NCAA Basketball: Michigan’s struggles, a sleeper pick and more weekly takeaways
By Brian Rauf
Breaking down Michigan’s recent struggles, the most underrated good teams in the country, and more takeaways in this week’s Rauf Report.
Yes, its Super Bowl Sunday, but we can still talk some NCAA Basketball, right?
College hoops takes prominence on the sports calendar for two months starting tomorrow, and the next month is loaded with a plethora of quality contests. There were a few big games this weekend – Indiana’s upset over Michigan State, North Carolina’s domination of Louisville and Kansas’ blowout win over Texas Tech – but this was largely a slow week around the country.
This is something that I’d love to see college basketball change. No significant sporting events took place this week leading up to the Super Bowl (other than, you know, Kristaps Porzingis getting traded and all the Anthony Davis drama), making it a prime opportunity for college basketball to draw more eyeballs than normal.
That obviously didn’t happen thanks to the void of meaningful and impactful games, yet I can’t help but think things would be different if Duke and Virginia or Kentucky and Tennessee faced off this week.
One scheduling flaw was fixed this past offseason when they made the season start with the Champions Classic. Let’s see them take advantage of the Super Bowl Week opportunity next year.
Now, all of that said, there were still several notable happenings. Here are my biggest takeaways in this week’s Rauf Report:
PS: Patriots win 38-34. I’m not getting burned by going against the GOAT.