Buzz Williams on building Maryland’s team, leaving Texas A&M, expectations for 2025 season
Eye On College Basketball
CBS Sports
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
New Maryland head coach Buzz Williams sat down with Garry Parrish at Big Ten Media Day to discuss building the Maryland team from the ground up, leaving Texas A&M and more! 0:00 - Intro 0:10 - Williams on taking over a team with no returning players 0:40 - Williams on how he handles where college basketball is at right now 3:00 - Williams on how he questions he asks during recruiting 5:20 - Williams on why he left Texas A&M 8:15 - Williams on why he leaves jobs when he does 16:30 - Williams on the way he has approached his career 18:25 - Williams on expectations for Maryland this season
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there. Gary Parrish, welcome back to the CBS Sports Eye on College basketball podcast, |
| 0:19.4 | where we sometimes discuss camel fighting |
| 0:21.3 | dodo birds and leaky black. If you're watching on YouTube, you know what to do to the like |
| 0:25.6 | button. Shouts to Brandon Davies. And if you haven't yet subscribed to the CBS Sports College |
| 0:29.7 | Basketball YouTube channel, please also do that while you're here. Let's get into it. Different |
| 0:35.2 | deal today, as you'll soon realize. Matt Norlander is not here |
| 0:38.7 | with me, and that's because I'm in Chicago for Big Ten Media Day, and while here, I sat down with |
| 0:44.1 | most of the coaches and some of the players for quick conversations about their programs and |
| 0:49.5 | college basketball in general, and we figured, or at least we hoped, that you guys might like to listen to those |
| 0:55.9 | conversations. |
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| 1:00.1 | It's me, GP, at Big Ten Media Day. |
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