We ranked them: The top 101 players and top 101 teams in college basketball for the 2023-24 season
Eye On College Basketball
CBS Sports
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2023
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander dissect two huge preseason lists: Norlander's top 101 teams and the CBS Sports writers' ranking of the top 101 players in college basketball.
00:45 - Breaking down the top 101 college basketball teams
38:00 - Zach Edey tops 101 best college basketball players
58:15 - What are our favorite games on the CBS TV schedule?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, Scary Parish. Welcome back to the CBS Sports Eye on College Basketball |
| 0:09.2 | Podcast where we sometimes discuss Kamil fighting Dota Birds and Leaky Black. Matt Norlander |
| 0:14.4 | is here with me if you're watching on YouTube. Smash the like button like your brand and |
| 0:18.3 | Davies, you have consent if you haven't yet. Subscribe to the CBS Sports College Basketball |
| 0:23.2 | YouTube channel. Also do that while you're here. Let's get into it. While we wait for five-star |
| 0:27.8 | prospect Cooper flag to publicly commit to a school with a division one basketball program, |
| 0:32.9 | two top 101 list have published at CBS Sports.com. One is Norlanders, top 101 teams. The other is |
| 0:40.3 | our panels, top 101 players. Deadleg, let's start with your list of the top 101 college basketball |
| 0:47.6 | teams in the country. You put Purdue number one. I'm fine with it. I think it's totally sensible. |
| 0:53.2 | I nearly did it myself, but there's probably somebody out there who thinks you're an idiot |
| 0:57.9 | for putting a team that lost a fairly Dickinson in the first round of the 2023 NCAA tournament. |
| 1:03.6 | Number one, just six months later. What would you say to those people? |
| 1:08.1 | I mean, I don't really concern myself with those people. They're out there. I'm not bothered by |
| 1:14.8 | those people. But they're out there. They can be out there. That's fine. They can still be out there. |
| 1:19.5 | They can list this podcast. We can both enjoy college basketball. I don't make my list based off |
| 1:24.4 | of what I think the reactions of other people will be. Purdue, to me, makes the most sense on |
| 1:29.4 | with everything they bring back, having the national player of the year front runner, |
| 1:33.4 | comfortable front runner. Considering this team was, yes, it lost to a 16 seed, but |
| 1:38.3 | established itself clearly as a one seed a season ago. In the traditional mold of being able to |
| 1:43.0 | return so much and be a national title contender and have someone that's considered a top 10 coach |
| 1:49.1 | in the sport, which is another thing that cynics will obviously push back on considering |
| 1:52.8 | that painter's, you know, frequent face plants in the tournament. I get all that, but if you |
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