March Madness With Jon Rothstein, We Talk Brackets And Storylines, USA Beats Dominican Republic Plus Who's Back Of The Week

Pardon My Take

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🗓️ 16 March 2026

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Summary

The Brackets have arrived. We talk about Selection Sunday after the committee gives us a near perfect bracket. Upsets, Final Four picks and more. USA beats Hank's Dominican Republic team in the WBC (00:00:00-00:42:24). Who's back of the week including golf, Oscars and Joel Embiid (00:42:24-00:59:15). Jon Rothstein joins the show to break down the brackets and talk about each region, juicy storylines and how he always has a CBB tweet ready to go whenever the world is burning (00:59:15-01:46:00). We finish with a check in with Oldie on his bracket and Shane explains how he got Chalamet so wrong (01:46:00-01:57:00)..

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0:00.0	Hey, part of my take listeners, you can find every episode on Apple podcasts and Spotify. Prime members can listen ad free on Amazon music. On today's part of my take presented by Draft Kings, we have brackets. It is March Madness time. We have our good friend John Rostin on the show, breaking it all down. We just had an incredible weekend of college basketball. ready to go. One of the best weeks of the year. We're also going to talk some WBC. We're actually watching the game live. Thanks to Dominican Republic. Our down 2-1 in the game. It's been an awesome game so far. Yeah, it's top of the eighth. So we'll update as it goes on. We're going to do who's back of the week. And it's all brought to you by our friends at Microsoft co pilot before we get into today's chaos. We got to tell you about something that helps people focus on what's most important. Microsoft 365 co pilot, the world moves fast, your work day, even faster pitching products drafting, drafting reports, analyzing data, Microsoft 365 co-pilot is your AI assistant for work, built into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other Microsoft 365 apps you use, helping you quickly write, analyze, create, and summarize so you can cut through clutter and clear path to your best work. Learn more at Microsoft.com slash M365 co-pilot.
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1:31.9	Okay, let's go.
1:33.9	Hey, football guy, for the new NAWM.
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1:55.4	Barton my take
1:57.4	Welcome to part of my take presented by draft Kings the crown is yours today is Monday
2:02.8	March 16th and we've got brackets boys. It is time March
2:07.7	Madness here that it's so nice here that right there. It is so nice. Beautiful beautiful thing.
2:13.9	The selection committee has done their job. By the way credits of selection committee. There was
2:19.4	really no issues whatsoever. Maybe some seed lines that we can argue about, but the first two out
2:25.7	were Oklahoma and Auburn and they deserve to be out.
2:27.9	Yeah, the bubble, the bubble sucked this year, maybe in all time bad bubble.
2:32.0	So that job wasn't that hard for him.
2:33.7	I think the biggest controversy that you can have, and we can bleep this out maybe because
2:38.0	I don't even want to say it out loud, do kind of got fucked a little bit.
2:41.3	Nah.
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