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Here's Mike Lupica and Bob Ryan. I'm Bob Ryan of the Boston Globe and ESPN.

I'm Mike Lupica, MLB.com in the New York Daily News.

Mitch is down doing God's work at his orphanage in Haiti.

And this is the Thursday edition of the Sports Supporters podcast.

And we actually have a time today to talk about the tournament in a way that we'll have some shelf life.

Because, Bob, I don't know about you.

I actually like the Monday games.

I like the way that they've extended the weekend now and we start on on Saturday and and and so we will know by uh what two wait a minute

hold on a second by two are they going to Tuesday this week have to Sunday Tuesday

oh my god I just look at the schedule. Okay, so anyway, I like this.

I like having games on Monday and Tuesday.

Okay.

And again, we're not going to spend time on every single game.

Bob, I'll just generally look at the Saturday schedule.

Okay.

And, you know, we can wonder what it would have been like if Villanova didn't lose Gillespie,

okay, because that Baylor-Villanova is still, I think, going to be extremely interesting game.

And Bob, I think Syracuse at this point in the tournament is dangerous at hell.

For reasons we talked about the other day, people think they're ready for that

zone and they're not at tournament time, which is why Syracuse continues to be a more formidable

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