Imagine if conference commissioners ran college basketball the way they run football. If, instead of an NCAA tournament, in place of March Madness, there were a rankings system to determine the national title-game participants. No Sweet 16. No Final Four.
We imagined it by devising our own basketball computer standings and applying the football selection process criteria from last year's Bowl Championship Series rules manual.
Times staff writer Chris Dufresne offers this fictional account of how final selections might have turned out:
