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We start to look forward here to the Elite 8 games today here, Joe. And again,

this is, I know everybody talks about this whole Cinderella thing and not to get two sports

talk radio stuff here, but everyone talks, oh, man, all the favorites winning and all that.

Isn't that the reason we play these things is because we're trying to figure out the best team?

Don't we want the teams that out the best team don't we

want the teams that are the best to advance and move on like i know it's like fun every now and then for

for the upset for people to be like oh man this is going to be chalk yet again i mean isn't that the

reason we we do this we're trying to figure out who the who the best team is not a team that

went out and played one bad game

and then gets bounced from the tournament?

You know, yes, you're right.

And usually things have a way of balancing out when we get further along when we get

to the elite eight, the final four and whatnot.

But I think what those people are longing for is the excitement opening weekend that we used

to have that has really diminished. You know, like this year, even people were calling High Point a darling. And sure, you know, you look at High Point and they come from the Big South and it's a crappy conference. I would go so far as to call it a low major conference, not even a mid-major. And they may look like a Cinderella, but now Matt, I don't know, you know, if you're on the TikTok

game like all the kids are nowadays. Videos are going viral of High Points Campus. I mean,

they've got restaurants, you know, on that campus that look like Nobu-esque, right? So you look at

even like today's modern quote-unquote Cinderella's high points there because they've got money,

right? They've got like guys that were recruited by Kentucky three years ago in their starting

lineup. They've got as much money as these power conference schools that are still standing.

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