It’s here!
By the time we talk again, there will be regular-season college basketball to consume. I am so happy, and so are you.
A quick recap of our 10 questions before we get to the final query.
No. 10 Kentucky: Can youth be served in Lexington this time?
No. 9 Purdue: What happens if Zach Edey’s supporting cast isn’t enough?
No. 8 Texas A&M: Was the post-New Year Texas A&M the rule or the exception?
No. 7 Tennessee: Is this the year the Vol offense does its part?
No. 6 Creighton: How, exactly, can Creighton get over the hump?
No. 5 Michigan State: What is this Spartan team now?
No. 4 UConn: What can the Huskies do for an encore?
No. 3 Marquette: Will the Golden Eagles have enough size?
No. 2 Duke: Is Jon Scheyer ready to take the next step in his head coaching journey?
And now, the question that’s keeping actual college head coaches up at night:
Is the only solution against Kansas to hope they have a bad shooting night?
In a word, probably. But that’s only a word, and a pretty vague one at that. Plus, it’s not just the two things a week y’all show up for: it’s the commitment to the bit and to the task, no matter how difficult, that keeps you coming back, and I owe it to you the reader to pursue this to its logical end.
(Which, again, will be that beating Kansas requires, as it almost always does, a healthy bit of good luck on your end and a catastrophic level of bad luck on theirs for 98 percent of the country.)