Giving Voice to the Women’s Program
(St. Louis, MO) – Hunter Phillips has one of the best jobs in America. The Drake University graduate is the radio play-by-play voice of the Drake Bulldogs women’s basketball team. This edition of Bulldog hoops is a very good one. Phillips is giving voice to this outstanding program.
Drake is 16-5 and 9-1 in the Missouri Valley Conference. The team is filled with talent, has an outstanding coach and are growing into a team with serious postseason aspirations. Player of the year candidate Katie Dinnebier is the headliner, but Grace Berg and others can take up that mantle at any time and just last week, coach Allison Pohlman picked up a mid-season reinforcement.
Former Valley ‘Newcomer of the Year’ Megan Meyer ‘came out of retirement’ to play one final semester of college basketball. The old adage about ‘the rich getting richer’ couldn’t be more true.
Phillips on the Bulldogs
In addition to his game responsibilities Phillips also hosts coaches’ shows and the ‘Be Blue Podcast’. His passion for Bulldog women’s basketball is contagious and he loves the Valley. Here is our conversation with Hunter Phillips.
Missouri Valley teams have just reached the halfway point of the season and the Bulldogs are tied with Belmont for the league’s top spot. After this Thursday’s game with Bradley, the Bulldogs have a Saturday date with Illinois State. The Redbirds (14-6, 7-3) dealt Drake its only conference loss of the season and tied Belmont for last season’s league title.
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I haven't heard, nor do I know, how does this apply to the typical 'foreign' basketball player that is most often over 19?
Obviously, this is a sentimental and not a ‘spreadsheet’ notion, but would hate to see @MVCsports change the #ArchMadness format from the traditional ‘family reunion’ feel by cutting teams from the experience. #FatherHarry
Another nice @MVCsports basketball schedule announcement. #FatherHarry . .
Congrats to @ISURedbirdGolf. T.J. Barger sets a school record. Pietro Pontiggia records the Redbirds' second-ever top 20 finish at a regional. The team finishes tent in the region which is tied for the program's best regional finish! #FatherHarry
