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Over the weekend college basketball coaches and writers mailed in their all-conference team selections, emphasis on 'mailed it in.'These media driven lists aren't too important, but serve as a nice congratulations to the players who've earned them and give fans something to talk about in the days leading up to conference championships.
Lets start with the All-Big East team, and by all, they do mean ALL. Who isn't on the All-Big East team? 11 players are awarded 1st Team status and another 11 to the 2nd team. Are they aware this is basketball, not football? Meanwhile, the honorable mention consists of just five. Bass ackwards, indeed.
Xavier won the Atlantic 10 conference by three games and currently sits at 10th in the AP poll. How many 1st team players did that translate into? Zero. Josh Duncan and Drew Lavender made second team, while arguably the league's best player Stanley Burrell finished on the third team. With the other coaches and media members a little upset with their success? Needless to say, Burrell was nonplussed. At least head coach Sean Miller was awarded coach of the year.
DC Sports Bog has questioned the voting statistics in regards to Sean Singletary. He appropriately made All-First Team but the numbers show that at least three voters had him down to third.
In the Big Ten, the coaches went off their preseason entries and repeated Drew Neitzel as a 1st team player. Even as a Spartan fan, I can inform you Drew was not worthy of such praise. Nice career, OK season to date.
If you've got some other all-conference team grievances, feel free to air them here. You've likely forgotten about all of this anyway.
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