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After this a G's big win over Oklahoma and as West Coast basketball remains ascendant. We have now reached the sweet 16 and things are rolling in a big way for the pack 12 and they are falling apart in a big way for the big 10.

Thanks for hanging out with us. The big 10 is down to only one team in the sweet 16 eight different big 10 teams have already been eliminated the talk coming into this tournament was.

Is it going to be possible for the big 10 to get multiple final four teams. It turns out it was possible for the big 10 to only get one team to actually make the it's pretty incredible to think about to make the sweet 16 given what all the expectations were so all of this is going to be interesting to break down as we move ahead was the big 10.

Incredibly overrated I think the answer is likely to be yes. Why did that occur I think it's also likely to be because there weren't as many out out of conference games as are typically the case and so as a result just a unbelievable and poor performance by the big 10 relative to what all expectations of that conference might have been on the flip side.

The pack 12 could not have been better yes Colorado went down and took it on the chin from Florida state but other than Colorado in the entirety of the pack 12 there has been just one loss so far.

The head to head big 10 against the pack 12 how about organ just coming out and absolutely running rough shot over Iowa Iowa disappointing one of the best teams that Iowa has ever had don't even make the sweet 16 same thing was true for Ohio state generational type team Illinois to not even make the sweet 16 and go down to Loyola of Chicago credit to Michigan which came back from the

I think it was a five point deficit midway through the second half to pull away kill our blood bang guarantee which was not able to cash first one we have not cash so far but that was difficult overall for big 10 fans who were thinking this might be the year when they start to put everything together and I actually think it's an interesting question.

Why is it that the big 10 so often ends up wildly overrated because I think that's the story line of the NCAA tournaments opening four days if you had to say okay tell me what happened in a sentence some of you know this lot of you don't back in the day I used to teach at Vanderbilt University one of many jobs that I've had over the years I got my masters of fine arts and creative writing at Vanderbilt.

I was writing at Vanderbilt University and when I was 27 or 28 years old I was teaching my kids at Vanderbilt the class that I had for creative writing and I took something that I had learned when I was a creative writing student at George Washington from one of the teachers that I had there and he said hey he had really bought into the idea that if you could tell a story in a sentence you can't

just say you could still whatever the story was into a sentence you had a really good story to be able to tell and it's interesting that that was his theory because also in in the law there is when you're in law school they teach you hey if you can distill a case down into a question to kind of give everybody out there and understanding of what is it steak you have been able to do

an incredible job of analyzing what might otherwise be a complex scenario and I really do believe that I think the question when it comes to great intelligence is incredibly intelligent and knowledgeable people about a subject can make you or me understand something that what otherwise be wildly incomprehensible and yet they understand it well enough to simplify it for us and I'll give you an example of what is it that I'm going to do is I'm going to do that.

I'm not going to do that for us and I'll give you an example I'm not very good at science it's been a long time since I was in any sort of science classroom I know that we have a Mars rover that we have landed on that planet basically and it's beginning to explore

incredibly well you would be able to talk to me and explain something in just an incredible detail such that even I who know very little about the planets now and very little about space the most intelligent people about Mars they could come on this radio program and after they talk to us for 15 minutes we'd all be a lot smarter and we be able to understand something really complicated.

So story in a sentence is actually a really valuable asset to be able to dive into and what is wild in general I think is the story is one that nobody would have been able to predict the NCAA story and a sentence is the big 10 was wildly overrated and the pack 12 was wildly underrated.

And I got to tell you we're going to talk to petro's public a kiss later in the show but I think it's important to acknowledge just how far and away unexpected this level of dominance actually was.

I mean the level of dominance that we have seen from the pack 12 I could have won and an inordinate amount of money if I had come on and I had said hey USC and UCLA are both going to be in the sweet 16 and if I had also come on and I had told you all these games are going to be stacked up in the pack 12 and the only one that they're going to lose on the

opening Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday or Monday is an unbelievable tough loss for Colorado in a battle of a game against Florida state nobody would believe me.

I don't think there's even the most died in the wall pack 12 fan that would have set around and said you know what I think you're right Clay I think we are poised to have the greatest run in the conference going all the way back to when USC was dominant in football.

Because that's how you decide whether or not a conference athletic departments are working right I understand there are other sports baseball women's basketball that can get a certain amount of attention if you're a hockey fan in one particular part of the country that loves hockey there's some different teams that receive a substantial

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