Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college basketball, where South Florida is the latest school feeling the thrill of an unexpected arrival as a contender:
One month to go, and everyone is up in their feelings
One of the most reliably endearing things about this sport is that, come the back half of February, it finds another gear. Football is a furnace of intensity from Labor Day weekend onward, but basketball is a slow build. And now, inside a month until the NCAA tournament field is revealed, the going gets weird and the participants get wound up.
