The Field of 68 AFTER DARK Podcast

John Calipari and Mark Few try to save college basketball by scheduling a six game series. Plus, Dauster, TO and Fanta break down the Big Ten conference before having a Q-and-A mailbag session!

0:00 Kentucky and Gonzaga are playing for six years!

19:15 How good is Victor Wembanyama

32:08 Mailbag!!!

46:47 Big Ten preview!

This is Creighton's best team ever. Right? Greg McDermott joined Jeff Goodman and Robbie Hummel to talk through the chances that the Bluejays can have the success that we're expecting them to have.

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The Field of 68 has some exciting news to share with everyone: We are partnering with the Atlantic 10 Conference to bring you the Atlantic 10 Insider podcast, a show dedicated to the 15 teams in one of college basketball's best leagues. Rob Dauster and Jeff Goodman will spend this season cussin' and discussin' life, liberty and the pursuit of an A-10 title with every relevant figure around the league, from the coaches to the player to the administrators and maybe even a fan or two.

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On today's episode of The Field of 68 AFTER DARK, the head coach of the preseason No. 1 team in the country joins the show to talk about expectations and what this means for his program. Jeff and Robbie also dive into the Memphis IARP ruling and what this means moving forward.

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Today's episode of The Field of 68 AFTER DARK is a special drop from the DTF podcast feed. On Memphis and Penny Hardaway beating the NCAA, the hoops version of Kansas football and a Big East preview!

0:00 Open

7:52 Memphis got away with it!

18:26 Which basketball team will pull a Kansas football?

25:30 Big East preview!

John Fanta, Rob Dauster and Terrence Oglesby are here to discussed a couple of the biggest stories of the college basketball offseason. Emoni Bates found himself in cuffs on Sunday night, while the one and done rule may be going away. What does it all mean?

We have a special episode for Field of 68 fans today, as Jeff Goodman of the Goodman & Hummel podcast was joined for an episode by Nick Smith of Arkansas.

A special episode in today's feed: John Fanta, Rob Dauster and Terrence Oglesby are back with a loaded episode for you breaking down Kentucky's national title chances, what 2023 North Carolina and 2007 Florida have in common, Bronny James and the most overrated and underrated teams in America.

The best NBA Draft experts joined Jeff Goodman and Rob Dauster to put together a full mock of the 2022 NBA Draft. Sam Vecenie, Jeremy Woo, Matt Babcock and Ryan McDonough are our experts. Join us as we break down every NBA team and find the best pick available to them.

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This is how Talvin Hester went from being an unpaid, Division III JuCo assistant coach to the head coach at Louisiana Tech.

Eric Peterson got the job as the new South Dakota head coach after just a year as a high major assistant. 

Chris Crutchfield is making the move to the mid-major ranks, as he takes over at Omaha for a team and a program looking to build for the future.

No one has had a more interesting coaching journey than Otis Hughley, from an Alabama HS to the NBA to China to Nigeria to Alabama A&M.

Ryan Pedon takes over as the new head coach at Illinois State after spending the last nine seasons as an assistant coach at the high major level. 

After spending the last seven seasons as an assistant coach at the Division I level, Chris Victor took over Seattle as their full time head coach this season. 

David Ragland joined Lukas Harkins to discuss the journey to becoming Evansville's newest head coach.

From one twin to another: Jonas Hayes joins Aaron Robinson to talk through his path to getting a head coaching gig and what life is like being a twin. 

Shaheen Holloway joins this week's episode of Off The Carousel to talk through his decision to return back to Seton Hall after taking St. Peter's to the Elite Eight.

Fran Dunphy is easily one of the most likable coaches in the business. He joined Jeff Goodman to discuss his glorious and triumphant return to the coaching ranks in the city of Philadelphia. 

There aren't many places in the country with as much talent as the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex. Rob Lanier joined us to discuss taking over SMU and trying to tap into all of that talent.

Travis Steele's got a new job! Why did he find himself a new gig so quickly after losing his job, and why did he opt to go to a league where his brother is already coaching?

Mike Jordan helped build a mid-major powerhouse at Colgate before leaving to take over league rival Lafayette. He discussed that move with us.

Tony Madlock is your new head coach at Alabama State!

Donald Copeland is the new head coach of the Wagner Seahawks! 

Matt McMahon was the most successful mid-major coach in college basketball last season, as he led Murray State to 30 wins. McMahon parlayed that success into a job replacing Will Wade at LSU. On rebuilding a roster from scratch, jumping up a level and, of course, recruiting Ja Morant.

Marvin Menzies landed at Kansas City this offseason. On what he learned from stops at UNLV and New Mexico State, as well as his time under the legendary Rick Pitino. 

Kyle Neptune got the surprise of a lifetime last month: Jay Wright, who was his mentor in the coaching business, retired out of the blue. Kyle was named his successor, after just one season as the head coach at Fordham. This is the story of how he found out he would be getting the Villanova job, and what it feels like trying to replace a Hall of Famer. 

Mo Williams played for 15 years in the NBA and made nearly $70 million in his career. And now, instead of enjoying his retirement, he got into college coaching at the SWAC level. Why college? Why HBCUs? And what's it like working alongside Deion Sanders? He tells the whole story here.

Keith Urgo, a onetime Jay Wright assistant at Villanova, had his career take a major left turn thanks to Jay's sudden retirement. A year after following Kyle Neptune to Fordham, he got the head coaching gig when Kyle was tabbed Jay's successor. He tells the first story of getting that job for the first time. 

Bashir Mason is one of the youngest head coaches in college basketball, and he is now tasked with taking over for Shaheen Holloway at St. Peter's, where the Peacocks are coming off of a run to the Elite Eight. 

Chris Jans began his college coaching career parking cars as a valet while making money on the side as a small-time coach. He is now a multi-millionaire as the head coach of Mississippi State. This is how he made it there.

Pat Chambers tenure at Penn State did not end the way that he wanted it to, but he is back, landing the head coaching gig at FGCU -- Dunk City, baby! -- this offseason. Can we expect a resurgence from one of the greatest mid-major stories of a generation?

Mike White was a rising star in the coaching business when he took over at Florida, and he did a good job while in charge there. But White made the decision this offseason to leave Florida to head across the border and take over Georgia. Will he be the man that can finally turn the Bulldog basketball program into a juggernaut?

Tobin Anderson is the new Fairleigh Dickinson head coach! After spending a couple decades as a Division II and III head coach, he made the jump to the Division I ranks this spring.

After 17 years as an assistant coach, Corey Gipson landed his first head coaching this offseason. He was hired by Northwestern State, and he joined us to talk about the process of being a first time head coach.

Dan Earl's second head coaching gig takes him to one of the best mid-major programs in college basketball: Chattanooga. What can we expect out of the Mocs during the 2022-23 season and moving forward?

G.G. Smith took over for his father, Tubby, at High Point midway through this past season. In the spring, he was officially named High Point head coach. He joined us on today's episode of Off The Carousel.

Andrew Wilson, a Florida State alum, takes over at VMI after a couple of decades as an assistant coach in the mid-major ranks.

A three-time head coach previously, Billy Taylor has taken over for Duke-bound Mike Schrage as the head coach at Elon.

Jerome Tang spent nearly two decades helping Scott Drew build Baylor up from the bottom of the Big 12 to being a national title winning program. Now he is moving north, taking over a Big 12 rival -- Kansas State -- with ambitions to be as good as their in-state rival, Kansas. How does he plan on doing that? And what did he learn from his time in Waco?

Just three years into his college coaching tenure, Levell Sanders was named the head coach of the Binghamton Bearcats!

It did not end perfectly, but don't forget that Frank Martin was able to get South Carolina all the way to the 2017 Final Four while he was the head coach of the Gamecocks. After performing well as the head coach at Chattanooga, Lamont Paris will be tasked with trying to get the USC back to that level. This is how he plans to do it.

Michael Schwartz has been a part of the staff at Tennessee as Rick Barnes has rebuilt that program, and now that he is the head coach at East Carolina, the Pirate faithful are hoping that he can develop the same kind of culture there. 

Missouri changed leadership this offseason. Cuonzo Martin is gone. In his stead is one of the best young coaches in the sport: Dennis Gates. Our Jim Root, a Missouri fan at heart, joins Gates to talk through what his tenure in Columbia will look like. Can Mizzou be Mizzou again?

Chris Markwood has spent a number of years in the America East, both as a player and as an assistant coach. Is he the man to turn around the Maine program? Can he make the Black Bears the new Vermont?

Jon Scheyer has the most unenviable job in college basketball this season: Replacing the Greatest Of All Time. Do you really want to be the guy that takes over for The Guy? He joined our Jeff Goodman to talk about being just the second Duke head coach in the last four decades, and the difficultly there-in.

Dwayne Stephens spent the last two decades as an assistant on Tom Izzo's staff at Michigan State. Now that he finally has a chance to take over his own program, Stephens joined The Field of 68 to talk about the process of getting his own program and building it from scratch.

It's been a long time since Maryland was considered a power program. Kevin Willard did a lot with a little during his time at Seton Hall. He'll have better facilities, infrastructure and recruiting base in Maryland. Will he be the guy to turn this thing around?