Sweet 16 Preview! Ranking all eight games, teams on upset alert. Plus: Why UNC’s taking so long with Hubert Davis
Eye On College Basketball
CBS Sports
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2026
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander preview the eight matchups in the Sweet 16 of the 2026 NCAA Tournament. The East Region is loaded with Duke, St. John's, UConn and Michigan State. Michigan and the Big Ten have an incredible chance to end the national title drought. Darius Acuff will go toe-to-toe with Arizona and so much more from the second weekend.
(0:00) Intro + GP is back!
(3:00) Which region would you attend if you could pick any of them?
(14:00) Ranking the 8 Sweet 16 Matchups
(14:30) Illinois vs Houston
(19:40) Arkansas vs Arizona
(23:35) Iowa vs Nebraska
(28:45) St. John’s vs Duke
(33:10) Alabama vs Michigan
(37:30) Michigan State vs UConn
(41:25) Texas vs Purdue
(43:30) Tennessee vs Iowa State
(51:35) Sling TV Game to Watch
(56:10) DraftKings Upset Alert
(1:02:05) Coaching Carousel: Hubert Davis and everything else
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there. I am Gary Parrish. |
| 0:15.1 | Welcome back. CBS Sports Eye on college basketball podcast where we sometimes discuss |
| 0:19.8 | camel fighting, dodo birds and |
| 0:21.2 | leaky black matt norlander is here with me watching on youtube honor brandy davy smash |
| 0:27.0 | that like button and if you haven't yet subscribed to the i own college basketball podcast please |
| 0:30.9 | also do that anywhere subscribe to podcast including apple and spotify let's get into it the sweet |
| 0:37.0 | 16 is set to tip in a little more than 48 hours. |
| 0:40.8 | First game is going to be Texas Purdue Thursday, 7.10 p.m. Eastern on CBS, America's Most Watch Network. |
| 0:48.3 | Network of Stars, 20 minutes after that, Iowa, Nebraska on TBS. Here's the way I want to start things today, Norlander. |
| 0:56.0 | West South, East Midwest, if you were a college basketball fan with no team still in |
| 1:01.8 | the hunt, but just wanted to go experience what's happening in one of these regions, |
| 1:06.1 | where would you set up shop later this week? |
| 1:09.0 | San Jose, Houston, D.C. or chicago tell me where and tell me why wow |
| 1:16.0 | i mean we're on a little bit of a time constraint but there's no hey how you doing it's been a |
| 1:20.9 | minute great to see you i think we like a little son fantasy Amanda domen's big picture to start the show |
| 1:26.9 | i'm gary parrish i'm at norlander no it's just right into it we got the we got the lineup I thought we might go a little Sean Fennacy Amanda Domben's big picture to start the show. I'm Gary Parrish. |
| 1:27.7 | I'm Matt in Orlando. |
| 1:28.5 | No, it's just right into it. |
| 1:46.2 | We got the lineup. We got the format. Let's go right into it. All right. You're call. I assume you were doing it. It's great to be with you. Okay. I could ask you how you're doing. I think I know. You're doing okay, relatively speaking, but you're worn out, |
| 1:45.1 | all right? And then you can say, GP, how you doing? And I would say, I'm doing okay, relatively speaking, but, oh, buddy, it's been a minute. It's been a minute. It's been, it's been, it's been an interesting situation. And then we'd start talking about whatever we talk about. So I didn't think we needed a Fair enough, but in true podcast form, I'm going to delay the start of the real segment for just about 45 seconds. |
| 2:04.4 | That's the way to waste time. Fair enough. But in true podcast form, I'm going to delay the start of the real segment for just about 45 seconds. |
| 2:04.4 | That's the way to do a podcast. I've got to fly tomorrow morning out of JFK, not LaGuardia. I know you had to fly to LaGuardia. It's great to see you back at your home base here for all of, I don't know, 51 hours. |
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