Most college basketball teams have their awards dinner after the season. But Purdue recently began holding its gala between the end of the regular season and the beginning of the postseason.
According to Purdue center Brad Miller, coach Gene Keady made the move “so he doesn’t have to answer questions–`What happened in the second round (of the NCAA tournament)?’ “
Keady managed a laugh when he heard that. “That’s not exactly the way I thought about it, but that’s a blunt way to put it,” he said.
This year’s banquet was scheduled for last Monday, but the blizzard that pummeled the Midwest forced postponement until–that’s right–after Purdue’s postseason run ends.
Mike’s house: Michael Jordan will appear Sunday in the United Center. No, not that Michael Jordan–he’s on the road with the Bulls. There’s another Michael Jordan: a 6-foot-6-inch freshman swingman with the University of Detroit. Jordan didn’t play in Detroit’s opening-round victory over St. John’s Friday night.
Jordan played in 7 of Detroit’s 29 regular-season games and attempted only two shots, failing to score a point. He is one of 11 Titans who grew up in the Detroit metropolitan area. The 12th comes all the way from Lansing, Mich.
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Detroit coach Perry Watson said his roster is based more on the crop of prep talent in Detroit than a lack of money to travel to recruit. But he added, “If you want to pass the hat and put something in the recruiting budget, we’ll take it.”