2027 Final Four Picks - College Basketball Predictions Way Too Early | TCE Trims (Ep. 1151)

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Michigan. Duke is a short favorite, right? Well, if they beat since they beat him the first time,

they might have been. Yeah, Michigan. Number one in Kampon. I think they would have probably been

favored really. I would line movement would have been interesting in that game because Duke gets a

ton of public money. So that would have been fascinating to watch. But you know, that's why I'll

start things off with my final four prediction next year. And I'll start with Duke. I think Duke

will be in the final four next year because I just believe like you keep failing the way they're

failing, they're going to get over that hurdle at some point. I know. Yeah, and they the five

star kid they got coming in. I'm drawing a bike. I was named. I was a beast. I've got no names.

Five star kid there. Their top or crew is supposed to be filthy. Like what? I watched. Yeah, exactly.

Would you talk about Cameron Williams or Mason Howard? Howard Howard.

But both are, yeah, I mean, they have a ton of great obviously every year. But I will call for

that as one team because we're doing our final four for next year. I mean, this is totally spit

balling here because the portal opens and obviously if you haven't paid attention to the portal over

the past few years. But yeah, I'll take a shot of that. You know, you kind of will probably be

nasty next year, but it's hard to not, it's hard to, to fade them. But I want to, I just got it.

I can't do the same fucking teams. So I'll take a shot on, give me a shot on.

It's next year of the year that that Patino does it. Give me St. John's. I'm going to go St. John's

stook. I do this every year. Give me St. John's. They got a ton of money. It has to be a portal team.

It has to. Well, yeah, well, dude, but they get the revshare. Yeah, yeah, the very. Yeah.

Then I will go with, man, let's go. Give me a, let's go outside the box here. Let's go,

Vanderbilt, Buyington. All right, Buyington. If they got really injured this year, Tyler Tanner,

they got really injured this year. They have a couple top 100 recruits coming in. I think I read

three top 100 recruits. So give me the doors as a surprise team. And I think I got to put Michigan

in there. Michigan just, they have so much money. They return to Doe. They return

Maurice Johnson. Yeah. That was my first team. I think the final four being in Detroit,

coming off national championship that is only going to fuel the NIL collective and the

uh, urgence to spend in basketball with, with that being on home turf next year. Um, and uh,

I was close to putting Michigan State there. I think they need to do a little bit of work in the

portal. Um, and we know Tom is, oh, is not really like pounding the table to do work in the

portal. So I couldn't get there with Sparty's roster. But for Michigan's sake, it's a Daimah,

like he played so well, possibly draft picked now. Um, but there were like rumors of them trying

to get him back for next year. Maurice Johnson's going to be back, Elliott Kadoe back,

Tray McKenney back. I mean, Mara Johnson, Elliott Kadoe, all were on the final four, uh, first team,

uh, like the awards or whatever. Like that was the three best players for Michigan in this final

four. Then if Tray McKenney comes back to, it's another wing. And then they bring in three top 100

guys and one five's there. So Michigan's on the list. And then I'm going to be total Homer, uh,

Florida, Alex Condon back, Ruben Chenier, Lou back, Boogie Flan back, Urban Kloff shot back. And

then Todd Goldman's going to do the damage in the portal. So I feel like you can count on them

being at least in the picture. Uh, and then the same with this guy, Dan Hurley and you got so low

ball. So I was Demory, Jayden Ross, Eric Ryba and portal. Uh, they, they've shown a, a tendency to

jump in. Here's the wild in the portal too. I mean, going back and they do well at blocking

guys that fit the system. The one guy that I would say, like, oh, shit, that actually didn't really

fit was Mahaney. And last year, they got down really early because of it. Santa Barbara said

the same thing. Like, why do we get my hate? Uh, the one, the one outsider, the one, uh, I think

I'm not a three months amount. Uh, I don't even think this is going to be such an odd take.

I think USC is a team to watch. Um, they've got three McDonald's all Americans coming in. Rodney

Rice was a big score for them. And Elijah, and Aliza, and Aliza, and Aliza, and a guy that, like,

coming in had high hopes and then he, he got like shot or something. He had a wicked injury,

unlucky and never really got off the ground running this season. So Muslim had, I know where you're

going. Let me get there. Muscleman had good tournament success. He just hasn't put together a

full regular season in like four or five years. I questioned the culture of his teams because he

was the first to really get the portal going. And now that everyone can do this, he's not portal.

He's come, he's bringing in three freshmen. So that's why I'm like, I like what he has returning

and he's supplementing it with elite freshmen. I think he's got to win. I think he's got to win

this year. He's fired. Oh, I don't know if USC's to that point already with him.

It's your three, right? Yeah. I don't think he's going to get fired if he doesn't win though.

I'm just saying Enfield was doing way better. What do you consider like not winning? Like,

not making a tournament or yeah, probably. I mean, I think they have to get to the end

stage tournament. They got to get to the end stage tournament. I think I think well, now that

there's 76 teams actually, yeah, they will. Oh, yeah. That's right. But I don't think they'll be.

I don't think they'll be playing. All might get back in eventually. Yeah, they're in. They're in.

Troy, you said you had your final four ready on part one. Yeah, definitely. And I'm also getting

a an inside scoop here from Moneyline Max final fours for next year. Oh, he sent you a real one.

I'm not even looking at a message. I was just going to say Kansas Iowa State Texas Tech in

West Virginia. No, it was actually he put some thought into it. No, I won with some out of the

box ones. And then when we got shut down talking about Duke, I think I took the hint and erased one

of my out of the box ones for Duke. But I think there's a way to aid in Holloway plays next year.

And I'm going to I'm going to take NATO. It's because he turned down the UNC job.

I think Illinois can get back there. I think Illinois has a nice what what we used to call

recruiting pipeline back in the day when you couldn't just pay guys. They've got the the eastern

block recruiting pipeline. And I'm sure it's going to get hit up pretty hard by a bunch of other

schools. But Underwood seems to kind of have a way to pull guys out of there.

Probably there's a tournament though. You know, you know how I'll be really curious to see

in the portal would be Texas Tech with their money. Yeah, and I think that they're I mean,

obviously they're not afraid to spend money. But I actually think you've got to drop more than

you even think is the top amount to compete with some of these other schools. And Texas Tech could

do it. Maybe they could deny it. If they want to keep an eye on JT topping. If he doesn't go

like crazy high, they can pay him a couple of man to keep him out of the NBA.

Yeah, Texas Tech's that one place or there's a few places like that that just have so much money.

And the Iowa State because another guy that turned down the UNC job. In fact, I might just pick

four guys that turned down the UNC job. John Shire, he turned it down.

Scotchery turned it down. Did you see that? His agent tried to put his name out there and he told

his agent that he didn't want the UNC job, which I don't know if you can believe it or not. But as

a Baylor fan, I'm going to I'm going to believe the false hype out of that. I don't know if it

means anything. I think you got to look out for BYU again. They they seem to be one of those

schools that one of these years, the frustration is going to cause an extra 12 to 14 million

dollars of spending. And again, we're not talking about winning the national title.

Getting to the final four is a little bit different than those last two steps.

Yeah. Well, that's the thing is like getting that's why you can't really go like no one.

I don't think I don't know. I mean, I guess this year, I guess some people would have had

Yukon and Illinois, but I certainly did not. At times throughout the year, though, I thought

Illinois was capable. What people did have was Purdue. A lot of that was the Big Ten

route this year. They were preseason number one. So they got to the lead eight. They had a good

year. One of the Big Ten tournament tournament. Sorry. Yeah. Okay. All right. I guess my four.

All right. I think Duke is the obvious one. If they don't, I think that seat gets

is starting to get a little bit hot for Shire. So they need to make it, you know, they need

to get over the hump with him, I think and actually get it to the national championship.

That's one. Also, they could be they could be pretty much to bring back guys and they'll always

loaded green glass. I'll do Arizona. Rumor has it. Jaden Bradley is going to come back for another

season. Big 12 player of the year, he's coming back and they got a five star recruit that they're

preparing him with again, and they got money. So he has a fifth year? I can take a grad year.

The rumor I was reading is that he's going to be coming back. Is he wants to come back for another

season? Well, that's what I've been saying. The court cases have actually the NCA has been winning

like 90% of those court cases lately on Chandler. Chandler. This is a like a graduate senior year.

Yeah. You can get a fifth year. Yeah. I think he's going to just, the rumor I was reading,

well, scrolling through, scrolling through Twitter. Well, Trey was going through respects.

So I'll do Duke, Arizona. I do like the Illinois call out. I think that I think

again, with that Eastern European pipeline and the way they can put that program together,

I like where they're at and I do think they could take another step.

Nick Eureus in the chat saying, what's up, boys? No way you should be parting here right now.

I left that the Mac. I wanted to be on the final show there.

DePaul. DePaul. Yes. DePaul versus Illinois in the final four.

That would be amazing. We almost said, I think we almost had a final with that.

No, I take it back. Never mind. And my fourth team, I'll do USC. Again, I do think the money is

real. I think the recruiting class is real. I thought that was a great call by Noah. So I'll

add to my list. There we go. Look, the portal opens tomorrow, folks. So Mac, he sent his final

four way too early. Troy was on the case a little bit. He has both Houston and Iowa State

in the final four Houston. I think so too, man. I don't know. I haven't done nearly as much as

maybe some think I have, but I don't know if they've got two five star freshmen coming in with

a supporting cast that they, I think they lose almost everybody from this year's team.

They also have a head coach saying that they're poor. Yeah, that's too, too, too.

There's not too many actual head coaches out there claiming we don't have money to pay for transfer.

Two Samson's credit. He does really well with less. And like he's molded these physical

athletes into winning college basketball players. So I think Houston or Max just betting on Houston

as a program. He has Iowa State. Troy was talking about Iowa State. He's then going Michigan State.

I think he listed him first as his national champion too. So that would be hilarious.

As part, he's able to follow up Michigan's natty with a national championship in Detroit.

I think that's the narrative there, which would also be pretty funny because Ohio State,

the rival of Michigan football wise, followed it up. So Michigan State has the money to do it.

They just haven't willingly spent in the portal. We'll see. They have Jeremy fears coming back.

They have Cohen car probably back. So that's Michigan State three. And also I think that was his

title pick. And then his long shot kind of getting cute pick was St. Louis and Josh shirts.

They lose Robbie Avila. They lose a couple of other guards. But they bring back a core group

of kind of role players on that team. Trey Green, Amari McCotry, Quentin Jones,

Ishaan Sharma. And they're probably going to hit the portal with some money.

Billikins for him. I feel like he needs stars to like like legitimate like stars to get back

near to get to the final 40s days. Yeah. I don't know if there's a star in that group.

I thought Mack would take Capel and pit.

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for next year. I mean, the star thing maybe. I think we're in this phase. A lot of people are

rushing to I will say I'm terrified of the 76 team tournament and how they they you know,

essentially see it. But for sure, yeah, I saw that reported, but it's confirmed. No, it's

confirmed. I didn't know if it was, but I saw everybody talking about it. No, it would be okay

if they only gave those spots to midmaiders. It would be. It's not okay. No, that like that would

be okay for me. If you got, but we know that's not going to happen. Of course, no. Yeah,

Auburn would have gotten in. That's why the crown will be the. Yes. I've said that. Yeah, like

that's why it's not okay. For even if it's the first year, they do give it to like three midmaid

majors. It won't move in forward. Yeah, it just won't. So I disagree with that. I smell the

bullshit from a mile away on that, but, but that's what I'm saying is so, so final four teams,

though, I think we're in this transitional phase with right now where it's like teams are figuring

out. Okay, yes. I do worry about the 12 to 16 seats and stuff. Well, I don't even know what

they will be now because everything's going to be being rerouted, but from the old formula.

But, yeah, carry the carry the three. But I think the sport is very healthy. And I think you're

going to see even more Europeans and play great players from around the world jump into the sport.

So it should make for like the depth in the sport. I think we'll continue to grow because there's

never been this many good basketball players on planet Earth in my opinion. So, yeah, I mean,

I'm fascinated to see what McCullum does at Iowa. There's so many storylines across across the,

like, what can high point build on their season? I mean, you could go one by one about, yeah,

shadow to go beef. There's nothing like college hoops. And I, especially, this is kind of a renaissance,

A, from a rating standpoint, but also, I just think that the quality of basketball is at a higher

level than it's been in a long time. So I'd feel bad if we didn't mention Miami, Miami,

Ohio in that group as well for what they did this year. I think they, these are the call out for

what happened there. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. Definitely. That was one of the best stories all year.

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