College Basketball’s New Pope, Portal Matchmaker, and More Offseason Moves With Kyle Williams

One Shining Podcast with Tate Frazier

The Ringer

Sports

4.6 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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The Ringer's Tate Frazier is joined by Kyle Williams of The Chicago Sun-Times and 'The Full Go with Jason Goff' to discuss the new pope being a White Sox fan from Chicago, Nick Saban's potential role as "college sports czar", and what "testing the waters" means in 2025 (2:10), before Tate and Kyle identify their favorite landing spots for the biggest names remaining in the NCAA transfer portal, and a vibe check on DePaul basketball (19:44). Finally, Tate closes the show with some shoutouts, including some more exciting non-conference matchup announcements, Katt Williams vs. Lethal Shooter, NBA playoffs thoughts, and more (46:38). Host: Tate Frazier Guest: Kyle Williams Producer: Kyle Crichton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:05.5	On today's episode of One Shining Podcast, we are celebrating the new Pope. And that is good news for college
1:13.8	basketball fans out there because the new Pope is a Villanova fan and a Villanova grad. So hang the
1:19.2	banner, Villanova, the 2018 national champions, the 2016 national champions, the 1985 national champions
1:25.1	now have the first American Pope.
1:27.9	So we hope that the banner will go up very soon.
1:30.7	This is not good news for Mark Pope, who was the Pope of college basketball, but it does
1:35.0	seem like we have a, you know, a war going on now for who is going to be the Pope and college
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