12/19: 🚨🚨EMERGENCY PODCAST: James Wiseman just left college basketball
Eye On College Basketball
CBS Sports
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2019
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Two emergency pods in one week for you. Because we love you, listeners. James Wiseman left college basketball and the University of Memphis on Thursday. This episode features Matt Norlander riffing in real time for 20 minutes as the news filters out. But fear not: He and Gary Parrish will lock up again on the next episode and further dissect this story.
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| 0:00.0 | James Wiseman. Are you kidding me? Are we really gonna do two emergency podcasts in one week? |
| 0:06.8 | Oh yeah we are. Here we go. Welcome back into the CBS Sports Ion College basketball podcast. |
| 0:17.6 | What? Norlander at the top? Yes, norlander at the top. Gary Parrish unfortunately is |
| 0:24.7 | somewhere over the middle of America right now. Maybe Omaha. Maybe Oklahoma. He's |
| 0:29.6 | on his way to Las Vegas. I too was supposed to be on a plane at this very moment. Not able to. |
| 0:35.5 | I'll get to that at the end of this quickie emergency pod. But maybe everything happens for a reason. |
| 0:40.1 | Because James Wiseman has left college basketball has left the University of Memphis. And because of |
| 0:44.6 | this I can give you an emergency podcast to shout to everyone listening to this late Thursday afternoon |
| 0:50.9 | or Thursday evening. Here's what Wiseman said on Instagram as news filtered out and created a shockwave |
| 0:56.9 | throughout college basketball and you know NBA draft circles on Thursday afternoon. He said |
| 1:00.9 | today I formally withdrew from the University of Memphis and I will be preparing for the next chapter |
| 1:05.3 | of my life. Ever since I was a little kid it's been a dream of mine to play in the NBA. Throughout |
| 1:09.8 | this process I've asked God to ordain my steps and lead me in the right direction. God is my Lord |
| 1:15.2 | and salvation and throughout this process he has comforted me. This was not how I expected my |
| 1:20.1 | freshman season to be. But I'm thankful for everyone who has supported my family and me throughout |
| 1:24.5 | this process. I want to thank the coaches and staff for all their support and my teammates for |
| 1:28.6 | pushing me every day at practice. I feel blessed for the opportunity to be a tiger and for having the |
| 1:33.8 | honor to play with these special group of guys. I can't wait to see what they all accomplished this |
| 1:37.8 | season. The friends and fans of Tiger Nation will always hold a place in my heart. Hashtag Go Tigers |
| 1:42.7 | Co. Cat emoji. Blue Circle emoji. Cat emoji. So that's James Wiseman. Three games to his name as a |
| 1:50.1 | Memphis Tiger. He finishes with 69 total minutes played. I guess you could say it was a nice career. |
| 1:57.3 | 19.7 points, 10.7 rebounds. And now certainly plenty to discuss here. And I'll just hit on the big |
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