Duke opens as ’25 title favorite; Indiana adds two big pieces; biggest/latest names in portal; more reax to start of UK’s Mark Pope era
Eye On College Basketball
CBS Sports
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2024
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Norlander and Parrish are BACK together. And we've got an hour-long episode as a bonus to your week. They guys talk Duke, Indiana, the biggest names in the portal and the back story on Norlander breaking the Mark Pope news while on mini vacation.
(00:55) - Jeremy Roach is leaving Duke. Should the Blue Devils be the title favorite for 2024-25?
(15:04) - Is Indiana a top-25 team after adding Myles Rice and Oumar Ballo? There's a glaring piece missing here.
(27:00) - The NCAA has approved, once and for all, unlimited transfers with immediate eligibility.
(41:26) - We get Norlander's thoughts on the Mark Pope hire and all that's transpired in Lexington since Sunday.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there's scary Parish. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome back to the CBS Sports I on College Basketball |
| 0:09.6 | Podcast where we sometimes discuss camel fighting, |
| 0:11.9 | Dodo Birds. leaky black. |
| 0:14.6 | Matt Norlander's here with me if you're... |
| 0:16.4 | Hey! |
| 0:17.4 | If you're keeping count at the top 25 and 1, and I don't know why you would be, |
| 0:22.2 | but if you are, it's been updated seven times now over the past eight days |
| 0:26.1 | The transfer I thought I thought once the season was over I'd have to get to stop update the top 25 and 1 every day. |
| 0:33.5 | Turns out that's not true at all. |
| 0:35.8 | And Norlander, I want to talk to you first |
| 0:37.6 | about the happenings at Duke, |
| 0:39.2 | because the Blue Devils we now know, |
| 0:41.2 | or at least we're now operating with the understanding of they're |
| 0:45.2 | going to lose Cal Philipowski Ryan Young |
| 0:47.2 | Jared McCain Mark Mitchell and we just learned earlier this week Jeremy Roach he said |
| 0:51.9 | he's entering the draft and the transfer portal. |
| 0:54.4 | I don't know that he'll be picked in the draft, so he'd be playing college basketball, |
| 0:58.1 | probably, perhaps somewhere else next season. |
| 1:01.2 | That means Duke is now set to lose top four scores from this past season, five of the top seven. |
| 1:07.8 | Tyre's Proctor, Caleb Foster, I guess Sean Stewart, are the only rotation players expected back regardless Duke remains and I don't know if you've seen this |
| 1:16.1 | The favorite in the betting markets to win the 2025 NCAA tournament that's at least according to Fandall, largely because of the |
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