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DAYTON -- Junior Robinson scored 23 points and Miles Wilson added 17 to lift Mount St. Mary's to a 67-66 victory over New Orleans in a NCAA Tournament First Four matchup of No. 16 seeds on Tuesday night at University of Dayton Arena. The Mountaineers (20-15) advanced to face No. 1 overall seed and defending national…
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The dream of each 16th-seeded team dispatched to the NCAA Tournament's First Four in Dayton, Ohio, is to win a contest and then take on one of the Goliaths of college basketball. This year's reward for either Mount St. Mary's or New Orleans is the opportunity to play No. 1 overall seed Villanova in a first-round…
Regular-season champion New Orleans won the Southland Conference tournament Saturday night, outlasting Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 68-65 in overtime at Merrell Center in Katy, Texas. Tevin Broyles led four players in double figures for the top-seeded Privateers (20-11) with 15 points. Conference Player of the Year Erik Thomas added 14, and Christavious Gill and Michael Zeno scored…
