Why Men’s College Basketball is Going Back to the Future

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🗓️ 15 November 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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For years One-and-Done has been the name of the game in men’s college basketball, with top programs courting superstar freshmen to play for one season before they head to the NBA. But now, with college players now legally raking in cash via Name, Image and Likeness deals, the calculus is starting to change. Many players can make as much, if not more in college than in trying their luck in the pros. It all means that college basketball in 2022 looks at once very new…but also, a little old…as star players like Gonzaga’s Drew Timme and Kentucky’s Oscar Tshiebwe have returned for their senior seasons and brought back the notion of “college basketball veteran.” So Myron Medcalf gets us ready for the 2022-23 men’s college basketball season…and he takes us on a campus tour unlike any we’ve ever seen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	So, my red Medcalf, you have covered men's college basketball for almost two decades now.
0:05.8	And so when you survey this era of the transfer portal and these new competing leagues and the
0:11.6	NIL economy, what jumps out at you?
0:14.1	How has the sport changed these college campuses that you visit?
0:18.3	I think there are a lot of older stars who in a past generation before naming them,
0:23.9	Jelitnas would have turned pro, but instead they decided to come back home and play another
0:29.1	year college basketball because they can make a bunch of money.
0:31.7	Oscar Shibwek and Tucky, as a chance to be the first two-time wooden award winner, Sid
0:39.2	Ralph Stamson, 30 years ago.
0:41.4	DeBoy, another offensive rebound, takes it strong in the trees, backs it home.
0:47.1	He's here for one man working crew.
0:51.0	Druk Timmy at Gonzaga.
0:53.0	Back to Timmy right side, 15 to shoot, he'll take the three in it.
0:58.2	Marcus Sasser at Houston.
1:00.4	Sasser, long three, got it.
1:03.2	Wow.
1:04.2	Tranks Jackson Davis at Indiana.
1:06.6	Jackson Davis, pure wets and heads.
1:08.4	Traction down.
1:09.4	You don't have to guy who probably enters the draft and takes his chances and if it doesn't
1:15.8	work out, goes to Europe or get them to the league and just tries to find his way onto
1:21.3	a roster.
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