Why I fell out of love with men's college basketball 

I feel the exact same way. The NBA has less teams and for the most part the teams stay the same for a few years. In college, the best players will leave after one year and then you have to learn a whole new set of players. It’s too much to keep up with

I saw an interesting take recently on Twitter, and they said part of the reason college basketball fandom is declining is because of the lack of a video game, beyond the 90s kids the attachment to men’s game is super low, and there’s no means to draw in fandom outside of the on-court product(which is bad currently)

I go to western Carolina and im loving mid-major basketball. Its nice to have no expectations and be pleasantly surprised by a good season

I think the biggest shift against college basketball in recent years is that we just have so much more content readily available to us now than we did even 10 years ago. "Keeping up" with college sports used to be your local conference and then for 6 weeks in February-March you would start paying attention to the big conference tournaments and March Madness. Anything beyond that was pretty much impossible. While the availability of games is generally a good thing, too many options is a real issue for fans. I also think you've tapped into a natural issue with staying locked into a sport as you get older and have less time. In high school I could keep up with 3-4 of the top soccer leagues in Europe where now I constantly seeing players in the Premier league for the first time. Don't worry though, my grandparents showed me that once you get to retirement you bounce back and can watch every single game of your team's MLB season if you want to so you can get back to that high level of sports fandom eventually, its just not a thing you can responsibly do in the middle part of life.

I’ve gotten really into the women’s side of college ball over the last year or two, and I’ve been really enjoying it. Having all of the players stay around for four years really helps since if there’s a good team I like I get to see most of them again the next season instead of the men’s teams where some of a team’s best players leave early and I can’t really get as attached to them as much

I love watching these videos despite not really being into basketball, or really sports in general. I picked up watching Secret Base to maybe be able to hold a basketball conversation with my coworkers on a new shift, and have absolutely fallen in love with Kofie

College Basketball has become a three week a year sport for me (I should say I live in Wisconsin and am a UW and Marquette fan...2 consistently top 25 schools)....I can't watch a January college basketball game like I used to.

Despite what many RU-vid commenters say, women’s basketball is absolutely hype and worth more attention than College men’s ball

I worked on the TV crew for sports jobs for a few years. I loved basketball, but I definitely zoned out just like you. I would get home and already forget who won the game

As someone that doesn’t work in sports this is so relatable. Through high school I was absolutely obsessed with all the big 4 sports in the US and college sports. At the same time I was also an only child of divorce with few friends so I found sports to be my outlet. Then I went to college started to make good friends, graduated and got a job got a girlfriend developed interests outside of sports etc and gradually I started to lose interest in every sport. Now I really only follow my favorite baseball and football team and nothing else, which to me is mainly because of the die hard fandom I got through my family growing up for those teams. Sometimes I try to get back into it all again but there’s honestly just too much going on in life as we get older to keep up with all of it like when we were kids. There’s times I wish I could go back to being a kid again where I could keep up with it all and have banter about it all with friends 24/7 but at the end of the day it’s just a part of growing up

Grew up in Louisville and my interest in men’s college basketball died with the demise of the old big east. Haven’t watched consistently in years and when I do it’s only in march. WCB is honestly more interesting to me rn

this video is so quiet lmao

Bro that music... Backyard Sports? Some other sort of Humongous Entertainment game? Absolutely unlocked a deep memory 😂

gamecocks womens basketball is the best thing in my life

I actually just graduated from UNC and I feel the same way I also grew up in the triangle area like you. I grew up a huge UNC fan as well so I went to so many games when I was a student. After you watch an NBA game in person you start to realize like damn the skill gap between the two like damn. It just is different. You see how basketball is supposed to be played. Also when you are separated from your college you have less of a reason to keep up with them

I agree bruh, it’s combo of the one & done era not allowing schools to build teams that fans can actually remember, no exciting young stars coming up anymore, and transfer portal driving seasoned coaches crazy. NCAA can only expect viewership in March from now on sh*t is sad

I grew up in Chapel Hill, in the heart of the ACC, and College sports literally were a foundational part of who you were. I loved and followed sports with a passion and then in college decided to try and work in sports. Worked in Sports media for three years and found out pretty quickly that the second it became a job I lost most of my passion. Something about having to watch EVERY SINGLE game really burns you out. it's been a few years since then and I still love sports but now am way more selective about what I follow and how intensely I follow it. Had a similar thing happen to me but with the NBA. I just stick to CFB, CBB, and the NFL now. I think NIL is good for the game and actively improves the college level because talent is more inclined to stick around - but now the constant transferring and constant complete overhauls of college rosters has started to really effect my enjoyment of CBB. When I cant even keep track of who is on my own P5 university bball team because 3/4 of the team transfers every offseason it really takes away a lot of what makes collegiate athletics so special.

College Basketball is the only sport I'm really interested in throughout the season. I don't really watch much NFL outside of the Colts and it's hard to get into CFB knowing my team has very little chance of doing anything relevant outside of the occasional upset. I never got to watch the Big Ten Tournament in a theatre, but I had a similar experience growing up in Indiana as a Purdue fan. I'm just not really interested in the NBA style of play (I prefer half court basketball and more of a balance between offense and defense and I'm not saying the NBA doesn't play defense, its just they are far ahead offensively compare to defensively) and its hard to find any menaing in any regular season game because there's so many and over half the teams make the playoffs. The NBA also doesn't have the rivalries that college basketball does, and while the amount of information to follow can be daunting I got bored with the NBA and felt like I already know about everything (or at least everything I would care to know about) about what was going on in the league. There's certainly know requirement to know everything and nobody does. If you want to focus on a particular conference you could probably learn almost every rotation player pretty good by the end of the season just by watching 3-4 games a week. When I started watching around 2015 I only knew the most popular guys like Perry Ellis, Frank Kaminsky, Malcolm Brogdon and Jahlil Okafor as well as several Purdue players, but by my 4th year of watching i knew most power 6 starters and the best mid major players. Yeah the rosters change but it keeps things fresh. Sorry for all this rambling on, but I just feel really passionate about the sport, and feel compelled to explain why I like it.

Outside of the marketing angle, I think a big reason the college game is stagnating is certain coaches/schemes have completely broken it. The Texas Tech and San Diego State’s of the world realized they’re never going to get top recruits, so they deploy a starting lineup of 6’5 to 6’7 tweener wings who try to jump every passing lane and play tight man defense. The ability to play perimeter defense that well is a skill in itself yes, but the poor spacing mostly due to the shorter 3 point line really gives teams trouble. We’ve gone from the Big East 2-3 zone to an all out pressure system due to the lack of elite perimeter talent in the college game

SKIP Save your time and go to the next one. He blabbers for 10 minutes about nothing. He got to busy to go to the games and mixtapes took up all his time. And he has a job. Horrible video.

It happened to me after the Zion RJ reddish duke team after they didn’t win the ship that year I had no care to watch college bball now more 😂

My 3rd grade teacher (who assigned A LOT of homework for that age) told us we'd have a week with no homework if Duke won the National Championship. That was the Christian Laettner, Grant HIll, Bobby Hurley team. My 4th grade teacher said the exact same thing. So by 4th grade Duke basketball had gotten me 2 weeks of no homework. At that age nothing is better. I was hooked for life. Or so I thought. But it's impossible to follow these days. I don't even recognize half the guys on the team. It's not bc I'm too busy. It's bc there is no continuity and you can't get attached to anything or anyone anymore. NCAA needs to fix this immediately or it will really hurt their product. College football may be facing a similar issue with transfers. But it hasn't destroyed the sport the way it has basketball. Wait you dropped Duke for Diamond Stone and Maryland. Unsubbing immediately. Apparently I still care 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

I haven't watched the NBA in years, I don't watch the NFL anymore and I have lost a lot of my love for college football and college basketball and I truly believe it is because there is just too much content everywhere and too many televised games. It waters everything down and yes, once you work in sports for a while, you get sick of it

I like the continuity of the pro leagues. College necessarily has just constant turnover, it just becomes a blur of players over the years.

The one and dones have hurt collage basketball tbh. It's part of the reason why it's so much harder to follow when the rosters turn over every year. Like people like to shit on the women's game, but I know who Catlin Clark is, and I know she makes Iowa good. I have no idea who the number one star in the country will be next season or who he will play for in the men's game. NBA, you've got your Gannis, your Luka, your Jokic, your Bron, your Tatum. Names and faces a fan base can attach themselves, too. Rivalries build on the same guys, having played against each other for years. Like the fans of UNC and Duke still hate their rivals with a passion but the star players really don't have an attachment or a history with these teams, it's just a pit stop before they go pro.

The loss of Pitt, Syracuse, Cincinnati, etc. from the big east has been one of the worst decisions for the sport imo

Illinois basketball mentioned! But yeah as someone who is almost 2 years removed from college I have almost no desire to keep up with any team that isn't my alma mater. I used to read all kinds of articles on a bunch of teams/conferences, follow all kinds of recruits, watch any game on tv but now I'll watch Illinois games and that's about it, and even that's starting to wane.

Interesting perspective! I also grew up in North Carolina and am very aware of the culture there, growing up in Durham pretty much EVERYBODY you spoke to had a rooting interest in Duke or UNC, and it’s something that’s stuck with me personally. I try to keep up with all the local teams, professional and collegiate, but as someone who loves basketball, I get a lot more out of keeping up with the Tar Heels than I do the Hornets, because it’s a much more successful program, and there aren’t as many games to watch throughout the season. Of course, you might think simply picking another NBA team would solve this issue, but again being from an area that cares so deeply about local sports teams, it’s pretty much impossible for me to care about any team outside of NC.

It’s wild how both Kofie & Clara work at Secret Base & went to Maryland

Men’s college basketball is genuinely awful. March Madness is only cool because it’s a single elimination tournament. Overall the basketball being played is pretty bad

I feel like ever since G league ignite OTE and international play has gotten so popular its just no where near as many stars as there were

i feel like when it comes to college basketball, nobody really cares till the tournament unless u ride or die for a certain program. I dont care about it anymore cause UC & Xavier aint been worth a damn since i was a lil kid lol

Another reason that the NBA is easier to follow is that the notable players are far more consistent. In college, after 4 years every player is new, but in the NBA, LeBron's been a star for 20 years. You can stop paying attention for 5 years and then come back and still recognize tons of players.

I have similar feelings not just for college basketball but for college sports in general. It has nothing to with NIL or the transfer portal. It’s more about all the conference realignment and the exposure of the hypocrisy in college sports. Those that run the NCAA have been saying for years that college athletics isn’t professional athletics. Yet they’re letting these tv networks pay them hundreds of millions(or billions in the Big Ten’s case) dollars to broadcast their sports. They say academics come first but if that were the case why will the ACC starting next year have schools in California and Texas when a majority of their schools are on the Atlantic coast? Wouldn’t that cut into study time? I still like college sports but if I had to choose between college sports and professional sports I’m going with the pros. At least I know my favorite pro sports team has a better chance at winning a championship than my Alma mater😄And the pros are the best of the best in the world.

Old Hoopmixtapes and Ballislife tapes used to make it easy to get a sense of what a guy's play style was like. I remember always watching tapes of Marcus LoVett, Dennis Smith, Aquille Carr, Seventh Woods, Trae Jefferson etc. And now when I look up a recruit, I gotta go through a 20 minute film session and it makes me less interested.

I still love college football cause among many other reasons, guys are there 3 years at least, but you’re right college hoops just isn’t the same as it was even mid last decade, with ignite/ot elite and just the sheer turnover of players man it’s hard to keep up when you already so deep into other sports.

I still like college basketball but I a big difference is the best players all seem like they either playing G league, overseas, or OTE. Not as much star power in college compared to 5 years ago

THE FIRE BACKYARD SPORTS BACKGROUND MUSIC 🔥🔥🔥

the part about the change in hoopmixtape/ballislife is a big part of why its become hard to follow for me. not to mention guys going to ote, g-league ignite, overseas, etc. instead of all the best players going to college like it was when I was growing up.

I realize I’m very late to the party and no one will read this, but I think a large chunk of people falling out of love with MCBB is due to a lack of conference cohesion. In the video you mentioned going to a theater in high school just to watch the ACC tournament. I grew up in Big XII country through high school and I remember having a very similar experience. But when regional rivals like Missouri, Nebraska, Colorado, all left and were replaced by schools like TCU and West Virginia, all of a sudden “Big XII basketball” as a thing you watched as a whole kind of melted away and instead you followed your individual school. The Big XII has now rebounded significantly since then (at least in basketball) and it’s starting to get that same kind of brand buzz going again. But still, the days of EVERYBODY at your hypothetical high school all gathering to watch your local conference is probably gone, specifically because “local conferences” don’t really exist anymore.

The product is just so inferior to NBA basketball. I have 0 reason to watch it.

My problems with college basketball are that 1. only three games in the regular season seem to matter. A smaller university can have a great regular season but get upset in the conference tournament and your season is pretty much over because the selection committee never paid attention to your games. To make matters worse, games are being played on Selection Sunday, so said team will get snubbed in favor of a team that played .500 ball in the regular season but got hot and made the tournament final but didn't win. It's unfair to see a mid-major only have one team make it but a major get 10-11 teams. 2. The same teams win every year. March Madness can be exciting...for the first two rounds. After the Sweet Sixteen starts, you can basically predict the winner based on past success, which team has the most five-star recruits, and whether or not they wear blue (I am serious on the last one, the NCAA basketball champs more often than not wear blue).

that’s how i feel about the nba. honestly that’s how i feel about basketball in general. not sure why.

Never in my life have I even liked college basketball. Don't know why! It's definitely not a big deal in Texas where I grew up, so that's certainly a factor. I was aware of the fact that pros are paid but college players weren't, and that felt weird. Plus so many guys who made it to the NBA ended up not living up to a fraction of their projections and that cycle got exhausting to me. Keeping up with what could be is a lot more tiring than keeping up with what is, and that's really I think the biggest point of friction is for me.

I wish the NCAA/NBA would go to the baseball rule, if you go to college you have to stay 3 years at least. And put the college players back in the Olympics even though they'll never win.

I’ve fallen in love with it again but it probaly helps that my schools has been good again.

Seeing the Ravenscroft colors in the background triggered me

I have to disagree with your take at about the 5 minute mark. It’s easier than ever to see the top players in high school and it’s not difficult at all to figure out who’s actually worth paying attention to. It takes about 30 seconds to check a players rank/scouting report.

God, Humongous games had such banger music istg. Love the vids Kofie

How are you a fan of pistons and Bengals but from NC?

Personally, I find college basketball is so fun because of how many teams are out there. You'll never get your eyes on all of it. I watch the Big 10 and sometimes I'll catch a Pac-12/Mountain West matchup if I'm not that tired heading into the nightcap. With pro sports, i sometimes feel like I should try and get my eyes on every team since there are so few, and that exhausts me

I'm a UNC fan and I still love college basketball, honestly way more than the NBA. It's so much less predictable and just fun to watch for me.

Grew up in NC but went to college at a small university out of state. I will watch any college basketball game, anytime, anywhere. If Alcorn State is playing Utah Tech at 5:00 am, I am setting an alarm for 4:30 so I can watch some of the pregame. The NBA just doesn't have nearly the same appeal.

When I was younger college basketball was a big deal because I live in Razorback country, so the pretty good basketball team was used to cope for the terrible football team. Then as I got older I started watching the NBA and realized I would never be able to enjoy college basketball ever again. To quote Barry Mccockiner, “If I wanted to watch a bunch of kids shoot bricks for 40 minutes, I’d just go to my local YMCA”

Being in San Diego where the 3 D1 basketball teams are mid major schools, I'll always prefer watching them. I love the mid majors

Been watching for awhile now and I never knew you were from Raleigh and I live in Raleigh🤣🤣🤣

Shoutout to the Backyard Sports background music.

Purdue basketball (and football too) will always break your heart at the end of the year. You get made fun of for being a fan, IU fans who are only fans bc their Grandpa bandwagoned IU back in the 80's will torment you, nobody even really feels bad for you it's just always other fans Making fun of you. And after all of that, basically every year, you see Matt Painter recruit a new 7'2 center and some scrappy white point guard and start to think that maybe, possibly, this year is the year. Then you get sucked back into it to repeat the cycle.

my mom is a UNC alumni and my Dad went to Duke for grad school, I grew up in Raleigh too... and I think we're close to the same age. We mighta gone to the same schools lmao

What was your favorite era or season of MCBB? Mine was the 07-09 OSU runs. Never made them a football school, but thoroughly enjoyed the runs. Great video concept

I think a lot of it has to do with the NCAA having a spacing issue so perimeter play is severely hampered. Bringing out the 3 point line to NBA distance could help

it's not even a job for me,and i get tired of it

One & done killed men’s college basketball. To quick of a revolving door around generational players. Any player that stays more than a year isn’t really great tbh.

2 things that really killed my interest in college basketball. 1. My team (Syracuse) leaving and basically killing the Big East. Sorry, I still think of Georgetown and UConn as my rivals, not Duke and UNC. I just... don't care as much. 2. I caught the Syracuse v. UConn Big East tournament game in 2009 live (was going to law school in NYC) and that was the peak. I have seen the literal best it is ever going to be and... I can't get that pop anymore.

I can and will watch any pro sport no matter who's playing, but with college sports I have to be invested in the school - my parents went to Ohio State, I'm a College of Charleston grad, so those are the teams I keep tabs on I was never more into Ohio State sports, even football, than when Greg Oden was balling for the Buckeyes - I caught every game I could, I was obsessed, but after Florida beat them for the title and Oden went to the league it just didn't have the same luster anymore And while I still happily watch College of Charleston ball when I get the chance, pulling for a mid-major isn't the same as pulling for a Power 5 team that will make March Madness even if they don't win their conference, you know? Maybe my thoughts will change if I go to grad school one of these days, like I could end up at UCLA or something and become a Bruin basketball scholar (still a while out from making that decision tho), but college basketball is just a "that's neat! anyways..." type thing for me

I think as anyone gets older the amount of sports they can pay attention to shrinks. I barely follow any basketball at the moment, but still keep up to date on NFL and MLB, just the way the world goes.

As a NC native, growing up in Raleigh myself…I used to LOVE watching College Basketball from when I was about six or seven until about 2018…Nowadays, I watch only March Madness. I don’t even watch the NBA anymore - except the Postseason. The only College team I consistently keep up with is my Alma mater - North Carolina Central (not in the upper echelon of D1). Back then, I kept up with just about every player and game. Now, I feel like I’m not missing it.

I live in Durham North Carolina and my ex-wife's family had season tickets to Duke basketball games. It was an amazing experience for 4 or 5 years watching a future championship Duke team against Maryland and UNC. I kind of lost track of college sports after my divorce though I had been a huge fan of sports my whole life. I keep track of what's going on in college basketball without ever really watching many games. I'm wired kind of weirdly and the tenseness of sporting events makes me feel kind of jumpy and sick to my stomach. Because of that I keep track of sports journalism about basketball more than I keep track of the actual games. I always know who wins the national title and the road they took to get there but other than that I don't participate like I used to.😊

Im a little older than you,and am from MD. PG County boy. I used to love college hoops. I started to slow down on it when the one and done came to be. When I started watching around 2000 or so,we expected 3-5 guys to jump to the league. That was ok! We only want guys who want to be there. Now with the transfer portal and the NIL,teams not in the conferences they should be in.. My Terps included. It got sort of whack. I still watch,and probably enjoy more than the NBA though. But back like 2000-2005,with the March Madness video games.. College hoops was upper echelon. I never went to UMD either,graduated from Salisbury out on the eastern shore

I feel you, man. Somehow college hoops has lost much of its excitement in recent years. I still watch it, but it definitely feels like something is missing. Part of me almost doesn't care about basketball, but I still love watching KU hoops and Big 12 hoops. I'm not sure about your NBA argument though. Just imagine the soccer fans who follow multiple European leagues. Somehow it's still easy to follow Premier League, La Liga, Bundesliga, but I guess it's because those leagues have 20 teams. It's just easy to follow them for some reason.

There’s just no entertainment in men’s college basketball anymore it’s a 1 month out the year sport the woman’s ball tho 🔥

Personally, I never got into college sports because I grew up in NYC, a major city with MULTIPLE sports teams. Specifically ones that were really really good, like the Yankees. I never had a reason to cheer for college teams except when I attended college. But, once I left...there just was no reason whatsoever to follow. As for the people that DO watch college sports and them falling out of love with it in modern day, I think it's due to them realizing that there's MUCH better things to watch out there. I think it's similar to how people that watch MLS and the Saudi League...there's no reason to watch those when the Premier League or the Euroleague exists. It just doesn't make sense why I'd watch that stuff...unless it's the only thing I have. With the internet, even people living in the middle of nowhere, like you (no offense), there's now ACCESS to those sports.

I've never been a big fan of college basketball, so I might be wrong, but I think the NBA's one-and-done rule does more harm than good to college basketball. It's creates a system where the best and most popular players don't really want to be there, thus making the general public not really want to be there.

College basketball is so hard to watch. Outside of the high stakes of tournament time there's just players who are less talented than NBA players making a bunch of head scratching mistakes. It always feels like the people who prefer college to the pros always want the extra violence allowed, both in basketball and football, because the skill level is so much worse.

7:28 ehh I wouldn’t say that cause is it work if you truly love it No your being paid for a hobby or skill your good at while being something you like You making sports media feel like working at McDonald’s 😂

I find that it's a lot easier to follow sports by watching podcasts discussing the season rather than actually watching ALL the games. My mental bandwidth for watching games is like 50 MLB games, but I'll listen to hours and hours of NFL and NBA podcasts. It's weird.

Kofie, i love your videos, but man I can't hear your voice properly on this one. Dunno if its the mic, but this video is so quiet.

If you follow a prominent team now, its not the same for me because everyone was four years pretty recently, with the occasional star player leaving early. You got to know players, and see them grow and progress. Now if a player is any good, he’s usually gone. So now the team you follow, is entirely inexperienced future lottery pick, wannabe inexperienced future lottery pick, and a bunch of scrub upper classmen. Its not the same product, and its not a better product at all, for me. Its been a slow walk away from college BB over the last ten years. I used to watch several games each week. Now I fill out my bracket and watch March Madness highlights, like a good American.

Doubt you’ll remember but this video got recommended for me. We were at NC state basketball camp together for a few summers (cant remember the exact year but I had to be around 9 or 10 years old). Hope all is well and keep doing your thing with RU-vid. Peace - Tyler Boone

Last time CBB felt big was in 2010 with Duke-Butler. Remember CBB used to dominate ESPN coverage especially in the AM eating breakfast before school.

college basketball has been really bad since the mid 00s i feel. Maybe because that was the last time I felt Pitt could maybe win a title (lol), but I also think its because there seemed to be more players that were NBA talent playing 3-4 years in college, so we saw more of them in college. Carmelo started the trend of 1 and dones in the early 00s, but it wasn't until 3-4 years later that it became way more common. By the late 00s, every NBA draft felt like the top 10 picks were all international players or freshman and like 1 junior or something.

My fifth grade teacher Mrs. lovin in Knoxville let me watch the Duke Miami ACC tournament game in 2005-2006 during class. It was one of my favorite memories.

It just ain’t the same. Duke, Kentucky, MSU, Villanova, UNC. Every year it was awesome. Zion was the last time we may ever see the star power ever again. Just ain’t the same

loved the video cuz it speaks sum truth on how colleges sports just eventually gets too big to follow but i’m also a huge maryland too so it was tuff to u hear u talk abt the melo trimble days 🥹

See as a Canadian, ive never been into college sports, because here we just dont care about it. Cause in all reality college sports are quite bad up here. We'd rather watch junior hockey or high school than our colleges. So I think that it truly is about that large school spirit and such as to why college sports work so well in America. That or you dont have any professional teams in your city.

I don’t actually watch many nba games but am familiar with easily 100+ players due to the coverage it gets by media and social media. I can’t even tell you the starting 5 of my men’s college team it just doesn’t get covered. I even know way way more of our women’s team

it'd be pretty cool to just see a video from you going over what teams you currently like and what sports you're actively following. i didn't even know you were interested in hockey until the charlotte bobcats video (and seeing you sound the horn at the canes game was so sick btw). i'd love to hear your insight on all that

College sports are dead, and the transfer portal killed them. Players are all now essentially on one-year contracts and there is basically zero incentive to be a fan of any school that isn't already top tier. It was fun while it lasted, I guess...maybe...but it's over now.

I played against Jayson Tatum when he was in high school in some pick up games and that was so much fucking fun. But yeah, even at 15 he was better than anyone I’ve ever played against by a mile

The way basketball has changed I think it made college way better I’m starting to dislike the nba because they players are actually too good that everything is just algorithmic where college is still all over the place and I think it makes a more enjoyable watch

Funny how Rasheed Sulaimon went from Duke to Maryland. I hadn’t realized they were rival schools.

Saying you’re a Duke fan made we wanna stop watching this vid immediately. But I guess I agree with this vids title more than I hate Duke.

As someone who was born and raised in North Carolina and recently graduated college, I could not have said this any better. I didn’t even know I thought this

That’s why Purdue is fun to be a fan of

I was a college basketball coach for 8 years. I couldn't watch basketball for 3 years after I was out.

To me, the level of play has always just been so much lower than the NBA, which is weird cause I don’t feel that way for college football

The lack of continuity year to year makes it hard to get into . Few stars to get invested in. Not that big an issue for women’s basketball though

In Florida, Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee, its college football not college basketball.

I’ll never watch a regular season game, but if Wright State or Dayton make it to the tournament I’ll watch

9:56 of my life I’ll never get back.