Its the first official show of the 2024-25 season for ECB and no better way to kick things off than Coach Scott Pera's debut. Coach Pera makes his debut as a full time analyst for ECB this season on this episode as we talk about all the preseason happenings ahead of the start of a new year.

Tony Bennett retires

Reveal of ECB Top 25

Bold Predictions

New Marian University Head Coach, Pat Knight, joins the show. Coach Knight goes into detail about what brought him back to coaching, relationship with his HOF father, playing for IU, and takes viewer questions.

Get your season started with ECB!

Max Barr of Southeastern 16 joins Josh to discuss the new look SEC. We give our picks for favorites, sleepers, expectations, and more!

Josh and Peyton are back in the studio after a month hiatus, this time talking all about the changes surrounding Louisville and Kentucky basketball. Both programs are entering the season with brand new coaches, players, and set of expectations. We break it all down and give our opinions on why both Card Nation AND BBN should be really excited for the 24/25 college basketball season.

Brandon Ramsey of KSR returns to the show to talk all about the beginning of the Mark Pope era at Kentucky. What our initial reactions to the hire were? How those have changed a month later? We grade the staff assembled, breakdown every player on the roster to this point, look at what needs still need filled, and talk expectations for Year One.

It's a very detailed look at the Kentucky Wildcats and how the program is moving along in the post-John Calipari days as of May 9th.

UConn made history by winning back-to-back National Championships. We break down the win and where this puts UConn all-time. John Calipari takes the Arkansas job, where does this leave Kentucky?

We preview the Final Four and storylines leading up to it from each team involved

We get you caught up from the first weekend of the tournament and all set for the Sweet 16

We have finally arrived! The field of 68 was revealed on Sunday evening and the ECB crew has you covered for all your bracket making needs

We break down region by region and tell you where the potential upsets lay for the higher seeds, interesting paths, potential storylines to watch, and the players you need to watch out for to become the next March legend.

Erik Haslam of Haslametrics.com makes his return to give his thoughts on the brackets. Listen why he thinks 1 seed Houston could be bounced in the FIRST WEEKEND, and why Kentucky may fall to 14 seed Oakland in round one.

We give our Final Four predictions at the end of the show and who each of us believe is the last team standing to cut the nets down in Phoenix!

Our biggest show every year does not disappoint. Sit back and enjoy over TWO HOURS of NCAA Tournament talk from your favorite college basketball media, Everything College Basketball

We were live on site at the Ohio Valley Conference Championship in Evansville, Indiana to watch Morehead State become the first team to punch their ticket to the field of 68. Drew Thelwell dropped 21 points in the title clinching game and he joins us at the top of the show to discuss the emotions of that win and how excited he is to get to the Big Dance.

We breakdown Kentucky's impressive win over Tennessee in Knoxville and Peyton doubles down on his thoughts of Kentucky winning the natty. Houston smashed Kansas, while Hunter Dickinson gets injured, how worried about the Jayhawks are we? North Carolina sweeps Duke to clinch the outright ACC Championship, we explain why UNC should be a one seed right now and why we don't fully trust Duke in the NCAAT. Arizona drops another stinker, this time to USC to end the regular season. Do we have faith in the Wildcats?

Also, we preview the Power conference tournaments set to kick off this week and explain who has the most to work to do in each of them to feel safe on Selection Sunday.

In the mid-week edition of the ECB podcast we cover the craziness that was the ASun Quarterfinals and how a former Lipscomb player was the one to knock them out of the tournament.

Purdue went into Champaign and officially clinched the outright Big Ten Championship, we explain why the Boilers are in a better spot this year as opposed to last season.

Also Florida smacks Alabama, UConn dominates a Tyler Kolek-less Marquette on the road, Tennessee clinches the SEC outright title, and UNC secured a share of the ACC Championship by beating Notre Dame.

We preview the final regular season weekend of games. Will Houston get payback at home versus Kansas? Two of us believe Kentucky has what it takes to beat Tennessee in Knoxville, we explain why. Who wins between UNC & Duke part 2? Plus, we give predictions for conference championship winners this weekend and bring back Bank on It!

The calendar has flipped to March, which means the madness is upon us. In episode 179 we are discussing Caitlin Clark breaking the all-time NCAA scoring record as it happens live during the recording, Brandon Ramsey of KSR joins the show to talk about Kentucky's high-scoring win over Arkansas, Tennessee rallying from a seven-point deficit to beat Alabama on the road, Kansas losing again and how they made the wrong kind of history, Jamal Shead's game-winner to move Houston towards the Big 12 title, and more from the weekends action.

We are entering the final week of regular season play, as well as some mid-major conference tournaments beginning. We take a look at Purdue-Illinois, Alabama-Florida, Tennessee-South Carolina, and UConn-Marquette games with massive conference race implications during the early part of the week, and also preview the OVC, MVC, Big South, ASun, and Sun Belt conference tournaments.

The best time of the year is here and Episode 179 will get you in the March mood with the typical mix of great analysis and humor that ECB brings to you!