This week, with March Madness drawing near, NYP TV Sports’ Andrew Marchand spoke with ESPN’s Rick Majerus. Majerus, 56, is in his first full year as a college-hoop analyst.

Q: When you were coaching at Utah, which job offer most intrigued you?

A: Maybe going to pro ball with the Warriors [in 1997.]

Q: What possible low seed do you like in the NCAAs?

A: If they get into the tournament, I like Georgia Tech. They are going to get a low seed if they get in. I liked their team when I saw them earlier in the year. They seemed to be out of sync. Part of it is the absence of [B.J.] Elder. They’ve had difficult losses. They have grown from the loss of Elder.

Q: You took the USC job earlier this year, then changed your mind almost immediately. Do you think you will coach again?

A: Probably. I really like television. I like the game. I like the people I work with and work for. ESPN, there is a reason why they are the worldwide leader and I’m not part of the reason. I’m struggling with that void of competitiveness. If you do a good broadcast, you and your partner kind of high-five each other. The producer says “nice job.” You don’t know if you won or not.

Q: Are you surprised Keith Van Horn [who Majerus coached at Utah] hasn’t flourished in the NBA?

A:He started out well but has been plagued by some injuries, some trades and coaching changes. He has never got in a stable situation, and then he got a big contract. This last trade [from Milwaukee to Dallas] was all about clearing cap space, but I think when he first came out the New York papers put him as a Larry Bird and that was a great injustice to him because he was a different player.

I always wished he could have played for a Jerry Sloan or a Pat Riley or a coach like that. I think they would have recognized his limitations and exploited his great assets.

Q: How good a player were you at Marquette?

A: In the late 1990s with Utah, we were in a regional, and coach [Al] McGuire was there and I asked him to talk to my team. He talked to them and then asked for any questions. Someone said to him, “How good was coach as a player?” He said, “Let me explain something to you, ‘We had an Indian mascot named Willie Wampum when coach played. I would have put the mascot before I put coach in the game.’