...and it's not a smart aleck like this one.
It's easy to get a little depressed during basketball season when there's so much time between games, and it's especially easy when the last game we played had one of the worst halves of basketball we're likely to see this year (hopefully).
So at times like these, when we're looking for things to cheer us up, that we return to our roots, and find things that we're really good at.
And if we're not good at online polls, I don't know what to do with my life. I'd be as upset as Ally Tucker when she found out Whitney Houston lip synched at the Super Bowl in 1853, or whenever it was that Whitney Houston wasn't a crack addict.
So it's with that in mind that I present to you CBSSports' online poll asking
"What's the best state for college hoops?" The answer seems pretty clear: in the 70s, it was California (specifically UCLA), in the 200s, it was North Carolina. At some point it was probably Ohio or Indiana or something. Whatever.
But in 2013, it has to be Kentucky, right? Both Louisville and UK are at the tops of their games (or at least were very recently), and the respective coaches are really hitting their strides. So did people understand, and vote accordingly?
Of course not.
Currently, North Carolina leads the rankings, much to Roy William's daggum satisfaction.
Even more surprising,
Kansas has more votes than Kentucky? They just have the one basketball school, and while the founder of basketball did technically live there, the perfecters of basketball have pretty clearly lived out-of-state. The University of Kansas, surprisingly, only has three national titles, and is 2nd in all-time wins, behind you-know-who. North Carolina has UNC and Duke, who combine for a whopping nine titles, which is only one more than Kentucky has by itself. For fun, throw in UL's adorable pair of titles, and that puts Kentucky up to 10. UCLA has eleven, but those were all John Wooden, and there's no other real competition for them in the state.
I think it's pretty clear that
most of these voters are either wrong, or blind and clicked the wrong button. And I say that with as little bias as possible.
My only request is that we share this vote, and turn it around a little bit. After all, if we can't dominate basketball this year, we can at least dominate
online basketball polls. They're irrelevant to the game itself, but not to our feelings.
You can find it
here.
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