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Speaker 1: Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where we're getting

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Speaker 1: custom Funko Pop figurines made of all our favorite people

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Speaker 1: so that even when they aren't physically with us, they're

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Speaker 1: still with us. It's Monday, March thirty first, and on

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Speaker 1: today's show, Big Citrus will debrief on this weekend's NCAA

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Speaker 1: Basketball tournament. Our takeaways from the Sweet sixteen and Elite

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Speaker 1: Eight games, from broken noses to broken records, plus a

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Speaker 1: whole bunch of weekend winners. I'm a Pageant Queen and

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Speaker 1: Tater's Gonna Tate. We reveal the winner of our starch

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Speaker 1: Madness Tournament. It's all coming up right after this. Welcome

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Speaker 1: back slices. Happy Monday. Here's what you need to know

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Speaker 1: today in March Madness News. Half the Final four is

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Speaker 1: set after two excellent Elite Eight games yesterday. First up,

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Speaker 1: Don Staley and the number one South Carolina Game Cocks

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Speaker 1: faced Caro Lawson and her number two Duke Blue Devils. Y'all,

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Speaker 1: did Duke really give sc all they could handle? It

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Speaker 1: was a four point game at the intermission. Thanks to

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Speaker 1: run and playing smothering defense to win at fifty four

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Speaker 1: to fifty. They'll now head to the program's fifth straight

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Speaker 1: Final four. Chloe Kits led sc with fourteen points and

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Speaker 1: four rebounds, while Senaiah Fagan had twelve points, eight rebounds

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Speaker 1: Coxs will face the winner of number one Texas and

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Speaker 1: number two TCU. That game takes place tonight at seven

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Speaker 1: pm Eastern on ESPN, and of course, that one features

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Speaker 1: Friend of the Show Madison Booker's Longhorns versus Hailey van

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Speaker 1: Litz horned Frogs. If you like big bodies, banging in

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Speaker 1: the low post and jaw dropping guard play, that one

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Speaker 1: to Hailey van Lith. The Guard's redemption Tour is in

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Speaker 1: full effect. Fiter for a rough season on LSU's roster

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Speaker 1: a bunch of media folks who had Notre Dame upsetting

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Speaker 1: Duncan and friend of mine but not a friend of

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Speaker 1: the show because she hasn't come on yet. Megan Raupudo

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Speaker 1: are among those catch and strays. Even former President Barack

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Speaker 1: Obama got called out. It was all in good fun.

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Speaker 1: We love TCU leaning into this moment and showing their swagger.

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Speaker 1: We'll link to that post in our show notes. In

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Speaker 1: Sunday second contest, the number one UCLA Bruins and star

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Speaker 1: six to seven center Lauren Betts took the floor against

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Speaker 1: and forth contest and Bets ended up playing sparingly through

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Speaker 1: but in the fourth quarter, UCLA recovered from an over

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Speaker 1: the postgame interview with Lauren Betts and Gabrielajkez, where their

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Speaker 1: the show notes. Those Bruins are a bunch of rascals,

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Speaker 1: Sensational junior guard Flage Johnson, who posted twenty eight points

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Speaker 1: and senior Anissa Moro, who had fifteen points and seven

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Speaker 1: and I am straight up licking my chops waiting for

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Speaker 1: this game. These squads met in last year's Elite Eight

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Speaker 1: Head coach Gino Oriema set of Page after the game,

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Speaker 1: by the Dallas Wings to the NWSL Where Got Them

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Speaker 1: FC and US women's national team defender Tierna Davidson left

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Speaker 1: away now from her fiftieth goal in a Spirit kit.

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Speaker 2: if I could share the trophy with someone, trophy, prize, money, points, everything,

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Speaker 2: You always you always pushed me so hard to play

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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know. You're a great player player.

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Speaker 2: Congrats you and your team on an incredible couple of weeks.

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Speaker 2: I always enjoy playing against you. You you're a really

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Honestly, he love someone who tells

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Speaker 1: Mikayla Schiffrin capped off a challenging season by winning the

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Speaker 1: There were two PWHL games over the weekend, with the

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Speaker 3: Here's Maggie Friday Night, US figure skater Alyssa Lou won

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Speaker 1: beginning of something great with that kind of funding, with

431
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Speaker 1: the investment, with the excitement, with the ticket buyers, with

432
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Speaker 1: the Steph Curry connection that's only going to be there

433
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Speaker 1: for another year or two. Knowing how invested he is

434
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Speaker 1: and helping promote that, that's I'm shocked. It's it's concerning,

435
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Speaker 1: for sure.

436
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Speaker 4: Quick shout out to Sugar Rogers former William and Mary

437
00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:46,600
Speaker 4: assistant who now just got the assistant job at Golden State.

438
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Speaker 1: Maybe that's the difference, I think the difference.

439
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Speaker 4: But yeah, I mean you look at them, you look

440
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Speaker 4: at Connecticut. Do we need to say more?

441
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Speaker 1: You know? So there are spots Marina Maybury could use

442
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Speaker 1: ad teammates. Yeah, just one, just one, just one would

443
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Speaker 1: be good. No. I think it's interesting Alan, You know,

444
00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:10,480
Speaker 1: size wise, she will have to figure out how to

445
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Speaker 1: compete against bigger, stronger, faster without being athletically physically a

446
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Speaker 1: big player. But can't measure a heart, meche, You can't

447
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Speaker 1: measure a heart.

448
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Speaker 4: You also got to think about the international experience she

449
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Speaker 4: now has. A lot of people have been talking about

450
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Speaker 4: that on the interwebs the last few days watching her

451
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Speaker 4: hoop because that three on three I think it changed

452
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Speaker 4: her game in a lot of ways.

453
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Speaker 1: So we'll see, but I got faith in her. Misha.

454
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Speaker 1: Any last takeaways from the Sweet sixteen, just that as a.

455
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Speaker 4: Person who grew up watching a lot of ACC basketball,

456
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Speaker 4: I was just talking about Maryland they used to be

457
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Speaker 4: in the ACC.

458
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Speaker 1: The Duke UNC matchup in the Sweet sixteen.

459
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Speaker 4: I thought it was going to be more like those

460
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Speaker 4: regular season matchups between those two teams. I thought it

461
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Speaker 4: was gonna be a little bit more offensively, you know,

462
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Speaker 4: on that side, a little bit better. But honestly, in

463
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Speaker 4: lost and said it after the game, she didn't expect

464
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Speaker 4: it to be. She thought it was gonna be gritty,

465
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Speaker 4: it was gonna be, uh, you know, scrappy, and it was.

466
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Speaker 4: So I was just kind of sad because I wanted

467
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Speaker 4: that as the first time those two teams met in

468
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Speaker 4: the tournament to be.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, three overtimes, But you know, it happens.

470
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Speaker 1: It happens. I love me some Karen lawsome, but she

471
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Speaker 1: does interviews like she's trying to convince you never to

472
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Speaker 1: talk to her again. Like that is definitely not what

473
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Speaker 1: she's using to recruit players. Like you hear some other

474
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Speaker 1: coaches and you're like, man, I want to run through

475
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Speaker 1: a wall for that coach. I absolutely would go play

476
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Speaker 1: for her and carry like. But all right, you know

477
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Speaker 1: what car on the recruiting trip. You know what Carrot does.

478
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Speaker 1: She saves that for them huddles in practice, She's not

479
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Speaker 1: using those slips for promotion or recruitment. Clearly she does

480
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Speaker 1: the work on the recruiting trip and in the locker room.

481
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Speaker 1: But it's just funny. She's like, get me the out

482
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Speaker 1: of here. I need to get back to coaching. Okay,

483
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Speaker 1: let's talk about the games that we watched on Sunday,

484
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Speaker 1: the first two games to decide the final four participants.

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Speaker 1: I have to get props to Duke because I said earlier,

486
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Speaker 1: I just haven't followed them as closely all year as

487
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Speaker 1: some of the other teams. And I think part of

488
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Speaker 1: that is because they have a bunch of players that

489
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Speaker 1: get the job done. It's not the one superstar, it's

490
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Speaker 1: not the standout whose name you hear over and over.

491
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Speaker 1: It's a bunch of players showing up and getting it done.

492
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Speaker 1: I think what we saw down the stretch was just

493
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Speaker 1: not great execution. They it was a bad final shot

494
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Speaker 1: from Jackson that she airballed. It wasn't a terrible shot

495
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Speaker 1: to take, but it just that there was plenty of

496
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Speaker 1: time on the clock to set something up better. The

497
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Speaker 1: Duke players lining up for a free throw for some

498
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Speaker 1: reason when instead it was an inbound play for South

499
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Speaker 1: Carolina after a timeout, they lined up as if there

500
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Speaker 1: was a free throw happening. That's just where's your head

501
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Speaker 1: at in the game at that point. And then I

502
00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:48,000
Speaker 1: think Bree hauled down the stretch really saved herself. Her

503
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Speaker 1: offensive fowl when they were up to with just about

504
00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:53,520
Speaker 1: thirty seconds to play could have been a killer if

505
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Speaker 1: Duke had been able to take advantage, but instead she

506
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Speaker 1: got a board on the air ball and then she

507
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Speaker 1: forced the turnover on the inbounds on the play, so

508
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Speaker 1: she got herself back into the mindset to be the

509
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Speaker 1: person she needed to be for that last couple of seconds,

510
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Speaker 1: which was which was huge for them. But yeah, I

511
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Speaker 1: think Duke really stuck in it and had a great

512
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Speaker 1: start to the second half, and then execution just failed

513
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Speaker 1: up down the stretch.

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Speaker 4: And I think with this group, it's the thing that's

515
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Speaker 4: been their achilles heel all season. Frankly, like they could

516
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Speaker 4: always rely on that defense because the defense is gonna

517
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Speaker 4: be what is gonna be. It's Kara Losson running the show.

518
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Speaker 4: But to me, they've also got a lot of defensive

519
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Speaker 4: minded individual players, which is really hard when at the

520
00:25:34,119 --> 00:25:35,679
Speaker 4: end of the day, you need somebody who's gonna go

521
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Speaker 4: get your bucket. Like the most elite of the elite

522
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Speaker 4: teams that are still left in the tournament, they got

523
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Speaker 4: somebody or a couple of somebodies who can just go

524
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Speaker 4: get you a bucket.

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Speaker 1: So it's tough.

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Speaker 4: Ashton Jackson, Aluchia Kanawa, Toby Flournier, they're gonna be good.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna be good. Yeah, Toby as a freshman to

528
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Speaker 1: have the ovaries to show up the way she did today.

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Speaker 1: Now the mound to the ground, cat to the mat,

530
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Speaker 1: she brought it eighteen points six boards, came off the

531
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Speaker 1: bench and was a spark in a million different ways

532
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Speaker 1: and is going to be a very good player for

533
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Speaker 1: that team going forward. Really impressive as a freshman. All right,

534
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Speaker 1: So we know that sc is headed back fifth straight

535
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Speaker 1: Final four for South Carolina, and on ESPN, they showed

536
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Speaker 1: a list of the coaches who have done that and

537
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Speaker 1: other than Gino, who's done it twice, it is it

538
00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:31,280
Speaker 1: like fourteenth straight or something gross like that. It was

539
00:26:31,359 --> 00:26:35,400
Speaker 1: just a who's who Muffett McGraw, Tara Vanderveer, Don Staley

540
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Speaker 1: like Helvalus. So congrats to sc on getting back to

541
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Speaker 1: the final four second game that we watched yesterday. Man,

542
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Speaker 1: it was another one that you just were waiting to

543
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Speaker 1: see how a team would be able to show up,

544
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Speaker 1: either as a complete team or if a superstar was

545
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Speaker 1: going to step up, especially with UCLA. When Lauren Betts

546
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Speaker 1: got in foul trouble early, LSU had an opportunity to

547
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Speaker 1: re take advantage, and at first when she went out,

548
00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:04,920
Speaker 1: it seemed like Kim Molki was gonna send Anissa Morrole

549
00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:07,560
Speaker 1: repeatedly into the paint to take advantage, and she only

550
00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:09,240
Speaker 1: did a couple of times and they got away from

551
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Speaker 1: that and it allowed UCLA to stay up and be

552
00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:14,280
Speaker 1: effective even with Bets on the bench. I was kind

553
00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:16,240
Speaker 1: of surprised by that, meiche I thought they were going

554
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Speaker 1: to try to pound it inside a lot more while

555
00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:20,639
Speaker 1: she was sid Yeah, I don't know what was up

556
00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:20,919
Speaker 1: with that.

557
00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:23,399
Speaker 4: You mentioned it though, that was and this is very

558
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Speaker 4: surprising to me, Lauren Betts as a big the.

559
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Speaker 1: First time in her whole career.

560
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Speaker 4: She had picked up two fouls. In the first one

561
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Speaker 4: which is is nuts and.

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Speaker 1: The first one was garbage. By the way, Flage tried

563
00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:36,240
Speaker 1: to board around her arm and she got called on it.

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Speaker 4: So what it was is Kim Molk told them before

565
00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:42,320
Speaker 4: that game. This is not direct quotes. Okay, people, I

566
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Speaker 4: wasn't actually in the locker room.

567
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Speaker 1: I didn't call him.

568
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Speaker 4: I didn't call him. She didn't send me the text

569
00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:49,240
Speaker 4: messages of the game plan. Okay, but I guarantee you

570
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Speaker 4: what she said in that locker room before the game is,

571
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Speaker 4: I don't care what you gotta do get her in

572
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Speaker 4: foul trouble.

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Speaker 1: I don't care how you gotta flop. And I agree

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Speaker 1: if they find you Flage, don't worry about it.

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Speaker 4: It's not coming up to it and Alice coming out

576
00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:03,399
Speaker 4: my paycheck, you know what I'm saying. So, but I

577
00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:06,159
Speaker 4: was very surprised ls you didn't capitalize anymore. I think

578
00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:08,560
Speaker 4: they've still got a really young group in a lot

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Speaker 4: of ways, and I think that had a lot to

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Speaker 4: do with it. In the same way that not the

581
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Speaker 4: same way that Duke struggles offensively at times, but in

582
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Speaker 4: a similar way. Sometimes ls you just some goes out

583
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Speaker 4: of whack and I'm not sure what it is.

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Speaker 1: I was also very surprised down the stretch. I love

585
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Speaker 1: me some, Kaylen Gilbert, I do.

586
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Speaker 4: And when you're when you were watching that game, you

587
00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:30,800
Speaker 4: heard Ryan Ruko say it himself, why why are.

588
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Speaker 1: The three shots in one possession? I love you?

589
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Speaker 4: Who's but she's hit She's hit shots, you know what

590
00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:40,280
Speaker 4: I mean? She has hit shots, But I think in

591
00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:42,360
Speaker 4: that situation, the vibes just did not feel good on

592
00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:45,280
Speaker 4: those and that surprised me as well. Anissa fighting through

593
00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:47,800
Speaker 4: the busted nose, I mean.

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Speaker 1: Her nose looked pretty good though, so hopefully it's not

595
00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:51,960
Speaker 1: too serious that someone who got her nose broken in

596
00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:54,560
Speaker 1: a field hockey game bled all over the field and

597
00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:56,840
Speaker 1: had to be taken off the field in an ambulance

598
00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:59,680
Speaker 1: because it was so it's still crooked, like the fact

599
00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:04,800
Speaker 1: that she went back in that hurts so much. The

600
00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:08,480
Speaker 1: stinging is like the worst pain in the world, and

601
00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:11,200
Speaker 1: I couldn't believe it wasn't bleeding anymore. So I don't

602
00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:13,680
Speaker 1: know what they've shoved up there. When they took her back.

603
00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:18,720
Speaker 1: But major props are going back in Yeah, for sure.

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Speaker 4: But I gotta give it. I gotta give a round

605
00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:25,560
Speaker 4: to the Tigers though, I mean, Mikayla Williams, Samiah Smith.

606
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Speaker 4: They had a lot of people do some wonderful things.

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Speaker 1: It was was insane on defense and offense, would not stop.

608
00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:37,960
Speaker 1: She took a bunch of hits too. I mean, yeah,

609
00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:40,280
Speaker 1: I mean, I think the key is you got to

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Speaker 1: give UCLA props for figuring out how to get it

611
00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:45,200
Speaker 1: done without the key to their game plan. Yeah, there

612
00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:49,760
Speaker 1: was a stat that UCLA since January one, with Lauren

613
00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:53,080
Speaker 1: Betts on the bench, they're a minus three and with

614
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Speaker 1: her in the game, they're a plus three twenty Oh

615
00:29:56,000 --> 00:30:00,320
Speaker 1: my god, what okay? And then in this game with

616
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Speaker 1: her on the bench at least heading into the half,

617
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Speaker 1: without her playing all of the second quarter, you say

618
00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:08,800
Speaker 1: it was still a plus Like that's that's wild remarkable

619
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Speaker 1: for them to be able to do that in the moment.

620
00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:13,840
Speaker 1: And Gardner and Hawkes nine of thirteen from three they

621
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Speaker 1: made nine of the ten made threes on the day.

622
00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:17,520
Speaker 1: The rest of the team was one for eleven from

623
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Speaker 1: beyond the arc. Seeing hawkas who has been a great piece,

624
00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:25,360
Speaker 1: but knew she needed to step up not only rebounding

625
00:30:25,360 --> 00:30:27,719
Speaker 1: in place of Lauren Betts, but I think doubling up

626
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Speaker 1: her average and scoring in this game. Like when you

627
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Speaker 1: see that, that's like, that's a team. We're gonna talk

628
00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:34,880
Speaker 1: Lauren Betts and we're gonna say that she's the most

629
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Speaker 1: important piece, because she is. But what they did without

630
00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:39,280
Speaker 1: her tells you that they have a whole lot more

631
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Speaker 1: going on this scene, especially becau keiky Rice gott in

632
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Speaker 1: foul trouble too. Yeah.

633
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that was the part where I got scared when

634
00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:46,640
Speaker 4: she came out of the game and they started to

635
00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:49,240
Speaker 4: look a little disjointed offensively in that second half. But

636
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Speaker 4: they figured it out, Like you said, shout out to

637
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Speaker 4: me A Gardner, shout out Gabriella Hakez, everybody on that

638
00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:58,480
Speaker 4: squad just gutting it out straight like that.

639
00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:03,440
Speaker 1: So UCLA also moves on to the final four, and

640
00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:06,560
Speaker 1: then we've got two more games tonight to decide the

641
00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:10,880
Speaker 1: other pair of teams that will make it. I am

642
00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:13,480
Speaker 1: so excited. We'll be talking about the final four teams

643
00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:15,600
Speaker 1: a getting you ready for all those games later this week.

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00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:19,080
Speaker 1: All right, we got to take a break. When we

645
00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:23,479
Speaker 1: come back, we crown a starch Madness champion and USC

646
00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:35,480
Speaker 1: women's basketball tugs at my heart strings. It's next Welcome

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Speaker 1: back slices. Hope y'all had a great weekend. I sure did. Not.

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Speaker 1: Only did I get to dress up for a drop

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Speaker 1: dead gorgeous themed fortieth birthday party. Shout out Glenn, Happy birthday,

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Speaker 1: you pageant loving bitch. And if you guys haven't seen

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Speaker 1: that movie, this was the first time I saw it.

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Speaker 1: I never watched it back in the day. It has

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Speaker 1: aged poorly, but kind of in the best possible way.

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Speaker 1: It's still it's still hilarious and super edgy. But after

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Speaker 1: the pageant madness, I also got to indulge in three

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Speaker 1: straight days of outstanding hoops matchups and four giant plates

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Speaker 1: of starch filled goodness. That's right. On Friday, I cooked

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Speaker 1: up a storm all day, making each of the final

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Speaker 1: four recipes of our starch Madness Tournament twice baked sweet potatoes,

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Speaker 1: funeral potatoes, tacos to Papa, and potato lot keys or lotkas.

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Speaker 1: We say lot keys round here now. Technically in the

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Speaker 1: bracket it didn't say sweet potatoes, but I was like,

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Speaker 1: wanting this mix of rusted and Yukon gold and sweet potatoes.

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Speaker 1: So I made an executive decision, and let me tell you,

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Speaker 1: it was a good one, because twice baked sweet potatoes

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Speaker 1: are delicious. Okay, So here's the bracket setup. First of all,

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Speaker 1: the right side of the bracket was an easy choice.

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Speaker 1: Potato lot keys absolutely dominated the tacos, and I think

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Speaker 1: that's because I prefer a chunky potato filling to the

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Speaker 1: mashed potato type filling that the Tacos to Papa recipe

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Speaker 1: called for. So that was an easy one potato lot

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Speaker 1: keys for the win. Choosing a winner on the left

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Speaker 1: side of the bracket was far tougher. Funeral potatoes versus

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Speaker 1: the twice baked sweet potato. This was hands down the

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Speaker 1: better region. It honestly felt like Yukon versus usc meeting

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Speaker 1: way too early and ultimately in a very very difficult decision,

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Speaker 1: funeral potatoes beat twice baked sweet potato. And then when

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Speaker 1: all the votes were tabulated funeral potatoes versus potato lot key,

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Speaker 1: the votes being just mine and my husband Brad's, I

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Speaker 1: tried to get more people to come over and help

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Speaker 1: us eep and said, I ate a ridiculous amount of

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Speaker 1: funeral potatoes. The winner was drum roll please, funeral potatoes.

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Speaker 1: I guess you probably shouldn't be surprised. A cheesy hash

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Speaker 1: brown cast role with the cornflake crust that's midwestern, is

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Speaker 1: y'all and damn delicious. So thank you to whoever submitted

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Speaker 1: that recipe. Honestly, give it a go for your next

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Speaker 1: party or picnic or something. Don't wait for a funeral

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Speaker 1: to whip this one up. Nobody needs to die for

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Speaker 1: you to eat this magic. Congrats to all the recipes,

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Speaker 1: but mostly congrats to me because I got to cook

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Speaker 1: them and eat them all. We will link to the

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Speaker 1: visuals so you can judge my cooking and my silently

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Speaker 1: to yourself because I don't need to hear your judgment.

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Speaker 1: We love that you're listening, but we want to get

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Speaker 1: you in the game every day too, So here's our

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Speaker 1: good game play of the day. Check out the videos

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Speaker 1: made by content creator coach Jackie j aka j cubed

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Speaker 1: hacks on TikTok and Instagram. For years, she's been making

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Speaker 1: hilarious videos about women's college hoops coaches, breaking down their hairstyles, fits,

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Speaker 1: arm movements, stances, strides and more to get to the

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Speaker 1: bottom of the very important question, is she gay or

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Speaker 1: does she just coach women's basketball. They're funny while never

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Speaker 1: being mean spirited. And while those are the videos, they

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Speaker 1: got me hooked on coach Jackie Jay. She does other

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Speaker 1: women's sports focus posts too, including a recent video about

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Speaker 1: the things that she would do if it meant she

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Speaker 1: could magically heal Juju Watkins, here's a little bit of

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Speaker 1: that one.

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Speaker 6: Use single ply toilet paper for the rest of my life.

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Speaker 6: Drink a whole cup of the spoiled milk that is

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Speaker 6: currently in my fridge. Talk to a man on purpose.

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Speaker 6: Oh about men's March badness? Yeah, that one's extra bad.

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Speaker 6: You're bringing them on.

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Speaker 1: Sports Rap Battle.

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Speaker 6: Flage Johnson on National TV up Accumuliation similarly challenge the

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Speaker 6: feast a Collier to one on one, also on National TV.

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Speaker 6: Anything for Juju Watch a whole season of Drag Race

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Speaker 6: with Kim Ulk. Just feel like that would be really

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Speaker 6: really hard to sit through.

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Speaker 1: Follow her. You won't regret it. We always love to

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Speaker 1: USC women's basketball having Juju Watkins Funko pops on the bench,

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Speaker 1: rating twelve out of twelve Team Era points review y'all,

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Speaker 1: this almost broke me. Watkins was not able to travel

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Speaker 1: with the team to Spokane because of her acl injury,

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Speaker 1: So what did the team do? Bring a bunch of

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Speaker 1: mini Jujus on the trip in Funko pop form. Now,

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Speaker 1: if you don't know, Funko pops are these like little

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Speaker 1: figurines with huge heads and little bodies. They're pretty highly

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Speaker 1: sought after collectibles for kids and adults alike. In fact,

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Speaker 1: my husband Brad and I were gifted ourselves in Funco

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Speaker 1: pop form this past Christmas. We'll put a link to

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Speaker 1: the post from the USC squad so you can get

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Speaker 1: a good look at jujus. This is just truly an

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Speaker 1: adorable way for the Trojans to let their teammate know

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Speaker 1: that they love her and that her presence is felt

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Speaker 1: even in her absence. Between this and the T shirts

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Speaker 1: they wore with her face on, it man. The kids

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Speaker 1: are all right Now, it's your turn, rate and review.

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Speaker 1: the winningest head basketball coach in IVY League history, the

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