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that unsimilar to be honest so there's that that part of it you can make that comparison I think some more people make that one a college basketball comparison I love chase I think they're like this final four Miami team from a few years ago where they're They're small, ragtag group of dudes just making it happen, putting up a billion shots a game, playing into the 80s.

Look, Norchad O'Meara, he's what, 6'8"? Still doesn't matter.

Got a ton of boards with a double-double machine that year.

play five out, and they were so hard to scout and prepare for because, once again, they're just so different from what you were going to game to game, and that's another reason why they got so much success in the tournament.

Plus, they really got hot, and then they have the upsets against Houston and Texas along that way, but what was their ultimate downfall in that tournament? They had to go against UConn and their bigs and that juggernaut of Dan Hurley's first title team, so...

Because I kind of feel that way about this BYU team where I feel like their ultimate ceiling right now is the Final Four.

I think they actually can make a Final Four run.

So, uh, we saw the blueprint on how to do it at Valpo and, uh, um, prayed about it, felt led.

And obviously the great thing about being in the big 12, um, your chance of making the final four is a lot higher than coming from a mid-major program.

When we went to the Sweet 16 at Valpo, that's kind of like a mid-major's final four.

And UIC back in the day with Shirell Ford, they had some monsters.

Oh, yeah, we know.

And in our league, there hasn't been, you know, you get a night off when you play this team or you get a night off when you play that team.

And the bottom teams have made our conference that highly ranked.

We've had great high end coaches, meaning teams that have gone to Final Fours.

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Now, I would put him in the good, not great category of coaches.

Sure.

In that he's never been to a Final Four.

I don't.

Good-looking team right there.

Do you think this will be a good Final Four photo? I do.

Sounds great to me, man.

Love that.

That doesn't mean they're not appreciated by Cal and the rest of the staff and everything like that, but publicly, of course.

And also, this is the group that is tasked with defending the national title in the manager games this year.

And that is, outside of making it to the Final Four with the actual team, that's the next most important thing out there.

All right, so just real quick.

It's amazing.

Um, but we're gonna get into this more later, but before I forget, the tidbit you had shared with me before off camera, the 2012 Final Four team-

Yes

... four of the five starters ended up founding unicorn companies.

I got one more four reference.

Which is the Final Four in basketball.

That's some of the best basketball you can ever watch.

If you wanna wait and see some good college basketball, wait till they get to the Final Four.

Tournament time.

Tournament time.

Tournament time.

March Madness.

Shelton wins the latest battle in U.S. Open history, dethrones Alcaraz, and there will be an American man in the championship match here on Sunday.

That's right, because he will face Francis Tiore in that semifinal match, and there are two women in the Final Four on the women's side, which is cool, too.

That's right.

I called my shot on this one last year.

That's why their match started so late.

The two women's matches went three sets each and tiebreakers.

Jessica Pagula is now the U.S. woman into the Final Four.

She'll face the top seed, Aruna Sabalenka, and Coco Gauff has reached the semis.