Royals Review · May 10, 2019
Are the Royals bad, human, or both?
Denny Medley-USA TODAY SportsIn the spring of 2001, my Iowa State basketball team became the fourth #2 seed ever to lose in the first round of the NCAA tournament. This result came as quite the surprise to our fans and the national media. I was a little different. Oh, the loss devastated me—it was my last college basketball game and it ended in the same humiliating way it had ended the year before, with me in tears on the court and in the newspapers—but I wasn’t surprised.
“I’m so tired of you m****f*****s. I can’t wait for this to be over.”
These were the words our head coach, Larry Eustachy, had greeted us with, the day before our ignominious loss.