Jay Williams and Seth Greenberg break down Saturday's matchup between Arizona and Gonzaga, with the No. 13 Wildcats battling injuries with Kaleb Tarczewski missing the next 4-6 weeks with a left foot injuries
One of the great perpetual fallacies about college basketball is that what happens in November and December doesn't matter. This is an outgrowth of a similar idea: That a 68-team NCAA tournament, and the volume of games that precede it, "devalue" each regular-season result.
This is wrong, of course, and not just because the NCAA tournament's committee has long since eschewed its official focus on the final 12 games of the season.