Top 10 Countdown: The Illinois Freaking Fighting Illini are No. 6 and capable of winning the national title (College Basketball 11/13)
Eye On College Basketball
CBS Sports
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2020
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Illinois doesn't get many seasons like this anymore. Preseason top-10 expectations and boasting two of the 20 best players in the sport. Brad Underwood enters his fourth season in Champaign with a chance to win the Big Ten at Illinois for the first time in 16 years. Here's all you need to know about a team getting a good dose of preseason hype -- and who Norlander and Parrish are higher on than the preseason metrics.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's Gary Parshish Friday, November 13, 2020. Welcome back to the CBS Sports |
| 0:08.4 | ION College basketball podcast where we sometimes discuss camel fighting and leaky black |
| 0:13.6 | Matt Norlanda is here with me and today. We're going to be continuing our series of short |
| 0:17.8 | episodes dedicated to the schools in the top 10 of my top 25 and one. We're counting them |
| 0:23.9 | down 10 to one on Monday. We focused on number 10 West Concert on Tuesday, number 9 |
| 0:29.2 | Crate. No, Wednesday, number 8, Duke on Thursday, number 7, Kansas. And today we turn our |
| 0:34.6 | attention to number 6 Illinois, Norlander. He actually has the Alina ranked fourth in his |
| 0:40.1 | one to 357 preseason rankings. I have him six in the top 25 and one, which again is why |
| 0:45.6 | we're talking about him today. They are 18 that Ken Pond. They are number eight in the |
| 0:49.3 | AP poll. We're going to tell you what's to like and dislike about bread unto what's |
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