Old habits die hard, they say. While my daily battle to avoid slamming down two Pop-Tarts every morning like a 9 year old is a constant challenge there is one habit I have no intention of breaking.
Three. Game. Pods.
While Coach Pitino certainly wasn’t the inventor of the concept he played it up quite frequently over the past decade, and I fell in love with taking on the struggle of the conference slate through the lens of three game pods. With eighteen conference games you could clearly define six independent segments in which the Cards, at a minimum, wanted to “win the series”.