May 16, 2003
The University of San Diego and Premier Sports Productions have continued their agreement to broadcast all home and away USD men's basketball games for the 2003-2004 basketball season. Premier Sports Productions is currently in negotiations with local radio stations for the right to air these broadcasts.
For the fifth straight season, Jerry Gross will call the play-by-play for the Toreros, while Jim Brogan will be onboard again as the color analyst. The past four seasons USD basketball games have aired on KCBQ 1170 AM.
"We are very pleased to continue our relationship with Premier Sports Productions, and with the broadcast team of Jerry Gross and Jim Brogan," said Tom Iannacone, USD Director of Athletics.
Gross, currently the Sports Director for KCBQ 1170 AM, has local and national credits: a former KFMB-TV Channel 8 Sports Director; the first Padres Radio/TV announcer; the original "Voice of the Rockets & Clippers"; he also announced for the Chargers, USIU, USC, SDSU, plus freelance work with the Golden State Warriors and Indiana Pacers on radio. He was also play-by-play broadcaster with ABC-TV and CBS-TV for eight seasons on the NBA Game of the Week, the St. Louis Cardinals in baseball, the Hawks in basketball, and co-hosted talks shows with Joe Namath, Pete Rose and Lou Brock. Currently, his weekly talk show airs each Saturday at 5:00 p.m. on KCBQ-AM 1170.
Brogan is a veteran broadcaster having worked on local TV with NCAA games the past few years, in addition to his color credits on the Torero home games on KCBQ. Jim starred in college as a starter at West Virginia Wesleyan, and played in the NBA for the San Diego Clippers, Golden State Warriors and the Milwaukee Bucks. He is President of Jim Brogan, Inc. where his company's 10 Steps To Success is an exciting new approach to teaching and motivating children ages 9-16 to choose success now and throughout their lives. He also travels across the U.S. as a keynote speaker to corporations, companies and businesses talking about his program and how it can help give today's youth the proper tools to make them successful and future leaders.
The USD men's basketball team, under the direction of 9th-year coach Brad Holland, is coming off a 18-12 record that saw the team win the WCC Tournament Championship and advance to the NCAA Tournament. Over the past five seasons the Toreros have averaged 18 wins under Holland. Next season the Toreros return six scholarship players led by junior forward Corey Belser and sophomore forward/center Nick Lewis.
