How should/will Kentucky fans treat Cal? UNC-Duke preview and stakes? Florida-Tenn, UConn-Marquette, Gonzaga-Saint Mary’s highlight weekend preview

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🗓️ 31 January 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Well, get ready for this one. GP and Norlander open on Cal returning to Rupp. What will his reception be from the Kentucky faithful? Oh, and ANY shot Arkansas actually wins? Also, Illinois tried to walk into Pinnacle Bank and ... Plus: Is Illinois the most middling team that many have big expectations for? The guys also talk Hubert Davis hot seat and the urgency of Saturday's game at Duke. Then the big weekend preview. Show goes off the rails multiple times, which is to say: It's the EOCBB Podcast, presented by Jersey Mike's. 00:47 - John Calipari returns to Rupp for the first time. 28:24 - Pinnacle Bank Arena claims another victim, this time -- No. 18 Illinois. 40:33 - UNC comes to Cameron Indoor on Saturday. This time, it might not deliver. 49:54 - Final Four And 1, Game 1 - No. 5 Florida at No. 8 Tennessee (-3) 52:20 - Final Four And 1, Game 2 - Arizona (-4) at Arizona State 55:33 - Final Four And 1, Game 3 - No. 1 Auburn (-7) at No. 23 Ole Miss 59:42 -Final Four And 1, Game 4 - No. 25 UConn at No. 9 Marquette (-8) 1:06:37 - And 1: Gonzaga @ Saint Mary’s (-1) 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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1:04.8	I want to start in Lexington, which will provide the sport with its most interesting scene this weekend, Arkansas at Kentucky,
1:14.3	inside Rupp Arena on Saturday night, a little after 9 p.m. Eastern,
1:19.4	John Caliperi, going to enter the playing surface to coach Arkansas against the program he guided
1:25.8	for 15 years before leaving in April to coach the Arkansas
1:29.8	Razorbacks.
1:30.8	Norlander, a man who coached Kentucky for 15 years and led the Wildcats to the 2012
1:37.7	national championship in a total of four final fours is going to be coaching against
1:43.5	his former school inside Rupp Arena
1:46.0	for the first time since leaving UK last April.
1:52.8	I assume it's going to be weird.
1:55.5	I assume it's going to be surreal on some level for John,
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