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Per Merriam-Webster:
mellow: rich and full but free from garishness or stridency
There are multiple definitions for the word mellow, but this one fits this past week in college basketball best. I’m going to start by attacking the first part of that word salad above. Nearly every slate in college basketball is “rich and full” if you know where to look, and we’ve had marquee games and/or exhilarating finishes in each of the seven days since my last column was published.
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Now to run a garishness/stridency check:
garish: excessively or disturbingly vivid
strident: commanding attention by a loud or obtrusive quality
Compared to other college/pro leagues, college basketball’s hype machine features very little garishness or stridency. The casual fan gets bombarded with takes in mid-March, and he or she forgets the games are played in halves two weeks after the national title game concludes.
Let’s take one step up the fan ladder, however, and look at the slightly-informed college hoops supporter. They take a glance at the ESPN scores (unfortunately we have to go one step higher to find someone who uses the stellar Basket Under Review app) throughout four stages of the college basketball season. A Mount Rushmore of attention-grabbing phases in our sport, if you will. What four stages do they tune in for?
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Two are obvious: March Madness and conference tournament week. I’d argue we’re right in the middle of the other two. Opening week and Feast Week lead to an inevitable wave of team judgments, player anointments and message board-worthy criticisms every single year.
Someone can avoid college basketball all they want, but if they follow the main sports accounts on social media, I bet they’ll see a few clips and takes from the Players Era/Maui sneak into their feeds over the next couple weeks. If you’re slightly more plugged into the sport, you’ll see a few hundred more from those MTEs and what feels like 108,362 other games. Garishness may not apply here, but the…
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