No Comparison

It's one of the few sports where the argument is even valid.  Is college basketball better than professional basketball?  It's one of those questions which nobody seems to agree on.  You'll be thinking "of course college is better"  and you assume most other people do too.  But then you hear some people saying the opposite, and you wonder how it's possible.  Here's why NCAA Basketball is better than NBA Basketball.

-- Teamwork:  In the NBA, too many teams are focused on one or two superstar players.  Take the Cleveland Cavaliers before Lebron's departure.  Do you think anybody outside of Cleveland can name a player who was on that team besides James?  And after Lebron made his grand exit, the Cavs went from being a playoff team to one of the worst teams in basketball.  You won't find any team in College Basketball so centered on one or two players.  Pitt coach Jamie Dixon uses a ten-man rotation.  ten.  In Pitt's blowout win over DePaul, 5 players had double digits in points, and every player on the team had more than one rebound and more than one assist.

-- Parity:  No matchup is safe.  Anybody who has witnessed the upset of a top 5 ranked team by an unranked team knows that this is one of the most exciting moments in sports.

Playoffs:  This one is obvious.  the NCAA's 65 team March Madness tournament is like nothing else in sports.  You get the excitement, school spirit, and upsets of college basketball, all day-every day for a whole month.

Game atmosphere:  This one's a no-brainer.  NBA crowds simply do not compare to college student sections.  Take Pitt's Oakland Zoo.  You've got 1100 fans (literally) jumping up and down, screaming through the entire game; Constantly taunting the other teams players and exploding with every big play of their own.  In the NBA, you have people who rarely rise out of their seats, and applaud after 3 point shots.