Teddy Greenstein: NCAA violations? Years of losing? Yet DePaul basketball somehow paints a rosy picture.
by Teddy Greenstein, Chicago Tribune
Oct 30, 2019
4 minutes
CHICAGO - The DePaul contingent arrived downtown for a media luncheon, prepared to talk basketball.
The arrival was a feat in itself, given that athletic director Jean Lenti Ponsetto and coach Dave Leitao live in a parallel universe, free from the constraints of reality.
Those who realize DePaul still has a men's basketball team have no idea what the school is doing.
Why are officials so enamored with Leitao?
Why did they hire him a second time in 2015 after he left for Virginia in 2005, only to flame out at a program that won the 2019 NCAA Tournament?
Why did they
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