Missouri Western State University

Emporia State Women's Basketball for NYT

The New York Knicks are bad this season. Like, really bad. So bad in fact, that the New York Times sent their Knicks beat reporter, Scott Cacciola, out on a month-long road trip across the country to explore crowd-sourced stories of "good" basketball.

His first stop: St. Joseph, Missouri.

I had a blast covering the Missouri Western State University women's basketball team host Emporia State University at the MWSU Fieldhouse Thursday night. You can read Scott's great piece HERE, and follow along with his "Not The Knicks" column HERE.

As for my photos, these are a few that made the article, as well as a couple of outtakes that I liked from the game: