Another Underwhelming Season

Another year of playing men's college basketball is now in the books for the Southeastern Conference, and yet again the bully boys could not secure a national championship. In fact, the behemoths who dominate the gridiron seem to be pussycats on the hardwood. It has been more than a decade since the highly overrated John Calipari brought a title back to glorify our male players (2012). No doubt, Coach Cal is a great recruiter, filling the NBA ranks with mostly one-and-done professionals, among the very best, but he can't translate that into national titles and of late, not even into conference ones. Can you imagine what Nate Oats or Bruce Pearl could do with the incomparable talent that walks onto the court in Lexington, no matter who the head coach is? Anyway, I digressed there for a moment with sorrow over the failures of the principal college cagers in my daughter's home state of Kentucky (with apologies to the University of Louisville, who did win two national titles for a lesser conference back at the edge of living memory and had to vacate a third when I arrived in town to start my family there in 2013). Without a team left to root for as an SEC fan in the tournament, I might not even watch, but dread not Texas who is still vying and Oklahoma are coming soon to reinforce the Conference and perhaps redeem the notion that we are a basketball conference too.