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Create Your Shot

Create Your Shot: Brad Wachtel

Create Your Shot

Chris Horwedel

Sports, Underdog Sports, The Underdog, Basketball, Nba, -- None --, Create Your Shot

4.9939 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2018

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

This week Tyler and Smallz go long on the NCAA tournament with Brad Wachtel. Brad runs the Facts and Bracks blog and specializes in NCAA tournament projections. Brad is a former college coach at Rutgers and was also a manager at Rutgers and director of operations for The Hoop Group. This week's coach speak is NCAA tournament themed and the guys review Hoboken, NJ. Brad can be found on twitter @bwachtel23 :29 Tyler and Smallz introduction 5:42 Intro to Brad and NCAA tournament talk 14::55 Being on the coaching staff at Rutgers 19:42 Going through a coaching change and fitting in on a new staff 24:58 Different styles of coaches 27:00 Being a go getter and a quick story about Quincy Douby 33:58 Ultimate career goals 40:28 Coaching Speak — John Calipari, Andy Enfield 54:34 City Review — Hoboken, NJ 59:37 10 Touches 1:15:19 Parting Shots

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The following podcast is part of the underdog sports

0:07.9

podcasting network for a full list of our shows as well as breaking sports news and engaging feature stories.

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Visit us at www dot the underdog sports.com. Come.

0:25.0

Welcome to another episode of Create Your Shot.

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I am Tyler Lori and I'm joined as always by Chris Smalls Angeles and this

0:35.0

week a very fun guest for this time of the year at the NCA tournament we have Brad Wachtell

0:40.8

who runs Facts and Bracks, his personal blog, where he's for the last three years, I believe,

0:47.0

predicted the NCA tournament. This year, based on Bracket Matrix, he finished 35th of all bracketologists ahead of Jill

0:55.4

Linnardi, ahead of Jerry Palm, ahead of howie Schwab

0:58.2

for Fox Sports.

0:59.6

And Smalls and I actually knew Brad long

1:02.4

before he was publicly doing bracketologist.

1:05.5

We worked with him at the Hoop Group where he was Director of Operations.

1:08.4

He moved on from there to work at Rutgers for a long time under Mike Rice and Eddie Jordan as Director of Basketball

1:14.8

Administration and Assistant to the head coach and a guy that you know we talk

1:19.3

about it he was a manager at Rutgers as well ends up coming back working as

1:22.0

alma mater but a guy that we knew early

1:24.7

on was somebody who would do a lot of work and for managers it was somebody you could look to

1:28.6

as a person that you wanted to emulate because he was such a hard worker.

1:32.4

And Smalls, it was fun to really reconnect with Brad,

1:35.1

especially about this bracatology thing

1:36.6

because it was really interesting to hear his viewpoints on the tournament

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