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Hello again, everybody, and welcome to the Mike Francesa podcast.

Now we are down to the elite eight.

We will get to the matchups and what happened on Friday.

We'll also throw in some baseball.

The Mets, usually the conquerors of opening day, had a very rough one, and we'll talk about the Yankees who are now 2 and 0 on the season

after tonight's win against the Astros. So a good start for the bombers.

But first, to the basketball.

And let me start with Marquette.

I told you last night that I thought NC State would keep it close, that they would

play with the points, but that I thought Marquette would win the game.

They were a seven-point favorite.

Marquette played about as nightmarish game as they could ever play.

They let NC State jump out quickly.

They were ice cold from three, and they remained ice cold from three all day.

They couldn't even hit their free throws.

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