Prime Cuts - Final Four Preview, Tiger’s Troubles, Elite NBA Draft Class
The Colin Cowherd Podcast
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Colin’s top takes of the week.
First, Colin is joined by Doug Gottlieb, men’s basketball coach at University of Wisconsin Green Bay
They start by reacting to UConn’s last second win over Duke in the Elite 8 quarterfinals (3:30), break down the Big Ten’s dominance in the tournament (12:30) and preview a stacked NBA draft class and debate who should be the top 5 lottery picks (16:30)
Then he’s joined by Danny Parkins, host of “First Things First” at FS1.
They start with Tiger Woods crashing his car in another suspected DUI, and discuss why his value is so high to the PGA and sponsors that they’ll never cut ties with him. They recap Tiger’s history of surgeries and why it’s likely he’s developed a reliance on opioids to deal with chronic pain and that he probably should never be behind the wheel of a car (27:00).
They react to the potential of the NFL using replacement referees after contract talks broke down. Colin argues that NFL officials overwhelmingly get calls right and paying full-time officials won’t make the product better, and that the only argument for full-time refs is the NFL has the money. Danny believes HD television with multiple slow-motion replays has been the cause for so much complaining about the refs (33:00).
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| 1:04.4 | All right. Well, it's March and it's madness. There weren't a ton of upsets in the tournament. |
| 1:27.9 | I guess Iowa over Florida is the big one. So I got, you know, Michigan and Arizona are the two best teams I've seen. And I thought, I'm going to call Doug Gottlieb coaching now, the Green Bay Phoenix, second year. They finished third in the Horizon League. His first year, his top scores all got hurt. |
| 1:30.0 | Second year, he builds it back up. |
| 1:33.0 | And they were very viable to the very end. |
| 1:36.5 | And I've been keeping in contact with Doug and his basketball journey. |
| 1:39.9 | And I thought, let's get him on here and talk about a lot of different stuff. |
| 1:45.7 | I told Doug today, I said, hey, this Yukon Duke game, it's getting lobsided. If you want to, if you want to record this early, it's like, hold on. It's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's good seeing you. I, we've talked several times. You know, Doug, it's funny about Yukon. I mean, we both live there for a long time. |
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