Hello and welcome to the three-man weave college basketball podcast.

Back again on July 25th, 2025 for our 409th episode.

Ah, feels good.

It's peak off season.

We're almost to August.

There's barely any sports on with apologies to the MLB.

And the fellows are just waiting for college basketball season to start in earnest.

So today, you get a peak off-season episode. The Three-Man

Weave Tours America virtually. We're going to go through every single state with apologies to

Alaska. There's no D-1 teams in Alaska. And rank the best coach and the best player in every

single state. When I say rank, though, Jim, I don't mean we're going to go through

the entire list of every player and every every coach in the state, but we're going to have

hopefully some good debates. Some will be very easy. Some will be very difficult. Yeah, we will

fly through Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont. Yes. By default options. But there are some states as we went through this that we had a tough time trying to come up

with the best player, the best coach, or just very contentious within my own mind.

I assume it will be the same for you guys.

So I'm looking forward to resolving those debates, Matthew.

And I also mistook the prompt initially, or we weren't on the same page,

and I looked up and researched the best coach in the history of each state. And that will be

based on the coach's tenure only in that state. So Rick Petino coaching one year at Providence

does not make him the best coach in the history of Rhode Island. It is about how good someone was in the state of Rhode Island. So I think that'll be a fun little nugget to just put on as a button for each state. Hopefully we'll stir a little more debate in the chat or in the listenership. But Matt, I just had to, you know, I think I was through like 30 states when we realized we weren't doing that.

And I was like, you know what?

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