Basketball (and most sports) are fairer than football because there are stats (and thus recognition) for all the players. In football the poor lineman are just out there as far as glory is concerned. However, basketball's built-in injustice, from way back, is its reliance on season-ending tournaments. Thus we have built into our system automatic irrelevance for the body of work a team does through the year, and this is at all levels. You can vanquish every foe by 30 points through the regular season, and end up with nothing. You can be far and away the best team in the country, and immediately be forgotten. And sadly, other sports are being infected with the fever for end-of-the-season tournaments and playoffs. Ah, the good old days, when you played the season and whoever was best was best - and thus got credit for what he did over the entire season.
The good news is that we here at Michaelspappy's UALR Blog do indeed recognize a Regular Season National Champion. And since practically no one else does so, our award is as legitimate as anyone's as THE National Champion Award.
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