Milligan University
Located in the beautiful mountains of Northeast Tennessee, Milligan University is a premier Christian liberal arts institution with a distinctively different approach to higher education. Since its founding in 1866, Milligan’s mission has been to educate men and women as servant-leaders in a variety of careers. Milligan’s 1,200 students come from 35 states and 15 nations, and together they create a close-knit campus community that offers a strong sense of place and purpose. The university actively integrates high quality academic programs with biblical faith and a service-oriented philosophy to prepare students in more than 100 majors, minors, pre-professional degrees and concentrations in a variety of fields, along with graduate and adult degree completion programs. Nearly 100 percent of Milligan graduates are employed or in graduate school within one year of graduation. Frequently recognized for quality and value, Milligan ranks among the best regional universities in the South by U.S. News and World Report and one of Washington Monthly’s top master’s universities in the nation. Milligan also is recognized as a Military Friendly school by Victory Media and as a “Great College to Work For," according to a 2013 survey by The Chronicle of Higher Education. Milligan is grounded in a tradition of excellence in scholarship, an emphasis on community, and a dependence on faith. These principles are taught in the classroom and are a part of every facet of the Milligan experience—from the professors who model lives of service and learning to the lifelong friendships that form #BuffNation. Students come to Milligan to study, but they become part of something much bigger—a place where they can grow in scholarship, community, and faith.www.milligan.edu
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Oct 22, 2026
Isaac SchadeHOST
Hey there, what's up? Welcome into the Locked on Tar Heels podcast.
Isaac SchadeHOST
I am your host, Isaac Shea, joined today by our good brother, Coach Bill Robinson, the head coach of the Milligan University Buffaloes.
Isaac SchadeHOST
They got a game today.
Isaac SchadeHOST
That's wild.
Joel WentzHOST
Previously, he served as senior news editor for Christianity Today.
Joel WentzHOST
He holds a doctorate in American studies, and has taught US history and humanities courses at Heidelberg University, Valparaiso University, and Milligan University.
Joel WentzHOST
And directly relevant to our conversation today, Daniel is the author of Reading Evangelicals, or Reading Evangelicals, [laughs] however you pronounce that.
Joel WentzHOST
Uh, that was published by Eerdmans in 2021, and I believe isn't a paperback coming out? Maybe it came out last year in 2025?
Isaac SchadeHOST
[upbeat music] Hey, what's up? Welcome into the Locked On Tar Heels podcast.
Isaac SchadeHOST
I'm your host, Isaac Shane, joined by our good buddy, Coach Bill Robinson, the head coach of the Milligan University Buffaloes, and an over two-decade veteran of Carolina Basketball School.
Isaac SchadeHOST
That's Carolina Summer Basketball Camp.
Isaac SchadeHOST
My man has written a book all about it, Carolina Basketball School: History, Stories, Drills.
Logan HulletteGUEST
Couple surgeries later, um, bounce back.
Logan HulletteGUEST
I go to Milligan College in NAIA, which is local here, you know, or a- basically Johnson City, Tennessee, Elizabeth, Beth, and right in the middle there.
Logan HulletteGUEST
Um, my recruiting coordinator here at the time, Skyler Barnett, when I was here, actually took the head coaching job there.
Logan HulletteGUEST
We'd been tight.
Logan HulletteGUEST
Like, everybody's joining and you don't know what you're gonna do.
Logan HulletteGUEST
Like, you know, do you take a preferred walk-on at that time or you take 25%? It was just, you know, it was a mess.
Logan HulletteGUEST
So go to Milligan.
Logan HulletteGUEST
Um, things are going well.
Tony AlamoHOST
Well, Joshua fit the battle of Jericho, and the walls came a-tumbling down.
Tony AlamoHOST
You may talk about your Milligan.
Tony AlamoHOST
You may brag about the Minnesota.
Tony AlamoHOST
But there's none like Joshua at the battle of Jericho.
Tony AlamoHOST
Of Jericho, of Jericho.
Tony AlamoHOST
Well, Joshua fit the battle of Jericho, and the walls came a-tumbling down.
Tony AlamoHOST
You may talk about your Milligan.
Tony AlamoHOST
You may brag about the King of Saul.
Billy BerryGUEST
You had to wait your turn to get in and, But when I did, man, it was guys like Willie Bosk, who had coached here at Wesleyan, played at Miami.
Billy BerryGUEST
Danny Clark, who has been with the Rangers as a pitcher coordinator and was a coach at Milligan.
Billy BerryGUEST
And Butch Chaffin, who is now the head coach at Baylor, which I'm so excited for him about.
Billy BerryGUEST
And you had Tom Griffin, who's the head coach at Carson Newman.
Billy BerryGUEST
Skylar Barnett, who's the head coach at Milligan, is in there now.
Billy BerryGUEST
Brian Bridges, who, you know, we've got Scott and Mark Conner.
Billy BerryGUEST
We've got Scott and directors in that thing.
Erika B HessHOST
He later received two national endowment for the arts individual fellowships.
Erika B HessHOST
Nick taught art at Milligan College in Tennessee for more than 30 years, from 1991 until his retirement in 2022.
Erika B HessHOST
He currently lives in Johnson City, Tennessee.
Erika B HessHOST
His work is represented by PDX Contemporary Art in Portland, Oregon, where he is preparing for another solo exhibition in September of 2027.
Dehara ThompsonGUEST
And then I had other, you know, goals and aspirations for a scholarship to go to school, which I did the following year.
Dehara ThompsonGUEST
I went to Milligan University.
Dehara ThompsonGUEST
And then from there, that's where I kind of worked up to.
Dehara ThompsonGUEST
I went to Milligan, came home after one year.
MattHOST
I was able to do stuff like I'd never been able to do.
MattHOST
Not even that, but also do undergrad classes with Milligan University.
MattHOST
Shout out to Milligan.
MattHOST
Yeah.
Mike PfeifferHOST
Oh, wow.
Matt BossGUEST
Right behind Milligan.
Matt BossGUEST
Taylor, the defending champion, has some injuries.
Matt BossGUEST
They were the number one, and they have dropped off considerably.
Matt BossGUEST
So it's Milligan, and then Dort got several first-place votes.
Matt BossGUEST
They're on the verge of maybe a top ranking.
Mike PfeifferHOST
The, well, that'd be not unwarranted, but yeah, that team has depth and it's an exciting time.
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