Hour number two, elite eight Saturday in the NCAA tournament, the aforementioned Nick Costos, along with my friend, Brad Evans on Westwood One Sports, getting you set for all the action this weekend.

Illinois, Iowa, Arizona, Purdue tonight, Michigan, Tennessee, Duke, Yukon tomorrow.

Coming up in 20 minutes, Brad and I will go through all four games, who we think's going

to win, who we think is going to cover the spread, the key players for both teams at all

these games, and all our bets will close the show about 45 minutes from now.

But joining us right now to break down the NCAA tournament, we love having him on Countdown to tip off every year on Westwood won sports.

The one, the only, the legend.

Mike DeCorsi of the sporting news, Fox Sports, Big Ten Network, on Twitter at TSN.

Mike, welcome back to the show, Nick and Brad.

Happy Elite 8 Saturday, my friend, to you and yours.

Oh, absolutely. What a great weekend this is. That's the beautiful thing about the NCAA

tournament, is that every level is its own sort of holiday. That first four days, it's just breathless

game after game after game. Then this weekend with the

stat Thursday and Friday nights and then the wonderful occasion of settling a final four that

will go toward in Indianapolis next weekend. And then of course the final four itself,

nothing like it in sports. So it's why the NCAA continues to be a magical event and why I fight so hard publicly

against anyone who wants to ruin it by putting more teams in it that don't belong.

Oh, amen.

Preach, Mike.

Preach on that last little factoid.

All right, Mike. Let's go ahead and dive in.

You work for the Big Ten Network and, you know, thoughts of pure Final Four Big Ten

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