LAS VEGAS — After the final horn sounded at the FBI Bowl Saturday night, with Arizona posting a 75-61 win against its fellow embattled program, USC, Wildcats head coach Sean Miller shared the perfunctory postgame handshake with his Trojans counterpart, Andy Enfield.
It was a brief exchange, but oh to be a fly buzzing around that conversation.
Saturday night's showdown in the Pac-12 Conference championship game put to rest a league basketball odyssey that began with each of the two programs having assistant coaches — Arizona's Emanuel "Book" Richardson and USC's Tony Bland — arrested in the opening bombshell of the FBI college basketball recruiting probe that's still marring the game one unseemly revelation at a time.