The most anticipated weekend of the regular season shakes up the race for the No. 1 overall seed: Duke, Arizona and Michigan are all 25-2

Eye On College Basketball

CBS Sports

Sports, Basketball

4.6 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2026

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander open with the selection committee's top 16 seeds. Then, Duke beats Michigan in Washington D.C. and Arizona gets another elite road win over Houston. The weekend whiparound breaks down everything else in the sport over the weekend. (0:00) Intro (1:00) The committee reveals the top 16 seeds on Saturday (12:50) Duke beats Michigan in the nation’s capital (24:05) Arizona stacks another awesome road win at Houston (32:20) Weekend Whiparound: let’s start with BYU’s win over Iowa State (36:45) Cincinnati went into Allen Fieldhouse and won (46:20) What a week for Mick Cronin…UCLA upsets Illinois + MSU beats OSU (56:05) In the SEC: Auburn beats Kentucky, Arkansas and Tennessee get wins (1:07:25) In the ACC: Virginia gets another win, Clemson with a big stumble (1:15:35) In the Big East: UConn and St. John’s victories (1:22:30) AP Poll and the next two days Theme song: “Timothy Leary,” written, performed and courtesy of Guster Eye on College Basketball is available for free on the Audacy app as well as Apple Podcasts, Spotify and wherever else you listen to podcasts. Follow our team: @EyeonCBBPodcast @GaryParrishCBS @MattNorlander @Boone @DavidWCobb @TheJMULL_ Visit the ⁠betting arena on CBSSports.com⁠ for all the latest in ⁠sportsbook reviews⁠ and ⁠sportsbook promos⁠ for ⁠betting on college basketball⁠. You can listen to us on your smart speakers! Simply say, “Alexa, play the latest episode of the Eye on College Basketball podcast,” or “Hey, Google, play the latest episode of the Eye on College Basketball podcast.” Email the show for any reason whatsoever: ShoutstoCBS@gmail.com Visit Eye on College Basketball’s YouTube channel: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeFb_xyBgOekQPZYC7Ijilw⁠ For more college hoops coverage, visit ⁠https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/⁠ To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit ⁠https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	There I am Gary Parrish.
0:16.0	Welcome back, CBS Sports Eye on College Basketball podcast, where we sometimes discuss camel fighting dodo birds and leaky black.
0:22.9	Matt Norlander is here with me.
0:24.4	If you're watching live on Utah, YouTube, honor Brandon Davy, smash the like button.
0:29.5	And if you haven't yet subscribed to the CBS Sports High on College Basketball podcast, please also do that wherever you subscribe to podcasts like Apple and Spotify. Let's get into it. I want to start
0:39.6	with the bracket preview that aired on CBS this weekend. It's America's most watch network.
0:44.0	It's network of stars. The committee told us that as of Saturday morning, the four number one
0:48.6	seeds were in order. Michigan, Duke, Arizona, Iowa State. And Orlando, did you have any complaints with those four teams in that order?
0:58.0	Complaints, no.
0:58.9	Disagreements, yes.
1:00.0	The media put Houston on the one line, and we actually talked about it for a good,
1:04.3	probably like 10 minutes when we did our selection on,
1:08.2	I'm losing track of my days here.
1:09.6	I guess that was Thursday.
1:29.0	And keep in mind, when we did that, there were about three or four selection committee members that stayed over. We're still in the room, including Chair Keith Gill, vice chair Martin Newton, which if you haven't checked the feed, Josh, appreciate you doing that. He dropped in the quick 10-minute H-Q interview I did with the vice chair on Saturday afternoon after this came out.
1:36.2	So they knew that they were going to have Iowa State on the one seat, and they probably just had some chuckles internally as they heard us hash it all out.
1:37.7	And it was not a universal decision.
1:46.2	C.L. Brown, who's longtime great writer out of Kentucky and done great work in North Carolina. He advocated for Iowa State to be on the one line. CJ Moore also did as well, but ultimately Houston won out.
1:51.1	The surprise here, though, Parrish, is that it was not Iowa State versus Houston for the final
1:56.4	spot. It was Iowa State versus Yukon, which was the best two seed in the group there overall. So it went
2:04.6	Iowa State 4, Yukon 5, Houston 6. You know, as this happens every single year, this bracket comes out,
2:11.7	and then it is immediately deemed largely irrelevant by the end of the weekend because results have
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