Jays Classic Podcast

In this episode, Joe and guest Jon Walker (Creighton men's basketball beat writer for the Omaha World-Herald) discuss Jon's experience covering Creighton before discussing various storylines from the Jays' offseason, including Ryan Kalkbrenner's NBA landing spot, Fedor Zugic's eligibility, the Jays' non-conference schedule, updates from summer workouts, and the NCAA's H...

In episode 3 of the Legends of the Hilltop miniseries, guest Jahenns Manigat shares his perspective of playing with Doug McDermott at Creighton, what made Doug a special player, memorable games from their playing days, and so much more! Thank you for listening! If you're interested in joining me for an episode to talk about your Creighton men's basketball fandom and Jays hoops, you can reach out t...

In episode 2 of the Legends of the Hilltop miniseries, guest Pete Thompson shares his perspective of covering Creighton basketball from 1998-2003 for FOX-42 in Omaha where he was able to develop a great relationship with Kyle Korver. We discuss what made Korver a special player, why he was instrumental to the rise of Creighton basketball, memorable games from his playing days, and so much more! Th...

In episode 1 of the Legends of the Hilltop miniseries, guest Dan Kolder shares his perspective of playing with Ryan Sears at Creighton, what made Sears a special player, why he was a foundational player to the Creighton men's basketball program, memorable games from their playing days, and so much more! Thank you for listening! If you're interested in joining me for an episode to talk abou...

In this episode, Joe provides a brief sneak peek into this summer's mini-series discussing some of Creighton basketball's foundational players with their former teammates, coaches, or otherwise. Thanks for listening! If you're interested in joining me for an episode to talk about your Creighton men's basketball fandom and Jays hoops, you can reach out to me on Twitter/X @Jays_Class...

In this episode, Joe and guest Dr. Chim Richalds (from the Jays Twitter/X burnerverse @Marghareti72) discuss the Jays landing a commitment from Blake Harper, the Jays roster outlook, minutes projections, and how Creighton's roster stacks up in the Big East and nationally, before providing our thoughts on the ceiling and floor for the 2025-26 Jays. Thanks for listening! If you're interested...

In this episode, Joe and guest Michael Vandevoort (on Twitter/X @MichaelVande), former Creighton Manajay and current editor of 247's coverage of Creighton University, discuss some of Coach McDermott's best coaching seasons at Creighton before ultimately deciding which season is his best. Thanks for listening! If you're interested in joining me for an episode to talk about your Creighto...

In this episode, Joe and guest Jacob Padilla (on Twitter/X @JacobPadilla_) discuss Alan Huss' return to Creighton as the head coach in waiting, transfer portal news, and the updates to the Greatest Jays of the Modern Era rankings following the 2024-25 season. Thanks for listening! If you're interested in joining me for an episode to talk about your Creighton men's basketball fandom and...

In this episode, Joe and guest Dr. Chim Richalds (from the Jays Twitter burnerverse @Marghareti72) discuss the Jays performance in the NCAA Tournament, their transfer portal additions and losses, and the outlook for next season's roster as currently constructed. Thanks for listening! If you're interested in joining me for an episode to talk about your Creighton men's basketball fandom...

In this episode, Joe recaps Creighton's Big East Tournament run before digging into the Jays' First Round NCAA Tournament matchup with the Louisville Cardinals. Thanks for listening! If you're interested in joining me for an episode to talk about your Creighton men's basketball fandom and Jays hoops, you can reach out to me on Twitter/X @Jays_Classic or by email at creightonbluejay...

In this episode, Joe and first-time guest Jack Kenna (on Twitter/X @jkenna99) discuss Jack's Creighton fandom and the Jays Senior Night win against Butler before diving into the Big East Tournament, concluding with our bracket predictions. Thanks for listening! If you're interested in joining me for an episode to talk about your Creighton men's basketball fandom and Jays hoops, you can...

In this episode, Joe and guest Austin (on Twitter/X @letitflyCU) discuss Austin's Creighton fandom and the Jays loss at Xavier before diving into analysis of the Jays three-point shooting this season. Thanks for listening! If you're interested in joining me for an episode to talk about your Creighton men's basketball fandom and Jays hoops, you can reach out to me on Twitter/X @Jays_Cla...

In this episode, Joe and guest Tim Krueger (founder of Bluejay Banter and on Twitter/X at @tkbrackets and @bluejaybanter), discuss Tim's introduction to Creighton basketball and the early days and development of Bluejay Banter before discussing Creighton NCAA Tournament outlook (around the 55 minute mark), the intricacies of building the NCAA Tournament bracket, and more! Thanks for listening!...

In this episode, Joe discusses highlights and lowlights of the extremely eventful game against St. John's, Ryan Kalkbrenner's injury and return, the Big East title race, and more! Thanks for listening! If you're interested in joining me for an episode to talk about your Creighton men's basketball fandom and Jays hoops, you can reach out to me on Twitter/X @Jays_Classic or by email...

In this episode, Joe and guest Chris Thedinga (on Twitter/X @CThedinga) from Road to the Garden and House of College Hoops discuss Creighton's big win against Marquette, their tough loss against UConn, and preview the upcoming showdown against St. John's. Thanks for listening! If you're interested in joining me for an episode to talk about your Creighton men's basketball fandom and...

In this episode, Joe and guest "JumpinJay" (@JumpinJay402 on X/Twitter) discuss the Jays recent wins over Villanova and Xavier before discussing the Jays historic run in January, breaking down the Big East regular season championship race, and commenting on the in-season development that Creighton has gotten from its rotation players. Thanks for listening! If you're interested in joi...

In this episode, Joe and guest Brian Ayers (@southpawpress on Twitter/X) breakdown the toughness, discipline, and shot-making it took for Creighton to win at UConn. Then, they discuss the 10 game series against UConn, the rivalry that has developed over time, and the reasons for Creighton's success in the series. Finally, they briefly provide a progress report for this Jays post-Pop Isaacs&#39...

In this episode, Joe's guest Evan Miyakawa (Founder of EvanMiya.com and on Twitter/X @EvanMiya), uses the predictive analytics from his website to provide his unbiased perspective on Creighton basketball in 2024-25.

In this episode, Joe and guest Andrew Birkeland (Twitter/X @Birky534), former Creighton men's basketball manager, discuss Andrew's time as a manager before gleaning insights from him about Greg McDermott's program to help provide context to fans about what makes it difficult to integrate new players, what specifically has been challenging about integrating Fedor Zugic, and a lot more! Thanks for l...

In this episode, Joe outlines a number of things that each of Creighton's greatest players in the modern era (1995-present) have in common with each other but do not have in common with Ryan Kalkbrenner. These differences make his time at Creighton as one of the program's all-time greats unique and somewhat difficult to evaluate/compare to the other greats. Thanks for listening! If you're interest...

In this episode, Joe and guest Brian Ayers (@southpawpress on Twitter/X) discuss Brian's Creighton fandom before, in light of the Pop Isaacs' season-ending hip injury news, digging into Creighton's history of significant season-ending injuries and the fallout of each of those injuries. Finally, with the context of those previous season-ending injuries in mind, we discuss the outlook of the rest of...

In this episode, following the loss to Nebraska, Joe looks back at Greg McDermott's tenure for similar non-conference dud performances and identifies a few key takeaways about these historical games before discussing why Nebraska is able to create dud performances from the Ryan Kalkbrenner era Jays. Finally, Joe explains why the uncertainty around the injury to Steven Ashworth makes Creighton impo...

In this episode, Joe and guest Matt DeMarinis of White & Blue Review discuss the origination of Matt's Creighton fandom and his journey to and through covering Creighton athletics. Then (starting around minute 40), they dive into the legacy of Greg McDermott, who recently became Creighton's all-time winningest men's basketball coach, by reviewing and discussing the key takeaways from Greg's in...

In this episode, Joe and guest Austin Mazur (Creighton graduate, class of 2016) discuss Austin's Creighton fandom before diving into a variety of storylines that generated buzz during the offseason and determined whether we think the buzz was "real," "fake," or is "to be determined" based on what we've observed in the first four games of the season.

In this episode, Joe and guest Pat Coder of the "Bluejays at the B." podcast make their predictions on a variety of Creighton related over/unders for the upcoming season such as: Will the Jays win over or under 22.5 games this regular season? Will Pop Isaacs average over or under 16 points per game? Will Creighton have over or under 0.5 court storms at home this season? And many more!