Pitino Already Getting Questionable Benefit of Doubt over Cal’s Hogs Heading into 2025-26

photo credit: Craven WhitlowThe Florida Gators are the national basketball champions. And no one in Arkansas is going to care two days from now except that Todd Golden’s team is on the Razorbacks’ 2025-26 schedule. No one anywhere is.

Several years now, exacerbated by modern culture’s incessant desire to look ahead rather than living in the moment, have the mavens of the internet been at the ready upon buzzer’s sound to publish next season’s Top 25. Football. Baseball. Basketball. Instead of taking even 24 hours to bask or bemoan what just happened – in this instance – on the court, the masses clamber to social media or their favorite app anxious to see where their favorite team falls, how…