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🏀Men’s March Madness Bracket Preview Extravaganza: Picks, predictions for ALL 67 games ✍️

·1 hr 19 min·2 clips

The hosts imagine Mick Cronin glaring at the Statue of Liberty, the Rocky statue and the Liberty Bell during UCLA's Philadelphia trip.

1. CBS Sports' I Own College Basketball podcast devotes its annual Monday bracket preview to picking all 67 games of the men's NCAA tournament, separate from the Sunday-night bracket breakdown. 2. Hosts Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander split picks, with Norlander following the CBS Sports expert bracket and Parrish promising a 'sixty-seven and oh' run he abandons once he picks St. John's. 3. The thesis is that picks should embrace fun and counter-consensus value, with Norlander calling UConn 'a good value play here in your office pool'. 4. In the East, Parrish takes Ohio State over TCU, St. John's over Northern Iowa, Kansas over Cal Baptist, Louisville over South Florida, and Michigan State over North Dakota State, while Norlander picks South Florida despite saying 'I hate going all chalk'. 5. Parrish's East path sends the 5-seed Red Storm past Duke, whose Caleb Foster is 'surgically repaired, but not ready', and past UConn to the Final Four, citing St. John's 19-1 record in its past 20. 6. In the South, the hosts debate Vanderbilt-McNeese, Nebraska-Troy, and VCU-North Carolina, with both taking 11th-seeded VCU after UNC's two straight losses without Caleb Wilson. 7. The Nebraska pick hinges on the Cornhuskers needing their first NCAA tournament win, and Parrish carries them past Troy before ending their run against Florida in the Sweet 16. 8. Both hosts pick Houston over Florida in the regional final, with Parrish saying the Gators play 'at an incredible disadvantage' because the Cougars host in their home arena. 9. The West segment starts with Arizona advancing, Norlander flipping to Villanova over Utah State because 'there's way too many people on Utah State', and High Point's 30-4 record and 14-game win streak. 10. College basketball fans filling out office-pool brackets will get the most from this.

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