Welcome, welcome back. The boys have returned a one-week hiatus in the books.

This is the three-man week college basketball podcast. Matthew Michael Cox playing the host,

the point guard, the catalyst of this fine program today. You live in a building called Catalyst. I know. Did not plan that, Jim. Just kind of came out that way. And I think it's an app comparison. It's an app place for me to live giving. That's what I am to this podcast. But it's great to see here, guys, lovely faces. I've seen it a few times the last week. but the listeners have not heard our voices on this podcast. But it's great to see your guys, lovely faces. I've seen it a few times the last

week. But the listeners have not heard our voices on this platform in over 14 days. Kai, what

happened over that time that the world needs to know about? This is a need to know, not like a nice

to know thing. Well, Matt, in the USA, it was Thanksgiving. And that threw our podcast plans into a tizzy. You were in Hawaii. We had a lot of shows going on. Jim was watching games in Vegas, et cetera, et cetera. You were with fam. Kai, don't pass the salt. Don't pass the buck all to us. I was with family. It was a perfect storm of Weave was busy. So we apologize. We're back now, Matt. We're going to make up for it. Yes, we are. Jim, are we scapegoating family? Is that our approach? No, I'm scapegoating basketball. Your scapegoating Island Life and Kai's scapegoating family. We've all got scapegoats.

Island life was nice.

Enjoyed my time out there.

The lovely folks of Maui were excited to be.

A lot of folks actually still made the trip.

Like wearing their school attire.

And like them, I was disappointed to arrive and not find an actual tournament. Jim

hijacked it, as did the Vegas dwellers and took what should have been an awesome thing away

from me. So I'm not bitter about it at all, as you can tell. Let's get it right into it.

Today's program lines up similarly to pretty much every in-season podcast. We're going to do some Roots Roundup, news and notes,

all the transpirings that have happened the last two weeks in college basketball.

We'll hit our three men thoughts, thoughts, thoughts, thoughts, thoughts.

And I've actually procured three complete and total thoughts today.

Very exciting development for me.

So I'm going to try and get through this intro pretty quickly. So I actually can get through those in complete fashion. We'll break down some previews.

A lot of good upcoming games due on the slate this weekend. Non-conference still chucking along.

We have some conference tilt tipping off. I know there's mixed reviews on should we be playing

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