If you're a Big 10 basketball fan, you should miss Gene Keady when he's gone.
Andy Katz's column on the end of the Gene Keady era in the Big Ten has me thinking that college basketball is gonna miss that combover more than it knows right now. I'm still smarting over Purdue's nail-biting loss to Wisconsin in 2000 to secure what likely would have been Keady's only Final Four appearance. Can this year's team get him there? Odds are incredibly slim, but you've gotta figure the players are going to give the ol' man maximum effort -- and you know he wouldn't expect anything less.