Tony Bennett, Virginia Men's Basketball Coach - THROWBACK THURSDAY
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2019
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Virginia is in the Final Four for the first time since 1984 and coach Tony Bennett has been a big part of this team's success on and off the court.
We talked to Coach Tony Bennett about his journey of basketball and faith in Christ back on Episode 180 on October 31, 2018 here on the podcast and we revisit a portion of that conversation today on Throwback Thursday.
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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. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome, everyone, to a throwback Thursday edition of the Sports Spectrum podcast. |
| 0:24.4 | I'm Jason Romano. |
| 0:25.3 | Thanks for joining us on the program today. |
| 0:28.3 | This week, we are actually in Minneapolis for the Final Four Sports Spectrum. |
| 0:33.2 | It is and excited to work with ministries like athletes in action and the fellowship of Christian |
| 0:38.2 | athletes and certainly the nation of coaches. We had Tommy Kyle on the podcast back in December. |
| 0:43.5 | They're doing great things in college basketball for God and sports spectrum will be there |
| 0:48.7 | as well. And we're excited to bring back an interview we did at the beginning of this college |
| 0:54.1 | basketball season |
| 0:55.0 | with Tony Bennett, the Virginia men's basketball coach. And last year, of course, Virginia |
| 1:00.5 | lost as a one seed to a 16 seed, the first team to ever do that in the 2018 tournament. |
| 1:07.3 | This year, they're in the final four. So a really cool story of redemption. |
| 1:12.2 | And if you've been following social media at all, |
| 1:15.9 | and there's been a lot of posts about Coach Tony Bennett |
| 1:18.6 | and some of his press conferences and the answers that he gives |
| 1:23.5 | are just really encouraging and not, I guess, forcing faith in there, but living out his faith in a way |
| 1:33.0 | that really we're all called to do, you know, faith being at the center of who we are. |
| 1:38.6 | Coach Bennett lives that out so well. And I thought it'd be great to bring back a good portion |
| 1:43.0 | of our podcast interview that |
| 1:44.9 | we did with Coach Bennett and let you hear his testimony of faith and his testimony of what God |
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