03/31: That was probably the best Elite Eight in NCAA Tournament history, and it includes the end of Zion Williamson's Duke career
Eye On College Basketball
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🗓️ 1 April 2019
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Here's a Final Four almost no one had: Virginia, Michigan State, Auburn and Texas Tech. Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander open with their initial thoughts on the national semifinalists, then gush and give their reactions to arguably the best Elite Eight in history. They start with where Norlander was at -- Louisville -- with Virginia's comeback/OT win over Purdue (10:00), then move on to Auburn beating Kentucky (28:00), Texas Tech beating Gonzaga (37:15) and Michigan State beating Duke (45:00) and ending the college careers of Zion Williamson, RJ Barrett, Cam Reddish and, almost certainly, Tre Jones.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, everybody. It's Gary Perkins Sunday, March 31, 2019. Welcome back to the ION College |
| 0:14.2 | Basketball Podcast, where we sometimes discuss Campbell fighting and Leaky Black. Matt Norlander |
| 0:18.7 | is here with me in the final four. Is set. The remaining teams are Michigan State, Texas |
| 0:23.9 | Tech, Virginia, and Auburn, Texas Tech and Auburn are in the final four for the first |
| 0:28.0 | time in school history. Chris Beard, Bruce Perron, Tony Bennett, in the final four for the |
| 0:32.4 | first time as coaches. This will be Tom Isles, eighth, final four. And, man, the elite eight |
| 0:37.5 | was incredible. Virginia's overtime went over Purdue. Was an all-timer. Auburn's OT went |
| 0:42.3 | over Kentucky. Was loads of fun. What Texas Tech did to Gonzaga after doing something similar |
| 0:47.2 | to Michigan was super impressive. At Michigan State Duke, those decided in the final seconds. |
| 0:51.9 | Four games decided by six or fewer points by a total of just 18 points. It's the lowest |
| 0:56.8 | margin of victory for four elite eight games and NCAA tournament history. Two of the |
| 1:01.0 | games went to OT. All four were one possession games in the final minute. Now, Norlander, I |
| 1:05.9 | want to talk about how each team got here momentarily. But let's start with your thoughts |
| 1:10.8 | on the now set 2019 final four. It's one number one seed, a number two seed, a number three |
| 1:16.2 | seed, and a number five seed. It's three conference champions, one conference tournament |
| 1:20.4 | champion. It's Auburn, Virginia, Virginia, first national semi-final, Saturday, 609, |
| 1:25.4 | Eastern. Texas Tech, Michigan State, and the second national semi-final, Saturday, around |
| 1:30.6 | 849 Eastern. Do you love this? Like this or hate this? You'll never find me complain about |
| 1:36.7 | a final four because we are why are differently perished in this regard. I like diversity |
| 1:42.9 | with my national semi-finals. I like unexpected teams. I like matchups that change up things. |
| 1:48.0 | Just as much as I like traditional programs and powers being there, I can find something |
| 1:53.2 | interesting about every single final four, every single year. In light of what we saw here |
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