If you want to bury men's college basketball news, the first day of the NCAA tournament is a pretty good day to do it.
So when the SMU Mustangs fired coach Rob Lanier after just two seasons -- fresh off a 20-win campaign -- the move may have raised some eyebrows in the industry, but it was quickly overwhelmed by 16 games of madness.
Within three weeks, however, it was clear that one move made an unquestionably bigger impact than anything that happened on the court that day.
SMU, a school that hasn't made a Sweet 16 since man first walked on the moon, set off a seismic shift felt at every level of the sport.