Hello and welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to another episode of the Three-Man Weave College Basketball podcast.

I'm your host this week, Jim Rout, joined by Matthew Cox.

Unfortunately, our third colleague and associate, Kai McEwen, is gallivanting Europe.

I feel like Matthew, this is a constant spring occasion.

We lose Kai to a Europe trip.

He is in Italy.

He is in Italy right now.

Did he just go to Italy last year?

He did the... He did Switzerland last year, right? Switzerland. Yeah, closer to his roots. I guess his wife's roots. Actually, neither of them, really. But, yeah, good for him and her. Enjoy your gallivanting. We're going to talk Big Ten Ball. Good for us to be on this gym because it's sort of near and dear to our not to say Kai doesn't know Big Ten Ball, but we both grew up. We were born molded by it in the darkness of the Big Ten Ball arena. So we got it. We're fine. We don't need them today. That is true. For the viewers of the live pod feed on YouTube right now, which we do. every time we go live with a new episode is 7.30 a.m. Central on a Friday right now. Matthew's got his Indiana pennant behind him. We will certainly grill him on the first year of Darren DeVries and the Hoosiers. Interestingly, going through the old takes, Matthew, I think you had a, you had baby duties on the back half of the Big Ten preview pods.

I thought I came in at the end, though, with a couple of many hammers, but I didn't, they weren't well, well-baked enough takes. I agree. I regret that that. Yeah, we didn't quite have you for some of the lower-end teams, but hey, that's all right. Kai is not excused from being praised or dragged, despite his lack of a presence here.

We did also ask for his lack of a presence here.

We did also ask for his take on the 76 team NCAA tournament bracket.

So we'll give you that in the second when we get two Roots Roundup, which is part of our

typical outline here.

We'll start with Roundup news and notes.

A couple things quick to discuss there.

Then we'll get into the Big Ten look back.

We'll talk overall how it fared for the league, obviously a great season, considering they

broke the national championship drought. And then we'll look back on our takes team by team,

go in order of the Big Ten standings, not necessarily the order of Ken Palm or the way we predicted

them. And we'll just discuss what we got right, what we got wrong,

stay to the program, how is it to be a fan of the team right now?

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