By Harry Minium
Western Kentucky has been feted all season as the crème-de-la-crema of Conference USA basketball.
With victories over SEC regular-season champion Alabama and American Athletic Conference powerhouse Memphis, and recruiting that perennially rivals some Power 5 schools, the Hilltoppers are, on paper, the class of C-USA.
Friday night, during the CBS Sports Network on Facebook broadcast of the WKU-Old Dominion University game in Bowling Green, Kentucky, the announcers spent most of the first half trying to out-do each other in lauding the Hilltoppers.
They wondered about WKU's chances of gaining an NCAA tournament at-large bid, speculated about where standout center Richar Bassey would go in the NBA draft and waxed poetically about the Hilltoppers' recruiting.