Shades of The Big Chill and Hoosiers permeate this novel of basketball, politics, love and war, the major new work by the bestselling author of North Dallas Forty, spanning over thirty years from 1960 to the present, featuring high school bud-dies, their girls and their varied careers, ending in the super-heated, high-stakes world of a southwestern university's championship basketball team. The novel centers on Pat Lee, the star player on his Michigan State champion high school team, now the recruiting coach of an NCAA powerhouse. Lee, a decent man with ideals, is