Coppin, Mount ready for date in Dayton

Photo: 6-2 Senior point guard Tywain McKee is from Philadelphia, PA, Bartram H.S.

Eagles, Mountaineers hit road for play-in game, chance to make history in tourney

Dayton, Ohio - On some levels, it doesn't make much sense. Two Baltimore-area teams, separated by 45 miles, traveled west almost 500 miles to be here yesterday. Tonight, they'll play an NCAA tournament game that, one could argue, is not really an NCAA tournament game.

It is a bizarre scenario, almost like holding a family get-together in a stranger's house in a state that no one involved has any connection to.

But, at the same time, there is so much at stake for Mount St. Mary's and Coppin State when the play-in game of the 2008 NCAA championship tips off inside the Dayton Arena that the peculiarity of it matters little.

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