Okay, I know the NFL Draft is going to come into focus really soon. The combine will dominate the NFL Network, and that doesn't disappoint me at all. I'm a draft geek, and I have way too much information in my head about obscure college football players that may or may not even get drafted, but that's not my point right now.

 

The college basketball season has waited, patiently, for the end of the NFL season, and now it's time for the NCAA to make the headlines. There are so many stories in men's basketball, including the Maryland Terps 6-2 Atlantic Coast Conference start. Gary Williams seems to have a team that he "connects" with this year with so many contributing seniors as well as an outstanding freshman in Jordan Williams. I believe the Terps, if they stay focus, can do big things in this conference this year.

 

The national story has to be the Kansas Jayhawks. Bill Self, who's two-years removed from the National Championship, has his team playing great basketball right now. They are clearly the best team in the Big 12, and I believe they are the best team in the country when it's all said and done. What they did to Texas Monday night surprised some, but Texas has always started hot, but step into reality in February and March.

 

The Big East is clearly the best conference in America, again. Some say this conference is too crowded, but that's what makes it so great. The fact that there are so many good teams, and that you can never take a night off, makes this conference worth watching. From Villanova, to Georgetown, West Virginia, Syracuse and on and on. The Big East will occupy at least three of the final eight teams in the NCAA Tournament.

 

Locally, how could you not love what Todd Bozeman and the Morgan State Bears are doing now? They are 18-7 and 10-0 in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference. After their second weather induced, back-to-back game situation in two weeks, the Bears fought through a tough battle on Monday night to score the win and remain undefeated in the conference. Coach Bozeman has put his signature on this program and made Morgan State matter again in Baltimore and the MEAC.

 

Rob Long