PMS 2.0 1523 - Sweet 16 Night 1 Recap, Night 2 Preview, Iowa Head Coach Ben McCollum, Coach K, Daniel Jeremiah, Pete Crow-Armstrong, Jordan Reid, & AJ Hawk

The Pat McAfee Show

ESPN

Sports, Football

4.9 • 19.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2026

⏱️ 159 minutes

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On today’s show, Pat, AJ Hawk, and the boys recap last night’s Sweet Sixteen games that saw Iowa and Purdue advance in a couple of absolute thrillers, and Arizona and Illinois advancing to the Elite 8 in dominating fashion. They also preview tonight’s Sweet 16 games, and cover everything else happening in the sports world. Joining the progrum is 4x D2 National Champion, countless Coach of the Year awards, Iowa Head Coach Ben McCollum to chat about Iowa reaching their first Elite 8 since 1987, continuing this unbelievable run in his first season at Iowa, the make up of the players on the team, and much more. Next, 5x National Champion, the GOAT, Coach K joins the show to give his takes on last night’s games as well as look ahead to tonight’s Sweet 16 games including Duke v. Saint John’s, UCONN vs. Michigan State, and more. Next, NFL Network Draft Analyst, LA Chargers color commentator, and host of the Move the Sticks podcast, Daniel Jeremiah to chat about the draft. Next, All-Star, Gold Glove winner, Chicago Cubs Centerfielder, Pete Crow-Armstrong joins the show to chat about his new deal with the Cubs, the WBC, the chemistry in the clubhouse, dealing with failure, and much more. Lastly, ESPN NFL Draft analyst, Jordan Reid joins the show to give his three biggest takeaway’s from the Pro Day’s this week. Make sure to subscribe to youtube.com/thepatmcafeeshow or watch on ESPN (12-2 EDT), ESPN’s Youtube (12-3 EDT), or ESPN+. We appreciate the hell out of all of you. We’ll see you tomorrow, cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	people and welcome to our humble abode the thunder down on this sweet 16 feel good
0:06.8	Friday March 27, 2026 this program begins now.
0:12.3	Sports are the absolute greatest and we're so incredibly lucky that we get a chance to chat
0:16.1	about them every single day. The sweet 16 is happening tonight and yes last night was the
0:20.2	sweet 16 as well as the
0:21.4	Big Ten prevailed in a big way as Iowa, Nebraska, Purdue, Texas stole the show. Then Illinois,
0:28.0	the big itches from Illinois are certainly a team that is maybe ready to do battle. But can
0:33.5	anybody keep up with Arizona? We shall see today, Sweet 16 Friday.
0:37.6	The games will be just as late as they were last night.
0:41.0	Jeez, Louise.
0:42.8	St. Jones and Duke.
0:44.4	Hell yeah.
0:45.8	Alabama, Michigan.
0:47.0	Something going on with Alabama.
0:48.5	There's been a release of a thing in a trial system.
0:53.9	Their second-leaning score of potentially playing, right? Is that how this whole thing's going? He's going to be there for sure. Yeah, I think he can travel, but he was listed as out already, so I don't know if they can change that. Judge Joanne Janick this morning is granted Aden Holloway's request to travel out of state. Big deal. Big deal. Yeah. Big deal. Because obviously that means couldn't have been, right, if we're letting them. Yeah. Okay, so that's good news. Hopefully this is just a little bit of a speed bump in a life that is often running in a big way. But also for Alabama, maybe the best team is showing against Michigan, who's obviously ready to do battle. Michigan State taking on Yukon.
1:27.8	Dan Hurley, we know he's ready to go.
1:29.7	Yeah.
1:30.3	We know he's ready to go.
1:31.4	He used to be fat.
1:32.4	Yeah.
1:32.9	No longer fat because he doesn't eat.
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