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

I'm your host this week, Jim Root, joined by Kai McEwen and Matthew Cox.

Welcome to the year 2026.

We have arrived.

It is full on conference playtime.

Kai, we've got 120 games on Saturday.

So we are back to the Mega Mondo Slates.

It's here.

It's conference play.

All right, we are ready to talk ball again.

It's been two weeks since we've come at you folks in your airwaves. Christmas time was wonderful. Hopefully you all had a great holiday. Kai, how are you feeling? Are you rejuvenated,

rested, ready to rock? Jim, I'm feeling a little tired from the New Year's suiree that I had, which involved going to dinner and then just going back to my place and playing games. But I stayed up to way too late, had a lot of champagne. That was, of course, two nights ago, but we're old now, and it affects you. Yesterday was fun, though, Jim, getting a nice little break. I'm ready to talk hoops again. It's been a two-week hiatus. It's time to get back into the swing of things. You're a little antsy. Matthew is not currently present on the record. He is in the Zoom machine. He has joined us, but oh, there he is. He just sat back down. So, hey, what do you know, ladies and gentlemen? Maybe we'll even get graced with a Matthew Cox hello in 26. Hello, hi. Go Hoosiers. There's your resident IU football fan there. Matthew always known for how much he talks about IU football. So it makes a lot of sense that they would come up now. All right, let's get into it as a normal in-season episode. We'll have a quick roots roundup talking news and notes from the last two weeks. Well, we've saw that, not as many games, so not as long of a section. Some three-man thoughts, some game previews. And lastly, of course, your reviews. Shout to J. Pity, aka Joe Pascove, for our opening tunes. Follow us on Twitter

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And we also love questions if you feel like using it as a mailbag.

We will answer those at the end of the show.

Also check us out on YouTube where we are currently streaming live and seemingly fixed

in the fancy production suite of Mr. Kai McEwen. Shout out to the anonymous listener

who helped Kai. Yes. Yes, definitely. It was a very simple fix. So I'm just an idiot when it

comes to this sort of stuff. So I appreciate him just pointing it out. Well, it was a system problem,

Matthew. I'm not getting to get into the details. but he pointed it out. Hey, as long as somebody's here to fix it, we're happy to have that. And hey, before we get into Roots Roundup, shout out to Basket Under Review. If you have not joined, please do. It is the best college basketball community on the internet. It is a website of terrific content.

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