Hey there. Gary Parrish, welcome back to the CBS Sports Eye on College Basketball podcast,

where we sometimes discuss camel fighting dodo birds and leaky black. 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. Different deal today, as you'll soon realize. Matt Norlander is not here with me, and that's because

I'm in Chicago for Big Ten Media Day, and while here, I sat down with most of the coaches and some of the

players for quick conversations about their programs and college basketball in general, and we

figured, or at least we hoped, that you guys might like to listen to those

conversations.

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Gary Parrish here with USC head coach Eric Muslim. We're heading into year two at USC,

and I wish we were a little healthier than we are. Yes, so do I, Gary. I got a really

good team sitting on the sideline. I know. Just how frustrating is it?

Obviously, life is good, but you wait all offseason for this.

It's here, and now Rodney is banged up a shoulder injury, and obviously one of your

heralded freshman also suffered a pretty serious knee injury.

Yeah, I mean, I think really good if we'd start with Elijah.

You know, we kind of, when I got the job at USC, one of the first things was, you know, how do I get involved with Elijah Arenas?

You know, and so once we get in, we kind of build the team around him.

And then, like, the story that's kind of out there is true.

He practiced one day with me

and then the knee swelled up and then obviously went in for surgery and and um you know so now you're

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