No. 1 prospect Chet Holmgren is going to Gonzaga, giving Mark Few his best class in school history (College Basketball 04/19)
Eye On College Basketball
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🗓️ 19 April 2021
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Gonzaga is reloading. On Monday the No. 1 prospect in the class of 2021, Chet Holmgren, announced he'd be playing next season in Spokane. Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander discuss whether or not this will move Gonzaga to No. 1 in the preseason rankings, and give insight into Holmgren's unique game/build and how he'll play alongside Drew Timme ... if Timme does indeed return for his junior season.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's Gary Pachis Monday from 19, 2021. Welcome back to the CBS Sports Eye |
| 0:09.3 | on College Basketball Podcast where we sometimes discuss, camera fighting, |
| 0:13.2 | dodo birds and leaky black, Matt Norlander is here with me. Big breaking news in |
| 0:17.4 | College Basketball on Monday afternoon. |
| 0:20.1 | Chad Honger, the consensus number one prospect in the class of 2021 has committed to |
| 0:25.2 | Gonzaga for those unfamiliar as a seven foot center from Minneapolis whose father played |
| 0:30.2 | collegially at Minnesota. He can rim protect on the defensive end, but on the offensive |
| 0:35.9 | end, he's really not a center as much as he's a seven footer who can bounce it, drive it, |
| 0:41.2 | shoot it from deep. He'll bring the ball up the court in transition. He can initiate |
| 0:45.5 | offense just a really long and lanky skill player who is obviously the highest rate of |
| 0:51.2 | prospect to ever commit to Gonzaga. Deadlet, tell the folks how big of a development this |
| 0:56.9 | is from our fused program. It's not a surprising development. Homegrown to Gonzaga has been an |
| 1:02.8 | assumption for a couple of months now, but it's now official. So it's clearly significant |
| 1:07.6 | news here. His teammate, his old teammates leaving Gonzaga, you know, Jalen Suggs off |
| 1:14.5 | to the pros and now he'll he'll be next in line there. That was in part why he was |
| 1:19.4 | assumed to go there. You said lanky, that's that's right. I mean, he is bony, he is rangel |
| 1:27.0 | he is gangly. He makes thin people look chunky. He's he's got a he's got a build that I |
| 1:36.7 | mean, I'm sure plenty of listeners have seen the highlights of Chet Homegreen, but they're |
| 1:40.8 | just aren't a lot of dudes that look like him. I mean, he looks like he's all elbow shoulders |
| 1:46.9 | and kneecaps, but he's a hell of a talent. There's no doubt about it. Number one recruit |
| 1:51.4 | in the class. He's coming off averaging 20.8 points, 12.6 boards, 4.5 assists and 4.7 blocks |
| 1:59.9 | on about 80% shooting this past season. So Gonzaga now has the number six overall player |
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