There IS an "I" in egomaniacal

Sometimes coaches teach; sometimes, players.

Tuesday, it was a player — Davidson’s Stephen Curry. And the coach who should have learned something is Loyola’s Jimmy Patsos, but it doesn’t sound as though he did.

Patsos decided that shutting down Curry by double-teaming him was more important than trying to win the game, or even respecting the game. So two Loyola players shadowed Curry everywhere, even into the corner of the court.

The result? Curry, who came into the game averaging 35 points a contest, was held scoreless. Oh, and Davidson — essentially playing offense four-on-three — killed Loyola 78-48.

Not that Patsos seemed to mind.

"We had to play against an NBA player tonight," Patsos said. "Anybody else ever hold him scoreless? I'm a history major. They're going to remember that we held him scoreless or we lost by 30?"

Actually, Jimmy, I’m going to remember you let your players get embarrassed in order to draw attention to yourself.

"It seemed to me they were willing to risk the game at the expense of locking Steph up," Davidson coach Bob McKillop said. "When you put two people on somebody and you do it for 30 minutes and at the end of the game, you have to wonder what the reasons for that are."

For his part, Curry handled the situation with class, not forcing shots — he took only three — and keeping his poise. It seems as though for Curry, what mattered was team, not individual.

Isn’t that a lesson that coaches are supposed to teach?