04/13: History suggests that Kentucky and Creighton's national title chances for 2021 are now in danger

Eye On College Basketball

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🗓️ 13 April 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Two projected top-five teams lost players to NBA draft declarations in the past couple of days: Creighton with Ty-Shon Alexander and Kentucky with Immanuel Quickley. Neither is a stunner, but both are expected to remain in the draft pool, which easily pokes both out of Parrish's way-too-early rankings. This pod opens up with some chatter on those decisions, and then at the 11:40 mark an exploration into what it means for teams with national championship aspirations to have top-60 prospects opt to return to school. From there, how about this: Stanford just beat out blue bloods and got its highest-ranked commitment from a player in more than 15 years (20:10). A nice change of pace. To wrap the pod, Norlander has the tallies in (28:00): the final standings on our against-the-spread picks from the season AND our preseason picks for over/under totals for 14 teams. Who won? What were the biggest misses? Enjoy -- and we wish the best for you and your families. Our continued thanks, gratitude and awe to those who work on the front lines -- be it in hospitals, in delivery, at grocery stores, and all other essential matters -- we thank you. We cannot thank you enough.

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0:00.0	Hey there, it's Gary Tertiary.
0:04.4	It's Monday, April 13, 2020.
0:06.4	Welcome back to the CBS Sports Eye on College basketball podcast where we sometimes discuss
0:11.2	calmified and leaky black, Matt Norlander is here with me.
0:14.2	He's social distance in at home, I'm social distance in at home and it's been a busy
0:18.1	and meaningful, you know, past few days on the who stay in, who's going front as it relates
0:23.6	to the NBA draft on Friday.
0:25.9	Was Taishan Alexander announced he's in the NBA draft and then on Monday Kentucky's
0:30.5	a manual quickly announced he's in the NBA draft.
0:33.1	Neither is a projected first round pick.
0:35.7	Now Taishan Alexander is leaving the option of returning to Creighton on the table, although
0:40.2	by his own admission, he's like 70, 30 out the door.
0:43.5	So he's not definitely gone, but it's reasonable to assume he's likely gone.
0:47.3	Same as quickly as definitely gone.
0:49.0	Kentucky was number two in the top 25 and one under the assumption quickly would be back.
0:53.6	Nathan was number three in the top 25 and one under the assumption, Alexander would
0:57.4	be back.
0:58.4	Now those schools, their number nine and number 10 respectively in Norlander.
1:01.5	We've talked about this before, but I guess it's worth repeating year in and year out.
1:05.8	These are the types of decisions that shape the top of the sport.
1:09.4	The schools that compete for the national title are often schools that get legitimate
1:15.4	NBA prospects to return to school.
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