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Eye On College Basketball

09/23: Nova takes a big hit; the five once-proud programs who have fallen farthest

Eye On College Basketball

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4.82.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2016

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

The NCAA has ruled five-star prospect Omari Spellman ineligible at Villanova. How big of a loss is that for the reigning national champions? Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander discuss that at the top of this episode of the Eye on College Basketball podcast. Then they transition into Rick Stansbury's recruiting at Western Kentucky and Larry Brown's desire to maybe coach high school basketball. And they close by discussing five programs that were once great but haven't even been good lately. 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 Darden, Friday, September 23rd, and this is the I on college basketball

0:14.2

podcast.

0:15.2

I got Matt Norlander with me and a big news this morning in college basketball, the

0:19.2

reigning national champions.

0:20.2

It'll be without their highest rated incoming recruit, namely Amari Spellman, 6'9 big,

0:26.4

Gordon eligible, academics by the NCAA, Norlander, we'll just get right to it.

0:32.4

You tell me how big of a deal is this for Jay Wright's attempt to repeat his biggest

0:37.1

champions, repeat as national champions.

0:39.6

Well, Kudos on using a reigning correctly because they are not the defending champions.

0:44.6

Oh, that's my, it's my biggest pet peeve.

0:48.1

They will not lose their title.

0:49.1

When people say defending, the defending national champions are the defending world

0:53.0

series champions.

0:54.0

Like, no, like the royals aren't going to, when you defend something, you, you're at

0:58.1

risk of losing it.

0:59.3

Like if you're a boxer and you defend your title, you might lose your title.

1:03.9

But if you were like a world series champion or in basketball and national champion, you're

1:08.0

not defending anything.

1:09.3

Once you win it, it's yours forever.

1:11.3

You're the reigning national champions, not the defending national champions.

1:14.5

That is correct.

1:15.5

And so, this is big enough to where I was considering putting, now, let listen, would

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