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Hey there, it's Gary Parrish. It's Friday, November 15, 2019. Welcome back to the CBS Sports Island College of Basketball Podcast, where we sometimes discuss camera fighting and leaky black Matt Norlander is here with me.

And you might remember we spent part of Sunday's podcast discussing Thursday night's game between Michigan State and Seton Hall.

Under the idea that Seton Hall star Miles Powell would not be available because his coach Kevin Willard basically said Miles Powell is dead.

And fair, he didn't go that far, not quite that far. But what Kevin did say is that the injury Miles Powell suffered last Saturday. He said, he said, he said, he listen, this is not a one game deal.

This is not a two game deal. And technically speaking, turns out he's right because it was a zero game deal. Miles Powell miraculously play Thursday night against Michigan State.

Score 37 points in 34 minutes, 12 of 27 from the field, made six three pointers. He was awesome.

Even so, Michigan State still won 76, 73. But let's start with this Norlander. How did Miles Powell rise from the dead?

How did he go from handicap to a 37 point score against the preseason number one team in a span of five days?

You're the self proclaimed doctor. So you tell me because on this one, I'll be honest. I was just relying on Kevin Willard. And when he says, listen, this is not a one game deal or two game deal.

I'm like, well, like the next game is Michigan State. So there's no ways to play his Michigan State. And then, you know, we're in a group text with some other college basketball writers and a couple of whom were actually in the traditional,

traditional center. And they're like, Miles Powell's got all this stuff on like he's out here on the court. And it's like, okay. But like, you know, sometimes players just wear their stuff, whatever. And it's like, Miles Powell starting to warm up. It's like, what?

It doesn't even make sense relative to like that. Like Kevin Willard made it sound like Miles Powell was out of month. And he was never out at all. And then here's the weird thing. So they naturally he gets asked about it last night. And he says, well, I always knew he was going to play.

What? What are you? Norlander? Explain it to me.

I credit to Kevin. Well, first of all, in my in my recap, if you are listening to the podcast and you want to kill some more time, bring up a CBS Sports app. And I got a five extended thoughts on this game last night. And then, and one of the capsules there, I said, actually, I'm kind of convinced that Miles Powell was never actually injured. And this was just a huge ploy and a successful one by Kevin Willard to kind of try to throw off.

Well, I guess not a successful one because they lost, but I was about to score 37 and looked as good last night as almost any player I've seen in the first two weeks of a season in the past five years. He was fantastic. But yeah, I think that I think the nature of the injury was obviously exaggerated. I mean, we had, you know, a quick three, four minute earnest discussion about this is Miles Powell senior season.

He's going up against Michigan state, maybe the preseason player, definitely the preseason player in the year in cash, Winston, maybe the eventual end of season player of the year. And you're going to miss out on this. It's just, it just sucks. Let's hope he's okay. Let's hope it's not like a two a situation where he's out for three weeks and he's hobbling. And then he's straight up ball and into the point where

like the lift off from those three pointers and he had some absurd shots and it was so, so enjoyable to watch Miles Powell do his thing last night. But when you saw him take those deep threes. Listen, man, credit to Seton Hall's training staff and whatever they shot him up with if they needed to to numb up the ankle because he did perish. He did not look injured. He did not look like he suffered any kind of ankle injury. And if he fought through that and was playing at 80% 90% 75% then look the hell out.

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