Defend the Block 238 - FAU Broadcaster Ken LaVicka
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🗓️ 9 April 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Brian visits with Ken LaVicka, the play-by-play voice of Florida Atlantic men's basketball and football, on this week's edition of Defend the Block. LaVicka reflects on Dusty May's work building the FAU program and discusses why May experienced the success he did in Boca Raton.
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| 0:00.0 | The college basketball season has come to an end. |
| 0:02.9 | Yukon winning another national championship first back-to-back champs since Florida |
| 0:07.8 | back in the mid-2000s. |
| 0:09.2 | The Big Ten's title drought continues for another year, though Purdue got close to the national |
| 0:15.8 | title game before running into that Yukon buzzsaw. |
| 0:19.5 | Meanwhile, in Ann Arbor, Michigan men's basketball, hoping to get back into championship |
| 0:24.2 | contention with new head coach Dusty May, hard at work, and certainly working with a ton |
| 0:30.5 | of available scholarships. |
| 0:32.6 | Terrence Williams II, Terris Reed Jr., Doug McDaniel, George Washington, the third. |
| 0:39.0 | They're all in the transfer portal. |
| 0:48.4 | Michigan has been linked to a ton of players during this time with Dusty taking over the program, reports about his staff, all of that. |
| 0:55.3 | Can't get into a whole lot of it at this point, but what we can do is give you a little bit more about the man who will lead Michigan men's basketball in 24, 25, and beyond. To do that, someone who watched the build |
| 1:02.1 | at Florida Atlantic, the play-by-play voice for FAU football and men's basketball, Ken LeVicca, |
| 1:08.2 | will join us to talk about Dusty May as a person, as a coach, |
| 1:12.4 | and how he built an FAU program with no previous real tradition in college hoops |
| 1:18.8 | to a power of Final Four team and a program that reached the NCAA tournament this past season as well. |
| 1:26.6 | Ken Levica, FAU voice, joining us to Talk Dusty May right here on another |
| 1:31.3 | off-season edition of Defend the Block. |
| 1:34.8 | We're talking Michigan basketball. |
| 1:37.4 | Welcome to Defend the Block, where we'll take you inside the basketball programs with |
| 1:42.5 | interviews, analysis, and so much more. |
| 1:45.2 | Now, here's your host, Brian Bush. |
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