I'm really pleased with this draw. I think this is a game that we have a legitimate chance to win. If we can win this one then we get #1 Kansas. Our chances against the Jayhawks are between slim and none but, you know what, we're still waiting for a #16 to beat a #1 and, like the USA vs Russia Miracle on Ice victory in 1980, in sports anything is possible. If we make it to the Kansas game then our team has nothing to lose. So I hope the Aggies just play loose, play their hearts out and take home a lifetime of memories.

I'm so proud of the team that anything else is just icing on the cake!

Hahaha...I grew up in a small town north of Indianapolis. I still remember the Foxworthy Ford ad ditty that was always on tv late at night (black & white tv back then too!):

"Foxworthy Ford just can't be beat, 819 East Washington Street"

Now that dang thing will be stuck in my head all afternoon...:(

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Chima was playing for Northeast Community College in Norfolk, Nebraska. I think Les saw him at a CC combine in the midwest. Les said he thought Chima had so much untapped, raw ability that no one else had really noticed and so he began recruiting him. He was one of those talented kids who somehow fly under the radar and Les noticed him. I think Coach Les has a great ability to find players who may not have the most spectacular stats but he sees how they would fit into and contribute to the current group of players he already has. He favors players who have a high work ethic first and foremost.

That's a great series of pictures from the BW website. Pick a few more of those and post them, zythe.

Post-game quote from Coach Les -

“Couldn’t be more excited for this group of young men who have been a joy to coach, who have allowed us to push them, to challenge them. These guys, for these three games, were dominant for these three games. We weren’t always pretty offensively, but our defense won. Couldn’t be more proud. Defense is underrated, overlooked. But, they brought their hard-hat everyday.”

More great post-game comments from Coach Les, Chima, Brynton and UCI Coach Turner:

http://www.bigwest.org/assets/sports/mbball/2107%20BWT%20Quotes%20Game%2014.pdf

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I can't open that link, zythe.

This has been a remarkable journey. The thing that amazes me about this team is just how hard they compete and win games with defense. Les has acknowledged that this team does not possess the best overall raw talent in the Big West but, one thing for sure, no team competes harder and plays with such heart.

Our offense struggled mightily in all 3 of the BW tournament games but this team just flat out refused to lose. That's a competitive culture that the coaches have built into the program over the tenure of Coach Les. This is the kind of culture that future Aggies will come into and be expected to live up to and is the foundation for further success in the future. It's Aggie Pride.

This kind of culture will also help us immensely in recruiting. Smart kids who have talent but would ride the bench on a power conference team can look at Davis see an opportunity to play under excellent coaching in a supportive basketball culture that competes hard no matter what.

Coach Nosek was very emotional in his post-game comments on the radio. He said that he was just so proud to see this happen because the kids have worked and played so hard all year. He said that they scheduled the tournaments in Santa Clara and Alaska, where you play multiple games in successive days, because they wanted this team to experience what it takes to do that. He also said that getting to the NCAA Tourney was a goal they have been working toward since Coach Les took the helm and now it was so gratifying to see all the work by the players and coaches over the years come to fruition.

We will certainly be a Cinderella team in the Big Dance but this is the way a growing, successful D1 basketball program begins.

(Y) You and your son are prime examples of the kind of fan culture I hope we continue to create!

Unless we get a PIG we we're going to face a very big heavyweight real fast. It will definitely be a David vs Goliath game.

Pics from the Bee: http://www.sacbee.com/sports/article138036038.html

Thanks for being there and bringing us luck, OBUA! For those of us who have never met you in person, who's in the picture?

I'd be happy with a PIG or #15 seed. I hope we don't get a #16 and end up playing a #1.

You guys gotta tune into the radio. Great interviews and huge emotion...

JT in tears...man...gonna make me cry!

What HEART this team has!!!

I need an oxygen bottle...

Is it possible to play any worse than we are right now?!!!

Make some noise, OBDA, and bring us luck!