John Fanta's Tournament Picks & Breakdown

You Better You Bet

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🗓️ 18 March 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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NBC's John Fanta joins the show to break down his tournament picks, upsets, cinderella stories, and MUCH MORE!

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0:00.0	7, now gold.
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0:27.6	Bring it up, Penny.
0:38.3	Bring it up, oh. Oh. Oh, oh. Final hour.
1:04.0	Power hour.
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1:34.4	John Fander from NBC Sports going to join us in just a moment, breaking down the NCAA tournament.
1:39.1	Our friend Joe Fortinbaugh from ESPN, about 20 minutes from now.
1:42.7	Look forward to welcoming Joe Fortinball into the show talking the NCAA tournament as well.
1:48.8	And speaking of the NCAA tournament, gave you a couple thoughts after having yesterday off on the show.
1:55.3	A couple thoughts that differ from what I said on Monday.
1:59.9	The first of those, I may be sleeping on Illinois.
2:06.0	And maybe I was a little too dismissive of the Illinois
2:09.1	to make the final four when we talked about,
2:13.3	excuse me, when we talked about the bracket on Monday.
2:17.6	And the other big takeaway and big kind of revelation I had thinking about the NCAA tournament last night,
2:26.3	is Duke going to get picked off before the final four?
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