FTP Ep. # 457: March Madness West Region Preview
Fantasy Throwdown Podcast
Dwayne Callender
4.9 • 440 Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
I take a look at the West region where I have not heard nearly enough talk about UCLA which is fine by me as this is definitely an area where we can explore some theory options with respect to the brackets. Plus I give some of my thoughts on the betting lines for the opening round matchups.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Fantasy Throw Down Podcast, bringing you the latest from the world of sports, |
| 0:08.0 | DFS and gambling. With over five years of hot takes and millions of downloads later, I guess he's been doing something right. |
| 0:18.0 | Now, sit back and listen to one of the sharpest minds in the game. |
| 0:23.5 | Here's your host, Duane Calendar. |
| 0:26.3 | Hello, and welcome to the show everyone. |
| 0:32.1 | We have the West to break down for the N. A. Bracket this year and realistically how the West is going to be one pretty much comes down to who |
| 0:47.7 | can rebound because we got a number of teams that can get up and down the court the question is can they be |
| 0:59.1 | efficient enough on offense to seal the deal because we've got an overall number one |
| 1:06.8 | seed that's not actually statistically the top-ranked team in their own region. |
| 1:12.1 | Kansas is the one seat in the west, but I'll give you a |
| 1:17.3 | hint as to who the overall highest rated team from Kenpam rankings is and they play in the northeast. |
| 1:26.0 | It's Yukon. |
| 1:29.0 | Yukon is actually the highest ranked team according to a chem-pom in the west region. |
| 1:38.7 | Yukon has a four seed technically profiles better than the one seat in Kansas. |
| 1:44.0 | Now Kansas is the defending champion and they got the defending champion |
| 1:49.6 | a buff if you will but from a profile standpoint |
| 1:55.0 | Offensively Kansas isn't as proficient as they have been in the past |
| 2:02.0 | from a Tempo have been in the past. From a tempo standpoint they do move quickly which I'm always in favor of |
| 2:08.6 | but they do have the coach advantage in terms of Bill Self over Danny Hurley. I will say that. The question |
| 2:17.8 | it comes down to for Kansas is, realistically, where do we see this team because Bill Self technically is |
| 2:28.1 | supposed to be cleared to coach for the NCAA tournament. Now for those you don't know, Bill Self took a medical leave of |
| 2:36.7 | absence because he was not healthy going into the bulk of the year. Now, Kansas still won the big 12 |
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