The players arrive and depart at blinding speed now. Coaches get hired, move onward, get fired, get replaced. More than ever, it feels like college basketball has ingested a heaping pile of steroids: ever bigger, ever broader, with absurd amounts of money on the table.
Which is why, Monday evening, it was so important—so vital—to see a player use the backboard while taking a shot. And one more time, out of the television came: “with a kiss!”
In that moment, there was no need to concern yourself even a little with the serious matters that litter the landscape of college basketball. All that mattered, for a little while, was that we were at the start of another season, and we were riding shotgun with an old friend.
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