On this special edition of the Black & Gold Banneret Podcast, Jeff Sharon and Eric Lopez preview the nascent UCF Men's Basketball season. They go over the start of Johnny Dawkins' first season at UCF (1:30), and Jeff shares his chat with B.J. Taylor from Media Day (5:36). Then former UCF player and current ESPN analyst Mike O'Donnell joins Jeff and Eric for a full preview of the team and the American Athletic Conference for 2016-2017 (10:38), and the guys wrap up by speculating about UCF's postseason chances (36:30).

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