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The Mike Francesa Podcast

March Madness: Final Four Predictions

The Mike Francesa Podcast

BetRivers Network

Sports, Baseball, Football

4.6938 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Mike Francesa discusses the NCAA tournament and makes predictions for the Final Four. He emphasizes the importance of the first and second rounds for underdog and mid-major teams, as well as the dominance of big teams in the Sweet 16.

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0:26.3

Welcome to the Mike Francesa podcast as we look to the NCAA tournament and to the

0:32.8

final four a couple of weeks from now in Arizona.

0:36.4

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0:39.9

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0:44.4

wagering needs for everything you need during this wonderful time of year when you have crazy

0:50.5

wall-to-wall action the next four days, 48 basketball games, not even count in the

0:56.9

NIT, which is not bad. I think, you know, there were some decent NIT games last night. There'll be

1:01.3

more tonight. I thought that their matchups were the best I've seen in the long time, so if you need

1:05.6

a little extra. But over the next four days, it's wall-to-wall action.

1:11.2

48 games, the heart of the tournament.

1:13.5

And as I've always said, this tournament, first and second round belong to the underdogs.

1:24.7

They belong to the mid-majures.

1:26.8

They belong to the Cinderella's. It's where coaches make the underdogs. They belong to the mid-majures. They belong to the Cinderella's. It's where

1:30.2

coaches make reputations. It's where they get jobs. You know, you go in right now and you have a

1:36.3

mid-major. They go and they win two games. And their coach, it's the escalator going up.

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