Free Ira Brown! - The Gonzaga Hoops Podcast

After a ZagFam shoutout, we dive deep into Gonzaga's dismantling of the BYU Cougars behind 20 and 17 from the freshman phenom Chet Holmgren, who is finding his considerable stride in conference play. Our St. Mary's preparation kicks off with the tale of the tape followed by a special tribute to Randy. All that and more on this episode of Free Ira Brown! THE Gonzaga Hoops Podcast. @freeirabrown   patreon.com/freeirabrown

Gonzaga crushes two WCC also-rans LMU and UP. Will the hot shooting continue on the longest road in the WCC? (The one from Spokane to San Diego to Provo). We look past the Torreros to the final WCC duel in the Residence Inn by Marriott Center against the desperate Cougars of BYU. Can the Cougars do it? We doubt it. All that plus, farewell Tom Brady, we hate your guts. @freeirabrown patreon.com/freeirabrown

Gonzaga pulls away from the Dons after a brilliant game plan falls short in the face of Holmgren's dominance. We'll discuss how it went down and look ahead to games against WCC bottom dwellers LMU and UP. Free Ira Brown uses a lot of statistics that we frankly, barely grasp. To help with that, we welcome Jack Gilles of @JGTrends to explain how college basketball teams use analytics to squeeze every last bit of efficiency from players. patreon.com/freeirabrown @freeirabrown

The Gonzaga Men rode the waves, crushed the Cougars and Broke the Broncos, all by triple digits. We'll go through each game and illuminate the superlatives. Will the Dons of USF put up more of a fight? Or will Gonzaga continue to drop hundos on the WCC? @freeirabrown Support the Show at Patreon.com/freeirabrown  

A thorough review of the 42nd consecutive shellacking of Pepperdine University sets the tone for another season of WCC dominance. Next up? The Cougars of BYU. Has Caleb Lohner poked the bear? Could we clean dishes with his hair? The answers to these questions, PLUS, are we more concerned about Santa Clara? We'll close with unveiling the FIB All-time Gonzaga Freshman team. Support the show at patreon.com/freeirabrown!

With no Gonzaga games to speak of, we welcome special guest and Patreon Supporter, Ben Cary to do his best Trebek in Free Ira Brown's first Gonzaga Jeopardy! Turns out we are hopeful enough to do a Pepperdine preview, too. Support the show at patreon.com/freeirabrown! @freeirabrown on twitter

Omicron can take our Gonzaga games, but it will never take Free Ira Brown's ability to talk about basketball for and hour and a half! We spend some time discussing the non-conference scheduling and what the WCC also-rans have been up to. We look ahead to the conference schedule and finish up with some New Year's resolutions. Happy F-ing New Year!

Concerned about turnovers and three point shooting? Well GU is here to put them to rest with two outstanding performances that hopefully indicate a return to form on the turnover front and a whole new form on the three point front. We discuss the wins over Texas Tech and Northern Arizona and look ahead to North Alabama before noting some of our favorite Christmas subtleties.  

A lackluster team performance against the Merrimack Warriors last week had us yearning for another tune-up game before Texas Tech on Saturday. A game the Huskies ruined. We recap the Merrimack game, discuss the ups and downs, and give you the 411 on the Red Raiders. We close with the inagural FIB Gonzaga Hall of Fame Class! With a surprise guest. (It's Steven Karr). @freeirabrown   patreon.com/freeirabrown

Listen here for Free Ira Brown's guide to navigating a frustrating loss and ultimately returning to hope. We point out some areas of improvement for the lads, and then discuss the upcoming games against the Merrimack Warriors and the a team of adorable sled dogs. @freeirabrown patreon.com/freeirabrown

Gonzaga suffers it's first loss on the season in Vegas to a solid Duke team, primarily due to turnover issues, which somehow continued against Tarleton State on Monday. Should we be worried? Should we panic? Listen to find out! (But probably not). Support the show at patreon.com/freeirabrown!

Gonzaga CRUSHES three teams no one has heard of to continue their undefeated start to the season . . . wait, one of those teams was UCLA; YIKES! We revel in the walloping of Westwood and Chet, the Wonderboy, coming into his own in front of Dickie V and a National audience on Tuesday. We then preview the game against a team that failed to make last year's NCAA tournament. Coached by some guy named Chichevsky (or something). Marty sends him on his way with a song. (58:34).

Drew Timme is now the undisputed king of Texas. We recap his tremendous performance against the Longhorns, Andrew Nembhard's eight (!!) assists and the return of the Mark Few seven man rotation. Meanwhile, the Ladies' sweep big sky country and look ahead to a big opportunity with Stanford coming to town. You should also expect a lot of UCLA talk. Lastly, we discuss all the wonderful things we're thankful for. ( 1:10:00 ). Support the show! Patreon.com/freeirabrown @freeirabrown

After a dominating, if initially disjointed, effort in the season opener against Dixie State, the Zags are set to welcome Chris Beard's bevy of experienced transfers. The FIB Boys take a few things away from the opener and give you the rundown on the Longhorns. Former podcast host, Steven Karr, then makes the correct takeaways from the opener and gives his insight on what may be the most anticipated game in the history of the McCarthey Athletic Center. After all that we take the time for some Texas word association shenanigans (1:08). All that, and more on this episode of Free Ira Brown! Support the show at patreon.com/freeirabrown

Can you believe it’s been seven months since Gonzaga last played a game? Thankfully, that interminable wait is about to end. Gonzaga will shake off the rust and actually get back on the court Tuesday in a meaningful game, and Free Ira Brown is here to get you prepped for big game … or at least, the game before the big game! We’ll tell you everything we know about Dixie State (did you know former BYU coach Dave Rose went there?), look at what we expect from Gonzaga and wonder if this game is enough to get us prepped for Texas. Those stories, plus we engage in a little Overreaction Theater as we look back at the exhibition games (Holmgren is the best play ever! Will our guards ever hit a 3 again?!), look deeper to see if any players are trending down, who is Zagging Up heading into the first official game and Marty gets the score for the Gonzaga women’s exhibition almost exact. And finally, we finish by looking back at some of the players in Gonzaga’s history who came into a season with some hype and whether th

There’s nothing quite like a season tip-off on Halloween. Well, a kinda-sorta-mostly season tip-off. Exhibition games, at least. But hey, it’s games! And soon! Really soon! And Free Ira Brown is back to make sure our brains are full and ready to go. Not to fight off a zombie apocalypse (brrrraaaaaaaaaaaiiiins), mind you, but to finally fight off the final dregs of the preseason. And to help with that we brought in the great Brenna Greene to lend her expertise to the proceedings.

Free Ira Brown! THE Gonzaga Hoops Podcast returns for its 8th season with our pre-season player preview extravaganza! In which we run down the roster discussing our expectations, our loves, our "mehs" and our predictions for each of the lads. Support the Show at Patreon.com/freeirabrown Find us on twitter at @freeirabrown

There’s nothing quite like a good off-season podcast, is there? No games to distract you, no sudden or breaking news to divert your attention. Just three hosts, three microphones and a blank canvas. And just like that, Free Ira Brown is back! Yes, dear FIBbers, we are back with our (slightly delayed) summer pod. We go thoughts on Gonzaga’s schedule (at least what we know of it), we share our feelings on Duke and Coach K (we’re super positive...!), we join in on the heat wave in the northwest by firing off some hot takes (OK, some medium-to-warm takes), we’ll check in with where the Gonzaga players went in the draft and peak at some of the NBA summer league action. We’ll also give a parting word to Mike Roth, the legendary Gonzaga athletic director who is retiring after this season. All this and more on the world-famous summer episode of Free Ira Brown, THE Gonzaga Hoops Podcast. Do come have some summer fun with us, won’t you?

We turn from the open sore of the Baylor loss to reflect on an unprecedented Gonzaga Basketball season before saying our goodbyes to those who won't return next year, especially newly-minted legends, Ayayi, Suggs and Kispert. Do raise a glass to lads with us! All that and more including, Do you believe in life after Lloyd? We close with some sports history shenanigans.

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