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Our closer, Jens Lewis, back in business. You fought through it on Friday with the allergies. I know people reaching out in social media. Glad to have you back at full throttle here. Yeah, it's like this is that time of year, Jensen, here, that you're going to get these changing temperatures. Just when I'm ready to put away the winter coats, I see in the forecast next week here for the highs in the 40s back here in Tennessee. So thankfully, we got March Madness. We got golf. We got UFC. We've got a lot of the things to keep us warm here if it gets cold again. Amen. And again, what a great first week of conference basketball tournaments. Some upsets. A couple of Cinderella's in there. A couple of tournaments finishing up tonight, tomorrow, and then we get the big boys headed into tomorrow and Wednesday as well.

Let's talk about some of those big boy conferences here in college basketball and some of these conference tournaments that will take shape.

This week, look, I'm partial. I love the Big East tournament at Madison Square Garden.

That's obviously my favorite each and every year, even though Syracuse is in the ACC these days, just the history of that one. But the ACC has got a lot of history in their own right. They do move it around here from different venues. This year, it's going to be in Charlotte. It will tip off on Tuesday. Duke is the overwhelming favorite to win this. Now, what's interesting here,

and I kind of made mention of it in stock up, stock down last week, is some of these tournaments

do not have the same cachet that I'm alluding to back when I wore younger man's clothes,

where it was important to not only if you're a big boy already going to the NCAA tournament,

I mean, I'm going as far back as when it was only 48 teams.

You had to get those automatic bids.

Obviously, those days are long over, up to 64, 68, maybe more expansions coming.

Who knows?

But the incentive to play a Duke at minus 330, is it really there, Jensen?

I mean, they're on one heck of a run right now.

And I think they know no matter what happens, they are going to be a one seed. If they win the

ACC tournament, they'll probably be the tournament overall number one. Yeah, it's going to be one of

those spots, too, where if you understand the format in a lot of these conference futures,

I think would be predicated more so on the amount of games you have to play in consecutive

days to not only get to a semifinal, but to a championship game. So we look at the ACC and the top

eight teams receive buys to that third round.

The top four received those double buys into the quarterfinals.

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