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April 3, 2025 21 mins
Get ready for a no-holds-barred breakdown of the 2025 NCAA Men’s Final Four. This episode of The Hood Report Podcast brings unfiltered energy, razor-sharp analysis, and raw emotion as the crew dives into every twist and turn—from Duke’s controversial path to Houston’s defensive clinic.

You’ll hear real-time reactions, unexpected predictions, and heated debates around coaching decisions, breakout performances, and bracket-busting moments. Whether you're repping America's team or riding with the underdogs, this one will have you yelling at your screen—and maybe agreeing with a few hot takes.


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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Lucky as hell because they should have been gone, they
should have been out of here.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
But hey, they move on. We know I will say this.
I will say this.

Speaker 1 (00:06):
When I watched sext de tech may flash during the game,
the camera over to the fucking coach, so text the
tech and that motherfle got a blank with us hand
and what the fuck do like?

Speaker 3 (00:21):
Al Right, hello everyone, and welcome back to the recording.
I'd just have some good stuff for you guys today.
Here we are with our four or five posts, I
should say, Imnina, you know, we're back here again with
some good topics for you guys.

Speaker 4 (00:34):
So let's get started with today.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
So the stage is set for the twenty twenty five
NCAA Men's Final Four, featuring the powerhouse programs. So we
got Duke Blue Devils, we got Florida Gators, Auburn Tigers,
and Houston Cougiers. So in this episode, we're analyzing the
thrilling journeys of these top sixx highlighting stand up performances,

(00:59):
pivotal moments that led them to San Antonio. So we're
gonna get started with just a little recap. So we're
gonna talk about the final four a little bit here
So let's.

Speaker 4 (01:09):
Get started with one of our wonderful hosts we have
here today.

Speaker 3 (01:12):
How would we start with tweet and give us kind
of a little bit of a recap Final four, and
then everyone chime on in.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
America's team here we go.

Speaker 5 (01:20):
All right, America, All right, America, let's get it. Y'all know,
y'all know what time it is. It's time for the
American America. All right, y'all know what time it is.
It's time for the America's team. The Duke Blue Devils.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
It was.

Speaker 5 (01:35):
It was eighty five to sixty five against those Alabama tie,
hill top tie, rolling tie.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
Let me say this, Duke gag ship. Alabama just plays
stupid as fuck Alabama. But the double game I've seen
no ducal That defense was out standing against Alabama.

Speaker 6 (02:00):
Well actually, actually, like I told y'all before, Duke was
in the weakest bracket. The number two seeds was Alabama,
and that's just a bad match of Alabama gains due
Duke is way too long, Alabama is too small, So
that was just a good match up. Look, they want
the Duke could have god damn final fall, and god
damn it, that's what they got.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
The networks are happy about it.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
When I when I watched the game, I tell you
it was the dumbest Paul game by a coach ever,
because going into the game Alabama twenty five three a
week before, I mean the game before, you.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
Come to this game knowing that do have a longer.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
Team to play good defense, that they're going to get
out them three point shots, and Alabama comes in with
the same game plan when he should have been going
to the basket to get Duke on their heels and
then shooting three stupid.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
It was dumb.

Speaker 5 (02:49):
It was dumb when I told y'all at the beginning
that all four number one seeds was going to the
final four, told y'all.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
He know what, you laughed at you.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
I laughed at you because look, well we all laughed
at you because that's the first time that happens.

Speaker 6 (03:04):
It's two thousand and eight. But look, you got lucky. Hey, look, hey,
a clock, a dead clock is wrong one time a day.
So I'm not just saying now twice a day.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
Yeah yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
Now. Now what I would say that though, is you
hadn't even picked that one. The motherfucker he won and
four on his picks. So if he picked the fucking
nine fighting fall team. He might be better than.

Speaker 5 (03:25):
One and four, but anyway, I picked America's team Duke
Blue Devils to go to the final four.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
I picked him to win the championship this year. There
you go, okay, all.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
Right, okay, well well well, well here we are black
people turn over in the grave, turned over the grave
with this motherfucker saying American scene anywhere. Well, yeah, I
stuck my neck out there last week on them, on
them goddamn Spartans.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
And the motherfucker got shot.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
No damn well, I had no business fucking with them
some bitches.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
You're right, mother got chat, no business.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
And they was in the game and they never had
a chance from the start ifs was fighting the whole
time just to stay in the game, and then they
never had a chance. Album had their number all the
way around. So you know, as as we like to say, Martin,
what do we like to say about Sparty Funks Bardy?

Speaker 2 (04:18):
I told his body ain't ship.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
Now look I know this Barty ain't ship, No, but
real talking, this game, Broom just took over from beginning.

Speaker 6 (04:27):
I mean, Migg State had no answer for him. He
had a double double halftime, but he ended up with
twenty five and like fourteen minds. So Broom now made
the game. I mean they controlled and start to finish. Hey,
funks Bardy, he got to go and he wanted to.

Speaker 2 (04:40):
They went to locker room.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
Report Wood was red on the ass and come, I
got look, I don't all fucked up and sh doing
this ship hold the river to the sling.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
That's crazy. Yeah, that's crazy.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
I agree, And as Fardy's got to be the wor
fucking team shooting team I've ever seen the like.

Speaker 2 (05:02):
They couldn't hit fucking nothing. They were. They were terrible
from the Yes they were, Yes, they were terrible.

Speaker 6 (05:11):
Let's dig into this Florida and Texas Tech game because
I'm gonna tell yall something.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
Texas Tech blew this ship. They blew up.

Speaker 6 (05:18):
Had Florida on the ropes up nine with three minutes
to go, they was dominating the paint and everything else,
but it all went down here them last, god damn
the last, god damn three minutes they missed two front
ends of a one in one. Then not only that, Now,
I ain't gonna lie that boy from Florida, no joke though,
that boy Clayton junior.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
That boy, that that boy caught fire. He had thirty
for a game he scored.

Speaker 6 (05:44):
He scored twenty two in the second half and scored
thirteen in the last five minutes.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
So that boy caught fire.

Speaker 6 (05:50):
But even besides all that, even when they were down
back one, take take was down back one.

Speaker 1 (05:58):
These dummies. They controlled the paint the whole game.

Speaker 6 (06:01):
And Williams instead of taking the ball on the paint,
which he was killed on because he had like twenty
points or something, he gonna go out to the three
they down about one. Come on, man, make just makes sense. Hey,
these guys do not be thinking. I swear these guys
will not be thinking. They take some dumb shots, but
they blew that game and Florida shit, Florida, Florida deserve

(06:21):
credit for coming back.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
But I'm gonna tall you something.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
They lucky as hell because they should have been gone,
they should have been out of here.

Speaker 2 (06:27):
But hey, they move on. You know I would say this.

Speaker 1 (06:30):
I would say this when I watched Tex Detect and
they flash during the game the camera over to the
fucking coach to text Detech and that mother got a.

Speaker 2 (06:38):
Blank look up here and know what the fuck to do?

Speaker 1 (06:40):
Like, hey, it's like if you going out of here
that mumble say help help. He didn't know what the
fuck to do. Everybody was going every man for himself
at that point, and that's why they lost. Yeah, and
they look like it. They look they look discombobulated. The
last like to two and a half minutes. They just
look out of swords and just well know, deer in

(07:00):
the headlights.

Speaker 6 (07:01):
It all started with them missing them, missing them two
fun ends at the one and one when they missed
both of those and then Flouda came right back, but
both of them hit two threes.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
Hey, they was done after that, they were done.

Speaker 5 (07:13):
Yeah, the analytics tell you to shoot three three point
instead of the two pointers.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
So what the hell's going on now?

Speaker 1 (07:18):
Well, somebody didn't get that memo to take the text
them motherbuckers playing two point line. They was like here
buying them three and shit, like what the The only
way you lose is you miss free throws. You give
them threes, Like, make them score two's at a minimum,
don't lot of them just come down to threes. But
some of those threes we were difficult shots. Soyton juive
them that now. Yeah, on the flip side, I will

(07:41):
tell you when you go through and look at the
last game of the lead eight, the Houston Virgus Tennessee game,
I would have to say, while Tennessee is offensively challenged,
I mean like you can probably lead them out on
the floor by themselves, and they would scored sixty points, right,
And if and and you take Lanier and if Laneer

(08:01):
ain't storing, they probably score forty points.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
Right.

Speaker 1 (08:05):
So what I would say with that is, but when
you watch the game, they couldn't get through their cuts,
they couldn't do rune of their emotions, they couldn't do
anything that That Houston defense was probably the best defense
I've ever want to get ever, ever, ever, ever ever
seen in the tournament.

Speaker 5 (08:22):
Hold on now, hold on now, you forgot that un
l B, the un B defense back in the nineties
with one the one that lost to do or No No,
the one to beat Duke.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
Okay, Yes, sir, play defense they was. I mean, they
was a better team, for sure. I ain't had they
had all Americans.

Speaker 1 (08:40):
But the last time I saw them, last thing I
saw them defending was the hot to with the Gambler, with.

Speaker 2 (08:48):
The bookiy and ship. They were out the hot they
hang the get up my spot with the gambler, so hey,
we won't bring them up. We got to bring everything
in right now.

Speaker 6 (09:02):
But just to jump forward to what I was saying
about that Houston defense, I mean, Tennessee is Tennessee is
challenged offensively, but Houston been doing this all year long.
I mean they held them the fifteen points in the
first half. I mean, that's that's some hell of a defense.
So the game was the game was over halftime because
of that defense. And yeah, so that d is the JIT.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
That is the JIT. And I would say kudos to
Sampson Samson.

Speaker 1 (09:28):
They've been there and gotten close multiple times and fell
short of the Final four in the last three or
four years. And good for them making it pass the
threshold and making it into the final four to be
able to the Elite program. They really are eleage program
and they fucking proved it in that game. So who
of Samson? I take my hat off to him, and hey,

(09:48):
I want to see what they do against.

Speaker 2 (09:49):
Do That's what I'm talking about. I can't wait.

Speaker 4 (09:57):
For you guys to maybe talk about your final format show.
Want to get us stir it in?

Speaker 2 (10:03):
Who wants to go for how about the worst. The
person is last, go fucking first America.

Speaker 5 (10:08):
You know who that is, Duke, I'm picking dude, Oh
my god, what the minus five and a half? That's
who's gonna be in the in the in the finals
against Florida.

Speaker 1 (10:24):
The Green Reapers back. You just go, well, you just you,
you just you. If you pick America one and too,
don't you, that's it, that's.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
All you need.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
I'm gonna tell you right now that you know the
right team after those picks. Both of them teams fucked America.
This Nigga is one and four Beggan's picks. How can
you pick all four first number one seeds to be
in the final four, but you picked one and four
along the way like America, don't funk with Hey bet

(10:55):
the other side of both of them.

Speaker 6 (10:56):
Games up winner, I'm gonna tell you who go winning
Grim Reapers straight down.

Speaker 2 (11:02):
Let me just break it down, Duke in Houston.

Speaker 6 (11:06):
Now, I'm gonna I'm gonna give a little credit because
they did me the final four, But this is the
matchup that I wanted to see. You got your best
off the team, get your best seat of the team.
I'm rolling with the defense. I'm rolling with Houston to
take them boys down. They gonna take Duke down and
America's team, I'm sorry, gots to go. Let's go. I'm

(11:31):
putting my money on it too. My money gonna be
on Houston. Yes, I'm putting my money on it. Yes,
I'm putting I second that I'm going. I'm going with
them going the same way. You know, Houston defense. I
think they're gonna have enough to slow them boys down.
You know, I didn't have enough of this America's team ship.
It's the time to ground his bird. So I'm going
with Houston too. So a second, who you got for

(11:54):
the Auburn for the Auburn, I'm rolling with the Tigers.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
I'm going with the Tigers.

Speaker 6 (12:00):
Florida beat them this year at Auburn by nine points.

Speaker 2 (12:04):
That was a very good win. But I think Arburn
has this momentum going for him.

Speaker 6 (12:08):
And I really believe that Floruda's been begging for a loss,
because Floruda should have lost the Connecticut Cannebian had him
when the Rolls blew it and we just see have
a tatas Tech taytas Tech really blew it Brusus Floruda.
So I think Florida's been begging for a loss, and
guess what Alburn gonna give him that goddamn loss.

Speaker 5 (12:25):
Y'all better broomate ain't hurt, then I ain't reno. I
still he still might be that elbow might still be
hurt a little bit.

Speaker 2 (12:32):
Bro gonna come out and sweet the mother as something.
Maybe that's right, Maybe that's Raybe, maybe an.

Speaker 1 (12:39):
I can't see my pick yet, Okay, Martin, Martin got Houston,
You got Houston, got another game, Okay, I got hey.
I've seen enough out of Alburn. I done picked against
him enough. They don't beat they they don't beat one
A and one B for me. So I'm I'm rolling
with Arburn. You know what I'm saying, and that that's
the team that I think it's gonna They're gonna kick

(13:00):
Florida ass.

Speaker 2 (13:02):
And that's what's gonna be.

Speaker 1 (13:03):
You can't beat them, motherfucking join them, right, that's what
he says. All right, America, America, you know what motherfucker
Tavity is right, America, America, Tune in.

Speaker 2 (13:17):
Get close, listen. Ride is up. Baby. I'm gonna get
these hot picks for this for this weekend.

Speaker 1 (13:23):
I'm gonna start with the Florida and Auburn game, what
I'm going to tell you that game is conference rivals.
They played a fairly close game the first time around,
Florida pulled it away in the end. I watched that game,
I would tell you I think sometimes it's better to
be lucky than to be good, they say. And in

(13:43):
that case, and with that in mind, I'm gonna take
the Florida Gators to make it through because because one
of the things I think would happen with Auburn Ala
live off the They live off the crowd. The crowd
was hight, everybody was hight. So I think when you
take that away and you just have it a regular
playing field, that kind of play. Baby, give me Florida.
The Gators gave you win that game going away and

(14:06):
cover the fucking spread. America. Put that on your party ticket. Baby,
got right or straight back because we're going to the
window number two games.

Speaker 2 (14:18):
Now. When you look at it, I would say, Duke
plays hell of a offense.

Speaker 1 (14:23):
They're the best off of the team average the ninety
one points game in the tournament.

Speaker 2 (14:27):
On the flip side, they play pretty good defense.

Speaker 1 (14:29):
Although you know I can't support them and I'm not
gonna go into the hypocrisy that that my boy read
tweety did and called the American team because I got
black friend in the family that would never forgive me,
So I can't fuck with that. So what I'm gonna
say is this do very good offensively. In defense, I
think they put it. I think Flag and while I'm

(14:50):
not going to go up and in arms like everybody
else does, I think Flag is a really good player.

Speaker 2 (14:55):
I think he's very versatile. But I gotta with the defense.

Speaker 1 (15:01):
I've never ever seen a team played defense the where
Houston played defense in that game last week.

Speaker 2 (15:07):
I think they can do that again. I think they're
going to shot the war. Baby. They're gonna shot the
wall and people.

Speaker 1 (15:16):
And I'm taking Houston to win the game and made
it to the championship and we'll see who I picked
with it all.

Speaker 2 (15:23):
But I got Houston shot the war.

Speaker 1 (15:26):
I feel that, hey, hey, people be slipping on that.
They're three point shooters, Houston three point shooter. They slipping
on them. They can get it done.

Speaker 6 (15:34):
In the past years, the problem been when Houston was
they couldn't score and they couldn't.

Speaker 2 (15:39):
Shoot that well.

Speaker 6 (15:40):
But this year has been their best shooting year where
they had like three shooters the advacant shoot the ball
and put the ball in the hoop. So this year
and look, it's all gonna playoff because they gonna send
America's team back to America and they're gonna be done
next week.

Speaker 2 (15:56):
I was just done. Next week.

Speaker 5 (15:57):
I want all three of y'all come back on here
and say America's Team the Duke Blue Devils when they
come into victory next week.

Speaker 2 (16:05):
Hey, hey, hey, I'm big enough. Hey I'm a I'm
a big enough money. I'm a grown man. I can
admit my wrongs.

Speaker 6 (16:11):
And if if Duke go through Houston and win this championship.

Speaker 1 (16:16):
Hey, I meant I'm wrong. I meant I'm wrong, and
I give their credit. I think they're gonna hit the buzz.
So I think them brothers. I think they want to
take that America team title. I think the brothers will
take you any business. And some Duke gays on package.

Speaker 2 (16:30):
I don't know. Now.

Speaker 6 (16:31):
The only I disagree with that is they ain't gonna
get the America's Heat title now, not with five brothers.

Speaker 1 (16:36):
But they're gonna get America, not with five brothers.

Speaker 2 (16:41):
Coach. They don't get that tight.

Speaker 1 (16:45):
They may be the only team to not to get
invited to the White House if they win. That's all
or something they't gonna call America's team, or or Miss
Trump may invite the other team, like like your girl did, yeah,
come along with him, ship.

Speaker 2 (17:00):
The losing team and ship.

Speaker 6 (17:03):
You know, you know, you know that's a bullshit right there,
But that might participation.

Speaker 1 (17:07):
That might be another story for another day when we
get into culture a little bit. But my guys here
saying that that they don't think that a black team
is gonna get the same dolgement. We'll see after they
win what America says, and we'll see what and we'll
see what tweety says.

Speaker 3 (17:23):
That's right America, all right, I think it's about ten
you guys picked for the champions.

Speaker 2 (17:29):
Who wants to go first? I go first.

Speaker 6 (17:33):
I know I'll go first first because I said in
the beginning that he was gonna win the goddamn championship.
And guess what, heughston gonna win the goddamn championship.

Speaker 2 (17:44):
Have me on my back, Thank me later. Let's go.

Speaker 5 (17:48):
Negative. Try up negative. The America's team, the Blue the
Duke Blue Devils.

Speaker 1 (17:56):
You're gonna get that ship out. He better be happy
to live in the suburbs of Vegas and not the hood.

Speaker 2 (18:06):
That's why this can go back.

Speaker 1 (18:09):
I'm telling you, hey, I moved on up the hood.

Speaker 2 (18:12):
I applaud you for that.

Speaker 1 (18:14):
But but staff in the hood after this, Definitely they're
gonna have a bounty out of your head and ship
go ahead. Okay, okay, okay, yeah, definitely, tweety America's team
ain't gonna win this.

Speaker 2 (18:25):
You know.

Speaker 1 (18:26):
It's gonna be between the two of the black of
these teams? Left, which Auburn and Houston? All right, black
of the official word or what a right for us?
I like to nominate. I like to nominate black of
the other as a word. There we go this podcast.
So out of the battle of those teams, one of

(18:47):
them just got a little bit better offense and a
little bit more swag, and I'm gonna have to go
with Auburn. Guys, I'm gonna have to go with Arburn.
I know, you know, hey, y'all got y'all pigs, But
Arburn is what I like.

Speaker 2 (18:57):
That's what I'm roller. But hey, I can't hate on
all right in America.

Speaker 1 (19:01):
I'ma I'm gonna tell you, but like I said, when
I look at both of the teams, I think Florida,
as Martin mentioned, I agree, they've been lucky to make
it to this point. They've they've been down multiple times.
They had to fight their way back in order to
get into the games and ultimately win games. On the
one side, and on the other side, you have Houston
that's been very steady. They had they've had a lot

(19:23):
less offensive struggles than they had the pass better offensive team,
but a supreme defensive team. I'm gonna say, when I
look at this, it's like when you at at the
club or at the bar late at night, and when
you're at at the club, right at the bar late
at night, when everybody's leaving out, the last thing you
look around for is I've been looking with me a
cooler so he knows a baby, I'm gonna get a

(19:46):
Cooper tonight. I'm going over to Houston Coopers to win
the national championship. Baby, Hey, we're gonna We're gonna get
this Houston. Ralph Sampson, I mean, Kelvin Sampson, We're gonna
actually win the championship?

Speaker 2 (19:58):
Is your baby? Hey? Blackety is in the house.

Speaker 5 (20:02):
All right, when you looking for when you look for cougar.
So I'm looking on the ground for some money. I
don't know what the hell you looking at it. I'm
looking for some money on the ground.

Speaker 1 (20:09):
But you found you find a cougar, You got some money.

Speaker 2 (20:15):
If you get the right cougar.

Speaker 1 (20:21):
I can't talk about that, but hey, you find the
right cougar, nigga, you guys money.

Speaker 2 (20:27):
All right, that's it. Hey, American, let's see what happened.
Just remember you've seen it from the beginning.

Speaker 1 (20:32):
Go with rides pics, America, and this shit gonna be
on and cracking like a motherfucker baby.

Speaker 4 (20:40):
Alrighty, well, y'all heard it here first.

Speaker 3 (20:43):
Thank you guys so much for tuning into this episode
of Hood Report podcast. Let us know in the comments
down below what you thought about today's episode.

Speaker 4 (20:51):
Do you agree with these takes? Do you not agree?
We want to know all about it.

Speaker 3 (20:55):
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Speaker 4 (21:02):
Thanks so much, everyone.

Speaker 2 (21:03):
Detroit up that babyably

Speaker 4 (21:11):
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