Time for the A10 basketball conference preview for 2025/26! Power rankings, player awards, bold takes + Sister Jean retiring, how many teams can ACTUALLY win the A10 & be dangerous in March.

Also touch on Taylen Kinney's commitment to Kansas over Kentucky & Louisville!

0:00 Intro

1:05 Taylen Kinney to Kansas

4:11 Sister Jean Retiring

8:10 Virginia Football Field Rush

10:50 A10 Preview

54:39 Q&A

Conference Preview Episodes have arrived & we start with the Mountain West. One last loaded season adding GCU before 5 programs leave for the PAC 12 in 2026, we preview every team with power rankings, award predictions & hot takes on the league.

Also touch on the current meal plan crisis, suspension & firing at Wofford, Siena getting its highest ranked recruit in program history & more.

0:00 Intro

0:57 Wofford's Meal Plan Crisis

3:57 Ryan's Bad Week

5:38 Siena's Best Recruit Ever

9:18 Indiana Football

11:30 Mountain West Preview

52:56 Q&A

56:46 Thanks For Listening!

Conference Preview Episodes are HERE & we are starting off with the mid majors, maybe the most important teams to know. From MVC to Summit League to Ivy League to SoCon... we talk on who will be the best mid major teams in all of college basketball this upcoming season.

Also have a special guest, ETSU Head Coach Brooks Savage on to talk the current state of mid majors & about ETSU/SoCon Basketball!

Ryan heads out to San Francisco to the home of the Dons to talk with Head Coach Chris Gerlufsen about all things mid majors & WCC: how to get into the NCAA Tournament, the future outlook of the WCC, life after Todd Golden (+ some San Francisco food spots).

Also on this episode - the intro of the UTRGV Vaqueros Football Program & EA vs 2K College Basketball video game battle.

Purely Q&A on this Mailbag Episode. Get into John Wall's retirement, Penn State traveling to New Haven, Hawaii Football, best mid major coaches & conferences + is Duke being underrated???

CBB Analytical Guru Evan Miyakawa (@ EvanMiya) joins the show to talk about the transfer portal & its impact on analytics and how we can look at the transfer portal to predict what teams will be best this upcoming season in college basketball.

Ryan also talks about Arizona's new basketball court, a possible Big East & ACC merger???? + more!

If College Basketball had a stock market... well here we are. Buy Sell Hold for some of the top teams across college hoops for this season, extra underrated teams Ryan is buying + talk of a 32 team tournament in November next year???

The first OFFICIAL full episode of the BlueBlooded Podcast. Talking on the 5 most interesting experiments to watch this season in college hoops. Teams with new looks & styles, rule changes - Kansas, Iowa, Illinois, UNLV & the Coach's Challenge new rule. Also get into news & notes around the nation & your questions in Q&A.

The official opening intro episode of the show - we talk about the origin stories of our love for college basketball, Ryan's come up in the content space, the goal of the podcast & what to expect going forward, + favorite College Hoops memories growing up.

Welcome to BlueBlooded! This is a new modern POV on college hoops with Ryan Hammer that will dive into the best all around content year round & nationwide on all things CBB & beyond.

This is just a small taste of what is to come every Monday starting this August so subscribe & join in on the journey.