Welcome to The Bilas Index, Volume I for the 2024-25 college basketball season. It has been an offseason of pleasant distractions, such as the Dodgers winning another World Series title, various and sundry Taylor Swift concerts and the weekend airings of that ground acquisition game known as "football," despite the painfully low occurrences of actually using the foot to impact the ball, and the sport in which the hours of game time are populated by such small time periods when the ball is actually in play.
Those banal distractions were helpful while we patiently waited for the arrival of the most beautiful game ever played to return to the floor.