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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.
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Competition in the Atlantic 10 Sustainability from his father, legendary Phil Martelli, Sr. Philosophies Inside the game Working inside the transfer portal where entire teams now leave programs inside of a coaching change -
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 in 2021. The Mountaineers’ opponents shot only 39.1 percent from the floor during the ’24-25 season, ninth in college basketball.
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The challenge of the transfer portal in the Sun Belt Conference Developing the backcourt as Alonzo Dodd returns as a shooting guard How the Mountaineers’ defensive approach might change from season to season Transfers who will appear on the new App State roster -
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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 Elite Eight in 2010, and the Wildcats appeared in four NCAA Tournaments in his five years at KSU. He led South Carolina to the Final Four in school history in 2017.
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Psychological analysis of situations that can permeate across college basketball Philosophies of how he approaches many different game circumstances Transitioning the program into the MAC as it has spent the past 49 seasons in the Atlantic 10 Developing a team identity with 10 incoming players -
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. Let’s not forget, he won the Sun Belt Tournament in 2017 at Troy, where he led the Trojans into only their second NCAA Tournament appearance in team history.
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Opportunities, as most of the roster is intact Building players’ skills Presiding over an offense that will attack in transition off of a miss How to build the Warhawks to compete and rise in the Sun Belt -
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 how to rebuild as the Blue Hens are a program that builds quality players.
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Winning the 4 games to get into the CAA Championship Final The impacts of the move to Conference USA Bringing over Providence transfer Justyn Fernandez and former Temple Owl Jameel Brown The return of Cavan Reilly for a fourth season -
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 in northeast Ohio as the Zips won the MAC this season while Kent finished third in the league.
Topics of Discussion include:
A deep upcoming roster, although the Golden Flashes lose leading scorers Jalen Sullinger and VonCameron Davis Building a ball screen offense Two quality incoming transfers in Robert Whaley, Jr., from UNLV and former Cincinnati Bearcat Rayvon Griffith How the MAC has changed in Coach Senderoff’s 14 seasons -
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 time since 2001.
Topics of Discussion Include:
Challenges in the SEC, which had 14 NCAA Tournament entrants after a record-setting regular season How players’ individual improvement works positively in the recruiting cycle The expansion of Sean Pedulla’s game as he was an excellent scorer and leader last season Raising the perception of the program inside the game, on campus, and in the Oxford community -
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 brought three CUSA Tournament championships and two regular season conference championships to Memphis when he placed the Tigers in four NCAA Tournaments. He moved to Georgia Tech and worked on a monumental rebuild of the Yellow Jackets, and led GT to the 2021 ACC Tournament championship.
Topics of Discussion Include:
* Leading UNLV Basketball forward
* Bringing Top-150 prospect Tyrin Jones to Vegas
* Developing philosophy and a basketball culture
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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’ assistant at Alabama and Buffalo for four years each.
Topics of Discussion Include:
Building the transition game into a lethal offensive attack Adding post Izaiyah Nelson and guard Joseph Pinion who were key leaders at Arkansas State Returning CJ Brown, who was a key contributor in averaging 22.5 minutes per game Idenitfying the three-point attempt in transition -
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 situations, which helped post Colorado State win the Mountain West Tournament as well as post CSU in three of the last four NCAA Tournaments.
Topics of Discussion Include:
Winning 11 in a row and 19 of 22, going into the Round of 32 matchup with Maryland The returns of Rashaan Mamba and Kyle Jorgensen Upgrading players’ confidence and positivity in transferring to Colorado State How the defensive approach has been an important part in the rise of the program -
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 work its way back into the Atlantic 10 mix as its offense will improve, and the return of guard Mikkel Tyne offers experience and efficiency as he averaged 31.5 minutes in 2024-25.
Topics of Discussion Include:
Different coaching strategies and philosophies in his 20 seasons in the A-10 Strategies and fundamentals to improve the team offensively Players’ development in summer practices Maintaining sustainability in the program as the transfer portal and NIL are now key recruiting mechanisms -
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 discusses the development of Nebraska’s three-point game, the Cornhuskers’ vaunted play of Brice Williams and Juwan Gary, along with an incredible list of basketball celebrities who were his coaches in his career.
Topics of Discussion Include:
How his level of play and NBA experience helped develop his philosophies than he uses as a coach in today’s game The Crown Championship Brice Williams and Juwan Gary as the catalyst of his team Getting votes in the Mayorial election in Ames, Iowa, and much more -
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 was an excellent playmaker at OU and had a lethal three-point shot.
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Differences in playing and coaching for Kelvin. Sampson The return of Kyran Ratliff Offensive philosophy and methods of attack with each possession Building a program’s culture -
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 with his definition of culture, the ability to build basketball players, and a deep knowledge of the game, of all facets of the game. The Lions limped to a 1-13 record in the Ivy League last season, but the rebuilding of the defense, combined with the team’s upcoming offensive acumen, will allow Columbia to rise in the Ivy League.
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How Kyle Smith and Todd Golden have been keys in Coach Hovde’s career Building the Columbia culture Kenny Noland’s return to the program Setting up three-point shooters in the transition offense -
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.
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Wofford winning three in a row for the SoCon crown Matching up with Tennessee, who had been a Top 5 team nearly all season. Corey Tripp as a playmaker and a three-point shooter The talent level in college basketball -
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 the Seminoles. Coach discusses his work in the NBA, the return to Florida State with some strategy and philosophy in an excellent conversation.
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Coach Loucks’ stops with the Kings, Warriors, and Suns Philosophy on building a roster with the transfer portal and the NIL Primary duties with the Warriors in the back-to-back NBA Championships of 2017 and 2018 Coach Leonard Hamilton’s influence -
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 at Kentucky Basketball, the Final Four, playing for coach Rick Pitino, and more.
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How the to maintain the three-point shot Kentucky’s often injured season in Mark Pope’s first year Florida’s National Championship Maintaining as an analyst at ESPN -
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, and the Coogs defeated Purdue and Tennessee last weekend to win the Midwest Region and a berth in the 2025 Final Four.
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The Cougars’ wins over Purdue and Tennessee to assume their Final Four berth Versatility from the guard spots with LJ Cryer, Milos Uzan, and Emanuel Sharp J’Wan Roberts’ inside game on both ends of the floor Saturday evening’s FInal four Matchup with Duke… And much more!
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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.
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Turning the page to the championship after a tough semifinals win over Queens The efficiency of play on both ends of the floor The leadership and talent of Ron Anderson Anderson and Gyasi Powell on the three-point line… And much more!
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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 in the NBA. Sonny chats about the 24-25 Auburn Tigers and their place in history.
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The presence of SEC Player of the Year Johni Broome Chad Baker-Mazara’s shooting, defense, and his overall enthusiasm The deep guard rotation Bruce Pearl’s winning personna… And much more!
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