Of course, lots of schools have been bitten without recruiting upper-tier players. It only helps the locals, who never will be decimated the way Arizona was last reaching the NCAA title game. You want a game that's suffering, check out the Association. The NBA waved the white flag this year, changing its rules to welcome zone defenses in hopes a stagnant game could find running water. The NBA has not just become younger, it's become older.
Older players can play because they're wiser, craftier.
The NBA has become a developmental league. Out in Tucson, that's bad news. On this frontier, it's no big deal. Morris Communications Corporation Big12.Net is not affiliated with the Big XII Conference.