CBS Sports Eye On College Basketball Podcast

Gary Parrish is joined on the Eye on College Basketball Podcast by colleagues Matt Norlander and Jeff Borzello. They discuss Friday's start to the regular-season, the suspensions at Oregon, the return of Kevin Ware, a weird quote from Mike Rice, Final Four picks and why Norlander and Borzello are suddenly off the Andrew Wiggins bandwagon.

CBSSports.com college basketball columnist Gary Parrish hosts the podcast for the first time. Can Kentucky really go 40-0? Why so much Andrew Wiggins backlash? Is there a simple way to fix the issue surrounding transfer waivers? Those are among the questions Parrish poses to colleagues Matt Norlander and Jeff Borzello.

Bittersweet stuff today, as we give you the season-finale of the Wednesday podcast with Matt Norlander, Jeff Goodman and Gary Parrish. Let's put a bow on it the way you expect us to: with insults, disagreements, tangential stories and occasional college basketball talk. No, but seriously, we do run down that Final Four, Saturday's games included, and discuss what will be the lingering memories from this tournament 10 years from now. Spike Albrecht is now a topic of debate, apparently. Lots of love is saved for Louisville and the trio runs down their trip to Atlanta as well. Things got violent -- but in a playful way. Enjoy. We're giving you nearly an hour of chatter before we ease into the offseason.

Today's podcast comes to you from the Georgia Dome. Well, next to the Georgia Dome, in the Georgia World Congress Center. Borzello joins me. I'm about to go interview Michigan players, so I gotta go, but the basic gist of this one is all about setting up Saturday's games, discussing the logistics of the Final Four, giving you the behind-the-scenes experience of covering this event and reviewing Atlanta as a city.

This Wednesday podcast is packed with discussion on the three biggest headlines from Final Four week, all of which are as big/bigger than the Kevin Ware injury. First we get to Mike Rice and his firing, then we move on to Ed Rush and await his termination, and we touch on Andy Enfield. And yes there is some Ware talk mixed in. Coming to you from Atlanta, Goodman, Parrish and your humble host are quite revved.

No April Fools' here: The podcast is ready for you and we can't wait for you to listen to host Matt Norlander and Jay Bilas to go over the Sweet 16 and Elite Eight games that ... actually ... didn't offer up too much. If not for three factors -- Kevin Ware's injury, Wichita State making the Final Four and Michigan's big-time comeback against Kansas -- this would have been a really boring second weekend. But there's still a lot to discuss, and we lead with the Ware injury before talking Louisville, Wichita State, Indiana, Syracuse, Marquette, KU, Florida and of course Michigan. We've got a five-day wait until the final games begin, so hopefully this helps with you hoops fix before the apex arrives.

The national voice of CBSSports.com has returned to the podcast. Gregg Doyel is here with me in Dallas, and we're going to watch some games at Jerry's Spacedome Friday night. So with that in mind, I had to get him on. We're sharing the same hotel, but in the interest of giving you a good-sounding pod, I actually called him instead of sharing the same room and recording person-to-person. We get into the Thursday night results but go heavy with the Friday action, and look at college hoops big-picture in general as well. He's a national columnist -- that's his purview. So it's good to step back and get the broad interpretation from folks from time to time.

After one of the all-time classic pod eps last Wednesday, Goodman and Parrish return for a look ahead to the Sweet 16. But there is some reflection to the first weekend as well. One more convo or two on what transpired to get us to this point. Parrish is in LA for that regional and Goodman is in DC for his. I'm still at home before flying out to Dallas for the Friday/Sunday games. We cover last weekend, talk a little Florida Gulf Coast, some Marshall Henderson, then gab on each of the eight games going down Thursday and Friday.

Your second straight special-edition Tuesday podcast has Richard Deitsch of Sports Illustrated. Since so many people experience this tournament mostly through television ? and if you're listening here, podcasts! ? why not discuss that angle of it for one special podcast? The ratings were good. Let's talk about those who deliver the game. We get into why some stories get big, which broadcasters stand out, college hoops coverage as a whole and where the tourney field goes form here. A quick bite relative to other normal pods, but definitely enough to hold you over until Wednesday's with Goodman and Parrish.

OK, we get a moment to breathe here. And so let's get back to the podcast. After no Friday pod (but be honest: you were glued to the TV/Internet for all things hoops viewing, anyway), I run down the entire bracket and results with Tim Burke of Deadspin. You know, the guy who broke the Manti T'eo story. He's also a maniac when it comes to watching sports and grabbing video/GIFs. So you think you watched a lot over the previous four days? You got nothing on Tim. We break the bracket down and give reaction to pretty much every game and region.

We really believe you won't find three more varied, informative, entertaining and tangent-driven podcasts to usher you into the Thursday tournament games than the Monday, Tuesday and now today's edition. Host Matt Norlander has Goodman and Parrish back per usual for Wednesday version, and oh it's a doozy. We get to tournament talk ... eventually. And really good tournament talk. But if you want to hear all sorts of barroom banter on hoops and tourney travel and the set-up before the games, that's covered too. A wild ride of 52 minutes worth of wide-ranging topics, from funny to serious to whimsical to unpredictable. Enjoy -- and get ready for the real start of the tourney.

Since it's such a big week, I had to surprise you with another podcast. This one's shorter than most, but still a good 25 minutes with Seth Davis. He goes behind the scenes on Selection Sunday, explains how the process happens and when he got the bracket (it was well before we all saw it), details what he does during the next two weekends, as he tracks all the tourney games, and we get a few good minutes of general bracket chatter in as well. Tournament starts tonight! Happy hooping, all.

Now that the thrill of Selection Sunday is subsiding and you're already crossing out picks made in your first draft of your bracket, let the podcast help you sort out which teams have what. We know you want to talk about the field -- but also listen. So here's a good 50-minute conversation on what the selection committee gave us, our 2013 field of 68. Host Matt Norlander brings on his CBSSports.com colleague Jeff Borzello, and this is about as geeked-out a conversation as you can ask for. Not only do they get to all the games and their picks, but they also tell you when and on what channel you can find these games. And the sites. It's the perfect place-setter for a week of podcasts we're sure you'll very much enjoy.

We know you want to hear everything about championship week. The results, the predictions, the final swipes to the bubble. Host Matt Norlander drives you around the nation with all the relevant outcomes and games on the docket from now through Selection Sunday. He's in New York and hopping back and forth between Madison Square Garden and the Barclays Center. He comes to you today from an apartment in Hoboken, N.J., on four hours of sleep, running primarily off the energy of this month. Settle in -- we've got a lot of hoops to talk, and the Star-Ledger's national college hoops writer Brendan Prunty comes on to add info, opinion and the sounds of his dog wanting to say a few things as well.

Hello from Manhattan! Today's podcast episode is the usual Wednesday trio of Matt Norlander, Jeff Goodman and Gary Parrish. Norlander's at the Big East, Goodman's in Vegas for the Mountain West and Parrish is in LA until he heads for the Big Ten tournament. It's a stuffed episode of Championship Week talk and a look ahead to Selection Sunday. A robust 40 minutes. We hope you love listening to it as much as we love talking about it.