The 2021–22 college basketball season is officially one week old, and those seven days have produced plenty of marquee matchups and some magical moments. And while we know basing opinions off one or two games early in the year can be dangerous (remember when Quentin Grimes was about to be Kansas’s next star after the 2018 Champions Classic?), we certainly did learn a lot from the first week of the season.
Here are five overreactions from the opening week in men’s college hoops.
UCLA’s March Magic hasn’t vanished
The game script of UCLA’s thrilling overtime victory over Villanova Friday night felt very comparable to the team’s March Madness run for the ages last spring.