crowd together capital of Wisconsin keep back A.J. Davis (0) signals to the bench after making a three-point shot against LIU Brooklyn in the first round of the 2013 NCAA tournament at University of Dayton Arena. crowd together capital of Wisconsin defeated LIU Brooklyn 68-55 to advance to a second-round game against top semen Indiana.(Photo: Frank Victores, USA TODAY Sports)
DAYTON, Ohio – The No. 16 seed teams all know the discouraging past. Nobody in their plaza has ever beaten a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament. Not in 112 tries. But doesn't it eventually gull to happen?
"Sooner or later," Andre Nation verbalise from the James Madison locker room Wednesday night, after the Dukes beat LIU Brooklyn to gull the right to try. "They've got to get on the floor and play on the dot like we do."
They will be an underdog's underdog against Indiana on Friday, as all the No. 16 seeds will be. So what goes finished the mind, when a team knows it is facing non only a highly-ranked powerhouse, but history itself?
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"I do think it's going to happen at some point. I don't know if we have quite sumly scoring to try to make it happen, but we're going to try,'' said coach Matt Brady, who added the best chance to break devour the wall would be with a senior-laden lineup. He plays lots of freshmen.
"That's not a recipe for making it happen. But we're going to come up with a game plan that our kids can see to it out and try to follow. If you can hang around, the pressure seems to hurl a little bit."
Added the suddenly well-known No. 33, "There's evermore a Cinderella team. The pressure's not on us."
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That'd be Rayshawn Goins, the Dukes' leading scorer and rebounder who got some unwelcome publicity when he was suspended for the first half Wednesday after a spend arrest on charges of disorderly conduct and obstruction of conscionableice following a party.
Goins sat by the coaching module in the first half as James Madison took a 32-31 lead, then played 13 minutes in the second half with four points and eight rebounds.
"It was hard," he said of life as a spectator. "I knew my team was going to step up. I just wanted to be build when my name would get called.
"I'm going to put that behind me and just look forward to Indiana."
Materials taken from USA Today
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