It can't have happened too many times ever that two sons played college basketball at the same time for their dad.
It's also unusual for a retired jersey to come out of mothballs.
We're witnessing both cases this season at NSU. And the national media is taking notice.
Michael and Logan McConathy are guards playing for their dad, Demon basketball head coach Mike McConathy.
Over the weekend, the McConathy's remarkable family ties to NSU basketball were featured in a college basketball notebook column distributed by the Associated Press.
A quick "google" search online will net you some links to the story, which ran, among other places, in the New York Times and on SI.com on the web.
The item is the third one in a notebook headed by a quick recap of pre-conference tournament action and a note about the Big Ten/ACC Challenge.
It's headlined "A Family Tradition" and it has comments from the boys and "Coach Dad" and includes the background on Mike's dad, Johnny, the 1951 first-round NBA Draft pick who remains one of the all-time great Demons.
Michael talks about wearing the retired No. 14 jersey that his "Grampa Johnny" wore. It was retired in 2002 but is back in circulation for a little longer.
David West of the NSU News Bureau was among the first to find the item over the weekend.
Doug Ireland, SID
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