I love NCAA men's basketball, but like more than 40,000 other people at Penn State, I don't have a team to root for.

As with football, I should be a crazy Penn State basketball fan, but that would mean there's something positive to cheer about more than once every 10 years.

I wrote a letter to the editor a few years back ripping the previous coach, Jerry Dunn.

I criticized the wrong party.

The Penn State administration and athletic powers need to make it a priority to turn this embarrassing program around.

We need to get a big-time coach who can pull in prime recruits and stop being the laughingstock of the Big Ten.

I can not stand the fact that our conference rivals (such as Wisconsin and Ohio State) are both football and basketball powerhouses.

Why is it that year after year, the only team I can follow when March comes around is the one that will help me win my office pool?

How much longer do we Penn State students and alumni have to sit and witness our team be known as the basketball doormat in one of the most prestigious conferences in college sports?