Why a Season, Told Slowly

This is a small experiment. One about how we tell stories about the sport we love. Everything here starts with a simple assumption: You know the score. You know the stat lines and you’ve seen the highlights online. It’s not that those aren’t important. But when you tell the story of the game to your friends and family, it’s about so much more than that.

For a season, I’m going to write about Murray State basketball the way you’d follow a story. Sure, I’ll write about the shootarounds, the practices and the games, but also the car rides and questionable hotel choices I’m sure to make.

Instead of wrapping some facts about a game around a few quotes from the coach, I want to describe the feeling of it — a town in the cold months, a team becoming whatever it’s going to become, and the long — though seemingly hurried — arc from October to whenever it ends.

I’ll write most days. Some of it will be about games, much of it won’t. Read in order or don’t — think of the whole thing as a book being written one page at a time, in public, across a single season.

That’s the pitch. Pull up a seat.