Meet Maine, which is trying at basketball

The main thing with Maine is that Black Bears don’t have manes. Sorry I just had to get that off my chest. Some things are too much to bear and so must be bared. What was I talking about? Oh, I hadn’t started yet. Well anyway, so there’s the Maine Black Bears, and they play basketball.

Not well, mind you, but being bad at something has never stopped anybody in this country from doing that thing as much as they want.

Maine OFF_EFF (rk) eFG% TO% OR% FTR Maine OFF_EFF (rk) eFG% TO% OR% FTR 2018 90.9 (342) 46.0 (333) 21.9 (338) 25.5 (275) 29.2 (291) 2019 90.2 (348) 42.5 (306) 21.1 (246) 22.6 (295) 18.0 (332) Maine fired head coach Bob Walsh this past offseason after four years of deep sadness—the…