March Madness Picks: The Winner, The Cinderellas, and the Biggest Busts

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🗓️ 16 March 2021

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Need a little help on your office pool bracket? Or are you just really excited to watch the drama of the NCAA Men's Basketball tournament unfold? Either way, The Athletic's Seth Davis, who also covers the tournament for CBS Sports, has you covered. Seth joins us to explain who he thinks will win it all, who might self-implode, and who could become the feel-good stories of the year.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members, you can listen to the lead ad-free on Amazon Music.
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0:07.0	It's March Madness, time for three weeks of office pool fun, but you won't be having
0:18.0	any fun because you're the guy whose bracket busts immediately.
0:25.1	Do you also have a tendency to make completely irrational March Madness picks and then watch
0:29.6	your dreams go up and smoke?
0:31.6	Well, fear not, my friends.
0:33.3	The athletic Seth Davis is here today to make his predictions, to tell us what Cinderella
0:38.1	stories to watch for in this year's tournament, and to really just be happy that there's any
0:42.2	tournament at all.
0:44.0	From Wondery and the Athletic, I'm Andres Keltso.
0:46.2	It's Tuesday, March 16th, and this is the lead.
0:52.9	So Seth has been almost exactly one year since we had you on the show to eulogize the
0:56.8	2020 college basketball season.
0:59.2	How are you feeling right now heading into the 2021 tournament?
1:01.8	Are we talking backflips with excitement?
1:04.0	Are you already exhausted?
1:05.5	I'm already exhausted and I'm doing backflips with excitement.
1:10.0	College basketball is the only sport that got canceled.
1:12.4	Everybody else picked up their season or truncated their season or found a way to play.
1:16.8	The NCAA tournament was canceled a few days before selection Sunday and was never to
1:22.8	return.
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