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Eye On College Basketball

INSTANT CLASSIC Saturday: History-making 40-pt performances; ILL, TTU, UNC, AUB log big Ws; SEC in a blender; 20-0 trio; Pitino #900

Eye On College Basketball

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4.6 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2026

⏱️ 84 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander recap the best freshman day of all time. Illinois' Keaton Wagler, Houston's Kingston Flemings and BYU's AJ Dybantsa shine on a loaded Saturday. Let's recap an incredible Saturday in college basketball.


(0:00) Intro + GP’s been at the Kennel all day and oh my what a day!

(4:45) Three 40-point freshman performances on the SAME DAY!

(7:00) Oh my Keaton Wagler!! Illinois beats Purdue, another loss for Boilers in Mackey Arena

(15:45) The Kingston Flemings show! But it’s Texas Tech that beats Houston

(20:00) AJ Dybantsa got in on the 40-point party against Utah

(32:05) A whole lot happened in the SEC on Saturday, let’s start with UT over Bama

(36:47) Auburn beat Florida in Gainesville…wasn’t expecting that

(39:50) Texas puts up a 57 ball in the 2nd half, beats Georgia by 20

(40:30) Mizzou hits not one, but two buzzer beaters!

(43:45) Vandy avoids a swoon, Kentucky wins five straight

(47:40) Big time Saturday Whiparound

(40:00) We have three 20-0 teams!

(54:35) UNC beats Virginia on the road

(56:30) UConn escapes Nova in overtime

(57:50) Kansas cruises over K-State without Darryn Peterson

(1:01:55) Some final whiparound: Iowa State, Michigan State, 900 for Rick and Ed Cooley back at Providence

(1:12:20) AP Poll Predictions and looking ahead to the next few days

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey there. I am Gary Parrish. Welcome back, CBS Sports I on college basketball podcast podcast where we sometimes discuss camel fighting,

0:21.3

dodo birds and leaky black Matt Norlander is here with me. If you watch it on YouTube,

0:25.8

be Brandon Davy smash a little bit. And if you haven't already, subscribe to the

0:30.0

Island College Basketball podcast. Please go do that wherever you subscribe to podcasts like Apple

0:34.5

and Spotify. Let's get into it. And if you don't mind, we're going to do things a little differently tonight.

0:40.3

As you can tell from my uniform, I've been working all day and not like traditional work

0:45.4

for me in a studio with 12 televisions watching every basketball game that's going on.

0:50.1

This was a lot different.

0:51.2

I've been at the kennel basically all day long here in Spokane, Washington.

0:57.2

Shooterounds, Zoom calls was on the sideline for a thriller, for a thriller inside the

1:02.7

Athletic Center. We're going to get to that. Okay. Because as we're about to dive into this here,

1:08.3

a lot going on on this show. One, I think

1:10.8

might be people next door to me in this hotel pulling a GP. They're going to have to deal with the noise. Two, I ordered dinner like an hour ago and I just picked it up in the past. I'm not exaggerating 13 minutes. So I'm going to do my best not to eat on camera, but this non's going to go cold. Three, GP's got a bunch of games. He doesn't even know the results, too.

1:28.1

The irony of this is I watched almost the entire day of college basketball,

1:32.8

but as things progressed, the one game that I did not see a single second of

1:38.5

was San Francisco at Gonzaga.

1:40.5

So we will eventually get to that as well.

1:42.4

Thank you for your support.

1:44.0

Thank you for your support. Thank you for your

1:44.8

support. It wasn't intentional. AJ DeBanza dropped 43 and then I had to interview him and some other

1:51.8

folks after. That's why I got caught up in it. And then I had to come back to the hotel. So

1:55.1

that genuinely is what happened. But continue to lay out the pod because these Saturday night shows,

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