On one hand it seems odd that college basketball is about to start.
On the other hand, it is Thanksgiving week, and in a normal season, teams would be a couple of weeks into the season and many of the marquee early season tournaments would be filling up the airwaves.
Of course, almost nothing in the world of sports seems normal at this point. The COVID-19 pandemic has been raging since last March when one of its first victims in sports was the NCAA Tournament.
Roughly eight months later, Michigan State gets set to take the floor for the first time since beating Ohio State on the final day of the regular season to clinch a share of its third straight Big Ten championship.