On the other hand, who cares about college basketball until the tournament starts....you pretty much know who is going to be in the tournament before the season starts, there’s no drama in the regular season.
I think if basketball had only 10-13 games on their schedule and they were played on Saturdays, the games would become a lot more important. The tournaments would be even more epic.
But if you had a 8-team playoff in football, there’s no guarantee (at the beginning of the season) any school would make it. I don’t think it will happen anytime in the near future, however.