Boomer & Gio
Full Show - NCAA Upsets, St John's Preview, Luka's Big Game & Even Jets Rumors
20 Mar 2026
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Chapter 1: What NCAA tournament action is highlighted today?
It's the Boomer and Geo podcast from WFAN. And we're coming to you live from the built-for-tough studio. Boomer Esiason, Greg Giannotti. It's Boomer and Geo on the fan. Simulcast across the country on CBS Sports Network. And where we are on the free Odyssey app. Good Friday morning. A feel-good Friday. We are waist-deep. in NCAA tournament action. A somewhat fun day yesterday.
Nothing absolutely crazy. If Sienna had knocked off Duke, that certainly would have been crazy. You get this high point over Wisconsin. Upset and looking more into that. High point is the least Cinderella story of all Cinderella stories. I'll explain that coming up in a little bit. But we got St. John's and we got Hofstra today. So excited about that.
Some NBA stories out there that are very interesting and plenty more. You know, we're going to get some football and baseball today as well on this Feel Good Friday. Good morning, Boomer.
How are you?
Yeah, good morning, Jay. I'm doing well. And by the way, you know, if Sienna could have pulled this thing off yesterday, I would have been so happy. You know, from my days back in the ACC, you know, we hated Duke. Yeah, and Maryland and Duke used to go at it. Coach K, Coach Williams. And it used to be knock down, drag out.
And always would be, I think the Saturday before the Super Bowl, there was always a huge game.
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Chapter 2: What made High Point's upset over Wisconsin significant?
And, man, I'll tell you what, the Siena kids, five guys only. Yeah. And, you know, watching Charles Barkley and those guys at halftime yesterday, Charles was just like flabbergasted that they were playing with only five guys, Siena. And he goes, how... How is this even possible? And sure enough, Duke just basically wore them down.
And it's amazing because the Siena had so many opportunities, like at dunks, and they were missing dunks at the beginning of the second half. And those poor kids just wore, they get worn out. I mean, and it was, I mean, it was really Yeoman's effort, if you would put it that way, for those five kids.
And I would just say that was, that was about as exciting a game as, because it was so close to actually happening. Yeah, it was, of course. And if you're a St. John's fan, you'd love to see Duke knocked out before a potential Sweet 16 matchup between St. John's and Duke. And I understand that St. John's has got to win two games to get there.
And that's not going to be an easy task, especially if one of them is against Kansas. But that would have been absolutely amazing and made the path a little bit easier for St. John's in a year where they got screwed with their seating. Yeah, it would have been unbelievable. You know, Boozer took over. He just kept going to the hole, and nobody could stop him. Yeah.
And I don't know who the big white kid in the middle for Siena, that poor kid. That kid was exhausted. Yeah. You know, and really this is, I think, what Charles was talking about at halftime. Like, eventually they're going to wear down. Eventually you have to just impose your will on a team that doesn't have any substitutions. I've never seen anything like it.
Yeah, neither have I. I mean, especially because you're talking about a 16 seed that's going up against a one seed, and these guys are throwing every single ounce of energy throughout the entire game against one of the most talented teams in basketball. What was the spread in that game? It was probably, you know, 14 and a half, something like that, somewhere around there, I would imagine.
I don't know. I didn't end up betting that game. That was one that I didn't really look at much. But yeah, this was the thing that got your eyeballs on the screens yesterday more than anything else, I think. Well, that and the other thing that actually does show itself in these tight games, late in games, and this is where I guess, and again, I'm not so thoroughly into everything that St.
John's has done this year, but if you're not making your free throws at the end of these games, you're going to end up losing. And that happened a couple of times yesterday where teams, all they had to do was hit their free throws, and one of the – Geez, which game was it last night? The guys at North Carolina.
North Carolina missed a bunch of free throws at the end of the game, and then he goes to miss one on purpose that doesn't hit the rim. And, you know, that was another one. I mean, and that's why college basketball is amazing because it is really – it's 20 minutes of fury per half –
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Chapter 3: How did St. John's fare in their recent games?
$2 million. So, yep. And that was January of 2024, so it probably has grown since then. Yeah, I got an email yesterday, and it's Tier 1 NIL basketball programs. The NIL era has created a clear top tier in college basketball. A small group of programs now have the funding, collectives, donor support to build multimillion-dollar rosters every season.
And there's probably about, I don't want to get into every single one of them, but there's probably about 20 of these teams. that are considered like tier one teams now. And St. John's is on that. Yeah, $10 million, right? Right, UConn's on that. St. John's is on that. Duke, Kentucky, North Carolina, Kansas, Arkansas, BYU, Tennessee, Texas. Like, you know, Texas has to play a playing game, right?
So they win that, and then they have a, theoretically, it's an upset. Sure. But the amount of money they're spending on their basketball program is ridiculous. And what I don't see in here... Oh, I don't see the University of Maryland in here. I don't see Rutgers in here. No. I mean, I could... And I guess...
Chapter 4: What are the implications of Luka's performance in the NBA?
In these situations where, again, Charles was talking yesterday, in a one-game take-all, anything can happen. A kid can get hot, a guy can be bombing from three, and next thing you know, you find yourself down 15 with about four minutes to go, and the underdog wins. And that's kind of like what happened with the USA hockey team. and also the Venezuela baseball team.
You could find yourself in just one game, just play the best game of your life, pitch the best game of your life, hopefully the other team doesn't hit, or all of a sudden some guy's hitting threes from 35 feet out, and you end up losing. And that's what all of this, when I think of these sporting events that have taken place over the last two months, if you will,
If they're one and done, that's what makes it so exciting, and that's what gives the underdog the opportunity for an upset. Yeah, and that's why it was a little bit disappointing when I found out about High Point, because I was like, oh, this is kind of fun, that maybe there is a team still there that can make a run and everything else that we thought we were losing in the nil era.
Whatever, that's just something that's going to go by the wayside these days. I'm happy that St. John's is able to spend the money. I've never been upset when Steve Cohen has spent more money or any other team. It's a little different. I mean, that's a pro team. I understand it's different, but I'm just talking about as far as an advantage goes. That's the apples-to-apples argument.
I don't care if St. John's has an advantage money-wise. I don't. That doesn't mean anything to me because I'm happy that there is a giant donor there that's willing to support the program because for many, many years, they did not get that financial support. Here's the only thing that bothers me about all of this is when players like 23 and 24 years old Yeah. On their fourth team.
Or maybe they didn't go to college. Maybe they went to the G League and they weren't able to make it. Yeah. And they still have college eligibility remaining. I mean, that's the kind of thing. I always thought that college sports should be like 18 to 22. And that's it.
Maybe in fifth year, if you have a significant injury, not if you played four games in a football season where they say, okay, you played your four games and now we're going to sit you out and we're going to redshirt you. I mean, there's got to be some sort of uniformity across the landscape of college sports. This is the frustrating part of it.
Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of things that have to be cleaned up, but it's going to be very difficult now because now we are deep into a couple of years of no guardrails on this nil era. And it's going to be tough to put the genie back in the bottle with it. But my overarching point with this, though, is I'm not going to be thinking about any of that when St. John's plays today.
I'm not going to be thinking about how much Zuby got paid this year or how much more St. John's has got wrapped up in their little collective as opposed to the other teams in their bracket. These are not the things that are going to be crossing my mind. What's going to be crossing my mind is I want to see this team go to a Sweet 16 for the first time since 1999, and that's going to be fun.
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Chapter 5: What passionate comparisons are made between St. John's and the Nets?
Well, I think St. John's has more passionate fans than Nets fans do. Because a lot of them went there. Yeah, well, now it's all about winning. Now it's all about Rick Pitino and winning.
Chapter 6: What are the implications of Rick Pitino's coaching for St. John's?
Well, obviously. Yeah. I don't know. I mean, I'm just saying there's a lot of fans out there that didn't drop their team. That's all. Let's go to... Yeah, when they went to Carneseca Hall, yeah. What do you mean? Well, they weren't buying tickets. That doesn't... Not buying tickets doesn't mean that you're not passionate about it. You dropped your season tickets with the Rangers.
Were you any less passionate because you did so? I invested a half a million dollars into the Rangers.
Okay, but then you dropped them.
Does that mean you were less passionate about the team? You know what I mean? You're annoying me right now. Well, because you're wrong, and I painted you in a corner again. It's hard for you to get out. You don't know what to do about it. Peter Greenwich. Peter, what's happening? So he takes a call. Hey, guys. Thank you for having me.
I just wanted to say that there are some positive examples of oozing. For instance, if you cut a lava cake, the chocolate oozes from the middle, and I think that's pretty positive. Yeah. You know what? Fair. Fair, Peter. I hadn't thought about that. I just keep thinking pus when I hear ooze. Right. Well, what I think of a Boston cream from Dunkin' Donuts. That doesn't seem like an ooze, though.
I feel like it's more liquidy, the lava cake. Like juices oozing out of a steak, maybe? Juices. Juices oozing. That could be another one. Still, though. Celebratory cream pie. Celebratory oozing cream pie. By the way, these calls that we are taking are on the Red Pocket Mobile fan line.
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Chapter 7: What humorous stories are shared about past experiences?
It's brought to you by your new ultimate cell carrier, Red Pocket Mobile. The number, as always, 888-808-1019. Clint in Missouri. What's going on, Clint? Hey, guys. How are you?
Good, man. What's up?
What's happening, brother? Hey, earlier you guys were talking about bagpipers and accordion and, you know, it all might be going to the wayside or whatever. Yeah. Well, crazy story. My ex-old lady, for my birthday, we got her a steak set of boobs, right? Yeah. Great set. Yeah. So we break up and, like, to make it neat, she's, like, on the spectrum when it comes to
instruments and she can play anything so she was like a harpist she was playing the harp topless right so my buddies used to send me videos of all this crap one of the things she plays you don't have to worry boomers the accordion top oh man so that's taken care of so is she selling this I think it's like on her OnlyFans or Fansly or something.
It's like, I don't know, Mashley, Kiki, or Dee or something like that. And this is an ex-wife of yours? Is this an ex-wife of yours or just an ex-girlfriend? Yeah, ex-girlfriend when I was in the military a long time ago. Thank you for your service. Yes, yes, thank you. So what size did you get her? They're just 34Ds, you know, just the norm, nothing too obnoxious.
So just to recap, your ex-girlfriend, who is on the spectrum musically, that you bought fake boobs to, now has an OnlyFans in which she plays an accordion naked for people to purchase. I don't know if it's still going on. She has it blocked out for the area code, so you have to get on a VPN.
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Chapter 8: What unique food experiences are discussed regarding Rory's Master's dinner?
I mean, I've seen them. My buddies are really interested. Yeah, we wouldn't know about that. What branch of the military were you in? The Army, sir.
Oh.
Okay. Where were you based? Everywhere. Italy, Germany, Korea, Afghanistan. Wow. I mean, you were deep into it. Oh, I loved it. Yep. 15 years. Got med boarded out. Yeah, I just thought I'd call and share that story. Have a great day, guys. Thanks. I appreciate that. I mean, you did say that. I did.
You said that, I don't know if he's telling the truth, but he is a military man, so I've got to take him at his word for it. Do you think there's someone out there playing the accordion naked on OnlyFans and Clinton, Missouri, Cole Lovett said, yes, indeed. There is someone doing that, and it's my ex-girlfriend who's on the spectrum with fake boobs. 34Ds. A lot of people out there, man, you know?
Yeah. You can find just about anybody doing anything. It just goes to show you our reach. Yeah. I always say that. The amount of people that we reach, it's just amazing. From Missouri to Texas to Brooklyn to California. This has got to be the greatest example of you can say anything and someone's going to call up and have that experience. There's not going to be an example that tops that.
You said this morning. Yes. I wonder if there's someone out there who plays the accordion naked on OnlyFans. After a conversation we had about bagpiping and passing it down, we didn't plan this. Not something we had talked about before. Just a thought that popped in your head. Yeah, because the accordion's big in the German community. Yeah.
And either on the Free Odyssey app or CBS Sports Network, here's Clint going, I can't believe it. My aunt on my mother's side, who was German, used to play the accordion. Clothed? Yes. Okay, good. That would have been a scar. Maybe that's where this whole thing came from. This was over in Wantall, Levittown. Okay. Yeah. I was just thinking about the accordion.
I remember I tried to play it and it didn't work out too well. Yeah. Well, you played the clarinet. Yep. You were great at that. I wasn't great at it. Oh, you were great. You played Flight of the Bumblebee at Boomerang Geo Live.
True.
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