Weekend Preview: College 🏀 is having its best non-con schedule ever and this weekend’s LOADED slate is the latest evidence why

Eye On College Basketball

CBS Sports, College Basketball, Basketball, March Madness, NCAA Tournament, NBA Draft

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4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander open with the first month of the college basketball season and why the schedule is better than its ever been. Then, John Calipari's Arkansas Razorbacks get their first notable win of the season and the SEC dominates night two of the ACC/SEC Challenge. Finally, the Final Four And 1 gets you ready for what should be another spectacular weekend of hoops. (0:00) Intro (0:40) How we got the best schedule to start the season ever & what it means (25:30) Arkansas gets their first major victory of the season over Louisville (33:55) Midweek Whiparound - Texas gets stomped, Vanderbilt is plain good (38:30) Final Four And 1 (39:15) No. 11 Gonzaga vs. No. 18 Kentucky (45:02) No. 10 Iowa State @ No. 1 Purdue (51:15) No. 4 Duke @ No. 7 Michigan State (59:10) No. 6 Louisville vs. No.22 Indiana (1:02:15) No. 13 Tennessee vs. No. 14 Illinois (1:05:15) Norlander’s Notes 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 @Boone @DavidWCobb @TheJMULL_ 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	There I am Gary Parrish.
0:15.8	Welcome back, CBS Sports, I on college basketball podcast where we sometimes discuss camel fighting.
0:21.1	Dodo Bird's leaky black, Matt Norlander is here with me.
0:24.2	If you watch it on YouTube, be Brandon Davy.
0:26.5	Smash that like button.
0:27.3	And if you're one of us, please let the world know in both the chat and in the comments.
0:31.4	Let's get into it.
0:32.2	I want to start on the lead to Norlander's court report, which detailed how we just had what can reasonably be described as the greatest first month of the season in the history of college basketball as it pertains to ranked versus ranked matchup.
0:49.4	It's Norlander's story.
0:50.9	So I'll stop right here.
0:51.9	I'll let him tell you about it.
0:53.0	Norlander, you started sorting data in
0:55.2	your own little way on rank versus rank matchups in November. Please tell the folks who were nice
1:00.1	enough to get up with us on this Friday morning. Please tell them what you learned. On this chilly
1:04.3	Friday morning across the country, just out of curiosity, buddy. I woke up. It was 12 degrees in Connecticut.
1:09.9	What are we doing right down?
1:11.2	I think you might be at a snow or an ice threat. What do we got down there in Memphis, Tennessee? Okay. Don't overstate it. We're not snowing an ice storming just yet. We've got a cloudy 32 degrees here in downtown Memphis right now. It's manageable.
1:23.4	Right now, we're cruising at a bluebird 20 degrees right here up in Connecticut.
1:27.6	Yes, we have a massive,
1:28.7	massive weekend ahead of us in college basketball, and it continues with the trend. And we'll get to a few
1:33.8	of the Wednesday notable results, most notably, Arkansas's win over Louisville. We are going to get there
1:37.9	in short order. But let's just set the table with what we've got this weekend and what we've really had.
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