It was February 1992, I was covering men's basketball at UNO for the first time, and I wasn't quite sure how to ask the coach how the Privateers' game against Arkansas State slipped away.

As I fumbled through my notes, I asked, "Uh, coach, uh, what happened?"

"When?" he shot back.

"You know, uh, during that run."

"What run?"

"You know, uh, when you led by like 10 with about eight minutes left and they went on a 12-0 run?"

"That had nothing to do with it. They went on a 40-minute run."