Our staff doesn't seem to be too concerned with de rigueur protocol regarding
walkons and seniors.
I think J. Cole was the only walkon to play in a long, long while if not for the entire conference season or maybe the whole season. Don't your practice players that have sacrificed all year long deserve a brief moment of recognition they'll remember a lifetime? Isn't it standard to bring them in up 12 in the waning seconds against Georgetown or down 26 to Xavier late so they get to tell their grand children some day they played at the "Worlds most famous arena"?
Isn't it normal to sub Da Ali B and Bash late as senior acknowledgement allowing them to hear the fans cheers/thanks one last time in their final game ever at the BE tournament?
Perhaps coach is thinking that if you want tip your hat curtain calls and unseen walkons air balling 30 ft. threes then you had better create a blowout that we're on the right side of?
I don't know. Just find it odd.