Baffled At The Standings

I think everyone is mystified at ACC basketball this year and even on the local level high school basketball.  What in the world is going on?  Why is it one team can beat a powerhouse one game and lose by twenty  to a nobody the next.  On the local level why is it that nobody is dominating anybody.  Let's see if we can figure this out.

First let's look at the ACC.  Now that every network in the world carries basketball on TV every night there is no reason for a player that we will call a top 100 player just go to Duke, Carolina or Kentucky to get on TV 30 times a year.  Why, Campbell has been on two national games in January.

Yes all the major powers get three McDonalds All Americans per team but no longer is the bench full of them.  They are now going to Wofford, Davidson or to Butler and are not sitting on the bench as freshmen waiting their turn like they would if they were to go to a powerhouse. 

Use to be when the season started twelve teams had a chance to win the NCAA championship now 50 could win it.  I will use the WolfPack as an example.  They are 14-9 and yet if they get hot at the right time they could win the NCAA.  Their problem they need to win enough games just to qualify.  Even if they are hot they could lose to somebody else in the same boat as them.  So now  there is no more UCLA breezes through the regional and only has to play two teams to win the title.  That first game for everybody will be against a team that could win it all.

There is two weeks left in the high school basketball season and four teams are tied in the standings with a 3-3 record and yet only one game from being in the lead.  The most obvious of all answers is there is no team with great size as has been in the past.  Hunt the tallest is the leader but everybody in this Big East has athletes that can run, shoot and jump. 

Night in and night out every team is lining up and play themselves  because everybody looks the same.  Tuesday night's game goes down to the wire and Friday you line up against yourself again. Everybody is doing this so much playing teams equal one little lapse and you are blown out.

Miami beats Duke, then loses by twenty to Georgia Tech.  Rocky Mount crushes Fike on the road then falls twice at home.  We live in a world where because TV pours so much money into it that the ACC stretches from Miami to Chicago to Boston.  Travel and playing good teams night in and night out can be hazardous to any team.  The new bye word in college basketball should be "just get in".

There is two weeks to go and somebody in the Big East has to decide we are going to take command.  The team that wins at least three out of their last four can do it.  Should one win all four they surely will be the regular season champ.  If it is Rocky Mount that does that they could still  tie for the title.