Explosive College Basketball Friday: Top Games & Analysis

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00:00Now, a focus on college. First college basketball, huge Friday

00:10night slate. Listen, we've been in the college basketball

00:13season for just about a week and a half. This, in my opinion,

00:16the best single night we have seen up and down the docket. So

00:20many good games. Top 15 tilt, Alabama and Purdue. Two and a

00:25half point spread in favor of the Crimson Tide. Another top

00:2825 showdown. Ohio State has looked great in each of its

00:32first two games this year. Already a victory over a ranked

00:36team from the Lone Star State in Texas. That was on the opening

00:40night in Las Vegas. A&M bouncing back five and a half point home

00:43favorite. Arizona and Wisconsin, great game there. Maryland,

00:47Marquette, great game in College Park. A Sunshine State showdown

00:52between Florida State and Florida. Both teams unbeaten to

00:54start this year. And perhaps a game, Joe, that eight years ago

00:58we would have said, what is this? One versus two? Rainy

01:01National Champ versus Rainy National Champ in Virginia and

01:04Villanova? Maybe not the case. The Cats somehow some way at two

01:09and two favored to beat the Cavaliers. Not so sure. I agree.

01:15That might be the ugliest game of the night, Ben. If you're

01:18having trouble sleeping, pop on Nova Virginia and you'll want to

01:22throw up and pass out. I find the Alabama one the most

01:26interesting against Purdue. Alabama is by far the better

01:30team, but Bama is getting overshadowed by Auburn, their

01:34arch rival over there right now. And the problem with Alabama

01:39this year is they're only shooting 30% from three right

01:42now, Ben, but they're attempting threes on nearly 50% of their

01:47offensive possession. So you want to know when they hit

01:51better than 35%, they're going to blow teams out. If they're

01:55hitting 30%, Ben, they're going to keep teams in games and

01:59that's not great. I think they're above that tonight

02:03against Purdue, who I think is still a little overrated and

02:06people think Zach Eaddy is still on the team.

02:09Purdue is really not look great this year. They're figuring

02:13things out, certainly trying to replace the biggest star in

02:17college basketball from a year ago. And one of the really cool

02:20things, all of these games, or at least a lot of these games

02:24are in home arenas, like we're going to Mackey, we're going to

02:28the Kohl Center, we're going to Reed Arena in College Station,

02:32we will play inside Hinkle Fieldhouse tonight, SMU and

02:35Butler, Georgia, Georgia Tech in Atlanta, Chrysler Center is

02:39Michigan host TCU. Here's a really good one. Princeton,

02:43Loyola, Chicago, both unbeaten entering this matchup. We've got

02:49a couple of games in neutral sites like Villanova and UVA in

02:53Baltimore, followed by Virginia Tech and Penn State, both the

02:56Hokies and the Nittany Lions unbeaten. But we've got some

02:59really good games in those classic arenas and pantheons of

03:04college basketball. Alabama in Mackey. That is awesome.

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