***This is the first 10 minutes of Yes We Jans, full episode available in link at the bottom of this description***

Chris Jans, 56, is the head men’s basketball coach at Mississippi State University. A native of Fairbank, Iowa and a graduate of Loras College, Jans is set to begin his fourth season in Starkville next month. He's taken the Bulldogs to the NCAA tournament in all three of his seasons at the helm, an especially impressive feat considering that between 2009 and his arrival in 2022-2023 the program had reached the Big Dance just twice. Prior to landing the SEC job, Jans led New Mexico State for five spectacularly impressive seasons in the WAC. His early career includes stings throughout the junior college landscape as well as some D1 assistant stops, most notably under Greg Marshall during Wichita State's historic run of the late aughts and early 2010's.

He joined the show from his office in Starkville for a wide-ranging conversation that touched on his early days trying to break into the business, how a single mistake during a brief stint as Bowling Green's head coach altered the trajectory of his life and career, and why he still loves coaching all these years later.

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