Texas coach Rodney Terry was not more than 20 minutes removed from a resounding win over Xavier in the Sweet 16 when he was asked about the next mammoth task during what is becoming an improbable run toward a home-state Final Four.
. Disu had been a revelation during the NCAA Tournament’s opening weekend, but the 6-foot-9 senior had to watch most of their regional semifinal win over the Musketeers from the bench in a walking boot.
“I wanted to be part of something special, something great,” Pack said. “We’re doing something special right now.” “Their guard play is really good,” Terry said. “They share the basketball really well. Their interior players played really well against a really physical Houston team. Nothing but respect for Coach Larrañaga and what he has been able to do over the course of his career. His teams just win. We know we have our hands full.”
Larrañaga has been to the Final Four once already. And if he could take George Mason to the national semifinals, perhaps reaching the same point with what some pundits still carelessly call “a football school” — one that dropped its basketball program for a 14-year stretch in the 1970s and ’80s — doesn’t seem quite so far-fetched.
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