A little more than a week has passed since Kevin McNamara announced via Twitter that he was leaving The Providence Journal after over 30 years with the paper. McNamara has covered all of the local professional teams in recent years, but he was unmistakably a college basketball guy. And a great one at that. He is passionate about the game, measured in his perspective, and respected across the industry.
McNamara manned the Providence College hoops beat for nearly all of his 30 years at the Journal, and in the process became perhaps the most well-regarded journalist covering Big East basketball.