The last time it happened the world was a much different place.

It was 1976, Carter was the President of change, the Internet was years away, cable television was a luxury, ESPN wasn’t born, the average price for a gallon of gas was 60 cents and Bobby Knight led the Hoosiers to an undefeated season and a National Title.

Since then no team has run the table . . . and thanks to the Eagles of Boston College this year will be no different.

After the Heels Final Four trouncing at the hands of eventual champions Kansas last year, Player of the Year Tyler Hansbrough announced his intention to return for his senior year and the talk of an undefeated season began.

As the season progressed the talk grew like 9-11 conspiracy theories. Dick Vitale needed a bib to mop up the drool on his chin at the prospect of his beloved Heels and a perfect season. The ACC lived in fear of Chapel Hill and Roy’s boys seemed untouchable.

But just like the great Achilles, the Heels have a weak spot and in the ACC conference opener Sunday night in Chapel Hill the Boston Eagles played the role of Paris to perfection, (you know, Paris, the guy who killed Achilles?) with point guard Tyrese Rice serving as the arrow.

Rice led the way for the Eagles dropping 25 points while outmatching his North Carolina counterpart, Ty Lawson, with eight assists and five rebounds. Behind Rice, Rakim Sanders put up 22 points and Reggie Jackson added another 17 from the bench in the 85-78 shocker.

But the thing that everyone in college basketball and especially in the ACC need to take from this game is just how Boston College exposed the soft white underbelly of the beast that is the Tar Heels: perimeter defense.

The Eagles were just simply quicker on the outside than the Heels could handle. The quick outside defense led to a diminished inside game and double-teams on Hansbrough, who still had 21 points and nine boards in the conference opener loss.

So, can anyone else in the ACC mimic the Boston College? Probably not, but if anyone can it will be either #6 Wake Forest, Clemson or in-state rival Duke.

But even these are long shots.

This Sunday North Carolina travels to Wake for their only regular season match-up, and despite the talent of the Deacons the timing is poor. Just don’t expect North Carolina to stumble a second time in a row and start conference play 0-2. Clemson’s only meeting with the Heels happens in Chapel Hill.  It seems unlikely that the Heels will drop a second game at home this year and Duke, well Duke just doesn’t match-up well with the overly talented Tar Heels.

But who knows. After all, the goal in college basketball is winning the Big Dance but no one just waltzes in.

Not even Roy.

–Aaron Whitebread, Red Editorial Staff.

With the holidays, college bowl games, NFL playoffs, head coach firings as prolific as Geico ad-campaigns, off-season MLB trades and the upcoming second season of everyone’s favorite soap–As The Favre Turns, it’s easy to overlook college hoops.

Especially in a season where the National Title winner seems a foregone conclusion.

But last night, in lieu of Monday Night Football, conference play kicked off with a top-ten Big East match-up (and possible Final Four teams) between No. 8 Georgetown at No. 2 Connecticut.

Head coach Jim Calhoun’s highly touted Huskies came out as flat as a bad American Idol contestant, letting a young Hoyas team jump out to a 18-3 lead on the wings of 4-of-5 shooting from beyond the arc. The Hoyas never looked back.

Georgetown led the game the entire way, despite UConn twice cutting the lead to three-points, handily defeating the heavily favored home team, 74-63.

But this will only be the first of several heavyweight title bouts in the Big East, as the conference holds seven spots in the ESPN/Coaches Top 25 poll.

Yes, the road to March through the Big East will be tough, as the Hoyas can attest to.

Next up for the Hoyas is a Saturday home game against No. 3 Pittsburg followed by a trip to No. 10 Notre Dame next Monday. If the Hoyas can survive their next two contests they can expect to see the rest of the conference in their rearview mirror, but if they lose the next two a 1-3 start in conference play will be about as good as a warm, flat can of PBR.

About.

That’s because conferences as stacked as the Big East this year can be a real disadvantage come selection committee time. The conference has a clear separation between two tiers. In the top tier you have Syracuse, Georgetown, UConn, Marquette, West Virginia, Pitt, Cincinnati, Louisville, Villanova and Notre Dame. In the bottom you have Seton Hall, Providence, St. John’s, DePaul, Rutgers and South Florida.

The conference schedule for the Big East consists of 18 games for each team. Taking down the bottom 6 is a necessity for the March resume of teams in the top ten, but they also must beat up on each other. An 8-10 record in conference play will be almost as worthless as my Social Security if some of those wins aren’t against the top teams. Even a .500 record in conference play may not mean much if the wins aren’t “quality” wins.

On the flip side, a team that can pull off a 10-8 or an 11-7 record in the conference can almost assuredly be guaranteed a high seed on their dance card.

But hey, the Big East can be grateful for this one fact: the selection committee isn’t the BCS. In fact, it’s more like Soylent Green–it’s made of people . . . People!!

–Aaron Whitebread, Red Editorial Staff.

From John Travolta and Howie Mandel to Paula Abdul and Britney Spears, Hollywood (and America) loves a good comeback story.

The same is true of sports.

Take, for instance, reigning NBA champs, the Boston Celtics. A season before winning it all over the rival Lakers for the Celts’ first title in 22 seasons, Boston went a miserable 24-58, finishing in the Atlantic Division’s basement.

Or how about this year’s Tampa Bay Rays? Or the Miami Dolphins, 1-15 last year 10-5 this year and playoff bound.

And now introducing, the Minnesota Golden Gophers.

After the 1997 academic fraud scandal under head coach Clem Haskins rocked the program to its core, including being stripped of their lone Final Four Banner, the Gophers suffered eight seasons of futility in the Big Ten. In the 2006-07 season Minnesota posted a paltry eight wins going just 3-11 in conference play.

Enter exiled Kentucky coach, Orlando “Tubby” Smith.

After producing for Kentucky a National Title his first year, five SEC Titles, and ten consecutive tournament appearances in his ten seasons, Tubby resigned under pressure from fans for failure to make the Final Four nine straight seasons, and accepted the Minnesota job.

Good thing for Goldy Gopher.

Smith’s slower, defense-oriented style is perfect for the Big Ten, and in his first year after making the north-bound journey, Minnesota rebounded from their first 20+ loss season in school history to go 20-14.

This year the Gophers are off to their best start since 1976, with a 10-0 record and wins over Virginia, Colorado State and last Sunday Louisville, ranked ninth at tip-off.

Smith and Minnesota soundly defeated the Cardinals 70-64 in Glendale, Arizona in a game that pit Tubby against his Kentucky predecessor, Rick Pitino.

Sophomore guard Al Nolen contributed 13 from the charity stripe while the Gophers defense limited a good Louisville outside game to 4-of-17 from beyond the arc. And though the Gophers leading scorer, Lawrence Westbrook, was held to just two points, forward Travis Busch and guard Blake Hoffarber stepped up with double figures from the bench.

The newly anointed No. 23 Gophers should gnaw through their next two opponents, Southeastern Louisiana and Highpoint, to enter Big Ten play undefeated. Then things will get tougher for Smith and Co., with top 25 teams like Purdue, Michigan, Michigan State, and Ohio State on the docket.

Though a usually tough home court advantage should play a huge role in the Gophers run at a Big Ten title.

But the question isn’t will the Gophers fair well in the Big Ten . . . they will. Or if they will make a return to the Big Dance in March . . . they will.

No, the question is, how must Kentucky fans have felt watching their beloved Pitino get out-coached by the ousted Smith while mired in a pool of Billy Gillispie mediocrity?

–Aaron Whitebread, Red Editorial Staff.

The word parity is defined by dictionary.com as “equality, as in amount, status, or character.” In sports it means a level playing field amongst all contenders. In college basketball it is achieved through recruiting, coaching and most famously, the upset.

And this weekend the upsets were abundant.

It started Saturday with No. 8 Tennessee falling on the road 88-72 to A-10 host, the Temple Owls. Led by 6-foot-5 senior guard Dionte Christmas (insert bad pun here) the Owls simply dominated the Volunteers, leading the whole game.

Bouncing back from a two-point showing against Penn State, Christmas decked the halls (had to do it) of the Liacouras Center with a season-high 35 points, including seven treys in a performance worthy of his player of the week honors.

The win was Temple’s first over a top ten team since legendary coach John Chaney led the Owls over No. 6 George Washington in the 2006 A-10 Tournament and also ended the Vols’ 27-game win streak over unranked, non-conference opponents.

Ironically, Volunteers head coach Bruce Pearl, a Jewish man, went to Temple and witnessed a Christmas miracle.

The A-10 struck a second time on Saturday, ending yet another winning streak with U-Mass stunning the No. 23 Jayhawks 61-60 in Kansas City’s Sprint Center.

Though not in the confines of Phog Allen Fieldhouse, the game was still considered a home game for the Jayhawks and the loss put to rest a 30-game home streak.

The Minutemen came into Kansas City and took advantage of a young Kansas team and their sloppy shooting and flat play, breaking down the defense and creating shots more open than an Illinois Senate seat.

The Jayhawks did rally late with a Tyrell Reed three-pointer for a short-lived 46-45 lead, but couldn’t hold off the Minutemen in the final seconds after Sherron Collins’ last shot was partially blocked by U-Mass’s Tony Gafney.

Next on the chopping block was the no-longer mid-major No. 4 Gonzaga going down to Arizona 69-64 in the Desert Classic in Phoenix.

The Lute-less Wildcats defeated their first top five opponent in seven years with Chase Budinger contributing 14 points, Jordan Hill adding 22 and Nic Wise dropping a career high 21 points.

Wise also drained three free throws in the final 31 seconds to send the 7-1 Bulldogs home packing.

The three-layer upset cake of the weekend was iced on Tuesday night with Cleveland State taking down #11 Syracuse 72-69 in a thriller.

In a game where neither team led by more than six points the game came down to the final seconds.

With the clock showing 2.2 seconds, remaining guard Cedric Jackson heaved a sixty-foot shot like an Iraqi journalist lobbing shoes at the President.

Only his didn’t miss, and the Vikings handed the Orange their first loss of the year.

–Aaron Whitebread, Red Editorial Staff.

Last year Indiana’s short-lived affair with head coach Kelvin Sampson ended with long term consequences for the famed program after the NCAA charged Sampson with recruiting violations.

While head coach at Oklahoma, Sampson was also charged with recruiting violations stemming from some 550 illegal phone calls made to 17 recruits, resulting in a three-year investigation by the NCAA and Sampson’s firing from OU.

At Indiana Sampson did it again, and guess what? It ended with the same results . . . go figure.

Now an assistant coach for the NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks, Sampson will likely never see the ranks of college coaching again. And that’s a good thing.  He broke the rules and blemished the game. But some college coaches don’t break the rules when recruiting, they just bend them . . . a lot.

It’s simple really. Just buy the recruit’s coach, or parent, or trainer, or handler, or whatever so long as the person is close to the athlete and can land them at said college.

Remember ol’ Michael Beasley, last year’s Player of the Year? Yeah, he was supposed to go to Charlotte with a verbal commitment given to head coach Bobby Lutz. That was until Beasley’s former coach for the DC Assault, Dalonte Hill, took a job on the K-State bench for a whopping $400,000/year.

Or how about last year’s champs? Mario Chalmers drained the shot of the century and celebrated the win with his father Ronnie, then Director of Basketball Operations. Since then Mario has left for the Miami Heat and surprise, Ronnie resigned his position.

The best rule bending coach, though, has to be Kentucky’s Billy Gillispie, who jumps through loopholes with the style and grace of a Romanian gymnast.

At least twice in the last six months Gillispie has come under fire for tweaking the rules.

First he landed a verbal commitment from an eighth grader. An eighth grader!

The National Association of Basketball Coaches issued a recommendation afterwards asking coaches to “refrain” from recruiting players until they are at least done with their sophomore year of high school. It’s almost unbelievable that an association had to release a recommendation regarding an issue that should be governed by basic human decency. I mean he was an eighth grader!

Next Gillispie moved up Midnight Madness one week which made the NCAA Board of Directors to permanently set the date. One day later Gillispie landed a highly touted recruit in Daniel Orton.

Orton’s father, Larry, is also his travel team coach and, according to the Louisville-Courier Journal, banked $4,800 from Kentucky for speaking engagements at summer camps. Orton’s step-brother also cashed in to the tune of $1,950 for talks he gave at various camps.

Orton attended two of these camps.

There are a hundred more stories just like these and there will continue to be as long as the game continues to generate the kind of revenue it has over the last 20 or so years. You may not be able to buy a player, but you can always buy someone.

Of course none of this is illegal . . . or at least it wasn’t at the time.

–Aaron Whitebread, Red Editorial Staff.

Well, Turkey Day is behind us and so is the first month of basketball . . . and what a feast it’s been, filled with predictions, tournaments, injuries, and upsets. So what have we learned in the early weeks?

Plenty.

1. The Tar Heels are awesome and Tyler Hansbrough is the man. It’s true. They were the early season favorite and they still are the best team in the land–maybe ever. The only thing that could possibly slow down a team stacked with so much talent like UNC is the injury bug.

So naturally they have injury problems.

Everyone’s favorite bigman missed the first two games of the season courtesy of a stress fracture to the right shin. Marcus Ginyard will likely not see any court time until the start of next year after undergoing foot surgery last month. And now to top it all, freshman phenom Tyler Zeller, who stepped in for the injured Hansbrough in the first two games, broke his left wrist and is out for the season.

And yet, the Heels are still undefeated, winners of the 2008 Maui Invitational, ranked first, and beat a top ten team in Notre Dame.

They are a virtual lock for a top seed come March and easy favorite to win another National Championship, injuries or not.

2. Orange is hot. Boehiem and his Syracuse team came into the season unranked and unheralded. But after a huge showing in the CBE classic, beating both Florida and Kansas, the team is now among the top 25 with a rank of 20.

Jonny Flynn and Paul Harris are leading the way, putting up huge numbers in the early going and look to lead this team all the way through March.

3. OU’s Blake Griffin is maybe the only player that can realistically challenge Hansbrough for Player of the Year honors.

The big forward from OK City is averaging 25.7 points and 19.2 boards per game.  His worst performance of the year came last Friday in a 87-82 win over Purdue where he scored just 18 points while pulling down 21 rebounds. Just another double-double, that’s all.

Barring any sort of Plaxico-esque self-inflicted injury look for Griffin to bring home a big 12 Title and the POY award.

4. The three-point line has moved and no one seems to care.

Seriously. All the talk of how the game would change and the post would open up is just that . . . a bunch of talk. Last November, games featured an average of 39 combined 3-point attempts, and 34.6 percent of those attempts were made. This November, games featured an average of 37.6 combined 3-point attempts, and 33.7 percent of those attempts were made. Basically, games now feature an average of 1.4 fewer 3-point attempts, and the success rate is down less than one percentage point.

Talk about game changing numbers, yeah right.

–Aaron Whitebread, Red Editorial Staff

Four prestigious programs, three title winning coaches, two back-to-back games and one new arena featuring a lone banner hailing Garth Brooks and his nine sell-out shows. Put ‘em together and you get the 2008 CBE Classic at the Sprint Center in Kansas City.

The pre-Thanksgiving tournament showcases three of the last four NCAA Tournament champs in Kansas, Syracuse and Florida with the University of Washington Huskies playing the odd man out. The programs’ coaches include the legendary Jim Boehiem for the Orange, two-time winner Billy Donavan for Florida and Kansas’ Bill Self.

But last night the name-dropping didn’t stop there thanks to the half-time induction of the 2008 College Basketball Hall of Fame class.

There was the bow tied coach Jim Phelan with his 830 career victories, Nolan Richardson, the only coach to win the NJCAA, NIT and NCAA titles, Danny Manning, who would have been there anyway since he’s a coach for the Jayhawks, the iconic announcer Billy Packer, an un-tucked Charles Barkley and the one and only Dick Vitale.

Oh Baby!

After the induction ceremony Vitale challenged Barkley to a game of one-on-one, which was, as Charles would say himself, “just terrible,” although very funny.

Bobby Knight was there in his new capacity as an ESPN color commentator.

Hall-of-Famer George Brett was in the audience and embattled Chiefs running back Larry Johnson was welcomed by the local boo-birds when his face flashed on the screen.

(Alert fantasy owners: don’t count on L.J. to break too many records this weekend)

And yes there were the games.

The Orange took on #18 Florida for the first game of the evening downing the Gators 89-83. Forwards Paul Harris and Jonny Flynn each had 18 points and Andy Rautins drained five first-half threes for his 15 points.

The nightcap of Washington and Kansas was a blowout 73-54 in the Jayhawks favor.
Center Cole Aldrich put up career high 16 points, nine rebounds and six blocks all while remarkably staying out of foul trouble.

The Huskies shot a dismal 29 percent from the field despite having a player named Isaiah Thomas (although he did lead his team with 17).

The win was the first real test for the depleted champs and sets up a rematch of the 2003 NCAA Finals.

In ‘03 the Orange beat Kansas 81-78 to capture the school’s and Boehiem’s first title.

–By Aaron Whitebread, Red Editorial Staff

Remember standing in the driveway as a kid counting down the seconds with dramatic fervor before putting up a long shot that inevitably missed with a deafening clang? Everyone did it, and yeah, sometimes it would swish through and the imaginary crowd would go wild. So, what was the shot in your driveway?

In mine it was always a buzzer-beating three.

Last year for Mario Chalmers and the Jayhawks the childhood driveway dream became a reality on their way to the National Title. Good thing it happened last year.

That’s because after 22 years of existing 19-feet-9-inches away from the goal the three-point line has been moved back one foot.

Most coaches and players agree that the move will be negligible, having little effect on the shot from beyond the arc. Basically, the guys that are supposed to shoot from outside will still shoot from the outside.

It will force the big guy with an outside shot to think twice before attempting to drain one from downtown. It will open up the inside post-play as guards will have to come out that much further to defend against the trey.

And that’s the idea: to increase the game’s competitiveness and benefit both the inside and outside game play.

But it’s not all sunshine and lollipops with this move, there could be some negative consequences.

For starters the players will have to adjust, which could result in poor shot selection and hurried shots. Perimeter players may be more concerned with the placement of their sneakers than the ball in their hands. Players will be more likely to step out of bounds when shooting a three from the corner because there is now a foot less space between the line and the sideline. Some coaches even think that despite the move’s intent of discouraging the average shooter from taking the long shot doesn’t mean they won’t still try.

“They still want to shoot it. They don’t make it much, but they want to shoot it,” Missouri Coach Mike Anderson said.

But I think the biggest impact this will have on the game lies squarely on the officials.

See, the men’s line moved–the women’s didn’t. That means most college courts will feature two distinct arcs, one for the men and one for the women. They will be different colors, but this will still certainly cause some confusion among the officials.  Especially the color-blind ones.

But seriously, the officials will have to refer to the monitors more to confirm whether or not the shot was worth three or two-points. This will slow down the game and could eventually affect a team’s momentum.

Now I’m not saying it will be as bad as the NFL with their long, drawn out instant replays (kind of a misnomer, eh?). But it will certainly slow down the game somewhat.

And Jayhawk fans, consider this: were the line 20-feet-9-inches last year, the title game would’ve ended in regulation . . . 63-62 Memphis.

Food for thought.

–Aaron Whitebread, Red Editorial Staff.

America loves an underdog. We’ve all heard it before, but last week with the election, the age-old expression took on a much larger truth.

In basketball the meaning remains the same, but come March the name changes from underdog to Cinderella. Last year the debutant of the Big Dance was Davidson. Years past it’s been a Bucknell or a George Mason who crashes the ball, who will it be this year? Hard to say, but here’s three teams I’m keeping my eye on.

Oregon State:
I know some of you out there are saying to yourself, “Dude . . . the Beavers??!!” And for the most part you’d be right.

Last year the Beavers were awful, going 6-25 and winless in the Pac-10, the first team since 1978 and the days of the Pac-8 to do so. But that was last year and two coaches ago.

At the helm for the Beavers now is ex Brown coach, Princeton alum and brother-in-law to President-elect Obama, Craig Robinson.  Robinson led Brown (19-10) to a second-place finish in the Ivy League and the Bears’ best season in school history.

If the experience he gained stumping for his family on the campaign trail can translate into good coaching decisions, the Beavers could make a run in the Pac-10. Plus, a pep talk from the Oval Office couldn’t hurt.

Hold on a tick . . . I might have to re-think that one.

Baylor:
Five years ago the Bears were embroiled in a scandal involving the murder of Patrick Dennehy by teammate Carlton Dotson. The subsequent investigation uncovered a slew of NCAA violations ranging from paying players’ tuition to drug-use to lying to investigators and the NCAA.

However, under the leadership of new head coach Scott Drew and senior guard Curtis Jarrells, the Bears have put this dark chapter behind them.

Last year the Bears (21-11) went 9-7 in the stacked Big 12 and made a return to the NCAA tournament, though lost in the first round to Purdue.

This year behind Jarrells, expect to see some spectacular guard play from sophomore LaceDarius Dunn, junior Tweety Carter and senior Henry Dugat as the Bears hope to fill out their second consecutive dance card.

Davidson:
That’s right, look for Davidson to once again be in the mix. This is due in large part to the return of last year’s March media darling, Stephen Curry.

The sensational sophomore shooting guard led his Wildcats to the Elite Eight where they lost a heartbreaker to eventual champs Kansas by two points. During the Wildcats tournament run, Curry put up big numbers.

In Davidson’s wins over Gonzaga, Georgetown and Wisconsin, Curry put up 40, 30 and 30 points respectively. In the 59-57 loss to Kansas Curry racked up 25 points, earning him the Most Outstanding Player of the Midwest Region, despite his Wildcats’ failure to make the Final Four.

Davidson’s deep run last March and Curry’s return have garnered the mid-major a preseason rank of 20 and some much deserved national attention, and they’re sure to bust more brackets come March.

Those are my three teams under the radar to look for this season, but don’t take my word for it.  After all, I was one of those guys who said the Cubs would win the World Series.

–Aaron Whitebread, Red Editorial Staff.

College basketball fans rejoice, the 2009-10 season is upon us and the slate is wiped clean. So before the much anticipated season begins let’s pick up where we left off.

Kansas
When we last saw the Jayhawks they were celebrating an overtime National Title win over a stacked Memphis team in what was possibly one of the greatest finals ever played.

But this is a completely different team and their pre-season ranking of 23 in the AP poll makes sense. The Jayhawks lost all five of their starters: Brandon Rush, Darrell Arthur, Sasha Kahn, Darnell Jackson and the man with the miracle shot Mario Chalmers.

Coach Self will look to junior point guard Sherron Collins and sophomore center Cole Aldrich to take over as leaders for this young team. Senior big man Matt Klienmann will also need to step it up this year if the Hawks want to continue their dominance in the Big 12.

K.U. also features some of the finest freshmen in the nation in the highly touted recruits known as the Twin Towers: Markieff and Marcus Morris. Both are big men, 6′10″ and 6′9″ respectively, who can shoot the ball and bang around in the post to pull down the boards.

But even with these diaper-dandies don’t expect Kansas to repeat as champs. They are still poised to be the best team in the Big 12, along with Texas, and could make a deep tournament run in March, but a repeat at the title is unlikely.

Memphis
The team that dominated the rankings last year losing just one regular season game to in-state rival, Tennessee, is back and looking to return to the hallowed title game in March.

The loss of Derrick Rose and Chris Douglas-Roberts is offset by the return of seniors Robert Dozier and Antonio Anderson who will be the leaders of this Memphis team. Coach Calipari landed big time talent in top recruit Tyreke Evans, but lost to Kansas again in not signing the twins who originally committed to the Tigers.

Look for this Memphis team to again dominate the lowly Conference USA and make another run in March, and if you like to fill out brackets early Memphis is not a bad choice.

UCLA
What can you say about the Bruins? They are always in the mix and have made it to the Final Four in 3 consecutive years. But they never quite seem able to close the deal.

This year the Bruins stand ready to make another run to the Final Four and their fourth straight Pac-10 title.

They return outstanding seniors Darren Collison who averaged 14.5 points and nearly four assists per game and Josh Shipp whose 12.2 points and senior leadership will help this team make another run in what is becoming a dynasty down in La-La Land. And with a top recruiting class featuring Jrue Holliday, look for UCLA to roll through the Pac-10 and on into March.

North Carolina
Roy’s boys come into this year as the AP pre-season favorite and have the team to back up the hype swarming around this season.

Senior standout and pre-season All-American Tyler Hansbrough opted to return for his final year in the powder blue and will lead this team through one of the toughest conferences in the nation–the ACC.

The 6′9″ reigning player of the year averaged 22.6 points and 10.6 rebounds per game while leading the Tar Heels to a school record 36 wins and a Final Four last year.

Unfortunately for the Heels the usually healthy Hansbrough will be sidelined for about two weeks with a stress fracture of his right shin and starting small forward Marcus Ginyard will be out until December after foot surgery in the off-season.

Even with the injury bug plaguing the Tar Heels early, they are still the team to beat. Come March don’t be surprised to see Roy Williams cutting down the nets for the second time in his legendary coaching career.

Join me next week when I will take a closer look at other teams looking for their one shining moment.

–Aaron Whitebread, RED Editorial Staff.