Best of the Rest: FAU, San Diego St., Gonzaga, Saint Mary’s are top-25 good; Memphis, Dayton, New Mexico, Boise St. all look like tourney material
Eye On College Basketball
CBS Sports
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander go through what many consider the lifeblood of college basketball, the smaller leagues and big schools outside of the Big Six conferences.
(01:30) - FAU is the best team of the non-Big Six
(20:00) - What's up with the big-picture chances for the Zags, Saint Mary's and San Diego State?
(44:20) - The rest of the non-Big Six that rank in Top 60 of KenPom
(51:20) - The Non-Big Six Players to Know
(52:45) - Most Notable Non-Big Six Coaching Hires
(55:45) - Other Non-Big Six Notes — like what Chicago State would need to do to make the tournament
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's Scary Parish. |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome back to the CBS Sports Eye on College Basketball |
| 0:09.5 | Podcast where we sometimes discuss camel fighting dodo birds and leaky black. |
| 0:14.4 | Matt Norlander is here with me. |
| 0:15.8 | If you're watching on YouTube, smash the like button, like your Brandon Davies, you have consent, |
| 0:19.5 | and if you haven't yet, subscribe to the CBS Sports College Basketball |
| 0:22.3 | YouTube channel. also do that |
| 0:23.9 | while you're here let's get into it today we are gonna turn our attention away |
| 0:28.0 | from the six best basketball leagues in the country which is of course the Big Ten, Pack Twelve, |
| 0:34.0 | A.C. Big 12, Big East and SEC in some order. Below that we have leagues |
| 0:38.9 | like the Mountain West, the WCC, the AAC, CUSA, the 810, the Missouri Valley. |
| 0:45.0 | Who are the best teams from those leagues? |
| 0:48.0 | Who are the best players in those leagues? |
| 0:50.0 | Norlander handled the preview for CBS Sports. |
| 0:52.5 | G. According to him, Mart Atlantic |
| 0:55.8 | is the best team from outside of the six power conferences. |
| 0:58.6 | Deadleg, there was somebody with a Kenpom subscription right now, screaming. but FAU is 37th at Kenpom why do you think the |
| 1:06.2 | ais are better than Gonzaga San Diego State and even Memphis when they're ranked |
| 1:10.4 | behind Gonzaga San Diego State and Memphis at Kim Pop. |
| 1:14.0 | What would you say to those KimPomp subscribers? |
| 1:16.2 | I'd say you gotta expand your worldview, expand your horizons, and Pomeroy himself would even say, |
| 1:20.3 | don't only rely on mine, okay? don't be so narrow-minded that your entire |
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