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

·1 hr 19 min

1. Good Ole Podcast: A Virginia Athletics Podcast centers this episode on a full Men's March Madness bracket preview, with Gary Parish and Matt Norlander mapping picks across the East, South, and West regions. 2. Gary Parish and Matt Norlander host the show as CBS Sports college basketball commentators, and their bracket rankings matter because they are openly comparing bracket picks with the CBS Sports site and app. 3. The episode asks which teams can survive 67 games of tournament picks, and Parish says he intends to go “sixty seven and oh” while Norlander keeps steering the discussion back to bracket logic. 4. The East Region opens with Duke over Siena, Ohio State over TCU, St. John’s over Northern Iowa, Kansas over Cal Baptist, South Florida over Louisville, Michigan State over North Dakota State, UCLA over UCF, and UConn over Morehead State. 5. Parish and Norlander repeatedly revisit South Florida versus Louisville, with Parish noting Brian Hodgson’s Buffalo connection and Norlander saying the Bulls have been playing “extremely well over the past two months.” 6. The East second round moves Duke past Ohio State, St. John’s past Kansas, Michigan State past Louisville, and UConn past UCLA before the bracket reaches a Duke-St. John’s Sweet 16 matchup. 7. Parish picks St. John’s over Duke despite Duke’s higher seed, citing Caleb Foster’s injury and Patrick Ngongba not having played recently. 8. In the East Elite Eight, Parish takes St. John’s over UConn, while Norlander takes UConn over St. John’s and sends the Huskies to Indianapolis. 9. The South Region starts with Florida, Clemson over Iowa, Vanderbilt over McNeese, Nebraska over Troy, VCU over North Carolina, Illinois over Penn, St. Mary’s over Texas A&M, and Houston over Idaho. 10. Parish and Norlander spend real time on Vanderbilt-McNeese, Nebraska-Troy, and UNC-VCU, with VCU described as “16 and one in their past 17” and Nebraska discussed as a program trying to get its first NCAA tournament win. 11. In the South second round, both hosts eventually lean to Florida over either Clemson or Iowa, Vanderbilt over Nebraska, Illinois over VCU, and Houston over St. Mary’s. 12. Parish describes Florida, Vanderbilt, Illinois, and Houston as a group that could produce “a grown man varsity game,” especially if Houston meets Illinois in the Sweet 16. 13. The South regional final becomes Florida versus Houston, and Parish takes Houston because he believes Florida has an unfair travel disadvantage as the No. 1 seed. 14. Parish says he is arguing for “new and improved bracketing principles,” and he says Florida fans can complain about having to play what he calls a road game. 15. In the West Region, Arizona advances, Villanova and Utah State are debated as an eight-nine game, Wisconsin faces High Point, and the bracket discussion veers into a long side conversation about the Suez Canal and Panama Canal. 16. Parish flips from Utah State to Villanova because he thinks too many people are taking Utah State, while Norlander jokes that he stays up with MJ Collins more than he stays with his family. 17. The tone is loose and argumentative, with both hosts joking about Instagram comments, bracket group chats, and the way strangers call them idiots after they post picks. 18. The format is a running bracket walk-through rather than a formal interview, and the hosts interrupt themselves often to clarify seed lines, site locations, and coaching matchups. 19. Listeners who follow college basketball brackets, seed upsets, and tournament-style debate will get the most out of this episode. 20. Listeners who want a tightly edited, ad-free, game-by-game analysis without banter will probably skip it.

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A fast, talkative bracket preview that leans on matchup details more than tidy certainty.

This episode is an annual bracket preview with Gary Parish and Matt Norlander, and it keeps moving. The focus stays on specific matchups like Florida-Houston and Clemson-Iowa, with the hosts weighing defense, player-vs-player edges, and what each region might do.

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You want a fast read on the annual bracket preview and the matchups it circles.

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