SEC and College Basketball Must Learn Lessons
College Basketball is very exciting right now with all the conferences having their tournaments this week. Some champions have already been crowned, while others will be crowned on Sunday. Soon after the crownings, the selection process will begin to find the best 64 or 65 teams in the country. It’s a great time of the year and college basketball is very special.
However, they try to pack all this excitement too close together and when you have a tornado that disrupted the SEC tourney; you’re then faced with teams like the Kentucky Wildcats and Georgia Bulldogs having to play two games in one day. Kentucky lost their game to Georgia, so they had to only play one, but Georgia was forced back on the court 5 hours later to take on another very good team in the tournament. The Georgia Bulldogs shocked the nation by sending Kentucky home early in the tournament and it became even a bigger shock when they won their 2nd game of the day over the Bulldogs from Mississippi. Georgia now finds their self in the championship game, where they will once again be facing another very good team in the Arkansas Razorbacks.
College basketball needs to fix this and do it next year! Our weather is changing and emergencies will occur and this needs to be spaced out better. I’m sure if the USC Trojans were faced with this issue the whole landscape would have changed for them. Nobody respects the SEC and teams from the South in general, so it’s no big surprise they would just make Kentucky and Georgia play 2 games in one day. You can bet your last dollar the same would have not been the case if the USC Trojans had to face this terrible dilemia.
College Basketball had no compassion for the tornados in Atlanta and even chose to take the tournament a few minutes away to the Georgia Tech Thriller Dome; where they let over 9,000 seats go unfilled thinking this was the best way to handle the situation. College basketball failed and I hope Atlanta never invites another SEC event back into our state. College Football is already a mess with no playoffs and yet they crown a champion based on the rich guys and the schools they attended.
