If Howard Cosell were still with us, he would probably say this about NCAA basketball (you supply the nasal tone and staccato pace): There now exists annually a veritable plethora of enthralling inter-conference hardwood encounters between traditionally proficient American institutions of higher academia.
Translation: These days, many big-name college basketball teams from different conferences play each other.
And, for once, Hairpiece Howie would actually know of which he speaks.