Why, hello there, college basketball fans! How are you today? Did you enjoy the offseason? No? Me neither. But good news: It’s mid-October now. As it ever does, the start of the next college basketball season has sneaked right up on us, to the point where the college basketball media days — a kind of unofficial start to the season, cultural if not technical — are already in full swing, which you probably didn’t even realize. That’s how close we are! Media days are happening! How great is that?!
Is there a better time to be a college basketball fan? Well, yes, of course: March. Obviously. Ahh. Beautiful, perfect March. And, OK, all of the other months during the season, too. But there is also something uniquely enjoyable about these last few weeks before tip-off, about the uncertainty and optimism of all that prospective hoop, about reveling in nothing more than the idea of a full college basketball season yet to come. Dreaming of all those wall-to-wall Saturdays, all of those delirious weeknight hours on the couch, all of the possible futures branching out endlessly like before us. College sports has loads of problems still, sure, but the game itself is in a great place, and there remains something thrilling, competitively pure about basketball at its core. And here…
