The Hyball: 6 Reasons The BTT Title Means More Than The Regular Season
Bobby Loesch • Go Iowa Awesome
Staff Writer
@bobbystompy
The Hyball is a weekly basketball column.
It's tourney time, baby.
Well, not that tourney. Not the Big Dance. The one right before it. The Slightly Smaller Dance.
That's right -- it's conference tournament time, people!
I've long loved the ridiculous auto-bid conference title winners get combined with the blitzkrieg of games and contact high to daytime basketball. These tourneys really do have everything.
But how much do I love them, really?
I think I'm comfortable saying I prefer them to regular season titles (if my team wins, at least). At their peak, I think they even rival the NCAA tournament. That's pure heresy to speak, but have you ever been? They're fantastic. In our Big Ten case, fans from all over the region descend into Minneapolis, Chicago, or Indy, and it almost feels like a college football Saturday, spread out just a little bit longer.
A few days go by, and the herd thins a little bit, but the people still there? They're prouder than ever; their chests puff out and their goals hone into focus.
Even though regular season conference championships are more comprehensive and obviously a much better top-to-bottom determiner of the best team... I'm still taking the conference tournament probably nine times out of ten (the tenth being when my team loses early, of course).
So without further ado, six reasons why the Big Ten tournament title > the regular season championship.
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It's tourney time, baby. Well, not THAT tourney.
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