And like bad company, the Raiders refused to go home.
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The problem for Tennessee is they also got the downtown Columbus arena crowd to love watching the underdog do its thing.Ĭolgate fell behind 9-0 at the start, but by the second TV timeout it was within 16-13. "What's great about that league is you've got a group of guys who just love to play basketball," Barnes continued. "I think a game like today is what makes the NCAA Tournament, the NCAA Tournament," he said.Ĭolgate comes from the unheralded Patriot League, one that veteran sports journalist and author John Feinstein chronicled in a long ago book that Barnes referenced. What Colgate tried to do wasn't lost on UT's Rick Barnes, a veteran of 24 NCAA trips as a head coach.
"They fought super hard, and we couldn't appreciate that honestly any more."
"I want to say first that this was a really good team," Tennessee junior point guard Jordan Bone said. The Volunteers prevailed, 77-70, but not without a few anxious moments. 15 to break the brackets and shake up men's college basketball. 2 seed Tennessee to the brink Friday afternoon in Nationwide Arena, trying to join Richmond, Santa Clara, Coppin State, Hampton, Norfolk State, Lehigh, Florida Gulf Coast and Middle Tennessee as the next No. "We came into this game knowing how good we were as a team," Colgate sophomore guard Jordan Burns said, "and to be able to go out there and show people how good we really are was great."Ĭolgate pushed No. However, the Raiders had their one shining moment - actually a few of them. COLUMBUS - Colgate didn't etch its name in NCAA Tournament lore.
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