12/09: Tennessee proves it's a legit national title contender; Kansas is now No. 1; Kentucky isn't top-25 material
Eye On College Basketball
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🗓️ 10 December 2018
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Tennessee upset Gonzaga 76-73 on Sunday afternoon. Incredible game. Parrish and Norlander open on that and touch on a whole bunch with both teams, then get to Kentucky (16:09) dropping out of Parrish's Top 25 and 1 rankings. The new No. 1? Kansas (27:44). It had to rally this weekend to beat New Mexico State 63-60 in Kansas City. Elsewhere, there were a couple of good one-point games this weekend between currently unranked, but still big-time, basketball programs. Indiana beat Louisville 68-67 (37:32) and Syracuse beat Georgetown 72-71. The guys close on Villanova (42:51) and Bill Walton's polarizing nature as a color commentator (45:58).
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's Gary Parrish. It's Sunday, December 9, 2018. Welcome back to the Ion |
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| 0:43.7 | We are recording this right now at 7.24 p.m. Eastern on Sunday night. So it's a busy weekend |
| 0:49.8 | is pretty much at this point in the books. And the biggest game was number one Gonzaga |
| 0:54.9 | against number seven Tennessee or the teams that were ranked number two and number four |
| 0:58.7 | in Sunday mornings, top 25 and one fun game back and forth affair. UT's Admiral Scofil |
| 1:04.1 | was awesome. Made a three pointer with 80 seconds left. Then another with 22.1 seconds |
| 1:09.0 | left. The first one put Tennessee up 73 71. Second one put Tennessee up 76 73. Zach |
| 1:15.4 | Norville and Ruey Hatchimora both missed three pointers in the final 10 seconds. And |
| 1:19.4 | Gonzaga actually didn't have a field goal in the final four 15. So Tennessee wins at 76 |
| 1:23.9 | 73, which means the top four of the top 25 and one on Monday morning will be Kansas, |
| 1:30.5 | Tennessee, Gonzaga, Duke in that order. Number one Kansas number two Tennessee number three |
| 1:35.2 | Gonzaga number four Duke. And what's wild is that each of those teams has already played |
| 1:40.3 | at least one of the others. Kansas has played and beaten Tennessee. Tennessee has lost |
| 1:45.2 | to Kansas, but beaten Gonzaga. Gonzaga is beaten Duke, but lost to Tennessee and Duke has obviously |
| 1:50.2 | lost to Gonzaga. So the order of the top four is pretty clear cut to me. Norlander, |
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