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From My Perspective
Selection Sunday: Winners, Losers, and Tournament Predictions
March Madness is finally here and we're breaking down all the controversy, snubs, and surprising selections from both the men's and women's tournaments.
• Debating whether NCAA tournament expansion to 72+ teams would benefit smaller conferences or just add more middling power-conference teams
• Why Louisville fans should be outraged about receiving an 8-seed despite being ranked 13th in AP polls
• North Carolina making the tournament with a 1-12 record against Quad 1 teams raises questions about selection committee ethics
• Top storylines in women's tournament include potential USC vs UConn matchup with stars JuJu Watkins and Paige Buckers
• South Carolina women appear on a mission after championship loss last year
• Women face challenging turnaround from NCAA Tournament to WNBA draft in just days
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Welcome, welcome, welcome to a special edition of From my Perspective podcast. It is Selection Sunday review edition. I'm your boy, Deion. I got the do-rag on the desk. You can call me Do-rag D. Today, you know, we're joined by Captain Hate himself. Q how's it going? Q.
Speaker 2:Hey man, what I do with this Shepard. Mr Bell, aka Can't say your name up on the spot. Might not get you to mind what's going on, dion.
Speaker 1:Nothing, much, nothing much. Just another Selection Sunday. Well, first one we've got to enjoy for a while, but we got some people in the building today. We got Q's sister right. She's a guest, but she's not a guest again. She knows she has to take her shoes off when she comes in the house. She knows where the refrigerator's at. She knows where the bathroom's at. How's it going, Ray?
Speaker 3:I'm doing well. How about yourself?
Speaker 1:I'm doing good. I'm doing good. She was here for us for the last review of Selection Sunday, so she comes to join us again and we got Mr Seneca Rogers. How you doing today, man.
Speaker 4:Hey, man Doing good man, glad to be here with y'all, glad to talk about the Selection Sunday with y'all.
Speaker 1:Yeah, his favorite team was a controversial one, but we'll get there. Let's go ahead and start out light. You know, in college football they're talking about expanding the college football playoffs. It went from four, now it's at 12. They're talking about expanding it even more, apparently. It's the same thing in college basketball Right now it's 68. They're talking about moving it to like 72 or 76 or 78, something like that. Ray, I'm going to start out with you. What are your thoughts on a potential expansion of the NCAA March Madness bracket?
Speaker 3:Personally, it just seems like it's more to keep up with. I know it's a money thing in the end, but it's money for the big schools. I don't feel like they're going to let more smaller schools in. I know they're probably saying, yeah, we'll let more smaller schools in and they'll have better opportunities and this, that and the other. But let's be honest, you're going to have the SEC putting up numbers that they put up, like they did this year in many schools that they got and as many schools as ACC. They're going to look at your top conferences first and, let's be honest, are they really going to really look at the smaller schools? Let's say, how much money is the smaller schools going to contribute to this expansion? So that's just me, I know. I know that it probably looked good in the long run, but I just feel like it's just extra for no reason.
Speaker 1:Cynica. What's your thoughts?
Speaker 4:Yeah, I think, I think I feel I feel similar to Ray, like ray, like I mean we did the expansion to the 68. Uh, I feel like the 68 has been going good because I feel like the first four has actually been pretty cool. I mean, last year you saw nc state go from what, the first four, to the final four and everything.
Speaker 4:So that was pretty dope, but I feel like at the end of the day, you're not going to be seeing some of these mid-majors getting in like that. It's just going to add on more of the big money conferences. I mean, the sec today got 14 teams in and not saying that the sec is uh, some of those teams are not deserving, but you know that's a part of their plan is to create these super mega conferences. And then I feel like if you do expand out that way, you're just going to be getting in more of the bigger schools. I don't think it's going to add on more of the mid-majors getting there. Captain.
Speaker 2:Hayden, go ahead. You know I'm about to Listen. Let's keep it real. The expansion's coming, we know it. Go ahead. You know I'm about to Listen. Let's keep it real. The expansion's coming, we know it's coming. Why is it coming? Because money. That's why it's coming. At the end of the day, it's all about money. And this year the SEC got 14-2 in the end, but next year they're probably going to feel like they deserve 14, and they're only going to get 12. And you know they're conventional when he don't get his way, he start causing a scene and the expansion's coming.
Speaker 2:I feel, personally, I feel like I think the expansion should also happen because there's 352 Division I basketball schools. There's 352. That's a lot of teams, that's a lot of schools, that's a lot of schools. I think there should be rules in place, though. So where there should be more at-large given to the mid-majors, like Boise State didn't get in this year, boise State should have got in. Imagine I might be a little biased because I was up late on Saturday nights and I was watching Mountain West basketball and I was kind of bored. So I might be a little biased with that, but I think they should have got in. I think if we was at 72 this year, boise State would have got in. Imagine West Virginia would have got in with a middling record as well.
Speaker 2:In the end of the tour. Yeah, so it's going to come with a gift and a curse. You might get one or two more mid-majors, but of course you're going to get four or five in the middle and Big 10, Big 12 schools that shouldn't really be in conversation, but I mean, we know it's going to happen because it's money. The answer to all your questions is money. That's what I was told.
Speaker 1:I agree 100% with you, god, I just don't feel like there's no point. The talent gap is a lot tighter. At least with the women the talent gap is a lot wider. There's a reason why I started to snap right before we got on the podcast that I believe the top three seeds are like whatever and one, and the only one, was Harvard beating Stanford. So if you're a one, two or three seed, you're almost automatically so. They definitely shouldn't do it for women because the talent gap is just too far. For the men it's a little bit closer, I will say, but I just don't see the reason why they should. But again, q, you're absolutely right. It's all about money and the big majors' conferences is going to benefit the most If they do do it. I would like to see those smaller schools like those smaller conferences, like the Sun Belt or the one that Bellarmine is in. I think it's something like Athletic Sun or something.
Speaker 2:I think that's what it is yeah, the A.
Speaker 1:Sun Maybe give automatic bids to the both teams that make it to the championship game. Two teams make it to the championship game. Hey, that's your reward for making it to the championship game. The champion you get the trophy, but the runner-up you still get to go to continue your season. You don't just end it, because with those smaller conferences a lot of those teams have great seasons. They win the regular season conference and they slip up in the championship game or in another game. And well, because you're in that small conference, we can't give it to you. Dog, we got to give this to a middling SEC, big 12 or SEC team.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't. Does the SEC really need 14 teams?
Speaker 1:They was like that this year.
Speaker 2:I'm sorry, that's true, but if you can't win your conference, you couldn't win your conference, so we should just assume you can win the tournament.
Speaker 4:Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 4:I mean, yeah, I don't know. Like, I mean it's a little bit wild to have 14 teams because I just don't know you get to some of them teams. Is there like another mid-major out there? That's probably better than some of them last couple of teams that got in there for the SEC, I believe so. So I mean you just putting them in there and I think even another layer that I feel like if you talk about the expansion piece, then are we just going to be looking at first round them, first two rounds of just being nothing but ridiculous blowouts?
Speaker 1:Yeah, the 1-16,. Obviously we've had a couple recently. I think like two teams total recently, but there was a stretch where it's never happened. If they do expand it, it's going to be another long stretch before a 16 team can be the 1-16, because that 16 seed is going to be not horrible, but a team that probably shouldn't even be in this conversation it probably wouldn't even be a 16 seed. They'd probably make it a what or they'd probably just do more.
Speaker 2:Like a 13, a 12. Like it's already a playing game for the 11.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they'd do more of those. They'd be doing more of those playing games, but the 16th seed.
Speaker 2:that's my issue, which I know we're going to the 10th seed. I know we got stuff to talk about, but I don't think the 16th. If you win your conference, you should be a 16th seed, Because I did what I was supposed to do.
Speaker 1:You're going to reward me by playing the number one team in the world in the nation.
Speaker 2:I win my conference now I. I win my conference Now I got to go play Auburn.
Speaker 3:That's a really, really good point there.
Speaker 2:That makes sense. I did what was expected for me. Everybody that was on my schedule I beat and I took her, but Oklahoma, who decided to join the SEC for what, for who and for what? Now y'all are middle in SEC school and y'all better get a seven or eight seed or whatever. No, if you're a middle, if you're that last place in the SEC, if you're that 14th team in SEC, you should be the 16th seed. You should be the one playing Auburn again, because you already proved you couldn't be. Wow, you're not wrong Wow.
Speaker 1:Another reason, like the suspension, they want the suspension to happen is because of these dang super conferences, these super conferences. People are beating up on you. You got teams beating up on each other that's just giving them big conferences. Giving them super conferences is another hope, like, oh well, there's more teams that are getting in there. So, man, so we can join your super conferences now.
Speaker 2:DI you know how I feel? I say it all the time Oklahoma and. Texas. Y'all. We got to give y'all special treatment because y'all decided to go join the lower conference.
Speaker 4:Y'all- could have went to the Big 12, y'all could have stayed in the Big 12, and again you end up making it to the NCAA tournament with an 18-15 record and just because you're in the SEC.
Speaker 1:But one thing that if the special was this year, I'm sure Seneca, he would have been not as nervous today, because, seneca, he's a UNC fan and apparently they are the final. They was the final team to be in there, on the 11th seed, but from all the things that you have seen, they was the final. They was in that final four team in and they was that last team. So let's go ahead and start with you, seneca. What was your thoughts going into Selection Sunday? Did you think a team was going to be in there? And now that they are in there, how do you feel about it?
Speaker 4:I was nervous about them if they were going to be in there, especially because, looking at the record off the quad, one wins, we only had one. We had 12 losses. I mean you can't just sit up there and say, because the last two times we played Duke it was more competitive games and that should get us in there. I did feel like that we were a tournament team because I felt like at the end of the year we were playing a lot better than what we were doing um, closer to the beginning, mid part of the season. So I felt like we was hitting a good stride, but it still was up in the air.
Speaker 4:But I I even told one of my uh homeboys today. I said if they are gonna let xavier in, then we should be in too, if they're gonna let xavier in, because both of our choir one records are basically the same. Only, both of us only got one win. And um, I said I felt like our strength of schedule was was tougher than theirs, if we look, because I mean you played the auburns, you played the michigan state. You know what I'm saying. You done played all of these teams that was doing big in their conferences. So I felt like, but you just never know, but when I seen it come up there, first four whatever we in there. So now go out there and win some and try to prove that you should have been in there, because you're going to be the top the whole time.
Speaker 1:So just looking at the first weekend, obviously y'all in the first four y'all will play San Diego State University and if y'all win y'all will go and play Ole Miss. Also in that area is Iowa State, which they have a player that when their star players is hurt, so people are kind of down on them and they got lips combed In that little area that first weekend. Do you think you guys can do something? Make some damage?
Speaker 4:beat San Diego State beat Ole Miss or beat Iowa State or the other. Yeah, looking at it when they showed it and even looking at it now, I'm like hey, if they come out and play like how they were playing during the end of the season, at the beginning part of the ACC tournament, and even how they played their second half against Duke, I feel like they can make it to the sweet 16. I'm not going to just sit up here and say like, oh, we're sweet 16 team, but I feel like with the matchups we could, because to me Ole Miss is one of those middle ofof-the-road SEC teams. Their record is not that far from what our record is. And then, like you said, with the Iowa State injury it might be a shot Like that would be an upset. I'm not going to say it wouldn't be, because it would be an upset, but I could see us getting to the Sweet 16.
Speaker 4:That's right.
Speaker 1:Ray, what was your thoughts on North Carolina being in?
Speaker 3:With North Carolina being a quote-unquote home state, as my brother would say.
Speaker 2:You spent half your life there.
Speaker 3:Majority of my life was spent in North Carolina, then Kentucky. I will say that you want to pull for the home team, right? So when they was playing against Duke the last time, I heard a lot of people say they got to win, they got to win, they got to win right. And when they lost I said, oh, this doesn't look good for North Carolina, right? So it became concerning. That's when I really started kind of cluing in like wait a minute now has North Carolina really had a bad season this year? Now I know that Louisville beat them, and the reason why I know Louisville beat them is because I follow Louisville basketball, right.
Speaker 3:Just because I live in North Carolina did not mean that I follow North Carolina, duke or NC State. As a matter of fact, I hated Duke and NC State. So therefore, with that being said, I did not follow North Carolina. So, with that being said, I'm happy that they was able to get in. It did not shock me that they were the last four out, because they had been talking that they were going to be the last four out for weeks actually.
Speaker 3:So, with that being said, yeah, I'm happy that they got that opportunity. I do not think that Jalen Withers would ever make that same mistake that he did the other night here, and it was one of those mistakes that I don't even think he was even trying to make. It was one of those things he's probably meant to step back instead of stepping forward. You can't really say it, cost him the game because you don't know if he would really hit that shot. Everybody said it did go in.
Speaker 1:It just went to tie the game. It just went to tie the game. You don his fault. It just went to tie the game. You know what was happening after that.
Speaker 3:You really can't say you know, saying you know, yeah, it went in, but hey, for whatever reason, it just wasn't meant to be right. So I do find it ironic that he is a former Louisville player now so, and I do find it funny that whenever he does anything wrong, seneca, the Louisville blogs and the Louisville webpages blow up on bro. I mean blow up on him, and it is hilarious, it is funny.
Speaker 1:It is. Yeah, I watched that game. I kind of felt bad for Jaylen. He was obviously a former Louisville player. I've actually met the person. I've actually had somewhat of a stint in this conversation through some work that I was doing a couple years ago when he was still here. He was like an intern at somewhere I was working at. So I've had a stint in of conversation with him and L Ellis. I've had a sense of conversation with them. It was during our. We was terrible, louisville was terrible at the time, so it was mostly about that. But he was a good dude. I felt bad for him and I'm sure right now when he saw UNC's name as they was in a bullet, was probably lifted off his shoulder because he probably felt like he cost UNC a tournament bid with that mistake. But now he can check it off and hopefully he can do better in the tournament as he has a chance. Kudo gotta ask Captain Hayden himself his thoughts on UNC.
Speaker 2:Oh man, I feel bad right, because, Seneca, you do the fantasy football league with us and you do the March Madness, the bracket challenge with us. You know you came on to the fire a couple times. I feel bad for Seneca. Y'all should not have been in this tournament.
Speaker 2:You should not have been in this tournament whatsoever. It should. Again, I have my biases because I watched the Mount West. It should have been Boise State, but you, let me say it I do think that I think y'all going to be San Diego State and I hope y'all be Ole Miss. Why? Because I root for the ACC. I got to hope.
Speaker 4:I mean I got to hope that y'all get it.
Speaker 2:Y know y'all get it and y'all get over it, but I don't. From my perspective, I do not think y'all should have been in this tournament. I think it should have went to Boise State. Jalen Withers when he stepped in I felt bad, even though you know he left moving. He had some things to say, right, I felt bad for him because he's still a young dude. He ain't mean to do it, it was an accident. I felt really bad for him Also. You can't you can blame him, but you can also look at the fact that what was it the six or seven threes earlier in the conference that he got them to that point? Yeah, because they wouldn't have won that game without him, so you can't blame.
Speaker 2:North Carolina fans can't blame him, so you can't blame North Carolina fans, can't blame him, the Louisville fans boy, they turn his butt up. You hear me Awful, they turn his butt up. That's the other reason why I felt that, because it's like yo, he ain't been here in years why you guys still got so much resentment for this man.
Speaker 4:I didn't realize, until y'all said that, that the Louisville fans be going hard on that man like that.
Speaker 4:I didn't know that they don't like that era of Wolfpack, because it was just that bad and he was part of that era yeah, I mean I don't blame, I don't blame Willis for that loss, because I mean that was just a mistake in a game or whatever. That one mistake Like you don't know what would have happened after that tied up If they would have came down and hit. You don't know if overtime we would have won whatever and I mean I feel like to not have that be a turning point in this situation. You don't put yourself in that place. You know better plays, better stretches of ball wouldn't have had that been that big of a factor.
Speaker 4:So I don't put it on withers and everything. I know that. I know the young man feel bad, but I don't put it on them and I hope my squad get to prove q wrong and get a couple of these wins and go on, go on a decent run, so then I can hit y'all up in the message and be like yo, you see, see what happened when we ended here, but you know it's all good.
Speaker 1:Something to help out. Q. Sorry, seneca, but North Carolina's record against quad one teams one and 12. Indiana's record against quad one team who didn't make it four and 13. West Virginia's record against quad one team who didn't make it 4-13. West Virginia's record against quad one team who also didn't make it 6-10. Ohio State's record against quad one team another team that didn't make it 6-11. So before we move on from North Carolina, another thing I want to bring up about North Carolina is their athletic director is on the selection committee. Now, from my perspective, I don't think any active athletic director should be on any committee basketball, football, any committee. It's just it's not a good look, especially in a situation like this where there was a last team in, even though they say when that team they get to talking about that team, that person's supposed to leave the room. Even though they do that and I'm sure they do, it's still not a good look with that athletic director being on the committee. I think he's actually the acting chair member.
Speaker 2:I was going to say director, being on the committee. I think he's actually the acting chair member.
Speaker 1:That makes it even worse. Q. What's your thoughts on that? That's probably why they got in.
Speaker 2:They didn't want him to walk back in the room and be like hey, y'all didn't get in. You know what I mean? That's probably why they got in. You know what I'm saying? Let's be real. It's the name. So that's probably why they got in. You know what I'm saying? And let's be real.
Speaker 3:It's the name.
Speaker 2:Between the two, but it's also the name. At the end of the day, March Madness is also a television show. It's a production. They got to make their money. Who going to make you more money? Boise State or North Carolina? Indiana or North Carolina? This ain't Indiana by night. You know what I mean. This is North Carolina we're talking about.
Speaker 4:So you gonna go with North Carolina oh yeah, I mean that could be, that could be real stuff right there that you're saying I can't argue against that fact. That is real stuff. Because I mean it's March Madness. You don't even hear it called the NCAA tournament, that much it's. It's March Madness. You don't even hear it called the NCAA tournament, that much, it's just called March Madness. And I do agree with you, d, that active ADs being a part of the selection committee, because the optics of that doesn't ever look good and, regardless of whatever you say, there's no way really around that. But hey, if it did work in our favor and they did slide us in there because of that, I'll take it. I just wanted to be an attorney. I didn't want them to try to say we in IT bound, I'm not playing, no more, put us in there, whatever sliding dollars, I don't care.
Speaker 1:All right, all right Right. What was your thoughts? Active AD on the active chair.
Speaker 3:I'm kind of like you. I don't feel like it should be done. As many people out here that has all these different voices. Why do we have to have ADs Right, they already are, have important jobs at their different schools, have important jobs at their different schools why can't we have people outside of school ADs in these chairs? You have Tom Jewart, who's still out there, if I make no mistake. He's not an AD.
Speaker 2:Right, he's not, he don't have a job.
Speaker 3:Why can't he be on one of these chairs? You know, know, I'm saying that he's a great ad, so therefore he would have a great opinion on who to put in and who not to put in. You see what I'm saying? Um, so that's one of the things that, um, I think I'm like you, I think we there's so many other people that could have jobs, but who am I All?
Speaker 1:right. So let's, let's go ahead and get through this. We still have the women's tournament talking about, but there's one major issue we have to talk about. Sorry, seneca, we do outnumber you, so we have to talk about the travesty that happened to Louisville today. It was bad. I thought of that Ice Cube song, that diss track. Y'all know the song that he did to NWA. That's how I felt like Louisville got dead.
Speaker 1:Louisville, we are the number 13 team in the nation. That's when we finished in the AP polls and they gave Louisville an 8 seed. And not only did they give us, we are the number 13 team in the nation. That's where we finished in the AP polls and they gave Louisville an eight seed. And not only did they give us an eight seed, we are the eight seed in the number one overall bracket, which Auburn is number one overall seed. I have my thoughts on that in a second, but Auburn is the number one overall seed. Louisville is the number eight seed and we have to play Creighton. Only bright thing is that we are in Lexington, which is down the road. That's where that team in blue plays. It's basically a home game for us.
Speaker 1:I feel like Auburn probably should be upset, but before I give it to you guys, somebody RealCardGaming on Twitter. He tweeted out the seeding of the number 13 team in AP Bowl. I'm not going to go through it. He went back pretty far. But the last time a number 13 seed was a eight number 13 team was a eight seed was in 1993. It was New Orleans. Now don't ask me what New Orleans, I don't even know, I ain't no. New orleans had a basketball team, but outside of 1993 there was a couple sevens, but pretty much consistently they were a four or five and there was some two sprinkled in there and there was some six sprinkler but there, but pretty much four and five Q. What was your thoughts? Because, man, I'm pretty much glad we didn't do the podcast earlier because I was that upset.
Speaker 2:I think it's all just swept. Now I get what they, so I don't get why. So there's two things I don't get. Why is Louisville an A seed and why is Auburn playing in Lexington with the potential of going against basically a home team? Because if you're the number one overall seed, you should have an easy route. You should be playing a potential. You shouldn't be playing a potential role game in your second game. Those are the two things. Neither one of them makes sense to me. Wilbur shouldn't have been an A seed. I'm going to go ahead and get it, because I don't know if we're going to get to it. I also don't think Kentucky should have been a 3 seed.
Speaker 2:Kentucky should have been a 6 or a 7 seed, and that's from a Kentucky friend. We worked with him. He told us, he texted me that. But Wilbur being an A seed, I ain't saying Louisville should have been a two. I ain't saying Louisville should have been a three. I ain't saying Louisville should have been a four, six, we a five or six seed, putting us at an AC. I guess you looking at us like, hey, we might have to drop y'all down but we're going to give y'all a home game. But then, if it goes like I said, if I'm Auburn, why am I, the number one overall seed not playing a road game in the tournament?
Speaker 1:That's Lexi, that's you. When I really lost it. This is when I really lost. It is when they put Clemson as a five seed. We beat Clemson twice.
Speaker 2:Twice. Yeah, that's a good point. I ain't thinking about that.
Speaker 1:That's a good point. That's when I lost it. When I saw Clemson, was that a five seed? I'm like, oh, come on. But yeah, auburn was the number one. Obviously, from my perspective, I felt like it should have went to Florida because they won the SEC. The SEC was that down. I felt like the winner of that tournament. I know Auburn won the conference tournament and I think they was like two or three ranked in the post.
Speaker 1:I feel like they should have been the number one overall seed. They ended up getting one seed, but I thought Florida was the number one overall seed, deserving Some people thought Duke I was like I'm not sure we got to put some injuries in it Cooper flag we don't know how hefty Cooper flag is, so they can't be the number one overall one seed. But Louisville being the eighth seed is just a travesty.
Speaker 3:Before we get to Seneca with his unbiased opinion. Let's go with Ray. So when I seen eighth, I was like why are we at eighth? So I'm not like you guys, right? I'll be honest with you. I'm the common fan, right, as Quentin was explaining to one of our cousins today. There's common fans, there's super fans and all that. I'm the common fan, right. So, and I'm a big Louisville fan. So what I'm saying, I'm looking to Quentin as the big brother, right, when we're looking at sports. So I'm like now maybe you correct me if I'm wrong why are we an eight seed? We come out the gate. We're not even supposed to be here. We're not supposed to be here. We're not supposed to be in the ACC championship. We're supposed to be literally scraping the barrel for wins this year, but the reality of it is that the team got turned around.
Speaker 3:Now here's what I think happened. I think the disrespect started with Kenny Payne, and the reason why I go back to there is because the squad was so messed up and, like you said earlier, dion, you said that that era was so hurtful for Louisville fans and Louisville people that it carried on in the commentators' world and in the chairman's, the bracket-terrors' world too, that they said you know what? We still don't trust them, and that's how we ended up in this eighth seat. Right, that's just my opinion. That's the only reason why you can give it to me. You can't give it because we didn't have, as another cousin said, quality wins.
Speaker 3:We did have quality wins. We beat Indiana when they was ranked. It was another ranked team. Yes, we did lose to Kentucky. Yes, we lost to Duke twice, but hey, those are Duke and Kentucky. We lost to Duke when they had Cooper Flag and we lost to Duke when they was playing their seniors. Duke is a pretty good team. I mean, hey, they did get a number one seed. I don't want to talk about Kentucky. Kentucky is not relevant right now.
Speaker 1:They're not.
Speaker 3:I'm just going to keep saying it. They shouldn't have been there and they're not relevant for a lot of other reasons. I'm sure you're going to probably bring it up later on, but I just don't feel like an 8C was warranted, maybe like you said I can't remember if you said it, dion or you, quentin said it, maybe. No, not a two or a three. Okay, I'll give you that, but a five of a six. I mean, we went to the ACC Championship. We wasn't supposed to be here, people, everybody had already counted us out before we even started playing. We wasn't even supposed to make it to the tournament. Before we started playing we was already like well, it's a rebuilding season for Louisville and they're not going to be the Louisville of the past and we're going to have them on the first four out. I'm like dang, we didn't even really play it yet and they already count myself.
Speaker 1:Nope, seneca. Before I let you go, one more thing from a real card game on Twitter, shout out to him. Since seeding began in 1979, the AP number 13 ranked team on Selection Sunday has received the following seeds Number two seed three times, number three seed 15 times, number four seed 15 times, number five seed seven times, number six seed one time, number seven seed three times and the number eight seed two times, the second being the Louisville Cardinals. So hit us with some unbiased opinions, seneca.
Speaker 4:Tell us if we're tripping. No, I don't think that y'all are tripping. When I saw that Louisville was the eighth seed, I was surprised by it and basically similar to the point that you made Deion, I was surprised to see them as an eighth seed and then see Clemson as a five seed. I was like, did they choose the wrong ACC team right there? Did they? Did they meant to swap them or whatever? Because even when I look at who was the other eight seeds around in the tournament, I mean you're looking at, you're looking at what UConn, mississippi State and Gonzaga is your other like eight seeds in there and none of them are ranked around where Louisville is ranked in the AP poll. None of that stuff. So if you're looking at these various seeds, to me you're supposed to be seeing teams that are like similar to each other. That gets them same seeding and they're not similar to y'all.
Speaker 4:Like Ray did make a good point on the fact that, yes, people didn't know what Louisville was going to be this year. You know, new coach, you're going through the transfer stuff. I mean whenever I talk to Ray she starts to just go in about the Kenny Payne time, like the Kenny Payne stuff. I mean I laugh at her because I just say like yo that Kenny Payne was really a pain in y'all's, whatever that era, huh and everything. So she'd be like yeah, like she'd just be over it. But then to see that an ACC only had what I think like two losses until the championship game, so there's three losses in your conference. You make it to the conference championship game, y'all beat Clemson, all of these various things I was was like they shouldn't be no eighth seed.
Speaker 4:And then you do get the number one, what they consider the number one overall seed in Auburn and I just it didn't make any sense to me. Like I wanted when I was watching the bracket shows, I wanted them to ask the question around how did they decide on that number one overall seed? And also going to how they to me they got the toughest eight seed out there. They got the toughest eight seed right there that they would see in that second round. So I mean that doesn't make any sense because if you look at the rest of their bracket, like they got the weakest number two seed to me with Michigan State Not saying anything against Michigan State like that, but I feel like they're the weakest out of the other ones that got the two seeds, and I just feel like they just did Louisville dirt with that.
Speaker 4:I don't know if it's, like Ray said, how they looked at the Kenny Payne era. I don't know if it's I can't say it's how they looked at ACC, because they gave Clemson a 5C and they put UNC in, yeah, and UNC got in, and so I don't know. To me it just seemed like it was some disrespect that was laid there for Louisville.
Speaker 1:Yeah, very disrespectful. We got to get to the women, but before we do I need you guys to find a four-team. I guess I'll go first, since I'm springing on you and give you some time to look it over. I'm going to go ahead and do it. I am being a biased fan with this, just so you know. But I got Louisville, st John's, duke and Tennessee and in the chip show game I got Louisville and Tennessee and I got Louisville Q at Tennessee and in the chip show game I got Louisville and Tennessee and I got Louisville Q.
Speaker 2:what you got? What are we doing here? Are we being real Like?
Speaker 1:damn bro, what are we doing? I told you, I said it, I'm being a biased fan, I was hurt. I made multiple brackets, but that one I was hurt about.
Speaker 2:Alright, cool, I'm going to give my life bracket. I'm going to do it for the money, not for my personal. I'm going to go. I'm going to go Florida.
Speaker 3:I'm going to go Houston, alabama, alabama.
Speaker 1:Better yet I'm going to do.
Speaker 2:Duke and I'm going to give you Michigan State. Michigan State lost. I'm going to give you Michigan State because I don't want to pick our number one, so it was either pick Michigan State or pick Auburn, then it's four number ones and that don't happen yeah, that's not happening, it's only happened again.
Speaker 1:I'll be watching ESPN. It's probably happened more times, but they said the last time this happened, the national championship game was in San Antonio, which happens to be where the national championship game is this season. So I just want to point that out. Seneca, what you got.
Speaker 4:I've got Auburn, St John's, Houston and Alabama, and then I've got Auburn and Houston leading for the national championship game Dang.
Speaker 2:I ain't picking national champion. I'm going to go Florida versus Houston.
Speaker 3:I do like Florida Ray so this is just the way it shook out for me I got Florida. I do have Florida, I do have Auburn, but I have Vanderbilt and I don't know why. The way it shook out for me, I got Tennessee.
Speaker 4:I love that you said I don't know why I have Vanderbilt.
Speaker 1:She was putting it there, I was like damn, I was just like oh, I like this person and I like this person.
Speaker 3:Therefore, just the way it shook out, I really wanted to go with St John's because I like Patino, but I don't know about the matchup in the paint between the two, so I had to go with Florida.
Speaker 2:And let's be real, St John's can't shoot a three to say they like.
Speaker 1:Nope, they can't, they cannot. But hey, they got one good coach, that's all I know.
Speaker 1:They got a hell of a coach. All right, guys. So let's switch gears to the women's tournament. Looking at the bracket, UCLA got the number one overall seed. Ucla got the number one overall seed USC. Then you got South Carolina with Don Staley, you got Texas. Those are your number one overall seeds. I know you guys got the bracket. Maybe.
Speaker 1:Looking at bracket, we're not going to go through every game, but I'll go first. But give me some of you guys' storylines that you're looking at. I'm going to go first. There's two that I'm looking at. First off is USC and UConn in that Elite Eight matchup. Usc is the one seed in that area. In UConn, Paige Buckers versus Juju. That's primetime TV. I will have butt and seed if they play. Imagine if they play. I imagine they play. With women's basketball the talent gap is a lot more spread out. You don't get as many upset. I'm praying it's Paige and Juju in that Elite Eight, because my butt will be in seed. Another game where my butt will be in seed and this is a personal one Louisville is a seven seed In the second round. If they beat Nebraska hopefully they do and TCU takes care of the business against the 15th seed for Dickinson. It'll be Louisville playing against TCU and we know it'll be. Q doesn't like her name to be said on this podcast. He calls her baby. What? Baby Durant? What was it Something, Durant?
Speaker 2:He calls her baby Junior Durant I forgot what it was Something.
Speaker 1:Durant, hello, but I'm going to say HLV will play against her former team in Louisville. So that's the two storylines USC UConn, louisville TCU. I'm looking forward to those two storylines in this tournament.
Speaker 2:Q what you got. I mean, I think that's the big storyline. Also, south Carolina Yep, I think South Carolina. I feel bad for everybody in their division personally, because I think they got something to prove South Carolina is playing with. They got something to prove South Carolina is playing with. I got something to prove. I think they're going to walk to the final four and that ain't nothing. No offense to Duke, the number two seed. No offense, and I know Maryland's pretty good. I think Indiana's pretty good in that same division.
Speaker 1:North Carolina's also in that Duke is the number two seed in that.
Speaker 2:No offense to them, but I think South Carolina is also in that. Duke is the number two seed in that. Yeah, no offense to him, but I think South Carolina is just going to walk Right and I've but you pointed it out, so I ain't going to harp on it too much. I do want to see the little and the little Junior Durant play. Of course I want the matchup. I want to see Paige versus Juju. I want to see that matchup. I want to see Paige versus Juju. I want to see that matchup. But then I also I want Juju to win. Because I want to see Juju.
Speaker 2:I want to see USC versus UCLA. Why they on the same side of the bracket and that ain't a potential championship. I don't understand. I would have made that a potential championship matchup, but maybe they just want to make sure they get it and they don't want either one of them to lose to South Carolina. So they're going to make it happen in the Final Four. I don't know, but yeah, to me that's the biggest storyline is do we get UCLA, usc round three, uconn and USC? We get the senior versus the sophomore. You know what I'm saying. Paige was a superstar, juju is the future, and then you know what I'm saying the Louisville rematch with the track.
Speaker 1:Yep Ray, what you feeling?
Speaker 3:So I'm looking at it and this year other than Louisville watching women's basketball is so much funner than watching the men's, so I did follow it a little bit more than I did the women. I mean, I followed the women more than I did the men. So I'm looking forward to seeing Notre Dame play anybody right, that coach is a boss, right. So I am looking forward to the TCU matchup. If you know, both teams make it that far. Now what I am going to say about TCU TCU looked really good and they did win their conference. However, I was concerned about their ranking and I know we're not doing seeds for the women, but not concerned but I was wondering why they got such a high seed just because they won that conference. However, if I make no mistake and my big brother's going to correct me if I'm wrong TCU is in what conference, quentin?
Speaker 2:Big 12. Big 12.
Speaker 3:Big 12., big 12. Which is also puts you in Nebraska, right?
Speaker 2:Yes, no Nebraska's in the Big Ten.
Speaker 3:Big Ten. Well, it puts you in Ohio State.
Speaker 2:No Ohio State's in the Big.
Speaker 3:Ten TCU. Sorry, sorry. I don't know if y'all cut on y'all podcast After my podcast. I do have a little funny mouth sometimes.
Speaker 2:Okay, they in the conference with your Arizona State, your Arizona, your Western Juniors that explains why they got the two.
Speaker 3:That's why they got the two. Okay, they did put up a really good game that I watched for them, but I was concerned about the two. I was like why are they playing? Why are they? Why do they have this 2C? But it could be. I was a little hater. I don't call them the she should, who should not be named LeDurant. I just call her her. Just call her her.
Speaker 3:That's kind of a compliment nowadays, oh because I don't you know, when I seen her I was like ugh, so maybe I should call her ugh. Yeah, don't call her ugh yeah you can call her ugh so, but I would like to see them play, because I think the last time they LSU played Louisville last year too in the tournament, didn't they?
Speaker 1:Yeah, but LSU I mean LSU was a much better team.
Speaker 2:They was low.
Speaker 1:Yeah, louisville, this is actually one of Louisville's worst years, jeff Wallace's worst year. I said it a couple podcasts ago. This is a rebuilding year for Louisville. Our rebuilding year is better than some schools' best year ever, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:This is better than some schools' every year, right, but CCU went 31-30. So they only lost three games this year. So that's why they got the CCU. They only lost three games.
Speaker 3:Understandable.
Speaker 1:Seneca. You kind of basically said that y'all are in trouble, the UNC women's, because they're in the same region as South Carolina, but you give your Lady Tar Heels any shot against South Carolina, huh.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I give them a shot.
Speaker 4:But I mean, yeah, south Carolina is coming in on a mission, it's a business trip for them. If you've even seen them when they were showing their selection, they had a look on their face Like they was not amused and I mean I feel like they had a right to be hot because I think they should have been the number one overall seed. I think they should have with that. Honestly, one of the other things I was going to point out is that I didn't think that Texas should be a number one seed. I thought they should have went to UConn. I thought it should have been UCLA, usc, south Carolina and UConn is your one seed. I mean, I know the Paige Buckets and Juju game. I'm going to be locked in to watch it if they get there to that Elite Eight. But that's where they were at last year in that Elite Eight and I feel like to me that's more of a Final Four matchup that I want to see than an Elite Eight matchup and similar to, I think Q you had said it maybe like the UCLA-USC game in the National Championship would be dope, I mean. I mean because if you get down to your Final Four and to me your Final Four looks like UCLA, south Carolina, uconn and USC oh, that's hot. Now I mean, don't get me wrong. Texas with Madison Booker she's nice, like that's hot now I mean, don't get me wrong. Texas with Madison Booker she's nice, like she's a baller for real. But I feel like South Carolina just put belt in that championship game. You know what I'm saying, and so that showed a lot and I feel like they took that on some disrespect. I mean I think Carolina could end up getting there to get that matchup against South Carolina and stuff and going to come out and fight. But I just feel like South Carolina is on a mission too.
Speaker 4:The game that I know that y'all were talking about, when y'all weren't going to name her name, I mean I'm going to say her name because she hoops it's Haley Van Lipp and she is hooping. Name because she hoops is Haley Van Lipp and she is hooping. And I feel like that the fact that they keep on trying to make her play against Louisville is that she wants that. The NCAA tournament wants her to continue to break y'all hearts and see that she's not with y'all, no more, or whatever. That's what I feel, because I mean the girl is. I mean the girl is bonafide man like. I mean she's super nice.
Speaker 4:But also another thing is I think a team that people need to pay attention to in their UCLA bracket is LSU. If Flage and Mauro are healthy, lsu can be a problem in that bracket. I mean they'll play against, they could possibly play against the NC State, but I feel like they could give UCLA fits because they beat UCLA last year in the tourney. So I think that could be another great matchup out there with the girls game. And I mean I feel like the the women's tournament is always exciting. You got names everywhere. You got these matchups everywhere. I mean some of the coaches or even big stars like Moki Gino, dawn Staley you know what I'm saying Like they're, they're stars and they're right too. But yeah, I think I wish I would've. I wish Texas wouldn't have been a number one seed and UConn would have been that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I definitely agree with you, it should. It should have been UConn. And one thing that the women have over the men, and it's been like that for the last couple years the men look a little bit better with, as they have, the name of Cooper Flagg, but the women have more stars still. They have again Juju Paige Buckers. Madison for Texas what did you say? I forgot her name Madison Booker.
Speaker 4:Madison Book, texas. What'd you say? I forgot her name.
Speaker 1:Madison Booker. Madison Booker. Baby Durant, Juju Obviously they got the names in the women's school.
Speaker 2:We ain't not gonna say her name.
Speaker 4:Y'all cannot say her name. That's cool and dandy, but I mean, hey, haley been cooking. I mean she did dish her. Yeah, she did. I mean I think the LSU fit wasn't a good fit for her.
Speaker 1:It wasn't, I don't think it was. She went there for that ring.
Speaker 4:Yeah, she wanted to chase that ring. Yeah, she didn't get that.
Speaker 1:Speaking of LSU, I do like the UCLA versus LSU in the Elite Eight matchup will be a good one. I'm somewhat of an LSU hater, not because of what they've done, but Kim Mulkey came in our state and took the number one girls basketball player. She's going to be going there next year, so I'm a little bit of an LSU hater. Kim Mulkey, come on, man. What's she coming up here for? Because stay down there in Louisiana, jeff Falls.
Speaker 2:I was going to say I don't blame Tina, I blame Jeff. I'm going to say I blame y'all coach for that.
Speaker 4:You're supposed to make a bracket around your state.
Speaker 1:You should. But yeah, I don't know how he let her get out, but she's going to be at LSU, so I'm going to be cheering her on but hating at the same time, because I wanted to do good, but I just wish it was here. I wanted to do good.
Speaker 4:I think another thing y'all going to have to worry about too now is what's your boy, kenny Brooks, at Kentucky?
Speaker 1:He's going to be an issue too.
Speaker 2:We ain't going to get him fired. We need to figure some stuff out, I'm not prepared to have to because the one thing I always point to when these Kentucky fans are talking junk here hey, y'all can't beat us on that women's court y'all can't do no with us. He got her trying. He got her trying to prove points and stuff and I really don't appreciate it no, not at all.
Speaker 1:So I did. I spoke about it a little bit. There's not a lot of. I did. I spoke about it a little bit. There's not a lot of upsets. That happens in the women's bracket because the time gap in women's basketball, just in general, is just so wide. So as I was going through it making my picks, I wasn't trying to do it. I never tried to make this happen, but I ended up with all four number one seeds making it to the final four. It's happened a few times in the women's side. End up with USC versus USC. We'll figure out who gets the USC moniker with the Trojans versus the Gamecocks. I got Juju winning it. I think Juju needs to win her championship, but Juju out there with Don Staley on the other side would be a great matchup and again my butt will be in a seat for that one. Q what you got, final four-wise for the winner.
Speaker 2:Okay, cool. First off, real quick, I just want to say this I got Merck State beating Howard. It is a 13. It's 11 versus a 16. I just want to get that out because you know I'm putting it over for the state. I'm putting it over for the state, except for that West school. Yeah, Except for that West school. I'm putting it over for the state all the time.
Speaker 1:The team in blue.
Speaker 2:The team in blue I'll affiliate with, but the rest of them schools, hey man, them is them Houston.
Speaker 1:Kentucky, western Jordan.
Speaker 2:Murray Moorhead. They like her. You know what I mean. Now I got, so I got. No, I remember it was the stuff of Notre Dame. I got Notre Dame beating Texas. So yeah, I got UCLA versus USC and then South Carolina versus Notre Dame. Then in championship I got USC versus South Carolina. I'm going with South Carolina. They look mean, they look, they look like we don't care. We don't care about none of this. We don't care about the TV, these cameras right here.
Speaker 1:We're going to prove a point and we'll see y'all at the end.
Speaker 4:What you got Seneca, I got UCLA, usc, south Carolina and Notre Dame. I basically got like the same matchup. Like you, I got USC and South Carolina seeing each other in the national championship. I got South Carolina winning it. I just feel like it's a similar thing to like last year with South Carolina when they went against Caitlin Clark. Like the best player on the court is going to be Juju, because Juju is just super, like I mean, that girl is changing what. What women hoop look like with her game and everything. Um. But I just think, like I said, looking at South Carolina when they was announcing that today, I was like, oh they, they got their. Look like how they looked last year coming into it when they felt like they was disrespected. And I'm like you give Dawn and them ladies just a little bit of something for them to try to ag on to the whole thing. As long as they start you locked in, she gonna have them locked in. I think they go back to back.
Speaker 2:I think they want to face UConn.
Speaker 4:Because UConn came down to their house. Uconn put the smack on them for real. Uconn came to their house.
Speaker 2:I think that's what they want to face. Personally, I think they don't care about it. I think they want UConn to get to the championship so we can revenge that loss because they came to South Carolina at a game day.
Speaker 1:It was there, Didn't wipe their feet off a nut and tracked mud in there. Went in a refrigerator, drank straight out the orange juice carton. Didn't get no cup. Got put all the backwash in the juice. It was nasty.
Speaker 4:What they say out there in the street. They came into your trap and made it my trap.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, that's what they did. I think that's who they want. Dale Kirkman, therese, dale Kirkman, juju, who? That's how South Carolina looking at it. Juju, who you see, who Listen, give me UC UConn, that's who I want. That's the UC I want.
Speaker 1:And Miss Paige Buckets herself.
Speaker 2:That's who I want.
Speaker 1:Yep, miss Paige Buckets she is pretty much me, and Q said it she might as well go ahead and look for a house in Dallas right now. That's where she going. That's where she going, ray, go ahead and give me your final four. And I got one more thing. I want to talk about the women's uh tournament.
Speaker 3:But go ahead, right uh, yeah, so my final four. Uh, of course I got uh South Carolina, uh, winning it all. Uh, I just believe in Don. You know I'm a Don fan. Um, I do have NC State sneaking in there, and then USC, south Carolina and Texas.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 3:This is in South Carolina winning. Okay, sorry, my allergies is trying to.
Speaker 4:Hey, can I just say this to mess with y'all too, for a minute, go ahead. I feel like that Haley and TCU going to make it to the Elite Eight.
Speaker 1:That's how you feeling, huh. Can they make it.
Speaker 4:Hold on. No, they won't, because they'll lose to Notre Dame. So my bad, but they're going to be there, sweet 16.
Speaker 2:I didn't feel like that was a necessary comment. I can't speak for everybody else on the pod, I just didn't feel like it was necessary. Okay, that's cool. That's why Drunk Carolina shouldn't be in a tournament.
Speaker 4:I had to come back at you for that.
Speaker 2:I have to tell the truth, though I don't feel like you.
Speaker 1:Something I wanted to bring up. It was an issue last season. Obviously, it's going to be an issue pretty much, maybe to the end of time. The last game is April 6th. Obviously, the next championship game goes into April. The WNBA draft is scheduled for April 14th and the first game of the WNBA season is May 2nd.
Speaker 1:So I just wanted you guys' thoughts on that quick turnaround for these women going from March Madness to stress the wear and tear that that puts on their body, not just March Madness, but just the whole college basketball season as a whole and going straight into a professional WNBA regular season. What are your thoughts about that? I don't think there's anything they can really do about it right now, because WNBA kind of likes where they are. The only issue they have is when the Olympics comes around. They have to put a pause in it. But outside of that, not a big deal. You should want to run the summer, because now it's not a lot going on this summer. All you got to compete with is baseball, and people ain't watching baseball that much nowadays. Just let's call it a spade a spade. But what are your thoughts on that? I'll go with you. Q. What's your thoughts on that quick turnaround?
Speaker 2:The turnaround has always been that turnaround. It has been that way for years. But, like you said, what is it for them to do years? But, like you said, what is it for them to do? Because the WNBA can't push their season back, because they are going up against baseball. Espn just dropped baseball because people ain't watching it. They don't want to pay the absorber it was $500 million. Espn didn't want to pay it. Espn was like we'll give you $200 million. Baseball said no, so they don't have. Espn ain't going to have nothing else to put up against it. So that's what you, they making up the WNBA to fill in tab slots. So it's kind of one of those. It ain't right, but ain't nothing we can do either situation.
Speaker 3:Yeah, Roy what about you? I really hate it, to be honest. I understand it's nothing that can be done, but I really hate it. Women have a lot and I'm not saying and I'm not taking anything from the male athlete, please hear me that when I say that but women have physical gains, right. And then we have something that a lot of men don't have, and I know y'all gonna be like why do you have to bring that up? We have something that happens every month. Some of us might go through drastic marriages not for that to happen, but it's something that happens every month for the majority of the women, right. And let me tell you, most women for a lot of women can whoop your tail right and y'all those schedules that they have for those women for WNBA, versus going right from playing from the championship in April, like you said. I think you said what did you say?
Speaker 1:Last game is April 6th.
Speaker 3:And then the early April, and then the draft is. April 14th, and then the first game is in May, may 2nd. That is a quick turnaround. And then here's the next thing Mama used to say call it wet behind the ears.
Speaker 3:You still 18, like, well, not even 18, what you still 20 some years old yeah, so you getting out of college, going to the wmba making not millions, but making money and having to play within two weeks, like Quinn said, or one of y'all said I forgot who y'all said is going straight to Dallas. I'm living over here at this point and now I got to move all the way to Dallas. This might be my first apartment by myself. Yeah, that is a lie. I hate it for them, but hey, there's one of those things you got to grow up, you got to learn. One time, kick them out the door, that's another thing.
Speaker 2:Pop them on the way out and they got to take a pay cut Because a lot of them top players. She's taking a pay cut going from UConn to going to the WNBA. If we're being honest, she's taking a pay cut yeah.
Speaker 3:She's going from a house to a pod One bedroom.
Speaker 1:Probably Seneca. What's your thoughts on that quick turnaround for these ladies?
Speaker 4:yeah, I mean, I think it's a quick turnaround. I don't see anything that you can do about it. Um, because it would be tough to try to do the WNBA season when the NBA is going on. Uh, because then all of the scheduling and trying to like, a lot of them share arenas and stuff, so then you try to put the WNBA games in the G League arenas, then it almost seemed disrespectful to their game because they got stars over there now in the WNBA with you know what I'm saying the Aja Wilsons, the Sabrina Inescus, kaitlyn Clarks, angel Reese's, and now you got a flood of other ones that's going to be coming in with Paige and Flau'jae and all of them, you know. So you got, you got stars that is over there. So they, they need their own moments and their own spots to shine and stuff too.
Speaker 4:But I think we I mean we even see it with the turnaround, like this past year uh, you know, I think, when I was on the pod with y'all before, we was talking about Caitlyn in the WNBA, like it was taking her a while to get adjusted and you know, get to things going and and stuff, and then, like you even seen it with a player, what's um old girl named cameron brink. I'm not sure if maybe her injury might have been the fact of trying to continue to go on how she went. You know, I'm saying'm saying so I think you're going to have that also. But it's not really much you can do because that's the time slot, that's the spot of it. But I just think for those rookies it's going to be an adjustment for them. But I think once they hit like their year two, they'll be in a better flow.
Speaker 2:I think Kayla Clark started off slow, like you said, because I've been playing all year and now I'm tired. I need a break and that's why the Indiana field fans they start playing better after the break because Kaitlin was able to rest her legs. I think that's up to the coaches when you know you got a rookie coming in that came After the break because Kaitlin was able to rest her legs. I think that's up to the coaches when you know you've got a rookie coming in that came from the tournament, that had a deep run in the tournament, probably not want to play them the first couple games or not have them practice as hard. Let them rest their body and bring them along slow, put them on a minute restriction. I think that would be the best thing to do.
Speaker 4:Yeah, that makes a lot of sense right there too. I mean, I think that's how you just flow into it, because if some of them is on that run where they done played in the National Championship game or their Final Four, you know they need a little bit of that break to get back going, while you got some of these girls and these women who are ready for this season. So this is they ramp up here, when most of the time for them is they cool down time.
Speaker 2:Absolutely.
Speaker 1:Yep, very, very much so. So I'm going to hand it over to Q, cause we have something very special for you guys. We're doing something. We got us a little bracket thing. So go ahead, q, go ahead and break it down, cause you, you know the details more than I know the details, because you came up with it yourself.
Speaker 2:You said it heading off to Q. I'm like whoa, whoa, whoa. What are we doing? I don't care what we're talking about. All right, cool. So the From my Perspective podcast is doing a bracket challenge On ESPN. You know you already do the ESPN tournament challenges. You already do. So why not join the From my Perspective Tournament Challenge? So the first place prize gets a From my Perspective t-shirt. Second place gets a tumbler with the Mixed Vibes logo on it. And third place gets a Mixed Vibes calendar. So you will have all the different podcasts that's affiliated with Mixed Vibes. Each of them got their own month. That's third place and, depending on how many people we get, we might have a fourth and fifth place prize. So all you gotta do is search from my perspective in the tournament challenge, search in the search engine, put from my perspective, and it will pop up.
Speaker 1:Simple and easy. Me and Q, we will be in it. We won't be eligible for any prizes, but we will be in it. We'll see be eligible for any prizes, but we will be in it. We'll see if y'all can do better than us because we know a little something. I'm just saying we know a little something. We're pretty knowledgeable in these sports, but that'll do it from our perspective on this episode. Before we get out of here, seneca or Ray, do you guys have anything you guys want to promote, want to acknowledge? Just know, this is your time to shine right here.
Speaker 4:I'll let you go, Ray, because you got a pot.
Speaker 3:Go ahead, ray, go ahead. Speaking of, I do have a pot, oh, please. I said what I said. That's my background. I said what I said. We release our podcast every Sunday. We out there. We like to discuss books, current TV shows and many more. If you would like to hear us our opinions on things, come check us out.
Speaker 4:And for me, seneca, working on basically building a pod. I do highlights here of Alamance County sports, from our football to basketball, and we just finished up basketball here in Alamance County in North Carolina. We got two state champions from our county on the women's side that won in two separate classifications. That's the first time ever that we have two of our women's team win the state championship in the same year, and now I'm rolling over into covering our baseball and softball team. So I'm hoping to build that up to where then I can start to rival. Some of the other North Carolina coverages around our high school athletics other North Carolina coverages around our high school athletics. So if you're looking for me, mr Rogers, on my social media, through Instagram is Mr Neighborhood and then on Facebook it's just me, seneca Rogers, and I'm going to create a Facebook page that's going to be called the Neighborhood Talk Sports.
Speaker 1:Congratulations. I look forward to you doing big things in the softball and baseball realm. Uh, ray, uh, before we really get out here, I'm just wanting to do a little book promoting. Uh, the Sound of the Patient. I highly recommend this book. Since you know you're reviewing books, I don't read a lot, but I got hooked on this book. Very good book with a very crazy ending. I just you know, you know, just want to do a little promoting and give you a nice little book suggestion, since you like to review books.
Speaker 3:All right, if I read it and listen to it and or listen to it, would you be on the podcast?
Speaker 1:Absolutely, because I really like that book. I'm not going to give too much about it, but it's a good book, crazy ending Solid patient.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but yeah again, that'll do it from our perspective. Please like, please subscribe. Follow us on Twitter perspective underscore own eight. Follow all the Mixed Vibe Podcast. There's a bunch of them. We're out there doing big things. Shout out to Q. He's the leader, he's been spirit head, all this thing. Leave a comment Again. Like, leave a comment. Do all the good things and again, I'm your boy, deion Do-rag on the daily. Call me Do-rag D Q. Go ahead, take us home.
Speaker 2:Hey, you're on another Vast Show Boy, mr Bell, aka say your name in bonus five Might not put you to mild. We're going to catch y'all on our normal day, on Friday.