TBL News: The Pod

(01:50) Wranglers Week 5 recap PART ONE: Two cardiac moments in a pair of wins over Kalamazoo and West Virginia begin with Chris Darrington hitting yet another extraordinary game-winning buzzer beater to cap a season-high 47-point performance (08:18) Wranglers Week 5 recap PART TWO: The second of two buzzer beaters, this one put in by Jonathan Brown in a game in which Chris Darrington didn't e...

(00:15) Who won, who lost, which players had big games in Week 5? (13:35) Current Conference leaders as we hit the All Star break (14:43) Leaders: Scoring, rebounding, assists, blocks, steals (16:02) So long! See you this weekend for TBL All Star Weekend 2023 from Lehigh Valley. Music by Slip.stream: "A Pack A Day" - https://slip.stream/tracks/8cbee134-fd28-42ae-89a8-869d42ce23b9 "P...

Potawatomi suffered their first loss of the season, at the hands of their in-state rivals, the Enid Outlaws. The loss posited the Fire a second-place team for the first time this season, as the 7-1 Wichita Sky Kings assumed the top spot in the Central. Isaac expresses a complete and total lack of concern about the Fire's future, and diagrams what we as fans ought to look out for as the season...

Chris returns, this time a the voice of the first-place Kokomo BobKats, not to be confused with just the Kokomo BobKats. He fields silly questions like "Do you have any concerns about Derek Hawthorne" with the sort of aplomb which exists only in the most savvy of sports broadcasters. We discuss Kokomo's big Week 4, which included two wins over Glass City to vault them into first in t...

The Fire suffer a rare loss! Their first defeat of the season comes at the hands of their in-state rivals, the Enid Outlaws. The L booted Potawatomi out of first place in the Central, but Chris Cox explains exactly why Fire Nation ought not to get too nervous. Details matter. Scheduling matters. Matchups matter. Music by Slip.stream: "A Pack A Day" - https://slip.stream/tracks/8cbee134-f...

Owen covers the BobKats. Jack Covers the Patroons. Last season's East-Midwest Regional Final - ie Final Four matchup - pitted those two team, Kokomo and Albany, against one another. So Owen and Jack discuss what it might look like should those teams, both currently in first in their respective conferences after Week 4, meet once again in the playoffs. Music by Slip.stream: "A Pack A Day&q...

Sunday of the penultimate weekend of games turned out to be a moving day as two conferences saw new teams slot into first place: The Wichita Sky Kings used two Week 4 wins and a Potawatomi loss to take over the top spot in the Central; The Kokomo BobKats jumped the Glass City Wranglers by beating them twice. The Georgia Soul continue to impress in the Southeast, while Seattle and Albany remain the...

Chris Darrington's shooting percentage has decreased significantly over the Wranglers' last four games, two of which were against the Kokomo BobKats, and resulted in Week 4 losses that moved Kokomo into first and Glass City into second. Brad Smith is TBL News' resident Wrangler expert. He joined The Pod to recap what he's seeing going wrong for the TBL team from Toledo and try his...

Kokomo and Glass City will face off in the biggest game of the young TBL season. Kokomo's Derek Hawthorne comes in averaging 29.5, putting over 30+ in their previous four games, all BobKats wins. Darrington started off the season with multiple 40+ point games and dramatic game winners, but finds himself in the midst of a shooting slump. Which star shall prevail: The "reliable" Hawtho...

Deshawn Munson may be on an eternal heater, most recently most markedly so when examining his gaudy rebounding numbers, but according to Chris Cox, the voice of the Potawatomi Fire, Chuck Guy is the Remus to his Romulus. How far can a team with two MVP-caliber players go? Mr. Cox spends time with us detailing just that. Music by Slip.stream: "A Pack A Day" - https://slip.stream/tracks/8c...

The Glass City Wranglers are 5-1. The Kokomo BobKats are 6-1. Glass City's Chris Darrington and Kokomo's Derek Hawthorne have been spectacular, each staking early claims to win the MVP come season's end. This Friday night, March 24, they'll meet in Toledo for a critical early-season Game of the Year candidate. The voice of the Wranglers, BCSN Sports' Brad Woznicki sat down with...

INSIDE THIS EPISODE: A FIRESIDE CHAT w/ NICK - Through two weeks of The Basketball League season, Potawatomi's Deshawn Munson has - once again - joined the far-too-early MVP race, with Glass City's extraordinary young scorer, Chris Darrington, as his most principal competitor. POTAWATOMI BEATS LITTLE ROCK 128-114 - Isaac Edelman details how the Potawatomi Fire moved to 3-0 on the young sea...

Six teams exited Opening Weekend unscathed, with two of them, Wichita and Potawatomi, looking particularly strong. Chris Darrington and BJ Parks both look, unsurprisingly, dangerous. Week One of the 2023 season is in the books! Produced by Nick Schupak for TBL News, part of the TBLTV News Network, a TBL property Music by Slip.stream: "A Pack A Day" - https://slip.stream/tracks/8cbee134-fd28-42ae-8...

Albany battles back, Seattle cuts no slack, Flint's Bruce tops them all, Enid tops Rockwall, the Tundra win by four and much, much, much much much much more. Produced by Nick Schupak for TBL News, part of the TBLTV News Network, a TBL property Music by Slip.stream: "A Pack A Day" - https://slip.stream/tracks/8cbee134-fd28-42ae-89a8-869d42ce23b9 "Past And Present" - https://slip.stream/tracks/3cd92...

Albany gets shocked, Wichita impresses, and the defending champs bounce back... and, like, much, much more. Produced by Nick Schupak for TBL News, part of the TBLTV News Network, a TBL property Music by Slip.stream: "A Pack A Day" - https://slip.stream/tracks/8cbee134-fd28-42ae-89a8-869d42ce23b9 "Past And Present" - https://slip.stream/tracks/3cd92d18-cc4c-4873-8f66-86284ec25f7d

It's March 3, 2023, and the TBL season has just tipped off. Here's the rundown of the first four games.  Produced by Nick Schupak for TBL News, part of the TBLTV News Network, a TBL property Music by Slip.stream: "A Pack A Day" - https://slip.stream/tracks/8cbee134-fd28-42ae-89a8-869d42ce23b9 "Past And Present" - https://slip.stream/tracks/3cd92d18-cc4c-4873-8f66-86284ec25f7d