Announcement: New podcast incoming!

Buzzer's third year tips off with a fun new wrinkle

If you’re still over on X, The Everything Platform™, you may have seen an announcement from ubiquitous anonymous college hoops newsbreaker Trilly Donovan Monday. It went like this:

Basket Review Twitter Link

Yes, that’s my name on the graphic. I’m going to be chipping in with — but, crucially, not moving entirely over to — this new venture. (More on that italicized m-dash break momentarily.)

It’s a fully independent college hoops outlet comprising some of the best and most insightful college basketball writers working online right now, a group of really intelligent, forward-thinking analysts who write about the sport the way I like to read about it. As the excellent Will Warren described it recently, the “common goal is essentially to build Basketball Grantland.” It’s a laudable and achievable one, and I’m honored to be a part of it.

My role, primarily, will be as the host of the Basket Under Review Podcast, a weekly (at least) national college hoops show featuring guests, news, takes, deep dives, and whatever else is animating my relationship with the sport that week. It will live on all of your usual podcast services. It will be good.

The key point that I want to hammer home here: Buzzer isn’t going anywhere.

Indeed, and to be fully transparent about it, that was a condition of my participation when I signed on: Buzzer is still my home base. Bubble Watch will still be here. Columns and features and all of the usual roster breakdowns and in-season content and weekend live chats and all the rest of it will be here. I will contribute some written bits and pieces to Basket Under Review, particularly when there’s an opportunity to collaborate on coverage with the group, but as a sort of informal editor-at-large. All of the stuff we’ve been doing on Substack will continue. Any new content is purely additive.

This felt like a win-win. Subscribers have been asking me about a podcast more or less since I started Buzzer in June 2023. Now I have one, with the logistical support of more than, you know, one guy behind it. I also get to bounce ideas and takes back and forth with, and grow with, a talented group of peers. But I don’t have to close shop on — or, best case, attempt to forcibly relocate — the large and loyal community of readers that have supported me since I started this newsletter, for whom I covered the Final Four in person this season, for whom I hope to write for a very long time.

This way you all get extra stuff from me, a prompt to check out what will be the smartest college hoops coverage out there, and zero reduction of what you came to Buzzer for in the first place.

Cool? Cool.

The first podcast episode will air July 14. I hope you’ll check it out, support Basket Under Review more broadly, and keep finding the same joy and love in independent college basketball media that I have.

In any case, as ever: thanks. Buzzer Year Three is going to be our best one yet.