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Hello and welcome.

It's our number three, our three of our radio program,

college basketball, the rare and our radio program, college basketball,

the rare and appropriate college school's monologue. Final four weekend, are you cheering for or against Coach K to finish the storybook season

with another Duke title over the college basketball final four weekend?

We'll discuss that and more.

Lame Jokes of the Week here in our number three.

The last barbecue is upon us.

Welcome in the beginning.

It's another hour of the Ben Mather Show,

and we are together in the air everywhere as we avoid the boondoggle,

coast to coast, border to border, and beyond on the vast.

And outrageously powerful microphones of FSR emanating live from the University, the University of Sporting

Life, the Fox Sports Radio Studios, our classroom here in the Northwoods.

So our lead this hour does come from the final four, the showcase events of college hoops,

the swan song this weekend.

Tomorrow we are headed into the coronation of a champion in the Big Easy.

Villanova and Kansas.

That's on the undercard, the Jayhawks.

Last I checked, the four and a half point favorite in the gambling line.

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