JMU Sports Blog

After an historic season that completed a huge turnaround for the program, JMU baseball (yes, baseball!) will keep this magical year in JMU Sports rolling into June this year. We’re not experts but we can’t wait to watch this team in the Raleigh Regional this weekend against NC State, South Carolina, and Bryant. Can the #EverythingSchool do it again!?

All Dukes, zero beef. Lax makes the tourney and looks for a refresh. Baseball very much in contention, and the last of the World Series Softball Dukes look to stun the SBC in Texas this week!

Todd got a chance to check out the first public display under Coach Chesney. And we talk about Baseball and Softball starting to look like contenders in a loaded Sun Belt. Finally, back to our roots with an old-school, nonsensical OT!

Masters, AD search, Dukettes!, Softball, Kiki, Spradlin on fire, spring game talk, etc. Hopefully this is the last episode till we fix our platform 😉🤞

The boys finally look back on a glorious men’s hoops season and look ahead to the Coach Spradlin era with renewed enthusiasm. Plus they begin the process of turning to Spring sports and whether hopes/dreams/expectations can be matched by results.

The Dukes down Wisconsin, Duke up Next! This is really just two old friends and huge JMU fans recording our own checkin after a magical night in Brooklyn! No plans, bad audio, pure happiness! Shop at Mossy Creek!

Off Wisconsin! The Dukes are headed to Brooklyn to face the Badgers and might get a shot at Duke with a dub (don’t sleep on the HoopCats though!). We get excited for this run and then talk WBIT top seed women’s hoops, lax, and a helluva a weekend on both diamonds. Plus President Alger’s announced departure.

Immediate postgame reaction after the JMU Men’s Basketball team wins the Sun Belt tourney and punches its ticket to March Madness!

The boys nervously prep for a Sun Belt tourney week like none they’ve experienced at JMUSB.

So much goodness going on with Dukes right now. Hoops, Lacrosse is ranked #2, Softball is back-back! Baseball might even be good again.

Lacrosse opened the season with a national statement, Softball is back up, and both Hoops Teams makes the turn for home. Plus some big-picture thoughts on seating and contracts

An old school roundup as some highly touted spring sports start this week and both Hoops teams have big opportunities as they hit crunch time!

Both basketball teams had great weeks and have huge matchups this week as the heart of conference play has arrived. Plus Todd probably offends some well-meaning Dukes fans with a rant at the end.

Don’t look now but there’s a whole lot of incredible Dukes stuff on tap for 2024. Are you ready to watch an all-time great attempt to put herself on the JMU Mt. Rushmore this spring? What about a reloaded Softball? Maybe an MLB debut? And that’s all before we even talk about postseason contending hoops teams. And oh yeah, and we’re not supposed to say this out loud, but could football have “more”...

This one’s for us, but we hope our close friends and JMUSB fam will get some laughs out of it as well. There’s actually a surprising amount of sports given our past Xmas episodes. But of course we jump around between 2024 JMU resolutions, best/worst social media of 2023, SBC in year two, go-to potluck dishes, Xmas music, our favorite 2023 music, and can the Dukes make the Sweet 16?! Plus there’s t...

Initial thoughts, and all the good vibes, about the hire of Bob Chesney as the new Head Ball Coach. And the happy end of a tough week that felt like a decade.

Great day to be a Duke! Always.

And we all thought Thanksgiving week couldn’t get crazier than Gameday?! But what another whirlwind week ends the way they always do, with it being a great time to be a Duke! We both had a LOT to say this week.

The boys make a mostly futile attempt to process a week filled with every human emotion imaginable. There’s so much here from the heartbreaking loss to the highest highs, even during this game. Plus Gameday and hoops (we’re not talking enough about hoops) and volleyball and soccer (we’re realllly not talking enough about this!) and love for fellow Dukes!

Wow, there’s a few good things going on for the Dukes (they are the best). The fellas revel in a week that has us bouncing between seventeen items that would normally anchor our content for weeks. Football, futbol, hoops, Gameday, etc., et al!

JMU crushed Georgia St.’s soul with a dominant performance and are now ranked 21st! Lots of postseason discussion/venting on this one but it’s also opening night for both basketball teams.

The fellas try to calm down after an exhausting Homecoming Week both in the stadium and online 🤣. The Dukes beat a game ODU team and will face a similar challenge scheme-wise at Georgia St. this week. But with JMU rolling, what an unbelievable time to be a Dukes fan! Oh yeah, Todd also has a bit of a meltdown about shenanigans from the Monarchs and the SBC officiating crew.

The Dukes are rolling! We put the noise aside and enjoy the hell out of this incredibly fun team.

Hoo boy was that dominant performance against Georgia Southern fun to review. And now the Dukes have a true program first ahead with THE Thursday national game at Marshall and we can’t wait! In OT, we prove how old and out of touch we are (very) discussing pregame hype ideas poorly.

We’re thrilled to be back with what’s become an annual tradition - an in-depth preview of women’s hoops with Head Coach Sean O’Regan talking us through all it will take to defend the Dukes’ Sun Belt title (1:00)! Plus of course we talk some football with a huge game coming Saturday (45:00)