12/26: The 2018-19 Almost-Midseason Awards, including updated picks for who will win the national title
Eye On College Basketball
CBS Sports
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 26 December 2018
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Today's day-after-Christmas podcast opens with some holiday cheer (well, sort of!), then gets to Parrish and Norlander's top-three picks for National Player of the Year (6:15) as conference play is set to begin in earnest in the coming week. Then it's Coach of the Year nominees (14:45), followed by the biggest surprises in college hoops (19:50) through November and December. As for disappointments (30:55), Parrish has a laundry list, while Norlander's pick is outside the box. The guys close with their updated national title picks (38:20), both of which have changed from who they took in the preseason.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's Gary Persians Wednesday, December 26, 2018. |
| 0:11.5 | Welcome back to the ION College basketball podcast. |
| 0:14.4 | Hope if you celebrate Christmas, you had a wonderful Christmas and either way. |
| 0:18.2 | Hope you got to spend the day with your family and friends. |
| 0:20.5 | Matt Norlander is here with me obviously and because we recorded on Sunday night and now |
| 0:25.1 | it's Wednesday morning and in between was Christmas. |
| 0:27.3 | Nothing relevant in college basketball has happened since the last time we talked. |
| 0:30.9 | So what we decided to do with league play right around the corner is take some big picture |
| 0:36.1 | looks at the sport by asking very simple questions like who should be player of the year right |
| 0:40.3 | now, who should be coach of the year right now, which team is the biggest good surprise, |
| 0:44.7 | which team has been the most disappointing, who would we pick to win the national title |
| 0:48.3 | right now, so on and so forth. |
| 0:50.0 | Those questions I think should spark some fun interesting conversation. |
| 0:54.6 | So we'll get to the moment, terribly, but first let me say Merry Christmas, Matt Norlander, |
| 0:58.6 | did you get everything you wanted, did your boys get everything they desire? |
| 1:02.0 | Well, the three month old has no idea what's going on. |
| 1:05.6 | No cognizant ability to take in this holiday, so I'm going to appreciate that for all it is |
| 1:10.2 | because my three year old was, yes, he got, well, I mean, he asked for like a thousand |
| 1:14.6 | things, so he didn't get hardly any of that, but he is also not old enough to really connect |
| 1:19.9 | one thing to the other. |
| 1:21.3 | So the stuff that he wanted that he didn't get, he completely forgot about once he saw |
| 1:25.0 | there were actually presents under the tree, he was up and ready to get down the stairs |
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