It was a typical day for Bill Walton calling Michigan State’s game against Georgia in Maui. The legendarily unpredictable Basketball Hall of Famer enjoyably took the audience on a ride through 97 topics tangential to basketball while only occasionally stopping by to discuss what was happening on the floor. One of those topics was ants. Because Anthony Edwards’ nickname going back to high school has been “Antman,” Walton decided to do some research and take us through a bevy of facts about ants, including ants being able to carry 50 times their body weight.
But as the game went on, a funny thing happened. When Georgia went down by 28 points early in the second half, the Antman started making Walton’s rambling semi-coherence a seemingly omniscient reality. The Antman started putting the Bulldogs on his back in an attempt to carry them to one of the great comeback wins in college basketball history.
It came up short, but the story out of…
