Big wins are nice. They make players feel great, and they make fans happy.
Big losses?
Those are the things that stick in players’ heads for years and years and years.
That truism comes from ex-player Danny Schayes, whose column this week deals with Kentucky’s loss in the NCAA championship game and how it will impact those five freshmen going forward. As Schayes notes, the games and the moments that stick out in his mind the most are games in which he ended up on the losing end.