In the first 10 weeks of the college basketball season (There's been over 2 months of college basketball?!?) there were three teams that have accompanied the top spot in the polls. North Carolina was toppled, Kentucky nipped and now Syracuse is trying to remain as the #1 team as it heads into Big East Conference play. Not to mention seven total teams have recieved votes for the number-one spot. And this is just the beginning of a revolving door in college basketball.
This is by no means a resurgance of the little school, the Patriot league team that makes a miraculous run into March past the high-heel, highly touted one-and-done school. This is the overall ambiguity of top-class, top-tier talent.
The Big 6 Conferences, soon to be widdled down, seeing to more and more conference opponents will inevitably face of in the Sweet-Sixteen and beyond.
Conferences and the teams that reside in them will only get stronger. They will swivel on top of each other forcing the overall strength of the league to increase. Smaller schools without the visibility of ESPN or upcoming conference networks won't be able to get the looks, and respect of outsiders. At-large bids will go to schools in-large conferences.
Some big schools will still topple like an cruiseliner in a bubble bath when the drain is pulled, yes, but that is due to a lack of maturity that seems to becontagious throughout the NCAA. Smaller schools don't have as many opportunities as they once had, theirs only so many 'Magic Beans' to sell to the Jacks of the college basketball realm.
College basketball is big business, it's "this town ain't big enough of the two of us" country western. So, little schools I wish you luck in the near future, tighten those neon velcro straps and just try to sqeeze in the swiveling front door.
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