FLAU'JAE JOHNSON KNOWS it doesn't make sense. In theory, yes, it should be easier to find things when her room is clean. But logic doesn't apply here. Not today. Not after the cleaners came through and rearranged the delicate ecosystem she calls her organized chaos, where hoodies overflow from drawers and every cable strewn across her desk has purpose.

This is how she ends up rummaging around for her computer mouse. Desk? Nope. Nightstand? Nothing. Finally, she spots it on the top shelf of the bookcase near her bed.

"Like, why would they put it all the way up here?" she asks, shaking her head.

But Johnson doesn't linger. She has work to do.

She drops into her chair -- the one marked with the 2023 Final Four logo -- and fires up her desktop, the screen crowded with audio files. She pu

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