The Big Ten is the Big Zero this year. No one left in the NCAA \u2014 no one in the Sweet Sixteen. Dr. Naismith\u2019s grave is rocking, I\u2019ll tell ya. The major heartland of the USA teams are home for the summer. The inevitable conclusion: basketball on the East Coast, from Boston down to Tallahassee, is better than the Midwest, though there are a few rivals from the West coast.
\nI\u2019m cheering now for Bradley and Gonzaga.
\nBasketball was a downer for me this weekend \u2014 when I had time to think about it. And worst of all is this: the Illinois High School AA championship game last night finished in overtime, and the score was 31-29. Good grief, my father coached in the 40s and 5os and they scored more points than that. Scores like that indicate that there\u2019s something wrong.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Big Ten is the Big Zero this year. No one left in the NCAA \u2014 no one in the Sweet Sixteen. Dr. Naismith\u2019s grave is rocking, I\u2019ll tell ya. The major heartland of the USA teams are home for the summer. The inevitable conclusion: basketball on the East Coast, from Boston down to Tallahassee, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[330],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"\n