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Eye On College Basketball

Grant McCasland On What Separates Texas Tech From Other Schools + Why He Re-Watches Elite 8 Loss

Eye On College Basketball

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🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Grant McCasland sits down with Gary Parrish at Big 12 Media Days to discuss his Texas Tech squad ahead of the 2025-26 season!  (0:00) Intro (00:18) Looking Back At Elite 8 Loss (4:46) Outlook For JT Toppin (7:29) Support System At Texas Tech (10:35) Expectations For Christian Anderson (12:45) What Makes Him A Good Coach (15:25) Non-Conference Schedule Breakdown ------- Theme song: "Timothy Leary," written, performed and courtesy of Guster 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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0:50.8

Last season in year two, you take it all the way to the elite eight. That's obviously

0:55.2

impressive stuff, but I know it didn't end the way you wanted. And this was interesting to me.

1:00.5

I heard you explain that not only have you gone back and watched it, you watched it the night

1:06.0

of and you go back regularly and watch it. I've talked to other coaches who have had, you know, season-ending losses that got away from

1:14.1

them at the end, and they've never gone back and watched it.

1:16.7

They can't sit in front of it.

1:18.4

What is it that made you want to do it that way?

1:21.6

Honestly, I've lost a lot of those before.

1:24.3

And so, you know, I've played played in junior college or coach in junior college lost

1:30.4

a national championship game and then lost in the elite eight on a tip dunk at the buzzer then

1:34.8

coached in division two and lost in two elite eights at the end of the game you know just honestly

1:38.9

there's a significant part of those that the more you can stare at in the face and not in a way that's like I don't know

1:46.9

like morbid but more in a way that's let's just be honest with who we are and what we are and what we

1:53.2

got to be about and I think that's endearing to players when you can just show them that you're not

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