Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen to another episode of the three-man weave college basketball podcast.

We're coming to you on Friday morning, not live because YouTube and technology are fighting against us.

So we are just recording.

This will be in your pod feeds on Friday morning.

But it is the start of December, a gray December.

I am your host this week, Jim Roots, joined by Matthew Cox and Kai McEwen.

Got a standard in-season episode coming your way.

A little roundup, a little we've saw that, some three-man thoughts, a couple of game previews,

and we'll send you on your way to your weekends.

Matthew, how are you feeling after the exhale that comes following feast week?

Well, it's been a short December so far, Jim, but we're starting to trickle into

conference play, kind of an awkward, premature shotgun start to come.

I don't like that.

We'll talk about that a little bit in my thoughts, but I'm great, swell.

Big slate awaits us this weekend. I think our first true Saturday slate, right,

where I think we all are drowning in the slate of games, but this feels like this is kind

of our welcome to the season Saturday. Very excited for it. Yeah, you know, we've talked about

it before. The eight games, games a hundred and million games on

Saturday has never really sat right with me but it is fun that we have like very

very high quality games it's crazy how many good games we have on Saturday so

at least that helps make up for the volume Jim yeah death of the slate is fantastic

ignore college football I don't care about Championship week come on on, championship weekend. It's college basketball. We are taking back Saturdays, taking back the weekends. But guys, these kids are students. They can't play on Thursdays and Fridays. We've got to save all the games for Saturday because they're clearly students first. They're not making any money to play this game. Whatever. Okay.

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