Mike DeCourcy on Tournament Expansion & Round of Four

You Better You Bet

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🗓️ 4 April 2026

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Mike DeCourcy joins the show to break down Michigan vs. Arizona & Illinois vs. UConn. Plus, Nick and Mike get into a heated debate over tournament expansion.

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0:00.0	San Jose.
0:01.2	Bear down, Arizona.
0:03.2	For the first time since 2001, the Arizona Wildcats are going to the final four.
0:10.1	This is You Better You Bet, Countdown to Tip Off with Nick Costos and Brad Evans, presented by BetMGM.
0:19.6	The voice of Ryan Radke, along with PJ Carlissimo, on the call of the West Regional
0:25.3	final Arizona, man.
0:28.2	Like you know in Transformers back in the day when Optimus Prime turns into like this huge
0:32.0	truck.
0:32.7	That's what Arizona did, transformed at halftime into a freight train and ran over the boiler
0:37.4	makers. down seven and
0:38.5	one by 15 pretty good second half to Arizona uh getting them to the final four and that's one of
0:43.5	those stats brad that you hear and you can't believe it given how good Arizona usually is a perennial
0:48.9	contender first final four for the wildcats since lewd olson and company lost the 01 championship game to Shane Badiye, J. Williams, and Duke.
0:58.0	We will give you our breakdown of Arizona and Michigan coming up about 20 minutes from now and all our bets for tonight's games as well.
1:05.3	But joining us right now, it's been an eventful week for him.
1:08.2	The great Mike DeCorsi is with us on the show.
1:10.5	After nearly three
1:11.8	decades doing an incredible job with our friends at the sporting news, Mike, retiring from
1:16.1	writing for them, but we will still see you, right, Mike, with Fox Sports and the Big Ten Network.
1:20.3	Mike on Twitter at TSN, Mike. Congratulations on the incredible run of the sporting news, my friend.
1:25.8	Happy final for Saturday to you and yours.
1:28.9	Oh, thanks very much, Nick. You know, it's funny. Somebody asked me if I would change my handle
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