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I am in sunny Los Angeles.

I am with Westwood One covering the tournament the entire way through, all the way through

Indianapolis, doing studio.

And it is, it's a blast.

And I am ready to unveil, just go through the bracket here and give you some of my picks. A lot of people have been going, Nick, you're going to go through the bracket? All right, let's do it. I'm right now just turn on the mic. I'm getting right ahead into the studio here shortly. So let's rock through this quick here. Let's start in the East region. Duke, Siena, don't need to waste much time. Duke advances. 8-9 game, Ohio State and TCU. TCU's got some pretty good non-conference wins. Ohio State was on the bubble a month ago and really closed the season strong. I'm going to roll with Ohio State. I think Bruce Thornton's going to be the best player on the floor. And sometimes when two teams are evenly matched, give me the best guard in the game. And that's Bruce Thornton. I'll take the Buckeyes to advance. Northern Iowa, St. John's 512 matchup. I thought St. John's got a, I can't believe they're only a five seed. They're 19 and one in their last 20 games. and they feel like they are rolling outside of just getting their doors blown off at Yukon.

But that front line of Mitchell and Ejafour and Bryce Hopkins is legit. If they get any guard play at all, look out.

I will take the Johnny's to hammer Northern Iowa. Kansas and Cal Baptist. Cal Baptist has one of the better scores in

the country who has really done a nice job here down the stretch and getting Cal Baptist all the way

to the tournament. Dominic Daniels Jr. Wack player of the year has two 40-point games. He might give Kansas a little bit of scare, but I'll take the Jayhawks to advance. Louisville and South Florida, 6-11 matchup. So Louisville has been very up and down, and Mikel Brown Jr., who has missed the last four games with the back injury. It was just announced he won't play this weekend. I think that's enough for me to want to ride with South Florida. There's going to be a couple of

upsets I pick that are more kind of like bets against the higher-seated team because of injuries.

But this is one of them. I'll take South Florida to advance. Michigan State, North Dakota State,

give me Sparty to advance there. UCLA and Central Florida. I think right now everybody's really,

really high and hot on UCLA, and deservedly so. They have started to really play good basketball

down the stretch here. They have struggled away from Pauly Pavilion. And Central Florida is talented.

And Riley Coogle can really score it.

But I will roll with the Bruins to win a tight one.

Donovan Dent has just been on quite the run here over the course of the last, oh,

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