PMS 2.0 1322 - Final Four Recap, National Championship Preview, Ovechkin Breaks Gretzky's Goals Record, Ian Rapoport, Jay Williams, Seth Greenberg, Mark Messier, Darius Butler, & AJ Hawk

The Pat McAfee Show

ESPN

Football, Sports

4.9 • 18.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2025

⏱️ 124 minutes

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On today’s show, Pat is LIVE from Minneapolis ahead of tonight's Monday Night Raw on Netflix while Darius, AJ Hawk, and the boys are back in Indianapolis and Ohio, respectively. They chat about all the biggest news stories floating around the sports world including the Final Four over the weekend, and preview tonight’s National Championship between Houston and Florida, discuss Ovechkin breaking Wayne Gretzky’s goals record, MLB having 5 walk-off game winners yesterday after another exciting week, UCONN winning the women’s National Championship in dominant fashion, and the remaining NFL stories including Julio Jones and Terron Armstead retiring, and Shedeur Sanders’ NFL Draft stock after the Colorado “Showcase.” Joining the show to wrap up all the pertinent NFL stories of the week is NFL Network Senior Insider, Ian Rapoport. Next, National Champion, National Player of the Year, #2 overall pick of the 2002 NBA Draft, and NBA/NCAA analyst Jay Williams joins the show to chat about Duke’s collapse in the Final Four, and how tonight’s National Championship matchup. Later, long time basketball coach, former ACC Coach of the Year, and current ESPN NCAA men’s basketball analyst, Seth Greenberg joins the show to chat more about Florida vs. Houston and why he’s excited for this matchup of good on good. Lastly, 6x Stanley Cup Champion, 2x Hart Trophy Winner, Hall of Famer, 25 year NHL legend, and ESPN NHL analyst, Mark Messier joins the show to chat about how remarkable Ovechkin’s accomplishment of breaking Gretzky’s goals record is, how much longer he thinks Ovechkin will play, and how he’s evolved over the course of his career. Make sure to subscribe to youtube.com/thepatmcafeeshow or watch on ESPN (12-2 EDT), ESPN’s Youtube (12-3 EDT), or ESPN+. We appreciate the hell out of all of you. We’re off the rest of the week. Big Night AHT is Wednesday Night in Pittsburgh on YouTube, X, and TikTok LIVE, with the reair debuting on Hulu on Thursday, plus the Masters on Thursday and Friday. We’ll see you on Monday, cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello beautiful people and welcome to this program on a glorious national championship Monday,
0:09.0	April 7th, 2025. This program starts right now. Sports!
0:15.0	Are happening in a big way and we're so incredibly lucky that we get to cover it, especially on a
0:21.5	national championship day, especially on the first day in which we get to talk about a record
0:25.8	being broken that nobody thought was going to be broken, especially on a day where there's
0:30.3	numerous sports that are rising to the occasion to make sure we're all entertained with
0:34.5	competition, night in and night out. And I am live here at the Target Center in beautiful Minneapolis, Minnesota!
0:44.2	For tonight's Monday Night Raw, live on Netflix.
0:47.6	First Raw back in America, it's going to be glorious.
0:50.0	It's 8 p.m. Easter, and a lot of magic will be happening here.
0:52.5	And then on Wednesday night, we have Big Night!
0:56.6	And had a chance to do a little bit of a rehearsal for that yesterday,
1:02.0	kind of a stage run through, and it's going to be a magical evening.
1:06.2	8 p.m. Eastern on YouTube, TikTok Live, and also streaming on X. X big surprises big sing-alongs big
1:13.2	laughs and massive giveaways I think Wednesday night is gonna be an electrifying
1:17.3	evening as will be tonight when the national champions of the men's college
1:23.3	basketball world will be crowned will it be Houston who somehow with less than a
1:29.5	minute left were down six against Duke team that was supposed to be
1:32.8	un toppleable and some people are saying that the Duke team tricked this one off
1:36.9	and I believe you're gonna hear some people back in a Thunderdome that are gonna
1:39.6	say that what I would like to say is this Houston team showed up in the biggest
1:42.7	of times. Their defense is what anybody would talk about.
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