Running Utes

I think the University of Utah’s mens basketball team is way over rated. Its current ranking of 14th and talk about Bogut being player of the year needs more justification. Sure they’ve won lots and lots of games, but who have they played? They have not beat a single top 50 team, in fact, in the two games they played against top 25 teams, they lost both. Sure they’ve won lots and lots of games, but who have they played? They have played lots of teams who will not be seeing the NCAA dance this year. I think they are too over rated based on the fact that they have had a weak strenght of schedule.

Perhaps people are just too excited about Utah’s success in football, and somehow think that carries over to basketball. They definately deserve to win the conference title, and they are good enough to be ranked, I’m just saying that you shouldn’t be picking Utah to go deep in your brackets this year, because once they start playing some quality east coast teams, they are going to crumble.

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