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Do you guys have an issue with it being kind of chalky?

And I know in some instances instances it hasn't been now, but for the most part, that's been the big complaint about the tournament, I feel like.

No.

I think non-shock on Thursday and Friday, especially early on, is all right.

But if we're being honest, you want to see the best of the best.

Yeah, I want to see the best.

And they're starting to show.

They're starting to show.

Yeah.

And that was like one of my issues with when I was like, oh, all the higher seeds straight

up or undefeated.

It's like, okay.

Isn't that how it's supposed to work? Like, we tend to look at things between last year and two years ago and just go, well, it's the NIL era. It's like, oh, it's just a trend. You know, I just, I think we tend to want to draw too many conclusions when we haven't seen stuff long enough. You know, it was like we making changes at the college fall playoff after one year. It's like, well, can we see a play out a couple times to see how this actually works in reality instead of making changes? I mean, teams are ranked high because of their performance during the year. It's not like, you know, you just, it's a lottery, you pull a ball. Oh, we'll make Duke the one seed. No, Duke was the one seed because they were the best team of the country. True. That's how that played out. And so, yeah, I'm okay. Look, first, the first round, if any, like, if you want to see a four, anything four and higher losing, I'm okay with.

But ultimately, I'd like to see, you know, the top two or three seeds of each, of each section of the bracket move on and play as long as possible because you're going to get the best of the best. And you'd rather see that

than, you know, a Cinderella quote team, like an Oakland or somebody like that, you know,

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