NCAA Tournament title game picks + preview: Gonzaga-Baylor is statistically and practically one of the best title games of the past 40 years
Eye On College Basketball
CBS Sports
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🗓️ 5 April 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
The stakes of Monday night's title game are as big as they could possibly be. Undefeated Gonzaga. No. 1 vs. No. 2. Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander set the table and make their picks. Did you know: Gonzaga and Baylor combine for two losses, which ties for the fewest ever by two teams entering a title game. The stats, storylines and everything to set the table for a game we've been waiting for months to see.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's Gary Parrish. It's Sunday, April 4, 2021. Welcome back to the CBS Sports |
| 0:17.9 | Eye on College Basketball Podcast where we sometimes discuss Kamil fighting, Dodo |
| 0:22.2 | Birds and Leaky Black, Matt Norlander is here with me and we're recording this around |
| 0:27.0 | 7 p.m. Eastern on Easter Sunday, about 26 hours in advance of the title game of the |
| 0:32.4 | 2021 NCAA tournament. Tip scheduled for Monday at 920 Eastern. It's going to be Gonzaga |
| 0:38.3 | versus Baylor inside Lucas Oil Stadium. The winner will become a first time national |
| 0:44.1 | champion. Deadlake, you monitored the press conferences earlier today while I was getting |
| 0:48.5 | sunburned sitting on an outdoor set for three hours, CBS Sports Network. Shouts to Brenda, |
| 0:54.0 | Wake Up Lady for cover my stupid bald head with sunscreen. Anything interesting come |
| 0:58.1 | at it today's press conferences. We're able to listen to them as you were on set or |
| 1:02.1 | no. Some, but we didn't carry all of them in their entirety. We had snippets here and |
| 1:07.0 | there. Did you hear Mark few call me out on the press conference? I saw somebody, I believe |
| 1:11.3 | our buddy Dan Wilkins at USA today referenced it, but I didn't hear it with my own ears. |
| 1:16.0 | I listen, I hop on these pressers just to see what they're saying and you know, I raised |
| 1:20.6 | my hand. I figure I want to ask Mark few because I wasn't in the press conference last night |
| 1:24.6 | going to the HQ said, I just wanted to ask Mark few if he thought that the game turned |
| 1:29.2 | in his favor, even if ever so slightly with Sugs is block and then pass in transition |
| 1:33.7 | to Timmy because it felt like that in the building. So it comes to, it comes to me and |
| 1:41.0 | you know, sometimes when you do these zoom sessions, the host will unmute you. You will |
| 1:45.3 | not do that yourself. So I thought that Mark Frato, who does a wonderful job with the |
| 1:50.0 | NCAA former St. John's SID, really a man about town with many different occupations around |
| 1:56.2 | the greater New York area. He's hosting this again. So I thought he was going to do me |
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