THE HERD - Hour 3 - Top college basketball prospects, why Cooper Flagg is already elite, Jeff Goodman
The Herd with Colin Cowherd
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
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🗓️ 25 February 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Basketball insider Jeff Goodman joins the show to provide the latest on the mercurial star from Kansas, Darryn Peterson, who’s the projected number 1 draft pick but has only played in 17 of their 28 games this season. Goodman also explains why Cooper Flagg has clearly already shown he’s an elite NBA player in his rookie season with the Mavericks.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.1 | Thanks for listening to The Heard podcast. |
| 0:06.8 | Be sure to catch us live every weekday on Fox Sports Radio in noon to 3 Eastern, 9 a.m. to noon Pacific. |
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| 0:24.2 | Now let's get this party started. |
| 0:26.2 | You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. |
| 0:30.5 | Well, there's a lot of reasons this has been a really good college basketball season. |
| 0:34.8 | We've talked about this for the last three years. |
| 0:36.7 | The NIL is taking |
| 0:38.7 | about 15 good European players out of Europe and bringing him to our college game. And about 15 |
| 0:44.6 | kids stay in college that would have gone to the NBA. So that would be like late to mid second |
| 0:50.9 | round guys. You're getting kind of a fortified group. And I said it a couple years ago |
| 0:55.6 | when Yukon won, I said, okay, that's like the best team since that back-to-back Billy Donovan title. |
| 1:01.1 | Like you've got multiple four or five NBA guys. You have NBA length because I thought college |
| 1:06.1 | basketball got real lean for about 15 years, 20 years. |
| 1:16.6 | But the NIL, I'm not saying it saved college basketball, but it has fortified it. |
| 1:19.8 | This year you've got three minimum elite players. |
| 1:22.5 | You've got some unbelievable teams. |
| 1:30.8 | And the teams with money, the schools with money at the top, Illinois and Duke and Michigan, they are really, |
| 1:36.8 | really good teams. And a guy, Jeff Goodman's now joining us, insider for the stadium, |
| 1:42.5 | co-founder of Field of 68 College Basketball Network. You've been following a story for months that guys like me got into about two weeks ago. |
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