NORFOLK, Virginia -- Norfolk State coach Robert Jones turned to his team's recent past to help with its immediate future.Former Spartans swingman Rodney McCauley, an integral but unheralded part of NSU's 2011-12 MEAC championship and NCAA tournament run, addressed the team after Friday's practice. Now an accountant in Dallas, McCauley helped drive home some of Jones' favorite tenets.
"He was just telling guys the importance of playing defense, sticking together and how much the NCAA tournament means and how much it's fun to be a part of," Jones said of the year NSU pulled its landmark upset of second-seeded Missouri. "He thinks we can do it if we just stick together."
The Spartans (4-4) can take a step in that direction at 6 tonight, when they host Morgan State to open MEAC play.
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