Hello and welcome to the game theory podcast. I'm your host Sam Vassini. We are presented by the

Athletic, where this is a podcast about how unwatchable Clemson Ruckers is going to be on NCAA

tournament day. No, I'm kidding. This is our post-selection show NCAA podcast.

We're going to talk about brackets. We're going to talk about every single thing that

happened on Selection Sunday, maybe even talk a little bit about Ohio State, Illinois,

but I don't know if we'll get there. To join me today, we've got Nicole Ourback,

senior writer, over at The Athletic. Nicole, how's it going?

It is going well.

I didn't quite dance and celebrate the same way that Dickie V did, but it's really

exciting and fun to get a bracket to break down.

Do we assume that Dickie V now has to, like, drink all of his peptobismol that he had for

the Super Bowl after dancing and doing everything that he did?

I mean, probably, probably.

I also feel like maybe there was too much caffeine taken earlier or sugar, sugar high.

I mean, I can't even imagine, you know, you know i again like we're it's a sigh of

relief we're here we get a tournament you know they've got all these protocols in place but um

for someone who who literally like eats and breathes basketball like and i mean that in the sense

of literally like i think that like being in a gym and inhaling like the fumes that have some sweat in there.

I think that keeps him alive.

Like he's so excited.

I think it's going to be awesome.

I am very excited to have this.

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