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The Valenti Show

March Madness Late-Window Preview

The Valenti Show

Audacy

Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Valenti and Rico are joined by David to preview today's late-window March Madness games.

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0:00.0

Okay, late window on a Friday night, eight games tonight.

0:05.3

We'll do a little preview.

0:06.7

Get you set up for TV time.

0:09.9

While Rico's power nap and we're previewing.

0:12.8

David?

0:13.8

So not much excitement in the first two games in the late window.

0:17.5

You have the one Florida versus the 16 Norfolk State. That's a 28 and a half

0:23.5

point spread there, not much there. You have Kentucky to three seed versus the 14 seed,

0:28.5

11 and a half favor for Kentucky. Yeah, see, stop right there. Okay. Look, Kentucky, full strength,

0:34.9

I'd have a completely different opinion. opinion. They are ravaged by injuries.

0:39.2

They got two guys that are out, one guy's going to give it a go, and Mark Pope's team,

0:43.5

the one thing they don't do is play defense.

0:45.5

With Troy, I am not telling you, Troy is some amazing shooting team.

0:51.0

They're not.

0:52.1

But somehow, somehow, they rebound the basketball.

0:56.2

And they damn near lead planet Earth and steals.

0:59.5

It's just a, there's a shot that that game is closer than the experts think.

1:04.1

I would not sleep on that one.

1:06.1

And I know it's a new coach with Coach Pope, but Kentucky normally gets knocked out in the first weekend.

1:13.1

So it's not a given.

1:15.2

They should win David, but they kind of stumbled down the end of the season as well.

1:20.6

Like they can put up a ton of points, but then, yeah, as Mike said, they don't play defense.

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