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🗓️ 19 March 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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We take a look at the West region where I have a pretty definitive opinion of Florida as well as where they rank vs the top seeds in that region including St. John's.
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0:30.2 | We are looking at the March Madness brackets, |
0:32.7 | and we're going into the West region where I honestly look at this field and say that this is probably the |
0:41.3 | deepest field in terms of top seeds that could go through to the final four because when you |
0:48.2 | look at the top four seeds, you know, I think Florida is the overall best number one seed in terms of ability to match up against any opponent, given their size, three-point shooting ability. |
1:02.7 | Florida is one of the toughest outs in the tournament. |
1:06.5 | But on the flip side, they also have wildly divergent number two seed in St. John's. |
1:13.8 | You got a Texas Tech team that is extremely underrated by national standards, in my opinion. |
1:21.5 | And then a Maryland team that is also very underrated in terms of, I don't think people really paid that close attention to them. |
1:29.1 | So between the top four seeds, you know, you can get quite a bit of equity between going a different route than just taking Florida as to one seat. |
1:40.3 | But as I said, and we'll get into the brackets themselves, I do think between the |
1:46.1 | number one seeds, Florida, to me, has the best win equity out of all of them, just because of |
1:53.3 | how they match up against the entire field with their size and three-point shooting ability. |
1:58.5 | I look at the Florida overall as I know everyone wants to talk about, you know, how good Duke is with Cooper Flagg, when he's healthy. |
2:10.5 | I mean, Florida's number two, and it's not that far as separation on the ranking Zider with Kempop, but with Florida, you have the most |
2:20.1 | efficient offensive team, and defensively, they're top 10 as well. Duke's top five in both |
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