Jon Rothstein keeps counting down to a college basketball season that may not arrive on time

Posted Jul 6, 2020
At 7:05 a.m. May 18, before many Americans had made it to their first cup of coffee, Jon Rothstein of CBS Sports was lucid enough to tweet this: “Only 176 days until the 2020-21 college basketball seasons officially begins … #countdown." Among the responses that arrived to that declaration was one from a Gil Sklash that simply asked, “You sure about that?” (Sporting News)

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