In Atlanta the other day, CBS sat Washington State's Tony Bennett on a chair for national TV, selected him its national coach of the year and splashed on the screen his name and school logo — a nice purple "W".
So funny, yet is stings too!
Next season will be the year of the Pac-10 in college basketball. No other league will have the chops at the top or the depth down below.
ACC? So yesterday. It was widely judged to be the nation's best this year, but then it went out and had a 7-7 NCAA tournament, and only one of its seven entries advanced to the second weekend.
Only the SEC (10-4), bulwarked by Florida's repeat run, bettered the Pac-10's 10-6 NCAA record. The SEC, and possibly the Big East, could argue bragging rights with the Pac-10 in 2007-08, but with Florida and Kentucky in flux, that's not a good start.
The Pac-10 could return 16 of its top 20 scorers next year. It probably won't, but if players like Washington's Spencer Hawes and USC's Nick Young opt to hang around, the league race will be, as they say at the horse track, contentious.
Six teams were ranked the first week of February, in a season in which the freshman class was never better.
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You used the word 'bulwarked!' Awesome.
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