Hour 1: That's What's Best For Business
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What is the focus of this episode of the Dan Le Batard Show?
This is the Dan Levitar Show with the Stugatz Podcast.
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Why is West Virginia upset about the NCAA tournament?
Lucy, what I think happened is they looked into the shipping container. They saw Chris Cody, Mike Ryan, Billy Gill, and Jeremy Tesche looking back at them. I was like, anybody else? Can anybody else talk college basketball? Dan doesn't know that I'm doing this. And I want to start off by saying, huge win for Carolina, first off. Joe Linardi, Seth Davis, Seth Greenberg, John Fanta, John Rothstein, and every West Virginia government official, dead to me. Lucy, it's been a brutal couple of days for West Virginia.
Yeah, they're not having a particularly good time. So it started Selection Sunday. I guess you could say it started in the Big 12 tournament. But Selection Sunday, West Virginia has left out in favor of Carolina, or at least that's the team they're kind of focusing on, the one that they were like, we deserve to be here more than Carolina does. So West Virginia is all levels of bad. And despite that there were probably a lot more serious problems happening in that state, the governor was like, nope. This is not allowed. You have done it. You have waged war with the state of West Virginia. And so he comes out and is like, NCAA, it's coming for you. Good luck. Hope you're ready for it. Then we're going to destroy the selection committee. All of that is happening.
And they have all their focus on destroying the NCAA that they have no idea that their head coach is out interviewing for other jobs as they speak. As they were taking down the NCAA, Darian DeVries is at Iowa, is at Indiana, having these conversations. Unfortunately, he picked wrong, chose the wrong choice, and decides to sign with Indiana and leaves. So West Virginia now has waged war with the NCAA. They're coachless. They're not in the NCAA tournament. They're not in the NIT. They declined the invite. So now... Things are bad. And just like a little cherry on top, the team that they focused on, that they were like, we're better than, Carolina. Carolina in the first four beats the literal crap out of San Diego State to the point where I had to turn it off because it felt excessive. I said, I don't want to watch this. Not safe for young viewers. It was such a beatdown.
Yeah, they cut it to 30, and it almost didn't tell the full story of how bad that game actually was. But West Virginia, watching from home like everybody else, and I actually have a first-round game I'm most excited to watch. I'm going first game of the tournament, the 8-9 matchup. It is Louisville and Creighton. I can't figure out the disrespect the committee gave to Louisville because in the final AP poll— I think you're pronouncing it wrong.
I think it's Louisville.
Louisville. You kind of just have to— Louisville. Louisville. was an AP top 10 team the final poll before the tournament. The committee gives them an eight seed, implying that there's 28 teams better than them. Mike Malley was showing me this conspiracy on Twitter that he thinks people got Louisville and Memphis confused and they switched their seeds because Memphis is a five and all the metrics kind of support the opposite. But this Louisville team, really fun. They brought in Pat Kelsey from the College of Charleston. They have the Sunbelt.
He's weird.
I like him. He's got weird energy, and he brought in the Sunbelt Player of the Year, Terrence Edwards Jr., from that James Madison team that pulled off the 5-12 upset of Wisconsin last year. Speaking of that Wisconsin team, they also brought in Chucky Hepburn from that Wisconsin team, who was a first-team All-ACC, ACC Defensive Player of the Year. And Stu Gatz always tells you, when you get to March, it's all about experienced guard play. Louisville. Louisville. Nobody has more experience guard play than Louisville. But that Creighton-Louisville game, great way to kick off the tournament with two teams that have a legit case for feeling under-seeded.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the focus of this episode of the Dan Le Batard Show?
0:11–0:31
2
Why is West Virginia upset about the NCAA tournament?
0:31–4:08
3
How did the women's tournament seeding controversy unfold?
4:08–15:18
4
What is the significance of Scott Van Pelt on ESPN?
15:18–22:30
5
Which are the top sports Thursdays according to the show?
22:30–41:55
Speakers
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