Fran Fraschilla - ESPN college basketball analyst on coaching and growing closer to God later in life
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Sports Spectrum
5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Fran Fraschilla has covered basketball at ESPN since 2003. Prior to joining ESPN he was a division one college basketball coach with Manhattan, St. Johns and New Mexico. He was the 1995 MAAC Coach of the Year and took his teams to three NCAA tournament berths and eight overall postseason berths in nine seasons.
Today on the podcast, we talk to Fran Fraschilla about his coaching journey, growing closer to Jesus as he gets older, his love for international hoops and wanting to make an impact on the younger generation.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi guys, welcome to Sports Spectrum. Today on the show, we have a great conversation. I love talking to my |
| 0:05.8 | former colleague at ESPN, Fran Fraschilla, ESPN college basketball analyst, 23 years coaching college |
| 0:13.2 | basketball. He had nine years as a Division I head coach. He made the postseason eight out of those |
| 0:19.4 | nine years with Manhattan, St. John's, and New Mexico. |
| 0:23.4 | Came to ESPN in 2003, has served primarily covering Big 12 college basketball games for the men. |
| 0:30.4 | He's also worked on the NBA draft coverage, one of the most consistent voices on international |
| 0:35.1 | basketball prospects. And I didn't know a lot about his faith. |
| 0:39.4 | But guess what? |
| 0:40.0 | That's why we have this podcast. |
| 0:41.5 | And I got to hear how Fran Frashella has grown in his faith in Jesus and tons of stories. |
| 0:47.1 | If you want stories behind the scenes, college basketball stories and also a good deal |
| 0:52.3 | of Jesus, Fran Frashella's conversation today is going to be |
| 0:56.2 | one you're going to love. So I'm so glad to have Fran here on Sports Spectrum. I want to tell you about |
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