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Speaker 1: Full Circle is an iHeart women's sports production and partnership

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Speaker 2: What's up, y'all, Welcome back to another episode of Full Circle,

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Speaker 2: the women's sports round up you didn't know you needed.

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Speaker 2: I'm Lexi Brown here with my girl Mariah Rose. We're

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Speaker 2: breaking down what's going on the court and the culture

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Speaker 2: and our own personal growth because women's sports deserves full conversation,

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Speaker 2: so let's get into it. Mariah, how are you doing,

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Speaker 2: my girl?

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Speaker 1: I'm great. It's margin madness. There's like a lot going on,

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Speaker 1: and I love a time when there's a lot to

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Speaker 1: talk about sports effects.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's been a little slow at times for us.

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Speaker 2: I'm great, guys. I've made it to Florida, my new house.

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Speaker 2: I mean, your hair is bab oh, thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 2: I was like new State, new City, new hair whods.

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Speaker 2: So I just got to Florida this morning. Actually, I

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Speaker 2: took the Red Eye, packed up all my stuff and

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Speaker 2: shipped it out over the weekend and now I just

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Speaker 2: am waiting for it to get here in my car.

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Speaker 2: But I'm really, It's like I still can't really believe

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Speaker 2: I have my own house. I'm just kind of still like, wow,

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Speaker 2: this is like this is mine. So I'm still kind

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Speaker 2: of like taking it all in.

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Speaker 1: You know that's so exciting.

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Speaker 2: Do you feel like it's like little you and so

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Speaker 2: much space literally, and you know, I have to show

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Speaker 2: you something. So when I was growing up my favorite

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Speaker 2: oh wait, we can actually stop about this. When you

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Speaker 2: were growing up, did you have like a stuffed animal

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Speaker 2: or a thing that you always had to have with you,

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Speaker 2: like a blankie.

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Speaker 1: I never had a blanky or anything like that. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I loved like my dolls, like my American girl doll.

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Speaker 2: But oh you were an American girl doll. My sister

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Speaker 2: did well. Guys, when I was younger, this is fun

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Speaker 2: fact about me. I loved Barney like Barney was my jam.

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Speaker 2: So as my dad was removing all of my stuff

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Speaker 2: to do that because I've been accumulating stuff for ten

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Speaker 2: years now, almost since I left school, they found my

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Speaker 2: old Barney.

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Speaker 3: Guys, Guys, if you're not if you can't see this,

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Speaker 3: Barney has a giant rip in the side of it.

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Speaker 2: The stuffing is falling out its mouth is like brownish.

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Speaker 2: Oh he might look better than Syracuse actually right now,

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Speaker 2: to be honest with you, but yeah, guys, this is like,

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Speaker 2: this is like one of my little housewarming presents that

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Speaker 2: my parents left out for me when I walked into

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Speaker 2: the house. So that's so cute. I loved Barney, and

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Speaker 2: I can't believe like they still have this, Like Barney

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Speaker 2: went through a lot, So this is such a fun

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Speaker 2: little moment that I have my little childhood Barney at

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Speaker 2: my new house that I bought. But yeah, like you said,

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Speaker 2: this weekend is March Madness, and we're gonna talk. We

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Speaker 2: need to talk about the tournament, the women's tournament, because

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Speaker 2: there's a lot to be talked about, good and bad.

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Speaker 2: But I don't know what have been your overall thoughts

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Speaker 1: Number One, the it feels very the rigid gie Richard

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Speaker 1: the porget word, like the good teams are so good

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Speaker 1: that it's not I mean, at this point, the real competition.

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Speaker 1: And we've talked about this. We talked about this last

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Speaker 1: season when we covered March Madness. It really is hard

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Speaker 1: for there to be upsets and women's college basketball, because

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Speaker 1: the good teams are just so good at this point,

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Speaker 1: it just feels like a competition to see who can

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Speaker 1: put bell to ass worse. Yeah, South Carolina, what was it?

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Speaker 1: like everyone's getting whooped.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, seven games decided about twenty hour, twenty or more points.

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Speaker 2: Seven and then eight if you count Vandy because they

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Speaker 2: problem that I've had with this tournament is like those

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Speaker 2: I've never seen And maybe I didn't look far enough

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Speaker 2: last few years. But these are like Power five schools

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Speaker 2: getting their asses beat in the tournament. Like I that's

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Speaker 2: what I said the last week or whatever we I

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Speaker 2: only gets one bid, like you should have let one

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Speaker 2: of those teams come in and at large. And I'm

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Speaker 2: just like, it's just been really disappointing to see the

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Speaker 2: parody that we were so excited about like two three

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Speaker 2: years ago, it has just disappeared. It's gone. There's no

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Speaker 1: But I will say to be positive, it's gonna get

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Speaker 1: real sticky when we come up. We have some interesting

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be that much more entertaining because the teams

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Speaker 1: before and the Woman's Tournament, like the good teams just

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Speaker 1: put about to ask like this is in a new thing,

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Speaker 1: but it is a little.

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Speaker 2: Bit like you know, I gotta you know why I

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Speaker 2: got attitude though, because these girls are making money now

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Speaker 2: and you're showing up to the tournament losing by forty

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Speaker 2: me maybe sound like an old head vent like you

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Speaker 2: can't do that, like you make it half a million

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Speaker 2: up to the tournament and lose by forty or fifty points.

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Speaker 1: Like I irritated with the losers.

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Speaker 2: To be honest, no, absolutely, I have no problem with

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Speaker 2: how well everyone else is. Like you don't show up

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Speaker 2: to play Yukon already mad that you've about to play Yukon,

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Speaker 1: Points in the second quarter. Are they for real? You're

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Speaker 1: a Division one basketball.

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Speaker 2: Team, an ACC Division one basketball team, an ACC breaking

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Speaker 2: down the remaining teams, five ACC teams, six SEC teams,

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Speaker 2: three Big ten schools, one Bigie school, one Big twelve school.

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Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure the Big Ten had the most bids

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Speaker 2: a pretty good job of identifying the gurly fops throughout

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Speaker 2: girl the girl, she had a good game. They lost

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Speaker 2: in the first round Tennessee people with a lot of

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Speaker 2: people were surprised that they lost. I was like, why

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Speaker 2: not us? Not us? Why were you all surprised? And

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Speaker 2: ole Miss. I was a little surprised that they lost,

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Speaker 2: but you know, they had some they had some controversy

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Speaker 2: during their game. But I think that was like that

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Speaker 2: was a four or five game. Wasn't it so like

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Speaker 2: that one could have won either way? Let me make

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Speaker 2: sure I got that right. Ole Miss was Ole Miss

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Speaker 2: was yeah, four or five, So they weren't even they

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Speaker 1: They were the five, so if they.

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Speaker 2: Won, they would have been an upset. So all Miss

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Speaker 2: losing wasn't really shocking. But other than that, like all

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Speaker 2: teams in the tournament and have been just that, But we.

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Speaker 1: Didn't give abandoned Virginia No, I.

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Speaker 2: Like, I forr I mean, did you watch that game?

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Speaker 1: That was insane?

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Speaker 2: I got it was a crazy game.

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Speaker 1: I was making a video about the tournament, so like

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Speaker 1: I was in work mode. I wasn't watching, and then

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Speaker 1: and I was like, who won this game?

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Speaker 2: Like?

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Speaker 1: Who won this game? Like what happened? And then I

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Speaker 2: If there were like a laundry list of things you

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Speaker 2: two minutes, I would check, check, went down the list

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Speaker 2: for sure. Kamara Johnson. Is that how you say her name?

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure. She's Oh my gosh, love her and

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Speaker 2: she's just little and mighty.

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Speaker 1: She put the team minute back. She played fifteen minutes.

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Speaker 2: Guys. That means she played every every single minute of

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Speaker 2: that game. She finished with twenty eight points. She's been

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Speaker 1: She's the only one that averages.

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Speaker 2: Double figures out our team. They're the first team to

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Speaker 2: super impressive. So they played three games this week, everyone

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Speaker 2: You know. You know, I'm a Duke girl, but I

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Speaker 2: always love seeing ACC teams that aren't North Carolina do well,

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Speaker 2: so uh, i'd be for Virginia and yeah, so the

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Speaker 2: ACC was kind of being a little disrespected in the

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Speaker 2: selection show. I still don't understand why Duke was a

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Speaker 2: you are a three seed. I didn't understand that at all,

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Speaker 2: and I think that's just them disrespecting the ACC overall.

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Speaker 2: But there's five ACC teams left, so I'm like the

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Speaker 2: disrespect was received clearly because a lot of the AEC

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Speaker 2: teams came ready to play and that makes me happy.

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Speaker 2: But speaking of ACCC team that did not seem ready

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Speaker 2: to play, Syracuse, I don't watch. I cannot watch you.

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Speaker 2: And it's so funny because I saw it on thread.

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Speaker 2: Someone was like, I will watch South Carolina beat a

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Speaker 2: team by one hundred, but yukon't. I cannot, and I like,

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Speaker 2: never thought about it that way because I agree. I

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Speaker 2: hate watching them beat the shit out of people because they, yeah,

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Speaker 2: so professionally. It's like surgical watched.

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Speaker 1: So I watched. I don't know why because I don't

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Speaker 1: really like watching blowouts at all, Like I'll catch what

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Speaker 1: happened the next day. But I watched and listen. When

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Speaker 1: I looked up and I saw the score was seventy

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Speaker 1: to seventeen, I just dropped my phone. Maybes, I had

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Speaker 1: such a visual reaction.

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Speaker 2: Eight I thirty three in the first quarter, four to

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Speaker 2: thirty seventy seven seconds, let's see. But the crazy thing

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Speaker 2: is is then they played them even for the rest

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Speaker 2: of the game, like they literally it was thirty three

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Speaker 2: thirty three for the second half. So that's not even

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Speaker 2: Like no shade to the bench players that Yukon played.

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Speaker 2: But I'm like, they couldn't even.

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Speaker 1: Lexi Cy had twenty six points going in a halftime.

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Speaker 1: The entire Syracuse team had twelve, yeah, twelve.

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Speaker 1: For sure. She did play in the fourth quarter and

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Speaker 2: She's really good. You know. It's so funny because he

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Speaker 2: like sixty on this Syracuse team because why be better

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Speaker 2: that's why he's been so successful. People who respect the

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Speaker 2: admit it or not, Gino don like they respect basketball

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Speaker 2: you could tell the way they coach, the way they

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Speaker 1: So and he was disgusted during the All Star Game.

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Speaker 2: It's funny like he was so upset, but he could

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Speaker 2: be upset about whatever he wants. I didn't watch Syracuse

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Speaker 2: much this year, but being a nine seed as an

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Speaker 2: Coach made some comments after the game. Ray, you want

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Speaker 1: I would love to Lexi letsie. This made me so mad.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I don't play for Syracuse or I didn't go to

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Speaker 1: a ACC school. I have no ties Syracuse. I shouldn't

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Speaker 1: I really don't, especially people in professional fields that I

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Speaker 1: than I can. They get whooped by Ukon, not just casual,

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Speaker 1: like we already talked about how bad it was. Right,

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Speaker 2: I gotta go through.

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Speaker 1: I'm looking at the full thing. I had to listen

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Speaker 2: Like I had to really to make sure talking about.

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Speaker 1: She said that she felt like she was being singled out. Okay,

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Speaker 1: she literally said out her own mouth. I don't know

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Speaker 1: there's some sort of vendetta at play here because they

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Speaker 1: keep getting matched up against Yukon and the NCAA tournament.

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Speaker 1: Mind you, since she's been coaching Syracuse, they've played Yukon

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Speaker 1: twice in the tournament, once yesterday, once in twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: to play Devil's Advocate. They do put teams that are

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Speaker 2: Pay to chart exactly.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they've have to pay the charter flights if they

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Speaker 1: might be what she's referring to. But what I didn't

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Speaker 1: like was after your team loses in that fashion, to

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Speaker 2: Being Yukon is the craziest thing about it, because at

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Speaker 2: the end of the day, if you win a national

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Speaker 2: you're going through Yukon, And if it's not early in

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Speaker 2: places they actually did lose to Yukon in was in

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Speaker 2: the National Championship game when Britney Sykes and them were there.

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Speaker 2: I've lost Yukon has ended my season twice. They ended

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Speaker 2: my season two times, Notre Dame one time, Oregon one time.

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Speaker 2: So I've ran into Yukon almost every year, Like it's

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Speaker 2: inevitable for anybody. But like, if you want to be

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Speaker 2: her to say that, like you said publicly fresh off that,

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Speaker 2: like she could have kept that for maybe a few

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Speaker 2: you know, it kind of sucks that we are always

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Speaker 1: But does that off to your.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, If that's how you felt immediately after losing

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Speaker 2: why they lost by so much, that's why they play.

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Speaker 1: At some point, they're leaving azy open are you are

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Speaker 1: you cool?

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Speaker 2: Like do you care?

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Speaker 1: And it's a pride thing at that point. Fine. I

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Speaker 1: we're just getting whooped, being like, all right, y'all, if

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Speaker 1: we're gonna lose, we're gonna lose with dignity. I'm not

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Speaker 1: you're playing Yukon and it's it's Asy's last home game.

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Speaker 1: It's a big deal. She was just on the cover

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Speaker 1: for yourself, like if you go crazy or you have

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is the end. Huh. Don't get me wrong,

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Speaker 2: because I'm looking at our score. We lost fifty nine

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Speaker 2: sweet sixteen. I remember that game very vividly. They played

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Speaker 2: of like a box. They like to played like a

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Speaker 2: my teammate. One of our younger players really stepped up

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Speaker 2: and played really really well. But like, let me tell

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Speaker 2: I'm just gonna tell you the starting five. I'm not giving.

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Speaker 2: I'm not Our preface is by I don't have I

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Speaker 2: didn't have a single WNBA player on my team. Okay,

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Speaker 2: well startlected by this day, uh the whole this is

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Speaker 2: Katie lu Samson and ke Nurse. That was our starting five. Oh,

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Speaker 2: I guess who had they had coming off the freaking

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Speaker 2: bench as a Ray Stevens, that's who I That's who

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Speaker 2: eliminated me my my senior year. Guys, that's that's freaking team.

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Speaker 1: And again, but did you go into the game, But

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Speaker 2: I had seven steals, We were ready to go. I mean,

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Speaker 2: we were down. We had a really bad second Like,

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Speaker 2: we had a really bad second quarter. I'm looking at

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Speaker 2: and then the game us. Yeah, so we lost the

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Speaker 2: second quarter six to twenty. So and then we played them.

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Speaker 2: We played them even the third quarter, and then we

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Speaker 2: is a little bit of room to break the game open.

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Speaker 2: I remember. So that happened my senior year. That was

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Speaker 2: They eliminated us from the final four. That's what I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, no shade to the Zukon team again. They

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Speaker 2: but this was their starting final Final four bro fifty one,

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Speaker 2: and you're like, what the hell, What the hell just happened?

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Speaker 2: Like we were down eleven at the half, and then yeah,

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Speaker 2: they're zooming in on the girls and they have like

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Speaker 1: They're frustrated.

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Speaker 2: I was like, I understand because playing Yukon when they're

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Speaker 2: experienced it twice. They're starting five Morian Tuck, Breonna Stewart,

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Speaker 2: do I understand your frustration? I wholeheartedly do because this

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Speaker 2: Yukon team was thirty seven and one, so nobody had

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Speaker 2: I played was probably like whatever in one, like.

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Speaker 1: You can control, you cant control.

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Speaker 2: My last year, they were thirty five and no when

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Speaker 2: we saw them in the sweet sixteen.

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Speaker 1: Like coach understanders. That's another issue I have. Every single

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Speaker 1: not being singled out because you lost to Yukon. Literally

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Speaker 1: thirty sixteen thirty six games they have won. Everybody who

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Speaker 1: and I wouldn't even be cool her saying that in private.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you're saying that as like a you're saying

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Speaker 2: that as like an eight seed, Like you're not a

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Speaker 2: have like an excellent season, Like that's the one we

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Speaker 2: when I had to play Yukon my senior year, we

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Speaker 2: so be it. At least we got to the sweet sixteen,

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Speaker 2: and we really like we didn't get our we didn't

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Speaker 2: really fit seed, We're gonna come in here and play hard.

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Speaker 2: But when we were a one seed, when we were

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Speaker 2: the semis, we were just kind of like fuck, Like,

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Speaker 2: we had this amazing season, but again, to win, you

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Speaker 2: have to go through Yukon. The U conversational, that's what

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Speaker 2: it is. I know this.

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Speaker 1: Who did they want to play? She said, I feel

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Speaker 1: like my team is too talented. It could have gone

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Speaker 1: a lot farther if we didn't have to play Yukon. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I entertain that. What if you played UCLA, What if

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Speaker 2: What?

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Speaker 1: That's what I'm not understanding the display somebody else you

434
00:23:58,680 --> 00:24:02,080
Speaker 1: would have lost to all of them, So I'm not

435
00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:05,200
Speaker 1: quite understanding. Yeah, I saw that.

436
00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:09,040
Speaker 2: I saw that last night, and I was like, oh,

437
00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:12,159
Speaker 2: that's interesting, that's very interesting. But I'm glad that you

438
00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:14,040
Speaker 2: feel the same way. Like I don't think I think

439
00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:16,639
Speaker 2: in a moment she was like emotional, she's frustrated. I

440
00:24:17,119 --> 00:24:19,440
Speaker 2: can't appreciate that she didn't just throw her team under

441
00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:23,200
Speaker 2: the bus completely like another coach that we have discussed

442
00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:26,359
Speaker 2: before agreed. But I'm sure that like in the locker room,

443
00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:28,680
Speaker 2: I'm hoping that in the locker room, she at least

444
00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:32,280
Speaker 2: was like that was embarrassing, Like that was just like

445
00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:36,000
Speaker 2: an embarrassing display of effort. For the most part, I

446
00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:37,840
Speaker 2: hope she didn't go in there. I was like, you know, guys,

447
00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:40,399
Speaker 2: it was Yukon, you know, what can you do? I

448
00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:43,080
Speaker 2: don't believe in it because that's not that's not right.

449
00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:47,199
Speaker 2: That's basically I haven't believed in a single team. When

450
00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:50,680
Speaker 2: I see Yukon on that schedule, I don't want to

451
00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:53,320
Speaker 2: hear that coach. I really don't. I really don't, And

452
00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:56,080
Speaker 2: they played that way. So when those comments came out,

453
00:24:56,160 --> 00:24:56,840
Speaker 2: I was just kind of.

454
00:24:56,800 --> 00:24:59,200
Speaker 1: Like, ah, well, this makes sense.

455
00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:01,439
Speaker 2: It's gonna make a little bit more since now. So,

456
00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:04,160
Speaker 2: I mean, I love I love coach Jack. I think

457
00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:07,679
Speaker 2: she's what she's done at Syracuse has been great, So

458
00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:09,760
Speaker 2: I hope for her sake next year they can at

459
00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:14,360
Speaker 2: least see Yukon like Elite eight if they get that far,

460
00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:16,520
Speaker 2: like give her a few more games of the tournament,

461
00:25:17,080 --> 00:25:21,480
Speaker 2: because I did look up. I looked at that fort

462
00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:26,439
Speaker 2: So Syracuse has been in the tournament fourteen times. Five

463
00:25:27,040 --> 00:25:29,760
Speaker 2: games have been lost to Yukon, and then their last

464
00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:33,560
Speaker 2: three appearances they've lost to Yukon. So but it's only

465
00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:36,520
Speaker 2: been two since she's been there. But I can see

466
00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:39,600
Speaker 2: the frustration because I was like, I was like, I

467
00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:41,520
Speaker 2: was like, did I really play Yukon that much? And

468
00:25:41,600 --> 00:25:43,359
Speaker 2: yeah they do. They actually do play them a lot.

469
00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:47,440
Speaker 2: But again, what can you do? The chick, I mean

470
00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:53,240
Speaker 2: lives in in stores Connecticut. Guys. If you guys didn't know, like, bro,

471
00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:55,320
Speaker 2: that's do.

472
00:25:55,320 --> 00:25:56,800
Speaker 1: You think James Harden is going to come out and

473
00:25:56,800 --> 00:25:58,720
Speaker 1: cry and say, well I never won a championship because

474
00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:01,439
Speaker 1: I kept running into Steph Curry. You think Charles Barkley

475
00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:03,960
Speaker 1: is gonna be like, well if that durned Michael Jordan

476
00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:06,360
Speaker 1: like that so insane.

477
00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:10,480
Speaker 2: To me basically what it is? Yeah, yes, like Michael

478
00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:13,840
Speaker 2: Jordan and in the Kobe Day, like, yeah, there's always

479
00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:15,640
Speaker 2: gonna be somebody standing in the way, and you got

480
00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:20,720
Speaker 2: to be, you know, the magical team to knock down

481
00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:22,719
Speaker 2: the Giant. But that's not an easy thing to do,

482
00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:24,960
Speaker 2: Like you have to you not only you not you

483
00:26:25,119 --> 00:26:28,239
Speaker 2: not don't only have to play excellent. They have to

484
00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:32,960
Speaker 2: have an off day when you're that good, Like sometimes

485
00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:38,080
Speaker 2: your best is still not good enough to beat them, right, Yeah,

486
00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:40,560
Speaker 2: you might just have to have like a generational player

487
00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:45,880
Speaker 2: or you catch them on an off day. Because even

488
00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:48,560
Speaker 2: in that even because they beat you Kon, right, they

489
00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:51,920
Speaker 2: beat Yukon and though they be South Carolina, they beat

490
00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:57,040
Speaker 2: South Carolina because that's when Caitlin did the thing to Raven, right,

491
00:26:57,280 --> 00:26:58,040
Speaker 2: I'm talking about.

492
00:26:58,160 --> 00:27:01,160
Speaker 1: I think it was twenty twenty four. Page was playing,

493
00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:04,879
Speaker 1: Caitlin was also playing. They played Yukon. I believe it

494
00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:07,840
Speaker 1: was in the final four to go this Iowa to

495
00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:10,879
Speaker 1: go to the National Championship. And this was there was

496
00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:13,879
Speaker 1: a controversial call at the end for it was an

497
00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:17,040
Speaker 1: illegal screen at the end of the game, and.

498
00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:23,520
Speaker 2: It was the whole twenty twenty twenty three, yes, no,

499
00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:27,359
Speaker 2: so twenty twenty three was the wave off. That was

500
00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:30,160
Speaker 2: when they played South Carolina and then they beat they

501
00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:32,960
Speaker 2: beat Yukon in the twenty twenty four yes, yeah, it

502
00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:36,280
Speaker 2: was then they lost to South Carolina. They got their game.

503
00:27:36,359 --> 00:27:41,280
Speaker 1: I would be uh Yukon in twenty twenty four in

504
00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:41,880
Speaker 1: the final four.

505
00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:44,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, bo I will never.

506
00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:47,639
Speaker 1: Forget that because I tweeted something crazy after that and

507
00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:48,920
Speaker 1: that's when he comes back to buy me.

508
00:27:49,119 --> 00:27:49,880
Speaker 2: Like ever a couple of wiles.

509
00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:53,400
Speaker 1: What did you say? I said, it ain't obviously y'all

510
00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:55,920
Speaker 1: that the Ipuaa would Iowa in the national championship because

511
00:27:55,960 --> 00:28:00,000
Speaker 1: it was it was like, and nobody's gonna shut me up,

512
00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:04,000
Speaker 1: And that's no. Kaitlyn Shade good for her. She is incredible.

513
00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:05,800
Speaker 1: She's excellent. I've talked about it in a million times

514
00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:09,199
Speaker 1: in the show. But that game you hate to see a.

515
00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:11,960
Speaker 2: Game I'm saying, like the Yukon didn't. Yeah, Yukon didn't

516
00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:14,359
Speaker 2: even have like you gotta had a decent game. They

517
00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:17,800
Speaker 2: turned the ball over a lot. But the the Hannahs,

518
00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:19,960
Speaker 2: the stupid, the stut gay girl.

519
00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:21,560
Speaker 1: She had a really good game.

520
00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:24,720
Speaker 2: I remember she had twenty three, and Caitlyn has still

521
00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:25,440
Speaker 2: had a really good game.

522
00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:26,200
Speaker 1: She had twenty one.

523
00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:29,760
Speaker 2: But her post player I remember she stepped in and

524
00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:32,320
Speaker 2: then Kate Martin. Kate Martin had a little coming out

525
00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:36,600
Speaker 2: party a little bit in the tournament this year, so yeah,

526
00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:40,040
Speaker 2: like they're not. And then this this Yukon team was

527
00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:42,360
Speaker 2: thirty three and six, like that's and they were a

528
00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:45,440
Speaker 2: three seed so they were not supposed to win according

529
00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:48,640
Speaker 2: to the bracket. So those are the Yukon teams that

530
00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:51,760
Speaker 2: you can get. You know, they didn't win a championship

531
00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:54,640
Speaker 2: for a while, so yes, it is possible to beat them,

532
00:28:55,080 --> 00:29:01,000
Speaker 2: but those opportunities are few and far between, as we

533
00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:06,240
Speaker 2: all know. So coach, it is not just the NCAA

534
00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:10,680
Speaker 2: versus Syracuse. Everybody hates Syracuse. I promise that's not it.

535
00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:15,000
Speaker 2: As someone who has had their season ended multiple times

536
00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:17,120
Speaker 2: by at the hands of the Connecticut Huskies.

537
00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:21,440
Speaker 1: So I don't think Kaitlyn Clark has ever woken up

538
00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:23,440
Speaker 1: a day in her life. And I get it, it's

539
00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:25,360
Speaker 1: easy to say, like, oh, that's Kaitlyn Clark, but like

540
00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:29,040
Speaker 1: there is a mentality difference between great athletes and so

541
00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:31,920
Speaker 1: so athletes, and like, I just don't think Kayln Clark

542
00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:34,000
Speaker 1: has ever woken up a day in her life thinking

543
00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:35,520
Speaker 1: that somebody would be here at basketball.

544
00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:38,760
Speaker 2: Ever, Like I think if she had, by the way

545
00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:40,400
Speaker 2: she plays, right, if she.

546
00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:42,160
Speaker 1: Woke up and knew she were going one on one

547
00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:47,120
Speaker 1: against like who named somebody stew Wee, anybody. She would

548
00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:49,280
Speaker 1: be like I'm gonna win. Like she she would never

549
00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:51,239
Speaker 1: wake up and be like I'm going to lose. And

550
00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:53,120
Speaker 1: that's that's my issue with the comments.

551
00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:59,400
Speaker 2: But anyways, yeah, absolutely, Now Syracuse regroup, get it together

552
00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:01,840
Speaker 2: and come better next season. We can do.

553
00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:04,719
Speaker 1: They better put the ass right back in that bracket

554
00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:07,000
Speaker 1: with Yukon. And I'm trying to see what happens next year.

555
00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:07,320
Speaker 2: Right.

556
00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:09,760
Speaker 1: I hate when the committee. I hate when coaches cry

557
00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:11,400
Speaker 1: and the committee listens to them. That is one of

558
00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:15,120
Speaker 1: my biggest pet peeves in college sports, where like, especially

559
00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:18,480
Speaker 1: over something trivial is this, Nah, I need them against

560
00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:20,280
Speaker 1: Yukon immediately next year.

561
00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:31,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, next coach, Okay, we're gonna go to more. Well,

562
00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:34,000
Speaker 2: I'm interested to see how you feel about this. What

563
00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:38,680
Speaker 2: happened with the Maryland coach the clip of the clip

564
00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:41,560
Speaker 2: of her yelling her player, did you see it?

565
00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:43,760
Speaker 1: Hold on, let me pull this up. Y'all have to

566
00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:44,240
Speaker 1: get my life.

567
00:30:44,320 --> 00:30:46,200
Speaker 2: I mean, it was a it was a it was

568
00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:50,680
Speaker 2: a well. I've seen mixed I've seen mixed responses to it.

569
00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:53,440
Speaker 2: And as somebody who has been coached by Brenda Freese,

570
00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:57,200
Speaker 2: I obviously have opinion an opinion about it, but I

571
00:30:57,240 --> 00:31:00,280
Speaker 2: want to see what you think from a as a woman,

572
00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:03,720
Speaker 2: as a fan, like.

573
00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:06,880
Speaker 1: Oh, I saw this, I saw this, I saw as

574
00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:07,360
Speaker 1: I saw this.

575
00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:15,080
Speaker 2: Honestly okay, And then did you see the girl? Did

576
00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:17,960
Speaker 2: you see the girl's comments after the game? No?

577
00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:18,880
Speaker 1: What does she say?

578
00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:22,320
Speaker 2: She basically was just like I appreciate being coached hard,

579
00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:23,480
Speaker 2: Like that's basically okay, period.

580
00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:25,200
Speaker 1: That's about that align with what I was about to say,

581
00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:29,960
Speaker 1: to be honest, Like, let me think of how I'm

582
00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:32,200
Speaker 1: gonna say this. I'm gen z, but I don't want

583
00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:35,080
Speaker 1: to be like talk too soft like at all, like

584
00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:39,600
Speaker 1: to be honest, especially by coaches. I think coaches, at

585
00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:42,000
Speaker 1: least for me, were some of the most like transformative

586
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:45,800
Speaker 1: figures of my life. And in a lot of ways,

587
00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:49,360
Speaker 1: coaches can say things and talk to you with a

588
00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:52,720
Speaker 1: certain kind of like passion, but in a way that

589
00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:54,760
Speaker 1: your parents can. You know what I'm saying, if my mom,

590
00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:57,040
Speaker 1: if my mom never was hard on me, like there's

591
00:31:57,040 --> 00:32:00,880
Speaker 1: that love there? Do I need your breath in my face?

592
00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:05,920
Speaker 1: Absolutely not. We can social distance and you can yell

593
00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:06,920
Speaker 1: at me from over there.

594
00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:16,640
Speaker 2: But mm hmm, yeah, yeah, so I don't know for me.

595
00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:21,640
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, I think you get that little snapshot

596
00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:24,800
Speaker 2: of somebody's interaction with a coach and a player, and

597
00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:27,760
Speaker 2: you could like take it anywhere you want, because if

598
00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:29,840
Speaker 2: that's what it was, a snapshot, you don't know what

599
00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:33,239
Speaker 2: their relationships like, what they're like in practice, how they

600
00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:36,959
Speaker 2: interact with each other. So I think that then broadcasting

601
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:42,360
Speaker 2: that clip everywhere, I thought it was fine, but it's

602
00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:47,040
Speaker 2: like out of context to certain people that probably looked insane.

603
00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:50,680
Speaker 2: And as somebody that has been coached by Brenda, she

604
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:57,800
Speaker 2: is probably the best motivational speaker coach that.

605
00:32:57,720 --> 00:32:59,000
Speaker 1: I've ever had in my life.

606
00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:06,640
Speaker 2: Like her her pregame speeches like we're so good, they

607
00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:10,000
Speaker 2: were amazing, Like I literally remember every game it was

608
00:33:10,040 --> 00:33:13,440
Speaker 2: like she wasn't like regurgitating the same things over and over.

609
00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:16,880
Speaker 2: She had like her core, her core, you know, pillars

610
00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:19,920
Speaker 2: of being at you know Maryland on the basketball team.

611
00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:23,760
Speaker 2: But every pregame she came in with like a new word,

612
00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:27,360
Speaker 2: like it was it was special. And you know, I

613
00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:30,400
Speaker 2: did transfer, I did leave. You know, I don't like

614
00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:33,200
Speaker 2: I don't even speak to Brenda anymore. There isn't really

615
00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:36,920
Speaker 2: a great relationship there. I mean that happens when you

616
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:38,800
Speaker 2: leave a school, Like it's not always going to be

617
00:33:38,840 --> 00:33:41,080
Speaker 2: rainbows and butterflies. I get that, and I can always

618
00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:46,800
Speaker 2: respect that, but I do appreciate I've always appreciated her

619
00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:50,240
Speaker 2: as a motivator and someone that believes in their players.

620
00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:55,280
Speaker 2: And she's about that, and she she carries herself that

621
00:33:55,360 --> 00:33:59,440
Speaker 2: way in practice in games if you're playing a good team,

622
00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:03,160
Speaker 2: if you're playing bad team, Like her intensity and motivation

623
00:34:03,520 --> 00:34:06,040
Speaker 2: like does not false he ever, And that is something

624
00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:08,840
Speaker 2: that I always have appreciated about being at Maryland, is

625
00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:12,480
Speaker 2: that she really genuinely believes in her teams. And it's

626
00:34:12,520 --> 00:34:15,640
Speaker 2: funny that this is happening right now because unpacking, I'm

627
00:34:15,680 --> 00:34:18,560
Speaker 2: going through some of my old things. They like made

628
00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:21,960
Speaker 2: us this booklet, which is so funny, like this is

629
00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:25,840
Speaker 2: twenty fifteen, Like this is like before all the social

630
00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:29,120
Speaker 2: media presidents of the college team. So they like compiled

631
00:34:29,160 --> 00:34:31,680
Speaker 2: like all of our articles and whatever for the whole

632
00:34:31,760 --> 00:34:34,680
Speaker 2: year in this book and it's like laminated. And I

633
00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:36,319
Speaker 2: was like just looking through some of the quotes that

634
00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:39,440
Speaker 2: she would say about us and our team, and like

635
00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:42,200
Speaker 2: she really genuinely believed in us as a team, and

636
00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:44,640
Speaker 2: we were a team that lost a lot of seniors

637
00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:46,439
Speaker 2: my second year, like all this we had like five

638
00:34:46,520 --> 00:34:49,360
Speaker 2: or six seniors graduate. We're in the new conference. A

639
00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:50,680
Speaker 2: lot of people are like, what are they going to

640
00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:54,120
Speaker 2: do without Alyssa Thomas, Like she was their engine for

641
00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:56,560
Speaker 2: so many years, And coach Freese was just like, no,

642
00:34:56,680 --> 00:34:58,560
Speaker 2: this team got it, Like this team is really good

643
00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:00,400
Speaker 2: and capable. I have it.

644
00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:03,560
Speaker 1: I got proof in the little newspaper thing.

645
00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:07,440
Speaker 2: So when I saw that clip, I was like, Yeah,

646
00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:10,200
Speaker 2: that's Brenda for sure.

647
00:35:10,560 --> 00:35:13,880
Speaker 1: There's nothing better than a coach that will run through

648
00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:16,799
Speaker 1: a wall for their team, and as a person on

649
00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:19,200
Speaker 1: the team, that is exactly what you want. It's why

650
00:35:19,239 --> 00:35:23,000
Speaker 1: I don't fault coaches when they get ejected for yelling

651
00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:25,240
Speaker 1: at the ref over one of their players, or sticking

652
00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:27,840
Speaker 1: up for their players in the media or whatever, because

653
00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:31,120
Speaker 1: as long as everything in the locker room is tight,

654
00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:34,080
Speaker 1: it don't really matter what the outside noise is, and

655
00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:38,040
Speaker 1: outside noise is just publicity and making all that stuff

656
00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:40,400
Speaker 1: is just whatever, as long as you're handling your business

657
00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:42,920
Speaker 1: and the building is fine. I think it's also important

658
00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:46,880
Speaker 1: to note that as journalists and media and fans and

659
00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:50,239
Speaker 1: content creators, we aren't in the locker room, and to

660
00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:52,160
Speaker 1: a certain extent, we can have an opinion based on

661
00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:55,600
Speaker 1: what we see, but it's important to know that when

662
00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:58,720
Speaker 1: it comes to sports, coaches know their players, especially in college.

663
00:35:58,360 --> 00:36:00,920
Speaker 1: They knew everything about these people before they were on

664
00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:04,560
Speaker 1: the team. So these coaches know their players. She wouldn't

665
00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:07,080
Speaker 1: be in her face like that is she if she

666
00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:08,839
Speaker 1: were the kind of person that would be super put

667
00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:11,799
Speaker 1: off and uncomfortable by it, she just wouldn't. At least

668
00:36:12,640 --> 00:36:14,040
Speaker 1: that's me thinking very highly.

669
00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:17,800
Speaker 2: But yeah, and it's like I really feel like also

670
00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:23,879
Speaker 2: since Anil, you you no longer really see like coach

671
00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:27,000
Speaker 2: like coaches aren't really like highlighted as much anymore. I

672
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:28,960
Speaker 2: feel like, like I feel like a lot of if

673
00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:33,479
Speaker 2: you're not Don or Gino, I feel or Kim who

674
00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:36,280
Speaker 2: you know, these have been like staples in the women's

675
00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:40,200
Speaker 2: basketball community for a long long time, even but like

676
00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:44,040
Speaker 2: Kim being at Baylor, Don rebuilding South Carolina but also

677
00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:47,920
Speaker 2: having her own professional career, Gino, you know, building an

678
00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:52,200
Speaker 2: empire at Yukon. You know, outside of those three, it's

679
00:36:52,239 --> 00:36:54,960
Speaker 2: like you there have been like a lot of other

680
00:36:55,239 --> 00:36:58,120
Speaker 2: coaches that have been staples in the women's basketball community,

681
00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:02,440
Speaker 2: like a Brenda Freeze that kind of has been not

682
00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:05,319
Speaker 2: forgotten about because she always is like she wins, like

683
00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:09,319
Speaker 2: she she's always going to find success. But like when

684
00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:11,840
Speaker 2: that clip came out, I didn't really go through the

685
00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:14,319
Speaker 2: comments or anything, but I was like, I wonder, like

686
00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:16,680
Speaker 2: if people are like, who is this lady? Who is

687
00:37:16,680 --> 00:37:19,520
Speaker 2: this lady? But like Brenda has been like one of

688
00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:22,600
Speaker 2: the best coaches in women's college basketball for a long,

689
00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:24,000
Speaker 2: long long time.

690
00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:28,200
Speaker 1: But to counter that, do you think she cares that

691
00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:30,000
Speaker 1: much about that? Because I think it takes a.

692
00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:32,840
Speaker 2: Certain kind of person to be that like in the

693
00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:35,960
Speaker 2: mix right, No, exactly, And I think now it's like

694
00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:40,319
Speaker 2: coaches have their personalities, but like that's that's that's like

695
00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:42,759
Speaker 2: the interesting thing about it. Like every time I see

696
00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:45,920
Speaker 2: don and like the A Flat commercial, I'm like, this

697
00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:48,239
Speaker 2: is crazy, Like the college coaches like are in like

698
00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:49,160
Speaker 2: all these commercials.

699
00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:50,440
Speaker 1: Now, Like I think it's really cool.

700
00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:52,919
Speaker 2: But you know, you have you do have a coach

701
00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:55,960
Speaker 2: like a Brenda Freeze who's just been you know, just

702
00:37:55,960 --> 00:37:59,000
Speaker 2: just quietly being successful. The move to the Big Ten,

703
00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:01,520
Speaker 2: I think kind of probably made her a little less

704
00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:04,640
Speaker 2: visible to the masses because they have like their own

705
00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:06,680
Speaker 2: like they're like put up Big ten is like put

706
00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:08,319
Speaker 2: up over there in the Big ten, like the Big

707
00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:12,960
Speaker 2: ten network everything. They kind of keep it there. But yeah,

708
00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:15,520
Speaker 2: I thought that clip was was interesting that that's I

709
00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:19,000
Speaker 2: saw it. I saw it everywhere. I saw it everywhere.

710
00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:22,319
Speaker 1: So I see that so much that happened that I

711
00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:24,600
Speaker 1: forgot that that happened. But yes, I saw it.

712
00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:28,600
Speaker 2: Still lost. I was like, damn all that y'all still lost.

713
00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:32,200
Speaker 1: I will say. I read an article earlier about Sarah

714
00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:34,720
Speaker 1: Strong and how she doesn't really care about being famous

715
00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:37,920
Speaker 1: and how her manager runs her Instagram and she doesn't

716
00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:40,080
Speaker 1: even have the app on her phone, and like sometimes

717
00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:43,200
Speaker 1: she goes, she gives that she she just doesn't care.

718
00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:46,399
Speaker 1: And I just think that's not in everybody's nature their personality.

719
00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:48,920
Speaker 1: Like I mean, Caitlin Clark, that's not I mean, I

720
00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:51,880
Speaker 1: don't know her, but that's it doesn't seem to be

721
00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:54,359
Speaker 1: naturally in her nature or her personality. It's just like

722
00:38:54,520 --> 00:38:56,560
Speaker 1: she that girl, so she kind of it has to

723
00:38:56,600 --> 00:38:56,920
Speaker 1: do that.

724
00:38:57,040 --> 00:39:00,760
Speaker 2: Wait, so that's like a perfect segue into our brief

725
00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:13,360
Speaker 2: CBA talk. Yes, if y'all didn't know we signed a CBA.

726
00:39:13,680 --> 00:39:16,480
Speaker 2: Sorry whatever, we all have money now, yeah, no more

727
00:39:16,560 --> 00:39:20,160
Speaker 2: jokes about us not making money. And now y'all, yeah,

728
00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:22,480
Speaker 2: y'all don't say I think of some new jokes. Y'all

729
00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:24,120
Speaker 2: have a few weeks to get them together.

730
00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:26,000
Speaker 1: I don't know.

731
00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:30,080
Speaker 2: Y'all have to be creative, and y'all lack creativity, you haters.

732
00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:35,120
Speaker 2: So we'll see what new insults come flying our way

733
00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:38,680
Speaker 2: this summer. But CBA was signed. It's an incredible deal.

734
00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:41,560
Speaker 2: It's so good. I'm so proud of us, so happy

735
00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:44,400
Speaker 2: for us. Shout out to our executive committee and the

736
00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:48,680
Speaker 2: player Association for holding it down for all three thousand

737
00:39:48,760 --> 00:39:51,400
Speaker 2: hours that they were locked up in the offices with

738
00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:53,359
Speaker 2: the league trying to get this deal done, and they

739
00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:57,040
Speaker 2: got it done and the season will not be delayed,

740
00:39:57,120 --> 00:39:58,840
Speaker 2: which I think is amazing. I think that was the

741
00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:01,640
Speaker 2: most important part for both parties, that we don't you know,

742
00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:04,400
Speaker 2: miss any games and lose out on that money and

743
00:40:04,520 --> 00:40:08,000
Speaker 2: that viewership with this new media deal. So shout out

744
00:40:08,040 --> 00:40:12,759
Speaker 2: to the new CBA. But to Maria's point of, like

745
00:40:12,840 --> 00:40:16,000
Speaker 2: Sarah shaw mee, like I don't really like doing all that,

746
00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:21,360
Speaker 2: this this new deal ensures that if you in fact

747
00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:24,200
Speaker 2: don't want to do that, you no longer have to.

748
00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:27,960
Speaker 2: You don't have to. And I think that's one of

749
00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:31,680
Speaker 2: my favorite parts about the new CBA is that it's

750
00:40:31,760 --> 00:40:36,759
Speaker 2: giving us the opportunity to choose whether I want to

751
00:40:36,800 --> 00:40:41,319
Speaker 2: just focus on basketball and make money playing basketball, or

752
00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:43,880
Speaker 2: I can also go do all the other extra things

753
00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:46,600
Speaker 2: that but now you can do them because you want to,

754
00:40:47,040 --> 00:40:49,120
Speaker 2: not because you have to. You don't have to supplement

755
00:40:49,160 --> 00:40:51,960
Speaker 2: an income, you don't have to forget a second and

756
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:55,560
Speaker 2: third job because you made ad K and the WNBA

757
00:40:55,600 --> 00:40:56,920
Speaker 2: and how you have to figure out what to do

758
00:40:56,960 --> 00:40:59,239
Speaker 2: for the rest of the year. And I think for me,

759
00:41:00,360 --> 00:41:04,640
Speaker 2: that has always been something that I've been very vocal about.

760
00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:08,080
Speaker 2: Despite me doing having my hands and so many other things,

761
00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:10,040
Speaker 2: I'm nothing I'm.

762
00:41:09,920 --> 00:41:11,600
Speaker 1: Gonna do is gonna change, y'all.

763
00:41:11,800 --> 00:41:16,160
Speaker 2: Like whatever, these new salaries, these new contracts are incredible,

764
00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:18,400
Speaker 2: but I'm still gonna keep doing all the extra stuff

765
00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:19,200
Speaker 2: that I do because I.

766
00:41:19,239 --> 00:41:19,959
Speaker 1: Like to do them.

767
00:41:20,360 --> 00:41:21,799
Speaker 2: But now I feel like I'm gonna be able to

768
00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:24,640
Speaker 2: find like even a new joy and a new passion

769
00:41:24,680 --> 00:41:26,799
Speaker 2: for different things, because now I can just do things

770
00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:29,200
Speaker 2: because I want to do them, not because I need

771
00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:31,840
Speaker 2: to make more money in the off season. You know,

772
00:41:32,560 --> 00:41:35,359
Speaker 2: so I'm really excited and I'm glad that you said

773
00:41:35,360 --> 00:41:37,359
Speaker 2: that because you look at as Sarah Strong, who is

774
00:41:38,520 --> 00:41:41,800
Speaker 2: if I consider her right now, the best player in college.

775
00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:47,440
Speaker 2: But Juju's out, So I'm really excited when Juju comes back,

776
00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:50,880
Speaker 2: what that conversation is going to look like between the

777
00:41:50,880 --> 00:41:52,640
Speaker 2: two of them, who is the best player in college?

778
00:41:52,640 --> 00:41:56,000
Speaker 2: Because Sarah's strong to me right now is the best

779
00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:58,759
Speaker 2: player in college. And it's like and she makes a

780
00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:01,359
Speaker 2: little bit her Madison Booker. You know, I think those

781
00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:04,080
Speaker 2: two are two of the best right now, and both

782
00:42:04,080 --> 00:42:05,760
Speaker 2: of them are pretty They kind of have like similar

783
00:42:05,800 --> 00:42:10,880
Speaker 2: personalities from what I can tell, Like they're about their

784
00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:13,280
Speaker 2: best way, they're about their business, they're out the way,

785
00:42:14,120 --> 00:42:18,160
Speaker 2: and now they're gonna get fairly compensated for their bath

786
00:42:18,239 --> 00:42:22,600
Speaker 2: their play immediately off rit number one pick half a

787
00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:29,920
Speaker 2: million dollars, Like it's crazy. It's crazy. Everyone's everyone's contracts

788
00:42:29,960 --> 00:42:33,200
Speaker 2: are scaling up, Like I get to make the vetmin

789
00:42:33,360 --> 00:42:37,799
Speaker 2: right now, like, which is amazing. Everyone made fun of

790
00:42:37,840 --> 00:42:42,120
Speaker 2: me for keeping my contract if like I'm getting paid regardless,

791
00:42:42,440 --> 00:42:45,720
Speaker 2: like I'm gonna have to earn the next one, which

792
00:42:46,400 --> 00:42:49,200
Speaker 2: I'm excited to do that because now it's like like

793
00:42:49,320 --> 00:42:52,920
Speaker 2: this late is clean basically, like there's nothing like the

794
00:42:52,960 --> 00:42:56,200
Speaker 2: old everything is like gone, Like they're setting a new

795
00:42:56,280 --> 00:42:58,400
Speaker 2: standard for what these contracts are going to look like.

796
00:42:58,880 --> 00:43:01,359
Speaker 2: You know, they put in protections for veterans so they

797
00:43:01,360 --> 00:43:04,799
Speaker 2: can't get pushed out the league in the salary cap.

798
00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:09,960
Speaker 2: Like it's amazing and I'm like just really grateful to

799
00:43:09,960 --> 00:43:11,479
Speaker 2: this will be a part of the league right now,

800
00:43:12,080 --> 00:43:15,759
Speaker 2: because y'all, y'all know, there have been moments where I'm

801
00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:19,840
Speaker 2: like it you keep doing this. I'm like, dang, is

802
00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:25,200
Speaker 2: it retirement coming? And now I'm playing for ten more years, guys, Okay,

803
00:43:25,480 --> 00:43:27,200
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be like I'm gonna be like Sue Bird

804
00:43:27,239 --> 00:43:32,359
Speaker 2: out here. A year twenty ares chilling. But yeah, I

805
00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:35,000
Speaker 2: think I think it's it's really exciting. And I think

806
00:43:35,120 --> 00:43:37,880
Speaker 2: most importantly, we wanted to lay a foundation for the

807
00:43:37,920 --> 00:43:40,279
Speaker 2: future players, and I think we did a really really

808
00:43:40,280 --> 00:43:43,120
Speaker 2: good job of doing that. We took care of the

809
00:43:43,200 --> 00:43:46,200
Speaker 2: retired players, which is also super important to us, which

810
00:43:46,200 --> 00:43:47,400
Speaker 2: we didn't think that we were gonna be able to

811
00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:52,040
Speaker 2: get that done, but we did in the housing obviously,

812
00:43:52,840 --> 00:43:56,800
Speaker 2: so we I mean, we stood, we stood on business, y'all,

813
00:43:57,840 --> 00:43:59,799
Speaker 2: and we got more than I thought we were on.

814
00:44:00,440 --> 00:44:01,680
Speaker 2: I thought we were going to have to, you know,

815
00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:04,640
Speaker 2: settle on a few things. But I mean, I think

816
00:44:04,680 --> 00:44:06,040
Speaker 2: the league at the end of the day, they were

817
00:44:06,080 --> 00:44:11,479
Speaker 2: like overly impressed with our our willingness to just sit

818
00:44:11,600 --> 00:44:16,160
Speaker 2: down until y'all came came correct and they did so.

819
00:44:16,239 --> 00:44:21,960
Speaker 2: Thank you, Wnba. I'm so excited. And before we go,

820
00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:24,879
Speaker 2: do you have any do you have any hot take

821
00:44:24,920 --> 00:44:31,400
Speaker 2: predictions for the Sweet sixteen? Hold on, okay, wile Mari's thinking,

822
00:44:31,560 --> 00:44:35,120
Speaker 2: I'll say some little fun things that I'm I don't

823
00:44:35,120 --> 00:44:36,400
Speaker 2: have any hot takes, but I have.

824
00:44:36,280 --> 00:44:37,640
Speaker 1: Like some little facts. Okay.

825
00:44:37,680 --> 00:44:40,799
Speaker 2: So there's gonna be four rematches from regular season in

826
00:44:40,840 --> 00:44:45,239
Speaker 2: these Sweet sixteen games, which is fun. One of those

827
00:44:45,280 --> 00:44:49,040
Speaker 2: rematches is Duke versus LSU and if y'all don't remember

828
00:44:49,080 --> 00:44:53,879
Speaker 2: that game, it was en Durham and uh. Fla Je

829
00:44:53,960 --> 00:44:56,719
Speaker 2: Johnson had a lot of energy for Karen loss And

830
00:44:56,800 --> 00:45:00,200
Speaker 2: during that game because of her experience with the USA basketball,

831
00:45:00,719 --> 00:45:04,160
Speaker 2: which I was not privy to. While the game was

832
00:45:04,200 --> 00:45:07,239
Speaker 2: going on, so I was very confused as to why

833
00:45:07,320 --> 00:45:11,600
Speaker 2: fla Jay was screaming at Cara the game. I was like,

834
00:45:11,960 --> 00:45:15,520
Speaker 2: what is going on? And then did some research found out,

835
00:45:15,560 --> 00:45:18,320
Speaker 2: you know, some USA basketball stuff, and I said, okay,

836
00:45:18,880 --> 00:45:22,239
Speaker 2: I understand that. So that rematch is going to be

837
00:45:22,280 --> 00:45:24,960
Speaker 2: fun and spicy now that people more people would have

838
00:45:25,000 --> 00:45:32,560
Speaker 2: the context of that moment. And LSU is like averaging

839
00:45:32,600 --> 00:45:34,279
Speaker 2: like one hundred and some points right now.

840
00:45:34,719 --> 00:45:35,719
Speaker 1: Duke not so much.

841
00:45:35,760 --> 00:45:38,480
Speaker 2: But their defense, as always looks excellent, So I'm really

842
00:45:38,520 --> 00:45:46,600
Speaker 2: excited to see which strength takes over. Because Duke's offense,

843
00:45:46,880 --> 00:45:49,879
Speaker 2: they haven't really looked great offensively, but their defense has

844
00:45:49,920 --> 00:45:55,200
Speaker 2: looked incredible. So I'm really excited to see how the

845
00:45:55,239 --> 00:45:58,080
Speaker 2: contrasting styles of play work in the tournament on a

846
00:45:58,160 --> 00:46:00,640
Speaker 2: neutral site. So I'm excited about that game. I'm also

847
00:46:00,680 --> 00:46:05,040
Speaker 2: really excited about Notre Dame Vanderbilt because the michaeleab Blake's

848
00:46:05,160 --> 00:46:09,160
Speaker 2: Hannah Hildago matchup is going to be so fun. I

849
00:46:09,280 --> 00:46:13,239
Speaker 2: hope please, girls do not disappoint me. Please don't. We're

850
00:46:13,320 --> 00:46:17,040
Speaker 2: hyping up this matchup. I need it. I need it, Okay,

851
00:46:17,560 --> 00:46:19,600
Speaker 2: number one score in the country versus the number three

852
00:46:19,600 --> 00:46:24,560
Speaker 2: score in the country. Come on, like, I need this.

853
00:46:24,680 --> 00:46:27,239
Speaker 2: I need I need y'all to I need y'all to

854
00:46:27,239 --> 00:46:33,000
Speaker 2: put on a show. Okay, I I hate to say it.

855
00:46:35,080 --> 00:46:39,760
Speaker 1: I smell I smell something something off.

856
00:46:39,920 --> 00:46:45,200
Speaker 2: I think there's going to be an upset where I don't.

857
00:46:45,280 --> 00:46:47,800
Speaker 2: And it's so funny, like these are all Power five schools,

858
00:46:47,800 --> 00:46:49,880
Speaker 2: so that like at this point, the numbers next to

859
00:46:49,920 --> 00:46:54,120
Speaker 2: the names don't mean anything. Like even Virginia Virginia is

860
00:46:54,120 --> 00:46:57,239
Speaker 2: a Cinderella team. They are an ACEC school. I'm not

861
00:46:57,239 --> 00:47:00,759
Speaker 2: giving them the Cinderella title. You're not a Cinderella. If

862
00:47:00,800 --> 00:47:01,640
Speaker 2: you're out of Power five.

863
00:47:01,680 --> 00:47:02,160
Speaker 1: I'm sorry.

864
00:47:02,239 --> 00:47:03,839
Speaker 2: I don't care that you were in the first four.

865
00:47:04,520 --> 00:47:08,399
Speaker 2: You're not a Cinderella. Okay, you're not. You don't get

866
00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:10,600
Speaker 2: that just just for the sake of having a Cinderella

867
00:47:10,600 --> 00:47:12,600
Speaker 2: in the tournament. No, you're an.

868
00:47:14,040 --> 00:47:14,440
Speaker 1: I don't care.

869
00:47:14,560 --> 00:47:18,160
Speaker 2: You don't get to be a Cinderella. No, you can

870
00:47:18,200 --> 00:47:20,279
Speaker 2: be the underdog. You know, we got underdogs and you

871
00:47:20,280 --> 00:47:24,160
Speaker 2: got the Cinderellas. Y'all, they are not a Cinderella. I'm sorry,

872
00:47:24,239 --> 00:47:26,960
Speaker 2: I don't care. I don't care. I'm so happy and

873
00:47:27,040 --> 00:47:31,040
Speaker 2: excited for them, but no, you're not. You don't get

874
00:47:31,040 --> 00:47:32,239
Speaker 2: Cinderella's status.

875
00:47:32,520 --> 00:47:35,040
Speaker 1: The reason I had to check was because I remember,

876
00:47:35,600 --> 00:47:38,400
Speaker 1: like I thought I was. I picked Duke to lose,

877
00:47:39,200 --> 00:47:40,880
Speaker 1: but it was the man. That's why I had to

878
00:47:40,960 --> 00:47:45,040
Speaker 1: jack because you know, I was getting confused my duke,

879
00:47:45,160 --> 00:47:48,160
Speaker 1: disbelief of whether it was the girls or the guy.

880
00:47:48,480 --> 00:47:52,360
Speaker 2: We talked, okay, not pivoting to the boy. Like they

881
00:47:52,400 --> 00:47:55,200
Speaker 2: they have no Cinderellas either, they have none in the

882
00:47:55,400 --> 00:47:57,359
Speaker 2: Sweet sixteen. It's just so okay.

883
00:47:58,480 --> 00:48:01,799
Speaker 1: Nebraska has never been to the Sweet sixteen ever.

884
00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:07,680
Speaker 2: Four seed. Not a Cinderella for seed, not a Cinderella.

885
00:48:07,920 --> 00:48:09,799
Speaker 2: And you're in the Big ten. Not a Cinderella.

886
00:48:10,840 --> 00:48:11,319
Speaker 1: Who else?

887
00:48:12,200 --> 00:48:15,680
Speaker 2: That's like, please, Texas is an eleventh seed, you're in

888
00:48:15,800 --> 00:48:18,719
Speaker 2: Power five. You're not a Cinderella either. I don't care.

889
00:48:19,320 --> 00:48:21,920
Speaker 2: Not a Cinderella again, you can be an underdog like

890
00:48:21,920 --> 00:48:26,399
Speaker 2: who would have been a like that high Point high

891
00:48:26,440 --> 00:48:31,840
Speaker 2: Point Arkanas Cinderella. That would have been a Cinderella.

892
00:48:31,880 --> 00:48:36,239
Speaker 1: Who else? Kind of almost made it happen. We see you.

893
00:48:36,680 --> 00:48:40,840
Speaker 2: They're an eleventh seed being lost to Illinois, Cinderella, Texas

894
00:48:40,840 --> 00:48:43,000
Speaker 2: A and m being a ten seed? Like again, like

895
00:48:43,040 --> 00:48:47,600
Speaker 2: what's up with like like you said, the rich are

896
00:48:47,600 --> 00:48:50,640
Speaker 2: getting richer, the poor are getting poor? Because why do

897
00:48:50,680 --> 00:48:54,839
Speaker 2: we have the multiple double figure seeded teams from Power

898
00:48:54,920 --> 00:48:59,400
Speaker 2: five conferences, Like, I don't I like that.

899
00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:02,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're they're gonna have to because Cinderells are one

900
00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:03,840
Speaker 1: of the best parts of the tournament.

901
00:49:04,440 --> 00:49:06,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like and again like you have a you

902
00:49:06,960 --> 00:49:08,680
Speaker 2: have a good run in the tournament, you could change

903
00:49:08,719 --> 00:49:11,279
Speaker 2: your life. You could change your life.

904
00:49:12,239 --> 00:49:14,799
Speaker 1: Back to my take, I think that there's gonna be upset.

905
00:49:14,960 --> 00:49:15,920
Speaker 1: I don't know where.

906
00:49:16,560 --> 00:49:20,080
Speaker 2: I just I mean, technically the upset will be. Technically

907
00:49:20,120 --> 00:49:24,680
Speaker 2: the upset will be Notre Dame Vanderbilt. But it's Notre Dame.

908
00:49:25,520 --> 00:49:31,080
Speaker 2: So isn't an upset. It's still upset according to the seating,

909
00:49:31,600 --> 00:49:35,040
Speaker 2: Yes it's an upset, but you have Hannah Hill Dago

910
00:49:35,120 --> 00:49:37,600
Speaker 2: on your team. I was talking to my mom about

911
00:49:37,600 --> 00:49:41,719
Speaker 2: this earlier. In order to win, to have a legitimate

912
00:49:41,800 --> 00:49:44,600
Speaker 2: chance to win a national championship in women's college you

913
00:49:44,640 --> 00:49:47,600
Speaker 2: have to have to at least two WNBA players on

914
00:49:47,640 --> 00:49:52,600
Speaker 2: your team. You have to to win. Like to legitimately

915
00:49:52,640 --> 00:49:55,160
Speaker 2: have a chance to win in the NCAA tournament, you

916
00:49:55,200 --> 00:49:58,239
Speaker 2: have to have two WNBA players on your team, not

917
00:49:58,320 --> 00:50:04,239
Speaker 2: to WNBA All Stars is not too future MVPs. Two

918
00:50:04,360 --> 00:50:08,160
Speaker 2: players that will get drafted and make a roster and

919
00:50:08,200 --> 00:50:10,440
Speaker 2: that is really the only chance that you have to

920
00:50:10,520 --> 00:50:17,359
Speaker 2: win in college that's it. Like South Carolina always has

921
00:50:18,440 --> 00:50:27,160
Speaker 2: WNBA players, Yukon obviously, Iowa they had two Kaitlin and

922
00:50:27,239 --> 00:50:30,600
Speaker 2: Kate Martin. They had two players on there, right, like

923
00:50:30,880 --> 00:50:37,120
Speaker 2: LSU they have two or three four. Like I didn't say,

924
00:50:37,160 --> 00:50:39,960
Speaker 2: to win games, you can find success if you have

925
00:50:40,080 --> 00:50:43,160
Speaker 2: talented players. But to win a national championship in women's

926
00:50:43,200 --> 00:50:47,760
Speaker 2: college basketball, you have to have at least two WNBA players,

927
00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:50,480
Speaker 2: two players that will make a roster their rookie year.

928
00:50:51,320 --> 00:50:54,919
Speaker 2: You have to And that's a I don't know, y'all

929
00:50:54,920 --> 00:50:57,640
Speaker 2: can fact check that. I mean, I just said to

930
00:50:57,640 --> 00:51:00,400
Speaker 2: have a legitimate chance, a legitimate shot to win a

931
00:51:00,480 --> 00:51:05,640
Speaker 2: national championship. So that's why it's always been the Yukon

932
00:51:05,680 --> 00:51:12,000
Speaker 2: invitation because they don't have to. They have six between

933
00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:12,960
Speaker 2: two and six.

934
00:51:12,719 --> 00:51:13,520
Speaker 1: At all times.

935
00:51:13,600 --> 00:51:19,279
Speaker 2: Yukon does. So, yeah, there is gonna be if there

936
00:51:19,320 --> 00:51:21,360
Speaker 2: is going to be an upset. Okay, I think we

937
00:51:21,400 --> 00:51:24,799
Speaker 2: both agree that it will be Notre Dame, right, but

938
00:51:26,400 --> 00:51:28,560
Speaker 2: we'll see. I don't know a Notre Dame has been

939
00:51:28,600 --> 00:51:32,319
Speaker 2: so up and down. But Nille then coaching her been

940
00:51:32,320 --> 00:51:35,760
Speaker 2: coaching out her mind in the tournament like she always does.

941
00:51:36,120 --> 00:51:38,279
Speaker 2: She's an excellent coach. Almost beat Duke in the a

942
00:51:38,320 --> 00:51:44,200
Speaker 2: CC championship. So yeah, guys, this weekend, please tune into

943
00:51:44,200 --> 00:51:45,240
Speaker 2: the tournament games.

944
00:51:45,480 --> 00:51:46,440
Speaker 1: It's gonna be fun.

945
00:51:47,200 --> 00:51:50,560
Speaker 2: Now that the CBA is signed, we can see like, hmmm,

946
00:51:51,560 --> 00:51:52,440
Speaker 2: where people are going to.

947
00:51:52,440 --> 00:51:53,960
Speaker 1: Get drafted at.

948
00:51:53,960 --> 00:51:56,200
Speaker 2: People are playing with a new energy because they do

949
00:51:56,320 --> 00:51:59,640
Speaker 2: know that it's not only is a season coming, but

950
00:52:00,000 --> 00:52:02,800
Speaker 2: you are going to be making three to five hundred

951
00:52:02,800 --> 00:52:07,439
Speaker 2: thousand dollars if you are a lottery pick. So that's

952
00:52:07,440 --> 00:52:09,279
Speaker 2: a new type of energy that we probably haven't seen

953
00:52:09,320 --> 00:52:11,080
Speaker 2: in college yet for the girls, Like.

954
00:52:12,960 --> 00:52:15,120
Speaker 1: When are we gonna start seeing free agency?

955
00:52:16,360 --> 00:52:21,040
Speaker 2: Free agency is like in two weeks. I think. I

956
00:52:21,080 --> 00:52:27,120
Speaker 2: think they're doing the expansion draft first and then free agency.

957
00:52:27,239 --> 00:52:31,120
Speaker 2: So interesting. Yeah, it's like there's still a lot to

958
00:52:31,160 --> 00:52:33,680
Speaker 2: be done. There's a lot to be done. I'm actually

959
00:52:33,719 --> 00:52:37,439
Speaker 2: going to Seattle this weekend for an event and then

960
00:52:37,560 --> 00:52:40,920
Speaker 2: I will be working out at the facility. Guys, So

961
00:52:41,000 --> 00:52:43,000
Speaker 2: that's a good sign. You know that I'm going to

962
00:52:43,040 --> 00:52:47,600
Speaker 2: be in Seattle working out, So I'll let y'all know

963
00:52:47,640 --> 00:52:51,720
Speaker 2: what that's like. We will have a very special guest

964
00:52:52,200 --> 00:52:56,000
Speaker 2: in our next episode hopefully. I'm not going to say

965
00:52:56,000 --> 00:53:00,080
Speaker 2: who it is, but y'all should be very excited about it.

966
00:53:01,719 --> 00:53:05,920
Speaker 2: If it's not this week, next week for sure, someone

967
00:53:05,920 --> 00:53:08,680
Speaker 2: that I love very very much and that y'all all

968
00:53:08,719 --> 00:53:13,600
Speaker 2: should love very very much as well. So yeah, oh,

969
00:53:13,680 --> 00:53:18,080
Speaker 2: flowers before we go, I'm going to.

970
00:53:18,120 --> 00:53:21,080
Speaker 1: Give my flowers too. I actually just made a video

971
00:53:21,200 --> 00:53:24,200
Speaker 1: about the women that were in those eight day, one

972
00:53:24,280 --> 00:53:28,799
Speaker 1: hundred plus hour negotiations fighting for the WNBA to get

973
00:53:28,800 --> 00:53:31,320
Speaker 1: this historic deal done. I'm going to get my flowers

974
00:53:31,320 --> 00:53:33,240
Speaker 1: to them, because that's crazy.

975
00:53:33,440 --> 00:53:38,239
Speaker 2: I'll give my flowers to my girl, Jordan Chiles and

976
00:53:38,400 --> 00:53:42,279
Speaker 2: UCLA A Gymnastics. They just want the Big ten Gymnastics

977
00:53:42,560 --> 00:53:47,040
Speaker 2: tournament conference championship. So y'all know I'm a ucl A

978
00:53:47,120 --> 00:53:51,680
Speaker 2: Gymnastics fan now, so shout out to them. That's amazing.

979
00:53:51,920 --> 00:53:54,680
Speaker 2: I will be tuned in for the rest of their season,

980
00:53:54,760 --> 00:53:58,680
Speaker 2: the national championships and stuff. I'm tuned. I'm locked in,

981
00:53:58,800 --> 00:54:02,120
Speaker 2: So flowers to ul Ah, Nastis and Jordan. For sure.

982
00:54:03,280 --> 00:54:05,520
Speaker 2: We love and support all the women's sports going on.

983
00:54:05,800 --> 00:54:07,760
Speaker 2: So again, make sure y'all tune in to the Sweet

984
00:54:07,840 --> 00:54:11,960
Speaker 2: sixteen games this weekend. They're going to be fun. Hopefully

985
00:54:12,080 --> 00:54:18,719
Speaker 2: less blowouts, but you never know. So yeah, thanks for

986
00:54:18,719 --> 00:54:22,000
Speaker 2: hanging out with us again. On an episode of Full Circle.

987
00:54:22,040 --> 00:54:23,360
Speaker 2: We will see y'all next week.

988
00:54:23,800 --> 00:54:26,919
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989
00:54:26,960 --> 00:54:30,200
Speaker 1: next week with more basketball for the Girls by the Girls.

990
00:54:30,560 --> 00:54:32,640
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993
00:54:37,680 --> 00:54:41,080
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994
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995
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