01/18: Creighton's Final Four hopes dashed; the funniest moment of the season; game picks

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🗓️ 18 January 2017

⏱️ 43 minutes

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How brutal is Maurice Watson's torn ACL for Creighton? Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander discuss that at the top of this Eye on College Basketball before getting into a conversation about Kentucky's SEC dominance. They then talk about Jimmy Patsos' hilarious trip through a nonexistent handshake line, the top candidates for National Coach of the Year and offer predictions for Notre Dame-Florida State and Florida-South Carolina. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Here they're at Scary Parade's Wednesday, January 18th.
0:12.3	Welcome back to the Ion College basketball block as I have a Mad Northern Westman.
0:16.8	We got a lot of stuff to get to including Kentucky 6 and O'Start in the SEC.
0:21.5	Jimmy Patso, Salarious handshake line from last night.
0:25.2	My list of leading candidates for National Coach of the Year.
0:28.8	We'll have some predictions for tonight's biggest games, specifically Notre Dame at Florida State
0:34.5	and Florida at South Carolina.
0:36.9	But I wanted to start with what is the biggest news in college basketball from this week undeniably.
0:42.9	And that is Maurice Watson's Torn ACL at Creighton.
0:46.2	We, I think most of us were celebrating MLK Day on Monday.
0:51.8	And a lot of us were watching College Basketball in the afternoon.
0:55.7	And Maurice Watson went down, non-contact, and what eventually became Creighton's victory at Xavier.
1:02.9	And afterward, even though Mo Watson had told, reportedly told Greg McDermott his coach that he heard it popping that he's quote, done.
1:11.8	Greg McDermott, I'm assuming after talking with the medical staff, said publicly on Monday evening that the ligaments seemed fine.
1:22.4	That there might be a meniscus problem, but that the ligaments, specifically the ACL, seemed okay.
1:30.1	And yet, they got back to Omaha, had an MRI done yesterday afternoon.
1:34.0	And we find out that that just was not the case.
1:36.5	It's a torn ACL.
1:38.2	It is a seasoned ending injury.
1:40.3	It is a college career ending injury.
1:42.8	And it sucks, Matt, anytime any young person has to have their college career end in this way.
1:51.4	But it is especially rough when your college career ends this way.
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