> 01:47:16,679
Speaker 4: coming out of the Midwest region, and the final number

2180
01:47:16,720 --> 01:47:20,360
Speaker 4: one seed is North Carolina out of the West region. Online,

2181
01:47:20,439 --> 01:47:24,200
Speaker 4: some people are upset about the first four out Oklahoma,

2182
01:47:24,320 --> 01:47:27,160
Speaker 4: Seaton Hall, Indiana State in pit A lot of people

2183
01:47:27,320 --> 01:47:29,400
Speaker 4: not agreeing with that, and I'm sure you guys will

2184
01:47:29,400 --> 01:47:32,160
Speaker 4: dive into that. But let's check in on the NBA

2185
01:47:32,320 --> 01:47:34,599
Speaker 4: three games going on right now, with the Magic beating

2186
01:47:34,640 --> 01:47:37,360
Speaker 4: the Raptors at home sixty six to fifty six halfway

2187
01:47:37,400 --> 01:47:39,960
Speaker 4: through the third quarter. The Celtics continue to extend their

2188
01:47:40,040 --> 01:47:42,719
Speaker 4: lead over the Wizards in Washington ninety two to sixty

2189
01:47:42,800 --> 01:47:45,160
Speaker 4: one halfway through the third quarter, and the Nets with

2190
01:47:45,200 --> 01:47:48,160
Speaker 4: the early lead against the Spurs in San Antonio thirty

2191
01:47:48,200 --> 01:47:50,479
Speaker 4: two to twenty two late in the first quarter.

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01:47:50,800 --> 01:47:52,800
Speaker 6: The games that I have already finished, the Bucks. I

2193
01:47:52,880 --> 01:47:54,880
Speaker 6: have a problem with your Bucks, Dan boy?

2194
01:47:56,439 --> 01:47:57,000
Speaker 2: Is that yeah?

2195
01:47:57,040 --> 01:48:01,880
Speaker 6: No, no yet It is Saint Patrick's Day and the.

2196
01:48:02,280 --> 01:48:06,080
Speaker 2: Blue I don't disagree with you. Are we yeah?

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01:48:06,200 --> 01:48:08,439
Speaker 6: Are we on crack? You have one job, guys. Not

2198
01:48:08,560 --> 01:48:11,040
Speaker 6: only are they wearing blue, the floor was also blue.

2199
01:48:11,120 --> 01:48:13,799
Speaker 4: So in the stands the fans were wearing green because

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01:48:14,000 --> 01:48:16,360
Speaker 4: normally they're green and they're wearing blue.

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01:48:16,560 --> 01:48:18,160
Speaker 6: And then I can say the same thing about the maps.

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01:48:18,200 --> 01:48:20,479
Speaker 4: Don't the Maps have a green uniform that they could

2203
01:48:20,479 --> 01:48:22,240
Speaker 4: have used today, like a random one.

2204
01:48:22,160 --> 01:48:24,160
Speaker 2: That they occasionally they did in the past. But the

2205
01:48:24,320 --> 01:48:28,400
Speaker 2: NBA does all of their stupid uniforms and moves them aside.

2206
01:48:28,439 --> 01:48:31,320
Speaker 6: But ye, it makes no sense why the Bucks went

2207
01:48:31,479 --> 01:48:32,120
Speaker 6: blue today.

2208
01:48:32,160 --> 01:48:36,120
Speaker 4: But they won twenty nine over the Suns the heat

2209
01:48:36,160 --> 01:48:38,800
Speaker 4: with the buzzer beater Bam out of bio drains a

2210
01:48:38,920 --> 01:48:39,639
Speaker 4: three and they.

2211
01:48:39,600 --> 01:48:41,639
Speaker 6: Beat the Pistons one o four to one oh one.

2212
01:48:42,080 --> 01:48:45,479
Speaker 4: Another buzzer beater, Kyrie Irving a little lefty as the

2213
01:48:45,600 --> 01:48:48,920
Speaker 4: Mavericks beat the Nuggets one oh seven to one oh five.

2214
01:48:49,280 --> 01:48:51,920
Speaker 4: And golf, Scottie Scheffler became the first player to defend

2215
01:48:51,960 --> 01:48:54,960
Speaker 4: his title at the Players Championship. He ended twenty under

2216
01:48:55,000 --> 01:48:58,000
Speaker 4: part overall a three way time for second place. Brian

2217
01:48:58,080 --> 01:49:01,679
Speaker 4: Harmon Xander Schoffley, Wyndham Clark all ended one shot back.

2218
01:49:01,920 --> 01:49:04,479
Speaker 4: Denny Hamlin won the NASCAR Cup Series at the Bristol

2219
01:49:04,600 --> 01:49:08,519
Speaker 4: Murder at the Bristol Motor Speedway. It's his fifty second

2220
01:49:08,600 --> 01:49:11,120
Speaker 4: career Cup win and his fourth at Bristol.

2221
01:49:11,439 --> 01:49:11,680
Speaker 1: You go.

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01:49:12,160 --> 01:49:14,920
Speaker 4: In the NFL, the Patriots are signing former Vikings wide

2223
01:49:14,960 --> 01:49:17,880
Speaker 4: receiver kJ Osborne, and the Browns agreed to terms with

2224
01:49:17,920 --> 01:49:19,719
Speaker 4: former Ravens quarterback Tyler Huntley.

2225
01:49:19,760 --> 01:49:22,880
Speaker 6: It's a one year deal, according to eat sp And the.

2226
01:49:23,080 --> 01:49:28,280
Speaker 4: La Marathon happened today, fellas the winner Dominic Geno and Gino.

2227
01:49:28,320 --> 01:49:31,559
Speaker 4: I'm gonna guess is his name? Two hours and ten minutes,

2228
01:49:32,080 --> 01:49:36,400
Speaker 4: twenty six point two miles, two hours and what ten minutes?

2229
01:49:37,200 --> 01:49:38,799
Speaker 6: Two hours and ten minutes.

2230
01:49:39,280 --> 01:49:40,720
Speaker 3: We got a yeurine sample of that guy.

2231
01:49:41,560 --> 01:49:45,320
Speaker 4: It's a five minute mile consistently. And the woman who

2232
01:49:45,400 --> 01:49:47,720
Speaker 4: wants Stacy in D one, I'm gonna guess is how

2233
01:49:47,760 --> 01:49:48,599
Speaker 4: she says it work?

2234
01:49:48,840 --> 01:49:53,280
Speaker 6: Not too far back? Two hours and twenty five minutes, ladies.

2235
01:49:53,800 --> 01:49:55,840
Speaker 2: I mean, are a lot of runs going on today,

2236
01:49:55,880 --> 01:49:58,720
Speaker 2: But yeah, that was that's the big one here in Lay. Yeah, well,

2237
01:49:58,960 --> 01:50:01,840
Speaker 2: not a lot of runs in La New York City's

2238
01:50:01,840 --> 01:50:04,040
Speaker 2: got a half marathon, DC as a half marathon, and

2239
01:50:04,320 --> 01:50:05,400
Speaker 2: LA's got the full marat.

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Speaker 6: The full one today starting at Dodger Stadium.

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01:50:07,520 --> 01:50:09,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, and the committee's running into hiding after this debacle

2242
01:50:09,960 --> 01:50:10,840
Speaker 3: of a bracket that they.

2243
01:50:10,840 --> 01:50:14,680
Speaker 2: Just runny like the end of the marathon. People are

2244
01:50:14,760 --> 01:50:17,280
Speaker 2: throwing up at the end seeing what the outcome is

2245
01:50:17,479 --> 01:50:22,559
Speaker 2: of these brackets. I'll just quick say this about the marathon.

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01:50:23,000 --> 01:50:25,880
Speaker 2: It used to end near where I lived, So how

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01:50:26,000 --> 01:50:29,280
Speaker 2: was I get basically just block or two away from

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01:50:29,320 --> 01:50:31,160
Speaker 2: what would be mile twenty six and there was just

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01:50:31,200 --> 01:50:31,880
Speaker 2: the two tenths?

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01:50:32,040 --> 01:50:32,240
Speaker 6: Yeah.

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01:50:32,360 --> 01:50:36,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, there is something very very uplifting, Yeah, of watching

2252
01:50:36,640 --> 01:50:39,280
Speaker 2: other people cheer on other people as they come down

2253
01:50:39,320 --> 01:50:39,719
Speaker 2: the stretch.

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01:50:39,880 --> 01:50:40,479
Speaker 6: It's so fun.

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Speaker 4: I've only done half marathons because I'm only half crazy,

2256
01:50:43,240 --> 01:50:45,720
Speaker 4: i only do the thirteen. But you're right, like you're

2257
01:50:45,800 --> 01:50:48,800
Speaker 4: rooting for random people to finish. I've been at full

2258
01:50:48,840 --> 01:50:51,559
Speaker 4: marathons and I'm just like, go, just go. People who

2259
01:50:51,600 --> 01:50:52,840
Speaker 4: are like struggling at the end.

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01:50:52,760 --> 01:50:54,000
Speaker 6: You're like you're almost there, just go.

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01:50:54,360 --> 01:50:54,559
Speaker 5: Yeah.

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01:50:54,720 --> 01:50:56,559
Speaker 6: It's such a it's such an accomplishment, there's a.

2263
01:50:56,600 --> 01:50:59,000
Speaker 2: Good there's such a great positive energy with it.

2264
01:50:59,200 --> 01:51:00,920
Speaker 6: It really is like any twenty six.

2265
01:51:01,200 --> 01:51:04,879
Speaker 4: It's just crazy crazy. But congratulations to everyone who participates.

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01:51:04,920 --> 01:51:06,679
Speaker 2: Trip of the cap to them, Thank you very much, Monster,

2267
01:51:06,760 --> 01:51:10,400
Speaker 2: a great job today. Dukane punching your own Oh my goodness.

2268
01:51:10,720 --> 01:51:15,080
Speaker 2: I literally was like, they got it. Hey, you'll never

2269
01:51:15,120 --> 01:51:15,479
Speaker 2: forget it.

2270
01:51:15,560 --> 01:51:16,720
Speaker 6: I We'll never forget it.

2271
01:51:17,360 --> 01:51:20,320
Speaker 2: Hit her up at Moncey Belanos. You can find Aaron

2272
01:51:20,400 --> 01:51:23,960
Speaker 2: underscore Torres and hit me up at Dan Byer on Foxes.

2273
01:51:24,000 --> 01:51:26,719
Speaker 2: We are live from the tire ak dot com studios.

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01:51:27,080 --> 01:51:28,519
Speaker 2: Do you have a final four yet?

2275
01:51:28,600 --> 01:51:28,640
Speaker 1: Like?

2276
01:51:28,680 --> 01:51:29,280
Speaker 2: Did you look at this?

2277
01:51:29,800 --> 01:51:29,920
Speaker 1: Oh?

2278
01:51:30,120 --> 01:51:32,280
Speaker 3: Nothing even close? I mean I'm not being sarcasting everything

2279
01:51:32,320 --> 01:51:32,679
Speaker 3: even close.

2280
01:51:32,760 --> 01:51:32,800
Speaker 1: No.

2281
01:51:32,880 --> 01:51:35,559
Speaker 2: And I it's the one other great thing about doing

2282
01:51:35,600 --> 01:51:37,920
Speaker 2: the show is I don't have to hear Seth Davis.

2283
01:51:38,560 --> 01:51:41,240
Speaker 2: This is my annual rants. I think it's my fifth

2284
01:51:41,280 --> 01:51:45,799
Speaker 2: annual rant on Seth Davis ruining everybody's bracket by announcing

2285
01:51:45,920 --> 01:51:48,720
Speaker 2: his picks right away because he got the bracket, you know,

2286
01:51:48,920 --> 01:51:53,679
Speaker 2: minutes before everybody else, so he could immediately For example,

2287
01:51:53,720 --> 01:51:55,320
Speaker 2: you would just take a seven to ten game and

2288
01:51:55,400 --> 01:51:58,000
Speaker 2: say I like them to advance, and I see them

2289
01:51:58,080 --> 01:52:00,720
Speaker 2: in the Elite eight against uc on Like it's just

2290
01:52:00,800 --> 01:52:02,920
Speaker 2: like no, just reveal a bracket. I don't need to

2291
01:52:03,000 --> 01:52:04,800
Speaker 2: know your picks already. You know you don't have that

2292
01:52:04,920 --> 01:52:08,400
Speaker 2: advantage over us. You are in an advantageous spot. You

2293
01:52:08,439 --> 01:52:09,920
Speaker 2: should not be using it against us.

2294
01:52:10,080 --> 01:52:12,840
Speaker 3: Well, and I will say, because I'm kind of in

2295
01:52:12,920 --> 01:52:14,880
Speaker 3: the number two chair here similar to what he is

2296
01:52:14,960 --> 01:52:18,719
Speaker 3: on CBS, I try to make sure when the bracket

2297
01:52:18,840 --> 01:52:21,519
Speaker 3: is first coming out, people don't need Torres' take right away.

2298
01:52:21,560 --> 01:52:23,920
Speaker 2: They need Dan Byer telling him who's playing who where

2299
01:52:24,600 --> 01:52:24,920
Speaker 2: and so.

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01:52:25,479 --> 01:52:28,920
Speaker 3: Having heard you talk about what Seth does and having

2301
01:52:29,520 --> 01:52:31,760
Speaker 3: watched it with my own two eyes, I try to

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01:52:32,000 --> 01:52:34,760
Speaker 3: be you know, you know what do they say, like

2303
01:52:34,960 --> 01:52:36,920
Speaker 3: in a big home run call, just lay out, let

2304
01:52:37,040 --> 01:52:41,320
Speaker 3: the moment happen when you're announcing the bracket for our audience.

2305
01:52:41,400 --> 01:52:43,840
Speaker 3: I try to go out of the way to not

2306
01:52:44,080 --> 01:52:46,400
Speaker 3: be that guy. So I don't have a final four.

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01:52:46,520 --> 01:52:48,120
Speaker 3: I do have a couple things that do stand out.

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01:52:48,120 --> 01:52:48,960
Speaker 3: Do you have half a second?

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01:52:49,600 --> 01:52:51,240
Speaker 2: We're gonna do it on the other side, because I

2310
01:52:51,360 --> 01:52:52,760
Speaker 2: just that's what I want to wrap up the show

2311
01:52:52,800 --> 01:52:55,040
Speaker 2: with stuff to look at. But I appreciate that, but

2312
01:52:55,080 --> 01:52:57,200
Speaker 2: there's a way to do it. If you were let's

2313
01:52:57,280 --> 01:52:59,760
Speaker 2: just say in this scenario. This is this is how

2314
01:52:59,800 --> 01:53:02,160
Speaker 2: you handle it. Okay, Florida is a seventh seed. They'll

2315
01:53:02,160 --> 01:53:04,439
Speaker 2: play the winner of the Boise State Colorado game. But

2316
01:53:04,560 --> 01:53:06,600
Speaker 2: if you like the Gators because of the run that

2317
01:53:06,680 --> 01:53:08,920
Speaker 2: they went on in the SEC tournament and you like

2318
01:53:09,000 --> 01:53:11,559
Speaker 2: them to make a run on the broadcast, don't say

2319
01:53:11,600 --> 01:53:14,639
Speaker 2: that you have them in the Elite eight in the South.

2320
01:53:15,240 --> 01:53:17,880
Speaker 2: Just be like, I really like what Florida's got cooking

2321
01:53:18,000 --> 01:53:20,240
Speaker 2: right now. They could be a team to watch. That's

2322
01:53:20,240 --> 01:53:22,560
Speaker 2: all you have to say, because you don't. Part of

2323
01:53:22,640 --> 01:53:25,160
Speaker 2: the great thing about filling out a bracket, and it's

2324
01:53:25,240 --> 01:53:28,200
Speaker 2: filling out a bracket with friends and buddies is when

2325
01:53:28,240 --> 01:53:31,240
Speaker 2: you look at each other's somebody's like, oh, I've got

2326
01:53:31,280 --> 01:53:33,439
Speaker 2: them in the sweet sixteen, and then you take your

2327
01:53:33,439 --> 01:53:36,560
Speaker 2: trump card and you're like, I've got them boom in

2328
01:53:36,680 --> 01:53:39,760
Speaker 2: the final four. That's the fun of it. You're like, oh, wow,

2329
01:53:39,840 --> 01:53:41,240
Speaker 2: that team, I have them out in the first round.

2330
01:53:41,439 --> 01:53:43,639
Speaker 2: That's the back and forth. And when you see somebody

2331
01:53:43,840 --> 01:53:46,719
Speaker 2: already predict the team in the Elite eight, it takes

2332
01:53:46,760 --> 01:53:50,760
Speaker 2: away that sort of surprise where you think, like, I

2333
01:53:50,920 --> 01:53:54,320
Speaker 2: know there's you know, there's so many brackets being filled out,

2334
01:53:54,560 --> 01:53:56,280
Speaker 2: filled out. You're not the only one that would have

2335
01:53:56,360 --> 01:53:58,840
Speaker 2: a Florida, say, in the elite eight. But it does

2336
01:53:58,960 --> 01:54:01,680
Speaker 2: feel special when you do. You make that decision not

2337
01:54:01,880 --> 01:54:04,160
Speaker 2: hearing it three minutes after the brackets were released on

2338
01:54:04,280 --> 01:54:04,800
Speaker 2: national team.

2339
01:54:04,880 --> 01:54:08,160
Speaker 3: No, that's a great point, is yeah. Yeah, No, I

2340
01:54:08,560 --> 01:54:10,800
Speaker 3: think you could say, oh, like you said, his team's

2341
01:54:10,800 --> 01:54:13,360
Speaker 3: playing really well, or I've thought all year they're a

2342
01:54:13,360 --> 01:54:16,360
Speaker 3: little bit undervalued. We don't need your your first three

2343
01:54:16,520 --> 01:54:18,960
Speaker 3: round projections. The second the bracket hits, and if.

2344
01:54:18,880 --> 01:54:21,559
Speaker 2: I looked at it correctly, Leonardi got sixty seven out

2345
01:54:21,600 --> 01:54:23,880
Speaker 2: of sixty eight. I think Jerry Palm got sixty six

2346
01:54:23,960 --> 01:54:25,000
Speaker 2: out of sixty eight. Wow.

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Speaker 3: But again, so when Leonardi came after me an hour one, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: But he's not perfect. Maybe if you would have taken

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Speaker 2: that time and figured it out, you know, instead of

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Speaker 2: tweeting at you, he could have been perfect sixty eight

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Speaker 2: for sixty eight. He's Aaron Torres. I'm dan Byer a

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Speaker 2: women's selection show coming up eight o'clock Eastern time tonight.

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Speaker 2: Aaron and I th are done. At the top of

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Speaker 2: the hour, you'll find out the women's field, find out

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Speaker 2: where Caitlyn Clark will end up playing her postseason hoops

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Speaker 2: in South Carolina and so much more. All Right, Aaron's

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Speaker 2: got some thoughts on the bracket live from the Tyrech

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Speaker 2: dot com studios. You'll hear them next year on Fox

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Speaker 2: Sports Radio. It's Fox Sports Sunday, a Selection Sunday Special Edition.

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Speaker 2: He's Aaron Torres. I'm Dan Byer. The field of sixty

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Speaker 2: eight is unveiled. You have some thoughts on this field

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Speaker 2: of sixty eight that you wanted to get in before

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Speaker 2: we wrap up and Mark Willard and Ephram Salam takeover.

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Speaker 3: Well, yeah, just a couple thoughts really quickly. On the

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Speaker 3: teams that are in. We've discussed plenty about the last four,

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01:55:27,720 --> 01:55:31,960
Speaker 3: you know, first four out all that stuff. One. I

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01:55:32,080 --> 01:55:35,400
Speaker 3: mentioned this earlier, but Kansas, I'm just not a believer

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01:55:35,520 --> 01:55:38,880
Speaker 3: in Sanford plays a very fast style. They are a

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01:55:39,000 --> 01:55:42,280
Speaker 3: top ten scoring offense in all of college basketball. They pressed,

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Speaker 3: they forced turnovers. I think that's a spot where Kansas

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01:55:46,280 --> 01:55:49,320
Speaker 3: could really have some fits. And then ironically, in that

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Speaker 3: same little region there, Gonzaga McNee State. You know Gonzaga. Listen,

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01:55:54,400 --> 01:55:56,640
Speaker 3: I think we all knew they were going to be

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Speaker 3: in after the run they had to end the regular season.

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Speaker 3: Don't think anybody had him on a five line. McNee

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Speaker 3: State thirty and three. They beat Michigan, they beat VCU,

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Speaker 3: they had some really good wins out of conference, and

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Speaker 3: you know, like I said to start, no, they were

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Speaker 3: coming into the week the number one field goal percentage

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Speaker 3: defense in college basketball, ahead of Tennessee, ahead of Houston,

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Speaker 3: ahead of I with stayed all those teams. So I

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01:56:22,960 --> 01:56:25,200
Speaker 3: just bring it up because Mcnee's played some great defense.

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Speaker 3: I think they could give Gonzagas fits as well.

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Speaker 2: I think that this is dangerous to say Purdue has

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01:56:31,560 --> 01:56:33,480
Speaker 2: got a nice path to an elite eate.

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Speaker 3: Let's take a look.

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Speaker 2: So it's in that same Midwest region, Kansas being the

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01:56:38,400 --> 01:56:41,840
Speaker 2: four seed in their health right of being questioned, but

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01:56:42,000 --> 01:56:44,840
Speaker 2: you could have you know, Hunter Dickinson and Zach eat

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01:56:44,880 --> 01:56:46,800
Speaker 2: He battled when they were both in the Big Ten.

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Speaker 2: Now Dickinson at Kansas, but he didn't play in the

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01:56:50,760 --> 01:56:54,040
Speaker 2: short lived Big Twelve tournament stay that they had, but

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01:56:54,640 --> 01:56:56,960
Speaker 2: could set up for an interesting growth. So again, it's

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01:56:57,120 --> 01:57:00,600
Speaker 2: kind of there for Purdue to maybe I'm really this, Dan.

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Speaker 3: I think Tennessee is a two seed. Those two teams

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01:57:04,160 --> 01:57:07,720
Speaker 3: played earlier in the season, Purdue was plus eighteen at

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01:57:07,720 --> 01:57:09,520
Speaker 3: the fall line. I only know that because of reference

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01:57:09,560 --> 01:57:11,920
Speaker 3: that set a million times. That was a close game.

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Speaker 3: But other than that, you know, you look at this bracket.

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Speaker 3: I don't think Gonzaga. They actually played Perdue in the

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01:57:18,400 --> 01:57:21,160
Speaker 3: MAO Invitational, Purdue pulled away late. I don't think Kansas,

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01:57:21,240 --> 01:57:24,280
Speaker 3: with those injuries, is built. The three seed Creton I

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01:57:24,280 --> 01:57:26,200
Speaker 3: don't think is a great matchup for them. They're not

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01:57:26,440 --> 01:57:29,200
Speaker 3: very deep. You have to have bodies to throw Zach Edy.

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Speaker 3: South Carolina I don't think is a threat. Texas isn't

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01:57:31,960 --> 01:57:36,000
Speaker 3: a threat. Tennessee is, in my opinion, unless something dramatic happens,

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Speaker 3: the only team that could beat Perdue in that region.

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Speaker 2: I do really like Marquette, but again it comes down

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01:57:42,080 --> 01:57:47,440
Speaker 2: to health, yep, and if Tyler Kullak is, If he's there,

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Speaker 2: I would have no problem putting them in the final four.

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01:57:51,480 --> 01:57:54,160
Speaker 2: The Houston's great, but there's then the question and then

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Speaker 2: if he's if there are issues, then Marquette is obviously

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01:57:59,000 --> 01:58:00,720
Speaker 2: not a strong of a team to spite making it

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Speaker 2: to the Big East Tournament finals. The Battle of the

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Speaker 2: MSUs in the eight to nine game. In the West,

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01:58:07,400 --> 01:58:10,840
Speaker 2: the Mississippi State Michigan State game, and I don't know

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01:58:10,920 --> 01:58:15,120
Speaker 2: if it's and you'll remember this if it's PTSD from

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01:58:15,200 --> 01:58:18,760
Speaker 2: the yukon New Mexico State game a few years back

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01:58:19,560 --> 01:58:22,520
Speaker 2: when Chris Jans had that New Mexico State team and

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01:58:22,840 --> 01:58:26,800
Speaker 2: just it was just such a nightmare to play against

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Speaker 2: New Mexico State. And you have a Michigan State team

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Speaker 2: who we always expect a lot of, So I think

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Speaker 2: you're going to see a lot of Michigan State coming

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Speaker 2: out of that in the eight to nine coin flip

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Speaker 2: if you're filling out brackets. But if Mississippi State wins

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Speaker 2: that and then now you're playing against the tempo team

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Speaker 2: like North Carolina, slow them down, Mississippi State could be

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Speaker 2: I just love the SEC to be, to be quite

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Speaker 2: honest with you, like in terms of I'm not in

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Speaker 2: love with the Big twelve, I am going to lean

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Speaker 2: heavy towards the SEC in I have advancing. I actually

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Speaker 2: wish Auburn wouldn't have done so well the tournament because

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Speaker 2: I would have liked to have had them a little

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Speaker 2: bit further. But I am more of a believer because

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Speaker 2: in this Tennessee team that you talk about isn't the

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Speaker 2: Tennessee teams of old, you know, and they've they've dealt

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Speaker 2: with injuries before. They just seem like a different team.

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Speaker 2: But they lost their last two though, and that's what

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01:59:19,720 --> 01:59:21,440
Speaker 2: I think a lot of people are back on that

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Speaker 2: this is the same Tennessee of old. They are not

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Speaker 2: different this year. So those are the kind of teams,

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Speaker 2: right do you go with when you're filling out the bracket.

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01:59:31,000 --> 01:59:33,600
Speaker 2: They're not playing well, they don't have a history of

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01:59:33,720 --> 01:59:35,880
Speaker 2: doing well in the tournament, but we also have a

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Speaker 2: twenty eight or twenty nine game sample size that says

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01:59:38,400 --> 01:59:39,680
Speaker 2: they're one of the top five teams in the country.

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01:59:39,720 --> 01:59:42,640
Speaker 2: It's what makes this bracket so challenging but so fun

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01:59:42,720 --> 01:59:45,960
Speaker 2: at the exact same time. I think they'll be all right,

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01:59:46,080 --> 01:59:49,680
Speaker 2: but it could be an interesting matchup with with Texas

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01:59:49,800 --> 01:59:52,560
Speaker 2: and the Battle of Orange and who's there really ut

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01:59:52,760 --> 01:59:56,280
Speaker 2: we get to find out for real. Yes, Rick Barnes

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01:59:56,280 --> 01:59:59,840
Speaker 2: against his former employer. You've got those those lines moving on.

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Speaker 2: It's it's here. I do think that this is a

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Speaker 2: we can always say it's gonna be a wacky bracket,

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Speaker 2: but the bid Steelers have made this where I think

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Speaker 2: is unique and I am just curious, Aaron, because of

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Speaker 2: the bid Steelers. Are we going to see more chalk?

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02:00:13,400 --> 02:00:15,520
Speaker 2: Did those teams just get hot for a week and

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Speaker 2: all of a sudden now just completely run out of gas.

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02:00:17,680 --> 02:00:19,520
Speaker 2: Are they going to be able to carry that momentum over?

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Speaker 2: I don't think that they will. I think you're gonna

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Speaker 2: see a lot of bid Steelers bow out in round

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Speaker 2: number one, and that could help the middle of the pack,

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Speaker 2: especially in that those six seeds advanced. I think that's

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Speaker 2: something to watch for. You get a lot of six

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Speaker 2: eleven upsets. I don't think we're gonna get it as

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Speaker 2: much this time around.

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Speaker 3: Yea, And I think Yukon, as the number one overall seed,

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02:00:36,320 --> 02:00:38,440
Speaker 3: did not get the easiest bracket, which in theory is

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02:00:38,480 --> 02:00:41,680
Speaker 3: supposed to happen. I think Purdue, which needed a couple breaks,

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Speaker 3: appears to have gotten it.

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Speaker 2: And so Aaron Torres and myself, we're not going to

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Speaker 2: give you a final four pick. There's a little something

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Speaker 2: to take home. You'll want to check out Aaron everything

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02:00:55,200 --> 02:00:58,360
Speaker 2: he does on social this podcast at Aaron Underscore Torres.

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Speaker 2: It's gonna be fun. Tournament gets going on Tuesday, in

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Speaker 2: the first round on Thursday, so for Aeron Torres. I'm

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Speaker 2: Dan Byer. Thanks to everybody for chipping in. That's a

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Speaker 2: wrap on our twenty twenty four Selection show special on

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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio