March Madness recap: COVID kicks VCU out, Abilene Christian stuns Texas, a history made in the first round of the NCAA Tournament (College Basketball 03/21)
Eye On College Basketball
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🗓️ 21 March 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
We've got an even longer episode for you here than yesterday, because Saturday brought on a couple of major headlines in addition to tournament results. Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander lead with VCU being removed from the NCAA Tournament, then dive into Abilene Christian's upset over Texas and run down everything from Saturday before tying a bow on the pod with a preview of Sunday's second round slate.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's Gary Parish at Sunday, March 21, 2021. Welcome back to the CVS Sports, |
| 0:10.4 | I, your own college basketball podcast where we sometimes discuss, camel fighting, |
| 0:14.3 | dodo birds and leaky black mat. Norlander is here with me. When I say it's Sunday, |
| 0:18.0 | I mean, it's technically Sunday, but it's essentially late Saturday night. It's one |
| 0:22.6 | eleven Eastern. I've been on CVS Sports Network all day. Norlander's been on CVS Sports HQ |
| 0:28.3 | all day. Now that we're done and all of Saturday's games have been completed. We are here to talk |
| 0:33.8 | through the second full day of the 2021 NCAA tournament. And the biggest headline I think is connected |
| 0:40.1 | to the game that wasn't played Oregon, VCU was canceled because of COVID issues inside VCU's |
| 0:45.7 | program. So the Rams were removed from the bracket. The ducks were advanced to the round of 32 |
| 0:50.8 | where they will play Iowa on Monday, dead leg. You reported on this. Tell us what we need to know |
| 0:56.2 | and then I'll probably spend five minutes screaming. I told you so let's not let. Can we not have |
| 1:01.6 | that part please? I always I always have to anybody who knows me knows I always have to say I told |
| 1:08.1 | you so when I told you so. All right. All right. But I'll keep it. But I'll keep it brief. |
| 1:12.8 | First of all, little peek into my, my home life. So this, this whole news breaks when the only |
| 1:20.6 | game happening is Iowa versus Grand Canyon and I was just doing what it should be doing. So |
| 1:27.6 | my older boy says, can you come read some books and get ready to help put us to bed? And I'm like, |
| 1:32.3 | of course I can. So for the first time in days, I close my computer, leave my office, leave my |
| 1:38.8 | phone up here and I go do this. I'm gone for maybe maybe 13, 14 minutes. I return. I returned, |
| 1:47.9 | uh, I don't know, two dozen text messages, six missed calls. Hey, we need you on HQ about |
| 1:53.4 | VCU. What happened with VCU? It's out of the turn. I'm like, you've got to be kidding me. |
| 1:58.0 | You've got to be kidding me. The one time I step away and this happens. Are you insane? I'd |
| 2:02.4 | even like read the text. I just saw a whole bunch of missed calls. So I hop on HQ. Go through |
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