Mike DeCourcy's Bracketology for NCAA Tournament 2025

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00:00Let's look at Mike D'Courcy's bracketology now.

00:04He has his brackets out for the NCAA tournament already.

00:10Just like Lennarty and Palm,

00:12he's now competing with these people.

00:14And Jerry has told me on a number of occasions

00:17that he wants to fist fight you,

00:19but I have not been able to arrange that at all yet

00:22in the boxing lexicon.

00:25But let's see who you like.

00:26I know you don't like Indiana.

00:28It sounds to me like they're going to fire Woodson,

00:31and I'm not sure that's the greatest idea.

00:33Who are they going to get to coach?

00:34They're 15th coach since Bob Knight.

00:37They're not making the tournament.

00:38Let's talk about who is.

00:40Give me your, you know, brackets,

00:42like, in the simplest form.

00:44Well, the simplest form is Alabama

00:47became a one-seat over the weekend

00:49with their terrific victory against Kentucky.

00:55That was an enormous victory, a great win.

00:59And it didn't knock Kentucky off the two-line.

01:02I still kept them there,

01:03but the tie joined their good friends from Auburn,

01:08Duke as well, and Iowa State.

01:10Even though they lost, again, they hung on.

01:13There aren't any other two seeds beyond Alabama

01:15that are saying, we've got to be in.

01:17Marquette might have, except they lost as well

01:20over the weekend to Xavier.

01:22So those are your four number-one seeds.

01:24I think one of the interesting things, Scott,

01:27is how desperately, last night,

01:29I looked for a 68th team, effectively, the last team in.

01:34It's nearly impossible.

01:36They're talking about expanding this bracket to 72 or 76.

01:40There are not 72 or 76 teams

01:43that are worthy of being in the NCAA tournament.

01:46There aren't now, and there won't be by mid-March.

01:49It's just, it's a preposterous conceit.

01:52You know, the funny thing is,

01:53the whole idea was that Greg Sankey was worried

01:56because they expanded to 16 teams in the SEC

01:58that they wouldn't get enough, and I think I have 12 now.

02:02And I think the last time Paul did it, he had 13.

02:06So it's a ridiculous conceit.

02:08It really is. There's no need to expand it.

02:11The big conferences, the ones that are the best,

02:13the Big Ten, the SEC,

02:14they're going to get all the bids they can use,

02:17and everybody else is just going to have to fight

02:19for what's left.

02:21They think that the irony, of course,

02:23is that in the Atlantic Ten and some other leagues,

02:25they think, well, if we expand it,

02:26there'll be more for us.

02:27Nope, there won't be more for you.

02:29It'll just be more for the SEC.

02:31So don't ruin the event by expanding to 72 or 68.

02:37It's not even ruining the event.

02:38It ruins this. It ruins this season

02:40because anybody that can bounce a ball three times

02:43without knocking it off their foot

02:45will get into a 72 or 76-team tournament.

02:49I agree. Your twos are Marquette, Kentucky,

02:52Purdue, and Tennessee.

02:53Your threes are Oregon, Florida,

02:55Kansas, and Michigan State.

02:56Your fours are Houston, Illinois, Memphis, and Ole Miss.

03:00I'll tell you what.

03:01I watched that Illinois team beat the hell out of Indiana.

03:04I saw them lose at the Breslin by a bucket.

03:07I think they're really tough.

03:10They're really good.

03:12Yaka Shona, their freshman point guard, so talented,

03:15fouled out, did not play well in that Michigan State game.

03:18They're not the same team without him.

03:20The fifth foul was a silly foul.

03:22He had a couple of tough ones called on him.

03:24When I say silly, he should not have committed it.

03:26I mean, not a silly call on the ref,

03:28but silly foul by him.

03:29But he's a freshman.

03:30Got to learn from that.

03:31But he's a phenomenal playmaker.

03:34And when he's out there,

03:35Illinois is really tough to deal with.

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