Best Of Query & Company - Monday 3/16/26
Query & Company
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🗓️ 16 March 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Today’s Best of Features:
(00:00-23:17) – Mike DeCourcy from the Sporting News, FOX Sports, and Big Ten Network joins Jake Query to continue the conversation about Thad Matta’s retirement, who he believes is the favorite to win the NCAA Tournament, identifies the south region as the most loaded region in the bracket, and comments on the momentum that Purdue has built going into the tournament.
(23:17-40:17) – Butler Radio Analyst, Nick Gardner, joins Jake Query on today’s show to reflect on Thad Matta’s coaching career with him announcing his retirement earlier today, gives his recruiting pitch to coaches that Butler could reach out to for the job, highlights some obstacles the next Butler coach will have to overcome, and gives his thoughts on which Big East team in the NCAA Tournament could make the deepest run.
(40:17-56:14) – ESPN’s Tom Crean joins Query & Company to give his thoughts on how things played out with the NCAA Tournament seedings, identifies South Florida as a team that plays a unique style of basketball, evaluates what he saw from Purdue during the Big Ten Tournament that they can build on in the NCAA Tournament, congratulates Thad Matta on an excellent coaching career, and highlights what games he will be covering during the tournament.
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| 0:00.0 | It's the best time of year. |
| 0:01.6 | Sports every day of the week. |
| 0:03.4 | But if you're sitting at home watching a game, catching a draft, not the one you're thinking, |
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| 0:32.2 | about. And when it comes to talking about a ton of college basketball, there is nobody better to do |
| 0:37.1 | it that we |
| 0:37.7 | wanted to get right off the top with the tournament pairings and the Butler News and everything |
| 0:42.3 | else than Mike DeCorsi of the sporting news and the Big Ten Network, as I always say, the dean of |
| 0:47.8 | college basketball writers and he joins us on the Java House, Cold Brew Coffee guest line. |
| 0:52.7 | Mike, bottom line, it basically is Christmas season, man. |
| 0:56.4 | Here it is, and you are literally Chris Kringle right here on the radio program. |
| 1:02.3 | Awesome time of year. How are you? |
| 1:04.7 | I am well, Jake, but you know the difference is that after Santa Claus delivers all the |
| 1:10.5 | presents, he gets to put his feet up for the next 300 days. |
| 1:14.5 | And I'm still working for the next month at least. |
| 1:17.1 | Yeah, that's true. |
| 1:17.8 | That is a good point. |
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