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O’Regan says the Sun Belt should copy the A-10 and make every team play each other once.

A coach joins Bennett Conlin and Jack Fitzpatrick for a March-heavy conversation. It opens with a long, goofy riff about John Rothstein, his March energy, and the idea that his tweets are probably scheduled ahead of time until the tournament brings him back to life. The tone is loose from the start. After the jokes, the interview turns to conference scheduling and the case for playing every team once. The coach pushes back on skipping opponents in the regular season and says the eight, 10 model feels more fair. He likes a setup where a rival is played twice, the teams around the projected finish get a second meeting, and everyone else at least shows up once. That kind of structure, he argues, can also help with net value and keeps the league from getting strange if the same matchup shows up again in the championship two years in a row. The conversation gets more specific after that. He walks through what advance scouting looks like when a staff is preparing for Troy without having faced them earlier in the year. One assistant is already on Troy, and the job becomes a long watch project instead of a quick glance. The staff also had to adjust because the styles were so different. They went through zone offense, man offense, and press work. The week ends up feeling like a blend of old scouting habits and new problem-solving. Later, the episode moves into bracket chatter and conference predictions, including South Atlantic Conference action and a quick detour into Virginia Union. It wraps with the usual reminders to subscribe, rate, review, and follow the show.

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A loose March conversation that gets strongest when the bracket talk turns practical.

The episode starts as a loose March hangout, moving from John Rothstein jokes into the useful stuff: scheduling, scouting, and the odd math of preparing for opponents that may not show up until the bracket tightens.

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