Monday, March 17, 2008

After the thrill, into lion's den--Coppin State

Photo: CSU Coach Ron "Fang" Mitchell team becomes the first team with 20 losses to make the NCAA tournament.

Coppin-Mount St. Mary's winner plays North Carolina

Baltimore rippled with the excitement of March Madness last night when the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament bracket was unveiled. The shudder of reality will come later.

For Coppin State and Mount St. Mary's, two teams that beat the odds to reach the 65-team tournament, reality is a date in Dayton, Ohio, tomorrow night in a play-in game out of the East Regional.

Then there is this: Coppin (16-20) and Mount St. Mary's (18-14) are playing for the right to play North Carolina, the top-seeded team in the tournament, in a first-round game on Friday at Raleigh.

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