Hey there it's scary parage it's late on Tuesday March 19 2019 welcome back to the

ION College basketball podcast where we sometimes discuss camel fighting and

leaky black Mad Norlanders here with been it happened tonight at precisely 11.20

PM Eastern on 3.19 19 Rick Bird became a winner in the NCAA tournament final

score Belmont 81-1070 so Rick Bird the go is now one and seven all time in the

NCAA tournament the Bruins will get Maryland in the round to 64 that's Thursday

3.10 Eastern on true TV Norlander you may now verbally celebrate Dylan

Windler whom you and I are indirectly but largely responsible for enrolling

at Belmont and creating this moment. Hey one and seven shout to the vest I did

I did have contact with Rick Bird did you or you did of course I did a digital

contact probably physical contact we were separated by many states before the

game and he did he did say you know first of all you know let me just enjoy my

glory here got a shout out at the press conference I hope you deal I mean Rick

Bird shouted me out at a press conference like whatever it's that's it's cool

like I'm cool then I'm gonna play cool it's fine it's fine it's fine you know

whatever right yeah okay anyway so Rick Bird did tell me that he was a little

nervous and the lead up to this game because of all the support like that

Belmont became the mid major team to rally around and he had not won an NCAA

tournament game and so a little nervous about just coming out and maybe not

even just winning but just like being competitive like the worst thing is you go

you play temple you lose by 19 and it's like what are you guys even doing here

but that didn't happen played well they had Nick Musinski back he was not

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