Highly ranked teams keep getting dropped: Nebraska, Illinois, Iowa State, UNC all lost Tuesday. Plus: Norlander’s scoop on Nova-Notre Dame opening the CBB season in Rome
Eye On College Basketball
CBS Sports
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander open on Purdue's victory at Nebraska and Illinois losing a second straight. Then, North Carolina's Blue Devil hangover results in a loss to Miami, Iowa State drops a stinker and plenty more from Tuesday in college basketball.
(0:00) Intro
(1:00) Purdue walks into Pinnacle Bank…but it was almost disaster
(10:00) Illinois gets beat at home by the Badgers…Wisconsin has an awesome pair of road wins
(21:15) Hubert Davis doesn’t believe in the “hangover”, but Miami beats UNC (+ a Miami OH detour)
(28:35) Iowa State stumbles on the road against TCU. The Frogs are confusing
(33:20) BYU beats Baylor, Dybantsa and Wright were awesome
(40:45) More Wednesday Whiparound
(47:20) Villanova and Notre Dame in Rome?!
(54:25) Naismith Watch List with Jersey Mikes
(57:35) Looking ahead to the next two days
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | There I am Gary Parrish. |
| 0:16.2 | Welcome back to CBS Sports Eye on College Basketball podcast, where we sometimes discuss camel fighting dodo birds and leaky black mat. |
| 0:23.0 | Norlander is here with me if you're watching on YouTube honor Brandon Davies smash smash and if you haven't yet |
| 0:29.9 | subscribe to the CBS sports I own college basketball podcast please also do that while you're here let's get into it I want to start in the Big Ten where multiple top ten teams lost at home on Tuesday night. |
| 0:42.8 | Upsets on Upsets. |
| 0:44.6 | Final score number 13, Purdue, 80, number 7, Nebraska, 77, in overtime, inside Pinnacle Bank. |
| 0:51.3 | Final score, Wisconsin, 92, Illinois, 90, 90, NOT inside the State Farm Center. |
| 0:58.6 | Buddy, college basketball is on some kind of run. |
| 1:01.9 | St. John's, Yukon on Friday, UNC, Duke, Michigan State, Illinois on Saturday. |
| 1:07.4 | We watch football on Sunday a little bit. |
| 1:10.2 | On Monday, Kansas, Arizona, and then on Tuesday, |
| 1:12.8 | we get two overtime games in the Big Ten, top ten teams losing at home. Meantime, a third of the NBA |
| 1:19.2 | is currently tanking for our best players. Norlander, good to see you on this Wednesday morning. |
| 1:24.1 | We're having a fun time, aren't we? We are. And by the way, your boy here, I couldn't love the Winter Olympics more so that every morning and afternoon is a fun little bonus as well. |
| 1:32.8 | We have had seven teams ranked in the top 10 lose over a five-day period, starting with Yukon's loss at the Johnny's on Friday. |
| 1:42.1 | So Yukon was three at lost Friday. Duke and Illinois lost on Saturday when they were respectively ranked four and five. Arizona number one goes down on Monday. If you want more of that conversation, go back into the feed. We touched on that on our Ion College basketball, CBS Sports Network Tuesday show. So go find that. It's in the feed waiting for you or right here on this YouTube channel. And then last night, Iowa State, Nebraska and Illinois all fall, five, seven, and eight, |
| 2:03.9 | respectively. We'll touch all those games on this episode. Let's start. Let's start with Pinnacle |
| 2:08.9 | Bank. I mean, Purdue, Purdue walked in and Nebraska slipped and fell on its ass. |
| 2:14.9 | You realize that's like the, that's like the toughest thing for me. Yes. That's like the hardest thing for me to go through is Purdue winning inside Pinnacle Bank because I don't know how to feel. You're just, you got all sorts of conflicting emotions. Shouts to Brett Streelo, former really good college hoop scribe who sent this, who created a slippery wind wet, |
| 2:35.1 | you don't just walk in the pinnacle bank, hazard sign, |
| 2:38.5 | just for us. |
| 2:39.4 | I really appreciate that. |
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