Arizona has to be No. 1; Purdue escapes Memphis and Paradise Penny; weekend preview: Wisconsin-BYU, Purdue-Texas Tech + more

Eye On College Basketball

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4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Parrish and Norlander start with Purdue's less-than-stellar performance against the Memphis Tigers before turning the attention to Wednesday night and great wins for Arizona and Alabama. Then, the Final Four And 1 previews the weekend of college hoops. (0:00) Intro (0:45) Purdue beats Memphis, but it wasn’t exactly convincing (10:15) Texas Tech survives Wake, sets up matchup against Boilermakers (16:12) Arizona gets another huge win, this time on the road against UConn (33:30) Labaron Philon leads Alabama over Illinois 90-86 (37:36) More midweek results: Dayton beats Marquette and an awesome buzzer beater (48:16) Final Four And 1 (48:45) No. 23 Wisconsin vs. No. 9 BYU (52:25) Virginia vs. Northwestern (58:30) No. 6 Louisville vs. Cincinnati (1:01:20) No. 1 Purdue vs. No. 15 Texas Tech (1:06:00) Nebraska vs. Kansas State 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 @Boone @DavidWCobb @TheJMULL_ 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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0:00.0	Here.
0:14.6	I am Gary Parrish.
0:15.8	Welcome back, CBS Sports, I on college basketball podcast,
0:19.0	where we sometimes discuss camel fighting dodo birds and leaky black black Matt Norlander is here with me if you're watching on
0:24.5	YouTube be Brandon Davis smash that like button and if you're one of us let the world know
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0:40.5	Let's get into it.
0:41.4	I want to start with Purdue, the team that returned to the top of the A people earlier in the week.
0:47.0	The Bullenmakers are down in the Bahamas.
0:48.8	They're playing in something called the Bahama Championship.
0:51.4	And last night, they beat Memphis, 807171, but we're actually down three points with seven
0:56.8	minutes remaining Norlander.
0:59.1	Any concerns about Purdue looking less than sharp against a Memphis team that is now
1:04.3	one and three?
1:05.2	Or is it more like, hey, shut up, bawdy.
1:08.3	Purdue is undefeated and just won at Alabama last week in case you forgot. Everything's fine. Where do you land on this very important conversation on this Friday? It's a paradise penny. Ain't no thing. You go to a beautiful locale. Yeah. Penny Hardaway throws on a pair of shorts. This team's going to be competitive. That's how this goes. I saw it a year ago in Maui, Memphis, upsetting Yukon. I mean, I think the win here is that Matt Painter didn't
1:34.1	collapse to the floor and get himself ejected. I think that's a huge win. And the chat's already
1:40.6	at it because apparently the ref show was on full display in this game and
1:44.9	Purdue fans were apoplectic. There actually were game was obviously on CBS Sports Network. We've
1:49.3	got some awesome stuff coming later today on CBS Sports Network that we'll get to on the show.
1:55.0	Shout to the director of yesterday's Purdue Memphis game at our network because some of the
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