Kansas State's Jerome Tang Calls PJ Haggerty BEST PG In The Country + What Went Wrong Last Season

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🗓️ 23 October 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Jerome Tang sits down with Matt Norlander at Big 12 Media Days to discuss his Kansas State squad ahead of the 2025-26 season! (0:00) Intro (00:23) Schedule Breakdown (2:22) What Went Wrong Last Season (6:16) High Praise For PJ Haggerty (7:36) Outlook For This Year’s Roster (10:35) Excitement For This Season (11:35) His Love For The Podcast ------- Theme song: "Timothy Leary," written, performed and courtesy of Guster Eye on College Basketball is available for free on the Audacy app as well as Apple Podcasts, Spotify and wherever else you listen to podcasts. Follow our team: @EyeonCBBPodcast @GaryParrishCBS @MattNorlander @Kyle_Boone @DavidWCobb @NataTheScribe Visit the ⁠⁠betting arena on CBSSports.com⁠⁠ for all the latest in ⁠⁠sportsbook reviews⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠sportsbook promos⁠⁠ for ⁠⁠betting on college basketball⁠⁠. You can listen to us on your smart speakers! Simply say, "Alexa, play the latest episode of the Eye on College Basketball podcast," or "Hey, Google, play the latest episode of the Eye on College Basketball podcast." Email the show for any reason whatsoever: [email protected] Visit Eye on College Basketball's YouTube channel: ⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeFb_xyBgOekQPZYC7Ijilw⁠⁠ For more college hoops coverage, visit ⁠⁠https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/⁠⁠ To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit ⁠⁠https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/⁠ 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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0:27.6	Gamblingware.org I am so pleased and happy to be joined by Jerome Tang of Kansas State, who I think is one of the coaches that actually sometimes listens to the show, right? Like you actually... Yeah, all the time. Okay. All the time. More of us, right? More of us, right? More of us. Okay. There we go. Jerome Tang. Welcome to the Ion College Basketball podcast. Absolutely love it. I want to get to a lot here in a little bit amount of time, but we were just talking before we went live about your schedule.
1:13.5	It is a solid schedule, but I want to know the methodology when it comes to playing in the Big 12.
1:18.3	It's an absolute grind. How you balance the Big 12 schedule with you don't want to get into a spot where you are near the bubble cut line and then you look back at your non-con and say, did we not schedule one more good game that we might have needed to?
1:33.3	So what is your personal methodology on how you try and schedule who you schedule in the non-con, knowing the meat grinder that's awaiting for you from January to mid-March?
1:41.0	Yeah, well, for me, scheduling the non-conferences to prepare you for the Big 12, right?
1:47.3	And, I mean, that's 18 this year, meet grinders.
1:53.1	And so what I want to do is try and go on the road and playing a tough road environment that's going to help prepare us.
1:59.5	Because in the Big 12, if you win 12 or more, I'm sorry, 10 or more games in the Big 12,
2:05.1	you're going to go to the NCAA tournament.
2:06.6	As long as you had a decent non-conference.
2:08.5	It doesn't matter who you played.
2:09.9	It's decent.
2:10.5	So if you play a bunch of cupcakes, right, you're probably not preparing yourself to do well in the Big 12.
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