NCAA Preview with Mike Francesa
The Mike Francesa Podcast
BetRivers Network
4.6 • 938 Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Mike Francesa podcast on the Bet Rivers Network. |
| 0:04.0 | Hello again, everybody, and welcome to the Mike Francisa podcast, part of the Bet Rivers Network. |
| 0:08.0 | We come to you as we get ready to start another year of March Madness, the NCAA tournament. |
| 0:14.0 | And for those of you who are fans, and today I think most people are, even if you're a very casual college basketball fan, you know what? |
| 0:22.9 | You have your bracket. You're in your pools. I mean, that's part of the bracket has become part |
| 0:28.1 | of Americana. It's become part of offices all over America in the afternoon. People |
| 0:34.7 | rooting for upsets. This seems in. This teams out. You know, the first couple of games, everyone's waiting until their bracket gets ripped. And, you know, it'll get ripped at some point. But the point is, when you're going to rip your bracket? Because you're not going to be the one to put together the great bracket. No one's ever put together the perfect bracket. Warren Buffett used to offer money. There's never been one. |
| 0:54.3 | The odds on doing it are infinitesimal. |
| 0:56.9 | I mean, you know, you got a very good chance not getting out of the afternoon, |
| 0:59.9 | unless the entire day. |
| 1:02.5 | Some, you know, a couple of things here. |
| 1:04.5 | Number one, this has been a big part of my life for a very, very long time. |
| 1:12.9 | I worked on my first tournament 44 years ago. |
| 1:18.1 | CBS hired me because of the NCAA tournament. |
| 1:21.5 | They didn't do college basketball. |
| 1:24.5 | They had just gotten back in to college football with a light schedule. Now they |
| 1:30.9 | wanted to get into college football. The guy in charge of college basketball and college football |
| 1:36.4 | was a guy named Kevin O'Malley. The first year, their first college game they ever had was |
| 1:41.8 | Cal in a pit. They didn't even have great games, but they got big into college sports and they got the NCAA tournament. |
| 1:50.6 | And they brought me in because I had done a lot of work and writing and I had had some |
| 1:57.8 | success with certain tournaments that they had noticed and some things I had done in magazines and different things. |
| 2:06.9 | They brought me in to kind of be an editorial guy or, you know, an information guy for the entire network. |
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