2026 March Madness Round 1 Friday Recap! Otega Oweh's Kentucky miracle; Kevin Willard's mid-game joke; Braden Smith = all-time assist leader + more!
Eye On College Basketball
CBS Sports
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Gary Parrish and David Cobb break down everything from Round 1 Friday of the 2026 NCAA Tournament. Otega Oweh is now a Kentucky legend as the Wildcats pull of the win against Santa Clara. Plus, Miami University's season comes to an end, and high majors prevail almost across the board on Friday.
(0:00) Intro + holy late podcast
(1:20) Kentucky escapes Santa Clara and oh my what a finish!
(8:55) Iowa State smokes Tennessee State … but Joshua Jefferson is the story
(11:40) Tennessee & Virginia get victories on Friday
(16:06) Braden Smith is the sport’s all-time leader in assists … and Purdue smoked Queens
(19:15) Missouri lost a home game to Miami in St. Louis , Jai Lucas has been awesome
(24:15) Utah State beat Villanova and Kevin Willard is threatening to fire his staff
(30:35) Arizona ends the Fins Up ride & Florida cruises + Iowa beats Clemson
(35:45) Let’s bounce around the rest of the results + Taris Reed’s monster night!
(40:05) Sling TV Game to Watch
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there. I am Gary Parish. Welcome back to CBS Sports. I own college basketball podcast, |
| 0:17.8 | where we sometimes discuss camel fighting.-no birds leaky black david |
| 0:21.8 | cobb is here with me if you're watching on youtube honor brandon davy smash the like button |
| 0:26.8 | and if you haven't yet subscribed for the i own college basketball podcast please also do that |
| 0:31.4 | wherever you subscribe to podcasts like apple and spotify let's get into it the first first Friday of the NCAA tournament is in the books. |
| 0:39.4 | If you're watching live on the West Coast, |
| 0:42.8 | drive trucks for a living, |
| 0:45.5 | have terrible sleeping habits, |
| 0:47.9 | and or a drug problem. |
| 0:49.7 | If you need help, |
| 0:51.2 | we hope you find the help that you need. |
| 0:53.3 | Either way, it's 234 a.m. on the East Coast. |
| 0:58.4 | 16 games were played on Friday. |
| 1:00.5 | Let's start with how they got underway. |
| 1:02.2 | Final score, Kentucky, 89, Santa Clara, 84. |
| 1:05.6 | It happened in overtime. |
| 1:06.8 | It was a one possession game. |
| 1:08.9 | Basically, the final eight minutes of regulation. |
| 1:12.1 | Final sequence of regulation was wild. |
| 1:14.5 | First, Otega Owen gets a layup with 9.9 seconds remaining, ties the score 7070. |
| 1:21.3 | Then Alan Graves on the other end, buries a three with 2.5 remaining, put Santa Clara up 7370. Herb Sendeck prized to call a |
| 1:30.9 | timeout to set up his defense. The officials don't give it to him. So Kentucky gets the ball out of |
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