From Connor Stalions and Michigan’s sign-stealing scheme to Erin Matson’s field hockey dominance and the record-holders Caitlin Clark passed, it was a wild ride across the collegiate landscape.
With the Tennessee Volunteers winning the baseball national championship this week, the 2023–24 college athletic season has come to a close. It was a wild ride.
There was glory, drama, exalted performances and memorable moments. There also was enough controversy, stupidity and absurdity to last a few lifetimes. That combination is college sports in its modern form. Along the way, we wound up talking about a lot of people we never expected to be talking about. Here’s a list of the unusual suspects we met in 2023–24:traveled the Big Ten and beyond to impermissibly record opponent play signals. In the baroque and bewildering history of college sports cheating scandals, this was a new one. And a weird one.
Gohlke was a Division II transfer then had an improbable game against Kentucky in the NCAA tournament. / Robert Goddin-USA TODAY SportsThe North Carolina State athletic director had the thankless task of being the chair—and thus the public face—of the College Football Playoff selection committee in 2023. Which means he had to answer for it when the committee snubbed the 13–0 Florida State Seminoles in favor of the 12–1 Alabama Crimson Tide for the fourth and final CFP spot.
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