Opinion | March Madness, Zion Williamson and the NCAA's growing existential crisis

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Opinion | March Madness, Zion Williamson and the NCAA's growing existential crisis
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This moment — in which an unpaid college athlete certain to make hundreds of millions of dollars in just a few months could have lost it all in front of a stadium full of rich people — turned into a referendum on college sports themselves.

College basketball’s defenders do themselves no favors by acting as if Zion somehow owes something to the sport itself. But acting as if Williamson has not benefitted from Duke and college basketball is short-sighted, too. Now Williamson is pretty obviously, but it’s worth mentioning that before the NCAA season began, Williamson wasn’t the top prospect on anyone’s draft boards. It wasn’t until he got to Duke — and started playing against a higher level of competition for one of the most famous brands in sports on ESPN twice a week — that everyone saw what he was really capable of.

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