Hang Your Hat (Part 2)

Penn State finishes the first week of the season 2-1. We have reactions and analysis on all 3 games. Did they pretty much shoot par? Where did they under or over perform relative to our expectations? Find out and let us know if you agree! Support the showFollow us on X and Instagram @ShotsGottaFall Like us on Facebook at Shots Gotta Fall: The Penn State Basketball PodcastSend us an e-mail [email protected] support the show! https://www.buzzsprout.com/2043844/supportRate and review us and subscribe/follow Shots Gotta Fall wherever you download us every week! 

The season is about to get underway and we are back to recap the two exhibition games and preview the first week of the season. Will Penn State get off to a 3-0 start? Will all players be eligible and healthy and on the court? Tune in to find out! Support the showFollow us on X and Instagram @ShotsGottaFall Like us on Facebook at Shots Gotta Fall: The Penn State Basketball PodcastSend us an e-mail [email protected] support the show! https://www.buzzsprout.com/2043844/supportRate and review us and subscribe/follow Shots Gotta Fall wherever you download us every week! 

It's time for our game by game prediction of the big ten slate. Evan and Steve go through all 20 games and give their expected outcome for the upcoming season. We also recap some media day comments by Coach Rhoades, give our thoughts on the brand new preseason KenPom rankings, and give our bold predictions for the upcoming season.In a couple weeks, we'll be back to preview the opening week of the season! Support the showFollow us on X and Instagram @ShotsGottaFall Like us on Facebook at Shots Gotta Fall: The Penn State Basketball PodcastSend us an e-mail [email protected] support the show! https://www.buzzsprout.com/2043844/supportRate and review us and subscribe/follow Shots Gotta Fall wherever you download us every week! 

Now that the full schedule for the 2026-27 season is out we are back! Today we breakdown the non-conference schedule in our annually-recurring game of Name That Conference and we set the tone for how we each see this season shaping up in year 4 of the Mike Rhoades era. We'll be back in a couple weeks to break down the Big Ten schedule and wrap up our preseason predictions with some bold predictions. Support the showFollow us on X and Instagram @ShotsGottaFall Like us on Facebook at Shots Gotta Fall: The Penn State Basketball PodcastSend us an e-mail [email protected] support the show! https://www.buzzsprout.com/2043844/supportRate and review us and subscribe/follow Shots Gotta Fall wherever you download us every week! 

Part 2 of our conversation regarding the future of Penn State basketball is a fun one and we hope you'll tune in and share your thoughts with us!Before that, we talk about a returning face and a disappointing look from a new oneSupport the showFollow us on X and Instagram @ShotsGottaFall Like us on Facebook at Shots Gotta Fall: The Penn State Basketball PodcastSend us an e-mail [email protected] support the show! https://www.buzzsprout.com/2043844/supportRate and review us and subscribe/follow Shots Gotta Fall wherever you download us every week! 

As we open our 5th season of SGF we wanted to spend this episode talking about some PSU hoops-adjacent quotes that are ruffling a few feathers both locally and nationally and react both to these quotes but also to answer the question: how did we get here? We talked about so much on this episode that we decided to shelve the natural follow-up conversation about where PSU goes from here into part 2 coming next week! Support the showFollow us on X and Instagram @ShotsGottaFall Like us on Facebook at Shots Gotta Fall: The Penn State Basketball PodcastSend us an e-mail [email protected] support the show! https://www.buzzsprout.com/2043844/supportRate and review us and subscribe/follow Shots Gotta Fall wherever you download us every week! 

We have returned to catch you up on the latest (and greatest?) Penn State Basketball news as we continue through the off-season. Do the new additions change the calculus for this program? We also talk about more national news including the departure of Dusty May from the National Champion Wolverines and the expansion of the NCAA tournament. Finally, a small geography lesson takes shape during discussion of the FIFA World Cup. Support the showFollow us on X and Instagram @ShotsGottaFall Like us on Facebook at Shots Gotta Fall: The Penn State Basketball PodcastSend us an e-mail [email protected] support the show! https://www.buzzsprout.com/2043844/supportRate and review us and subscribe/follow Shots Gotta Fall wherever you download us every week! 

The 2026-27 Penn State roster is nearly complete so we're back to recap the comings and goings and introduce almost entirely new faces for the upcoming season. We'll talk about whether or not we think the transfers out are stepping up or stepping down with their new homes and we'll elaborate on how we feel this roster compares to last year's. Support the showFollow us on X and Instagram @ShotsGottaFall Like us on Facebook at Shots Gotta Fall: The Penn State Basketball PodcastSend us an e-mail [email protected] support the show! https://www.buzzsprout.com/2043844/supportRate and review us and subscribe/follow Shots Gotta Fall wherever you download us every week! 

So we took a big hiatus....did we miss anything? Listen and find out! Support the showFollow us on X and Instagram @ShotsGottaFall Like us on Facebook at Shots Gotta Fall: The Penn State Basketball PodcastSend us an e-mail [email protected] support the show! https://www.buzzsprout.com/2043844/supportRate and review us and subscribe/follow Shots Gotta Fall wherever you download us every week! 

Bonus Episode -- join the bracket challenge!!https://fantasy.espn.com/tc/sharer?challengeId=277&from=espn&context=GROUP_INVITE&edition=espn-en&groupId=348726c9-e8be-474e-92bc-88ae277162c8Support the showFollow us on X and Instagram @ShotsGottaFall Like us on Facebook at Shots Gotta Fall: The Penn State Basketball PodcastSend us an e-mail [email protected] support the show! https://www.buzzsprout.com/2043844/supportRate and review us and subscribe/follow Shots Gotta Fall wherever you download us every week!