Tom Izzo responds, Kentucky shocks, NC State upsets, and Virginia owns the ACC (1.28)
Eye On College Basketball
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🗓️ 29 January 2018
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander open this episode with reaction and discussion on Tom Izzo's press conferences from Friday night and Sunday afternoon. They go deeper into the Michigan State crisis, then transition to discussing the weekend's biggest results. Also included: previews of the best games on Monday and Tuesday, and a few random rounds of trivia.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's Gary Parrish. It's Sunday, January 28, 2018. Welcome back to the eye on |
| 0:17.7 | college basketball podcast. I got Matt Norlander here with me and we got a lot to get to because |
| 0:21.3 | it was a good and interesting weekend of college basketball. But the biggest story in college |
| 0:27.1 | basketball continues to to center on Michigan State and less about what the Spartans are doing on |
| 0:32.4 | the court than what has happened away from the court. When we last recorded a podcast, it was a |
| 0:38.1 | Friday afternoon and it was in between the outside of the line story being published in Tom |
| 0:43.0 | Isle actually being asked about it. But he was asked about it Friday night said mostly nothing. |
| 0:49.3 | And then he was grilled earlier today after a win at Maryland by an outside of the line's reporter. |
| 0:53.7 | He declined to answer any questions, including a question about whether he regretted how he handled any |
| 1:00.5 | allegations of sexual assault against people connected to his program, specifically Travis Walton. So |
| 1:06.1 | Nornighter, let's start there. There's probably no perfect way for Tom Isle to handle this situation. But |
| 1:11.6 | how do you think Tom Isle is handling this situation? He's not handling it quite well enough. Isle |
| 1:17.9 | also isn't a tough spot here. Let's perhaps get into some more detail in regard to Isle now on this |
| 1:23.3 | episode versus what we did on Friday when we were very much literally reacting in real time to the |
| 1:29.0 | outside of the line story. It came out minutes before, not a minute before we started recording. So |
| 1:36.6 | I believe that Isle wants to say more than he's being allowed to say right now. And there are multiple |
| 1:44.8 | incidents of sexual or physical assault that he has to still answer to. Now the Travis Walton, |
| 1:55.0 | specifically, one is where Walton was alleged to have struck a woman in the face twice to the |
| 2:00.8 | point where the woman who has gone on camera and given up her name to say what had happened. And |
| 2:08.6 | she was diagnosed with a concussion after this happened in 2010. Now after that happened, |
| 2:16.3 | Walton remained on the staff. He was eventually not charged with any sort of a battery charge. |
| 2:26.2 | There were some littering charges that he ended up doing. He had a plea deal, basically. |
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