Sitting near the back of the bus with his teammates on the morning of March 12, Markquis Nowell had an idea what was coming.
Less than 45 minutes from the Jack Stephens Center as the Little Rock team bus neared Pine Bluff, news on the TV and across social media of basketball conference tournaments getting canceled were coming fast and furious.
Big Ten. Conference USA. Big XII. SEC. ACC. One by one the writing on the wall was becoming more and more obvious.
A few minutes later, the Trojan team bus pulled off the highway and waited on a side road, awaiting word on what its next steps should be.