The Victory Bell: The Podcast – Détails, épisodes et analyse

It’s Christmas morning at The Victory Bell as the annual Valparaiso men’s basketball Over/Under podcast is here!

TVB founder Paul Oren is joined by The Voice of Valparaiso Athletics, Todd Ickow, to discuss a series of metrics surrounding the upcoming men’s basketball season.

How many assists will Darius DeAveiro have this season? Will Cooper Schwieger take a big jump in his sophomore season? How many wins Valley wins will Valpo collect this year?

All these topics and more are discussed in the return of The Victory Bell: The Podcast!

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Host: Paul Oren

Guest: Todd Ickow

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Valparaiso’s 2023-24 season started with a trip to the NCAA tournament and ended with a national championship. If only everything in the middle had been so fruitful.

The Voice of Valparaiso Athletics, Todd Ickow, joins the pod to discuss the previous 10 months with The Victory Bell editor Paul Oren. The pair attempt to navigate what went right and what went wrong for Valparaiso during the 2023-24 campaign.

The pair end the pod discussing Name, Image and Likeness and how NIL is massively shifting the college athletics landscape, particularly for mid-major programs.

Host: Paul Oren

Guest: Todd Ickow

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The latest episode of The Victory Bell: The Podcast involves a little cross-promotion as Olivia Brown and Olivia Sims, two members of the Valparaiso women’s basketball team, join the show to discuss their own podcast, Liv Off Court.

Brown and Sims share some of their experiences as student-athletes who balance live on and off the court.

In addition to featuring Liv Off Court, TVB host Paul Oren discusses the challenges in covering recruiting at the mid-major level, especially as it pertains to the Valparaiso men’s basketball program.

Host: Paul Oren

Guests: Olivia Brown, Olivia Sims

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Longtime Valparaiso coach Luke Gore joined The Victory Bell: The Podcast to look back on the last 21 years as a member of the men’s basketball program.

Gore shares some of his favorite memories while talking through the emotions of the last month. Gore ends the podcast by announcing where he’s headed next.

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(Photo provided by Lachlan Streeter)

Host: Paul Oren

Guest: Luke Gore

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Roger Powell is coming back to Valparaiso.

In the latest episode of The Victory Bell: The Podcast, host Paul Oren goes inside the reporting of Powell’s hiring as the new Valparaiso men’s basketball coach and shares the agony of getting beat on the story by a college football reporter.

TVB: The Podcast is free to all listeners. There will be plenty of stories coming in the days to come and this is a reminder that The Victory Bell is $5/month or $49.99 for the entire year.

Host: Paul Oren

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Florida Atlantic play-by-play announcer and Valparaiso graduate Ken LaVicka (‘06) joins The Victory Bell: The Podcast to discuss FAU’s dream run to the Final Four.

LaVicka shares stories of cutting his broadcast teeth at WVUR and how those experiences helped prepare him for when his broadcast dropped with 18.6 seconds left in last weekend’s Elite Eight game against Kansas State.

LaVicka and FAU isn’t the only story taking place at the Final Four this weekend. Valparaiso has an opening atop the men’s basketball program and athletic director Charles Small will be in Houston taking meetings and leading interviews. TVB host Paul Oren touches on Small and Lottich as well as the news that Ben Krikke has hit the portal.

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Host: Paul Oren

Guest: Ken LaVicka

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March 13, 1998.

If you’re a Valparaiso fan of a certain age, you remember exactly where you were the moment Bryce Drew hit “The Shot.” This year marks 25 years since that magical moment and The Victory Bell: The Podcast is celebrating by sharing a throwback episode of Union Street Hoops.

In 2018, Union Street Hoops host Paul Oren was joined by former Northwest Indiana Times reporters Sean Hayden and Paul Jankowski as well as The Voice of Valparaiso, Todd Ickow for a media roundtable discussion looking back on the 20th anniversary of The Shot.

There are great stories that take you behind the scenes of one of the most celebrated moments in Valparaiso history. Enjoy this look back at the look back.

Host: Paul Oren

Guests: Sean Hayden, Todd Ickow, Paul Jankowski

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Todd Ickow, the Voice of Valparaiso Athletics, joins The Victory Bell: The Podcast to discuss Arch Madness as well as Ben Krikke’s place in Valparaiso history.

Ickow and host Paul Oren recorded a portion of this episode while driving to St. Louis on Wednesday morning. There were no traffic accidents, despite what it might sound like during the pod.

Oren also spends the beginning of the pod discussing his Missouri Valley Conference All-League ballot. The conference awards will be announced on Wednesday night.

Host: Paul Oren

Guest: Todd Ickow

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The Valparaiso men’s basketball team came oh-so-close to knocking off first-place Drake at the Athletics-Recreation Center on Feb. 4. Former Valpo player Trevor Anderson joins the pod to analyze the final minutes of regulation and some key plays from double overtime.

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Host: Paul Oren

Guest: Trevor Anderson

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(Photo by Eliot Aust)

It’s National Signing Day and The Victory Bell: The Podcast is here with an episode breaking down Valparaiso’s recruiting class. Valpo Hall of Fame offensive lineman and current ESPN color commentator Tom Byrne joins the pod along with former defensive lineman Nick Scoville. Scoville has been all over Valparaiso’s recruiting efforts with his work on Twitter.

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Host: Paul Oren

Guests: Tom Byrne and Nick Scoville

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