UConn + St. John’s are carrying the Big East. Hail to the mid-majors: Miami now 23-0! Saint Louis 22-1! NC State, USC up their NCAAT chances
Eye On College Basketball
CBS Sports, College Basketball, Basketball, March Madness, NCAA Tournament, NBA Draft
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🗓️ 4 February 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander open with wins for St. John's and UConn on Tuesday. The stage is set for the Big East's best teams to go head-to-head for the first time on Friday. Then, the Wednesday Whiparound catches you up on notable Tuesday results before looking ahead to the next few days.
(0:00) Intro
(1:00) UConn and St. John’s will carry wins streaks into Friday’s game
(16:15) Wednesday Whiparound: starting with the 23-0 Redhawks
(22:35) Saint Louis has won 15 straight games! And are a buzzer beater away from perfection
(27:30) Duke cruising through the ACC, this time over Boston College
(29:20) Tennessee beats Ole Miss, Chris Beard gets ejected and Nate Ament was awesome
(32:45) Alijah Arenas has a noteworthy performance in game No. 5…but another injury for USC
(37:05) Naismith Watch List presented by Jersey Mikes
(42:45) Looking ahead to the next two days
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there. I am Gary Parrish. Welcome back, CBS Sports Eye on College Basketball podcast podcast where we sometimes discuss camel fighting |
| 0:21.3 | dodo birds leaky black matt norlander is here with me let's get into it and we're going to |
| 0:26.6 | start in the big east where yukon and st johns both one tuesday to set up friday showdown |
| 0:32.6 | 25 blocks south of where i'm sitting right now final Final score, Yukon 92, Xavier, 60. |
| 0:39.3 | Final score, St. John's, 68 to Paul, 56, so the Huskies and Red Storm have now combined to win 26 straight games. |
| 0:48.6 | Next up, they'll see each other Friday night inside New York's Madison Square Garden. |
| 0:53.2 | Orlander, good to see you on a Wednesday. We don't have to preview pick the game. We could do that |
| 0:57.9 | Friday, but let's just appreciate that we got to this point. Rick Petino, Dan Hurley, |
| 1:03.8 | inside MSG, with long winning streaks and a capacity crowd. It should be awesome. |
| 1:09.1 | I will be on hand there, obviously there obviously uh dip down into the city |
| 1:13.3 | on friday uh looking forward to it and yeah this is what we would hope it would be in the preseason |
| 1:21.2 | yukon and st johns at the top of the league playing a game with real stakes behind it both of them |
| 1:25.8 | ranked both of them with good momentum. |
| 1:28.1 | We are getting that, |
| 1:29.4 | but even beyond that, |
| 1:30.7 | and kind of why we're leading the show with it, |
| 1:32.2 | you know, |
| 1:32.4 | we'll get to other stuff from Tuesday. |
| 1:33.7 | It just, |
| 1:34.1 | it really was, |
| 1:35.6 | this was as non-pressing of a Tuesday as we've had since December for sure. |
| 1:41.0 | So there just wasn't, |
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