Joel Anderson and Stefan Fatsis are joined by USA At the moment’s Lindsay Schnell to speak concerning the NCAA girls’s faculty basketball match and by Buzzer’s Eamonn Brennan to debate the boys’s match. Lastly, the Washington Submit’s Kent Babb joins for a dialog about his profile of Kim Mulkey.
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• Slow Burn: Becoming Justice Thomas, hosted by Joel, gained the Ambies award for Podcast of the Year.
• Watch the finals of the 2024 North American College Scrabble Championship.
• Lindsay Schnell is a nationwide correspondent for USA At the moment. Learn her tales on North Carolina State’s upset of Texas within the Elite Eight of the ladies’s NCAA basketball match and USC star freshman JuJu Watkins.
• South Carolina advanced to its fourth consecutive Ultimate 4; LSU coach Kim Mulkey and point guard Hailey Van Lith criticized a Los Angeles Instances column as racist and sexist; and LSU ahead Angel Reese mentioned she and Iowa star Caitlin Clark “don’t hate each other.”
• One of many 3-point strains on the NCAA girls’s regional in Portland, Ore., was shorter than the other.
• Subscribe to Eamon Brennan’s faculty basketball e-newsletter, Buzzer.
• North Carolina State’s males’s crew beat Duke to advance to the Final Four for the primary time since its iconic championship in 1983.
• N.C. State’s DJ Burns Jr. rotated his season after being placed on a diet and conditioning plan.
• Purdue’s Zach Edey scored 40 factors to steer the Boilermakers to their first Final Four since 1980, whereas Alabama reached its first one ever. And UConn looks unstoppable.
• Learn Washington Submit sports activities options author Kent Babb’s profile, “The Kim Mulkey Way.”
• Mulkey attacked the story earlier than it was printed and, after it was printed, said she hadn’t read it.
• In 2022, Babb wrote about new LSU soccer coach Brian Kelly.
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