Pardon My Take
Jon Rothstein Breaking Down The NCAA Tournament, We Have Our Brackets In Our Hands Ready For The Best Week + Who's Back Of The Week
Mon, 17 Mar 2025
The brackets have arrived. We talk about who got screwed and go through the matchups and celebrate one of the best sports weeks of the year. Hank also may be a little hungover from St Patricks day but we get his picks and they may be genius (00:00:00-00:52:09). Who's back of the week including one of the dumbest debates weve had about a video posted by MLB account (00:52:09-01:11:10). Jon Rothstein joins the show to talk Tournament, how each region is going to go, saying "This Is March" as he paces around in his house, how many coaches he texts, and who's going to win it all (01:11:10-02:00:42). We wrap up with some breaking news about the Bengals and say. goodbye to Oldie (02:00:42-02:14:23).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 are the highlights of the NCAA Tournament brackets?
They ask them to? So they have a lead in?
I think it's the TV. The TV networks dictate that.
Because it's so late that the committee is forced to ignore the results of the Big Ten Championship. Correct. No matter what.
But that's CBS.
Yeah.
I mean, they want a game going into the bracket reveal, and they have rights to the Big Ten.
Yeah.
So I'm sure the Big Ten would like to be like, hey, can we play this game on Saturday? And CBS is like, no, we need this right before.
So I think Louisville finished the season 20-2. Yeah. They were 14th in the AP, and they were 23rd in the net, and they got an eight seed.
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Chapter 2: Which teams got snubbed or benefited from the selection process?
One last ride. St. Bonnie's against Kent State. And then Stanford against CSUN.
Cal State Northridge.
No Indiana? Do they just deny the bid? They might be in the crown. No, they're in the crown. They're in the crown, dude.
You've got to understand how important the crown is. You don't get the crown. I left off one leg of the bracket. Then we have UC Irvine, Northern Colorado, Georgia Tech against Jacksonville State, St. Joseph's against UAB, Santa Clara against UC Riverside. The NIT.
It's going to be about the crown. Who's the biggest Power 5 team in the NIT this year?
I respect Georgia Tech. It looks like the ACC is the only Power 5.
Georgia Tech, Stanford, SMU. Oklahoma State.
Yeah. Okay. Damn.
And then Hank's Furman.
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Chapter 3: Why is the Big Ten Championship scheduled so late?
Why wouldn't they love JJ?
I don't know. They drafted him. But it seems weird that they're waiting for Aaron Rodgers to make his decision if they were really that convinced that JJ was their guy, right?
I read it as the Vikings. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know what's going to end up happening. Oh, so it is a real highlight.
It's a real highlight with AI. The footage is AI.
Apologize. No, it's a real highlight that they were like, if this looked like video games, then kids would like watching it. So let's just turn the real highlight into a video game. Apologize.
The angle is AI. The footage is real. What does that mean? Look at it. I've seen it.
Look at the difference between the two things. video yeah and where would be there's no there's no camera behind look at his look at his jersey it's like there's no camera behind dancy swanson it lags the jerk like the middle of his torso lags
It could just be a super wide lens, super long lens.
Yeah, it could be a super long lens. Look at his belt.
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Chapter 4: What are the predictions for the South Region of the NCAA Tournament?
That's what Kelvin Sampson reminds me of. He's a much kinder man than Martin Koval as in the Karate Kid, but he has that same type of fierce kind of presence.
Does that guy win in Karate Kid?
He doesn't win, and if you remember at the start of Karate Kid 2, his knuckles bleed because he punches them through a car when he gets in a fight with Mr. Miyagi.
Yeah, that guy rocks. So, yeah, you mentioned Will Wade. We were actually just talking about Will Wade earlier today. Will Wade, any chance, if you're Villanova, any chance you're picking up the phone, giving Will Wade a call?
I don't think Villanova is the school to give Will Wade a call, but I will say this. We have seen a number of big-time coaches get second chances for off-the-court issues, and there's many programs that are coached by them now in this NCAA tournament, and those programs are thriving. Bruce Beard at Ole Miss, Rick Pitino at St. John's, Bruce Pearl at Auburn, Kelvin Sampson at Houston.
The school that hires Will Wade is going to be the school that falls next in that line. Think about this. Here's a couple of things on Will Wade I was thinking about. I talked about it tonight on our show. Will Wade is the only coach in Shaka Smart to win an NCAA tournament game at VCU.
Will Wade won the SEC regular season title at LSU, and Will Wade, since he took the McNeese job in two years, is 57 and 10. I know that things were very sloppy at LSU, but a lot of those things are legal right now. So the school that hires him is going to be on an upward trajectory moving forward, and I'm going to have to come up with a new tagline for him.
Yeah. I mean, all this stuff that he got in trouble for is stuff that is actually legal, and it's an advantage if your coach can do those things well right now. They also have, I think, the best student manager of anybody.
Yeah. Oh, he's a star. Yeah. Amir Khan is a star. Yeah.
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