21 Years Running

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🗓️ 17 February 2026

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Summary

Scott Van Pelt and Stanford Steve are back to do a deep dive into college hoops as Steve's List makes its debut, NBA All-Star weekend and more top NBA storylines. Who is the face of the NBA? Thoughts on the current All-Star game format? And a word on Kevin Durant's burner situation... Then, Steve gives his list of CBB teams that can win the National Championship. Some surprises make the cut, and some teams are surprisingly left off... but if you know Steve, it might not be too shocking. Finally, thoughts on Jerome Tang's firing from Kansas State, an Olympics update, shoutouts to Harry Engle and Anthony Kim, paper towel use, the one fatal flaw for all of Steve's teams and a BIG revelation that left SVP STUNNED. | SVPod (0:00) Intro (4:01) The KD burner situation (10:06) Shoutout to the merch buyers (11:21) All-Star wknd recap (17:46) Who is the FACE of the NBA? (23:00) NBA Draft or no draft? (29:00) What we watched over the wknd (30:06) CBB wknd recap (33:31) Coming up in CBB (39:30) Steve’s CBB teams that can WIN IT ALL (58:50) Which Duke natty hurt SVP more? (1:02:00) Fatal flaw for teams on Steve’s list (1:05:30) Thoughts on K-State firing Jerome Tang (1:17:06) Olympics update (1:19:00) Vrabel greeting the players was awesome (1:20:16) Will teams ever sit on their own bench in timeouts? (1:21:16) What a college debut for Harrison Engle (1:25:51) Ever listened to a pod all the way through? (1:26:46) We need Dilfer vs. Hasselbeck (1:27:26) The paper towel usage is getting out of hand (1:29:00) Steve revelations! (1:32:16) Shoutout Anthony Kim (1:40:06) Pebble Beach recap (1:45:30) Remembering covering Dale’s passing (1:50:12) Thanks for watching Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome at Suspid pod.
0:06.0	The whole gang is here.
0:07.3	Stand for Steve in the building.
0:08.7	Red.
0:10.3	Was he sleeping?
0:13.1	He was so excited to come up here.
0:15.6	Now look at him.
0:18.0	You know what?
0:18.5	We'll leave him be because it's just in minutes he'll be scraping at the thing
0:22.4	and pawing at the door and trying to eat this bottle we'll yeah keep them quiet i need everybody
0:28.2	listening to my voice that can hear me i need you guys to take a survey the landscape of what
0:34.5	kind of time do you have because you're going to need to carve out some space. Because the big man, that's not me, that's Steve, walked in with not one, but two
0:42.8	cards. One, two cards. My card is loaded with stuff. I have a lot of stuff to get to. But what's
0:52.2	coming that's important is the list.
0:56.1	Steve's annual list of teams that can win the NCAA championship. And last night, when we were
1:02.0	at work for Sports Center, you covered, it's 21 straight years that the winner's been on the list.
1:06.9	Yeah, the winner's never not been on the list. 21 straight years. Check the tape. You kind of want to be on the list. Check the tape. Have we been doing anything 21 years?
1:15.3	Technically, no. Not really. I just hit 20. I hit 21 or 22?
1:21.3	I just hit 22 years. With the company. Yeah. 04, February 0.
1:27.2	Nice. What do you get for that a little goofy
1:31.1	figurine bro I got a tinkerbell this year 25 years oh wait no I'm at 20 oh yeah you're
1:39.3	before me 25 years tinkerbellbo? Damn, man.
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