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00:00DRS, when you look at Auburn now, minus 105 to win the South region.
00:05They are the number one overall seed.
00:07The odds really did not change.
00:09Michigan State, second best place as the two seed at five to one.
00:13Iowa State at plus 550.
00:15The Cyclones are the three seed.
00:17The only real movement were those odds moving back ever so slightly.
00:21You might say, why did something happen to the Spartans or the Clones in the last 24
00:26hours?
00:27In a way, yeah.
00:28The North Carolina one looked overly impressive in doing so, and they are at the bottom half
00:32of that bracket.
00:33That if UNC were to pull, not even an upset, because they're a slight favorite now, over
00:37Ole Miss in their round of 64 matchup on Friday, UNC would get, more than likely, Iowa State,
00:45the Cyclones the three seed.
00:46They take on the 14th seed and the champions out of the A-Sun in Lipscomb.
00:51So that's why North Carolina, looking dangerous at the bottom portion of the South region,
00:56might be able to cause a little bit of chaos.
00:58They can cause some chaos now, because you're also taking a look at a team that, and theoretically,
01:02they played pretty well against Duke.
01:04They still came up short, but the whole negative energy of, you can't win that basketball game
01:08without the other team's best player, you lost to Duke three times, understandably.
01:11But now you're right.
01:12It's not as if you go, okay, well here's Ole Miss, minus seven and a half, Ole Miss.
01:15Like no, North Carolina probably should win this game, take out the seed line.
01:19And then let's just say you play odds on just who's going to advance based on the higher
01:22seed.
01:24If Iowa State was full strength, they would blow North Carolina off the court.
01:30But now you're getting North Carolina, the best version of them with maybe another victory
01:34over an SEC team before facing a big 12 team, hey, got our quad one out of the way.
01:38Now we're feeling really good.
01:39You're right.
01:40Like this sets up pretty well for UNC to win the opening night, which they did.
01:44And two more games is a legitimate possibility before then you start to meet up with some
01:48of the true heavyweights.
01:49So let's let you say Michigan State makes it in.
01:51But are we really buying UNC just yet?
01:54Is it recency bias where maybe they shouldn't be in the tournament?
01:57Oh my goodness.
01:58Now they're amazing all of a sudden?
01:59Or they dip back and say, you know what, we didn't play great basketball at Ole Miss.
02:02It's like, we've been waiting on you.
02:04This is the SEC.
02:05This isn't the ACC.
02:06This isn't the Mountain West Conference.
02:07Welcome to the big dance officially.
02:09That's what we'll see out of Chris Beard.
02:10Because again, you're not even just getting a lowly program from a smaller conference.
02:14Chris Beard's one of the best coaches in NCAA basketball.
02:17You don't think he's going to have a game plan ready to go in Wisconsin for that game?
02:20Oh, he will.