With the NFL season over, Baseball
players getting ready in Florida and Arizona, and the NBA season not having
reached the playoff stage yet, March is dedicated to College Basketball. The
frenzy surrounding “March Madness” takes over the country and attracts a large
demographic of the public, even those who are completely clueless about the
sport and don’t follow it on regular basis. Extensive media coverage, added
with everyone making their “bracket” and the money of Corporate America behind
NCAA, college basketball has now turned into a one month sport.
Attendance for division I men’s games is
down for the seventh straight season according to the Associated Press, TV
ratings for CBS and ESPN are down as well. A lot of this has to do with the
current format of the regular season. Unlike any other sport, No regular season
college basketball is really must-win. Every team can afford to have a bad
night, and second, third and fourth chances come regularly to teams. A horrible
team during the regular season can put a string of wins together in the
conference tournament and make it to the big dance. Combine that with the
recent shuffling of the conferences, lower scoring games and an uncanny number
of timeouts and fouls called at the end of the games and regular season games
for college basketballs have taken away from the fun and importance of regular
season games.
College Basketball is still a big deal,
and as we all root for a Cinderella team or debate about Kentucky’s chances of
running the table, it will be a wicked few weeks but it still doesn't take away
us from asking ourselves, what’s the point of having a regular season.
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