Bogus end-of-the-year polls

The final college basketball polls of the year are virtually meaningless because they kowtow too much to the NCAA tournament. The NCAA is NOT a test of the best team in the country. It is only a test of the hottest team over a six-game stretch. If that is all the polls are supposed to indicate – who could beat whom at a given point in time – then maybe they are fairly accurate, but to me the polls ought to be saying who has had the best season to date, and that is very frequently not the teams that did best in the tournament. To me, the college basketball season needs to be looked at as two distinct seasons – regular and tournament. Too many people, in my opinion (so-called basketball “fans”) only really follow college basketball during the NCAA tournament, and therefore that is all they care about. To me, what a team does over a 30-game season means a whole lot more than what they do in a six-game tournament, even though the tournament is a lot of fun and certainly should be continued.