The one, the only: Ian Eagle joins the show to talk NCAA Tournament, his personal road to calling the Final Four, late nights with Bill Raftery and so much more

Eye On College Basketball

CBS Sports

Basketball, Sports

4.6 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Here's a special bonus show for you: Norlander has a fun conversation with longtime play-by-play maestro Ian Eagle, who is now the voice of the men's NCAA Tournament/Final Four on CBS/TBS/TNT/truTV.

Here are the two feature pieces (from The Ringer and NJ Media) that Norlander references during the pod.

3:00 - Ian’s beginnings

5:54 - First broadcasting gig

8:11 - Early broadcasting traits

8:52 - Quest for knowledge

10:43 - Ian broadcasting style

13:26 - Why calling the Final Four in an arena setting is different

15:54 - When Bird met Bill!

22:05 - When Ian gave up trying to keep up with Raftery's late nights

23:33 - When Ian met Grant Hill

27:53 - Differences in calling NBA vs. college hoops

30:39 - Best tournament games he's ever called

33:31 - Ian’s prep, Larry David and much more.

Hope you enjoy this special show. Our thanks to the great Ian Eagle for taking the time.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Oh, Welcome into a special Tuesday edition of the ION College Basketball Podcast.
0:24.3	I am not Bill Raftery.
0:25.7	I am Matt Norlander and I am joined by I N Eagle,
0:29.1	who of course is taking over the lead voice of play-by-play duties for CBS and Turner and the men's
0:36.5	NCAA tournament. Final four, it's a pleasure to have you on.
0:41.0	Thank you so much for doing this, IAN yeah, we can just get rolling here, but I just, I got to say I'm so thankful that after I got to your third layer of publicist, I could finally make contact.
0:52.0	That's right.
0:54.0	I have a lot of people.
0:56.0	Rick, are you comfortable with this look?
0:59.0	Yes?
1:00.0	Okay, yeah, no, we're good to go.
1:02.9	Matt, let me say this.
1:04.3	This is obviously a pretty important three-week period
1:07.0	in my life, in my career.
1:09.6	And with all that said, I get placed in Brooklyn for the opening weekend and you would think my
1:16.2	focus would be on the games you have four games that first day you've got a lot of
1:21.1	information and the only thing I was concerned with was that you were sitting behind me and that you were cognizant of the fact that we might go to an on camera and I don't want you to get caught in between a scratch or a pick.
1:37.6	Like the last thing you need at that point is to go anywhere near your nose and then it fuels the internet at that point.
1:44.9	It takes over the internet.
1:47.0	Was it a pick?
1:48.3	Was it a scratch?
1:49.1	So very.
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