Dan Wetzel (3/25/25)
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🗓️ 25 March 2025
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Summary
The Auburn Tigers and The Alabama Crimson Tide are both in the Sweet 16 for the first time in 40 years. Auburn Basketball is in Atlanta to face the Michigan Wolverines and Alabama Basketball is in Newark to face the BYU Cougars.
Michigan Basketball advanced after a 91-79 win over The Texas A&M Aggies, knocking out one SEC team.
Did Auburn get their swagger back? This the first Sweet 16 since the Final Four run of 2019.
The Alabama Crimson Tide is back in the Sweet 16 after a win over Saint Mary's. Alabama Basketball will now face the BYU Cougars after their win over The Wisconsin Badgers.
Has Alabama's defense turned just in time for March, just like last year?
The SEC was dominant over the weekend, placing seven total teams in the NCAA Tournament, a record. in addition to Auburn and Alabama, Arkansas Basketball, Florida Basketball, Tennessee Basketball, Ole Miss Basketball and Kentucky Basketball all advanced to the round of 16.
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| 0:13.5 | All right, our old friend Dan Wetzel been with us many, many times while the national columnist at Yahoo Sports did |
| 0:21.7 | tremendous work there. But now has made a move in his career with ESPN now. It's first time |
| 0:27.3 | to join us since doing that. Welcome in. First of all, Dan, hope you doing well. Doing great, |
| 0:31.8 | Ryan. How are you? Doing fantastic. Thank you so much. First, congrats on the move to ESPN. I know it's a big move for you in your |
| 0:39.8 | career, difficult move to make you spend a lot of time at Yahoo. So congrats on that. What can we expect |
| 0:45.3 | from you at ESPN? I know it's maybe it looks like a little bit of a change for what you'll also be |
| 0:51.2 | doing in your writing? |
| 0:55.9 | Well, we'll see. |
| 0:59.8 | First off, I haven't gotten fired yet, so that's good. |
| 1:00.9 | That's the last number one. |
| 1:02.4 | We're just really trying to do that. |
| 1:06.6 | But, yeah, I don't think it'll be a ton different. |
| 1:23.0 | We'll see, maybe a little less of the game coverages and things like that, but still a lot of the more significant topics, including a ton on college football and college basketball and college sports in general. So I don't think it'll be dramatically, dramatically different. |
| 1:28.3 | But we'll see. |
| 1:29.2 | We'll see what happens. |
| 1:30.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:30.5 | You know, new job, new adventure. |
| 1:31.9 | Yeah, new job, new adventure. |
| 1:33.1 | So still follow Dan and support all his work no matter what it is. |
| 1:37.5 | So congrats on that. |
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