Road To Muni Podcast

We are down to the final three games of the season as College of Idaho, Ottawa (AZ), Georgetown and Indiana Tech make up your NAIA Fab Four teams and tipoff on Saturday! In this episode, Junior and Pat dive deeper into the games, the paths of each team and more!

Junior and Pat breakdown the Round of 16. We dive into each quadrant and each matchup as action gets tipped off on Monday, March 13th and Round of 16 action continues into Tuesday, March 14th. 

Junior and Pat take a DEEP dive into the NAIA Men's National Championships. We breakdown Pods, talk about each matchup. We give out our favorite opening round games, our dark horse teams and even hand out our Fab Four predictions!

Junior and Pat dive into the CAC Tournament. We discuss the favorites in Florida College and Iowa Wesleyan. Talk about the quietly good year, WAU has had and more!

Junior and Pat dive into the RRAC Tournament. We discuss our favorite opening round games, dark horse teams we like and more!

Junior and Pat dive into the GSAC Tourney as we talk new format, Menlo, our favorite matchups and more!

Junior and Pat dive into the SAC Tournament with our picks to win it, dark horse teams to watch and our favorite opening round games!

Junior and Pat dive into the Heart Conference Tournament. We discuss WPU's Heart dominance, our dark horse teams to win it and give out our favorite opening round games!

Junior and Pat dive into the WHAC Tournament. We discuss how great Indiana Tech was this season, our dark horse team to win it and our favorite opening round games!

Junior and Pat dive into the GCAC Tournament. We talk about Tougaloo's great season and how Philander Smith and Dillard make up the top contenders here. We also talk about our favorite opening round games and more. 

Junior and Pat dive into the AMC Tournament. We discuss the favorites to win it, the dark horse teams who can make a run and give out our favorite Quarterfinal matchups! 

Junior and Pat discuss the KCAC Tournament. We discuss our favorites to win it, our dark horse teams and more!

Junior and Pat dive into the Crossroads League Tourney. We talk about the 5 teams who should already be sure "IN's" for the NAIA National Tourney, we breakdown our favorite QF's matchup, our dark horse teams and more!

Junior and Pat dive into the SSAC Tourney. Including talk about the 3 bubble teams who are still fighting for at-large spots if they don't win the SSAC Tourney. We also talk about our favorite matchups in the opening rounds and more!

Junior and Pat dive into the AAC Tournament. We discuss Union's dominance, Reinhardt as the 2-seed, give out our dark horse team to win it and more!

Junior and Pat dive into the CCC Tournament. We discuss College of Idaho's dominance, the at-large possibilities for others and more!

Junior and Pat breakdown the NSAA Tournament. We give out our favorite to win it, discuss importance of Mayville State winning the auto-bid, talk our favorite opening round games and more! 

Junior and Pat dive into the CCAC Tourney. We give out our favorite to win it, our dark horse team that could surprise and our favorite opening round matchup!

Junior and Pat take a deeper look at the Mid-South Tourney. We talk matchups, favorites, declare our dark horse teams and give out our favorite game of the opening round!

Pat and Junior do a deep dive into the River States Conference Tournament. 

Junior and Pat discuss teams who have clinched National Tourney Auto-Bids, conferences with a lot still to be decided over next 7-8 days, teams who are playing their best basketball in the Stock Risers Report and games we are excited about this week!

Junior and Pat talk resume wins, more upsets and more. We also bring on College of Idaho Head Coach, Colby Blaine, to talk some Yotes Hoops. As always we finish the episode with our Stock Risers Report and give out our Games to Watch this week!

Junior and Pat take a deep dive into each conference and where teams sit inside the league standings. With just 30 days to go before Conference Tournaments, it's a good time to take a look around the country and where teams sit coming down the final home stretch of the season! We also have our Stock Risers Report and take a look at some of the best games on the docket for this week!

Junior and Pat discuss what is happening around the NAIA and where teams stand headed into 2023. We talk Rio Grande Hoops with Head Coach, Ryan Arrowood. We also give out this week's Stock Risers!

On this episode, Junior and Pat break down the past 10 days of action across the NAIA. As well as talk about the NAIA National Player of the Year watch list and talk Grace basketball with Head Coach, Scott Moore. As always, we also give out our Stock Risers Report!

Junior and Pat talk about the seven Top 25 teams that went down on Saturday and the changes ahead to rosters as the semester ends and teams start to add new players to their rosters. Joining us today, is No. 10 Southwestern (KS) Head Coach, Matt O'Brien, as we talk some Builder Men's Basketball, the KCAC and more! We also prep you for the big week ahead!

Stock Risers

Ryley McClaren/Freed Hardeman

Avery Jackson (Oklahoma City)

Zach Goodline/Huntington

Iowa Wesleyan 

Saint Xavier

Antelope Valley

Junior and Pat take a look at the New NAIA Top 25 Coaches' Poll, as well as discuss how no matter how good teams are, they are going to have bad games and bad stretches of play. Joining us this week for our coach's interview series is Coach Chris Wright of Langston (OK). 

Stock Risers Discussed:

Langston Defense

Javan Buchanan (Indiana Wesleyan)

Indiana Tech

Malik Edwards (William Penn)

Jalen Brooks (LSU Shreveport)

Eastern Oregon

Junior and Pat talk about some of the top stories around the NAIA. We talk briefly about some of the early conference standings, some of the top non-conf action this past week. We also are joined by Pat Crarey, Head Men's Basketball Coach at St. Thoams (FL), to talk about his squad, the Sun Conference and some of the big games coming up for them. We finish with our Stock Risers report, and some of our favorite games on this upcoming week slate! Hope everyone has a Great Thanksgiving!!

In this episode, Junior and Pat disect the two biggest games from this previous week in No. 1 Arizona Christian vs No. 3 College of Idaho and No. 2 Thomas More vs No. 5 Indiana Wesleyan! We also talk about No. 4 Oklahoma Wesleyan matchup against RV MidAmerica Nazarene. This week's coaching interview is with Delton Deal of Southwestern Assemblies of God. Coach Deal discusses his team, the season thus far, the ever dangerous Sooner Athletic Conference as well as SAGU's big matchup this week vs No. 12 LSU Shreveport! You also won't want to miss our Stock Risers segment as we discuss those teams and players who's stocks are rising!

Junior and Pat dive into some of the top games from Week 1. We also get into a new segment called "Stock Risers" for those players, teams and leagues coming off of good weeks who have seen their stocks rising. We also talk about the BIG slate this weekend which includes a Top 5 matchup! 

Junior and Pat breakdown the action from Kansas City and preview the Fab Four!

Junior and Pat talk about the opening two rounds of the NAIA National Championships, preview the Round of 16 matchups and more on this episode of NHR - The Podcast!

Junior and Pat dive into each of the Naismith, Cramer, Duer and Liston Quadrants of the NAIA Men's Basketball National Championship bracket. We discuss matchups, top players, potential future matchups and give our Fab Four predictions! All of that and plenty more on this weeks episode of NHR - The Podcast

Junior and Pat talk about all of the prior days conference tournament action. Give some highlights from those games that have been played and even preview some of the action we still have left over the next two days!

Junior and Pat discuss the top players, top teams and pick our sleepers to win the CalPac Tournament!

Junior and Pat take on the RRAC Tournament. There are a lot of similar teams in this league and could be one you see some upsets in. We talk about the top players, favorites to win and hand out our Upset Special teams!

Junior and Pat dive into this weekends action with the GCAC Tournament. Maybe the most wide open league in the NAIA as teams fight for the 1 auto-bid.

Junior and Pat take on the CAC Tournament, one of the more unique leagues in the NAIA as they don't have a conference regular season. We discuss the top players and who has best shot of reaching the CAC Finals where two auto-bids into the NAIA National Championships awaits!

Junior and Pat take a look at some of the teams in the Heart who have had good years and can make a deep run in this tournament. We also look at some of the leagues top players and talk about who may, outside of William Penn, can take down the Heart Tournament!

Junior and Pat do a quick dive into tonight's CCAC Tournament action. We also discuss the leagues top players, the favorites to win the tournament and who could possible play spoiler!

Junior and Pat dive into one of the best league tournaments in the NAIA. We talk about some of the matchups, the players to watch and even discuss a couple dark horse teams who could win a CL Tournament Title!

Junior and Pat breakdown the matchups, players to watch and give out our sleepers to win the RSC Tournament!

Junior and Pat break down the SSAC Tournament. Discussing some of the matchups, top players and who outside the favorites has a shot to win the Title!

Junior and Pat discuss the Frontier Conference Tournament. Breaking down the Top teams, players to watch and the sleeper team that could make a run at a title!

Junior talks some SAC hoops as we gear up for a league tournament that is usually one of the more fun ones to watch. He discusses the leagues top players, favorites to win and who could be a team to watch as a dark horse to win the league title!

Junior and Pat discuss The Sun Conference Tournament with a breakdown of the top players to watch, the favorite to win and even give our sleeper teams of who to watch out for!

Junior rides solo on this one and takes a quick look at the Mid-South Tournament as they tip off later tonight! One of the best leagues in the country, with a lot at stake! It is always one of the best Conference Tournaments to Watch!

Junior and Pat do a deep dive into the AAC Tournament with favorites to win, players to watch and even a couple of dark horses to watch out for!

Junior and Pat discuss each league and what to expect in the final two weeks of the regular season! It's a bit of a longer episode, but a deeper look at each and every NAIA league as we sprint to the finish line!