Monday morning, March 17, 2025, it is the beating the book podcast, March Madness Edition, Skill

Alexander, live from Circa, they gave us a studio. They didn't really give us a studio.

We kind of took the studio for the hour and

15 minutes were being granted for the most downloaded podcast episode of every year

in beating the book, the March Madness pod. On my left at Circa, Todd Wisnove, star of the

Showtime docu-series action was happening. What's up, Gilly? It's March Madness Time. Who's not excited? Will Hill is completely bald and ready to go. And yes, Will Hill, the host of the Should Have Betmore podcast, who completely has shaved his head completely. What are you doing? What's wrong with you? This is not out of character for me. I've really done this, I think, since college.

I let it grow and then I kind of shave it all off. Usually I'm wearing a hat. That's probably why it's so jarring to you, gentlemen. Jarring. It is jarring. It's startling. It's what it is. Unsettling. Okay. NCAA tournament. 31 Auto, 37 at large. that is not how it used to be.

By the way, it used to be 3236,

but no PAC 12.

So now it's 31, 37. And these are the two gentlemen, by the way, who two years ago, I won't go, I won't belaborate, but two years ago, that was their big moment where Will called FAU to go to the final four. And Todd called uh the final between yukon and san diego state he also had michigan state going far and uh we should put out the

video on twitter today uh just to remind folks from two years ago how todd didn't pay heed to the

advice of putting his brackets into a big national contest and thank god he that wasn't really

what happened what happened was you know I no longer used draft Kings for obvious reasons.

And then I forgot that I could have just put 100 in for the, for the contest at draft

Kings because contests are not an issue with them.

So whatever.

Anyways, I forgot that I didn't realize that I could do that because I was used to not using draft kings. But anyways. I got that clarified. Anyway, you also didn't listen to the advice. Both are true. So he would have won $35,000 because you would have finished in a tie for a second with Doug Wedge, who did finish in second place. He's the guy that made us realize, oh, no, you might have won this thing.

And thank God you didn't win it because it would have been a million dollars. And then you

would have jumped off a cliff. Yes. Okay. Now that we got that straight. Okay. So here's what we're going to do. We're going to go bracket by bracket. We're going to talk about advancing in your brackets and also any ATS opinions.

Before we do that, I always do this on a numbers game,

but rarely, I think last year was the first time I ever did the formula on the podcast. We'll just start with this. This is a tried and true formula that has existed since I've been doing this show. I love this formula, by the way. It's a great formula. Beating the book podcast before that, the Betty Dork podcast

and on a numbers game on radio.

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