All I can think about is tomorrow’s schedule.
You have rivalry games.
You have 7 games of top-50 KenPom teams against each other.
You have games built on hate.
You have games that people wait an entire year for.
You want pure animosity?
Xavier/Cincinnati and Louisville/Kentucky deliver that.
Seton Hall/Rutgers, rivalry game.
Creighton/Alabama in a rival for what jumpsuit Rico Bosco wears on Monday.
UCLA/Arizona was once a rivalry but who the hell knows now with the conferences.
The point is, this is what a college basketball Saturday should look like.
You have Memphis/Clemson starting at 11am and ending with Saint Mary’s/Boise at 9pm.
Everything else falls somewhere in the middle.
Most of these games are on campus too.
I know people want to scream the regular season doesn’t matter.
Again, they are idiots for the most part.
Not saying a loss eliminates someone from the NCAA Tournament, that’d be dumb.
68 teams make the NCAA Tournament.
Memphis is another team in a similar boat.
All I’m saying is, we need to get back to our roots here in college basketball.
Until February it feels like a halftime show for football, then it turns into NBA Draft pregame.
Put your work in tonight and ignore as much as you might tomorrow.
