Eye On College Basketball

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🎠 HUGE 2024 coaching carousel recap/reset: Analysis + intel on every high-major hiring, plus the best mid-major gets 🎠 Apr 23, 2024

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READ: Norlander's Coaching Tracker

If you missed any of the storylines of the 2024 coaching carousel, fear not. Today's episode is a special one. More than 90 minutes worth of recaps and discussions about the 14 high-major hirings in this cycle, plus another 10-or-so mid-major gets that rank among the most notable. Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander will catch you up on all the faces in new places. We're time-stamping this to make it all the easier for school-specific discussions, but we recommend listening to the whole show.

(01:31) - Which coaching hire do the guys believe in the most? Stanford and ... Ohio State? Let them explain

(17:01) - SMU, plus how the butterfly effect here started in ... 2022. In Los Angeles.

(23:00) - USC

(28:00) - Arkansas

(39:55) - Kentucky

(53:20) - BYU

(1:01:15): Louisville/Michigan and the battle for Dusty May

(1:16:00): DePaul, Vandy, Washington, West Virginia, Oklahoma State

(1:27:00) - The top/most notable mid-major hires

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Duke opens as ’25 title favorite; Indiana adds two big pieces; biggest/latest names in portal; more reax to start of UK’s Mark Pope era Apr 18, 2024

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Norlander and Parrish are BACK together. And we've got an hour-long episode as a bonus to your week. They guys talk Duke, Indiana, the biggest names in the portal and the back story on Norlander breaking the Mark Pope news while on mini vacation.

(00:55) - Jeremy Roach is leaving Duke. Should the Blue Devils be the title favorite for 2024-25?

(15:04) - Is Indiana a top-25 team after adding Myles Rice and Oumar Ballo? There's a glaring piece missing here.

(27:00) - The NCAA has approved, once and for all, unlimited transfers with immediate eligibility.

(41:26) - We get Norlander's thoughts on the Mark Pope hire and all that's transpired in Lexington since Sunday.

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Mark Pope to be hired as the next coach of the Kentucky Wildcats Apr 12, 2024

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Mitch Barnhart and the Kentucky Wildcats allegedly hire BYU's Mark Pope, is this the right hire for the folks in Lexington? Gary Parrish and David Cobb discuss.

00:55 - Mark Pope is the next coach at Kentucky

02:41 - The Pope hire is also underwhelming

16:45 - How much does money play a factor now in big program jobs?

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What's going on at Kentucky? The latest coaching recap in the search to replace John Calipari Apr 11, 2024

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Who will be the next basketball coach at the University of Kentucky? Gary Parrish and Kyle Boone handicap who will get the job.

(01:10) - Are you surprised that Scott Drew stayed in Waco?

(13:00) - Who should Kentucky go after next?

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UConn goes BACK TO BACK; John Calipari officially leaves for Arkansas; New Top 25 and ONE Apr 09, 2024

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2024 National Championship RECAP - UConn goes BACK TO BACK, first time since 2006. Apr 09, 2024

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The Uconn Huskies are the first team to win back-to-back national championships since the 2006-2007 Florida Gators. Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander break down the Huskies performance and give you where exactly this team and their coach have the place in history.

01:40 - UConn does it again

17:45 - Where does this UConn squad land historically?

30:50 - How can Purdue improve the backcourt?

EOCBB on CBSSN: Final National Championship Preview AND who replaces Calipari at Kentucky Apr 08, 2024

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🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: WOO PIG SOOIE! JOHN CALIPARI LEAVES KENTUCKY FOR ARKANSAS! Middle of the Night Reaction Pod Apr 08, 2024

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Matt Norlander and Kyle Boone give you a middle-of-the-night reaction on John Calipari leaving Lexington, KY, for Fayetteville, Arkansas.

(04:45) - Why did John Calipari leave now?

(06:00) - What are realistic expectations for Calipari at Arkansas

(08:25) - What does this mean for Kentucky

(09:32) - Who replaces Calipari in Lexington?

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2024 NCAA National Championship Preview - UConn and Purdue is the PERFECT ending for this season Apr 07, 2024

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Purdue. UConn. Edey. Clingan. Painter. Hurley. The season all comes down to those names. Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander preview what the National Championship game will look like.

(04:05) - Are you surprised that KenPom has the game so close?

(16:16) - What decides the game?

(21:43) -Can Edey get Clingan into foul trouble?

(30:00) - We pick the game

2024 Final Four Recap: Purdue, UConn move on to set up an EPIC showdown for National Championship Apr 07, 2024

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Matt Norlander and Gary Parrish recap the Final Four games.

(01:17) - Purdue wasn't great but still won.

(13:29) - UConn STILL refuses to play a close game

(29:11) - A brief title game preview

Eye on College Basketball is available for free on the Audacy app as well as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts and wherever else you listen to podcasts.

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