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Mike DeCourcy's Bracketology for NCAA Tournament 2025
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1/21/2025
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Let's look at Mike D'Courcy's bracketology now.
00:04
He has his brackets out for the NCAA tournament already.
00:10
Just like Lennarty and Palm,
00:12
he's now competing with these people.
00:14
And Jerry has told me on a number of occasions
00:17
that he wants to fist fight you,
00:19
but I have not been able to arrange that at all yet
00:22
in the boxing lexicon.
00:25
But let's see who you like.
00:26
I know you don't like Indiana.
00:28
It sounds to me like they're going to fire Woodson,
00:31
and I'm not sure that's the greatest idea.
00:33
Who are they going to get to coach?
00:34
They're 15th coach since Bob Knight.
00:37
They're not making the tournament.
00:38
Let's talk about who is.
00:40
Give me your, you know, brackets,
00:42
like, in the simplest form.
00:44
Well, the simplest form is Alabama
00:47
became a one-seat over the weekend
00:49
with their terrific victory against Kentucky.
00:55
That was an enormous victory, a great win.
00:59
And it didn't knock Kentucky off the two-line.
01:02
I still kept them there,
01:03
but the tie joined their good friends from Auburn,
01:08
Duke as well, and Iowa State.
01:10
Even though they lost, again, they hung on.
01:13
There aren't any other two seeds beyond Alabama
01:15
that are saying, we've got to be in.
01:17
Marquette might have, except they lost as well
01:20
over the weekend to Xavier.
01:22
So those are your four number-one seeds.
01:24
I think one of the interesting things, Scott,
01:27
is how desperately, last night,
01:29
I looked for a 68th team, effectively, the last team in.
01:34
It's nearly impossible.
01:36
They're talking about expanding this bracket to 72 or 76.
01:40
There are not 72 or 76 teams
01:43
that are worthy of being in the NCAA tournament.
01:46
There aren't now, and there won't be by mid-March.
01:49
It's just, it's a preposterous conceit.
01:52
You know, the funny thing is,
01:53
the whole idea was that Greg Sankey was worried
01:56
because they expanded to 16 teams in the SEC
01:58
that they wouldn't get enough, and I think I have 12 now.
02:02
And I think the last time Paul did it, he had 13.
02:06
So it's a ridiculous conceit.
02:08
It really is. There's no need to expand it.
02:11
The big conferences, the ones that are the best,
02:13
the Big Ten, the SEC,
02:14
they're going to get all the bids they can use,
02:17
and everybody else is just going to have to fight
02:19
for what's left.
02:21
They think that the irony, of course,
02:23
is that in the Atlantic Ten and some other leagues,
02:25
they think, well, if we expand it,
02:26
there'll be more for us.
02:27
Nope, there won't be more for you.
02:29
It'll just be more for the SEC.
02:31
So don't ruin the event by expanding to 72 or 68.
02:37
It's not even ruining the event.
02:38
It ruins this. It ruins this season
02:40
because anybody that can bounce a ball three times
02:43
without knocking it off their foot
02:45
will get into a 72 or 76-team tournament.
02:49
I agree. Your twos are Marquette, Kentucky,
02:52
Purdue, and Tennessee.
02:53
Your threes are Oregon, Florida,
02:55
Kansas, and Michigan State.
02:56
Your fours are Houston, Illinois, Memphis, and Ole Miss.
03:00
I'll tell you what.
03:01
I watched that Illinois team beat the hell out of Indiana.
03:04
I saw them lose at the Breslin by a bucket.
03:07
I think they're really tough.
03:10
They're really good.
03:12
Yaka Shona, their freshman point guard, so talented,
03:15
fouled out, did not play well in that Michigan State game.
03:18
They're not the same team without him.
03:20
The fifth foul was a silly foul.
03:22
He had a couple of tough ones called on him.
03:24
When I say silly, he should not have committed it.
03:26
I mean, not a silly call on the ref,
03:28
but silly foul by him.
03:29
But he's a freshman.
03:30
Got to learn from that.
03:31
But he's a phenomenal playmaker.
03:34
And when he's out there,
03:35
Illinois is really tough to deal with.
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