Gonzaga and Baylor agree to huge game for upcoming season; NCAA officially embracing playing college basketball in bubbles
Eye On College Basketball
CBS Sports
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2020
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
If Gonzaga and Baylor can maneuver on a dime and schedule each other for next season, then of course there's real optimism college basketball can pull off a regular season for 2020-21. This episode leads with Norlander's scoop on Few and Drew's coup, and gets into a lot of the scenarios and scuttlebutt Parrish and Norlander have heard from coaches in the past week. We also got news as of late: the NCAA is officially embracing using bubbles and we know college basketball will have a definitive word on its schedule start time and details by mid-September.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's Gary Parish. It's Tuesday, August 18, 2020. Welcome back to the CBS |
| 0:14.1 | Sports Eye on College basketball podcast where we sometimes discuss |
| 0:18.0 | Camel fighting and leaky black Matt Norlander is here with me and he delivered some nice, |
| 0:22.6 | non-league scheduling news late Monday. Gonzaga Coach Mark Fue told Norlander, |
| 0:27.6 | the Zacks will play Terry Teague. It goes on the monitor this season. Scott Drew, |
| 0:31.5 | the coach at Terry Teague is on the monitor. That's Baylor University confirmed the development |
| 0:35.4 | as well. So it'll be Gonzaga Baylor at some point in the 2021 season. Those two teams are, |
| 0:41.2 | by the way, number one and number two, inversion 25.0 of the CBS Sports preseason, |
| 0:47.9 | top 25 and one. So this is a nice deal. Norlander, it's your story. So I'll let you take it. |
| 0:53.0 | How did Gonzaga Baylor come together? How likely is it that this is actually going to happen? |
| 0:58.7 | If you talk to Mark Fue, it's more likely in his eyes than I think a lot of casual observers |
| 1:05.4 | would say because Mark is determined to bring positivity and optimism to this college basketball |
| 1:12.6 | season, both conference and non-conference play. And listen, this is a wonderful bit of news for |
| 1:18.9 | college basketball. This is the kind of flexibility that college football doesn't afford itself. |
| 1:23.8 | And this is, I think, unprecedented. I mean, I couldn't tell you if there were any late scheduling |
| 1:28.7 | changes in the mid 60s or late 70s or early 80s that allowed for two preseason top five teams |
| 1:35.0 | to schedule each other in mid August for the forthcoming season. But we have it here. And whether |
| 1:40.8 | it, listen, I do think Villanova's, I would have Villanova, I think, is number one, but you've got |
| 1:44.8 | them one and two, which makes the selling the story all a bit better. The fact that you have |
| 1:49.9 | these two coaches at these two programs coming off, they both would have been one season GP. |
| 1:55.8 | They had six losses last season. And yes, they are two of the three best teams heading into next |
| 2:00.0 | season to look at the situation, not be scared in terms of quality of opponent, see an opportunity |
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