Episode number 1! For our first podcast, Eric’s guest is men’s basketball head coach Scott Pera. Before the interview is the score and news report on all things Owls (0:53). In the interview with Coach Pera, we discuss how he first fell in love with the game/how he knew he wanted to coach (3:40), his success in Pennsylvania high school basketball and first state championship (6:28), moving to Southern California, coaching James Harden, and second state championship (9:18), transitioning from high school to college and the Arizona State days (14:39), recruiting differently at an ivy league school (18:02), coming to rice with Coach Mike Rhodes and his years as the associate head coach (19:14), getting his first head coaching gig, his vision for the program, and having former players on his staff (23:26), and rapid fire questions (27:48).

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