The college basketball season is about to hit full swing. A lot of the attention in Iowa is on the Hawkeyes and the Cyclones and where they might fall in the top 25. But, lucky for us, we also have two top-tier Missouri Valley Conference teams in the state. Almost every February, there is talk about how many of our big 4 teams can get into the tourney and who can make a run. This week we welcome one of the best Drake Bulldogs to ever put on the uniform, Reed Timmer. Timmer’s career included many records, and he was part of the transition from a few rough years into the upshot that Drake has been on for the last several seasons.

Part of being a role player is doing the things just off of center stage. Facilitating, supporting, and generally making sure the show goes on without a hitch. Sometimes you don’t even know a good role player’s name but you can’t miss their impact. And the best type of referee is the one you see all of the time but you may not be sure of their name. Steve Javie’s career spanned the end of Dr. J’s career, the start of Michael Jordan’s, some of the peak years of Magic Johnson and Larry Bird, the rise of Kobe Bryant and Lebron James, and so many more legends.

This week the Moonlight Graham Show puts our own spin on the GOAT conversation. Tim welcomes Moonlighters Jack Brownlee and Sean O’Hare to the studio to combine their wealth of Iowa boys' high school knowledge to create an 8 team bracket of the greatest teams from all classes and across time periods.

Most Moonlighters are proud to look back on their career as reaching their alma mater’s hall of fame as a sign of some of their top achievements. This week though, our guest was really just getting started when he finished his amateur career. Klay Rowe followed up an All-American caliber career at Iowa Central and Bellevue University by becoming a national champion.

Season 11 might just be the best season of the Moonlight Graham Show yet. It starts out with an absolute splash of a guest in JJ Redick. The 15 year NBA vet has made a career as a sharpshooting role player on playoff-caliber teams. In addition to being one of the best shooters in NBA history, Redick has built a brand in the podcast world. What better way to kickoff Season 11 than with the best of both the sports and podcasting worlds?

The Bohannon name is synonymous with basketball. The four Bohannon brothers know how to put the biscuit in the basket. This week, we have the second oldest and perhaps the most multi-talented of the crew on the podcast this week. Zach Bohannon had a terrific basketball career for the Wisconsin Badgers and Linn Mar Lions before hanging up his sneakers and becoming a professional fan for his Hawkeye brother Jordan.

While it might be a little different than Sunset Park and Hoosiers, Iowa certainly has more than a few white men that can jump coming out of Iowa hoops. This week Moonlighter Jack Brownlee returns to the studio to help Tim come up with the all-time Iowa NBA team. Some of the greats, like Kyle Korver, Fred Hoiberg and Nick Collison, quickly come to mind but the research required some deep dives. Tim and Jack had to put on their wannabe GM hats to make some tough choices when putting together the official Moonlight all-time Iowa NBA list.

This week, our Moonlighter has a basketball career that has taken him from Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, around the world, and back again. Travis Diener grew up in Wisconsin and went to Marquette University where he and the Golden Eagles went all the way to the Final Four. For most, taking your home-state college to the Final Four would be a great ending to a Cinderella story. But for this Moonlighter, that was just another step in his journey. Travis Diener has played professional basketball for more than a decade between the NBA and Europe, but one of the biggest shots of his career came in a nearly empty arena.