The final week of play in college basketball prior to the NCAA tournament featured some feverish action in conference tournaments around the nation. The country’s top-ranked team concluded a perfect regular season with an SEC tournament title while a coaching legend finally makes it back to the Big Dance
Another of college basketball’s greats, Jerry Tarkanian best remembered as the head coach at UNLV in the 1980s and early 1990s, passed away this week. Tarkanian amassed 706 wins in 31 years of coaching winning 20-plus games in every season but two.