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Hello and welcome.

It's our number two, our two of our radio program.

And it's all about the NCAA tournament.

We have trimmed the fat in March Madness all the way down to 16 teams. And what grade, what number grade, one to 10 do you give the 2022 sweet 16 spoiler alert i'm benny bright side on

this one i am benny bright side on march madness the sweet 16 we'll get to that right now

in our number two here it is cutting it back just a little bit just a bit. Welcome in the beginning of another hour.

It's the Ben Mather's show, and we are together in the air everywhere.

We are a sound to behold, coast to coast, border to border, and beyond, on the vast,

and Herculeanly powerful microphones of FSR emanating live.

From the press, the full court press, the Fox Sports Radio Studios at a secret location somewhere in the Northwoods, deep in the Northwoods,

as we are back at it again here.

And our lead this hour does come from college basketball.

And what a weekend it was.

It started on Thursday.

Of course, you know the part of Americana.

We spend all day Thursday and Friday watching college basketball.

And most of Saturday and Sunday, we pulled out the machete and we were swashbuckling,

slicing away the field, which started last week with those Fugazi playing games with a ton of teams, and we

chopped it down all the way down now to Sweet 16 Territory.

And maybe you did not watch the full festivities here.

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