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Final Four preview: Parrish and Norlander make their picks for Baylor-Houston, Gonzaga-UCLA (College Basketball 04/02)

Eye On College Basketball

CBS Sports

Sports, Basketball

4.62.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

With the Final Four a day away, it's our promised preview episode. GP and Norlander open with some thoughts on Indy and overarching takeaways on the scene there, then preview Baylor-Houston (10:15) and Gonzaga-UCLA (25:00). As referenced, here is Norlander's must-read story on the Baylor staff, who is war vet and who donated a kidney to save a life last year.


https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/a-life-saving-story-behind-baylors-final-four-run-how-a-kidney-donor-on-bears-staff-helped-a-friend-in-need/

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey there, Reed Scary Perch. It's Friday, April 2, 2020. Welcome back to the CBS Sports

0:15.3

Eye Home College basketball podcast where we sometimes discuss, camo fighting, dodo

0:19.6

birds and leaky black Matt Norlander is here with me. It's final 4-E. Here in Indianapolis,

0:25.2

Norlanders here. I've been here now for a couple of days and it is weird how quiet everything

0:31.1

is despite the final 4 being in town. We've both been here in Indianapolis for other final

0:36.7

4s where there's a real buzz on the street. People everywhere, nobody is on the streets.

0:43.4

There is no buzz whatsoever. I don't guess I expected anything different, but it's still

0:48.0

interesting to see it up close. Like we walked from the hotel to Lucas Oil yesterday and

0:53.9

I swear, I don't think we passed a single person. Is it striking to you how empty everything

1:01.4

is?

1:02.4

Now I haven't had it that bad. So we are, it's wonderful to have GP in Indianapolis. We

1:08.0

have not yet seen each other. We will be on the HQ set together on Sunday night. So we

1:13.4

will do a little podcast love in an HQ format in person for the first time in a very long

1:19.5

time. But it's about a seven minute walk, six minute walk from my hotel to the HQ set,

1:25.3

which is right next to the CBS Sports Network set. And if you have not washed it yet, it's

1:29.0

big boy stuff. It's really, really cool. When I walk, I'm seeing like, well right now

1:33.8

actually at the, I don't know what the names of these streets, intersections are, but there's

1:37.0

a guy on a megaphone talking about Jesus and he's been doing it for about four hours.

1:40.1

I saw that guy today when I went for a little walk. He's out there giving a sermon.

1:46.1

He fired up. He's, he's, he's definitely fired up. And then I'm seeing like, there are

1:50.4

some people, but it's not, I was thinking about this earlier in the morning, walking back.

1:55.9

I was like, it's Friday. It's the Friday of the final four. And like, obviously we know

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