A Soaring Season: Reliving St. Joe’s 2003-04 Elite 8 Run with Aaron Bracy

Daly Dose of Hoops is adding Philadelphia and the Big 5 to its regional footprint this fall, so the Daly Dose of Hoops Podcast returns from a five-month hiatus with an appropriate opener to its sixth season.

Host Jaden Daly returns to the microphone with a look back at one of Philly basketball’s greatest teams, the 2003-04 Saint Joseph’s team that came within two points of a Final Four after an undefeated regular season. Joining him to relive St. Joe’s magical campaign is Aaron Bracy, the veteran Philadelphia basketball scribe who chronicled the Hawks in his new book, A Soaring Season: The Incredible, Inspiring Story of the 2003-04 Saint Joseph’s Hawks. Together, Jaden and Aaron discuss the book and its planning process, some of the creative inspirations behind it, and recount some of the high points achieved by a group whose impact is still felt in the City of Brotherly Love over two decades later.

A Soaring Season, published on March 1, 2025, is available now wherever books are sold.