Jalen Brunson and the CBB title that would most resemble the Knicks; Nova lands Italian 7-footer Luigi Suigo; Head-to-head 32-0 game!
Eye On College Basketball
CBS Sports
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander react to the Knicks ending their 53-year championship drought and discuss which college basketball program could have a run that feels similar. Then, Villanova lands a 7'3 Italian and the 32-0 game!
(0:00) Intro
(1:00) Let’s talk about Jalen Brunson leading the Knicks to a title
(17:00) Which CBB program could go on a run that feels similar to the Knicks?
(24:15) Villanova lands a 7-3 center from Italy. Does Luigi Suigo vault Nova into BE contention?
(31:30) Latest in college hoops: Kentucky’s new AD, Ohio State & latest on Sorsby
(41:10) 32-0 game!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there. I am Gary Parrish. Welcome back to CBS Sports Eye on College Basket basketball podcast where we sometimes discuss camel fighting |
| 0:21.7 | dodo birds and leaky black Matt Norlander is here with me. If you're watching on YouTube, |
| 0:26.7 | honor Brandon Davies, the only way he would appreciate. Smash that like button. And if you |
| 0:30.2 | haven't yet subscribed to the Ion College basketball podcast, please also do that wherever you |
| 0:34.6 | listen to pods like Spotify and Apple. |
| 0:38.1 | Let's get into it. |
| 0:39.3 | Congratulations to former Villanova star Jalen Brunson and his New York |
| 0:43.5 | Nick teammates for winning their first NBA title in 53 years. |
| 0:47.9 | Beat the Spurs 4-1 in a Best to 7 series came from at least 12 points down in all four victories. |
| 0:54.8 | Before we flip this into a college basketball topic, let me, Norlander, just ask you how cool |
| 1:01.8 | it is to see an actual former college basketball star like former national player |
| 1:08.1 | of the year, Jalen Brununson lead a historically relevant and culturally |
| 1:13.5 | significant franchise like the Knicks to a championship after leading Villanova to a couple of |
| 1:18.9 | them in CAA tournament victories while in school playing for our pal J. Wright. Yeah, how about that? |
| 1:25.2 | I mean, Brunson being the guy and doing what he did on Saturday. |
| 1:31.4 | That was just incredible stuff. |
| 1:32.8 | I mean, that closeout game on the road matched Jordan, 45 points in an NBA finals winning game, |
| 1:39.1 | did so on a night when his team, his teammates really didn't do much overall collectively. |
| 1:43.9 | And I did think about Brunson, |
| 1:45.9 | Bridges, Josh Hart, you know, the rare set of teammates. There's only been essentially five |
| 1:52.2 | set of teammates that have won an NCAA championship and then won an NBA championship together. |
| 1:58.2 | And this group is the newest set of them. And pretty cool. |
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