Sports seasons’ progressions are often measured by recurring benchmarks—all-star breaks, trade deadlines, the beginning of conference play. That’s true in sports media too, and sometimes it’s other sports’ events that provide the benchmark, as is the case when football season ends in the U.S. You can see this in real time on social media at the end of each Super Bowl, as fans and scribes of various sports race to declare it time for everyone else to pay attention to their chosen game.
Which brings us to this column. If you’ve made it as far as clicking, you’ve shown some inclination toward college hoops, which is a good start.