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The Mike Francesa Podcast

Florida Outlasts Houston to Win NCAA Championship

The Mike Francesa Podcast

BetRivers Network

Sports, Baseball, Football, Basketball

4.8816 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Mike Francesa gives his postgame reaction to the Florida Gators edging out the Houston Cougars to win the NCAA National Championship.

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's the Mike Francesa podcast on the BetRivers Network.

0:04.5

All right.

0:04.8

Hello again, everybody.

0:05.5

And welcome to the Mike Francesa podcast on the BetRivers Network.

0:08.8

We come to you on the Mike Francesa channel on YouTube.

0:11.4

I didn't even stay around for one shining moment.

0:13.2

I'll catch it later.

0:15.2

After Florida's come from behind a two-point win over Houston.

0:24.0

Now, don't make a big deal about the 12-point comeback because they were up 12,

0:29.1

17 minutes left.

0:30.7

And then Houston, which got out great in terms of fouls.

0:34.3

Florida had seven when Houston had one.

0:36.5

Next thing you know, Houston started piling up fouls. They had 10 when Florida had seven. So they committed

0:41.5

nine fouls in a row, three on one play. Now Florida got a couple of stupid technicals.

0:46.3

But other than that, Houston is going to kick themselves for losing this game.

0:55.7

But let me first give you why Florida won.

1:02.3

Florida won because they were actually tougher than Houston down the stretch.

1:07.7

That's number one.

1:09.3

They played tougher.

1:13.2

They played bolder. They played more courageous than Houston did, which was not what happened against Duke. Now, commend Richard,

1:22.8

who not only picked up the slack for them being able to defend Clayton as well as they did

1:29.4

and give Clayton credit because Clayton got 11 points of the second half,

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