Nobody knows college basketball like Dick Weiss, the longtime sportswriter, and columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News and New York Daily News.  ‘Hoop’ has covered 46 NCAA Final Fours, 35 national championship games and has co-authored a dozen basketball books with the likes of Rick Pitino, John Calipari, and Dick Vitale.

 

This week on the Sports Raconteurs Dick reaches back for nearly a half-century college basketball memories and offers current insights including:

 

The Philly Big 5 and its unique standing in college basketball

Legendary Philly coaches including John Chaney and Rollie Massimino

Evolution of NCAA Tournament from a nice event to a worldwide phenomenon

An inside look at this year's brackets