FBI’s game-fixing investigation rocks the sport; recapping a wild Wednesday (3 bonkers buzzer-beaters!); F4+1 for a stacked Saturday
Eye On College Basketball
CBS Sports
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2026
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
READ: FBI's game-fixing investigation
Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander open on Thursday's alleged point-shaving scheme that rocked the college basketball world. Then, Wednesday was a wild night of buzzer beaters and the Final Four and 1 previews this weekend's games.
(0:00) Intro + GP’s glasses are playing the show
(1:00) Point-shaving scheme rocks the college basketball world on Thursday
(27:00) Kentucky beats LSU at the buzzer
(32:30) Boopie MIller is a baller and he hit a buzzer beater
(38:15) Good things come in threes, Ole Miss gets one at the buzzer as well!
(40:15) More midweek action: Vandy falls to Texas, Stanford beats UNC, Purdue beats Iowa
(50:20) Gonzaga will be without Braden Huff for 4-8 weeks
(53:10) Final Four and 1!
(54:20) Kentucky @ Tennessee
(56:15) UCLA @ Ohio State
(59:40) Florida @ Vanderbilt
(1:02:50) BYU @ Texas Tech
(1:05:00) St. John’s @ Villanova
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| 0:00.0 | There I am Gary Parrish. |
| 0:16.0 | Welcome back, CBS Sports, I on college basketball podcast where we sometimes discuss camel fighting. |
| 0:21.5 | Dodo birds and leaky black Matt Norlander is here with me. |
| 0:24.7 | If you're watching on YouTube, B. Brandon Davies, go ahead and shout. |
| 0:30.6 | Hold on, buddy, what is going on? |
| 0:36.3 | Technical difficulties. My glasses started blaring the I on college basketball podcast |
| 0:41.2 | right into my ear. Woo! That was something. Hey, if you watch it on YouTube, smash like Braden |
| 0:47.7 | Davies. And if you haven't yet subscribed to the CBS Sports Ion College Basketball podcast. Please |
| 0:53.2 | also do that wherever you. |
| 0:54.7 | Subscribe to podcasts like Apple and Spotify. |
| 0:56.7 | All right. |
| 0:57.1 | I think everything's cool now. |
| 0:58.2 | Let's get into it. |
| 0:59.2 | And I hope you like gambling scandals because that's where we're starting on this Friday morning. |
| 1:04.3 | And that's because on Thursday morning, federal prosecutors charged 26 people, |
| 1:09.9 | including several current and former college basketball players, |
| 1:13.2 | in an alleged point-shaving scheme. |
| 1:15.9 | According to the indictment, more than 39 college basketball players on at least 17 different |
| 1:22.8 | Division I teams, either fixed or attempted to fix, more than 29 games. The teams are low majors, |
| 1:30.1 | mid-majors, and hilariously DePaul. Among the players involved is the preseason |
| 1:35.0 | Conference USA Player of the Year, Simeon Cottle from Kennesaw State, Norlander. It is good to see |
| 1:40.8 | you on this Friday morning. I think I ran us through the basics. |
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