Welcome in to episode 54 of the Josh Hendrickson show here on MPW Digital.

I'm Neil McCready, joined by Josh Hendrickson.

He's the chair of economics at the University of Mississippi, more affectionately known as Ole Miss.

Josh, how are you, sir?

Doing well.

It is Wednesday, March the 18th.

I'll be honest, there was a point Saturday afternoon that I thought,

I don't think we're going to do the Josh Henderson show on Wednesday.

I'm going to be in Portland.

At no point before sometime in the late second half of Saturday semifinal

between Arkansas and Ole Miss,

that I even looked to see where the tournament was this year, no idea.

I pulled up sites and I said,

which one would be the worst one to try to get to?

And it was Portland.

And I said, headed to Portland.

Really thought for a moment.

And actually it got into a point where I was starting to think about how do you even put this story into context, right?

Because for weeks I'd written, hey, if you actually think this is possible,

like you, I'd basically made fun of anybody optimistic enough to think that it was possible.

And there they were in overtime of the semifinal with Florida, the team that Ole Miss could play a hundred times and never beat, eliminated by Vanderbilt, the team that I'd seen Ole Miss play

to the wire twice.

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