Call it polishing the silverware on the Titanic, or fixing your hair as the car rolls off a cliff, or … pick the analogy.
As trivial basketball pursuits go, that about sums up the MAC-SBC Challenge games on Saturday.
The Mid-American Conference is fiddling while Rome burns.
In theory, its poor man’s version of the old ESPN Bracket Busters event is a good idea. The second-year scheduling alliance — which each season matches every MAC team against a pair of like opponents from the Sun Belt Conference — gives its top programs the opportunity to enhance their resumes, including for an at-large berth to the NCAA tournament.