Mount St. Mary's Downs American in First Four; Will Face Duke

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00:00Third NCAA tournament win in program history for the Mount, Mount St. Mary's, the champions of the

00:06MAAC, last night victorious against the champions of the Patriot League in American University,

00:1283-72. But Donnie, first year for another Donnie, Donnie Lynn, the head coach of the Mountaineers,

00:19his first year as a collegiate basketball head coach this year at the Mount, leading the

00:25Mountaineers to a victory in the big dance, to 23 wins this season, the most in program history

00:31as a D1 school since 1988-89. But you saw that final score, 155 combined points between the Mount

00:43and the Eagles for what we had with a pregame total of 128 and a hook. The offense on full

00:49display, Mount St. Mary's wins outright, by the way, as a two and a half point dog as well.

00:55Yeah, pour a little bit out to the Sharps out there, and you can't fault them. It's a pretty

00:58good strategy over the past couple years, where it's like take the first half unders,

01:02and you see this game 48-38, where they're shooting the light out, everybody's ultra-efficient.

01:07But I do get back to the point with American, because I actually thought American could win

01:10this game. Ended up losing by 11 points, but even Matt Rogers goes down, eight minutes played,

01:15three or four from the floor, a couple boards there, no personal fouls. He goes down, it's

01:19almost like, I don't want to say like the life went out of American, because they didn't give

01:22up at that point. But down 10 at the break, got one of your best players, you knew it was going

01:26to be a tough hill to climb in the second half. But also, you have to give a lot of credit to

01:30Mount St. Mary's. 83 points, unbelievable efficiency, 41 percent from the three-point

01:36line, 83 percent from the free-throw line, and 58 percent from the floor in a neutral court,

01:42in a spotlight game against light competition. They were phenomenal in that game. I thought

01:46American was the better team. They weren't. It was Mount St. Mary's, injury or no injury.