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Top of the hour. It is Veson by the books Dave Ross right here at the men

gaming hall in Franklin, Kentucky. He's our closer to Jensen Lewis back home in Cleveland, Ohio. Can't believe it. Opening day, Maysweek baseball is just, what, 48 hours away here. At least get to Wednesday night baseball here with the Yankees and the Giants. Full Slate on Thursday. The NFL draft will be here before we know it, so we'll get back into that as we start to look at NFL team needs. And again, that Daily Diamond is back in our life. But Jensen, it is 16. Link of an

eye a week later. And man, the madness is truly upon us here as we narrow that field. That's

where we begin this hour with our highlights and headlines.

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I saw a little bit of consternation about this last night on Twitter about, hey, you know,

Cinderella, is she dead? Is that good?

Do we care? And then you go, yeah, it would be great to have that storyline, Jensen. But then when

you look at the matchups that you have, up and down in the Sweet 16, it's heavyweight championship

after heavyweight championship after heavyweight championship. So yes, we like the storylines.

But I think Jensen, if you really gave everybody truth serum,

these matchups in the Sweet 16 might be as good as it gets.

I think we got a dandy and even a little bit of a surprise there with Iowa taking out Florida.

One of my bigger moneyline tickets that comes across not only for the tournament,

but in basketball season overall. So a fun one to end the weekend there, not so fun to see my

Commodores end up losing on a prayer that did not get answered. But credit where it's due,

you see a lot of teams that as we went through the regular season,

the cream has risen to the top. And Dave, we also have another trend that is transpiring here

where the gap between these big schools with the big NIL budgets, you know, save for a couple

of them. You know, Kentucky was what? Upwards of 20, 22 million. They don't find their way to

the Sweet 16. No been majors in the Sweet 16. It feels very college football playoff-esque when you

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