A Very Sad Week For College Basketball

PORTLAND, OR - MARCH 4: Caleb Swanigan #50 of the Portland Trail Blazers looks on during the game against the Washington Wizards on March 4, 2020 at the Moda Center Arena in Portland, Oregon.There has been too much death in the college basketball world this week. UNC great Lennie Rosenbluth is understandable. The man was 89.

But former Purdue star Caleb Swanigan was just 25 and Houston Baptist star Darius Lee was just 21.

Lee was basically in the wrong place at the wrong time. At home in Harlem for the summer, he was, tragically, caught up in a shooting. Eight others were hit; only Lee died. It’s a terrible blow for Houston Baptist in a competitive sense but is bound to be absolutely…