What's going on everybody?

Curtis Wilkerson with Hog Sports.com coming to you live from Wells Fargo Arena here in Des Moines, Iowa.

Take a look at this.

I mean does it get any better than that?

March Madness is back

say what you want about how it went down throughout the course of the regular season

but the Arkansas razorbacks are here for the third time in three years.

It's the first time that's happened in a while.

First time that a single coach has done this since the Nolan Richardson era so

shout-outs to Eric Musselman. Everything that happened up to this point

prepares you for this point. That's where Arkansas is at right now.

All the ups and downs, the injuries, the inconsistencies, the high points, the lows, the peaks, the valleys.

We talked about this roller coaster ride for so long,

but it all culminates in this point

because once you get to the NCAA tournament,

nothing else matters.

It's a clean slate, zero and zero record for everybody. So it's going to be 8 seed Arkansas versus 9 seed Illinois in this building tomorrow on Thursday. Should be a great matchup. We've talked about it so much the similarities

between these two teams, strengths, weaknesses, areas of struggle, their

trajectory throughout the course of the

force of the season. It's wild. Neither team shoots the three-throw line.

Trouble playing with leads or big leads for that matter,

but they're also so so talented and both these teams are capable

...