We have spent most of this college football season believing that a super team is in our midst. At least we believe that’s the case as long as Alabama quarterback Tua Tagovailoa’s tender right knee holds up.
Not that the Crimson Tide absolutely, positively can’t repeat as national champs without their potential Heisman Trophy-winning QB. When you shut out nationally ranked LSU and Mississippi State on consecutive Saturdays, as Bama has just done, you could easily win it all with Jalen Hurts under center. Especially since Hurts has started the last two national-title games.
But what if college basketball not only has itself a team to rival Alabama in utter domination but also has a transcendent star every bit as special as Tagovailoa?
We’re speaking, of course, of the Duke Blue Devils and their preposterously talented freshman Zion Williamson.
Think a cross between a somewhat smaller, far more polished and nimble Shaquille O’Neal and a somewhat larger Charles Barkley with both a better handle and jumper and you have the rough equivalent of Williamson, who packs 285 pounds on a 6-foot-7 frame yet moves like Baryshnikov.