TJ Bickerstaff (@1ktjb) is an Atlanta, GA native and is a key piece to James Madison's team this year.

We talk about TJ’s basketball journey, his background, JMU’s incredible start the season (beating Michigan State & Kent State on the road), and much more.

Time Stamps:

0:00 Intro to TJ Bickerstaff

1:30 JMU Road Wins at Michigan State & Kent State

2:25 JMU Off-Season Prep - Foreign Trip

3:45 College Experience

5:10 Atlanta Basketball

6:00 Playing with Jabari Smith & High School

7:00 Football

8:00 Michigan State

9:45 Why Basketball?

10:40 Family Sports Background

11:30 Off-Season Work

12:45 Mentors

13:30 JMU Staff - Confidence & NBA Style of Play

15:00 Memorable Moments

18:00 Other Questions & Rapid Fire

24:00 Future Plans

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Fardaws Aimaq (@daws_1) is a Canadian big man at Cal Berkley. 🇨🇦

Daws has had an incredible college career with stops at Mercer, Utah Valley, and Texas Tech.

He has many accolades such as WAC Player of the Year, 2x WAC Defensive POY, 2x Lou Henson National POY Finalist, 2x Lefty Driesell Defensive POY.

Daws has been selected as a pre-season All Big 12 selection.

Enjoy!

0:00 Fardaws Aimaq Intro.

1:15 Experience at Cal

4:45 Why Mercer?

6:15 Adapting to New Situations

7:20 Recruitment Priorities 

9:00 Coach Mark Madsen

13:00 Redshirt Year Transformation

14:00 Accountability & Discipline

16:10 NBA Pre-Draft Workouts & Feedback

17:30 Life After Playing Career Ends — Family, Coaching

19:15 Dinner with LeBron James

20:30 Fashion?!

21:40 Advice to Young Hoopers 

23:35 Current State of College Basketball

25:30 Best Player You’ve Faced

27:10 Cal’s Roster Preview

30:00 Rapid Fire Questions

31:15 Overcoming Injury at Texas Tech