01/09: Explaining why Zion Williamson is, no exaggeration, tracking to be the best freshman in Duke history
Eye On College Basketball
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🗓️ 9 January 2019
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Zion Williamson finished with 30 points, 10 rebounds and five assists in Tuesday's 87-65 win at Wake Forest. So he's now the first freshman in Duke history to hit each of those numbers in the same game. Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander open on that. And then it's to Tennessee (7:17), UNC's win over NC State (13:23) in addition to the possibility the Tar Heels finish atop the ACC. As for Nova (21:07), is it going to win the Big East in the same season it lost to Furman and Penn? The guys wrap (29:01) talking Wednesday night's schedule" No. 11 Auburn at Ole Miss, No. 17 Houston at Temple and No. 21 Marquette at Creighton. Which ranked team will get picked off on the road?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's Gary Pertian's Wednesday January 9th, 2019. Welcome back to the Ion College |
| 0:12.3 | basketball podcast. Matt Norlander is here with me and it was a pretty fun Tuesday night |
| 0:17.0 | in college basketball. Texas Tech and Oklahoma played a tight game. Texas Tech won but Oklahoma |
| 0:21.5 | competed. North Carolina upset NC State in Raleigh. South Carolina upset Mississippi State |
| 0:26.9 | in Columbia. Shouts to the homey Devon Downey Baylor. Upset Iowa State in Waco. Shouts |
| 0:32.6 | to the legendary Teegle. Villanova moved to three and only the big east with a win over |
| 0:36.5 | St. Johnson. Zion Williams did something that no other Duke freshman has ever done specifically. |
| 0:42.3 | He became the first Duke freshman to ever score 30 points, grabbed 10 rebounds and dish five |
| 0:46.8 | assists in the same game. Wake Forest was the victim. Zion also had four stills. So Zion |
| 0:51.6 | Williams in his now. Check this out. The only division one player in the past 20 years to |
| 0:57.0 | post a line with 30 points, 10 rebounds, five assists and four stills while shooting at |
| 1:01.5 | least 80% from the field because he was 13 to 16 from the field, including three or four |
| 1:07.2 | from three point range at Wake Forest. Just an awesome performance. Norlander, do you know |
| 1:11.0 | how difficult it is to do something no other Duke freshman has ever done? It's a place |
| 1:15.5 | where Kyrie Irving play, a place where Marvin Bagley play, a place where Jabari Parker play, |
| 1:21.1 | this was Jason Tatum and Brandon Ingram and Jalil Oco for played Austin Rivers, Lew |
| 1:25.7 | out Ding, Cory McGatty, Danny Ferry, Mike Dunleavy, J.J. Redding, Johnny Doc, Christian |
| 1:31.8 | Layton or Bobby Hurley, Carlos Booser, Shane Badi, A. L. and Brent Grant Hill and even |
| 1:35.8 | our pal, Jake Billis, amazing player. One after another at Duke and Zion is out here on |
| 1:40.6 | a Tuesday night just doing things nobody's ever done. What'd you make of Zion's historic |
| 1:45.0 | night at Wake Forest? |
| 1:47.4 | Some listener please rewind what Parrish just said, count the names. I don't know how many |
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