12/30/15: Who should be No. 1: Kansas, Oklahoma or Xavier? Plus: LSU's debacle
Eye On College Basketball
CBS Sports
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2015
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Gary Parrish is joined by Matt Norlander and Sam Vecenie for this episode of the Eye on College Basketball podcast. They discuss Michigan State's first loss, the candidates to replace the Spartans at No. 1, the top of the Big East, LSU's terrible start, and touchy fanbases.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, this is Gary Piersch again from CBS Sports. |
| 0:13.7 | It's now Wednesday, December 30th. |
| 0:16.1 | This is the I on college basketball podcast. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm joined by Matt Norlander, Sam Bacini. |
| 0:19.9 | It's actually the last podcast of 2015 and there's a lot to discuss. |
| 0:24.9 | Notably that Michigan State lost last night on Tuesday night. |
| 0:30.7 | We had the podcast on Monday. |
| 0:31.8 | We talked a little bit at the end of it about the Michigan State game at Iowa. |
| 0:35.4 | It actually said that I thought Michigan State would take its first loss there. |
| 0:38.6 | And I'm not trying to pat myself on the back because it's not like I was, I really |
| 0:41.9 | nailed it. |
| 0:42.9 | You know, Vegas had Michigan State as a two and a half point underdog. |
| 0:46.8 | So they were supposed to lose the game and they did. |
| 0:49.5 | But it just sort of, and I guess this goes without saying. |
| 0:53.2 | I saw a lot of people posting it on Twitter last night. |
| 0:56.3 | And it's one of those things like you read it and you go, well, of course, you know, they're |
| 1:00.3 | just not the same without Denzel Valentine. |
| 1:02.1 | Well, like, of course, they're not the same without Denzel Valentine. |
| 1:04.6 | But I think I'd take it a step further. |
| 1:06.3 | Not only are they not the same without Denzel Valentine and Sam, I'll start with you. |
| 1:09.3 | I'm not sure they're one of the best 15 teams in the country without Denzel Valentine. |
| 1:12.3 | I'm not sure they're top 20 without Denzel Valentine. |
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