The first Thursday of the 2016 NCAA tournament has a hard act -- actually, two hard acts -- to follow.
The first of these is, of course, the 2015-16 season itself. No season in college basketball history has been quantifiably crazier than this one: 74 top-10 losses, 37 top-five upsets, seven losses by the No. 1 team -- all of which were the most since the Associated Press began tracking the poll in 1948-49. The regular season is supposed to be orderly and understandable as a prelude to an insane postseason. In 2015-16, the regular season got a head start.