Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in men’s college basketball (court storming sold separately, after a weekend of upsets):
FATAL FLAWS REVEALED? OR JUST A FORESEEABLE TRAP WEEKEND?
Saturday produced unprecedented carnage among the putative national title contenders, with the top six teams in the men’s AP poll and seven of the top 10 all losing. Part of this was scheduling happenstance—the losers were all playing quality opponents on the road. But this flurry of defeats also served as a reminder that there is no super team in 2022. That became evident when every team had at least one loss by mid-January. Now every team but Murray State has at least three losses, and only two teams (the Racers and South Dakota State) are still undefeated in conference play.
