Elite Eight recaps and first impressions of a pretty awesome Final Four field (3.26)
Eye On College Basketball
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🗓️ 26 March 2018
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander are both back at home, and before they head out to San Antonio, they touch on the regional final results that have given us a Final Four of Loyola-Chicago, Michigan, Villanova and Kansas. There's also a discussion of whether or not Duke's season could fairly be labeled as an underachieving one. Plus: Will Barack Obama get down to San Antonio to watch the Ramblers?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's Gary Parrish, it's Monday, March 26, 2018. |
| 0:08.4 | Got Matt Norlander here with me. |
| 0:10.0 | Welcome back to the ION College basketball podcast. |
| 0:12.5 | The final four is set. |
| 0:13.9 | Miss Loyola Chicago, because they beat Kansas State. |
| 0:16.7 | The Ramblers are in Michigan, beat Florida State, so the Wolverines are in. |
| 0:20.3 | Villanova beat Texas Tech, so the Wildcats are in. |
| 0:22.9 | Kansas beat Duke at overtime. |
| 0:25.6 | So the J-Harks are in, which means we're going to have Loyola Chicago versus Michigan. |
| 0:29.9 | Villanova versus Kansas, the winner will play next Monday night for the national championship |
| 0:34.1 | Norlander on a scale of one to fantastic. |
| 0:38.5 | How much do you care about this final four? |
| 0:40.0 | I always care about the final four GP. |
| 0:41.8 | I'd rated it pretty damn good. |
| 0:44.0 | And before we get into some of the stuff we just saw and lay out, you know, the final |
| 0:49.3 | four in general, I want to bring to it to light here and bring to attention that it's |
| 0:53.6 | been a really good tournament. |
| 0:54.7 | I don't know if this is the best tournament ever. |
| 0:57.0 | In fact, maybe that will be determined like if Loyola wins on two more buzzer peaters, |
| 1:01.7 | maybe that would actually be the clincher or anything like that. |
| 1:04.8 | But this is absolutely not the most ridiculous final four ever. |
| 1:08.7 | You got two ones. |
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