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It's the Mike Francesa podcast on the Bet Rivers Network.

Hello again everybody and welcome to the Mike Francesa podcast, part of the Bet Rivers Network,

on what is a special week and always one of the real fun events, whether you like the

wager on it, whether you're just a bracket player. I mean,

everybody's pretty much a bracket player. That's the way it works. But whatever your participation

may be, die hard who's got his ticket for San Diego, or you're an L.I.U. or a Hofstra fan or a

Ciena fan, or you went to Villanova or whatever it may be,

you have your little interest in the tournament and that's what this is about, especially for the first two days.

You know, when you realize how much of the tournament that you play, you know, in the first four days of the tournament,

you know, you play 48 games in four days.

And, you know, 32 on Thursday and Friday, and then 16 on Saturday and Sunday.

And you pretty much have played almost the entire tournament.

That's it.

That is your tournament.

That is your NCAA tournament where it goes from game to game.

And it's different now.

It's set up differently using the one network,

the whole process that went in when CBSbs decided to share it years ago um

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