Why do fans follow college basketball? Better yet, why do Penn State fans follow college basketball? Take a moment if you can and think about that. Maybe go to a mirror and look deep into your own eyes.
It certainly isn’t for the love of conference championships or regular trips to the NCAA Tournament. Penn State has gone to the NCAA Tournament, on average, once every ten years for the past sixty years. This past season the trip was cancelled at the last second due to a once-every-century worldwide pandemic.
So why, seriously, do we fans care to watch a team that has, for most of our lives, fallen short of the measures that would be considered success for a basketball program?