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College Basketball Talk on NBC Sports Podcast

Rob Dauster takes a look at everything happening across college basketball, including a weekly recap of action across the country and each conference, recruiting and a looking ahead to the future of the sport.

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Monday Overreactions: Northwestern, Wichita State, LaVar vs. Trump Nov 20, 2017

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On today's Monday Overreaction podcast, Raphielle Johnson joins Rob Dauster to talk about whether or not Northwestern is overrated, if Steve Alford should kick LiAngelo Ball off the team, where Wichita State ranks nationally, if the Big 12 is the best conference and so much more.

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Weekend Preview: There are too many early season tournaments Nov 17, 2017

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Typically, this Friday podcast will be used to preview the upcoming weekend, but since the games this weekend just are not good, Rob Dauster went on a rant instead. There are too many exempt events and it's diluting November basketball. Rob also discusses the potential changes to the one-and-done rule, updates listeners on Michael Porter Jr.'s injury status and provides some insight on the indefinite suspension of the UCLA players.

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Champions Classic Recap: Grayson Allen, Kevin Knox and Jaren Jackson Nov 15, 2017

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Fun episode on tap for you today, as Rob Dauster was joined, in spurts, by Scott Phillips, Jesse Newell of the Kansas City Star and Brendan Quinn of The Athletic Detroit to talk about anything and everything Champions Classic. Grayson Allen, Kevin Knox, Michigan State's flaws, Billy Preston, is Kansas actually good, and it is all live - well, recorded - from the United Center.

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Monday Overreactions! Kentucky, Duke, Arizona plus Champions Classic Nov 13, 2017

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Rob Dauster is joined by Sam Vecenie of The Athletic and the Game Theory podcast to massively overreact to the games we saw on the first weekend of the college basketball season. They talk through the trouble in the state of Kentucky, on the red and the blue sides, as well as Texas A&M's blowout win of West Virginia, Allonzo Trier's hot start and the stars in this freshmen class.

At the end, they go through the Champions Classic - Duke vs. Michigan State and Kentucky vs. Kansas.

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LiAngelo Ball's arrest, Josh Pastner's drama Nov 08, 2017

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Rob Dauster and Reags fro Fundamentally Sound teamed up for a crossover podcast to discuss the disaster that has been this trip to China for both UCLA and Georgia Tech. They also dive into Collin Sexton's issues at Alabama and wind up discussing when it's acceptable to actually wish someone happy birthday.

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Big East Basketball Season Preview Nov 07, 2017

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Travis Hines and Raphielle Johnson join Rob Dauster to go through everything Big East. Is Villanova once again the favorite? Just how much of a threat will Seton Hall and Xavier be? Can Providence make a run at the title? How will Georgetown and Butler adjust to new head coaches?

Here is a timecode for each team we talk about.

Butler: 2:20

Creighton: 8:40

DePaul: 14:10

Georgetown: 18:10

Marquette: 24:20

Providence: 28:50

Seton Hall: 35:00

St. John's: 43:05

Villanova: 46:40

Xavier: 52:15

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NCAA's academic failures, FBI investigation, Matt Norlander on rankings Nov 03, 2017

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Rob Dauster was joined today by Matt Norlander of CBS Sports to break down their top 100 player rankings, the insanity of Matt ranking all 351 college teams and some discussion of Kentucky, Michigan State and the pitfalls of home ownership. Before the interview, Rob goes into the current suspensions of players tied to the FBI investigation as well as the NCAA's utterly shameful and embarrassing decisions on academic rulings.

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SEC Basketball Season Preview Oct 31, 2017

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Rob Dauster is joined by Raphielle Johnson and Travis Hines to break down all things SEC, from Kentucky's freshmen to Florida's new look to Texas A&M's ... SEC title-winning season?

It's all in there.

Here are the timecodes for when each team is discussed.

Alabama: 4:46

Arkansas: 10:15

Auburn: 15:10

Florida: 25:47

Georgia: 33:05

Kentucky: 37:15

LSU: 48:15

Ole Miss: 50:47

Mississippi State: 55:07

Missouri: 1:00:10

South Carolina: 1:10:00

Tennessee: 1:14:05

Texas A&M: 1:19:10

Vanderbilt: 1:23:00

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Pac-12 Basketball Season Preview Oct 23, 2017

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Rob Dauster is joined by the Raphielle Johnson to breakdown everything about the Pac-12 conference: Arizona and USC, fighting for titles while battling an FBI scandal; UCLA and LiAngelo Ball trying to get along; Oregon's rebuild; trying to figure out who will finish in fifth in the league.

Here is a timecode for each of the Pac-12 teams.

Arizona: 3:15

Arizona State: 19:13

California: 21:53

Colorado: 24:16

Oregon: 29:58

Oregon State: 37:32

Stanford: 41:20

UCLA: 45:31

USC: 54:40

Utah: 1:03:50

Washington: 1:06:20

Washington State: 1:10:33

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Big 12 Basketball Season Preview Oct 18, 2017

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Travis Hines and Scott Phillips joined Rob Dauster to break down everything about the Big 12 conference as we head into the 2017-18 season, including why Kansas is so weird and whether or not West Virginia has hit their ceiling.

Here are the timecodes for each team that is discussed during the podcast.

Baylor: 1:21

Iowa State: 8:00

Kansas: 13:35

Kansas State: 27:22

Oklahoma: 33:02

Oklahoma State: 37:47

Texas: 42:42

TCU: 48:08

Texas Tech: 51:52

West Virginia: 54:55

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