Hey there, it's Scary Carriage. It's Wednesday, March 15th. Welcome back to the Ion College basketball

podcast. I got Matt Norlander here with me and we got a lot to give to including Indiana's

loss in the NIT and what it means for Tom Creen's future. But I want you to start with the bracket.

You know when we talked on Sunday night and you and I have both looked at the bracket and then typed a bunch of words into a

computer to be posted at cbsports.com and then we decided to get together and talk on this podcast. We just sort of talked through it.

Like whatever we recognized, we discussed it, we debated and so on and so forth for about an hour. But we didn't actually get into the

game. It's like the matchups and you know who we think is going to win what games and so perhaps with the NCAA tournament now technically underway.

It is Wednesday afternoon so we had two games last night, we have two more tonight. But then what most people consider to be the actual

like launch of the NCAA tournament. That comes tomorrow. So I figured Norlander, if you got a few minutes, we will go through the bracket and

figure out how different we are in projecting these teams. You'll start in the East region. It seems like the perfect place to start because it is in the upper left corner of the

NCAA tournament bracket. And I think our eyes naturally lead us that way. Yeah, I think that's true. There is a propensity to look top left and kind of go from there.

So I have not seen your I know your final four and I know that you have UCLA winning. So I but I haven't seen your fix. So I'll be able to listen and kind of react accordingly.

I will I'll go first. I'll talk to my entire East and then I'll kind of hand it off to you. Sound good. Yep. Go. Okay. I might even I might even change one of my picks on the fly here because I

don't know. I'm starting to the second guess. Okay. So I've got a villain over winning obviously against Mount St. Mary's. I have Wisconsin over Virginia tech. And I feel as though here's my kind of feeling on these eight

nine games when I always get nervous when there is an eight or a nine that is so overwhelmingly picked that it's going to go the reverse way and so many people are on Wisconsin here. But Wisconsin should not be an eight

seed. I don't really have much hesitation. I'm going to stick with the badgers there. Virginia Wilmington. I have the calves and I actually don't think it's going to be too too close. Now Wilmington,

some what of a trendy upset pick if you've got them in your bracket, you can feel confident about that. They've got a really talented coach who honestly might not be there in like three weeks.

Three days exactly Kevin Keats is a very hot commodity. And it you know a win would only boost his chances to be honest if they're not already there. I have Steve Forbes in East Tennessee State beating Florida. I am debating flipping that.

That's a talented ETSU team. I don't know. I'm just I think I'm going to stick with ETSU, but there's something that I don't like about it. I can't put my finger on it, but whatever. I'll stick with the bucks. I do have SMU easily over no matter who they play Providence or USC. We are obviously recording this before Wednesday nights.

First four game between the friars and Trojans, which is interesting about the friars is you know kind of speaking with the number of coaches.

Cool is getting so much credit for what he's doing with this team because if I'm being honest, they just they don't have what they had last year.

Rodney Bill is a good player. Kyron Cartwright is a great distributor, but no one thought this was going to be a tournament team. USC absolutely has more talent. USC should win the game. I do think USC will win the game, but I don't think either team is going to really have much of a chance against an underseated SMU team.

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