Thursday 3/18/2026 - How College Basketball Got Pranked By a Fake School: The Maguire University Story
The Dog Walk
Barstool Sports
4.8 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode we are joined by 2 men from the famous prank pulled onto the NCAA to get free tickets to the Final 4 by creating a fake college which was actually just a bar in Chicago. The school was called Maguire university after the bar Maguire's Pub. This group of individuals faked games, records, players, coaches and more and it took more than 2 years to discover the college was not real.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, dog walk listeners. You can find every episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. |
| 0:06.3 | Prime members can listen to Ad Free on Amazon Music. All right, guys, fun show today. I'm joined by |
| 0:11.7 | two guys, they're from the Forest Park neighborhood. They created like a hoax, a scam, |
| 0:19.2 | a scheme, a prank, whatever you want to call it. It was really funny that where they basically created a fake college to get free tickets from the NCAA for a couple of years. So if the title's a little confusing, just give the story a shot. It's a great one. It's a story that started out as a hoax, but it like created years-long friendship. So it was a great time. I appreciate those guys for coming in. So I hope you guys enjoy it. And I do want to talk about American Home Shield before we really get into it. Yeah, listen, just because you have to live with a busted tournament bracket, doesn't mean you have to live with the busted appliances and home systems. Let's be honest, breakdowns are inevitable. Without a home warranty, you could pay |
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| 1:57.4 | It is March 19th. |
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