A Few Shining Moments

Following all of the cliches, I grew up on a farm in Central Indiana where I learned to obsess over basketball. There quite literally was a rim nailed to my barn where I spent hours of every halfway decent day shooting until dark.

When I was in second or third grade, my parents gave me a seemingly minor gift that would absolutely change me. It was a VHS tape titled “Final Four: The Movie”. For the record, you can find it on YouTube in all of its glory by clicking here. So what was it? It was video highlights of every NCAA championship basketball game from the first 50 tournaments.

Through this, I learned about college basketball’s greatest players, but more than that I was able to see how…