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Sunday, March 20, 2016

Pure Agony

By RON MALY

I've been watching collegiate basketball games for many, many years.


Seventy years, to be exact.

I want to say that, until tonight, I had never seen a team cough up a 12-point lead in the final 44 seconds of regulation time.

In an NCAA tournament game or any other game.

Consequently, I feel very sorry for the players at Northern Iowa.

They thought they'd be playing in Anaheim, Calif., later this week.

Instead, they'll be watching the rest of The Big Dance on TV in Cedar Falls.

Heartbreaking. Shocking.  Agonizing. Unbelievable.

All of the words fit.

The Panthers deserve better. 

Just one more thing.

Hopefully in preseason practices in future years, the coaches will teach more than one player how to throw the ball inbounds.