Are Kentucky and Louisville doomed to underwhelm this season? (12.26)
Eye On College Basketball
CBS Sports
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 26 December 2017
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Hope you had a Merry Christmas. Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander are back to bring you some college hoops podcast goodness on this day-after Christmas, and they start by discussing Miami and Kentucky's tough losses in the past couple of days. Whose was worse? Then they preview Kentucky-Louisville before getting to a look at the start of the Big East calendar. They wrap with some Christmas chatter.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's Gary Merchand, Tuesday, decent for 26, 2017. |
| 0:17.1 | Welcome back to the Iron College 5th World Podcast. |
| 0:19.2 | Got Mad Norlander here with me. |
| 0:20.8 | Hope you guys had a Merry Christmas or if nothing else, decent Christmas or at least a Christmas |
| 0:26.0 | that wasn't horrible either way. |
| 0:27.4 | Maybe you're here and since we last recorded Kentucky and Miami have both lost to unranked |
| 0:32.3 | teams. |
| 0:33.3 | Kentucky lost UCLA in the CBS Sports Classic. |
| 0:35.2 | Miami lost to New Mexico State in the Diamond Head Classic. |
| 0:38.8 | So those two, I think, undeniably talented teams now have their first questionable losses |
| 0:45.4 | of the season. |
| 0:46.4 | And for Miami, of course, it is the first loss of the season. |
| 0:49.3 | And they really don't need the team. |
| 0:51.4 | Really doesn't have great wins to offset those losses as I wrote earlier in the week. |
| 0:57.3 | And either Kentucky nor Miami have a top 35 Kim Pomew in right now. |
| 1:00.4 | So they're both good teams, I think, but it's December 26th and neither has accomplished |
| 1:04.8 | much on the court. |
| 1:05.8 | So let's start here, Norlander. |
| 1:07.5 | At this point in the season, do you have more questions about Kentucky or about Miami? |
| 1:12.8 | Kentucky, because purely because of the fact that Kentucky is younger significantly so |
| 1:18.4 | Miami's loss was certainly, I mean, I'd qualify this as shocking. |
| 1:23.0 | I know New Mexico State has started pretty well in a Chris Jans and that program in general |
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