Myron Medcalf Previews the NCAA Men’s Championship

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🗓️ 8 April 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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The finale of the men’s NCAA tournament is tonight, and features a matchup of the best two teams in the nation, UConn and Purdue, and the best big men in the country, Purdue’s Zach Edey and UConn’s Donovan Clingan. ESPN basketball writer and host Myron Medcalf breaks down the battle between the two behemoths, and explains how each side can come out on top. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Myron Metcalf, are you more of a Godzilla or a King Kong guy?
0:06.0	I like King Kong.
0:10.0	I think it's more natural.
0:12.0	You know, I think he relies just on brute strength and you know he's fearless so I think I'm
0:18.3	definitely more of a King Conger.
0:20.4	The reason I ask of course is because our friends of Warner Brothers could not have asked for a better billboard for their Godzilla King Kong crossover with what the men's NCAA tournament has set up for the championship game
0:30.3	Zach Edie seven 7 for 4, 300 pounds.
0:33.3	That won't go, rebound, not around the most.
0:35.4	So, his shot rejected by Edy.
0:38.0	Never saw him.
0:39.0	Never. Never.
0:40.0	And he he just shaking his head as he walks up the floor.
0:43.6	Donovan clinging, 7-2, 280 pounds.
0:46.6	To cling it again, a two-hand slam on the right block,
0:51.9	and clinging willing the Huskies to the national title game again.
0:56.7	How excited are you for this particular episode of Godzilla versus King Kong?
1:01.1	I'm excited man because I think it's a throwback matchup, right?
1:05.6	I mean, this used to be the norm in the 80s and 90s
1:08.5	where big man kind of ran college basketball.
1:11.0	And then sort of the positionless basketball era took over and you just saw less of that because
1:15.8	big men don't really want to be big men anymore but these are two seven footers who know exactly
1:20.8	who they are. I think you can make the case that
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