The Igloo

Thanksgiving Day for the Big East featured a bank-shot buzzer-beater, a shootout in Portland that featured some nut-grabbing, and UConn making a school-record 17 threes to embarrass Oregon in front of Phil Knight. I'll recap all of that and preview today's slate of action here on this episode!

Happy Thanksgiving, Big East fans! On this episode, I've got previews of multiple tournament across both men's and women's hoops, including the PK85, Paradise Jam, ESPN Events Invitational, and more!

Given that I was in a rush to get to NYC for dinner at Carmine's and then a Billy Joel concert at MSG, here's a lightning quick episode where I breeze through updates on MBB and WBB, the latter of which has way more action to cover dating all the way back to Saturday, in just over a half-hour!

Feast Week got off to a rough start over the weekend for Big East MBB as Georgetown, DePaul, and Providence had a combined record of 1-5. I'll recap those results, including yesterday's games, and preview St. John's and Syracuse meeting for the Empire Classic title and a top 10 showdown in Maui between Creighton and Arkansas.

Last year, the Big East defeated the Big Ten 6-2 in the Gavitt Games. This year, the script was flipped as the Big Ten beat the Big East 6-2. I'll discuss how that came to be with my recap of the second half of the Gavitt Games and I'll also recap other recent action and preview the Maui Invitational, Fort Myers Tipoff, and Empire Classic, which all begin on Monday.

Meant to upload this yesterday, but here's a WBB-only episode where I'll preview an Elite 8 rematch between NC State and UConn at the XL Center, as well as Marquette competing in the Battle 4 Atlantis

Statement wins for the women and triple-doubles for the men were just a couple of the headlines from around Big East hoops recently and I'll discuss those things and more, as well as make early predictions for a couple Feast Week events involving Big East MBB teams on this new episode!

I called it right here on The Igloo, Villanova WBB upset #24 Princeton on the road on Friday and I'll recap that and the rest of the action from this past weekend in the Big East, as well as preview a huge slate coming up, which notably features a top 10 matchup at Gampel between Texas and UConn on FS1 and a ranked battle between Creighton and Nebraska in Omaha

The Gavitt Games begin on Monday and joining me to preview them are Pat Madden and Greg Waddell!

The Big East has continued to win after Opening Night and I'll recap the action from the past few days and preview a weekend slate that notably includes Villanova WBB visiting #24 Princeton!

It was a perfect Opening Night for the Big East as the conference went a combined 16-0 across men's and women's hoops. I have my recap of all 16 games here on this episode and a little PSA about Election Day to wrap it up!

College hoops season is so close as we're less than 48 hours away! I'll discuss recent exhibition games for Big East teams and then preview the opening week slate!

You've heard from the men, now let's hear from the women! It's The Igloo's 2nd Annual Big East WBB Media Day special and it's jampacked with interviews with players and coaches from 9 of the 11 Big East schools, including from every single individual award winner from last season!

An episode so big it needs to be broken up into two parts every year, it's The Igloo's Big East Media Day special! Here's the men's portion, women's portion will be published next week!

The Roundtable is back! The tradition unlike any other in the sports podcasting world continues with its third edition and it very well might be the best one yet, so I hope you all enjoy it as much as I enjoy bringing this staple of my show to you year in and year out! I'll also give you my men's and women's power rankings and my preseason All-Big East predictions ahead of Big East Media Day in tw...

Season 4 of The Igloo starts with an absolute banger of a premiere episode as the GOAT John Fanta joins me for some preseason Big East MBB talk while Dano Mataya (HerHoopStats.com) joins me to preview the women's side!

All good things must come to an end, and that includes Season 3 of The Igloo. Joining me to recap this past year in both men's and women's hoops in the Big East is none other than Russ Steinberg. Thank you to all of you listeners who have tuned in throughout this season and to every guest of mine who has joined me inside The Igloo.

Paige Bueckers' recent ACL tear sent shockwaves through the world of women's college basketball and joining me to discuss the gravity of this injury is Stratton Stave from The Daily Campus. I'll also have non-con schedule updates for both men's and women's Big East hoops and analysis of overseas trips for both Butler and St. John's MBB.

$1 million is on the line tonight in Dayton between Blue Collar U and Americana for Autism as they go head-to-head in the TBT Final and I'll preview that championship game and more here on The Igloo!

4 of the Super 8 spots in Dayton have been locked in for TBT 2022 and the other four will be clinched this week! I'll recap what happened last week and preview the action taking place this week too!

It's good to be back in The Igloo for the first time in over a month and on this episode, I'll break down this year's Gavitt Games slate, preview the first weekend slate for TBT 2022, including regionals being hosted by alumni teams from both Creighton and Xavier, and share my thoughts on the releases of non-conference schedules for both UConn WBB and Xavier MBB!

The Women's Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2022 will be inducted this weekend in Knoxville, Tennessee. One of this year's inductees is legendary DePaul head coach Doug Bruno and he joins me on this episode of The Igloo to discuss his upcoming induction and much more!

On this Coaches' Corner episode of The Igloo, Butler head coach Austin Parkinson, as well as Creighton assistant coach and documented avid Igloo listener Linda Sayavongchanh, join me for some solid in-depth interviews! Oh, and I also have the latest news on the men's side, including the return of Qudus Wahab to Georgetown and this year's official matchups for the Big East/Big 12 Battle!

I said last time that the star power of guests wasn't gonna stop in May and beyond and I prove it here on this new episode with DePaul star and national Freshman of the Year Aneesah Morrow!

With the 2021-22 season officially in the books and the offseason already running wild, Tim Brando joins me to discuss this season around the Big East, broadcasting Big East tournament games inside a sold-out Madison Square Garden for the very first time, and more!