UCLA beats Purdue, Mick Cronin’s pissed 😂; Miami (OH) 20-0! Arkansas bounces back vs. Vandy; Charles Bediako—who left CBB in 2023—suing his way back to Bama
Eye On College Basketball
CBS Sports, College Basketball, Basketball, March Madness, NCAA Tournament, NBA Draft
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2026
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander open with UCLA's victory over Purdue and a moody Mick Cronin in the post game press conference. Miami (OH) is still undefeated! They're 20-0 and just keep finding a way to win. Then the Wednesday Whiparound recaps the rest of an eventful Tuesday night in the sport. Plus, breaking news surrounding Charles Bediako and Alabama
(0:00) Intro
(0:45) UCLA beats No. 4 Purdue! Somehow Mick Cronin is still upset…
(16:45) Miami (OH) wins again! Rank ‘em GP! Wally says so!
(35:10) Iowa State bounces back in a big way over UCF
(38:15) Texas Tech smokes Baylor, Christian Anderson is awesome
(40:30) Kansas wins without Bill Self
(44:45) Vanderbilt gets smoked at Arkansas, ‘Dores have lost three straight
(46:45) Georgia goes on the road and beats Mizzou
(48:30) BREAKING NEWS: Charles Bediako is eligible for Alabama
(56:00) Some final whiparound and looking ahead to the next two days
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| 0:00.0 | Here I am Gary Parrish. |
| 0:15.8 | Welcome back, CBS Sports. I on college basketball podcast where we sometimes discuss |
| 0:20.4 | camel fighting, dodo birds |
| 0:21.9 | and leaky black. Matt Norlander is here with me. If you're watching on YouTube, |
| 0:25.5 | be Brandon Davies smash a little bit. And if you haven't already subscribed to the I own college |
| 0:30.9 | basketball podcast wherever you subscribe to podcasts, please go do that like an Apple and Spotify. |
| 0:36.5 | Let's get into it. And we're going to start at |
| 0:38.3 | Pauley Pavilion, where Tyler Bilidow broke some Buller Maker hearts. Let me set the scene for you. |
| 0:45.2 | Then we'll watch it slash listen to it together. Then we'll talk about it for a little bit. |
| 0:49.8 | Purdue, UCLA, they're doing it out in Westwood late on a Tuesday night. The bullet makers had led by as many as |
| 0:56.0 | 12 points in the game, but now in the final minute, they were only up by a point 67, 66. 15 seconds |
| 1:03.1 | remaining. Donovan Dent and Tyler Billadot are going to decide this thing. Josh, hit your little |
| 1:08.0 | button and let's watch two baller makers go with one Bruin when Billadot sets a ball screen for Dent, leaving a 43% three-point shooter wide open. |
| 1:19.4 | Back to Dent. The inside of ten on the timer. Beladot He got it! |
| 1:33.4 | Bango, as my buddy, Pete Pranica would say, final score. |
| 1:37.0 | UCLA, 69, number four, Purdue, 67. |
| 1:38.3 | The court was stormed. |
| 1:40.9 | Still need to sand it, as far as I'm concerned. |
| 1:41.7 | Nell can stay. |
| 1:43.5 | Norlander, good to see you on this Wednesday. I know you stayed up to watch it last night because we were, we were texting at one in the morning like we were having an affair or something. What did you make of what we saw in Westwood last night? And no affair, just podcast, podcast production. That's what that was. Yeah, I actually was was i happened to be on the phone with |
| 2:02.7 | Travis steel we'll get to the undefeated red hawks in short order don't worry but we |
| 2:07.2 | chatted for a good 25 minutes and he was on the bus ride back and so um i was transcribing an |
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