Welcome back to the three-man-weave college basketball podcast, bringing you all kinds of hoops chatter here on a fine Friday morning or whenever you are listening to this.

I'm Jim Root, your host for the week, joined by my cohorts, my colleagues, my friends,

Matt Cox and Kai McEwen.

Fellas, are we ready to talk hoops?

We are inching closer and closer to selection Sunday.

Kai, our favorite day, one of our favorite days of the year.

Are you ready? I'm so ready,

Jim. Get February out of here. February is the worst month in the world. I think Garfield said it was the Monday of months, and he's right. He's right, Jim. February's awful. Get it out of here. March.

It's around the corner. I can't wait. The Monday of months, I said to you guys recently that it's like

the 3 to 5 a.m. of a month of a calendar or of a daytime clock. Matthew, you don't, you're always

awake from 3 to 5 a.m. You're a new dad. So how are you doing? Good. Yeah, 430 alarm this morning. Jimbo

Kai Garfield, one of his many wise yogisms of sorts. So yeah,

I agree with him. He's a smart, smart, smart kitty, smart. So good for him. I agree. Yeah,

February sucks. And I think we got kind of teased in Chicago with like the deceptibly warm

December in January. Now February is like, oh, here it is.

Yeah, it's, it's smacking us in the face right now, unfortunately, but we're going to battle

through. And we've got a lot of hoops to talk about. We got a standard episode here during the

season. Of course, we're going to talk about Missouri a lot because Kai and I are wired. But we've got our roots roundup, little news and notes from the past week.

We've saw that highlighting some of the big games and performances and teams that have

trended up over the past seven days.

Three Men Thoughts, which is our musings.

We might drag BPI during that portion of the program.

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