This is Veson by the books on Vison, the Sports Betting Network.

Top of the hour is Veson.

By the books, Dave Ross, right here at the Midgaming Hall, Franklin, Kentucky.

He's our closer, Jensen Lewis, back home in Cleveland, Ohio.

Jensen, this show is sponsored by Upside,, download the free Upside app. Earn real cash back every time you fill up at the pump. Just use a promo code book's title of this show, $0.25 cents back per gallon on your very first fill-ups. So check out all the details at Upside.com. I'm going to have the King of Connecticut. Will Hill join us a little bit later on this hour.

Get to our best bets as well.

Continue the Daily Diamond with Major League Baseball beginning on Wednesday, but always a pleasure each and every Monday to have Zachary Cohen back here on the program.

Our senior editor at Leeson.com joins us right now in the progressive guest line and the host of the Hardwood Handappers give him a follow on X at betting on X. Zach, great to have you back. Let's get the hard part out of the well. We'll out of the way, shall we? You and I were aligned on the Gonzaga Bulldogs. Greg Peterson came on the program and told us we're going to get knocked out in the second round. We get knocked out in the second round. The cavalry was coming to, Zach. If we could have just held on, we might have the best player coming back, but you and I have to now readjust our plans. What did you make of the Zags early exit? Yeah, I was always nervous about an early exit. I mean, they were missing, in my opinion, their best player in Braden Huff. And I think that a lot of this was just terms of brackets and

just long-term value trying to find something outside of the favorites. And I thought

could Zaga with Huff had, you know, an advanced statistical profile of a championship team. But

obviously they didn't have Huff, weren't able to get him back.

And they go down against Texas, Sean Miller, another big round of 32 win.

But it is a game that I thought that they could have won, just didn't really play very well.

And now, yeah, like you said, we're stuck upset.

And I didn't know if you were going there or Wisconsin being the only favorite to lose to a double-digit seat or whatever it was losing the high point on the back of a 26-year-old sniper. But yeah, it was terrible. Yeah, well, I'd make three of us, boys, because I had Gonzaga in Survivor. And so I'm out of that as well. We'll all be fans. Hey, one thought for you.

And I know we got a lot of NBA to get to with a couple of weeks left in the regular season.

Is the biggest surprise for you, Iowa, taking out Florida, or is it no mid-majures?

Your biggest takeaway now headed into the Sweet 16 beginning on Thursday.

Yeah, I mean, Iowa take you out Florida was really surprising. I do really like Ben McCollum. I think the Bennett Sturts is fantastic. And I wrote up that game for the website and I thought that the size was going to be a huge problem for them. I did mention thought Sturts was the best player on the floor, but it ended up being just a collection of everything. Like, they really outplayed them for

most of that game. I know that Florida ended up getting back into it, getting a lead, but I do

think that Iowa was the better team and kind of deserved to go on. But I don't know, I'm not as

surprised as everybody else about the lack of underdogs. Like, it took what, the Otago-O-A,

...