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UConn vs. San Diego State: The Perfectly Weird Ending to a Bizarre Men’s NCAA Tournament

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🗓️ 3 April 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Congrats if you somehow saw this national championship coming. Back in October, in the preseason AP poll, the San Diego Aztecs were ranked 19th. And the UConn Huskies…they couldn’t even crack the top 25. But five months and a whole lot of tournament madness later…here we are. So today, Myron Medcalf is on the ground in Houston and tells us whether the UConn Huskies will take home their fifth National Championship…or if the Aztecs of San Diego State can stun the world, and end a tournament like no other with one last upset. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hi, I'm Justin Tensley. You might know me from my work at Anne's Gate, or as the author

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of the Biggie Smalls Bar, or from my mostly victorious appearances on around the home.

0:18.4

So you're going to be hearing different voices hosting ESPN Daily for the near future.

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And guess what? I'm one of them. I'll be pitching in for the rest of the week, helping

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this pie do what it's always done. Tell the best sports stories in audio, day in, and

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day out. Hope you enjoy.

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Myron Medcalfe tonight, you kind takes on San Diego State for the right to cut down the

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nets, the national championship, the big daddy of them all. But I saw your tweet going

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into the tournament. You wrote 12,000 words on this NCAA tournament, Phil. You submitted

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it. I know I would have had to take a sabbatical after submitting something like that. So you

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talked about it earlier on this very pie case. So between us writers, as we sit here at

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the end of a tournament that's been full of madness from the men and the women, how quickly

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did those 12,000 words meet the same fate as my bracket?

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Yeah, I don't know how wise I looked about after the first row, because there's so much

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chaos. So I can tell you what I know. I can't predict what's going to happen. And I think

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that's never been more true in a tournament where fairly Dickinson beats Purdue. And I think

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the biggest upset ever, the top seeds don't get into the elite eight. So I don't think anyone

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could have predicted the chaos that we witnessed in that first weekend. I certainly did. I know

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I feel my bracket out on that Thursday, UVA loss. And I had them making it to the

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sweet 16. I haven't gone back to look at my bracket since it's better to be left in the

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dark corners of the internet where it is right now. So I completely, completely understand that.

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And just speaking about the zaniness of this tournament, no number one seeds making it to the

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