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March 27, 2026 21 mins

Noted college basketball experts Paulie & Tony Fusco give you the world's BEST coverage of the Men's NCAA Tourney (....and the women's too, just a little later). They tell you why Tony has yet again made NCAA bracket history, why the haters are WRONG about now-fired UNC coach Hubert Davis, and why Rick Pitino showed why he is a LEGEND in St. John's win over Kansas.

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Speaker 1 (00:04):
All right around, yo, you dam and do your life
from Philly. It's the number one rated Paully and Tony
Foolsto show yo yo yo. As always Polly Fools go
here with Tony Fosco and Tony Huge show today and
that's you know again, it happens every year. I have
to tip my cap. We all do to you, Tony

(00:27):
once again. You are the one of the few people
in the world without a busted bracket, as you all
know at home. But he's now gone to twenty four
straight years, twenty five straight years. I think it might
be only kicking something like picking all the games correctly.
And you know, he doesn't like to make a big
deal about it in the media because he's humble, you know,
doesn't like the brag hoarse and also you know he

(00:48):
doesn't want to win the billion dollars because then you
got to pay all that tax. You know, who needs
to exactly, Tony, Just a tip of the cap to you.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
You know, people always ask me how I do it,
and well, the answer is actually simple. You just have
to put in the work and watch all the games.
You know, I watch all thirty two hundred regular season games,
so you know, It's really that simple.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
It is that simple. You know, people just don't want
to put in the work these days. All it is.
They want handouts, you know, exactly. Anyway, we'll give you
more of our college basketball reaction to all the top
those you know, not just about the men's tournament, you know,
the women's tournament though, of course, because you know, the
other day, our sales department called our idiot producer back there,
you see them, and well told him that a degree

(01:37):
anti perspirt the company is paying one hundred k to
any show that would do a five minute segment about
the women's starting And can you believe what this idiot
moron did back there? He told them no, because he's
a first degree idiot.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
Yeah, he's got his degree from idiot university.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
Idiot.

Speaker 3 (01:58):
No, no, I told him, no, Oh, because you don't
know anything about women's basketball. What and therefore the last
two people who should be doing a segment on it
are you both?

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (02:10):
Yeah, Well, after the show, I'm going to segment your
head from your spine.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
Yeah, and we're not going to break a sweat thanks
to degree anti perspirant. Yeah, you see, that's that's how
you save a segment that's how they would take and
you save a brand deal too. And that's not all tony,
because don't worry, papall we called the Degree customer service
line on at the twenty fifth hour.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
We left them a voicemail. We said we're gonna do
the deal. So later on in the show, you're gonna
get five uninterrupted minutes. Oh yeah, just terrific college basketball
analysis of the women's starty, But you know right now,
they are just much more important stories to get through,
you know, no offense to the women, of course. So
let's get right into a top story story, all right. First,

(03:00):
upligate the University of North Carolina has fired Hubert Davis,
that coach, after the team blew a nineteen point lead
to VCU in the first round and wound up losing
the game. Now, people say this is a bad look
for Hubert Davis, but I don't think so at all.
Do you don'ate? No, not at all.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
What's the one thing we know about Hubert Davis. He's
a former New York yak nick exactly. And we all
know the Knicks have a proud history of not winning championships.
You know, Hubert Davis did a terrific job of upholding
the Knicks tradition of non championship winning and pathetic first

(03:40):
round playoff exits. Yep, that's his culture and it's important
as people that we learned to respect the culture someone
comes from, even the loser cultures.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
Just terrific basketball and also cultural analysis that Dony also,
we got to mention about this tournament something great. We
saw one of the big eyelights. You know, Rick Patino.
What a legend this guy is. You know, first he
wins Kentucky, Louisville, Iona in that Midwest Atlantic Conference whatever.
Now he's got Saint John's beating Kansas, and not only

(04:17):
that when they hit the game winning shot. You see
that Patano didn't even flinch, and Dony, this just shows
why this man is a winner, doesn't it? One hundred?

Speaker 2 (04:26):
Rick Pattino isn't phased by anything because there's nothing in
the sport. Rick Pettino hasn't seen or done. He's seen
it all, your game winning shots, heartbreaking losses, your thorough
FBI investigations, criminal wiretaps, every single NCAA violation in existence

(04:48):
on campus, Brothels, You're off campus, Brothels. More thorough FBI investigations,
serious perjury charges, under the table restaurant sex YEP, health
code violations due to under the table restaurant sex YEP.
And of course second round buzzer beaters. Hats off to

(05:10):
Rick Patino.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
Hats off the Rick Patino of course. And you know
one thing, while we're giving flowers, we have to not
give flowers to our brethren here in the sports media
business because you know what I hate about this time
of year there, Tony, You got all these pretenders out
here on the sports media business, boys like Steven A. Smith,
these frauds, the suddenly talking about college basketball. Where was

(05:34):
all this?

Speaker 2 (05:34):
Yeah, where was all this talk back in December and November?
You know, suddenly now you care what a bunch of
Jimmy cume Lately's exactly?

Speaker 1 (05:43):
In fact, just to bring you up to speed, you know,
as you all know, we talked college basketball all year
long on this Showy, we thought, why not put together
a compilation of all our best takes. So we told
our useless producer there to do something for once, Yeah,
and make a compilation of all our takes from the SAE.
And so yeah, go ahead and play it, yeah, hit play,
Let's go what are you talking about It's called a

(06:09):
tape and a player. Yeah, what are you talking about?

Speaker 3 (06:12):
What?

Speaker 2 (06:12):
We have to explain everything to you.

Speaker 3 (06:15):
You you haven't talked about college basketball all year until
this episode right now.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
See what did I tell you, Tony? He doesn't listen
to the show. I knew it. Do you even know
where you are right now? He clearly don't get him.
He's don't get them. He doesn't know. Yeah, everybody knows
we talk college basketball in the show except for you,
of course. And in fact, that's why Degree Antiperspirant was
begging for us to talk about the women's game. But

(06:45):
we're not going to do that right now. You know,
we're going to keep the flow of the show. Go
do it later. We'll do it later, you know, reserve
that special time at the end of the show. You know,
we do have other important news again, no offense to
the women's of course, not now. No offense. Just have
to get to this. NFL thoes. The Philadelphia Eagles traded
a seventh round draft pick to the Carolina Panthers for

(07:08):
a long time veteran QB Andy Dalton. Now bio ball
are saying the Eagles acquired Andy Dalton because they wanted
a reliable option if Jalen Hurts struggles this year, and well,
these more runs clearly have it wrong, don't they don't
he completely wrong?

Speaker 2 (07:26):
Everyone knows the best way to show support for your
starting quarterback is to sign the worst backup quarterback available,
you know, just to show how much fate they have,
and Jalen Hurts, the Eagles went out and got the most.

Speaker 1 (07:41):
Dog pissed QB ever.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
Because they know they're not gonna need him, because Jalen
Hurts is so perfect already. In fact, my sources tell
me that the Eagles were actually trying to trade for
Trey Lance, but unfortunately the Chargers wanted to keep him
in order to show their faith in Justin Herbert, so
they had to settle for the second worst QB out there.

Speaker 1 (08:06):
Yeah, just terribly disappointing that, dony Yasolu. And you know,
you just saw the Patriots, well they released their number
two backup QB, Josh Dobbs, which now makes Tommy DeVito
the backup to Drake May. Well, that just shows how
little faith the Patriots have in Drake May to have
a talent like de Vito back there.

Speaker 2 (08:28):
You know, you know, it just shows that Drake May's
job is in serious jeopardy over there.

Speaker 1 (08:33):
Yep, absolutely, And well you see this, Dony. This came
in via a TMZ. A woman filed a request for
a temporary restraining order against Ram's wide receiver, Puka Nakua,
arising from an incident that allegedly occurred on December thirty first,
the last year, where he bit a woman. Well, Tony,

(08:55):
what's your reaction here?

Speaker 2 (08:58):
Well, are we sure that a restraining order is gonna
be enough? You know, I've watched plenty of film on
Pooka Nokoua, and it's very hard to restrain him. I
think the police might need to put two or three
restraining orders on him because nakou is so good at
finding those holes and sneaking through the defense. In fact,

(09:20):
if I was this woman, I wouldn't seek help from
the LAPD. I would get help from the Seattle Seahawks secondary.

Speaker 1 (09:27):
They did a really good job.

Speaker 2 (09:29):
Containing Pooka Nakua, so she should just go to them.

Speaker 1 (09:33):
Great football and also legal analysis that, Dony. Although I
gotta say I'm a little concerned about this getting out
of hand. I mean, if a woman can put a
restraining order on Puka Nokoua. Well, couldn't Pooka Nokoua put
a restraining order on you know, other cornerbacks. You know, Yeah,
like what if he claims, you know, Jalen Ramsey harassed him,

(09:57):
and then he gets a restraining order against Jalen Ramsey
and then Jalen Ramsey has to stay fifty yards fifty
yards away Poka Nicola.

Speaker 2 (10:04):
How's he going to cover Poka Nkula. That's a great point,
you know, it's definitely concerning.

Speaker 1 (10:10):
It's definitely concerning that, Tony. But on a lighter note,
the NFL held its first flag football tournament. Well, I
didn't watch it, and I did, Tony, No, I didn't
watch it wouldn't be caught that. Nich have much better
things to do. But if you didn't see it either, well,
what we heard is the NFL players they came out

(10:30):
and they were wearing these colored streamers around their waist
and they weren't allowed to tackle. They were actually penalized
if they did any harsh contact or anything like that.
And well all they there were no pads, they weren't
wearing pads, just kind of tight shorts, spandex. What I
saw in the photo, Tony, what was your thoughts about

(10:53):
all this?

Speaker 2 (10:54):
You know, even though I didn't watch it, I think
it's terrific that these NFL plays is and legends are
coming out embracing their true identity and showing the world who.

Speaker 1 (11:07):
They really are.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
You know, football is all about acceptance and inclusion, no
matter who you're attracted to or what your sexual orientation is.
This is such a great step forward, not just for football,
with our society.

Speaker 1 (11:23):
I think maybe there was something with my diction. What's
going on? I said, flag football? Oh, flag football?

Speaker 2 (11:33):
Oh okay, because you know when you said there was
no tackling and the tight shorts and the spandex and
the streamers.

Speaker 1 (11:42):
You know, I just assumed, you know, you're just assut
of course, I don't know. Again, my mistake, you know,
not a mistake.

Speaker 2 (11:52):
You know.

Speaker 1 (11:52):
We should just probably move on. You know, we got
that other legends move on. Now there are the news.
We got to move to the dgl Okay, which is
another event that we definitely did not watch, right because
nobody is. But you know, before the event, there was
something that people caught their attention though. It was Tiger
Woods showed up wearing a tight shirt with huge exposed biceps. Now,

(12:15):
of course, what this does is it has the idiots
coming out of the woodwork of calling steroids. And that's
just so careless and stupid, isn't it done exactly?

Speaker 2 (12:26):
You know, I can't believe people have the goal, you know,
just because a guy's fifty years old and coming off
a couple of small surgeries over the course of a
year on his achilles and his back and then suddenly
has the biceps of a twenty two year old professional
midweight bodybuilder. Everybody has to say steroids. It's disgusting. It's disgusting.

Speaker 1 (12:50):
And you know we saw this before with Tiger Well,
you know, when he was in that near fatal car
accident that shattered his entire back and legs into bases,
which would cause most people to never walk again. But
yet he was able to play in the Masters just
nine months later and make the cut against guys who
had not recently been in any near fatal car accidents.
And then everybody just has to say steroids. It's disgusting.

Speaker 2 (13:12):
It's disgusting how people just say whatever they want about
people exactly what they're working.

Speaker 1 (13:18):
Terrible. Yeah, but you know what's not terrible doughty the
items that are now available in our March store. You know,
we are just getting so many orders for our brand
new shirt. You know, people love what I say. But
when you'll say something smart as always, right, I say, yup,
Well we put we put a new shirt in the
merch store. Look that just says yep, yep, yep and yep.

(13:39):
So two million skulls, as they say in the merch business,
within twenty four hours. Absolutely. The people are at the
spreadshirt company. They were begging us not to talk about
it anymore, but we're talking about it again. You right,
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that shirt. You could buy other items like the dockboards

(14:00):
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can click the link in the description to go there. Now.
All right, when we come back, another big money maker
for us Tony our women's basketball coverage brought to you
by Degree Anti Persprint coming up right after the break.
All right, we're back for break. Okay, As we told

(14:20):
you off top, we have a deal in place with
the great people are good friends at Degree Anti Persprint. Uh,
they've offered generously one hundred K. Should be two hundred K,
but one hundred K for us to do five minutes
of uninterrupted women's college basketball Tony analysis. I mean, come on,

(14:41):
you know we watch so much Tony. It's it's like,
I wish we could do longer, but unfortunately we don't
have that much time. So we're gonna give them five minutes.
So what we're gonna do is we're gonna go put
five minutes on the clock and Tony just you know,
try and condense it all down. You've analyzed all the teams,
tell us what's your breakdown of the thirties so far?

Speaker 2 (15:04):
You know, there's so much to analyze with this tournament.
In fact, people get lost in the numbers. You know, points,
there's rebounds and assists, you know, and those are basketball
numbers for people not familiar with the sport of women's basketball.
But in a tournament, you know which this is the

(15:26):
only thing that matters most is something that you may
not have noticed. The small little number next to a
team's name. You know, that number is what we call
a seed, and it tells you who the best team is.
And the one seeds are Yukon and UCLA. So those

(15:49):
are my picks to win it. All, you know, how
am I doing right now?

Speaker 1 (15:55):
You know he's still got way over four minutes left. Okay,
that's terrific. I got a lot to get to. I
know this.

Speaker 2 (16:01):
Whole seeding thing can be confusing because one is the
lowest number, so some people think sixteen is better, but no,
in this case, the higher.

Speaker 1 (16:14):
Number is actually bad.

Speaker 2 (16:17):
And also, don't get carried away because some people think
when we say one seed, we mean won. No, like
they've already won. But that's incorrect. You see, it's the
number one one, but they are number one because they

(16:38):
won a lot of games. And again, I know that's confusing,
but it's important to know how am I doing on time?

Speaker 1 (16:49):
Still got I'm looking at the clock, left lots of time,
don't it. Okay? Great?

Speaker 2 (16:53):
Perfect, because I still got a lot to get to.
Because this isn't just about the teams. This is about
the players on the teams. These teams are known for
having great players, like UCLA they had Kareem abdul Jabbar.

Speaker 1 (17:11):
Well, actually, let me take a step back here.

Speaker 2 (17:15):
His name wasn't Kareem abdul Jabbar at the time. Kareem
Abdul Jabbar's name when he was at UCLA was lou
al Sindor. Now you may be wondering, wait, are we
talking about two separate people. Well that's a common mistake,

(17:36):
but that's actually one person we're talking about. And I
mean one as in one, not wo n. Just so
we're clear anyway, kareem, I mean lou was a really good.

Speaker 1 (17:51):
UCLA Getting a call here from that degree anti first
for a number. Oh okay, they're probably calling it Dallas.
What a great job of donife before you know a
stop the clock. We'll give him some freaky fun Bali
foolsco here? Whoa whoa hold on, lady? What what embarrassing?
Embarrassing the sport of college basketball and your company?

Speaker 4 (18:13):
No, no, no, sweetheart, you're embarrassing yourself calling in the
middle of a show. Don't you know how broadcasting works?
Oh oh oh, you're you're removing the deal.

Speaker 1 (18:24):
Oh guess what. I guess what. Here's a deal for you.
You know what you're gonna get.

Speaker 4 (18:27):
I'll give you a degree first degree murder when I
kill you and your entire family. You're sad, bitch off?

Speaker 1 (18:38):
What appened? Deals off? Tony, deals off? I don't even
know what she was talking professional, something about something about
uh not according to the rules of the deal. What
we agreed, it's already they never stipulated it in the
audio country she even listening to the segment. Clearly not
she didn't even listened. A look at him, back the smile,

(18:59):
look at her. What are you so happy about?

Speaker 3 (19:02):
What?

Speaker 1 (19:02):
What are you happy about?

Speaker 3 (19:04):
I'm just watching the show.

Speaker 1 (19:06):
Oh now you're watching the show's paying attention. Now you're
paying it for you paying attention to this shows? Over
when you're that sadd witch over at Yeah, both of
you on the show. Hey, don't forget you go to
the merch store. You buy all the march buy all
the merch. Haven't you done enough? The rule? Done enough? Damn?

(19:27):
What do you want to just go on?

Speaker 3 (19:32):
You said, I own a plays in the Midwest Atlantic Conference.

Speaker 1 (19:37):
Yeah, great conference, bro, Yeah what are you talking about?

Speaker 3 (19:41):
Iona plays in the Metro Atlantic Conference. There is no
Midwest Atlantic Conference.

Speaker 1 (19:49):
Oh yeah, well that reminds me. I own a shotgun
to kill you with, ye and I'm going to met
throw you in front of a train. Oh shouty yeah wow.

Speaker 3 (20:07):
You actually think the NFL could allow players to get
restraining orders against other players on the.

Speaker 1 (20:14):
Field, could totally happen.

Speaker 2 (20:16):
Bro.

Speaker 1 (20:16):
Yeah you never know. Bro.

Speaker 3 (20:18):
Ye, yeah, I do know that that would never happen.
You obviously know nothing about the law.

Speaker 1 (20:27):
Oh yeah, well I do know how to lob a
fire bob into your apartment. Yeah you know who I
wish had a restraining order your mom's vagina against your
dad's penis. Oh you got that one, Dowdy. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (20:45):
By the way, Tony Wow said you have a perfect bracket.

Speaker 1 (20:49):
Yeah, it's still intact. Bro, he's the king.

Speaker 3 (20:51):
Bro yay, no, no he isn't. I saw your Yahoo account.
You went two and fourteen in the first round alone.

Speaker 1 (21:01):
Oh yeah, well you're going to see the first round
of bullets from my gun. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (21:07):
And you know what else is two and fourteen? The
inches and millimeters of your erect penis.

Speaker 1 (21:14):
Oh we're talking about got him, don'ty? Well, we got
a great guest lined up for next week, just booked
Eagles legend super Bowl hero Nick Foles. Showy, Hey, don't
forget you like your subscribe, your rate and review for podcast.
You know usually we tell you aupdop to do this stuff.
But you should know this. You should know by now.

(21:35):
Yeah exactly anyway, but you know what I do though,
great job as always donated. Same to you, poorly another
floorless show. There you go, we'll see people next week.
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