Listen, I’m a sap for the rags-to-riches story for in college hoops. Sure, sure. People like to tell you that there are too many teams in college hoops, so on, so forth. This is not a good opinion. As an alum of a small university that doesn’t compete on the Division I level, I would give my left damn kidney to watch my undergrad alma mater lose one NCAA Tournament game by 50 daggone points. It would be good, fun, and wholly worth it.
Tonight featured one of those rags-to-riches stories. Just five short years ago, Northern Kentucky University was something of a no-name, also-ran in it’s own Division II conference — the GLVC.