White and Blue Review has started getting folks ready for the 2023-24 Creighton sports season on the Bluejay Beat podcast, exclusive for our Patreon subscribers. If you have not signed up already, now is a great time with several interviews posted up in the past couple of weeks and more to come as the school year gets underway.
Here’s what is new:
A conversation with Trey Alexander. Topics include
- NBA Draft Combine
- Unfinished business at Creighton
- Being a leader vocally and by example
- Deciding to continue on this path without Ryan Nembhard and Arthur Kaluma
- Taking on more of the point guard role, and more!
Matt DeMarinis is joined by fourth-year women’s hoops guard Lauren Jensen. Topics include:
- getting over the loss to Mississippi State
- winning the 2023 USA 3x Nationals
- the next phase of her development as a player
- what she does when she’s away from the game
- blending a love of competition with a love of basketball
- becoming a role model for the next generation of female athletes
- the growth of the game
We chat with 2024 verbal commit Ty Davis about what popped on his visit to Creighton, how he sees the game as a shooter, playmaker, and defender, and the dynamics of having two parents who were D1 hoopers.
Matt DeMarinis chats with Francisco Farabello about
- Growing up playing basketball in Argentina
- Playing for his home country, playing all over the world, the experience of the FIBA U18 Americas Championship and how it opened up the opportunities to play college basketball in the U.S.
- Also talked with him about how he stayed positive last season, how it felt in the arena when he helped put Baylor on ice in the second round, how knocking on the door of the Final Four has affected the team approach leading into next season.
- Other topics: tattoos, pizza, comic book movies, etc.