Welcome to Andy and Ari on three. Happy Wednesday. Happy NCAA tournament week. We are less than, I'm bad at math, Ari, but we're less than 26 hours away. No, less than 27 hours away from the tip off of the tournament proper.

24 hours until I land in Viva.

Woo!

Well, okay, so this is part of the reason why we're doing this today with James Fletcher,

who is on 3's resident brachatologist.

But also the other part of it is our live show starts at 9.30 a.m. Eastern time. So if we if we go at 9.30 a.m. Eastern time on Thursday and we did a full tournament preview, well, the people watching live are going to be very well informed. But unfortunately, if you're listening in podcast form, you're going to be like, why are you doing all this while the tournament has already begun?

Because we go off the air an hour and a half before the games tip off. So, you know, somebody catching it on their afternoon drive is going to be like, listen, that's great, but some of the games are already over. So we're going today and we have a lot to talk about.

Let's let's bring on James Fletcher on three's resident brachatologist because I, James,

I first question right out of the game. a lot to talk about. Let's, let's bring on James Fletcher on three's resident

brackatologist because I, James, first question right out of the gate, have you been

subpoenaed by anyone in West Virginia because your last Bracketology had West Virginia in the field?

I have not to this point. We'll see. We'll see. It sounds like they're trying to wrangle up as many people as

they can to make a case there. But I was one of the few people who had them on the bubble,

so I'm not sure they really want me in that conversation. Well, I wanted to ask you about that

because that's the only one of the field of 68 you didn't have. You had you had them in and Xavier

out and it turned out to be the

opposite. North Carolina actually turned out to be the last team in according to their,

their true seed line. But what was your thinking on that, in that process of having North

Carolina in already? Because I think that that's the thing everybody's complaining about.

Everybody's mad because North Carolina had the one and 12 quad about it that everybody's mad because north

carolina had the one and twelve quad run record everybody's making the joke because their their plane

was late to to date and they're like it must have been a quad one flight like what was it

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