Blue Demon Banter

DePaul men's basketball has entered playoff basketball. It is a weird sentence to say nowadays. DePaul had an amazing first season under Holtmann. Holtmann doubled their wins from last season, got the Blue Demons multiple Big East conference wins, and swept a team for the first time in conference play since 2021-2022. Now, it is sad because we lost player to the portal. Jacob Meyer, Connor Enr...

Dan Stack and I hopped on the podcast Sunday. We gave our thoughts about how DePaul has been playing the past couple games. DePaul has created momentum going into the Big East tournament. They play Georgetown to start off their Big East tournament. We have to prepare for hunting rebounds and setting up great shots. Undersized hasn't damage our moral at all. Isaiah and Troy were rebounding the...

What can we say about Villanova? This wasn't a bad loss at all. Defensively we played well, but the Blue Demons couldn't shoot the ball. DePaul shot 41% from the field and 19% from three. Eric Dixon, best player for Villanova, didn't have a good game against the Blue Demons. A huge plus for the Blue Demons that were able to contain him. Only bad thing is Villanova hit their shots and o...

DePaul. started off guns blazing from the field. We went on a 10-0 run to begin the game. Forcing Seton Hall into uncomfortable shots they weren't able to make. As the game progress Seton Hall got more comfortable from the field. Both teams didn't shoot really good from the field, three, and free throw line. DePaul control the boards and handle a lot of second chance opportunities. It was...

Why should be I upset? We won ten games and won a conference game in the last two years. This season has been successful. Here's a couple of problems I have with that. We had multiple opportunities to beat good teams. Uconn, Marquette, Northwestern, Providence, Butler, Texas Tech, and more teams we have battled with throughout the season. We could be sitting at 16 wins but it's ok. Big Eas...

This one was brutal for us. We shot poorly from the field. Threes weren't coming down, we couldn't hit free throws, and Creighton scored a lot off our turnovers. We forced more turnovers on the Blue Jays. Everything wasn't bad from the Blue Demons. We rebounded on the offensive end really good and forced Creighton to turnovers. If we can't score, then it doesn't matter because...

Welcome to 2025! We're glad to be here. It has been a blast so far. DePaul has collected their first Big East win in almost two years. DePaul almost beat Marquette in overtime, battled with Xavier, almost came back against Northwestern. The blue demons are right there every single game. Chris Holtmann has the Blue Demons in a great spot. Notching their first Big East win goes a long way for th...

It was another tough loss. We couldn't get anything going. Everything was just stuck for the most part. Quick sparks from Connor Enright, but this was another game filled with run. Northwestern went on a 20-0 run to start off the game. Scored off all 11 DePaul's turnovers. We started cutting back into the game, but then Northwestern hit us with another counter. Every run we started to have Northwe...

St John was too big, fast and strong for us. Rick Pitino said it himself. " We played our best this year." There was a little spark that had fans excited for a little bit. Then, DePaul would just get dismantled against St John's defense. We need to have games like these because it shows you're beatable. It also shows the competition in the Big East. We still have to play everyone else in the Big E...

Providence was a game of tic for tat. We get a stop, they get a stop. We score a basket, they score a basket. It was one of those games where both teams played outstanding defense. DePaul couldn't shoot from deep, neither could Providence. So, it came down the end where Providence prevailed. You could smell the disappoint everyone had. We didn't play bad defensively. I think that was our best defe...

Yes, DePaul did collect their first loss this season, but there's a lot to take from this game. Texas Tech defense is stellar. Shut DePaul offense down for the first 5 minutes of the first half. DePaul couldn't convert anything from the field. Texas Tech went on a 14-0 run to start off the game. Our bench players came in and stole the show. Jacob Meyer gave us an early shock, then NJ Benson came i...

Welcome back to the blue demon banter podcast! You don't get to wake up often and interview an athletic director of a Big East basketball school. Today, we got to interview DeWayne Peevy. It was a pleasure talking to DeWayne! We talked about the future of basketball with NIL and transfer portal. Peevy loves winning. That has been part of the culture he's building at DePaul University. A unique sto...

The beauty of all of this is where undefeated. Last year, we weren't doing so hot at this point. Yes, our competition has been weak, but we're destroying most of our opponents. We played great in the first half against Northern Illinois University. Braedyn Martinez said that Connor Enright said this in his press conference. " We have to play a full 40 minutes." I couldn't agree more. We haven't se...

The brain behind our undefeated operation! Chris Holtmann, head coach of DePaul basketball, joined the show today! Coach Holtmann discussed a lot about his transitions to DePaul, Chicago, and bringing the right people to the program. He has a unique way of scouting players that I haven't heard before. He looks for talent that will be inside the program for multiple years. To help chemistry build w...

DePaul University basketball is 3-0 Rally up all the fans because this is great. We have tied our wins from last season. It was a great win all around. Our team played perfect. Getting off to a hot start from three, facilitating for our players, and forcing turnovers. Connor Enright drew four fouls on Mercer guard for charges, C.J. Gunn came to play against Mercer. Cj Gunn will be the highlight of...

A better performance from our Blue Demons yesterday. Like I said before, there's good, bad, and ugly. Yes, we blew out Prairie View, but we made a lot of mistakes. turnovers were our biggest problem yesterday. We had 18 turnovers and they turn 11 points off those turnovers. We couldn't shoot the three ball as effective. It was a drop off from lighting up the basket. We have to clean up on our turn...

There was good, bad, and ugly for our first game of the season. Things like this happen all the time to teams. South Carolina lost their first game, Arizona State struggled against Idaho State, new teams struggle in their with each other. Isaiah Rivera was the bright spot in the scoring department in our first game. He finished with 25 points, 10/17 from the field, and 5/9 from three. He started o...

Welcome to the Blue Demon Banter podcast.  Where two people bicker about the slow rise of DePaul basketball. This season feels weird about DePaul basketball. Dare i say, we could be a decent team this year. I think we can finish seventh. Joey thinks we can finish 8th in the Big East. Which isn't hard at all. Chris Holtmann has a true effect on teams he come to right away. I touched on that a lot t...