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Eye On College Basketball

BIG TEN PREVIEW: Michigan, Illinois, UCLA are Purdue’s top contenders; preseason predictions for every team + awards

Eye On College Basketball

CBS Sports

Sports, Basketball

4.6 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Norlander is back — and we're bringing a big B1G pod to start the week. It's 21 days until the season begins ... and so, will we see the Big Ten become the No. 1 league this season? With at least two strong title contender candidates in Michigan and Purdue, is this the year that the Big Ten can break the long title drought? GP and Norlander run down the five biggest storylines, make their 1-18 league predictions, give a forecast on the NCAAT teams and hand out their preseason awards in a fresh episode! 02:35 - Is this Matt Painter's best team? 06:51 - Trivia Time! 09:45 - Norlander's B1G Storyline # 1 - Will Braden Smith live up to the hype this year? 13:30 - Norlander's B1G Storyline # 2 - Brad Underwood's Baltic Gambit 20:00 - Norlander's B1G Storyline # 4 - Which High End Transfer makes the biggest impact? 24:00 - Norlander's B1G Storyline # 5 - No real coaching hot seat 31:53 - League Predictions 55:58 - How Many Big Ten Teams make the NCAA Tournament?


Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey there. I'm Gary Parrish. Welcome back to the CBS Sports Eye on college basketball podcast where we sometimes discuss camel fighting dodo birds and leaky black. If you're watching on YouTube, you know what to do to that like button, shouts to Brandon Davies. And if you haven't yet, subscribe to the CBS Sports College Basketball YouTube channel, I sure would appreciate it if you did that while you're here. Let's get into it. Today we are continuing our previews of

0:37.8

semi-college basketball's best conferences. We're going to be doing these over the next few weeks.

0:42.1

Always a fun exercise. Last week, me and Kyle Boone's strong jaw.

0:46.0

We knocked out the Atlantic Coast Conference while Norlander was out galivanting with his wife.

0:51.6

Today we are turning our attention to the Big Ten where Matt

0:54.8

Painters, Purdue Bullenmakers project as the preseason favorite. They were earlier today,

0:59.8

named number one in the preseason Associated Press top 25 poll for the first time in school

1:05.5

history. So Norlander, let's start with Purdue. As you know, the Big Ten has not won a national

1:10.7

championship since 2000.

1:12.7

But I can tell you, being around Matt Painter and Braden Smith and Trey Kaufman-Rinn

1:17.9

last week at Big Ten Media Day in Rosemont, Illinois, just in the shadows of Chicago, I can tell

1:24.7

you that there's a quiet confidence about them.

1:27.7

No bold predictions.

1:29.1

They didn't guarantee anything, but they seem to know they are good enough to end this

1:35.3

streak and talking to them, being around them, you get the sense that they believe

1:39.9

they're going to end this streak.

1:42.0

My question for you, Matt Payter has coached five Big Ten regular season champions,

1:47.4

among them a team that two years ago played in the national title game.

1:52.8

He's had great teams.

1:54.1

Are you comfortable insisting with your reputation on the line that this will be

1:59.2

Matt Painter's greatest team ever.

2:01.9

Oh, boy.

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