Michigan, Zona, Iowa St, Duke = 4 best unbeatens; 💰UK = CBB’s most disappointing; Darryn Peterson back; whiparound winners/losers; CFP cmte stinks compared to NCAAT

Eye On College Basketball

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4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander recap big time road wins for Duke and Iowa State before discussing the four best resumes in the sport and the cases for the next No. 1 team in the country. Then, it's another stinker from Kentucky and plenty more from a stacked weekend of college basketball. (0:00) Intro (0:30) It was a BAD weekend to be a building truster (2:30) Duke gets yet another impressive win, this time at Michigan State (10:00) Iowa State hands No. 1 Purdue the type of loss you never want to have at home (23:48) Arizona and Michigan tack on yet another blowout victory (27:35) Who has the No. 1 resume in the country right now? (38:15) Oh no no no Kentucky… (50:45) Weekend Whiparound: Darryn Peterson, Louisville vs IU (with a Cignetti tangent), Illinois over UT & more (1:14:00) Early week action headlined by the Jimmy V (1:16:24) Are poll attacks going to make a return…sheesh CFP committee 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 @Boone @DavidWCobb @TheJMULL_ 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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0:00.0	Hey there. I am Gary Parrish.
0:16.0	Welcome back to CBS Sports.
0:17.4	I own college basketball podcast where we sometimes discuss camel fighting
0:21.0	dodo birds and leaky black Matt Norlander is here with me. If you watch it on YouTube,
0:26.3	be Brandon Davies. Smash that like button. And if you haven't yet subscribed to the CBS Sports
0:29.9	I own college basketball podcast, please do that wherever you have subscribed a podcast like Apple,
0:35.9	Spotify. Let's get into it.
0:38.2	I want to start right at the top by acknowledging it was a terrible weekend to be a
0:44.2	building truster.
0:46.5	Inherently, I'm a building truster.
0:48.8	We've been over this, but this weekend, two of the most trustworthy buildings in the Big Ten, if not the entire country.
0:57.7	Man, you couldn't trust them no further than you could see them.
1:01.0	Final score, Iowa State 81, Purdue 58, inside Mackey Arena.
1:06.1	Final score, Duke 66, Michigan State 60 inside the Breslin Center.
1:11.7	I repeat, it was a bad weekend to be a building trust.
1:14.9	Norlander, you wrote about the Blue Devil's perfect 10 and O record and I thought made a fine point that while highlighting that, you know,
1:23.4	John Shire lost all five starters from last season's team, but has already established this team,
1:29.9	brand new team, in many ways, to elite status over the first five weeks of this season.
1:35.0	So let's talk Duke Michigan State first. Then we'll get to Iowa State Purdue. Like you noted,
1:41.1	if you think what John Shire is doing is easy just because he has all of the
1:45.7	resources in the Duke brand, look no further than Kentucky this season or North Carolina
1:50.3	last season.
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