When Nate Oats came to town, most knowledgeable hoops fans were excited about the hire (and some of us — ahem, ahem — had been pressing for it for months). What wasn’t there to love? A young coach with a team that punched well above its weight class, that had swagger, that ran the court like hellhounds on their trail, that launched threes from any and everywhere on the court? That’s just some flat-out erotic basketball.
Energetic, modern, analytics-based basketball. The very best of what Jay Wright built at Villanova could be had in Tuscaloosa. Tark’s UNLV Run n’ Gun reborn.