2025-2026 Big 12 Season Preview - Will Houston get back to the title game? Can Kansas bounce back?

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🗓️ 24 October 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander preview the Big 12 season 00:00 - Start 05:27 - Can Houston go from title-game loser to national champ? 12:38 - Dybantsa vs. Peterson vs. Toppin for POY 19:31 - Can Kansas bounce back in a big way? 21:19 - Texas Tech almost made the Final Four. Do the Raiders have the pieces to make the leap? 24:40 - Will the Big 12 reclaim its title as the best conference in CBB? 28:49 - League Predictions! 🎵 Theme song: "Timothy Leary," written, performed and courtesy of Guster Eye on College Basketball is available for free on the Audacy app as well as Apple Podcasts, Spotify and wherever else you listen to podcasts. Follow our team: @EyeonCBBPodcast @GaryParrishCBS @MattNorlander @Kyle_Boone @DavidWCobb @NataTheScribe Visit the betting arena on CBSSports.com for all the latest in sportsbook reviews and sportsbook promos for betting on college basketball. You can listen to us on your smart speakers! Simply say, "Alexa, play the latest episode of the Eye on College Basketball podcast," or "Hey, Google, play the latest episode of the Eye on College Basketball podcast." Email the show for any reason whatsoever: [email protected] Visit Eye on College Basketball's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeFb_xyBgOekQPZYC7Ijilw For more college hoops coverage, visit https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/ To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.3	Music Hey there, Gary Parrish.
0:46.1	Welcome back to the CBS Sports IO College basketball podcast,
0:49.7	where we sometimes discuss camel fighting, dodo birds, and leaky black.
0:53.0	Matt Norlander is here with me.
0:54.5	If you're watching on YouTube, you know what to do to that like button. Shouts to Brandon Davies, and if you haven't yet subscribe to the CBS Sports College Basketball YouTube channel, please also do that while you're here. Let's get into it. We are in Kansas City. We are. Team Mobile Center. Yes. We've been here for Big 12 Media Day, and we figured this would be a perfect opportunity to continue our series of conference previews that we've been doing for the past week or so.
1:20.1	It's a Big 12 preview.
1:21.2	Norlander, today we've talked to, oh, man, Calvin Sampson, Bill Self, Scott Drew, Tommy Lloyd, Grant McCastlet, perhaps the top two picks of the 2006 NBA draft.
1:33.0	S.J. DeBonson and Darren Peterson. Just, I'm a veteran of Big 12 Media Day.
1:38.6	Are you? I've done this before. How many times?
1:43.2	I can never keep track of stuff like that, but a bunch. He doesn't know. Quite a few. I know I was here last year, and I know I was here before last year. Really? Okay. But this was your first time. It was. Your first experience of Big 12 Media Day. How did you enjoy it? I enjoyed it plenty. If you are listening to the pod, go to that YouTube page sincerely. Subscribe and watch this because we got GP and I here. Parrish doesn't have use of his left arm, so this is a podcast with tremendous potential. What do you think happened? I don't know. Let me tell you what happened. Norland and I went to dinner last night. I had a very mediocre burnt-end. Correct. All right? And it was a perfectly good night. And I went back to my hotel room and I watched the end of the NBA doubleheader. Yep. And I got some work done. And at some point I laid down and went to sleep. Sure. And when I woke up this morning, I couldn't move my left arm. I can't. That's it. That's as far as it goes. We have a dead arm situation here.
2:36.8	I'm now dead arm. He got a dead arm situation. What goes around comes around. But I believe
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