Welcome back to another episode of the three-man-weave college basketball podcast. I am the host today, Jim Root. I am joined by Kai McEwen and Maddie Baseball's Cox. We're trying to get him to focus on college hoops here, folks. But Matt is just knee. Matt, he's neck deep in baseball right now, aren't you, Matt? No, I'm, I'm like eyes deep, Jim. I'm drowning currently, literally. Yeah, it's a different sport than basketball, guys. That's a fact. That's a yes. Yeah, it's a different sport than basketball, guys.

That's a fact. You guys heard about it. Yeah, it's a little different. They use a smaller ball to a white ball and they use like an actual bad. It's a whole different thing. So yeah, as you can tell, I'm very equipped about this well. And so far I haven't. Yeah, he's been cooking. Absolutely. Kai, you've been a little more relaxed, maybe,

focused on Ernst & Young. Yeah, focusing on accounting gym, my real passion, auditing financial

statements. Proposal for college basketball next year, a rule, add bats, add small white balls.

Let's see how it affects the sport. That sounds fun.

I would make it really tricky. Like basketball. Like basketball. That's exactly right, Matthew.

I don't think they use bats in that game. Correct me from wrong. I don't think so.

It's a while. It's not called basketball. It's like, it's like basketball is the crux of the sport with like a baseball

surrounding it's like yeah you run the bases i don't think there's any swinging of bats in

basketball all right that's that's our discussion of baseball welcome to the pod folks the season has sadly

ended we will we'll reminisce a little bit'll shed some tears. But the focus of this pod

is we're going to look at some of the appropriately timed totally normal top 25s.

They are not early. If everyone is doing them, they're not early. So we are calling them the

appropriately timed top 25s. We're going to take a look ahead at that, maybe sprinkle in some futures discussion as

well, just a lot to get to here.

We're going to really set the stage for next season before we hit the, the off-season

circuit in terms of our pods coming up.

So we'll get to that.

But before we do, shout it to J. Pity for that beautiful opening

music. We always love it. Mr. J. Pity. I saw him riffing on the piano on Instagram the other day.

And that man, that man can play. Wow. Yeah, he can riff. He can riff, Jim. He's got great stage

presence, Jim, too. Like, he's a performer. You know, great musician, but also a great performer.

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