Will these college hoops games ever end?

ROOTING for close games throughout the NCAA Tournament? Be careful for what you wish.

Last Saturday, as seen on Fox, newly conditioned viewers knew what to expect when Wisconsin and Purdue were tied with 60 seconds left.

The game had been a compelling watch. Good, action basketball.

But, predictably, with one minute left the plug would be pulled in deference to institutionalized lunacy — save-until-the-end per-possession timeouts, commercials, replay reviews and whatever else it takes to drain the life from an action sport that once favored teams coached to think for themselves.

And so the final minute of regulation — it went to OT — lasted 14 minutes, plenty of time during stoppages to see what else was on to combat the boredom.

➤ If the PGA is now negotiating an alliance with LIV, obscenely overfunded by the Saudi government, the PGA’s reps should register as foreign agents. Seriously.

While we’re at it, NBC is another firmly tethered to “Look What We Can Do! Stupid TV.”

Throughout the last two rounds of last weekend’s TPC, NBC posted putting percentage graphics — “11 percent chance of making,” “26 percent chance” — as if all putts and those doing the putting are the same robot.

Yep, exact same line, exact same speed, exact same individual ability, exact same circumstances, exact same distance.

How NBC still doesn’t realize that such stat graphics are ludicrous, exposing NBC, especially to golfers, as fairy-winged fantasists is tough to reconcile. No production exec plays golf?

Finally, while I’d never advocate that No. 1-ranked Scottie Scheffler be someone he’s not, his dry and rather dull public personality surely must frustrate the desperate-for– good-attention PGA Tour as the world’s current best produces minimal attention.