Relentless Hoops Podcast Trent Markwith

I went to the Northside Media Day at the Westminster School yesterday and had the chance to sit down with the majority of the head coaches of the attending schools to talk about their teams and the upcoming season. A lot of these programs are expected to have successful seasons and I enjoyed getting to hear each of their perspectives.

Our Select 80 Camps for 2024 & 2025 prospects were held last weekend at Life University. In this episode, I am joined by Greg Blythe, Travis McDaniel, and Reed Dungan, and we go over what we saw during the weekend. All-Camp Teams were released yesterday, so we dove into those while also giving some general thoughts from the camps and highlighting some of the biggest surprises and guys who made the biggest impressions. This year of the Select 80 Camps was another fun & successful one, and we had a good discussion on a lot of different players in this episode.

Another college head coach joins us today and it's at the Mid-Major level this time with Chattanooga HC Dan Earl coming on. Coach Earl just finished his 1st season leading the Mocs after previously being the head coach at VMI. Along with the usual background information & coaching stops, we also discussed his coaching philosophies, how he handles things being at a mid-major in today's age of college basketball, what it was like to coach Jake Stephens, and more. Chattanooga plays a brand of basketball that is fun to watch and they should continue to have success in the SoCon.

Another college head coach came on for this episode; UGA HC Mike White sat down with me & went into detail about a variety of things. He spoke on his start in coaching & journey since then, his 1st year at UGA, why he believes the UGA program can have sustainable success, the Bulldogs' strong incoming recruiting class, and more. This was a very enjoyable episode and Coach White made a lot of good points. He & his staff are going about things the right way in building their program.

We're back with a player guest in this episode. UConn's Alex Karaban joined me to discuss winning the 2023 NCAA National Championship with the Huskies, his path as a high school prospect, how he made an impact as a freshman, what he plans to improve on as a sophomore, and other topics. Although he's not a Southeast kid, I was able to watch Karaban at the 2018 CP3 Rising Stars Camp and track him since then. Every step along the way, he's just gone about his business and produced against top competition consistently. I'm excited to see what the future has in store for him.

Next up is Myers Park assistant & Team Curry 16U Head Coach Nick Jones. In this episode he joined me to talk about how he got into coaching, Myers Park's state championship season, his involvement with Team Curry, player development, and more. Various things that are important in today's grassroots landscape were touched on.