Around the Rim: The Wolves Offense + Gopher regular season recaps

In this episode of the Splash City Basketball Podcast, host Steve Hartman dives deep into the current state of the Timberwolves and Gophers. We'll break down the Timberwolves' recent performance, including a tough loss to Orlando, and discuss what it means for their standing in the Western Conference. Steve looks at the starters' offensive production in wins vs losses to diagnose what goes wrong. 

On the Gophers front, we'll examine the close of their regular season and preview their prospects for postseason play. The Gopher women, despite a loss to Ohio State in the Big Ten tournament quarterfinals, could be hosting the first two rounds if they get a top 4 seed in the NCAA tournament. 

The Gopher men meanwhile have raised eyebrows with their inspired play. Overcoming injuries, and bad luck, Niko Medved's team beat expectations and now have a chance to make noise in the Big Ten tournament. 

Along the way, we’ll also touch on noteworthy performances in regional small college basketball and provide a special announcement about a live podcast event during March Madness weekend. 

Connect with Steve and the podcast on social media to learn more about upcoming guests and events.

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Transcript

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Back in there, back in and back again. Whoa, whoa, yeah, yeah. Hey, what's up, everyone? Welcome back to the Splash City basketball podcast. I am your host, Steve Hartman. It is Monday, March 9th, 2026, and we're officially in the madness. We've got tickets being punched, teams are dancing, other teams are fighting for their bubble lives. Um, and everyone's just trying to get to that next game. It's survive and advanced time of year. Um, one quick announcement before I get into the topics for today. I've officially got the go-ahead to host the podcast live during the opening weekend of March Madness. So watch for that announcement coming soon. It'll be in the West Metro at a local establishment. And I'm really excited to do that. I hope you all can come out and talk in person. Let's talk about the games, the brackets, the teams, uh, talk some hoops. So watch for that announcement. Uh, before I dive into today's key segments on the Wolves and the Gophers, I want to recognize a couple of runs happening across the region. First of all, in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, I had Terry Vandravek on from Sanford Sports. Uh, I hope you have been following him uh talking about Summit League Tournament NSIC tournament, but North Dakota State men win the summit league championship last night. They beat UND 70 to 62 in a uh rivalry game, but NDSU kind of controlled things for most of the game there. Uh, they went on a big 8-0 run to end the first half and then kind of um had it between 6 and 12 most of the game in the second half there. Um, Damari Wheeler Thomas is fantastic. Getting it done. He had 19 points. He was the most outstanding player of the tournament. Uh Noah Federson hits a big three late to kind of seal it for NDSU. Um, Grayson Ullman from Minnetonka, outstanding in that game. Also outstanding throughout the tournament. He had 41 in the opening round. He had 28 against St. Thomas in that upset win, uh, which in which St. Thomas really heartbreaker for them, losing on a last second. Uh, they had the ball tied with 22 seconds to go. They had the ball and they turn it over. UND comes down and gets followed and makes one of the two free throws, and they win the game by one. Um, St. Thomas has a young roster, so they could be back, but Transfer Portal could call come calling as well for some of their star players like Nolan Minasale and uh Janowski and some of those guys. So be interesting offseason for St. Thomas. Um, on the women's side, the South Dakota State Jack Rabbits, the juggernaut in the summit league, not the number one team in the tournament, knocks off that team, uh, NDSU. So the NDSU women fall to the Jack Rabbits in that one and SDSU back in March Madness, where they kind of have belonged for the last 10 to 15 years. So great job uh down in Sioux Falls, good games, fun, fun atmosphere. Um, other things about the big dance I wanted to talk about. We have 10 former Minnesota men's basketball players, so guys who grew up playing prep hoops in Minnesota. They are locked into the NCAA tournament, so you might want to start following some of them. Uh, Wisconsin's got four of them, so there's there's a handful right there. Um, but one name to follow is Nasir Whitlock. Uh, he's a former D Lasale standout. He was a 2023 Minnesota Mr. Basketball winner. He leads the way for Lehigh University. They were the two-seed in the Patriot League. A few nights ago, Nasir hit a miraculous half-court shot to win the game in the quarterfinals of the Patriot League tournament. And then he followed that up uh with 22 points in the semis to get them into the Patriot League Championship where they will face Boston University. Boston knocked off the top seed in the Patriot League Navy for spot in their tournament. So uh Nazir Whitlock and Lehigh might be dancing here come Wednesday night, March 11th, is that championship game. Other small college notes, Division II, Minnesota State Mancato, women gets the number one seed, and they're hosting the Central Regional. Uh, they got uh UMD out of Duluth as well in that, and Concordia St. Paul on the women's side, also making the Division II tournament. On the men's side, St. Cloud State and Duluth are officially dancing. They're both in the men's division two tournament in Division III. A couple games already in the books. Concordia College and Bethel advance on the women's side. They're in the Sweet 16. Gustavus, the winner of the Mayak regular season and tournament title, is in the Sweet 16 on the men's side. So fun to follow them. Check them out. So big year for a lot of local programs, a lot of fun, uh exciting basketball in the region. Coming up in today's episode, segment one, I'll be talking Timberwolves, ugly loss to Orlando over the weekend. Kind of a typical Wolves loss. They win five in a row, then they lose a really ugly game or they just don't play well. Um, however, Houston also lost over the weekend. So Wolves remain in third place in the Western Conference for now. After that, we'll talk gopher basketball. So they wrap up the regular season. Uh the women get through the Big Ten tournament, the men open the Big Ten tournament this week. Just talk about um, you know, thoughts on the programs and what we can expect here in the future this week and beyond for both gopher men and women basketball. Later this week, I'll have an episode uh talking about youth basketball. Um, my son's team, sixth graders, just wrapped up their youth basketball season, and I think their seventh and eighth grade youth basketball state tournaments this weekend coming up. Uh just wanted to kind of shed some light on what goes into a youth basketball season because I know as parents and athletes, you kind of just go with the flow. You show up at games and practices and that. Um, but there's a lot of scheduling, there's a lot of um different ways and philosophies to run a youth program. So I'll bring a couple people on um from our local association and just talk about that from board meetings to volunteering time to schedule and get tournaments and get practices. There's a lot of things they have to juggle. So um, one final thing, make sure you follow the podcast on Instagram, Blue Sky, and Facebook. You can subscribe and follow on YouTube, Spotify, Apple, wherever you get your podcast. Um, also notice that if you have a smart device like an Alexa, you can uh listen to the podcast on your Alexa. So there's a there's a fun new way to listen. Anyway, with that, let's get into the wolves. All right, so the first topic today I want to talk about is the Timberwolves. They lose to the Orlando Magic by 27 on Saturday, and it was pretty ugly after the first quarter. Um, a lot of things wrong, a lot of things just didn't go. I mean, first of all, they couldn't make a shot. Uh I think Jaden, Dante, and Io were like a combined one for 21 or something like that. Um, but I think that stems more from other issues with the Wolves in terms of how they're playing on offense. Um, so I wanted to examine this. I went a little bit deeper in wins and losses, and I just looked at their starters. They're five starters. Um, you know, their numbers when they win versus the numbers when they lose. As you might expect, uh Jaden McDaniels stays pretty steady of all the starters. His plus-minus is the lowest difference between wins and losses. Rudy is second. Uh, where the fluctuation happens the most is between Anthony Edwards and Julius Randle, and then Dante Di Vincenzo is third. So when they win, um, you know, their plus-minus is over 10. And when they lose, it's it's in the minus eights uh range. So that's a big swing. And what is it about those guys in particular? Well, they're the ball dominant players, they're the guys who are handling the ball. A lot of times they're the ones facilitating the offense. And and again, just looking at Edwards and Randall, um, the numbers bear that out in terms of ball movement, player movement, and shot selection. And those are the big things with the Wolves that I notice. Like when they're not making shots, and again, in Saturday's game against Orlando, like Jaden and Dante, they're not getting the shots in rhythm, they're not getting the shots um out of the paint. A lot of times it's it's the grenades. It's three seconds left in the shot clock, and now you're asking Jaden and Dante to do something that maybe they're rushing or they're not comfortable with. Uh, and so when I looked at you know the shot selection, shot quantity in wins versus losses, Edwards shoots almost three more shots in losses than he does in wins. Uh, Julia shoots uh more shots in losses than wins. Shooting percentage goes down. Um, and when you look at Jaden, Jaden's field goal percentage is 55% in wins, and it's 48% in losses. Um, Rudy, 75% in wins, 62% in losses. Um Dante, 44% in wins, 37% in losses. Those are big swings over the course of a year, and I think it just speaks to shot selection, ball movement. Um, assists is another number I looked at. Anthony Edwards averages almost four assists a game in wins, he averages 3.3 in losses. Julius, he averages a whole assist more per game than he does in losses. Turnovers, opposite, right? More turnovers per game and losses. Edwards, more turnovers per game in losses. Um, kind of the standard, I guess, across the team. But I say all that because I when I watch them and the ball moves and the ball hits the paint and it's out and it's swung, those are rhythm shots. Those are shots that Finch wants. And I think though that's to me the biggest difference. Now, some of that is the defense, right? Orlando plays a very physical defense, they have great defenders across the board. Desmond Bain, Jalen Suggs, first of all, very good defensive players. Um, Paulo is a big, strong guy that can make things difficult for Julius. Uh, Wendell Carter is a decent defender as well. And so you got that's that's a recipe, but they're gonna see that in OKC, and they're gonna see that in um Houston. Those are great defensive teams as well. So they need to find another way to move the ball uh against these more physical teams. I think it's you know, they're sometimes it leads onto itself, right? Where you get some frustration. Um, in that Orlando game specifically, there was a moment, I think it was second quarter, Ant makes an attack, he draws a defender and he dumps it to Rudy. Now it was a little bit spicy on the pass, but Rudy, most centers in the league will catch that and dunk it. Rudy drops it, goes out of bounds. Ant's facial expression at that moment kind of led the way for a lot of other things. Like he looked completely disgusted and frustrated by that. And I think that is a challenge for this team because if you can't trust a guy to catch the ball when you feed it to him and you make the right play, Finch wants him to make the right play, and Roddy can't catch the ball uh unless it's absolutely perfect in the perfect spot for his hands, um, that can be frustrating. And it is an offensive limitation for this team. However, I'm talking other guys like Dante and Jaden. Um, you know, when you look at field goals attempted in wins and losses, Jaden shoots the same amount. He shoots a higher percentage in wins. Um, Dante, roughly the same amount of attempts. Same, so same thing. So these are just quality of shots. Now, maybe it's a make or miss league, right? Some games you make them, when you make them, you win the game. And they do that more often than they lose. But I think it's deeper than that. I think it's ball movement, I think it's the types of shots they get um matters more than than it does. Um, but I think the key thing is Edwards and Randall shoot less times when they win. And that to me is a pretty stealth telling stat, right? Like they don't have to shoot the most shots to win the games. Um, they're the wolves are more effective when the ball is moving and multiple guys are getting shots. And I think that's been true for years. So it becomes a little bit frustrating that they can't find that, you know, throughout the game. Like you can have a struggling quarter, but for that second quarter to bleed all the way into the second half and just never regain your footing. Uh, to me, that is again a little bit worrisome and kind of just emblematic of this team throughout its history is like when when they're rolling, they're good, but they have a hard time getting out. And maybe that's the Mike Conley thing, right? Like that's what everybody always said. He was the professional, he can get them into the shots, he gets the ball popping. Uh, as Finch says, the balls finds energy, the ball finds energy. And so when you don't have somebody to move it right away off the top and get get them into something, get them into an action, then the ball gets sticky. And when the ball gets sticky, they don't play as well. Um, so that that's number one for me. I just, you know, those are just, you know, maybe they're obvious things, right? But I I think it's something to remember as we watch the wolves. And if Julius and Ant are trying to go one-on-one and doing a lot of ISO, and um, that's just not their formula for winning. And I think Jaden is incredibly efficient scoring the basketball. Um, he scores almost a point and a half. He scores at 1.6 more points per game and wins. Edwards actually um scores five points fewer in their wins than he does their losses. So when they lose, now it could be chicken or egg. Like, are they losing so he tries hero ball and tries to get them back in so he shoots more? Or is he shooting more and they dig themselves a hole and they struggle? Um same thing with Julius. He actually averages only 0.7 points per game fewer um in wins than he does losses, but uh everybody else, Rudy scores more and wins, Dante scores more and wins, and Jaden scores more and wins. So um to me, if you're the Wolves and as you're watching the game, you have to see like, is the ball popping? Is the ball moving? Are other guys involved early? And that's gonna be a recipe for success. If it's sticky, if we get into a low where the ball is just kind of in Rudy or Julius or Ant's hands, it's probably not gonna be a great night offensively for them. So uh again, I just looked at the starters, could do the the reserves, but I'm guessing it's similar. Um, the wolves are at their best when the ball moves and multiple guys are getting shots and in rhythm and you know, taking the shots that they're comfortable make taking. Um, so that's number one. The other thing I noticed on Saturday that kind of bugged me. Um, there was a moment, I think it was the second quarter, where uh the wolves again had bad possessions, jacked up early at one pass and shot went up and they didn't make it. And Orlando was getting out in transition, and Edwards basically had two take fouls, just really like no effort to get back and hustle to protect the basket. It was just like, I'm just gonna foul this guy, I don't want to run. Um, and I feel like that kind of changed the energy and the momentum of the game a little bit. Because if that's your effort level on that given day, it's just not gonna be a great day for you against, you know, not a great team. Like Orlando's eighth seed in the East, so they're playing team. Um, and I know they've had a ton of injuries, and you know, they had higher expectations this year. Uh, but I just think that set a bad tone for the rest of the game, and it kind of spiraled from there. That was still the Wolves still had a lead at that time. Um, you know, and again, like you'd hope you'd go into locker room and kind of regroup, and they just never did. Uh, and so as in the case a lot of times, you know, they I was watching a video about Kobe Bryant the other day in the Olympics, and I think it was 2008. So the U.S. Olympic team had come off a third place finish, uh bronze finish at the 04 Olympic Games, and it was kind of like, all right, we need to get back to American basketball and dominate on in the Olympics. And it was the first game of the tournament, um, so pre-metal round or anything like that. And they were playing Spain, and Kobe said, I'm gonna pop Paul Gasol. I know what they're gonna run the first play, I'm gonna run right through his chest. And LeBron and D Wade and all these guys were like, Yeah, okay, whatever. Like, he's that's his teammate, man. Like he that's his brother. And he Kobe literally ran right through him and put him on the floor, his own teammate on the Lakers, and everybody said, Whoa, he set the tone for how this was gonna be. Kobe said, I don't care that we're teammates. This is not the Lakers, this is USA versus Spain, and I'm the leader, and that completely changed that Olympic team and their mindset. And I think it also changed Spain's because Powell even admitted, like, oh wow, like he's not messing around. Like, these guys are coming and they're gonna bring it, and that's what the leaders need to do. And so I bring that up only in this case of Edwards, where it's okay to have a bad game, it's okay to miss shots, it's okay to, you know, maybe get in foul trouble. But I think when you are the leader of the team and you take some plays off, and you just don't bring the energy, that that is gonna trickle down through the team. So just again, my observations from Saturday. Now, Houston lost, the Wolves still are in third place in the West, which I think is a good spot for them. Um you know, they're probably not catching the Spurs for second at this point. Uh, if they can keep that third place uh in the Western Conference, that's a good spot to be. You you know, hopefully you can win a round one. You get San Antonio in round two, uh, possibly meeting OKC again in the in the Western Conference Finals. But yeah, they got a stretch here. They got four straight on the road. They go to the Lakers, Clippers, Warriors, Thunder. That's a tough stretch. Two and two, awesome. If you go two and two, I think in that stretch, you're feeling good. Then you come home and you get the Suns, Jazz, Blazers at home. Now we can't have any more of these slip-ups against these bad teams. Sweep that, and you're five and two in those seven. Um, and you're sitting really good. That gets you at 45 and 26. Um, they have more games. They got two against the Pistons, they got the Rockets and Celtics in there coming up at the end of March. But uh, this this next four-game road trip, followed by three winnable at home, is really important for the Timberwolves. So we'll see how they handle business coming up. Um, again, it's always funny because you lose you win five in a row and you lose one and you're like dwelling on the one. Um, you know, they played well against the Raptors, they beat the Grizzlies, they beat the Nuggets. So what you know, it's the NBA season. It's 82 games, shorten it, make these more impactful, but for now, it's 82 games. But um like to see them rebound uh Tuesday against the Lakers. You know, that was an ugly loss against the Magic. You get a couple days off. Let's let's get things right, let's get our head right, go out to LA, beat the Lakers, and all will be right in Timberwolves Nation. All right, for the final segment of today's show, I wanted to talk about gopher men's and women's basketball. Uh, we'll start with the women. Don Plitzowite had a great season. I know they got knocked out of the Big Ten tournament by Ohio State in the quarterfinals. Uh, didn't play particularly well that game, but they still finished eighth in the country in Bart Torbik, and they finished ninth in the net rankings. This is um, I don't think people quite get like they're ahead of Iowa in the net. They're ahead of Louisville, um, Oklahoma, Maryland, Ohio State in the net. So this team, um, you know, if if the committee seeds them the way they normally would based on those metrics, based on win loss, um, they're probably looking at a three seed in the NCAA tournament. Um, you could argue they might drop to a four because they're five and seven in quad one and two and one in quad two. So they're they're seven and eight in combined um first two quadrants, uh, which isn't as good as some of the other teams. You look around them. Uh Duke's ahead of them, they're 14 and 8 in those two quadrants. The Hawkeys are 16 and 6 in those two quadrants. Uh Louisville is 14 and 7. So everyone else has a winning record in those two quadrants. So I could see Minnesota dropping to maybe a four seed just based on that. But if you went by the net ranking and the Torvik uh ranking, they would be a top three seed in the NCAA tournament, hoping to maybe get some home games. Uh, because they the way they do it, they usually break out into pods. Uh, it'd be great if the Gophers could get some home games here at the barn as they enter NCAA tournament play. Uh, a couple other things uh regarding them. Um, you know, defensively, they were one of the best teams in the country, certainly one of the best teams in the Big Ten. Um the biggest thing, you know, during the course of the season, they were number two in the country in turnover rate. So they didn't turn the ball over. And against Ohio State, who had quicker guards and they got after them and they got up in into their body, they forced the Gophers to try to beat them one on one. They really struggled with that. So we'll see who they match up with in the tournament. Because I think that could be a big indicator on their success getting out of the first weekend and getting into the Sweet 16. But a lot, you know, even in that game, they Did not play well 20 turnovers, they actually only lost by four because their defense is that good. It kept them in the game. They rebounded the basketball very well. I just think, again, I've I've said this going way back, and it's on the men's and women's side. You put a coach in, no matter what level they've been at, and Plitzha White was at South Dakota State, which, as I talked about earlier, tremendous success, tremendous program getting to the NCAA tournament, getting wins in the tournament. But you get someone who's built programs, who's recruited the kids for their system, and who knows what it takes to win year after year after year, you're gonna find success. Basketball is not a complicated game. Um, it's it's doing a lot of simple things over and over and over really well. And the Gophers just give themselves a chance to win every night just based on their defense alone. Um, and then you add in that, you know, they got some great Gruholski can really fill it up from outside. Um, great shooter. Um started to come on a little bit better uh lately. You know, she's struggled with some injuries over her career, and it's great to see them have some success in her final season. Um, Sophie Hart down low is is is really solid. And you got Amaya Battle and um McKinney, Tori McKinney, like they they just have a really nice complete, you know, probably six, seven uh sorry, middle school terms, uh top seven players uh that they can go to. And so uh really exciting season for the Golfers. Hopefully we get to some home games here at the barn, and uh we'll keep watching them progress. Uh selection so show coming up uh this Sunday along with the men's. Um on the men's side, I don't know what else to say. I I mean I feel like I've talked about uh Nico and and his system, but like literally playing the last what month of the year with six guys and winning games in the big I don't care if it's Northwestern. Um, they have an all Big Ten player in Martinelli, and the Gophers still got it done the other night. They hold on for a one-point win. They had a 14-point lead, almost blew it, um, but they hang on. There's some statistic out there, and I I apologize, I can't find it, but I think there was something about like Nico Medbed's teams have never finished lower in Ken Palm than they started the season. So the Gophers started the season on the men's side at 73, and they're currently at 72. So that streak should live on. Um, assuming they can get out of the Rutgers game on Wednesday in the Big Ten tournament and with a win. Uh you lose that, you might drop. Uh, but in Torvik, the Gophers are actually ranked number 56. So they're 15 and 16. Uh, there's been, you know, there's like a measure that these metric systems can do for luck, right? Like if all things were equal, any other team, how often would they win in the gophers or you know, versus the gophers? And the gophers actually have had, by that metric, really bad luck. The gophers rank 311th in that luck metric, according to Ken Palm. So very unlucky season uh for them based on that. Uh, they they are 85th in the country in offensive rating, 69th in defensive rating. Nico was talking post-game the other night about this three iterations of his team, right? So beginning of the year, you got Chauncey Willis and Robert Viola as your point guard in center. You got Jalen Crocker Johnson, um, you know, Grayson Grove is a bench player coming off at the four or five position. Uh uh Lankson Reynolds is your kind of power guard that'll come off the bench and be your change of pace guard. So then you lose Viola and Willis. Now you got a different iteration, you got a shorter bench, you got to play shin holster more, you got to play Grove more. Um, and then you and then you lose Jalen Crocker Johnson, who had been, you know, probably your best player, maybe behind Kate Tyson, but you know, one A and one B uh throughout much of the season. Then you lose him. So now you're playing strictly a 2-3 zone, and you're making it work with uh one big um and a you know a couple of six, seven wing players who aren't exactly the most physical presence on the court. And then you got Shinholster as your only bench player, a true freshman. And the fact that you can go 15 and 16, you can go 8 and 12 in the Big Ten, you're finishing 11th out of an 18-team league when you even preseason with your full roster, you were picked like 15th or 16th in the conference. Um, to me, that's just that's having the right guys, recruiting the right kids and the mental toughness. Um, it's getting guys to buy into what you do. A lot of teams shut it down. I mean, let's be honest. There's a lot of college kids, you know, you're 21, 22 years old, 20 years old, things don't go your way. Woe is me, sets in, and and you mail it in and you finish out the Big Ten season and you lose seven or eight in a row. Um I don't want to call anybody out, but um look at Maryland. Maryland had higher aspirations this year than Minnesota. They finish 11-20, and they are uh four and sixteen in the Big Ten. So I'm not saying Buzz Williams isn't a good coach because I historically he's proven he's a pretty good coach, but I just think there is something to the culture and the program, and we're not quitting, we're not um giving in, we're gonna keep battling and we're gonna find a way. I think there's a lot that could be said for for Nico and in that team and and the players. Like that is not easy to ask Bobby Durkin to be playing the bottom of a 2-3 zone all you know for the last six weeks or whatever it's been, and then also to start shooting, and he did. Cade Tyson, one of the leading scorers in the Big Ten, able to play a zone. He re had a rebound more. Lenks and Reynolds Awesome. I said at the beginning of the year, I love their physicality and defensiveness, and they proved that. Like those two are two of the better defensive guards in the Big Ten. Uh, Reynolds figured out a way, like teams would scheme it. We're gonna put our center on him, we're not gonna guard him on the three-point line. Found a way to to counteract that. Um, and so just a really fun season. You beat Michigan State, you beat UCLA, uh, Iowa, Indiana. Like they had some they had some really fun wins. Um, and so it's I don't know. I'm a I'm a go for Rube. I've been a season ticket holder, so there's always a little bias, but I I truly believe that this is a program that's they're ready to unleash it. I I think if you have Willis and Viola and Jalen Crocker Johnson um healthy for most of the year, you're you're pro that they're sniffing a tournament bid, honestly. Um, because if you could squeak two more wins and you're 500 in the Big Ten, a lot of times that's a tournament team. Um, if and you know, maybe you don't lose a couple of those non-conference games to Santa Clara and Stanford and San Francisco if you have a healthy team. Um, and so now now all of a sudden you're looking at a team that's maybe, you know, maybe they're 19 and 12 and they go 500 in the Big Ten. And that's that's a bubble team. That's Ohio State right now. So uh I just kudos to that program and those players, that the coaching staff. Uh, I think it's been extremely fun to watch. And uh I hope they get the Rutgers game. If they do, they get UCLA, who they've already beaten. And if they win that, they get Michigan State, who they've already beaten. So uh fun stuff. Uh both men's and women's programs on the rise. A lot of excitement in Dinky Town. I think it's uh it's only good for the basketball community when those two programs on the University of Minnesota is competitive, and they certainly are this year, and it looks like they will be for years to come. All right, that's my show today. Um, I appreciate you listening. Again, give me a follow, give Splash City Basketball Podcast a subscribe, follow, whatever, all the things. Um, really excited for the rest of the week. Obviously, it's March, so I'm always excited in March. But um, later this week we'll talk youth basketball, associations, and little teaser might have a head coach of an NCAA men's basketball tournament team on the podcast coming up very soon. So stick around for that. We'll do a selection show on Sunday night. We'll probably do like a bracket breakdown. Got my buddy Eric coming on. Eric and I used to do literally would fill them out manually as they came on the TV screen. We would write them down on paper and fill out our bracket that way. So excited to do that with a buddy of mine who we've been friends for uh probably 35 years now at this point, which is crazy to say. Um, but really excited. And again, um, I think I've teased this out a couple times. It does sound like I will be doing a podcast live on site, March Madness, either Thursday or Friday. Details to come, but that is happening. So plan on meeting me uh in person one of those two days. I'm assuming you're taking the day off those days because it's March. What else is there to do? It's college basketball, it's the madness. Let it begin. Uh, I'm here for it. More college tournament champions to be crowned this week and more tickets to be punched to the big dance. Thanks for listening. This has been the Splash City basketball podcast. Bag and then, back in and back again.

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