That Basketball Life

The story of Jimmer Fredette.

In this weeks spotlight installment we are paying tribute to the Chicago Bulls of the 1990's. Enjoy!

The thing that makes college basketball more attractive than the pros is the one an done format of the tournament. All you have to do is get hot at the right time and boom an upset has occurred. Villanova entered the tournament in 1985 as an 8 seed after finishing 19-10 in the regular season and 9-7 in the Big East. With a lineup that consisted of quite a few seniors who all gelled at the same time they took the tournament by storm wrapping up the title by defeating the mighty Hoyas of Georgetown led by Patrick Ewing.

Bobby Hurley had a great high school and college basketball career.  He was the one that ran the ship on those great Duke teams of the early 90's.  Misfortune got in the way of us ever finding out how good he could have been as a pro but one thing is certain, he showed everyone that even though basketball is usually a game for the tall there is always room for a hard nosed point guard.

Jerry Tarkanian was a great yet controversial coach.  He didn't make any bones about the fact that his main goal at UNLV was to win and he recruited many players who had no intention of fulfilling the student part of the term student-athlete.  What he did, however was care about these kids and gave them a chance very few others would and in the meantime put the University of Nevada Las Vegas on the map. Love him or hate him it's a great story.  Enjoy!