Midnight Sanity

Tonight at 7 pm, NCAA basketball teams may begin practicing. Many teams will celebrate the advent of a new season with "Midnight Madness"--an evening practice (often with dunk contests and other crowd-pleasing antics) that fans can view for free. Until this year, teams couldn't practice until midnight, hence the name.

But the Washington Huskies men's basketballers intend no such shenanigans. They are in Olympia, at Evergreen State College, having practices that are closed to fans and the media. And, according to media reports, bonding.

If you want to follow the Huskies daily, read Seattle Times Husky b-ball beat writer Bob Condotta's new blog

Its mission--in Bob's words:

What we hope to do here is give you information that for whatever reason doesn’t fit in the paper, or simply explores further and in greater detail what is in the paper. We'll gather notes, quotes, analysis and opinion that can’t be found elsewhere.

Other Husky basketball resources on the Internets include Husky Digest, which seems for now to be inexplicably focusing on another sport the Huskies "play."