It’s March, so hoops spring eternal.
Make that hope, not hoops, but you get the point and feel the madness if your favorite college basketball team is heading to its conference tournament this weekend like the Providence College Friars and University of Rhode Island Rams.
Only a few weeks ago, there wasn’t much hope at all on Smith Hill or in Kingston. But things can change and players from both teams insist that is the case when things tip off in New York this week at Madison Square Garden (Big East) and the Barclays Center (Atlantic 10).