Big Pac-12 problems, big home upsets, Christ Holtmann for COY, and a beefy rundown of the weekend (2.9)
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🗓️ 9 February 2018
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander yap on this episode about a litany of upsets over the past 48 hours. Arizona lost at home to UCLA. Villanova lost at home to St. John's. Purdue lost at home to Ohio State. Auburn lost at home to Texas A&M. Those teams were all undefeated at home prior to those outcomes. Wild, right? The guys also assess Chris Holtmann's Coach of the Year case, give analysis on Duke-UNC, and run down what's on the line this weekend. This is a great prep episode for an interesting Saturday that's sure to bring upsets.
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| 0:00.0 | In there, it's Gary Pertian, Friday, February 9, 2018. |
| 0:16.2 | Welcome back to the IAM College Basketball Park. |
| 0:17.9 | I got Matt Norlander here with me. |
| 0:19.5 | And since we last spoke on Wednesday afternoon, Bill and O. will |
| 0:23.0 | loss to St. John's at home. |
| 0:25.1 | Purdue lost to Ohio State at home. |
| 0:27.2 | Auburn lost to Texas A&M at home. |
| 0:29.1 | Nevada lost to UNOV at home and then Arizona on Thursday night. |
| 0:33.4 | Lost to UCLA at home. |
| 0:34.8 | Norlander, lots of upsets of home teams that are naturally ranked. |
| 0:38.0 | Which one surprised you most? |
| 0:40.2 | Arizona of all of them surprised me most, particularly because of the style |
| 0:45.5 | that they were playing or lack thereof, effort, lack thereof. |
| 0:49.6 | This is really bizarre, parish, not just with Arizona, but what you mentioned. |
| 0:53.8 | How many teams lost at home that were ranked favored? |
| 0:59.0 | Some of them in very surprising fashion and bizarrely enough, as we'll get to, |
| 1:04.5 | of course, we picked Duke on the road and of course, Duke loses. |
| 1:07.6 | Arizona is in a weird situation here. |
| 1:09.3 | Let me give me the floor for just a minute here to talk about the Wildcats and |
| 1:12.8 | a thought on the Pac-12 before we get to the rest of the upsets here. |
| 1:15.6 | See Arizona got a little lucky. |
| 1:17.5 | USC had no business losing at Arizona State late Thursday night. |
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