Here Are The College Basketball Fraud Power Rankings (2nd Edition)

On the latest episode of the Mark Titus Show, we released the newest edition of the College Basketball Fraud Power Rankings:

Honorable Mention: Todd Golden

Olivier Rioux, the tallest player to ever play basketball at 7 foot 9, is officially redshirting. And while we don't want to put an 18 year old kid on the Fraud List, my question is simple: how is he not able to get in ANY games, Todd? You can play in 33% of games and still redshirt, and you guys are shit pumping teams early. Can we get a few minutes for the worlds tallest teenager?

5 - Tara VanDerveer

This is a callback to the previous weeks rankings where we put the Kansas Board of Regents on the list for forcing Phog Allen to retire because he turned 70. Well, this week, Geno Auriemma became the winningest coach in NCAA basketball history, passing Tara VanDerveer, who retired recently because....she was 70? Tara the year is 2024. Women can not only work, they can work for as long as they want! And we could've had a great neck and neck rivalry between you and Geno to see who would out live the other (he's 70) and ultimately earn the winningest coach ever. But you threw in the towel for what? More free time? To spend time with your grandkids? Fraud!

4 - Class Action Lawsuits Against The NCAA

So when Titus got asked to join a Class Action Lawsuit against the NCAA because his likeness was used in the College Basketball Video Games back in the day, he filled out the paperwork and made like 5 grand. Pretty cool, right? Fast forward til now and apparently a Class Action Lawsuit against the NCAA has resulted in the following: no more walk-ons in college sports. Football teams will have to let go upwards of 30 kids on their rosters when this goes into effect, and college basketball teams will lose fan favorites and campus heroes. Sad! Keep the lawsuits that pay beer money to kids, not the ones that cut walk-ons.

3 - Baller TV

So Feast Week started last week and for some god forsaken reason, there were some games only available on Baller TV. 

Folks, Baller TV is for youth sports and AAU tournaments. You pay like $10 and get to watch your kid since you couldn't make the trip for the weekend. But actual college sports? They don't even have the fucking scoreboard on the screen half the time. And Toledo had to tell their alumni to follow along that way? No, I'd rather just not be on TV in that situation. 

2 - Ken Pomeroy

Listen, we are KenPom fans. But two weeks into the season, where we've had big time college games like Kansas / North Carolina, Purdue / Alabama, Auburn / Houston, and Kentucky / Duke, KenPoms formula is spitting out that the #1 strength of schedule thus far among the 360+ teams, comes from the Kansas City Roos.

Don't get me wrong, Iowa State and Creighton are tough games (still not the toughest duo of the season though). But when your other 3 games are teams that wouldn't find a spot in the Jr. College Sweet 16, you simply cannot have the toughest strength of schedule in the country. Fix the formula. 

*We did figure it out though. None of those 3 teams are big enough to factor into the formula, so the KenPom rankings show they've only played 2 games thus far at Kansas City: @ Iowa State and @ Creighton. Tough schedule.

1 - Nate Oats

So the big story coming out of Alabama's win over Illinois was that Mark Sears was held scoreless and either A.) asked to come out of the game or more likely B.) was benched and then Nate Oats created a story to make him seem like a great leader. Anyways, the fact of the matter is he shouldn't have came out at all. Not because he's an All American but because he clearly was just heating up! Later that night, at 3 am, he shot 80% from the field! Oats ruined what could've been an all time scoring performance from Sears:

Alright, check out the newest episode of the Mark Titus Show here! We'll be back tomorrow morning after a great Day 1 of Maui today.