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Marching to Madness
by Blake Lovell
Marching to Madness covers the entire scope of college basketball. Hosts Blake Lovell and Ken Cross keep you up to date on all things college hoops. The podcast has featured interviews with numerous coaches and analysts around the country, including Bob Huggins, Roy Williams, Frank Martin, Bruce Pearl, Jim Larranaga, Josh Pastner, Kermit Davis, Pete Gillen, Gary Williams, and many more. It's a must-listen podcast for college basketball fans!
Episodes
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Episode 1,042: Mississippi State head coach Chris Jans
Mississippi State head coach Chris Jans once again joins "Marching to Madness" from Starkville, Miss., where he has compiled a 63-40 record and has led the Bulldogs to the NCAA Tournament in each of those seasons. It's the first time these Dawgs have been to March Madness for three or more...
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Episode 1,041: Towson head coach Pat Skerry
Coach Skerry is one of our favorite return guests on MTM as he has 34 years of experience and has built Towson into a perennial challenger in the Coastal Athletic Association. In 2024-25, the Tigers procured the CAA regular season championship, producing a 17-2 record over their last 19 games,...
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Episode 1,040: Saint Mary's head coach Randy Bennett
Saint Mary's head coach Randy Bennett joins "Marching to Madness." Coach Bennett won his 7th WCC Coach of the Year honor as the Gaels enjoyed their third consecutive regular season WCC title, and they cut the nets in Las Vegas in 2024 with the tournament crown. He has built SMC into a featured...
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Episode 1,039: Michigan head coach Dusty May
Coach May is once again discussing his Michigan Wolverines here on MTM. In his first season in Ann Arbor, he led the Wolverines to 27 wins, the Big Ten Tournament title, and a date in the Sweet 16. Coach May holds a 153-79 record in seven seasons as head coach at Florida Atlantic and Michigan. Of...
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Episode 1,038: UC Riverside head coach Gus Argenal
Coach Gus Argenal joins "Marching to Madness" as he undertakes the UC Riverside Highlanders, who have become a tough out in the Big West Conference. Coach Argenal assisted Eric Musselman at Nevada and Arkansas and has 19 years of collegiate coaching experience. He coached at Cal State San...
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Episode 1,037: USC head coach Eric Musselman
Coach Musselman continually brings the Muss Bus through the "Marching to Madness" neighborhood. He is currently 238-111 in ten years in college basketball as he started at Nevada, where he took the Wolf Pack to the NCAA Tournament for three of four seasons, as he brought them to the Sweet 16…
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Episode 1,036: Campbell head coach John Andrzejek
Coach Andrzejek came aboard the Buies Creek, NC, campus after working as the defensive coordinator for the Florida Gators for Coach Todd Golden in these last two seasons. Coach Andrzejek was the team's defensive coordinator as Florida finished sixth in the nation in defensive efficiency…
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Episode 1,035: UNC Greensboro head coach Mike Jones
Coach Jones comes aboard again on MTM after his Spartans finished second in the Southern Conference this past season and won 20 or more games for the third consecutive season. Coach Jones is well known as a defensive strategist, and we discuss that as well as working through roster changes to...
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Episode 1,034: Auburn head coach Bruce Pearl
Auburn head coach Bruce Pearl returns to "Marching to Madness" once again as we chat about the Tigers and various topics outside of college basketball. We discuss assistant coach Chad Prewitt leaving the Tigers to join the ministry, the faith-based basketball program that Coach Pearl has…
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Episode 1,033: VCU head coach Phil Martelli, Jr.
Coach Martelli joins MTM to discuss his move from Bryant University to VCU. He led the Bulldogs to the NEC championship and their first appearance in the NCAA Tournament. After five seasons on the coaching staff, he took over the program in 2023. We spotlight the move to VCU, a program that went…
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Episode 1,032: Appalachian State head coach Dustin Kerns
Appalachian State lost five of its last six games to end the season, so Coach Kerns will want to see ASU start at a high level when November rolls around. Kerns enters his seventh season in Boone, NC, where he has built the Apps into a contender. Just a year ago, App State won the Sun Belt…
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Episode 1,031: UMass head coach Frank Martin
Coach Martin is a proven winner who analyzes the depths of college basketball when we discuss the Minutemen's move into the MAC. He has turned his roster over with 10 new players for the 2025-26 season, which allows the program to look for only its second NCAA Tournament appearance since 1998....
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Episode 1,030: UL Monroe head coach Phil Cunningham
Coach Phil Cunningham assumes the head coaching position at UL Monroe as the Warhawks come off a 7-25 campaign. They finished the season with only eight scholarship players while trying to navigate the difficult waters of the Sun Belt Conference. Phil discusses the transition into the head…
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Episode 1,029: Delaware head coach Martin Ingelsby
Coach Martin Ingelsby has built Delaware into a solid program; after a tough regular season, the Blue Hens moved into the Coastal Athletic Association Tournament and won four games in a row before losing a tough 76-72 decision to UNC Wilmington in the championship. Delaware moves into Conference...
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Episode 1,028: Kent State head coach Rob Senderoff
Coach Senderoff returns to Marching to Madness after the Golden Flashes finished third in the MAC and took two wins over St. Bonaventure and Stanford in the NIT. Kent has won over 20 games in nine of Coach Senderoff's 14 seasons, and the program continues to have a tough defensive mindset. Kent...
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Episode 1,027: Ole Miss head Chris Beard
Coach Chris Beard is back on MTM as the Rebels picked off 24 wins and made it to the Sweet 16 and they were a key competitor in the SEC. Coach Beard was named the Jim Phelan National Coach of the Year and led four teams into the NCAA Tournament in his nine seasons as a head coach. This was the...
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Episode 1,026: UNLV head coach Josh Pastner
Coach Josh Pastner visits "Marching to Madness" once again as he is the first-year head coach at UNLV after two years at ESPN, where he was a solid color analyst in the studio and on the sidelines. Coach Pastner brings 276 career victories to the Thomas & Mack Center as he rebuilds the roster,...
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Episode 1,025: South Florida head coach Bryan Hodgson
Coach Bryan Hodgson comes to Tampa to lead the USF Bulls after spending two years as the head coach at Arkansas State, where the Red Wolves obviously played his up-tempo style and averaged about 63 field goal attempts per game in those two seasons. Coach Hodgson worked with one of the best...
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Episode 1,024: Colorado State head coach Ali Farokhmanesh
Coach Ali Farokhmanesh will begin his first season at Colorado State after he worked as Coach Niko Medved's assistant for the past seven seasons. We get into lots of excellent analytical and philosophical discussions and chat about players we will see with the Rams. Coach has been key in his...
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Episode 1,023: Richmond head coach Chris Mooney
Coach Chris Mooney joins us once again on "Marching to Madness," where we discuss his general ideology of the Spiders and the college game. Coach Mooney started 107 games in four years as a guard at Princeton for Coach Pete Carril. He still ranks 20th in points scored with 1,071 while he was a...
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Episode 1,022: Nebraska head coach Fred Hoiberg
Nebraska head coach Fred Hoiberg ripped nets and lit up scoreboards when he played at Iowa State He then perfected a 10-year career in the NBA, where he shot a career 39.6 percent from three. Hoiberg's Cornhuskers ended with 21 wins, taking victories over UCF, Boise State, Georgetown, and Arizona...
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Episode 1,021: Louisiana head coach Quannas White
Coach Quannas White came to Louisiana from Houston, where he was a major key to the Cougars' success and their appearance in the national championship game this season. Coach White is a native of New Orleans and played for Coach Kelvin Sampson at Oklahoma, where he helped lead the Sooners to the...
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Episode 1,020: Columbia head coach Kevin Hovde
Coach Kevin Hovde recently cut the nets in San Antonio as he was coach Todd Golden's offensive coordinator at Florida, as the Gators took a 65-63 victory over the Houston Cougars for the NCAA Tournament Championship. Coach Hovde returns to Columbia, where he was on Coach Kyle Smith's staff from...
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Episode 1,019: Wofford head coach Dwight Perry
Wofford went on the three-game gauntlet in the Southern Conference Tournament as the Terriers cut down the nets in Asheville, NC, after a 92-85 SoCon Finals win over Furman. We discuss some strategy, basketball philosophy, and more on the 1,019th episode of MTM. We discuss Corey Tripp, Kyler...
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Episode 1,018: Florida State head coach Luke Loucks
First-season head coach Luke Loucks returns to Florida State where he appeared in 136 games in his four seasons and recorded 391 assists, tenth best in Seminoles history. Coach Loucks developed an in-depth career as an NBA assistant with the Sacramento Kings, Golden State Warriors, and Phoenix…
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Episode 1,017: Former Kentucky star Tony Delk
Tony Delk makes his first appearance on the courts here on "Marching to Madness". The former Kentucky and NBA three-point shooter is now a scout for the Dallas Mavericks and hosts the Tony Delk Basketball Academy (tonydelk.com) in the Atlanta area. This is an analytical discussion on Tony's...
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Episode 1,016: Houston head coach Kelvin Sampson
Houston Cougars coach Kelvin Sampson will take his Cougars into the Final Four for the second time since 2021 as they face the Duke Blue Devils on Saturday. The Cougars have won 30 of their last 31 games which includes an outright Big 12 regular season championship, the Cougars' second Big 12...
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Episode 1,015: Lipscomb head coach Lennie Acuff
Coach Lennie Acuff leads his Lipscomb Bison to the ASUN regular season and tournament crowns. In the championship, the Bison turned back North Alabama, 76-65, and await their NCAA Tournament seed on Sunday. Lipscomb's Joe Anderson was the tournament MVP. Topics of Discussion Include: Turning the...
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Episode 1,014: Coach Sonny Smith
Sonny Smith was the head coach at Auburn from 1979-1988 when he took the Tigers to six NCAA Tournaments and the Elite Eight in 1986 where the lost to eventual nation champion Louisville. Sonny has an offensive mind and he is a transition coach, and he developed Charles Barkley, Chuck Person, and...
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Episode 1,013: Coach Jim Harrick
Coach Harrick was front row and center in March as he led the UCLA Bruins to the 1995 national championship and led four different programs in 16 of his 23 head coaching seasons. Jim was a players' coach who helped his players achieve at high levels on and off the floor. He posted 470 wins in…
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Episode 1,012: Coach Mark Gottfried
Coach Mark Gottfried played guard at Alabama from 1984-87 and shot a high percentage as a playmaker. He followed basketball in his career when he was an assistant at UCLA for Coach Jim Harrick on the 1995 UCLA Bruins national championship team which preceded his skills as a coach. He won 498…
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Episode 1,011: UNC Ashville head coach Mike Morrell
The UNC Asheville Bulldogs are once again poised near the top of the challenging Big South Conference. Coach Mike Morrell has produced one of the nation's better offensive teams since the Bulldogs average 82.5 points per game, shoot 47 percent from the floor, and find 62.7 field goal attempts per...
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Episode 1,010: Mississippi State assistant coach Scott Padgett
Coach Padgett joins "Marching to Madness" actually on the Friday before the Oklahoma game and talks about the Bulldogs who have won three of its last five. Coach Padgett played on Kentucky's national championship team in 1997. He was first-team all-America in '97 and a first-round pick of the…
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Episode 1,008: High Point head coach Alan Huss
Coach Huss and the Panthers currently sit tied for first with the UNC Asheville Bulldogs in the Big South. High Point uses a strong offensive game paced by leading scorers Kezza Griffa (14.6 ppg), D'maurian Williams (14.5 ppg) and Kimani Hamilton (13.4 ppg). HPU works in a fast-paced offensive...
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Episode 1,007: Towson head coach Pat Skerry
Coach Skerry comes onto "Marching to Madness" before his Tigers defeated Monmouth, 73-67, on Saturday. It was Towson's 12th win in its last 13 games as the Tigers hold a one-game lead over UNC Wilmington with three weeks remaining in the regular season. Tyler Tejada (16.5 ppg) and Dylan…
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Episode 1,006: UNC Greensboro head coach Mike Jones
Going into Saturday's game with Western Carolina, the UNCG Spartans sat tied with Chattanooga for second and one game behind Southern Conference leader Samford. Coach Mike Jones's teams always display a defense that can travel, and the defensive consistency puts the Spartans in the mix every...
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Episode 1,005: UC Irvine head coach Russ Turner
Coach Russ Turner once again joins "Marching to Madness" as his Anteaters stand at 20-3 and lead the Big West by one game over UC San Diego. UCI features a defensive attack that allows opponents to shoot only 38.6 percent from the floor and produce 13.2 turnovers per game. The Anteaters battle…
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Episode 1,004: South Florida head coach Ben Fletcher
South Florida Bulls head coach Ben Fletcher visits "Marching to Madness," as he has done an excellent job moving the program forward after the devasting passing of Coach Amir Abdur-Rahim last fall. The Bulls have plenty of dynamic players, which allows them to create different lineups and enables...
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Episode 1,003: Middle Tennessee head coach Nick McDevitt
Middle Tennessee carved a 5-1 mark over six games and the Blue Raiders are in a three-way tie for the top of Conference USA. This is an up-tempo team and currently MT holds opponents to 6-for-22 each game from the three-point line on average. Jestin Porter and Essam Mostafa set up a nice...
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Episode 1,002: North Texas head coach Ross Hodge
Going into Saturday's home outing with FAU, Coach Hodge has the Mean Green atop the AAC as North Texas is tied in the loss column with Memphis and UAB. NT holds opponents to 58.6 points per game (4th/CBB) and limits the opposition to only 19-of-47 as a shooting ratio on the season, only about 41%...
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Episode 1,001: Santa Clara head coach Herb Sendek
Coach Sendek has Santa Clara sitting in a four-way tie for second place in the WCC as the Broncos host Washington State in a key contest on Thursday evening. SC comes off of a 103-99 win over Gonzaga as the post 18 three-point field goals, the most by an opponent in the Kennel's history. Adama…
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Episode 1,000: USC head coach Eric Musselman
Coach Eric Musselman's USC Trojans have shown impressive form lately, winning six of their last eight games. In the upcoming 1000th episode of "Marching to Madness," Coach Musselman will discuss his team's recent successes, including back-to-back victories over Illinois and Iowa, as they prepare…
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Episode 999: Oregon State head coach Wayne Tinkle
Oregon State is 12-5 overall and 2-2 in the WCC and the Beavers feature one of the top defensive attacks in college basketball, holding opponents to 40.2 percent from the floor and 63.7 points per game. Coach Tinkle is developing his roster which includes quality depth as he has nine new players…
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Episode 998: Appalachian State head coach Dustin Kerns
Coach Dustin Kerns brings the Mountaineers back onto "Marching to Madness." They broke a four-game losing streak on Saturday night with a 72-61 win over Texas State. Coach Kerns' defense is always a focal point of his teams and this season Appalachian has held it's opponents to 28.7 percent from...
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Episode 997: Liberty head coach Ritchie McKay
Coach Ritchie McKay is closing in on that 400th win as the boss of the Flames as he sits at 397 as of now and presides over a club that currently sports a 12-1 ledger. Liberty won at Seattle and then took back-to-back wins over Kansas State and McNeese State as they won the title of the Paradise...
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Episode 996: San Jose State head coach Tim Miles
Coach Tim Miles joins "Marching to Madness" as his Spartans have won five of their last six games as they match up with Kennesaw State on Saturday before breaking into the Mountain West schedule next week. We discuss leading scorer Josh Uduje and his growth into the San Josè State program after...
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Episode 995: Oklahoma head coach Porter Moser
Coach Moser has led his Sooners to a 10-0 start after they defeated Oklahoma State, 80-65 on Saturday night. Sam Goodwin scored 20 points and grabbed 14 rebounds as the Sooners' defense held the Cowboys to only 39.3 percent from the floor with just five made three-point shots. Coach Moser…
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Episode 994: Hofstra head coach Speedy Claxton
Coach Claxton has seen the Hofstra Pride win four out of its last five games to start with an 8-3 record. Over those 11 games, Hofstra has been a strong defensive team in holding opponents to 38.7% from the floor. Coach Claxton is in his fourth season at Hofstra where he has posted a 74-37 mark…
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Episode 993: Auburn head coach Bruce Pearl
Coach Pearl has his Auburn Tigers posted at No. 2 in the AP Top 25 where the SEC has nine teams ranked in the poll this week. Auburn is led by a deep rotation where post Johni Broome averages 19.6 ppg and 11.9 rebounds while dishing out 3.8 assists per contest. Broome is joined in the paint by...
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Marching to Madness covers the entire scope of college basketball. Hosts Blake Lovell and Ken Cross keep you up to date on all things college hoops. The podcast has featured interviews with numerous coaches and analysts around the country, including Bob Huggins, Roy Williams, Frank Martin, Bruce Pearl, Jim Larranaga, Josh Pastner, Kermit Davis, Pete Gillen, Gary Williams, and many more. It's a must-listen podcast for college basketball fans!
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Marching to Madness covers the entire scope of college basketball. Hosts Blake Lovell and Ken Cross keep you up to date on all things college hoops. The podcast has featured interviews with numerous coaches and analysts around the country, including Bob Huggins, Roy Williams, Frank Martin, Bruce...
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