They all were there to share in former University of Tennessee at Chattanooga basketball player Larry Stewart's big moment this past weekend - the whole Stewart clan.
What if I told you the best example of great basketball coaching in the Southern Conference this season may have been turned in by the guy whose team is currently in last place in the league standings?
I have a friend in town - an understandably defensive North Carolina grad - who has informed me that he wins a free beer from a different friend any time I mention UNC's 16-year academic scandal in a column. Or something like that.
There was no formal University of Tennessee at Chattanooga men's basketball reunion this past Saturday at McKenzie Arena. No commemorative T-shirts were handed out. No public recognition for all those guys who single-handedly put the Mocs on the NCAA Division I basketball map 36 years ago.
How bizarre and bewildering is this 2017-18 men's college basketball season 27 days from the NCAA tournament's Selection Sunday?
OK, so win No. 902 for University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women's basketball coach Jim Foster will have to wait a bit.
For a couple of months last fall, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga football coach Tom Arth looked like a guy who found it much easier to win a news conference than a football game.
Jordan Bowden was 2 years old the last time Tennessee swept a Kentucky men's basketball team by winning both at home and on the road in the same season.
In the world of professional golf they call Saturday "moving day" since that's the day you often move yourself into or out of contention for Sunday's final round.
It was midwinter in early 1992, and then-University of Tennessee at Chattanooga football coach Buddy Nix and assistant Bobby Johns were returning from a recruiting trip to watch a skinny kid named Terrell Owens play basketball for Benjamin Russell High School.
