What a great weekend of wrestling action. From a dominant Gable Steveson return, to the Iowa/Iowa State CyHawk Dual, Penn State Wrestle-offs at the Black Knight Invitational, we recap ...
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Time to preview all this weekend's action! Missouri vs Illinois - Most Competitive Dual of the Weekend? CyHawk Dual: Iowa vs Iowa State - Will Iowa run away with it? ...
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Today, Willie "The Brain" and Basch dive into the top wrestling stories from the weekend: Sammy Sasso Returns 454 Days After Being Shot Barraclough, My Current Wrestler of November All-Star Classic ...
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The college wrestling season is underway! Today, Willie & JB recap last week's action and then preview next weekend's action, including the All-Star Classic. Friend of the Show, Don B ...
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Willie's Updated Crystal Ball Rankings are OUT and it is time to Officially Preview the 2024-2025 D1 College Wrestling Season. Lot of fun in this episode as we go weight-by-weight ...
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Many laughs & an awesome time today having 2024 Paris Olympic Champion and 6x World/Olympic Medalist Sarah Hildebrandt back on the podcast. Sarah won Gold last month in Paris at 50...
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What an awesome weekend of wrestling! This weekend, Vito Arujau, James Green, Jordan Burroughs & David Taylor all made the 2024 World Team at the 2024 World Team Trials, and Willie &...
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Fun show today as Adam Fellers and Don Beshada join Willie & I to discuss the state of the NIL & The Transfer Portal after all of the recent Iowa &...
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Olympic wrestling has come to a close at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, and today, Willie & I, along with Felters halfway through, recap the action and discuss many of ...
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Basch & The Brain Recap the Past Few Days of Wrestling at the Olympics, including: Sarah Hildebrandt Wins Gold Helen In 3rd Olympic Medal Match Spencer Lee is in the ...
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Basch & The Brain Live Show to Recap First Few Days of Wrestling at the Olympics: Lopez Wins Gold Number 5 Vinesh Stuns Susaki, then gets DQ'd after not ...
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Awesome having the Head Coach of the Wisconsin Badgers football program, Luke Fickell, on the podcast today to talk about his success in wrestling early on & how it all ...
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Great having 2024 NCAA Champ Jesse Mendez of Ohio State on the podcast today ahead of his match next week at Beat The Streets with 2023 NCAA Champ Andrew Alirez! We covered ...
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Back-to-back most dominant wrestler in NCAA, Air Force's Wyatt Hendrickson, is on the show today to talk about his recent accolades and the upcoming season! Being Recruited by Air ...
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It's time for the 2023 World Championships, and the Brain joined me for a fun episode of Basch & The Brain as we preview, weight by weight, the Men's Freestyle action ...
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Friend of the show Kurt Angle - NCAA, World, Olympic & WWE Champion - is back on BASCHAMANIA as we dive deeper into the new ANGLE doc and talk a ...
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From his battles with Keegan O'Toole and becoming a 4x BIG 12 Chanp to his upcoming senior year, was great to catch up with my guy David Carr and reflect ...
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Fun guest today as one of the greatest American wrestlers of all time joins the show: 3x NCAA Champ (4x Finalist) and 3x World Champ, Lee Kemp! Lee has not ...
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We were overdue for some Coffee Talk and that’s just what we had today! Some mid-Olympics Coffee Talk where NLWC and M2 Coach Eric “Golden Bear” ...
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Two people that had everyone talking this weekend at Big 10s? Ridge Lovett (Nebraska) and Gable Steveson (Minnesota!) Grateful to have both of them join Cenzo and I tonight to ...
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Great time with Willie as we preview the Big Ten Wrestling Championships, weight-by-weight, making picks at each weight along the way. Listen on Apple here. Listen on Spotify. Watch on YouTube below!
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It’s happening. On July 1, many college wrestlers are going to be able to leverage their name, image, and likeness. But, until it rolls out (and probably even after), there are a lot of questions and speculations around the rollout. I’ve seen some of the guidelines for ...
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Right on cue, the Name, Image and Likeness activity is picking up, as we're exactly one week since NIL went into effect and it's getting better by the day. As I had said both in a previous article, and on the BASCHAMANIA Podcast, deals take time to execute. When ...
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The NCAA’s are happening and all the action starts today at 11am EST (info on how to stream every match here!) While there are so many storylines to focus on this weekend, one storyline I’ll be keeping an eye on this weekend is the Olympic Trials! The ...
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But, on this seemingly somber Friday morning, I continue to think about the storylines that I was thinking about after the news broke yesterday and into the night last night.
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Justin Basch, CEO and Founder of Basch Solutions, has launched BASCHAMANIA, a new wrestling podcast focused on sharing the stories of the top wrestlers in the USA.
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