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But it's not just that. No, not at all. It's the way FGCU has leapt and heel-clicked and chicken danced into America's hearts. It's the memories they've made during games with their above-the-rim aerials and their below-the-backboard antics. In a college sporting world of corporate fakery and soiled amateurism, FGCU stands for pure joy.
After coming off the court following their 81-71 victory over San Diego State, the Eagles were greeted by cheers and claps and high-fives from members of the Duke band. Fans who had gathered in the ritzy bar Google Jersey underneath the Wells Fargo Center came flooding out to take pictures, and Brett Comer and Sherwood Brown greeted them with hugs and high-fives. "Philly loves you!" one screamed.
Chase Fieler dunks over San Diego State's Deshawn Stephens. Everyone loves them. Everyone. People have gotten their initials wrong and even their name wrong – everything from "Florida State" to Florida Golf Coast yet that's part of the fun, too. Fans could make of them however they wanted. Sons of the Beach, White Slamma Jamma, whatever. They were a clean canvas, a brand new university with a history the current students were writing in real-time.
Usually the underdogs win with Xs and Os; the Princeton offense, or the Butler precision. Mind candy. These guys are eye candy, winning with playground hoops and streetball theatrics. They are Paul Westhead's Loyola Marymount, Jerry Tarkanian's UNLV, only Cheap MLB Jerseys FGCU didn't exist when Loyola Marymount and UNLV were dazzling the college hoops world,It's Brown grinning and flexing, Chase Fieler going baseline for a dunk and facial, Christophe Varidel nailing a three and then becoming the first Swiss basketball player to do an Irish jig on a court in Pennsylvania.
They came from a made-up place called Dunk City, a rollicking, refreshing GIF-machine consisting of nobodies who became somebodies with dunks and oops and just enough sass to raise an eyebrow.And now the Eagles of Florida Gulf Coast University have made history: They are the first 15-seed ever to be one Cheap Nike NFL Jerseys of the top 16 college basketball teams in America.
But it's not just that. No, not at all. It's the way FGCU has leapt and heel-clicked and chicken danced into America's hearts. It's the memories they've made during games with their above-the-rim aerials and their below-the-backboard antics. In a college sporting world of corporate fakery and soiled amateurism, FGCU stands for pure joy.
After coming off the court following their 81-71 victory over San Diego State, the Eagles were greeted by cheers and claps and high-fives from members of the Duke band. Fans who had gathered in the ritzy bar Google Jersey underneath the Wells Fargo Center came flooding out to take pictures, and Brett Comer and Sherwood Brown greeted them with hugs and high-fives. "Philly loves you!" one screamed.
Chase Fieler dunks over San Diego State's Deshawn Stephens. Everyone loves them. Everyone. People have gotten their initials wrong and even their name wrong – everything from "Florida State" to Florida Golf Coast yet that's part of the fun, too. Fans could make of them however they wanted. Sons of the Beach, White Slamma Jamma, whatever. They were a clean canvas, a brand new university with a history the current students were writing in real-time.
Usually the underdogs win with Xs and Os; the Princeton offense, or the Butler precision. Mind candy. These guys are eye candy, winning with playground hoops and streetball theatrics. They are Paul Westhead's Loyola Marymount, Jerry Tarkanian's UNLV, only Cheap MLB Jerseys FGCU didn't exist when Loyola Marymount and UNLV were dazzling the college hoops world,It's Brown grinning and flexing, Chase Fieler going baseline for a dunk and facial, Christophe Varidel nailing a three and then becoming the first Swiss basketball player to do an Irish jig on a court in Pennsylvania.