Georgia Tech was to be my salvation after seven years in South Florida’s college basketball wilderness. Atlanta isn’t the epicenter of college hoops—that’s my hometown of Louisville—but at least I thought it was closer to it in spirit.
In Atlanta, I would live up the road from Cremins Court, where “Lethal Weapon 3” once played to rave reviews. The Yellow Jackets hadn’t sustained that level of success since the mid-1990s but they were a semi-permanent fixtures in NCAA brackets under Paul Hewitt.
They can’t be bothered with basketball in Athens but the Jackets were going to give me the kind of big-time, city-school hoops I crave.