Who's No. 1? Hopefully, neither team in Columbus on Sunday

Speaking of Tucker, he's an explosive scorer -- but scoring is the only thing he does at the elite level, and he's 28th nationally in that category. So tell me why, exactly, this non-rebounding, non-passing, non-shooting guy is so great? Anyone who votes him national Player of the Year needs to have a CAT scan, preferably performed by a proctologist. Because your head has to be up your ... you know ... if you think Tucker is a first-team All-American, much less the national player of the year.

All-Americans? Try these: Kevin Durant, Nick Fazekas, Acie Law, Jared Dudley and Darren Collison.

Best team in the country? Not Ohio State. Oden is too passive, Cook too flighty and the Buckeyes far too reliant on Oden for rebounding and help defense. And any team that can lose by 26 at Florida, as the Buckeyes did on Dec. 23, is too soft to win a national title.

Not Wisconsin.

Not Florida, strange as that is. The Gators returned everyone who mattered from last season's national championship team, but they've lost to NCAA bubble team Vanderbilt and to NIT bubble team LSU in the past eight days. Joakim Noah isn't the starving-for-greatness player he was last season, but he's not alone. The only Florida starter who hasn't regressed is Al Horford.

UCLA? The Bruins have the country's best resume and the best three-guard set in Collison, Arron Afflalo and Josh Shipp. But the Bruins have a small forward playing power forward, and they have a cavity at center. Not good.

North Carolina? The Tar Heels have it all. They are Ohio State with more star power, Florida with more depth. But North Carolina has been swept by schizophrenic Virginia Tech and lost to mediocre North Carolina State.

So if you're asking me to name the best team in the country, I can only tell you this:

The best team in America wasn't in town on Sunday.

Unless Kansas happened to be stuck at the Columbus airport.