As if you needed further proof that NIL and the transfer portal weren’t the bogeymen they were made out to be, along came Sunday.
South Carolina beat Iowa in a national title game that will almost certainly go down as the most-watched women’s basketball game ever, re-setting a record that had already been broken twice in the previous seven days.
And John Calipari was reportedly finalizing a deal to leave Kentucky for Arkansas.
Reading either of those above two sentences five years ago would have been absurd.
Now? It’s business as usual.
And that’s a good thing.




