State Your Case: NCAA
Who needs the NBA when you’ve got the NCAA? Basketball at the college level is far more fulfilling. For starters you’ve got March Madness, which is the most exciting time of the year for sports. Sixty-eight teams from all over the country, all vying to become the next NCAA Champion and raise that coveted trophy.
College basketball provides endless thrills and gigantic upsets on any given night, at anytime of the year. Teams such as VCU, George Mason and Butler are just a few teams that have put on Cinderella’s slipper in the last decade, and that’s just during the tournament. This past weekend an un-ranked UNLV squad toppled top-ranked North Carolina, just one of a plethora of examples of David beating Goliath.
Lastly, and most significantly, the NCAA exhibits a love of the game of basketball. Players haven’t ensured themselves stardom or glory. It isn’t about the money being earned but about playing the game.
– curtis.lundstrom@aggiemail.usu.edu