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This week, Canadian singer-songwriter and dancer Tate McRae debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with her album So Close to What, knocking Drake from the top spot.

(Photo credit: The Associated Press)ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Gregg Marshall, whose Wichita State team was the first to reach the NCAA tournament undefeated in 33 years, has been selected as The Associated Press's coach of the year. As KPR's Greg Echlin reports, Marshall receved the award yesterday (THUR) at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.00000184-7fa8-d6f8-a1cf-7fac83370000The Shockers entered the tournament at 34-0 and as a number 1 seed. They became the first team in NCAA men's history to win its first 35 games. They lost to Kentucky in the third round and fell short of matching Indiana in 1976 as the last unbeaten national champion. Marshall led the Shockers to a number 2 ranking in the final poll and to the Missouri Valley Conference regular-season and tournament titles. For the fifth straight season, the Shockers won at least 25 games. Marshall received 44 votes Thursday from the same 65-member national media panel that selects the weekly Top 25. Tony Bennett of Virginia had 13 votes, Billy Donovan of Florida drew six and John Beilein of Michigan and Larry Brown of SMU one each. Voting ended on Selection Sunday.

This weekend features three top-10 matchups, the most ever for an opening weekend in college football history. And Arch Manning, the most hyped player of a generation, will start for the first time.

Reshma Saujani is on a mission to close the gender gap in technology. She is the founder of Girls Who Code, a national non-profit organization with chapters in all 50 states. On this edition of Conversations, she joins me to talk about her organization and two new books for girls, Girls Who Code: Learn to Code and Change the World, and the novel The Friendship Code #1.00000184-7fa9-d6f8-a1cf-7fad023d0002

Sascha Groschang's and Laurel Morgan's Kansas City duo, The Wires, has a new CD and music book out! Check out WINTER with THE WIRES for some excellent arrangements of carols for violin and cello, plus a few originals.

Violist Ilkhom Mukhiddinov and pianist Ilya Shmukler performed in the Kansas Public Radio Live Performance Studio.

Cellist Sascha Groschang and violinist Laurel Morgan Parks played in the Kansas Public Radio Live Performance Studio. This classical duo will bring us their latest originals inspired by local art.

Bob Bowman, a leading light in KC jazz for decades (and once the bassist in the esteemed Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Big Band in New York City), now lives in…

Guitarist Rod Fleeman has been a mainstay of the Kansas City jazz scene for decades. He joins Bob McWilliams in the KPR Live Performance Studio for a session of solo guitar and conversation about his career in music.

A new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll shows that Americans' support for President-elect Donald Trump's top priorities is split, despite his claims of a mandate for his agenda.