We said it last year, but I'm not sure we ever really believed it.
Friday night around 10:30 p.m., we could finally say it for real, for the first time in the careers of sophomores Caleb Love and R.J. Davis and Kerwin Walton and certainly in the two-game head coaching career of Hubert Davis:
It's basketball season.
You don't decide that it's basketball season by the calendar. You tell it by the energy. If you haven't high-fived a stranger in the last couple of weeks, it's not basketball season yet.