Season Tips Off Tonight!

Click on the title to be taken to the schedule of today's game on ESPN's website.

It all begins today. From now until early April, college basketball will take root in our consciousness.

Sure, college basketball lacks the excitement of college football early in the season. After all, with every team having a shot come conference tournament time, the early season games don't mean a ton. Sure, seedings are on the line early in the year (at least to some extent), but seriously, if North Carolina lost tonight to FIU, it would not cost UNC a number one seed, and if FIU only wins fifteen more games the rest of the year, they won't get an at-large to the NCAA because of it.

So do these games matter? Not really. But it's fun to watch basketball. College basketball is far superior to the NBA in terms of excitement and fun. Will I be watching? I'll watch some. After all, if you want to win your NCAA Tournament Pool, you have to know the teams.

Four games tonight- Florida International at North Carolina, Alcorn State at Ohio State, Albany at The Team That Lost To LeMoyne (Syracuse), and Murray State at California. Murray State-Cal is on ESPNU at 11:00 Eastern. The Racers are a future opponent for the Mocs, so I will certainly be keeping an eye on that one.

Let's see. It's almost 11 AM Eastern right now. The Virginia Intermont game is Friday at 7 PM. That means 104 hours to tipoff!

GO MOCS!