Frank Martin is a rock star.
The South Carolina basketball coach — formerly the Kansas State basketball coach, you’re probably aware — has the Gamecocks in the Final Four this weekend in Glendale, Ariz. The same Gamecocks who hadn’t won an NCAA Tournament game since 1973 when this tournament started and who had played 108 previous seasons without even reaching an Elite Eight.
Martin is being celebrated, rightly so, as a coaching savant. South Carolina ended the regular season poorly and there was no reason to think the Gamecocks were capable of making this kind of run in the tournament.