Players Era pays millions to players as Oregon wins 1st tourney; extended thoughts on November MTEs; Big East woes; RIP, Lou Carnesecca
Eye On College Basketball
CBS Sports
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2024
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Re: The Norlander/GP discussion near the top, a must-read from Norlander
On today's show, we talk Players Era Festival, won by Oregon, and take stock of what this pay-for-play event in Year 1 looked like. Also, the Ducks are one of the biggest winners of November. What about Bama, which came in second?
00:40 - Oregon beats Alabama to win inaugural Players Era Festival
27:22 - Oklahoma beats Louisville to win Battle 4 Atlantis
31:23: San Diego State outlasts No. 6 Houston in OT to win 3rd place in Players Era Festival.
33:47 - West Virginia earns 3rd place in Battle 4 Atlantis with win over Arizona
41:51 - What's up with the Big East?
49:38 - Legendary St. John's Coach Lou Carnesecca passes away at 99
59:39 - Tuesday games to know
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| 0:00.0 | There it's Gary Parrish. |
| 0:06.6 | Welcome back to the CBS Sports Eye on College Basketball podcast where we sometimes discuss camel fighting, dodo birds and leaky black. |
| 0:14.8 | Matt Norlander is here with me. |
| 0:16.2 | If you watch it on YouTube, you know what to do to that like button. |
| 0:18.4 | Shouts to Brandon Davis. |
| 0:19.5 | And if you haven't yet subscribed to the CBS Sports College Basketball YouTube channel, |
| 0:23.9 | please also do that while you're here. |
| 0:26.8 | Let's get into it. |
| 0:27.6 | The first ever Players Era Festival concluded this weekend. |
| 0:30.9 | It was out in Las Vegas. |
| 0:32.1 | Oregon beat Alabama in the title game. |
| 0:34.7 | Final score 8381. |
| 0:36.3 | So that's $1.5 million for the ducks |
| 0:39.3 | Alabama walked away with 1.25 million Nate Biddle, Oregon's fourth year forward. |
| 0:43.8 | He got a putback dunk with 4.4 seconds remaining. |
| 0:47.1 | That proved to be the game winner. |
| 0:48.5 | Norlander, I had fun watching college players compete for money on Saturday night. |
| 0:55.9 | High stakes game, enjoyable. |
| 1:00.4 | What do you make of Oregon moving to 8 and O, with victories over A&M, San Diego State, |
| 1:06.3 | and Alabama to win what I hope is the first of a bunch of player eras festivals. |
| 1:32.4 | Yeah. Understandably, so we can take this a couple different ways here. And obviously we're going to get to Oregon winning and Bama and not in just a second, but kind of just big picture stuff. One, I was actually at, you ever gone to a Friendsgiving situation? It's been populated over the past 10 years where basically you do Thanksgiving but with friends instead of family and it's done around like this weekend. I want to know. I noticed over the past couple of years, I no longer get invited to stuff. Yeah. And I think it's because I stopped going. |
| 1:38.2 | Yeah, that will happen. That will happen. Like I can remember there was a time of my life. |
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