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Dwayne calendar.

All right, welcome to the show everyone.

Gonna talk March Madness a bit further and go into the brackets in general, but first let's just kind of talk about overall favorites and again the fact that March

Mandis this year will take place strictly in Indianapolis so just one

central region no traveling outside of the teams getting into the bubble, essentially.

And of course, none of these teams have, are going to be allowed to compete initially unless they've got a negative

test for seven days in a row.

You know, if they can't feel the full roster of players then they're

going to be replacement teams on standby that the selection committee

array has in place.

So Louisville being the first standby team available.

So again, you have teams that normally would have been in the NIT like Louisville

are basically waiting on standby in the interim of teams dropping out of this thing and just to be fair

There is a very real chance that there could be a team that runs into an issue beforehand that gets dropped for the tournament.

So I'm just saying, this tournament is still subject to change

ahead of friday

now

once the tournament starts there are no substitute teams coming in so

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