The Big East Bias
As a sports fan/guru, I have had it up to my follicles with this college basketball season.Not so much the season as the actual polling process, and the top 25. Namely two items.
1. The lack of KU being ranked.
2. The Big East.
I don't get it. I'm sick to death of announcers saying how tough the Big East is. Well no shit. It better be tough because there are 192384713928 teams in the damn conference. Ok, not really that many, but there are 16 teams in the Big East. At last count, I believe 9 of them are ranked.
For the record, I don't have a problem with several of teams ranked from one conference. I have a problem when you've ranked HALF of the teams from one conference. As teams eat each other during conference play, the cream will definitely rise to the top, so we're going to have teams right around a .500 conference record taking up spots in the top 25? I mean really.
What really chaps my hide is, as of Wednesday, Georgetown was ranked 23rd. Ok, except G-town has a TWELVE AND SEVEN record. Seriously 7 losses. How can they still be ranked? This is the top 25 in the country. This is supposed to be the top 25 teams out of the 317 Division I schools. So you're saying that 12-7 is one of the better records?
Wait a second.
The defending national champions, my beloved Kansas Jayhawks, are sitting in the "others" category with a 15-4 record. Four losses, two to top 10 teams and they're not ranked? How the hell can this be? Sure I think the Big 12 is down a bit this year, but how can they not be ranked? Sure, they lost the starting 5 and top reserves from last season, but that's just a lack of respect for KU. Whoever said an east coast media bias didn't exist is wholly wrong.
Guru out.
posted by Rusty @ 7:52 AM
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