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Men’s March Madness Preview with Myron Medcalf

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🗓️ 20 March 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

This season of men's college basketball has lacked the buzz and attention we're used to seeing, but now that the tournament is here and bracket bets are rolling in, that is sure to change. We already saw the drama ramp up last weekend as several “bid-thieves” won their conference tournaments and stole slots from a handful of bubble teams. So can UConn become the first back-to-back champ in 17-years? Can Purdue overcome the stigma of last year's first-round upset? And what’s the deal with Long Beach State? Our college basketball guide Myron Medcalf is here to explore it all and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Myron, when's the last time you watched the March Madness opening weekend from somewhere

0:06.2

other than a press box or press rows seat? And where was it?

0:10.0

I mean, it's probably at my house, you know, I mean, we've had a couple runs these last few years

0:17.6

where it's easier to cover it from home. You actually miss so much on the road. So I'm actually staying home again.

0:24.6

My preference now is actually to be home for the opening weekend and then hit the road

0:30.0

the next weekend. I love it. You don't miss anything from from home you miss a lot when you're on site in those games

0:35.9

smart man young journalists listen up sometimes being at home it matters that said the madness tips off tomorrow.

0:43.7

How you feeling, play boy?

0:45.1

I'm excited, man.

0:46.1

You know, I feel like we say the same thing every year.

0:48.0

There's chaos, upset potential.

0:50.4

Who knows what's gonna happen?

0:51.6

But this year really feels that way to meet.

0:54.0

Yukon obviously is the team that everybody's chasing,

1:00.0

but I don't know if we have a great team. I think we have a lot of very good teams and then a bunch of pretty good teams behind them.

1:06.5

So I think we're going to have a lot of madness in the opening round and I'm just excited for it to start.

1:14.0

When you were on a couple weeks ago, we talked about how difficult this is to predict.

1:18.0

That trend kind of continued during conference championship weekend,

1:20.0

a lot of top teams got upset.

1:22.0

For those who aren't familiar with the term

1:23.8

bid thief or bid-stealer they are now in terms of their sports lexicon how did

1:29.0

that change things a little bit going into the draw on Sunday. It dramatically changed everything.

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