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The roller coaster.

It's a slow, small landing zone there for the college basketball world.

First couple weeks, you took some lighter fluid, you poured it all over the bracket,

and now things have settled down.

The final four will feature three, well really two chalk, chalk teams,

and then you throw Michigan's kind of on the fringes where they've had moments of great success in college basketball, but you would put them closer to blue blood status than you would as a, you know,

Cinderella, as the cliche goes.

But that's who we have.

Those three schools, you've got Kansas and Villanova, who got the last two spots into San Antonio,

along with Michigan and some 98-year-old nun from the greater Chicago area,

who's also going.

So that's who we have meeting in the Final Four.

And again, as we proved last week, you cannot, you talk to the regular person,

the person around college basketball, person that watches the tournament, they cannot name one player.

We talked to Doc Mike who doesn't, you don't get any more Chicago than Doc Mike.

He's all the whole city shut down.

It's all about Loyola, Chicago, and all.

Couldn't name one guy on the team.

Couldn't name the coach.

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