Like something out of a bonkers dream, we’re left with FDU vs. FAU — with a trip to the Sweet 16 at stake, Chuck Culpepper writes.
Another March Madness night had gone haywire. More discombobulated brains tried to keep up.
, No. 1 seed Purdue, against a team that scored in the final seconds to nudge Hardaway’s Memphis, 66-65, after a final minute too wild for the human mind to follow. That’s …Then Saturday afternoon comes and brings apparent truths that feel like the last dream of the morning sleep. It brings two unknowns with recent senior day home attendances of 923 and 3,130 and with few reporters — or even just one! — in open locker rooms doing interviews even during.
In one corner of the chirpy locker room, guard Joe Munden Jr. talks of suddenly getting texts from people he doesn’t know anymore — from middle school — while in another corner, forward Jo’el Emanuel is saying, “This team is goofy, to be totally honest — we’re a very goofy team” and talking about the importance of goofiness to build chemistry “tenfold.
“I fell like we’re still the underdog,” he says, “because a lot of people are going with FDU and the beautiful thing they’ve got going on.” He speaks of extraordinary cohesion, of still knowing his teammates when he’s 100.
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