The robust interest in college basketball I once nurtured has long since curdled for reasons not terribly complicated, reasons directly related to the sport's unseemly underbelly of long-running scandal.
Also it's unseemly overbelly.
Consequently, just about everything about the build-up to March Badness escapes my notice these days, so when Alabama announced on the afternoon of Jan. 14, a Saturday, that freshman forward Darius Miles would miss the remainder of the season with a knee injury, it should have been a far-off factoid falling in a forest of indifference.
