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Eye On College Basketball

EOCBB on CBSSN: Our fav natā€™l title contenders, F4 do-overs + mid-season A-A teams. Plus: Which CBB program is best analog for IndianašŸˆ

Eye On College Basketball

CBS Sports

Sports, Basketball

4.6 ā€¢ 2.8K Ratings

šŸ—“ļø 6 January 2026

ā±ļø 46 minutes

šŸ”—ļø Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

On CBS Sports Network, Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander revisit the six remaining undefeated teams and build out a list of possible national title contenders halfway through the season. Then, it's midseason All-American teams, the Indiana Football of college hoops and revisiting Final Four picks from the preseason.


(0:00) Intro

(0:30) There are six undefeated teams, how many are title contenders?

(15:20) Midseason All-American Teams

(26:03) Mikel Brown Jr. and Darryn Peterson are spectacular, but injuries are a big part of their seasons

(31:55) Which school is most likely to be the Indiana Football of college hoops?

(40:51) Revisiting preseason Final Four selections!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey there. I am Gary Parrish. This is the I-On college basketball podcast on CBS Sports Network. Matt, New Orlando is here with me, and we're going to be here with you for the next

0:23.1

hour talking hoops.

0:24.6

I want to start by reminding you if you haven't been paying attention.

0:27.5

There are still six undefeated teams remaining in the sport.

0:31.2

It's January 6th.

0:32.5

This is rare to have this many undefeated teams still alive, but that's where they're at.

0:36.7

They are Arizona, Michigan,

0:38.7

Iowa State, Nebraska, Vanderbilt, and Miami, Ohio. Norlander, good to see you on this Tuesday.

0:44.3

I know you don't view all of those teams as legitimate national championship contenders,

0:49.1

nor should you, but to the best of your ability, tell me which ones you could actually see

0:53.4

winning six games in the NCAA tournament.

0:57.0

Hi, GP. It's good to see you again.

0:58.9

Back in the flow of our CBS Sports Network shows, I love this.

1:03.2

Appreciate everyone.

1:04.1

Tune in, and if you're listening on the podcast version, we appreciate that as well.

1:07.1

Let's go big picture to start this hour to start this show because the fact that we

1:12.0

even have six still undefeated here on January 6th is uncommon. I'll have more on this and how rare

1:20.4

this is in my court report, which will publish Wednesday at cbsports.com or on your CBS sports app.

1:26.2

But it is, you know, a little teaser here. We almost never get this anymore. This many teams with a bagel still in the L column, knocking on the doorstep of the second week of January, I think it's really cool, really awesome. Of those teams you see on your screen right now, Arizona, Michigan, Iowa State, they're at the top of the list. They're on a

1:46.0

tier to themselves. Michigan, it could be, you can make the case easily that Michigan is on

1:49.5

a tier to itself, unto itself. So those three unquestionably, national championship contenders.

1:56.1

I'd be interested to see if you actually push back on any of those. I wouldn't think you

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