March Madness is so many things to so many people: eye-popping individual performances, epic rallies, buzzer beaters and upsets galore.
But a talking basketball live on set?
"I'm better looking than that, that looks like Clark" 'OB' stopped by the set to visit our squad pic.twitter.com/5KdRwABayw
— CBS Sports (@CBSSports) March 21, 2026That’s right, a talking basketball – complete with a moving mouth and blue eyes – joined CBS analysts Clark Kellogg, Renee Montgomery and Charles Barkley on set Saturday for one of the cringiest segments in recent history
I don’t understand what is happening with this talking basketball, I don’t like it.
— AJ (@QuincyBraxton3) March 21, 2026What is up with that creepy ass talking basketball?
— Gage (@grhartless) March 21, 2026Montgomery (subbing for a still-sick Kenny Smith) and Barkley were evidently coerced into interacting with an extraordinarily creepy talking basketball following Michigan’s victory over Saint Louis. And suffice to say, viewers were… confused?
That talking basketball on CBS creeped me out so much I had to change it
— Weezus The Yapper (@Weezus410) March 21, 2026Named “Old Ball”, Barkley compared him to E.T. while also saying that he looks way better and then comparing “OB” to fellow analyst Clark Kellogg.
Tournament game coverage has been top shelf. The studio work has been awful. This Barkley and talking basketball segment is embarrassing. And I love Chuck.
— Matt Thomas (@SportsMT) March 21, 2026This CBS segment with Barkley and a talking basketball feels like a bad acid trip.
— Quinn Douglas (@Quinn_Douglas_) March 21, 2026“Technology is amazing,” Barkley said while holding the animatronic talking basketball.
That talking basketball just made me very uncomfortable
— Vinny “Bull” Dog (@homies47) March 21, 2026I have it on mute, but that talking basketball was horrifying and I have no idea what it was saying.
— Jason Scheer (@jasonscheer) March 21, 2026This talking basketball on the @MarchMadnessMBB show is possibly the worst idea I’ve seen in the history of MM.
— Toni DeVelin (@tonidevelin) March 21, 2026The basketball protested Barkley and Montgomery’s handlings of the non-talking basketballs that joined it on the rack, and then recited off some of their names while Barkley held it.
Ok, the talking basketball on @CBSSports #MarchMadness looks creepy.
— Wes– Every little thing's gonna be alright… (@CrimsonTideWes) March 21, 2026The truly bizarre segment ended with Montgomery chiding Barkley into accepting a kiss from the basketball – which planted a big leathery one on the Round Mound of Rebound’s right cheek.
“I’ll never wash my lips again,” OB said as the segment mercifully came to a close.
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