College Basketball Talk on NBC Sports Podcast

Sam Vecenie of the Athletic and the Game Theory podcast stopped by to chat with Rob Dauster about the Sweet 16 round of the NCAA tournament. The two went through each of the eight Sweet 16 matchups, detailing how each one of those eight games projects to play out and going over which lines -- spread and over-unders -- they like.

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Eamonn Brennan of The Athletic joined Rob Dauster for an epic, two-hour podcast on the first weekend of the tournament. It was so good that we had to split the podcast into two parts. On this show, the two go through everything that happened in the East and Midwest Regions, from Villanova and Duke steamrolling to Michigan State collapsing to Syracuse and Clemson and Texas Tech and Purdue. It's all in there.

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Eamonn Brennan of The Athletic joined Rob Dauster for an epic, two-hour podcast on the first weekend of the tournament. It was so good that we had to split the podcast into two parts. On this show, the two go through everything that happened in the South and West Regions, from Sister Jean to UMBC to Nevada's comebacks to Kentucky's chances at a Final Four.

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Dalen Cuff joined Rob Dauster for the final bracket breakdown episode, and you can tell the guys were wired because they ended up on tangents talking about the Ivy League, Joel Berry II crying and Harry Kane's (who?) ankle. Anyway, there is plenty of NCAA tournament goodness in this pod. The rundown:

OPEN: Dalen doesn't drink coffee, and a deep dive into Virginia, Deandre Hunter and what his injury means.

9:35: Can Penn upset Kansas turns into a fascinating discussion about power dynamics in the Ivy League.

18:45: Who is this year's Shabazz Napier?

23:25: Who is this year's Adam Morrison?

25:00: So what's going on with this West Region?

34:15: Lightning Round Questions!

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Jeff Borzello of ESPN.com fame joined Rob Dauster on the podcast today to talk through the Coaching Carousel, the bracket reveal and some bracket advice Q-and-A. Spoiler alert: Jeff LOVED the bracket reveal, and he tries to justify that opinion unsuccessfully.

OPEN: What did the Selection Committee get wrong with seeding and bubble teams?

10:25: Jeff tries to justify his love for the bracket reveal.

15:15: UConn, Georgia, Pitt and Memphis. Who should they hire? Who will they hire?

26:45: Bracket Breakdown Q-and-A!

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Brian Snow joined Rob Dauster for another stirring rendition of the Why Your Team Sucks podcast, only this time they breakdown the entire NCAA tournament bracket, giving picks for every single game and even giving you a full bracket to use for your convenience. The rundown:

OPEN: The South Region

17:35: The West Region

33:15: The Midwest Region

48:20: The East Region

1:00:50: The Final Four

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Fresh off of covering the Big Ten tournament Rob Dauster was joined by Brendan Quinn, The Athletic Detroit's beat-writer for both Michigan and Michigan State hoops, to talk about John Beilein's run to a Big Ten title for the second straight season. Dauster was also joined by Sam Vecenie of the Game Theory podcast who walked us through Duke's win over North Carolina, Cincinnati winning the American and Florida knocking off Kentucky. The rundown:

OPEN: Michigan hired a defensive coordinator this season. We wrote about that here. Brendan talked about it on the podcast.

13:15: Why is John Beilein such a good tournament coach?

18:20: Duke is the best team in college basketball. They just are.

31:45: Cincinnati won the American. Can they get to the Final Four?

38:30: Neither Florida nor Kentucky make sense. So we try to talk it out.

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Rob Dauster was joined by Pat Forde of Yahoo Sports for Friday's podcast, and they delved into everything that there is to know about the scandals that have been erupting all over the college basketball world over the course of the last week, from Sean Miller and Allonzo Trier's return to Arizona to Forde's reporting on the FBI investigation into college basketball corruption. Rob was also joined by Reags from the Fundamentally Sound podcast to work through everything that is happening this weekend.

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Former Purdue star and current ESPN and Big Ten Network broadcaster Robbie Hummel joined Rob Dauster to talk through the upcoming Big Ten tournament, the adjustment that comes with moving behind the microphone and what makes guarding Kevin Kevin Durant so terrifying. Robbie also has a terrific story about Matt Painter and waffles.

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CJ Moore, a writer for The Athletic and for Bleacher Report, joined Rob Dauster on Monday morning to work through everything that happened is a weird weekend in college basketball, from the alleged payments that were made to Miles Bridges, Wendell Carter and a handful of other elite basketball players to Sean Miller allegedly being caught discussing a payment to Deandre Ayton on a wiretap to the actual hoops! Duke, Kansas, Kentucky and more.

The rundown:

OPEN: What do we make of the stars implicated in this playing on Saturday?

18:41: Sean Miller, Deandre Ayton and Christian Dawkins. What in the world is going on here?

33:30: This is Bill Self's best coaching job ever.

42:00: Duke is the best team in the country,.

48:07: Kentucky is going to the Final Four.

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