All right, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to a very, very special edition of almost football, because I'm holding in my hands right here.

The beautiful, beautiful.

You can hear it.

Can you hear that right there?

The 2026 NCAA Division 1 men's tournament bracket.

Look at this thing right here. And this is good for podcasting. But look at this thing right here and this is good for podcasting

but look at this bracket right here I'm holding a perfect bracket in my hands the first ever

perfect bracket I can't believe it it's here it's beautiful and we can rejoice Joey it's here

it's perfect I once again third year running this show, did not print out the bracket.

Okay, that's a little. You still have time. You still have a little bit of opportunity.

This is coming out on Tuesday. First four will be going on.

I'm very excited. I feel like this season has had as much as we have discussed that it's probably going to be a little chalk. I still, I'm sensing some chaos. I'm sensing it coming up. Yeah, we'll get into it. But I mean, last year was so chalk. I think we're going to see at least an uptick in chaos. There has to be. There's never been so little chalk or there's never been so much chalk.

It has to go up at some point this year, right? The chaos. The chaos has never, we bought the dip of the chaos. The chaos has to go up at some point.

Cinderella was sleeping last year.

Oh, dead of sleep. That's, that's sleeping beauty. That's the wrong. That's the wrong.

Wrong princess. That's the wrong princess. Sleeping Beauty was fighting Attila the Hun last year. I don't know what he was doing. Also, is this a master's commercial coming up right now? Okay, we got it. Sorry, I got a little distracted. Now, the bracket. Let's get to start off, though. We are running out of time to do Ken Palm.

So I want to start with just a Ken Palm.

What's just, can we maybe get one from the field, Joey?

Yeah.

Let's start this with a Ken Palm.

24.

Is that, dare I say, is that Iowa?

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