Alright, this is Gary Curry again from CBS, of course it's Wednesday, November 11th.

This is the Ion College Basketball Podcast.

I'm joined as usual by my colleagues Matt Norlander and Sam Vassini and we're now just

about this.

Two days away from the start of the 2015-16 college basketball season.

Finally, it's here no more preseason rankings, no more preseason anything.

By this time next week we'll be talking about games.

So we're almost to the thing we've been looking forward to and for you, Norlander, that's

double true because not only is college basketball season almost here, your first child is almost

here too.

Have you passed the point of excitement?

Now you're just anxious, frustrated, where you at in this process?

I remember what it was like to be close to becoming a father for the first time and it's

nerve-wracking, isn't it?

Well I'm 34, you were what?

You were 19 right?

No, I was 26, I was 26, which was probably...

Which is definitely, it's a very different stage of life.

Oh, sure did.

Okay, first up, 26, so you got to understand where I'm from, context matters.

26 in Mississippi?

I'm like, oh, to be having a kid, right?

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