[Cactus Jack]

SC beat Tennessee last night. Also Georgia Tech beat UNC. Crazy season as it seems many Top 10 teams losing weekly.

AP Top 10 teams on the road this season are winning at a historically bad 39% rate.  Mediocrity , to say the least. For fans that  like parity , this is just the season for them. For fans that like to watch a lot of high quality basketball teams, they are probably feeling like the villainous NIL, transfer portaling, one & done advocates  took a  big Vince McMahon-like  dump on the college basketball landscape.

There are still throwback college teams like they were built in the early 90's (one to two really talented young players and a group of veterans). They're just not as likely to be your Kentucky, North Carolina, or Duke... they've shifted more toward your Houston, Baylor, Gonzaga, and the like. I'm not saying everyone from the latter group is that this season, but if you look at the past three years, Houston is. If you want to schedule your DVR for a throwback type team, set up some Cougars games and thank me later. 

Despite there being no doubt that they are one, I left Kansas out of the group of blue bloods because their model has been pretty constant across those eras. They'll have some pretty highly rated recruits, but you can take one look at at least two of their starters and tell that, physically/athletically, they are good to great college players who have no shot at seeing the green room or a second NBA contract.