As Ian Eagle prepares for the men’s NCAA Tournament and his run through calling the Final Four, he’s been finding himself going through old text messages with Greg Gumbel.
Eagle had known Gumbel since he arrived at CBS in 1998 and remembered how humble and approachable he was from the moment they met. Eagle gets a laugh out of the messages, remembering how kind of person Gumbel was, but reading them also made him emotional.
There’s certainly been an empty presence during the coverage of 2025 March Madness, the first tournament since Gumbel’s death.