Illinois’ eye-opening W @ Oregon; assessing B1G contenders; UNC gonna miss NCAAs again? League play begins, stacked weekend preview
Eye On College Basketball
CBS Sports
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
The first College Basketball weekend of 2025 is HERE! But first, we gotta recap the beatdown Illinois put on Oregon in Eugene, Memphis getting a big road win against Florida Atlantic. THEN we must dive into the Final Four And One. All on a fresh episode today!
00:48 - Illinois puts 109 on Oregon
15:45 - Mid-Week Whiparound: Big Ten Results Of Note
25:40 - Mid-Week Whiparound: Memphis demolishes FAU
26:55 - Mid-Week Whiparound: UNC loses...again
35:50 - Final Four And 1, Game 1 - No. 6 Florida (-1) at No. 10 Kentucky
40:00 - Final Four And 1, Game 2 - No. 25 Baylor at No. 3 Iowa State (-9)
46:00 - Final Four And 1, Game 3 - No. 4 Duke (-8) at SMU.
50:45 - Final Four And 1, Game 4 - No. 12 Oklahoma at No. 5 Alabama (-9)
53:58 - Final Four And 1, Game 5 - San Diego State at Boise State (-2)
55:48 - Other Games Of Note This Weekend
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| 0:31.7 | Hey there, Gary Parrish. |
| 0:33.8 | Welcome back. |
| 0:34.5 | CBS Sports Eye on College Basketball podcast where we sometimes discuss camel fighting dodo birds and leaky black. |
| 0:40.2 | Matt Norlander is here with me. If you're watching on YouTube, you know what to do to the like button. |
| 0:45.2 | Shouts to Brandon Davies. And if you haven't yet subscribed to CBS Sports College Basketball YouTube channel, it would be awesome if you would also do that while you're here. |
| 0:54.1 | Let's get into it. While resulting Eugene late Thursday, final score and basketball YouTube channel. It would be awesome if you would also do that while you're here. |
| 1:00.3 | Let's get into it. While resulting Eugene late Thursday, final score number 22, Illinois 109, |
| 1:08.2 | number nine of Oregon 77. According to Jared Burson, the man who invented research, Illinois's 32-point victory on the road is the largest margin of victory for a road team against the top 10 team in the history of the Associated Press top 25 poll and the 10 points are the second most. |
| 1:21.6 | Any team has ever scored in regulation of a road game against the top 10 opponent. |
| 1:27.1 | What a performance from the |
| 1:28.2 | Aligni and poor Oregon. My God. On Wednesday, football program gets blasted by Ohio State |
| 1:34.9 | undefeated season over, actual season over. Then on Thursday, basketball program gets |
| 1:41.5 | smacked around by Illinois at home rough couple of days for bad time |
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