(A) A Soaring Season: The Incredible, Inspiring Story of the 2003-04 Saint Joseph’s Hawks

Longtime Philadelphia sports journalist Aaron Bracy is discussing his book A Soaring Season: The Incredible, Inspiring Story of the 2003-04 Saint Joseph’s Hawks. He will describe his exhaustive research, including more than 100 interviews with 90 people to recount how the Saint Joseph’s University Hawks, who were led by coach Phil Martelli and point guard Jameer Nelson, became the most unlikely and captivating story in college basketball in the 2003–04 season. With an underrecruited team, an underfunded program, housed in underwhelming facilities, everything about this mom-and-pop operation felt small-time—everything, that is, except the team, which rose to be unanimously ranked No. 1 in the country after finishing 27-0 in the regular season.