Published 3/9/2008
by Tim Pollock
at Bleacher Report - College Basketball
Winthrop is back. Although contrary to what several critics might have written about the Eagles, they never really left. Despite an average first half of the season, the Winthrop Eagles rallied late in the year and pulled off their fourth Big South Conference Championship in a row—and an unprecedented eight out of the last 10 years. Leaning on their experience, Winthrop defeated the University of North Carolina-Asheville in convincing fashion Saturday afternoon, taking down the Bulldogs 66-48 at the Justice Center in Asheville. But, really, who was surprised by this? Winthrop is a senior-laden team rich with history. Playing in front of a nationally televised audience—as this game was—is nothing new to these guys. And it didn’t hurt that the Eagles lost the first two games to UNC-A this season. Meanwhile, the Bulldogs can be summarized in one word: inexperienced. While UNC-A’s enormous ...
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