The NCAA Tournament is not the best way to determine the best team in college basketball, and it isn't designed to be. Doing that in any sort of reliable fashion would require the sorts of sample sizes that would extend the season to June — and given
Will it be Connecticut or Kentucky cutting the nets down on Monday night?
Both UConn and Kentucky can be deserving national champions. Neither team is unequivocally the best in college basketball. The divide between the two titles is part of what makes the NCAA Tournament so great.
Tomorrow night from Nashville comes the women's NCAA basketball championship that everyone—fans, teams, the sport itself—deserves: undefeated and No. 1 Connecticut (39–0) vs. undefeated and No. 2 Notre Dame (37–0). Tonight in Arlington, Texas,
The NCAA Tournament is not the best way to determine the best team in college basketball, and it isn't designed to be. Doing that in any sort of reliable fashion would require the sorts of sample sizes that would extend the season to June — and given