The season starts in two days and cancellations are landing by the hour (College Basketball 11/23)
Eye On College Basketball
CBS Sports
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
It's been the longest offseason in 40-plus years in college basketball, but the week has finally arrived. The season will start Wednesday. There will be games -- and plenty of postponements and cancellations. On Monday, we learned Duke and Arizona will not play their season-openers due to COVID-19. Even the news of Rick Barnes testing positive broke mid-podcast. The guys discuss the logistics around starting the season this week and all the entanglements. They also get to Auburn, which is not expected to be good this season, self-imposing a postseason ban for 2021. Gary Parrish said this practice should no longer be part of the equation in the penalty process for the NCAA.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's scary parishes Monday November 23rd, 2020. Welcome back to the CBS Sports |
| 0:10.4 | Eye on College Basketball Podcast where we sometimes discuss, camo fighting and leaky |
| 0:15.6 | black mat, norland is here with me. And we finally reached opening week of the 2021 |
| 0:20.6 | college basketball season. Things are scheduled to get underway on Wednesday and undeniably. |
| 0:26.2 | We're going to start this season under less than ideal circumstances. We've been telling |
| 0:30.2 | you for months that it would be a bumpy ride. And if you've been following the news, |
| 0:35.4 | you know, it's already very, very bumpy. Florida had a positive test in its program this |
| 0:41.3 | weekend. So the gators are shutting down for a week. They were scheduled to play number |
| 0:45.1 | four for jenna on friday, but the game has now been canceled. That news came Sunday |
| 0:49.4 | morning. Then on Sunday afternoon, Baylor coach Scott Drew, he announced that he's tested |
| 0:54.1 | positive for COVID-19. His second ranked bears were scheduled to open the season Wednesday |
| 0:59.3 | against 18th ranked Arizona State. And then if they win, presumably played third ranked |
| 1:04.2 | Villanova on Thursday, but Arizona State said it ain't playing Baylor Bears. So that game |
| 1:10.5 | was canceled. And Baylor is no longer in the 2k empire classic meantime. This morning, |
| 1:15.8 | Ole Miss announced it is suspended team activities because of COVID-19 testing contact |
| 1:20.4 | tracing. This comes after kermit Davis, the head coach, tested positive last week. Consequently, |
| 1:26.1 | the rebels first four games of the season, including a decent of fifth matchup with Memphis. |
| 1:30.9 | That's been canceled. And Duke season opener against gardener web has been postponed because |
| 1:35.6 | of a positive test in the gardener web program. So that's where we're at as of like 12, |
| 1:40.7 | 15 p.m. Eastern on Monday. And there's a decent chance. A lot of other stuff will happen |
| 1:45.4 | by the time you listen to this podcast bottom line. We're not off to a great start. We're |
| 1:50.3 | losing games and coaches by the hour. Norlander. What are you making the state of things |
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