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First Take

Hour 2: Tournament Standouts

First Take

ESPN Radio

Sports

4.25.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

On the second hour of First Take, Stephen A. Smith, Shannon Sharpe, and Coach Seth Greenberg discuss which men's team performed the best in March Madness this past weekend. The guys also react to Rick Pitino benching RJ Luis Jr. in St. John's loss to Arkansas. Lastly, the crew debates if having no Cinderella teams is good for men's college basketball. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:31.4

Atlanta squares off against New York in the best of three, TjL finals.

0:34.6

The first match begins tonight at 9 Eastern 6th Pacific on ESPN 2.

0:38.1

The second match tomorrow at 7 on ESPN. And if we need a winner take-all match three, it'll be right after match two.

0:46.5

Back to the tourney. John Calipari's 10-seated Arkansas squad beat Rick Bettino second-seeded St. John's team 75 to 66.

0:54.5

Calipari picked up his 50th career win in the NCAA tournament

0:57.5

in his third and five meetings with Patino in the tourney.

1:00.8

Maryland is back in the Sweet 16 for the first time since 2016

1:03.8

behind a game-winning buzzer-beater from freshman Derek Queen to defeat Colorado State 72 to 71.

1:11.4

He became the fourth freshman with a buzzer-beating game winner in the NCAA tournament.

1:16.7

Kids showed up, and Tyrese Proctor had career highs of 7-3-pointers and 25 points, helping Duke beat Baylor 89 to 66.

1:25.5

Duke has won its first two NCAA tournament games by a combined

1:29.9

67 points. Shannon, which team had the best weekend? Oh, hey, coach. Duke. What? Or go

1:40.6

go ahead, go ahead. No, no, no. It's you, Shannon. I want to hear your guys opinions first man you know

1:47.8

kills me to say this the Duke blue devils it's not that look they're the number one seed and we get

1:53.9

that but it was how they looked and doing it if and there is you know is cooper going to play

1:59.1

should they play them opening night?

2:01.8

Or do they wait a game?

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