March Gladness: A Northwestern Fan Celebrates The Team's First NCAA Bid
Commentator Kevin Blackistone is overjoyed his alma mater, Northwestern, has finally made the NCAA basketball tournament — but with some caveats.
It was another freezing January night in Evanston, Ill., in 1979, when Magic Johnson's Spartans showed up at McGaw Hall, Northwestern's basketball arena. (Arena. Ha! A shotgun shack had more in common with a mansion.)
The indoor track that tunneled through McGaw's bleachers was blanketed with cinders, a warm
