Perhaps it was just the season, where in the winter months, basketball and wrestling essentially have the stage of high school sports to themselves.
Maybe it was the nature of those sports, where individual players can make such an impression on fans, and an impact on a game's outcome, and coaches are so visible they become interwoven in the moment.
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