Know Your Non-conference Opponent: Evansville

Brace yourselves, people my age: Walter McCarty is old enough to be a head basketball coach at a D1 program. Not just walking into a job because he’s Walter McCarty, either; he has paid the cost to be the boss, as it were. What hath God wrought?

This is an episode of our irregularly schedule season preview series. It will focus on the Evansville Purple Aces, who will visit the Cintas Center for the second game of the Steele Era on November 10th at 4pm.

While McCarty has been climbing the ladder since 2007, when he landed a job as an assistant at Louisville, he doesn’t have any head coaching experience. He moved to the NBA in 2010, where he spent parts of eight seasons as an assistant with the…