12/28: College basketball 2018 Year in Review
Eye On College Basketball
CBS Sports
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2018
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
When you take into account everything of consequence that happened in 2018, it's not that hard to make the argument that the sport won't see another year like this any time soon. Vacated national titles, federal convictions, a 98-year-old nun becoming the biggest thing in sports, a 16 beating a 1, Zion Williamson, scandals, a change in how the sport is operated. Big year.
So GP and Norlander get to that, but first open with Kentucky at Louisville, the game of the weekend in college basketball. From there, they run down six more games of note (15:45), including Nevada-Utah, Davidson-UNC, Wisconsin-Western Kentucky and Belmont-Purdue. Then it's on to St. John's (21:25) and it's big game in the Big East opener at Seton Hall. But for the bulk of the discussion on this pod, it's a look back at 2018 (30:20).
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's Gary Kersh, it's Friday, December 28, 2018. |
| 0:11.2 | Welcome back to the eye on college basketball podcast Matt Noylenda is here with me. |
| 0:16.2 | And once again, a nothing happens since last time we talked. |
| 0:19.4 | I said this on Wednesday's podcast. |
| 0:20.7 | It was true then. |
| 0:21.7 | I'm saying it again on this podcast. |
| 0:23.5 | It's true again now. |
| 0:24.5 | Bottom line, this is by far the worst week of the college basketball season. |
| 0:28.5 | The only ranked team that's played a game so far this week is Houston. |
| 0:33.8 | And that was last Sunday against Coppen State, so whatever. |
| 0:37.1 | Christmas is great for the kids. |
| 0:39.1 | Great in general. |
| 0:40.1 | I enjoyed the day with my family, but putting Christmas on a Tuesday really does screw |
| 0:44.7 | up an entire week of college basketball evidence being that this is the only week of the |
| 0:49.4 | entire season in which one ranked team will not play another ranked team. |
| 0:54.0 | Norlander, how board are you with this week? |
| 0:56.1 | You know what? |
| 0:57.1 | I embrace it. |
| 0:58.1 | I've gotten to, it's boring. |
| 1:00.5 | There's no doubt about it, but I know we're turning into a pretty active January here, and |
| 1:04.7 | that'll be awesome. |
| 1:05.7 | But I've had a chance to catch up with a lot of albums, do a little bit of reading. |
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