The NCAA Tournament Field is Set, How Far Will St. John's & Pitino Go? - Selection Sunday Reactions

The Mike Francesa Podcast

BetRivers Network

Sports, Baseball, Football, Basketball

4.8 • 816 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Mike Francesa gives his full breakdown of the 2025 NCAA Tournament Bracket and gives his take on the current state of college basketball's marquee event. Plus, Mike looks at the regions and key matchups of the first round of March Madness and assesses the title chances for St. John's and other top seeds.

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0:00.0	It's the Mike Francesa podcast on the Bet Rivers Network.
0:04.5	Hello again, everybody, and welcome to the Mike Francesa podcast on the BetRivers Network, on this St. Patrick's Eve, brought to you by Casamigos Tequila.
0:13.1	Casamigos Tequila is brought to you by those who drink it.
0:17.5	We're on the Mike Francesa channel on the BetRivers Network, on YouTube, on this St. Patrick's Eve, as we finally have the field on the road to the final four, and we get ready for what is one of the great sporting events. Listen, college athletics has incredible problems.
0:39.7	They have mountainous issues to deal with. They are probably all unsolvable in the real world.
0:48.5	But when you take just a sporting event, there is none that jams more action, more drama, more charm into a couple of weeks than does the NCAA tournament.
1:05.3	Listen, I admit, starting Tuesday night when they throw them up for the playing games, which I've never been a fan of.
1:11.7	Thursday, when everything gets rocking at 12, and you basically, you start at 12 and it's before
1:18.0	you know it, it's midnight. And you've gone through a gazillion games, which I'm used to doing
1:22.4	because it's what I did my whole life. You know, first go back to the years where the only ones watching those games were
1:31.2	Jim Nance and myself in a room called MP2, where nobody joined us until about 7 o'clock at
1:38.5	night.
1:38.8	And we weren't on until 1130 on Thursday night.
1:41.4	CBS did one game.
1:43.7	And we'd get there at noon. We would stay in the city.
1:47.3	We would walk down 57th Street to the broadcast center. We would be there at noon. People would
1:52.3	start showing up. I mean newscasters, Dan Rather would stop in to see how a team was doing.
1:57.2	Somebody from a soap opera would stop in and they'd be filming soap operas in the hall around us okay you'd hear the calls for the soap operas as we were sitting there watching these games and in those days those games were on ESPN the tournament's so different it's it's more through stages that nobody even remembers anymore it It's so different now.
2:18.3	And people are talking about expansion, which would be ridiculous.
2:22.3	And also, it's lost a lot of its charm
2:24.3	because now you have these monster leagues.
2:27.3	So you have so many teams coming out of one league
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