(N.B. I really don't follow college basketball, except at best about three weeks a year. You can guess in which month. I also have no horse to back between Memphis and Knoxville. They're both decent cities.)
"Memphis wanted to prove it really was the best team in the country, maybe even make a run at perfection. Turns out, the Tigers aren't even best in their own state."
--Associated Press by way of Glenn Reynolds (doesn't everyone get their sports updates from the right half of the political blogs?).
Last night Tennessee proved to be better than Memphis. So as of last night, Memphis indeed "wasn't the best." I suppose a lot depends on what time frame you give to any given superlative.
On the season, Yahoo! tells me that Memphis is 26-1 compared to Tennessee's 25-2. (Don't make me dig up their respective Ratings Percentage Indexes: I just don't care enough.)
If you throw all your eggs in the "head-to-head" basket then does that mean Tennessee is putatively the better of those teams until the moment they meet again?
If your argument rests on winning "when it counts" then the best is yet to come of course.
Posted by Matt Bruce at February 24, 2008 12:03 PM