08/10: Missouri's tournament hopes, Arizona's top-ranked class, college hoops' attendance issue

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🗓️ 10 August 2017

⏱️ 50 minutes

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It may be the middle of the summer, but your favorite podcast duo is not taking a break. Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander cover four topics in this episode: Missouri's NCAA Tournament expectations for 2017-18 now that Jontay Porter is joining the roster; Arizona's top-ranked class for 2018, and what's to come for the Wildcats; college basketball's seemingly permanent problem with attendance; and the head coach that came very close to dying in July. 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	Hey there, it's Gary Parrish. It's Thursday, August 10th. Welcome back to the Ion College
0:20.4	basketball podcast. I got Matt Norlander with me and we'll start with the significant
0:24.3	news that broke late Wednesday night, not a real surprise because when I was at
0:30.3	Peach Jam last month, I talked with John DePorter and he smiled and told me it was
0:35.0	safe to assume that he would reclassify and enroll at Missouri so that he
0:39.2	could play with his brother, Michael Porter Jr. in this upcoming season. But it
0:43.7	did become official last night. He tweeted a picture of himself in a Missouri
0:48.1	uniform and said, welcome to the class of 2017 or something along those lines.
0:52.7	John DePorter is going to be a freshman at Missouri this year. So since
0:57.6	Conzo Martin got the job at Missouri after leaving Cal of course, he has
1:03.2	enrolled two five star prospects, two four star prospects and he's got an
1:07.6	opportunity to take Missouri to the NCAA tournament in year one. Despite the fact
1:12.2	that the program has been just an embarrassment the past three years, eight
1:15.2	and forty six, I believe it is in SEC games over the past three years. I think
1:19.3	the only one two league games last season. So Norland let's start with this. How big
1:23.8	of a development is this for Missouri and the SEC in general because we always
1:29.0	know Kentucky is going to have players. Texas and him's got a lot of
1:32.2	pick and now Missouri's just added another five star to the likely number one
1:37.0	pick of the 2018 Draft Michael Porter Jr. How big is this for Missouri? How big
1:40.6	is this for the SEC? I think the poor John DePorter edition now, whereas Missouri
1:45.9	fans were expecting to get to the NCAA tournament next season. Let's remember
1:50.0	they were eight and eight win team last season. I think by adding John
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