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Host 1
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Jake Hofer
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Jake Hofer
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Ryan
Hello everybody. Welcome into the Betting Pros podcast. I am Ryan, warmly joined today by Terrell Furman Jr. We have a bracket, Terrell. We can now look at the NCAA Tournament 20, 25. We know the teams that are in, we know where they are seated, we know where they're playing and we can start filling out those brackets. One of the most fun stretches of days of the entire year is just tinkering with my bracket and can't, you know, really struggling to decide who's going to be in my final four, which usually happens most years. How are you doing today buddy?
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Host 1
Oh, I'm good. I'm great. My VCU Rams won the A10 shout out to the home team VCU for being able to get that done. I, I like the draw getting a BYU team that's riding hot. They know that they can shoot but they haven't seen a defense like vcu. So I'm, I'm one. I love the mid majors and one of my favorite parts of the tournament is seeing what mid major decides to make the and make this interesting for us.
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Ryan
Speaking of mid majors, I promised we were going to look at this from a non homer view for most of the show. I have to ask my Maryland Terrapins we were just talking about a little bit before we started recording. They are facing a mid major in that 413 game they get Grand Canyon. What are your immediate thoughts on that one?
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Host 1
Oh, be careful Maryland, this is a Maryland team that does it. That has a good amount of tournament appearances and not a good amount of wins here. And Grand Canyon, you talked about it in pre production. Grand Canyon's fans travel really well and so we'll see how that goes. But man, from a Grand Canyon team that I think can do it all in that and that has the ability to put up a lot of offense and really, really lock down defensively, Maryland may be in trouble just maybe.
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Ryan
Yeah, we'll see how that goes. I feel like Memphis is a pretty decent five to get as a Four. You know, I know a lot of places had them seated a bit lower, so we'll see if they even get to that point. Having to get past grade, kid. And I do want to let everybody know that we have a pick them contest here going on. If you think you know college hoops, take your bracket knowledge the next level with the brand new NCAA Tournament pick them contest sponsored by FanDuel. Pick your winners or make your predictions against the spread all tournament long for a chance to win up to $1,000 in FanDuel DFS credits, signed jerseys and free annual betting pro subscriptions. The best part is it's completely free to enter. You can enter now@bettingpros.com contests. All right, Terrell, let's start off with the really main conversation that you see every year at this point right after the selection show, which is the teams that didn't make it and who are the biggest snubs in your op and not only who are the biggest snubs, but who would you take out to make room for them.
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Host 1
I mean, I think this year is not even the conversation of what seems didn't make it. It's the conversation of what team did make it that took something out because North Carolina is in the field. And as somebody who, yes, I do like the North Carolina Tar Heels, you know, coming down to the North Carolina area, I've been around here a few and you kind of end up picking loyalties one way or another when you frequent around North Carolina too much. I, I questioned them against the best teams use. Everybody talks about the Quad 1 win record and all of that. And yeah, they got a little bit of hot playing the bottom of the barrel of the acc. But the question mark is how, how do you judge the acc? Because they were very, very lukewarm in a down ACC conference and they made it in the tournament. And if you told me Indiana got that spot, I wouldn't have been surprised. If you told me Boise got that spot, I wouldn't have been surprised to think Boise is the team that I look at and I'm like, oh, I really wish we could kind of get to see that. But North Carolina making it in, I think that's the one that everybody's confused at. And now that they're in there, they might win a game, maybe two.
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Ryan
I, I was going to say not only Carolina is is the obvious one. You're right about that. But those two teams you mentioned were the two that I was thinking would have a chance over Carolina in Indiana and Boise. So in Lockstep with you on that. Was. Was there any seating snubs in your opinion? Any teams that like, yes, we knew they were going to get in, but you thought they were lower or the other ve teams you thought were higher than they should have been seated. When you look at the bracket, I.
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Host 1
Think the ending of the Big Ten title game was rather interesting. You had Michigan come in as a five seed, I believe. And granted, Michigan look horrible to start the regular season, but they got red hot when they needed to and won the Big Ten tournament. And then you had that Wisconsin team who, who I believe was ranked a three. Is that what they're three?
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Ryan
They were, they were the 12th team on the S curve. Yeah, there are three.
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Host 1
Yeah. So I'm like, ah, three. For that Wisconsin team that str struggles like you saw it in the Big Ten title game, that Wisconsin team struggles down the stretch of games, they will have you in the game, have you in the game, have you in the game. When you get to the final three minutes, four minutes of basketball, it looks really, really bad on offense. And honestly what it looks like is a lot of just, hey, figure out somebody shoot the ball and hopefully it goes in and. And not a whole bunch of, hey, let's make this set. Let's do the things that were working for us all the way up to this point. Wisconsin kind of melts down in. In game. So the fact of seeing Wisconsin as a three, I thought they were overse. Definitely going to be a team that I'm looking out to go ahead and get them out of the water early.
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Ryan
Yeah, I tend to agree with that. I mean, really like Michigan. I get it. You, you mentioned some of the struggles they had at various points in the season, but I think you could make a, at least a cogent case that they should have been seated higher than Wisconsin, who was a 3. Purdue and Maryland were both fours. I mean, Michigan just beat Maryland yesterday. Obviously Maryland beat them at their place too, earlier in the season. I don't think Purdue's resume is all that exciting. Like, I was surprised to see Michigan at a 5 given some of the metrics and particularly how they finish the season. We see it a lot of years though. That Big Ten championship game often doesn't matter because it's so late in the process, the bracket is typically made. So unless that's a team that's going to steal a bid and they have to leave open that contingency, you often see it not impact seeding maybe as much as it should. I know that's like As a Big Ten guy, MD, I know that's something that people kind of often talk about amongst the fandom. Are there any teams that just kind of in this early conversation torell you think people aren't really talking about enough?
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Host 1
Yeah, Wofford. I hate that the Wofford team got Tennessee as the first draw and that's really, really tough. Maybe they're a team that I'm looking to bet on against the spread and not necessarily move them along my bracket but that Wofford team, man, I mean they are completely hot coming into this tournament. From three they're shooting 40%, 41%, 50% from three in the three games that it took them to win the SoCon championship. They, their offense is simple. We either going to shoot up a bunch of threes or we're going to get those easy percentage chances at the rim. And Cor Justin Bailey and they got a freshman Luke Flynn, they're all shooting better than 35% from the field. Bailey's all the way up like 45% from the field from three. So both like Wofford has a whole lot of offense and I was like man any team is going to really really be nervous. And then I see Tennessee come across the board and I'm like not that team. That's a really really good team. So I, I really, I really am looking at the wa at Wofford still. Maybe I'll bet on them instead of move them along in the brackets but I was that was a really, really tough Dr. VCU Rams this isn't really a lot of like homerism at least I don't think for me with vcu. But they're a really really good defense. They have a player that I think could be one of those darling players that people talk about in the tournament in Matt Shoga that can go out there and score on all three levels and be really really good energy guy for them and want to and their best players. So VCU if they get past that BYU team in the hot three point shooting that they have and VCU makes that defense and makes them play down to their pace, their level and hey this is a grinded out defensive game. Yeah, VCU can make a run and then they to play that Wisconsin team that we just talked about potentially in the next round. So if you're telling me that VCU gets BYU in Wisconsin and moves on to the Sweet 16, I wouldn't be surprised.
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Ryan
I like VCU a lot. I always wonder when a team like a mid major team has a coach that is getting lots of looks at maybe moving up to a higher level. And I know there's been some talk that like Ryan Odom is going to be the next guy at uva maybe. I know Villanova. I've at least seen one reporter say they could be interested in him. So I always wonder if a team is going to feel just like a little bit distracted when they go into the tournamen and that's kind of hanging over the team. But I'm with you. I think VCU is a good team. I think he's a good coach. Obviously we know what he can do in the tournament given what he did at the UMBC several years ago. So I think they're a good call as well. I do want to let everybody know that if you want to build the perfect bracket and take down your pool, you can use the Free Bracket Optimize Bracket Optimizer. Excuse me, @bettingpros.com bracket again, that's the free bracket optimizer. At bettingpros.com bracket you can optimize your picks using advanced data and betting odds. Lock in your favorites and we'll do the rest for you. Find key matchups and smart subset picks instantly make your best bracket@bettingpros.com bracket all right, we're going to go region by region, but before we do, I do just want to quickly highlight how strong these one seeds are this year. Terrell, it is ridiculous. If you look at Ken Palm, there have been this century, I think it's four teams that have had an overall net rating above plus 35 on Ken Palm prior to this year. There are four this year alone and it of course is the four one seeds. Duke is number one in Ken Palm, Florida number two. Houston number three, Auburn number four. Every one of those teams has a net rating over + 35. Even a team like Tennessee, who you just mentioned, is a really good team. They're the fifth team on Kenpum this year and they're plus 31 on Kenpom. It is ridiculously strong and that trickles down to it's very deep as well. I mean, again, I've been following Maryland a lot this year. They're plus 26.35. That would be easily a top 10 team in most years. Their 12th and KenPom this year. That's just one example. Very, very, very strong at the top this year. When you look at these 41 seeds, do any of them stand out to you as being susceptible to an early loss in this tournament or are they just so good that we should be penciling them into our final four pretty much right off the bat.
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Host 1
Penciling in, I don't know. We'll see what Duke looks like. Duke has a lot of injuries, and we're gonna have to see what this Duke team looks like going forward. And maybe that's something that says, okay, maybe Duke could beat had. Because now you're having lineup changes. You're doing things that you didn't do over the course of the regular season because you always had Cooper Flag, because you always had believe, because you always had all these players that you never really had to play around with the lineup, especially in crunch time. And I think that's the part that could really get Duke. Because if you go back to the beginning of the season, yes, this Duke team grew over time, but that early beginning of the season, how young this team is, that really showed up in crunch time. And I think that's something that I always kind of checked in the back of my head, like, hey, when they get in crunch time, sometimes they do fold. So maybe a Duke team like that, I could see them becoming one of the teams that kind of goes down, especially how everybody talked about how down the ACC is, and they kind of ran through this acc. Maybe there's a little bit of bias of how Duke's been playing recently, but I. I see Duke, that probably be my number one just to go down. But that's just because of the continuity of, hey, they got some injuries here. There may be some changes, some tinkering to the lineup, and you don't want to do stuff like that when you get to the biggest tournament all year.
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Ryan
It feels like Duke certainly has the talent, right? Florida playing as well as any team in the country. Auburn at times has played as well as any team in the country. They obviously have, you know, drew possible player of the year as well. So Houston is kind of one that stands out to me, not necessarily even to knock Houston, because I think they're really good team, obviously, but having to face Gonzaga Potentially in that second round, who was also a top 10 Ken Palm team, and you get why Gonzaga might have been seated where they were, but in terms of the metrics, a very, very strong team as well. So maybe kind of a tough road for Houston there at least certainly in the second round. Let's start going region by region. Terrell. So we'll start with where the number one overall seed is. That is Auburn in the South. We don't yet know there they'll be placed facing a 16 seed. We'll see which one ends up being.
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Host 1
It's going to be nine. Let me just go ahead and give you that now. It's going to be Alabama State. Let's go on Swack.
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Ryan
You're locking that one in already. So Auburn will be facing Alabama State, as you say, Louisville. Creighton is the game in the 8 9. Louisville playing in Kentucky, so definitely a location advantage for them. Just to read through the whole region, Michigan is the five going up against UC San Diego. Texas A&M is the four going up against Yale. Ole Miss is the six seed. Obviously we're waiting to see who they face in that 11 game. Iowa State is the 3, Lipscomb is the 14, Marquette at 7, New Mexico at 10 and the Michigan State at 2 and Bryant at 15. When you look at this just from Auburn's perspective, do you think this is a tough draw for the number one overall seed? Do you think it's a, a fair draw? Do you think they maybe have a relatively easy pass? What's your initial reaction for Auburn?
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Host 1
I think it's all right. I think it's relatively fair. I think the, the 89 matchup is always going to be interesting in this, in this side of the bracket. Iowa State, I think that is the one that you're really concerned about. And unfortunately I believe one of the guards for Iowa State isn't going to be able to play in the tournament. And so that, that's one of the one teams I was looking at that I said, man, Iowa State I think is seeded a little low just because of a couple losses they took towards the end of the season at, at three. I think that they probably could play to the level of a 1 or a 2 to be honest. And they're all the way down there at three and then you're getting that with the Auburn side of the bracket. And I still think even with injury, man, Curtis Jones for Iowa State is a baller. Like he's one of the guys that I think think of when I think, hey, who's going to be that person that kind of takes over the tournament and makes you, makes everybody shine and everybody's looking at them and they're talking about him from week in, weekend, weekend. Like I think he really is one of those types of, of players where he could average some 20 plus points over the course of the tournament for Iowa State. So yeah, I think that's really the big concern for here for me, Iowa State. And then of course they get Izzo in Michigan and it's been a while since Izzo's been able to be Izzo in March and he's had that roster together. So I think that this could be one of the years where that, that makes this confusing for an Auburn team and make, and make things tough.
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Ryan
There's good players in every region. Obviously. This is a region though, that has a number of players that I think could become, I mean, they're, they're all very good already and stars to certain levels, but guys who I think could really kind of explode on the national scale. Obviously we already know Broom at Auburn and you just mentioned Iowa State, but you know Cam Jones with Marquette, Jace Richardson the freshman at Michigan State. You know, Michigan's two big men there. There's a lot of Chucky Hepburn at, at Louisville. There's a lot of really good players in this region. Right?
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Host 1
Yeah, man. It's a, it's a lot like. I, I, I think this is a good one. I think this is a good one. If I had to go with a pick here, I think I am sticking. I really, really want to move Iowa State into the Final Four here. I really do. But I think the injury is just too much. I don't know what they're going to be able to do about Genibrone, but Iowa State does do a really, really good job of clogging up the lanes and clogging up the inside, making you shoot three point shots. And so I think it'll be a good game if you get an Auburn in Iowa State or Iowa State and a Michigan down there in the lower part of the bracket. I'm gonna go ahead. I' stick with the one seed here though. I'm going to go Auburn.
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Ryan
Do you have a favorite underdog in this region?
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Host 1
Let's see here. I could see a. Yet Yale and Yale and Texas A and M is going to be a good game.
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Ryan
I was thinking in terms of the first round, Yale might, might be a good choice. Maybe Marquette. I like Jones a lot from Yale.
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Host 1
Who I can never pronounce his name.
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Ryan
He is, I'm not going to try pronouncing.
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Host 1
I can never pronounce his name. But he's a ball or pool, whatever his name is. He's, oh my gosh, he's, he's a Hooper. So I think, you know, and the Yale team has been through a lot of turnover and they're still really, really good. So yeah, man, I, I could see a Yale team going and then that would only like bring this whole SEC is the best conference and they're going to get all These teams they like, we've seen so many times. It was one year. I don't know if it was last year with the Big Ten or the year before with the Big Ten, but the Big Ten had a whole bunch of teams and like half of them were out in the first weekend. Like sometimes you just, you, you see really good basketball, really good competitive basketball in a conference and you assume that that conference is dominant over everybody else and they always aren't. So. So yeah, I think a Yale team is fun. I think that UC San Diego team against Michigan is also really, really interesting as well. And so I'd probably keep it those two teams right there and say we see an upseat at 4 or 5, 5.
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Ryan
Let's look at the East Region. Obviously Duke is the one seed. We already talked about Mississippi State and Baylor in the 8, 9 game. Obviously Baylor has been here before. Oregon is the 5, Liberty the 12, Arizona the 4, Akron the 13, BYU the 6, VCU the 11, Wisconsin the 3, Montana the 14, St. Mary's the 7, Vanderbilt the 10, Alabama this 2 and Robert Morris the 15. You have already shared that we might be thinking of Wisconsin as an early victim of getting upset. We've already shared that you like vcu, so that's a really interesting pod from the way you're looking at it. What about the rest of this region? Do you like somebody in particular in kind of that Oregon, Liberty, Arizona, Akron Range? Do you like anybody to upset Duke here? You talked about them dealing with their injuries. Is Alabama one of the stronger twos in your opinion? How do you evaluate this region?
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Host 1
Okay, so Oregon is always a team that I circle because of Dana Altman. Dana Altman really, really good head coach when it comes to the. Against the spread numbers in the tournamen. And so you, you put a circle there. You're always interested in what, hey, what's the line on Oregon and who are they playing and how are they able to to get up for some of these games? And I think if they get past a Liberty team, that's pretty good. They've played Arizona in years past. It wasn't just two years ago they were in the same conference. So I think that they could get up for a game going up against that.
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Ryan
Let me ask you quickly, is Arizona maybe going to get upset? Because Tommy Lloyd has not been very good in the tournament for as much regular season success as they've had under him.
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Host 1
Him. They.
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Ryan
That is not translated to March.
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Host 1
They lost as a two seed. Loss as a two seed. What was that? Princeton Princeton. Yeah, yeah. And so. And they're playing Akron like Akron is the team that you did not want to go, you do not want to go up against. When you're talking about a coach that struggles in the tournament and an Akron team that plays from behind, they've been comfortable playing from behind this year and not giving up in games. Not giving up in games. So Akron against the spread numbers against Arizona is something that I'd be interested in. But, but I mean here Duke, I think if they get Mississippi State and Chris Jansen, that defense, I think that they could scheme up something good. Especially if Duke is compromised, they could scheme up something good and then that would throw this whole region on his head. I could see a number of situations. I could see Alabama of course coming out of it as the two seed and I think that's what I'm gonna go with this. I'm gonna go with Alabama. I think that they're going to be able to get it done. A little bit of a pass path of least resistance for them because I think that whether you get St. Mary's or Vanderbilt, they, they have familiarity with Vanderbilt. I think they can outshoot St. Mary's on and on the other side. I told you I'm not confident in Wisconsin and I think they can outplay offensively be BYU and the high shooting offense and three point shooting that they have. So yeah, I think this is pretty comfortable with me going Alabama in this region.
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Ryan
If I asked you for an underdog, I'm assuming you would would pick VCU given what you've already said.
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Host 1
I mean the Rams do struggle offensively and when you get to an Alabama, you got to be all the way. So I wouldn't give them as my underdog all the way through. But yeah, I do think that they can make this game very competitive with BYU. I think they can beat BYU and if you tell me they beat BYU and I have VCU in a game against Wisconsin, I'm 100 taking VCU. So yeah, yeah, maybe VCU. See you can get me a little sweet 16.
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Ryan
Nice little run there. All right, let's go to the Midwest. Houston is the 1 seed as mentioned, going up against SIU, Edwardsville, then Gonzaga, the 8 in Georgia the 9. Clemson is the 5, McNeese under Will Wade is the 12, Purdue the 4, High Point the 13, Illinois the 6. They'll face the winner of Texas Xavier. I think it is, it's not on the bracket. I'm looking at Kentucky the three, Troy the 14, UCLA the seven, Utah State, the 10, that's an interesting one. And then Tennessee, the two. And Wofford, you already mentioned is the 15. I think the standout for most people looking at this is going to be. Again, I kind of already alluded to this, but Gonzaga is a top 10 team on Ken Palm according to the metrics as a potential Round 2 matchup for Houston. That's a tough one.
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Host 1
I, I feel very confident about Houston in that matchup. I think Houston defensively has, the press has the ability to speed Gonzaga up a little bit more than what they want to be. See offensively, especially in the half court and get them turning the ball over. I think Houston will be able to offensive rebound that game. It's really just the size and as if. As long as Houston can combat the size. I think they have the guard play that, you know, Gonzaga is so predicated on with Nimhard and all those guys over there. I think that they have the guard play that can play really, really well with them. I think Houston is. I, I have. I'm gonna have multiple brackets going over the course of this season and there are three teams that I'm pretty confident that I'm gonna have winning and there's Florida, Houston, and then I may, you know, just in case I hate Duke into a title, I'll throw one with Duke in there, but really, really hoping the Duke one doesn't come through. But just in case I hate them, I'll throw one in there.
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Ryan
I am not somebody who has typically liked Brad Underwood or this Illinois team that much. Maybe that's because I'm a Maryland fan and for whatever reason Maryland owns Underwood. It's remarkable how often they beat him, even when they're less talented. But I do kind of like them against Kentucky if it gets to that point. I think it's a good matchup for them with the lack of defense you get from Kentucky. Like Illinois can run back and forth and I think they can. They can definitely outscore them. I like Tennessee a lot. Kind of in their pot of four down there. They're also just a really good team, obviously, as we talked about. So I kind of like Illinois to face Tennessee when they get to that point in the. I guess that would be the sweet 16. The other kind of region of this region that I think is really fascinating is this Clemson, McNeese, Purdue, High Point range. I think cogent case for any of those four teams. Exactly.
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Host 1
Any. Any of those four teams can come out of there and I would be like, all right, understood. It's March like that's what happens. And, you know, tough things, like Clemson is a team that we've seen them be Duke. Like when everybody thought Duke was unbeatable and there was nobody that was going to get in front of Duke, Clemson went in there, played them in a tough game. Them into what exactly? I was talking about a late game situation. That's what you want to get with Duke. Hey, just don't try to go out there and blow them out by 20 points in the beginning of the game. Hey, let's stay it. Stick with them, stick with them, stick with them. Keep it with a close game. Because when we get in a late game situation, that's where we execute and we can hope on the young, the youthfulness of that Duke team. And Clemson was able to exploit that earlier this year when they got the win. And so, yeah, I think Clemson can go out there and beat anybody. But. But, oh, man, there's some power going on with Will Wade and McNe right now. Did you see. Did you see the. The manager for McNe on social media? Oh, man, dude, he. He was sitting there, he had a social media video and he. It was after they had won and he was like, yeah, we're going dancing. Look at it. And he shows off his sweats, and it's got March Mattis on his sweats. He's like, yeah, that's where we're going, huh? See you next Sunday. Yeah, yeah. And he got a nil deal with, like, insomnia cookies and buffalo wild wings. Like, oh, this dude is electric. This is what March is about.
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Ryan
He's a great coach, too. I mean, like, obviously the reason he's at the level he is is because of some of the stuff with paying players in. In past years before that was allowed. But Like, Will Wade is a very good basketball coach.
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Host 1
Coach.
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Ryan
I like McNeese a lot. And Purdue, like, listen, obviously they're not what they were last year with without Zach Edie. Braden Smith is really darn good as well.
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Host 1
Yeah.
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Ryan
High Point. Not an easy matchup though. I don't think so. Like, that's a really interesting. Again, any of these four. Clemson, McNeese, Purdue. High Point. Like, you could talk me into making a Sweet 16 run.
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Host 1
Watch that High Point. Watch High Point gonna win outright against Purdue.
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Ryan
I mean, Purdue's been upset before the tournament, right?
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Host 1
Like, hey, yeah. And I, I would hate it. It's so many times that Purdue has just gone into the tournament and laid an egg and I think that watch High Point be the dog that everybody's playing. I'm. I'm sure by the time the end of the week gets here, High Point is going to be the dog that everybody's playing because everybody's going to look at Purdue and being like, do I really want to lay that many points for Purdue? Nah.
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Ryan
Yeah. All right. What will keep us from Houston, Tennessee, or are you saying it's going to be Houston, Tennessee in the Elite Eight?
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Host 1
Eight? Yeah, I think it's, I think it's going to be Houston, Tennessee. I think this is going to be rather chalk Houston, Tennessee and then Houston just has. I like Houston's offense a lot more and I think that they're going to be a lot more consistent on offense and the defense is going to do what it does if they, they have the guard play to guard Lanier and guard Ziegler and really not let those guys be the guys that beat them. We'll see how the bigs are able to do and if they're able to counteract that in the game. But I think that those Houston guards are good enough defensively that they can take away the top two guard options for Tennessee and make this a really, really tough game.
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Ryan
I want to let everybody know that you can get your college basketball betting edge live. Join Matt Peralt and Terrell Fuhrman Jr. Every Tuesday at 5:30pm Eastern on the Betting Pros YouTube channel at YouTube.com bettingpros for expert NCAA tournament picks and betting breakdowns, here are the best bets before the odds move. You guys will be doing that in a couple of days with some first round bets. Some of those first four bets. We've been doing that for every round and all, all tournament long with you two. So that will be something everybody wants to check out out before they place their bets. All right, let's get to the west region. Florida is the 1 seed going up against Norfolk State. Yukon, the 8 obviously coming off back to back championship.
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Host 1
Be careful about that Norfolk State team too. Put some, put some respect on their name. They played a Tennessee team and lost by it was like five or seven points or something like that.
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Ryan
So I almost paused when I read them to let you jump in.
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Host 1
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So give that Norfolk State senior seen some respect. I, I understand it's, we got a lot in front of us right now, but they are going to come in, they're going to go play hard and they're going to cover the spread. Darn it. They are going to cover the spread against Florida. They played that Tennessee team tough.
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Ryan
What do you think that spread's going to be?
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Host 1
Oh, dude, it's probably something crazy. It's probably like 20 and a half.
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Ryan
The way Florida's playing.
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Host 1
Yeah, like Florida, Florida is one of my, like I really, really think it's going to be tough to beat Florida in this.
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Ryan
I think they're so good. I think Todd Golden's a great coach. I, I, I really, one of my really good friends is a Florida grad. I texted him the day they made that hire. I said he's going to take you to a final four in the first three or four years. I think he's, I think he's really good.
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Host 1
Yeah. And they just, they have too many athletes. Just like everybody on that team can score the basketball, score the basketball efficiently. They offensive rebound at one of the best in the nation and all those offensive rebounds probably come back into three point shots made for that Florida team. It's just too much offense for anybody. I mean we haven't even gotten through naming the rest the of the bracket yet. But like it is really hard for me not to think Florida is making out of this region. Yeah.
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Ryan
You know, a lot of my Maryland fan friends were talking about oh we got to avoid Duke or we got to avoid Auburn. I was like, I want to avoid Florida there. Nobody is playing better than them and of course we didn't avoid them. The eight seed is UConn. The nine is Oklahoma. The five seed Memphis, 12 seed Colorado State also playing very well right now. Maryland of course is the four Grand Canyon, the 13, Mizzou is the the 6. Drake the 11. That's a really interesting one. Texas Tech the three UNC Wilmington the 14. Kansas the 7. Arkansas the 10. St. John's the two Omaha the 15. First of all, at the bottom of this region we might Get Rick Patino against John Caliperi.
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Host 1
Yeah, that would be amazing. That would be amazing. I mean, the Italian American bowl that's going on in that game. Oh, man, I. I just. It's going to be great. It is going to be great. We probably should get Tommy DeVito courtside for that one. We. We got. We gotta dig. What's my guy over there? That head coach for Indiana? Football coach. Head football coach.
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Ryan
The guy from jmu, Kurt Signetti.
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Host 1
We gotta get Kirsten Eddy over there. Like, this is. That's gonna. That would be a great game.
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Ryan
Oh, my gosh. Yeah. Kansas, of course. You know, Bill Self and a lot of talent on that team. They could upset our. Our Italian bowl in the second round. But an interesting pod there. Obviously. Rick Pino's done an amazing job at St. John's and, you know, legendary, clearly legendary coach. Arguably the best of all time, some might say.
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Host 1
So.
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Ryan
You know, that'll be a really interesting area. Mizzou, Drake, I think, is a really fun matchup. What do you make of that one?
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Host 1
Oh, man. I mean, if Mizzou finds a way to score the basketball, then they'll win, but Drake is going to. Drake's going to play well defensively, and I think with the time to prepare and the watching film and getting ready for this Mizzou team, I don't know if Mizzou is going to be able to get that done. I mean, Drake has been the team, I think, all year. People have talked about out, hey, they're gonna do something in the tournament. They're gonna do something in tournament. I think now's the time that we're here, and we just got to get behind them. That Drake team really, really something different defensively.
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Ryan
What do you think about UConn? I know I kind of skipped past them quickly, but again, they. They have won two straight titles. We know what Hurley can do as a coach. This is not the same UConn team. I mean, last year, on this very show, I was asking our guest, is it UConn versus the field? Like, that's how. How clear of a giant they were. Clearly not the case, obviously.
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Host 1
Right?
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Ryan
They're an 8 seed now. Would you be scared if you're a Florida fan and you have to go up against UConn in round two?
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Host 1
I don't think I am. I don't think I'm like. And I was talking with some buddies, and as the brackets drop, you know, everybody's texting live reactions, and they're like, man, Florida, tough draw, and I'm like, well, if we just strip the name Yukon from the team and it's just Team A standing there and I'm looking at them like, well, I still think this Florida team can beat Team A and there'll be really, really good. Like. Like, I don't know if they have the bigs that is, that are going to be able to continuously battle with Florida down low in the paint over the course of the entire game. Because Florida cycling bigs in and out of the game like, they have so many options and gotten so much healthier. And so, I mean, Clayton and you talk about Richard and all these other guys. Like, I. I think that they have so many offensive power, so many offensive weapons on that side of the ball that no matter how good Yukon is defensively, somebody really, really good is going to get their hands on a basketball and pretty good look at the basket. So I don't think UConn actually makes it a game at all. If you tell me Florida, UConn, I'm probably going to end up taking whatever points I have to lay with Florida and saying that they handle business here.
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Ryan
I do think it. I think Florida is good enough that it doesn't matter, but I do think this is a relatively tough draw, not because of UConn, but just this region as a whole is really strong. Even just looking at the coaching, look at how many former championship winners there are in this region. We just mentioned Hurley with UConn, obviously. Caliperi, Bill Sell, Rick Patino. Those three alone is remarkable. I think Texas Tech is an excellent three seed.
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Host 1
Luckily, Coach Cal coached himself out of it and so we don't have to worry about that.
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Ryan
Yeah, but obviously he's got the experience. I mean, I would say this. I think the. The 2, 3 and 4 seeds are stronger in the west than they are in any other region. I think. I think St. John's Texas Tech. Maryland, to me is stronger than, like, Tennessee, Kentucky, Purdue. I like Tennessee. I don't really like Kentucky and Purdue all that much.
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Host 1
Much.
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Ryan
You know, we talk like Wisconsin's a three in a different region. I know we like Alabama. Arizona is the 4. You know, Texas A&M is the 4. Another region, I think. I think the region as a whole, even if not necessarily that matchup with UConn. I think the region as a whole is very strong. I know. Like. Like, again, not to be Homer, but people have talked about Maryland with their starting five as like a possible dark horse final 14. Probably not anymore, given that they're in the. In the region with Florida, but there's just a lot of talent in this region and a lot of really good coaching. So I. It's a really strong one and I think that could make for some upsets because there's so many good teams in terms of seating, but maybe not upsets in terms of like the coaching matchup or anything like that. I do just have to say, like, I have to give a little analysis on Maryland because that's the team I care about most. It's already five is incredible. I'm not a big fan of Kevin Willard, so I really worry about. He has two tournament wins in his career and it's been an 18 year career. So that's really concerning to me. We already mentioned how Grand Canyon, like, could be kind of a scary matchup for them and they have zero depth. Like what? There is absolutely nobody on their bench to mention. In fact, there was a really interesting stat during the Big Ten tournament and I knew this in my head, but I didn't realize how significant of a stat it was. They are the only team in the entire country to have every single player is either either averaging over 11 points per game or under four. There's no like bench pieces averaging six points per game, eight points per game. It is. Their starting five is all averaging a dozen per game and they're all. It's a superb starting five. They call it the Crab Five. They're awesome. Everybody else is totally useless at scoring the basketball and if they get into foul trouble, how their game is officiated is going to be really meaningful for them because they get into foul trouble.
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Host 1
There's nobody. They're screwed.
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Ryan
It's over. It's absolutely over. So that's my, that's my thought on Maryland. I do like to match up with Memphis if that is the four or five game we get in the second round. But like I said, we'll have to see if they even end up getting there. Is there an underdog in this region that you are eyeing or, I mean, I know you already said you, you're, you're going to take Florida, but if you had to pick somebody else.
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Host 1
Yeah, Drake is very. I think Drake's really interesting in what they can and the fact that if they get past Mizzou, they get potentially Texas Tech, who is amazing offensively and not a bad defensive team. Amazing offensively. If Drake can hold that Texas Tech team to under 70 points, oh man, I think Drake is definitely going to be in the conversation of, oh, they kept these games close, if not won these games outright. And we finally get to that Missouri Valley Madness in the tournament where they move on to a sweet 16 round. So yeah, I could see that Drake team definitely getting up for some games.
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Ryan
Who are some other dark horses you like for the Final Four in, in any region. So you know, not a one seed, not even a two seed. Maybe not even, I mean maybe, maybe a three seed could count. But somebody that you would qualify as a dark horse that you would like to kind of highlight here is it's.
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Host 1
Got to be that Iowa State team still Iowa State. Yeah. Iowa State would even now with the fact that they're missing, I believe it's Gilbert and not going to be able to play in this game and so in the tournament and. But they still have Kurt. Like I think that this is still a really good offense. They play really, really well. It's just a three point shooting. If they can defend a three point line a lot better than what they've done, especially against like BYU and some of these other teams in the past, then I think that they're going to be really, really locked solid and really, really good team. They played well in the out of conference. Like I think that Iowa State is one of those teams that I'm looking at. I'm like, okay, I could see the him a three seed making it to the Final Four and being in there in the conversation, especially if you get past an Auburn or something weird happens with Auburn then yeah, I could see Iowa State getting there.
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Ryan
Do you have any kind of Cinderella predictions? I know you know, double digit seed will say. I know we talked a little bit about High Point and McNeese. We talked about VCU as an 11. Yale is a 13, Grand Canyon is a 13. Do you have kind of a favorite Cinderella or two?
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Host 1
It's a, it's a few of them out here. I'm very interested a lot, a lot of those times some of those teams from the first four games will go in there, there and they'll be able to go up and get up and go and get on a run. I know VCU 2011 first four was able to go out, make a run. We saw UCLA make it to the final Four out of the first four and they made a run. So as I, as I look at the first four games and if there was a team that was, I really just don't want to believe that North Carolina has it in them. But they were good out of conference and I think that's the thing that pulled them in is how good North Carolina was out of conference earlier in the year. So if North Carolina decides to try to go on a run now, I think the tough thing is that even if they get out of this round, they're playing an Ole Miss team and the SEC beat up on the ACC this year in the SEC ACC challenge. So we'll, we'll see about that. But I'm looking towards the first four games. Maybe we get a Texas that comes out of there, and Texas got really, really hot in that, that SEC tournament. So maybe a Texas comes out of there because like you said, I'm a little bit iffy on Illinois right now. And if they're gonna be able to play well and then if they get another matchup with Kentucky and SEC rivalry like that could potentially go either way. Maybe they get up, maybe they lose to that Kentucky team. So not too many Cinderellas outside the ones that we highlighted. I do like High Point. I think they could be fun. McNeese possibly could be really fun. And everybody knows that I'm going to be cheering for my VCU Rams. Watch out for Vanderbilt, who had a really good season this year. So I think there's a coup a number of teams, and I hate to say it, but that Maryland team really does struggle in the tournament, man, like they really do. I, I blindly told myself I was going to fade Maryland in the tournament. And so if Grand Canyon just needs one to get them going, then maybe they do.
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Ryan
Terrell, Maryland won the national championship in 2002. Do you know how many sweet sixteens they've made since the then how many.
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Host 1
Sweet 16s have they made since 2002? Two.
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Ryan
You went too high.
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Host 1
They've made one one 16. Sweet 16.
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Ryan
And by the way, it was the Turin like year where they were the number two team preseason with Diamond Stone and Mellow Trimble and Robert Carter. And they didn't, they didn't even do anything with that. They were terrible, terrible like, like that. The best they did was they got to the Sweet 16 and got blown out in the Sweet 16. Yeah, they're not good in the tournament.
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Host 1
They got to be careful because that, that Grand Canyon team also plays really good defensively. And if this is a ugly, grinded out defensive game between these two teams and it's just like whoever gets on that last run goes. And plus Grand Canyon is a pretty solid offensive rebounding team as well.
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Ryan
So yeah, I, I, I, I, you know, my Maryland fan friends think that I want them to lose because I don't like Willard. I want them to win. Right. I would love nothing more Than to be incorrect. But I just don't think Willard has the stuff for March and they're talking about extending him, which, by the way, was a very difficult piece of news for me to read earlier today. But yeah, like, they just. And also the fact they're playing Seattle, like not going to be easy to. To Maryland's worst game of the entire season season was their loss at Washington this year.
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Host 1
Like, they.
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Ryan
They're not a team that travels well. So they only lost by six because they. They didn't have any blowouts this year. But they looked awful in that game and Washington is not good. So that. That really concerns me. And I don't think you're wrong about that. Any players that we didn't highlight that you think could maybe kind of jump out throughout the course of this month. I mean, we always see some of these guys were already stars, but like the Shabazz, Napier, like the chemicals. Walker like kind of led you kind of those runs. Marquis Noel a couple years ago for Kansas State. Anybody stand out to you that you think we could be, you know, really excited to talk about for the next few weeks?
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Host 1
Oh, man, I feel like it's like a lot of guys you talked about Cam Jones over there. Marquette gotta shout out my guy. Shaka Smart one time we talk about Kurt over there in Iowa State. I mean, it's a bunch of players. Some of the smaller schools got. Got a lot of dogs. Max Shoga, vcu, I think that's going to be a good one. And we talked about Grand Canyon and Maryland. They got a guy down there, Grand Canyon, Grant Foster, who's been really, really good. And I think that he may be able to give them a game and make a little name for himself. So I think it's a lot of players that I'm interested in.
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Ryan
I really like Marquette. Honestly, I would not be surprised if we're sitting here a few weeks from now and saying Michigan State, they didn't have enough star power. They had a lot of death, but they didn't have enough star power. Iowa State, dealing with the injury. If we're sitting here a couple weeks from now and Marquette's in that elite game, Elite 8 game, I don't know I'm gonna put in my bracket. I would not be surprised. Cam Jones is a baller.
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Host 1
Shaka's got to get over that. That monkey off his back in the tournament. Shaka has not performed well in the NCAA tournament. Trust me, as a guy that is a fan of Shaka Smart. After he took VCU from that 11 seed all the way to the Final Four, 2011, he hasn't, he hasn't replicated the same success in a long time. And so a very, very. I'm, I'm always iffy about Marquette when it gets to the tournament. But I mean Cam Jones is just a dog. Like he is an absolute dog. And he was going out there and he fought everything he could in that Biggie's title game and really throughout the whole Biggies tournament. So there's a number, there's a number of players, Drake. I think Drake has a couple of guys in there that, that are going to be really, really good for the tournament as well.
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Ryan
Any other kind of final overarching thoughts on the tournament before we get out of here? Anything that we haven't hit on or just kind of general thoughts about what this tournament? You know, some tournaments are a little more chalk heavy than usual. Others you get a lot more upsets. Just kind of. Any final thoughts?
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Host 1
I think that we are. We've seen years past where a lot of the underdogs come through, especially early rounds. And I think this is another one. There's a number of underdogs here that I think think can make teams competitive. At least games competitive. Maybe not get the outright, but maybe I'm betting on them against the spread. Like I said, I had that Wofford basketball team circled like, oh man, this dude is. This team is red hot right now. And they're going into a matchup against a very, very tough Kentucky team. And that wasn't the draw you wanted. But like even uncw, we didn't talk about them on this show that much going up against Texas Tech. Everybody assumes Texas Tech is getting out of there easy. But this Uncle AEW team, first tournament appearance since 2017, they feel felt very, very slighted going into their conference tournament. They put on a really big run and they got out of it. They could be somebody that makes some noise. Arkansas is getting Boogie Flan back from injury, so they're going to be playing full strength against the Kansas scene. We got. We got to see what that looks like. Arkansas is a 10 seed here. Like there are some teams here that I'm like, all right, we could actually see something going because Calipari, he may not be the best X's and O's coach, but when you give him the talent, talent and how they play defensively all year long, they just got to get high at the right team, right time. And that Arkansas team might be able to make a run. So there's a number of teams that I'm looking at that I'm like, hey, things could follow their direction and they could be a 10, 11, 12 seed. That's making it a little bit further than people thought.
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Ryan
Let's wrap up with our shoot from the hip gut reaction Final four picks. We are obviously we reserve the right to change these between now and the start of the tournament on Thursday. We've kind of sprinkled them in throughout, talking about the regions, but just our fish. Officially, our final four picks here. What do you got for us?
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Host 1
Let's go with Florida coming out of the west region. We're gonna take Auburn coming out of the South. We are going to. Yeah, I'm not officially giving out the dookies.
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Ryan
What do you mean?
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Host 1
Give me Alabama getting out of the Eastern region and then I'm sticking with my Houston pick coming out of the Midwest national title game. Give me Houston versus Florida.
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Ryan
So. So here's my problem. My gut reaction to giving my final four picks is Florida. It's Auburn, it's Alabama, and it's Tennessee. I refuse to give four SEC teams. It's not going to be that in the Final Four. So I have to shake it up somewhere, which means I'm going. The one I feel like I most want to change up from that group is. Is Alabama. So I'm. I'm going to go with Duke. Even though I kind of do like Bama, I just can't go for SEC teams. I also just like, I hate Duke so much that, like, I know that's what's going to happen is they're going to win because I. Because I don't want them to. And they are obviously an insanely good team when healthy if the lineup is right. Like, there's a reason they're number one on Ken Palm and there's actually like even a gap. We talked about how strong those other 3:1 seeds are. Historically, there's a gap between Duke and those guys too. Like against the acc. I get it. Injury stuff. I get it. But obviously like a super talented team and would. Would not be surprised. So I'll say Duke against Tennessee. I'll say Tennessee beats Duke. I'd say Tennessee makes the title game here on my shoot.
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Host 1
Oh, Rick Barnes making it the way to the title game.
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Ryan
This isn't regular season.
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Host 1
This is a regular season.
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Ryan
It is dangerous. I'll say Florida over Auburn and then I'll say Florida wins it all. I again, I just think nobody's playing better than Florida.
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Host 1
Yeah, man, I got Florida over Houston in the title game. But I'm going to have a bet on Houston, man. I think Houston's got some value. And if Houston, if, if we get some upsets here or there and the path opens up, Houston is going to look way better than whatever set plus 750 they are right now.
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Ryan
Yeah, we're gonna dive into more some of our betting futures in the coming days. You guys, like I said, you and Pearl are going to break down some of the first round matchups here in the weekend and we'll be chatting again kind of each week leading up into each weekend for the next three weeks of the tournament. So there is a lot more college basketball talk to come, a lot more March Madness to come. Enjoy this week of filling out your brackets, everyone, because it is, like I said, super fun to quibble with all of your picks and just you can dream big every single year. It's Hope Springs a turtle for sure. Great talk idea, Terrell. Best of luck to vcu. Hopefully best of luck to Maryland as well for Terrell. I'm Ryan Wormley. Thanks everybody for tuning in and we'll see you again next time. Thanks for listening to the Betting Pros podcast. If you love the show, the best free way to support us is by leaving a positive review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Follow us on X and TikTok BettingPros and Instagram Instagram @BettingProsNFL. Also subscribe to our YouTube channel at YouTube.com bettingpros.
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