Whicker: Does CSUN play basketball? Mark Gottfried hopes to build a program worth knowing

NORTHRIDGE – Mark Gottfried began coaching college basketball 31 years ago. His travels never brought him to CSUN.
“Then I saw the campus and I was stunned at how nice it is,” he said last week. “There’s 38,000 students here. And there’s probably 25,000 who don’t know we have a basketball team.”
He was short on one estimate, probably long on the other.
CSUN has the largest enrollment in the Cal State system, at nearly 43,000. It might be a reach to