Today is the opening day of the NCAA’s March Madness tournament, but since I was brought to Hoops Addict to write about the NBA Development League, I won’t be talking about most basketball fans’ favorite weekend.
Instead, my introductory post will be focused on Mike Gansey, a 6-foot-4 guard for the Erie BayHawks. You may remember Gansey for having a successful NCAA tournament for the West Virginia Mountaineers in 2005 after leading them to a 7-seed while averaging 12 points as well as a team-high 5.1 rebounds and 1.6 steals for the Mountaineers.
“That tourney helped my pro career tremendously. I think it really helped me put West Virginia, as well as myself, on the national scene,” said Gansey. “I probably wouldn’t be where I am right now if we hadn’t had such a good tournament. It still seems every other day someone asks me about the Wake Forest game.”
The ‘Wake Forest game’ was probably the biggest game of his college career. Gansey broke out to score 29 points and grab sev...
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