NEWS, NOTES AND LINKS
-The NCAA Championship Tournament tips off tonight. Just in case you didn’t know.
-For Chad Sherwood’s CIT Game of the Day – CLICK HERE
College basketball always ends on a high note where it is on the minds of every sports fan, and even on the minds of people who aren’t sports fans at all. As an event, the NCAA Tournament is perhaps the biggest sporting event in the country when you consider just how many people it engages. With such a great finale, I think we end things under the impression that everything is great in the game of college basketball. But, in reality, we feel that things are deteriorating. The NCAA Tournament is a hugely popular event, but as whole, the sport is losing popularity and interest.
David and Lee, who normally don’t get along, discuss the issues they feel that are negatively impacting the game, such as low attendance, low TV ratings, a lack of tradition and rivalry after so many conferences have been realigned, the overall quality of play not being as good, very little interest in the sport for over half the season, and much more.
We want college basketball to be great all year, and of interest to the fans all year. We also feel that it used to be, and things could be done to make it that way again. We timed this intentionally because we wanted to discuss these matters when college basketball was king of the hill. It’s worth the listen.