INDUSTRY MEDIA VETS, FORMER COLLEGE STARS TEAM UP TO LAUNCH COLLEGE BASKETBALL’S PREMIERE PODCAST NETWORK

Introducing THE FIELD OF 68 Media Network

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Rob Dauster
Oct. 27, 2020 203-589-4125
Rob.Dauster@gmail.com

MT. LAUREL, N.J. -- Long-time college basketball insiders Jeff Goodman and Rob Dauster have joined forces with numerous former college stars and prominent media members to launch the Field of 68 Media Network. 

Goodman, the industry’s leading news-breaker and the best-known voice in the college hoops media landscape, and Dauster, who spent the last 12 years working for national outlets like NBC Sports, Sports Illustrated and NBCSN, will spearhead a podcast network bringing together a new generation of creators and providing the caliber of content you can only get from people that live the game.

The network will launch with a trio of national podcasts this week:

• The “Goodman and Hummel Podcast”, featuring Goodman and former Purdue All-American Robbie Hummel

• “Inside the Mind of Miles” with former Nebraska head coach Tim Miles

• ”The Rebound Podcast”, starring Rob Dauster

In addition to the national coverage, the Field of 68 Media Network will feature 12 podcasts released prior to the start of the college basketball season focused on many of the most high-profile programs in the country. They are:

• Carolina Conversation (North Carolina) with Shammond Williams

• Bulldog Broadcast (Gonzaga) with Dan Dickau

• Beale Street Bullies (Memphis) with Antonio Anderson

• The Scorer’s Table (Syracuse) with Eric Devendorf

• Blue Blood on the Main Line (Villanova) with Jason Fraser

• Rock Chalk J-Hawk (Kansas) with Jeff Hawkins

• Burner Turner Show (Kentucky) with Wayne Turner

• House of Hoosier (Indiana) with A.J. Guyton

• Goins in Detail (Michigan State) with Kenny Goins

• One Man Wolfpack (N.C. State) with Scott Wood

• Gator Basketball and Beyond (Florida) with Patric Young

• Floyd Street’s Finest (Louisville) with Jeff Greer

• The Sic’em 365 Podcast (Baylor) with Jason King and Ashley Hodge

• Talking out LOWD(Dayton) with Dan Sullivan

ABOUT OUR ROSTER

Jeff Goodman is a longtime college basketball reporter and the industry-leading news-breaker. The most trusted, connected voice in college basketball media, Goodman has covered basketball at every level for two decades as a reporter, both online and on TV, for ESPN, CBS, FOX. Goodman is currently the senior basketball insider at Stadium, and also hosts a podcast on the CLNS Media Network with the legendary Bob Ryan.

Rob Dauster is an award-winning writer and television analyst that has covered college basketball for the last 12 years. Once a gloriously mediocre Division III athlete, Rob has worked for NBC Sports, NBCSN, Sports Illustrated and Stadium while also launching two different college basketball focused websites, Ballin’ is a Habit and The Rebound.

• Robbie Hummel was an All-American at Purdue and played for the Boilermakers from 2007-12. He played in the NBA and overseas before retiring in 2017. Hummel also works for ESPN and the Big Ten Network.

• Tim Miles has won 399 career games at five different head coach stops. Miles took Colorado State to the NCAA tournament in 2012, and then spent seven seasons at Nebraska - where he won 116 games and went to the NCAA tourney in 2014.

• Shammond Williams played at North Carolina from 1994-98 and left Chapel Hill as the team’s all-time leader in 3-pointers and also the all-time leader in free throw percentage. Williams, the 1997 ACC Tournament MVP and 1997 NCAA Regional MVP, played for six NBA teams and also spent time overseas. He was also an assistant coach at Furman, Tulane and Western Kentucky.

• Dan Dickau spent two seasons at Gonzaga (2000-02) after transferring in from Washington, and was a first-team All-American as a senior. Dickau was a first-round draft pick and played in the NBA for six seasons. He’s currently an analyst for CBS Sports Network, Westwood One and ESPN.

• Antonio Anderson played for John Calipari for four seasons (2005-09) at Memphis and was a starter on the Tigers team that lost to Kansas in the national title game in 2008. Anderson spent a few years playing overseas before suffering a career-ending injury. He’s now the head coach at Lynn English High (Mass.)

• Eric Devendorf spent four seasons (2005-09) playing for Jim Boeheim at Syracuse, and averaged 15.7 points per game as a senior. The Michigan native, who ranks 14th on the school’s all-time scoring list, has been playing overseas for nearly a decade.

• Jason Fraser was a huge part of Jay Wright’s first recruiting class at Villanova and played on the Main Line from 2002-06. He came as the most heralded of the class, and the defensive-minded big man would have played in the NBA if not for multiple knee injuries. Fraser has worked in the San Antonio Spurs and the Phoenix Suns organizations and is now the coach at Skyline Prep in Phoenix.

• Jeff Hawkins is a Kansas City, Kansas native that spent five years playing for Roy Williams and Bill Self as a reserve at Kansas from 2001-06. Hawkins became the head coach at Pembroke Hill School in 2020 after four seasons as the coach at Perry-Lecompton High. 

• Wayne Turner spent four seasons at Kentucky (1995-99) - where he played two seasons for Rick Pitino and two for Tubby Smith. Turner was on the Wildcats national title teams in 1996 and 1998, is the school’s all-time leader in steals and ranks fourth in assists, and will be inducted into the UK Hall of Fame in 2021. Turner played nine seasons of professional basketball.

• A.J. Guyton spent four seasons at Indiana (1996-2000) playing for the legendary Bob Knight, and left school as the all-time leader in 3-pointers, fourth in scoring and eighth in assists. Guyton was an All-American in 2000 and played professionally for a decade before going into coaching. He spent the 2018-19 season as an assistant at Loyola (Md.). 

• Kenny Goins graduated from Michigan State in 2019 after five years in East Lansing. A reserve for his first three years, Goins became a starter his senior season and is best-known for a 3-pointer that helped beat Duke in the Elite Eight in 2019. Goins is playing professionally in Greece.

• Scott Wood started every single game and scored nearly 1,500 points in his four-year career at N.C. State. He played his first two seasons (2009-11) for Sidney Lowe and then his final two (2011-13) for Mark Gottfried. Wood played overseas for six seasons before retiring after this past season.

• Patric Young is a former McDonald’s All-American who spent four seasons at Florida from 2010-14, and is just the 11th Gator in history to score more than 1,300 points and grab more than 800 rebounds. Young has been playing overseas since leaving Gainesville in 2014.

• Jeff Greer covered Louisville for six years, first for The Courier-Journal and then The Athletic. He’s now a freelance writer and play-by-play broadcaster for Bellarmine University and Louisville City FC. A Pittsburgh grad, Jeff was born with hoops in his blood — entering the world the same day Michael Jordan scored 63 points in a playoff game and loving the game ever since.

• Jason King and Ashley Hodge are Baylor graduates who are as plugged in as anyone to Scott Drew’s program. King spent nine years at the Kansas City Star before stints as a national college basketball writer at Yahoo! Sports, ESPN and Bleacher Report. Hodge is a co-owner of Sicem365.com, a website dedicated to covering Baylor sports.

• Dan Sullivan (or just "Sully" to UD fans) is a contributor to Dayton blog BlackburnReview.com, and now the sole owner/producer of Talking Out LOWD, the most listened-to podcast in the A10, after growing the show organically from twitter in parallel with the Flyers success in 2020. A 2012 UD grad himself, Sully maintains that his show is for the fans, because it'll always be by the fans.