Mad About Hoops

And just like that the College Basketball season has come to an end. Florida is your champs over Houston. CB, Timmy, and Rhymetime break down the title game and the Final Four. How was Florida able to come from behind and beat Houston? Was this the best Final Four ever? We also look ahead at the offseason and the transfer portal. Who could be at the top in Way-Too-Early Rankings? The Ohio State Basketball team has a big offseason ahead of them, and more!

The Final Four is set and it's all chalk! All four 1 seeds meet in San Antonio all with great opportunities to cut down the nets. Timmy and CB begin the pod with an update on who is transferring out of Ohio State with Aaron Bradshaw and Meechie Johnson putting their names in the portal and set the table for the Final Four in San Antonio. Then at the 11:05 mark, Timmy and Rhymetime get into the coaches' portal madness with Kevin Willard dumping on Maryland to head to Villanova and then react to Buzz Williams taking the job in College Park. At 24:00, CB gets back in the booth with Rhymetime to talk about some of the moves in the transfer portal and targets of the Ohio State basketball team choosing elsewhere plus who they could be bringing in. And to finish the show at 33:45, CB and Rhymetime preview the Final Four matchups with their keys for each game and picks on who will advance to the title game and then cut the nets down on Monday night. Enjoy the pod and the epic Final Four we are about to witness!

We are deep into the Madness now! Coming at you in the second weekend of the NCAA Tournament, but first Timmy and CB begin the show breaking down the news about Meechie Johnson and why he left the team. Also, what Ohio State needs to do in the transfer portal for next season. Next at the 12:05 mark, a recap of the unreal games we had in the Sweet 16 on Thursday with Alabama setting a tournament record, Duke surviving a vintage Caleb Love performance, and Texas Tech with a wild comeback over Arkansas. Then, Rhymetime joins Timmy at the 22:40 mark to get into some sounds of the week from Tom Izzo on the transfer portal and Kevin Willard as he's been rumored to be headed to Villanova. And to finish the show at the 34:30 mark, CB and Rhymetime get into the Elite 8 matchups that we know of for sure and who will punch their tickets to the Final 4. Enjoy the pod!

The NCAA Tournament is here! A full episode for this one with lots of different voices hitting you with talk about March Madness. To begin the show, Timmy and CB catch you up on some games that have happened. We get a Calipari vs Pitino matchup after Arkansas knocks out Timmy's Jayhawks. Then at the 7:40 mark, Timmy is joined by the guys from Rothman and Ice. First Matty Ice chops it up with Timmy on a pair of the upsets that happened on Thursday and the cool stories around those games. Who was Matty Ice a fan outside of Ohio growing up? Next at the 19:50 mark, Anthony Rothman steps in to talk with Timmy about going to school at Kansas and Indiana, and the great basketball played at the time. Also, what makes the NCAA Tournament so magical for him. We also get their Final Four picks. Then to finish the show at 37:40, CB and Rhymetime get into some of the games to watch this weekend and what to keep an eye on in the Saturday matchups. The Madness is here, enjoy it!

We are single digit days away from Selection Sunday, and we've gotten ourselves a good appetizer for the NCAA Tournament with the week it's been in the Conference Tournaments. We get the show started getting into some of the craziness that has occurred this week already with all the buzzer beaters and great games. Fran McCaffery is out at Iowa, and he went out in his own style. At the 10:40 mark, we get into some of the teams we've been watching this week getting a taste of what they're like for the NCAA Tournament and what happened to the Ohio State basketball team in their loss to Iowa in the Big Ten Tournament. Then at 21:00, a discussion of where the current program at Ohio State is, what they need to do this offseason, and why they belong with the Blue Bloods of the sport. And to finish the show at 33:10, we get into some of our favorite moments from past Conference Tournaments, and we hear from the great Rick Pitino. The madness is here!

The music is getting louder! 10 days from Selection Sunday! Timmy Hall, Evil Bald Colin, and Rhymetime are with you for episode 121. We get the show started with a recap of this week in College Basketball with some epic moments happening everywhere. How much is of a threat is Florida to Auburn and Duke as title contenders? At the 14:40 mark, we take a look at Dayton and their big Super Fan the Flyers have. Can the run the table and win the A-10 and steal a bid? We hear from Wes Miller at Cincinnati at the 25:30 mark. Jay Bilas has some thoughts on what changes need to be made in College Basketball, what do we think of them? And to finish the show at the 39:10 mark, we get into what Ohio State has to do this weekend in Assembly Hall and how much more they need to do to go dancing. Like and subscribe and get locked in. March is here!

March is here! The long journey of this season has led us to the madness that is this month. Timmy Hall and Jacob Rhymer with you for this pod starting things out by remembering Gene Hackman, aka Norman Dale, with his legendary work in the great movie "Hoosiers". At about the 11:50 mark, we get into what has happened in College Basketball this week as the madness is beginning before March with two buzzer beaters for the schools in Michigan, plus a breakdown of the ending to Michigan State-Maryland. Then at the 24:30 mark, UNC extending Hubert Davis and the guys get into that deal made in Chapel Hill. Also, should we have more regular season games in College Basketball? One coach at a Blue Blood thinks so. To finish the show around 36:10, Ohio State is fighting for their tournament lives. What do they have to do to get in the Big Dance? A look ahead at games this weekend, and more!

Exactly one month from today, we will have games being played in the NCAA Tournament, so lock into the pod and get ready for the madness. It's Timmy's birthday, so we begin the pod with the downfall of his Kansas Jayhawks after they dropped both games to the two Utah teams. What does Kansas need to do to turn this around or is this situation unfixable? Then at about the 13:40, we get into the Bracket Preview. Where could this Ohio State team be seeded at and who are some possible teams they could face? And then at about 23:30 we hit you with some sounds of the week in College Basketball. Rick Pitino is getting his guys fired up while Mick Cronin is calling out his guys, and Micah Shrewsberry is going after the Notre Dame fanbase. Lots of interesting stuff going down, you can tell March is near!

A full crew with you for this pod! A catch up on the week to start the show setting up the Iron Bowl basketball edition on Saturday. Breaking down the SEC's dominance. At the 13-minute mark, Timmy tells us about a famous College Basketball broadcaster he got to meet. Who else have we had interactions with? Then at 25:15, the NCAA Selection Committee drops their top 4 seed lines tomorrow and we get into where some teams could be seeded at and how they should seed the SEC. To finish the show at about 34:15, we get into some sounds of the week. Dan Hurley is playing his part as the villain in the sport, College Basketball twitter is messing with the minds of people, and more!

No Evil Bald Colin for this podcast. Timmy Hall and Rhymetime catch up on what happened over the weekend. Duke dominates UNC, Cal gets the last laugh in his return to Kentucky, and Kansas fails to close out a game again but bounces back against Iowa State. Is Cooper Flagg the best true freshman we’ve ever seen? At the 13:10 mark, the guys get into a discussion of what makes College Basketball so much harder to win at than College Football and why the Blue Bloods of the sport can have midseason slides and still be fine at the end of the day. Could playing in their respective conferences hurt or help Auburn and Duke? We hit you with an update on Cincinnati and Wes Miller at the 26:50 mark of the pod and what they did to help loosen the team up and get back in the right direction. And then at 38:15 Timmy finishes the pod with his thoughts on the Ohio State basketball team’s big win over Maryland. Enjoy the pod and make your free throws!