World Cup squads as College Basketball Teams
It's cliche. I don't think anyone promised you things wouldn't get cliche up in here
Whoa hey there, the 2022 FIFA World Cup has begun!
I don’t think you really want the dorky college basketball guy to rhapsodize on why the Qatari bid for the World Cup and its myriad human rights abuses are problematic. If you know, you know; if you don’t, check out Grant Wahl’s Twitter and learn things that make your skin crawl. This World Cup—held in November, interrupting domestic leagues, attempting to sports wash the sins of a country with just a terrible record on rights for women, LGBTQ or anyone who isn’t a Qatari male—is morally plagued by even the low standards FIFA has set for the event for the last two-plus decades of corruption.
You are not here for that, though. So let’s get to the dumb stuff, the thesis that got you to click in the first place: which nation and their men’s national team has an equivalent Division I men’s basketball team?
Let’s go!
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England Fancies itself the birthplace of the sport, but hasn’t won anything of substance in a while? Constantly on the verge of being ‘back’ but never quite getting over the hump? Well hello, Indiana. Under Gareth Southgate, I can’t decide if England is in their Mike Davis Phase or their Tom Crean Phase; the mystery is the allure!