Rory Glynn, Xavier Nation Magazine
Xavier Nation Magazine talked to three practitioners about their passion for the game.
IN THE BEGINNING
back when Billy Packer was still in everyone's homes and the Internet wasn't,
when Kentucky meant Rick Pitino and John Calipari mentored mid-major Massachusetts, when Selection Sunday represented the solution to a glorious March riddle shrouded in secrecy—there was Joe Lunardi.
Actually, there was Joe Lunardi and a cadre of buddies, huddled in Lunardi's office overnight, hopped up on equal parts caffeine and college basketball, watching the Big West final and fine-tuning predictions of the next day's NCAA Tournament bracket.