Ninjas. B-2s. Black widows. Panthers.
There are plenty of stealthy things in this world, but perhaps the most impressive recent silent strike took place today as Alabama Athletic Director Greg Byrne named Buffalo’s Nate Oats to be the next head basketball coach.
In tomorrow’s piece we were actually going to profile Oats: there is no midmajor coach more on the rise than Buffalo’s head man. He took the momentum that Bobby Hurley achieved in Upstate New York, then ratcheted up the tempo, the recruiting, the points, and the national profile — earning a 32-4 record in 2018-2019, a No.