“How far back do you want to go?”
That is how a chuckling Bob McKillop answered my request for an explanation as to how he became college basketball’s international man of mystery. As he took me on a journey back in time, it quickly became evident that this was not a story of mystery so much as history.
That was the subject McKillop majored in at Hofstra, where he was named MVP of the basketball team as a senior in 1972. It is the subject he taught for five years at Holy Trinity High School in Hicksville, Long Island.