ESPN Finally Comes Around

After decades of success by mid majors in the NCAA tournament, ESPN finally accepts them as the potential threat they are every March. Everyone is now on the bandwagon, even guys like Vitale and Bilas who would throw a temper tantrum every time a mid major conference got an at-large bid over the 7th best team in the ACC. So now these buffoons are crowing about how good they think Murray State and others are as if we need their approval to accept what we know as fact.
But please do not listen to them. No, not that mid majors are not worthy. But if you listened to these guys you would only focus on the couple of teams they feel are the best of the mid majors and miss out on opportunities to pick winners and draft potential March stars. You see for every mid major we expect to make a run, there have been numerable mid majors to make runs without having received the blessing of ESPN analysts. The CAA, for example, produced two final four teams recently in George Mason and VCU who were not getting love from those supposedly in the know. In fact, they largely did not even want those particular teams in their respective tournaments at all.
So we ave learned to scout all mid major teams and not just the 1-2 darlings of the week. You will need to do this yourselves--or wait for me to do it for you--as ESPN does not want to waste their time on anyone under the radar. Take this year's Wichita State squad, who appeared to be the second best team in the MVC earlier in the season despite an impressive record. ESPN never mentioned anything about them, with the little attention given to their excellent conference being reserved for Creighton. But then the Shockers racked up even more impressive wins and entered the upper echelon of mid majors in ESPN's eyes. They can now talk about them for 10-15 seconds a week after ignoring them for tree months. But still ignored? Belmont, Drexel, Middle Tennessee, Long Beach State, Oral Roberts etc as ESPN would much rather spend their time on bigger conference teams, even those with middling chances to make the tourney. Heck, forget the little guys. How about Temple, who is 22-5 and atop te Atlantic 10 and has a win over Duke? Because their games are rarely on ESPN we never hear about them. That is ridiculous as we have had teams from that conference reach the elite eight over the past decade.
So come back for proper analysis and player rankings.