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Hoopsville!

Division III basketball's
weekly talk show

Hoopsville History

Dave McHugh talks about how he and Jared Rosenbaum got Hoopsville off the ground:

Hoopsville started out on a whim. There was programming time available and I thought it would be something that would be fun to try and do.

The show was very simple to start with... going through scores from the previous week... a couple of regional reporters... and Jared and I chatting... or arguing about games we had seen, heard, read about, etc.

But the show quickly grew, and before long two hours was easily filled. We had interviews with the top coaches of the day... or people involved in games everyone were talking about.

We started debuting the Top 25 and had updates from around the nation on everything. It got to the point that my role became more of a traffic cop — organizing all the info and letting everyone else dispense it.

Hoopsville covered everything, including the night the 2001 brackets were announced, and thousands of people tuned in that night for the show. We then recapped and previewed the tournaments, had coaches on from as many of those games as possible and talked to the coaches who won the titles. We even had a few top players come on the show.

It culminated with the pregame, halftime, and postgame shows at the Men's Final Four in Salem in 2001 (the same year Catholic — a rival school for our alma mater of Goucher — won the national title).