KANSAS CITY, Mo. — There are few places more collectively sad than the losing locker room after an NCAA Tournament game.
As many times as I've experienced them, tears and sobs from tough people is not something you'll ever get accustomed to.
Basketball is not like most other college sports, in which finality tends to sink in gradually. In college football, you usually know that a final game is the final game, bowl or not. College baseball has a double-elimination format to its postseason.
A lot of other sports have individual titles as well as team titles, so a lot of competitors win something.