UMBC: A Sleeping Giant Stirs

By Paul McMullen
"I've been waiting for this," Randy Monroe said, "for a year." The UMBC basketball coach was discussing the red-shirt season that three potent transfers had to take last winter, but that anticipation was a trifle compared to the decades veteran Retriever observers have spent, wondering if the program will ever experience March Madness.
An eclectic combination of a post-grad gunner, a tough little point guard, two maturing sophomores, a transfer from Coppin State and two more from James Madison have combined for three wins over Atlantic 10 teams and a 7-2 start, situating UMBC for a run at its first trip to the NCAA Division I tournament.
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