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Speaker 1: All right, time for instant reaction. Iowa ninety four LSU

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Speaker 1: eighty seven in a rematch. I thought it was incredibly

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Speaker 1: fast paced and fun. The game wasn't really it didn't

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Speaker 1: feel that close. Iowa got more good looks, a lot

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Speaker 1: of at Caitlin Clark forty one points nine for twenty

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Speaker 1: on threes, twelve assists in The assists are notable because

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Speaker 1: you know, why do we have this explosion? And when

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Speaker 1: men's college basketball? This probably had six and a half

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure if it'll get there. Could but I

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Speaker 1: mean dominating on social media tonight. And I think there's

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Speaker 1: two reasons of why you're getting this explosion. Number one

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Speaker 1: is the quality of play is better. You can go

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Speaker 1: back and watch the nineteen seventies NBA and you can

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Speaker 1: have Doctor J doing things that guys can't do now.

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Speaker 1: I mean the athleticism in the NBA. You can go

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Speaker 1: back to nineteen seventy five, nineteen eighty five men's college basketball.

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Speaker 1: I'd argue it was better. You had guys, like, you know,

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Speaker 1: superstar players a team and Clyde Drexler staying for a

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Speaker 1: third or a fourth year. Women's college basketball and the

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Speaker 1: seventies and eighties did not look like this the players now,

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Speaker 1: the distribution, the scoring, the finishing, the passing, the size,

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Speaker 1: the speed of athletes, it's different. I YouTube tonight for fun.

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Speaker 1: I YouTube nineteen eighty women's college basketball. It's just not

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Speaker 1: the same sport. The passing, the ball movement, the cutting.

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Speaker 1: It's clever and it's Tonight's game wasn't shippy at all,

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Speaker 1: that's like a month. That's December scoring for Virginia men's basketball.

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Speaker 1: How many games in this tournament have you watched on

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Speaker 1: the men's side and thought, can we get to fifty?

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Speaker 1: Can we get to fifty three? Even Duke was painful

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Speaker 1: And a lot of that's because we have multiple generations

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Speaker 1: So the quality is really good. That's the first part.

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Speaker 1: And the second thing women's college basketball is delivering and producing.

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Speaker 1: What men's college basketball is not continuity. It's not a

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Speaker 1: People are creatures. I have it, I eat the same

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Speaker 1: You know, it's the same stuff, and people are creatures

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Speaker 1: some predictability and women's college basketball, we get a rematch,

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Speaker 1: starters for teams, continuity, repetition, predictability, storylines. That's why ninety

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Speaker 1: percent of the revenue in cinema today is remakes and sequels.

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Speaker 1: chippy last year. It's a big part of sports, it's

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Speaker 1: rivals that in terms of star power is Zach Edie

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Speaker 1: unique shooting range. I was joking on social media. Her

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Speaker 1: Caitlin Clark has it. I was trying to think during

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Speaker 1: Yukon was sort of a collective. I do think Maya

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Speaker 1: as well. Congrats to IOWA and LSU's a hell of

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Speaker 1: a team. Kim Molky can drive a lot of people

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Speaker 1: two different schools. That's pretty good. That's pretty good. Coach listen.

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Speaker 1: College coaches have a lot of power on a campus.

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Speaker 1: don't agree with them. And as a sportscaster, you're always

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Speaker 1: looking for big games. NFL season mondays are easy shows.

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Speaker 1: I'm always looking for big games in the offseason. So

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Speaker 1: thank you to women's basketball LSU and IOWA and Caitlin

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Speaker 1: Clark and Angel Reese for delivering a great night of

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Speaker 1: entertainment that was fun the volume. Thanks so much for listen.

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