Wichita State enters the chat, March Madness will have fans, weekend picks and previews (College Basketball 02/19)
Eye On College Basketball
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🗓️ 19 February 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Wichita State’s home win Thursday night over top-10 Houston was good enough to finally catapult the Shockers into the NCAA Tournament conversation. Parrish and Norlander disagree at this point about if they should be in, though. Another Q: Should Isaac Brown be promoted from interim to full-time head coach, or is an NCAA Tournament appearance necessary to make that jump? After that, the guys touch on Friday’s notable news: The NCAA allowing for 25% capacity in all NCAA Tournament venues this season (14:45). From there, the curious cases of Belmont and Winthrop (22:15) and why the selection committee should give them more slack this season. You can read Norlander’s story on this below as well. The pod wraps, as it does every Friday, with the Final Four + 1 (31:15). Norlander shouts out a number of listeners who came through with that Arkansas Sweet 16 stat, so stick around!
https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/court-report-selection-committee-chair-mitch-barnhart-explains-new-ncaa-tournament-bracketing-process/
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's Gary Parish. It's Friday, February 19, 2000. |
| 0:07.5 | 21 welcome back to the CBS sports eye on college basketball podcasts where we sometimes |
| 0:12.4 | discuss, camel fighting, dodo birds and leaky black mat. |
| 0:16.5 | Norlanda is here with me and I think I want to start with Wichita State. |
| 0:20.3 | We have quite the story developing in Wichita, dead leg. |
| 0:24.3 | As you know, Wichita State was a big story in the preseason because Greg Marshall was |
| 0:28.4 | forced to resign. Assistant Isaac Brown was named the interim coach. |
| 0:32.2 | The shockers were picked seventh in the AC in the AAC preseason pole. |
| 0:37.0 | And I didn't figure we'd talk about them again until they hired a full time replacement. |
| 0:42.1 | But now here we are because Wichita State after Thursday night's upset of number six Houston |
| 0:47.1 | inside Kokorena is now alone atop the AAC standings. |
| 0:50.9 | The shockers are 13 and 4 overall, 9 and 2 in the lead. |
| 0:54.8 | They have the resume right now of an NCAA tournament team. |
| 0:58.2 | Isaac Brown, I think has to be considered a serious candidate to get the job full time. |
| 1:03.1 | I don't know how many people were saying that the day Greg Marshall was forced to resign. |
| 1:08.3 | Norlanda, are you willing to join me in calling Wichita State one of the coolest stories in |
| 1:13.0 | the sport at this moment? |
| 1:14.6 | At this moment, there's little argument against it here. |
| 1:17.2 | Isaac Brown has done a wonderful job and we were just waiting on, frankly, GP, we were |
| 1:21.3 | waiting on a result like what we got Thursday night. |
| 1:24.2 | Wichita State has been mostly off the radar for much of the season because it wasn't expected |
| 1:28.9 | to be that good. |
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