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Hour 3 - John Fanta & Joe Fortenbaugh Join the Show!

You Better You Bet

Audacy

Sports

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

John Fanta & Joe Fortenbaugh join the show to break down all of their picks for the NCAA Tournament. Plus, Nick gives out his best bets for tonight in the First Four.

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0:00.0

Sports Station. Always live on the free Odyssey app.

0:10.5

Now, back to You Better You Bet with Nick Costos and the crew, presented by BetMGM on Westwood One Sports.

0:19.6

Bring it up, Penny.

1:00.0

Yeah. on Westwood One Sports. Bring it up, Penny. Oh, Final hour. Final hour. Power hour.

1:03.2

You better you bet on Westwood One Sports.

1:06.6

Nick Costos, our amazing crew.

1:10.0

And you.

1:12.7

The Power Hour and every hour here on You Better You Bet, brought to you by BetMGM.

1:18.8

Make it legendary by downloading the BetMGM app and visiting BetMGM.com.

1:26.4

John Fander from NBC Sports is going to join us in just a moment, breaking down the

1:29.8

NCAA tournament. Our friend Joe Fortinbaugh from ESPN, about 20 minutes from now. Look forward

1:35.0

to welcoming Joe Fortinball into the show talking the NCAA tournament as well. And speaking of

1:41.3

the NCAA tournament, gave you a couple thoughts after having yesterday off on the show.

1:47.3

A couple thoughts that differ from what I said on Monday.

1:51.8

The first of those, I may be sleeping on Illinois.

1:57.9

And maybe I was a little too dismissive of the Illinois's chances to make the Final Four when we talked about

2:04.8

when we talked about the bracket on Monday.

2:09.5

And the other big takeaway and big kind of revelation I had

2:13.5

thinking about the NCAA tournament last night,

2:18.5

is Duke going to get picked off before the final four?

2:22.1

Not because Duke isn't the best team.

2:24.4

I've been saying for months I think Duke's going to win the title.

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