SOME NEWS (NIT CHALLENGE SET), MOSTLY NOTES (FINAL FOURs STUFF)
So much going on … so little time to dissect the coming-out party of women’s basketball … it says here … a temporary phenomenon – unless, of course, CAITLIN CLARK proves alarmists wrong about the un-welcome she’ll face in the WNBA … By the way, can anybody identify the teams in the men’s Final Four … now that your bracket is long-since busted? OK, so there’s defending champion Connecticut (and its slug-of-a-coach DAN HURLEY ) … and North Carolina State (which made the field as ACC champion only because Virginia’s TONY BENNETT suffered brain-freeze in the semifinals) … and Purdue (thanks to a very big player who, at 7-4, will never remind anyone of three-times national player of the year 7-4 RALPH SAMPSON ) … and, finally … uhh … time out while I check ….. ALABAMA? … The basketball playing Crimson Tide? Next thing you’ll tell me is … the Atlantic Coast Conference has been relegated to second-class and will be looking for a new commissioner … soo...