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Now here's your host, Cousin Sal, and his good, good pals, Dave Damashek and Martin Weiss.

All right, welcome to the Extra Points Podcast, part of the Extra Points Podcast Network, powered by Omaha.

Omaha Audio, Cousin Sal, coming to you on a Tuesday morning, Mikey Meatballs, Eddie Spaghetti,

fiddling with the knobs.

And joining me, as always, my dear, dear pals, Dave Damashek, Martin Weiss, fellas, big March Madness weekend, down to four

teams who no one really cares about. I had people over for the great eight games. Unfortunately,

Martin Weiss couldn't make it. He's working. Hardest working man in sports media right now.

But, uh, Shaq, you were there.

We watched Gonzaga, Yukon, except we never, never looked up at the screen. It wasn't a game.

And the ones that are games feature teams that no one cares about. It's, uh, it's very sad.

But this is where we are. Well, I, I hate to say I told you so. And I know it's just 2023 and it's not an indictment, I guess,

of the annual tournament, but this is what I talk about all the time. I mean, who gives a good

goddamn about, I mean, is this some gauge of who the best team in college basketball is in

2023? I mean, the season started four and a half months ago,

and we have the FAUpperdanks against the blue jays of wherever the hell they're from.

Hey, spoiler alert, whoever's playing,

you're never going to hear from again unless you live in Greece or Israel

or wherever they conduct Euro League basketball a year from now. You're right. But also, go ahead, Martin. You're also wrong because, you know, there are going to be some of these guys play. I don't know. I think we romanticize the past a little more. I get it. An upset isn't an upset like it used to be. And maybe we don't get back to that. But let's not forget. It was just last year where we had UNC, Duke,

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