Welcome back into the CC podcast, everybody. It is the morning of Wednesday, December 17th.

Mike Rutherford's in Louisville, Kentucky. Dan Snard is up in Dublin, Ohio, and we wish we had happier things to discuss.

But we are reacting to Louisville's thumping for a second straight year at the hands of the Tennessee volunteers last night, a 21 point loss, one point better than last year.

So we've improved by a point when it comes to playing competitive games against Tennessee.

We'll talk about that.

We can talk a little bit about the win over Memphis State, although that's kind of old news.

But Dan, how are we doing up there?

We've got eight days till Christmas.

We're feeling festive, but a little bit less festive than 24 hours ago

because of the card's lackluster performance in Knoxville.

Yeah, no doubt.

Last night's game takes, you know, a decent amount of wind out of our holiday sales.

I don't know if that made sense or not, but...

It made sense. It made sense.

Okay. Yeah. I mean, you know, look, I'm just a 40-year year old man that really gets caught up in how 18 to 22 year olds perform on the

basketball court. And I'm a little sad today. So, um, you know, life will carry on. We'll get through it.

But yeah, I mean, I was kind of looking forward to this game a lot, like, even during the off season, because I thought this was a good measuring stick game.

And, you know, just didn't happen.

I'm sure we'll get into it.

But other than that, yeah, we are just trying to make it to the holidays here.

I don't know how your kids are like the last

week of school before holiday break like i basically have to like straightjack at them to get

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