The Herd with Colin Cowherd - Show Me Something - Live From the Bracket: Episode 2 | Teammates and Travel Talk with Lexie Hull

Episode Date: April 1, 2026

This week, Show Me Something is back for round two of Live from the Bracket with Marriott Bonvoy®, at the biggest March Madness® bracket in the country. Sophie Cunningham and West Wilson return to the studio at the Westin in Indianapolis—home of the 2026 Men’s Final Four®—to dive deeper into basketball, travel, and fandom with a very special guest: Sophie’s Indiana Fever teammate and doppelgänger, Lexie Hull. Recorded on March 17, just before the tournament tipped off, the trio gets into Lexie and Sophie’s March Madness memories. In this episode:Travel and practice routinesThe Final Four mindset Why Lexie chose StanfordWhat the college basketball journey really looks like when it comes to friendships, career growth, and development as a player The conversation is packed with exciting, behind-the-scenes women’s college basketball insights, must-pack travel items, game day memories, and honest reflections on what makes the game so rewarding and what they love most about the culture of college hoops. Plus, a ton of laughs. This is March Madness® like you’ve never heard it before, and the second of four live episodes with Marriott Bonvoy®. Follow Show Me Something for the rest of the limited series. Check us out @showme_pod on Instagram to enter for a chance to win tickets to the Final Four®. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Void where prohibited. Open to legal residents of the 50 U.S./D.C., who are at least 18 years old as of date of entry. Sweepstakes ends 11:59 PM ET on 4/15/26, with two (2) entry periods. For complete Official Rules, visit rules.dja.com/livefromthebracket. Sponsor: Marriott International, Inc.#livefromthebracket #marriottbonvoy #wheregamedaychecksin #marchmadness #ncaatournament #wnba #indianafever #womensbasketball #lexiehullMen’s March Madness® bracket located at the JW Marriott Indianapolis. Episode filmed at The Westin Indianapolis.Marriott Bonvoy is the official hotel partner of the NCAA®, March Madness®, and Final Four®.All lines provided by ‪Hard Rock BetSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Episode two, right here in Indy, live from the bracket. Games from coast to coast, all the crazy twists and turns and unforgettable stories, capture right behind us. And we have a super, super cool guest today. She was my teammate from last year, one of my best girls, Lexi Hull. It was a very unique Final Four. That is such wild times. The roof blew off. You did cry. Let's head up to the studio and check it out. How's my hair look? Great. Come on. Let's go. Our favorite game day stories, they don't always happen on the court.

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routine while on the road. Weston, part of Myriad Bonvoy, where game day checks in. I'll start this off. I love this. Look at Lexi and I's chemistry right off the jump. Unplanned. Unplanned, pure, just a nice mocha brown and denim. Does that make us best friends? Yeah, sit out. I know, but the bad thing is, I'm not kidding, when I walked down my closet, I had that same exact thing on today. I could have been a triplet, but. That's tragic. You're used to being a twin. So now, sorry, Lucy, identical twin. Whoa. She's going to be jealous. Does she, She's gonna be jealous. Is she a hoover?

Yeah, we played together at Stanford. Whoa. Yeah, but now she just is a pickup at the Y. She's come to games and people go up to her during the game and ask like, why aren't you on the court? Go I get a picture? No way. Sometimes people with twins either like, not like steer clear of each other, but like very much separate identities. No, we're same friends, same teams, all of it.

All right, I want to get in because I'm sure everyone knows. But if you don't, our guest today is a professional basketball player in the WMBA. You know her as a guard for the Indiana Fever, where she's. she's built a reputation as one of the league's toughest defenders, which is so on cue. I've had to play against it and then also being on the team now, we're like, Lexi, you take it. Before turning pro, she started at Stanford University, whoop whoop, helping lead the Cardinals to a national championship in 2021 with her twin Lacey and finishing her career as one of the most decorated players in program history, which that, if you guys know anything about Stanford

basketball, that is a huge accomplishment. Along the way, she earned multiple All-Pact 12 honors and became known for her versatility in leadership, high basketball IQ, and I will say, I feel like, were you on, like, any of the academic? Yeah. Yeah, this isn't on there, but just knowing you, I feel like you should. Most of them. Humble Queen! Well, we're going to get into it, but she's, like, starting her own business and everything.

But everyone, please welcome Lexi Hall. This is good. Lexi! I'm so happy to be here. This is so far. I know. This has been a long time, like, coming. Like, we've been like, we need Lex on here so bad.

And so it, like, finally works out. March Madness. I've been pitching it for weeks, obviously. And it's here. We need to get her figured out. No, I feel like our first episode, you're like, hey, can we get Lexi? I'm like, dude, she's getting married in November.

Chill. No, I clocked that. Are you going to tell her how to say Cardinal, not the Cardinals? Oh, is it Cardinals? No, I was going to interrupt you, but I didn't really want to. It's Cardinal. There's no us. I do think.

I'm trying to try. Did you play Montana State in the first round ever? I feel like we did. And someone on your team dunked that game. Fran! Yes, well, good memory. Okay, I watched, I obviously watched that game. And so I watched one of your college games.

Because I'm running, I'm on the court when that happened. Craziest moment. Were you watching her, Lacey, because you didn't know they were twins. True. Good call. Thanks. Wouldn't even thought of it. Well, his reality is the glass was actually work.

Dang. So Montana State, obviously, Sophie, some geography for you. Close to the state of Washington, where Lexi's from. Thanks. And Spokane. So a lot of the girls I went to college with are all Spokane girls. Love that. Gonzaga Prep.

And is there one called Mead? Yes. Okay, yeah. Wow, it's like your Spokane native. I've done Dick's Drive-in for burgers before. He's actually a classic, a downtown classic. Because I went to Lindsay Stockton's wedding in Spokane. Wow.

Wow. Do you know who, like, are friends? How old is she? She's older. Okay, got you. Laura's closer to my friend. John Stockton's daughters are all played in Spokane, too. It's like such a basketball city. It is.

Have you ever heard of hoop fest? Yeah, three on three outside. Yeah, biggest three on three tournament in the world. Did you ever play in it? Yeah, up until like seventh grade. But our A, it's on like the concrete. So it's kind of dangerous. Yeah.

But it was so fun growing up. Did you ever consider Gonzaga or was it? Yeah. That was a hard no, because I grew up going to their camps and obviously going up, grew up going to games and stuff and love their coaching staff. So it was hard, but it was too close to home for me. Was it always West Coast schools? Yeah.

Yeah. Was it anywhere, like, did you visit anywhere else besides Stanford? Yeah, visited like a lot of the pack 12 schools. But when Stanford offered, it was like for both my sister and I. Yeah. Because it is March Madness. You guys clearly won a national championship. But like, why Stanford?

School was always number one. Okay. Like, my parents instilled that into us really young. And what did you major in? Management, science, and engineering. Okay. When I visited the school, the campus is, like, the most beautiful place on earth. And I think we took that for granted during our time there.

Every time I go back, I'm like, this is so beautiful. And the weather's always good. And then the coaching staff, like Tara Vanderbier. So there are so many things that works. Do you know that actually when we, I think, made it Sweet 16, almost the late 8, we actually played in Stanford. So we were supposed to play you guys, but we freaking lost. Oh.

Yeah. Wait, that would have been so fun. I know. I think you, I was my senior year, so you would have been a freshman. Yeah. Or so, yeah. Yeah. The women's tournament is home, it's home games, right, for a round or two.

And then it gets into. I think the first two. Yeah. Our home. And then you get into, like, cities or you travel. Regional. It's such an advantage, especially for girls, I feel like, having a home game is huge. Do you feel like home field advantage with women's basketball is better?

I feel like it's, I feel like that's with any sport, though, if you really think about it, like, if you have a great crowd, which if you're good, you have a great crowd. You have a good crowd, so it just makes sense. Yeah. Yeah. I also just think like girls versus guys basketball, the 16 versus the one seed is like a big difference. So I also don't know if like they could have played anywhere and likely the one scene's going to win. Wait, when you think back to like your college days, did you guys charter?

Some games. After COVID we chartered all the time. Which like it should have been that way. Well, yeah. I'm surprised that you guys didn't. I feel like we chartered since my freshman year to senior year. We would fly commercial probably half the time. Huh.

And just walking around the airport, just tall and in your matching sweatsuits. You knew we were coming. I love it. Well, when you think about like your college days, I know like when I'm with my teammates and you just had kind of a reunion, you were just like just back there after season, right? And like you reminisce on all the good times. What are, what do you miss the most about like the traveling and the nights in the hotel? Like what comes to mind?

I feel like you are with each other 24-7. Like once you get to the WMBA, like people kind of do their own thing. People have lives and families and kids and like all the things. But when you're in college, that's all you have. And so it's so fun to go get every meal together and like you can go and you're sitting in a room and you're working on homework together because that's something else you have to focus on. Maybe that's just a stay. No. So if he's like, wait, you guys eat homework?

Do you work? You guys went to school? No. But did you guys have like mandatory study halls and stuff like that on the road? If you had good enough grades, you could get out of it by sophomore year, but you're in it as a freshman and then you had to stay. On the road, we, everyone had to be there. Like, it didn't matter your grades. We did not have men.

People just did it. Oh, you just did it? Oh, that's nice. Also, football team is so much bigger that you can never, like, study together. Were you friends with everyone on your team if it's that big? That's a really interesting question. I mean, yeah, but you certainly have pockets of people that you're closer with. You'll always be closest to your position group because that's who you have film in, like, every meeting ever with.

Originally, the in-state kids versus out-of-state kids kind of all stuck together because the insate kids know each other and then everyone who's new kind of... Really? See, I feel like we intermingled so well. Well, because there's only like 15 of you met. Like, everyone was close. True. Yeah. Football is weird, though, because you, like, you show up with 20 kids in a class, like, for fall camp and you can't be best friend with everybody.

Would you like that? I don't know. I mean, it's so different. I feel like you would just find your best friends. You'd find your, like, group of 15 or whatever. But like think about how close, I get it size, but like how close in it we are with, it doesn't matter who's on the court. Like you're, you have a chemistry, you have a. You guys had roommates in college, obviously, right?

Yeah, yes. Not anymore or do you? Actually, fun fact. Have you guys going to ask if you guys ever room together? No, no, no. On the road, you don't have to. I'm saying on the road, yeah. But, no, me and looks, we choose to stay together.

We put a one bed and then we stay in the other queen. We're dependent on each other. My first three, four years in the league, we actually had a share with teammates. Yeah, that's so crazy. Which is weird because people had significant others, people had kids. That is so interesting. What's crazier is that that was only like a few years ago. So you drafted to Indiana.

So you've only played in the WNBA here. She's a loyalist. Yeah, loyalist. Yeah, loyalist. People think I'm from the Midwest now. And I'm like, no. But you can. You give total Midwest vibes, though.

Yeah. Just like the friendly, the lake, the sun, just like who you are. to the Corps. We have such a special guest, and a lot of people, we don't get national championships on here or national champions. Take us through the mindset of going to, like, the final four, traveling, fans, maybe the pressure a little bit, and then, like, just making it all the way. What city was your final four in?

San Antonio. Okay. But it was a very unique final four because we were in San Antonio. It was COVID year. So we were in San Antonio for like 30 days straight. 30 days in a hotel. We couldn't see anyone. And they had like a path outside that you could go on a walk.

No. But you couldn't go. You couldn't, yeah, we were in a bubble. We were getting tested two times a day still. It was a very unique experience. But still, I think that honestly made us winning like that much more amazing. Because I remember after we won, we finally got to go into this huge conference room and our family's there for the first time in like eight months. Because we couldn't be around them.

Wait, could they be in the arena when you played? Yes. Only in San Antonio. And we, so there was. like cutouts. I had Libby a cutout. No. Will was a cutout. It was really cute, but there was like hard than anybody there and they had to sit four seats apart. That is such wild times. But still, still get a national

championship. Can't take that way. No, no, no, no. But the basketball part's still the same, obviously. Was that your senior year? Was that your senior year? We made it to the final four in Minneapolis, which finally got to play in front of people. Yeah, I was going to say that would have been a real crowd though. Did you beat Yukon your junior year to win or did someone else? No, I don't think we played Yukon. that year. We played Arizona in the championship. That was like our fourth time playing them.

But that was the South Carolina. Yes. That was in the final four. Yeah. Yeah. A.B., we still talk about that game. Really? You guys really? So A.B., at Lee, Boston, she's our teammate. Yeah. Yeah. But I didn't know you guys still talk about it. Yeah. I mean, it's like, they went on to win the next year or whatever. But like, it's, yeah, it's funny. And then Erie, too. She was in the championship game. So it's funny to reminisce. Play with was, was, I'm recalling all of this from the first round game that I watched. This is so a lot. I don't even know if I remember this game. Was there an NFL player's sister on your team? Anna Wilson. Russell Wilson sister? Yes. She's the best. Yeah. Yeah. Where, where's she at now?

Living in L.A. Yeah. Yeah. Thriving. Wait, who's the one who dunked Fran? Fran. Where are she? She's in the bay still. Oh, really? Not playing. No, not playing. I remember being like, I hope Montana State can just like hang for a little bit. Like all those games, every team hangs for like the, a little bit in the first half, and then you guys ran away with it. And right when you guys went on a run, she dunked. And I was like, you guys can have it. Night night. It was crazy. Like, the roof blew off.

Yeah. That's sick. During that run, how did, like, hotels make you, like, how did it feel being in that? Did they make it homey? Well, in San Antonio, they, like, decorated all the walls. And they made it cute. But I think they do that any, all the time for the final four. But, yeah, it was like, it still felt special.

Yeah. And doing it with your sister, though. Even if they don't win any national championship, I played with my sister in college. And it's like something that is so cool. That's like everyone that went through the COVID year playing basketball, like you're away from your family and it's so hard and you're homesick and like having her there. And we also lived together. Yep.

So it felt like a little bit like calm. That's good at the same time. Well, yeah, I didn't even think both of you got to play with your sisters in college. That's a special thing. Mizzou actually had three sets of sisters on the team my freshman year. Like it was insane, but there's nothing like being with your. sister. Like having a twin and we come into the room and we think the same thing and like we pick up cues and we have the same reaction so to be in practice and be able to look at her and be like,

oh, this is so annoying. This is so hard. It's nice to have someone. You didn't probably, like, you only know basketball with your sister. Like I'm sure you guys played on the same teams your whole life and like learn to love the sport together. For sure. Your parents, Hoover, Sue? My dad played in college. And he's also a twin. Dude, she has some of the best parents. They're fun. They're a good time. Yeah. I'm there. Random. Talking to my parents over Christmas, I have a little brother, they were going to go for three. But my mom's dad's a twin. And my mom, my mom had a dream that she had twins.

My dad said, I don't want four. Lindsay, one of us are supposed to, it's like in our, it's our generation to have it. You do? Yes. How many kids do you want? Three. I want a boy and a girl twin. And then the third can be anything.

Okay. That way. But they're going to get like triple. Yeah. Oh my gosh. Maybe not in college. Like, after a long season, when you just are like ready for a break, kind of, where is like your perfect, like, vacation spot. Honestly, anywhere with, like, a beach or, like, like, being by

the water on the water in the sun. Sophie, like, she acts like she's this big beach girl, but doesn't love sand. I get that. I get that. I love, like, the sun is your, is part of your personality. It's my personality. I'm a hundred percent happier with a tan. Yeah. With a little bit of a tan. And my confident, like, when I'm pale, I'm like, walking like this. And when I'm like, what's up everybody? Okay. You know what's actually so funny? I don't even think we've talked about on this podcast was when I think I must think it was you two posted like you guys were like tanning in some city you guys are playing basketball and Caitlin commented like do you guys even play basketball or like focus on basketball so when you travel the different cities what is your

go-to meal or like what's your favorite thing to go out and try to like find honestly like anything like finding like the high-rated places that people are talking about in that city like I love sushi so somewhere by the water I always try to get like sushi or something nice um Italian steak, like really anything. I do not know how your body is like this, but you eat candy and ice cream. I remember the sweet. You're sweet too? Like, no, my God. Wow.

I can't go to bed without dessert. So that's usually a really interesting point. Some people, and I think it's the way, like, did you grow up in a, in a dessert household? Yes. Okay. I think when you're little, if you eat sweets like after dinner, until the day you die, you will, like, crave sugar after dinner. Because my dad is that way, but my brother and I aren't. Really?

My dad, like, can't not have, like, brownies after dinner. Oh, yeah. But my brother and I don't crave it. I got sent to the principal's office in middle school for having candy at breakfast. Have you, do you ever, like, go looking for ice cream spots in different cities or anything? Yes. And cookies. Like, literally, I will be like, let's go.

We need to get something. Literally. Or she'll, like, send in the group text, like, hey, getting insomnia. Who wants to go who wants cookies? Does he anywhere stick out? There's just too many good places. Recently, at Unrivaled, there's, we stay in Doral. And there's this ice cream place.

And this can be for both of you, when you are on the road, what's something about a hotel or wherever you're staying that makes you feel right at home? Like, you know it's going to be, you know it's going to be a good night. I feel like the bed. Yes, I just got to say that. You can tell if it's like a comfy soft bed and like the comforter. Yes, and a good, like the pillows, just like that whole, just hopping in a bed. And if you're like, and blackout, if there's like electric blackout curtains.

Has your time in Indianapolis, like been special? Like having talked to Sophie about the different, I guess, teams and communities in the WNBA, there's a pretty wide spectrum on like how special some of them are. Everything she tells me about playing here is like incredible. It is. Great fan support. The community loves you guys. What's like your time in Indy been like?

It's, I mean, it's grown so much. Like my rookie year, we probably had a couple thousand people coming to games. We won five games that whole year. I think that's doing it justice too. It might be. It might be. But it's like, that's hard. I think like once you start winning and once more people will start showing up,

like your experience changes completely. So the last couple years have been a full 180. Like it's, we've changed. People are showing up. People know about the fever. Like if we were to be walking in the airport, like the story I just said, that would never happen today. So it's been awesome. Do you almost cherish it more because you got to be here when things were clearly not as special?

I think like it gives you perspective on what it could be like. Right. And when you see it and how, and you actually have fun doing it and you love coming to the gym every day and you love the staff that's there and you love your teammates. It's important to be like very grateful. And I do feel grateful to be here. And I think Lex and I are a lot of like because we are very much do the dirty work and like the energy players. And so when you do have a fan base like the fever, it just, it makes it so much easier because they appreciate. Yeah. They see it. They see you. Yeah. And like you have Kelsey Mitchell.

You have Alia. You have Caitlin that, of course, they're going to go do their thing. But when you have play that are going to go take the charge. Like, you're just so tough and they're just like, people appreciate it. And when you have sold out crowds everywhere you go, it's just appreciated. And it feels good as players. You talked about in the intro that like,

you are inspiring the next generation where you come from, around the country, with the eyes that you have on you? Like, what is something that you cherish or like gives you chills when you think about, you're still early in your career, but like your career overall? I think it's just really cool to see,

to be at games. And obviously like you have the Caitlin's and the CELCs and you see their jerseys he's in the stands. Then when you see like a 10 out there, like it's so special because people like are watching and supporting and growing up, I didn't have someone in the W that I saw myself as or like that I wanted to reach for. And I feel like now with the social media and just even like TV and being the accessibility for people like they see us and they can actually like have these dreams so much earlier. And to be one of those people is really special. I think it's really cool

to watch all types of people will ask you for pictures or to say hi. But when you see a little girl come up to you and like you can just clearly see yourself what they see in you and like how cool that is that's been a fun part of like getting to be around you more is seeing like little girls like up to you guys it's so dope it's cool also because it's not just little girls now it's little boys too like it's it's insane well i think that's what's really cool and unique about the wmba is that we are so diverse amongst our league that every kid boy or girl they can look at the tv and watch someone play and like find themselves and one of the players playing. It's funny because when we watch film together, sometimes,

we can't tell each other apart. If someone messes up, it's like, oh, that was Lacey. You're like, no, that was me. We can't even tell each other apart. When you're just sprinting and our hair looks like, it's hard. So those my shoes or those Lacey shoes? That was the same way in college. It was Lacey, wasn't I mean?

College basketball has always been bigger than the games themselves. What part of the culture around the sport stands out to you guys the most? Something that I love about the culture is like, I love the rivalries. Hey, it's us, the Jonas Brothers, and guess what? We have some big news. What's the news, name? Huge news. We created our own podcast called, Hey Jonas.

We invented a podcast? Well, we didn't invent it. We just contributed to a... We're the first people to do podcasts. Pretty, yeah, pretty wide range of podcasts throughout there. But this one's extra special. So how do we actually come up with a name, Hey Jonas, guys? I honestly don't remember.

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I have a very different memory of this. We were talking about a thing, a bit for the podcast where people could call in and say, Hey Jonas. And then I wrote down on my little notepad, Hey Jonas, and offered it up

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fun to me. And I love a die-hard fan. Like the kids crying on TV or PSF face fan and stuff. It's so cute. Or the fans that their team hasn't made it ever and they make it far and they're just like crying because of the, you know what I mean? Like that is like. Or they won their league championship and it's their first time in the NCAA tournament. Like it's so special and then you get a follow-al. It's just like the chills. Like I love that stuff. I love that type of sports environment. My answer would have been small schools and Cinderella's winning. obviously is someone who went to a smaller school. I, yeah, like you always, like I love selection Sunday.

Wait, you did cry. When? When the football team won. Yeah. Of course. He's a doctor-in-in. Yeah. I also, all three of us went to one school.

I think the weirdest thing now is all these kids when they're 27 and at work or a party or whatever and someone says, where'd you go to school? Like, what do they say? Oh, I'm still playing. The four schools. Oh, just like four schools. We had a quarterback went to five. It was like his fifth school.

I was like, why? Do you just- No allegiance? No. Sad. Yeah. What would be yours? I feel like I like the storylines of the, of like the teams that have been together for four years and it's their seniors' last chance at like finally getting a championship for their school.

Okay, I have a question for us. And all of us can answer this. What would be like your ideal travel day and your ideal city to go play in a way game? Our biggest rival University of Montana. Then like Saturdays when you play a rival, there's nothing like it. Get out. I love it. You know, that's so cool, though, because it's like this lead-up to this one.

Yeah. I'd say in a way game against a rival. But what, like, what was your game day routine? Did you guys, like, get up? Do you guys have walkthrough? Or like, like, uh. Yeah, you've walked you at the hotel. You'd do breakfast, hotel walk through.

Wait, is walkthrough football? You know what's interesting. Like, what do you do? Okay. Only in, with your, like, small group? Like, no, you would do, like, put small position. And then do it all the time? Yeah, that's perfect.

That's what a walk-through is. Body slam. Night games actually are the weirdest because you just kind of sit in your hotel all day and you get like a little bit antsy. You have a few meetings, but I don't know what you guys do. See, we're bys versa kind of. I feel like we're used to playing. You have to be at like peak around seven.

So like day games like, oh, I got to get up early. You know, like. But I do like day games because then you don't have shoot around. Yeah. Like I don't need. I don't want shoot around. You usually during the week though a lot, right? So that's never going to be like one o'clock.

Say that again. I can clip. that. Send it to people. Wait, tell me about your, your ideal. My ideal would be we get in like late ish the night before. Time for dinner. Yep. Of course. Of course. I like to go to get like a try a new place. Wait, yeah. Wait, did you guys know to have like team dinners at restaurants? I guess college. Oh, yes. You can mix the two. W and college for sure. Tara was like very much routine. Yep. So game day we would have shoot around and then everyone would come back. We'd have lunch maybe and then four hours before the game we have pregame meals same meal every time pasta

I've had pasta yeah with marinera sauce salmon yeah and maybe some like steamed to broccoli and then rolls all four years like every day but who would you like who was like your favorite team or like favorite city to play in college Washington state or Washington just because it's home like when we played at WSU my family would come down bring the dogs like it was and I had a lot of people there and also they didn't get a lot of fans So it was majority of my family and friends that would like, so fun. Oh, it's so fun. It was so fun.

We played in Pullman my senior year, too, actually. Yeah, nice. There's, like, a lot of schools in that little pocket. Was their team good when you played? Not special. It was week one, so you never really, like, know how good anyone is. I was nowhere near. Actually, we had, we played like.

Well, you're not big, you never played in the golf. No, my first year, my freshman year, it was like the second year with the SEC. Yeah. But it was, I mean, I enjoyed the SEC. Favorite city? town slash town. I do think though just like the history behind it I think like playing Tennessee it was just so cool. That's dope. That's dope. Yeah that was fun but South Carolina had a great crowd. I do think basketball would be I never envy the basketball players because you miss

Christmas or you miss Thanksgiving Christmas and spring break. Can we just say basketball is probably the worst sport to choose because it is both seasons. It's the whole year. But the spring, best time of the year. Because you're on like 12 hour week instead of 20 hour week. No, 1,000 percent. I'm just saying like, you know, like volleyball and soccer. It's like they had spring they had off the entire time. And I'm like, oh, we still.

Yeah. Still here. You can talk about college. You can talk about WMBA. But like what is something? Doesn't matter if you're here at home, if you're on the road that like pregame, post game that like keeps you grounded or keeps you in routine. Because I think that is something like as much as you're not routine, you also have to be routine.

and so kind of take us through what keeps you grounded. I think just doing, like having a routine is the most important part. Like you can, whatever you want to do, just do it consistently. Because I feel like by that time of the season, like, sure, the pressure is higher and like, you really only have this one chance at winning a game or you're done. But focusing, like, you've built these habits over the course of tens of games. But like, that's the time to rely on those habits and like not change up what you've been doing because what you've been doing has worked.

So for me, that's like making sure I get my pregame nap, making sure, like, I watch film the night before, making sure I'm locked in during shoot-around, like, just the little things that that you've done so much, like, don't change it. Do you still use that and do that in the W? Mm-hmm. And so that can be pre-game, like, fully basketball-related, but also night before, like, brush your teeth, take a shower, getting lit. Are you that? I'm not that OCD. No, no, no, I'm saying it can, it can vary. Some people are like that. They say baseball players are the worst. Really? With, yeah, with routine. Can you think about how, you know, Will, like her, her fiancee was drafted and whatnot, but, like, they play so many games, too.

Like, that gets so... I've sat through so many games. What a wag. I'm just such a good lag. He's a... He's a... He's a... Is your pre-game playlist bangers?

I don't really, like, listen to a lot of music before years. I feel like your Instagram song choice, I'm always like, Lexi's throwing haters on... That's Will. Is it? What? That's Will? He chooses these songs? Stop it.

I feel I haven't lied to. I thought that was huge. I'm so happy. Are you kidding? I thought that was you. No, he helps me on my captions and my, he's my social media manager. Stop it. No, really, but like, I need shop.

Of course, of course. We have a segment we're going to do. So let's grab these cards with. Game time? Yeah, not for you. This is, you're on the hot seat, sister. So this is called Packet or Pass It. Here are the rules.

Okay. Yes, we're going to throw you every travel essential. that we can think of and you tell us from the opinion of a professional athlete, what has to come with you and what you're leaving at home. Got it. Okay. West, you can go first. Portable phone charger.

Pack it. Sometimes it takes up space, but... Little one. Yeah, yeah, baby. Powerful one. I'm going to go white noise machine. Pass it. Neck pillow.

Pass it. Some people are loyal to neck pillows, though. I can sleep just about anywhere. Nice. Good trait. Yeah. Give me the window, preferably. Yeah.

So you can rest? Yes. Yeah. Noise cancelling headphones. Pack it. I can't, like, if I wear headphones on a flight, it makes it harder to, like, lay my head down to sleep. The buds. So I do buds.

You can, they have noise cancelling buds. Where are you, what do you mean? How do you not know that? He's living in 2015. Okay, no, it says headphones. So I'm thinking big, bulky, make it hard to sleep. headphones are just like anything. I call those earphones.

Whatever. Do you not? Yes, I agree. I agree. Extra pair of socks. Pass it. Okay, this one's good because I feel like you're a dweeb. Um, compression sucks.

Pass it. No, I've totally seen you wear. I've seen you wear. I had a hurt knee, Lexie. Okay, yes, good job. Sweet mask. Typically passed, but my sister gave me one like two weeks ago. Uh-huh.

It's a game changer. No, it's nice. I used to make fun of people who did them, but like it works. It does. It works. So now I'm going to say pack it. Okay, packing cubes. Pass it.

I want to be someone that uses them. Was it packing cube? What? You guys all use those? I love the idea of it. You like zip it. It makes it. So it's like all your socks and like underwear zip it.

So when you get there, you know where everything is. Like in theory, it's great. It's not. drone in your suitcase. Travel blanket. Pass it. Lint roller? Pass it. Your own pillow. Pass it. My grandma does that. That's cute. Electrolite packets. Packet. Yeah. I also don't drink water unless it's flavored. So, I need it. Yeah. That's not good. I'm hydrated, though, because I'll just put a I can't drinkish water either. I just saw you pound a freaking cheeseburger with greasy fries and you're worried about sugar. I'm not who I'm not, I don't have a big game coming up. But wouldn't you rather have

Electrolites. Yeah. Hand sannie. Pass. I should, again. Like, do your purse or backpack? Do you? I have a lot of hand sanitizer.

Immune support vitamins. This makes me think maybe like an emergency. Pass. I'm not packing that. Okay, this one, I kind of know the answer to. But multiple books. Paperback. Pass.

I'm a Kindle girl. Yes. Yeah, she's got film to watch. No, not on the Kindle. Oh my God. Do you know what a Kindle? Yeah. Guys for books.

No, I was thinking of like an iPad. I know. But that's not a Kindle. Wes, when was the last time you read a book? I'm currently reading a book called Sapiens. It's about the development of human beings on planet Earth. I need the physical book. I feel that.

Like, I can't. I just can't. It's not the same. I just love. The thing about the Kindle that I love the most is once you finish a book, the next one's ready to go. I know. You don't want to go buy. It doesn't get crinkled in your bag.

1,000 percent. I think there's something special about the crinkle. There is. I think though, book, like, books are such a massive part of home decor that now, like, your apartment or house or wherever, it just, they look so good and studious and like they're all, that you have a story to tell about when you read it and tells a story. Your book tells a story. Because mine is like at the pool, mine has like waters on it. It's all cringed. Like, I like that. Food from the destination you were just at. Pack it. More outfits than days? Pack it.

Pack it. I always overpacked. That was pack it or pass it with Lexi Hall. Okay, so we talked a lot about just like basketball in college, travel, but I think that you have something really special coming out that kind of fits the lifestyle of someone who's crazy busy. And so I want you to hit on that. So I'm starting a makeup brand with my Stanford roommate, Sarah, that's coming out end of this month. So we're so excited. It's called Forda for the active. Wait, love. Yeah. Congrats. Thank you. We're so excited. It's like something that I'll be using, but also like just all the active people that are running around and want their makeup to last. So as someone who's not super fluent in makeup, I'm assuming water resistant. Water resistant, sweat resistant, long wear, all the things. We're checking all the box. Yeah, what products like do you have? So we're starting with a setting spray.

That's what's going to launch. And then we have two more coming out. So we're going to do like a drop model. So we'll drop one at a time. Wow. And then you have an event coming up in April? Yep, we have a launch party in New York. Wow.

So excited. Friends, family. If I'm in town, I'm going to slide. Yes, we'd love that. It's going to be so fun. It's like it's so nice to have something outside. of sports to work on, focus on. Yeah, I'm excited. What's Sarah do? So she used to be in private equity, but now she's full-time Florida. Oh, really? Yeah. So we raised a little bit of money, and now we can

finally pay her a little bit, but it's not like, she gave up a lot to do this full-time, and she's really smart. Yeah, I had to put makeup on sometimes. Actually, this is a funny story. We went and talked at a college, and like, they were these college kids, and they had asked questions of Sarah and I, and one of them was like, I play on the football team, and we wear eye black, and it's always, running down our face by the end of the game. Like, can we use your settings where it's like, yes. We will send it to you. What goes into your makeup routine before a game?

Because obviously that's not the priority. No. But you still, I'm sure there's a little something. Can I just say though? You're on TV? Yeah. Walkins. Yes. The evolutionary, like, I'm not kidding.

Like, when you were in college, I feel like it's such a different time, even when I was in college. And like, you didn't wear makeup. Like that wasn't, that was not a thing. And like now people have like a full. Yeah, I've seen pictures. Which, like, you don't really do that, but we could totally walk through our makeup routine. I have worn makeup, like, since high school when I played.

How you really? Yeah. But you love that stuff. I love it. Like, I love makeup. I love beauty. I love cosmetic, like, products. I love all that.

Which is funny because, like, you're one that doesn't need any of it things. So, you know what I'm saying. But I do love it. Like, for sports versus, like, a normal day. Yeah. Like, I'm wearing less. But I'm still, like, using, like, going through the whole routine, concealer, blush, mascara, mascara, eyebrow gel, setting spray.

Like, it is. And that's also. Like back to the routine. That's part of my pregame routine that I enjoy. You've done it forever. Yeah. And like if I'm not wearing my hair in a braid, I might curl my hair. I might crimp my hair. Ooh, watch out. Watch out. Yeah. So I give myself some time to like. Do you put on a fit for like walk-ins every single game or only when the mood strikes? I mean like I tried to. On the road it's like easier to just throw on like a workout's like outfit. But even your work outfits are like super cute. It's not like she never looked. You know how I look like I look like trash. Well, like, I wear Athleta and like their travel sets are, I feel like anytime you have a matching set, you look more put together anyway.

I was just saying that last night, I said, I'm going to order a bunch of matching sets because even when I just want to go somewhere, I want to look a little bit more put together this year. And I'm matching sets. Like sweat sets that are the same color, automatically elevated. My hot take is that with tunnel fits, NFL, NBA, WNBA, all sports, I think the art of team matching sweatsuits is like is lost. It's gone. You like that? I think when you have like a fresh team jumpsuit and you all like get off the bus and walk in together and it's the same fit. Like it's, I get that.

I think it looks good. It looks more put together. Yeah. Well, Lex, I think that you are doing stuff that's super special on the court, clearly. But off court, like, I think it's so smart of you to like start getting your feet wet and other things. And Florida is going to take off. So everyone, if you wear that type of stuff, get on Florida. Buy it.

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