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Eye On College Basketball

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Eye On College Basketball

CBS Sports

Sports, Basketball

4.6 • 2.8K Ratings

šŸ—“ļø 18 May 2026

ā±ļø 111 minutes

šŸ§¾ļø Download transcript

Summary

Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander open the mailbag (email us! ShoutstoCBS@gmail.com) to answer all of your questions! From tournament expansion to NIL and everything in between. Who doesn't love a mailbag episode?! #moreofus


(0:00) Intro

(2:00) Mailbag time! Starting with tournament expansion

(16:55) Appliance build quality is going down and it’s pissing Norlander off

(24:30) NIL transparency where you at?

(33:15) A question about the five-in-five eligibility model

(40:00) Norlander’s 10 biggest shots in NCAA Tournament history

(49:00) Greatest coach in the history of college basketball without a national championship

(51:00) Calipari’s best one-and-done freshmen

(55:15) A three-part question from Aaron ripe with power rankings

(58:15) Let’s talk about the top of Shaka Smart’s head

(1:02:00) Wedding do’s and don’ts

(1:15:00) Eye on CBB origin episode

(1:18:45) General tomfoolery & Josh vs GP on the course

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Gary Parish, welcome back, CBS Sports, I own college basketball podcast podcast where we sometimes discuss camel fighting,

0:21.6

dodo birds, and leaky black. Per usual, Matt Norlander, is here with me if you're watching on

0:26.0

YouTube. Honor Brandon Davies, the only way that's appropriate. Smash the like button. And if you

0:30.9

haven't yet subscribed to the Ion College Basketball podcast, please do that wherever you subscribe

0:34.8

to podcasts like Apple and Spotify. Let's get into it today it's a

0:38.8

mailbag episode with questions from listeners some questions are basketball related some are not

0:44.5

norlander you got something you want to throw in here right at the top or you want to go straight

0:47.7

to the questions how you want to do we have called your inquiries plucked your emails noted your

0:52.2

notes listed your love letters, cobbled together

0:55.6

a menagerie of typical correspondence for the end of this show. By the way, some of you just use

1:00.4

it. Always, always email the show. Shouts to CBS at gmail.com. Some of your emails will never see the light

1:07.1

of day. Some of them sit in the inbox for a good three, four, five months and then wind up on a podcast, just like this one, a mailback special. So reminder, email the show, whenever you

1:15.2

want, however you please. Some of the stream of consciousness stuff, we get GPs just outrageous.

1:20.4

But it does make me chuckle. I'll toss in a few of those at the end. We can dive right in.

1:25.4

Listen, it's a mid-May monday mailbag we've already like

1:30.8

we appreciate everyone dialed into the live chat we've got like well milan mom chilevitt

1:35.3

stay in the draft or transfer folks we talked about that last we're not doing NBA

1:39.0

who cares who cares there's got to be there's got to be another college basketball podcast out there that will tell you stuff like that.

1:47.0

All right.

1:47.3

Eoretically, but this was the first college sports podcast period ever go to video.

1:52.0

Don't fact check that.

1:52.8

Everyone knows that it's true.

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