12/11: A bearded, crowd-surfing walk-on was the biggest reason Texas Tech beat No. 1 Louisville and flipped the rankings AGAIN
Eye On College Basketball
CBS Sports
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2019
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
College basketball got a great story on Tuesday when unranked Texas Tech knocked off Louisville by 13 points, thanks in no small part to a player named Avery Benson. The TTU walk-on got the postgame TV treatment and has a FANTASTIC back story that Norlander provides on the pod. This ep starts with Parrish and Norlander talking Tech, Louisville and Chris Beard. Then they get to Indiana beating UConn () and finish with the irrefutable case for Ohio State as not just the best team in the country, but the only great team in the country.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there it's Gary Parish its Wednesday December 11, 2019. |
| 0:10.5 | Welcome back to the CBS Sports Eye on College Basketball Podcast where we sometimes discuss |
| 0:15.6 | camera fighting the leaky black man Orlando is here with me and I want to start with what |
| 0:19.6 | took place inside Madison Square Garden last night because that was something. |
| 0:23.3 | Texas Tech entered unranked on a three game losing streak to unranked opponents and without |
| 0:27.9 | its leading score. |
| 0:28.9 | Jamayas Rams. |
| 0:29.9 | He meantime Louis was a perfect nine and oh with eight double digit victories and ranked |
| 0:33.6 | number one in the country. |
| 0:34.8 | So the smart money had Louisville improving to ten and oh and Texas Tech extending its |
| 0:39.3 | losing streak to four games but this has been a weird season all season. |
| 0:42.9 | So of course Texas Tech which just lost to the Paul which just lost to Buffalo which opened |
| 0:48.9 | the season with a loss to Dartmouth went out and beat the nation's number one team. |
| 0:52.4 | Fort handed final score Texas Tech 70 Louisville 57 Northlander you were there say something |
| 0:58.7 | about it. |
| 0:59.7 | Yeah I'll say a few things about it here I was there and as you can tell by the sound |
| 1:04.1 | of my voice I got home late from the garden and had kid duties so the dulcet tones have |
| 1:10.6 | returned here but yeah that was a lot of fun. |
| 1:15.2 | I guess as much fun as a 13 point spread could be an end of game situation for a game that |
| 1:20.7 | featured two teams shooting poorly on the hole there but not a season saving win for |
| 1:26.6 | Texas Tech I'm not going to go that far but it was important because the only other remaining |
| 1:30.4 | non-conference opponent for Texas Tech that you know would help their case when we get |
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