Daily News | It’s been 10 years since La Salle was in the NCAA Sweet 16?
John Giannini still hasn’t looked back at full video of any of the NCAA Tournament games his La Salle Explorers won in 2013. Boise State in the play-in game in Dayton, an overnight plane ride with a dawn arrival in Kansas City for a game two days after the play-in against Kansas State. Then the capper, taking out Mississippi on Tyrone Garland’s game-winner, immediately dubbed the Southwest Philly Floater on national television by Garland himself.
All that and more. Giannini remembers talking to some local bracketologist named Lunardi about all the things he should root for that last Saturday to help, then sitting in his basement all day that Saturday before Selection Sunday. “My goodness, every game went our way.” “My sports psychology background – I’m a bit of a snob,” Giannini said. “I really dislike people who have pre-packaged programs. ‘I’m going to talk about bonding, or emotional control, or leadership.’ What if I don’t need that?”
He’s got big clients now. This business envisioned by Lange has turned out to be real. But the 2013 La Salle Explorers won’t be shoved out of this career Navy man’s heart.
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