During the college-basketball season, he is the lead game analyst for
ESPNRadio, and occasionally for ESPNU. When not doing those games, Valvano is the color analyst for
University of Louisville men's basketball games on radio 93.9 The Ville. Valvano began his coaching career at
Hofstra University in
Hempstead, New York where he was an assistant to head coach Dick Berg for three years. Then he took over the head coaching position at
Division II Kutztown in
Kutztown, Pennsylvania. After a year in Sweden, he returned to take the head coaching position at Division III
Catholic University of America in
Washington, D.C., where his third team there had the first 20-win season in school history, (20–6), and set 6 NCAA records for 3-point shooting. Valvano then went to
St. Mary's College of Maryland in
St Mary's, where his team had the school's first winning season ever playing at the NCAA level in 1994. In 1994, Valvano took the head coaching job at
Bellarmine University in Louisville, where his teams improved for four straight years, culminating in back-to-back winning seasons (16–11, 17–10) his last two seasons. ==Radio==