Jimmy Bishop, the fiery, Bobby Knight-like basketball coach at Central Prairie U., should be enjoying March Madness. His team has just reached the NCAA finals. Instead, he's in deep trouble. Hours after he threatened to kill a New York Times sportswriter, the writer turned up dead--and all signs point to Bishop as the murderer. With the championship game in Chicago only 48 hours away, Bishop has to figure out a way to keep himself out of jail, prepare his team, and solve the murder. Against her better judgment, Lydie Wynn, a beautiful young lawyer, agrees to help him. As they follow the clues, they learn of deception on and off the basketball court--blackmail, adultery, backstabbing at the Times, and more. Just as the Final Four championship goes down to the wire, so does their investigation. A whodunit with romance, humor, and a little something to say about the state of college athletics.
