Bryce Drew's buzzer-beater and Valparaiso's upset, 25 years on

DENVER -- Time is gray hair. It's grown-up kids. It's dreams, stumbles, long days and fast years.

Twenty-five years of basketball time meandered through the hallways inside Ball Arena on Thursday. A hoops family, an all-time moment, roads less traveled and two brothers still in the game.

And me. I haven't had an occasion to see Bryce Drew or Scott Drew, haven't spoken to them, haven't asked a question of them since 1998. But on March 13, 1998, Bryce Drew authored one of the NCAA tournament moments that has since made most every list of Cinderellas, upsets, remember-whens and "OMG where were you?" moments of the tournament.

"We definitely didn't know [it would be remembered]. We had a group of…