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Fish Cake CB and JP that is a forsome but join us right now on the Beck you August hotline

to talk some final four is Mike DeCors he, sporting news college hoops writer. He's in Phoenix

for the Final Four. Hey Mike. Morning guys. Thanks for Joe hello. How is it out there?

Well, it's warm. So there's that. It is, it's a better setup than it was when the final four was here in 2017 because we are situated they're basically adjacent to State Farm Stadium where the last time we were

here the media hotel was I think about 35 40

minutes away from the stadium so it was an odd setup for sure then. Your producer said, how Phoenix? And I said, I have no idea because I haven't seen Phoenix. I flew into the airport and then came to Glendale and now I'm good Glendale and probably won't ever get to see it.

So it's the nature of having a tournament here or in Arlington when it's at

AT&T Stadium.

You don't really experience the place that you're technically supposed to be.

Hey Mike, take us back to the first final four that you traveled to cover.

Like how different it is now, you mentioned you know it being played at

AT&T Stadium and there at State Farm Stadium I you know I certainly remember the days

when the final four was held in actual basketball arenas instead of cavernous 80,000 seat football

stadiums but what was the first final for you went to cover? Well I was in

1988 at Kemper Arena in Kansas City and it was was in I had gone the previous year as a fan. The only time I ever have done that in 87 to the Superdome

and saw the Indiana Syracuse championship game, etc.

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