12/14: Is Kentucky slipping under John Calipari? And a huge weekend awaits with loads of great games
Eye On College Basketball
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🗓️ 14 December 2018
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Quade Green has transferred out of Kentucky. Are the Wildcats losing a bit of their grip -- or is Calipari losing his touch? Parrish and Norlander start there, then give Crossroads Classic preview (14:24), as Notre Dame-Purdue and Butler-Indiana play on Saturday on CBS. There are loads of good games this weekend, including UNC-Gonzaga (19:00) and Nova-Kansas (24:05). Plus, Norlander tips you on teams on upset watch (29:33), in addition to a brief Sunday preview of games (39:15).
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| 0:00.0 | Here it is Gary Persians Friday, December 14, 2018. |
| 0:11.3 | Welcome back to the Ion College Festival Podcast. |
| 0:13.6 | I got Matt Norlander here with me and we spent some time earlier this week discussing Kentucky |
| 0:18.5 | specifically how Kentucky's non-freshmen have mostly been disappointing or at least inconsistent |
| 0:23.9 | except for retravists and how UK's five star freshmen hadn't yet made a five star impact |
| 0:29.0 | except for Kelton Johnson. |
| 0:31.1 | Then on Wednesday afternoon one of the non-freshmen left the program. |
| 0:33.5 | Quadde green is transferring. |
| 0:35.4 | He averaged 9.3 points in 25.6 minutes per game last season. |
| 0:40.3 | Minutes were cut to just 17.8 per game this season. |
| 0:43.8 | Only played eight minutes two games ago against UNC Greensboro. |
| 0:46.5 | Only played 10 minutes last game against Seton Hall. |
| 0:49.3 | His role was obviously dwindling. |
| 0:51.0 | So it transferred makes sense. |
| 0:52.0 | As long as he enrolls somewhere in January he should be able to play next December. |
| 0:57.4 | To be clear I don't think losing Quadde green is devastating. |
| 1:01.8 | It might not matter at all. |
| 1:03.2 | But we did spend a whole lot of time in the off season talking about how John Calapary |
| 1:07.0 | had three non-freshmen who had already averaged more than 9.0 points per game at the high |
| 1:11.9 | major level and how that was a rare and good thing. |
| 1:14.9 | But now John Calapary doesn't have that anymore. |
| 1:17.0 | I did a CBS Sports HQ hit bright and early this morning and Casey Kiernan, one of the |
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