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Team is listening to Coach Brownell to lead them to a win in Buffalo.
Thursday, March 15, 2007
BUFFALO — They went through a solid morning practice at a local high school, had lunch, hung out at the team hotel and arrived late Wednesday afternoon for a series of media interviews and a 40-minute shoot-around at the downtown HSBC Arena, where the NHL Sabres usually play.
Tonight, the Wright State Raiders get down to real business, their first NCAA tournament game in 14 years.
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Waiting will be formidable Pittsburgh, 27-7, ranked No. 13 in the country, a Big East powerhouse with a No. 3 seed in the tourney to No. 14 Wright State (23-9).
Not everybody knows who the Raiders are, so they wore their Horizon League championship
T-shirts to their shoot-around and asked a couple of photographers to take pictures of them at mid-court. Then, they went through a few drills.
They are confident in themselves and first-year coach Brad Brownell.
"Coming out of high school, I didn't realize the magnitude of every single game," freshman guard Vaughn Duggins said. "We listen to him (Brownell) and we look at him. People are starting to believe in him.
"If we do what he tells us, we're going to win."
