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Stanford Steve & The Bear

2022 NCAA Tournament Preview

Stanford Steve & The Bear

ESPN Radio

Sports

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Stanford Steve and The Bear discuss the 2022 NCAA Tournament, why this is the hardest bracket they’ve ever filled out, Steve’s belief that 14 teams could win the championship, Bear’s numbers on 11 vs. 6 seeds, Iowa’s dangerous first game against Richmond, the Mountain West needing to prove itself, if Memphis could bully Gonzaga if they meet in the second round, Indiana’s half court defense, the officiating in Texas-Virginia Tech, their trust in Houston’s defense, the Kansas or Chaos Region, Colgate and Vermont getting tough draws, conference tournament win totals, and head-to-head bets on which teams advance further in the bracket. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The underdog is howling.

0:05.0

Stanford Steve and the bear.

0:08.0

Oh yes, a home team getting points.

0:11.0

What's better than that?

0:14.0

Welcome in.

0:15.0

It's been a while.

0:16.0

The bear.

0:17.0

Myself, Stanford Steve here.

0:20.0

The crew back.

0:21.0

Pod is up and going.

0:23.0

It's one of the best weeks of the year.

0:25.0

I still like last week better than this week

0:28.0

because it's wall-to-wall non-stop action.

0:30.0

But that's another conversation for another time.

0:32.0

Bear, I'm going to start with this.

0:34.0

This is the toughest bracket I've ever had to fill out in my life.

0:38.0

Doing this all my life since I've been being able to write names out of line.

0:45.0

This is the toughest year to fill out a bracket.

0:49.0

Yeah, and I think it's because you look at the number of close games we have

0:56.0

in the first round.

0:57.0

We've got 11 games already that have points for less than three points.

1:02.0

And that doesn't even factor in the 11 seed playing games on Tuesday and Wednesday.

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