West Region Preview: Notable Matchups & Predictions

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00:00You have maybe the most dangerous team in the country, in Florida, as the one seed in the West region.

00:05Then you have the two time reigning champions as the eighth seed in Yukon.

00:10You got the champions of the American, Memphis.

00:12You have maybe the hottest team in college basketball, winners of 10 straight as the 12th seed in Colorado State.

00:18You've got a very talented Maryland team.

00:20You've got a Grand Canyon team that has made it to the big dance in four or five years under Bryce Drew.

00:25Missouri in the turnaround year-over-year by Dennis Gates.

00:29They had zero wins in 19 games at SEC play a year ago.

00:33Now a sixth seed, we talked about Drake.

00:35Texas Tech is the three seed.

00:37UNC Wilmington, the champions out of the coastal, led by a very talented young head coach into Tao Siddle.

00:43Kansas, the preseason number one team against John Calipari in Arkansas in your 7-10 opening round matchup.

00:51St. John's and all the notoriety following the Red Storm and Rick Pitino.

00:55And hide all the trash cans.

00:57The Omaha Mavericks enter the big dance for the first time in program history.

01:01J.Y., we just laid it all out right there.

01:04Which headline comes to your mind first and foremost?

01:06That's it?

01:07Yeah.

01:09That's all we got?

01:10How much time we got?

01:11We could spend the next three hours just talking about this bracket right here.

01:14But the biggest storyline is Providence.

01:18And to see that, I mean, did you and anybody have it on their bingo card

01:23that St. John's was going to be a two seed?

01:25I knew they were going to be better.

01:27After Pitino ripped his team last year, I didn't expect this.

01:30Did I expect the Kansas team that was number one in the country getting Zeke Mayo and A.J. Storm?

01:35Did I expect them to be a seven seed?

01:37Absolutely not.

01:38Did I expect Arkansas to be a 10?

01:40No, of course not.

01:41So to me, that matchup, Pitino versus Self or Pitino versus Calipari,

01:50that is the matchup made of heaven.

01:53And that's probably going to be, whatever it is,

01:56that's probably going to be like the Sunday prime time spot.

02:00They want that game because of the star power on the bench.