On3's Ultimate March Madness Bracket Breakdown | 2024 NCAA Tournament Preview

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🗓️ 18 March 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Thank you to Gametime for sponsoring today's episode! Use Gametime to get your tickets to follow your team in the NCAA Tournament. Download the Gametime App and enter code: STAPLES for $20 off your first purchase, terms apply. Last Minute Tickets, Lowest Prices, Guaranteed. (0:00-7:20) Intro - Let the Madness begin! (7:21-14:39) James Fletcher III joins to breakdown the bracket (14:40-25:41) East Region Breakdown (UConn, Iowa State, Illinois, Auburn) (25:42-37:30) West Region Breakdown (North Carolina, Arizona, Baylor, Alabama) (37:31-49:44) South Region Breakdown (Houston, Marquette, Kentucky, Duke) (49:45-1:03:04) Midwest Region Breakdown (Purdue, Tennessee, Creighton, Kansas) (1:03:05-1:09:53) Final Four Picks The bracket has been revealed, and the 2024 NCAA men's basketball tournament is set. Andy and On3's resident bracketologist James Fletcher III break down each region. Who is ripe for a first-round upset? Is it Gonzaga against McNeese? Auburn against Yale? Washington State against Drake? Clemson against New Mexico? Will Purdue and star big man Zach Edey copy 2019 Virginia and follow losing to a No. 16 seed the previous year by winning the national title? Or will Connecticut become the first repeat champ since Florida in 2007? Is there a No. 1 seed that won't survive the first weekend this year? Who will be the stars of the tournament? Will Terrence Shannon Jr. of llinois score in bunches? Will N.C. State's 275-pound senior D.J. Burns help engineer an upset of Texas Tech? Will McNeese's Shahada Wells be a household name next week? Want to watch the show instead? Head on over to YouTube and join us LIVE, M-F at 8 am et! https://youtube.com/live/PAO7lFflers

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0:00.0	Welcome to Andy Staples on three. Happy Monday. It's the first week of the NCAA tournament.
0:09.6	We have a bracket. I have a bracket that may or may not actually come to fruition. I'm guessing
0:18.4	not. I'm guessing I'm losing final four teams in the first weekend because
0:21.9	that is how it works. But we're going to have James Fletcher the third on to break down every single
0:28.5	region. We will find you the upsets. We will help you with your bracket because let's be real.
0:36.1	We all need help with our bracket bracket and if you want to fill out
0:38.9	multiple brackets listen i am not going to judge this is a judgment free zone but this is a very
0:46.9	exciting week this is probably the best week in american sports Thursday and Friday I hope you've
0:53.2	all scheduled your vasectomies. I got to work,
0:55.8	but it's not like I have a real job. I can make sure that once the games tip off at noon,
1:01.3	I'm watching. We got the first four in Dayton. Will somebody come out of the first four,
1:08.9	Boise State, Colorado, Virginia, Colorado State. Will one of those come out of the first four, Boise State, Colorado, Virginia, Colorado State,
1:11.6	will one of those come out of the first four and go deep into the tournament?
1:16.6	We've seen it happen.
1:19.2	There are so many variables here.
1:23.3	I do want to address one thing, though, because it was fascinating last night to watch the discourse on this.
1:28.8	There was a tweet that came out after the men's bracket came out.
1:32.4	And it was sort of inevitable.
1:36.0	There's always a matchup where it looks like the committee has a sense of humor.
1:41.0	In this case, it is in the South region, the 8-9 game.
1:49.0	Nebraska, number eight, versus Texas A&M, number nine seat.
1:54.9	I remember what happened last week we talked about on the show on Thursday?
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