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The Valenti Show

Do People Still Fill Out March Madness Brackets?

The Valenti Show

Audacy

Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Mike and Rico keep the tournament talk going, wondering if people still fill out brackets like they used to.

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0:00.0

Okay, Odyssey.com rewind. You missed anything last hour, some lion stuff, including other teams getting engaged on Trey Hendrickson and does it alter your approach? We opened the show. We had a little bit of a man issue.

0:12.0

Evan Jenkins got caught up in something as it relates to the tournament and his one-year-old kid, and it's a disaster.

0:20.7

I did say something last segment, and I wanted to expand upon it.

0:25.5

I took a shot at David, and it just shows you how different things are now.

0:30.0

David was holding a bracket.

0:32.8

He was staring at his bracket, and I said you look like a 70-year-old back there.

0:39.1

And it is truly amazing where we've arrived at in 2025 because now, what used to be

0:47.1

commonplace, I don't think you could ever make fun of the bracket.

0:50.9

Now, the bracket is, as the kids would say, just boomer behavior. It is just for old

0:57.9

people. No one that I know is running a bracket pool. No one fills out a bracket. Nobody has a

1:06.4

physical copy of a bracket unless you're like a Bogota.

1:14.1

I mean, it just, it doesn't exist.

1:20.0

Betting has taken the place of the bracket, or has it?

1:23.9

Am I giving you an accurate view of where March Madness is at?

1:27.1

Or, am I talking out of my ass.

1:29.2

See, because you're old.

1:29.8

I figured you'd know.

1:33.1

No, Mike, I think the paper bracket is gone.

1:35.5

But when I look and see ESPN saying,

1:37.7

we got 12 million people who filled out,

1:40.3

filled out brackets.

1:41.3

Stony.

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