
Brawl Don't Lie
Two college basketball nuts without a filter discuss the women's game
Episodes
40 episodes
Welcome to Mulkeyville
- NOTE: THIS EPISODE WAS RECORDED BEFORE ANEESAH MORROW COMMITTED TO LSU BUT WE KINDA ASSUMED IT WAS GONNA HAPPEN -It's Kim Mulkey's world and we're all living in it. The 4-time national champion head coach (or 7-time if you count her r...
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Season 2
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Episode 18
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43:05

Remember when the Final Four happened?
LSU beat Iowa in the National Championship game a while back. We would have podded sooner but Russ was gallivanting around Houston celebrating the UConn men's title, then went into a week-long championship coma to recover. But hey! Better late ...
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Season 2
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Episode 17
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42:53

LET'S PREVIEW THE FINAL FOUR
Y'all, the Final Four is here. Russ is in Dallas and Meredith has COVID, so one could say we are fully prepared for a weekend of basketball. By now, you know the matchups. Virginia Tech will play LSU in the first semifinal before THE MATCHUP OF...
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Season 2
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Episode 16
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38:45

First Weekend Recap/Sweet 16 Preview
What a first weekend of the NCAA Tournament it was! With two 1 seeds going down and storylines abound, Russ and Meredith break down everything that happened over the course of the last week. Then, they preview what’s to come. Do they keep their...
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Season 2
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Episode 15
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40:45

Your Vibes-Based 2023 NCAA Tournament Preview
Vibes and Spite. That's how Russ is filling out his bracket this year. The numbers and analysis have gotten him nowhere.With that in mind, Russ and Meredith look at the entire bracket and pick every game. Who do they have going all the ...
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Season 2
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Episode 14
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47:38

Talking Bubble
We're smack dab in the middle of conference tournament season, which means it's time to talk who's in, who's out, who's a 1 seed, and more!We start by revisiting our 1 seed conversation from last week, updating who might be fighting for...
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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51:33

The Vibescast
This one is a little of the rails, so we apologize. But there's good reason! Meredith has a ghost in her apartment AND she's sick AND we have awful NYC apartment stories.There's some basektball too, like Caitlin Clark's absurd buzzer-be...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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59:25

Let's Be Bracket Dorks
With one top 16 reveal in the rearview mirror and another on the way, the gang (uh, two of us) takes a look at some of the key learnings the first time around and what might change next time. We also touch on the strength of the SEC vs. Big Ten...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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52:40

Recapping a HUGE Sunday and also...weird infections
First thing's first, Russ has an infection and you'll never guess where! Stay tuned until the end to find out.Less importantly, South Carolina escaped Hartford with an 81-77 win over UConn. We break down that game and where both teams g...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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43:26

Big Ten Brouhaha & A 2-Bid Ivy
FIRST THING'S FIRST! If you missed our live Twitter space last week for the Duke-UNC game, you can go back and listen here: twitter.com/i/spaces/1gqxvyddZdQJB--Now to...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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47:13

Who is the Player of the Year?
Two podcasts in the span of one week? What is this madness?!Yes, we're back and (maybe) better than ever to talk all the happenings in women's college basketball. We start with the Dre Edwards controversy at Baylor/Kentucky before delvi...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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35:45

Reverse ASMR
We're back from the holiday break! While we were both injured in UConn's win over Xavier this week, we gutted out a podcast to talk about a couple teams that have been winning, but operating under-the-radar so far this year: Illinois and Duke (...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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36:45

The Brawl Don't Lie Holiday Gift Bonanza
It's [insert preferred holiday here] time!And to get in the holiday spirit, we decided to give some gifts to those in the college basketball world. Highlights include gifting another All-American to Maddy Siegrist, the use of Google to ...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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47:41

Russ's Very Bad Day
Where else can you find a women's basketball podcast that starts with a prolonged rant about baseball?Hey, if you want anything different, you shouldn't listen to a podcast that records the same day it becomes clear Aaron Judge will not...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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44:39

Live from the Las Vegas Invitational
OK, we start a little goofy by getting our jokes off about the Las Vegas Invitational debacle, but there's a lot to actually unpack there and it is a discussion worth having. So we had it. On the court (ballroom or regular), Indian...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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38:51

Tara VanDerveer Fan Fiction
No. 1 played No. 2 last week and some weird stuff happened. More importantly, it showed just how darn good South Carolina and Stanford actually are. But, on the eve of Thanksgiving, we need to do more than just talk about the happenings on the ...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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47:50

Opening Week Slander
We have a little more than a week of games in the books, which means we can already tell you the teams that will go to the Final Four and the teams that are overrated trash. Maybe. In the pod, we share our thoughts on Tennessee, Iowa, and UConn...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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30:16

South Carolina, Stanford....then who?
After the Final Four, we told you we'd be back in a couple weeks with a new episode. As promised, here we are, a mere 4.5 months later! Now that the portal has died down, devastating injuries have happened, and Dawn Staley has played corn hole,...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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55:33

This is a DAWNASTY
We made it! We're home from the Final Four and the 2021-22 season is officially in the books. We break down the Final Four, national championship, and all the VIBEZ in Minneapolis before looking ahead to next year and talking a little bit about...
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Season 1
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Episode 21
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56:25

Brawl Don't LIVE! Russ & Meredith host spaces from the Final Four
We're in Minneapolis! I mean both of us! In real life! Together for the first time since before the pandemic! As we sat in my (Russ's) hotel room and marveled at the odd placement of the TV, we decided to jump on Twitter spaces to ...
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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43:36

First Weekend Breakdown & Sweet 16 Preview
We're just now catching our breath from the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament and EVERYTHING that came with it. We go region by region to discuss the following:- The upsets! How 'bout Creighton and South Dakota?- The favorites! South...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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55:27

Bracket PODLOOZA!
Folks, we have a bracket. We have picks. We have complaints. We have...a dog on Meredith's lap??? We break down the 2022 NCAA Tournament field, including:- Why Princeton and FGCU's seedings are inexcusable- Which 1 seeds are most vulner...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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40:12

Conference Tournamentpalooza
It's conference tournament time! We go through each of the Power 5 conference tournaments to talk favorites, implications, and a few surprises that we've already seen. Which bubble teams can punch their tickets? Is there still a battle for 1 se...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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38:18

Conference Prediction Review: How wrong were we?
Wayyyyy back in November we talked about how we thought each major conference race would shake out. Sure, the favorites were easy to peg, but what about our sleepers? We go back and see how we did before re-hashing the National Player of the Ye...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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32:56

Some Florida Appreciation and Bubble Talk
You know who we haven't talked enough about this year? The Florida Gators. After a lackluster start, they're beating ranked teams left and right, and have an actual shot at the 2 seed in the SEC Tournament. After that, Russ puts his Bracketolog...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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29:48
