As the year comes to a close, we’re looking back at the best of Sports Illustrated from 2022 across the site. In college basketball, it was an especially busy year—we saw legendary coaches Mike Krzyzewski and Jay Wright retire, South Carolina continued its dominance and Saint Peter’s went on a still-unbelievable March Madness run. In between there were dramatic games, breakout performances and groups that came back together to do it all again this winter.
These were our 22 favorite SI stories around the sport (both men’s and women’s), in no order:
• From Controversies to Comebacks, Kansas Has Perfectly Imperfect Title Run (by Greg Bishop): Why this Jayhawks team will be remembered as the poster child for one particular time period: the era of asterisks in college sports.