It wasn’t all that long ago that college basketball was basically a six month sport. You had Midnight Madness in late October (back in the good old days, when it actually took place at midnight), then you played a bunch of games, crowned a champion in early April and… then basically sat around waiting for any morsel of news all spring, summer and early fall before Midnight Madness rolled around again.
Yeah, safe to say, the times they have changed.
Between high school reclassifications, the transfer portal and NBA Draft deadline, college basketball news has slowly leaked throughout the spring and into the summer, and this year, a perfect confluence of events has made the news cycle blow up in a way it never has before.