My first hot take this week is inspired by the Army-Navy football game. (Congratulations, Midshipmen.) Everything about that game is outstanding in terms of atmospherics, and it leads one to wonder whether we aren't doing neutral-site games a conceptual injustice in college basketball.
A neutral-site basketball game can be excellent if it has a capacity crowd split more or less 50-50 between the fan bases, if the teams are rivals and if the site and the game both have some tradition behind them. Let's see Louisville and Kentucky every year in Indianapolis, Kansas and Missouri in Kansas City and Georgetown and Syracuse in Madison Square Garden, just for starters.