A Trophy Life: The Naismith Trophy Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Join Bob Rathbun and ESPN’s Paul Biancardi as they discuss the Jersey Mike’s Naismith High School Players of the Year and All-America selections! Boys HS POY: Chet Holmgren, Minnesota (Minnehaha Academy) Girls HS POY: Raven Johnson, Georgia (Westlake HS) Plus the latest on the NCAA Tournaments!   WANT TO SUPPORT A TROPHY LIFE? Leave a rating and review on iTunes, Spotify, or where...

Send us Fan Mail This week, join us for great college basketball convo with Joe Lunardi of ESPN and  Alabama Men's Head Coach Nate Oats with Bob Rathbun! Plus, the latest Jersey Mike’s News and Notes and the Citizen What-to-'Watch' schedule highlights! 4 major announcements this week for jersey Mike’s Coach of the Year semifinalists and Werner Ladder Coach of the Year semifinalists...

Send us Fan Mail This week, University of Virginia head coach and two-time Werner Ladder Naismith National Coach of the year Tony Bennett joins to discuss the year in college basketball! Plus the latest Jersey Mike’s News and Notes plus Citizen's What to "Watch" this weekend! Tony comments on lessons learned over the last three seasons Influence of his dad, coaching legend Dick Benn...

Send us Fan Mail This week, the latest on the Pac-12 and WCC from Fox Sports Casey Jacobsen ! We’ll check in with Jersey Mike’s CMO Rich Hope on our sponsor’s spotlight. Plus, news and notes, What to Watch, and more! Jacobsen on surprising USC Casey says Gonzaga is more than legit for a national title Latest high school and college Naismith Award update WANT TO SUPPORT A TROPHY LIFE? Leave a ratin...

Send us Fan Mail This week, we hear from NCAA men’s basketball coordinator of officials J.D. Collins, and Pitt head coach Jeff Capel stops by to fill us in on the great season of the Panthers’ Justin Champagnie. Plus, Jersey Mike's News and Notes and Citizen's What to 'Watch' for! Episode Highlights -J.D. Collins on officiating games in empty gyms -Capel on the tenacity of Cham...

Send us Fan Mail Western Kentucky's Coach Rick Stansbury joins the show this week on A Trophy Life .  As always, Bob Rathbun runs us through the news and games of the week including important announcements for the Naismith Outstanding Contributor Award and more! WANT TO SUPPORT A TROPHY LIFE? Leave a rating and review on iTunes, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Your feedback only h...

Send us Fan Mail This week, ESPN's Fran Fraschilla joins  Bob Rathbun for the latest insights into this crazy college basketball season! Get Fran’s take on the nation’s top  Naismith Awards Defensive Player of the Year candidates and much more! Download and subscribe! Inside the interview.. Fran’s take on the Naismith Awards Watch Lists His take on Saturday’s Big 12-SEC Showdown game in Waco...

Send us Fan Mail Legendary coach Bobby Cremins is this week’s guest! He’s one of only three men to be named Werner Ladder Naismith Coach of the Year and receive our Outstanding Contributor to basketball award! Here's a peak at some of the stories he shared: His first big recruit at Georgia Tech Lessons learned from Fran McGuire Changes he would make if he were still coaching WANT TO SUPPORT A...

Send us Fan Mail Our guest is the Tennessee Volunteer's head basketball coach, and 2019 Werner Ladder Naismith Coach of the Year, Rick Barnes! Join Bob Rathbun as they discuss the Vol's season, the two former Jersey Mike's Naismith winners he coached, Kevin Durant and TJ Ford, plus a lot more! WANT TO SUPPORT A TROPHY LIFE? Leave a rating and review on iTunes, Spotify, or wherever y...

Send us Fan Mail We've got another week of A TROPHY LIFE, welcoming back Andy Katz , analyst with Turner Sports, NCAA.com, Fox Sports, the Big 10 Network and host of the March Madness 365 Podcast! Today's episode is jam packed episode with our Jersey Mike's News and Notes along with our Citizen "What to Watch" segment for everything this week in college basketball. Check o...

Send us Fan Mail This week, our guest is the winningest women’s college basketball coach of all-time, Stanford's Head Coach Tara VanDerveer! She discusses her career and what it’s like leading during this crazy pandemic! Lasting 42 years in college coaching Significance of winning the 1996 Gold Medal for Team USA Uprooting the entire program and not being at home, probably all season. WANT TO...

Send us Fan Mail This week, Jon Crispin joins Bob Rathbun with his latest thoughts and opinions on the college season to date! Jon shares his thoughts about the surging Rutgers Scarlet Knights, what it was like broadcasting from Bubbleville, and the blessings of playing the game. WANT TO SUPPORT A TROPHY LIFE? Leave a rating and review on iTunes, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Your fe...

Send us Fan Mail This week, our guest on A Trophy Life is ESPN’s lead college basketball play-by-play man Dan Shulman. He talks about broadcasting games remotely during a pandemic, how he got started, and his current Naismith Watch List WANT TO SUPPORT A TROPHY LIFE? Leave a rating and review on iTunes, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Your feedback only helps make the show better, and...

Send us Fan Mail This week we are joined by Senior Point Guard and Jersey Mike's Naismith Player of the Year candidate Remy Martin! He and Bob have a chat about what its been like playing during a pandemic, how it was being  recruited by and playing for Bobby Hurley, and returning to Arizona State for his senior season. WANT TO SUPPORT A TROPHY LIFE? Leave a rating and review on iTunes, Spoti...

Send us Fan Mail This week, we get the latest from CBS Sports writer and broadcaster Matt Norlander , reflecting on his coverage of “Bubbleville” at Mohegan Sun in Connecticut over the last week and early Naismith takeaways! Matt shares his experience covering games inside “Bubbleville” Great comments on this weekend’s #1 Gonzaga vs. #2 Baylor His early Naismith watch list! WANT TO SUPPORT A TROPH...

Send us Fan Mail Celebrate the start of the new college season with host Bob Rathbun and guests Eric Musselman Head Coach  of the Arkansas Razorbacks and ESPN's Women's Basketball analyst Debbie Antonelli In this week's episode... Coach Musselman is reminded of his coaching past in dealing with the pandemic Musselman shares his thoughts on the season ahead for Arkansas Debbie Antone...

Send us Fan Mail This week, Bob Rathbun welcomes award-winning college hoops writer Rob Dauster to talk all things NCAA Basketball, and his new venture as founder of The Field of 68 Podcast .  Rob comments on the NCAA relating the tournament to Indiana Top Jersey Mike’s Naismith Player of the Year candidates A freshman poised to take the Big 12 and the country by storm WANT TO SUPPORT A TROPHY LIF...

Send us Fan Mail This week, a western men’s and women’s college basketball preview with ESPN’s Dave Pasch (@davepasch) and the Pac-12 Network’s Krista Blunk (@KristaBlunk).  Krista’s shares her top pick in a loaded Pac-12 race and Dave comes with a  great Bill Walton story along with  his pick for the team that he felt was the best when last season ended. WANT TO SUPPORT A TROPHY LIFE? Leave a rat...

Send us Fan Mail Today, get the latest on the start of the 20-21 college basketball season from ESPN’s Seth Greenberg ! The network’s College Game Day co-host and game/studio analyst talks with Bob about the top players, teams, and leagues to watch. They take a look at: Seth’s take on the two strongest leagues in college basketball this season What teams and coaches need to do to work around COVID...

Send us Fan Mail This week, Coach Nell Fortner joins Bob Rathbun on a Trophy Life!  Nell talks about her amazing coaching career and guiding the USA Basketball Women’s team to the 2000 gold medal in Sydney. They also discuss:  How her Georgia Tech Women’s team is approaching pre-season practice during the pandemic. What she learned from her work at ESPN Learning from great coaches and how her coac...

Send us Fan Mail This week  Bluejay Head Coach,  Greg McDermott, joins Bob Rathbun as we get you ready for the upcoming college 20-21 season! Coach McDermott talks about getting his program restarted after the shutdown, stories of coaching his son, Doug, the 2014 Naismith national player of the year, what happened to Doug’s trophy and reliving last season’s dramatic end to a magical run. WANT TO S...

Send us Fan Mail Introducing our 2020 Naismith Men’s College Official of the Year, Mike Eades! Join Mike and host, Bob Rathbun, as they discuss Mike’s outstanding on-court career and what’s ahead for him this season. How he got his start in officiating Getting the word he would be working his first Final Four His new job with the Southeastern Conference WANT TO SUPPORT A TROPHY LIFE? Leave a ratin...

Send us Fan Mail This week, join NCAA men’s basketball Managing Director JoAn Scott as she and Bob Rathbun talk about her remarkable sports marketing career and what’s ahead for the new season. How she landed her first job at USA Basketball What she learned in 17 years at Nike How the NCAA is helping launch men’s basketball and the 2021 NCAA Tournament   WANT TO SUPPORT A TROPHY LIFE? Leave a rati...

Send us Fan Mail 1988 Naismith College Player of the Year, Danny Manning, joins us on a Trophy Life this week to recount his High School and College experience growing up in both North Carolina and Kansas and how he came to be known as Danny Manning and the Miracles. WANT TO SUPPORT A TROPHY LIFE? Leave a rating and review on iTunes, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Your feedback only h...

Send us Fan Mail This week, we are joined by 1996 Naismith Trophy winner Marcus Camby @MarcusCamby23 of UMass! Relive the Minutemen’s amazing run to the Final Four and great stories from Marcus on his journey: growing up in Hartford and choosing UMass, what made that UMass team so tough, and what he’s up to these days! WANT TO SUPPORT A TROPHY LIFE? Leave a rating and review on iTunes, Spotify, or...