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CONFERENCE PREVIEW: The Big East has, by far, the biggest gap between its top two teams and the rest of the league (College Basketball 11/05) Nov 05, 2020

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OK, it's settled. The Big East by far the most unpredictable league Nos. 3-8 in college basketball. Our latest podcast episode takes an informative scan of every team in the conference. Parrish and Norlander only agree on the placement of four teams. Villanova is the best, that's clear. Creighton is right behind. Then? Hey, UConn is back here, and they've got good potential. As Norlander notes, his 1-357 has now published in full. You can read the top tier, No. 1-68, right here.

CONFERENCE PREVIEW: The SEC looks to be a toss-up between loaded Tennessee and brand-new Kentucky (College Basketball 11/04) Nov 04, 2020

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Let's chat now about the SEC, which has NCAA Tournament contenders in Tennessee, Kentucky, Florida, Alabama, LSU ... and then who? There's a lot to be determined there, a lot of intrigue. Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander fill you in in the fifth of our seven conference preview eps.

CONFERENCE PREVIEW: The Pac-12 will be a three-team race and the conference could send seven to the NCAA Tournament Nov 03, 2020

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Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander do not agree on the best team in the Pac-12 this season. In fact, they might disagree more about this league than any other. That's a great thing for Pac-12 teams, because it means the conference is again built to put a minimum of five teams into the NCAA Tournament and a maximum, most likely, of seven. Which seven? What are the tiers? Should Arizona State be the pick? We hope you get out and vote on this Election Day, and if you are, and if this podcast helped pass the time while waiting in line, we're happy to have provided some info and entertainment. Five stars and nice comments, you know what to do!

CONFERENCE PREVIEW: Baylor is predicted to win the Big 12 for the first time in program history (College Basketball 11/02) Nov 02, 2020

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The Big 12 has seven of its 10 teams in position to be NCAA Tournament-good this season. But there seems like there's a top half and a bottom half, though. Who's in the top five beyond Baylor, Kansas and West Virginia? Well it's Texas Tech and Texas, clearly. But are the Longhorns really a sleeper team to win the league? There is a case. Also, the conference could have the best player in America: Oklahoma State's Cade Cunningham.

NBA Draft Profiles: Kentucky's Tyrese Maxey needs to tighten up a few things about his game, but there's a good case to take him in the lottery Oct 31, 2020

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After seven straight years of producing at least one top-10 pick, John Calipari's Kentucky program is looking at a second straight year of not getting a Wildcat taken in the top 10. This was a wild streak to begin with, but no shame in it ending. If there's one guy who has a distant shot, it's combo guard Tyrese Maxey.

CONFERENCE PREVIEW: All evidence points to the Big Ten being the best league in America for a second straight season (College Basketball 10/30) Oct 30, 2020

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Our conference-preview pod miniseries continues with the B1G. Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander take a good look at a great league. Ten teams figure to be good enough to make the NCAA Tournament, and four of them are built to be a top-three seed come NCAA Tournament time.

CONFERENCE PREVIEW: The ACC has Virginia in the catbird seat, with Duke, North Carolina, Florida State and Louisville all giving chase (College Basketball 10/29) Oct 29, 2020

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Virginia is our pick to be, clearly, the best team in the ACC. But who's the best player? Best freshman? How many tournament teams are going to come out of a league that had only four tournament locks last season? The ACC might be coasting on its reputation a bit, and maybe that becomes more exposed this season if UNC can't get back to top-25 status and if Duke winds up living outside the top 10 in the polls much more often than it does in most years. A scan of the conference inside, with predictions on 1 all the way to 14.

Our picks for All-American teams, Player of the Year, Freshman of the Year and Coach of the Year (College Basketball 10/28) Oct 28, 2020

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Happy hump day. We've got our preseason awards-show special for you. CBSSports.com published our First, Second and Third All-America teams this week, in addition to the collective's picks for preseason Player, Freshman and Coach of the Year. Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander reveal all those on this episode, but also reveal their personal ballots and disclose which of their picks did NOT make it on to the CBS Sports All-America teams. So much to get to, and two Trivia Time! segments, as well!

NBA Draft Profiles: Precious Achiuwa has his draft stocked helped more than any other player thanks to James Wiseman leaving Oct 27, 2020

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We hope you're enjoying our weekly draft profiles, and guess what? For the next month, Eye on College Basketball will be coming into your feed on an almost-daily basis with preview pods, reaction pods, draft pods and more. Today's episode focuses on Memphis one-and-doner Precious Achiuwa who, when he's picked, will clinch the first time in 15 years that the Tigers produced two first-round picks in the same year.

Major news: ESPN bails on its Orlando bubble entirely and Arizona has been hit with NINE allegations of wrongdoing from the NCAA (College Basketball 10/26) Oct 26, 2020

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On Sunday, The Athletic broke the news that Arizona has been assessed with nine NCAA violations, including five of the worst variety, by the NCAA. One of them is a Level I toward coach Sean Miller. The podcasts first 30 minutes touch on that (and Norlander's back from vacation), and then at the 30-minute mark, GP and Norlander react in real time to the news that, following Norlander's report from Sunday, ESPN has decided to kill all of its games and multi-team events scheduled to be held from Nov. 25-Dec. 4 in Orlando at Walt Disney World. That has huge scheduling fallout, of course. Will it lead to conferences opting to go league-only? Maybe.

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