Welcome back to the three-man-weave college basketball podcast live from Chicago, Illinois.

The boys are back again.

It's just the boys today.

Just the boys.

No guests.

Hope you guys enjoyed our interviews. Straight boys today just the boys no guests hope you guys enjoyed our interviews boys today with boys coming at you technically mark titus and alan boston are both boys men

if you will boys to men but today it's just the three men the three men weave I'm the titular

three men of the weave that's right I'm Kai I am your host for the evening slash day slash morning whenever you're listening to this podcast. With me as always is Jim. Yeah, hi. That's me. And Matt. That's me. And always we have a fourth member, which you can hear throughout this podcast and random bits and pieces. That's the air show. The Blue Angels. Our friends. Blue Angels are going to be guesting at some point during this episode, and we will tell you how cool it sounds. I know they're very high on Harvard this year, too, so we'll have to get over to them when we get to Harvard. Yeah, the Chicago Air and Water show is going on right now. So you might hear some jets in the background once or twice, but, hey, that's show business, baby. We called and tried to have them postpone their flight today. And they said absolutely not. They wouldn't do that. We got a good show for you today. It is our mid-major. Great show. Great show. Our mid-major, our meltdown, our mayhem, mashup. Whatever M word do you really feel like? The point is,

we're talking mid-majors today. Now, we define that slightly differently, I think, than the,

I don't know, mainstream, whatever you want to call it, but it's basically to cover all the

conferences outside of the Power 6 and the American, the A10, WCC, and the Mountain West.

Sorry, WCC and Mountain West fans.

I know you want to hear some takes about your teams. Guess what? There's a whole pod dedicated to you coming in two weeks time. Yeah, a couple weeks, I think. After Matt goes to Croatia. After I find myself in Croatia. Yeah. It is a nice. Do some European scouting out there. Finding trip. Yes. we're going to start with the Roots Roundup.

It might be our shortest Roots Roundup ever, Jim.

So just prepare yourself for that. Do some European scouting. Finding trip, yes. We're going to start with the Roots Roundup. It might be our shortest Roots Roundup ever, Jim.

So just prepare yourself for that.

I'm psyched about that.

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We are releasing our top 40 currently on number 15, Xavier. They came out today to a little bit of controversy. Some people disagreed with this ranking. Understandable. Yeah, I think we were higher on the X-Men than most of the pundits and their own fan base. We got some lovely feedback from the diehards that we actually felt like

we could be, we could be too high on this day. And we like the feedback so far. We've been lucky to have our previews posted on Reddit so far, all 25 or so of them. It's so nice to have people actually read them. It is. Oh, I'm not writing into a void. Right, we're actually doing something this year.

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