NCAA Tournament First Weekend Blitz
The Valenti Show
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🗓️ 25 March 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Rico prepares some questions related to the first 2 rounds of the NCAA Tournament, which Valenti answers and gives his opinions on.
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| 0:00.0 | All right now. Thank you for that. Rico, yes. Well, Michael, let's just start with the obvious. |
| 0:07.0 | If you took chalk in your brackets, you're sitting pretty right now. The upsets were few and far between. |
| 0:15.2 | As a matter of fact, fifth time since 1985. |
| 0:20.3 | Both the one and the two seats of all four brackets have advanced to the sweet 16. |
| 0:26.0 | The last time that happened was 2019. |
| 0:29.0 | I'm good with it. I'll tell you why. |
| 0:31.0 | Last year's tournament was like eating too much ice cream |
| 0:34.8 | too many Cinderella's and you end up with a garbage can final four I like that we're getting |
| 0:39.8 | Houston Duke I like that we're getting, all right, Creighton, Tennessee, and about 800 |
| 0:44.4 | 3 pointers. I just, I like that some of the Blue Magic, that's a brand name. I, I want that. But that's for me. Right. No, no, because if you like the heavy, if you like the name brand, that's what you got this year. |
| 1:00.0 | Let's be fair, you and I both agreed. |
| 1:02.8 | This year felt like there was a huge drop-off |
| 1:06.2 | between the ones and twos, |
| 1:08.1 | but then the twos it goes into the Mariana trench. |
| 1:11.3 | Correct. |
| 1:12.0 | Where it was just like, yeah, there's no big difference |
| 1:14.4 | between a three and a ten seed. |
| 1:16.9 | It seems that way. |
| 1:18.9 | Mike, after this weekend, I'll simply ask you the question and I know the answer. |
| 1:25.0 | As the kids would say, is Yukon him? |
| 1:29.0 | I would just put it to you. I'm sold and then when they double down and they're up 25 |
| 1:34.7 | in a first half of Northwestern who notoriously will muddy it up I RICO obviously |
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