tournament.

European basketball is a higher level than the NCAAs. The Euro final 4 teams would handily defeat the NCAA final 4 teams.

Go back a few years when NIL is illegal and the WCC slate is mostly playing the little sisters of the poor whose own fans number in the double digits and a few in the triple digits (that is still an accurate description of the WCC opponents). Sounds like a kia to me regardless of whose name is on the front of your jersey. Gonzaga's stadium holds 6000 people. That is a Kia-sized stadium. They pack their Kia, but its still a Kia.

Playing for Gonzaga now under NIL, Timme is making some good money. Some years (not every year) Gonzaga plays an exciting non-conference schedule. It is surprising to me that Gonzaga recruits as well as it does when their conference has so many weak programs in it.

Its fun for us BYU fans if we get players who grow up as NCAA fans and dream of the big-dance and would forego professional opportunities for the glory of an NCAA run. With kids nowadays being less sports fans in general, with basketball spreading in popularity throughout the world to kids who did not grow up watching the NCAA tournament, I can respect players who like to play basketball but don't share those sentimentalities about our american traditions.