In case you missed it, the Big Ten conference hosted media day for men’s and women’s basketball this week in Minneapolis. It’s not a terribly exciting event and not much real news comes from such things, but in a year where the football team is falling all over itself to drive fan apathy, basketball news is a breath of fresh air.
So to is the tone and candor of both men’s coach Fran McCaffery and women’s coach Lisa Bluder. While football coach Kirk Ferentz has been in the Bill Belichick mold preferring to stick to non-answers and minutes-long diatribes full of fluff, McCaffery and Bluder tend to come to the media with excitement and looking to promote their programs.