So the college basketball season began tonight with the opening round of the Coaches vs. Cancer classic and I'm guessing not many people even knew that as 2 of the games (Pitt/URI and Navy/Texas) were buried on ESPNU and Illinois/UC-Irvine on ESPN3 only. It's too bad that ESPN can't do a better job of organizing the 24 hour tip-off classic to be the true start of the season. Why is this on November 16th...don't they know most normal humans work on Tuesdays? I can't just have ESPN3 up at work all day long...even though I will probably try to lol.
Even though today starts the regular season there have been quite the results in some of the exhibition games this season. Now I know exhibition games don't mean a whole lot but I don't care if you're playing man-to-man all game instead of your 2-3 zone as was Syracuse's excuse last season for losing to the Le Moyne Dolphins. Xavier should not be losing to Bellarmine, Seattle Pacific should not be beating both Eastern Washington (maybe they should go with a red court like their red football field) and Nevada. I don't care that these are top 10 D-II teams, there is a reason you're a Division I school. Nothing pales in comparison so far though to Bruce Pearl leading his troops into a 15 point embarrassing loss to the U of Indianapolis Greyhounds. Maybe Bruce needs to do a better job at his house parties of getting better recruits if his players are being shown up by a school from the Great Lakes Valley Conference. I give all the props in the world to these D-II teams for taking these games seriously...it's too bad some D-I players are too egotisical to realize they are not head and shoulders above everyone in a TEAM sport as college basketball is.
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