Ok so i'm having dinner with Dan Mullen, Scott Stricklin and John Cohen in the next couple of days.
Having less players in basketball actually creates more parity. The big schools aren't able to horde all the good players like they do in football, when that happens, there are less good players to go around.<div>
</div><div>Only being able to have so few players on a basketball scholarship makes it where there are a lot of good players to go around, so it makes it easy for the little school to be good, and harder for the big budget schools to consistently dominate. It's not like SEC schools don't care about basketball, it's just hard to become a great program unless you have UNC, Duke, UK, or another name school on your jersey</div>