This week, Stephen Shepherd and his guest Matthew Gutierrez, a Syracuse University junior dual major in newspaper and online journalism and finance and a men’s basketball beat writer for The Daily Orange, discuss basketball science in honor of March Madness, including physics of the ball and court, exercises, muscles, sweat and sports psychology.

In The D.O.’s biweekly science podcast, Orange STEM, Stephen Shepherd, a Syracuse University graduate student studying chemistry and forensic science, explores science topics with guests relating to science news affecting the university and nearby areas.

Links:

• Current state of SU men’s basketball
• Current state of SU women’s basketball
• How a basketball is made
• Application of Newton’s Laws in basketball
• The science of sweat
• An overview of crowd/mob/group psychology