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Send us Fan Mail When did the Fab Five become Michigan’s starting five? Almost as soon as the Fab 5 arrived on the University of Michigan campus as the most heralded recruiting class in the history of college basketball, Wolverines head coach Steve Fisher began fielding questions about starting all five freshmen. But Fisher resisted until he no longer could. The Chucker, 19nine’s resident historia...

Send us Fan Mail The perfect podcast. Playground stories, basketball history, legendary coaches, and AI. What else could you want. Georgetown - https://19nine.com/products/georgetown-hoyas-1995-1996 John Thompson’s Autobiography - https://www.amazon.com/I-Came-As-Shadow-Autobiography/dp/1250619351 Jesse Washington - http://www.jessewashington.com/shadow.html Support the show Did you know we are on...

Send us Fan Mail The Pioneers collection is a celebration of black excellence in college basketball during Black History Month, featuring teams such as Texas Western who won the national championship in 1966 with five all-black starters, 1984 Georgetown led by coach John Thompson and star center Patrick Ewing, UNLV led by coach Jerry Tarkanian and players Larry Johnson, Stacey Augmon, and Greg Ant...

Send us Fan Mail Ahead of this weeks match up between UK and Kansas get yourself prepped to enter one of the most storied buildings in college basketball. You will also learn about the progenitors of Rupp arena in the process. If you missed it learn about The Phog where the latest version of rivalry started the home and home ( The Phog Episode )   Big Blue Nation, this time with Kevin Cook, author...

Send us Fan Mail This is our full conversation with Eric Gordon Sr. He takes us through what brought him to the game of basketball and the foundations that helped him guide his sons to basketball glory and successful lives as men. He still contributes to the game via E3 Basketball Training and the EG10 AAU Team. He is really excited about this years team. If you liked the shorter podcast focused o...

Send us Fan Mail Get excited for this heated rivalry game between Illinois and Indiana. The current heat in the rivalry owes some of its origins to EG Jr.'s recruitment and the Illinois fanbases reaction to his decision to attend Indiana. Learn why he chose Indiana over Illinois and how a freshman was able to navigate such a tumultuous transition to college and lead his team and dominate the...

Send us Fan Mail Today we’ve got Mike Seilski Author. Sports Columnist. Radio host and host of my favorite sports podcast this year I Am Kobe. I know because I was reminded that I apparently listened to 31 days of podcasts last year. Mike Sielski is a sports journalist and author. He has been a sports columnist at the Philadelphia Inquirer since 2013 and was named the top sports columnist in Ameri...

Send us Fan Mail There are rivalries, and then there is the Crosstown Classic.  The annual showdown between the University of Cincinnati and Xavier University is one of the most heated and contentious matchups in all of sports. Xavier Gear - https://19nine.com/collections/xavier-musketeers Cincinnati Gear - https://19nine.com/collections/cincinnati-bearcats From the Huggins handshake-less finish t...

Send us Fan Mail When it comes with multi-sport athletes there are a few names that come to mind there's Bo Jackson Deion Sanders and even Charlie Ward. Deion Sanders is the only player to play in both a Super Bowl and the World Series while Bo Jackson is the only player to play in both the NFL and MLB all-star game winning the MVP in the MLB game and Charlie Ward he's the only Heisman w...

Send us Fan Mail This week we are recapping Davidson’s run to the Elite 8. We zoom In specifically to breakdown their victory and Steph’s dynamic performance in The Sweet 16. Let us know what you think about Davidson or Wisconsin who was 31-4 coming into this game.  Scx52Y07K0meYc2Bfs6k Support the show Did you know we are one of the Top 30 Collage Podcasts in the World! https://podcast.feedspot.c...

Send us Fan Mail In the 2008 NCAA Tournament, Davidson, a school of fewer than 2,000 students, embraced its role as David against college basketball’s Goliaths. Led by Dell Curry’s son, a thin sharpshooting sophomore named Steph, Davidson surged into the Elite Eight. In this edition of 19nine SHORTS, The Chucker, 19nine’s resident historian, revisits a March Madness run no one saw coming.  Support...

Send us Fan Mail This Friday, Veterans Day 2022, college basketball returns to an aircraft carrier when Gonzaga meets Michigan State on the USS Abraham Lincoln in the San Diego harbor. On this edition of 19nine SHORTS, The Chucker, 19nine’s resident historian, revisits the inaugural Carrier Classic in 2011. He explains how – over the course of a decade – this novel event transitioned from a crazy...

Send us Fan Mail On this week's episode, we talk to Leigh Ellis. Leigh has been covering basketball for the past decade-plus working in Toronto at The Score, NBA TV with The Starters, and The Athletic with No Dunks. His new venture sees him striking out on a new path playing pickup basketball in 20 Different Countries and Cities. There is so much to unpack. Join us as we talk to Leigh about t...

Send us Fan Mail Basketball is Back check out 19Nine Madness. We get into previewing the Eastern Conference and talking about the madness that has occurred over the first week of the season along with predicting what will happen the rest of the year based on what we've seen so far.    19Nine - https://19nine.com/collections/19nine-madness Support the show Did you know we are one of the Top 30...

Send us Fan Mail Frequent contributor Matthew McLaughlin and I dig into this prescient documentary as college athletics, NIL, and sports gambling become more and more integrated. Will the past be an ever-present part of the future of college athletics or will the lessons learned by these athletes help future students avoid the same mistakes? Oh, and the documentary is amazing and follows the Goodf...

Send us Fan Mail We are back talking hoops with Jared Truby. He's dialed in behind a custom La Marzocco Strada like his is with the NBA. We draft our top 8 teams after a couple of nights of watching games that matter. We then get into The Redeem Team Documentary and finish on a related topic of Leadership. If you haven't tried their coffee yet you're missing out. Check the links bel...

Send us Fan Mail Today the Robert and I go in-depth with Nathan Grubel purveyor of Draft Deeper a modern update to the NBA Draft Analysis game. He is a graduate of Temple University and is forging his own journalistic pathway through hard work and skill development.  The Podcast is produced today by Hardwood History Podcasts and presented by 19Nine as part of their ongoing celebration of history o...

Send us Fan Mail This is 19nine SHORTS, a fast break-styled lesson in hardwood history On this edition of 19nine SHORTS, The Chucker, 19nine’s resident historian, takes us back five decades and details the origins of Midnight Madness. Originally more motivational tactic than program-branding exercise, more an impromptu fan gathering than any heralded celebration of the start of the college basketb...

Send us Fan Mail  This is 19nine SHORTS, a fast break-styled lesson in hardwood history. On their way to the 1996 NCAA Championship, the Kentucky Wildcats sported one of the most distinctive uniform kits in modern NCAA basketball history – the so-called “denim blues.” Though the Kentucky denims now land a spot on nearly every credible list identifying the top Wildcat uniforms of all time, the nove...

Send us Fan Mail Hail State! On this episode of the 19nine Podcast, we’re traveling back to the 1995-1996 college basketball season, when Iverson and Allen dazzled at The Garden, Kentucky stocked its roster with 9 future NBA players, Coach Cal led UMass to national prominence, The Macarena was the year’s hit song, and a Mississippi State squad led by Darryl Wilson, Dontae’ Jones, and 16-year NBA v...

Send us Fan Mail Today we’re going to talk with retired Western Athletic Conference commissioner Jeff Hurd about where college hoops has been and where it could be going. Jeff spent nearly 5 decades in college athletics, beginning with a stint as the sports information director at the University of Tulsa before serving as the director of public relations for the Missouri Valley Conference. The Mis...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the 19nine podcast. In this episode we take another deep dive into Big Blue Nation and University of Kentucky hoops, this time with two-time NCAA champion Cameron Mills. The son of former Kentucky Wildcat Terry Mills, Cameron grew up in Lexington, starring at Dunbar High before shunning D1 scholarship offers and matriculating to Kentucky in 1994 as a walk-on for the Wil...

Send us Fan Mail David Ragland was named the 16th head men’s basketball coach in University of Evansville history on May 24, 2022.  The announcement of the 8th Division I head coach in Purple Aces history was made by Director of Athletics Dr. Kenneth “Ziggy” Siegfried.   In a coaching career that has spanned nearly two decades, Ragland’s experience has seen him contribute to an impressive group of...

Send us Fan Mail We've got a potpourri episode during the height of the silly season. Draymond starting fights with Kendrick Perkins for no real reason. We instead choose to talk basketball except for occasionally making fun of The Kings. We get things started talking Warriors before veering off into a variety of offseason topics including The Draft, Free Agency, and New Basketball Movies (Gi...

Send us Fan Mail This week we break down the 2022 NBA Draft. We talk about who we think are the best teams in the draft along with trade talk. We finish putting our predictions out there for how the players will actually be drafted. It's NBA Draft Season get caught up before the Draft tomorrow! Basketball is Life Gear - https://19nine.com/blogs/news/basketball-is-life The Stories Page - https...