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Vander Blue's layup with one second left capped Marquette's rally from a nine-point deficit and gave the third-seeded Golden Eagles a 59-58 victory over Davidson Thursday in the NCAA tournament.
He is a 63-year-old grandfather and walks with a stiff gait after double hip replacement. He is bald, with wispy white hair. He took his time climbing the ladders to cut the nets down after his University of Miami basketball team won the Atlantic Coast Conference regular-season and tournament titles the past few weeks.
Six years ago, Mouphtaou Yarou remembers, there were many, many difficult phone calls home to Benin. He came here from that small West African country for high school, and for basketball, and for all of the attendant opportunities, but he wondered sometimes what he had gotten himself into. He wondered whether it was worth all of the anxiety.
Something North Carolina does well happens to be a season-long weakness for Villanova.
Norman Powell is blushing. He's heard the comparison before - plenty of times, in fact - but hearing it again still makes him grin.
New Mexico State coach Marvin Menzies congratulated and consoled his players in the locker room following another season that included a Western Athletic Conference title and NCAA tournament berth.
Down by five with only a few seconds remaining, Matthew Dellavedova and Saint Mary's nearly pulled off an NCAA tournament stunner.
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