March Madness recap: Sweet 16 Sunday had a great game and big upset: UCLA, Gonzaga, Michigan, USC into the Eight (College Basketball 03/29)

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🗓️ 29 March 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

The Pac-12, for the second time in league history, has three teams in the Elite Eight. UCLA’s upset of second-seeded Alabama was the best game of the day and leads our Sunday reaction pod. GP and Norlander open with that, then go game-by-game with reactions and a basketful of nuggets and stats to know. In order: UCLA over Bama, Michigan over Florida State, Gonzaga over Creighton, USC over Oregon. The final seven minutes of the podcast are reserved for picks and predictions of Tuesday’s Elite Eight games. Enjoy! And here’s Norlander’s re-seed of the teams still left standing.

https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/march-madness-2021-re-seeding-the-teams-in-the-elite-eight-of-the-ncaa-tournament/

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0:56.9	Good Lord. I've been in New York on CBS Sports Network on Night, Norlander has been
1:02.0	in Indianapolis at Sweet 16 games all day and night. Now that we're done and all of the
1:06.9	sunnies games have been completed, we are here to talk through the second day of the Sweet
1:11.0	16 and we will talk about all four games, promise, but there's only one place to start.
1:15.9	Final score. UCLA. 88. Alabama 78. N-OT. The 11th seeded Bruins. The first four Bruins
1:24.9	are headed to the Elite 8. Hashtag, Sam the Court. Hashtag, Nail can stay. Deadleg. What
1:31.9	was it like to be inside Hinkle and watch the greatest coach in UCLA history upset the
1:38.9	Crimson time? Did you see my tweet? I maybe. I told them maybe. It was amazing. And as I got
1:48.9	myself out of that building, I dropped a tweet that was basically UCLA as the first team
1:53.9	since VCU in 2011 to start in the first four and make it to Elite 8. Micron is the greatest
1:58.9	coach in UCLA history and there are plenty of people that follow me that don't listen to this
2:02.9	podcast. Why you would ever do that is beyond me. But I said, all right, time to go back to
2:08.9	Bankers Life. I'm never reading the replies because the first three people were like, what are
2:12.9	you talking about, dude? There's a guy named Wooden. Yeah, I know there's a guy named Wooden.
2:15.9	He didn't do this. He didn't start in the first four. He did not beat seconds. He did Alabama.
2:20.9	He didn't win in Hinkle Field House. I'll tell you that much. And he did not get UCLA to the
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