2021 NCAA Tournament Preview: East Region Breakdown, Picks, Predictions (College Basketball 3/15)

Eye On College Basketball

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🗓️ 15 March 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander are giving you some great bonus pod content this week, and we're starting with fun, free-flowing episodes that touch on the storylines, best games, upsets to look out for and picks for each of the four regions. Up next, the East, where No. 1 overall seed Michigan is not at full strength and gets a fairly tough draw.

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0:00.0	Here it is, Gary Perish.
0:06.3	It's Monday, March 15, 2021.
0:08.4	Welcome back to the CBS Sports I on Colleague Basketball Podcast, where we sometimes discuss
0:13.0	camera fighting, dodo birds and leaky black man, nor lay the ease here with me.
0:17.6	Like we promised on a previous podcast, we are doing short episodes on each region of
0:22.2	the 2021 NCAA tournament, the West region.
0:25.6	It's already done.
0:26.6	Go find it.
0:27.6	If you haven't heard it already, today we move to the east.
0:29.9	Where Michigan is the number one seed based on resume?
0:34.3	The Wolverines deserved it undeniably.
0:36.8	But dead leg, let me ask you this question.
0:39.2	Is Michigan who is now without Isaiah Livers really one of the best four teams in the country
0:44.7	heading into this NCAA tournament?
0:48.5	One of the best four teams in the country heading into this NCAA tournament plays in the
0:52.6	East region, but it ain't Michigan.
0:57.2	The second seeded Alabama, which is in this bracket.
1:00.6	It's tucked away bottom left corner.
1:03.2	I would take Alabama tomorrow, hell tonight, hell whenever you're listening to this.
1:08.4	I would take Bama on a neutral versus Michigan right now.
1:11.0	If you tell me they don't have Isaiah Livers, I do think he is that good and that valuable.
1:15.7	And also Michigan actually, it was not given a lot of favors here.
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