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🏀✏️NCAA Tournament preview/mega-pod spectacular: Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander pick every March Madness game and reveal their brackets!

·1 hr 19 min·5 clips

Bracket season gets the full treatment, and the show wastes little time getting into the annual picks ritual: every game called, every shaky read left sitting there for later ridicule. Listeners are nudged to play along through the Paramount+ bracket challenge, with shout-outs and reminders to get entries in before the Thursday deadline. Then the board starts getting messy. The sharpest call is Maryland over Florida on the way to the Elite Eight. It is a one-seed upset, but not a reckless one. The logic comes from tournament history: the ones and twos rarely all reach the Sweet 16, and one-seeds do not all make the Elite Eight very often. Maryland's crab five gets the nod. Todd Golden is treated as a coach still waiting on his first NCAA tournament win, and the question quickly becomes how far Florida can go once that box is checked. St. John's over Drake is next, setting up an all-red Maryland and St. John's Elite Eight lane. GP and his co-host also land on Auburn and St. John's for the Final Four. The St. John's case has teeth: four losses by only seven total points, a defense that keeps squeezing, and a habit of turning second-half deficits into pressure, tired legs, and ugly comebacks. The close returns to the bracket challenge, Paramount+, viewer names, subscriptions, and more tournament reaction.

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Bracket picks, upset calls, and just enough doubt to keep things honest.

This annual bracket picks episode goes all in on tournament mode. Every game gets a call, and the hosts are open about the fact that the whole thing can look smart by Sunday night or fall apart fast. The best part is the tension they keep between confidence and caution.

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Lock in your bracket with every game picked and argued through before Thursday's deadline.

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