12/17: 🚨Emergency pod: Without Cole Anthony for the next 4-6 weeks, are UNC'S NCAA Tournament hopes already done?
Eye On College Basketball
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🗓️ 17 December 2019
⏱️ 24 minutes
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North Carolina announced Tuesday, less than 30 hours before its game at Gonzaga, that Cole Anthony had surgery for a torn meniscus in his right knee. He'll be out 4-6 weeks. Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander discuss how this affects UNC in the short-term and longterm, including the real possibility that UNC will miss the NCAAs for just the second time under Roy Williams.
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| 0:00.0 | Cole Anthony, one of the most important entertaining and valuable players in college basketball, is going to be off the court for at least a month. |
| 0:08.0 | So you know what we had to do. Fire up the sirens. Let's go. |
| 0:18.0 | Hey there, it's Gary Parish. It's Tuesday, December 17, 2019. |
| 0:22.0 | Welcome back to the CBS Sports Eye on College basketball podcast where we sometimes discuss |
| 0:27.0 | Kamel fighting and leaky black Matt Norlander is here with me and breaking news from the sport at college basketball this afternoon. |
| 0:34.0 | Cole Anthony, five star freshman at North Carolina is expected to miss four to six weeks after undergoing and |
| 0:40.0 | an othroscopic procedure on his right knee. He had a partially torn meniscus and so Roy Williams had big problems already, Norlander. |
| 0:48.0 | The Tar Heels had lost three straight for the last five coming off a home walls to wafered in which Anthony did not play. |
| 0:56.0 | And now according to North Carolina, they're going to be without him for the next four to six weeks. |
| 1:02.0 | Things have been better in Chapel Hill. They seem better days in Chapel Hill. |
| 1:05.0 | Many better days here and yeah, how about a little quicky emergency pod for you? |
| 1:11.0 | Parish, my first thoughts on seeing this, where that North Carolina is going to be in danger here of not making the NCAA tournament. |
| 1:20.0 | Six and four right now, clearly the Roy Williams era has been outstanding since he arrived there. |
| 1:27.0 | But only once since he got there did they not make the tournament and that was 2009, 2010. |
| 1:32.0 | That team went 20 and 17, 5 and 11 in the ACC. |
| 1:37.0 | That team had Larry Drew at Davis. Tyler Zeller was a sophomore. John Henson was a freshman. Leslie MacDonald was a freshman. |
| 1:45.0 | Dexter Strickland was a freshman on that team. That's the only time that North Carolina has not made the NCAA's under Roy Williams. |
| 1:53.0 | In the non-conference that season went 11 and four. Right now, it's in a lot of hurt here. |
| 2:00.0 | Cole Anthony, we in the Frosh Watch that updated on Tuesday on CBS Sports.com. |
| 2:05.0 | We still, by narrow margin, still had Cole Anthony as the third most statistically impressive freshman of the season. |
| 2:11.0 | But now at six and four, it took the loss at home without him. Got to play at Gonzaga Wednesday. |
| 2:18.0 | We'll preview and talk more about Carolina later in the week from Las Vegas in advance of the CBS Sports Classic on Saturday when UNC |
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