By Harry Minium
The 2018-19 Old Dominion basketball season began with setbacks. Late in the spring of 2018, ODU suffered a gaping hole in its lineup when 6-foot-9 center Trey Porter transferred to Nevada. He was ODU's only experienced true big man.
ODU then lost three of its first five games and didn't look particularly good in doing so.
But by mid-March, it had been a storybook season. There were so many miracle comebacks from a team that played over its head for a coach whose courage in dealing with cancer became an inspiring, national story.