Altman and Larranaga: Restoring Hope to College Basketball

Nathan Roholt FishWrap, FishWrap Archive

For college basketball purists; those who care about balance and building programs, the end of the 2011-12 college basketball season was the sport’s absolute nadir.  The Kentucky Wildcats were national champions, despite being a team assembled in the mode of all recent teams under head coach John Calipari: a collection of high school stars whose featured players first played as …