Coach Zeidman: NIL Has Undone Women's Basketball | + NHL & NBA Playoffs

🎙️ Sports Chasers Podcast | Ep. 495 | Thursday Night LivePowered by Sports Chasers Media Group LLC | April 2, 2026Episode 495 is everything. The Final Four is set. The playoff races are on fire. And four-time Sports Chasers guest Coach Jared Zeidman is back — this time breaking down the most unpredictable NCAA tournament weekend in years, including what he calls a "one in a billion" final play in the Duke-UConn Elite Eight.🏀 NCAA BREAKDOWN w/ COACH JARED ZEIDMANBraylon Mullins' 35-foot buzzer-beater dissected. Men's Final Four predictions: Michigan vs the field. Women's Final Four — all four #1 seeds for only the 5th time ever. And the hard truth: has NIL completely undone the competitive progress of Division I women's basketball?🏒 ICE COLD FACTS w/ DAN K. THE HOCKEY DUDE16 days left in the NHL regular season | Ovechkin 13 goals from Gretzky | Leafs fire GM Treliving | Goalie fight at MSG | Sabres hit 100 points | The case for 1-through-8 playoff seeding🏀 THE CROSSOVER w/ RYAN DeSouzaKnicks under Mike Brown — playoff strategy or disrespecting the regular season? Jalen Brunson's shoot-first dilemma. Mikhail Bridges needs a pass-first PG. Pistons' historic turnaround. WNBA Expansion Draft: Portland Fire & Toronto Tempo reshape the league.⭐ HIGHLIGHTED CHAPTER🕐 19:50 — "NIL Has Undone Women's Basketball" | Coach Jared Zeidman drops data showing 4 of the 6 highest-budgeted women's programs are in the Final Four. Three of four spent over $10 million. His verdict: NIL has created a "Coke and Pepsi versus everybody" dynamic that's making the tournament less competitive and less exciting. This is the most important 6 minutes in women's college basketball all year.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🔔 SUPPORT • FOLLOW • FEEDBACK – CHASERS NATION━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━We want to hear from YOU and continue building the Sports Chasers community. Your support helps us grow, improve, and keep delivering objective, no-narrative sports conversations every week.⭐ LOVE THE PODCAST 👉 https://lovethepodcast.com/678c0f38d21e0cd429a48a1b🔔 FOLLOW THE PODCAST 👉 https://followthepodcast.com/678c0f38d21e0cd429a48a1b🎙️ PODCAST FEEDBACK 👉 https://podcastfeedback.com/678c0f38d21e0cd429a48a1b🙏 Thank you for rocking with us and helping grow Chasers Nation. Join the Chase. Enjoy the Chase. 🏁🎧🌐 Website: https://sportschasers.net/👕 Merch: https://1800tshirts.chipply.com/ng/store-closed.html?eventid=370873🤝 Affiliates: https://sportschaserspodcast.net/affiliate/🎓 Coach Zeidman: https://nailtherecruitingprocess.com🎙️ Narration: Ken Marsiglia | Intro: "Super Bowl" | Outro: "Buss Down"Music: Epidemic Sound | Producer: Darrell L. Warren | Video: Azad S.🎙️ WELCOME TO THE SPORTS CHASERS🔥 Powered by Sports Chasers Media Group 🔥 Home of Chasers Nation📅 LIVE Every Week — Multiple Shows. One Movement.🚨 YOUR SPORTS CHASERS WEEKLY LINEUP🏈 Monday Night Football Blitz — LIVE at 7 PM ESTRuns EVERY Monday from the first college football game in August all the way through the Super Bowl on the second Sunday in February. From kickoff weekend to the final confetti drop, we cover EVERY storyline, EVERY conference shakeup, and EVERY NFL showdown. Pure analysis. Pure energy. Pure Chasers.🔁 Monday Night Weekend Rewind — LIVE at 7 PM ESTYour Monday night recap of EVERYTHING that happened in sports — NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, WNBA, College Football, College Hoops & more.⭐ Thursday Night LIVE — 7:00 PM ESTThe flagship show. Big topics. Big debates. Big moments. Streaming LIVE across YouTube, Facebook, X, Instagram, and Twitch.🔥 WHAT WE DOWe bring you unfiltered, unbiased, no hot takes, no narratives, and absolutely no corpora