CBS Sports Eye On College Basketball Podcast

Sean Farnham is a rising star in the college hoops broadcast business. The ESPN color analyst is one of the best out there, and I've wanted to get him on the podcast all season. So, one by one, it feels good to get these smart voices on and share them with you. If you want to widen your perspective on a whole number of college basketball topics, you'll like today's almost 45-minute episode. We touch on a lot from this weekend but also give the view ahead some time as well. And get into a few topics you might not expect for this team of the year -- but are important nonetheless.

With college basketball's regular season coming to an end this weekend, the podcast finally brings on a guest we've long wanted: RushtheCourt.net editor Randy McClure. RTC has long been one of the best college hoops blogs out there, and Randy is a really smart guy. He and host Matt Norlander touch on Kentucky, Carolina, the bid process, the reasons they got into college hoops. The two look back at games this week but also glance ahead to conference tournament championships and Selection Sunday -- just NINE DAYS AWAY.

Funny stories, details behind coaching changes, the life of Ben Howland right now, and so many off-topic tangents. We have to believe this is honestly one of the three best Goodman/Parrish podcasts this season. It's 50 minutes long and as rangy as we've ever had. Indiana, UCLA, Memphis, the wild Tim Floyd/USC story. Vegas. Just click play.

Love getting first-time guests on the podcast who know their hoops and are energetic as heck about it. CBS Sports Network's Steve Lappas certainly qualifies. Lappas has been doing the Mountain West games for the network all season long, and so we go heavy into MWC play but also span the nation to talk on approximately 20 different teams. Wins, losses, tournament, what to look for in the final week of the regular season. It's all packed in today's pod. It's March. What's not to love?

And just like that: March is here. You can feel it, smell it, taste it. The tournaments are around the bend. Get excited? I don't need to tell you that. Welcome to the Friday edition, the first podcast for USA Today national hoops writer Eric Prisbell. He's done great work all season long, and it was my obligation and want to get him on. You'll enjoy. We touch on the latest Big East/Catholic 7 headlines, because we must, but then it's all hoop. Gonzaga, No. 1 seeds, Duke's loss, and the undersold surprising storylines. All in the purview of this season as we stand on peaks of one of the best regular seasons college hoops has had in a decade.

Have we got a good one today. Parrish and Goodman are back, Goodman fresh off his trip to Milwaukee, where he had a run-in with Jim Boeheim that went mini-viral. But before the Cuse chatter, we must talk about Memphis -- and does it get entertainingly long-winded and argumentative. The pod has mostly ignored Memphis for obvious reasons this year, but following just a two-point loss at Xavier, well, it's time to release the hounds. We move on from there to talk Gonzaga's rightful heir as a No. 1 seed; the pool of 12 teams still in contention for a No. 1; why we're still smarting from the officiating in Kansas-Iowa State; and who else did Goodman almost get in a fight with? Give up the goods, man. Settle in and enjoy.

There are few commentators in college hoops with the personality and bravery to say whatever's on their mind like Dan Dakich. Gottlieb's one of them, and he was on Friday's pod. But I'd never had Dan on until today. I think you'll enjoy it. I plan to get him on more in the future, and at that time we can talk contemporary hoops stuff, but while we do touch on current teams, I wanted to go broader with him for his first ep. I like introducing guys into the podcast by getting into their backgrounds and get wide-ranging with it. Enjoy. The guy is a treat.

It's been more than a month since we had Doug on the pod, so high time to squeeze him in. This podcast almost didn't happen by the way (I explain in the intro), and yes, you'll notice Doug's phone/mic is a little "hot," as they say, but fear not: the pod topics overwhelm any minor technical difficulties. Get to learnin'. Doug brings the know, as usual. Seriously, it's impossible to not get smarter on hoops after listening to these Gottlieb pods.

Oh, it's another Wednesday show. And this one's pretty informative, but also one of the shorter ones we'll have this season. Blame Parrish, for he's the guy in New York who had places to be and people to see early Wednesday morning. But we do squeeze in a 30-minute convo on Miami, the NCAA, Indiana, Michigan State, Florida and Syracuse's sold-out final regular-season home game against Georgetown this weekend. Brisk pod. Fun pod. Boom-boom-boom pod, with some extended commentary on the NCAA/Miami mess that entered its next phase -- before anyone expected it -- with the Notice of Allegations handed out Tuesday night.

Borzello is back, both on the pod and from Indy, where he went and hobnobbed with the NCAA in the media mock selection exercise last week. It's a really fun time -- so what did he do/learn? How'd the media committee put Southern Miss ahead of Memphis in the seed line? Why are Duke and Miami No. 1 seeds? There's a lot to glean from the fake bracket, which you can read on CBSSports.com right now, by the way. After all that talk, Borzello and Norlander also debate whether or not Mike Montgomery was out of bounds in shoving his best player, Allen Crabbe, in the chest. Oh, and a fun new podcast twist: Anyone up for a trivia question?

With the NCAA tournament officially less than a month away, it's definitely time to start getting full-blown bubble on everyone. CBSSports.com's Jerry Palm comes back on to talk not only those on the final seed lines, but also the bracket in general. The 1-3 seeds are as interchangeable right now as Palm can ever remember. And what of those in that cushy middle, the 6-9 seeds? We get into that as well. How's the committee changed its guidelines in recent years, and what does that say of Virginia, Indiana State, Saint Mary's and Memphis? Plus, where would UConn be seeded right now if it was eligible? Nom, nom, nom: so many delicious topics to get to.

This version of the podcast is the early A.M. kind. Norlander, Parrish and Goodman recorded as the sun broke way on the world Wednesday morning, and after getting the cobwebs out, what else can we address first but Nerlens Noel's injury from Kentucky-Florida Tuesday night. The guys also get to Michigan State romping Michigan, Miami's biggest reason for its best ranking in program history, and what Goodman found in his hotel room that he had to keep secret from his wife. Yup, this is our podcast. You shall enjoy.

As the weeks go on, you wonder how college basketball can top itself. And yet it does. Over and over. The weekend was the latest evidence of that, with Wisconsin and Michigan providing ridiculousness -- and then of course Notre Dame and Louisville giving us one more Big East epic. Dana O'Neil of ESPN.com is one of the best writers the sport has, and she joins host Matt Norlander to recap the weekend and just talk about the sport in general. So much good to converse about. Love these Mondays when there's almost most too much happening to get it all covered in one podcast. But we try on this one.

Welcome back, you loyal listeners, and new listeners too. Statistical sage Ken Pomeroy makes his return to the podcast on this Friday addition, only this time he and host Matt Norlander have to hash a few things out. There's a disagreement between the coverage and legitimacy of Marshall Henderson's play at play, and it's a good debate. The guys also talk about the array of upsets that have transformed the top of college hoops this and in recent weeks. Who says the sport is down? Well, it does need improvement, but in certain doses, and Ken addresses that as well, in addition to a number of other hodgepodge hoops topics. You'll enjoy it, no doubt.

It's another highly enjoyable Wednesday podcast with Goodman and Parrish. The lengthy topics are how college football recruiting differs from college hoops; reactions from Florida's big loss and Michigan's big win; talk of Blaine Taylor's mid-season firing; and looking at Aaron Craft's game/his pro potential. Beyond that, Goodman complains about his two brand-new TVs, Norlander quizzes the guys on random teams and asks them to project on success or failure, and Parrish and Goodman recap their TV experiences. So much to chat on. It's a quintessential Wednesday's pod, really.