49 states and 1 federally administered capital district, 353 division one NCAA Basketball teams – climb in for the only road trip worth taking.
It’s that wonderful time of the year when seasonal affective disorder rolls neatly into what my girlfriend, family, and therapist call an “addiction to college basketball”, when hoops fans of every provenance throw open the curtains and celebrate with relentless trash-talk that could cut glass. Socializing, exercising, and other things normal people do to keep themselves alive take a backseat to back-to-back-to-back A-10 games and the 11:59 p.m. tipoff in Hawai’i, to sitting alone upstairs in Liacouras Center hurling insults towards Mick Cronin.
There are a lot of reasons to watch college basketball; sportsmanship, community, entertainment. Blah, blah, blah. The real reason to watch hoops is the bragging rights, the ability to acquire currency with which to throw shade. You want to be able to tell your friends, family, co-workers, and complete strangers that went to the school up the road that your alma mater is better than theirs, and they should fold up their diploma and wear it as a hat, because that would be less humiliating than displaying it on their walls for everyone to see, to know that they went to a loser school.
Right?
We’ve been so excited for college hoops that we just couldn’t wait any longer to spend all of our time at the office down rabbit-holes of College Basketball Reference and Verbal Commits, furiously digging through every roster, every scoreline from last season, every incoming freshman class to help you settle these hot debates. Our blood, sweat, and stolen company time is your reward, and we present you with a completely objective and unbiased account of which college hoops program is the best in every state.
Just kidding, get on your angry hats and stretch your typing fingers. We did not go chalk.