Adam Zagoria is a Basketball Insider who covers basketball at all levels. A contributor to The New York Times and SportsNet New York (SNY), he is also the author of two books and is an award-winning journalist and filmmaker. His articles have appeared in ESPN The Magazine, SLAM, Sheridan Hoops, Basketball Times and in newspapers nationwide. He also won an Emmy award for his work on the SNY mini-documentary on Syracuse guard Tyus Battle.
A veteran Ultimate Frisbee player, he has competed in numerous National and World Championships and, perhaps more importantly, his teams won the Westchester Summer League (WSL) championships in 2011 and 2013.
He lives in Manhattan with his wife and children.
On their five-hour bus ride home from Cincinnati on Monday night, Ashton Gibbs and his teammates weren’t quite sure they were going to make it home safely.
“We didn’t know if the bus driver was falling asleep or if it was the weather,” Gibbs said by phone. “It was a tough ride home and it was [five] hours at that. The bus driver was swerving a little bit, but after a while it calmed down a little.”
By the time Gibbs and the Panthers finally got to sleep Tuesday morning, it was after 4 a.m.
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