Best Mike Lovell Podcasts (2025)

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Episode 1,042: Mississippi State head coach Chris Jans 10:22

1M ago10:22

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Mississippi State head coach Chris Jans once again joins “Marching to Madness” from Starkville, Miss., where he has compiled a 63-40 record and has led the Bulldogs to the NCAA Tournament in each of those seasons. It’s the first time these Dawgs have been to March Madness for three or more consecutive seasons since 2002-2005. Jans changed his offen…

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Episode 1,041: Towson head coach Pat Skerry 14:12

1M ago14:12

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Coach Skerry is one of our favorite return guests on MTM as he has 34 years of experience and has built Towson into a perennial challenger in the Coastal Athletic Association. In 2024-25, the Tigers procured the CAA regular season championship, producing a 17-2 record over their last 19 games, which magnified the best start in conference program hi…

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Episode 1,040: Saint Mary’s head coach Randy Bennett 15:57

1M ago15:57

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Saint Mary’s head coach Randy Bennett joins “Marching to Madness.” Coach Bennett won his 7th WCC Coach of the Year honor as the Gaels enjoyed their third consecutive regular season WCC title, and they cut the nets in Las Vegas in 2024 with the tournament crown. He has built SMC into a featured program in the west after the Gaels finished at 1-27 in…

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Episode 1,039: Michigan head coach Dusty May 13:47

1M ago13:47

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Coach May is once again discussing his Michigan Wolverines here on MTM. In his first season in Ann Arbor, he led the Wolverines to 27 wins, the Big Ten Tournament title, and a date in the Sweet 16. Coach May holds a 153-79 record in seven seasons as head coach at Florida Atlantic and Michigan. Of course, he led the Owls to the Final Four in 2023. T…

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Episode 1,038: UC Riverside head coach Gus Argenal 19:00

2M ago19:00

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Coach Gus Argenal joins “Marching to Madness” as he undertakes the UC Riverside Highlanders, who have become a tough out in the Big West Conference. Coach Argenal assisted Eric Musselman at Nevada and Arkansas and has 19 years of collegiate coaching experience. He coached at Cal State San Bernardino the last two seasons and recorded 50 wins. During…

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Episode 1,037: USC head coach Eric Musselman 14:04

2M ago14:04

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Coach Musselman continually brings the Muss Bus through the “Marching to Madness” neighborhood. He is currently 238-111 in ten years in college basketball as he started at Nevada, where he took the Wolf Pack to the NCAA Tournament for three of four seasons, as he brought them to the Sweet 16, where they suffered a tough 69-68 loss to Loyola Chicago…

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Episode 1,036: Campbell head coach John Andrzejek 13:49

2M ago13:49

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Coach Andrzejek came aboard the Buies Creek, NC, campus after working as the defensive coordinator for the Florida Gators for Coach Todd Golden in these last two seasons. Coach Andrzejek was the team’s defensive coordinator as Florida finished sixth in the nation in defensive efficiency, according to kenpom.com. His defense was clutch as it played …

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Episode 1,035: UNC Greensboro head coach Mike Jones 17:53

2M ago17:53

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Coach Jones comes aboard again on MTM after his Spartans finished second in the Southern Conference this past season and won 20 or more games for the third consecutive season. Coach Jones is well known as a defensive strategist, and we discuss that as well as working through roster changes to develop a quality team. Topics of discussion include: De…

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Episode 1,034: Auburn head coach Bruce Pearl 18:59

2M ago18:59

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Auburn head coach Bruce Pearl returns to “Marching to Madness” once again as we chat about the Tigers and various topics outside of college basketball. We discuss assistant coach Chad Prewitt leaving the Tigers to join the ministry, the faith-based basketball program that Coach Pearl has solidified at Auburn, and Israeli hostage situations in the M…

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Episode 1,033: VCU head coach Phil Martelli, Jr. 20:27

2M ago20:27

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Coach Martelli joins MTM to discuss his move from Bryant University to VCU. He led the Bulldogs to the NEC championship and their first appearance in the NCAA Tournament. After five seasons on the coaching staff, he took over the program in 2023. We spotlight the move to VCU, a program that went to the Final Four in 2011. Topics of Discussion Inclu…

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Episode 1,032: Appalachian State head coach Dustin Kerns 12:18

2M ago12:18

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Appalachian State lost five of its last six games to end the season, so Coach Kerns will want to see ASU start at a high level when November rolls around. Kerns enters his seventh season in Boone, NC, where he has built the Apps into a contender. Just a year ago, App State won the Sun Belt regular season with 27 wins and won the league tournament i…

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Episode 1,031: UMass head coach Frank Martin 30:44

2M ago30:44

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Coach Martin is a proven winner who analyzes the depths of college basketball when we discuss the Minutemen’s move into the MAC. He has turned his roster over with 10 new players for the 2025-26 season, which allows the program to look for only its second NCAA Tournament appearance since 1998. Martin has 335 career wins. He took Kansas State to the…

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Episode 1,030: UL Monroe head coach Phil Cunningham 17:04

2M ago17:04

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Coach Phil Cunningham assumes the head coaching position at UL Monroe as the Warhawks come off a 7-25 campaign. They finished the season with only eight scholarship players while trying to navigate the difficult waters of the Sun Belt Conference. Phil discusses the transition into the head coaching chair as he was the associate head coach in ’24-25…

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Episode 1,029: Delaware head coach Martin Ingelsby 12:33

3M ago12:33

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Coach Martin Ingelsby has built Delaware into a solid program; after a tough regular season, the Blue Hens moved into the Coastal Athletic Association Tournament and won four games in a row before losing a tough 76-72 decision to UNC Wilmington in the championship. Delaware moves into Conference USA on July 1. Coach Ingelsby discusses his ideas on …

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Episode 1,028: Kent State head coach Rob Senderoff 19:30

3M ago19:30

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Coach Senderoff returns to Marching to Madness after the Golden Flashes finished third in the MAC and took two wins over St. Bonaventure and Stanford in the NIT. Kent has won over 20 games in nine of Coach Senderoff’s 14 seasons, and the program continues to have a tough defensive mindset. Kent State and Akron have become a major basketball rivalry…

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Episode 1,027: Ole Miss head Chris Beard 15:27

3M ago15:27

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Coach Chris Beard is back on MTM as the Rebels picked off 24 wins and made it to the Sweet 16 and they were a key competitor in the SEC. Coach Beard was named the Jim Phelan National Coach of the Year and led four teams into the NCAA Tournament in his nine seasons as a head coach. This was the Rebels second appearance in the Sweet 16 and the first …

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Episode 1,026: UNLV head coach Josh Pastner 12:30

3M ago12:30

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Coach Josh Pastner visits “Marching to Madness” once again as he is the first-year head coach at UNLV after two years at ESPN, where he was a solid color analyst in the studio and on the sidelines. Coach Pastner brings 276 career victories to the Thomas & Mack Center as he rebuilds the roster, where he added 13 new players to his first squad. He br…

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Episode 1,025: South Florida head coach Bryan Hodgson 10:44

3M ago10:44

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Coach Bryan Hodgson comes to Tampa to lead the USF Bulls after spending two years as the head coach at Arkansas State, where the Red Wolves obviously played his up-tempo style and averaged about 63 field goal attempts per game in those two seasons. Coach Hodgson worked with one of the best offensive coaches in the game as he was Nate Oats’ assistan…

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Episode 1,024: Colorado State head coach Ali Farokhmanesh 18:33

3M ago18:33

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Coach Ali Farokhmanesh will begin his first season at Colorado State after he worked as Coach Niko Medved’s assistant for the past seven seasons. We get into lots of excellent analytical and philosophical discussions and chat about players we will see with the Rams. Coach has been key in his development of players and orchestrating in-game situatio…

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Episode 1,023: Richmond head coach Chris Mooney 12:57

3M ago12:57

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Coach Chris Mooney joins us once again on “Marching to Madness,” where we discuss his general ideology of the Spiders and the college game. Coach Mooney started 107 games in four years as a guard at Princeton for Coach Pete Carril. He still ranks 20th in points scored with 1,071 while he was a captain of the Tigers for two seasons. Richmond will wo…

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Episode 1,022: Nebraska head coach Fred Hoiberg 17:06

3M ago17:06

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Nebraska head coach Fred Hoiberg ripped nets and lit up scoreboards when he played at Iowa State He then perfected a 10-year career in the NBA, where he shot a career 39.6 percent from three. Hoiberg’s Cornhuskers ended with 21 wins, taking victories over UCF, Boise State, Georgetown, and Arizona State in the College Basketball Crown. Coach Hoiberg…

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Episode 1,021: Louisiana head coach Quannas White 13:33

3M ago13:33

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Coach Quannas White came to Louisiana from Houston, where he was a major key to the Cougars’ success and their appearance in the national championship game this season. Coach White is a native of New Orleans and played for Coach Kelvin Sampson at Oklahoma, where he helped lead the Sooners to the Final Four in 2002 and the Elite Eight in 2003. White…

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Episode 1,020: Columbia head coach Kevin Hovde 14:10

3M ago14:10

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Coach Kevin Hovde recently cut the nets in San Antonio as he was coach Todd Golden’s offensive coordinator at Florida, as the Gators took a 65-63 victory over the Houston Cougars for the NCAA Tournament Championship. Coach Hovde returns to Columbia, where he was on Coach Kyle Smith’s staff from 2011-2016. He was an excellent hire by Lions brass wit…

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Episode 1,019: Wofford head coach Dwight Perry 15:32

3M ago15:32

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Wofford went on the three-game gauntlet in the Southern Conference Tournament as the Terriers cut down the nets in Asheville, NC, after a 92-85 SoCon Finals win over Furman. We discuss some strategy, basketball philosophy, and more on the 1,019th episode of MTM. We discuss Corey Tripp, Kyler Filewich, and Southern Conference basketball. Topics of D…

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Episode 1,018: Florida State head coach Luke Loucks 26:36

3M ago26:36

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First-season head coach Luke Loucks returns to Florida State where he appeared in 136 games in his four seasons and recorded 391 assists, tenth best in Seminoles history. Coach Loucks developed an in-depth career as an NBA assistant with the Sacramento Kings, Golden State Warriors, and Phoenix Suns as he will use an impressive transition game with …

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Episode 1,017: Former Kentucky star Tony Delk 21:14

4M ago21:14

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Tony Delk makes his first appearance on the courts here on “Marching to Madness”. The former Kentucky and NBA three-point shooter is now a scout for the Dallas Mavericks and hosts the Tony Delk Basketball Academy (tonydelk.com) in the Atlanta area. This is an analytical discussion on Tony’s philosophies with the three-point shots, and he also looks…

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Episode 1,016: Houston head coach Kelvin Sampson 18:16

4M ago18:16

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Houston Cougars coach Kelvin Sampson will take his Cougars into the Final Four for the second time since 2021 as they face the Duke Blue Devils on Saturday. The Cougars have won 30 of their last 31 games which includes an outright Big 12 regular season championship, the Cougars’ second Big 12 Tournament crown in as many years inside of the league, …

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Episode 1,015: Lipscomb head coach Lennie Acuff 13:12

5M ago13:12

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Coach Lennie Acuff leads his Lipscomb Bison to the ASUN regular season and tournament crowns. In the championship, the Bison turned back North Alabama, 76-65, and await their NCAA Tournament seed on Sunday. Lipscomb’s Joe Anderson was the tournament MVP. Topics of Discussion Include: Turning the page to the championship after a tough semifinals win…

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Episode 1,014: Coach Sonny Smith 18:55

5M ago18:55

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Sonny Smith was the head coach at Auburn from 1979-1988 when he took the Tigers to six NCAA Tournaments and the Elite Eight in 1986 where the lost to eventual nation champion Louisville. Sonny has an offensive mind and he is a transition coach, and he developed Charles Barkley, Chuck Person, and Chris Morris as they were needed players in rotations…

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Episode 1,013: Coach Jim Harrick 21:22

5M ago21:22

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Coach Harrick was front row and center in March as he led the UCLA Bruins to the 1995 national championship and led four different programs in 16 of his 23 head coaching seasons. Jim was a players’ coach who helped his players achieve at high levels on and off the floor. He posted 470 wins in those 23 years as the buy-in from his players reflected …

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Episode 1,012: Coach Mark Gottfried 27:42

5M ago27:42

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Coach Mark Gottfried played guard at Alabama from 1984-87 and shot a high percentage as a playmaker. He followed basketball in his career when he was an assistant at UCLA for Coach Jim Harrick on the 1995 UCLA Bruins national championship team which preceded his skills as a coach. He won 498 games at Murray State, Alabama, NC State, and Cal State N…

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Episode 1,011: UNC Ashville head coach Mike Morrell 14:09

5M ago14:09

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The UNC Asheville Bulldogs are once again poised near the top of the challenging Big South Conference. Coach Mike Morrell has produced one of the nation’s better offensive teams since the Bulldogs average 82.5 points per game, shoot 47 percent from the floor, and find 62.7 field goal attempts per contest. UNCA and Big South regular-season champion …

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Episode 1,010: Mississippi State assistant coach Scott Padgett 12:27

5M ago12:27

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Coach Padgett joins “Marching to Madness” actually on the Friday before the Oklahoma game and talks about the Bulldogs who have won three of its last five. Coach Padgett played on Kentucky’s national championship team in 1997. He was first-team all-America in ’97 and a first-round pick of the Utah Jazz in 1998, soending the next eight seasons in th…

8M ago13:34

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Coach Pearl has his Auburn Tigers posted at No. 2 in the AP Top 25 where the SEC has nine teams ranked in the poll this week. Auburn is led by a deep rotation where post Johni Broome averages 19.6 ppg and 11.9 rebounds while dishing out 3.8 assists per contest. Broome is joined in the paint by Dylan Cardwell and Chaney Johnson. This trio complement…

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