Pardon My Take
Filling Out Brackets With Mark Titus, The Dumbest Fun Facts For Every Tournament Team, Hot Seat/Cool Throne And More
Wed, 19 Mar 2025
The tournament has finally arrived and we try something different this year where we come up with the dumbest fun facts for every team in the field. Ever wonder which school had a tragic train accident 100 years ago? What city is the furniture capital of the world? What MLB team sued a college for copyright infringement? Who Max’s friend’s sister is an assistant for? Well you’ve come to the right place. Stuff you head with the dumbest facts (00:00:00-01:21:50). We then do hot seat cool throne (01:21:50-01:32:55). And then Mark Titus joins us in studio to fill out our bracket and talk about the actual matchups and who is better at basketball, including a Dan Hurley debate and whether or not Duke can ever be likable (01:32:55-02:49:11). We finish with lottery ball numbers (02:49:11-02:54:08).You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/pardon-my-take
Chapter 1: What unique fun facts exist about tournament teams?
When you're a Bubba, that's cool to be like, hey, I'm Bubba, so we should take that away from him and be like, no, dude, you're Lawrence. You're Lawrence Cunningham. You're a complete no-name Lawrence. You remember your Bubbas.
I feel like this is on whoever the committee is, the NCAA, for putting Bubba in charge of everything. You don't put a Bubba in the position of leadership. Bubba brings the beers.
Well, it's also copied by them where they're like, we're UNC. We'll never be on the Bubba Walk.
Right. And, oh, yeah, we get $100,000 if we make the tournament. That's not a conflict of interest or anything.
It's bullshit. I think he gets, like, anywhere between $40,000 and $60,000. And the reason why they do what they say is because if you make the tournament, then the AD has to work overtime. Yeah. So he deserves to be compensated for that.
Yeah. So UNC probably will win, and they'll probably go to the Sweet 16, and everyone will be like, yeah, you didn't think they should be in the tournament. And then Alabama State won.
yeah i'm just guessing yeah alabama state st francis i was looking i did research into these teams earlier yeah so i've got fun facts about them as fun as they can get about alabama state and st francis but yeah who they're gonna lose yeah i i don't know who it was i saw it on uh x everything app so apologies uh if this was you but i i like the take that
the playing game should be bubble teams and not... Agreed. It shouldn't be 16 seeds.
What's the point? We've been saying that on this here program.
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Chapter 2: How do Hot Seat and Cool Throne segments work?
And Auburn saw one of the coolest college football traditions that I've seen.
Yeah.
The war eagle flying. Yeah.
Yeah. Very cool. Now, if we saw that today, we would say that's a bad omen for Auburn if the eagle just decided to unalive itself. Yeah.
It's like that Central Park pigeon or whatever.
Oh, are you talking about Flacco? Flacco. Flacco the owl. Yeah, but he was a slut. Remember? He was a slut. He was fucking everything. He had herpes, owl herpes. He also might have been taken out.
Yeah.
I didn't have eyeballs on Hillary at the time. Okay. That was a great start. Is that a fun fact?
Well, I didn't know. I knew they said War Eagle, but I never looked it up.
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Chapter 3: Who is better at basketball: Mark Titus discusses bracket picks
Thank you. Who do you have coming out of this region? The funnest fact out of this region? Who do you have coming out of this region? Oh, I've got Michigan State coming out of this region. I've got Michigan State against Auburn.
Okay. Hank, are you up next? I think so. Duke? Florida. Oh. Max, you're up next. Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ.
duke we're going to the east we're going across okay okay i thought we were going to go to hang too that's okay okay we can we can no no i'm good i'm ready to go i'm ready to go i'm ready to go i'm ready who's more ready to go me uh he said that faster i've already i've already told you guys this fun fact i don't know if i told all four of you we're starting with duke and my friend's sister is john shire's assistant at duke yes that's pretty cool so how close are friends
um we played baseball together in college do you keep up he was in chicago last year we got dinner okay so so fairly like yeah you could get us john shire on the show yeah okay yes love that i could get it i could yes i will say yes okay that is a very fun fact fun fact what is john shire translate to hank oh i got one what no i'm waiting for hank
Bilbo's son.
I don't know who Bilbo is.
Bilbo Baggins? Shire? I don't know. Okay.
Is that it? What do you got, PFT?
I was just going to say SiriusXM 2015 bathroom.
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Chapter 4: What are some legendary upsets and Cinderella stories in NCAA history?
Utah State's sneaking in there.
Yeah. Okay. First matchup, Houston versus SIU Edwardsville. Houston, speaking of, has the most Final Four appearances without a national title. So they've been to the Final Four six times. They've never won the title. The next in line for them is Illinois and Oklahoma. Both have been to five, never won a title.
Also, Lil Wayne attended University of Houston for a year in 2005, majored in political science. So shout out political science majors.
I did not know that. Pretty cool. Let's get him talking some poli. So I was Stephen A. Smith.
Yeah, then he had to drop out, and he went to the University of Phoenix and finished his degree. SIU Edwardsville. What? What? I don't know if he finished his degree, but he went to the University of Phoenix after. Lil Wayne went to Houston? He went to Houston. He enrolled in Houston, and allegedly was getting good grades. That's what it said. Wow. 2005 to 2005, poli-sci major.
Pretty fun fact, huh? Yeah, that is a very fun fact. SIU Edwardsville. It is the first ever NCAA tournament appearance for them because they became D1. Hank still doesn't believe it, by the way. I saw that. Right there.
He was like putting music out there.
Yeah, I know. You can do both. You can do both. He probably saw higher education and was like, I was wildly misled by this title.
Yeah. And left. This is our first ever tournament, NCAA tournament appearance. They became D1 in 2008. Also, if you want to get a little cheeky at the bar, say you like the Cougars in this game.
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Chapter 5: What is the significance of team mascots and traditions?
montana's ass that's montana certified ass so we got we got screwed in the location i would rather play montana than lipscomb yeah lipscomb's like you're right about that kind of kind of plucky montana i know they can shoot threes but they've played two power four teams they got fucking smoke dude you're you're fine there byu is an interest byu vcu would be interesting i think vcu might win vcu might win that game um they're so annoying they are annoying you're not a byu lever
I actually picked BYU to beat Wisconsin.
That's fine.
I picked BYU to beat VCU and Wisconsin. But I said on my show last night that BYU-VCU, I want BYU to just play all-time offense and have VCU guard them and annoy them. And if VCU gets a stop, they get like two points.
And when I say VCU is annoying, I just want to be on the record because I don't want Dukes' VCU guy to come after me and prison fuck me. Annoying in a good way. You don't want to play them. They annoy their opponent.
They're not fun to play against. But yeah, BYU-Wisconsin, if BYU gets past VCU, that's a sexy matchup. That's a very fuckable matchup. That's a lot of offense, a lot of threes. I like Wisconsin's draw, though. I like this Wisconsin team. You know that, Dan.
Yeah, you do.
I think this is not a – if you have not been paying attention to Wisconsin this year, this is not your daddy's Badgers. Nope. This is a completely retooled Wisconsin team. showing in the Big Ten tournament for what Wisconsin basketball is this year.
In the final.
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