The Mike Hlas Podcast

A player on a 2014 Final Four team guests on the Mike Hlas Podcast. Zach Bohannon of Wisconsin, a Linn-Mar graduate, joins Mike to offer his perspectives on going through the Final Four experience with the Badgers and playing for Bo Ryan. He also discusses his involvement with the National College Players Association, and his response to those who say scholarship athletes are amply compensated by their schools. You can subscribe to the Hlas Podcast on iTunes by clicking here

The Hlas Podcast's go-to guy for college basketball in Iowa is Mac McCausland. There's plenty of meat on the bone in this podcast with Mac, as we talk about Iowa and Iowa State's journeys this week into the NCAA tournament. Mac discusses what he saw sitting behind Iowa's bench during the Hawkeyes' Big Ten tournament loss to Northwestern last Thursday, and what he thinks has happened to the Hawkeyes. He also offers thoughts on Iowa State's Big 12 tournament-title march. And, of course, he looks at the prospects for success for both Iowa teams this week.You can subscribe to this podcast on iTunes by clicking here and Stitcher Radio by clicking here.

It’s Big Ten Tourney time, so this week’s guest on the Mike Hlas Podcast is a staple of Big Ten men’s basketball coverage. Stephen Bardo is an analyst on BTN and Fox Sports 1 college basketball telecasts. The former Illinois star joins me to talk about this week’s tourney in Indianapolis, who he thinks will [...]

Iowa Hawkeyes football strength and conditioning coach Chris Doyle is this week’s guest on the Mike Hlas Podcast. Chris (@coach_Doyle) talks about the work he does with Iowa football players, and what they have to do for themselves once they arrive at Iowa. He also discusses things in his areas of expertise that are of [...]

Dan Dakich, college basketball analyst for ESPN and radio sports talk show host at ESPN 1070 in Indianapolis, is on this week's Mike Hlas Podcast. Dakich will be ESPN's analyst for its Thursday telecast of the Iowa-Indiana game in Bloomington. He was the analyst for that network's telecast of last Saturday's Wisconsin-Iowa game in Iowa City. Here, he talks about why he called Iowa fans the whiniest in the Big Ten recently on Twitter and compares them to Kentucky and Indiana fans. He also discusses the Hawkeyes team, and Big Ten basketball in general.You can subscribe to this podcast on iTunes by clicking here and Stitcher Radio by clicking here.

How the NCAA tournament field is chosen, seeded and slotted is a mystery to many of us. Reid Forgrave of FoxSports.com was privy to the insides last week when he was part of the media group that participated in a mock tournament selection process in Indianapolis. Reid is this week’s guest on the Hlas Podcast. [...]

Acie Earl, Iowa basketball's No. 2 all-time leading scorer and all-time leading shot-blocker, guests on this week's Mike Hlas Podcast. Earl talks about his as written a book called "How to Play Overseas - 31 Rules Every Player Must Know to Make It Overseas." He played in a multitude of foreign countries after four seasons in the NBA. You can subscribe to this podcast on iTunes by clicking here and Stitcher Radio by clicking here. 

We're talking Big Ten basketball on the Mike Hlas Podcast with basketball analyst Jim Jackson of the Big Ten Network and Fox Sports One. Jim talks about whether or not he thinks Iowa can join Michigan and Michigan State in the league's championship race, why Ohio State and Wisconsin are staggering, and the 39-point performance he saw in person from Creighton's Doug McDermott Tuesday night. A disclaimer: There is an audio problem in the second half of the podcast. Apologies. We will work to prevent that from occurring again.You can subscribe to this podcast on iTunes by clicking here and Stitcher Radio by clicking here.

Big game, big podcast. Mark Snyder, who covers Michigan basketball for the Detroit Free Press, joins me to discuss the Wolverines and Wednesday night's Iowa-Michigan clash of ranked teams in Ann Arbor. Mark talks about how and why the Wolverines only got better after big man Mitch McGary left the lineup to have back surgery, and how Nik Stauskas has emerged as the team's leader.You can subscribe to this podcast on iTunes by clicking here and Stitcher Radio by clicking here.

This week's guest on the Mike Hlas Podcast is former Iowa men's basketball coach George Raveling, who was given the John Bunn Lifetime Achievement Award at the College Basketball Hall of Fame last month. Raveling coached at Iowa from 1983 to 1986, and took the Hawkeyes to two NCAA tournaments. He then left for a similar job at Southern California. In the podcast he says his biggest mistake in coaching was leaving Iowa. He talks about why he left Washington State to come to Iowa, how he feels about Iowa all these years later, and what he has gone to do in life. He also discusses what he feels constitutes a successful coach.You can subscribe to this podcast on iTunes by clicking here and Stitcher Radio by clicking here.

It’s one of the more-anticipated Iowa-Iowa State men’s basketball games in memory, so this week’s Mike Hlas Podcast discusses it and the two teams involved. Our guest is longtime college basketball television analyst Mac McCausland, and he stuffs this half-hour with interesting observations about the players and coaches of the two squads. You can subscribe [...]

There’s so much college football to chew on this week, that the Mike Hlas Podcast has brought in Jay Christensen, the creator of the college football website The Wiz of Odds, to try a 57-yard field goal with one second left. Actually, Jay is just talking about Iowa, Iowa State, the Big Ten, the BCS, [...]

Tom Shatel (@tomShatelOWH), the sports columnist of the Omaha World-Herald, guests on the Mike Hlas Podcast this week. Tom discusses Nebraska football, the speculation about Bo Pelini’s future or lack of it as the Cornhuskers’ coach, and Friday’s Iowa-Nebraska game. You can read his work here at Omaha.com. You can subscribe to my podcast on [...]

It’s Michigan-Iowa Week, and that’s the topic of this week’s Mike Hlas Podcast. Our guest is Angelique Chengelis (@Chengelis), who has covered Michigan football for the last two decades. She discusses the Wolverines’ triple-overtime win over Northwestern Saturday, why Michigan has had problems offensively its last three games, and how she sees this Michigan-Iowa game [...]

Former Iowa/NFL kicker Nate Kaeding joins the Mike Hlas Podcast this week to discuss issues raised from the Richie Incognito situation with the Miami Dolphins. Nate (@KaedingIowa) played the last two weeks of his 9-year NFL career with the Dolphins. He also talks about how he views how the media covers and public views pro [...]