NCAA Tournament Selection Sunday Bracket Reaction | 2026
Big Bets On Campus
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🗓️ 16 March 2026
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
We've officially made it to the NCAA Tournament, which tips off in just a few days. Let the madness begin!! BBOC is back with Stuckey, Michael Calabrese, Josh "Duck" Nunn and Christian Odjakjian who went live on Action Network's YouTube page to weave through each corner of the bracket finding value along the way. Tune in to get first reactions and more as the crew goes region-by-region discussing matchups, coaches, players and everything we'll see in the coming weeks as this year's NCAA Tournament gets underway!
1 - INITIAL THOUGHTS
8 - EAST REGION
19 - MIDWEST REGION
36 - SOUTH REGION
47 - WEST REGION
71 - FINAL FOUR PICKS
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| 0:00.0 | The Big Betts on campus podcast. |
| 0:03.0 | Podcast. |
| 0:04.1 | Podcast. |
| 0:04.9 | All right, here we go. |
| 0:11.2 | Spreading the court. |
| 0:12.6 | Ten seconds remaining. |
| 0:14.6 | They just got to throw out to the basket. |
| 0:16.3 | Under the basket. |
| 0:17.5 | It's the truth for the win. |
| 0:19.0 | God! |
| 0:19.4 | A miracle! |
| 0:22.4 | Science! |
| 0:24.2 | Double water! |
| 0:26.1 | Hit that one from the parking lot. |
| 0:29.4 | Good evening and welcome to the 2026 college basketball racket release show I'm Stucky |
| 0:36.1 | and joining me are my fellow big bets on campus |
| 0:39.2 | podcast co-host Mike Christian and the one and only duck we have our brackets I wrote them down |
| 0:49.3 | because I usually do and I have them up on my computer this is a tradition unlike any other |
| 0:53.1 | been doing it since I was a kid write Write them down right away. We will go through region by region. Our favorite first bet looks. We will give our initial final four later in the show. And we will discuss our first takeaways from the bracket. I didn't see too many gripes this year |
| 1:16.1 | compared to others. I think the top 37 teams on Kempom all made it. If you go top 43, sorry, |
| 1:23.1 | Auburn and Oklahoma. But let's start there. |
| 1:28.9 | Duck, I think that you thought it was a pretty, |
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