Who’s most trustworthy two weeks in? A toss-up, but: Houston, UConn, Zona, Michigan + Gonzaga all won while not at their best

Eye On College Basketball

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🗓️ 17 November 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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READ: Norlander on UConn’s win over BYU - https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/uconn-byu-score-results-aj-dybantsa-dan-hurley-silas-demary-kennard-davis-keba-keita/ Parrish and Norlander recap the weekend in college basketball. The No. 1 team in the AP Poll escapes a loss in Birmingham, plus a great game between UConn and BYU in Boston. All that and plenty more from the weekend in college hoops. 0:00 Intro! #moreofus 1:00 Houston holds on to beat Auburn 73-72 16:30 UConn beats BYU 86-84, AJ Dybantsa scores 25 points + Silas Demary Jr. was awesome 29:29 Weekend Whiparound Time! 29:50 Arizona 69, UCLA 65 (Kareem could write columns for GP) 37:54 Gonzaga 77, Arizona State 65 38:30 Michigan 67, TCU 63 42:45 Buzz Williams, Josh Pastner get wins against former schools + a Memphis crisis 54:00 More weekend action 1:05:30 Massive freshman performances 1:07:15 Looking ahead - Champions Classic on Tuesday 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	Hey there. I am Gary Parrish. Welcome back. CBS Sports Eye on college basketball podcast, where we sometimes discuss camel fighting, dodo birds, and leaky black.
0:23.2	Matt Norlander is here with me.
0:24.7	If you're watching on YouTube, be Brandon Davies.
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0:32.2	And if you haven't already subscribed to the CBS Sports Eye on College Basketball podcast. Please go do that wherever
0:38.6	you subscribe to podcasts like Apple or Spotify. Let's get into it. Fun game on Sunday down in
0:44.6	Birmingham, Alabama, the childhood home of Courtney Cox, Walton Goggins, and of course,
0:49.2	Gucci, Maine. Final score, Houston 73, Auburn 72. Calvin Samson's Cougars, the top ranked team in the AP poll.
0:57.7	They actually needed three stops in the final 15 seconds to secure the win with both of their
1:02.8	starting bigs on the bench after having fouled out.
1:05.2	No problem.
1:05.7	Kingston Fleming's blocked one.
1:07.2	Then Khalifa Soko blocked one.
1:09.2	And then a final second inbounds pass, just kind of a lob at
1:13.2	the rim was broken up with contact, but no whistle at the buzzer. Game over. So Houston holds on
1:19.0	to win it. The Cougars are 4 and O. Norlander, good to see you on this Sunday evening, better
1:24.1	late than never. What did you make of what you saw from Houston, Auburn? Nice to see you on the sunday evening as well and uh as i think alluded to for our live audience here we're going a little later than desired but we're going to make sure that we know the result of this florida game before the end of the show we'll get to the gators and we'll discover this in real time uh i like starting on the houston ober game there's actually some good stuff over the weekend, including stuff from Saturday night, what happened in Boston, Friday night would happen in L.A. and plenty more. But the urgency of this game and the competitors of this game, Houston being the number one team, will it stay the number one team? We'll see in terms of official AP poll purposes when that refreshes on Monday. Purdue did get past Akron without too much of a resistance on Sunday night.
2:05.8	Matt Painter, congrats on number 500. As this game played out in Birmingham,
2:10.8	the thought that I kept drifting back to is this is where Kelvin Samson and his team is just
2:17.3	most comfortable. They don't necessarily
2:18.9	seek out single possession victories, but damn, if they are fine when they get there. They
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