Mighty Midwest: Iowa St. + Nebraska still undefeated; Arkansas-T. Tech, Zona-Bama, UCLA-Gonzaga headline another strong non-con weekend

Eye On College Basketball

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🗓️ 12 December 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander open with another Iowa State victory and a discussion on how many teams could win the Big 12, the nation's best conference. Absolutely NO ONE is just walking in to Pinnacle Bank right now because Nebraska is 10-0 and might have the goods to finally win a tournament game. Then, the Final Four and 1 previews the weekend in college hoops. (0:00) Intro (1:00) Iowa State beats Iowa in a close one on Thursday night + Joshua Jefferson is awesome (7:45) Let’s talk about the Big 12. Who has a chance to win the best league in the sport? (14:15) Nebraska is 10-0! Is it time to win a tournament game??! (25:00) Final Four And 1 presented by FanDuel Sportsbook! (26:00) No. 17 Arkansas vs. No. 16 Texas Tech (30:40) Memphis @ No. 11 Louisville (37:00) No. 1 Arizona vs. No. 12 Alabama (44:30) No. 25 UCLA vs. No 8 Gonzaga (at 11:30pm EST!) (53:40) No. 19 Kansas @ NC State (59:00) More games to watch this weekend 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 Perish. Welcome back, CBS Sports, I on college basketball podcast, where we sometimes discuss camel fighting dodo birds, leaky black. Matt Norlander is here with me. If you're watching on YouTube, be pregnant and Davey. Smash that like button. And if you haven't yet subscribed to the CBS Sports, I own college basketball podcast, please go ahead and do that wherever you subscribe to podcasts like Apple and Spotify. Let's get into it. I want to start in the
0:39.2	Hawkeye State where Iowa and Iowa State met Thursday night in a game between power conference
0:44.7	programs that entered with a combined record of 18 and 1. Fun matchup, final score, Iowa State
0:51.8	66, Iowa 62. The Cyclones, they were coming off a historically
0:56.3	awesome performance at number one Purdue. They trod by as many as 13 points in this one, but
1:02.6	rallied to outscore Iowa 41, 29 in the second half. They won the game by four. So Iowa State,
1:09.4	now 10 and O, just like Duke and Iowa
1:12.1	drops to eight and two, but the losses are to the teams that are ranked fourth and ninth in the
1:17.3	top 25 and one. That is Michigan State and Iowa State. Norlander, good to see you on a Friday
1:22.7	morning. What did you make of Iowa State staying undefeated with a victory over their in-state rival.
1:28.9	A wonderful game, and this is about as good as you can ask for record-wise, other than literally
1:35.2	both teams being undefeated at the time of the game, which I'm not sure that we've ever had,
1:38.4	maybe once before between these two programs.
1:40.9	And for whatever reason, however, the calendar usually breaks down, this game is typically
1:45.8	only the only game of note the night has played almost every single season. I think they
1:50.3	build it kind of a little bit around the final schedule. But my brain's telling me that in recent
1:57.0	seasons for sure, when these two square up for their only meeting in what do they call it,
2:01.4	the Seahawk, the Seahawk series, which Iowa State apparently won in wrestling, volleyball,
2:08.6	men's and women's basketball. There might have been another sport in there this year. They had
2:11.4	swept all of them for the first time, so I know Cyclones fans listening and watching are
2:15.7	extremely happy about what transpired there.
2:18.3	But it was cool to see Iowa get competitive and not just competitive.
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