Previewing St. John's-Kentucky, Houston-Arkansas, Duke-Texas Tech & more + Who will win the SEC?
Eye On College Basketball
CBS Sports
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
On today’s show, we preview a big weekend in college basketball, starting with an early look at the CBS Sports Classic. We break down Kentucky-St. John’s and North Carolina-Ohio State, and discuss what the spotlight could mean for Jayden Quaintance IF he takes the floor in a showcase event he grew up watching ( ... or so GP says).
After the break, we dive into a Dribble Handoff focused on the SEC, debating who’s best positioned to win the league, whether Vanderbilt is a legitimate title contender, and which SEC teams—if any—have a real chance to make a run at the national championship.
We wrap things up with The Final Four And 1 presented by FanDuel Sportsbook, breaking down four of the weekend’s biggest games, including St. John’s vs. Kentucky, Ohio State vs. North Carolina, Houston vs. Arkansas, and Duke vs. Texas Tech. Plus, the And 1 spotlights a key Mountain West matchup as Colorado State visits Utah State on CBS Sports Network.
0:00 Intro
1:00 CBS Sports Classic Preview
26:00 SEC Check-In
32:15 St. John's-Kentucky
37:00 Ohio State-UNC
39:45 Houston-Arkansas
45:00 Duke-Texas Tech
55:15 Colorado State-Utah State
59:00 More games to watch
Theme song: “Timothy Leary,” written, performed and courtesy of Guster
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there I am, Gary Perich, welcome back, CBS Sports, I on college basketball podcast, |
| 0:19.8 | where we sometimes discuss camel fighting dodo birds and leaky black. |
| 0:24.0 | Matt Norlander is here with me. |
| 0:25.5 | If you're watching on YouTube, be Brandon Davies. |
| 0:27.4 | Smash that like button. |
| 0:28.3 | If you haven't yet subscribed to the CBS Sports, I own college basketball podcast, please do that anywhere. |
| 0:33.4 | You subscribe to podcasts, including Apple and Spotify. |
| 0:37.0 | Let's get into it. |
| 0:38.0 | And I want to start by looking ahead to the CBS Sports Classic by circling back to the |
| 0:43.3 | preseason Norlander. |
| 0:44.3 | I know you remember back in the preseason, we were discussing Kentucky's Jaden Quaintens |
| 0:48.9 | and wondering aloud when he might make his regular season debut for the Wildcats after recovering from |
| 0:55.9 | ACL Surgeon. I told you I had sources who had told me it was a lifelong dream of his |
| 1:01.2 | to participate in the sports class that he had been watching this his whole life, had been |
| 1:06.5 | dreaming about playing in it his entire life, and that date had been circled December 20th to make the debut for Kentucky. |
| 1:13.6 | Now here we are. |
| 1:14.5 | Mark Pope's, it is possible that Jaden Quatins plays in the CBS Sports Classic. |
| 1:19.2 | We're going to watch a dream come true on Saturday, perhaps. |
| 1:22.5 | How excited are you about that? |
| 1:23.8 | I am excited. |
| 1:24.8 | I caught up with Pope yesterday to check in on this very thing. I honestly |
| 1:30.2 | wanted to, but forgot to say it. And I wanted to be like, hey, listen, just so you know, |
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