One Week In - Let's Overreact!

So, what have we learned.

-Nothing

Yep, that's right, we haven;t learned a whole lot.  All these pundits want you to believe this team is overrated or that team doesn't have enough depth, or this team doesn't have a point guard.  Let me be the person to tell you none of it means anything for the first 3-4 weeks.  I'm not saying it's not true but this is what makes College Basketball better than College Football.  In College Football you are not allotted any time to experiment or work different rotations.  You are on your A game from the first kick off until bowl season or you end up in the Blue Bonnet Bowl.  In College Basketball you have the luxury of having a break in period.  Let me use a couple real world examples that are close to my heart.

1.  Duke can't win it all because they don't have a point guard or Duke can't win it all because Greyson Allen can only play against Siena/Bryant types.

Well it may end up being true that they are weak at point guard the real truth is that because Derrick Thornton reclassified he had to spend the summer catching up and wasn't able to participate as much as a normal recruit.  He's behind and you can see Coach K slowly bringing up to speed using Matt Jones and Allen at the point.  If he's not averaging 30 minutes by conference then we may still have a problem.  As for Allen, he just dominated a very good Wisconsin team to win a title.  He had a bad game against a very long and good Kentucky game.  Bad games happen.  This weekend's VCU and Wisky/G'Town tilt should shed more light on this myth

2.  Wisconsin is terrible as they lost to Western Illinois

Wisconsin had to replace there top 2 players and other bit players.  Everybody has to take on a new role and that doesn't happen overnight.  Wisconsin is not Duke or Kentucky bringing in players who can just step in.  Koening needs to be a leader, a distributor, and a scorer.  That's one extra burden on a player.  Hayes has to produce every night now.  That's pressure.  Vitto Brown basically has to fill Hayes spot from last year.  Don't focus on just one game.  As much as I dislike Bo Ryan, he'll have this team in the tournament come March

3.  Marquette needs better guard play and is very confusing to watch

Truth is they are confusing to watch.  Wojo has always been a great recruiter but now he has to coach a game with new players.  That takes time.  Personally I have them as a bubble team and they haven't looked that close but the season is young.