Nate Oats takes aim at Coach K, while Duke ends its nonconference schedule; plus -- weekend preview and picks! (College Basketball 12/11)
Eye On College Basketball
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🗓️ 11 December 2020
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Duke will not play Gardner-Webb, meaning it has canceled the remainder of its nonconference schedule. The pod opens with that, plus gets into Alabama coach Nate Oats taking aim at Mike Krzyzewski's comments about considering a temporary halt to the college basketball season. There's a lot to unpack there, so here we go. The guys also give some love to San Diego State starting the season 5-0 and picking up where it left off in 2019-20 -- its undefeated run. And the Final Four + 1 is back! We pick and preview the five best games of the weekend, plus give a heads-up on another half-dozen tips of note scheduled for Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Come on in and prep for a good weekend of hoops. We hope this finds you well!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's Scary Pair Shots Friday, December 11, 2020. Welcome back to the CBS Sports |
| 0:07.4 | Eye on College Basketball Podcast where we sometimes discuss, |
| 0:10.9 | Kamil fighting and Leaky Black. Matt Norlander is here with me and I suppose we'll start |
| 0:14.9 | with the Happening's at Duke. Will we last spoke to you Duke had lost by double digits |
| 0:19.7 | at home, too Illinois and Mike Cheshire was wondering out loud if we should even be playing |
| 0:25.4 | college basketball games right in the middle of the double pandemic of my lifetime and if |
| 0:29.4 | so, whether there is a smarter way to do it because Duke is two and two people got their |
| 0:35.9 | jokes in, most of them dumb and then on Thursday Duke announced it will not play any more non-league |
| 0:42.0 | games. Big headline in the sport, Norlander, what do you make of what's happening at Duke? |
| 0:47.4 | Well it's just one game so it's a big headline because it's the timing of all this kind |
| 0:51.7 | of magnifies the headline in my opinion here. Yeah, let me stop you there because |
| 0:55.3 | it when I think it was Jeff Goodman, initially tweeted, it was like Duke has canceled all |
| 1:00.0 | non-league games and it was like, ooh, and then it was like they only have one is Gardner |
| 1:04.1 | Web. So dude alternative headline, Duke will not play Gardner Web. |
| 1:07.9 | Absolutely correct because when and credit to Goodman for getting the scoop and breaking |
| 1:11.4 | it, but when I saw the tweet, I was like, oh wow, and then I brought up Duke's schedule |
| 1:17.0 | and I was like, oh, it's Gardner Web. But the context of all this is and the timing of |
| 1:23.1 | all this really does inflate it because you know, we're coming off a 15 point home lost |
| 1:29.4 | to Illinois and then Shoshesky is asked about this and he doesn't offer up a diet tribe. |
| 1:37.2 | It's on a grand opening statement. He's just asked about it and he says what he says and |
| 1:42.7 | he had this is not new by the way. I don't know if we mentioned this on the podcast or |
| 1:46.4 | not. I think I mentioned on HQ hit. But Shoshesky was adamant in the ACC meetings and |
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