Saturday's without football saved by college hoops

December 13, 3:50 PMCollege Sports ExaminerJacob Osterhout

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Kansas celebrates after winning the 2008 NCAA National Championship.

It's the first Saturday without DI football since August and the day feels so empty, like waking up the day after your birthday with a killer head ache and your best friend's sister snoring next to you.

The pain. The disgrace. The humiliation. You stumble to the kitchen sink to drink from the faucet and then you remember, all hope is not lost. It's gonna be okay.

College basketball will save you. Let Dick Vitale's passion wash over you. Let Jay Bilas' logic take you away to that special place. Let Doug Gottlieb's impishness touch you like a fraudulent leprechaun.

Yes, baby, it's time to dedicate yourself completely to college basketball. And just in case you've been too busy watching college football to follow basketball, here's a quick refresher course to get up to date.

It's all ball-bearings nowadays, fellas.

• Syracuse is playing good basketball. The Orange are off to a 9-0 start, which includes victories over Kansas and Florida. The bad news is that 3rd leading scorer Eric Devendorf might be suspended from the team for a violation of the student code. Allegedly he hit a girl in the face. He says it was a shove in self defense.
• North Carolina is unstoppable. Not even injuries can slow down the Tar Heels. Roy Williams gets dizzy spells they're so good.
• Michigan is back. Okay, the Wolverines aren't a championship caliber team just yet, but Jim Beilein one-three-one'd them to victories over UCLA and Duke.
  
• The entire Big East Conference might make the Tournament.
• Gonzaga is the best college basketball team west of the Rockies.
• I'm guessing that Oklahoma forward Blake Griffin moisturizes. His hands are so soft.
• A guard for North Dakota State scored 60 points in a loss.
• Stephen Curry is best friends with Lebron James.
• There's a team in New Jersey that might never win a game.
• An off-year in Kentucky features head-on-head collisions and young point guards who refuse to play.
• It's Christmas time in Philadelphia and Tennessee is not happy with its present.

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