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Eye On College Basketball

Must-see 1st rd games: Best matchups, upset alerts, Cinderellas in the wings and stats/facts to know before finishing your bracket

Eye On College Basketball

CBS Sports

Sports, Basketball

4.62.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2026

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

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Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander preview Thursday and Friday of the 2026 NCAA Tournament! Which Round 1 matchups are most intriguing? Where are the upsets waiting to happen? All that and more on the doorstep of the madness!


(0:00) Intro + the tournament starts today!

(4:00) Games to watch on Thursday

(4:30) Ohio State vs. TCU

(8:01) North Carolina vs. VCU

(12:45) Georgia vs. Saint Louis

(17:00) Nebraska vs. Troy

(19:00) Duke vs. Siena

(23:15) Arkansas vs. Hawaii

(27:30) Games to watch on Friday

(28:00) Kentucky vs. Santa Clara

(33:30) Texas Tech vs. Akron

(36:00) UConn vs Furman

(38:30) Arizona vs LIU

(44:00) Alabama vs Hofstra

(48:20) Kansas vs. Cal Baptist

(52:45) DraftKings Upset Alert

(59:45) Sling TV Game to Watch: you gotta watch Miami on Wednesday night

(1:08:30) Norlander’s nuggets ahead of the tournament

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey there. I am Gary Parrish. Welcome back. CBS Sports Eye on college basketball podcast where we sometimes discuss Campbell fighting Dodo Birds and Leaky Black.

0:21.5

Matt Norlander is here with me.

0:23.4

If you're watching on YouTube, honor Brandon Davies appropriately smash that like button.

0:27.6

And if you haven't yet, subscribe to the I On College Basketball podcast, please also do that.

0:32.3

Wherever you listen to podcasts like Apple and Spotify, let's get into it.

0:36.5

Today is Tuesday, which means the NCAA tournament starts tonight.

0:41.4

6.40 p.m. Eastern, UMBC Howard on True TV, 915 Eastern, Texas, NC State on True TV.

0:49.9

Norlander, it's Sean Miller and Will Wade inside UD Arena.

0:53.5

Oh.

1:31.0

Should we tap it? Should we tap it? Should UD Arena be wiretap tonight? That's the first place. Yes, it's Christian Dawkins Arena. Not a final four and one pick, but we know what the deal is, right? We know what the deal is. How about that? Sean Miller, by the way, I'm going to have nuggets sprinkled throughout this episode. Sean Miller, first ever coach, back-to-back years, Final Four with two different teams. How about that? First four, first four. I say Final Four. Yes, I was like, I was like, hold on. How did I miss this? My head was going, man. I was like, hold on. I love it. I i'm not i'm not insisting i always pay completely close attention to what you're saying but even i heard that and i was like hold on

1:35.4

that doesn't that doesn't sound right first four first four i'll have some uh i'll have some stats

1:40.3

and stuff at the end of the show but we've got a first round round to preview. Now, we're not going, listen, we're not going chest deep, let alone ankle deep on Arizona, L.I.U., Houston, Idaho, Iowa State, Tennessee. But we got a variety to speak for yourself. Oh, you are? Let's have it. Come on, give me everything you got on you Confirman right now. You know how I feel about Bob Ritchie.

2:03.7

How do you feel about Dan Hurley?

2:06.2

I like Dan Hurley, you know?

2:10.7

I like Dan Hurley.

2:12.0

I actually, like, that's the thing.

2:13.6

You get, I, you get in this situation where it's your job to talk about things and then suddenly people

2:22.0

are like, well, you must not like this guy because I said I didn't think that the way he did

2:28.0

this one thing, this one time was appropriate. It means you don't like this guy. I thought about

2:32.7

this the other day as I've been going through what I've been going through. Every Memphis coach that I, that has ever had the job since I've had my career has hated me at some point. Every single one, the coach at my alma mater, because it is my job to talk about these things. But the truth is, I'm not sideways with any of them in real life. I could talk to,

2:51.7

well, maybe there's one that wouldn't be the nicest to me, but I could talk to pretty much

2:54.7

any former Memphis coach and it would be fine. And I think if I bump into Dan Hurley, it would be fine. I like Dan Hurley fine. But you know how I feel about Bob Richie. okay you want to dive into that uh what else we got it right here's what i want to go here's what i want to

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