Live from Southern California. This is the Jim Rome Show.

Almost nothing ever lives up to the hype. We all know that. Except the NCAA tournament. And the NCAA tournament always

smashes the hype virtually every single year. And I don't think this year is going to be

any different, especially this year, especially when you consider how wide us open the field is.

We've been talking about that for weeks. It's going to be madness as it always is. It's going to be chaos like it always is and it's going to be incredible like it always is.

In four days we are all going to be swimming in bracket dopamine.

Unfortunately though, if I'm starting at the very top of this wide open tournament, it means I'm starting with Alabama.

And nothing says top overall seed like fresh capital murder. like Fresh Capital Murder Indictments.

Yeah, I said that too.

You could say that they're in the right spot at the right time, but that would be incredibly

toned-f.

Nearly as tone-def is Nate Oates, when Nate Oates said the exact opposite about Brandon Miller and the

deadly weapon that he delivered to the scene of a deadly crime. There is no doubt

that the tragedy in Tuscaloosa is the dark cloud that's

going to hang over the entire tournament. And then continuing to play this guy and all of

them acting like nothing even happened.

Sure is how not helping anybody or anything.

Or him mindlessly continuing to go with that absurd pat-down act during player intros even after a

single mother had been shot and killed with a gun that he delivered to the

scene and finally he stopped doing with a gun that he delivered to the scene.

And finally he stopped doing that.

Good thing too because that was one of the most insulting,

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