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Wisconsin drops preposterous vocab words in press conference to screw with NCAA's stenographer

Wisconsin met the NCAA Tournament's stenographer, and then set out unleashing a loquacious linguistic assault to make her life difficult.

After beating Coastal Carolina in their first NCAA Tournament matchup Friday night, the Wisconsin basketball team realized a stenographer was in the back of the room rapidly transcribing their quotes and had their minds blown by her weird machine. So Nigel Hayes began his Saturday press conference like this:

(Thanks to @BadgersMBB for sharing this, and of course to ASAP Sports for doing the transcribing.) That's absolutely incredible by Nigel Hayes. (And we should take a moment to thank those stenographers, whose job is thankless and helpful. Although this made her life a bit more difficult, we imagine she appreciates the recognition.)