For Howard Moore, the basketball season began with him sitting next to me on a couch at the Big Ten Network studios. It will end, perhaps not all that soon, with him sitting on the Wisconsin bench next to newly promoted Badgers head coach Greg Gard.
Man, talk about stepping up in class.
Instead of breaking down the games in which Big Ten teams are playing in the NCAA Tournament as a television analyst, Moore is breaking down video of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish as an assistant coach for the Badgers as they prepare to compete in Friday night’s NCAA Tournament East Region semifinal game in Philadelphia.