Valley Hoops Insider Podcast

Eastern Illinois coach Jay Spoonhour joined the Valley Hoops Insider Podcast to talk about the Panthers' two historic comeback wins. The light-hearted Spoonhour talks about his players, baseball, the OVC and his disdain for saber metrics. 

Springfield News Leader writer Wyatt Wheeler is our guest on this week's Beat Writer's Edition of the Valley Hoops Insider Podcast. Wheeler tells us the Bears are finally playing with coach Dana Ford's desired intensity. 

CBS Sports Network's Brent Stover discusses this season's college basketball season and his budding musical career. 

The former Butler coach thinks the programs and communities are similar and that Evansville can enjoy some great success. After taking over the program in late January, Lickliter believes his team is closer than ever to being truly competitive. 

You see him on the set of CBS Sports Network before during and after college basketball games. Brent Stover formerly worked in St. Louis and has frequently announced Missouri Valley Conference games. He has been the lead broadcaster on numerous Arch Madness broadcasts. We discuss college basketball, his studio analysis and his views on some breaking college basketball stories. 

Loyola University Chicago is on an historic run. After a Final Four run two seasons ago, the Ramblers are attempting to win their third straight Missouri Valley Conference title. Lucas Williamson is a Chicago kid, trying to win championships at a Chicago school. 

Bradley has a good chance to repeat as Arch Madness champions and the Peoria Journal-Star, hall-of-fame sportswriter, Dave Reynolds tells us why. 

The first of two games of the Border War between Murray State and Austin Peay takes place Thursday night. The top two teams in the Ohio Valley Conference face off and Paducah Sun reporter Ed Marlowe gives us great insight into this rivalry!

Indiana State picked up an historic win Wednesday night and is off to its best start in five years. Tribune-Star writer Todd Golden joined Harry Schroeder to talk about the Sycamores, the Missouri Valley Conference and Arch Madness 30. 

Eastern Kentucky is the surprise team of the Ohio Valley Conference. Harry Schroeder interviews their second year coach A.W. Hamilton, who has his Colonels playing pressure defense and winning games. EKU is 8-2 in OVC play and are forcing more turnovers than all but four NCAA Division 1 teams. 

The Southern Illinois Salukis are the surprise team of the Missouri Valley Conference. During this 'Beat Writers' Edition' of the Valley Hoops Insider Podcast, we talk with Saluki beat writer Todd Hefferman about Bryan Mullins' first season as the SIU coach. 

After the suspension and subsequent firing of coach Walter McCarty, veteran coach (and former UE assistant) Todd Lickliter has been hired to replace McCarty at Evansville. CourierPress beat writer Chad Lindskog joins us to fill in on the blanks concerning the firing, hiring and what's next for the Purple Aces' program. 

During 'Part Two' of our conversation with Paul Oren and Nick Petaros we dig deeper into what makes Valparaiso's Javon Freeman-Liberty and Northern Iowa's A.J. Green so special. 

AJ Green and Javon Freeman-Liberty are having spectacular sophomore seasons. In this 'Beat Writer Edition' we talk to Nick Petaros (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier) and Paul Oren (Northwest Indiana Times) about these second-year stars. 

Jordan Barnes is reshaping his game and explains his hopes and motives behind the changes to Harry Schroeder (@FatherHarry1) and to the readers of ValleyHoopsInsider.com.

APSU has the Ohio Valley's best player in Terry Taylor and the Governors will challenge for the OVC title.