The Hoops Are Made of Gold

摘要

As the ncaa basketball tourna-ment culminates in another green-and-gold Final Four this week—newly colorized by a spectacular $1.75 billion television contract with CBS—it is distinguished as much by the absence of one team that was not invited as by the presence of the 64 teams that were. The irony is that at the same time perennial contender Duke flopped to a pitiful 2-14 last place in the Atlantic Coast Conference, the Duke alumnus who has long advocated an upheaval of the haughty NCAA and its bizarre rules is finally gaining momentum.