The Ringer's Tate Frazier shares his picks for the 2025 NCAA tournament (1:44) before he's joined by Anthony Dabbundo to discuss his betting approach to the tournament, favorite favorites, upsets by region, number of 1-seeds to reach the Final Four, his title pick, and more (14:50). Finally Tate and Cousin Sal pick Wednesday's play-in games, make some tournament futures bets, discuss Sal's Round 1 watch party in Las Vegas, and more (55:41).

Host: Tate Frazier

Guests: Anthony Dabbundo and Cousin Sal

Producer: Kyle Crichton

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It's a bracket deep-dive pod! The Ringer's Tate Frazier is joined by Eamonn Brennan to discuss today's dominating story of UNC sneaking into the field, most popular potential upset games, including UCSD-Michigan, Colorado State-Memphis, Purdue-High Point, and VCU-BYU (2:19), tournament coaching carousel candidates, top five games to watch on Thursday and Friday, Final Four leans, and more (28:48). Then Tate talks with ESPN's Kevin Connors about this year's Cinderella candidates, including Saint Mary's, New Mexico, Drake, VCU, Yale, and more (52:24).

Host: Tate Frazier

Guests: Eamonn Brennan and Kevin Connors

Producer: Kyle Crichton

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The Ringer's Tate Frazier is joined by J. Kyle Mann and Steven Ruiz to share their instant reactions to the bracket unveiling for the 2025 NCAA Tournament! They run through their first impressions of all four 1-seeds and discuss the main characters of the tournament (1:43), before identifying some wild-card contenders, tournament snubs, and giving their initial Final Four picks (48:43).

Host: Tate Frazier

Guests: J. Kyle Mann and Steven Ruiz

Producer: Kyle Crichton

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The Ringer's Tate Frazier runs through some of the biggest stories from the conference tournaments, including Cooper Flagg's injury against Georgia Tech, Louisville's Chucky Hepburn's walk-off buzzer-beater vs. Stanford, Otega Oweh burying his former school again, and DePaul-Creighton's double-overtime ending (1:41). Next, Tate talks with Gordon Hayward about being at the Big East Tournament in MSG, Butler's 2010 and 2011 tournament runs, the evolution of the Butler basketball brand, and more (22:34). Finally, Tate closes the show with some games to watch (37:42) and shout-outs, including early conference tournament winners, Tommy DeVito's agent's Marist basketball curse, the beginning of portal season, and more (45:18).

Host: Tate Frazier

Guest: Gordon Hayward

Producer: Kyle Crichton

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The Ringer’s Tate Frazier runs through the seven teams that have already punched their tickets to March Madness and makes his picks for some upcoming conference tournaments, including the AAC, ACC, Big 12, Big East, and SEC clashes (3:05). Then he discusses the “fatal floaters” of the weekend from St. John’s–Marquette and Auburn-Alabama, as well as his observations from the second row of Duke-UNC. He gives his thoughts on NC State's decision to part ways with head coach Kevin Keatts and Sunday’s Michigan–Michigan State “dustup” (18:12). Next, Tate is joined by ESPN’s Jeremy Schaap to discuss E60’s ‘The Other Hurley,’ premiering on Saturday. They talk about Dan Hurley’s basketball royalty family, his struggles as a player at Seton Hall in the early ’90s, his early coaching journey, his meteoric rise at UConn, his fall from favor with the media this season, and more (39:54). Finally, Tate closes the show with some shout-outs for Steph Curry, who became assistant general manager of Davidson basketball; new head coaches at Miami and Florida State; Division I basketball’s oldest arena turns 100; and more (1:12:05).

Host: Tate Frazier

Guest: Jeremy Schaap

Producer: Kyle Crichton

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The Ringer's Tate Frazier quickly airs his grievances with the sheer volume of "bubble" discourse (1:53), before talking with Noah Eagle of NBC Sports about calling the upcoming Big East tournament, MSG magic, Noah's Big East roots, as well as the NBA on NBC returning, calling Steph Curry's gold medal game at the Paris Olympics, and what Syracuse needs to do to get back on track (9:20). Finally, Tate makes his picks for the first wave of conference tournaments, including ASUN, Missouri Valley, Big Sky, Big South, WCC, and more, before pointing out the games to watch this weekend (41:27), and closing the show with some shoutouts, including Texas A&M toppling no. 1 Auburn, Jay Bilas and Dan Shulman jumping ship to call the SEC tournament, and Rick Pitino's appearance on 'The Tonight Show' (51:41).

Host: Tate Frazier

Guest: Noah Eagle

Producer: Kyle Crichton

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The Ringer's Tate Frazier is joined by Terrence Oglesby to discuss Auburn thrashing Kentucky and the ABC broadcast outage, Jahmai Mashack's buzzer-beater in Tennessee's 79-76 win over Alabama, a possible three-way tie in the ACC, controversy over whether 'College GameDay' should be in Chapel Hill for Duke-UNC, St. John's winning the Big East for the first time in 40 years, and more (1:24). Then Tate closes the show with some games to watch this week (44:20), and shout-outs, including Maryland basketball's anonymous $10M donation, Vanderbilt ripping off another Top 25 win, and more (52:58).

Host: Tate Frazier

Guest: Terrence Oglesby

Producer: Kyle Crichton

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The Ringer’s Tate Frazier is joined by Eamonn Brennan to reexamine the importance of preseason rankings in the NIL and transfer portal era, Wooden Award watch between Cooper Flagg and Johni Broome, Otega Oweh scoring 28 points vs. his former school in Kentucky’s 83-82 win over Oklahoma, Maryland’s heartbreaking loss to Michigan State, interesting final week story lines, and more (1:25). Then Tate runs through the games to watch over the weekend (37:21), before closing the show with some shout-outs, including Rick Pitino's Big East conquest, SEC-leading scorer Tre Johnson, a day in the life of Doug Gottlieb, and more (43:15).

Host: Tate Frazier

Guest: Eamonn Brennan

Producer: Kyle Crichton

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The Ringer's Tate Frazier is joined by Jon Rothstein of CBS Sports to discuss St. John's landslide victory over UConn at MSG, the Rick Pitino effect, Cooper Flagg and Duke's annihilation of Illinois, NPOY and Coach of the Year watch, staunch opposition to the proposed tournament expansion, and more (1:30)! Next, Tate litigates the controversial ending of Arizona-BYU and discusses the games to watch this week (32:53) before closing the show with some shout-outs, including VCU rolling, Oregon collecting another Quad 1 win, Bobby Knight's chair, and more (43:22).

Host: Tate Frazier

Guest: Jon Rothstein

Producer: Kyle Crichton

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The Ringer's Tate Frazier is joined by Steven Ruiz to discuss the "Crab Five" Maryland Terrapins, Missouri's shocking upset of Alabama (1:22), HC openings at Indiana and Miami, hot seat candidates, back-to-back down years for Kansas, and John Calipari's first season at Arkansas (23:08). Finally, Tate closes the show with games to watch this weekend (53:47) and some shout-outs (1:04:12).

Host: Tate Frazier

Guest: Steven Ruiz

Producer: Kyle Crichton

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