Draft deadline winners: Kentucky, UConn, Alabama, Arizona + many more. Plus: Norlander on Bill Walton and how UCLA should honor him moving forward
Eye On College Basketball
CBS Sports
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
The NCAA's draft deadline date hit Wednesday night. A lot of big decisions came down this week and with many impact upperclassmen heading back to college hoops. Which schools benefitted the most? Matt Norlander is back on the show, while David Cobb hops in as well to give a glimpse of the season that awaits, led by Thursday's big news ...
(01:35) - Jaxson Robinson to Kentucky. UK top-20?
(15:43) - Alex Karaban, Mark Sears return to school. Both teams are in the top five.
(39:23) - Oregon in dispute w/ NCAA over N'Faly Dante's eligibility
(47:32) - Norlander pays homage to the late Bill Walton — and suggests what UCLA should do to honor him
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| 0:00.0 | The eye on college basketball podcast. We've got a Thursday afternoon addition for you. |
| 0:10.2 | I am at Norlander David Cobb is joining me for this episode. I was not on the show earlier this week. I was traveling for an MBA draft profile feature which we'll get into well next month. We're here at near the near the end of May. It's Thursday, May 30th. |
| 0:23.0 | Hope everyone's doing well for those joining us live. |
| 0:25.0 | Appreciate you so much. If you're listening after the fact we appreciate you a reminder |
| 0:29.0 | do rate review the pod as frequently as you can that stuff stuff does help, particularly in the throws of the off season. |
| 0:34.8 | I went out to the left coast. |
| 0:36.7 | I was in California and happened to stop in at UCLA a couple of days ago ago and I felt if anything pulled by the urge to go and |
| 0:47.0 | visit UCLA I was not scheduled to be there but but I was traveling as as the news |
| 0:51.5 | of Bill Walton's death came down. |
| 0:52.8 | And so we'll have I have some thoughts on on on Bill for the end of the show here |
| 0:57.6 | GP and Kyle Boone obviously talked about that earlier, but I want to get some words in and and |
| 1:02.2 | a thought that I have not seen pop up just yet about the great Bill |
| 1:05.4 | Walton who I still can't believe is gone with us gone from us at the age of 71. |
| 1:08.9 | David Cobb is here. The MBA draft deadline from the N2ablis perspective has expired. |
| 1:14.5 | It did so last night at 1159 PM Eastern time. |
| 1:18.8 | And so with that, we've got a lot of clarity. |
| 1:21.1 | We've got some big names that are returning to the sport as expected. We will start with the |
| 1:25.8 | news, Cobb, that came down a little while ago, a little more than an hour ago I guess at this point, |
| 1:32.4 | and that's Jackson Robinson is going to go play for Kentucky. |
| 1:36.2 | Now this is not a stunner in that Jackson Robinson was rumored to be likely to commit to Kentucky if indeed he opted out of the MBA draft process. |
| 1:45.6 | What's interesting about this is as Cobwell knows and if Kentucky fans watching live or |
| 1:50.0 | listening after the factor watching after the factor where this. |
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