COLUMBIA, S.C. – Three men, all of different generations, one of them twice as old as any Sooner player, another more than thrice as old, joined the OU basketball team in a huddle before practice Thursday at Colonial Life Arena.
Call it a snapshot of the NCAA Tournament.
The fresh-start feeling of not just teams, but players. Aaron Calixte, this time last year a Maine point guard whose March Madness experience consisted of two America East Tournament blowouts to Vermont, stood transfixed at the men who joined the circle.
Jim Nantz, 59. Bill Raftery, 75. Grant Hill, 46.