Tonight’s NCAA basketball game between the University of Iowa and the University of Connecticut in the Women’s Final Four makes us wonder … again … if the money involved in college sports is corrupting results. Well, of course it is, and it’s been made obvious again by this game’s outcome—decided, basically, on a dubious officiating call with just 4 seconds left in a 1-point game involving the overrated Caitlin Clark.

The Huskies were the strong mathematical favorite in this game, although you’d never know it from the mediots’ coverage. And the South Carolina Gamecocks will be the mathematical favorite, too—even more so—in Sunday’s championship final. Connecticut had a 60-percent mathematical chance to beat Iowa and Clark, but the officiating narrative is what everyone was talking about tonight after the controversial finish.

The undefeated Gamecocks are a 73-percent favorite, which is a pretty strong data point. If the NCAA somehow again finds a way to get the Hawkeyes a win so Clark can be undeservedly feted as the Queen of the Moment, we will really scratch our heads how corruption in sport can even extend to the women’s games. Maybe we’ve seen this in professional tennis before, but it’s just getting out of hand on every level.

We see reports about TV ratings for Clark’s games now, fueled by superficial mediot coverage without context. Follow the money, of course: the mediots try to make the story big enough to get clickbait ad revenue online and TV advertising profits, and sometimes it works despite the use of hyperbole, endlessly. America really has been dummied itself down, and this is what we have to say about that: wake up, people!

Just remember, two thirds of college graduates don’t possess critical thinking skills. This is documented in recent studies. Throw in all the people who didn’t go to college, and maybe one fifth of those naturally have intelligence high enough to possess critical thinking skills. What you end up with, therefore, theoretically, is 73 percent of the population who are literal sheep. You can make more money targeting the sheep, obvi.

That’s why false narratives work so well. Almost three quarters of the population isn’t smart enough to see through the logical fallacies and calculated misrepresentations. This is what we have here with Clark and the Hawkeyes, and if the heavily-favored Gamecocks don’t win on Sunday, we wonder if it will be another example of the NCAA’s corruption and our society’s downfall as represented in the corruption of sport.