Mark Cuban on college basketball: 'It's uglier than ugly'

To nobody's surprise Mark Cuban has offered his opinion on something, but this time around he can't be fined by the NBA commissioner.

The 56-year-old Dallas Mavericks owner did not hold back when offering a critique of NCAA basketball Wednesday.

"If they want to keep kids in school and keep them from being pro players, they're doing it the exact right way by having the 35-second shot clock and having the game look and officiated the way it is. Just because kids don't know how to play a full game of basketball," Cuban said according to Tim MacMahon of ESPNDallas.

Cuban echoed the stance that UConn women's basketball coach Geno Auriemma offered last week, calling the men's game a joke.

"You've got three kids passing on the perimeter. With 10 seconds on the shot clock, they try to make something happen and two other kids stand around. They don't look for anything and then run back on defense, so there's no transition game because two out of five or three out of five or in some cases four out of five kids aren't involved in the play," Cuban said.

"It's uglier than ugly, and it's evidenced by the scoring going down. When the NBA went through that, we changed things," he added.

Cuban, in a fashion that only he could, also took issue with how games are officiated.

"The referees couldn't manage a White Castle. Seriously, the college game is more physical than the NBA game, and the variation in how it's called from game to game (is a problem). Hell, they don't even have standards on balls. They use different balls. One team's got one ball, the other team's got another ball. There are so many things that are ridiculous."

Cuban, who attended Indiana, admitted to being a fan of polarizing coach Tom Crean, based on his coaching style and the style of offense the team employs compared to the rest of the nation.