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I’m fresh out of ideas for extended offseason commentary, so this time I’ve come up with an original haiku for every single mid-major conference. Without further ado:
America East
Stony Brook, Vermont
Albany; they’re pretty good
Retrievers: legends
Atlantic 10
Most years, we argue
Six Atlantic Ten teams should
Make the Tournament
ASUN
Good name for a league
Lipscomb and FGCU
And Stetson Hatters
Big Sky
I have always found
the Big Sky under-covered
An upset? Would change.
Big South
Some really bad teams.
Some very good teams; often
bring brutality
Big West
So, is the Big West
better than the Pac-12? or
am I too early?
Colonial
The conference is good
Colonization is bad
Chaos, it lives here
C-USA
This is a grab bag
of random schools in the South
Weird TV contract
Horizon
IUPUI
is the best haiku school since
Northern Kentucky
Ivy League
“Ah, the Ivies play
fundamental basketball,”
they shout, from towers
MAAC
Metro Basketball?
Simple, eleven teams try
And Iona wins
MAC
MACtion basketball
is very entertaining
if you hate defense
MEAC
Here, at KenPom’s end
We find schools that play quite hard
and inefficient
Missouri Valley
People who enjoy
Scoring and fast breaks, please leave
Yikes, threes are further?!!!?!
NEC
Robert Morris beat
Kentucky that one time and
it was fantastic
Ohio Valley
Rick Byrd retired.
At least the other teams can
rejoice in my pain
Patriot
Here: service, small schools
occasional big upset
on paywalled TV
Southern
Wofford lost; so sad
The last trace of a conference
Critically acclaimed
Southland
The Lumberjacks are
best known from this collection...
Abilene Christian!
SWAC
These teams are quite fun
but the play-in game or the
16 seeds beckon
Sun Belt
They don’t say Fun Belt
for nothing; we’re expecting
a First Round upset
West Coast
Gonzaga, Mark Few
they’re a machine now, but don’t
forget good programs
WAC
Two new teams added
a conference spread everywhere
Geography? Pfft.
One more haiku
Mid-major Madness...
Why do you let Tristan Jung
produce this content?