Big 12 LED court glitches out; conference tourney roundup; bubble situation with two days to go; Miami finally loses but WILL dance
Eye On College Basketball
CBS Sports
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander open with a Big 12 report from Kansas City. The glass court is gone for semifinals between Iowa State-Arizona and Kansas-Houston. Then, a Friday edition of the whiparound tours the sport and gets you caught up on everything from Champ Week including a loss for previously undefeated Miami.
(0:00) Intro + Norlander from Kansas City
(1:00) The Big 12 is abandoning the LED glass floor
(7:00) the semifinals in Kansas City should be awesome + Dybantsa breaks KD’s record
(15:00) Duke survives a scare against Florida State
(19:10) Tennessee beat Auburn … are the Tigers going dancing?
(22:15) Does Oklahoma need to beat Arkansas on Friday to get in?
(25:00) Touching on the Big East: can Seton Hall get a dance-worthy win over St. John’s?
(27:40) Big Ten quarterfinals on Friday + some notes from the conference
(32:10) Miami lost to UMass … this team is still in the tournament
(37:10) Sling TV Game to Watch
(46:30) GP spent 13 hours in the Richmond airport
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there. I am Gary Perich. Welcome back to CBS Sports. I own college basketball podcast where we sometimes discuss camel fighting, Dodo Birds, and Leaky Black. Matt Norlander is here with me from Kansas City. If you watch it on YouTube, honor Brandon Davey, smash a like button. And if you haven't yet subscribed to the Island College Basketball podcast, please do that wherever you listen to podcasts like Apple and Spotify. Let's get into it. I want to start in the Big 12 where Norlander is stationed this week. |
| 0:40.3 | The LAD court is no more. |
| 0:42.6 | Rest in peace. |
| 0:43.5 | We're going back to Hardwood for the semifinals and the final Norlander. |
| 0:46.7 | Let's start there. |
| 0:47.6 | You saw it up close. |
| 0:49.1 | A, how cool was the LED court to see in person? |
| 0:53.0 | B, how dangerous was it for basketball players? |
| 0:58.0 | Good morning, GP. |
| 1:00.0 | The court to me looked better in person than it does, than it was presenting on television. |
| 1:07.0 | But that being said, I was sitting court side, so I wasn't seeing like the different graphic |
| 1:11.5 | things that. I know if you were in, you know, the 23rd row in the middle of the court, like, |
| 1:15.5 | it was probably looking even better than that. Little warm to the touch is an LED court. And it was |
| 1:21.4 | glass, but there were tiny, tiny little like nubbins, like millions of them that were, |
| 1:26.8 | I got a whole story on dot com. You can go read about it. The science behind it, the NBA looking into it. The science suggests that it's actually less slippery than a hardwood floor, whatever. Some players didn't mind. AJ DeBonsa told me I got nothing to say negative to say about it. Jane Bradley, Big 12th player of the year, Braden Burry said, no, we're cool with the court. |
| 1:45.7 | This is all good. |
| 1:46.7 | So there were some players that had no issues with it. |
| 1:49.7 | Even Christian Anderson, who went down, tweaked his groin yesterday, said, no, I'm going to be okay. |
| 1:57.6 | Like, I was a little slippery, but he could have been more critical of the court than he was. |
| 2:03.5 | And he wasn't. |
| 2:05.0 | Some players did not like it. |
| 2:07.1 | I talked to a couple of coaches on background. |
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