Mikel Brown Jr. the next frosh to arrive: Louisville downs UK; Illinois beats TTU despite Toppin’s HUGE night; Gonzaga’s awesome again; Florida, Michigan, BYU dodge upsets

Eye On College Basketball

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🗓️ 12 November 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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On a late night edition of the podcast, Parrish and Norlander recap a massive Tuesday of college hoops. Louisville gets a big win at home against Kentucky led by freshman guard Mikel Brown Jr. Then, despite a 35 and 10 effort from JT Toppin, Illinois gets a win over the Red Raiders thanks to Andrej Stojakovic and company. Finally, the guys bounce around the sport on Tuesday. (0:00) Intro (0:55) Louisville beats Kentucky at home and the Cards guards were awesome (15:35) Illinois knocks of Texas Tech 81-77 in Champaign + an airport tangent (29:15) Bouncing around Tuesday night, starting with Gonzaga smoking Creighton (34:18) Michigan barely escapes a Wake Forest scare in Detroit (39:00) A cool night at West Point between Duke and Army + ACC results (47:35) Florida overcomes halftime deficit against Florida State (51:05) More bouncing around late on Tuesday (56:35) Looking ahead - Alabama vs Purdue headlines 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. Welcome back to the CBS Sports Eye on College Basketball
0:19.1	Podcast, where we sometimes discuss Camel
0:21.2	Fighting Dodo Birds in League E Black. Matt Norlander is here with me. He's right there. If you
0:26.3	watch it on YouTube, smash the like button like your Brandon Davies. If you're one of us,
0:30.6	let the world know in the chat and in the comments. And if you haven't yet, subscribe to the
0:35.9	CBS Sports College Basketball YouTube channel.
0:38.1	Please also do that while you're here.
0:40.3	Let's get into it.
0:41.1	The place to start, I think, is inside the KFC YUM Center where Louisville and Kentucky got
0:45.9	together for a Tuesday night in-state battle between top 15 teams.
0:50.5	Final score, number 12, Louisville 96, number 9, Kentucky nine Kentucky 88 after taking over a program that
0:58.3	finished 290th at kim pom in 2023 and 185th at kin palm in 2024 under a previous staff
1:08.2	pat kelsey has got louis off to a three at a start featuring a big win over its biggest rival.
1:14.5	Mikel Brown Jr. finished with a game high, 29 points.
1:17.5	He's the latest.
1:18.5	Five-star freshman to show out early in this season.
1:22.1	Norlander, I know you were at Duke Army tonight.
1:25.0	We'll get to that later.
1:26.2	So I'm not sure how much of this you saw, but the truth is I don't think you had to see even a second Duke Army tonight. We'll get to that later. So I'm not sure how much of this you saw,
1:28.0	but the truth is, I don't think you had to see even a second of it to know it was a special night for a program and for that fan base. What did you make of the developments in Louisville tonight? Yeah, no, this is where we got to start. Hello, not from Champaign, Illinois. We'll get to that in a few. I'm happy to see Parrish was actually able to hop on an airplane. I know that
1:47.1	everyone that watched and consumed our Sunday show, the promises was that we would go live Tuesday night. We are good by our word, promote something. We're going to show up. I'm now back at my house. We'll talk about all the other stuff later. I did get to watch the first half of this game. also want to be a little bit transparent with the audience. This is a fly by the seat of our pants kind of show. Some of the stuff I saw, some of the stuff I didn't. GP was in studio doing a whole bunch of stuff as well. So thrilled to tour through a night. I noticed someone in the chat said this really felt like the night the college basketball season arrived. I wouldn't necessarily agree because we've had some good nights. I was dialed in last Friday, Carolina, Kansas, you know, co-opete show to open the season. But I get the sentiment. Just an array of really interesting games and interesting results. And let's dive in. I'm psych to be doing this. And anyone waking up with the pod ready for you on a Wednesday,
2:35.0	don't get used to this. This is a rarity,
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