Mark Titus
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first heard Mar 2025
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And both of those cutoffs exist because of 2014 UConn, right?
I mean, yeah, I think the national champion is in that group.
that the others are not going to win I would I I think this year is the most top heavy uh feeling I have about college basketball entering an NCAA tournament since 2015 I remember 2015 was a uh it stood out to me going into the tournament there was Kentucky at the top who was undefeated obviously but I felt like the the rest of the ones and the twos Duke ended up winning but Wisconsin was absolutely loaded that year um as you know Dan uh
I think Virginia and Villanova both had really, really good teams. Arizona had a good team. I think Kansas was a two. They were like a week or two that I think ended up losing early. But I remember going into the 2015 tournament feeling like it was kind of a perfect setup because Kentucky was the undefeated behemoth Goliath, but they weren't unbeatable as we learned in the final four. Mm-hmm.
But I had a really good feeling that it was going to be a one or a two because if you watched all season, it just felt like these teams are just way better than everybody else. Right. I feel that way this year. For the first time since 2015, I have that same feeling again. I just think the Dukes, the Auburns, Florida's been coming on strong, Houston.
all the one seeds uh are are clearly better than everybody else to me and then the two seeds it's like all the ones all the twos and then everybody else is kind of how i feel yeah um and texas tech is like the one team that might be in the mix that's not a one or two got healthy yeah uh otherwise i i just think it's really top heavy and it sucks because i think everybody this time of year gets excited about the cinderella and they they want me to come on here and be like i think this team's gonna get upset early i think it's really chalky season
I think I have a really chalky bracket. I think this is the year of chalky.
It was garbage. It was terrible. And even George Mason, who was like the OG Cinderella story, they got to the Final Four and got their ass kicked by Florida.
It always happens that way. So, yeah, it's weird because you want to celebrate the fun little guys making the runs, but you do want to see the big boys. I think that's what we're getting this year. I think there might be like one or two. Maybe you get like a double-digit seed, make the Sweet 16. Maybe you get like a crazy Elite Eight run.
Hell, maybe there's like a seven seed in the Final Four, but I'm very, very confident that your national champion will be a one or two, which I understand everybody listening is like – Good job going out on a limb. But UConn two years ago was a four seed. What I'm telling you is that will not happen this year. There will not be UConn two years ago four seed.
There will not be the UConn of 2014 being a seven seed. It will be a one or a two. And it will probably be a one. They're just so much better than everybody.
It'd be funny if that guy lost. Good question. I mean, Todd Golden. I don't know how many people are paying attention to what was going on.
Rick Barnes losing is funny. Yeah. I mean, Matt Painter getting over the hump just to go right back to losing in the first round.
Yeah. Yeah. Nate Oates. You got the Bill Self, John Calipari, Rick Pitino little section down there in the bottom left. Only one of those guys can come out, so I don't know. There could be some interesting dynamics at play there. Yeah. Yeah.
It is unprecedented. Lost three of four going into the tournament. No team's ever done that and gotten the number one overall seed. They had obviously a dominant stretch up until the last couple weeks. Basically, someone pointed out that their tough stretch started when they clinched the SEC. So maybe if you want to believe in Auburn, just say that they had nothing to play for.
But it was interesting because up until they started losing, someone, I think it was Jimmy Dykes, I was watching one of the Auburn games, and he made the point, Auburn could forfeit every game for the rest of the season and still get the number one overall. And they pretty much were like, okay, we're going to go do that. A little practice.
So yeah, I think if you're looking at it in the totality of the season, Auburn's resume was maybe the strongest resume we've kind of ever seen, which maybe is not true now that they lost because I guess Kentucky was undefeated that one year. But it was just like an insane resume. They played all the other one seeds. They beat just about everybody.
But, yeah, I mean, it is weird because going into the tournament, the number one overall seed is generally the team that everyone's like, yeah, that's probably the best team. And I think most people are like, yeah, Auburn is – it feels like it's Duke and Florida. I would not have – I'll put it this way.
If any of the four one seeds were named the number one overall seed, I probably would have been fine with it. I think all of them have arguments. I think Duke is the best team. I think Florida is the hottest team. I think Houston is like a team that ripped through a Big 12 that's really strong, and Houston – I think Houston only lost one game in regulation all season. Yeah.
They lost, like, four, but three of them were in overtime. Yeah. And they just, like, they don't go away. It's impossible to beat them by, yeah, more than one possession. I think Houston had a case to be number one overall. But I don't know. Auburn had a historic run and, you know, played Houston non-conference. They played in the Maui Invitational. They went to Duke.
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