Coach Scott Davenport – Bellarmine University

Coach Scott Davenport joins The SeanMoHoops Pod fresh off Bellarmine’s Atlantic Sun Tournament championship. We discuss what the last week has been like at the University and the feeling to win a conference championship in Freedom Hall after just two years in Division 1. Coach Davenport also touches on growing up in Louisville, his early coaching career at Ballard High and Louisville and how he drew inspiration from studying Gregg Popovich.

Conference Tournament Discussion

Stephen Kalayil from DefPen Sports joins the podcast to provide an in-depth breakdown on the Louisville Cardinals and projects their March ceiling. We go around the country talking about the early conference tournaments (CAA, Southern Conference) and the high major tournaments (ACC, PAC-12, Big 10, Big East, Big XII).

Dino Gaudio: Louisville

Coach Dino Gaudio joins the podcast to discuss his return to coaching and why Chris Mack and Louisville made perfect sense. Coach Gaudio talks about his coaching journey with Skip Prosser, recruiting Chris Paul while at Wake Forest, and what type of recruits Louisville will be targeting going forward.

The SeanMoHoops Pod: Episode 4

College basketball is finally back! DC friend and DefPen writer Stephen Kalayil (@stephenkalayil) joins the Pod to chat about the Champions Classic and more. We start off with Duke and Michigan State thoughts, which includes a lot of Trevon Duval talk (1:30) before gushing over Kevin Knox (15:00) and moving into why it’s nice to see Malik Newman out of basketball purgatory (19:45). As the resident Louisville expert, Stephen shares his state of the program thoughts (23:00) before talking about potential games of the week and teams we are excited to watch down the road (26:30).