Sweet 16 Friday! D.C. doubleheader totally delivers: Duke/UConn win; Michigan bowls over Bama, Tennessee in 3rd straight E8
Eye On College Basketball
CBS Sports
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander recap Friday's Sweet 16 action of the 2026 NCAA Tournament. The loaded East region delivers in DC. Duke beats St. John's and UConn hangs on against Michigan State. Huskies vs. Blue Devils for a spot in the Final Four. Plus, Michigan cruises to the region final in the midwest and Tennessee upsets Iowa State.
(0:00) Intro
(2:00) Duke gets passed St. John’s on Friday in DC
(14:40) UConn escapes Michigan State & apparently Dan Hurley just never loses Sweet 16 & later
(22:00) Yaxel Lendeborg leads Michigan to the Elite Eight over Alabama
(29:50) Tennessee ends Iowa State’s season with Joshua Jefferson in street clothes
(42:35) Setting up the weekend + Sling TV Game to Watch
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there. I am Gary Parrish. Welcome back, CBS Sports. I own college basketball podcast, where we sometimes discuss camel fighting dodo birds, Birds Leaky Black Matt Norlander is here with me. If you're watching on YouTube, |
| 0:24.2 | honor Brandon Davies, smash that like button. It's Friday night for crying out loud. And if you |
| 0:28.6 | haven't yet subscribed to the I-On College Basketball podcast, please also do that wherever |
| 0:33.3 | you listen to podcasts like Apple and Spotify. Let's get into it. I want to start in our nation's |
| 0:38.7 | capital where Caleb Foster returned just 20 days post foot surgery and helped Duke get past |
| 0:44.9 | St. John's final score. Blue Devils 80, Red Storm 75. Dylan Darling, he had a potential game |
| 0:50.5 | tying three in the final seconds. Oh man, it just barely scraped the rim. Then two Cameron Boozer free throws later. Duke won by five, despite trailing earlier in the second half by as many as 10. Norlander, it's good to see you on this Friday night. We in different parts of the country. You're three hours behind me out in California. So when we're done here, you're still going to have plenty of time to get to |
| 1:12.8 | the club. In the meantime, let me ask you this. What will be happening? In the meantime, let me ask, |
| 1:17.6 | before you go to the club, let me ask you this. What did you make of Caleb Foster's miraculous return, |
| 1:23.5 | 11 points in the second half, and Duke's come from behind victory over Rick Petino's Red Storm inside Capitol 1 Arena. |
| 1:31.5 | Yeah, I made of it that the district gave us what we were hoping, and that's obviously this game. |
| 1:37.1 | And Huskies, Spartans, which will get to Caleb Foster. |
| 1:41.9 | I mean, this is now becoming a bit of a running theme here in terms of |
| 1:45.3 | players injured, gritting through it. You know, I wasn't obviously on the pod last night, |
| 1:51.0 | but come to find out, Jordan Pope played with a broken foot, a broken foot and played |
| 1:56.8 | 33 minutes. Foster wasn't dealing with an outright break, but he he guts it out and |
| 2:01.6 | Shire obviously emotional on the floor afterward with Tracy Anderson, a heck of a moment from |
| 2:06.6 | him there just literally seconds after Foster would talk to Tracy about getting that win. |
| 2:12.4 | There's so many places to go with this game. It was an incredible Sweet 16 game. |
| 2:17.3 | And now that Sweet 16 is done, |
| 2:20.4 | you know, we did have some, you know, some games that weren't ultimately that close, but I just, |
| 2:25.0 | there were a variety of matchups that were Final Four caliber. This one was obviously to that level here. |
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