Speaker 1: Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where we could
Speaker 1: listen to ESPN's Big Three of l Duncan, Andrea Carter
Speaker 1: and Cheneo Guomuk talk women's.
Speaker 2: Hoops all day.
Speaker 1: Actually we did all weekend long Couch Hoops, Big Three
Speaker 1: Sleep Repeat. It's Monday, March twenty fourth, and on today's show,
Speaker 1: we'll be unpacking the first weekend of March Madness, celebrating
Speaker 1: streaks on the court and in the water, and reminding
Speaker 1: ourselves that old people have dreams too. It's all coming
Speaker 1: up right after this welcome back slices. Here's what you
Speaker 1: need to know today to college hoops, where March Madness
Speaker 1: is officially underway. The opening rounds on NCAA Women's Tournament
Speaker 1: first six teams hitting the one hundred point mark in
Speaker 1: one round, the most lopsided victory coming in Yukon's one
Speaker 1: o three to thirty four win over Arkansas State. The
Speaker 1: biggest upset of the first round was thanks to number
Speaker 1: ten Oregon defeating number seven Van Built seventy seven to
Speaker 1: seventy three in overtime. Oregon actually had a nineteen point
Speaker 1: lead in the second half, but the Commodores clawed their
Speaker 1: way back, with Leilani Kappanis tying the game with four
Speaker 1: seconds left. Oregon ended up getting knocked out on Sunday
Speaker 1: and the second round, losing to Duke fifty nine to
Speaker 1: fifty three. We got more free basketball on Sunday, with
Speaker 1: number five Kansas State and number four Kentucky meeting overtime
Speaker 1: to find a winner. Kansas State eked out the eighty
Speaker 1: to seventy nine upset, ending the spectacular college career of
Speaker 1: Kentucky's Georgia Amoor. More on her later in the show.
Speaker 1: We are recording this before the very last of Sunday's
Speaker 1: games conclude, so we'll make sure to get you caught
Speaker 1: up on even more second round action in tomorrow show.
Speaker 1: More college hoops in Division three. NYU's wind streak continues.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: We mentioned the Violets last week, and here we are again.
Speaker 1: They won their second straight NCAA title on Saturday, defeating
Speaker 1: Smith seventy seven to forty nine to cap off another
Speaker 1: undefeated season.
Speaker 2: NYU has now.
Speaker 1: Won sixty two straight games, the eighth longest win streak
Speaker 1: in NCAA women's basketball across all divisions. Now, it is
Speaker 1: worth noting that NYU did miss out on one historic mark.
Speaker 1: The men's team at the school also made the NCAA
Speaker 1: Championship game, so they could have become the first school
Speaker 1: to win both the women's and men's basketball championships in
Speaker 1: the same season, but the men's team ended up losing
Speaker 1: in the final to Trinity College sixty four to sixty,
Speaker 1: losing a four point lead in the final minute and
Speaker 1: a half. Still super impressive to get both teams to
Speaker 1: the final. To the NWSL, where we already have an
Speaker 1: early candidate for goal of the Year thanks to Seattle's
Speaker 1: Jordan Bug, who scored the game winner in the rains
Speaker 1: two to one win over the North Carolina Courage on Saturday. Now,
Speaker 1: it wasn't just Bug's first ever NWSL goal, it was
Speaker 1: also the defender's second ever shot on goal in the
Speaker 1: regular season, and it was a butte go and find it.
Speaker 1: The eighteen year old Bug signed with the Rain last summer. Meantime,
Speaker 1: the rains first goal in that game came from a
Speaker 1: longtime player, Jess Fishlock, and she also made a little
Speaker 1: NWSL history. So per opt to Sports, Fishlock is now
Speaker 1: the only player to contribute to at least one goal
Speaker 1: in all twelve NWSL seasons, and the goal came in
Speaker 1: her two hundredth career game.
Speaker 2: Hell of a way to celebrate two hundo to college hockey.
Speaker 1: In Friday's NCAA Women's hockey semi final, Ohio State defeated
Speaker 1: Mike Cornell Big Red four to two and Wisconsin defeated
Speaker 1: Minnesota six to two to set up Sunday's NCAA championship game.
Speaker 1: This marked the third straight time that Wisconsin and Ohio
Speaker 1: State met in the final, and it was a chaotic conclusion.
Speaker 1: Wisconsin ended up winning four to three in overtime. Alex
Speaker 1: is going to give us all the deats on that
Speaker 1: game in Segment two, also got a shout out Wisconsin's
Speaker 1: Casey O'Brien, who was named this year's recipient of the
Speaker 1: Patti Casmier Award. She's the sixth Badger to receive the
Speaker 1: honor annually given to the top Division one women's hockey player.
Speaker 1: If you want to hear more about Casey, you can
Speaker 1: listen to our episode with college hockey writer Nicole Hose
Speaker 1: from Friday. She broke down a bit of the best
Speaker 1: of her game to the PWHL. The New York Sirens
Speaker 1: might be last in the PWHL standings, but forward Abbey
Speaker 1: Rock was on top of the highlight reel this weekend,
Speaker 1: scoring a Michigan style goal against the Ottawa Charge, the
Speaker 1: first Michigan goal in PWHL history.
Speaker 2: Now, if you're not.
Speaker 1: Familiar, a Michigan goal is when a player is coming
Speaker 1: from behind the net and uses the toe of their
Speaker 1: stick blade to drag the puck up and around the
Speaker 1: goal and tuck it into the net above the goalie shoulder.
Speaker 1: These are particularly flashy goals every single time, and this
Speaker 1: was no different.
Speaker 2: We'll link to the video in our show notes.
Speaker 1: To alpine skiing, Lindsay Vaughn recorded the first podium finish
Speaker 1: of her comeback on Sunday, finishing second in the Super
Speaker 1: G at the World Cup Finals in Sun Valley, Idaho.
Speaker 1: Swiss skier Laura Gutebarami won the race one point twenty
Speaker 1: nine seconds ahead of Vaughn. With the finish, the forty
Speaker 1: year old Vaughn absolutely shattered the women's record for oldest
Speaker 1: podium finisher. The previous record holder was thirty four years
Speaker 1: old when she set the mark. Shout out to Vaughan
Speaker 1: for reminding us yet again that old people can dream.
Speaker 1: Too to the w UNBA, where the twenty twenty five
Speaker 1: schedule is here. The season tips off on May seventeenth
Speaker 1: with a double header. First up, the New York Liberty
Speaker 1: will lift their championship banner at Barclays before taking on
Speaker 1: the Las Vegas Aces. Then we'll get a battle between
Speaker 1: the Chicago Sky and Indiana Fever. Speaking of the Fever,
Speaker 1: Indiana will appear on national television in forty one of
Speaker 1: its forty four games. Now, we'll talk more schedule, highlights,
Speaker 1: and venue changes that have been announced to accommodate big
Speaker 1: crowds for Kaitlin Clark, Angel Reese and Moore in a
Speaker 1: future episode. In the meantime, we'll just link to the
Speaker 1: schedule in the show notes. To swimming, the University of
Speaker 1: Virginia won its fifth straight Swimming and Diving National championship
Speaker 1: over the weekend. The Cavaliers are now tied with the
Speaker 1: Stanford Cardinal for most consecutive NCAA titles in the sport.
Speaker 1: Stanford won five straight from ninety two to ninety six.
Speaker 1: To Soccer Up North aka the Northern Super League, all
Speaker 1: six clubs in Canada's league revealed their home jerseys ahead
Speaker 1: of kickoff next month, and just off first glance, my
Speaker 1: brain is going Ottawa rapid FC. I love that bird
Speaker 1: logo and I feel like the sort of checks and
Speaker 1: criss crosses will look great on the field. And I'm
Speaker 1: also really digging the logo for the Halifax Tides. The
Speaker 1: jersey itself's a little boring, but the logo with the
Speaker 1: waves and the moon and stuff looks pretty rad. Jury's
Speaker 1: still out on the roses and the collar jersey.
Speaker 2: Look I don't have to see how that looks on
Speaker 2: the field.
Speaker 1: I think producer Alex was right in saying there was
Speaker 1: a real missed opportunity that none of these teams have
Speaker 1: a Canadian tuxedo jersey. Maybe that'll be their alternate. We'll
Speaker 1: link to the kits in our show notes and you
Speaker 1: could take a look and see what you like. We
Speaker 1: gotta take a quick break when we come back. Weird
Speaker 1: Juice and Big Citrus joins me to talk a big
Speaker 1: weekend of college hoops and an exciting final in college hockey.
Speaker 2: Welcome back, y'all. Wow, how blessed are we?
Speaker 1: We got a weekend of just women's sports, on women's sports,
Speaker 1: on women's sports.
Speaker 3: It made me think about my old breaking t shirt,
Speaker 3: which is you know, seeing a couple of lives at
Speaker 3: this point the put women's sports on TV.
Speaker 2: Yes, and I'm like, I need have TVs. Yes, thank
Speaker 2: you that shirt.
Speaker 1: It's like you did the thing with the sports now
Speaker 1: I need to do the thing with the TV exactly exactly.
Speaker 1: Why did it just sound like Bill Cosby? What's the pudding?
Speaker 2: That's problematic? Okay, my brain might be a little broken.
Speaker 1: From the big weekend of women's sports, but let's talk
Speaker 1: a little bit about what we saw. I'm gonna leave
Speaker 1: it to you, Alex to kick us off with the
Speaker 1: hockey game that I mean, if you want to talk
Speaker 1: about a good finish, you want to talk about a
Speaker 1: way to close a season and leave people excited for
Speaker 1: next year.
Speaker 2: Man, try to even sum up.
Speaker 1: What happened on Sunday in that NCAA Women's college hockey final,
Speaker 1: which only would have been better obviously if Cornell wasn't
Speaker 1: it in one of course, of.
Speaker 3: Course I'm gonna focus in on the final couple minutes
Speaker 3: of the game. So Ohio State was leading three two,
Speaker 3: Wisconsin trying their best to find the equalizer, and Ohio
Speaker 3: State ends up getting a too many players on the
Speaker 3: ice call having to serve a penalty. During that they
Speaker 3: had a violation on the ice where player it appeared
Speaker 3: that she had covered the puck in the crease not allowed,
Speaker 3: so Wisconsin got the choice penalty shot or do you
Speaker 3: want Ohio State to serve a minor penalty? And I
Speaker 3: love this moment. You can see Mark Johnson, Wisconsin's coach,
Speaker 3: on the bench, his lips are saying who wants it?
Speaker 3: And Kirsten Sims apparently shouted the loudest I.
Speaker 2: Do gut check time, sphincter time.
Speaker 3: Exactly exactly exactly. And then Wisconsin goes on to win
Speaker 3: in ot and just I don't know. This is why
Speaker 3: I think I love hockey. It can be anyone's game
Speaker 3: at any moment. You know.
Speaker 1: Also, if you're not a big hockey fan, I can't
Speaker 1: recommend enough watching games like this where there's no timeouts,
Speaker 1: there's no free throws, you can't slow it down, you
Speaker 1: can't try to like strategize your way out of it.
Speaker 1: The last couple minutes of a hockey game are probably
Speaker 1: the most exciting of any sport. Wow, you can pull
Speaker 1: a goalie and you know, I mean, it is balls
Speaker 1: to the wall.
Speaker 2: It is ovaries to the I don't even know. Nothing
Speaker 2: rhymes with ovaries. It is fallopian tubes to the groveries.
Speaker 1: No, no, it doesn't work. We're gonna have Hey slices.
Speaker 1: Good game play of the day. We need a women's
Speaker 1: substitute for balls to the wall tits to the turf.
Speaker 1: As you all can hear, Misha is both sick and
Speaker 1: had a big weekend, so even her cough sounds like
Speaker 1: she's almost dead to.
Speaker 4: The He almost took me out with that one.
Speaker 1: You almost too, honestly, the turf or in this case,
Speaker 1: tits to the ice. I mean, it is so fun
Speaker 1: to watch when it comes down to it in hockey games.
Speaker 1: So congrats to Wisconsin. I'm pulling that one out at
Speaker 1: the end. And I do think that maybe if we
Speaker 1: can get confirmation alex on someone raising their hand and
Speaker 1: saying I want it and fit fishing that one off,
Speaker 1: that might be a good game. Hall of Fame honoree.
Speaker 1: That's the kind of lure we should all know. Is
Speaker 1: like title on the line, who wants it, hand raised
Speaker 1: buries it.
Speaker 3: Like yeah, I want to almost survey coaches and see
Speaker 3: who has in that moment called on a player to
Speaker 3: do it, and how many coaches instead ask their players, hey,
Speaker 3: who wants to take it?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 3: I think of the nineteen ninety nine Women's World Cup
Speaker 3: Brandy Chestain that very famous moment, and she was originally
Speaker 3: supposed to be sixth on that list, and she ended
Speaker 3: up getting called up to fifth. Like she didn't raise
Speaker 3: her hand in that situation. She kind of got approached
Speaker 3: and said, hey, can you actually kick it with your
Speaker 3: other foot?
Speaker 2: And she was like, okay, fine, yeah I got this. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean that's the kind of player I think we
Speaker 1: all want to be one that the coach says, Okay,
Speaker 1: the weight of a nation is on your shoulders.
Speaker 2: Who do we think we could trust? Let's go to you,
Speaker 2: not me, not me.
Speaker 3: I've thought about it.
Speaker 5: You don't think you want that. You don't want that
Speaker 5: pressure out. That's not your vibe.
Speaker 1: Ah.
Speaker 4: I feel like I would trust you under pressure.
Speaker 3: I don't know if I trust myself with an athletic
Speaker 3: feet under okay, should trust myself with other feets under pressure.
Speaker 2: Trivia final round. It all comes down to this, Oh boy,
Speaker 2: it's just songs. It's not about men's sports, Okay.
Speaker 1: So hockey gave us an incredible finish. We're still early
Speaker 1: in the women's basketball tournament, but we are getting some incredible,
Speaker 1: incredible games, some incredible performances.
Speaker 2: Some absolute brutal beat down.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I do have to say though, there is clearly more parody.
Speaker 1: There is more excitement in the early rounds than we've
Speaker 1: seen in years past, and it's only going to get
Speaker 1: better from here for sure. We mentioned in previous shows
Speaker 1: the lowest seed ever to win an NCAA women's basketball
Speaker 1: tournament has been a number three seed. It feels like
Speaker 1: every year we're going to be expanding, though. How many
Speaker 1: teams we believe have a real shot at it this year,
Speaker 1: as we're filling out our brackets is very clear we're
Speaker 1: like not convinced of any one team.
Speaker 2: There's four or.
Speaker 1: Five that could reasonably really take it, And after watching
Speaker 1: the first couple of days of games, there is a lot.
Speaker 2: There's a lot.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm gonna start with my just takeaways from the
Speaker 1: first round. I had a couple of players I wanted
Speaker 1: to shout out, and then I had a couple teams
Speaker 1: slash takeaways from bigger picture that I wanted to shout out.
Speaker 1: So number one just a really cool story Maggie Dugan
Speaker 1: from eighth seed Richmond. She on her birthday absolutely put
Speaker 1: her team on her shoulders to route ninth seed at
Speaker 1: Georgia Tech seventy four forty nine.
Speaker 2: That's an eight to nine matchup.
Speaker 1: Okay, and Maggie Dugan on her birthday thirty points, fifteen
Speaker 1: rebounds and six.
Speaker 2: Ass that's just stupid.
Speaker 4: That's birthdays, right.
Speaker 1: But the only thing I feel bad about is like,
Speaker 1: you know how, like you get later in life and
Speaker 1: people are like, what's your all my favorite birthday and
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, it's so hard to pick.
Speaker 2: There's so many. She's just that's it. Oh yeah, immediately
Speaker 2: try to top that immediately.
Speaker 5: And no other person, no significant other, no family member,
Speaker 5: no surprise party will ever even come close.
Speaker 1: Unless you get married or have a child on your birthday.
Speaker 1: And even then it'd be a real to thirty points,
Speaker 1: fifteen boards and six times in an NCAA tournament game. Okay,
Speaker 1: So Maggie Dugan shouts to that, that just birthday ball, and.
Speaker 2: I love that. Another one that stood out to me
Speaker 2: was Jordan Hobbs.
Speaker 1: Okay, Jordan Hobbs out of Michigan, Michigan beat Iowa State
Speaker 1: in the first round eighty to seventy four. Jordan ties
Speaker 1: the Michigan single game record for most points in a
Speaker 1: tournament game with twenty eight. That's great, but I think
Speaker 1: bigger than that is that Jordan Hobbs had something like
Speaker 1: seven total points in three or four tournament games before
Speaker 1: this total combined, Like this is someone who was you know,
Speaker 1: gave her best I'm sure didn't amount too much in
Speaker 1: the box score, and then comes out in this game
Speaker 1: and puts up twenty eight, an all time Michigan record
Speaker 1: in a tournament game. I love the idea of stepping
Speaker 1: up on the biggest stage, like we were just talking about,
Speaker 1: put the team on your shoulders, and you're going against
Speaker 1: Audie Crooks, You're going against a team that can get
Speaker 1: it done, and she helps lead Michigan to that win. Again,
Speaker 1: just a cool story of stepping up when it matters most.
Speaker 1: And then speaking of that, Georgia Amore Kentucky did not
Speaker 1: look great in that first game. They gave up a
Speaker 1: seventeen point lead in the fourth one by one point
Speaker 1: over Liberty seventy nine to seventy eight, but they would
Speaker 1: not have won that game if not for a thirty
Speaker 1: four point two rebound, eight assist game from Georgia Amore
Speaker 1: career over, we'll get into that after losing in the
Speaker 1: second round, but that first round game was a perfect
Speaker 1: example of a team that depended so much on one player.
Speaker 1: Everyone knew it was going to be her, and she
Speaker 1: got it done anyway. And just shouts to Georgia Amore.
Speaker 1: She's not part of a program that we talked about
Speaker 1: as much, but I know a lot of w folks
Speaker 1: are real excited to see her come into the pros.
Speaker 1: The last one I know, I only said three, but
Speaker 1: just Juju, I'm very interested in just how healthy Juju
Speaker 1: Watkins is. Obviously, that usc first round game was a
Speaker 1: pretty easy one, even though they didn't look good. She
Speaker 1: had a decent stat line, even though it wasn't impressive
Speaker 1: for her, and she kind of downplayed it at the
Speaker 1: end of the game.
Speaker 2: Oh, no, one wants to hear about my injuries. But
Speaker 2: it was like, you hurt multiple things in one game.
Speaker 1: You tried to wrap up something and you immediately took
Speaker 1: the tape off and threw it back at the benchroom.
Speaker 2: And you're like, no, thank you on this. So I'm
Speaker 2: just I'm keeping an eye on Juju because she's.
Speaker 1: Gonna need to be a lot healthier and more effective
Speaker 1: later in the tournament.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, she's got a last.
Speaker 5: She's got a last like you just talked about Georgia
Speaker 5: Amore Kentucky, and I'll get into, like you said, her
Speaker 5: career ending and ooh drama. But Juju, you know, I
Speaker 5: think I talked about it on the show.
Speaker 4: They put a lot of eggs in the Juju basket.
Speaker 2: The Trojans ud So she's gonna it's a big basket.
Speaker 2: It's a big basket.
Speaker 1: But if there's holes in the basket, the eggs can
Speaker 1: fall through, and that's where this metaphor does. Okay, my
Speaker 1: couple bigger picture takeaways. I'm gonna fully admit it, y'all.
Speaker 1: I've been sleeping on Duke. I've been sleeping on Duke.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, like, I'm just gonna admit it. I've
Speaker 1: been stuck in a lot of the teams that have,
Speaker 1: you know, bigger names, bigger stories, like just I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know what I've been doing, but do Duke.
Speaker 2: Good lord. There were a lot of beatdowns in.
Speaker 1: The first round, but eighty six to twenty five and
Speaker 1: not just that they only allowed Lehi to score twenty
Speaker 1: five points.
Speaker 2: They forced thirty turnovers. Oh my gosh, that's mean.
Speaker 1: It is mean to force more turnovers than points score. Okay, Duke,
Speaker 1: I was not familiar and now I am ready and congratulations.
Speaker 2: I mean that's just a beatdown.
Speaker 1: Speaking of beatdowns, Yukon, it's not that we're surprised, but
Speaker 1: I do have to say.
Speaker 2: That was a machine.
Speaker 1: One hundred percent from two point from the field in
Speaker 1: the first quarter. Absolutely like everybody firing on all cylinders,
Speaker 1: that Ukon team. Roger Sherman, who we've mentioned on the
Speaker 1: show before, just a great writer, a great freelance guy,
Speaker 1: now wrote on Blue Sky I could tell that Yukon
Speaker 1: is ready to win national championships again because they have
Speaker 1: recommitted to liquefying their first round opponents into a slurry. Yes,
Speaker 1: that about sums it up like that was ugly in
Speaker 1: the best possible way, just absolutely efficient.
Speaker 2: And then the last.
Speaker 1: Takeaway I mentioned it in the Need to Know, but
Speaker 1: this is the first time in history that six teams
Speaker 1: have scored over one hundred points in a single round
Speaker 1: in the women's college basketball Tournament Texas, Yukon, LSU Notre
Speaker 1: Dame Tennessee all one hundred plus points club for the
Speaker 1: first round. This is just a game that's changing. It's
Speaker 1: really fun to watch. It's not just parody. It's not
Speaker 1: just superstars, it's not just investment and ni on all
Speaker 1: everything else.
Speaker 2: It's just quality of play. And you are seeing some
Speaker 2: teams just put it together. Yeah.
Speaker 1: That to me, those are the big takeaways from the
Speaker 1: first round. I know we're only part way through the
Speaker 1: second round, meache, but what did you see on Sunday
Speaker 1: that really stood out to you?
Speaker 2: Ugh?
Speaker 5: So much, so much their first of all, we already
Speaker 5: talked about Georgia Amore and Kentucky number five Kansas State
Speaker 5: comes into their house, Kentucky's house and put together what
Speaker 5: I think is probably one of the most entertaining games
Speaker 5: we've gotten in the entire tournament so far. Eked out
Speaker 5: that win eighty seventy nine did the Kansas State Wildcats
Speaker 5: because it was wild Cats Squared. If I was calling
Speaker 5: that game, I would have been so stressed because you.
Speaker 1: Know, also back to back one point games for Kentucky
Speaker 1: fans like.
Speaker 2: How are y'all not okay?
Speaker 4: Not good?
Speaker 2: They probably sound like you right by the way, how
Speaker 2: was that wedding?
Speaker 1: It was in addition to two million merry games and
Speaker 1: a Bacheler app party, annihearsal dinner and the plague.
Speaker 2: It was like are you are you okay? No?
Speaker 4: But I will be, but I will be.
Speaker 5: And frankly, it would be worse if everything wasn't positive,
Speaker 5: you know, yeah, but yeah. Back to K State in
Speaker 5: Kentucky had to go to overtime to get that one decided.
Speaker 5: Serena Sundell went absolutely stupid in this game.
Speaker 4: Had nineteen points. Cute, you know you expect that from her.
Speaker 2: She had fourteen assists.
Speaker 5: Fourteen assists, okay, became the K State all time leader
Speaker 5: and assists in that game. And then her classmate to
Speaker 5: my rapoint, Dexter, also went crazy twenty four points. Didn't
Speaker 5: hit a single free throw, didn't hit a single two point.
Speaker 2: Just eight threes. Just eight threes.
Speaker 4: Yeah casual.
Speaker 2: Oh you said eight like the number and I said
Speaker 2: eight like she ate three?
Speaker 5: I mean both Porkanela's does see yes, including you know,
Speaker 5: she hit a huge one with under a minute to
Speaker 5: play that gave K State that eighty point total. But
Speaker 5: every time she caught the ball. It's always fun to
Speaker 5: watch players in that zone, in that mode, you know
Speaker 5: where it just feels like whatever you do is gonna
Speaker 5: be right.
Speaker 4: I don't know what's gonna happen. I don't know what
Speaker 4: play all are going to run.
Speaker 5: But as long as you get into to my repoint dexter,
Speaker 5: she's gonna figure something out. Oh yeah, and she also
Speaker 5: had six blocks, so you know, casual. But yeah, that
Speaker 5: was a tough way.
Speaker 4: You mentioned it.
Speaker 2: Georgia A.
Speaker 5: Moore's career over fifth year senior, spent a lot of
Speaker 5: time all her time in college playing under Kenny Brooks
Speaker 5: the first few years at Virginia Tech and then followed
Speaker 5: him to Kentucky. She missed a floater three point two
Speaker 5: seconds they give her the ball, missed the floater five
Speaker 5: feet from the basket, the buzzer.
Speaker 4: So it's a tough way to go.
Speaker 5: But you mentioned it. She's going to be a draft prospect.
Speaker 5: We're going to probably see her on the international stage
Speaker 5: at some point. And one thing that gave me a
Speaker 5: lot of.
Speaker 4: Respect for her.
Speaker 5: Already had a lot of respect for her, but in
Speaker 5: the postgame presser, she was asked why she still had
Speaker 5: a positive demeanor in that presser, She's like I'm not
Speaker 5: gonna let one shot affect five years.
Speaker 4: And I just thought that was.
Speaker 5: Such a microcosm of the person health. Yeah right, I
Speaker 5: could never, Babe, I could, I could?
Speaker 4: I couldn't.
Speaker 1: I am still mad about a high school triple jumper
Speaker 1: yet all and I'm not making that up. It still
Speaker 1: tears me up when I think about it. Yeah, so wow,
Speaker 1: that's I have to say. She showed up on one
Speaker 1: of the early draft kind of predictions for the Sky
Speaker 1: and I.
Speaker 2: Was like.
Speaker 5: Her and an Angel and Camilla, Oh yeah, I get
Speaker 5: some dogs like dogs Michelle.
Speaker 3: They brought up that quote because I was thinking about
Speaker 3: her as soon as that game ended and it came
Speaker 3: down to the wire as we discussed, and she immediately
Speaker 3: was shaking hands.
Speaker 2: Yep, couldn't be me. Every time I see that, I
Speaker 2: go house way, how I am such an asshole? I
Speaker 2: couldn't never.
Speaker 3: You think she was starting to you in there, could game?
Speaker 4: Could game?
Speaker 2: You know? In her head? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'd have to see who's on that Kansas State roster
Speaker 1: and think about who might be deserving.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but she's just a class act and that kind
Speaker 5: of demeanor I think is going to serve her well.
Speaker 4: In the pros and moving forward.
Speaker 5: But moving off from that one case, State, like I
Speaker 5: said one that eighty seventy nine going to their first
Speaker 5: Sweet sixteen in twenty three years, amazing. You mentioned Duke
Speaker 5: number two, Duke number ten. Oregon also extremely intense the
Speaker 5: second round matchup, and Duke was losing twenty eight twenty
Speaker 5: three and a half at Cameron Indoor Stadium, their home stadium,
Speaker 5: and I just felt like they started to kind of
Speaker 5: crumble under the pressure.
Speaker 4: I was having reservations.
Speaker 5: I've had frankly reservations about Duke for the last few seasons.
Speaker 5: I love some Kroen losson, but it just felt like
Speaker 5: offensively they couldn't really put things together. But in the
Speaker 5: second half of that game against Oregon, I got two
Speaker 5: words for you, Ashlyn Jackson. She went nuclear, She exploded,
Speaker 5: started knocking down threes, ended up with twenty points in
Speaker 5: that one.
Speaker 4: And really had to carry the load without a piece.
Speaker 5: That's really huge for Duke and Toby Fournier, their freshman
Speaker 5: leading scorer acc Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 4: She sat with illness, which is probably so tough. Also
Speaker 4: at this point in the season, I mean.
Speaker 1: That's gotta be coming out both ends kind of illness,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm talking about. Like, I'm sorry, but
Speaker 1: NCAA tournament, it's gotta be real. It's gotta be real.
Speaker 1: No tummy ache, no headache. Like if you can't even
Speaker 1: play and your.
Speaker 5: Coach is Carol lost it because you know, Caro was like, girl,
Speaker 5: are you sure?
Speaker 4: Are you positive?
Speaker 2: This could be your flu game? Exactly? No, I'm pooping
Speaker 2: my pants.
Speaker 5: Triggered you literally, so sidebar. I had a high school
Speaker 5: coach loved her to death. My freshman year we went
Speaker 5: to the state tournament. I got the flu, and she said,
Speaker 5: this could be your flu game. Spoiler, it wasn't my
Speaker 5: flu game. It wasn't my flu game. But yeah, Toby
Speaker 5: had to be hurting. But Ashton, she stepped out. She
Speaker 5: stepped up.
Speaker 1: We love that though, Like I don't want anyone season
Speaker 1: to end because of sickness or injury or otherwise. Like
Speaker 1: it hurts enough when it's fair and square, so like
Speaker 1: you don't want that team.
Speaker 2: To go out because Toby can't play, so right, Yeah.
Speaker 5: Her teammates they stepped up. I mean mentioned Ashland. She
Speaker 5: went five for nine from three and they got a
Speaker 5: fifty nine to fifty three dub their second straight Sweet
Speaker 5: sixteen appearance, and I'm just so happy for Carolason. Folks
Speaker 5: out there, you're tuned in with us. I'm sure you
Speaker 5: see the karro Losson quotes everywhere. She's just such a motivator,
Speaker 5: such a great spirit. You can tell she's from the
Speaker 5: pat Summit tree, right, She's just one of those people
Speaker 5: you could listen to forever. She's also from Virginia.
Speaker 2: Just throwing that outbum Oh okay, just yeah, throw that
Speaker 2: out there.
Speaker 5: But the thing that I'm really hoping is is on
Speaker 5: Monday night, North Carolina plays West Virginia. If they beat
Speaker 5: West Virginia, We're gonna get our first Duke Carolina matchup
Speaker 5: in NCAA's history. I want that so bad. So I'm
Speaker 5: just putting that energy out there. But Duke took care
Speaker 5: of business.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, for all the history on the men's
Speaker 1: side of that rivalry, like to have that on the
Speaker 1: women's side and you get to build on the existing hatred.
Speaker 5: We love some spiciness piggy back in the women's game.
Speaker 1: Piggyback hatred like just Adjason tatrid it's not you, but
Speaker 1: you're close enough.
Speaker 2: We love that.
Speaker 1: Everybody who knows men's basketball history knows that rivalry goes deep,
Speaker 1: deep deep. My friend Jack went to UNC, is a
Speaker 1: huge Tar Heels fan, and Coach K, the longtime legendary
Speaker 1: coach of Duke, announced his retirement and during that last
Speaker 1: season it turned out that his final game was a
Speaker 1: Duke loss to UNC, and Jack had to be extra
Speaker 1: about it and not just celebrate and say good job
Speaker 1: on your forty plus years. He hired a freaking second
Speaker 1: line in New Orleans, wow funeral style to carry photos
Speaker 1: and sign commemorating and memorializing coach K's death.
Speaker 2: He was not dad, y'all.
Speaker 1: His team died and his career died, and my friend
Speaker 1: Jack paid for a full street parade second line with
Speaker 1: like musicians and parade signs to go down the streets
Speaker 1: of New Orleans. I guess that must have been where
Speaker 1: the games were happening that year, memorializing the legendary coach K.
Speaker 2: Like that is committed to the bit, committed to the bit.
Speaker 1: That is a rivalry, y'all, And if we could bring
Speaker 1: that to the women's side, I'm here for it.
Speaker 2: Good call. Yeah, what else did you see in the
Speaker 2: second round? Yeah?
Speaker 5: I mean the other thing I saw just a great day.
Speaker 5: Sunday was a great day for number five seeds. Number
Speaker 5: five ole Miss advancing to its second Sweet Sixteen in
Speaker 5: the last three years with a win over number four
Speaker 5: Baylor at Baylor. And I'm pretty sure, Sarah and Alex,
Speaker 5: if you look up defense in the dictionary, you're gonna
Speaker 5: get a picture of coach yo Let McEwen and ole
Speaker 5: Miss because.
Speaker 4: I mean, persistently one of the best. We just talked
Speaker 4: about Duke.
Speaker 5: They're really good defensively too, But to me, Ole Miss
Speaker 5: one of the best defensive teams, if not the best
Speaker 5: in the nation top to bottom. It's crazy because they're
Speaker 5: pretty much positionless on that end of the floor. Anybody
Speaker 5: can guard anybody, and that was just on full display.
Speaker 5: Baylor played super hard. I don't want to discredit them,
Speaker 5: but it just feels like this is ole Miss's time right.
Speaker 5: A couple of seasons ago they upset number one Stanford
Speaker 5: as an eight seed on route to a Sweet sixteen,
Speaker 5: and then last season also had a really good showing,
Speaker 5: but they didn't have one of their key players. KK
Speaker 5: Dean's who I think is like yo Let McEwan, number two,
Speaker 5: She's literally her one just has the eligibility.
Speaker 2: Her principles in Karna.
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, and she was out last season with a
Speaker 5: season ending injury, so this season they've got her. She
Speaker 5: dropped thirteen in that game against Baylor. Also got fifth
Speaker 5: year senior Madison Scott, who I just got to give
Speaker 5: a huge shout out to, had fourteen in the Baylor
Speaker 5: game and has just grown and matured so much in
Speaker 5: the freshman. I don't know if y'all heard of Sarah
Speaker 5: gew but she's gonna be one of those players we
Speaker 5: keep on our radar for the next three years. Just
Speaker 5: the freshman, like I said, but led the team, had
Speaker 5: sixteen points, excellent individual defense, and those three have kind
Speaker 5: of led their charge and they're not going down without
Speaker 5: a knockdown, drag out, which is interesting because they've got
Speaker 5: either number one UCLA or number eight Richmond in the
Speaker 5: next round. So it's gonna be fun to watch Ole
Speaker 5: Miss keep tabs, keep tabs on them.
Speaker 2: And we're just getting started. Oh my gosh, I have
Speaker 2: news for y'all. We got more games today. It didn't
Speaker 2: end just because the weekend ended.
Speaker 1: This is the least Sunday Scaries of probably every Sunday
Speaker 1: of the year. What is that going right into today?
Speaker 3: Only the men had Sunday scaries. So if you're in
Speaker 3: the office today and somebody who's like, oh, how are
Speaker 3: we gonna get through today with basketball?
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Speaker 2: These games made me spicy.
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Speaker 3: And I was like, which one?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: And I got called out.
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