Eight years ago, Abilene Christian barely resembled a Division I basketball program. ACU struggled to fund all 13 scholarships as allowed by the NCAA. The office for one assistant coach was a storage closet. Its center stood just 6' 4".
ACU was, as head coach Joe Golding described it, “the worst Division I team in the country.”
The first year moving up from Division II to Division I would be challenging for any school, but it was even harder for an ACU program that hadn’t exactly lit the world on fire in D-II. The program had finished above .