And this weekend the first Bowl Championship Series rankings for college football comes out, making all the other polls irrelevant for the rest of the season.

Chances are, there are going to be plenty of teams and fans upset with the first poll. And when all is said and done and the BCS computers tell us who is going to play for the national championship in January, everyone will complain about why we have to sit through another title game featuring either Ohio State, Florida or LSU, and not Boise State, Utah or BYU.

Aren’t you lucky fans of college basketball thrilled that a computer doesn’t determine which teams play for the national championship?

That’s one of the many reasons why college basketball rocks over college football.

I decided to create my own top 20 list letting you know why. I was going to list 100 reasons, but 20 should be enough.

So here you are ladies and gentlemen with apologies to Mr. David Letterman, and the great Ms. Allison Boyer over at BCS Frenzy – from the home office in Long Beach, California, here are the Top 20 Reasons College Basketball is Better than College Football.

20. At schools such as Vanderbilt, Duke and Northwestern, no one riots and starts talking about a national championship when the basketball teams start 3-0.

19. “One Shining Moment”

18. The Cameron Crazies

17. No games spent outside freezing in Ohio or Michigan or in the heat and smog in Los Angeles.

16. A lottery pick usually gets a player sent to the Los Angeles Clippers where he gets to share the same building and gets to hobnob with Kobe Bryant.

15. The championship flags in places like UCLA, Duke and Kentucky leave a nice breeze during a hot game.

14. In college basketball Duke vs. North Carolina matters nationally.

13. Players usually get Christmas and New Year’s days off to watch all those college football bowl games.

12. Filling out brackets and spending the next two weeks in the face of your boss, co-workers, spouse and anyone who will listen about you being the only one to pick a team like Davidson to reach to the Elite Eight.

11. Midnight Madness.

10. Selection Sunday.

9. March Madness costing companies almost as much money in lost time as the recent federal bailout cost us taxpayers.

8. Bracket Busters

7. Cinderella Teams.

6. Ms. Pat Summitt.

5. Mr. Donald Lee Haskins

4. Mr. John Robert Wooden

3. March Madness

2. Non BCS teams are eligible for the national championship.

1. There is no BCS!

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Why College Basketball is Better than College Football

The list was pretty good, and I wholeheartedly agreed with some of the entries.

For example, Duke basketball. I absolutely, unequivocally hate Duke basketball. Bobby Hurley. Christian Laettner. Cherokee Parks. Those freaking Cameron Crazies. You can stop jumping around now. Please stop jumping around.

Maxim also mentioned distracting opposing players while shooting free throws. Another very overrated part of the game. Do you actually think waving your arms back and forth during a shot will distract anybody? Please…

While their list was pretty good, I believe it was incomplete. There are lots of other things that are lame about college basketball. Here are a few more…

The post-season NIT Tournament – once upon a time, in a college basketball world far, far away, the post-season NIT tournament was THE only post-season tourney in town. It actually meant something. Now, it is an afterthought, a tournament for mediocre teams that weren’t good enough to get into the Big Dance. And please don’t even get me started on the new College Basketball Invitational presented by something called The Gazelle Group.

Bobby Knight press conferences – yes, the General’s pressers can great places to get sound bytes. Yes, it is always enjoyable to watch light into an unsuspecting SID. But, to be honest, his schtick is old. The profanity-laced tirades are old. His sarcastic and condescending attitude towards many in the media is old. Just old.

Jim Nantz and Billy Packer – I have never liked Billy Packer as an announcer. He might as well come out dressed up in a superhero costume, because he is the true Captain Obvious. And Nantz tries to paint every single game like it is the game of the century, every play is the best thing he’s ever seen. Jimmy – save that syrup for your clubhouse chats at Augusta in April.

Now I’d like to hear from you, the readers. What have we left off our lists?

What are the lamest things in college basketball? What do you absolutely hate about the game? What drives you absolutely crazy?

(Sorry – Dick Vitale was already listed on the Maxim list…try again).

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