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Boys, March Madness is back. All right. That was good enough. We told Louis not to mess it up. He is now being exiled. That chorus of people you heard-Shame. Juju Gadi on the right. Taylor Vipolis on the left. Your boy, 10 Day Tony here. Tony Bracket, as you can see behind me. Very important. We are in the sweet 16, boys, and we have a lot to get to today. We were going to get to what happened in the tournament. Then we're going to get to voicemails from listeners. Then we're going to get to previews for the next couple of rounds because we won't be here to preview the Elite 8. We're going to give you straight to the final four. And then, later on in the show, I'm going to give you my All Socket team. All Socket? Why do you say, What's All Socket? These players are all electric. Only one of them is still playing right now, but all players on this list are electric. So we'll have the All Socket team coming up. We'll have voicemails coming up. We'll have previews coming up. Everything from March Madness. We will take care of you guys.

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Boys, what an incredible weekend. We had a lot of negative energy surrounding March Madness here on the show. People are like, Oh, you can watch hockey. It's cool. It's better. Whatever. Base, European soccer, whatever Sports Mike Ryan said. Whatever. Not the point. The point being, March is back in a massive, massive way.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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Okay. And we had incredible games throughout the weekend. The Thursday and Friday combo of March Madness, everybody talks about. It's incredible. We had upsets. We had teams taking out the garbage, meaning they had bad teams that they beat. They were supposed to beat them, took out the garbage, did everything well. What region do we want to start in? Do we want to start with my bracket, which is why we're having this show, Tony Brackets? Okay. I'm in the 96th percentile of all brackets on ESPN. 96th percentile.

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Is that good or bad? Is it better to be the 96th percentile or the two percentile?

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It means his bracket is better than 96 % of other brackets.

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So I'm in the 4 %. If we're doing that math, I'm in the 4 %. So I'm just going We're just going to look down here. My Midwest bracket, that's Purdue number one, Tennessee number two, and all that, missed one game in that entire bracket. It was Utah State TCU.

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He tick.

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So we are on fire right now. 96 % of brackets are inferior in comparison to my bracket.

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Real hopers now. Thank you.

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Where do we want to start? What are the big picture items we want to get to today? Because there was a lot of things that happened. Is it the upset for Kentucky? Is Coach Cal out? Is it the number one seed's advancing to the sweet 16 for the first time in... I don't even know how many years it's been.

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A bunch of them.

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I have it here. All four number one seeds in the sweet 16 for only the fourth time in the past 14 seasons. I want to get to Coach Cal, and I want to get to Kentucky. I was looking at a basketball reference list of guards from Kentucky that have been in the NBA. The The guards in Kentucky is insane. And it almost begs the question, is Coach Cal overrated? I just want to put that one out there for the people. You're looking at Coach Cal, you're looking at incredible NBA players that he's produced out of that Kentucky program. Yet they continually find a way to lose every single tournament in an astonishing way this time to Oakland from Michigan. I don't know how that happened. Oakland from Michigan, Jack Golke and Dem boys.

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To a brother that looked like a fricazoid with no blue on them.

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He attempted 23s, made 10 of them, instantly became one of the darlings of the tournament. Taylor, as a staunch college basketball watcher. Staunch. Staunch. Is Coach Cal at the point of being, you know what? We see the writing on the wall with him.

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The thing with Coach Cal is he doesn't really care about the tournament success. If you You ask him, all he cares about is putting guys in the NBA. And by his standard, he's the greatest ever. He's succeeding. The problem, the disconnect is Kentucky fans want wins in March, and they're losing to St. Peter's. They're losing to Oakland. He hasn't advanced out of the first weekend since 2019.

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Which is a million years ago, by the way. You think of 2019, you're like, damn, that is so long ago.

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For a school like Kentucky, the schools like Kentucky, Duke, North Carolina, Kansas, those fan bases don't really care if you're putting the Devin Booker's in the NBA.

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The Shaquille O'SAlexander's in the NBA.

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They want to be cutting down nets at the end of the tournament.

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Exactly. Juju, Coach Kyle.

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I think my dog is underachieving at this point. If he would have been anybody else without his tenure or his resume, I feel like a new coach would have been on the hot seat, and it would have been on fire by now. Couldn't wait to get him out of there. So I know that he's getting a lot of people to the NBA, but dare I say, people in Kentucky could give a damn.

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There's a lot of interesting things that I like to look at, too, when it comes to the conferences that make it into the tournament. There's obviously stronger conferences. You think of the SEC, right? Some good teams there. You obviously have Bluebloods that are playing in that conference. And then you look at the opposite of success, the failure that they've had as a conference, they've had Auburn losing to Yale, 4-13 seed. They've had 5-12 upsets, Kentucky lost, Wisconsin part of the Big Ten, but still, James Madison over Wisconsin, Grand Canyon over St. Mary's. There's been a lot of upsets in this tournament. A lot of them have to do with SEC schools. Florida gets upset by Colorado, too. I had Florida going deep. I like Clayton. I thought he was... College basketball is basically, if you have one guy that's better than all the other guys, we can make a run on this team. Especially if he's a guard.

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Especially if he is a guard, you can talk yourself into.

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A hundred %. Like Zack Eady, right? I look at Zack Eady, I'm like, okay, he's the biggest player in the tournament. He's the The biggest player, I think, in college basketball. There's nobody seven, five, 290 pounds or whatever he is. But you have to get the ball to him. He can't dribble the floor. He can't make sure that he gets his... In open spaces, he can't create his own offense like that. When you have a guard that can do those things, that allows me to believe in your team so much more than if you have a solid big man, like a thousand %.

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Like Oregon, their guards was going crazy. I would salute the... What's his name? Croissant? What's his name? Jermaine Cousinard. Cousinard. My brother, he had the green light because he bringing the ball up, so he might pull from here nor there. You dig?

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He broke the Pac-12 record for most points through two games in the tournament. He had 72 points in two games beating Kareem Abdul Jabbar's record. That's insane.

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That's crazy. And it caught the ale.

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Right. And it still didn't matter. But the I don't want to get in trouble with this. I don't want to get in trouble with this. But it feels like the take of upsets are great until we get to a certain part in the tournament, where then we have a lot of the upsets and we're like, oh, Oakland versus whoever. Not great. Not great basketball. We struggle college basketball as is right now. The level of hoops in college is good until you see what the pros do. And then you're like, oh, that actually looks really, really bad. Every level, when you look back a level, middle school basketball is great until you watch high school, until you watch college, until you watch pros. So it's like your thoughts, guys, on would you rather have all chalk make it into the tournament? Would you like to have the FAUs, the UMs, the San Diego States, three of the four final four teams last year that nobody really gave a chance to because nobody really knew anybody on their I like the upset sprinkled in throughout, and especially early in the tournament.

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But like you said, by the time you get to the Elite 8, you don't want a team who's a double-digit favorite. And there's a lot of times where those teams can make these crazy runs, the VCUs, the FAUs, these small programs that take on that umbrella mindset, the Loyola Chicago's. But then there's also the flip side of that where I went to Carolina. I'm a Carolina guy. Carolina played St. Peter's in the Elite 8 for a trip to the final four. And it was the least worried I've ever been about it because I'm watching the team's warm up pregame and everybody on St. Peter's, their tallest guy is 6'6, and I'm like, okay, we have Armando Beca at 6'10. We're going to walk to the final four. And then They did exactly that. And it was a non-contest of a game. So I do like some upsets. I think that's what makes March Madness great. But you can't have so many to the point where you are getting these lopsided games. Because I think at the end, everybody wants the best team to win, and it's most likely going to be one of these top-seated teams.

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Right. Yeah. I prefer three and one. One, Cinderella, make it to the dance, and three fellows, because at the end of the day, nobody wants to see FAU really play anybody ever. Salute to that foul house, and congrats to head coach getting in Michigan. But when they get to the money, the money start being involved and you're putting them... Like you say, when you're seeing St. Peter's come out on the court, you're like, Okay, yes, sir. Armando Duhert. You feel me? So, yeah, I like three and one. Maybe one good story, but no more than one.

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And you look at last year's final four, San Diego State made it to the Championship game. They beat FAU. And it was like, I would have rather seen FAU.

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I wish they would have made Miami play FAU last year in the final four to see who goes. But they put them on the opposite sides.

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Should we reseed? Once you get to the final four, you reseed, and you're Wait a second. Let's see if we can get a better match up. That'll be fired. Because I remember a couple of years ago, UNC and Duke had an incredible game in the final four, and it wasn't the championship game. Right.

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And they sent Coach KS packing.

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Right. What year was that? Was that '21?

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That was 2022 because Carolina missed the tournament in 2023 as the preseason number one. 2022, they went to the final four. And going into that final four game against Duke, I pray the the night before and I was like, God, just let me have this one. And I don't care what happens in the championship.

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I feel like that's the ultimate victory, bruh. To beat Duke and send Coach K into oblivion. That's the ultimate UNC victory, bro.

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Does Does that matter to you more than a championship, or would you rather have the championship?

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That is a tough question. In hindsight, I would have rather have had a championship because that's something that gets hung up in the Dean Dome. You get a banner for that. But beating Duke in the final four is as close to a championship as you're going to get, and it's ultimate bragging rights.

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And ending Coach K. That's huge. Hell, yeah. All right. You know what? We're going to switch it around. Let's do a couple of voicemails here. We got a couple of voicemails. You guys called Left your best hot takes, Juju.

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Bro, my bad. But I think that the world needs to hear what you just said, though. Receding at the final four, only you can get that on Tony Bracket, bro. Come on, man. Because that'll be a brilliant idea, at least a lottery ball situation or whatever. So I'm with you, bro.

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That's right. We put everything in a one of those lottery bingo things.

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You make it to the final four.

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Anything could happen. It's a made for TV event, too. It really is. You feel me? The final four seeding, the reseeding of final four would go crazy.

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#tonibrack, because you know what you heard it first? Come on.

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If you heard it somewhere else, they copied it from right here. You did. Let's do the voicemails.

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First of all, shout out to you, Tende. God bless you for bringing back Rafand El Dia, Real Linguish Snow. Speaking of which, Calabasa, Calabasa, Tola Muno, Pasucasa. It's directed At your, Yukon Huskies, my friend, Iowa State, the cyclones coming for that crown. K'chung Gilbert and them boys. Ames I would stand up. I'm predicting not only will they beat Yukon and make their way to Phoenix, but they're going to win the whole damn thing once they get there.

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And you know it.

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Wow. Dismounted with an and you know it. Okay. I wish he would have said his name. Did he say his name? No. We didn't get his name. Okay.

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I know he was smoking some stuff.

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Unnamed Iowa State cyclone fan. Illinois is a tough team to play. Illinois has a very good offense. Iowa State has a very bad defense, if I'm reading the metrics correctly.

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Iowa State is the number one defense.

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I'm reading the metrics incorrectly. They have the best defense. And Illinois has a great offense. So it's a matchup of-Strength versus strength.strength versus strength. You always talk about who can do what when you have best offense versus best defense? What's going to happen here?

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A reminder, your bracket is in the 96 %.

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96 %. No, I read it wrong. I didn't have my glasses on when I read it. But look, I do have Yukon. I think that they are probably the best team left. I liked UNC. Taylor pushed me off at UNC to win the whole thing, even though I like that their collective age is 29 and a half on that team. I like experienced guard play, so that's a very important distinction. But it feels like When was the last team that went back to back? Because Yukon won last year. The last team to go back to back in a final... I mean, is it UCL? It's the Gators. My bad. Gators, 0607.

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Jo'kam Noah.

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Yeah, Jo'Kam Noah and them boys. Al Hoerford. Al Hoerford, yes, sir. Can we pull up that team? Can you see if you could pull up that team for me to see who was on that team? Hell, yeah. 0607. Florida Gators, last team to repeat. I feel like Ohio State was...

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The band used to play... You can call me Al.

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Cory Brewer, Jokem Noah.

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Oh, Cory Brewer. Cory Brewer is the good one. Jokem Noah, Al Hofer. Mo Spates. Oh, Mo Spates. Mo Spates off the bench. Big dog. All right, let's do another voice phone.

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Hey, 10 Dane, Tony. This is Bourbon Toast, Warren. Hey, man, who is going to be the new Blueblood? Who are you deeming the new Blueblood? Blueblood Good. Thanks, 10 Dane, Tony. Again, it's Bourbon Warren.

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Hey, the boy, Bourbon Warren. I'm looking at my teams here in the run of 16, and it feels like year in and year out. There's two teams to me that are consistently in the sweet 16 elite eight. One team has had a lot of success, but I don't know if we call them a blue blood. One team is had success back in the day and is now getting more success currently. I feel like the two teams that I feel like are ready to step into the moniker of Bluebloods is, I'd say Houston. I feel like Houston had the legacy play of back in the day, the Houston Five Slamma Jamma, went off for a while, now is back seemingly always a one seed, always going deep in the tournament, always has good teams. The other team, I would say, are they Bluebloods? Gonzaga. Would you consider Gonzaga a Blueblood team? Again, had success, had some players back in the day, have Adam Morison, even further back than that, John Stockton. You look at those teams, you're like, the formula that we make for Bluebloods, do you have legacy? Do you have a legacy program? What have you done for me lately, Eddie?

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As the Eddie Murphy one says.

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Jayman sucks seeing them boys.

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Exactly. I'd say those are my two teams. I'd say Houston and I'd say Gonzaga right now. Out of the teams that are left are the teams that I'd say are closest to getting blue blood treatment than anybody else.

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And Houston got a legend coach as well. So yeah, definitely.

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Kelvin Samson. You're the boy.

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Hey, Tony Bracket, still on a mobile phone. First time in law, Todd. Love the show. Great show, man. Anyway, quick NCAA March Madness question for you. Of the team's remaining, 16, which team has the most experienced guard play? Also, was anyone else talking about North Carolina State back in January, other than that guy, Stegatz? Amazing. He's incredible. I'll hang up and listen.

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Thanks, Stewen on mobile. He was the only one really talking about NC State. I know Taylor obviously watches all ACC games, contractually obligated to talk about UNC and the instate rival of NC State. But it seems like nobody was really talking except for Stu Gotts. Somehow that slipped under the radar for everybody. I don't know how. I don't know why. To answer Stu's question, there's no other team that has more senior guard play than UNC. I said it tongue in cheek, but I was actually only four years off. Their average combined age is 25. Right. How? Slip to the DJ. Is it Armando Baycott is just 37, so it brings everything down? Why is everybody so old on your team, Taylor?

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Armando Baycott is 24 years I'm pretty sure. He's not the oldest player in the team. It's Cormac Ryan. Cormac Ryan, the Notre Dame transfer is 25. He is the only player born in the '90s on the Carolina. Oh my God.

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Me and Baycott went to middle school together. For real?

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It does feel like he's been there forever.

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He's been there since before the pandemic, right?

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Yes. Absolutely.

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We're talking about five years ago. His first tournament got canceled.

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Because of the pandemic?

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Because of the pandemic. Him and Cole Anthony were in the same recruiting class. Oh my God. And it feels like Cole Anthony has been in the NBA forever.

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He did them Timberland boots and a dunk contest. Becker still hooping in the UNC.

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I forgot about the Timbs. Armando Baycott plays like he's wearing Timbs the entire time. Lead feet. Unc. That's the answer, Stu. Unc. Let's do a couple more.

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. I know what he said, but I don't think Juju knew what to say, if you could explain.

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Okay. I think this guy may have been confused. What he did is he called, he said, Tony Brackets, I know that you're the guy that does the brackets. I'm redoing my closet. How much would it take for you to come out to my house and do the brackets? So he wanted an estimate on closet repair. Primo, no. Gracias, pero no.

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Hey, I feel like you might know a little something, though. You and Jennie done moved a couple of times.

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Come on. I can always put a bracket together. You know that. That's why they call me Tony Bracket. That's why you see this face back here. I don't know if you could put wide shot here. That's a face of trust right there. I trust it for sure. That means I got you. Let's play another one.

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10 day, Tony. Tell the job on the bracket, my man. Salute to you.

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Thank you.

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I got two questions for you. First, what one seed do you think is most likely to make it out of the weekend? Second, who is the highest speed you think will make it out of the weekend? Thank you, sir. I appreciate you and everybody at the show. Happy birthday, Brusco.

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Happy birthday, Brusco. Excellent questions. What What's the number one seed most likely to make it out of the weekend? I'm going to stick with Yukon because I have them going all the way. I have them winning. So I need Yukon to be the one seed that makes everything through. And when we're talking about highest seeds, we have a chalk mix this year. There's a lot of... I'm just going to read you through East West. 1, 5, 3, 2. 1, 4, 6, 2. 1, 4, 11, 2. 1, 5, 3, 2. A lot of chalk made it to the To the- Romado Levit is the ACC champ. Is the ACC champs, NC State Wolfpack. I have to check because... I want to check my bracket here because I don't want to say something that's incorrect. I've basically got all chalk moving up. I've got UNC, YukON in the final four, and I've got Houston, Tennessee in the final four. Those are my two picks. So what I want to see, I want to see NC State, but that would also tank Houston, who I have in the finals. So I can't do that. So the answer for me is going to be Tennessee.

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University of Tennessee, they're going to beat Creighton, then they're going to beat Purdue in the Elite 8, head to the final four. So I'm taking Tennessee as my lowest seed, which is a two. And then I've got Yukon, my number one seed, which will be the one seed to make it out of the weekend. You have one more in there? No more. All right, let's get to The All Socket Team. All Socket Team. Why do you... All Socket Team? I don't get it. Why? Because all the guys that I'm about to mention to you are all electric players. Do we have the fanfare?

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I see a button labeled fanfare.

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I'm just going to press it. Okay, let's see if it works right now. All right. Okay, that was just for it working. Perfect. All right. At guard for our all-electric team. We have a lot of guards on this team, by the way. It is what it is. Guard for our electric team. Number one, Boo Booey. Electric player, as all of them are here on this list, but almost single-handedly took Northwestern somewhere. I don't know where because they weren't going to make it to the final four. But, Taylor?

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They ran into a buzz saw, Yukon.

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I didn't want to say it. I know, obviously, Greeny thinks that Yukon can make the NBA playoffs in the East. We won't get there. But Buh is a great player, gets into the paint, has a touch with both hands around the rim. Great floater game, can get to a spot on the court. I really like Buh Buhy. Number two, our second guard, Keise Tomenaga. Hello. Japanese Steph Curry. The dude is electric. Lefty, can shoot from anywhere. He started off really high, I think three for three in his game against Texas A&M, and then the wheels I saw him shoot a couple of airballs. I was like, oh.

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It felt like we were getting a moment. We were.

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It felt like three for three. I was like, oh, my God, he's going to have 40.

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He was hitting like the MJ like shruss guy.

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Yes. And then he goes like this to his face, smushes his face. I was like, oh, my God, we were about to have a legendary performance. And then can we see what he shot that game?

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He finished 7 of 17, 40 % from the field, 5 of 11 from three.

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You know?

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Really, that Nebraska team had no business at all being like a tournament team if it wasn't for him.

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One adorable cry he had as well. Exactly. So touching. Him and his girlfriend, Salou.

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He was just so good in the tournament. Not only the tournament, but in the conference tournament. But then also in that first game where I was like, oh, wait a second, we're going to get something special. We ended up getting an electric performance from him. All right. At the forward spot, a guy that everybody wanted to talk about, that he's probably going to be playing in the NBA because of how much we talked about him during this tournament, Jack Golke. If Duncan Robinson can make a $90 million contract, Jack Golke can play in the NBA.

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Yeah, you're right about that. For sure. At least $20 million for the Raffles.

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He can be on somebody's bench, come out, shoot 15 threes, and make six of them. He can absolutely do that. He's our forward there. We're going to have to play fast and loose with forwards here because it is what it is. Our other forward, Jermaine Cousinard.

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Oh, yeah.

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Oregon. Certified Bucket. He's also in the diagram of certified buckets. I think all-electric team is a certified bucket list, too. Bouboui, Kase, Cousinard, Jack Golky. Buckets, all of them. Even though Jack Oakey, we were talking about it when it originally happened, Taylor, you and I. You had texted me, Hey, Golky's only attempted eight two-pointers this entire season.

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372 field goals, field goal attempts this season. 364 three-point field goal attempts.

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How many twos he made? One two?

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He made a couple of twos. Okay. But my man does not go inside the paint. Unless it's for a down screen, he is not going in the paint.

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Oh, my God, bro.

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Can we do the percentage? Percentage-wise, how many twos he shot? It was what? 8 of... A segment we like to call math on radio. You're putting me in a bad spot. I know. 8 divided by 357?

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372.

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372 divided by 8. Yeah. A 0.002 % of his shots. All right. And at the center position, the big dog, DJ Burns from NC State. Oh, yeah. Dj Burns from NC State. I just like seeing big guys like that. Right. Like him, Kareem Abdul Jabbar. When we look at those guys that a couple of years ago say, you know what? This guy cannot be playing hoops at all. And then you see him in there, botting people, little baby jump hooks, finishing around the hoop. I love that.

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He's listed at 6'9, 275. I've seen him in person. He's not 275. He's easily over 300 pounds, and they call him his nickname, the dancing bear, because of how light he is on his feet.

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Oh my God, man. This is March.

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I hate how likable this NC State team is.

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Right. Zack Randolph. This is March. Exactly. So he's 6'9, probably three bills plus.

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But again, light on his feet, finishes around the hoop. Nice little Jay. This is a good player. So all-electric team, Boo Booey, Kaseya Tomenaga, DJ Burns, Jack Golky, Jermaine Cousinard. Those are our lists for the all-socket team. Do we have enough really quick to go through and build out our final four? Really quick. We're not going to take too much time on this. All right, Yukon, San Diego State. We're taking Yukon, yeah? For sure. Okay. Illinois, Iowa State. I got Illinois in this one. I think offense beats defense.

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Salute to the collar, but I'm going Illinois as well with you, bro.

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Okay. Taylor?

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I like Iowa State, but I'll go with the group.

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I'll put Taylor, Iowa State. Okay. We're moving over to the West. North Carolina, Alabama. North Carolina has to win this game. Unc, yeah. It's a must-win game? Yes.

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I'm upgrading it.

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I guarantee North Carolina wins. Wow.

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I like that. Okay. Moving on. Arizona hasn't made it to the Elite 8 or Final Four in a long, long time. Clemson versus Arizona.

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Arizona for sure.

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I like Arizona in this just because it sets up the matchup North Carolina versus Arizona. Arizona has the PAC 12th player of the year, Caleb Love, who transferred from North Carolina. Exactly.

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Love hurts. Okay. Moving on to the south region. Houston versus Duke in a banger of a game. Really good game.

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Houston.

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Houston. Houston.

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I'll go Houston.

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Okay. Taylor?

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I like Duke.

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Oh, Clip it. Clip it.

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Duke's got good guards.

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Clip it. Okay. Taylor picks Duke. All right. Nc State Marquette.

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Marquette. Marquette? Are you sure? All right. Shackle Smart and them boys.

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Are you sure? I want this NC State team to win, though.

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That's what I have.

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I want this team to win.

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I'm going NC State. All right.

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I'm going to put Taylor down for Marquette. And I mean, you're going to Cee State.

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For sure. Let's go DJs.

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All right. In the Midwest, Purdue, Gonzaga. It's a tough one. Taylor, you called for it. Legacy moment for Purdue right now. If you don't do it now, When are you going to do it?

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Zack Eady is two-time. He's going to be a two-time national player of the year. No final force to show for it. I've got Gonzaga.

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Wow, Gonzaga.

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Juju? I'm with my boy Taylor. I feel like the Zags are just a better team, man. Salute to Zack Eady, but the Zags are zagging.

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I think I'm going to zig. I'm going to take it for two. I'm going to take for two. I'm zigging against the Zags. All right, last game of the I love the bracket here. Creighton in Tennessee. You guys know where I stand. I'm taking Tennessee to go to the final four. So I'm on Tennessee.

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I also have Tennessee.

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All right. Tennessee all the way down. All right, really quick. Houston. We can't even do it this way because we have-We all have different. We all have different pics.

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You give yours. All right. You're the one in the 96 %.

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Thank you. I appreciate that.

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Who are we?

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All right. I'm going Yukon to get to the final four over Illinois. I'm taking UNC over Arizona. That sets up a Yukon versus UNC in that side of the bracket. On the other side of the bracket, I'm taking Houston over NC State or Marquette, whoever it is, doesn't matter. And I'm taking Tennessee. And then from there, that's our final four, Yukon, UNC, Houston, and Tennessee. Nice. Which is a one, one, one, two.

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That was your initial final four.

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That was my initial final four. I have all my final four teams still alive, boys. I want to thank Juju. I want to thank Taylor for putting this together. Tony Brackets. You know, that's what we do around here. In the 90-some-od percentile, we still have mad, mad, mad points to go on the ESPN Bracket challenge. We are living life. We are all over the place. Let's see. What? I'm going to do a little Tony Raleigh here. Right here, main shot.

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What the devil is that?

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