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00:02 - The committee didn't sit down
00:04 at the beginning of last week and go,
00:06 you know what, we're gonna have five teams
00:08 win their conference tournaments
00:10 that we had no idea that was gonna happen.
00:12 NC State, Oregon, Duquesne, et cetera.
00:16 That's a tough spot for them
00:17 to wedge those teams in after that.
00:19 - It is, it doesn't stop anybody from complaining, Mike.
00:22 And to me, the thing that rings most hollow
00:26 about all those complaints is,
00:29 Joe Linardi's on television, I'm on television,
00:31 Jerry Palm is on television,
00:34 on the major networks that cover college basketball.
00:36 And we're telling you what's going to happen.
00:39 We're saying, here is what's going to happen.
00:41 And then the bracket is up there
00:43 and we told you it was going to happen.
00:45 And you're still like, how did that happen?
00:48 Well, why would you be surprised?
00:50 If the weatherman says there's going to be rain
00:55 and you see the weather report and it rains
00:57 and you're shocked, then it's on you.
01:00 And so if you're not paying attention
01:03 to what is being instructed to you
01:05 by people who are living in this space for three to four,
01:10 and in Joe's case, 12 months a year,
01:12 I wouldn't want to be doing those brackets in April,
01:14 I'm sorry.
01:16 But when you are living in that space,
01:19 we've all studied this
01:20 and we all have varying degrees of efficacy
01:23 from year to year, but Joe got 67 out of 68.
01:27 I got 67 out of 68.
01:29 Almost everybody that does an online bracket
01:32 got at least 66.
01:35 There's no shocks.
01:37 The only shock was the continuing accident, so to speak,
01:42 that was the bid steal situation.
01:46 But if you paid attention to what we did,
01:48 we told you, these are the first four out.
01:51 When the bid steals happen, that wipes them all out.
01:55 These are the last four in.
01:56 When the bid steal happens, that wipes them all out.
01:58 So there was nothing shocking
02:01 about the presence of teams in the field.
02:04 The Virginia selection was surprising
02:08 because most of the bracket analysts
02:10 were projecting Oklahoma or someone else.
02:13 Virginia was fairly low on that list,
02:16 but they were on that list.
02:18 So even their inclusion can't be viewed as a total surprise.
02:23 And there were some really very curious seedings.
02:27 And so I'm open to gripes about that.
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