March Madness storylines, USWNT roster, and NWSL reactions

The Late Sub with Claire Watkins

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🗓️ 27 March 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Claire breaks down the opening weekend of March Madness (00:37), discussing which teams have impressed her and which still have something to prove. Claire then talks the latest USWNT roster and why this SheBelieves Cup squad is already a reflection of Emma Hayes (20:42). Finally, Claire’s bucketing every NWSL squad into tiers after the second weekend of games (32:18).

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to this week's edition of the late sub-potcast. I am your host Claire Watkins. I say this every week, but boy do we have a show for you we have two rounds of the
0:18.0	NCAA women's basketball tournament we have a new US women's national team roster to discuss and a full match weekend slate of
0:26.2	NWSL games to analyze which teams are flying, which teams were a little bit worried
0:31.5	about in the early days.
0:33.8	I'm not gonna mess around.
0:34.9	Let's get right into it.
0:36.4	We got a lot to talk about.
0:37.8	All right, we have made it through the first two rounds of March Madness, a lot of basketball over the last four days.
0:46.7	Gotta tell you guys, my eyes are a little bit blurry, my brain is a little fried, it's
0:51.3	been all ball all the time, which of course is amazing little fried. It's been all ball all the time which of course is amazing and
0:54.8	also a little bit hard on the brain. However, amazing first two rounds. We didn't quite
1:00.5	maybe get as much quote unquote madness as we were hoping for or expecting there were only actually four upsets in seed only four seated upsets over the entire first two rounds of the NCAA women's basketball tournament. The two biggest ones that you guys might have heard about were number 11 middle Tennessee took down number six Louisville in the first round and number seven Duke took my beloved Buckeyes down Ohio State number two in the second round.
1:24.8	Possibly not entirely shocking for people who had been paying attention.
1:28.4	The buck guys did not have momentum on their side going into the NCAA tournament.
1:32.4	But the other two were just real close, real close seeds,
1:34.4	number five Colorado over, number four Kansas State,
1:36.6	number five Baylor, over number four Virginia Tech.
1:38.7	So, a lot of shock.
1:40.8	So we're going to be talking about a lot of the same teams this week as we were last week
1:44.0	because we did not lose that many top seeds again rest in peace to the buck eyes good luck next
1:50.9	year so let's talk about the teams that have advanced into the Sweet 16.
1:54.4	All four number one seeds are through. That's South Carolina, Iowa, Texas, and the
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