Hour 1: Let the Madness Begin
The Paul Finebaum Show
ESPN Radio
3.3 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's happening again. |
| 0:02.1 | Bracket Brain. |
| 0:03.4 | That time of year when basketballs, backboards, and buzzer beaders start bursting into view. |
| 0:08.4 | You start seeing 12 seats upsetting five seats 24-7. |
| 0:12.5 | And tournament sites are showing up at every turn. |
| 0:15.3 | There's only one thing to do when bracket brain hits. |
| 0:18.3 | Download the ESPN Tournament Challenge app and fill out your men's bracket |
| 0:22.2 | by tapping into the number one bracket game. Your bracket brain will thank you, presented by Allstate. |
| 0:30.9 | The pride, passion, and pageantry of college football lives here. |
| 0:39.8 | This is the Paul Pinebaum Show, Our One podcast. |
| 0:45.4 | This might be college football. |
| 0:47.6 | Hey, welcome to Thursday on the program. |
| 0:50.2 | We are well aware of that college basketball is going on around us, but that's okay. |
| 0:55.0 | We got a couple of football coaches on board this afternoon. |
| 0:59.0 | We also will take your phone calls, we'll update you on the play-in game, not in the tournament, |
| 1:04.0 | but on our show. |
| 1:05.0 | Speaking of playing games, you may have stayed up late last night. |
| 1:09.0 | If you're a Longhorn, you are not happy. You had a big lead, double-digit lead in the second half, and it all expired as Xavier with an X knocked off the Longhorns, and the season ends at 19 and 16, and the questions remain about the future of that program under its current regime. |
| 1:29.8 | A couple of games will kick off here in a little while, or tip off, I should say. |
| 1:34.3 | Georgia and Zaga. We have John Caliperi, a first rounder against Kansas, Drake and Missou as well. |
| 1:42.3 | And then right now, Auburn in Alabama State, Wofford, Tennessee, Yale, and A&M. |
| 1:47.8 | So a big day for the SEC contingent in this tournament. Football on the news as well. |
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