The 2025 Idiot’s Guide to March Madness with Ken Pomeroy
The Distraction: A Defector Podcast
Defector Media
4.7 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
College basketball metrics analyst Ken Pomeroy joins Drew and Roth for his annual preview of this year’s March Madness tournament! They answer your burning college basketball questions: How does Ken feel about being quoted by the governor of West Virginia? Does the fact that some players are wandering ronin affect the quality of play? What’s going on with Gonzaga’s high KenPom ranking and low NCAA seed? Is High Point University a real school? And the eternal question, WHO YA GOT? And as always, they dive into the Funbag, answering real questions from real listeners.
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Stuff We Talked About
- The KenPom rankings
- West Virginia governor lashes out after NCAA tournament snub
- Tubby Smith steps down as High Point Panthers men's basketball coach, son G.G. Smith takes over
- Has Kevin Willard changed his scheduling strategy? "Sometimes," he says, "KenPom is full of sh*t."
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Credits
- Hosts: Drew Magary & David Roth
- Producer: Eric Silver
- Editor: Brandon Grugle
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About The Show
The Distraction is Defector's flagship podcast about sports (and movies, and art, and sandwiches, and certain coastal states) from longtime writers Drew Magary and David Roth. Every week, Drew and Roth tackle subjects, both serious and impossibly stupid, with a parade of guests from around the world of sports and media joining in the fun! Roth and Drew also field Funbag questions from Defector readers, answer listener voicemails, and get upset about the number of people who use speakerphone while in a public bathroom stall. This is a show where everything matters, because everyone could use a Distraction. Head to defector.com for more info.
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| 0:54.1 | We're back. We're back. It's a distraction. I'm Drew. That's Roth. Happy tourney time, |
| 0:59.0 | Roth. Hey, and to you. How are you doing? How are things? |
| 1:02.7 | There's like, there's, there's, uh, magnolias blooming outside. Like, uh, if, if I were out, |
| 1:10.6 | like, getting a drink at a,, a patio, like, pretty ladies would be wearing skirts, like, past me. |
| 1:17.6 | I'd be like, oh, well, it's skirt season again, yay. But, like, since I don't go out, I just have to sort of imagine that in my head. |
| 1:24.1 | The point being that Harbingers of Spring abound Roth, especially the NCAA |
| 1:29.6 | tournament. We're going to preview the men's tournament as we do every year, and we have our special |
| 1:34.1 | guest back. Once again, Master of the Ken Palmeroy. I don't Ken. What's up? What's up, guys? Always |
| 1:41.2 | great to join you. I envy the blooming situation as I look out my window at about four inches of snow, but perfect weather for talking about March Madness. |
| 1:51.1 | Where are you? Do you live in Comchatka? Where is it? Yeah, where are you? Are you okay? You need help. No, I'm in, I'm in Utah. It's a perfectly normal climate it's oh you know oh all right well you're |
| 2:03.5 | in you have western snow that's way better than like if you were like oh i'm in ontario that |
| 2:11.0 | would be like you'd have slush he's got that beautiful fresh pow that you can see. Yeah, you have the skiing snow. |
| 2:19.2 | That kicks ass. |
| 2:20.3 | Ken, how excited were you to have your rankings cited by West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrissey in his press conference this week, whining about West Virginia being left out of the bracket? |
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