Are you ready for rapid fire?

Yes, and I'll go ahead and ask you the first question today and and it's probably a

question you've heard a lot in the last 24 hours oh boy so i don't know how how deep you're going to

go into this but okay i'll start us off how shocked were you by olivia miles going to the transfer

portal and not declaring for the WMBA

draft as a projected top two pick? I was shocked because everyone I had talked to thought that she

was going pro. It seemed like that was a pretty done deal and like when you

Think about that you know like in terms of like who else was shocked in all this there were a lot of people who were shocked in all this not just me like people very close to

You know the program

Think about this this was not like the news did not get broken by a local reporter here on the Notre Dame

B.

It wasn't reported by any of the national women's college basketball reporters.

That's exactly it.

And there are some, you know, there are a couple reporters who followed specifically the women's basketball transfer portal very closely.

It was, it was reported by Shams Sharania, who's, of course, ESPN's NBA insider.

And what that tells me is that he in all likelihood got this from Olivia Miles agent, like the agent.

Direct from the source.

That's exactly right.

Like, that's where this came from.

It was very tight lip, very close-lipped around here.

And that's like when a guy like Shams has it again because he's so far outside like he covers

basketball obviously but he's an NBA guy he is not like in the women's basketball thing and so

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