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All right. Hello, and welcome back to another episode of the Chase Thomas podcast from Still, the A for mention.

Chase Thomas County Live from Knoxville, Tennessee, Everything School, HQ.

Joining me from VaulReport.com. It's Ryan Sylvia. Ryan, good evening, sir. How are you? I'm doing good. We're in Lexington, Kentucky right now, ready for the men's team to get going on Thursday, and then we'll travel up to Columbus on Friday. But it was good to see the court today. Got to see Tennessee shoot around. So it feels like Marsh Matt in this time you see the the logos and everything sitting around waiting to

go into the locker room and stuff it's a best time of the year anytime you can hear

rocky top blaring in Rupp Arena it's always a good time yeah it's funny you see that you see

the the blue and white checkerboard floors in Tennessee's walking on them the pictures of Bruce Pearl talking with Zikaa and Jemai and stuff.

It's been a funny little trip already at Lexi.

It's weird when the host sites are college towns.

Like it's, could you imagine Kentucky coming in Oxford?

Like it's just a funny thing that, you know, some sites have to deal with.

It makes me think, though, because the women's game, obviously, you host early on. Like, it's that something we should think about adding. Like, I don't even know the reason why men don't do that. Because that would be kind of cool. Yeah, a cool home field advantage here for a couple rounds. I think that's part of it is like Kentucky has the benefit of having two separate arenas for men's women's basketball.

So Kentucky is hosting's women's basketball.

So Kentucky is hosting in women's basketball.

And it's the same weekend, but it's not the same venue.

They're not even necessarily right next to each other.

But yeah, if you look at Tennessee, like I don't know logistically how one of the teams would have to get displaced.

And you would assume the lady balls would be hosting almost every year. At least that's definitely the standard that's set there. It's a top four seat in the host. So that definitely puts a wrinkle into things. At that point, I don't know if you have the right venue to put a men's side of it in. But I also know, too, there's like you have to apply to host and the city and the school would have to come

together. So there's a bunch of logistical things go into it where I don't, I don't know,

they've done it before, I'm pretty sure, but I don't know if it'll happen anytime soon

until maybe the woman's game goes to a neutral site for those first few rounds if they ever do

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