Ep. 278: ’T’d Up’—The Bracket Breakdown
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The Ringer
4.4 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2017
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to channel 33. This is the teed up edition on channel 33. This is a special edition |
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| 1:08.6 | Welcome to teed up. I'm tape Frazier and I'm sitting in Bill Simmons office with Mark |
| 1:13.1 | Titus. What's up, Mark? Take the bracket came out. That's insane. We need to talk about |
| 1:19.1 | something that is inexcusable. The committee, they did it again. They have the audacity to |
| 1:24.1 | screw a team that frankly gets screwed a little too often in these cases. The little guy, |
| 1:30.0 | the little guy. Duke, the Duke Blue Dells were too seen. Can't believe this. This is shocking. |
| 1:35.4 | So Duke beat North Carolina twice. Yes. As we all know, they did beat them twice. And |
| 1:41.2 | as Seth Davis pointed out, the whole body of work, they had the RPI, as we know, doesn't |
| 1:46.7 | matter all season. We talked about how the RPI is outdated. How the RPI is a terrible |
| 1:51.2 | metric from the 1940s. And we need to get rid of it. But then, but Duke beat a lot of |
| 1:57.0 | teams in the top 50 of the RPI. So now all of a sudden matters. The RPI is what determines |
| 2:01.5 | everything. I'm really upset about that. Yeah. Do you got it too? Your tarfields got |
| 2:05.9 | a one seed. How do you feel about that? I feel like, you know, justice sometimes prevails. |
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