What strikes you more than the ones on the way up or the ones who are established are the ones who have been around . . . Jerry Tarkanian, for instance. Tark the Shark is still at it. The nickname is most appropriate. The shark dates to the days of the dinosaurs.
Sharks are the ultimate survivors.
So is Tark. The NCAA has used everything short of a silver bullet. There is Gray Power in this tournament, which puts the lie to the notion that men 40 and 50 years older than the lads they coach somehow can't get through to their players. But the ball and the hoop have a way of linking generations. And if you can coach, then you can coach up to the edge of senility.