Sean Farnham with Joe Z 11-22-22

Hurricanes Weekly

Sean Farnham joined ESPN in 2010 as a college basketball analyst. He works as both a game and studio analyst and contributes to SportsCenter and other ESPN shows regularly.

In 2008, Farnham began working for CBS College Sports as a basketball analyst covering the Mountain West Conference, Atlantic-10, and Conference USA.

Farnham co-hosted the afternoon drive show with Chris Meyers on Fox Sports Radio. He originally began with the network in 2004 as their lead college basketball analyst and weekend host. Farnham started his radio career in 2003 with ESPN 710 Los Angeles, where he hosted postgame shows on the Lakers, UCLA and USC and also filled in on weekday programming.

Starting in the fall of 2001 Farnham worked at Fox Sports Net/West covering everything from the Pac-10, Big West, and WCC basketball, as well as NBA, MLB, and college football. During his ten-year run at Fox Sports Net, he won two Los Angeles-based Emmys.

After graduating from UCLA, Farnham was an assistant coach at Pepperdine University under the guidance of Jan van Breda Kolff. The Waves finished with a 22-9 record and advanced to the NIT second round.

Farnham was a student-athlete at UCLA where he was a freshman on the 1997 Pac-10 Championship team that advanced to the NCAA Elite Eight. He was named UCLA’s Freshman of the Year in 1997, Most Improved Player in 1999 and was the 1999-2000 co-captain with Earl Watson. In his final two seasons at UCLA, the Bruins were 16-2 in games Farnham started (14-0 in the regular season, both losses came in the NCAA Championship). Farnham was also the Chairman of the Bruins Athletic Council, and represented UCLA at the Pac-10 leadership forum both of his final two years on campus.

Farnham graduated from UCLA in 2000 with a bachelors degree in history. He played high school basketball at De La Salle, the same high school as ESPN’s NBA analyst Jon Barry, in Concord, Calif. Farnham was the first to lead the Spartans to the California State Championship.

During the summer of 2011 Farnham developed a non-profit charity, Hoops from Home, which provides basketball camps and academic scholarships to service member’s children.