EOCBB on CBSSN: SEC sets record w/ 7 in Sweet 16; Calipari’s redemption; Queen’s buzzer-beater; Sean Miller leaves Xavier for Texas

Eye On College Basketball

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🗓️ 24 March 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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The Sweet 16 is set! Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander are back on a new episode of Eye on College Basketball to preview the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 game. Did the SEC exceed expectations this year? Arkansas is the only double-digit seed left in the tournament; how far will they go? Later, they discuss if a Big Ten team has a chance to win the championship for the first time since 2000. Finally, they discuss coaching updates and look at how many of their original Final Four picks remain. 2:00 - Sweet 16 breakdown 11:35 - How did John Calipari get Arkansas to the Sweet 16? 24:20 - Is this the year the Big Ten can win a championship? 34:00 - Coaching Carousel Updates 41:45 - Prediction updates Eye on College Basketball is available for free on the Audacy app as well as Apple Podcasts, Spotify and wherever else you listen to podcasts. Follow our team: @EyeonCBBPodcast @GaryParrishCBS @MattNorlander @Kyle_Boone @DavidWCobb @NataTheScribe Visit the betting arena on CBSSports.com for all the latest in sportsbook reviews and sportsbook promos for betting on college basketball. You can listen to us on your smart speakers! Simply say, "Alexa, play the latest episode of the Eye on College Basketball podcast," or "Hey, Google, play the latest episode of the Eye on College Basketball podcast." Email the show for any reason whatsoever: [email protected] Visit Eye on College Basketball's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeFb_xyBgOekQPZYC7Ijilw For more college hoops coverage, visit https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/ To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode of IOn College basketball is presented by Travis Matthew, apparel designed for confidence and comfort no matter where the day takes you.
0:27.4	Hey there, Gary Parrish, welcome back to the I-On College basketball podcast on CBS Sports Network,
0:30.8	where we sometimes discuss camel fighting dodo birds and leaky black.
0:43.7	Matt Norlander is here with me, and the place to start on this Monday afternoon is with a breakdown of the Sweet 16 of this 2025 NCAA tournament that is filled up pretty good with SEC schools.
0:46.9	We started with 14 SEC teams in this bracket.
0:55.8	Seven of them remain, which means the SEC is now officially the first conference ever to put 14 teams in a bracket and also the first conference ever to put seven teams into the sweet 16 norlander last night on inside college
1:01.9	basketball right here on cbs sports network i was asked whether i thought the cc had met expectations
1:08.3	coming in to this NCAA tournament. I said I think so.
1:11.9	How would you answer that question?
1:13.9	I think the SEC has met expectations.
1:16.9	When you have 14 in, you should, from a probability standpoint, you know, considering where some teams are seated.
1:24.6	And a lot of the SEC teams that didn't advance, they didn't, you know, they didn't exceed seat expectation. But you've got one seat Auburn. They're into the sweet 16. You've got six seat old miss exceeding seat expectations into the sweet 16. You've got Tennessee and Kentucky, the two and three. They're here as they should be. You've got Bama, a two seat here as it should be.
1:45.2	I think I'm missing one more in there.
1:46.9	But regardless, I would say they have met expectations.
1:49.4	I would think the expectations were pretty high on the SEC.
1:53.3	It felt like there was a little bit of
1:55.5	Schadenfreude that was waiting in the wings
1:59.2	because the league got so many teams into the tournament that if, you know, it didn't send at least four or five into the sweet 16 that it would have fallen on its face.
2:07.6	That didn't happen. We now have a record by nature of what we've seen across the board.
2:12.6	Mighty impressive. Yeah, you got to get 14 in to have a good chance at 7, but they had 14 into the field.
2:18.4	And whether you want to debate on Texas, regardless, 13 were inarguably of NCAA tournament
2:23.8	quality from a resume standpoint.
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