Welcome back to another episode of the three-man-wee college basketball podcast.

Coming to you live from Chicago, Illinois, from Kai's spare bedroom. That's right. And Jim Root is in person

with me for the first time in what feels like ages for our podcast. Hey, Jim. Hey, Kai. I'm grabbing

your elbow right now. I can reach across the room and touch you. But it is just us too. We are the

lone two musketeers here. The only two weavers, Matt is on a, you know, he's gallivanting around Greece right now. Living the island life, we are, we are very envious of him as we are in this, uh, almost windowless room. Yeah, that freaking guy, man, he's on Mekinos. Uh, he's posting lots of Insta stories. Looks very nice. Yes. Yeah, I wish he would post something from the Weev Insta account because we need the content. But I don't think he's going to do that. Yeah, talk about how he's scouting the next Greek breakout star. Yes. I don't know. On Tedocumpo, whoever.

Yeah. There's a lot of guys of that last name in Greece. But welcome to our podcast, guys. It's been a week. We were off last week. It doesn't feel good, but we're back. We got a good show for you today. Roots Roundup, of course, as usual. And I believe Jim is going to take that back over. Yeah. Oh, but once we're back to full strength, Kai, we will have the McEwen's news. I don't know. Yeah. We got to work on that one.

Poor, poor naming for that one. And then draft decisions. There's been a lot going on, of course,

because yesterday was, in fact, the deadline for players to pull out of the draft or stay in.

So Jim and I will talk about the meaningful ones. The meaningful and I think some of the more surprising. I mean, maybe they're

not, you know, like earthshakers in terms of who's going to win the NCAA title, but, you know,

someone like Gio Baker that I didn't really expect to be back. No, neither did I. And he's a super

senior too. So very neither or die. And he's a super senior too.

So very unique situation there. Before we do, Jay Pity, he does our music. His name's Joe Pascove, actually. It's his real name. He does good music for us. Does good music elsewhere. I don't know where you can find him, frankly. Peek behind the curtain. when we do this via Zoom, we do not get to hear the song right into the lead-up.

When we're back in person, we do not get to hear the song right into the lead-up.

We're back in person. We just got to listen to it, so I'm grinning ear-to-ear. We're just a little more amped, Kai. There's just like a smaller degree of excitedness this time around. There's energy here, Jim. You can feel. There's an energy in the room. There is. Twitter 3MW underscore CBB

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Get your podcast. Please leave us reviews if you would. On iTunes, we have two new five-star reviews.

The first one is from Jay Swiftly, a guy who leaves us plenty of reviews, and we appreciate it. He says, obligatory five-star review. It's been a couple weeks without one, so here you go. This is his words. Also, if you have- I think those were our words on the last episode, too, so thank you, Jay Swiftly. He said, also, if you had the authority, what conference or league-level decisions would you make? Jim, you've always had sort of a smattering of rules in your head.

Yeah. What conference or league level decisions would you make? Jim, you've always had sort of a smattering of rules in your head. Yeah, I'm just a rule guy. I like rules. But the one that's always, like, it has to be double round robin. I'm so sick of the mega conferences where they're not. They're unbalanced league schedules, especially because then the next year when we start doing previews, people are like, well, we finished sixth last year. It's like, well, but you played like the softest schedule in the league. And it's not comparable with the team that finished eighth who had to play everybody twice that was above them. So double round robins. I definitely have that. And then I like the league challenges. Obviously, these already exist. But, you know, more of the, like, the Mountain West A-10 and just like Sunbelt Socon, I want that every year. Yes. Something like that. Who is the superior conference at those levels? I agree. The Round Robbins, Jim, and especially in COVID times last year, I'm looking at UMass fans in particular. They finished, what, sixth in the A-10? They were six and three. Yeah. And it was not a very exciting mix of six wins there. No, no, not at all. They might finish less than six this year. But we won't be up on them too much, as we usually do. Second review. Oh, six and four for the UMass fans. The minute men are men are they're ready they're ready to be after me so second review comes from gs a g a and it could be jizzah like the the rapper uh i'm

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