NEW YORK — Call them pit bulls, call them rottweilers, call them 'Beast Boys,' just don't call the Florida Atlantic University Owls a word synonymous with the NCAA tournament.
Sure, if you look simply at the number to the left of the FAU in the bracket for the past three weeks — No. 9 — you’d technically be right to call it a Cinderella, but as the Owls clinched their first trip to the Final Four in school history, there’s no one on this team that really buys that.
“If you Wiki the word ‘team,’ it would be a picture of our guys,” FAU head coach Dusty May said. “They’re going to have a special bond forever, but this group would have had a special bond forever if we would have gotten knocked out in the conference tournament and not made the [NCAA] tournament.” “It’s not anything we haven’t done,” May said. “We have a physical group. They’re quick to the ball and they’ve really bought into all five guys pursuing it and they’ve done it all year. This wasn’t a surprise.”
There was no moment that illustrated FAU’s mentality than when Greenlee, one of four upperclassmen on the Owls roster, fouled out with 2:30 left to play in the game. “We came into [the game] with a chip on our shoulder and of course shout-out to Markquis [Nowell],” Martin said. “We were just able to overcome [Nowell’s performance] because we have eight guys over here contributing and can step up any night.”
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