00:00Meanwhile, the odds are out to win the NCAA tournament, Bill.
00:03You'll probably on sportingnews.com have to make a decision on that in the next 24, 48 hours here.
00:07We'll ask you your first opinion here of these odds with Duke and Arizona and Michigan,
00:12all being those three teams that have the shortest odds to win the tournament.
00:16Gators are 8-1, and then you have two seeds and beyond.
00:20Purdue 27-1, UConn 35-1, Iowa State even deeper odds to win the championship.
00:27I don't want to discount Houston either there.
00:29Houston's had a good regular season too.
00:31Okay, so there you go.
00:32There are the odds.
00:33I would doubt that all the number one seeds would get to the end.
00:38Lately, it's been happening a little bit more.
00:40It's been a little chalky in the tournament here, but I'm rooting for some team to come in and pull
00:44a big upset.
00:45Will that happen this year, or is it a one seed?
00:48I would confine my national championship pick to those top three teams,
00:52whether it's Duke, Arizona, or Michigan.
00:54I mean, at Sporting News, we have bracket expert picks up, and I took Michigan.
00:58I think they, despite the case on injury, I like the way they're going to play.
01:02I think Yaxle, I like that bracket because there's so many high-scoring teams.
01:06I think they can get to the Final Four.
01:09My partner, Mike DeCourcy, my colleague, the great basketball writer, he took Arizona.
01:14There's nothing wrong with that pick at all.
01:15They have five guys that can put the ball in the basket.
01:18Tommy Lloyd possibly playing Gonzaga in this tournament.
01:21That would be amazing.
01:22I like what you said about Houston, too.
01:25This is why it just feels like that tournament with all the chalk.
01:28And Houston, with that style of play, we're talking about offense, scoring, putting the ball in the basket.
01:33But you know as well as I do, and we saw it with Duke last year, that if you play
01:37that Houston team,
01:38that physical style can get on top of you.
01:40It can really bother some teams.
01:42And maybe, just maybe, this is the year that Kelvin Sampson and the Cougars break through.
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