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It is the most wonderful time of the year.

And it actually looked pretty good for the big 12.

Houston and Arizona get a free pass to the final four.

Oh, and BYU, I think got a more favorable spot than I ever imagined they'd be put in.

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Dog, this is great.

I love March madness.

And while I am upset that I think Cincinnati had a really good case.

Weirdly enough.

I thought I thought the West Virginia had a really good case.

More so than Texas.

How are we letting NC state in a March madness?

And those two teams will come up in the BYU conversation.

Like there are there are holes to poke in this thing.

But overall, here's what you need to know.

I'm making you 10 minutes, 12 minutes right here of what you need to know at the big 12 in March madness.

Let's go.

Quick hitter tomorrow.

The big show will come out.

We'll review the entire bracket.

I'm going to review.

I'm going to review all the big 12 stuff right now.

But I think TCU is in a good spot.

Like we'll start right there in the East.

Um, the TCU Hornfrogs.

The nine seed playing Ohio State.

I don't trust Ohio State.

They're two and a half point favorites.

I'm already winning money on TCU.

Money line in that game.

And Duke's banged up.

That's the first thing that I saw in this bracket.

Right after I just got done with banana ball.

Party animals bananas.

Superdome.

70,000 people.

Met Drew breeze.

Pretty cool.

Then find out TCU is going to the sweet 16.

That's the one seed I want to play right now due to injury issues is Duke.

TCU gets that.

Thank you.

Very happy.

Kansas against Cal Baptist.

Now, what's awesome for Kansas in this scenario is that they will not lose to Cal Baptist.

What is great for Kansas is that they're going to win in the first round.

This will not be an upset.

They're not upset alert.

St. John's very dangerous five seed.

I think they are under seeded at the five spot.

They've lost a couple games this season of teams that you would expect.

And it can't just with Darren Peterson against St. John's.

I don't know.

That's the first point.

I think I would almost I would rather play St. John's than Duke.

Obviously, but I just something feels right about TCU versus Duke.

Given that Duke's just won the ACC tournament, but it didn't look sexy.

Kansas beats Calbat.

And that's St. John's game becomes must see TV in the round of 32 elsewhere in the big 12 UCF and UCL.

Love this.

Love it for Johnny Dawkins.

UCLA did not really catch on until toward the end of the year.

They looked pretty good in the big 10 tournament as well.

But I do not believe in McCronon and UCLA.

That's going to be a pretty big theme here is a lot of these first round games.

Ohio State out of the big 10 or UCLA.

Texas NC State.

A lot of these first round games are beneficial for the big 12.

Even Kansas and Calbat.

Calbat is not have a lot of experience in March madness.

Kansas does.

UCF versus UCLA.

UCF has a more talented front court than UCLA does.

And that's going to be the difference.

And by the way, they're playing in the east.

So guess who heads east?

That would be UCLA.

UCF gets to play much closer home and smash up.

I this is a intriguing game.

It's an intriguing game, but I like UCF to win this one.

So UCLA is a six and a half point favorite.

That is way too many for a UCF team that finished middle of the pack in the big 12.

Again, tied with West Virginia and Cincinnati.

And neither of those made the NCAA tournament.

But I don't make the rules.

That's not what I put together.

The matchup that we get from Houston and Idaho.

Followed by Texas A&M and St. Mary's.

Obviously it's Idaho.

Okay.

They win that one.

A&M St. Mary's.

Yeah.

What you have to do with these higher seeds like Houston is looking who else is there.

UNC banged up.

VCU might be UNC Nebraska fraudulent for seat Vanderbilt is Vanderbilt like a Vanderbilt.

And I think Florida and Duke both of them.

We just saw Florida get waxed by Vandy.

And they'll have to play Vandy again.

And what I think would be a sweet 16 matchup with that in mind here.

Yeah.

Man, I'm cool with Houston.

I know they'll be full.

I feel very confident.

They'll be Florida and rematch the national championship given what Florida.

The Florida struggled at the beginning of the year.

Their middle of the year is just okay.

They're hot at the end of the year and then lost in the SEC tournament blown out by Vandy.

Okay.

And I like Houston spot against St. Mary's and A&M.

If I have a one team out of the big 12 that is not named Arizona.

I can lock into the sweet 16.

It's Houston here.

Arizona.

Getting Villanova in Utah State.

BYU fans.

Well, I think that was the only game Villanova played against the big 12 school this year.

And BYU won by a pretty handed margin.

They led the entire game in a neutral site contest.

Arizona getting Utah State in Villanova.

Awesome.

Getting to stay out west.

30 point favorite against Long Island.

Yeah.

Long Island is the weakest team I think in the entire bracket.

And then Arkansas.

John Calipari.

That's that.

That is where.

And again, I told you I think a lot of these first round matchups.

I favor the big 12th.

I saw games interesting because of Darius Acuff Jr.

But Arizona has three Darius Acuff Jr.

Darius Acuff Jr.

Darius Acuff Jr.

Attorney's generals.

Attorney's general.

Arizona.

Again, it's similar to Houston.

You got to look you got to look through it down the path.

And they could be on a crash course to play BYU in the elite eight with a shot at the final four on the line.

BYU will play the winner of Texas.

And NC State.

Will Wade.

I don't know how NC State.

Will Wade got in the tournament over Cincinnati.

Hey, BYU.

If you can beat Cincinnati, you can beat.

Which they didn't.

But the last time they did.

But if you can beat Cincinnati, you can certainly be Texas or NC State.

Like the only downside to this is you don't know who you play in that round of 64 yet.

And so that's you won't have as much time to scout, but your opponent is now tired and has to fly from Dayton to Portland.

Texas goes from Austin.

NC State goes from wherever NC State has to to Dayton and then to Portland to play BYU.

I think it can zag a Gonzaga BYU in Portland.

Round of 32 will feed families.

Give him the Zags and give him the Zags to fall in that one.

BYU is far too powerful and the Zags lost to Portland earlier this year.

They like the actual school Portland.

The Zags are not great this season.

I was not impressed with them the nights.

They're on ESPN out of the West Coast Conference, but a little West Coast Conference rematch.

BYU is a lot different now.

Tech, a dangerous Akron team.

I don't hate this Akron team.

I don't love Alabama.

So I think if you play Alabama or Hofstra that I like tech in those matchups, Akron is going to play fast.

They won the Mac.

They look really good winning the Mac in the Mac tournament.

Akron will give them fits because they lack JT Toppen and Texas Tech has been very iffy.

Wish you washy.

Ebb and flow.

But I don't think that that this game against Akron is one where they do trip up closer than some of these first round matchups.

But Texas Tech ultimately gets it done Iowa state Tennessee state and they get Mark Pope Kentucky.

Awesome.

Number one committee to the right thing making Iowa state a two seed.

In my mind, they were never a three seed.

You had to put them to the two spot and the committee got it correct and they put them to the two spot.

They're they're path with Santa Clara and Kentucky.

I think Santa Clara upsets Kentucky by the way.

And what makes this interesting for Iowa state is is kind of the travel thing.

It won't affect Iowa state.

It's not going to be huge problem for Iowa state.

But it will be for Santa Clara who knocks off Kentucky and then has to face one of the most vicious senior laden teams in America in Iowa state.

I don't know anything about Tennessee state, but I feel like you're going to wax them, right?

That's probably how that's supposed to go from their Tennessee Virginia right state.

Like I'm good boss.

I don't think we're going to have a lot of problems with Tennessee.

I don't think you're going to have any problems with with right state with Virginia.

I don't down hole in Virginia.

I'm pretty okay with that too.

I'm writing Iowa state into the sweet 16 pretty handedly over.

Oh, when they get the sweet 16, I am writing them in a bracket that has Michigan.

I don't know when it's a big 12 team what Michigan looks like.

This is out of the Midwest.

A lot of confidence in Iowa Iowa state being a final 14 in Iowa state being one of the last four standing.

Because of me, a lot of mom, Sheila bitch and team and Lipsy and Joshua.

Maybe the list of old players who've been in the program who've experienced games like this goes on and on and on.

And that, therefore, means that Iowa state is a contender for a final four run.

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