This book project (written with 45-year hindsight) is part journal, part memoir, and part unofficial master's thesis. One goal is to indirectly compare and contrast the 1977-1978 basketball season to the 2022-2023 season. Another goal is to celebrate the players, coaches, broadcasters, sportswriters, referees, and so many others involved in making my designated annual basketball madness such a unique nine-week period of each year. Storylines, backstories,...