NCAA Tournament play-by-play man Jim Nantz takes a timeout from his Final Four broadcasts for some Q&A with Post columnist Steve Serby.
A: Amazingly quick turnaround by Danny Hurley. A program that undoubtedly is now a college basketball blue-blood if they weren’t already. I think a lot of people thought that it would be tough to restart it, rekindle it — Danny Hurley’s done it.A: Coach Larrañaga, to me, has had a Hall of Fame career. He has taken programs that aren’t blue-bloods — Bowling Green, George Mason — took a team [George Mason] to the Final Four.
A: Definitely has to be on the list. I would say 2010 when [Butler’s] Gordon Hayward had the half-court heave at the buzzer that would have beaten Duke, and the shot was off by a fraction. It hit off the glass, probably if you had to measure it, the math on it probably related to about an eighth of an inch too high off the glass, otherwise it would have dropped for the most exciting epic finish in the history of any sport.
A: You had Kansas, with Roy Williams, against his mentor, Dean Smith and North Carolina in the first semifinal game, and Game 2 was defending national champion UNLV, undefeated, taking on Duke, the team that it had stomped by 30 in the previous year’s championship. And of course it ended up being Kansas and Duke in the championship, and Duke and Coach K [Mike Krzyzewski] won the Blue Devils’ first title.
A: It was shocking. But it was handled with such class. I think that was one of those situations where you thought the script had already been written, now it just needed to play out. … That’s not how his career is ever gonna be defined. It was a really tough way to go out.A: Never got the quality of players that some of the heavyweights were able to get through the years. Developed his kids to play as a team. He’s been to eight Final Fours under my watch.
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