{"id":945369,"date":"2026-10-29T16:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T16:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/945369\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T16:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T16:56:09","slug":"redbird-buzz-full-court-vision-from-redbird-basketballs-coach-pedon-and-coach-gillespie-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/945369\/","title":{"rendered":"Redbird Buzz: Full-court vision from Redbird basketball\u2019s Coach Pedon and Coach Gillespie &#8211; News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ahead of the 2026-27 Illinois State basketball seasons, men\u2019shead coach Ryan Pedon and women\u2019s head coach Kristen Gillespie discuss their basketball backgrounds, their coaching philosophies, and what fans can expect from their respective teams this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The men\u2019s team, led by Pedon in his fifth season, was selected No. 2 in the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) preseason poll after advancing to the NIT semifinals for the first time in program history last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The women\u2019s team, led by Gillespie in her 10th season, was also selected No. 2 in the MVC preseason poll after advancing to the WNIT championship game for the first time ever last season.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Redbird Buzz\u00a0is available on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/2veyEGU37nZIMelHjA9x34\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spotify<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/redbird-buzz\/id1617159646\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>,\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/music.amazon.com\/podcasts\/3f400c84-117a-490e-a153-67f5ff67f24d\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon Music<\/a>. Transcripts of each episode are available at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/universitymarketing.illinoisstate.edu\/podcast\/index.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UniversityMarketing.IllinoisState.edu\/Podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahead of the 2026-27 Illinois State basketball seasons, men\u2019shead coach Ryan Pedon and women\u2019s head coach Kristen Gillespie&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":945370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-945369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=945369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/945370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}