Article: Hallberg battles potholes on road

In Bob Hallberg's nightmares, a scratchy female voice will holler: "B 14!"

Another will shout: "Bingo!"

And he will wake up in a sweat, reliving the awful odyssey of 1986-87, the Chicago State basketball schedule.

The bus had broken down on the trip out of Chicago. A substitute bus, unheated, had taken the Cougars the rest of the way to Wisconsin-Green Bay. The bus that was to take them home broke down, so 15 young players had to share a charter with 20 senior citizens of a ladies bingo club.

It was just a slice of life from a schedule that seems to have been drawn up by the Marquis de Sade.

But, no. Hallberg did it to himself. The coach arranged 17 road games, ranging from ...

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