The pep bands will play on, in New York and Louisville and Kansas City and Las Vegas, in Greenville and Seattle, but there will only be silence coming from here.
The mighty Triangle has struck out.
With Duke’s overtime loss to Colorado on Monday in the NCAA women’s tournament, the Triangle — the self-proclaimed center of the college basketball universe — won’t have a representative in either tournament’s second weekend for the first time since 1996 and for only the fourth time since the men’s tournament first expanded in 1975.
