Ep. 414 (3/17/26): Special Returning Guest: Ben Risseeuw-Tipcke - Breakdown of the 2026 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament Bracket, Potential Upsets, Regional and Final Four Predictions
Primetime Sports Podcast by Joey Maiullari
Episode notes
In this episode, Joey has the honor of being joined again by college basketball aficionado, Ben Risseeuw-Tipcke, for an in-depth breakdown of the 2026 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament bracket. At the start of the episode, they offer their thoughts on the statistic that 15 regular season conference winners lost in their respective conference tournaments (1:10). Ben follows that up by breaking down the first four out and the last four in, which includes Miami University of Ohio (3:47). Also, Ben outlines how close his final bracketology predictions were to the real bracket that the committee created (5:15). Following that, Joey and Ben note which region is the most difficult (7:07), which region has the easiest path (9:35), which higher seeds they are least confident in (12:30), and which lower seeded teams have the best upset potential ...