HUUUUUGE episode because you already know why: M A R C H 🗣️🗣️
Eye On College Basketball
CBS Sports, College Basketball, Basketball, March Madness, NCAA Tournament, NBA Draft
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2026
⏱️ 107 minutes
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Summary
Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander open with Michigan winning the Big Ten regular season title before touring the rest of the conference. In the Big 12, Texas Tech and Arizona take care of business against fellow top-25 opponents. Then, the weekend whiparound breaks down every important from the weekend before we look ahead to Monday's AP Poll and notable games on Monday and Tuesday. It's March! Let's do it.
(0:00) Intro + We made it to March
(1:00) Michigan handles Illinois and claims an outright Big Ten title
(11:00) A CBS Big Ten Doubleheader: Ohio State beats Purdue, Michigan State cruises
(20:30) Bad weekend for USC: smoked by Nebraska and Chad Baker-Mazara is no longer on the team
(26:30) Texas Tech walks in to Hilton and wins … without JT Toppin
(33:50) Arizona smokes Kansas 84-61
(40:00) BYU loses yet again, a trend that goes back 12 games + Big 12 bubble teams
(43:40) The Weekend Whiparound! Duke dusts Virginia
(51:00) ACC Bubble stuff: Cal, SMU and more
(54:00) Florida dropped 111(!) on Arkansas!! + More SEC Whiparound: Bama, Vandy and more
(1:11:20) UConn gets a win on a special Senior Day for Alex Karaban + St. John’s bounce back
(1:21:00) Mid-major Action: Saint Mary’s! Miami stays perfect
(1:35:00) Looking ahead to the AP Poll & next few days
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | One word, five letters, March. |
| 0:03.0 | The best time of the year is back. |
| 0:05.0 | It's our time. |
| 0:06.0 | Time for those who love college basketball just as much in the early part of November |
| 0:10.0 | as in the middle of this dazzling 31-day cacophony of chaos. |
| 0:14.0 | And time to welcome in everyone else to the party too, |
| 0:16.0 | because there is no gatekeeping when it comes to the happiness and heartbreak |
| 0:20.0 | that annually, unavoidably |
| 0:22.0 | arrives with this precious portion of the calendar. |
| 0:25.0 | March. |
| 0:26.0 | We love it for what it's always been and hopefully always will be a joyous frenzied |
| 0:29.6 | marathon of bids and brackets and bedlam and buzzer beaters with the unending capacity to shock |
| 0:35.2 | in awe. |
| 0:36.2 | Every year without fail, we find ourselves gleefully tricked into this sense of normalcy |
| 0:41.0 | before college basketball just breaks all contain, and of course it does, of course it will, |
| 0:46.3 | because it's March. |
| 0:48.0 | We adore this month because it brings us back to our childhoods, when we were younger, |
| 0:52.2 | when we were in college, when we fell in love with |
| 0:54.3 | the game for how it made us feel during the sacred stretch of sports. It's time for upsets and |
| 0:59.5 | Cinderella's yes, but even so much more than that. Time for moments we can't possibly envision |
| 1:03.9 | right now, but know that they will arrive like clockwork because they always do because it's March. |
| 1:11.1 | We are about to enter into a conference tournament fortnight, |
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