According to ESPN's Joe Lunardi, Kevin Young's BYU basketball squad should be a top-eight squad come the NCAA Tournament in March. That's right. Before a single game has been played, hoops experts have elevated BYU basketball among the very elite of the sport.
Does this sound like hyperbole? Does my disembodied voice on the internet sound like its become entirely untethered from reality? Am I George Clooney gently floating off into the deathly void as I accept the frozen embrace of outer space? Heartless, yet comforting. Isolated and hopeless, yet completely in accordance with my place in the universe.