Rams Rewind

Rams Rewind

Rams Rewind is an unofficial VCU Men's Basketball podcast. After every game, host George Templeton breaks down the action, and gives his thoughts on how the team is playing. George worked for 10 years as a sports reporter for the Richmond Times-Dispatch, and before that for VCU's Commonwealth Times. During his time as a reporter, he covered all manner of sports around Richmond and Virginia. His views come from thousands of hours of watching games and talking to men's and women's basketball coaches. Listen here or on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Sticher, TuneIn, and elsewhere!

Episodes

October 8, 2025 34 mins

George sits down with VCU great Ed Nixon to talk about VCU's A10 schedule for the 2025-26 season.

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In this all new Rams Rewind, George has a great conversation with friend-of-the-pod Rocco Miller from Bracketeer about the non-conference schedules for VCU and the rest of the A10.

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August 26, 2025 14 mins

In this final newcomer episode for 2025, George chats with Toyloy Brown III from The Advocate newspaper about LSU transfer junior Tyrell Ward.  

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August 12, 2025 16 mins

We're coming toward the end of our newcomers series! In this penultimate edition, George talks with Ben Cribbs from Hamilton Heights Christian Academy, who coached Villanova transfer Jordann Dumont for two years.

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July 29, 2025 20 mins

As we make our way through the 2025 Newcomer Roundup, we make our way to Lazar Djokovic, a big man transfer from College of Charleston.  George talks with Andrew Miller from the Charleston Post and Courier all about him!

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July 15, 2025 24 mins

In this latest in our Newcomer series, George talks with Peter Bruchea of the Hawk Talk Podcast (@HawkTalkSJU on Twitter) about transfer Jadrian Tracey.

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July 1, 2025 21 mins

In this latest in our Newcomers Roundup series, George talks with Mark Zanetto from http://bigeastenergy.com about UConn transfer guard Ahmad Nowell.

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In the latest from our newcomers series, George talks with Nathan Mook from Rhody Vault about Barry Evans and Keyshawn Mitchell, who followed new VCU Head Coach Phil Martelli, Jr. from Bryant.

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June 3, 2025 17 mins

In the second of our 2025 Newcomer Roundup series, George talks with IMG Academy postgraduate coach Jim Carr about incoming freshman Jordan Tillery.

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May 19, 2025 23 mins

In the first in this off-season's "Newcomer Roundup" series, George Templeton chats with Gonzaga College High School boy's basketball coach Steve Turner about incoming freshman Nyk Lewis.

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George Templeton sits down once again with Richmond Times-Dispatch Deputy Sports Editor and VCU sports beat reporter Zach Joachim, this time to run down the entire 2025-26 roster player by player.  Zach also gives his take on why guard Zeb Jackson may not be returning for another year.

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In this (very) special offseason episode, George Templeton sits down with new VCU Head Coach Phil Martelli, Jr. to talk about how he got to VCU, the style of play we can expect from his teams, and the style of player he's looking for.  

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March 27, 2025 24 mins

Producer Steve Mullen was able to gain media access to the introductory press conference for new Head Coach Phil Martelli, Jr.  In this episode, he runs through some of the comments from the announcement itself, but also provides some audio from the press availability after the podium show.  

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George Templeton sits down for a fantastic conversation with VCU great and sometimes TV color commentator Ed Nixon to talk about the past of the program, the present of the program (including our recent coaching search), and where he thinks the program is going.  

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March 20, 2025 42 mins

Well that was ugly. VCU falls by 9 to BYU in the first round of the NCAA tournament.  

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March 18, 2025 25 mins

With VCU safely in the Big Dance, George Templeton sits down with Jake Hatch from Locked On Cougars podcast to talk all about first round opponent BYU.  

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March 17, 2025 45 mins

VCU takes down GMU in the A10 Title Game, and is headed to Denver to play BYU in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.  George Templeton sat down for an early morning talk with Zach Joachim from the Richmond Times-Dispatch to talk about the championship game and preview the first round of the NCAAs.

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VCU clamped down on Loyola-Chicago in the final five minutes to walk away a seven point winner and advance once again to the A10 Title Game!  George Templeton was in the Cap One Arena and has his thoughts on the match.

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VCU smacks down SBU, winning by 17 in the quarterfinals of the A10 tournament.  George Templeton was in the arena and provides his recap!

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March 12, 2025 53 mins

George Templeton chats with Tyler Cronin from 3 Bid League podcast about all things A10 Tournament.  

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