Michigan vs. UConn National Championship Game Preview! + Injury updates on Yaxel Lendeborg and Solo Ball
Eye On College Basketball
CBS Sports
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
We've made it. Two teams. One game. Michigan vs. UConn for a national championship. Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander preview the game set for Monday night in Indianapolis. Plus, injury updates on Yaxel Lendeborg and Solo Ball.
(0:00) Intro
(1:00) We are one sleep away from the title game
(4:30) Solo Ball has a foot injury … will he play on Monday?
(7:30) Latest on Yaxel’s Sunday night injuries
(13:30) Previewing the title game
(37:00) Make a pick
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there. |
| 0:13.4 | I am Gary Parrish. |
| 0:14.7 | Welcome back to CBS Sports. |
| 0:16.3 | I own college basketball podcast where we sometimes discuss camel fighting, |
| 0:20.0 | Dodo Bird and Leaky Black. |
| 0:40.8 | Matt Norlander is here with me. As you can tell, he's at Lucas Oil Stadium. If you're watching on YouTube, honor Brandon Davy, smash that like button. If you haven't yet subscribed to the I-On college basketball podcast, shame on you. Go do it wherever you listen to podcasts like Apple and Spotify. Let's get into it. We are now just one nighttime sleep away from the championship game of the 2006 NCAA tournament. |
| 0:43.5 | By now, you know the deal. |
| 0:45.3 | Michigan, Yukon, Monday night, inside Lucas Oil Stadium here in downtown, Indianapolis. |
| 0:50.5 | Tip is scheduled for 8.50 p.m. Eastern. |
| 0:53.0 | You'll be able to watch it on TBS, True TV, or HBO Max, the latter of which is the home of DTF St. Louis, where everybody is definitely one of us. |
| 1:04.1 | Norlander, it's good to see you for the first time on this Easter Sunday. |
| 1:08.1 | Second time. |
| 1:09.9 | But it's the first time I've seen you on this Easter Sunday since the last time we podcasted on this same Easter Sunday. So what's new? What's new with you? Do you do anything cool in the past 11 hours? What times you fall asleep last night? 4.30. Whoa. You went till 4.30? I'm not good at just like, all right, we'll see you next time until |
| 1:29.4 | then take care and then go put my head on the pillow. So I walked, I walked indoors back to my hotel, |
| 1:35.2 | sat in the lobby of my hotel, and projected our hotel, by the way. I wondered if we were going to |
| 1:42.0 | see each other. I think I might have beaten you back. I was hoofing it, though. You might have beat me back because I had to pack up and clean up and that kind of stuff over there. There was in Houston. That lobby was no one there. There was no one at the desk. So you know where like the, the, the, the travel, CBS travel desk is there where you could get cars and stuff that desk is |
| 2:02.5 | still that table's still there at all time it's just there's no people there at three in the morning |
| 2:06.0 | so i like sat down from like three till four and just worked on the top 25 and one like i was projecting |
| 2:11.0 | arkansas roster and stuff like that and then i i just waited until i was like okay i'm getting |
| 2:16.0 | really tired so that i could walk in put my head on the pillow and go straight to sleep. Because like you know, my wife and little guys are here. I don't want to come in the room and work in here, turn on a computer, turn on the TV. So I waited in the lobby working until I was like, I know I'll fall asleep in three minutes. And that's that's the way I did it. But I'm good now. I'm good now. How are you? Josh, Josh hitting us 4.45 a.m. Josh, MVP of the show. |
| 2:37.5 | It's been great to see him uh also got |
| 2:40.6 | some run in in the media pickup game Josh has some game led to his alma mater at hinkle on |
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