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Valparaiso head basketball coach6/1/2023 He's also pulled down 6.6 boards, stolen five balls and blocked a team-high six shots. Valpo's point-man is Ben Krikke, who averages just over 20 points per game to lead the squad. 441 from the floor and pulled down an average of 35.4 rebounds and dished out an average of 12.2 assists per game. However, they are 0-4 thus far on the road, which is where they will be on Saturday in Oxford.Īs a team, Valpo is averaging 70.3 points per game, but also giving up around 73 per game defensively. In their most recent action, they took care of business against Trinity Christian, a whopping 96-60 final. They've lost four of their last six games, with two of those games being decided in an extra five minutes of overtime. They’ll never be an NCAA Tournament where that play isn’t shown in certain video clips."įast forward to 2022 and the Beacons have struggled mightily to begin the season. The bracket had fallen to where Ole Miss could’ve been a final eight or the final four. Keith (Carter) and I were talking about it last night. "Everything had to go right and it did to beat a really good Ole Miss team. (defensive player) just snapped his head, the pass was just right over the outreach, hit it, ( Bryce Drew) just missed a shot earlier and then he made it," Davis said. But even then, it was a one-and-a-thousand play. "It was one of those things that, did they execute the play right? Yes. In recalling the game, Davis thought the game winning three-pointer's sequence of events was one just made for March Madness. It’s still one of the fabulous plays to end an NCAA Tournament game," Davis said recalling the aforementioned game. I couldn’t remember in 1998 if I watched it live, but like you guys, I’ve watched it every time the tournament is on. "I don’t know if I’ve told Rebel fans, but that was one of the best teams I’ve competed against as an assistant or as a head coach. Who did it? Bryce Drew and Valparaiso, a team that the Rebels will face off against on Saturday, for the first time in almost a quarter century. Unfortunately for Carter's team, a fantastic season was cut short due to one of the most iconic plays in the history of the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament. That was a team coached by Rob Evans with a talented player who just so happens to be Davis' boss now in Keith Carter. In 1998, Ole Miss head men's basketball coach Kermit Davis was an assistant coach at LSU, but he remembers just how good the 1998 Ole Miss Rebels were.
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