Jon Rothstein
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Dan Hurley and Porter Moser have been in a situation where they've coached in a final four in the last decade. Dan Hurley's won two national titles. I'm taking Nick Clifford in Colorado state over Memphis, Maryland over grand Canyon. Drake started from the bottom. Now they're here. In my opinion has, has for all intents and purposes, an interesting road here.
And I'm going to tell you why you got Missouri, Missouri, And you got Ben McCollum, who's really looking like, you know, a bit of a wizard. At Drake, it wouldn't shock me if next year he's coaching somewhere in the Big Ten. He's got a 30-win team with four D2 transfers. One of them, Mitch Muscari, has made 86 three-point shots this year.
If Drake beats Missouri, Drake gets a vulnerable Texas Tech team in the round of 32. Now, why are they vulnerable? Grant McCaslin told me earlier on Sunday night that he expects Chance McMillan and Darian Williams to play in the first round against UNC Wilmington. But with that said... Those players didn't play in Texas Tech's last Big 12 tournament game due to injuries.
So Texas Tech's a little bit banged up. I think Drake is a team with Ben McCollum, if it can get by Missouri, that could maybe flirt with a chance to go to the Sweet 16. And then how about the lower part of that region in Providence? Kansas and Arkansas, Calipari against Self, two coaches that coached against each other in the title game in 2012, and then St. John's takes on Omaha. Now look,
You guys understand media as well as anybody. I work for CBS. I know how much the program executives love to match up certain games on Saturday nights and going to 60 Minutes. And look, whoever St. John's plays on Saturday night is going to be crazy. Can you imagine if we get Calipari and Patino on Saturday night? And look, Patino himself would be great.
It would be an incredible matchup of Hall of Fame coaches. But if it's Calipari and Patino, it would become – appointment television, and it would be the third time that these guys have met in the NCAA tournament, I believe, yeah, since 2012. And remember, they also met in the 1996 Final Four. Now,
I've talked to Rick Pitino about this, and I did an interview with him when he was at Iona, and he made a joke about it, but I think he was telling the truth. He said one of the reasons why he came back to college was to get John Gallipari off his resume. Because if you think about it, these coaches each took three different schools to a Final Four.
So that's another thing that is lying here in the weeds right now. Rick Pitino is trying to get a fourth school to a Final Four, but he might have to go through John Calipari to do it. It's going to be Calipari herself as long as St. John's gets by Omaha. So I have Florida, UConn, Colorado State, Maryland. Drake, Texas Tech. And then I'm going to go Arkansas, St. John's. I've got St.
John's against Drake in the Sweet 16. And I've got Florida against Maryland in the region of Prestige. I'm going Florida over St. John's in a regional final. So on the left side of the bracket, I've got Michigan State against Florida. And ironically enough, you know I love good nuggets, guys. That would be a rematch of the 2000 national title game that Michigan State won 89-76 in Indianapolis.
Yeah, you know, guys, it's amazing. And I think it speaks, obviously, how talented Duke is. But it also speaks to the state of the ACC right now. Duke was able to win the ACC tournament and beat Carolina and Louisville in back-to-back days without Cooper Flagg. And also without Malik Brown, who, you know, Duke staff feels this way.
And I know from being, you know, on Duke's campus in the preseason... He's like Emil Jefferson was 10 years ago. Not to bring up bad memories there, Kat, but you know what I'm saying in terms of a versatile defender that can be a factor defensively in that rotation.
Those two players don't play, and all of a sudden, we have a scenario where Duke is still beating Louisville, who was the second-best team this year, other than Clemson in the ACC, and North Carolina. That is not, obviously, a great, obviously, ringing endorsement for the ACC, but for Duke, it speaks to their talent level. I've got Duke playing Mississippi State.
I've got Oregon-Arizona, which to me could be one of the best games in the round of 32, these former Pac-12 rivals hooking up. Then I'm going to take VCU to beat BYU to hook up with Wisconsin, the most aesthetically pleasing Wisconsin team of our lifetime. Thank you. And then I'm going to be in Cleveland for these games, so I'm pumped about this. I'm taking St. Mary's to beat Vanderbilt.
I'm taking Alabama to beat Robert Morris. I've got Duke-Oregon. Wisconsin to the Sweet 16 to take on Alabama, and then I am going to take in a rematch of the 2015 national title game Duke over Wisconsin in Newark to go to the Final Four. That's the region of firepower because Duke, Alabama, Wisconsin, Arizona, Oregon, obviously explosive teams offensively. So much offense in that region.
If you want to use that, use that one. I like BYU. I think Kevin Young's done an incredible job, and I think they got great pieces. But look, it's not fun if you don't roll the dice places in your bracket. The NCAA tournament isn't fun. So I'm looking right now at the BYU-VCU matchup, and I know that we have seen – a scenario where BYU has played great basketball the last couple weeks.
It wouldn't shock me if BYU wins a couple games, but I'm looking at this. VCU is no 11th seed, and if there was one thing that I would say right now, the non-power conference teams in this bracket, in a lot of places... won their respective conference tournaments after having a high volume of wins during the regular season.
VCU, with Max Shulga, Zeb Jackson, Joe Bamaseel, all these guys, okay, Phillip Russell as well, has the deepest perimeter. In the Atlantic 10, since Dan Hurley's last team at Rhode Island, had Fats Russell, Jeff Doughton, Stan Robinson, JT Terrell, EC Matthews, and Jarvis Garrett. That team, you have to remember, beat Trey Young in Oklahoma in the NCAA tournament and lost to Marvin Bagley in Duke.
in 2018 this vcu team is for real and also another player on vcu jack clark was a part of the clemson team last year that went to the elite eight and lost to alabama vcu is the best vcu team since we saw briante weber and company lose to steven of austin in 2014 john when you when you're rattling off all these names from old teams do you ever just think about making up a name and tossing it in there see if you get called on it i would do that if i were you
It's an interesting proposition. It never crossed my mind. I just go to the internal hard drive, and I just keep it moving.
You know me, though, BFT, and you're America's drinking buddy for a reason. I pride myself on being as accurate and as thorough as possible. So I feel like I'd be shortchanging the beat if I did that.
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