Reviewing the regular season

— -- There have been two constants to this college basketball season: predictability and unpredictability. That doesn't seem to make much sense, which is why it's perfectly logical when applied to this illogical 2014-15 season.

Predictability has had one home, at the University of Kentucky, where the Wildcats have done exactly what everyone figured they would -- namely beat all comers. Yet not even the Wildcats have been immune to the temptation of mayhem. After trouncing UCLA, North Carolina and beating Louisville in succession, they headed into SEC play, which everyone expected would be a Kentucky cakewalk. Instead the Cats spent three overtimes in their first two league games.

Meantime, chaos mixed with an occasional shot of steadiness has been the abnormal norm nearly everywhere else, best personified by the Big 12. The conference spent two months vexing people desperate to differentiate the league teams, only to wind up exactly where it always does, with Kansas yet again atop the standings

NJIT beat Michigan, which made no sense, until lots of other folks beat Michigan, too. Wisconsin marched through its first three Big Ten games with ease ... and then lost to Rutgers. Duke, meantime, clobbered Wisconsin, and then lost to Miami, by 16.

We're on the doorstep of the NCAA tournament, yet still can't say for sure who the top seeds should be, let alone clarify the bubble.

The player of the year appears to be down to a two-man race, yet finding a definitive way to separate the two has been downright impossible.

It has been, in other words, an entertaining if confusing season, and one worthy of review.