12/07: Gonzaga's Rui Hachimura might be the POY so far -- and here comes a huge test vs. Tennessee this weekend
Eye On College Basketball
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🗓️ 7 December 2018
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander look ahead to a stacked weekend of good college hoops, but start at the top with Duke landing Vernon Carey Jr., the No. 2 prospect in the class of 2019. From there, predictions and chatter on undefeated Nevada playing undefeated Arizona State late Friday night (6:49). And on Saturday, Kentucky-Seton Hall (15:20) leads off a loaded day slate. Also going down Louisville-Indiana and Wisconsin-Marquette's big games (18:20) and the CBS noon tip on Saturday of Michigan State-Florida (20:20). And yes, Buffalo -- unbeaten! -- gets some shine (23:50). The big game on Sunday is Gonzaga-Tennessee (26:35), but there's something the guys have to address with Texas (33:15), which has a big game vs. Purdue.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's scary Parish. It's Friday, December 7, 2018. Welcome back to the Ion College |
| 0:11.9 | basketball podcast. Got Matt Norlander here with me. Yes, we are. We are going to discuss |
| 0:15.9 | upcoming games on this podcast because it's a pretty good weekend for games. We're getting |
| 0:19.7 | Nevada, Arizona State Kentucky, Seaton Hall, Michigan State Florida, Wisconsin Market, |
| 0:24.9 | Great Nebraska, VCU, Virginia, Texas, Purdue, weekends, biggest game is probably on Sunday, |
| 0:30.6 | Tennessee, Gonzaga, and Phoenix, two top 10 teams on Sunday afternoon, Grant Williams |
| 0:35.3 | against a really Hatchimora should be great. But I wanted to start on the big recruiting |
| 0:40.4 | news of the past couple of days, specifically Vernon Carey's commitment to Duke, the 16th |
| 0:45.7 | center picked the Blue Devils over Michigan State and North Carolina. I thought it was |
| 0:50.4 | interesting for a few different reasons. Hey, it marks the seventh consecutive year that |
| 0:56.1 | Duke has landed at least one top three prospect in the class. So that's a good run. Nobody |
| 1:00.0 | else can match that too. I think it does probably answer some questions in some way about |
| 1:06.9 | whether Duke was going to be able to continue to recruit at the highest level of sport in |
| 1:11.5 | the absence of Jeff Capel. He of course left my Shosheski staff last March, became the |
| 1:17.6 | head coach pit. And there's no denying that Jeff was a big part of Duke's recruiting |
| 1:21.4 | wins in recent years. But it does appear that the staff might might be okay with that. |
| 1:25.8 | And Duke now has two five star prospects committed in the class of 2019. And that class |
| 1:31.5 | currently ranks six nationally according to 24 seven sports. It'll likely get better |
| 1:35.8 | going full or considering Duke is seriously involved with at least two other top 10 prospects. |
| 1:40.7 | So it looks like Duke is going to be able to continue recruiting at the highest level |
| 1:45.2 | of sport even without Jeff Capel on that staff. And lastly, I thought the commitment speaks |
| 1:54.2 | to the awareness of the Duke staff. My point being this on the surface, it made no sense |
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