Speaker 1: Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where we're hugging
Speaker 1: Gino Oriema and telling him how much we hate him,
Speaker 1: and by hate, we of course mean love. It's Tuesday,
Speaker 1: April eighth, and on today's show, Big Citrus Riecan Beans
Speaker 1: to discuss Yukon's big win, Paige Becker's legacy, and all
Speaker 1: the Final four parties and events including Sweet Hangs with
Speaker 1: a Goat, plus Bad Backselly's using a floor to flip
Speaker 1: a narrative, and one of the greats hangs them up.
Speaker 1: It's all coming up right after this welcome back slices.
Speaker 1: Here's what you need to know today. In college hoops,
Speaker 1: the number two seed Yukon Huskies defeated number one South
Speaker 1: Carolina eighty two fifty nine on Sunday to claim a
Speaker 1: record twelfth national championship and first since twenty sixteen. Azy
Speaker 1: Fund was named the most outstanding player of the Final Four,
Speaker 1: posting twenty four points and five boards in the chip,
Speaker 1: and Gino Oriema's coaching record in title games is now.
Speaker 2: Twelve and one. No joke, ridiculous.
Speaker 1: Paige Beckers ended her legendary career with her first title,
Speaker 1: putting up seventeen points in the victory, and freshman Sarah
Speaker 1: Stronk came up huge, adding twenty four points and fifteen boards.
Speaker 1: We'll talk more about the win and a big, fun
Speaker 1: Final Four weekend in Tampa later in the show.
Speaker 2: More college hoops.
Speaker 1: It's award season and Juju is racking them up. We
Speaker 1: told you last week that Juju Watkins was named the
Speaker 1: Naysmith National Player of the Year, and over the weekend,
Speaker 1: the USC star won a few more, including the John R.
Speaker 1: Wooden Award and the AP National Player of the Year award.
Speaker 1: While Juju's near term future is uncertain after she tore
Speaker 1: her acl in the second round of the NCAA attorney,
Speaker 1: we're sure she's got a big future and we can't
Speaker 1: wait to see what she does when she comes back.
Speaker 1: As USC coach Lindsay Gottlieb told the ESPN, quote, her
Speaker 1: comebacks got.
Speaker 2: To be legendary. End quote. Becker's picked up some hardware two.
Speaker 1: On Thursday, she won the twenty twenty five Wade Trophy,
Speaker 1: presented by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association to the nation's
Speaker 1: top player, and on Saturday, she took home the Naismith
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame's Nancy Lieberman Award, which honors the nation's
Speaker 1: top point guard. She also won the Liberman Trophy back
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 2: More hoops.
Speaker 1: It's officially the end of an era, as Elena Deladan
Speaker 1: announced her retirement at the end of last week. The
Speaker 1: two time WNBA MVP shared the news on Instagram, writing quote,
Speaker 1: my body seemed to make this decision before my mind
Speaker 1: accepted it, but I now truly know this is the
Speaker 1: right thing for me at the right time.
Speaker 2: End quote.
Speaker 1: Deledhan led the Washington Mystics to a WNBA title in
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, all while playing with three herniated disks in
Speaker 1: her back. She underwent two surgeries on her back in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty and then played just three games in her
Speaker 1: WNBA return in twenty twenty one. She played limited games
Speaker 1: in both twenty twenty two and twenty twenty three, and
Speaker 1: then sat out last season. Lena is one of my
Speaker 1: all time favorite players, a big that could shoot the
Speaker 1: three and bring the ball up, an absolute badass at
Speaker 1: the collegiate and pro level, and a truly wonderful, empathetic
Speaker 1: person who brought a unique perspective to the game and
Speaker 1: to life. Due to her sister Lizzie, who was born
Speaker 1: deaf and blind with cerebral palsy and autism. Elena's signature shoe,
Speaker 1: the air del Don, was built intentionally to allow access
Speaker 1: points for folks with special needs and designed with her
Speaker 1: sister in mind. Shout out to my memories of her
Speaker 1: first few months in Chicago, when we ate deep dish together,
Speaker 1: went to the beach with our dogs, and I tried
Speaker 1: to set her up with a hot, tall Midwestern dude.
Speaker 2: I was barking up the wrong tree there.
Speaker 1: Congrats on an amazing career, Elena, from wines to woodworking
Speaker 1: and your wife Amanda's incredible invention the shot fun.
Speaker 2: I can't wait to see what else is next for you.
Speaker 1: Two unrivaled friend of the show, Annie Constable, who's now
Speaker 1: with Front Office Sports, congrats on the job and the
Speaker 1: move to NYC.
Speaker 2: Annie wrote a.
Speaker 1: Story about the upstart three on three league, and it's
Speaker 1: really good.
Speaker 2: Inaugural season.
Speaker 1: Costable reported that the league made twenty seven million dollars
Speaker 1: in revenue in year one and per league commissioner Mickey Lawler,
Speaker 1: quote almost broke even while it often takes leagues years
Speaker 1: even decades to become profitable unrivaled execs believe the league
Speaker 1: could reach that threshold by next season. Will link to
Speaker 1: Annie Store in our show notes. Final piece of Hoops News.
Speaker 1: Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark is the latest guest on
Speaker 1: David Letterman's Netflix show My Next Guest needs no introduction.
Speaker 1: The episode available today includes a sit down at Letterman's
Speaker 1: alma mater, Ball State, footage from Letterman's visit to a
Speaker 1: Fever Sun game at Gainbergerina, and his trip to Clark's
Speaker 1: jersey retirement ceremony.
Speaker 2: In Iowa and February. One of my proudest moments in
Speaker 2: this business was getting.
Speaker 1: A call from the show to hop on a zoom
Speaker 1: with Dave and talk all things Clark to prep him
Speaker 1: for the episode.
Speaker 2: I'm a huge fan, like.
Speaker 1: Checked out books about Letterman starting at age eight with
Speaker 1: dreams of growing up to be a late night host.
Speaker 1: So spending ninety minutes just chopping it up about women's
Speaker 1: hoops and fielding all of his questions about Caitlin and
Speaker 1: the WNBA was genuinely an honor, and he was so
Speaker 1: cool and so interested in learning more.
Speaker 2: About the space.
Speaker 1: And I even get a nice thank you in the
Speaker 1: show credits a pinch me moment for sure to soccer.
Speaker 1: The US women's national team played its first of time
Speaker 1: two friendlies against Brazil on Saturday, winning two nil in
Speaker 1: the rematch of last summer's Olympic gold medal game. Over
Speaker 1: thirty two three hundred fans were in attendance for the
Speaker 1: first ever women's professional sporting event at SOFI Stadium in
Speaker 1: southern California. Trinity Rodman suited up for the national team
Speaker 1: for the first time since winning gold in Paris and
Speaker 1: scored in just the fifth minute of the game.
Speaker 2: Now, given that Rodman's been dealing.
Speaker 1: With back injuries for years, her choice of Sally had
Speaker 1: a lot of people, including the team's medical staff, a
Speaker 1: little bit worried she faked a back injury after the goal,
Speaker 1: before laughing and dancing instead. After the game, Rodman said
Speaker 1: she should have told the medical staff of her CELLI
Speaker 1: plans in advance before adding quote, but you know you
Speaker 1: gotta keep people on their toes end quote. Lindsay Heaps
Speaker 1: formerly Haran made it too nil for the US in
Speaker 1: the second half thanks to a penalty kick earned by
Speaker 1: Lily Johannes and goalkeeper Fallen Tellis. Joyce earned a shutout
Speaker 1: in her US women's national team debut. The US and
Speaker 1: Brazil meet again tonight in San Jose, California. That game
Speaker 1: starts at ten thirty pm Eastern. You can watch on TBS, MAC,
Speaker 1: Universo or Peacock to College Gymnastics, The National Championship field
Speaker 1: is down to eight teams, with LSU, Michigan State, Utah, UCLA, Oklahoma, Missouri, Florida,
Speaker 1: and Alabama making the cut for the National Championships in
Speaker 1: Fort Worth, Texas, on April seventeenth and nineteenth. In addition
Speaker 1: to those eight teams, the top twenty individual athletes from
Speaker 1: teams that didn't qualify will also compete. That includes Olympian
Speaker 1: and Oregon State athlete Jade Carey. While Carrie has won
Speaker 1: two Olympic gold medals and three world titles in her career,
Speaker 1: an NCUBA title still eludes her. She's won five medals
Speaker 1: at the NCUBA Championships during her time at Oregon State,
Speaker 1: but never a gold.
Speaker 2: We got to take a quick break when we come back.
Speaker 2: Is that sweat or tears?
Speaker 1: A little bit of both, to be honest, a little
Speaker 1: bit of both. Two thirds of Big Citrus went to
Speaker 1: Tampa and we're back to tell you all about it,
Speaker 1: stick around, welcome back slices, Big Citrus, here to chat
Speaker 1: about all things NCAA tournament.
Speaker 2: I can't believe the season's over.
Speaker 1: It was like it totally lived up everything, but it's
Speaker 1: still a giant bummer. Misha and I were both in Tampa,
Speaker 1: so we have some stories to tell about parties and
Speaker 1: events and everything else. And of course we'll all get
Speaker 1: into some conversation about pagebackers, legacy, yukon getting back on
Speaker 1: top and everything else. But Mesh, I think if I
Speaker 1: was gonna sum up Tampa in one word, it would
Speaker 1: just be sticky.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm yep.
Speaker 3: Very accurate, very accurate.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: First of all, when I checked the weather as I
Speaker 1: was packing and it said ninety one degrees every day,
Speaker 1: I'm like, but not really, it won't really be ninety one.
Speaker 2: Every No, it was.
Speaker 1: And as soon as I stepped outside even for a minute,
Speaker 1: my body would go, oh, are we working out great?
Speaker 2: And then just start pouring sweat.
Speaker 3: Yep. And anytime I had to go anywhere, everything is,
Speaker 3: you know, within like two blocks three blocks of each other.
Speaker 3: So we were like, yeah, let's walk. We don't need
Speaker 3: to uber baby.
Speaker 2: When I tell you.
Speaker 3: I hit that spin scooters so quickly I could. I've
Speaker 3: never been more uncomfortable in my entire life. And I've
Speaker 3: been to Cairo, Egypt. Like it was hot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it reminded me of Miami, but in like August,
Speaker 1: where you walk outside and your sunglasses steam up and
Speaker 1: you have to my glasses.
Speaker 3: You can't see y'all can't see this, but I have
Speaker 3: my glass. My glasses were fogged up every time I
Speaker 3: wore them. It was in April.
Speaker 2: In April, and then the hair.
Speaker 1: It reminded me of New Orleans for the Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: Like I couldn't go outside for one second without looking
Speaker 1: like Monica from Friends when she went to that tropical island.
Speaker 1: I was like, this is it was a lot. I
Speaker 1: do not know how people live that way. Every time
Speaker 1: I stay, I'm from Chicago and people like, mmm, but
Speaker 1: it's so cold. I'm like, bitch, I get seasons and
Speaker 1: we just go inside to like a cool pub with
Speaker 1: a fireplace and enjoy it.
Speaker 2: We're not like, I don't know how they're I don't
Speaker 2: know how they're doing that down there, Misha.
Speaker 1: I want to start by hearing about your weekend with
Speaker 1: Rising media Stars. This is the group you were selected
Speaker 1: to be a part of that's run by La China Robinson.
Speaker 2: What was it like? I saw you down on the
Speaker 2: court for all the games?
Speaker 3: It was once again incredible, ten out of ten, no notes.
Speaker 3: When I tell y'all the China Robinson is, I said
Speaker 3: her name. That's all I had to do in all
Speaker 3: of these spaces, and Everybody's like, oh yeah, she just
Speaker 3: she carries so much power, but she carries it so
Speaker 3: gracefully and the reason she you know, wielded it. This
Speaker 3: weekend was for the five of us in my cohort
Speaker 3: for the class of twenty twenty five of her mentorship program.
Speaker 3: And man, when I tell you, we were at every
Speaker 3: press conference, every open locker room, every mixed media zone,
Speaker 3: every networking event. It was exhausting, as you can probably guess.
Speaker 3: But also like I feel like every time I leave
Speaker 3: a weekend with that crew, I feel more and more
Speaker 3: confident about, you know, what it is I want.
Speaker 2: To do, and so amazing.
Speaker 3: It's just I can't even put it all into words.
Speaker 3: I just want to say, shout out to her, Shout
Speaker 3: out to Kevin Nixon, shout out to Ty Davis who
Speaker 3: was helping us out Shantiana Key's one of the members
Speaker 3: of a former class. She was there helping us out.
Speaker 3: I mean, and I met so many of the folks
Speaker 3: we've had on the show too. I was able to,
Speaker 3: you know, step aside for a second and say hey,
Speaker 3: by the way, I also produce good game with Air
Speaker 3: Spain and Nancy Armor any constable Katie Barnes, thank.
Speaker 2: You for coming on.
Speaker 3: You know that was just it was incredible in so
Speaker 3: many different ways.
Speaker 1: And you said no notes, but you actually had notes
Speaker 1: with you at all times. Oh yeah, me had this
Speaker 1: notebook just like top to bottom, handwritten notes. You could
Speaker 1: tell that they were just like putting in work all weekend.
Speaker 1: I have to say my favorite thing was I was
Speaker 1: spending most of my time up in the espnW swite.
Speaker 1: So first of all, shout out espnW for the hospitality.
Speaker 1: I was bringing in friends of the show, Jane McManus,
Speaker 1: Aaron Foley, all these folks just like just tell them
Speaker 1: where's sweet we're in and come on in. We don't
Speaker 1: need to get any permission. So shout out to the
Speaker 1: SPNW for the hospitality. But from my vantage point, I
Speaker 1: could always see me shown on the court, creeping court,
Speaker 1: creeping because Okay, first of all, most of the time
Speaker 1: when you weren't directly doing something like chatting with someone
Speaker 1: or taking a photo, you were dancing, which I just
Speaker 1: loved because I can see energy from afar and I
Speaker 1: could see how excited you were. You were just so
Speaker 1: pumped to be on the floor surrounded by these athletes
Speaker 1: like you were just dancing every time I looked at you,
Speaker 1: except for the one time when you were zipping up
Speaker 1: your fly now, which was hilarious because I was already
Speaker 1: filming you, like to see, because I was like, let
Speaker 1: me film me, like just like behind the scenes style
Speaker 1: taking a picture with the cohort, And then you turned
Speaker 1: toward me in the camera and I see you fumbling
Speaker 1: with you I'm like, oh, me had her fly down,
Speaker 1: and they were like mid many photos. So the first
Speaker 1: however many photos taken, you one thousand percent have your
Speaker 1: fly down.
Speaker 2: It was not my fly.
Speaker 3: I did not, so Sarah text to be afterwards to
Speaker 3: confirm or deny that fact, and I was reading it
Speaker 3: so quickly, so many things were happening. I said, yes,
Speaker 3: it was not my fly, it was my belt and
Speaker 3: I wanted to tuck my shirt in. Okay, so I
Speaker 3: did not have my fly down, but I did think
Speaker 3: that video was absolutely hilarious because you can kind of
Speaker 3: see my head bobbing and I'm lokey like me and
Speaker 3: the camera van are going back and forth.
Speaker 2: My guy time.
Speaker 3: It's all of But I was like, now, Ty, why
Speaker 3: are you gonna take this picture? When I've turned the
Speaker 3: other way? He was clicking, I heard the shutter.
Speaker 4: Can I ask for a video review on this? I
Speaker 4: want to see the original footage for me.
Speaker 3: The footage is on Sarah's Instagram. I'm not all the
Speaker 3: way turned towards her, so you know.
Speaker 1: She's doing something down there, is all I'm saying. Maybe
Speaker 1: it was a tuck, maybe it was a zip. Either way,
Speaker 1: I'm glad you had a good time. You ended up
Speaker 1: at a party with a bunch of coaches dancing, which
Speaker 1: I love a little behind the scenes on the coaches
Speaker 1: letting loose.
Speaker 3: Yeah it was your favorite player's favorite coach was in there. Yeah,
Speaker 3: having a great time, and I was having a great time.
Speaker 3: It was The party was fantastic. I got a shout
Speaker 3: out my fellow Virginia native Kenneth Panell, who throws that party.
Speaker 2: I believe every year.
Speaker 3: This is my first time working a Final Four having
Speaker 3: that you know level of.
Speaker 2: I don't know, networking connections access.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I'd never been to them, but supposedly it's
Speaker 3: the best party of the Final Four every year, so
Speaker 3: up to expectations, Like I don't even I don't want
Speaker 3: to say too much.
Speaker 1: Well, while you were there, I was at the Together party,
Speaker 1: which had just a tiny VIP list of Diana Tarassi,
Speaker 1: Sue Bird, Brienna Stewart, Aliah Boston, Aliah Edwards. You know,
Speaker 1: just like a you know, it was chill. It was chill,
Speaker 1: but the parties were good. The Final Four Tourney Town,
Speaker 1: presented by Capitol One was awesome.
Speaker 2: Like, the activations were next level.
Speaker 1: It was really cool to see how much brands put
Speaker 1: behind the activations that they did there.
Speaker 2: The kids everywhere so cute.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean and adults, and like the enthusiasm was
Speaker 1: next level, which was awesome. My live show with Diana
Speaker 1: and Sue went really great. Y'all can listen to that.
Speaker 1: The episode is up. We were hoping to get some
Speaker 1: more video and maybe even throw the whole show up
Speaker 1: so you can watch the whole thing. We're still working
Speaker 1: on all that, but definitely go back and listen, especially
Speaker 1: the part about the retirement gift for Diana. We will
Speaker 1: have more details on that. It is in the works
Speaker 1: of being built, but thankfully she did not punch me.
Speaker 2: She was excited about it.
Speaker 1: As we were walking backstage after the show, she goes, wait,
Speaker 1: is that like real? Though, I'm like, oh, honey, it's real,
Speaker 1: Like there's going to be a bench in Wisconsin in
Speaker 1: the middle of a random park that is yours. But yeah,
Speaker 1: there will be an elaborate ribbon cutting. I think I'm
Speaker 1: gonna bring a live goat that seems appropriate. If I
Speaker 1: can't get Diana there, we'll at least have another goat
Speaker 1: or two. But yeah, there's a big plan around that.
Speaker 1: We'll let you know when that's happening. Speaking of goats.
Speaker 1: By the way, Mesha and I were in the w
Speaker 1: suite with Maya More and what was hilarious was I
Speaker 1: wore one of our shirts from the show Good Game,
Speaker 1: Good Game, F you, and it's just an F with asterisks.
Speaker 1: But when I walked in, my friend from espnW, Serita, said,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I love the shirt blah blah blah,
Speaker 1: and Sid and TP were like, well, who's the FU
Speaker 1: And I'm like h Sidney Cholson and Teresa plays once
Speaker 1: who'd been on the show before Friends of the Show,
Speaker 1: and oh my god, I got to figure it out.
Speaker 1: And then Serita was like, yeah, whoever takes a fence
Speaker 1: at the shirt first?
Speaker 2: And I'm like, yeah, perfect.
Speaker 1: So then later in the suite, I asked Maya for
Speaker 1: a selfie and she and her handler are like, okay,
Speaker 1: but you can't get the shirt in it. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: she is a woman of God. And I was like, oh, no,
Speaker 1: rules are rules.
Speaker 2: Oh rules are rules. Good game, good game. F you
Speaker 2: Maya Moore is I guess you.
Speaker 3: Left that context out when you told me about what
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 1: Oh? All I told you was that my made sure
Speaker 1: and I was trying to angle my body to make
Speaker 1: sure you couldn't see.
Speaker 2: The f and the asterisks.
Speaker 3: That's where you got to put out to her little hand,
Speaker 3: just a little hand on the tummy or somewhere.
Speaker 2: Just wow.
Speaker 1: Shout out to her for sticking with her principles. But
Speaker 1: I was cracking up when she said that, was like.
Speaker 2: Oh no, Maya, rules are rules. But the shirt got
Speaker 2: so much love. Can I tell you?
Speaker 1: Walking into the game, around the game, walking out of
Speaker 1: the game, walking down the street. I would just hear
Speaker 1: people saying it aloud, and then I would look at
Speaker 1: them and be.
Speaker 2: Like, oh, sorry, I like your shirt.
Speaker 1: They're like good game, good, Oh that's great, Like that's hilarious,
Speaker 1: or where can I get that?
Speaker 2: So it's a hit.
Speaker 5: Did you get to see slices in the wild wearing
Speaker 5: merch too? Because that blew my mind when I first
Speaker 5: started thinking about it.
Speaker 2: I sure did.
Speaker 1: There were a bunch of folks who came to the
Speaker 1: live show with Diana and Sue.
Speaker 2: I saw and I'm a slice.
Speaker 1: I saw a couple on with the bulls asked me
Speaker 1: about women's sports. I got sent a lot of photos
Speaker 1: of people in that. So yeah, the merch is out there, y'all.
Speaker 2: That was really exciting. That was really cool. All right,
Speaker 2: we gotta talk about the games.
Speaker 1: I mean, the parties were good, the events were good,
Speaker 1: the activations, Misha's pseudo internship.
Speaker 2: But the games. What what's happened? Y'all?
Speaker 1: We first of all, congrats to us on all of
Speaker 1: our predictions being correct as to who would win, and
Speaker 1: then literally nothing else.
Speaker 2: Let's start with those final four games.
Speaker 1: I mean, the Texas one wasn't that surprising to me
Speaker 1: as soon as their defense wasn't able to hold South
Speaker 1: Carolina in that first half. Even though it was a
Speaker 1: tight game at the half, you already knew that their
Speaker 1: strategy wasn't working and that South Carolina was gonna probably
Speaker 1: make their way.
Speaker 2: But I just didn't expect that big of a blowout.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought they would hang in there a little
Speaker 3: bit longer. I just think there's levels to this, right,
Speaker 3: Dawn and Gino ended up in the National Championship game
Speaker 3: in their squads as well. For a reason, they've found
Speaker 3: a formula that works season after season after season. And
Speaker 3: you know, Texas and Vic Schaeffer. I'm not gonna say
Speaker 3: he's not an amazing coach.
Speaker 2: We had him here.
Speaker 3: He's a friend of the show, you know. But Texas
Speaker 3: had a lot of pieces that hadn't quite been to
Speaker 3: that stage just yet. In South Carolina, as we know,
Speaker 3: won the National Championship last season going undefeated, so they've
Speaker 3: more than been there before and had that experience. And
Speaker 3: so I think for Texas and the same thing with UCLA,
Speaker 3: once we get to that game, I just think it
Speaker 3: took them a little longer to really settle in, and
Speaker 3: by the time they did it was like, baby, it's
Speaker 3: too late.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think Ucla for sure. What we saw was
Speaker 1: Lauren Bett still got hers. Her ends to tistic wasn't bad,
Speaker 1: but at the end her box score didn't look bad.
Speaker 2: But nobody else could hit. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And the point with that UCLA team is, if you're
Speaker 1: gonna shut down Lauren Bett's enough, which I think Yukon
Speaker 1: more than any team i'd seen before, didn't just double
Speaker 1: a triple team her, but they got really active with
Speaker 1: their hands inside disrupting her when she caught the ball.
Speaker 1: That led to not just steals, but making her much
Speaker 1: more uncomfortable in there. She tried to get her shot
Speaker 1: off faster, she tried to make a move without letting
Speaker 1: them get in and try to steal the ball like
Speaker 1: it just made her more uncomfortable. But she still did
Speaker 1: a great job of using her footwork, pivoting out, kicking
Speaker 1: it out and no one could hit shit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that was the big difference. That was it.
Speaker 3: Corey Close said in the in the pregame press conference
Speaker 3: that the plan was not just for Lauren to score
Speaker 3: the basketball.
Speaker 2: That's tier one.
Speaker 3: Tier two was Okay, we're gonna work inside out, offensively,
Speaker 3: pass the ball into her and then our shooters are
Speaker 3: going to relocate.
Speaker 2: That was literally the whole game plan.
Speaker 3: Not the whole game plan, I'm sure I'm not in
Speaker 3: those huddles, but what she told us the game plan was.
Speaker 3: And when you don't have anybody else supporting you against
Speaker 3: the team like Yukon, you gotta have everybody aggressive across
Speaker 3: the board. You gotta have at least three or four
Speaker 3: people in double figures. And frankly, also you gotta be
Speaker 3: able to play some defense and stop them. And the
Speaker 3: way you Kon looked offensively, that was a machine. That
Speaker 3: was an absolute machine. And asy Fud shout out to
Speaker 3: her because that was her first double digit game of
Speaker 3: the NCAA tournament, that final four game against UCLA, and
Speaker 3: she set the tone.
Speaker 2: She set the tone. She had been struggling.
Speaker 1: We saw, of course that for nine or for eleven
Speaker 1: start or whatever in the previous game found her shot
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter, and Page kind of joked with her,
Speaker 1: you saving all your buckets for the final four, and
Speaker 1: the answer was clearly yes. But it makes a big
Speaker 1: difference when Azy sets the tone because they're gonna work
Speaker 1: so hard to try to shut down Sarah and Page
Speaker 1: and then you just don't have enough bodies to shut
Speaker 1: down all three of them, which is of course what
Speaker 1: we ended up seeing in the final game as well.
Speaker 2: Asy Fud I loved.
Speaker 1: Her family wearing the shirts fud around and find out
Speaker 1: really And you remember in the regular season, South Carolina
Speaker 1: got absolutely busted by yukon an absolute blowout, and it
Speaker 1: was Easy who led the way in that one. I
Speaker 1: think she had twenty eight points. They didn't have an
Speaker 1: answer for her, and when she came out hot, I
Speaker 1: was like, ooh, this is bad news for sci because
Speaker 1: they kept it tight. I think it was nineteen fourteen
Speaker 1: after the first quarter, but you saw a z was
Speaker 1: the one making all the buckets, and you're like, ooh,
Speaker 1: this is gonna be bad because you know that Sarah
Speaker 1: and Paige are gonna find theirs.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's as a player when you know you've put
Speaker 3: up numbers against the team before, when you see that
Speaker 3: team again, oh, you're immediately licking your chops. And I
Speaker 3: just feel like, you know, Azy Fudd obviously her demeanor,
Speaker 3: I think pages and even more so Sarah Strong's, they're
Speaker 3: all kind of you know, reserved. I'll say, you know,
Speaker 3: I'll answer questions in the presser, all that stuff, But
Speaker 3: when it comes down to it, y'all don't get to
Speaker 3: see what the real dog looks like. It's the last
Speaker 3: step foot on the core and asy just she turned
Speaker 3: it on, ended.
Speaker 1: Up twenty four points, five assists, three steals.
Speaker 2: That's what happened.
Speaker 3: To say, steal, she picked my laser, four.
Speaker 2: Cookies and you know who else.
Speaker 1: Kk Arnold defensively was an energizer bunny out there. Every
Speaker 1: time you turned around, she was hustling to the ball,
Speaker 1: making a stop, just really aggressive. And that you noticed
Speaker 1: in the first half, especially with Yukon, is every single
Speaker 1: one of them was so fast to the ball, fast passing,
Speaker 1: especially that first quarter.
Speaker 2: If that pace had kept.
Speaker 1: Up, oh boy, no one was missing and they were
Speaker 1: going fast. And I have to say that it was
Speaker 1: probably not the best strategy for South Carolina, but when
Speaker 1: you're hitting all your shots like that, you're like, let's
Speaker 1: keep going.
Speaker 2: But that benefited Yukon.
Speaker 1: It would have been better for South Carolina slowed things
Speaker 1: down because there was no way they were going to
Speaker 1: keep getting stops like that. And you knew with the
Speaker 1: way that Yukon's offense worked, they would be able to
Speaker 1: stay efficient like that, and it just South Carolina had
Speaker 1: some players step up, for sure, but woo yeah, that
Speaker 1: fed right into Yukon's hands.
Speaker 5: I'm curious what the vibe was like in the arena
Speaker 5: in terms of South Carolina versus Yukon fans, especially in
Speaker 5: that third quarter when Yukon really separated themselves.
Speaker 2: Where were you?
Speaker 1: Meh, because I was actually where our suite was was
Speaker 1: closer to a bunch of South Carolina fans, so it
Speaker 1: sounded like sixty forty Game Cocks fans. When the game started,
Speaker 1: the DJ DJ shawna shout out. DJ Shauna, she's normally
Speaker 1: working Milwaukee Bucks games. She was doing all the DJing
Speaker 1: for the final four. She shouted out and did a
Speaker 1: vibe check of like, let me hear all the Yukon fans.
Speaker 2: Oh super loud. We're like, wow, let me hear South
Speaker 2: Carolina way louder.
Speaker 1: Now again, I don't know if that was where I
Speaker 1: was in the arena, but there was a lot of
Speaker 1: South Carolina representation. And then to your point, Alex come
Speaker 1: her third quarter crickets, yep, crickets.
Speaker 2: It was. It was tough.
Speaker 3: So I was kind of everywhere a little bit. We were
Speaker 3: going from the floor to see you in the suite
Speaker 3: for all of two seconds to going back to the
Speaker 3: media workerroom. So but what I will say is looking
Speaker 3: from the court up at the stands behind the two benches,
Speaker 3: it was like an even fifty to fifty split. Like
Speaker 3: we were over on the Yukon side Sarah, So where
Speaker 3: Sarah was sitting, she could look down at me. I
Speaker 3: was in the corner right in front of all the
Speaker 3: Yukon alums and family and that stuff. So from that
Speaker 3: side of the arena it was sixty forty.
Speaker 2: So it was an even split. Both probably pretty even.
Speaker 3: Yeah, both fan bases definitely traveled well, had a lot
Speaker 3: of folks in their repon. But yeah, come third quarter,
Speaker 3: when I went back to the media workroom to start
Speaker 3: working on the things that China had for us, every
Speaker 3: time Yukon scored, we could hear it from all the
Speaker 3: way back there and we were pretty far away from
Speaker 3: the court.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean then it was just fans getting
Speaker 1: excited about some big plays and you know me. She
Speaker 1: mentioned that there's a stoicism a little bit sometimes to
Speaker 1: Asy and Sarah and Paige, But Paige, when she's having fun,
Speaker 1: it's so joyful to watch and I think sometimes. So
Speaker 1: we got in a late night debate with a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of ladies at a table because one of them
Speaker 1: said Paige isn't a dog, and I.
Speaker 2: Was like, hold up, hold up. Then we got into
Speaker 2: the whole I was like.
Speaker 1: Listen, We've extensively discussed this on our show What makes
Speaker 1: a dog? What makes a glue gal? Can you be
Speaker 1: a dog in a glue gal? Can you be a
Speaker 1: glue gal and a superstar? Like all this other stuff?
Speaker 1: And I'm like, thankfully, most of the table, I'm not
Speaker 1: going to out anybody might run a popular women's sports brand,
Speaker 1: slash company, slash website, slash social outlet.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to out anyone in my name.
Speaker 1: But this person had some backup on the page ain't
Speaker 1: a dog debate And the rest of the table was like,
Speaker 1: you're out of your f and mind.
Speaker 2: And I think it's for two reasons.
Speaker 1: One still has a total babyface and is built. In
Speaker 1: my opinion, if I give you the animal jack Rabbit,
Speaker 1: you cannot find a better animal. That page looks and
Speaker 1: acts like like she is straight up and down with
Speaker 1: a ton of bounce. She's strong, but she doesn't look
Speaker 1: super strong. She just looks like a kid. And then
Speaker 1: she laughs a lot and has a lot of joy
Speaker 1: when she plays. And if you mistake that for not
Speaker 1: being a dog, you get beat by thirty points in
Speaker 1: the National Championship.
Speaker 3: I don't know how you say she's not a dog.
Speaker 3: When I saw her hit it and one I think
Speaker 3: it was in the elite eight. Uh and turn and
Speaker 3: look at the defender and say a freking one and
Speaker 3: and put the you know the celebration they do where
Speaker 3: they put their shoulders forward. Man, that's that's what hoopers do.
Speaker 3: That's what dogs do. So if that's not dog, I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't know what a dog is.
Speaker 4: She's a dog's also husky.
Speaker 2: She's literally she's literally a dog. Literally. We had the
Speaker 2: we had the jack rabbit conversation. Someone said, would pecker.
Speaker 2: I saw that. Someone said kangaroo.
Speaker 1: I said, not big enough in the in the shoulders,
Speaker 1: in the chest, because kangaroos are jacked.
Speaker 2: I think she's a jack rabbit.
Speaker 1: And I think you take her because of the braids
Speaker 1: and the nice smiley face and how much joy she
Speaker 1: has out there, you underestimate what a dog she is.
Speaker 2: But okay, my argument correct me.
Speaker 1: Like listen, I think Aasy paced them for sure in
Speaker 1: the final and Asy was a huge piece of everything.
Speaker 1: I think you could argue Sarah Strong as most outstanding
Speaker 1: player of the final four.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, so I have a ballot to vote, and that
Speaker 3: was the hardest decision because I wanted both of them
Speaker 3: to win.
Speaker 2: I wanted both of them to.
Speaker 3: Get that reward because Sarah Strong actually outscored Azy Fund.
Speaker 3: Sarah Strong actually broke the freshman record in an NCAA
Speaker 3: tournament one hundred and fourteen points, the most ever scored
Speaker 3: by a freshman. She absolutely did her thing, so I
Speaker 3: think there was definitely an argument for that, but because
Speaker 3: of the way she did it, Sarah Strong. Don Staley
Speaker 3: said that Sarah Strong could be in the next three
Speaker 3: years the best player to come out of Yukon, and
Speaker 3: I full, full throated, fullhearted, I stand behind what Don said.
Speaker 3: I was arguing with people all weekend about that after
Speaker 3: she said that. It's because what Sarah Strong does isn't flashy.
Speaker 3: Sometimes it is, sometimes it is, but she just gets
Speaker 3: the job done. It doesn't matter what you throw at her. Small, big,
Speaker 3: you know, post, somebody kind of a hybrid like her,
Speaker 3: it doesn't matter. She's eating them for lunch, but she's
Speaker 3: not doing it with flair, so people overlook it. But
Speaker 3: she absolutely could have won most.
Speaker 1: She's not demonstrative out there in terms of like her
Speaker 1: reactions or celebrations, but she gets it done. And to
Speaker 1: your point, the situation, especially in those moments where you
Speaker 1: expect someone with her like it's like Gino said on
Speaker 1: our show, someone built like her should not be able
Speaker 1: to do the things she does. And you notice it
Speaker 1: most when her movement can't be intentional because it's on
Speaker 1: a turnover or someone disrupts the ball, or the passes
Speaker 1: a little bit over her, and she shouldn't be able
Speaker 1: to gather, collect and go up and make the layup
Speaker 1: because the pass is leading her out of bounds, and
Speaker 1: she does it anyway.
Speaker 2: It's in those moments that.
Speaker 1: You're like, damn, a freshman at that size that can
Speaker 1: do that much with her body. Her body control is insane.
Speaker 1: And then hit the threes and then play in the
Speaker 1: big position and play outside as a guard like it
Speaker 1: is wild to say she might be the best player
Speaker 1: to come out of Yukon when you look at the
Speaker 1: players that have come and then at the same time,
Speaker 1: you're like, watching what she just did as a freshman,
Speaker 1: it's it's one thousand percent believable.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and even more than that.
Speaker 3: And this is not a knock on Page or whatsoever,
Speaker 3: because they've both been through their trials and tribulations with
Speaker 3: the knee injuries and all of that. But it's no
Speaker 3: coincidence to me that they win a championship when Sarah
Speaker 3: Strong is on the team, you know what I mean, Like,
Speaker 3: she's that impactful. So yeah, but they also needed to
Speaker 3: be healthy.
Speaker 1: And also, I think if we watch that game three
Speaker 1: or four more times, one of the things we see
Speaker 1: is like perfect picks from everybody, and what you don't
Speaker 1: then see is how somebody benefits from a player that
Speaker 1: can't rotate and close out, and Sarah benefits from Page
Speaker 1: and Easy being fundamentally so sound as well.
Speaker 2: So yes, of course they.
Speaker 1: Have to be healthy, they have to play together enough times.
Speaker 1: They're a tough team because we see them in the
Speaker 1: regular season and they don't have as many matchups against
Speaker 1: good teams, so it's hard for us to get a
Speaker 1: read on them. Honestly, that beat down of South Carolina,
Speaker 1: we were like, was that an anomaly or is that
Speaker 1: how good they are? Well, guess what, They outscored their
Speaker 1: appointents by one hundred and ninety seven points in the tournament.
Speaker 1: Aside for the yeah, tied for the fourth largest point
Speaker 1: differential ever in a single NC Double A tournament, according
Speaker 1: to ESPN Stats and Information. They had the biggest final
Speaker 1: four win of all time in that semi final against UCLA,
Speaker 1: and they were not that far off the biggest point
Speaker 1: differential and the title game either. I mean, this team
Speaker 1: steamrolled everything in front of them.
Speaker 4: Sarah wells that number. How many did they outscore.
Speaker 1: Their pubs one hundred and ninety seven points total in
Speaker 1: the NC DOUBLEA tournament?
Speaker 5: That is? I mean, I guess they did have that
Speaker 5: one oh three to like thirty four win in game
Speaker 5: one of the tourney, which you know helps a little bit,
Speaker 5: but yeah, wild.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, and listen, this is uh Don Staley
Speaker 1: I think had some really telling when she's always so
Speaker 1: smart and composed in the way she articulates even after
Speaker 1: a loss, and I think to be able to say
Speaker 1: immediately that we lost to a very good basketball team
Speaker 1: and they beat our ass, but they didn't make us
Speaker 1: like it. There's a difference, right to be able to
Speaker 1: say immediately, I'm not going to comfort my players that
Speaker 1: are crying. I'm gonna let them sit in it because
Speaker 1: I think that will benefit them and it'll make them
Speaker 1: come back stronger. Like the coaching that's already happening in
Speaker 1: her head. Immediately, whatever the natural instinct is, she might
Speaker 1: already be processing through that what's next and.
Speaker 2: What's best for my team.
Speaker 1: I think the quote I thought so not the most
Speaker 1: to me was she said, I think they had a
Speaker 1: better team this year. You don't always win when you
Speaker 1: have the better team, but they had the better team
Speaker 1: this year and they won, and that's what you're supposed
Speaker 1: to do.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: There's probably been moments where Don has out coached and
Speaker 1: been able to outstrategize.
Speaker 2: A better team. This is not one of them. And
Speaker 2: you could see on the bench the frustration.
Speaker 1: That gift of her yelling the F word, which was
Speaker 1: not fud It was a different word, but might have.
Speaker 2: Been fun at times as well.
Speaker 4: Not maya more approved?
Speaker 2: Yeah, not maya more approved? Is right? That gift is
Speaker 2: gonna get some work, Yes, for sure, yes it is.
Speaker 3: But we gotta give a shout out to Don's daycare,
Speaker 3: all those kids that senior class that's going out.
Speaker 2: They did win a title.
Speaker 3: That group is going to be special in their own
Speaker 3: ways in their professional careers. But yeah, I mean it
Speaker 3: was just and it's funny coming in. I picked Yukon
Speaker 3: here on the show, but we also did social media
Speaker 3: predictions for rising media stars. And to be a contrarian,
Speaker 3: because everybody else picked Yukon, I found a way to
Speaker 3: rationalize South Carolina even when my head was telling me Yukon.
Speaker 3: I would have been perfectly fine of South Carolina one
Speaker 3: as well. But my rationale was they've got more weapons,
Speaker 3: more options, more fresh legs, Yukon doesn't necessarily have as
Speaker 3: much room for error. And it ended up kind of
Speaker 3: being flipped on its head in the end because to me,
Speaker 3: Yukon won because they had people they knew they could
Speaker 3: go to, and South Carolina was trying to figure out
Speaker 3: who was going to be that entire time, and so that.
Speaker 1: Would also like mistake three, mistake free basketball in the
Speaker 1: game against UCLA and then basically mistake free ball in
Speaker 1: the National Championship too.
Speaker 3: They knew they had to play. That's what makes Yukon
Speaker 3: so great. If we have to encapsulate what it is
Speaker 3: that Gino puts into all his players is that they
Speaker 3: know their standard is just.
Speaker 2: They're not making mistakes.
Speaker 1: Yea, they wanted to take themselves out of a game,
Speaker 1: like a lot of teams will take themselves out a
Speaker 1: game with turnovers and otherwise, they didn't do that. To
Speaker 1: your point about the game, Cocks though, one of the
Speaker 1: greatest four year stretches for a team, and they're still
Speaker 1: in it because going to the national championship even if
Speaker 1: you lose it as a part of that. But look
Speaker 1: at someone like Bree haul four trips to the final four,
Speaker 1: three appearances in the National Championship game, two national championships,
Speaker 1: winning in twenty twenty two and twenty twenty four, like
Speaker 1: that's it's an unbelievable run. That's a better run than
Speaker 1: anyone that's at Yukon right now.
Speaker 2: Exactly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because it's been a little while for Yukon and
Speaker 1: that was kind of wild too to think about that
Speaker 1: it had been since twenty sixteen since Yukon won it all,
Speaker 1: and to think about I.
Speaker 2: Think Gino's a different guy.
Speaker 1: And the one thing I regret about my interview with
Speaker 1: Sue and Diana that I meant to ask and I
Speaker 1: forgot was do you think Gino is just coaching differently
Speaker 1: because it's a different kind of player now, or do
Speaker 1: you also think that the players are getting a different Gina,
Speaker 1: because in my opinion, they're getting a different Geno this
Speaker 1: early seventies knows that he only has X amount of
Speaker 1: years left, understands what the players need from him in
Speaker 1: this era.
Speaker 2: I think it's a different geno because.
Speaker 1: Like Sue and Fi Defista, Callier both saw the clip
Speaker 1: of Gino crying about Page at the presser and they
Speaker 1: were adamant that he was not crying. They said, we
Speaker 1: know him, there is no way he's crying. And every
Speaker 1: other person was like, that man is crying. That is
Speaker 1: a man who is crying. And I think he's a
Speaker 1: different guy now in the best possible way for this
Speaker 1: current era.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I totally agree with you, and I don't think
Speaker 3: you know that's uncommon, like even for the best of
Speaker 3: the best, the most hard knows, the most intense, you know.
Speaker 3: I remember I had a high school coach who I
Speaker 3: thought for a while.
Speaker 2: Was the devil.
Speaker 3: I was like, lady, ain't no way, ain't no way
Speaker 3: they're letting you coach high school play. But she was
Speaker 3: an excellent coach. I love her so much.
Speaker 2: Shout out coach Kelly.
Speaker 3: But she even told us, and we had former players
Speaker 3: come back and say, oh, that lady is not the
Speaker 3: same lady.
Speaker 2: And it's just the natural progression of things, right.
Speaker 3: You get older, you get a little bit more sentimental.
Speaker 3: The kids are younger in relation to you. You don't
Speaker 3: want to hurt their feelings, but you also want to
Speaker 3: make sure you're supporting them as a whole person. And
Speaker 3: I think Gino just is naturally on that course of evolution.
Speaker 3: So but I don't know. I'm still undecided as to
Speaker 3: whether he was crying or not, though, because at the
Speaker 3: press conference I was at, you know, I wasn't there
Speaker 3: for the moment that everybody's alleging that he was crying for.
Speaker 3: But at the press conference I was at. At the
Speaker 3: final four, he does rub his eyes a lot.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: He literally used Page to clean his glasses one time
Speaker 3: he's tied. The dude was in his early seventies, like,
Speaker 3: so it's hard to call it.
Speaker 2: It's hard to call it.
Speaker 3: He actually was crying.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you who was crying, Me and everyone in
Speaker 1: the suite when Page came off the court for the
Speaker 1: final time and hugged him and then hugged her teammates.
Speaker 1: Literally there was a row of all four of us,
Speaker 1: just like while I'm crying, get the next me too,
Speaker 1: Like I'm not even gonna hide it, We're crying.
Speaker 2: It was very sweet.
Speaker 5: So given that we were just one hundred percent right
Speaker 5: about how this was all going to play out this weekend,
Speaker 5: at least in terms of the final results, and not
Speaker 5: anything that happened in the games, this feels like a
Speaker 5: safe space to put out a theory and I want
Speaker 5: to get your thoughts on it.
Speaker 4: I think Gino is done.
Speaker 3: No, he's nope, he's got. He said it in the
Speaker 3: press conference that he's got. He didn't say explicitly I
Speaker 3: have five six seven years, but he was talking about
Speaker 3: what the future of the program could look like and
Speaker 3: used five six seven years from now, when I may
Speaker 3: or may not be here, And so I think he's
Speaker 3: definitely considering, you know, what it looks like in the
Speaker 3: next few seasons. But after this, oh no, unless he
Speaker 3: wants to pull a DT, unless they're literally just from
Speaker 3: the same tree and he wants to just drop out
Speaker 3: of this guy and say, hey, I'm gone.
Speaker 2: Uh I don't think so.
Speaker 1: No, so I before the tournament started, I wondered that,
Speaker 1: and I think alc after we interviewed him, I again
Speaker 1: had my one regret, which was he said to us,
Speaker 1: I should have retired after Brianna Steward and we won
Speaker 1: four in a row. And I was like, oh, I
Speaker 1: got to follow up on that, and he kept talking
Speaker 1: for I forgot to follow up, and I was like, shit,
Speaker 1: I want to ask more intentionally, like what the timeline
Speaker 1: looks like for how long you're going to be coaching.
Speaker 1: And I think right when the tournament started, you could
Speaker 1: have convinced me that maybe if they won, he would
Speaker 1: go out on top, you know with page But two things.
Speaker 1: One his face when I asked her about Sarah Strong
Speaker 1: and getting to have her for the next couple of years,
Speaker 1: there was like almost too much joy in the idea
Speaker 1: of like this this player is so good.
Speaker 2: I'm not leaving while this player is there.
Speaker 1: But also I know Nancy Armor was asking him a
Speaker 1: lot of questions about when he might be done, and
Speaker 1: he said a couple things. One of her posts, she said,
Speaker 1: Gino said he quits multiple times a year, and then
Speaker 1: he gets to the final four and gets rejuvenated.
Speaker 2: Quote, this ruins my life every.
Speaker 1: Year coming here, meaning like I get my life gets
Speaker 1: ruin because I know I'm coming back. And then she
Speaker 1: followed that up and said, Gino says, so long as
Speaker 1: his players are still responding to him, he'll keep coaching.
Speaker 1: When they don't, that's when it'll be time to go.
Speaker 1: And there's no argument they're so responding based on them
Speaker 1: winning and based on the relationship he has with his
Speaker 1: current players.
Speaker 2: So Ali would have been with you on that.
Speaker 1: But I think we got at least another couple of
Speaker 1: years of Geno, And I do think. I do think
Speaker 1: as a coach that's been around as long as he
Speaker 1: hasn't done as much as he has, you don't owe
Speaker 1: anyone anything. But I do think when you have a
Speaker 1: reputation like Gino and you are heavily recruiting with the
Speaker 1: impression that someone's coming to play for you, there almost
Speaker 1: needs to be a warning that the end is coming
Speaker 1: or this is how many years I'm going to be here,
Speaker 1: because I think it's really hard on the program and
Speaker 1: on the players that you respect to mislead them into
Speaker 1: committing and then leave.
Speaker 5: So at what point does he start giving players that
Speaker 5: warning then, right cause I think that the conversation about
Speaker 5: Sarah Strong is a good one, right, Like, how do
Speaker 5: you leave a program when you have Sarah Strong as
Speaker 5: a freshman, But when Sarah Strong is a senior, he's
Speaker 5: doing his job, you'll have another freshman.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And the question is whether you just announce it
Speaker 1: two years in advance or something, and you let players
Speaker 1: know that, hey, I still want to get coached by
Speaker 1: him before he's gone and I can always transfer, or
Speaker 1: they make a decision that they don't they want to
Speaker 1: go somewhere where there won't be some sort of transfer
Speaker 1: of power. It's hard too, because when you're Yukon and
Speaker 1: you've got Gino for as long as you have, normally
Speaker 1: there'd be someone who potentially is going to step up
Speaker 1: in his absence.
Speaker 2: But Chris Daily has been there as long as he has.
Speaker 2: She's not a.
Speaker 1: Spring chicken who's going to be like, well it's mine now,
Speaker 1: let me tell you something.
Speaker 3: So it was the funniest thing ever. I was right
Speaker 3: there when they were cutting down the net, right in
Speaker 3: front of the ladder. Right Chris Daly's turn comes to
Speaker 3: cut down the net. She ain't even want to go
Speaker 3: up there. She was like, I've been here before. The
Speaker 3: players are like CD CD.
Speaker 2: She's looking at.
Speaker 3: Them like this is just another day, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean. And it gives their duo that goes out together.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so. Speaking of going out, we got
Speaker 1: to wrap this up. We could be talking about this
Speaker 1: team and these players forever. I just want to say
Speaker 1: how happy I am that everyone stayed healthy.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: Paige got the dub, Sarah and Azy showed out. We're
Speaker 1: gonna get more of the incredible game Cox team. We're
Speaker 1: gonna get more of the incredible Yukon team. It is
Speaker 1: just making me even more fired up for next year.
Speaker 2: And the DMV won again. Everybody.
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Speaker 4: Yes and the Asies of the World Unite.
Speaker 2: Note.
Speaker 3: I was second guessing myself all weekend because of you,
Speaker 3: alex Asie.
Speaker 4: I was like, is it Asi fun?
Speaker 2: Asy fun?
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Speaker 5: it whatever the word for that is, skeat it, but
Speaker 5: I was like, I think the number of people that mispronounced.
Speaker 5: My name is about to go way up and I'm
Speaker 5: okay with it, you.
Speaker 2: Know, yep, that's right, that's right. Uh.
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Speaker 1: before the regional final between Yukon and usc but it
Speaker 1: was an embarrassing moment for the NCAA, and frankly, it
Speaker 1: was an infuriating one for US women's sports fans who
Speaker 1: are sick and tired of women's sports getting less investment
Speaker 1: and less care. Well, Jenny looked on the bright side
Speaker 1: of things and thought that the screw up gave the
Speaker 1: women's tournament attention, not necessarily good attention, but attention nonetheless.
Speaker 1: So I asked her how she managed to procure a
Speaker 1: piece of the floor, and she said it was all serendipity.
Speaker 1: So a friend of a friend is an installer for
Speaker 1: NCUBA and WNBA floors and he happens to be a
Speaker 1: huge fan of the Sports Bra. His wife was a
Speaker 1: college athlete and they have seven daughters. So he was
Speaker 1: the one who fixed the Portland floors and he had
Speaker 1: the incorrect boards. So months later he reached out to
Speaker 1: Jenny and asked if she wanted him. Hell yeah, she
Speaker 1: did so now the Sports Bra has turned the floors
Speaker 1: into a new bar top with a great story.
Speaker 2: We love that.
Speaker 1: Now it's your turn rate and review. Thanks for listening, slices,
Speaker 1: See you tomorrow. Good Game, yukon Good Game, Sports Bra
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Speaker 2: How do y'all live like that?
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