Bottom Feeder Thursday Night - College Basketball No Names

    Tonight I looked at the college basketball schedule, the games to be played, and it was mostly full of small schools and unheard of conferences filling the slate. Okay, I may have checked that yesterday night or so. I always try to be aware when Indiana or BYU are playing. Last Tuesday night was special, it got me fired up and more interested as to how things will play out.

    My Hoosiers and Cougars both won on the road, and have given them some chances, just maybe both, to be dancing in March. 

    One good game planned was Maryland at Nebraska. I tracked it some on my phone, then I observed the last 6 or so minutes. The Terrapins are good, they won it. Nebraska is not bad, but maybe not good enough. They are 6-8 now in the Big Ten Conference, tied with IU. One of them could or should get into the NCAA tournament, as some predicted the Cornhuskers a ten seed (our of 16), but as it stands I think the Hoosiers might be able to swap places. 

    UCLA tomorrow night will indicate a lot. And, the Big Ten Tourney could decides some things. For sure.

    Who were the nobodies tonight? Queens College? Queens University? Likely in Queens, New York. Monmouth? The Hawks? Quite a few teams with poor records. Like Oral Roberts on the tube right now. Losing in overtime to North Dakota State. 

    

    Memphis played tonight, they are ranked. Two teams with good records were: UNC-Wilmington against another program with a good amount of wins.

    UC San Diego is 20-4, beating up on 10-15 Cal St. Bakersfield.  Liberty wins, they are 19-5. Not bad.

    Oregon State is 17-8 in the New Pac 12. 

    Ooh, the Dons of San Francisco are playing the Gonzaga Bulldogs. That is a good match up, 20-6 versus 18-7. The Dons might make me eat some crazy crow. I thought that they were not that good, but they are good enough to beat quite a few, I think.

    Nobody teams, bottom feeders.

    346 Division 1 teams? How many conferences? Thirty?

    Binghamton. Campbell. NJIT. Who else? I forget. Forgettable. That is what they are.

    Small, (not South Florida, but poor record), isolated, barely heard of.

    But, and however, kids, young men, and young women, are attending schools, going to classes, learning about social atmospheres and sciences of all sorts, making their way through life, much of it because they can bounce, pass, shoot, rebound.

    The roundball. The courts. One part of our existence, one part of our exercises and recreation, competition, that leads to the successes and failures that all of us face, sooner or later.

    Indiana is 15-10. We need many more wins. Brigham Young is 16-8. Right? Both teams can play well, they have a lot of talent. And depth.

    They have names, and NIL money. Not all do. But we are all in the same game, going to the same goal.

    Participate, play, and win. Known name or not.