From a brilliant column today by Asheville Citizen-Times writer Keith Jarrett, looking back on what a great season the UNC Asheville men’s basketball team has had this past year:
UNC Asheville basketball lives in the real world, and it’s a good place to be. But it sure was fun to visit that other place, and there is an open invitation to return.
The taste of champagne was created solely to make you desire more, and there’s not a member of the Bulldogs not intoxicated by winning dramatically in Dayton, buzzed to find out they can compete with the Pittsburghs of the college basketball word, seduced by the long legs of first-class lifestyle on the NCAA’s dime they sampled this week.
If coach Eddie Biedenbach wants to motivate his players in the offseason, he doesn’t need to yell — just ask ’em what they liked best about March 14-17, and how hard are you willing to work to get another taste?
Bulldogs basketball has turned the corner, and not just because it got hot for three games in the Big South Conference Tournament.