Bad things happen to good people.
Bad things happen to good teams, too.
Thursday, a truly terrible thing happened to a great player and a potentially great team, not to mention to Conference USA and to college basketball at large. What did Kenyon Martin mean to Cincinnati's nationally No. Five days previous, with Martin effortlessly scoring 23 points in his 26 minutes, they had routed Saint Louis by 43 for their 20th consecutive C-USA victory. Without him here for all but the first three minutes and four seconds, they lost the rematch against the Billikens 68-58. That's a 53-point swing, people.