This week’s episode is a special one…focused solely on our interview with Matt Doherty. 

Matt’s background is an impressive one…McDonalds All-American in high school. Starter on the 1982 NCAA championship team at the University of North Carolina with future NBA greats Michael Jordan and James Worthy. Coached by the legendary coach Dean Smith.

After playing, Matt eventually found his way into coaching, first as an assistant at Davidson and Kansas before launching his head coaching career at Notre Dame. After 1 brief but successful year, Matt was “called home” to be the head coach at his alma mater, North Carolina. He led UNC for 3 years, where he was named AP National Coach of the year 2001. After a painful firing at UNC, he moved on to head jobs at FAU and SMU. 

Since he hung up his whistle as a basketball coach, Matt has entered the world of media and leadership coaching, working with ESPN, several radio shows, and he has also held a leadership role in the Atlantic 10 conference. Last thing, and very timely, Matt has authored a book on leadership, Rebound, from Pain to Passion.  

Wrapping this week’s episode after an insightful interview with Matt, Mike shares a few thoughts…

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Senior Writer for ESPN's The Undefeated, Author Jesse Washington joins the pod this week for an enlightening discussion about his recent experiences and journey as he co-authored his recent book (I Came as a Shadow) with the legendary Georgetown coach.

Jesse discusses several interesting experiences, perspectives - both his own and Coach Thompson’s tales. We have a great chat with Jesse and briefly cover some recent sports news too...all this and more on this week’s episode of the Pod On Point podcast.

Spencer Anderson is the Director of Basketball Analytics at the Indiana Pacers. He has been in the sports analytics industry for a little while, first with STATS and then after finishing law school as an independent NBA analytics consultant and now with the Pacers for just over 7 years.

We sit down with Spencer today to talk about his role at the organization, how the NBA and sports, in general, have adopted analytics as a core pillar of their operations and what this means for data-driven decision-making in sports in the future!

Closing this week’s episode with their popular C’mon Man segment, Mike tells us that nothing can be taken for granted in African soccer, while Vlad recalls the first time he remembers fainting...