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We are three men passionate about all things college basketball. And we all have weaves.

Three Man Weave: College Basketball Podcast Three Man Weave: College Basketball Podcast

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We are three men passionate about all things college basketball. And we all have weaves.

    #347: Sweet Sixteen and Other Lullabies

    #347: Sweet Sixteen and Other Lullabies

    It's Sweet Sixteen time! The boys get you prepped for the next weekend of college hoops and share our reactions to the Tournament thus far. We also recap the latest in the coaching carousel!
    The Rundown:
    (0:00) Intro
    (2:21) Root's Roundup (Coaching News)
    (24:12) Tournament Reactions
    (37:30) Sweet Sixteen Preview
    (1:12:30) Reviews

    • 1 hr 24 min
    #346: March Madness Marathon 2024

    #346: March Madness Marathon 2024

    It's here!!! Our favorite episode of the year. No frills, no Root's Roundup, nothing but bracket breakdown goodness. 
     The Madness has arrived, and with it another annual edition of our March Madness Marathon pod! After an initial bracket reaction section, we go through every single first round game in detail, giving key stats and matchup angles for each one. We also peered into our crystal balls for Sweet 16, Final Four and Natty Champion picks!
    Region Time Stamps (We went in order down the line in bracket order for each: 1 vs. 16, then 8 vs. 9, then 5 vs. 12, etc.)

    (0:10) - Intro
    (3:18) - Bracket Reactions
    (15:04) - First Four
    (22:27) - East
    (49:28) - South
    (1:17:02) - Midwest (aka Maui)
    (1:41:31) - West
    (2:08:14) - Champ Picks

    • 2 hr 13 min
    #345: Champion of Champions

    #345: Champion of Champions

    Champions are made in the summer, but Champions are crowned in March…
    Many coronations await this weekend for the mid and low majors, while the big boys take one last bite at the bubble apple. Speaking of big boys, the Weave triumvirate is here, as always, to cover it all:
    Rundown:
    (0:00) - Intro
    (4:30) - Root’s Roundup
    (17:35) - Weave Saw That
    (23:05) - Conference Tournament Previews - Part 2
    (23:15) -“High ish Majors” (Big-12, Big East, Big Ten, SEC, ACC, Pac-12, MWC, A-10, AAC)
    (57:15) - “Mid ish Majors” (Ivy, WAC, CUSA, Big West, MAC, MAAC, MEAC, SWAC)

    • 1 hr 31 min
    #344: Come on in, the March Water is Delightful

    #344: Come on in, the March Water is Delightful

    We dive into 15 conference tournaments on this week's pod: ASUN, A East, Horizon, Patriot, OVC, NEC, MVC, Big South, Sun Belt, Summit, Big Sky, Southland, WCC, CAA, & SoCon.
    We'll also talk about what we saw the past week and catch you up on some news & notes.
    The Rundown:
    (0:00) Intro 
    (3:24) Root's Roundup (Dartmouth union, coach firings, & more) 
    (17:30) Weave Saw That (ASUN, comebacks, bad/good bubble breaks, & more) 
    (33:33) Conference Tournament Previews (ASUN, A East, Horizon, Patriot, OVC, NEC, MVC, Big South, Sun Belt, Summit, Big Sky, Southland, WCC, CAA, SoCon)  
    (1:21:15) Reviews (Michigan, Syracuse, Expansion, & more)
     
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    • 1 hr 34 min
    #343: February, It Remains

    #343: February, It Remains

    If you want Weave, then you have come to the right place. We humbly present to you 100 minutes of CBB discourse, hitting all the bulletin board stories. This includes, but is NOT limited to: court storming, Big 12 vs. ACC gripes, Wins Above Bubble, Wake Forest and Wazzu's up and down weeks, clinched regular season championships, and the legend of OT Jerome Tang. Plus, some mini games of "Fun or For Real" and "This or That," as well as previews and reviews. And if you didn't know you needed us reading Manscaped ad...well, you did.
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    The Rundown
    (0:10) - Intro
    (5:09) - Root's Roundup
    (17:39) - Weave Saw That
    (31:54) - Three Man Thoughts
    (1:17:31) - Game Previews, Pod Reviews

    • 1 hr 40 min
    #342: It's Still February

    #342: It's Still February

    It's uphill sledding in the dog days of conference play, but great college basketball podcasts get going when the going gets tough - the Weave intends to stand among them...
    Rundown:
    (0:00) - Intro
    (5:30) - Root's Roundup
    (22:50) - Weave Saw That
    (39:30) - Three Men Thoughts
    (1:08:25) - Game Previews + Review Reviews

    • 1 hr 32 min

Customer Reviews

4.8 out of 5
645 Ratings

645 Ratings

Cdawgnasty ,

The Weave knows college hoops

I’m quickly starting to dislike Nate Oats. How he handled the whole Miller situation, pushing a Missouri player, and complaining/ throwing a fit during a sideline interview about his teams horrible defense (who were trying to play D for once)getting more foul calls than Grand Canyon. I don’t know all of that is just starting to add up and bother me. What do you guys think of Oats?

Aaron Belletsky ,

Big East Fans are (correctly) mad but at the wrong metric

You guys are the best and I honestly can’t believe how much awesome free content you guys put out for all of us between the main pod, best bets, guest appearances, and BBOC. On to the take, Big East fans are mad at the NET and blaming analytics, when what they really should be blaming is KPI. KPI had every Big East team other than DePaul ranked lower than both SOR and WAB, some being 20-30 spots lower. The metric also has adjustments for Margin of Victory and pace which are traditionally adjustments reserved for efficiency metrics like Kenpom/Torvik/NET/Miya. The committee (independent of how it affected Big East teams) should switch to WAB as its second resume metric but alas that makes far too much sense.

hang.10 ,

Great CBB Pod - Solidarity with the Players Trying to Unionize

The Three Man Weave is without a doubt the best college basketball podcast for both the breadth of teams you cover and the depth of knowledge you have on each team. I was cracking up a few weeks ago when one of you offhandedly went “Of course regular 3MW listeners know Danny Wolf from Yale'' because what other cbb pod is talking about Yale enough to make him a regular character. Precisely because your coverage is always so thoughtful and thorough, I hope you become more open minded as the athletes from Dartmouth begin the inevitable process of asserting their rights as workers via their labor union. Even bad teams provide a service to their school as events for students to attend and a reason for alumni to donate. Students and alumni from any school would be outraged if they cut the basketball team even if the program hadn’t won a game in thirty years. I went to 2 time national champion Holy Cross and I’ll never forget our miracle run in the 2017 Patriot League Tournament. We were hyped to get a play-in game so we had a chance to win one and we were over the moon when we beat Southern. That team went 15-20 and 5-13 in Patriot League play and still likely garnered more alumni donations for the school than anything that’d happened in the previous decade. Even bad teams can make something happen, and even the ones who don’t deserve a slice of the pie. Yes, some players are worth significantly more than others, but all student athletes deserve compensation for the work they do and the service they provide their school, especially because a sports’ time commitment generally prevents them from being able to pursue other employment opportunities on or off campus. We’ve all seen Blue Chips, the best kids have always been getting paid and amateurism has always been a farce. A union helps ensure that they’re paid what they deserve and that every player is able to profit off their work as the lifeblood of this multi-billion dollar operation. The mafia style NIL collective solution is a start but is ultimately a band-aid on the Hoover Dam. The sport would be better off if it was able to get more organized and official about how and how much players were paid. I am sure those same student athletes would be similarly supportive if there was ever an opportunity for a sports podcasters union.

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