This week on The IX Sports Podcast College Basketball edition, hosts Melissa Triebwasser and Michael Waterloo sit down with sports reporter Talia Goodman.
Goodman is the women’s college basketball reporter for On3, but before that, she worked as a reporter at The IX Sports. Goodman’s father is a co-founder of the men’s basketball digital media network The Field of 68, and she said that fact initially discouraged her from covering the sport.
Growing up, Goodman said, she was a “theater kid.” Later, she said, what she learned there helped her becoming a good interviewer and relationship builder, skills she honed when she was assigned to cover the Indiana University’s women’s basketball team.
At On3, Goodman has become known for breaking transfer portal news. One of her first big breaks, she said, was when she confirmed that Hailey Van Lith was transferring from Louisiana State University to Texas Christian University.
But Goodman said her spot in the space has not come without some ups and downs.
“I think the men’s game has had, you know, people breaking news, people covering the game the way I do for a long time, and the women’s game hasn’t had a lot of that at the college level, at least, and so there are a lot of people that have really embraced it and love it and see a need for it, and there are still some people that aren’t and are stuck in the way of, you know, not really understanding the point,” Goodman said.
After hearing more from Talia about her personal journey to sports reporting, Waterloo and Triebwasser asked Goodman for some of her takes on this season’s transfer portal, which featured moves by some of college basketball’s biggest names like Audi Crooks, who transferred from Iowa State to Oklahoma State.
Goodman also talks about her preseason Top 25 rankings — including one she has a bit of regret about. Tune in to hear which teams made the cut — and which didn’t (but maybe should have).
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