Episode 13 - Matt Norlander
Interrupted by Matt Jones
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2.4 • 888 Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Matt Norlander is a senior writer for CBS Sports, where he has been since 2010. He covers primarily college basketball and is the host of the Eye on College Basketball Podcast.
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| 0:27.1 | This is Interrupted by Matt Jones. |
| 0:37.1 | It's episode 13 of Interrupted by Matt Jones, presented by cornbread hemp. |
| 0:42.1 | This is the Good Life. |
| 0:43.5 | We have done the last couple weeks, probably more politics and current events than some of you like. |
| 0:50.2 | So I thought we'd do some basketball because there is nobody who's writing on college |
| 0:56.4 | basketball. I respect more than this fellow's from CBSSports.com. Matt Norlander, Matt and I, |
| 1:03.0 | I was just telling the guys here a minute ago that you and I worked together for a year in 2011 |
| 1:08.2 | at CBS Sports and you've been there ever since. |
| 1:11.7 | Thank you very much for your time. |
| 1:13.5 | It's good to be with you. |
| 1:14.2 | Yes, indeed, that first season I came on. |
| 1:18.8 | We don't need to totally walk down memory lane, but yes, |
| 1:21.1 | I was hired the first week of December of 2010 at CBS Sports, |
| 1:26.0 | and you were, I think you weighed like freelance for CBS previous to that, but you were number two after that. Eric Angevine and then Jeff Borzell-Han. I was just trying to remember who the other one was. Eric Angevine, that's right. And Javine, who previously ran storming the floor, any hardcore college basketball. What does he do now? You know what? I't know. I haven't talked to Eric in a number of years, but he, he under good terms, just willingly opted to move to a different life. Yeah. Yeah, well, over a decade ago. But we were the original, we were the original four. And I've managed to somehow cling on here. Well, I know how you've managed, |
| 2:07.1 | which is that you do an amazing job. And so I wanted to have you on to talk a number of things. |
| 2:11.9 | The most important stuff is probably the most boring. So I'm going to save it. So let's start with the most fun, the most fun things. Here in Kentucky, we had an amazing story last year with John Caliperi taking |
| 2:21.8 | the Arkansas job, Mark Pope getting the Kentucky job. I think sometimes we are so wrapped up in it here. |
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