Jimmy Dykes, ESPN College Basketball Analyst

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5 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Episode 398

Jimmy Dykes is a college basketball analyst for ESPN. A 1985 graduate of the University of Arkansas, Jimmy played college basketball under head coach Eddie Sutton before joining the coaching ranks as an assistant at places like Kentucky and Oklahoma State.

After scouting in the NBA for a few years, Jimmy joined the broadcasting ranks and began his career with ESPN in 1995 where he would remain for 19 years. From 2014 to 2017, Jimmy served as the women's head basketball coach at his alma mater of Arkansas. Upon his departure from coaching, he would return to the broadcasting ranks at ESPN.

On this episode of the podcast, we talk to Jimmy about the upcoming college basketball season, his journey to faith in Christ, using his platform to encourage others, what coaching college basketball taught him, dealing with challenging trials, and seeking God in making life decisions.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation.
0:17.5	Here's your host, Jason Romano.
0:19.9	Welcome to Sports Spectrum. I'm Jason Romano. Welcome to Sports Spectrum.
0:21.4	I'm Jason Romano.
0:22.4	Great to have you joining us here today on the show.
0:25.2	It is almost college basketball time.
0:28.0	The season is upon us.
0:29.8	And Jimmy Dykes is our guest today, the ESPN College Basketball analyst.
0:34.3	Jimmy has been with ESPN for many years, started out in 1995 and was broadcasting
0:40.8	there through 2014 and then returned in 2017 and is currently an analyst with ESPN covering
0:47.9	college basketball. For that three-year period that he wasn't broadcasting, he was a college
0:53.2	basketball coach coaching the women
0:55.3	at the University of Arkansas, his alma mater.
0:59.7	Jimmy came up as a college basketball player at Arkansas under Eddie Sutton in the early
1:04.6	1980s and then went on to become a coach, coaching stints with that Arkansas team with
1:10.5	Eddie Sutton, as well as Sacramento State,
1:13.0	Appalachian State, Kentucky, Arkansas, Little Rock, and Oklahoma State. He was also a former NBA
1:19.3	scout with the Seattle Supersonics, the now defunct Seattle Supersonics from 1991 to 1993.
1:29.8	This was a lot of fun talking to Jimmy.
1:35.0	I've seen him in a lot of different spaces, certainly at ESPN, but, you know, working with the AIA Hardwood Breakfast, Legends Breakfast, that's at the Final Four every year, which
1:39.8	is sort of a faith in college basketball presentation.
1:44.3	Jimmy, if you follow him on Twitter at Coach Jimmy Dykes,
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