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00:00In the West region, the Gators earned the number one seed.
00:03They'll take on Norfolk State.
00:05Again, I mean, number one seeds do lose occasionally.
00:08I mean, we had it never happen,
00:09and then all of a sudden it kind of happened here,
00:11and the Gators are my team,
00:12so I'm not gonna root for that.
00:14St. John's 18 and a half point favorites against Omaha.
00:17UNC Wilmington, not a stranger
00:19to the tournament through the years.
00:20They play Texas Tech.
00:22UConn, four and a half point favorites against Oklahoma.
00:25And then Missouri will take on number 11, Drake.
00:28I see a lot of people starting brackets,
00:30taking Drake, interestingly enough.
00:32I see a lot of that.
00:34Anyway, break it down for me, Mike.
00:35Who do you like in this one?
00:37Well, there's one thing that I will say
00:38is that I've noticed over the years,
00:40and I did an article about this,
00:42gosh, it's been more than a decade,
00:44but I call it the 801 Club.
00:47And what the 801 Club is is every team
00:50that has won more than 80% of its games.
00:54Those teams are hard to get out of this tournament.
00:57And Drake is an easy member of that club.
00:59They are 30 and three.
01:01They are well above 80%.
01:03Those teams know how to win.
01:05Sometimes it comes in, as in the case of Drake,
01:09it comes in a mid-major conference,
01:12but those teams know how to win.
01:14And it often takes another member of the 801 Club
01:18to eliminate an 801 Club member.
01:20And Mizzou is not in that club.
01:22It's one of the reasons why I went along with that,
01:24and I did pick Drake to advance past Mizzou.
01:27The other reason being Mizzou really wants to go.
01:30That's their game.
01:32And Drake is going to slow you down.
01:34It's impossible for a fast team to speed up a slow team.
01:39It's very easy for a slow team to slow down a fast team.