NY Times · Mar 31, 2016
In a Digital Age, the Whiteboard Keeps Its Spot on the Bench
Photo Whiteboards endure in basketball as coaches continue to admire their utility and portability, not to mention their durability (after a bad loss).Of all the things that could distinguish the four teams remaining in the N.C.A.A. men’s basketball tournament — record, size, talent, experience — one factor may be undervalued: penmanship.
In the locker room, coaches still rely on their handwriting to relay halftime adjustments on whiteboards that look as if they were appropriated from a seventh-grade classroom. The same is true on the bench, where, in courtside huddles, players try to keep up with frantic scribbles — the X’s and O’s that often result in blank stares.