Yesterday, following the announcement that his West Virginia University basketball team will be facing Bucknell in an NCAA first round game on Thursday afternoon in Buffalo, New York, Bob Huggins was asked what it was like to be a young coach in the tournament.
His mind drifted back to 1986, when he still wore dark suits and patterned ties like Gordon Gekko, and he took his Akron team made up of Division I castaways, walk-ons and ex-football players to the Big Dance in Minneapolis.
He was only 33 then, full of vim and vigor, and his underdog Zips were facing fifth-ranked Michigan right before its pre-Fab Five days.