It is Monday, March 23rd, and this is Irish Illustrated Insider.

I'm Tim O'Malley, joined today by Tim Priester and Drew Mantak of Irish Illustrated.

Very busy sports weekend, notably missing the Notre Dame men's basketball team, but the women's played.

And they advanced to, well, they will take on number three seat Ohio State today.

I believe the women are five and a half point underdogs guys. Fencing title number 16 for the Irish program. Priestry, I saw you posted that their name feed on Irish Illustrated. That's the first for the men since they've split up, though, as I read, that they used to be co-ed. Several titles. Junior Day, we will have and eric thomas with a separate podcast dedicated to

junior day successful from all all angles except eric said that this is one of those he sent me a note

saying the vast majority guys there said they plan to take this through official visits so there

won't be a ton of commitment smoke immediately but it will be good good to have Tom and Eric leave their perspective on Junior Day. And the last thing to wrap up

before we get to Notre Dame football is I did bet Yukon women over 90.5, and they decided to score 90.

And you think that might be the basketball gods laughing at me, Tim Priester, over time and all my

comments. Well, you are a...

If you know, you know, all my comments, and they got me good with a 15.4th quarter, by the way, Yukon. Oh, no. Oh, my God. What are the odds of that? Yeah, well, you deserve that, considering all the comments that you've made through the years about the other side of the aisle there. But Nordim women plus five and a half,

don't think that's a real good matchup for them against Ohio State.

But if you saw Hidalgo the other day,

I mean, she has, as we all know, ways of taking over the game.

But, you know, I don't think that there just isn't,

the depth of talent is just not there to go very far.

We had a, we had a couple a couple we had podcasts and instant analysis on the first practice we saw. They have since had a second

practice Saturday and are probably and have finished up a third today on Monday. But just want to

get your guys' impressions from from the first viewing, maybe a little bit more of an overview. We

went very micro level in our reports as we should, maybe a little bit more of an overview. We went very micro level in our reports, as we should, and maybe a little bit more of a macro level thing. We'll be back in the Irish Athletic Center this week for one more four-period practice. Yeah, I mean, I think the overall talent and just, I think how intense the first practice was. I mean, I know we talked about some of the scuffles, but to see how they're, I mean,

you can tell they're itching after not playing since the end of November to play football and get back out there. And I mean, maybe there could be some concern about that peaking too early with that, but I tend to not think so. I think it's good that they have that intensity. there's only 15 practices, really 14 since one of them is the blue-gold game, and that doesn't have the same level intensity.

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