The Next Round (3/31/25) - Hour 1
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The Next Round
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🗓️ 31 March 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
The Auburn Tigers have advanced to the school’s second Final Four after controlling the Michigan State Spartans start to finish 70-64.
Auburn Basketball will face familiar foe The Florida Gators in the Final Four. Florida Basketball advanced after a furious comeback over Texas Tech Red Raiders, winning 84-79.
What is the legacy of Johni Broome and Bruce Pearl?
Auburn is the overall #1 seed yet now has the longest odds for a championship. Are they now an underdog?
On the other side of the Final Four, the Houston Cougars destroyed the Tennessee Volunteers to advance. Houston Basketball will face the Duke Blue Devils who beat the Alabama Crimson Tide.
For Tennessee Basketball, it is another in a run of teams under Rick Barnes that were close but no net cutting. Is that how we’ll remember Barnes as a coach? Also, are we on Rick Barnes watch?
Alabama Basketball bowed out in the Elite Eight losing by 20 to Duke Basketball. What grade do you give this Alabama Basketball season?
What is the legacy of guard Mark Sears?
What is next for the Crimson Tide?
Did the SEC meet expectations in this tournament, they will have 50% of the Final Four and the National Championship Game?
The KenPom rankings for this Final Four are at a historic level, good or bad for Ken Pomeroy? We explain.
Who is under the most pressure to win a national championship?
What in the world is a torpedo bat and why are the Yankees the only users.
The Braves should, maybe, consider buying some.
Deion Sanders got paid, where Coach Prime ranks among national coaches.
Jeremy Pruitt sues the NCAA for a bundle. Will he get anything?
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| 0:25.5 | The next round, presented by Bud Light, is on now. |
| 0:33.4 | We're all back together, back in Birmingham, and Auburn is back in the final four. |
| 0:39.8 | Second time in five tournaments to be in the final four. |
| 0:43.5 | We're about to break that down every which way you can and set up the historic final four coming up also. |
| 0:50.1 | It's our first chance to get together since Alabama got bounced in the elite eight. |
| 0:54.1 | We'll talk about the tide, what's next, the legacy of Mark Sears, all that coming up on the show today. |
| 0:59.7 | And everything else, including maybe some vacation stories along the way. |
| 1:04.6 | But here we are back together again from different locations. |
| 1:08.0 | And it's been a while but nothing changed. |
| 1:11.1 | Auburn went into this tournament as the number one overall seed. |
| 1:15.4 | They're still dancing. |
| 1:16.9 | They're going to San Antonio in the final four. |
| 1:19.8 | Problem is they're the number one overall seed in this tournament. |
| 1:22.3 | How are you the betting underdog the least likely to win a national championship. |
| 1:28.0 | The committee said you were number one overall. |
| 1:29.8 | Yeah, but when you look at when people filled out their brackets, |
| 1:32.2 | not that that matters, and we talked about that. |
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