In Four Years, the USAMNT Will be the Best it has Ever Been After losing 3-1 to a powerful Netherlands team in the round of 16, the 2022 World Cup is now over for the United States. Most would say tha...
The World Cup Stage has Been Cut in Half, With Some Surprises With the group stage over, the World Cup now enters the knockout games with the final 16 teams battling it out. There were some surprising...
USA Beats Iran 1-0… But Why Does Gregg Berhalter Hate Gio Reyna? The United States Men’s National Team has earned their way to the round of 16 to face off with the Netherlands. Needing to secure a...
Denver is Already Thriving, Despite a Substantial Lack of Home Games With every NBA team having now played 18-22 games in the 2022-2023 NBA season, we are currently watching the game-clock wind down o...
Where is all of the Disfunction in Group B Coming From? While many teams have concerns and question marks entering the World Cup, no group in its entirety is as messy or complicated as Group B is. Con...
The History of the NBA Journeyman Journeymen have been a common theme in the NBA for decades. Players who are just good enough to always have a spot on an NBA roster, but not great enough to be given ...
Tim Ream Making the Team was Unexpected, but a Wonderful Surprise For much of the recent World Cup qualifying matches and Gold Cup games, defense has seemed like the weakest position group for the USA...
21st in Attempted Threes… 6th in Made Threes Last season, the Denver Nuggets were the epitome of an average three-point shooting team in the NBA. As a team in 2021-2022, they were 14th&nbs...
Why Some NBA Players get Forgotten, Even While Still in the NBA Every NBA season, roughly 500 players hold down a roster spot in the NBA. Between fully rostered players, two-way players, and 10-day co...
The Faces for Portland’s Starters Have Changed but it Feels Just Like 2020-2021 In the 2020-2021, Portland lost to an undermanned Denver Nuggets team and saw themselves defeated in the first round o...
The USA Men’s National Team Cannot Score to Save Their Lives The two goals of the friendly matches before the World Cup were to build confidence as a team and figure out the final roster spots befor...
Much Like in the NBA, Steph Curry was a Scoring Machine in College Golden State Warriors guard, Steph Curry, is a 2-time MVP, 4-time NBA Champion, and considered one of the greatest players to ever pl...
Serbia is Missing Nearly All of Their NBA Talent, Yet Jokic Still Shines Entering the 2nd round of the World Cup European Qualifiers, Serbia boasted just a 2-3 record. Luckily, they did have the ...
“In a team sport like basketball, every time you help somebody, you help yourself” Pete Carril was an iconic coach at Princeton, not just for perfecting the Princeton offense that has influenced s...
Lindsay is the Only NFL Running Back in History With 500+ carries and 0 Fumbles Despite the crowded RB room in Indianapolis, Phillip Lindsay deserves more carries. Lindsay is currently the leader in N...
What Types of Players Win 6MOTY? For the last ten years, the 6th Man of the Year award winner almost always fits into the exact same mold. In 9 of the last 10 years, the winner has been either a ...
Green Leads the NBA in Most Wins Since 2012-2013 If you had a sports trivia night and the question of “Which NBA player has the most wins in the last decade?” came up, many fans may instantly jump...
The History of Scoring Without Field Goals While not common in the NBA, it is also not unheard of for a player to score double-digit points without ever making a field goal. The Secret? Free throws. D...
New GM Calvin Booth Made His Priorities Clear: Defense Must Be Added Former president of basketball operations, Tim Connelly, made all of the biggest decisions for the Denver Nuggets for the last nine...
Following Their 2022 NCAA Championship, KUs Lineup Will Look Very Different The instant that the Kansas Jayhawks finished their historic 72-69 comeback win to beat North Carolina in the NCAA Champions...
The Jersey Number Recap This Season During the 2021-2022 season there were 64 different jersey numbers worn by NBA players. 13 numbers were worn by just a single player for the season, and #8 was worn...
Millsap Channels Tracy McGrady in Iconic One-Man Comeback Back on December 9th, 2004, Tracy McGrady did the impossible. With the Rockets trailing 76-68 with under 36 seconds left in the game, McGrady ...
McCloud Sets Record for Most Assists by a Small Forward When thinking about some of the best passing forwards of all-time, names like LeBron James, Larry Bird, and Rick Barry all come to mind. These t...
The Celtics Have Shown the Most Consistency Post-Allstar Break The Celtics entered this postseason as a quiet contender for the NBA title. NBA fans and analysts all around focused more attention on th...
The Most Underrated Blue Devil in the Draft With the NBA draft lottery now complete and the draft itself just over a month-away, NBA franchises around the league are digging deep into the profiles of ...
New Orleans Pushed Through Countless Struggles After starting the season 1-12 and seeing their #1 overall pick and best player, Zion Williamson, see setback after setback with his injured foot, no one...
In this episode, Tyler Key and Jacob Bautista are joined by Patrick Norton to discuss the NBA playoff matchups, play-in games, and reflect on the Clippers, Bulls, and Nuggets performances this season....
Coming off of the Bench was not a Barrier for Divincenzo Typically, college basketball games are decided by the starters on each team and the bench has a minimal impact on games, especially in the Fin...
The Big 12 has Been the Best Defensive Conference All Year On Selection Sunday, six teams from the Big 12 had their names called. Ranging from #1 seeded Kansas and Baylor, all the way down to #11 seed...
March Madness 2021 Had a New Champion Last year, the 2021 National Championship game consisted of two basketball programs who had never won a National Title before. The Baylor Bears faced off with the...
The History of the 10-7 Matchup and 2022 Preview In the first round of March Madness, #7 seeds have fared pretty well against the #10 seeds they meet in the first round. The #7 seeds currently enter t...
The History of D.II to D.I NCAAB Transitioning When a college elects to make the transition from Division II to Division I, the program is forced to enter into what the NCAA calls a “reclassificatio...
Championship Season is in Full Swing With Selection Sunday less than a week away, five teams have already punched their ticket for the field of 68; Longwood, Loyola Chicago, Murray State, Georgia Stat...
North Texas Has Surprised Everyone This Season Last season was a historic season for the North Texas basketball program. The Mean Green made the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2010 and picke...
West Wins Finals MVP Despite the Lakers Losing Last year, Giannis Antetokounmpo had one of the best NBA Finals games in history when he posted 50 points, 14 rebounds, and 5 blocks, as well as shooting...
Start Your Bracketology Prep Now On March 13th, Selection Sunday will take place and the 68-team field for March Madness will be announced. Along with this, college basketball fans everywhere will be ...
The Hottest Two Week Stretch of the NCAAB Season Entering February, the Rutgers Scarlet Knights’ March Madness hopes were slim. On February 1st, they lost in overtime at Northwestern 78-79, falling ...
Everyone Loves an Underdog in March With just under a month until 2022 NCAA Selection Sunday, the madness is almost here. Bracketology has begun, Joe Lunardi is beginning to stress out college program...
Why is Murray Being Overlooked? The NBA “Most Improved Player” award debate is essentially locked up already for 2021-2022 with Ja Morant running away with the honors. Miles Bridges and Darius Gar...
The History of UCLA Players and the NBA There have been 99 players to see the floor in the NBA/ABA coming from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Of those players, 17 of them are still acti...
The Houston Rockets have been in disarray all season long, currently holding the third worst record in the NBA. With Christian Wood underperforming, Eric Gordon and D.J. Augustin being the lone 30+ ye...
Fred is Flying Under the Radar NBA headlines this season have featured great stories about guards all over the league: Steph Curry and Klay Thompson splashing together again, Chris Paul and Devin Book...
The History of Duke Players and the NBA There have been 91 players to see the floor in the NBA/ABA coming from Duke University. Of those players, 24 of them are still active players in the NBA. There ...
The History of KU Players and the NBA There have been 81 players to see the floor in the NBA/ABA coming from the University of Kansas. Of those players, 17 of them are still active players in the NBA....
Marshall’s Mind-Blowing Night Was Even More Improbable Than You Think Nowadays in the NBA it is a three-point shooting league. Players have never chucked up more shots from beyond the arc, including...
A Wild Start in OKC for Peja and the New Orleans Hornets 15 years ago, the formerly-named Charlotte Bobcats visited the formerly-named New Orleans Hornets in Oklahoma City, due to New Orleans being ju...
Before Winning Back-to-Back Finals MVPs Hakeem Was Already a One-Man Wrecking Crew Most NBA Fans know Hakeem Olajuwon as a top 5 center in NBA history who carried the 6th seeded Houston Rockets to a ...
January 1994 Epitomizes Rodman’s Legacy Dennis Rodman was never much of a scorer in the NBA, averaging just 5.8 field goal attempts per game for his 14-season career. He instead prided himself on hi...
The Triple-Double Timeline The concept of the triple-double began in the 1979-1980 season despite Oscar Robertson averaging one in 1961. When box scores were reviewed and backtracked for seasons prior...
The History of the NBA Journeyman Journeymen have been a common theme in the NBA for decades. Players who are just good enough to always have a spot on an NBA roster, but not great enough to be given ...
The Trifecta Neither Mexico or the United States had won three times against one-another in the same calendar year since 1937. Now in 2021, the USA has recorded 9 points in the three games against Mex...
50/40/90 Club Background Only 9 players have ever been a part of the 50/40/90 club in the NBA and it has only happened 13 total times in NBA history. With that being said, it has happened twice in the...
The NBA Season starts today! In this episode, Jacob, Tyler, and Jason discuss their NBA bold takes and make their award predictions. They discuss the Suns and how Ayton and CP3 will impact their seaso...
To start out season 3 of Free Throws in the Phog and season 75 of the NBA, Tyler Key and Jacob Bautista discuss the projected win totals for every NBA team and talk through which team’s win tota...
The 240 Minutes Series Explained: In the NBA there are 450 players under full contracts to start every season. These players consist of superstars, all-stars, average players, guys dealing with injuri...
The 240 Minutes Series Explained: In the NBA there are 450 players under full contracts to start every season. These players consist of superstars, all-stars, average players, guys dealing with injuri...
The 240 Minutes Series Explained: In the NBA there are 450 players under full contracts to start every season. These players consist of superstars, all-stars, average players, guys dealing with injuri...
The 240 Minutes Series Explained: In the NBA there are 450 players under full contracts to start every season. These players consist of superstars, all-stars, average players, guys dealing with injuri...
The 240 Minutes Series Explained: In the NBA there are 450 players under full contracts to start every season. These players consist of superstars, all-stars, average players, guys dealing with injuri...
The 240 Minutes Series Explained: In the NBA there are 450 players under full contracts to start every season. These players consist of superstars, all-stars, average players, guys dealing with injuri...
The 240 Minutes Series Explained: In the NBA there are 450 players under full contracts to start every season. These players consist of superstars, all-stars, average players, guys dealing with injuri...
The 240 Minutes Series Explained: In the NBA there are 450 players under full contracts to start every season. These players consist of superstars, all-stars, average players, guys dealing with injuri...
The 240 Minutes Series Explained: In the NBA there are 450 players under full contracts to start every season. These players consist of superstars, all-stars, average players, guys dealing with injuri...
A Lot Has Changed in 4 Years In 2017, the USA Men’s Soccer Team hit the lowest of lows, failing to qualify for the 2018 World Cup in Russia. At the time, Alexi Lalas, who earned 96 caps for the U.S....
Tyler Key and Jacob Bautista, with Student Union Sports, give their immediate reactions following Milwaukee’s 123-119 win over Phoenix to take a 3-2 series lead. The two discuss how the Bucks Bi...
In this episode Tyler Key and Jacob Bautista with Student Union Sports discuss Team USA basketball and why the roster construction makes no sense, after they dropped back to back exhibition games agai...
In this episode, Tyler Key, with Student Union Sports, is joined again by Jason Havner to discuss and preview the NBA Finals matchup. The two talk about how Giannis is still the best player in this se...
If You Want to Make the NBA Finals… Sign Jae Crowder Jae Crowder is now the only player in the entire league to make the NBA Finals both last season and this season. Crowder was a wonderful addition...
Regulation Filled With Post Shots Galore In one of the slowest, grind-it-out matches of the round of 16, Ukraine struck first in the 27th minute with a rocket of a shot by Oleksandr Zinchenko. Uk...
England’s Stars Give the Home Fans Something to Cheer About England beat Germany in a competitive match for the first time since the 2001 World Cup Qualifiers and they got to do it in front of their...
Switzerland Comes Back to Win on Mbappé’s Miss In the second game of the day that looked finished entering the 80th minute, Switzerland rallied back from down 3-1 to force extra-time. The Swis...
Croatia Never Quits In a game that felt like it was going to end 3-1 in favor of Spain, fans around the world were instead gifted with a high-scoring and all-time classic soccer match. Croatia was loo...
One Shining Moment It was the most anticipated game in the round of 16, between the #1 ranked team in the World in Belgium and the defending Euro champions in Portugal, and it did not disappoint. In a...
The Netherlands Offense Disappears A team that was deemed to have one of the fastest and high scoring offenses in the Euros, The Netherlands scored 8 times in the three group stage games, putting 18 s...
Italy Did Not Allow a Goal for 1,168 Minutes Italy’s defense, known by some as Mancini’s Wall, continued their defensive excellence against Austria in the round of 16. They broke the record for mo...
Was This the Goal of the Tournament? Kasper Dolberg made his presence known in the Round of 16 against Wales, scoring twice which led the way to Denmark’s commanding 4-0 victory over the Welsh. The ...
In this episode, Tyler Key and Jacob Bautista reflect on the Clippers game 3 win over the Suns in Chris Paul’s return. They then rave about Reggie Jackson and how he has transformed himself into...
In this episode, Tyler and Jacob discuss the unhappiness of NBA Superstars Zion Williamson and Luka Doncic, reflect on the Kawhi Leonard injury and Paul George coming up huge in game 5, talk about how...
In this episode, Tyler Key is joined by the newest guest of the show, Jason Havner, to discuss the most interesting teams that have been eliminated from the NBA Playoffs. The two focus on the Celtics ...
In this quick-reaction episode, Jacob Bautista and Tyler Key give their immediate reactions after the Clippers game 7 win over the Mavericks. Jacob unveils his shock and happiness regarding the Clippe...
In this episode, Tyler and Jacob finalize their All-NBA “if I had a ballot” ballots and discuss playoff matchups and predictions. They dig into what the Vegas odds look like for every seri...
Wolves are Streaking After going 59 straight games without winning two games in a row, Minnesota held on for a 105-104 win over the Utah Jazz on April 26th, led by a 27-point, 12-assist night from DeA...
Tyler and Jacob are back again with just 15ish games left in the NBA regular season to go into depth on the players who could and should be considered for the All-NBA teams this season. They also disc...
Madison Square Garden Will Host a Knicks Playoff Game For the First Time Since 2013 In what is becoming the best New York Knicks season in recent memory, Julius Randle is poised to lead them to the pl...
Time Lord Has Always Needed More Playing Time Robert Williams, known by many Celtics’ fans as Time Lord, has shown flashes of greatness ever since the beginning of last season. Most notably on Novem...
In this episode, Jacob and Tyler discuss the Jamal Murray injury and how it impacts the West moving forward. The two discuss the six teams that can win the NBA Championship and go in depth on why the ...
Jinglin’ Joe has silently been the true 6th man of the year this season While Jordan Clarkson is the odds-on favorite to win 6th man of the year in the NBA this season, so much so that Vegas h...
Joker is Finally Getting Noticed Many NBA fans think that with the injuries to Joel Embiid and LeBron James, Nikola Jokic will now step in as the most favorable MVP pick… Truth is, he has been the M...
Tyler and Jacob talk about the aftermath of the NBA trade deadline and discuss who added nice pieces and how these new players will impact teams. The duo discusses Orlando finally rebuilding, Fournier...
Trade Deadline Results and Tier List Now, while I had time to stare at twitter all day until the trade deadline passed at 3:00pm ET, I’m aware that most of you NBA fans have jobs, families, classes,...
Upsets Galore Tonight ended in dramatic and fitting fashion with #14 seeded Abilene Christian shocking the Texas Longhorns in a 53-52 upset, forcing them to commit 23 turnovers and holding them to the...
Is 2021 the lowest point in ACC basketball history? Just one day into the round of 64, the Atlantic Coast Conference has gone from 7 teams in the dance, already down to 3. With Virginia Tech, Georgia ...
The time has come yet again to fill out brackets and personalize them like a beautiful painting with your own upsets, underdogs, and Cinderellas… Only to then regret them in hindsight after watching...
In this episode, Jacob and Tyler discuss the recent and potential buy-out players in the NBA, what teams should be active at the trade deadline, and debate which players could be on the move. They the...
In this episode, Jacob Bautista and Tyler Key discuss their 10 best bargain players this season. All of these players out-produce their season salary and make their teams’ GMs look like geniuses...
In this episode, Tyler and Jacob discuss the first quarter of the NBA season and do a deep dive into two struggling teams, the New Orleans Pelicans and the Washington Wizards. They discuss how Robin L...
In this episode, Jacob and Tyler discuss what a weird season it has been so far in terms of blowouts, COVID taking its toll on the NBA, and loads of bad teams upsetting good teams. They talk about the...
In this episode, Tyler and Jacob make their official 2020-2021 season predictions, including their projected standings for the Eastern and Western conferences and give their HOT takes for the upcoming...
In this episode, Tyler and Jacob begin the 2nd season of their podcast and discuss who the early offseason winners have been via the recent trades. They discuss the Klay Thompson injury and what the W...
In this episode, Tyler and Jacob discuss the 2020 NBA Draft. Before getting into it, the two touch on the recent Russell Westbrook rumors and where he may be heading: New York, The Clippers, Charlotte...
In this episode, Tyler and Jacob go through all 22 players that have made All-NBA in the last two seasons and debate whether or not they are actually a #1 or #2 option on a championship team. The duo ...
In this episode, Tyler and Jacob talk about the 2020 NBA Champions, The Los Angeles Lakers. They begin the episode by discussing who showed up big in game 6 for the Lakers and why they were so dominan...
In this episode, Jacob and Tyler discuss the greatness that is Jimmy Butler and how his historic performance help the Heat grab the game 3 win in the NBA finals. They begin by talking about what Jimmy...
In this episode Jacob and Tyler react to game 1 of the NBA finals and all the injuries that the Heat have to deal with now. They begin the episode by talking about Doc Rivers signing a 5 year deal wit...
In this episode of Free Throws In The Phog, Tyler and Jacob discuss: Fred VanVleet and his probable return to Toronto What the COVID-scouting combine process will look like. The Heat winning the first...
In this episode, Tyler and Jacob do a deep dive into the Nuggets vs Clippers series and give their game 7 preview. They first touch on what the series has looked like so far, and Jacob specifically to...
In this episode, Jacob and Tyler discuss the Danuel House situation, Giannis saying that he is staying in Milwaukee, and most notably, Michael Porter Jr.’s comments following Denver’s game...
In this episode, Student Union’s Chief Editor and friend of the show Patrick Norton joins Tyler to discuss the pessimism surrounding teams and players in the 2nd round of the NBA playoffs. They ...
In this episode, Tyler and Jacob open up and discuss: Thoughts on Steve Nash signing a 4-year contract as the next head coach of the Brooklyn Nets. Reflect on the Oklahoma City and Houston Game 7. Dis...