Nothing But Net with Debbie Antonelli

Tara at the Top LinkTree:  https://linktr.ee/NBNwithDA Host: Debbie Antonelli This episode is Debbie’s post-game reaction to Tara VanDerveer’s historic night.…

Jeff Walz

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University of Louisville Women’s Basketball Head Coach, Jeff Walz joins us on this episode of Nothing But Net with Debbie Antonelli. 

Debbie and Jeff discuss his team’s hot start to the season, shuffling and rescheduling of games due to COVID-19. They have fun getting into the improvement in his tennis game during quarantine and his woodworking prowess. Coach Walz also enlightens us on the efficiency and execution that he demands from his team, the athletic lineage in his family, the influence Paul Sanderford and Rick Pitino had on his coaching career. They wrap up the episode delving into the benefits of possibly allowing betting lines in the game of women’s college basketball and the philanthropic way of giving back that he teaches his players, as well as, his outstanding experience of being a part of USA Basketball.

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Jim Garofalo of Kinexon Sports & Media

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In this episode, Debbie sits down for a Zoom conversation with the Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing in North America for Kinexon, Jim Garofalo. 

Debbie and Jim discuss Kinexon’s innovative contract tracing device, Kinexon Safe Zone.  Kinexon Safe Zone is being used, by most of the professional and collegiate leagues, to help each team’s medical team accurately predict who, a COVID-19 positive athlete, came into contact with.  Safe Zone can pinpoint down to how far away each athlete was from one another and the duration of time they were in close contact. 

With Safe Zone, it is not over-selling it to say that Jim and his team at Kinexon played one of the most pivotal roles in allowing college sports to happen this year. 

Enjoy this episode as Jim, a lifelong fan of the Chicago Cubs and Wisconsin Badgers, gives each of us a better understanding of such an unprecedented device. 

Debbie also answers a couple of our listener questions. First, who are her Top 10 NCAA Women's Basketball teams in week 3 of the season? Also, with the New York Liberty winning the WNBA Lottery for the second year in a row, who are some possible candidates for the Liberty to choose to go along with last year's top pick, Sabrina Ionescu?

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Patty Broderick and Lisa Mattingly

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In this episode, Debbie sits down for a Zoom conversation with two living legends in the game of Women’s Basketball. NCAA referees, Patty Broderick and Lisa Mattingly. 

Patty Broderick is the Coordinator for the Women’s Basketball Officiating Consortium. Consortium conference members include: Big Ten, Big 12, Summit, Conference USA, Horizon League, Mid-American, Missouri Valley Conference, and the Great Lakes Valley Conference (Division II).  Patty has been an NCAA Final Four official seven times. She also officiated the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, as well as six WNBA championships. Patty served as the Director of Officials for the WNBA from 2002-2004. Patty was inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame as part of the Class of 2008.

Lisa Mattingly leads an officiating consortium of conferences that includes the SEC, Sun Belt, A-Sun, SWAC and Southland in addition to the OVC. She has served as a women’s basketball official in the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Big East, Conference USA, OVC, Missouri Valley, MAC, SEC and Horizon League. She officiated her first NCAA Tournament in 1996 and since that time has worked 21 NCAA Regional Tournaments and 18 Final Fours including 10 championship games. In addition to her on-court achievements, Mattingly served as liaison for basketball officials to the NCAA Rules Committee from 2003-05. Mattingly also made her mark at the pro level, having been selected to officiate in the inaugural season of the WNBA in 1997. She officiated each of the WNBA Championship series from 2000-07.  

Please enjoy this episode, as two of the best to ever don the pinstripes and whistle, tell stories and give an insight to the life of basketball referee. 

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Vic Schaefer

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In this episode, Debbie sits down for a Zoom conversation with a proven winner, in every sense of the word, Vic Schaefer, head coach of the University of Texas Women's Basketball. After eight seasons in Starkville, MS, as head coach at Mississippi, the Texas-native, returns to his home state and is the fifth head coach in school history. 

Two-time National Coach of the Year, Schaefer led the Bulldogs to a 221-62 [.781] record and five NCAA Tournament berths, including two NCAA Championship Game appearances. Under his direction, Mississippi State won the program's first SEC regular-season championship and SEC Tournament championship and made five consecutive appearances in the SEC Tournament Championship Game, tying the University of Tennessee's record for consecutive tournament final appearances.

Join Debbie as she talks to Coach Schaefer about his move to Austin, TX, COVID-19, his coaching staff, the 2020-21 season and much more. 

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Tara VanDerveer, Elissa Cunane & Kai Crutchfield

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In this episode, Debbie sits down for a Zoom conversation with Hall of Fame and Olympic Gold Medal-winning, Stanford Women’s Basketball Head Coach, Tara VanDerveer. Entering the 2020-21 season, Coach VanDerveer has amassed 1,094 wins, which puts her four wins away from tying the late Pat Summitt(1,098) for most wins all-time. She is also an avid water-skier, Bridge player and swims with Olympians. Those are just a few of the many stories we hear from Coach VanDerveer. 

Debbie also chats with North Carolina State’s Senior Guard Kai Crutchfield and Junior Center Elissa Cunane, to discuss the start of their 2020-21 season. A season that is loaded with expectations for the Wolfpack. 

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Tara VanDerveer, Elissa Cunane & Kai Crutchfield LinkTree:  https://linktr.ee/NBNwithDA Host: Debbie Antonelli In this episode, Debbie sits down for a…