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And we are two hours away from the beginning of the Sweet 16,

two hours and nine minutes to be exact when BYU and Alabama

will tip shortly followed by Maryland and Florida.

We are ready to go and who better to talk to than Blake Topmire

who's been writing about this sport for a long time, and here we are.

Blake, thank you for the time.

Great to have you on.

Good afternoon.

And tell us what you are mostly looking forward to as we get ready for the evening session.

I'm seeing, looking forward to seeing how far these number one seeds can take it, Paul.

I mean, I know it's rare that we see

four number one seeds make it to the final four of this tournament happened in 2008, but normally

you don't see the one seeds go four for four. But, you know, I thought coming into this tournament that

we had an unusually strong one seed line with no weak links. I thought Auburn

had a tricky matchup in round two, no matter which way that went, either having to play

Louisville in Kentucky or as they did, having to play Creighton and their big man, Ryan Calkbrenner,

in round two. But Auburn survived that. And so now here

we are with all the one seeds still standing. And I like the one seeds as much as anybody left in this

tournament. I know that's kind of boring. That's not what we've come to expect from this tournament.

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