Wednesday, April 19, 2017

In defense of the media

I complain (and I am not the only one) that the media knows virtually nothing about the lower-level schools that are not named Gonzaga. They affect expertise, but except for a few exceptional situations, they are, for all practical purposes, uninformed about basketball below the power conference level and especially below the top third of conferences.

In fairness to them, it is an almost impossible task to be well-informed on all of college basketball. After all, there were 351 D-1 teams this past season. If a reporter watched only one game for each team, he obviously would not make it. Even with modern recording technology, he would have to be watching games virtually round the clock to have even a passing knowledge of all the teams. It is just too much.

So, we are left out in the cold. Bloggers and message boards are beginning to close the gap somewhat for the truly die-hard college basketball fans. To get solid information about the little guys today, you have to go to those who are not "experts," but who probably know more than the experts, at least about one particular niche of the game.

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