Michigan is a MACHINE; JT Toppin injury has Texas Tech’s season on edge; Mick Cronin is a (problematic) content factory; Miami U 26-0!
Eye On College Basketball
CBS Sports
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2026
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander open with Michigan making Mackey it's home against Purdue on Tuesday night. Norlander was there, what were his takeaways? JT Toppin left Texas Tech's loss to Arizona State with an injury. Finally, the Wednesday Whiparound catches you up on everything from Tuesday from a vintage Mick Cronin night to several notable results.
(0:00) Intro + GP in NYC, Norlander in West Lafayette
(1:00) Mackey was loud, Mackey was raucous…but Michigan dominates Purdue
(16:17) More bummer Big 12 news: JT Toppin goes down with an injury in loss to ASU
(23:00) Wednesday Whiparound: we gotta start with Mick Cronin
(37:00) Iowa beats Nebraska + a good win for Ohio State
(43:00) A couple ACC outcomes: the Pack beat UNC, SMU tops Louisville
(46:15) Big 12: K-State & UCF wins
(49:05) Mid major ranked results: Saint Louis and Miami University
(54:45) Naismith Watch and looking ahead to the next two days
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there. I am Gary Parrish. Welcome back to CBS Sports. I own college basketball podcast, |
| 0:19.2 | where we sometimes discuss camel fighting, dodo birds, leaky black. The I own college basketball podcast, where we sometimes discuss camel fighting, |
| 0:21.4 | dodo birds, leaky black. The I own college basketball podcast is presented by Jersey |
| 0:26.3 | Mike's proud sponsor of the Naismith Award. Jersey mics would like to offer their congratulations |
| 0:31.3 | to all of the athletes on the watch list. Per usual, Matt Lorlander is here with me. That looks like |
| 0:36.5 | a hotel room. If you're watching live on YouTube, |
| 0:38.8 | honor Brandon Davies, smash that like button. And if you haven't yet subscribed to the I own college |
| 0:42.8 | basketball podcast, please also do that wherever you subscribe to podcast like Spotify and Apple. Let's get |
| 0:48.4 | into it. We're going to start with the scene Tuesday night inside Mackie Arena, top 10 matchup in the Big 10. |
| 0:54.5 | It was not a great game, but it was super impressive stuff from the nation's top |
| 0:58.8 | ranked team. |
| 0:59.4 | Final score number one, Michigan 91, number seven, Purdue 80. |
| 1:03.7 | The Wolverines took a 20 point lead on the road over the sports preseason number one |
| 1:08.8 | and won the game by 11. |
| 1:11.0 | Norlander, good to see you on this Wednesday morning. |
| 1:14.2 | You were in the building for Michigan's latest beatdown. |
| 1:17.2 | What did you make of Michigan's 21st, double digit victory of this season? |
| 1:22.4 | Hello from us, Lafayette. |
| 1:24.5 | That was, I think, the loudest gym I had ever been in to start a basketball game. |
| 1:32.5 | Been in louder ones at the end of it, but the crowd was ready to go, not just because Michigan is number one, but also because, as I detailed in my column overnight, Yaxa Lendenborg, like last June, |
| 1:49.1 | and I talked to him and I talked to Dusty about this, he was at a bar. |
| 1:53.5 | He may have been imbibing. |
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