We know the drill when it comes to college basketball. In the heartlands of the Midwest, we mostly couldn’t care less about West Coast basketball. We’ll watch Indiana, watch Purdue, watch a lot of other Big Ten games, but that’s about it. Heck, most people won’t even watch Notre Dame in the state of Indiana.
We are very myopic as a group.
We have no interest in watching Pac-12 games that start well after 10 p.m. ET most nights, mostly because of the late tip time, but more because we can’t stand listening to goofball Bill Walton as an ESPN analyst.
Even Gonzaga, with all its No. 1 cuteness and postseason runs, doesn’t interest Midwesterners. And most of you, you know nothing about the league they play in, the West Coast Conference. I’m sure most of you never watched a minute of Saint Mary’s basketball — Gonzaga’s biggest rival in the West Coast — before they pummeled Indiana 82-53 on Thursday night in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.
