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Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan
I watched the end of the OU/Baylor game too! Does that mean that I don't care about what's going on in college basketball right now? 
Or am I supposed to take your statement "people aren't talking about NCAA basketball" literally and believe that I am the only person on the face of the planet who is?
Come on. |
I'll put it to you this way. A number of my best friends went to Syracuse, Georgetown and Vanderbilt. Schools that are much more focused on basketball, and in the case of Georgetown entirely focused on basketball. These guys are all huge college basketball fans, but none of them are spending their Monday mornings talking about college basketball, all of them are talking about the games from Saturday and the games coming up this week.
My personal experience is the same. I was at the Duke-MSU game at the garden last week, and while I wanted MSU to win I wasn't all that upset with a loss because it didn't me an a damn thing. Conversely, after the football loss to ND in September I sat silently on my couch for 2 hours and then avoided all college football news for a week just to not be reminded of the game.
The fact is that the first 3 months of the college basketball season are largely meaningless. Even the last parts of the season are only really interesting for bubble teams, otherwise it's a fight for seeding. The early part of the season is only interesting for the small minority of fans like yourself, fans of small schools that only play legitimate contenders in the early season tournaments. That's why the game against Temple mattered for you, for everyone else in the country it was a nothing game.