They put their uniforms back on again Friday. The players from Albion College were scheduled to play Ohio Wesleyan in the Capital Tipoff Classic at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio. A chance for normalcy. Or something like that. Who knows? Ever since last week, the hours and days have taken shape without the benefit of impulses or instincts. Every moment has come with the caveat of something that can’t yet be processed.



That’s why Jody May had to come clean on Thursday, about 24 hours before tipoff. The Albion coach called a meeting. He stood in front of his team, drained and bare, and admitted: “What I’m struggling with is … how to coach you.”



It hadn’t even been a week since Zachary Winston’s death and, no, there’s nothing in the manual for this: a college basketball team finding its way after losing one of its own. Winston died on Nov. 9. He was a sophomore. He was a teammate. The aftermath is so...