Owen covers the BobKats. Jack Covers the Patroons. Last season's East-Midwest Regional Final - ie Final Four matchup - pitted those two team, Kokomo and Albany, against one another. So Owen and Jack discuss what it might look like should those teams, both currently in first in their respective conferences after Week 4, meet once again in the playoffs.

Sunday of the penultimate weekend of games turned out to be a moving day as two conferences saw new teams slot into first place: The Wichita Sky Kings used two Week 4 wins and a Potawatomi loss to take over the top spot in the Central; The Kokomo BobKats jumped the Glass City Wranglers by beating them twice. The Georgia Soul continue to impress in the Southeast, while Seattle and Albany remain the teams to beat on the coasts. TBL's 49 teams played 103 games this weekend. Find out the result of each and every one of them on this edition of the Rundown.

Give us 14.5 minutes and we'll give you...

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Chris Darrington's shooting percentage has decreased significantly over the Wranglers' last four games, two of which were against the Kokomo BobKats, and resulted in Week 4 losses that moved Kokomo into first and Glass City into second. Brad Smith is TBL News' resident Wrangler expert. He joined The Pod to recap what he's seeing going wrong for the TBL team from Toledo and try his hand at figuring out what could right the ship.

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Kokomo and Glass City will face off in the biggest game of the young TBL season. Kokomo's Derek Hawthorne comes in averaging 29.5, putting over 30+ in their previous four games, all BobKats wins. Darrington started off the season with multiple 40+ point games and dramatic game winners, but finds himself in the midst of a shooting slump. Which star shall prevail: The "reliable" Hawthorne or the electric Darrington? Chris Lowry has spent his entire career immersed in Kokomo basketball. We spent time with him talking about Coach Levingston's influence on a young team; Hawthorne's success and potential; and Mr. Lowry gives us his prediction, down to the point, on Friday night's primetime TBL matchup.

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Deshawn Munson may be on an eternal heater, most recently most markedly so when examining his gaudy rebounding numbers, but according to Chris Cox, the voice of the Potawatomi Fire, Chuck Guy is the Remus to his Romulus. How far can a team with two MVP-caliber players go? Mr. Cox spends time with us detailing just that.

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The Glass City Wranglers are 5-1. The Kokomo BobKats are 6-1. Glass City's Chris Darrington and Kokomo's Derek Hawthorne have been spectacular, each staking early claims to win the MVP come season's end. This Friday night, March 24, they'll meet in Toledo for a critical early-season Game of the Year candidate. The voice of the Wranglers, BCSN Sports' Brad Woznicki sat down with us to talk about Glass City's outlook for Friday and beyond, how good players like Anthony Carmon, the Marlons (Moore Jr. and Sierra), and Chance Hawkins really are, and how the recent signing of Toledo-born-and-bred Dalonte Brown might make Chris Darrington even more effective going to the basket.

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INSIDE THIS EPISODE:

A FIRESIDE CHAT w/ NICK - Through two weeks of The Basketball League season, Potawatomi's Deshawn Munson has - once again - joined the far-too-early MVP race, with Glass City's extraordinary young scorer, Chris Darrington, as his most principal competitor.

POTAWATOMI BEATS LITTLE ROCK 128-114 - Isaac Edelman details how the Potawatomi Fire moved to 3-0 on the young season with a win over the Lightning behind a monster 37-19 game from their star PG, Deshawn Munson.

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Six teams exited Opening Weekend unscathed, with two of them, Wichita and Potawatomi, looking particularly strong. Chris Darrington and BJ Parks both look, unsurprisingly, dangerous. Week One of the 2023 season is in the books!

Produced by Nick Schupak for TBL News, part of the TBLTV News Network, a TBL property

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"Past And Present" - https://slip.stream/tracks/3cd92d18-cc4c-4873-8f66-86284ec25f7d

Albany battles back, Seattle cuts no slack, Flint's Bruce tops them all, Enid tops Rockwall, the Tundra win by four and much, much, much much much much more.

Produced by Nick Schupak for TBL News, part of the TBLTV News Network, a TBL property

Music by Slip.stream:

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"Past And Present" - https://slip.stream/tracks/3cd92d18-cc4c-4873-8f66-86284ec25f7d

Albany gets shocked, Wichita impresses, and the defending champs bounce back... and, like, much, much more.

Produced by Nick Schupak for TBL News, part of the TBLTV News Network, a TBL property

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"A Pack A Day" - https://slip.stream/tracks/8cbee134-fd28-42ae-89a8-869d42ce23b9

"Past And Present" - https://slip.stream/tracks/3cd92d18-cc4c-4873-8f66-86284ec25f7d