Episode 44: JIm Root From Three Man Weave On The State Of College Basketball
Mostly Hoops with Mark Titus and Co.
Barstool Sports
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2023
⏱️ 108 minutes
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Summary
After a long summer sports drought, the sports calendar is finally on the horizon once again. While the focus nationally will soon shift to football, Mark wanted to get at least one college basketball deep dive in before the fall begins, so we are join by Jim Root - 1/3 of the Three Man Weave podcast - to break down where the sport is at and what storylines to watch this fall. The guys talk conference realignment, offseason hires, the transfer portal and more. After, Mark and TJ talk Magic the gathering, human bears, and preview some things coming down the line. Jim Root is 1/3 of the Three Man Weave college basketball podcast. The 6th man of his high-school state championship Wisconsin basketball team, Jim is a large fan of hustle rebounds and the extra pass. He also works as a financial analyst for a printing and logistics company as a side job to make a few dollars. He also contributes to The Field Of 68 and Action Network. Follow Jim Root on Twitter: https://twitter.com/2ndChancePoints Thanks to our sponsors: BodyArmor: Available in stores nationwide. Head on over to the BODYARMOR Store on Amazon at https://barstool.link/BODYARMOR & get yours today! We'll be back with a new episode Tuesday as we continue our offseason schedule of Tuesday/Thursday uploads. Follow the show on all socials @MarkTitusShow
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, barstool listeners, you can find every episode of this show on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. |
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| 0:08.3 | On today's episode of the Mark Titus show, Jim root of the three men we've is joining me to do a, uh, just a college basketball show. |
| 0:15.0 | I, it hit me, um, I don't know, I woke up the other day and I was just like, we haven't done a, uh, just a pure college basketball show on this show in a very long time. |
| 0:25.4 | Doing, doing NBA playoff talk and NBA draft talk and all sorts of like various, uh, you know, we, we touched on stuff in the offseason, certainly with Huggins and, and all that. |
| 0:34.2 | But, uh, we haven't done a show where we're just like, let's just sit down and talk about and let's talk college basketball. |
| 0:39.4 | And Jim root, uh, is one of the hosts of the three men weave. |
| 0:42.8 | If you don't know what the three men weave is, they are great college basketball podcast. |
| 0:46.3 | Um, they, they are so in depth and knowledgeable about every single team. |
| 0:52.1 | It's crazy how much these guys know about all these players. |
| 0:54.8 | Uh, and they're, they're self proclaimed nerds. |
| 0:57.7 | We'll put it that way. |
| 0:58.4 | They're, they're nerds of, of college. |
| 1:00.4 | They're the kind of guys that know what the numbers on Kenpom mean. |
| 1:04.4 | Um, I subscribed to Kenpom and I log on and the only number I know what any of it means is just the number of the ranking. |
| 1:11.4 | And that's like why I just refresh Kenpom just to see like, where's Ohio State on Kenpom? |
| 1:15.6 | And I'm like, all right, cool. |
| 1:16.8 | There you go. |
| 1:17.7 | That's cool. |
| 1:18.2 | We're, we're 13th on Kenpom, even though we're 500. |
| 1:21.4 | We're 15 and 15 and, uh, the country says we're terrible. |
| 1:25.3 | But for some reason Kenpom loves us. |
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