College hoops preseason spectacular: Diving in and debating Norlander's 1-358 ranking of college basketball teams (10/14)
Eye On College Basketball
CBS Sports
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
This week CBS Sports published Matt Norlander's annual ranking of every team in men's college basketball. Today's episode goes deep into those rankings, with a comparison of his top teams vs. where Gary Parrish has his Top 25 And 1. It's official. The preseason is here. Read along with the rankings as you listen to the podcast below. The guys also touch on Michigan adding none other than Juwan Howard's son for next season. Who knew!
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| 0:37.7 | Hey there, it's Gary Pershings Thursday. |
| 0:40.0 | October 14th, 2021. Welcome back to the CBS Sports Eye on College Basketball Podcast, |
| 0:45.2 | where we sometimes discuss Kamil fighting, Dodo birds, and Likki Black, |
| 0:49.1 | Matt Norlander is here with me. Fresh off of ranking 358, Division 1, |
| 0:55.8 | Minnes College Basketball teams. Gonzaga at the top. |
| 0:59.4 | Porsche, Kakos State at the bottom, Deadleg. Have you recovered from ranking? |
| 1:03.3 | 358 basketball teams, and how many hours do you suspect something like that |
| 1:08.0 | take some man these days? I had two coaches text me earlier this week asking me that exact question. |
| 1:13.6 | Good morning, GP. It's great to be here. I estimate when you take into account the writing, |
| 1:20.4 | the research, the calls to the coaches and the league just to make sure like, hey, I want to |
| 1:24.6 | put this team ninth. Am I an idiot? Are they going to be like top three? That kind of stuff. |
| 1:30.6 | I'd say about 70 hours total of ranking, writing, research. It's, oh, I feel... |
| 1:36.8 | To me, this day is like the day after the championship for you. It really is. No exaggeration. |
| 1:44.6 | I love and hate doing this. I remember it would have been I think six years ago |
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