💬 Quoted… “I’m not surprised that people are coming to watch… We are in a moment with women’s basketball.”

• If Women’s March Madness were a Tupac song, it would be “All Eyez on Me.” The tournament’s second round averaged 1.4 million viewers across ESPN platforms, representing a 121% increase from last year and making it the most-watched second round in history. And, while viewership data from the Sweet Sixteen and Elite Eight have yet to be published, all evidence points to another record-setting weekend, thanks to last night’s highly anticipated rematch between Iowa’s Caitlin Clark and LSU’s Angel Reese. Clark’s No. 1-seeded Hawkeyes ended up prevailing 94-87, and will face off against the No. 3-seeded UConn Huskies in the Final Four this weekend. No. 1 South Carolina will play No. 3 North Carolina State in the other contest.

⚖️🪙 Stat of the Day: FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Thursday for fraud, conspiracy, and money laundering related to the crypto exchange’s $8 billion collapse. SBF’s sentence is among the longest in US white-collar crime history, ranking behind Bernie Madoff (150 years) but ahead of Enron’s Jeffrey Skilling (24 years) and Theranos’ Elizabeth Holmes (11 years).

🤔 Did You Know?... ~40% of the US population can trace their ancestry back to immigrants who entered America via Ellis Island.

📰 Worth a Read: How Gen Z Is Becoming the Toolbelt Generation → (WSJ)