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"Now that the Super Bowl is over, we turn our attention to college basketball ..."

This is one of The Bilastrator's favorite idiotic statements of all time, one that is uttered at this time of year about as often as Bill Raftery says, "What do you think, one more?!" The "we turn our attention" phrase is reflexive and ridiculous, implying that we cannot focus on more than one thing at a time. Of course we can. One never hears "Now that college football is over, we turn our attention to the NFL ..."

As dumb as that phrase is, it serves to make one think of how one would sum up the season to date, were a being from outer space to appear on Earth and ask for an update (assuming the extraterrestrial being had no access to the internet and did not routinely listen to Coach K's Sirius Satellite Radio Show, as all intelligent life should).