ESPN's Tom Crean Joins Query & Company!
Query & Company
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🗓️ 16 March 2026
⏱️ 16 minutes
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ESPN’s Tom Crean joins Query & Company to give his thoughts on how things played out with the NCAA Tournament seedings, identifies South Florida as a team that plays a unique style of basketball, evaluates what he saw from Purdue during the Big Ten Tournament that they can build on in the NCAA Tournament, congratulates Thad Matta on an excellent coaching career, and highlights what games he will be covering during the tournament.
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| 0:00.0 | It's the best time of year. |
| 0:01.6 | Sports every day of the week. |
| 0:03.4 | But if you're sitting at home watching a game, catching a draft, not the one you're thinking, |
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| 0:19.6 | so you can get back to the game and not worry |
| 0:21.9 | about any unwanted penalties. Stay warm, stay comfortable, and stay focused on the game, |
| 0:27.3 | and call Hope Plumbing, Heating, and Cooling today. I can only imagine, or I can't even |
| 0:32.9 | imagine for that matter, what the schedule must look like for Tom Crean this time of year in terms of understanding |
| 0:39.9 | the bracket, looking at the teams. |
| 0:41.5 | I think he does a remarkable job of being able to talk about a number of them in his work |
| 0:46.1 | at ESPN. |
| 0:46.9 | Of course, he needs no introduction in this state, the former Indiana and Marquette basketball |
| 0:52.3 | coach. |
| 0:53.2 | Joining us now on the Java House, |
| 0:55.5 | cold brew coffee guest line. Coach, I'll get right to this with this bracket, |
| 1:00.3 | and that is what was your overall just assessment of the selection committee |
| 1:04.6 | and the way this bracket laid itself out? |
| 1:07.5 | I didn't think there were many surprises. I really didn't. And I think going into the week, |
| 1:13.3 | like a case like Miami of Ohio, I think the only way they were truly in was to be the automatic |
| 1:19.2 | qualifier. And I really do. And I think the bottom line is like once they didn't win, |
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