North Florida Sports Network Podcast
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March Madness Breakdown
all right, welcome back. Favorite podcast north florida sports network. It's march madness. The north florida sports network. Fill out a bracket and it's basketball season, so we got our basketball expert.
Speaker 2:It's not basketball, miami contributor justin with us.
Speaker 3:We also have jimmy jr on spring break it's my ringer here with us speaking to the microphone guys had to stop being the basketball expert when, uh, both miami hurricanes and the miami heat decided to take a shit on this season yeah, big dump.
Speaker 1:Um yeah, both miami just got matt cleveland to their program right and he did the same thing to florida state before that, so as long as the heat, don't draft him right, I'm good.
Speaker 3:Well, we got uh we have our field.
Speaker 1:Uh, the one seeds are duke, auburn, houston and florida. Um, we have playing game tonight. We're gonna go over the tournament. See what we got in a bracket. Uh, little junior man. Um, you got any one seeds not making it to the sweet 16?
Speaker 4:yes, what, oh, yeah who do you?
Speaker 1:who's your one seed that's going down before the sweet 16?
Speaker 2:houston so you got hou Houston losing before Sweet 16. Yeah, jim, I'm going to repeat everything he says Okay.
Speaker 1:Auburn, I think.
Speaker 4:Gonzaga's going to beat them.
Speaker 1:Alright, let's go. Who do you got? Who we got out of Louisville Creighton? I'm going Louisville here.
Speaker 2:I thought they were a little. Yeah, yeah, I should have got a higher seat, just address it right now, dude, that there's 14 sec teams in the tournament 14 sec.
Speaker 1:That was a record. Um, auburn, they're in auburn's uh bracket. I got auburn beating louisville to get to the sweet 16. And then you have michigan versus uh uc. San diego a and m yale. Watch out my upset here. Watch out yale. Over a and m. How about that? All right, you like that?
Speaker 3:like that, I got that on I got that on my bracket too. I got yale okay okay yale always does this though, dude, yale, like yale and princeton, when they're in the, when they're in the tournament, dude, you all know part of those white boys, man, I mean, they'll just sit there passing around, play smart ball and hit threes all day long right, that's slow pace, all right, well, um so you got uh, I got yale.
Speaker 1:Moving on um michigan, I have michigan taking them down, though I got Michigan playing Auburn in the Sweet 16. Okay, what do you got in that bracket?
Speaker 2:That bracket. Yeah, that looks pretty good. You got the same thing. I mean I'm cool with that. I think that's pretty good, all right. I mean you're convincing us, man.
Speaker 3:I actually have the same thing there and I got Michigan taking Auburn. I got Michigan takinguburn out in the sweet 16th.
Speaker 2:Wow yeah, I mean they're. Did you look at it? They're the two best teams.
Speaker 1:Let's go to. Uh, switch it over to duke's bracket real quick. We'll keep them guessing here. Dukes, I don't know. Problem, they're gonna move on. Um, they're gonna play either mississippi state or baylor. Who you got in that? Baylor yeah, baylor, okay, um, justin duke man cooper flag is gonna be back, dude duke in florida.
Speaker 3:They're Baylor, yeah, baylor. Okay, justin Duke man.
Speaker 1:Cooper Flagg is going to be back dude, Duke and Florida.
Speaker 3:Dude. They're the two best teams in the country Duke and Florida.
Speaker 1:I think Duke goes to the Sweet 16, no problem, yeah, oregon plays Liberty. Watch out for Liberty in that one. And then you have Arizona, which I think might make a run here. I got arizona meeting them in the sweet 16 duke and duke and the wildcats.
Speaker 3:Yeah, okay, all right, that's I got arizona beating duke in the sweet 16. Oh wow, that's a big one, sweet 16.
Speaker 1:All right so, uh, anything else jump out to you, uh, any upsets in that bracket um? I I got vcu over byu okay that's 11 over six and then you got uh, so wisconsin, montana, man, watch out for that. Oh yeah, watch out for montana. You know those teams like wisconsin that can ugly kind of like virginia a lot. You know that they can get in those battles.
Speaker 2:They slow it down, they play that boring style of basketball and you got these teams.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's a game to take a nap.
Speaker 1:Yeah, all right, alabama is the two seed.
Speaker 2:The two seed there yeah.
Speaker 1:But they're going to get Robert.
Speaker 2:Vanderbilt yeah, I don't like that man. I know with 14 teams from one conference, you're probably going to have a second-round matchup or the possibility of a conference game.
Speaker 1:So who do you see on the other side of that? I see, you know, really it could. Beama's got a pretty easy.
Speaker 2:I want to see alabama, wisconsin, eventually meet um that slow pace they run with, with the way that alabama plays styles, yeah all right, all right, let's go down to florida's bracket.
Speaker 1:All right, um, florida has just been on fire yeah I think espn all the people at their desks their trendy pick um which you can't get mad at, the uh interesting in their bracket. The second round matchup potentially between uh two-time defending champion, yukon huskies, right, right, and, if they can get past Oklahoma, one of the 14 SEC teams Again possibility of a conference game in the second round.
Speaker 2:Well, I got.
Speaker 1:UConn winning that game and hopefully taking down Florida. How about that?
Speaker 2:I'm right there with you. I think that's going to be the only shot.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Just like when Billy Dee was going on his run. If you didn't get them in the early rounds, like they just breathe.
Speaker 1:I mean, they've been kicking the crap out of everybody. I feel like something's got to go the other way. Justin, what do you?
Speaker 3:think the issue with us Florida Gator haters is dude. The Gators are so freaking deep Like their roster. I watched the whole SEC tournament last week trying to get prepped for my bracket.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 3:And dude, florida is so good, dude. And they just keep coming with wave after wave of people. I mean they're running like a 12-, 13-man rotation. Dude, they're going to be hard to beat. I don't have them as my champion just out of pure pride and hatred for the gators, but but they're the best I know, yeah, right now, I think that they went into auburn and smoked auburn, who's like the number one overall seed, which I don't understand.
Speaker 2:I think it should, and then they won the sec tournament.
Speaker 1:I don't see how they're not the number one overall seed, but I mean, they smoked bama dude that bama game.
Speaker 3:I was actually excited for that one. Uh, this past saturday I was like, oh, this is gonna be a fun game. Five minutes in I was like, all right, I'm gonna watch like an old royal rumble on peter yeah yeah, well, that's an interesting second-round matchup.
Speaker 1:I'm pretty much like you, just kind of hoping on that one, Right, but I feel like UConn. You know there's something to having won that many tournament games in a row. We'll see if they can.
Speaker 3:But they don't have the guys that they had the last two years. Here's your upset, your first-round upset, in that bracket. Grand Canyon takes down the Terps of Maryland.
Speaker 1:There you go. Ah, yes, yes, the online university.
Speaker 3:Grand Canyon can shoot the three man.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's the 13 over the four there, missouri is the six seed.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think, junior, you like Drake there, right yeah?
Speaker 1:I think that's a good pick right there. Yeah, we'll give it to you.
Speaker 2:That would suck for Dennis Gates man. I'd like to see him win UNC.
Speaker 1:Wilmington taking on Texas Tech to the Big 12, and then Kansas gets in Against our Kansas. Yeah, that'll be a fun matchup John Calipari versus Bill Self to national champion.
Speaker 2:I'm going to tell you right now, the number two seed, that you're about to get to St.
Speaker 1:John's man, I'm actually rooting. That's a team, that's my champ.
Speaker 2:Yeah, wow, they're not as deep.
Speaker 3:I got St John's winning it all.
Speaker 2:They're going to play hard defense, but I don't know if they have enough scoring Matched up with Florida, I don't know, yeah, the depth, like Justin said, I don't know if they can do it Well, florida's been constructed purely on analytics Right, and they're deep and they have multiple guys that can shoot.
Speaker 3:Patino's like the opposite of that, yeah, but they don't have Rick Patino, yeah.
Speaker 1:Oh man, that'd be great. All right so I got St John's. Yeah, I got St John's in the bottom half of that. I think that would be just a matchup, you know, florida versus St John's, maybe in the lead. Is that what you got there?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think St John's.
Speaker 1:You got Drake beating Missouri. What about? Can they get to the Sweet 16? I think they can, man, so you got them going to the Sweet 16 against St John's, the Johnnies against St John's.
Speaker 2:The.
Speaker 1:Johnnies. And then you got. I got UConn versus Grand Canyon. How about that?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean that really looks like.
Speaker 1:But Florida's the pick there, man, right, right, florida's the pick. That's the matchup that you might see in that bracket. Okay, we got one more bracket to go.
Speaker 2:This is the fun bracket.
Speaker 1:It's the Houston bracket. The Houston is the one seed in this bracket. 30-4, big 12 champs Tennessee is the two seed in this one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and actually I think that's where we're. Who do you like in that one Junior Wofford, Wofford, You're going to pick Wofford Right? It's a big upset.
Speaker 1:I sold him on the ability of rick barnes to choke in the ncaa tournament. All right, all right. Wow, I think, kentucky being a three seeds too high for them, yeah that's bullshit uh man, I this one's tough to pick. I like clemson. Okay, I like clemson.
Speaker 3:This is just about to say dude, I got clemson making a run, yeah, I like clemson. They got.
Speaker 1:I mean their team's been around, right. Um, they got good players. Uh, they can rebound. I think that it looks like they got a favorable matchup.
Speaker 2:They'll play um yeah, and that's that's true possibly in the second round.
Speaker 3:That could be, you know, but I think they can get by that and I think they can be.
Speaker 1:I think they can be houston. I got clemson I gotta be houston yep, that's what I got too all right and then uh, but down there in the bottom half, uh, I got uh this one. I mean you got wofford beating tennessee. I don't know about that, but, um, illinois taking on texas savior winner, and then kentucky troy. Uh, who you got, justin and uh in that I got, I got tennessee yeah uh, going pretty deep on that one.
Speaker 1:That's a pretty weak bracket when you look at it. The orange you're gonna end up battling out too.
Speaker 2:But we'll get, Mike. I'm going to tell you right now.
Speaker 1:You got Wofford losing to UCLA after that, yeah, and then so you got UCLA possible UCLA-Kentucky matchup.
Speaker 2:I'll tell you right now to watch out for McNeese State man. Yeah, Will Wade, they got some juice. He's playing against his old school.
Speaker 1:I'm telling you yeah, that'd be an upset, right. I'm telling you All right, so let's get, we got our Sweet 16 matchups. This is where you have upsets, justin. You have Auburn. What do you? Got little Jimmy. I got Houston not even making it to the Sweet 16. Yeah, he's a big Georgia fan, I think Georgia's going to beat them.
Speaker 4:Georgia, they beat a good team. I know they beat Florida.
Speaker 1:So you got Georgia beating.
Speaker 2:Gonzaga. Didn't Georgia beat Houston in the regular season? They beat Houston.
Speaker 1:They beat Florida. So Houston Georgia. You got Georgia in the second round upset there.
Speaker 2:All right.
Speaker 1:So that's the Georgia basketball getting on. Yeah, mike.
Speaker 2:White, so you got.
Speaker 1:Georgia Clemson, possibly matching up in the Sweet 16. I got Houston. Clemson matching up and then I got Tennessee versus you got Houston coming out of that or Clemson.
Speaker 2:I got Clemson. Okay, so Tennessee and Clemson. And then I got clemson. Okay, so tennessee and clemson, and then I got clem, I got clemson all right.
Speaker 1:And then uh in the duke bracket, uh duke, I got duke facing in the in the sweet 16 arizona duke and then I got duke beating arizona. What is?
Speaker 3:anybody got.
Speaker 1:Is that what you got just?
Speaker 3:no, I actually. Mine is slightly different, uh, because I got arizona going to the final.
Speaker 1:Oh wow, arizona takes out duke, all right, so they're going to the final four in that brag. I got duke going to the final four. Who you got in your final four in that bracket?
Speaker 2:I mean it's hard to pick against Duke, all right.
Speaker 1:So in the bottom of that bracket, the Houston bracket we just went over, I said Clemson's my final four pick.
Speaker 2:Who you got in that?
Speaker 4:bracket.
Speaker 2:Who you like, Junior.
Speaker 4:I mean Georgia.
Speaker 2:Georgia.
Speaker 1:He's going with the dogs All the way that would with the dogs all the way.
Speaker 2:That would be a cinderella story, um, and then senior jimmy, I'm dude, I'm probably going with mcneese state man, all right, all right, there you go I like will wade, I like guys auburn I got auburn matching up in the sweet 16 uh versus michigan.
Speaker 1:Um, I'm gonna take, um, take Auburn to get by that. You said you had Michigan in that one, right, justin.
Speaker 3:Yep, I got that exact matchup.
Speaker 1:All right, all right, so you're going to agree with that. Yeah, I like Michigan. What?
Speaker 2:about you.
Speaker 1:Junior. I think Auburn, I think Auburn's going to get by that. I think they're going to make it to the Elite Eight against.
Speaker 4:I mean, you got michigan state and iowa state. I'm gonna be michigan state. Yeah, michigan state.
Speaker 1:Yeah, tom is a man um I'm gonna go uh sparty on that I think sparty gonna make it to the final four. And then you, who do you have in that bracket? Justin?
Speaker 3:shit, I can't get my damn bracket to load.
Speaker 1:So well you got well, I mean, you got auburn, you had a michigan beating auburn, so you had michigan I got michigan beating auburn and you have michigan michigan state or do you have uh iowa state? Who's the three seed?
Speaker 3:oh no, that's right, I got. I got the rematch, I got michigan, michigan state, all right.
Speaker 1:So who do you got in that michigan state or Michigan, michigan? All right, you got the Wolverines going to the Final Four, all right.
Speaker 2:I like.
Speaker 1:Izzo in the Final Four man yeah that's what I got. And then Florida's bracket. Who do you got in that, Justin? You got Florida taking on St John's in the Elite Eight, St. John's yep, and you know who's winning that st john's oh wow, all right, and when I know you got st john's me, I, I want them to win, I think florida's gonna win the game.
Speaker 2:You know who I'm picking to win the whole goddamn thing.
Speaker 4:You got in that bracket florida, florida, better overall team.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm going to the johnny's over over yukon in the elite eight, all right, so now you're down to your final four man. Yeah, so I got Michigan State, St John's, Duke and Clemson. How about that? Two ACC teams? Wow, so I got Duke and McNeese State, bro Duke.
Speaker 2:Mcneese State, yeah, and then Florida and Michigan.
Speaker 4:State state all right, uh, and then junior I have uh auburn, michigan state, and then I have uh duke and georgia all right, and then justin michigan st john's arizona
Speaker 1:michigan, michigan state yeah, st john's arizona, michigan? No, you can't have michigan and michigan state you got you got. Uh, you got st john's, you got, you got michigan, and then you got uh duke, right, no arizona coming out, you got arizona, and then you have tennessee, or did you have?
Speaker 3:yep, that's who I got is tennessee. All right, there you go and the finals. That's who I got is Tennessee All right, there you go and the finals.
Speaker 1:That's his final four. There's all your final four picks the semifinals and then your national champion. For me, I'm going to go Duke over St John's.
Speaker 2:I mean dude, I'm going Gators over Blue Devils. My hell dude having to watch two teams.
Speaker 1:I hate. What do you got?
Speaker 4:I'm going to have to say Duke and Florida, and I think Florida is going to win it look at that, and then, justin, I'm way off the board.
Speaker 3:I got St John's over Zona. That would actually be a really awesome matchup, justin, yeah, I'm way off the board.
Speaker 2:I got St John's over Zona All right, st John's National Team. That would actually be a really, really awesome matchup.
Speaker 1:I would love to see. I just want to see Patino do it.
Speaker 3:I mean, I feel like this, I know.
Speaker 1:I mean, he's at the place where you know he needs to be St John's, New York Dude, could you get any better than rick patino up in new york man?
Speaker 3:I mean like, come on, he gets it done, no matter where he's at um dude, this is the sixth team he's taken to a tournament. I know, ridiculous, ridiculous. He just he does it everywhere, man, and he still runs a very similar system to what he ran with kentucky back in the early 90s tournament to 76, probably soon.
Speaker 1:I think they need to make it to where these regular season champions are automatically in, like the field of 64. Yeah, and make it where all these bubble teams are made playing like playing games and I think there you actually have a little more fun right, and then you have no more bs about today.
Speaker 1:Today, for instance, would be all north carolina versus the west virginia, right, or you'd have all those teams playing off to earn the right to get that 11 seed, which they already kind of do, but that's you would eliminate those teams that won the small in the smaller schools to having to play in to be a 16. Get rid of all those and just do all play-ins. That's my solution.
Speaker 3:You've got to get rid of the conference tournaments.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's another thing. Well, the smaller ones mean a lot.
Speaker 2:I was happy for Duke that they were able to even make the postseason.
Speaker 1:After their best player broke his ankle, all right. Well, it's been NFL free agency Anything. Stand out to you, justin. We haven't talked to you in a while.
Speaker 3:The Dolphins suck. Yeah, you like the.
Speaker 1:Zach Wilson sign the backup.
Speaker 3:You know who does like that is all like the 40-year-old divorced rich ladies up in Boca. They're stoked that Zach Wilson's coming to town.
Speaker 2:God, oh man divorced rich ladies up in boca. They're stoked that zach wilson's coming to town.
Speaker 1:God, oh man um, yeah, I I haven't really seen anything. I'm still waiting on my guy. James visited the giants. Yeah, he's visiting the giants. Everybody seems to be waiting on. Uh, aaron rogers. Um, I said what? Minnesota retire, probably?
Speaker 3:yeah dude go. He's got to go to Minnesota just for the comedy of doing exactly what.
Speaker 1:Brett Favre did. I really think that's what he's waiting on. It's up to Kevin O'Connell to decide.
Speaker 2:What would you do, man, if you had just drafted a quarterback? I would take him for one year. What if he's like nah man, I want I wouldn't, yeah, but I'm the one year rental one year, man.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think that's definitely go for it, man go for the championship this one year and jj's got the wheels. I mean, that's the only. They don't want to do that now. But the only reason they're thinking about is because the injury he had. So they're thinking they might need somebody to bridge that gap. But definitely gonna have to be somebody who they're gonna get how nfl ready do they think he is man? Right, jay mccarthy.
Speaker 3:Well, I don't know um. I mean only threw 10 passes a game in michigan, right?
Speaker 1:so I mean I don't know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I know right it's not like they took the. The can't miss guy. I think it's gonna happen, Right. So I mean, I don't know yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know right. It's not like they took the can't miss guy. I think it's going to happen. I think Rodgers goes to the Vikings. Yeah, it makes the most sense right now. Then Russell Wilson will decide between the Browns and the Steelers, dominoes will fall and then, yeah, oh God, if you're choosing between the Browns, I mean like dude, just retire. Yeah, don't yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:All right. So who's your boy? Cam Ward, number one pick, yeah draft.
Speaker 2:Let's talk draft.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, dude, it's got to be Cam. Dude, Tennessee's not really shopping the pick. Tennessee needs a quarterback. Yeah, cam is, by all evaluations, the best quarterback in the draft and apparently it's not even close now, according to all the talking heads I keep hearing. I mean I've got my concerns with Cam holding the ball too long and trying to be Superman a little too much, but I mean it looks like Cam's going number one overall, which would be great, man Kane's having had a number one overall pick since, like Russell Maryland, there you go.
Speaker 1:What about you, Junior? What's exciting you over NFL free-kick.
Speaker 4:I know he's easy, free-in, just your draft.
Speaker 1:Whatever man.
Speaker 4:First of all, free-in just your draft. Bears are finally building up our line, so it's not going to suck this year.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 4:We have a whole new interior line center guard. What?
Speaker 1:do you think about that new coach?
Speaker 4:I mean I'm happy we get fired up.
Speaker 2:He wants him to draft Jenty. I think he will.
Speaker 4:I think we could, it's either going to be the. Raiders or us. Those are the two main people who want to draft him.
Speaker 1:There you go. You got weapons on the outside. Yeah, it's going to come down.
Speaker 3:Actually I'm interested to see who New. England takes because they're going to have Travis. Hunter Should be right there, dude, and you pair him with my boy, Drake, May and the Dolphins will be battling for last place in the AFC. If I'm Hunter man, if you just look at what just happened.
Speaker 1:you had the receiver, Jamar Chase, signed for over $40 million and although the cornerback for the Texans that was on that same team at LSU signed for $30, million.
Speaker 2:Yeah, highest I'm going to try to get.
Speaker 1:I think by being a receiver you can make more money, so why not be a receiver?
Speaker 2:Dude, I think he's. We're trying to get both. He's literally going to try to get both. He's going to try to get both he's gonna get, try to get paid. He's gonna try to. He's gonna try to get try to get all right, try to get man um, travis, try to get.
Speaker 1:Well, I, uh, I'm taking him. If he's there, sure, why not? He's a weapon. I mean, there's a guy, it's a guy. You can't find every. I mean this, you can't. There's not too many, if not any, of those kind of guys.
Speaker 3:I really like Abdul Carter. I'm starting to feel like I did a couple years ago with the kid from Georgia, jalen Carter, when he fell to Philly, and I think Abdul Carter is the best kid in the draft at this point.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, he was getting mocked at number one overall until the injury thing and then the combine and all that shit. I mean I think you're right, dude, he's clearly the best pass rusher and just overall, what Micah Parsons type player.
Speaker 1:What will the Giants do? Will they take Shador, will they not? Is Jackson dark? They got to.
Speaker 3:They got to take Shador and match him with neighbors. Man, I mean, like you got, you have to if you're the giants, you can't. Gettleman's not there anymore, so you're not going to draft the Daniel Jones. I mean you got to start building something in New York and and build it with James Shador just makes too much sense.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, even if they did do that, then they would have a guy. Right now they have Tommy DeVito, that's it.
Speaker 2:There you go, tommy Cutlets, tommy Cutlets. Well, we got to get on out of here. Our ride's here, but baseball, we got baseball.
Speaker 1:We're going to go see some action Fast pitch.
Speaker 2:Mercer, mercer Link.
Speaker 1:Jarrett's old squad yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it came, it just got swept by Wake.
Speaker 1:Oh, wake's good though.
Speaker 3:Yeah, miami sucks in baseball, this year apparently too. Dude, I mean my God.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think the prevailing thought is that JD Artiega will be gone from Miami after this season, maybe even midseason. All right, way too much talent in Florida.
Speaker 3:Well, if they can bring in somebody, like the basketball team did with Jay Lucas, I love that hire for Canes basketball man, the guy from Duke. That's a fantastic hire by Miami.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, there's a lot of good baseball coaches out there, and Florida is probably the number one state in terms of talent overall, so that's just.
Speaker 1:Good hire for Miami. You like the hire of Lucas from Duke. Luke Laux starts at FSU, so that will be interesting to watch of those two guys. Baseball I know FSU has that only loss to Florida who went on to get swept by Tennessee.
Speaker 2:Tennessee's not losing First undefeated season in baseball history.
Speaker 1:I mean geez, they look explosive.
Speaker 2:Their best player isn't even allowed to play. Yeah, wow, they're still kicking everybody's ass.
Speaker 3:Oh man hey, what about spring football? I saw that. Uh, I saw norvell closed off practice. Yeah, everybody's pissed, yep good. But yeah, you can't go two and ten and then double middle finger the press and say don't watch this practice.
Speaker 2:I mean you can. When you got open with Bama, yeah, and you went 2-10.
Speaker 1:Who cares? I mean it's all about winning. The media will be there if you win.
Speaker 4:They're going to rip you anyway.
Speaker 1:I mean, you just won 19 in a row and then they wanted you gone.
Speaker 2:I mean it's going to affect the area of bullshit articles that you get.
Speaker 1:I don't care. I think it's great. Whatever makes the team better. I think they need to put the blinders on.
Speaker 2:Yeah, six wins is not going to be easy.
Speaker 1:Alright, we got the tournament to start. You saw, you heard our picks, so we hope they're right. We'll watch it, we'll react to it and we'll talk to you next time, right here on the North Florida Sports Network. I'm going to beat the shit out of you.
