Nine former national champions will be going gray this season

Here's the only good thing about Nike unveiling unsightly gray jerseys on Wednesday for some of the nation's most tradition-rich college basketball programs: Each team is only required to wear them once. Nine former national champions will break with tradition during a game in the coming weeks by forgoing their typical school colors in favor of Nike's new Hyper Elite Platinum jersey. The teams Nike has chosen to wear them are Arizona, Baylor (women's), Duke, Florida, Kentucky, North Carolina, Syracuse and Connecticut (men's and women's). The jerseys are the latest example of Nike's push to introduce gray — sorry, "platinum" — uniforms throughout college basketball. From Kansas State, to Texas, to Purdue, at least 20 prominent Division I programs have already worn a gray alternate jersey this season, the majority of which introduced theirs in the past 12 months. New jerseys always inspire their share of grumbling, but the release of these has b...