Welcome back. It's the Big Blue Banter New York Times football podcast. I'm Dan Schneier.

Going as always my co-s, Nick Falado. I've lost my voice in the last two days, watching a lot of basketball, drinking a lot of beer.

Probably more Nick than I can handle these days. You can't, once you get to this certain age, I think it's like maybe 32, 33 range.

You start to, your body just rejects those days that you put in it like yesterday,

the day before.

Go to a bar.

You know, you were there for the first Friday a couple years ago, watch all the games.

The same thing back, ran it back yesterday on a Saturday.

A lot of beer, a lot of pizza, a lot of heartburn.

So I'm here now to discuss the Giants and try to get my voice back.

Nick, how was your weekend, buddy?

My weekend was good.

Just worked a couple of my jobs, met a couple cool people, hung out.

I'm not really a big college basketball guy, but I know a big

loss happened that a lot of my friends were talking about with St. John's. I didn't know if that

affected your bracket. I didn't put a bracket together, but what are your brief thoughts on that?

I did not have St. John's going far. I love them during the regular season, but they just didn't

profiles the type of tourney team that I like.

They were 71st in offensive efficiency, despite being one of the best teams during the regular season.

That's hard to carry over into the tournament, and it usually almost never works.

There was one example, Yukon a while ago.

I believe it was Yukon with a bad offensive efficiency, and they ended up winning the title. So they were a team I got out early,

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