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So as we go through the brackets and you're picking your games, you're trying to figure out,

especially talking about our Michigan Wolverines about their path towards a run to the final four

and hopefully a run to a national championship.

If you were listening earlier this morning, you heard Dusty May talking a little bit about,

not necessarily their opponent that they're going to get in the first round because he is not very familiar with UMBC or Howard, although they'll be watching the game tonight. They had been

scouting them a little bit. Obviously, yesterday, his assistant coaches were on dealing with

that scout a little bit. But he is a little bit familiar with Georgia and St. Louis. And in particular, he gave us a little bit of a scout against St. Louis that a team that can shoot the basketball and really stresses you with a big man that can pass and shoot, et cetera. And then as you keep going down the list, so that would be your second round match. I'm either Georgia or St. Louis.

And I do feel like it's going to be St. Louis.

And they are going to be a tough out in the second round. When you then get to the Sweet 16, we were talking about the four or five matchups around the different brackets. and who has when you get out to the Sweet 16

if you're a one seed and you're most likely going to play

a four or a five, who is

going to be maybe who has a toughest game

in that bracket?

You know, in that window. Because in the end, you only have to play the six games. You don't have to play everybody in your bracket. You don't have to play everybody in the Midwest region if you're Michigan. You only have to play everybody in the East region if you're Duke. You only have to play one at a time.

And so it doesn't matter if the bottom half of your bracket, if you're a one seat in the bottom half of your bracket looks stacked, because there's only one team out of the bottom half of the bracket that you're even going to play. So as you go through the path for each of these teams, and we were talking a lot about the four or five matchups when we talked to, you know, for Arizona, how that four or five matchup that are going to play either Wisconsin with that

back court or Arkansas with Darius Aikoff and either

one. the four or five matchups when we talked to, you know, for Arizona, how that four or five matchup that are going to play either Wisconsin with that backcourt or Arkansas with Darius Aikoff. And either way, Arizona is going to really get stressed by their, in their four or five matchup. We were talking about Florida in their four or five matchup. I think Vandy has a chance to really stress one Nebraska and then Florida, who they've already beaten. so you already know that that's going to be a pretty difficult four or five matchup. You look for Duke and their four or five matchup. I think it's going to be St. John's, the five seed, having knocked off the four seed, Kansas and Bill Self, and Bill self, a perennial underachiever in the NCAA tournament. And then there's the four seed and the five seed on the Michigan side of things.

And this is where things get really interesting because we're talking about strengths of

these other teams and teams that are coming in, maybe playing good ball or the Wisconsin

backcourt that obviously they're playing great in Chicago despite getting knocked out.

You look at the four or five in the Midwest region.

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