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Eye On College Basketball

Top 25 Stories of the Past 25 Years, Ep. 5: Murder, the FBI, NCAA amateurism dies and the Greatest Almost-Buzzer Beater in History

Eye On College Basketball

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4.82.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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The final installment of the Top 25 Stories of the last 25 Years of College Basketball is HERE. Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander recap the top 5 stories in the past 25 years! 🎵 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 @Kyle_Boone @DavidWCobb @NataTheScribe 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: [email protected] 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

Hey there.

0:14.8

Welcome back to the CBS Sports I-on college basketball podcast where we sometimes discuss camel fighting.

0:20.3

Dodo birds, leaky black. Matt Norlander is here with me. If you're watching on YouTube, you know what to do to the like button, shouts to Brandon Davies. And if you haven't yet subscribed to the CBS Sports College Basketball YouTube channel, please also do that while you're here. Let's get into it. Today we are continuing our series on the top 25 college basketball stories of the past 25 years, which is, as you know by now, really just Norlander's top 25 college basketball stories of the past 25 years, with the exception of Bob Knight's termination at Indiana on September 10, 2000. Norlander, we've already done numbers 25 through number six. So we've

0:55.2

made it. That means we made it to the top five. Are you ready to unveil the next five,

0:59.1

the final five of the top 25 college basketball stories of the past 25 years,

1:03.7

with the exception of Indiana firing Bob Knight back in September of 2000?

1:08.2

It's also included, Parrish. We're good to go there. Let it go.

1:27.9

I included it on the last show. By the way, are you good with the top five? Did I miss any stories overall? You know what the top five is going to be. You hopped in that Google Doc. You saw what I had there. Broadly speaking, did I miss on any or did I hit it? There is nothing glaring that immediately popped into my head. I could quibble with the order just a little bit, but to answer your question, I think

1:33.4

all five of the very reasonable and totally memorable, massive stories from the past 25 years,

1:42.7

were they all crystal clear bigger than Bob Knight's termination at Indiana? You know, who am I to say? Who am I to say? But they're all, I don't think anything seems out of place. Okay. As a reminder, if you're listening to this episode, but haven't listened to previous ones, this has been a, you know, it's been a summer series.

2:01.1

We have four previous ones in the feed.

2:03.1

Go find them, watch them on YouTube.

2:05.2

There will be a story that publishes accordingly so and that you can read on this on

2:11.0

CBSports.com or on your CBS Sports app.

2:13.6

That'll be succinct little capsules that touches on all of them.

2:17.1

But let's get to it. Let's get

2:18.1

to the five biggest stories in men's college basketball since the year 2000. And number five

2:25.7

is the greatest shot that never was. Gordon Hayward's half court heave misses at the buzzer for

2:33.3

Butler, which makes back-to-back title game.

2:36.3

So it's not just Hayward shot, although that's a big time deal.

2:39.6

It is the reason why I put this so high, two reasons primarily.

2:44.0

One, it's the most famous miss shot in basketball history at this point.

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