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

The Athletic. And I'm guessing that this intro is the most energy that you get from me the entire

show. I'm trying to give a quick little burst to get everyone excited because this is a great,

great day. This is a great, great day.

This is a great set of days.

We're in the middle of the best four days on the basketball schedule, in my opinion.

It's the NCAA tournament, and the first round has just ended with Indiana beating Kent State.

I think that game just went final, right, Mark?

Yeah.

Yes. So we're going to dive

into everything that happened this weekend. I am exceptionally tired. I have woken up at 3.45 in the

morning each of the last two days. It's now 3.45 p.m. here. Mark is, I think it's 1245 a.m. where Mark is.

So he's been absolutely incredible coming to join this show.

We're going to try and do this.

We're going to try and run through the games that we saw.

We're going to try and run through everything that happened over the weekend.

But first, Mark, how's it going, man?

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