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

Hello, good, everybody. Welcome back to the Mike Francesa podcast on this Thursday evening

into Friday morning. The first day of spring will come your way in a couple of hours,

so that'll be nice after the winter we've had. Obviously, as always, the podcast is part of the Bet Rivers Network.

Now, there's one game that's still close, and that's Gonzaga struggling with Kansasaw.

We'll keep an eye on that.

Houston's rolling, St. Louis rolling, Illinois rolled.

We'll do a quick review of today's proceedings.

Then we'll get to what Friday looks like.

That'll get you ready for tomorrow.

And then we'll be back tomorrow night.

And we'll have

the field down for the Saturday Sunday matchups, eight games Saturday, eight game Sunday.

Let me tell you this already. The Saturday matchups are about as unappealing as any I can

remember.

I don't like, there's not one of those games on Saturday that I say, wow, I can't miss that game.

Not one.

But we'll get to that late tomorrow.

Now, as far as today went, you got a couple of 11s win.

But remember, the 11s that won were both very slight underdogs because of what was going on.

Texas comes out of the playing with a guy who does well in the tournament, Sean Miller.

A lot of people like Texas.

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