RIO GRANDE VALLEY – The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) Department of Intercollegiate Athletics announced on Monday that the UTRGV Basketball Preview Special will air on Sunday at 12:30 p.m. on KRGV channel 5.
The show features interviews with men’s basketball head coach Matt Figger and women’s basketball head coach Lane Lord as they look ahead to the 2022-23 season that starts the next day.
The show is hosted by UTRGV Senior Associate Athletic Director for Communications & Championships Jonah Goldberg, who is in his third season hosting UTRGV Athletics shows on KRGV and his 14th season (13th consecutively) as the play-by-play broadcaster for UTRGV Athletics.
Goldberg conducts the interview with Figger while Lord’s interview is taken from this week’s episode of the Saddle Up Podcast, hosted by men’s basketball alumni Matt Palmquist (’00) and Gonzalo “G” Garza (’98).
The UTRGV Basketball Preview Special will be simulcast on the KRGV Sports Facebook page and then re-air on Monday, Nov. 6 at 8 p.m. and Saturday, Nov. 11 at 11 a.m. on Somos El Valle channel 5.3 (cable 1241).
The show will also be available on the UTRGV Athletics YouTube Channel after the initial televised airing.
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Future specials are scheduled for Jan. 14 at 11 a.m., Feb. 11 at 11 a.m., Feb. 18 at 11 a.m., and April 14 at 11 a.m. on KRGV channel 5.
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