Hello and welcome to the U.S.C. Triple Double podcast. I'm your host, Shack and Sparling alone with my co-host, Mr. Triple Double himself. Connor, how are we doing today?

Doing well, Shotgun. Always good to be with you. How are you? Hanging in there. I just had an allergist test where they prick you with all the different things. And that was interesting. That was the first time that's ever happened.

Randomly picked up allergies like eight months ago, never had them before my life.

Man, getting old is awesome.

Let me just tell you.

College basketball, though, conference play is officially begun.

Let's talk about that a little bit.

Across the nation, we're seeing some big-time games just to start the Big Ten slate to start

some of these conference slates, but we also still have some premier MTEs multi-team events still

taking place. The GBV Classic was one. I don't know if you saw the buzzer beater that BYU had.

I thought that was a pretty cool play. What stood out to you about the recent slate action?

Anything that this caught your eye? Well, I have some friends who follow Yukon, and they beat Florida last night. I know Florida's a little down, but Yukon, they won at Kansas. They lost to Arizona at home with a couple players out. I continue to be just impressed with what Dan Hurley's been able to do. I know last week I went on that rant about Bobby Hurley, but there's no to die in the success that Dan Hurley is having at Yukon. So they've certainly caught my eye. Arizona looks good, watching them beat UCLA earlier this year was cool. Duke, of course, is good. It was surprising to see Purdue get blown out at home, I think, by Iowa State.

So we're seeing some teams emerge.

We're seeing some teams fall back a little bit.

And it's early December, so a long way to go.

One team that has definitely caught my eye, Michigan.

Yeah.

And I say that on, or one school, I should say, because they've got my own, both the men's side and the women's side.

Both of those teams have looked really good so far.

We'll see if they can continue it as the conference play.

But both of them are putting up big time points.

I don't know.

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