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Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: Hello and welcome to Vox Sports Saturday. On the best

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Speaker 2: weekend of the year. It is March Saturday.

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Speaker 3: I have been so giddy, not just you know, Thursday, Fridays, today,

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Speaker 3: all week the anticipation. Yes, this is my favorite weekend

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Speaker 3: of the sporting calendar year.

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Speaker 4: That's fair.

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Speaker 2: And I would like to thank Isaac for bringing up

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Speaker 2: the wonderful news that the Michigan Wolverines are.

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Speaker 3: The first congratulation.

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Speaker 4: Thank you very much to make it to the sweet sixteen.

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Speaker 2: I actually was watching the game this morning and there

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Speaker 2: were it wasn't really in doubt often, but there was

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Speaker 2: like a little short time where it was closed and

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Speaker 2: I was like.

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Speaker 4: Oh my god, if they lose, what what do I do?

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Speaker 5: Like?

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Speaker 2: What do I do on the radio? How does one what?

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Speaker 3: We would have literally had a grieving.

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Speaker 2: It would have been a very different vibe, a very

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Speaker 2: different energy would be coming off me. But instead the

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Speaker 2: great Yeah, Lindeborg, my first child is going to be

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Speaker 2: named Yaxel Roddy A die.

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Speaker 3: Mores going to be show Hey, Yaxel, Show.

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Speaker 2: Hey, Yaxel, Roddy A die Morez is going to be

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Speaker 2: It's It's a long name, but it also where's that

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Speaker 2: decoy Luca JJ McCarthy.

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Speaker 4: That is the name.

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Speaker 2: There won't be room for a last name because that's

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Speaker 2: going to be the name of my childhood. But I'm

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Speaker 2: really excited, and I gotta tell the listeners. This means

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Speaker 2: even more to me because if Michigan Go is the

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Speaker 2: final four, I'm going to the final four. And so

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Speaker 2: it's like every game I want them to win for them.

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Speaker 2: And then I make it a little bit about me.

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Speaker 3: Of course, Well naturally, because you are on the team.

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Speaker 4: I on the team. A lot of people don't know

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Speaker 4: that about me.

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Speaker 3: Well, okay, so let's let's have this chat because I

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Speaker 3: think this is so appropriate for this time of year.

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Speaker 3: We're filling out brackets. I mean, when your team's in

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Speaker 3: the dance, there is nothing better. And it's also a

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Speaker 3: time where as reporters, you're allowed to be a fan

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Speaker 3: totally because you're an alum of your program. And I

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Speaker 3: went to UCLA, Yes, you went to Michigan. Yep, we're

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Speaker 3: both still alive. I don't know, you know, the Bruin's

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Speaker 3: got a tough task and you come. We'll talk about

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Speaker 3: that later. But Tracy, I got to ask you, what

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Speaker 3: is the nuttiest, superstitious thing you have done as a

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Speaker 3: fan of Michigan.

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Speaker 2: Okay, as a fan of Michigan, that is a good question.

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Speaker 2: I've certainly changed clothes in the middle of a game

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Speaker 2: one hundred percent.

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Speaker 4: I've eaten the same thing.

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Speaker 3: And I game day routine.

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Speaker 2: Game day routine, because again, as Nicky mentioned, I'm on

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Speaker 2: the team, so it's important that my gave routine. What

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Speaker 2: I did during the twenty twenty three National Championship Football season,

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Speaker 2: I have this JJ McCarthy shirt that is much too

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Speaker 2: large for me, so I would wear it to bed. Well,

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Speaker 2: I noticed what were to be I mean they run

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Speaker 2: to a few that year, like about two games in.

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Speaker 2: I was like, I've worn this to bed twice and

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Speaker 2: they've won the game. So then that was every single week.

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Speaker 2: But a lot it's usually clothing related, but I have

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Speaker 2: been crazy enough to be like, oh, that's not the

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Speaker 2: coffee mug I used right last time, And actually I

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Speaker 2: did that this morning. I did do that. I was

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Speaker 2: like about to pull out a different mug. I was like, no, no,

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Speaker 2: that's not the one I drank from Thursday.

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Speaker 3: That's your brain is very on sync with my brain.

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Speaker 4: I love that.

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Speaker 3: I have a story I've never shared on air before. Excited.

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Speaker 3: So when I went to UCLA, our basketball program was

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Speaker 3: not the caliber that we know to be UCLA basketball.

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Speaker 3: Fast forward being a reporter in LA covering sports in LA.

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Speaker 3: The UCLA Bruins under Mick Cronin have this magical run

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Speaker 3: in twenty twenty one from the first four and before

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Speaker 3: I know it, they're knocking on the door of Elite eight.

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Speaker 3: My boss texts me, you want to go right? This

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Speaker 3: I said, heck yes, I'm ready whatever it takes. Now

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Speaker 3: this has been the run of where we're getting to socialize, right,

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Speaker 3: go back out and watch games. So I hadn't really

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Speaker 3: I always had a lucky top I was wearing. Okay,

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Speaker 3: So I arrive in Indianapolis and it's my first true

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Speaker 3: I'm walking around and I'm seeing Bruins everywhere, and for

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Speaker 3: those of you who have not been to a Final four,

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Speaker 3: it is magic.

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Speaker 4: It is. It is a magical egs.

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Speaker 3: Like all everyone rep in their schools, there's probably there's

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Speaker 3: just fans of the sport. They're going to watch good basketball.

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Speaker 3: So here comes the final four game, right, UCLA, the

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Speaker 3: gritty Bruins from first four and they've made this to

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Speaker 3: the final four taking on Gonzaga, and they weren't supposed

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Speaker 3: to have a chance. During the game, I'm I'm sick

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Speaker 3: to my stomach because we're trading shot for shot so

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Speaker 3: much so Tracy that I'm moving seats and when the

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Speaker 4: And I was how many steps did you get in

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Speaker 4: that day just to see I.

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Speaker 3: Never understood those fans who get so anxious about games

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Speaker 3: over time, Gonzaga UCLA final four, the chance to compete

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Speaker 3: for a national championship. I had to move to the concourse.

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Speaker 3: I was pacing it by myself. It was just Oh,

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Speaker 3: I forgot to mention I packed my lucky top in

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Speaker 3: my workte as well, you should. I'm wearing my blazer.

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Speaker 3: I got my lucky tote top with me on my person,

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Speaker 3: not wearing it. But I'm pacing the concourse of this

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Speaker 3: epic game that comes down to the most legendary finish.

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Speaker 3: Jalen sugs the half court buzzer beater to send Hi Mayhawk,

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Speaker 3: as Johnny jew saying, I mean, what a what an

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Speaker 3: I love But when I think about that experience, I'm like,

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Speaker 3: you were in the building for this insane, historic game,

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Speaker 3: half court buzzer beater. Unfortunately I did see that.

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Speaker 4: You did see that.

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Speaker 2: But well, it's it's so funny because we when Michigan

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Speaker 2: and I had a watch party. I want to say

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Speaker 2: the Sweet sixteen, and it came this. That's the Jordan

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Speaker 2: Pool shot at the very end, and I literally, I

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Speaker 2: I had to rewind it rightly, so naturally you so

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Speaker 2: I could see what happened. But it is being a

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Speaker 2: They have all the confidence and their abilities and all

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Speaker 2: be true. But it's a funny thing. But you know,

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Speaker 2: my mom always says this. I said to her last night.

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Speaker 2: I was like, I will be wearing the Michigan shirt

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Speaker 2: I wore on Thursday, obviously because it worked. But no

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Speaker 2: I can't tell you for sure it doesn't. Well, here's

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Speaker 3: My dad during the World series gave me this sage

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Speaker 3: do talking about the players. Oh no, yes you can,

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Speaker 3: But father, I beg to differ.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you get.

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Speaker 3: I beg to differ. It is so fun to care.

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Speaker 3: And I mean, this is why this weekend is so

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Speaker 3: Brian Hodgson right for USF, who got to go as

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Speaker 3: March Madness, play back in Buffalo and play in front

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Speaker 3: been able to watch him coach. And like, those are

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Speaker 3: the stories, Yes, that the spotlight shines so bright, and

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Speaker 3: this is the time we celebrate them.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's so true, and it's so fun. And you know,

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Speaker 2: I always feel they are kids, and I know things

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Speaker 2: but they are kids. And it's I always feel bad

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Speaker 2: for the other team when you see it. Actually watching

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Speaker 2: the UCLA game, which took an hour and a half

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Speaker 3: In the words of Bill Walton, if I'm going to heaven,

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Speaker 3: it's the last two minutes of a collegiate basketball game.

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Speaker 2: And that last too, that last minutes lasted long enough

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Speaker 3: It made me nervous. Yeah, like, what the heck.

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Speaker 2: It was bananas, but I had this so I had

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Speaker 2: this thought that I think you will appreciate. On the

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Speaker 2: one hand, I was like, Okay, I definitely want you

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Speaker 2: to wait, I want them to win for Nikkilpless, yeah,

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Speaker 2: selfless unless they play Michigan, I wanted them to. I'm

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Speaker 2: a UCLA fan. But more than anything, when I see

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Speaker 2: Mick Cooney yell at his players, I feel bad and

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Speaker 2: I was like, I want hit them to win so

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Speaker 4: Like this is literally going through my head.

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Speaker 2: But then I'm looking at the other team and I'm like,

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Speaker 2: but they look sad too, And then.

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Speaker 4: It was like, Okay, I just I just want everybody

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Speaker 3: As someone who knows Mick and has come to understand

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Speaker 3: the way he coaches, he is he is a fiery cat,

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Speaker 3: and he's got big emotions, and for better or worse,

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Speaker 3: they come out. But what I have noticed about him,

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Speaker 3: this team, and it comes across in the wrong It

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Speaker 3: can come across wrong at the wrong times. Ejecting his

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Speaker 3: own player. Yes, right, but he is able to look

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Speaker 3: of the media. You know that means he's apologizing to

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Speaker 3: the guys in the locker room. I think his fire

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Speaker 3: can be misconstrued. Okay in that sense. But the coolest

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Speaker 3: thing about this group is he has pushed the buttons

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Speaker 3: and this team has responded. Yes, they have bought it

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Speaker 3: and it can go one you know, can you.

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Speaker 4: Wear the other?

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Speaker 2: And it has gone in, It is gonna go. It's

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Speaker 2: gone in the right way. There's another coach. We're gonna

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Speaker 2: talk about it later that I have. I take a

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Speaker 2: little I believe, but I think I think you're right now.

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Speaker 2: I have a question, did he apologize the reporter that

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Speaker 2: he said ask the stupidest question the history.

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Speaker 3: Of Honestly, he should be thanking the reporter because that

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Speaker 2: So, Niki, it's the tournament is the big story of

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Speaker 2: Flag Football Okay game. It is right here, well not here,

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Speaker 3: But we'll live rent free.

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Speaker 4: But we're very much live rent free.

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Speaker 4: But now it just seems like he's having a good time.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I have another. Would you rather Okay, it has

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Speaker 3: I think I would rather have the legend of like

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Speaker 2: was on the team that won the Rose Bull, so.

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Speaker 4: You kind of can't go wrong.

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Speaker 3: You can't go wrong either. That was just in my head.

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Speaker 3: I was like, what's a what's a good comp that

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Speaker 3: you could.

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Speaker 4: That's a good comp.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I think that's a really good comp What about

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Speaker 3: the boys in the booth? What would you guys?

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Speaker 4: What would you rather have?

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Speaker 3: They're getting, they're getting.

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Speaker 7: We're contemplating this here. So again, the options are.

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Speaker 3: Okay, to be the legend on a double digit seed

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Speaker 3: that hits the game winning three to send your team

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Speaker 3: to the Sweet sixteen, or just a second not just sorry,

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Speaker 3: or a second string player on a team that wins

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Speaker 3: the Rose Bowl.

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Speaker 7: You want to take this first? Or I'm thinking here,

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Speaker 7: that's tough.

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Speaker 10: I mean, I think I think I'd probably rather win

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Speaker 10: the Rose Bowl, just championship. But it actually is a

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Speaker 10: good like question to kind of like gauge the like

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Speaker 10: personality of someone like do.

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Speaker 4: You care more questions? Actually?

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Speaker 3: Oh shoot, I'm pegged as like the individual glutton. But whatever, I.

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Speaker 7: Think I'm going the other way. I've been around a

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Speaker 7: lot of small schools in my life. I was with

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Speaker 7: some grads from like Georgia Southern UH. It took some

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Speaker 7: class at University at Toledo. There is you. You get

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Speaker 7: memorialized in a way in a small school for even

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Speaker 7: giving your just even even just giving your school a

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Speaker 7: little bit of dignity as far as making the Sweet sixteen,

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Speaker 7: that gets remembered for for for quite a while, for

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Speaker 7: for a lot longer than I think people understand and realize,

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Speaker 7: which is why I'm always a big fan of these

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Speaker 7: small schools being in the tournament and getting the shot

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Speaker 7: that they do. Because every time I hear about no,

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Speaker 7: we actually want the big teams, I kind of don't

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Speaker 7: I understand the appeal of these of these small guys

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Speaker 7: getting to have the chance out there. I really do.

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Speaker 2: Well, we are gonna go to Martin Weiss, and I'd

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Speaker 2: like to know his answer to this question, and I'd

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Speaker 2: like to know what's going on in the world of sports.

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Speaker 11: I'd rather be the start of small basketball school because heck, yeah,

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Speaker 11: that doesn't mean like that's not I'm still nice. Like

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Speaker 11: if I'm the backup on the rose ball team. It

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Speaker 11: means I couldn't start. Like if I'm the starter at

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Speaker 11: a small school and I'm running through the tournament, that

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Speaker 11: means everybody's watching me and like, who knows, that could

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Speaker 11: be like Steph Curry, that's true, you like like I

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Speaker 11: like I could like that kid. Jack Goldkie played at Oakland.

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Speaker 4: Yes, Golkie, he played in the G.

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Speaker 11: League after that. He was like twenty six.

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Speaker 3: I think we got another in the making at high

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Speaker 3: Point University too. We gotta talk about him later.

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Speaker 11: Well, we'll see about that. They have Arkansas the last

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Speaker 11: game of the night in the March Madness a second

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Speaker 11: round for today or earlier. Today, we saw one seed Michigan.

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Speaker 11: It's the first team to advance to the Sweet sixteen,

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Speaker 11: taking care of nine seeds.

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Speaker 3: St.

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Speaker 5: Louis Jackson.

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Speaker 11: Linderbergh had twenty five points. A DeMar I had sixteen points,

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Speaker 11: five rebounds of four blocks. He's one block short of

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Speaker 11: the Michigan single season record of ninety six. You can

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Speaker 11: will play either Texas Tech or Alabama in Chicago on

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Speaker 11: Friday in the Midwest Region Sweet sixteen. Pillican senior Robbie

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Speaker 11: Avolo was third against NCAA seniors with two one hundred

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Speaker 11: and eleventh career three pointers made. He finished three for

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Speaker 11: thirteen on the night, including three for ten from three.

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Speaker 11: Saint Louis Now OH won six and second round games.

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Speaker 11: Michigan State Now opening up a a point lead on

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Speaker 11: Louisville in the second half about seven minutes and thirty

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Speaker 11: seconds left in that matchup, as Jeremy Fears and CoA

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Speaker 11: Carr Cole carrs was having a good game. He's got

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Speaker 11: sixteen points, seven for eleven from the floor, a couple

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Speaker 11: big gunks. Jeremy Fears got nine points to lead the

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Speaker 11: Spartan straight ford with ten off the bench. Later today

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Speaker 11: we'll see one he Duke play nine c TCU. TCU

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Speaker 11: also never won a second round game in the NBA.

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Speaker 11: Washington point guard Trey Young out in definitely with a

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Speaker 11: quad injury. He came back and played just a slight

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Speaker 11: bit for the Wizards after getting traded there. Denver Nuggets

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Speaker 11: ford Peyton Watten's expected to return tomorrow against Trailblazers. He's

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Speaker 11: been out for more than two months with a hamstring

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Speaker 11: It'll be the first time that the Nuggets fed their

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Speaker 11: full roster available since earlier in the year and the

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Speaker 11: NFL news the Dolphins have saved some cap space and

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Speaker 11: restructuring in the contracts with Davarn h Han and center

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Speaker 11: Aaron Brewer. Ladies back to you.

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Speaker 4: Thank you very much, sir.

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Speaker 2: We are very excited to welcome our first guest, the

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Speaker 2: founder and CEO of a Sporting Tribune and friend of

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Speaker 2: the show, A rash Mark Cozy.

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Speaker 4: Hello, O, rosh welcome back.

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Speaker 5: I'm good. How are you. I do have to begin

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Speaker 5: by making Tracy a little bit jealous. I'm hanging out

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Speaker 5: with Kyle Shanahan Robert sla here at CMO Stadium, Black Football.

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Speaker 5: We're going to get a little bit of preview here

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Speaker 5: for the twenty twenty eighth Summer Olympics.

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Speaker 2: Well you please say hi to both coaching Coach salth

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Speaker 2: thank you, thank you very much. Well, I'm glad that

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Speaker 2: you brought that up because that is the first thing

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Speaker 2: we wanted to ask you about. And I know yesterday

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Speaker 2: you asked Tom Brady about the Olympics.

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Speaker 4: So what is the vibe there and what do you

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Speaker 4: think this means for the Olympics in a couple of years.

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Speaker 5: We know this is such a big moment because you know,

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Speaker 5: every like the athlete has dreamed of competing in the

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Speaker 5: Olympics and winning a gold medal. To one sport as

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Speaker 5: we know in America that's never been possible is football.

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Speaker 5: And while the football that they're playing black football obviously

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Speaker 5: is totally different than a tackle football, this does give

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Speaker 5: these players an opportunity. So you know, today, after a

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Speaker 5: black football competition, we're gonna see Joe Burrow, We're gonna

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Speaker 5: see Jaydan Daniels and Jalen Hurts. But we're also going

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Speaker 5: to see Tom Brady come out of retirement, at least

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Speaker 5: on a flag football field, came up with his old

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Speaker 5: friends Rob Screntowski, and again not out of the realm

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Speaker 5: of possibility that he could play again. But it's not tackling,

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Speaker 5: you're just throwing the ball around. So this will be

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Speaker 5: a cool moment. And again black football will be an

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Speaker 5: Olympic sport in twenty twenty eight. At the stadium that

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Speaker 5: I'm at at.

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Speaker 3: ZMO, it's an incredible venue. A rash and okay, this

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Speaker 3: is just a little I want to know behind the

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Speaker 3: curtain perspective from you. I'm saying tips of Tom, just

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Speaker 3: talking trash, and I don't know if I don't know

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Speaker 3: if it if there's a little like victory all to it,

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Speaker 3: or if it's an act. What are what are you

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Speaker 3: gaining from someone who you know has perspective from covering

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Speaker 3: him in the NFL as well.

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Speaker 5: It's a little bit of an act, I think, because

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Speaker 5: you know this was Tom's idea. You he was very

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Speaker 5: much instrumental in putting on this event, and that's why,

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Speaker 5: like I brought up to him, I said, what is

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Speaker 5: your goal this week? And so you know he knows

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Speaker 5: the success of this event it's kind of on him.

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Speaker 5: And so he teamed up with Michael Rubin at Fanatics

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Speaker 5: to do this. So you know he's been talking fash

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Speaker 5: to Jade and Daniels. They're they're very close actually, so

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Speaker 5: that's why he felt comfortable doing that. But no, I mean,

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Speaker 5: this is my guess, by the way, is that you

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Speaker 5: know Tom Brady's involved in some way as a as

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Speaker 5: an assistant, as an ambassador. I don't think Tom Brady

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Speaker 5: wants to take a spot away from someone on TMUSA.

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Speaker 5: But by the way, he's USA Flag Football players. It's

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Speaker 5: no joke. They are they are probably gonna win this tournament.

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Speaker 2: So thinking of Team ussays tm USA lost in the

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Speaker 2: World Baseball Classic. This week, we saw Team Venezuela when

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Speaker 2: they were just so happy. It kind of brought me

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Speaker 2: to tears. I thought it was so emotional. You know,

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Speaker 2: what do you make of this talk? And I know

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Speaker 2: it's over now, but what do you make of this

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Speaker 2: talk that they didn't care and all of that, and

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Speaker 2: that it wasn't as important to them as it maybe

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Speaker 2: it was some.

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Speaker 4: Of the other countries.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I sense that watching the game they did not

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Speaker 5: have the fire and the passion that some of the

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Speaker 5: other countries did. That thing said, they got to the final,

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Speaker 5: they got to the bottom of the ninth, but it

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Speaker 5: was so amazing. I think any casual fan watching that,

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Speaker 5: watching the enthusiasm and the pride and how emotional the

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Speaker 5: event Azeuelan players were, it meant so much to them.

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Speaker 5: So the goal is, I think in twenty twenty eight

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Speaker 5: or and moving forward, that baseball is an Olympic board again.

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Speaker 5: So I do think a lot of players did touch

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Speaker 5: on that that while the World Baseball Classic was an

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Speaker 5: amazing event, there's something different about the Olympics. There's something

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Speaker 5: different about an Olympic gold medal. So I think when

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Speaker 5: you when you see that baseball come back as an

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Speaker 5: Olympic sports you will see the best USA players and

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Speaker 5: most importantly, no disrespect the best USA the manager potentially

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Speaker 5: as well.

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Speaker 4: Ah, yes, yes, and a.

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Speaker 3: Rash, it's it's been. I mean the whole WBC and

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Speaker 3: the timing of it and the pageantry, especially coming off

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Speaker 3: the heels of the Olympics right it was. It was

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Speaker 3: really fun to see the excitement and the fervor, you know,

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Speaker 3: whether it's Puerto Rico or Team Dominican, Like, it was awesome.

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Speaker 3: So I understand exactly what you're saying, Like, what a

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Speaker 3: great precursor speaking of the upcoming Olympics. But this is

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Speaker 3: how versatile you are. A Rash is that I'm gonna

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna completely pivot on you. I'm watching your USC

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Speaker 3: lady Trojans down a bucket against Clemson right now. They

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Speaker 3: are the nine seed. But a big picture question about

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Speaker 3: this woman's march madness. Are we going to get a

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Speaker 3: repeat of the final four? You know, Texas, South Carolina,

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Speaker 3: Yukon and UCLA.

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Speaker 5: I think so, But I think the one difference is

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Speaker 5: Nicky is you know, I think we're gonna get Ucla

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Speaker 5: U gone in the Final. I was in Tampa last

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Speaker 5: year where Yukon outclass UCLA in the final four. This

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Speaker 5: is a UCLA team that basically returned all of their

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Speaker 5: big name players coming back, led by Lauren Bests as

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Speaker 5: well Peeky Rice, And I don't know if anyone's gonna

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Speaker 5: beat Yukon, and I do think Yukon UCLA gets there

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Speaker 5: in Phoenix. But UCLA is such a beautiful story and

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Speaker 5: why I love the women's games so much. They brought

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Speaker 5: back this team for the sole purpose of beating Yukon

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Speaker 5: in the championship game, and they have that ability. So

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Speaker 5: I do think we're gonna get that. It's just hard

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Speaker 5: for me to go up against Yukon, I mean, Sarah

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Speaker 5: Straw and least, but the way that they've been playing

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Speaker 5: this year. But ukt Ucla in the final that must

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Speaker 5: watch TV.

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Speaker 2: So there's been a little debate about something that is

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Speaker 2: very I think it's an important debate. October is an

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Speaker 2: incredible sports month. There's so much going on. You've got

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Speaker 2: the World Series, got playoffs, You've got in the NFL,

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Speaker 2: there's a lot of base NBA is coming back, all

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Speaker 2: of the things. But March is the tourney, the Masters

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Speaker 2: are coming up, not March, but in a couple of

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Speaker 2: weeks we've been talking about like five different sports in

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Speaker 2: this conversation. Is this the best sports month or is

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Speaker 2: October the best sports month? And this is subjective, but

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Speaker 2: I would love your opinion.

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Speaker 5: So my favorite back to back days are actually the

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Speaker 5: first Thursday and Friday of March Badges, because it's the

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Speaker 5: beauty of if you live on the West coast nine

658
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Speaker 5: AM college basketball, and it's the only tournament or only

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Speaker 5: postseason or only sporting of it that is more exciting

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Speaker 5: at the beginning than the end. Again, as precos and

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Speaker 5: as you know Nikki with the NFL, no one's more

662
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Speaker 5: excited about wild start week in the tu Bowl, but

663
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Speaker 5: in the tournament, you are way more excited for that

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Speaker 5: first weekend. You got in your bracket, all set up,

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Speaker 5: You're watching four games that once from the TV. That

666
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Speaker 5: first Thursday and Friday, I would argue is the best

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Speaker 5: back to back two day moment in all of sports.

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Speaker 5: To as someone who lives in Vegas, it is. It

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Speaker 5: is the biggest handle is the first two rounds of

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Speaker 5: the tournament.

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Speaker 3: All right, A Rash, I've got a hypothetical situation for you.

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Speaker 3: Let's say you and your bud are in a dog fight.

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Speaker 3: You know, it could be on a basketball court, it

674
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Speaker 3: could be on a playground, who knows wherever. But let's

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Speaker 3: say your buddy loses a tooth. Would you go grab

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Speaker 3: that tooth to make sure he had it just in

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Speaker 3: case if he couldn't get it himself.

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Speaker 5: I would. And I would also understand when I when

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Speaker 5: I played back in my grade school days, I knew

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Speaker 5: what my role was. I was on the team, so

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Speaker 5: my role was to grab that a tooth, or to

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Speaker 5: give someone a cup of water, or get get the

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Speaker 5: towel for them. So yes, you gotta make sure your

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Speaker 5: body of your power has their two.

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Speaker 3: It takes everyone.

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Speaker 4: It takes everyone.

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Speaker 2: Before we let you go, Rash, I just want to

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Speaker 2: know who do you have in the men's fintle for.

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Speaker 5: What you know what I mean? The Duke was such

690
00:32:57,120 --> 00:32:59,760
Speaker 5: an amazing team. And again I hate going talk, but

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Speaker 5: I think a lot of the excitement that I talked

692
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Speaker 5: about is really at the beginning of the tournament. So

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Speaker 5: for the men, I do have Duke over U of A.

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Speaker 5: But I really and I'm not just saying this the

695
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Speaker 5: women's tournament, I really thought these last couple of years

696
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Speaker 5: are way more exciting. And so the one game I

697
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Speaker 5: will looking forward to if it happens, is you com

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Speaker 5: Ukla and Phoenix in the final four. The one thing

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Speaker 5: I'll say really quickly about USC, We're not gonna win

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Speaker 5: it this game, but watch out next year, Juju watch

701
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Speaker 5: him comes back, Chassie Davidson comes back USC, the USC Trojans,

702
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Speaker 5: watch out for them one year from now.

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Speaker 3: No one does it better as.

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Speaker 4: No one does it better, so much so that.

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Speaker 2: I will forgive you for not saying Michigan is going

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Speaker 2: to win it all. But they are, and I will

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Speaker 2: surely text you as soon as that happens a rush.

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Speaker 2: Thank you love much for enjoy the flag football game.

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Speaker 2: Say hi to Kyle Shanahan and Robert Sala and I'm

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Speaker 2: going to have an eye on this game. I think

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Speaker 2: it's going to be fun to see what it does,

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Speaker 2: how it does and what it means for the Olympics.

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Speaker 4: So thank you for.

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Speaker 2: Joining us US you guys, we are Fox Sports Saturday,

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Speaker 2: and stay tuned for the Dues and the Domes, where

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Speaker 2: you're going to get all the context of the tooth

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Speaker 2: conversation that you just heard. So stay right here. We're

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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Saturday.

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Speaker 4: You know what, it's time for what the dues.

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Speaker 1: And the dudes highlighting the oh.

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Speaker 9: I love that putting a spotlight on the don't.

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Speaker 7: The subject brings me no joy.

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Speaker 6: Don't.

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Speaker 1: That's insane. Next time for the does and the don'ts

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Speaker 1: in sports.

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Speaker 2: All right, Nikki, I am gonna start with a do

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Speaker 2: that you're gonna love, and we'll give a little context

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Speaker 2: to what A Ross and you guys were just talking

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Speaker 2: about the other day. Sky Clark of UCLA shipped to

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Speaker 2: tooth during the game.

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Speaker 4: It was just broke, it didn't completely come out shipped

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Speaker 4: to tooth.

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Speaker 2: And he's apparently better now and he's gotten it fixed.

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Speaker 2: But the do here, the don't just maybe don't chip

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Speaker 2: your tooth, but what can you do about that?

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Speaker 4: The do is be a good teammate.

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Speaker 2: It was his walk on teammate Jack Sidler, that went

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Speaker 2: onto the court, found the tooth and gave it back

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Speaker 2: to a true, real life tooth fairy.

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Speaker 3: And you know what, Sky has a full smile today.

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Speaker 3: This happened late last night, the athletic trainer on UCLA's

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Speaker 3: staff dialing up all Philadelphia dentists who could fit Sky in.

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Speaker 3: And you know, Sky played through it. He sunk. I

757
00:35:58,800 --> 00:36:00,880
Speaker 3: mean he had two free throws, the first made the

758
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Speaker 3: second that was all that matters. Played through the pain

759
00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:07,160
Speaker 3: of chipping it, spitting chick lits. He was spitting chick

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Speaker 3: lits in a basketball game. It was awesome. And yes,

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Speaker 3: how about that his teammate, I would you know what,

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Speaker 3: I would go grab your tooth for you Trace.

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Speaker 2: I would grab your tooth as well, stop I would

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Speaker 2: I would.

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Speaker 4: Grab your tooth.

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Speaker 2: I hope that nothing happens in a written this radio

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Speaker 2: show for that to be something that I need to do,

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Speaker 2: but I would do it for sure.

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Speaker 3: All right, I gotta do and it's due know your

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Speaker 3: teammate's astrology. Oh did you hear Jason? Jalen Brown on

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Speaker 3: the Boston Celtics knows all of his teammates' astrological signs

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Speaker 3: and readings so that he can communicate better with them.

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Speaker 3: And it's paid off. I mean, look at how he

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Speaker 3: led this team in the absence of Jason Tatum. Now

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Speaker 3: they got Tatum back, the Celtics could be favorites to

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Speaker 3: win it all. But Jalen Brown having a breakout season

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Speaker 3: and who would have thought he put in the work

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Speaker 3: to know his teammates' astrological readings.

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Speaker 2: If they win, would you say it was if they

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Speaker 2: win it all? Would you say it was written in

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Speaker 2: the stars?

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Speaker 3: I would say it was written in the stars. And

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Speaker 3: I would say, men, do.

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Speaker 4: The work, do the work, do the work. No, your astrology,

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Speaker 4: I have a do.

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Speaker 2: Take something that could really hinder you and turn it

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Speaker 2: into a positive.

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Speaker 4: Positive.

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Speaker 2: Michigan guard Elliott Caudo he's been deaf in his right

790
00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:29,759
Speaker 2: ear since birth, and he says he uses it as

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Speaker 2: a superpower because it's motivation for him and on the road.

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Speaker 2: It's really helpful for him to just focus. So I

793
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Speaker 2: thought that that was I love that. Yeah, I thought

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Speaker 2: that that was really cool.

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Speaker 4: I also have a don't and I don't. I don't

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Speaker 4: want to be the get off the lawn person.

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Speaker 3: Okay, but be get off my lawn.

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Speaker 4: I'm going to be get off my lawn here.

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Speaker 2: Villanova coach Kevin Willard Is interviewed yesterday and Lauren Shy Johnny.

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Speaker 4: Johnny, she was the show a couple of weeks ago.

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Speaker 2: She's great, she's amazing, and she should, by the way,

802
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Speaker 2: get like a medal for the way she handled this.

803
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Speaker 2: She asks, you know what needs to be done differently?

804
00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:08,400
Speaker 2: And he says he's gonna fire his whole staff. And

805
00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:10,600
Speaker 2: he says it was a joke. But my thing is,

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00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:14,320
Speaker 2: you're coaching in the NCAA tournament, okay, like making jokes

807
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Speaker 2: is I think it's rude and disrespectful to the reporter.

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00:38:17,120 --> 00:38:19,640
Speaker 2: I think it's rude and disrespectful to your team, frankly,

809
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Speaker 2: instead of being focused.

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Speaker 4: And I don't know, I know a lot of people

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Speaker 4: are like, Oh, it's not that big a deal. I

812
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Speaker 4: just didn't like it. Then Villanova went on to lose,

813
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Speaker 4: like even one, so then I feel like he even

814
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Speaker 4: looks worse. But I just didn't like it.

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Speaker 2: And the reason I find it a little disrespectful to

816
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Speaker 2: the reporter is it's part of the job, and I

817
00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:37,239
Speaker 2: know they don't like having to talk in the middle

818
00:38:37,239 --> 00:38:39,320
Speaker 2: of the game at a time out. It's part of

819
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Speaker 2: the deal. You made it to the tournament, you're a

820
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Speaker 2: national television. But Lauren Shaatti, do be her because she

821
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Speaker 2: was amazing. She handled it so well.

822
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Speaker 4: Yeah she is, She's.

823
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Speaker 3: Excellent, and the way she prepares for this tournament is

824
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Speaker 3: phenomenal as well. Okay, I got it, don't okay, it's

825
00:38:56,160 --> 00:39:00,840
Speaker 3: don't be a fan trash talking Luka, doncicc. Guess what

826
00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:03,360
Speaker 3: he's gonna do. Guess what he's gonna do. He might

827
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Speaker 3: drop forty on you, and then the next night he

828
00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:10,919
Speaker 3: might drop sixty. Because this man feeds off of the hate.

829
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Speaker 3: And I was watching Richard Jefferson's breakdown of what happened

830
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Speaker 3: in Houston. Apparently a fan was talking trash to Luca,

831
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Speaker 3: so not only did he go on to just have

832
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Speaker 3: a night. I mean, now, all the stats are so insane,

833
00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:29,880
Speaker 3: I'm forgetting how to describe each one. But he was

834
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Speaker 3: looking at that fan in between making a defensive steal,

835
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Speaker 3: going traversing the court, assisting making with a dagger. He

836
00:39:38,920 --> 00:39:42,399
Speaker 3: was fueled by that one fan trying to talk Smack

837
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Speaker 3: and he was doing it right back. And I think

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00:39:43,920 --> 00:39:47,200
Speaker 3: it's a great distraction for him from laying into the refs,

839
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Speaker 3: which is honestly a hindrance.

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00:39:48,719 --> 00:39:49,719
Speaker 4: Yeah, game, that's fair.

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Speaker 3: So I I mean, if you're a Laker, if you're

842
00:39:52,920 --> 00:39:55,040
Speaker 3: a Lakers man, you want opponents to trash talk him

843
00:39:55,080 --> 00:39:57,560
Speaker 3: because he just keep it's fuel to his fire.

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Speaker 2: So basically, Luca, do be petty, Yeah it comes to

845
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Speaker 2: the fans, don't don't be petty when it comes to

846
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Speaker 2: the refs. Is what great perspective what you're saying here.

847
00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:09,040
Speaker 2: And I also like, do consider Luca am MVP conversation.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna say that he's been tremendous. He has been

849
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Speaker 2: the MVP of that team, and he's he's being left

850
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Speaker 2: out of it, not by the Lakers social media team

851
00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:19,680
Speaker 2: or by your Nikki, but Riddy is being left out

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00:40:19,719 --> 00:40:20,400
Speaker 2: of that conversation.

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Speaker 4: And I would say, don't don't leave him out of

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Speaker 4: the conversation. That is my feeling on that.

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Speaker 2: I got a very important do for everybody. Do stay

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Speaker 2: right here, don't go anywhere, don't go anywhere.

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00:40:32,719 --> 00:40:33,239
Speaker 3: Do say here.

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Speaker 2: We have a great show coming up for you in

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Speaker 2: the next hour. Go this is Fox Sports Saturday. It's

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Speaker 2: still Fox Sports Saturday. Do know when you have ten

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Speaker 2: seconds left of that?

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Speaker 4: All right, guys, don't go anywhere. We will be back

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Speaker 4: in the next hour. Fox Sports Saturday. I'm Tracy Sandler,

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00:40:52,800 --> 00:40:53,399
Speaker 4: is Nikky Kay.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports.

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Speaker 7: Hello.

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Speaker 4: I am Tracy Sam joined by Nikki Ka. This is

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Speaker 4: Fox Well.

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Speaker 3: Welcome to the Madness.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the madness. It is March Madness. It's been

871
00:41:08,080 --> 00:41:11,120
Speaker 2: madness over here. Great first hour of the show, and

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00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:13,600
Speaker 2: we still have so much to talk about. We have

873
00:41:13,760 --> 00:41:18,239
Speaker 2: certainly talked about the men's college basketball tournament, but I

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Speaker 2: want to go a little bit more in depth. I

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00:41:20,600 --> 00:41:22,520
Speaker 2: want to talk a little bit about the UCLA game

876
00:41:22,520 --> 00:41:27,000
Speaker 2: tomorrow because they got a tough, tough opponent. I also

877
00:41:27,239 --> 00:41:29,960
Speaker 2: saw a very funny thing about the refs dealing with

878
00:41:30,040 --> 00:41:32,320
Speaker 2: both of these coaches and what that is going to

879
00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:34,200
Speaker 2: be like. But I would like to from your perspective,

880
00:41:34,239 --> 00:41:36,920
Speaker 2: and I know, yeah, there's a yousay bias but what

881
00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:39,239
Speaker 2: does usle need to do to be able to pull

882
00:41:39,280 --> 00:41:39,880
Speaker 2: off the upset?

883
00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:44,400
Speaker 3: Well, first of all, it's so no parlaying on that.

884
00:41:44,600 --> 00:41:47,440
Speaker 3: Is it Mick Cronin and Dan Hurley versus the refs?

885
00:41:47,520 --> 00:41:49,000
Speaker 3: Or is it UCLA versus Ukon?

886
00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:53,000
Speaker 4: I think it's definitely the former of the forumer I

887
00:41:53,400 --> 00:41:54,000
Speaker 4: we're gonna get.

888
00:41:54,360 --> 00:41:57,680
Speaker 3: I think hot head coaches are brilliant for this sport.

889
00:41:57,880 --> 00:41:59,480
Speaker 3: We need more of it. And a lot has been

890
00:41:59,560 --> 00:42:03,880
Speaker 3: made of Mick Cronin this season from afar people wondering

891
00:42:04,960 --> 00:42:10,080
Speaker 3: is Cronin crashing out? I would argue, knowing him for

892
00:42:10,120 --> 00:42:12,239
Speaker 3: a couple of years now and knowing the way he

893
00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:15,600
Speaker 3: plays to the media and speaks to the media, I

894
00:42:15,719 --> 00:42:18,759
Speaker 3: think part of it is part of his coaching strategy

895
00:42:19,040 --> 00:42:22,000
Speaker 3: and seeing you know, he pushed a lot of buttons

896
00:42:22,040 --> 00:42:25,279
Speaker 3: with this team this year, and a lot of it

897
00:42:25,640 --> 00:42:29,200
Speaker 3: was tinkering with lineups, it was pushing his guys to

898
00:42:29,280 --> 00:42:34,840
Speaker 3: be better defensively. And since he had that viral rant

899
00:42:35,080 --> 00:42:38,239
Speaker 3: at a reporter where he asked the reporter if he

900
00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:42,000
Speaker 3: was raising his voice at him, which very much he

901
00:42:42,160 --> 00:42:46,000
Speaker 3: was not. The Bruins are seven and two, so I

902
00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:49,920
Speaker 3: think what you can see from the outside is Cronin reacting.

903
00:42:50,080 --> 00:42:52,800
Speaker 3: What we don't know from the inside is how the

904
00:42:52,880 --> 00:42:58,200
Speaker 3: team reacts to his statements and right, and Cronin did

905
00:42:58,280 --> 00:43:02,839
Speaker 3: apologize in public, and that, you know, that means he's

906
00:43:02,920 --> 00:43:05,520
Speaker 3: got to be doing it privately to this team. But

907
00:43:06,160 --> 00:43:08,880
Speaker 3: all in all, this is a squad that has responded.

908
00:43:09,160 --> 00:43:13,359
Speaker 3: Largely it's been the play of Donovan Dent rounding into form.

909
00:43:13,440 --> 00:43:15,600
Speaker 3: And I think that was also a direct challenge from

910
00:43:15,640 --> 00:43:18,960
Speaker 3: Cronin to Donovan, who transferred in saying like, how how

911
00:43:19,040 --> 00:43:22,239
Speaker 3: do you want your career to turn here? Is it

912
00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:24,440
Speaker 3: going to go you know, one way which is not

913
00:43:24,640 --> 00:43:27,759
Speaker 3: the not not a great way moving forward? Or are

914
00:43:27,800 --> 00:43:29,640
Speaker 3: you going to be are you going to be a

915
00:43:29,719 --> 00:43:32,640
Speaker 3: career legacy here at UCLA? And then and then you

916
00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:35,840
Speaker 3: see the resurgence or not resurgence. You see the evolution

917
00:43:35,960 --> 00:43:38,720
Speaker 3: of Trent Perry, a sophomore who had a tough freshman

918
00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:41,600
Speaker 3: season and he is coming into form. They've got a

919
00:43:41,640 --> 00:43:44,160
Speaker 3: three guard lineup which is looking great. They they won.

920
00:43:44,360 --> 00:43:46,759
Speaker 3: It wasn't pretty against UCF, but they were also without

921
00:43:46,760 --> 00:43:49,360
Speaker 3: Tyler Bilodeau, who is their best player. So I do

922
00:43:49,640 --> 00:43:54,320
Speaker 3: think if Bilodeau Billadeau looked to be a go okay,

923
00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:56,959
Speaker 3: but I think if he can take the floor against Yukon,

924
00:43:57,160 --> 00:44:01,000
Speaker 3: who knows, who knows what this matter can be. But

925
00:44:01,120 --> 00:44:04,560
Speaker 3: I think UCLA has a fighting chance, Okay. I like

926
00:44:04,680 --> 00:44:06,960
Speaker 3: that a lot of people would never look at the

927
00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:09,960
Speaker 3: Bruins to be the Huskies, and it's it's crazy that

928
00:44:10,160 --> 00:44:13,279
Speaker 3: we could see this matchup happen. And then also the

929
00:44:13,360 --> 00:44:16,680
Speaker 3: women on the women's side, Yukon and Ucla meeting in

930
00:44:16,760 --> 00:44:21,200
Speaker 3: the final. I'm a believer. I believe blue and gold.

931
00:44:21,360 --> 00:44:23,680
Speaker 3: So I say, you know, where there's a will, there's

932
00:44:23,719 --> 00:44:27,200
Speaker 3: a way. Well, and that was a very long, very

933
00:44:27,280 --> 00:44:28,520
Speaker 3: long synopsis on.

934
00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:31,520
Speaker 4: Well that is that is okay. I mean that's march menas.

935
00:44:31,600 --> 00:44:32,360
Speaker 4: That's the beauty of it.

936
00:44:32,760 --> 00:44:35,480
Speaker 2: And there have not been a ton of cinderellas as

937
00:44:35,520 --> 00:44:37,239
Speaker 2: far in the tournament, but there's been one.

938
00:44:38,280 --> 00:44:40,160
Speaker 4: And I know you are very gonna talk about it.

939
00:44:40,239 --> 00:44:42,520
Speaker 4: And that is one. High Point University.

940
00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:45,480
Speaker 3: What is high point University? You know what, Nikki, I

941
00:44:45,560 --> 00:44:48,800
Speaker 3: would like you to share. High Point University looks like

942
00:44:48,880 --> 00:44:51,160
Speaker 3: we could have built it in Sims. Did you ever

943
00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:52,759
Speaker 3: play Sims? I did a computer game?

944
00:44:52,800 --> 00:44:54,560
Speaker 4: I did not, And people have been saying that and right.

945
00:44:54,640 --> 00:44:56,640
Speaker 4: I know it existed, but I didn't. I don't know.

946
00:44:56,880 --> 00:45:01,360
Speaker 3: So. High Point University is a ethical, magical place. The

947
00:45:01,440 --> 00:45:05,880
Speaker 3: campus is stunning. There you will find twenty eight botanical gardens.

948
00:45:07,760 --> 00:45:11,520
Speaker 3: Their university chartered a plane for students to go support

949
00:45:12,080 --> 00:45:12,680
Speaker 3: the panthers.

950
00:45:12,880 --> 00:45:13,440
Speaker 4: That's awesome.

951
00:45:13,520 --> 00:45:15,919
Speaker 3: By the way, By the way, I have been told

952
00:45:15,960 --> 00:45:18,360
Speaker 3: we are all panthers today. But when you go to

953
00:45:18,480 --> 00:45:21,400
Speaker 3: high Point University, you will be partnered with a success

954
00:45:21,600 --> 00:45:24,960
Speaker 3: coach to help you find your career destinations.

955
00:45:25,480 --> 00:45:25,640
Speaker 1: Now.

956
00:45:26,280 --> 00:45:30,200
Speaker 3: While some colleges might offer an etiquette class for students,

957
00:45:30,719 --> 00:45:34,319
Speaker 3: high Point University, known for its renowned dining programs, has

958
00:45:34,880 --> 00:45:37,839
Speaker 3: a steakhouse on campus called nineteen twenty four Prime. They

959
00:45:37,880 --> 00:45:41,920
Speaker 3: also have a Habachi restaurant as well, and there you

960
00:45:41,920 --> 00:45:46,080
Speaker 3: will find HPUs find dining learning labs. Students are able

961
00:45:46,120 --> 00:45:49,000
Speaker 3: to practice interview and etiquette skills. This is from hpu's

962
00:45:49,239 --> 00:45:53,720
Speaker 3: website right here. Students can practice interview and etiquette skills

963
00:45:53,760 --> 00:45:57,640
Speaker 3: over weekly dinners beginning their freshman year. In addition, they're

964
00:45:57,680 --> 00:46:00,000
Speaker 3: exposed to a wide variety of cultural cuisines and tradition.

965
00:46:00,400 --> 00:46:03,320
Speaker 3: Each month, a different region or country's cuisine is highlighted

966
00:46:03,600 --> 00:46:06,480
Speaker 3: through hpu's Cuisine and Culture series.

967
00:46:07,280 --> 00:46:09,919
Speaker 2: So that's one of these guys, won right. I feel

968
00:46:09,920 --> 00:46:11,320
Speaker 2: like I want to go to high Point University.

969
00:46:11,520 --> 00:46:14,799
Speaker 3: On campus they have an ice cream truck driving around

970
00:46:14,880 --> 00:46:15,920
Speaker 3: offering free ice cream to do.

971
00:46:16,160 --> 00:46:17,000
Speaker 4: That would do it for me.

972
00:46:17,239 --> 00:46:20,520
Speaker 3: They have a student who is a friend of mine,

973
00:46:20,640 --> 00:46:23,840
Speaker 3: former student. He told me, I always enjoyed walking around

974
00:46:23,840 --> 00:46:28,520
Speaker 3: because there's classical jazz playing. Wherever you go it's and for.

975
00:46:28,560 --> 00:46:29,719
Speaker 4: Me it would be the ice cream truck.

976
00:46:29,800 --> 00:46:32,200
Speaker 2: Like if someone said to me, we're going to give

977
00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:35,560
Speaker 2: you a full scholarship to high Point University, or someone

978
00:46:35,600 --> 00:46:37,320
Speaker 2: said to me to give you a full scholarship to

979
00:46:38,160 --> 00:46:41,759
Speaker 2: Ukon to play basketball, I would say, do the Huskies

980
00:46:41,840 --> 00:46:42,919
Speaker 2: have an ice cream truck?

981
00:46:43,120 --> 00:46:46,840
Speaker 3: And I have to finish with this, he said. Everyone

982
00:46:46,960 --> 00:46:49,080
Speaker 3: knows how awesome the campus is with the pools and

983
00:46:49,200 --> 00:46:52,480
Speaker 3: steakhouses and such, but people should know more about the president.

984
00:46:52,960 --> 00:46:56,799
Speaker 3: President Nito Cubane is I hope I'm saying that right.

985
00:46:56,840 --> 00:46:58,960
Speaker 3: He came to the US alone as a seventeen year

986
00:46:58,960 --> 00:47:01,560
Speaker 3: old with fifty dollars. He didn't know English. He taught

987
00:47:01,600 --> 00:47:04,080
Speaker 3: himself with flash cards. He worked hard to become a

988
00:47:04,200 --> 00:47:08,080
Speaker 3: director at BB and T Lazy Boy and other companies,

989
00:47:08,160 --> 00:47:11,560
Speaker 3: and very heavy emphasis with philanthropic work in the community.

990
00:47:12,080 --> 00:47:15,319
Speaker 3: So listen, high point, are we all Panthers fans?

991
00:47:15,320 --> 00:47:15,520
Speaker 6: We are?

992
00:47:15,960 --> 00:47:19,399
Speaker 2: It's like it's basically hive what University against the world

993
00:47:19,560 --> 00:47:21,400
Speaker 2: is where we're at there they're playing Arkansas.

994
00:47:21,440 --> 00:47:24,120
Speaker 4: They beat Wisconsin playing Arkansas, I found.

995
00:47:24,160 --> 00:47:25,000
Speaker 3: But it's gonna be tough.

996
00:47:25,080 --> 00:47:27,480
Speaker 2: It's gonna be It's definitely going to be tough. And

997
00:47:28,080 --> 00:47:30,760
Speaker 2: we may all be Panthers today and we may no longer.

998
00:47:30,560 --> 00:47:32,680
Speaker 3: Be panted I mean, and Darius A cuff is so good.

999
00:47:33,480 --> 00:47:34,640
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, so good.

1000
00:47:34,760 --> 00:47:37,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's going to be it's gonna be a tough task.

1001
00:47:37,840 --> 00:47:40,400
Speaker 2: But honestly, that ice cream truck will be there to

1002
00:47:40,440 --> 00:47:41,480
Speaker 2: welcome them home no matter what.

1003
00:47:41,719 --> 00:47:45,000
Speaker 3: So and did you see the emotional speech from their coach,

1004
00:47:45,280 --> 00:47:48,400
Speaker 3: Flynn Clayman after the first round win, being like, you know, everyone,

1005
00:47:48,800 --> 00:47:51,040
Speaker 3: we're not here to just win one game. And so.

1006
00:47:52,680 --> 00:47:56,560
Speaker 2: You never know, any given Saturday, any given any given

1007
00:47:56,640 --> 00:47:58,839
Speaker 2: during merch matters. It's any given to day thing could

1008
00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:01,919
Speaker 2: happen exactly anything, anything can happen.

1009
00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:02,759
Speaker 4: So have a question for you.

1010
00:48:02,880 --> 00:48:04,720
Speaker 2: The first two and a half days of the tournament,

1011
00:48:05,320 --> 00:48:07,080
Speaker 2: for the most part. Like I said, there were not

1012
00:48:07,200 --> 00:48:10,560
Speaker 2: been a ton of Cinderellas. Things are generally going how

1013
00:48:10,600 --> 00:48:12,360
Speaker 2: we thought they would. Didn't think Duke would have that

1014
00:48:12,560 --> 00:48:14,920
Speaker 2: much trouble with Sienna, and I'm interested to see if

1015
00:48:14,920 --> 00:48:18,040
Speaker 2: that's a wake up call for Duke or if they

1016
00:48:18,160 --> 00:48:21,640
Speaker 2: struggle again. But does anything happen that have changed your

1017
00:48:21,719 --> 00:48:22,640
Speaker 2: final four picks?

1018
00:48:24,000 --> 00:48:28,840
Speaker 3: I at this point typically with brackets like I don't

1019
00:48:29,080 --> 00:48:32,840
Speaker 3: think about changing the final four. I purposely pick my

1020
00:48:33,200 --> 00:48:37,200
Speaker 3: bracket to not be chalk. I like, you know, there's

1021
00:48:37,280 --> 00:48:40,840
Speaker 3: there's certain teams I'm partial to, and especially being a

1022
00:48:40,960 --> 00:48:44,520
Speaker 3: PAC twelve alum, I mean Arizona, I'm kind of eye

1023
00:48:44,560 --> 00:48:46,960
Speaker 3: rolling because I've got a lot of Arizona alumni in

1024
00:48:47,040 --> 00:48:49,560
Speaker 3: my life and I'm just sick of their especially when

1025
00:48:49,600 --> 00:48:52,800
Speaker 3: you're coming from a UCLA background. I'm like, all right, guys,

1026
00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:55,919
Speaker 3: like you've had your time in the sun. Let's calm down.

1027
00:48:56,440 --> 00:48:58,439
Speaker 4: But let's calm down.

1028
00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:01,479
Speaker 3: No, Arizona is looking really good, and actually I would

1029
00:49:01,520 --> 00:49:03,719
Speaker 3: be happy for that program and for the Wildcats, but

1030
00:49:04,239 --> 00:49:08,400
Speaker 3: I yeah, no, I mean I kind of looked at

1031
00:49:08,440 --> 00:49:12,479
Speaker 3: the final four and didn't go chalk intentionally. And also

1032
00:49:12,840 --> 00:49:15,239
Speaker 3: I always have a bracket where I picked UCLA going

1033
00:49:15,320 --> 00:49:18,399
Speaker 3: all the way. That's just that's that's nature of That's

1034
00:49:18,440 --> 00:49:19,919
Speaker 3: what you got to do as a fan, right.

1035
00:49:19,960 --> 00:49:21,719
Speaker 2: It's one hundred percent what you have to do as

1036
00:49:21,719 --> 00:49:24,000
Speaker 2: a fan. Why do we get up and play exactly?

1037
00:49:24,120 --> 00:49:25,440
Speaker 3: It's about you.

1038
00:49:26,360 --> 00:49:28,960
Speaker 4: No, nothing has changed my bracket so far.

1039
00:49:29,880 --> 00:49:34,239
Speaker 2: I obviously picked Michigan to win it all, and I

1040
00:49:34,680 --> 00:49:37,000
Speaker 2: think I'm going to be right on that, but we

1041
00:49:37,120 --> 00:49:37,600
Speaker 2: shall see it.

1042
00:49:37,680 --> 00:49:40,640
Speaker 4: Both of friends may have something to say about it,

1043
00:49:40,840 --> 00:49:41,880
Speaker 4: but I do.

1044
00:49:42,440 --> 00:49:44,000
Speaker 2: I see they're playing so well right now, and I

1045
00:49:44,080 --> 00:49:46,040
Speaker 2: know that the competition is not it's going to just

1046
00:49:46,080 --> 00:49:48,799
Speaker 2: get harder and harder, but they do seem to really

1047
00:49:48,880 --> 00:49:51,360
Speaker 2: be playing well. I think losing to Purdue in the

1048
00:49:51,400 --> 00:49:55,800
Speaker 2: Big Ten Championship may actually be what wins them the title.

1049
00:49:55,880 --> 00:49:57,000
Speaker 4: So we will see them.

1050
00:49:57,120 --> 00:49:57,279
Speaker 5: Is there.

1051
00:49:57,360 --> 00:49:59,160
Speaker 2: I'm looking at the games for the rest of the

1052
00:49:59,280 --> 00:50:02,000
Speaker 2: day and it's interesting a lot of you got Houston

1053
00:50:02,040 --> 00:50:04,000
Speaker 2: versus Texas A and m At two versus A ten

1054
00:50:04,400 --> 00:50:05,080
Speaker 2: Duke TCU.

1055
00:50:05,239 --> 00:50:06,239
Speaker 4: I don't know why.

1056
00:50:06,320 --> 00:50:08,399
Speaker 2: I feel like that could be a really interesting game,

1057
00:50:09,200 --> 00:50:11,520
Speaker 2: but there's a there's some good games coming up here

1058
00:50:11,560 --> 00:50:15,360
Speaker 2: at Gonzaga. Gonzaga to me is still they have not

1059
00:50:15,480 --> 00:50:18,520
Speaker 2: been for a very long time, but they's still that sill,

1060
00:50:18,640 --> 00:50:22,879
Speaker 2: relitarella team that shocked everybody in the tournament. And that's

1061
00:50:22,880 --> 00:50:24,239
Speaker 2: how I like to think about them. I know they're

1062
00:50:24,280 --> 00:50:26,000
Speaker 2: not anymore, but that's that's kind of how well.

1063
00:50:26,680 --> 00:50:30,400
Speaker 3: Gonzaga for me, is perpetual villains. After the twenty and

1064
00:50:30,440 --> 00:50:33,920
Speaker 3: twenty one Final four against UCLA and then we met

1065
00:50:33,960 --> 00:50:36,399
Speaker 3: them in the sweet sixteen and twenty twenty three, it's like, dude,

1066
00:50:36,440 --> 00:50:39,399
Speaker 3: we can't get rid of these guys. And now I work,

1067
00:50:39,760 --> 00:50:43,560
Speaker 3: I mean being with the Lake, like working alongside Lakers games.

1068
00:50:43,960 --> 00:50:46,640
Speaker 3: Drew Timmy is up and down between South Bay and

1069
00:50:47,320 --> 00:50:50,239
Speaker 3: and and the Lakers, and for me, he's a perpetual

1070
00:50:50,400 --> 00:50:53,800
Speaker 3: villain of March, like he with the handlebar mustache. And

1071
00:50:54,320 --> 00:50:57,120
Speaker 3: I literally looked at him. I was like, I, respectfully,

1072
00:50:57,120 --> 00:50:57,799
Speaker 3: I don't like you.

1073
00:50:58,239 --> 00:51:00,839
Speaker 4: Respectfully respectfully, that's it's a fit.

1074
00:51:00,880 --> 00:51:03,120
Speaker 3: But I will celebrate your triumphs in purple and gold.

1075
00:51:03,200 --> 00:51:05,279
Speaker 3: And I'm proud of you for having, you know, for

1076
00:51:05,680 --> 00:51:08,239
Speaker 3: getting a two way contract. Great, but I don't like you.

1077
00:51:08,480 --> 00:51:10,000
Speaker 4: That's fair. I think that that's You're right.

1078
00:51:10,120 --> 00:51:12,480
Speaker 2: As a fan, I think the game the most interesting

1079
00:51:12,520 --> 00:51:13,880
Speaker 2: game the rest of the day will be the Vanderbilt

1080
00:51:13,920 --> 00:51:16,560
Speaker 2: Nebraska game. I'm kind of going for Vandy in this one,

1081
00:51:16,600 --> 00:51:17,640
Speaker 2: just because I think it would be fun.

1082
00:51:17,840 --> 00:51:19,440
Speaker 3: Oh, but I hope my fasca.

1083
00:51:19,960 --> 00:51:22,319
Speaker 2: Look, I hope my friend Steve, who's a Nebraska fan,

1084
00:51:22,400 --> 00:51:23,880
Speaker 2: isn't listening, because well, I.

1085
00:51:23,920 --> 00:51:26,080
Speaker 3: Mean, come on, how could you not root for Nebraska.

1086
00:51:26,120 --> 00:51:28,200
Speaker 3: They got their first ever tournament win. Let's send them

1087
00:51:28,200 --> 00:51:29,080
Speaker 3: to the sweet sixteen?

1088
00:51:29,120 --> 00:51:29,440
Speaker 1: Why not?

1089
00:51:29,719 --> 00:51:32,080
Speaker 4: Okay, fine, all right, you've convinced me. I didn't feel

1090
00:51:32,120 --> 00:51:33,719
Speaker 4: that strongly about it. You've convinced me.

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00:51:33,760 --> 00:51:36,200
Speaker 2: I know there's something about Vanderbilt kind of being good

1092
00:51:36,200 --> 00:51:38,320
Speaker 2: in football and being good at basketball that I that

1093
00:51:38,440 --> 00:51:40,360
Speaker 2: I do like, and I know some kids that are

1094
00:51:40,400 --> 00:51:41,840
Speaker 2: currently Vanderbilt.

1095
00:51:41,920 --> 00:51:45,360
Speaker 4: But Fair, that friend Steve would not be happy with me.

1096
00:51:45,880 --> 00:51:47,720
Speaker 3: So I hope Steve's not listening.

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00:51:48,040 --> 00:51:50,080
Speaker 2: I hope Steve's not listening. But also I hope Steve

1098
00:51:50,160 --> 00:51:51,000
Speaker 2: is listening at the same time.

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00:51:51,280 --> 00:51:53,040
Speaker 4: Fair, who is your final for?

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00:51:54,000 --> 00:51:56,080
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, I filled out like four brackets. You

1101
00:51:56,160 --> 00:51:58,080
Speaker 3: can just pick whichever, Okay, but I know I did

1102
00:51:58,160 --> 00:52:00,680
Speaker 3: send you the one we filled out for. And yes,

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00:52:00,800 --> 00:52:04,160
Speaker 3: I do know I had U c l A beating

1104
00:52:04,480 --> 00:52:05,880
Speaker 3: Michigan oh, yes.

1105
00:52:05,800 --> 00:52:06,080
Speaker 1: You did.

1106
00:52:06,600 --> 00:52:09,320
Speaker 2: So Nikki sends me the bracket, so for me to

1107
00:52:09,400 --> 00:52:12,919
Speaker 2: be excited that she picked Michigan, and then I see

1108
00:52:13,120 --> 00:52:14,040
Speaker 2: that she had U. C.

1109
00:52:14,200 --> 00:52:17,600
Speaker 4: L A beating Michigan, and so I was excited, and

1110
00:52:17,760 --> 00:52:20,440
Speaker 4: then I wasn't, but I understood. Yeah, I do understand.

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00:52:20,440 --> 00:52:21,360
Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you.

1112
00:52:22,040 --> 00:52:24,200
Speaker 4: I definitely do understand. But that is really funny.

1113
00:52:24,239 --> 00:52:26,960
Speaker 3: Do we have a final fource from from the booth?

1114
00:52:30,280 --> 00:52:33,120
Speaker 10: I gotta open my I gotta open up my bracket

1115
00:52:33,120 --> 00:52:34,759
Speaker 10: because I don't I don't remember it off the top

1116
00:52:34,800 --> 00:52:37,440
Speaker 10: of my head. I definitely had Arizona winning it all.

1117
00:52:37,920 --> 00:52:42,080
Speaker 10: Michigan's in my final four. I have Arizona beating Florida.

1118
00:52:42,360 --> 00:52:45,840
Speaker 10: So there's three in my final four. Yeah, very chalk Oh,

1119
00:52:45,920 --> 00:52:46,720
Speaker 10: Michigan State.

1120
00:52:46,640 --> 00:52:47,600
Speaker 7: Was the fourth.

1121
00:52:47,719 --> 00:52:49,279
Speaker 4: Okay, how about you, Chris.

1122
00:52:52,320 --> 00:52:52,440
Speaker 1: Oh?

1123
00:52:53,120 --> 00:52:54,920
Speaker 7: So I think I'm trying to remember. I only put

1124
00:52:54,920 --> 00:52:56,879
Speaker 7: in like two bractics here. I think I had Nebraska.

1125
00:52:58,880 --> 00:52:59,320
Speaker 4: Interesting.

1126
00:52:59,800 --> 00:53:02,480
Speaker 7: I think I think that bracket and Nebraska's on is

1127
00:53:02,600 --> 00:53:06,879
Speaker 7: like wide open. There's no real duke feels the one

1128
00:53:06,960 --> 00:53:09,480
Speaker 7: that has like the real screw job of a bracket

1129
00:53:09,640 --> 00:53:11,000
Speaker 7: going on. But I think they're going to come out

1130
00:53:11,000 --> 00:53:13,960
Speaker 7: of that. So I've got Duke, Nebraska, Michigan, and then

1131
00:53:14,160 --> 00:53:16,359
Speaker 7: I'm trying to who I had out of my other one.

1132
00:53:16,560 --> 00:53:19,600
Speaker 7: I I got to pull this up again real quick,

1133
00:53:19,600 --> 00:53:22,560
Speaker 7: because I think I wanted to say Gonzaga as like

1134
00:53:22,719 --> 00:53:24,480
Speaker 7: as a fun thing, but I know I did not

1135
00:53:24,640 --> 00:53:24,960
Speaker 7: pick that.

1136
00:53:25,840 --> 00:53:29,080
Speaker 3: I think I always I always do a little whimsy

1137
00:53:29,160 --> 00:53:29,960
Speaker 3: in my brackets.

1138
00:53:31,400 --> 00:53:34,799
Speaker 7: Actually, Duke just feels a little like mortal right now,

1139
00:53:35,360 --> 00:53:38,840
Speaker 7: especially a year percent. Yeah, I think I did have

1140
00:53:39,000 --> 00:53:41,040
Speaker 7: Gonzaga in my final four, but I think it was

1141
00:53:41,120 --> 00:53:44,080
Speaker 7: just a matter of it was a matter of whether

1142
00:53:44,160 --> 00:53:45,960
Speaker 7: or not they beat Michigan, because I really wanted a

1143
00:53:46,000 --> 00:53:48,000
Speaker 7: Duke Gonzaga final. But I think my final was like

1144
00:53:48,360 --> 00:53:50,320
Speaker 7: Michigan Duke. But that's my four. Sorry to take so

1145
00:53:50,400 --> 00:53:53,920
Speaker 7: long of this, but it's Nebraska, Michigan, Duke, and Gonzaga.

1146
00:53:54,480 --> 00:53:58,200
Speaker 2: Well for all of you around me here who put

1147
00:53:58,280 --> 00:53:59,920
Speaker 2: Michigan in the final four but did not pick the

1148
00:54:00,160 --> 00:54:05,120
Speaker 2: to win much, It's not like a list of real

1149
00:54:05,200 --> 00:54:07,520
Speaker 2: revenge because I like you all very much and I

1150
00:54:07,680 --> 00:54:08,759
Speaker 2: work with you a lot, But I just want you

1151
00:54:08,800 --> 00:54:11,719
Speaker 2: to having to remember, Okay, I will forgive, but I

1152
00:54:11,800 --> 00:54:12,720
Speaker 2: will not forget.

1153
00:54:13,160 --> 00:54:13,400
Speaker 5: I went.

1154
00:54:13,480 --> 00:54:16,080
Speaker 7: I spent two years at Lake fourst. It brings me

1155
00:54:16,239 --> 00:54:17,720
Speaker 7: no pleasure whatsoever to pick.

1156
00:54:17,640 --> 00:54:21,280
Speaker 4: Duke Well, that still doesn't help crazy.

1157
00:54:21,440 --> 00:54:23,359
Speaker 10: Just know it's not an anti Michigan thing. It's more

1158
00:54:23,560 --> 00:54:25,880
Speaker 10: it's more just like I believe in Arizona.

1159
00:54:26,480 --> 00:54:31,320
Speaker 4: That's great. How nice for you and for Arizona.

1160
00:54:31,400 --> 00:54:32,279
Speaker 7: Digging myself a deeper.

1161
00:54:32,520 --> 00:54:36,960
Speaker 3: I got waitlisted by Duke so respectfully, disrespect.

1162
00:54:36,760 --> 00:54:40,719
Speaker 2: Respectfully rebect Well, I went to Michigan and they're going

1163
00:54:40,760 --> 00:54:43,239
Speaker 2: to win it all and I can't wait to send

1164
00:54:43,360 --> 00:54:46,960
Speaker 2: each of you a text when that happens from the court.

1165
00:54:46,960 --> 00:54:48,879
Speaker 3: As long as you bring back some final force wag,

1166
00:54:48,960 --> 00:54:49,800
Speaker 3: that's all that matters.

1167
00:54:49,880 --> 00:54:50,600
Speaker 4: Okay, that's fine.

1168
00:54:50,640 --> 00:54:53,720
Speaker 7: Sorry, Just as someone someone from the border of Ohio

1169
00:54:53,920 --> 00:54:56,680
Speaker 7: and Michigan. Wow, that is shocking that a Michigan grad

1170
00:54:56,719 --> 00:54:59,080
Speaker 7: will try to be arrogant in victory.

1171
00:54:59,440 --> 00:55:03,560
Speaker 2: Listen, when you funny starteroids and you've got the big

1172
00:55:03,640 --> 00:55:07,239
Speaker 2: tim player of the year who's like Superman dunk it

1173
00:55:07,360 --> 00:55:09,120
Speaker 2: on people, what else are you gonna think?

1174
00:55:09,400 --> 00:55:11,360
Speaker 3: That's what I say about talk that talk, Tracy, this

1175
00:55:11,480 --> 00:55:15,160
Speaker 3: is your weekend to do it. Go blue, as I know,

1176
00:55:15,560 --> 00:55:18,600
Speaker 3: this is where this is where anything can happen. I

1177
00:55:19,480 --> 00:55:23,880
Speaker 3: have a thing I think the NCAA Men's Tournament is

1178
00:55:23,960 --> 00:55:27,120
Speaker 3: the best thing we've done as a country, as a society.

1179
00:55:28,280 --> 00:55:33,840
Speaker 3: It is perfect done or just just out anything, period,

1180
00:55:33,920 --> 00:55:36,719
Speaker 3: full stop. This is the best. There's nothing better.

1181
00:55:37,120 --> 00:55:38,160
Speaker 4: There really is nothing better.

1182
00:55:38,280 --> 00:55:42,120
Speaker 3: It is single elimination, do or die, and that's spotlight

1183
00:55:42,200 --> 00:55:45,040
Speaker 3: the stories of heroes you've never heard of before, and.

1184
00:55:45,080 --> 00:55:46,759
Speaker 4: It's something that really brings everybody to you.

1185
00:55:46,880 --> 00:55:48,200
Speaker 2: Yes, And I can't tell you how many people I

1186
00:55:48,280 --> 00:55:50,760
Speaker 2: know that pay zero attention to sports or college basketball

1187
00:55:51,000 --> 00:55:53,800
Speaker 2: who have filled out brackets and are excited about.

1188
00:55:53,600 --> 00:55:56,200
Speaker 3: Steve Hartman was saying more brackets filled out the bets

1189
00:55:56,239 --> 00:55:59,120
Speaker 3: placed on the Super Bowl. Wow, by a long shot.

1190
00:55:59,200 --> 00:56:01,000
Speaker 4: That's a statement. That is a sam.

1191
00:56:01,120 --> 00:56:05,440
Speaker 2: He's my source with the college basketball fans of America

1192
00:56:05,600 --> 00:56:08,719
Speaker 2: and beyond. We have more tournament to talk about because

1193
00:56:08,719 --> 00:56:11,320
Speaker 2: we got to talk about the women's tournament because it's gonna.

1194
00:56:11,080 --> 00:56:12,879
Speaker 4: Be very exciting as well. All right, we are Fox

1195
00:56:12,920 --> 00:56:16,560
Speaker 4: Sports Saturday, stay right here to talk all things Women's

1196
00:56:16,719 --> 00:56:21,440
Speaker 4: NCAA Tournament. You guys can't see that I dance when

1197
00:56:21,480 --> 00:56:24,200
Speaker 4: we come back from each of these breaks. But NICKI

1198
00:56:24,239 --> 00:56:28,680
Speaker 4: contain in the curb, we are loving, loving, love of it.

1199
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Speaker 4: Loving it. This is Fox Sports Saturday. I am Tracy Sandler.

1200
00:56:32,520 --> 00:56:33,839
Speaker 4: That is NICKI Kay.

1201
00:56:34,160 --> 00:56:35,920
Speaker 3: Thanks so much for joining us, and remember, for the

1202
00:56:35,960 --> 00:56:39,520
Speaker 3: best pregame show every weekend, be sure to tune into

1203
00:56:39,640 --> 00:56:44,080
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1204
00:56:44,160 --> 00:56:46,839
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1205
00:56:46,920 --> 00:56:49,600
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1206
00:56:49,680 --> 00:56:52,680
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1207
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1208
00:56:56,480 --> 00:56:58,799
Speaker 3: on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeart app.

1209
00:56:59,120 --> 00:57:01,600
Speaker 2: We have talked a lot about the men's NCAA tournament.

1210
00:57:01,680 --> 00:57:03,560
Speaker 2: We talked to our guest in the first hour of

1211
00:57:03,640 --> 00:57:07,600
Speaker 2: Rashmark Kazi about the women's tournament. I have something I

1212
00:57:07,640 --> 00:57:09,279
Speaker 2: want to delve into here. I think this is kind

1213
00:57:09,320 --> 00:57:12,400
Speaker 2: of cool. Okay, hell, in the women's tournament, that's not

1214
00:57:12,440 --> 00:57:16,040
Speaker 2: happening for the men. The top seeds they get home

1215
00:57:16,120 --> 00:57:19,560
Speaker 2: court for the first few rounds. I think that's pretty

1216
00:57:19,600 --> 00:57:22,800
Speaker 2: cool because it reminds me it's very like NFL, like

1217
00:57:22,880 --> 00:57:25,160
Speaker 2: you could have home field advantage in the playoffs and then.

1218
00:57:25,040 --> 00:57:26,680
Speaker 4: You go to a neutral site for the Super Bowl.

1219
00:57:27,320 --> 00:57:28,200
Speaker 3: I really like it.

1220
00:57:29,280 --> 00:57:31,280
Speaker 4: I wonder. I don't know if they could do it

1221
00:57:31,360 --> 00:57:33,440
Speaker 4: for the men, but I think.

1222
00:57:33,280 --> 00:57:33,880
Speaker 3: It's kind of cool.

1223
00:57:33,880 --> 00:57:34,640
Speaker 4: What are your thoughts on that?

1224
00:57:34,880 --> 00:57:37,440
Speaker 3: I love it for the women's game, especially right now

1225
00:57:37,680 --> 00:57:43,120
Speaker 3: is when you're in a period of growth for women's basketball,

1226
00:57:43,320 --> 00:57:48,440
Speaker 3: and I cannot describe the feelings I've had. And I've

1227
00:57:48,560 --> 00:57:53,400
Speaker 3: covered various iteration of women's March madness throughout my career

1228
00:57:53,760 --> 00:57:57,080
Speaker 3: and different places in my career, which meant one point,

1229
00:57:57,120 --> 00:58:03,120
Speaker 3: I was in Oklahoma, you know, covering the Sooners and

1230
00:58:03,480 --> 00:58:07,640
Speaker 3: the Cowgirls, the Oklahoma State Cowgirls out there. And I've

1231
00:58:07,680 --> 00:58:13,280
Speaker 3: always understood that women's college basketball fans before the Caitlin

1232
00:58:13,360 --> 00:58:17,080
Speaker 3: Clark effect are diehearts, and they show up in all

1233
00:58:17,240 --> 00:58:20,360
Speaker 3: shapes and sizes, and they show up to every game.

1234
00:58:21,000 --> 00:58:25,200
Speaker 3: But in the as you're riding the wave of the

1235
00:58:25,280 --> 00:58:28,160
Speaker 3: Caitlin Clark effect, and you've got names and personalities like

1236
00:58:28,200 --> 00:58:33,160
Speaker 3: a Juju Watkins here locally to go to poly Pavilion

1237
00:58:33,160 --> 00:58:36,480
Speaker 3: because the UCLA Bruins have hosted opening rounds the past,

1238
00:58:36,840 --> 00:58:40,880
Speaker 3: last year and this year, and to see fathers and

1239
00:58:40,920 --> 00:58:47,160
Speaker 3: their daughters come, not because they're interested in not because

1240
00:58:47,200 --> 00:58:51,200
Speaker 3: they've been UCLA Women's basketball fans, but because they can

1241
00:58:51,280 --> 00:58:54,720
Speaker 3: come watch these athletes compete at a high level and

1242
00:58:54,920 --> 00:58:59,080
Speaker 3: have aspirational you know, it's magic, and so to witness

1243
00:58:59,160 --> 00:59:02,560
Speaker 3: that locally, I think is really important for growing the game,

1244
00:59:03,320 --> 00:59:06,720
Speaker 3: and not just to have predetermined sites and venues, but

1245
00:59:07,400 --> 00:59:09,880
Speaker 3: the proximity of it. And I say that from an

1246
00:59:10,000 --> 00:59:12,960
Speaker 3: LA perspective, I think it's really important, and I think

1247
00:59:13,000 --> 00:59:16,120
Speaker 3: it's awesome and a great thing for these athletes to

1248
00:59:16,320 --> 00:59:19,200
Speaker 3: aspire to to be able to host the first two

1249
00:59:19,240 --> 00:59:19,919
Speaker 3: rounds totally.

1250
00:59:20,000 --> 00:59:21,880
Speaker 4: And like I said, it's like football. It's a the NFL.

1251
00:59:21,960 --> 00:59:23,920
Speaker 2: Like you, if you in your division, you get to

1252
00:59:24,400 --> 00:59:27,080
Speaker 2: host a playoff game. And so I think it's awesome.

1253
00:59:27,160 --> 00:59:31,320
Speaker 2: It was fun watching Chrysler Arena yesterday with all these

1254
00:59:31,400 --> 00:59:36,040
Speaker 2: Michigan fans watching the women's team, who's really fantastic and

1255
00:59:36,160 --> 00:59:40,240
Speaker 2: will go far. It's also pretty cool how many women's

1256
00:59:40,280 --> 00:59:43,600
Speaker 2: and men's teams right now are these schools from both schools? Yeah,

1257
00:59:43,720 --> 00:59:45,920
Speaker 2: both really competing, and it was funny. Michigan football. It

1258
00:59:45,920 --> 00:59:48,640
Speaker 2: has been posting from spring practice, which is great spring practice.

1259
00:59:48,640 --> 00:59:51,160
Speaker 2: Everybody loves Michigan football. But I'm thinking, like I mean,

1260
00:59:51,200 --> 00:59:53,800
Speaker 2: we got the men's and women's teams. They got the

1261
00:59:53,840 --> 00:59:56,200
Speaker 2: hockey teams playing the Big Ten Championship today.

1262
00:59:56,280 --> 00:59:58,040
Speaker 4: But you know, we love spring football, but.

1263
00:59:58,560 --> 01:00:01,040
Speaker 3: Our funest come on, come on, we got the dance floor.

1264
01:00:01,160 --> 01:00:03,160
Speaker 3: The dance floor is set like we got to be

1265
01:00:03,240 --> 01:00:06,400
Speaker 3: all all eyes on that, and I know it is interesting.

1266
01:00:06,480 --> 01:00:09,720
Speaker 3: We mentioned this too. UCLA and Yukon men are facing

1267
01:00:09,800 --> 01:00:13,560
Speaker 3: off tomorrow night and then all eyes. The interesting thing

1268
01:00:13,880 --> 01:00:19,720
Speaker 3: with the woman's bracket typically is it's the favorites typically advanced,

1269
01:00:19,760 --> 01:00:21,960
Speaker 3: like it's a very safe bet to bet the favorites.

1270
01:00:22,680 --> 01:00:25,360
Speaker 3: It's kind of, you know, the tried and true tradition.

1271
01:00:25,720 --> 01:00:29,000
Speaker 3: It trickles a little bit into WNBA, not so much anymore,

1272
01:00:29,040 --> 01:00:32,200
Speaker 3: but in the past betting betting trends have had that.

1273
01:00:32,640 --> 01:00:35,640
Speaker 3: But a lot of people are looking at, you know,

1274
01:00:35,880 --> 01:00:38,160
Speaker 3: a repeat final four of what we saw last year,

1275
01:00:38,240 --> 01:00:43,840
Speaker 3: which was you know, the participants where Texas, South Carolina, Ucla, Yukon.

1276
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Speaker 6: No.

1277
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Speaker 3: I was there covering the Bruins as they faced Connecticut,

1278
01:00:48,720 --> 01:00:51,520
Speaker 3: and Yukon just blew UCLA out of the water. It

1279
01:00:51,760 --> 01:00:56,160
Speaker 3: was quite quite frankly, what UCLA's head coach Corey Close

1280
01:00:56,320 --> 01:00:58,240
Speaker 3: talks about as a learning lesson, like coming in with

1281
01:00:58,320 --> 01:01:01,240
Speaker 3: all the attention and hype, and then how do you

1282
01:01:01,400 --> 01:01:04,400
Speaker 3: how do you build on that this year? And now

1283
01:01:04,560 --> 01:01:10,320
Speaker 3: the final four projected to repeat and to parlay off

1284
01:01:10,360 --> 01:01:14,120
Speaker 3: the men's it'd be UCLA and Yukon meeting not just

1285
01:01:14,360 --> 01:01:17,000
Speaker 3: in the semis, but in the in the title matchup.

1286
01:01:17,160 --> 01:01:20,439
Speaker 2: So really interesting. Yeah, I think I think it would

1287
01:01:20,440 --> 01:01:22,000
Speaker 2: be really cool. It's been fun. I've been watching a

1288
01:01:22,040 --> 01:01:23,560
Speaker 2: bunch of the games and it is really fun.

1289
01:01:23,640 --> 01:01:24,120
Speaker 4: It is interesting.

1290
01:01:24,160 --> 01:01:26,200
Speaker 2: You're right, you don't get a lot of Cinderella. Yeah,

1291
01:01:26,240 --> 01:01:27,480
Speaker 2: we haven't had it in this tournament and the men

1292
01:01:27,560 --> 01:01:29,520
Speaker 2: so much, but you don't get a lot of Cinderella usually.

1293
01:01:29,600 --> 01:01:31,600
Speaker 4: The team wom inside, but we have here in the

1294
01:01:31,640 --> 01:01:32,120
Speaker 4: fourth quarter.

1295
01:01:32,160 --> 01:01:34,800
Speaker 2: I'm looking right now, Clemson an se It's a nine

1296
01:01:34,840 --> 01:01:37,440
Speaker 2: and eight seed, tied sixty one all with eight four

1297
01:01:37,480 --> 01:01:38,040
Speaker 2: seconds to go.

1298
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Speaker 4: So I mean, that's that's a very exciting game. It's

1299
01:01:42,200 --> 01:01:43,800
Speaker 4: just that's pretty fun. And so I always think with

1300
01:01:43,840 --> 01:01:45,560
Speaker 4: it eight and a nine seed, it's you could go.

1301
01:01:45,600 --> 01:01:48,560
Speaker 3: Either way, right, And we're looking at games that we're

1302
01:01:48,600 --> 01:01:51,680
Speaker 3: going on today, and I had all the eight nine matchups,

1303
01:01:51,840 --> 01:01:54,680
Speaker 3: you know, like Syracuse, Iowa State could be a potential.

1304
01:01:54,960 --> 01:01:57,439
Speaker 3: You know, I guess quote unquote upset. I don't even

1305
01:01:57,440 --> 01:01:58,640
Speaker 3: know if you can call it upsets.

1306
01:01:59,120 --> 01:02:00,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know. I don't I'll think it at

1307
01:02:00,520 --> 01:02:02,400
Speaker 4: eight and nineteen, it's an upset, yeah.

1308
01:02:03,080 --> 01:02:06,080
Speaker 3: Nieling on, But yeah, this is we got the inbounds

1309
01:02:06,120 --> 01:02:09,120
Speaker 3: play happening right now. So I don't know. I don't

1310
01:02:09,120 --> 01:02:11,680
Speaker 3: know if you USC has got it. They've had a

1311
01:02:11,800 --> 01:02:14,640
Speaker 3: roller coaster year and we heard a rush talking about,

1312
01:02:15,200 --> 01:02:18,000
Speaker 3: you know, Juju Watkins being the centerpiece of this team

1313
01:02:18,040 --> 01:02:18,640
Speaker 3: moving forward.

1314
01:02:19,200 --> 01:02:21,320
Speaker 4: Well, to find out what else is going to be

1315
01:02:21,360 --> 01:02:24,280
Speaker 4: happening moving forward. We have the great Martin Weiss.

1316
01:02:25,760 --> 01:02:29,320
Speaker 11: Right now, Duke and TCU that won nine matchup after

1317
01:02:29,360 --> 01:02:32,840
Speaker 11: all nineteenth advanced in the first round of GIENCEBA tournament.

1318
01:02:32,880 --> 01:02:36,720
Speaker 11: We're in the second round of thirty two now tied

1319
01:02:36,800 --> 01:02:39,720
Speaker 11: five apiece after Domi sarg just hit a three for

1320
01:02:39,880 --> 01:02:42,520
Speaker 11: the Blue Devils. Earlier today we saw another one seed

1321
01:02:42,560 --> 01:02:45,120
Speaker 11: advanced to the sweet sixteen, Michigan being the first team

1322
01:02:45,160 --> 01:02:48,240
Speaker 11: to advance, taking care of number nine seed Saint Louis

1323
01:02:48,520 --> 01:02:52,000
Speaker 11: yaxulld Wendenberg twenty five points. Adi Mara had sixteen points,

1324
01:02:52,040 --> 01:02:54,880
Speaker 11: five rebounds, four blocks. He's one block short of the

1325
01:02:54,960 --> 01:02:58,200
Speaker 11: Michigan single season record of ninety six. Michigan will play

1326
01:02:58,320 --> 01:03:02,000
Speaker 11: either Texas Tech or Alabama in Chicago Friday in the

1327
01:03:02,120 --> 01:03:05,880
Speaker 11: Midwest Region three Steed Michigan State advances to the Sweet sixteen,

1328
01:03:05,920 --> 01:03:08,120
Speaker 11: beating Louisville seventy seven to sixty nine.

1329
01:03:08,200 --> 01:03:10,720
Speaker 3: Cohen Carr with his first career double double, good time

1330
01:03:10,800 --> 01:03:11,160
Speaker 3: to have it.

1331
01:03:11,560 --> 01:03:14,960
Speaker 11: Twenty one points, ten rebounds. Jeremy Fears Junior had a

1332
01:03:15,040 --> 01:03:17,760
Speaker 11: rough night shooting but finished with sixteen assists. He leaves

1333
01:03:17,840 --> 01:03:20,800
Speaker 11: the nation and assists. Also had double digit assists in

1334
01:03:20,800 --> 01:03:22,720
Speaker 11: the first round. He's the first Big tenth player to

1335
01:03:22,800 --> 01:03:25,400
Speaker 11: have double digit assists in the first two rounds of

1336
01:03:25,560 --> 01:03:29,280
Speaker 11: the NCAA tournament. With the big asterisk that Magic Johnson's

1337
01:03:29,280 --> 01:03:32,120
Speaker 11: assists weren't counted, the assists went out an official college

1338
01:03:32,160 --> 01:03:36,040
Speaker 11: stat at the time that Magic Johnson was playing. Let's

1339
01:03:36,040 --> 01:03:39,160
Speaker 11: see in the NBA, Washington point guard Trey Young Houghton

1340
01:03:39,240 --> 01:03:43,600
Speaker 11: definitely with a quad injury. Denver forward Peyton Watson expected

1341
01:03:43,640 --> 01:03:46,640
Speaker 11: to return Sunday against the Blazers. He's missed more than

1342
01:03:46,720 --> 01:03:49,280
Speaker 11: six weeks to on a hamstring strain. He the first

1343
01:03:49,320 --> 01:03:51,520
Speaker 11: on the Nuggets at their full roster available since like

1344
01:03:51,960 --> 01:03:55,000
Speaker 11: really early in the season, and the Dolphins have restructured

1345
01:03:55,040 --> 01:03:57,720
Speaker 11: the cap space of running back Devin h Hen and

1346
01:03:57,800 --> 01:04:01,240
Speaker 11: center Aaron Brewer to help try to save Ladies.

1347
01:04:01,320 --> 01:04:03,600
Speaker 4: Back to you, Thank you very much, Martin.

1348
01:04:03,760 --> 01:04:06,200
Speaker 2: We are very excited to welcome our next guest, a

1349
01:04:06,360 --> 01:04:10,160
Speaker 2: lead college football insider for NBC Sports, Nicole Aurback, who

1350
01:04:10,280 --> 01:04:12,200
Speaker 2: I have been a fan of for so long because

1351
01:04:12,280 --> 01:04:15,960
Speaker 2: she has at times covered in Michigan Wolverines a lot,

1352
01:04:16,200 --> 01:04:17,800
Speaker 2: and so it has been always fun to read her

1353
01:04:17,840 --> 01:04:19,400
Speaker 2: work and so very excited.

1354
01:04:19,120 --> 01:04:19,880
Speaker 3: To have you on the show.

1355
01:04:20,000 --> 01:04:20,320
Speaker 4: Welcome.

1356
01:04:21,160 --> 01:04:23,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks for having me absolutely so.

1357
01:04:23,320 --> 01:04:27,960
Speaker 4: We are obviously in March Madness. It's fun here. There's

1358
01:04:28,000 --> 01:04:29,680
Speaker 4: so much going on. I would love to know.

1359
01:04:30,000 --> 01:04:32,800
Speaker 2: Obviously, you are a college football insider cover a lot

1360
01:04:32,840 --> 01:04:35,720
Speaker 2: of college football. You look at the playoff, you look

1361
01:04:35,720 --> 01:04:38,720
Speaker 2: at a college football season. Each each game is almost

1362
01:04:38,800 --> 01:04:40,880
Speaker 2: it's not March Madness, but each game means so much

1363
01:04:40,960 --> 01:04:42,280
Speaker 2: in a college football season.

1364
01:04:42,680 --> 01:04:45,600
Speaker 4: But how does this differ? What is the excitement level

1365
01:04:45,640 --> 01:04:46,840
Speaker 4: here and how does it differ?

1366
01:04:47,680 --> 01:04:49,320
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I think you know, there's a reason

1367
01:04:49,400 --> 01:04:52,439
Speaker 6: everyone loves March Madness and believe this is the best

1368
01:04:52,520 --> 01:04:55,880
Speaker 6: postseason in all of sports, you know, you expect the

1369
01:04:56,440 --> 01:04:59,440
Speaker 6: occasional upset, or maybe more than we're getting this year,

1370
01:04:59,480 --> 01:05:02,640
Speaker 6: since people are upset by not getting as many underdogs

1371
01:05:02,680 --> 01:05:06,080
Speaker 6: as many Cinderella's. But it does have that potential. And

1372
01:05:06,480 --> 01:05:09,120
Speaker 6: in college football, you know, there's a lot of the

1373
01:05:09,200 --> 01:05:12,080
Speaker 6: blue bloods that have a lot of inherent advantages, have

1374
01:05:12,280 --> 01:05:15,040
Speaker 6: the best talent or spending a lot on rosters, have

1375
01:05:15,120 --> 01:05:18,600
Speaker 6: great coaches and resources. So you know, it's harder to

1376
01:05:18,680 --> 01:05:22,440
Speaker 6: pull off those upsets. It takes so much from the

1377
01:05:22,520 --> 01:05:26,280
Speaker 6: schools that are outside of the power conferences, really outside

1378
01:05:26,320 --> 01:05:28,720
Speaker 6: of the SEC and the Big Ten. And I think

1379
01:05:28,760 --> 01:05:32,080
Speaker 6: in college basketball, you know, you can change the fortunes

1380
01:05:32,120 --> 01:05:34,920
Speaker 6: of a program with one or two players and it

1381
01:05:35,000 --> 01:05:37,160
Speaker 6: gives a lot of people hope. And then yeah, crazy

1382
01:05:37,240 --> 01:05:39,400
Speaker 6: stuff happens in this tournament, and I think, you know,

1383
01:05:39,520 --> 01:05:41,720
Speaker 6: that's what it's known for, and that's why, you know,

1384
01:05:41,800 --> 01:05:44,360
Speaker 6: we all kind of try to cancel work and get

1385
01:05:44,400 --> 01:05:46,320
Speaker 6: out of stuff through this four days so that we

1386
01:05:46,320 --> 01:05:47,400
Speaker 6: can watch as much as possible.

1387
01:05:47,640 --> 01:05:50,800
Speaker 3: Nicole, you'd be the perfect person. First of all, Nikki here,

1388
01:05:50,960 --> 01:05:54,919
Speaker 3: love your name, great name. You'd be the perfect person

1389
01:05:55,000 --> 01:05:57,520
Speaker 3: to run this. Would you rather buy that we've been

1390
01:05:57,560 --> 01:06:02,840
Speaker 3: workshopping this afternoon. Would you rather be the guard on

1391
01:06:03,240 --> 01:06:07,520
Speaker 3: a small school, double digit seed in March madness to

1392
01:06:07,840 --> 01:06:11,360
Speaker 3: hit the game winning three point shot to send your

1393
01:06:11,400 --> 01:06:14,560
Speaker 3: school to the Sweet sixteen? Or would you rather be

1394
01:06:14,640 --> 01:06:18,360
Speaker 3: a second string player on a college football team that

1395
01:06:18,480 --> 01:06:19,439
Speaker 3: wins the Rose Bowl?

1396
01:06:20,720 --> 01:06:22,280
Speaker 4: Ooh, it's a tough one.

1397
01:06:22,360 --> 01:06:25,760
Speaker 6: That That is a tough one. I mean, the Rose

1398
01:06:25,760 --> 01:06:28,360
Speaker 6: Bull is awesome, like the roses that they hand out,

1399
01:06:28,640 --> 01:06:30,920
Speaker 6: like the pedals. It really is cool. But I just

1400
01:06:30,960 --> 01:06:33,480
Speaker 6: feel like the opportunity to be a March legend and

1401
01:06:33,840 --> 01:06:36,040
Speaker 6: to be in one shining moment, you have to you

1402
01:06:36,160 --> 01:06:36,640
Speaker 6: have to take it.

1403
01:06:36,800 --> 01:06:39,200
Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, I'm glad you're you're aligned with me. Tracy's

1404
01:06:39,240 --> 01:06:39,960
Speaker 3: taken Rose Bull.

1405
01:06:40,200 --> 01:06:42,479
Speaker 2: I know, but now the Cold has mentioned one shining moment,

1406
01:06:42,640 --> 01:06:45,720
Speaker 2: and now that changes everything because the idea of getting

1407
01:06:45,800 --> 01:06:50,840
Speaker 2: to be in that montage watch yourself one ever, Yes,

1408
01:06:50,960 --> 01:06:52,160
Speaker 2: forever and ever and ever.

1409
01:06:52,280 --> 01:06:54,200
Speaker 3: I would I would go to say, you probably never

1410
01:06:54,280 --> 01:06:56,360
Speaker 3: pay for a drink in your town again.

1411
01:06:56,520 --> 01:06:58,800
Speaker 6: Probably, No, you're safe, You're safe?

1412
01:06:58,840 --> 01:07:01,000
Speaker 3: What okay? Can I okay? Fine?

1413
01:07:01,040 --> 01:07:03,880
Speaker 2: Okay, awesome, I'm glad we're all in the alignment here.

1414
01:07:04,440 --> 01:07:04,720
Speaker 4: Nicole.

1415
01:07:04,760 --> 01:07:06,520
Speaker 2: Would we talk about there are not not been a

1416
01:07:06,600 --> 01:07:11,600
Speaker 2: ton of upsets. NIL has probably something to do with that.

1417
01:07:12,000 --> 01:07:15,800
Speaker 2: How has that changed the landscape of March Madness? I

1418
01:07:15,800 --> 01:07:17,480
Speaker 2: don't think it makes it any less exciting, but kind

1419
01:07:17,480 --> 01:07:19,800
Speaker 2: of how has that changed the landscape and not having

1420
01:07:19,840 --> 01:07:21,280
Speaker 2: so many Cinderella teams every year?

1421
01:07:21,840 --> 01:07:23,840
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean it's definitely a factor. I think you

1422
01:07:24,000 --> 01:07:28,840
Speaker 6: couple NIL with the unlimited transfers and immediate eligibility, and

1423
01:07:29,320 --> 01:07:30,920
Speaker 6: you know, you are seeing a lot of programs that

1424
01:07:31,000 --> 01:07:33,720
Speaker 6: are keeping track of like are who is the player

1425
01:07:33,800 --> 01:07:37,800
Speaker 6: of the year for the SoCon and c USA, right,

1426
01:07:37,880 --> 01:07:39,680
Speaker 6: and then you know targeting those guys and trying to

1427
01:07:39,760 --> 01:07:41,480
Speaker 6: poach them and have them move up a level. And

1428
01:07:41,920 --> 01:07:43,400
Speaker 6: you know we saw that last year when you look

1429
01:07:43,440 --> 01:07:46,000
Speaker 6: at the final four teams of Auburn and Florida in particular,

1430
01:07:46,160 --> 01:07:48,160
Speaker 6: there's a lot of like former mid major guys that

1431
01:07:48,240 --> 01:07:52,040
Speaker 6: had moved up. So you're definitely seeing that. And you know,

1432
01:07:52,160 --> 01:07:55,560
Speaker 6: the mid majors aren't spending enough or as much on

1433
01:07:55,760 --> 01:07:57,960
Speaker 6: the players, so you know, if they got into a

1434
01:07:58,000 --> 01:08:00,880
Speaker 6: bidding more you you're probably to lose. And so it's

1435
01:08:00,960 --> 01:08:03,960
Speaker 6: either hey, you're going to stick around or you know,

1436
01:08:04,000 --> 01:08:05,560
Speaker 6: are you going to take this opportunity. It might have

1437
01:08:05,680 --> 01:08:08,280
Speaker 6: life changing money and you know, maybe a path to

1438
01:08:08,360 --> 01:08:11,200
Speaker 6: the NBA. So you understand why guys are doing it,

1439
01:08:11,320 --> 01:08:13,720
Speaker 6: but you are seeing that happen on the player level,

1440
01:08:14,280 --> 01:08:17,840
Speaker 6: especially with all conference type guys for the smaller leagues.

1441
01:08:18,360 --> 01:08:21,640
Speaker 6: I think you've also got a factor in, you know,

1442
01:08:21,760 --> 01:08:24,880
Speaker 6: conference realignment. A lot of the little guys that we

1443
01:08:25,120 --> 01:08:28,200
Speaker 6: saw in years past were in different conferences, Like Butler

1444
01:08:28,400 --> 01:08:30,840
Speaker 6: reached the championship game out of the Horizon League. When

1445
01:08:30,880 --> 01:08:33,240
Speaker 6: VCU went to the final four, they were in a

1446
01:08:33,320 --> 01:08:37,760
Speaker 6: three big Colonial Athletic Association conference. Like that, those those

1447
01:08:37,920 --> 01:08:41,920
Speaker 6: leagues are not sending multiple teams, and they're also not

1448
01:08:42,240 --> 01:08:45,639
Speaker 6: sending teams the caliber of those teams in the past.

1449
01:08:45,680 --> 01:08:47,960
Speaker 6: So like it's a couple of different things that are

1450
01:08:48,160 --> 01:08:52,519
Speaker 6: that are coming to a head together. And you also

1451
01:08:52,600 --> 01:08:54,760
Speaker 6: have to point out that the NET is helping the

1452
01:08:54,920 --> 01:08:58,960
Speaker 6: NCAA Flection Committee seed teams more accurately. Our PI was

1453
01:08:59,000 --> 01:09:01,120
Speaker 6: really flawed and there were a lot of times receives

1454
01:09:01,520 --> 01:09:04,439
Speaker 6: didn't really match what teams were and so you were

1455
01:09:04,479 --> 01:09:07,519
Speaker 6: seeing upsets. But now you also have all these predictive

1456
01:09:07,600 --> 01:09:09,439
Speaker 6: metrics and all these things that like maybe they're just

1457
01:09:09,560 --> 01:09:13,040
Speaker 6: getting a little more accurate and teams are seated appropriately

1458
01:09:13,040 --> 01:09:15,280
Speaker 6: and they're getting those advantages of the high seeds.

1459
01:09:15,520 --> 01:09:18,280
Speaker 3: And Nicole, I don't I don't know. Okay, when we're

1460
01:09:18,560 --> 01:09:21,760
Speaker 3: putting together a hypothesis, sometimes it's easy to you know,

1461
01:09:21,840 --> 01:09:24,640
Speaker 3: look at everything that supports your hypothesis. So I've got

1462
01:09:24,720 --> 01:09:26,800
Speaker 3: something I want to run by you, and it start.

1463
01:09:26,920 --> 01:09:29,320
Speaker 3: It's starting at the NBA level with these young teams

1464
01:09:29,400 --> 01:09:32,439
Speaker 3: that are just joyous and winning, and it's you know,

1465
01:09:32,640 --> 01:09:36,440
Speaker 3: the Detroits, it's the Oklahoma Cities, it's the San Antonio

1466
01:09:36,520 --> 01:09:40,200
Speaker 3: Spurs and wemb carrying being visibly emotional at the podium

1467
01:09:40,240 --> 01:09:43,840
Speaker 3: after losses. And then I look, you know, take that

1468
01:09:44,000 --> 01:09:46,200
Speaker 3: down to the collegiate level. And I just talked to

1469
01:09:46,280 --> 01:09:48,840
Speaker 3: Trent Perry with the UCLA who had you know, he

1470
01:09:49,000 --> 01:09:51,440
Speaker 3: was the star in high school, won a state championship

1471
01:09:51,479 --> 01:09:55,679
Speaker 3: with Harvard Westlake, came to UCLA, had a diminished role,

1472
01:09:55,960 --> 01:09:58,639
Speaker 3: not the success he was used to, and all signs

1473
01:09:58,640 --> 01:10:00,800
Speaker 3: would be pointing to him to trans especially when you've

1474
01:10:00,800 --> 01:10:03,519
Speaker 3: got a tough coach like Mick Cronin. And I talked

1475
01:10:03,560 --> 01:10:05,599
Speaker 3: to Trent and he was like, no, no, no, it's

1476
01:10:05,960 --> 01:10:10,440
Speaker 3: important for me to stay and to bear out adversity

1477
01:10:10,760 --> 01:10:13,560
Speaker 3: and to work through it. And then you know, on

1478
01:10:13,640 --> 01:10:16,080
Speaker 3: the UCLA women's side, you have a senior class with

1479
01:10:16,200 --> 01:10:18,000
Speaker 3: seven women. And I know it's a little bit different

1480
01:10:18,040 --> 01:10:21,760
Speaker 3: from men's to women's, but are you noticing like a

1481
01:10:21,960 --> 01:10:26,920
Speaker 3: shift in caring and the passion that these athletes who

1482
01:10:26,920 --> 01:10:29,840
Speaker 3: are now kind of newer, younger feeling towards the brands

1483
01:10:29,920 --> 01:10:30,439
Speaker 3: they play for.

1484
01:10:31,600 --> 01:10:34,639
Speaker 6: I mean, I think you're seeing a generation of athletes

1485
01:10:34,720 --> 01:10:37,639
Speaker 6: that are more willing to be emotional. I think that's

1486
01:10:37,720 --> 01:10:41,760
Speaker 6: true for girls and guys. I think you know, we've

1487
01:10:41,920 --> 01:10:45,440
Speaker 6: seen like I actually even thinks back from a coaching perspective,

1488
01:10:45,520 --> 01:10:50,280
Speaker 6: like when Dabo Siminnie Cannon into the National conversation, You're like, oh,

1489
01:10:50,360 --> 01:10:53,200
Speaker 6: he's a little goofy, he's super positive, you know, and

1490
01:10:53,800 --> 01:10:56,280
Speaker 6: then like ted Lasso comes out and you're like, Okay,

1491
01:10:56,320 --> 01:10:58,080
Speaker 6: there's like, you know some of them that kind of

1492
01:10:58,160 --> 01:11:01,519
Speaker 6: are like ted Lasso esque, which is but you kind

1493
01:11:01,520 --> 01:11:03,400
Speaker 6: of need a couple people to break through a little

1494
01:11:03,439 --> 01:11:06,120
Speaker 6: bit to change the perception of stuff, and like the

1495
01:11:06,240 --> 01:11:09,760
Speaker 6: idea of being like super stoic and like mama mentality right,

1496
01:11:09,880 --> 01:11:12,960
Speaker 6: like that changes or you know, that you are doing it,

1497
01:11:13,080 --> 01:11:15,160
Speaker 6: but like with a big smile on your face the

1498
01:11:15,200 --> 01:11:19,680
Speaker 6: whole time, like Caitlin Clark assassin, Paige Becker's assassin. But

1499
01:11:19,840 --> 01:11:22,639
Speaker 6: maybe like we're seeing, you know, some of these players

1500
01:11:22,680 --> 01:11:25,480
Speaker 6: this year, you know a little more joyous and celebratory

1501
01:11:25,600 --> 01:11:27,879
Speaker 6: when they when they hit a big shot or advance.

1502
01:11:28,640 --> 01:11:30,599
Speaker 6: But yeah, I think I think, like you know, it's

1503
01:11:30,640 --> 01:11:33,320
Speaker 6: just all of this means so much to these athletes,

1504
01:11:33,400 --> 01:11:36,040
Speaker 6: especially the ones like that have sent you know, three

1505
01:11:36,200 --> 01:11:38,559
Speaker 6: four years at one school, which again not everyone's doing

1506
01:11:38,640 --> 01:11:41,080
Speaker 6: these days. But I think then, you know, when you

1507
01:11:41,160 --> 01:11:43,679
Speaker 6: go through those ups and downs together with a coach,

1508
01:11:43,880 --> 01:11:46,040
Speaker 6: like you just do see that emotion. And I think

1509
01:11:46,320 --> 01:11:50,600
Speaker 6: you see that in these post NCAA tournament lost press conferences,

1510
01:11:50,800 --> 01:11:53,600
Speaker 6: especially like these players just seeing so emotional that the

1511
01:11:53,640 --> 01:11:55,720
Speaker 6: coach is changing their lives or whatever it looks like.

1512
01:11:56,200 --> 01:11:59,120
Speaker 6: I just think people are more comfortable doing that because

1513
01:11:59,160 --> 01:12:01,439
Speaker 6: they see it happening more and people like aren't making

1514
01:12:01,520 --> 01:12:03,519
Speaker 6: fun of someone for getting emotional.

1515
01:12:04,720 --> 01:12:07,240
Speaker 2: Piggybacking on that a little bit on the joyous front,

1516
01:12:07,520 --> 01:12:09,320
Speaker 2: there's been a lot made the last few days of

1517
01:12:09,360 --> 01:12:12,640
Speaker 2: Michigan them warming up to Natasha Beddingfield and all the

1518
01:12:12,800 --> 01:12:14,519
Speaker 2: dance moves and how fun it is. And I think

1519
01:12:14,600 --> 01:12:17,400
Speaker 2: for those of us who followed them so closely all year,

1520
01:12:17,680 --> 01:12:20,000
Speaker 2: we've seen that every game and I think it's part

1521
01:12:20,040 --> 01:12:22,439
Speaker 2: of what makes them a special group. But does that

1522
01:12:23,400 --> 01:12:25,840
Speaker 2: feeling of they are having fun and the lack of

1523
01:12:25,920 --> 01:12:28,240
Speaker 2: selfishness and mean is that part of Obviously they're very,

1524
01:12:28,360 --> 01:12:30,360
Speaker 2: very good and they are very well coached, but is

1525
01:12:30,439 --> 01:12:33,320
Speaker 2: that part of what just keeps them going and so

1526
01:12:33,600 --> 01:12:37,000
Speaker 2: dominant game after game because they do genuinely, genuinely look

1527
01:12:37,040 --> 01:12:38,200
Speaker 2: like they're having a great time.

1528
01:12:39,120 --> 01:12:42,000
Speaker 6: Yeah, I thought that looked really loose today. I would

1529
01:12:42,000 --> 01:12:43,960
Speaker 6: say that like it's the Big ten tournament, and even

1530
01:12:44,000 --> 01:12:45,960
Speaker 6: in the first round for the first half, like there

1531
01:12:46,000 --> 01:12:47,920
Speaker 6: were times that they did seem a little bit tight,

1532
01:12:48,040 --> 01:12:50,200
Speaker 6: and like that was part of the reason everyone was wondering,

1533
01:12:50,280 --> 01:12:52,120
Speaker 6: like how much is the LJ case and injury going

1534
01:12:52,160 --> 01:12:55,000
Speaker 6: to impact them because they could be disjoined. But today

1535
01:12:55,120 --> 01:12:57,560
Speaker 6: looked more like a team we had seen most of

1536
01:12:57,640 --> 01:12:59,920
Speaker 6: the year, where you know, everything is kind of clicking.

1537
01:13:00,040 --> 01:13:02,240
Speaker 6: They conrrespond to big shots from the other team, but

1538
01:13:02,400 --> 01:13:04,840
Speaker 6: like the front court is going to dominate, the ball

1539
01:13:04,960 --> 01:13:08,040
Speaker 6: movement is really good, like Dusty May offense and Dusty

1540
01:13:08,120 --> 01:13:10,800
Speaker 6: May team, and so I think that is part of

1541
01:13:10,840 --> 01:13:12,599
Speaker 6: the eason that for most of the year they were

1542
01:13:12,640 --> 01:13:15,880
Speaker 6: head and shoulders above everyone else, because you just can't

1543
01:13:15,920 --> 01:13:19,680
Speaker 6: be super tight this time of year. And you know,

1544
01:13:19,760 --> 01:13:22,160
Speaker 6: like I'm very interested to see, you know, how Duke plays,

1545
01:13:22,760 --> 01:13:24,920
Speaker 6: you know, for the forty minutes today, because they look

1546
01:13:25,040 --> 01:13:27,120
Speaker 6: really tight in the first round and they almost lost

1547
01:13:27,479 --> 01:13:30,759
Speaker 6: to the sixteen. So I do think that that looseness,

1548
01:13:30,800 --> 01:13:34,719
Speaker 6: that confidence really is part of, you know, the ingredients

1549
01:13:34,800 --> 01:13:37,840
Speaker 6: for a final four run, potentially national championship, you know,

1550
01:13:37,880 --> 01:13:39,920
Speaker 6: because you're just gonna have to weather a lot of

1551
01:13:39,960 --> 01:13:41,439
Speaker 6: different things, and you're gonna have to be able to

1552
01:13:41,479 --> 01:13:44,760
Speaker 6: shake off bad performances, bad shots, and so I think

1553
01:13:44,800 --> 01:13:46,519
Speaker 6: the looser you are, the more of helps.

1554
01:13:47,240 --> 01:13:48,759
Speaker 4: Do you fill out a bracket, Nicole?

1555
01:13:49,439 --> 01:13:51,840
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, I My boss has made me do it

1556
01:13:51,960 --> 01:13:53,439
Speaker 6: like five minutes after the bracket came out.

1557
01:13:53,560 --> 01:13:56,000
Speaker 4: Oh fantastic. Would you be willing to share your final

1558
01:13:56,040 --> 01:13:56,519
Speaker 4: four teams?

1559
01:13:57,320 --> 01:13:57,519
Speaker 1: Yeah?

1560
01:13:57,600 --> 01:14:02,759
Speaker 6: So I had I had Duke, Arizona, Michigan, and Houston,

1561
01:14:02,880 --> 01:14:06,320
Speaker 6: and I've had a Houston Arizona national championship game.

1562
01:14:06,439 --> 01:14:09,799
Speaker 3: So all Big twelve, Little Chucky, but we got you safe.

1563
01:14:09,960 --> 01:14:13,439
Speaker 6: I thought about Virginia coming out of that region over Michigan,

1564
01:14:13,680 --> 01:14:15,960
Speaker 6: but I did expect them to found back of it.

1565
01:14:16,200 --> 01:14:17,040
Speaker 3: Tracy's offended.

1566
01:14:17,560 --> 01:14:18,880
Speaker 4: I'm personally offended by that.

1567
01:14:19,240 --> 01:14:21,879
Speaker 2: Well, I'm going to forgive you for not picking Michigan

1568
01:14:21,960 --> 01:14:25,080
Speaker 2: to win it all, which I've told everybody else who's

1569
01:14:25,120 --> 01:14:26,760
Speaker 2: with me on the show today who also has not

1570
01:14:26,800 --> 01:14:27,920
Speaker 2: picked Michigan win at all.

1571
01:14:28,120 --> 01:14:29,960
Speaker 4: I will forgive you because you are kind enough to

1572
01:14:30,040 --> 01:14:31,280
Speaker 4: come on and talk to us.

1573
01:14:31,280 --> 01:14:33,840
Speaker 2: Say, Nicole, it hain't crely been such a pleasure to

1574
01:14:33,880 --> 01:14:36,320
Speaker 2: talk to you. And you guys should be following to

1575
01:14:36,400 --> 01:14:39,200
Speaker 2: Cole and really paying attention to work. You really are

1576
01:14:39,360 --> 01:14:42,679
Speaker 2: tremendous at your job, and as a female in sports,

1577
01:14:42,960 --> 01:14:45,280
Speaker 2: you're someone a very up to and you were crushing it.

1578
01:14:45,360 --> 01:14:46,760
Speaker 4: So thank you for joining us today.

1579
01:14:47,240 --> 01:14:48,920
Speaker 6: Absolutely thanks for having me guys.

1580
01:14:49,120 --> 01:14:52,400
Speaker 4: Of course, you guys. We have the l ol story

1581
01:14:52,479 --> 01:14:54,639
Speaker 4: of the week coming up on Fox Sports Radio.

1582
01:14:56,840 --> 01:15:01,680
Speaker 2: Once again, Dancing Dancing. We come towards the end of

1583
01:15:01,720 --> 01:15:06,400
Speaker 2: our show, Tracy Sandler with Nicki k And this one

1584
01:15:06,520 --> 01:15:09,040
Speaker 2: has absolutely flown by.

1585
01:15:09,840 --> 01:15:12,640
Speaker 4: If you missed any of today's show, you'll want to

1586
01:15:12,680 --> 01:15:13,519
Speaker 4: catch the podcast.

1587
01:15:13,640 --> 01:15:16,480
Speaker 2: Just search Fox Sports radio wherever you get your podcasts,

1588
01:15:16,880 --> 01:15:19,439
Speaker 2: right after the show, it will be posted. Be sure

1589
01:15:19,479 --> 01:15:22,000
Speaker 2: to follow the podcast, rate it five stars, and you

1590
01:15:22,080 --> 01:15:26,080
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1591
01:15:26,160 --> 01:15:28,880
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio wherever you get your podcasts, follow the feed,

1592
01:15:29,160 --> 01:15:32,920
Speaker 2: and you'll find today's full show posted right after we

1593
01:15:33,080 --> 01:15:35,320
Speaker 2: get off the air. Nikki, I can't believe this show

1594
01:15:35,400 --> 01:15:38,599
Speaker 2: is absolutely flown by It's because we have so much

1595
01:15:38,760 --> 01:15:39,760
Speaker 2: to talk about.

1596
01:15:39,560 --> 01:15:41,800
Speaker 3: And so much Spring is here. So it was the

1597
01:15:41,840 --> 01:15:43,160
Speaker 3: first day of spring yesterday.

1598
01:15:43,439 --> 01:15:45,680
Speaker 4: That is true. It was the first days for yesterday, and.

1599
01:15:45,920 --> 01:15:49,719
Speaker 3: Madness is here. Opening day is on the horizon.

1600
01:15:49,840 --> 01:15:52,320
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, so excited about that, so so excited

1601
01:15:52,360 --> 01:15:55,120
Speaker 2: about that. But before we go, we have the l

1602
01:15:55,240 --> 01:15:59,519
Speaker 2: OL story of the week, because laughing ello welling is fun.

1603
01:16:00,520 --> 01:16:03,240
Speaker 3: Would you like to start happy people? Happy people have

1604
01:16:04,800 --> 01:16:05,519
Speaker 3: I'm trying to do a.

1605
01:16:05,560 --> 01:16:08,640
Speaker 2: Week exercise makes you happy, Happy people have endorphins.

1606
01:16:08,240 --> 01:16:12,360
Speaker 3: And happy people just don't kill people right there? Yes, yes, yes,

1607
01:16:12,520 --> 01:16:13,880
Speaker 3: or if you're very perfect, thank you for that.

1608
01:16:14,040 --> 01:16:15,200
Speaker 4: You're okay, el Wood.

1609
01:16:15,760 --> 01:16:17,200
Speaker 3: That was an LOL moment for me.

1610
01:16:17,439 --> 01:16:18,479
Speaker 4: No, okay.

1611
01:16:18,640 --> 01:16:23,200
Speaker 3: So earlier in the round of sixty four, our biggest

1612
01:16:23,280 --> 01:16:26,960
Speaker 3: upset perhaps came from twelfth seeded High Point University toppling

1613
01:16:27,240 --> 01:16:30,680
Speaker 3: the number five Wisconsint Badgers. It was a buzzer. It

1614
01:16:30,800 --> 01:16:33,519
Speaker 3: was a thrilling, you know, eighty three eighty two win

1615
01:16:33,640 --> 01:16:35,800
Speaker 3: that came down to the final seconds. I say this

1616
01:16:35,880 --> 01:16:38,400
Speaker 3: because we are all High Point University fans today as

1617
01:16:38,479 --> 01:16:41,400
Speaker 3: the Panthers will play later this evening looking for another

1618
01:16:41,520 --> 01:16:44,639
Speaker 3: upset against Arkansas. But my LOL moment from that game

1619
01:16:44,800 --> 01:16:48,760
Speaker 3: came from Chase Johnston. He is a senior who has

1620
01:16:49,120 --> 01:16:52,040
Speaker 3: attempted one hundred and thirty six field goals this season.

1621
01:16:52,640 --> 01:16:54,960
Speaker 3: One hundred and thirty two of those field goals have

1622
01:16:55,120 --> 01:16:58,320
Speaker 3: been from beyond the arc. Chase Johnston was a perfect

1623
01:16:58,720 --> 01:17:02,240
Speaker 3: oh for four on two point attempts. So if you're

1624
01:17:02,320 --> 01:17:06,519
Speaker 3: catching that Johnston banana, he hadn't made a two point

1625
01:17:06,640 --> 01:17:12,240
Speaker 3: field goal all season long, except the game winner against

1626
01:17:12,320 --> 01:17:17,240
Speaker 3: Wisconsin was a layup on a fast break. And so

1627
01:17:17,560 --> 01:17:22,160
Speaker 3: how about that, lol, Chase Johnston's first two point field

1628
01:17:22,240 --> 01:17:24,920
Speaker 3: goal of the season coming at the perfect time, and

1629
01:17:25,040 --> 01:17:27,320
Speaker 3: boy are we so happy because of it?

1630
01:17:27,840 --> 01:17:30,320
Speaker 4: Chess not checkers. He'd been doing that on purpose all

1631
01:17:30,400 --> 01:17:31,720
Speaker 4: season long. Nobody saw it coming.

1632
01:17:31,720 --> 01:17:34,560
Speaker 3: You're not going to scout me, no, they're not.

1633
01:17:34,720 --> 01:17:36,800
Speaker 4: That is that is fantastic.

1634
01:17:37,560 --> 01:17:40,439
Speaker 2: My lol moment of the week comes from the first

1635
01:17:40,520 --> 01:17:45,240
Speaker 2: four when the great Miami of Ohio, perhaps as far

1636
01:17:45,280 --> 01:17:47,240
Speaker 2: as I'm concerned, the best school in the state of Ohio.

1637
01:17:47,640 --> 01:17:49,679
Speaker 4: Oh perfect Miami of Ohio.

1638
01:17:50,880 --> 01:17:53,320
Speaker 2: Their swim team and they've been doing this all season,

1639
01:17:53,720 --> 01:17:57,920
Speaker 2: shows up to games in their speedos and distracts the

1640
01:17:58,040 --> 01:18:01,840
Speaker 2: other team when they're shooting free throws and smu that.

1641
01:18:02,080 --> 01:18:03,400
Speaker 3: But they've been doing it all and he missed the

1642
01:18:03,640 --> 01:18:06,000
Speaker 3: guy the player missed the free throw, right, And then

1643
01:18:06,040 --> 01:18:09,040
Speaker 3: when it came when it matters the most, who shows up.

1644
01:18:09,400 --> 01:18:10,000
Speaker 4: The swim team.

1645
01:18:10,200 --> 01:18:12,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's who shows up. I mean I thought that

1646
01:18:12,200 --> 01:18:15,479
Speaker 2: was first all amazing. I give them also a lot

1647
01:18:15,520 --> 01:18:16,840
Speaker 2: of credit because it's like it's cold and.

1648
01:18:16,840 --> 01:18:19,559
Speaker 3: Over and it's it's incredible because on the surface level

1649
01:18:19,560 --> 01:18:21,160
Speaker 3: of you are like, oh, yeah, the Miami swim team

1650
01:18:21,200 --> 01:18:23,320
Speaker 3: showed up. You're like, okay, very fitting for a Miami

1651
01:18:23,320 --> 01:18:26,240
Speaker 3: and they're like, oh is the University of Miami, Ohio

1652
01:18:26,560 --> 01:18:27,920
Speaker 3: swim team in their speedos?

1653
01:18:28,080 --> 01:18:28,240
Speaker 1: Yes?

1654
01:18:28,640 --> 01:18:29,720
Speaker 3: In a March Madness game.

1655
01:18:29,880 --> 01:18:33,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's kind of amazing. Legends, Yeah, they absolute legends

1656
01:18:33,520 --> 01:18:34,240
Speaker 2: icons if you will.

1657
01:18:34,320 --> 01:18:38,000
Speaker 4: Yes, So that was fun. I have another LOL moment me.

1658
01:18:38,040 --> 01:18:38,519
Speaker 7: I want to laugh.

1659
01:18:39,320 --> 01:18:41,599
Speaker 2: I know it's a lot of Michigan guys, but they

1660
01:18:41,600 --> 01:18:44,280
Speaker 2: are the one seeds, so it's not really entirely my fault,

1661
01:18:44,640 --> 01:18:47,960
Speaker 2: but they are a one seed. This week they were

1662
01:18:48,120 --> 01:18:51,160
Speaker 2: and I alluded to it with our guests Nicole. They

1663
01:18:51,200 --> 01:18:54,760
Speaker 2: were filmed warming up to Natasha Beddingfield's Unwritten and I

1664
01:18:54,880 --> 01:18:56,759
Speaker 2: mean like singing at the top of their lungs.

1665
01:18:57,160 --> 01:19:00,640
Speaker 3: And that's making its rounds in locker rooms because the

1666
01:19:00,760 --> 01:19:03,840
Speaker 3: Knicks were blasting that when they demolished. I forget what

1667
01:19:04,000 --> 01:19:07,200
Speaker 3: team it was, but in the opposing team's press conference,

1668
01:19:07,560 --> 01:19:10,519
Speaker 3: Unwritten could be heard blaring through. Yes it's the Nick's

1669
01:19:10,560 --> 01:19:12,880
Speaker 3: locker room was playing. It's a loud. I love men

1670
01:19:13,520 --> 01:19:17,519
Speaker 3: celebrating Unwritten. Welcome to girlhood, Yes, welcome to girl heard

1671
01:19:17,560 --> 01:19:18,280
Speaker 3: and it was fun.

1672
01:19:18,320 --> 01:19:19,200
Speaker 4: It was fun to watch it.

1673
01:19:19,280 --> 01:19:24,040
Speaker 2: And the dance moves Yaxelendeborg low key, tremendous dance.

1674
01:19:24,320 --> 01:19:27,720
Speaker 3: I love that will give him his dancing accolades. One

1675
01:19:27,760 --> 01:19:30,479
Speaker 3: where lol sky Clark who lost his tooth, spit and

1676
01:19:30,520 --> 01:19:35,280
Speaker 3: chicklets in UCLA's game against UCF last night. Props to

1677
01:19:35,360 --> 01:19:38,439
Speaker 3: the athletic trainer who made the calls. Sky got in

1678
01:19:38,560 --> 01:19:41,519
Speaker 3: with a dentist, got his tooth back. He is all smiles.

1679
01:19:41,560 --> 01:19:45,840
Speaker 3: He said he was going to literally all smiles. He

1680
01:19:45,920 --> 01:19:47,360
Speaker 3: said he was going to put that tooth under his

1681
01:19:47,439 --> 01:19:50,120
Speaker 3: pillow last night. So I don't know. I'm just I

1682
01:19:50,240 --> 01:19:52,400
Speaker 3: love the visuals we get from these opening rounds.

1683
01:19:52,560 --> 01:19:54,680
Speaker 4: It's so much fun. It really is. These are some

1684
01:19:54,840 --> 01:19:55,880
Speaker 4: of the best days of the year.

1685
01:19:56,360 --> 01:19:59,040
Speaker 2: Got a lot coming up in these next couple of

1686
01:19:59,160 --> 01:20:01,559
Speaker 2: days and then next week and beyond.

1687
01:20:01,640 --> 01:20:05,160
Speaker 4: You mentioned Opening Day is Happy Day. It's incredible.

1688
01:20:05,200 --> 01:20:07,240
Speaker 3: When we talk about like this month versus October, I

1689
01:20:07,280 --> 01:20:09,559
Speaker 3: think it really has to be like March twentieth through

1690
01:20:09,640 --> 01:20:13,840
Speaker 3: April twentieth, because because you get the opening rounds of

1691
01:20:13,880 --> 01:20:16,120
Speaker 3: March Madness, and then you get Opening Day, you get

1692
01:20:16,280 --> 01:20:18,719
Speaker 3: the Masters, and you also get the start of NBA playoffs.

1693
01:20:18,720 --> 01:20:20,960
Speaker 3: So maybe that versus October, that's what we need to

1694
01:20:21,000 --> 01:20:23,120
Speaker 3: do for head ted comparisons.

1695
01:20:23,360 --> 01:20:23,760
Speaker 6: I like that.

1696
01:20:23,920 --> 01:20:26,639
Speaker 4: I can live with that. I can live better Opening Day.

1697
01:20:26,600 --> 01:20:30,000
Speaker 3: I am. I can't. I'm in disbelief that it's here.

1698
01:20:30,280 --> 01:20:32,120
Speaker 4: I know, I can't believe it's already here. It feels

1699
01:20:32,160 --> 01:20:32,960
Speaker 4: like just yesterday.

1700
01:20:33,000 --> 01:20:35,680
Speaker 2: The Dodgers were coming back to win an epic Game

1701
01:20:35,760 --> 01:20:36,799
Speaker 2: seven in the World Series.

1702
01:20:36,960 --> 01:20:40,240
Speaker 3: Gosh, it's it's wild. Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the mound.

1703
01:20:40,400 --> 01:20:40,880
Speaker 4: Yes he is.

1704
01:20:40,920 --> 01:20:43,760
Speaker 2: He'll open for the Dodgers opening night. Clayton on the call,

1705
01:20:43,880 --> 01:20:45,680
Speaker 2: and Clayton Grisha on the call. You got which is

1706
01:20:45,880 --> 01:20:48,360
Speaker 2: so funny words that we didn't necessarily think we'd hear.

1707
01:20:48,360 --> 01:20:49,960
Speaker 2: I think he's gonna be great as a broadcast. Actually,

1708
01:20:49,960 --> 01:20:51,760
Speaker 2: it's gonna be really fun to see. All Right, you guys,

1709
01:20:52,080 --> 01:20:54,280
Speaker 2: we have had a great show with you today. Madness

1710
01:20:54,320 --> 01:20:57,519
Speaker 2: to you, Jason fitz buck Rising coming up next. This

1711
01:20:57,840 --> 01:21:00,439
Speaker 2: is Fox Sports Saturday, and thank you for Ronius