Unlikely Norfolk State gets added to VA/NC area bball comment of yesterday

Norfolk State joined NC State and VCU as original home area regional teams to register an upset, and what an upset. Missouri was ranked number 2 in its bracket but also #3 in the national polls. Norfolk State may not have been in the top 100 if there were such a thing.

From what little that I saw of the game, mainly the last five minutes, they played in a completely unintimidated aggressive way, not just all heart but showing real talent. The most interesting aspect of the team from this perspective is that the coach and eight of their players are from New York City's outer boroughs, meaning not Manhattan.

Their best player, freshman Kyle O'Quinn who despite the name has no ethnic reason to celebrate St. Patrick's Day, hails from Jamaica, Queens, sort of an edgy area and that would be a polite way to say it. He had one scholarship offer to college and he took it with a promise to pay them back with his performance. DONE.

Now here's another interesting team to follow. The odds are long, but no matter what happens they have already won.