What It Means

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On Monday, I was in the sports information office, and Steph shuffled in, dressed in a hooded sweatshirt and his sock feet, just up from a nap in the team lounge and ready for a radio interview in Toronto. He looked like a sleepy just-turned-20-year-old kid because that's what he was. He rubbed his eyes and cleared his throat and talked to Toronto.

"Everything I've ever dreamed of happening here at Davidson," he said, "it's coming true.

"We have a game coming up against Wisconsin on Friday," he said, "and we believe we can win."

The interview ended, and he got off the phone, and we sat and we talked.

I asked him what he would say about Davidson to all the people out there who are thinking about the school and the team now who were not at this time last week. He thought about that.

"It's a very small place," Steph said, "a unique place, where, I guess -- the way we enjoy things all together, with everyone knowing each other, I think the joy is more real. More deep."

He speaks for so many of us.

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Now it’s almost forty years post-Lefty. Bob McKillop has been Davidson’s coach for almost half of those. His team won a school-record 29 games last year, is returning every player of any consequence, is in line for a third straight NCAA tournament appearance, and has on this season’s schedule games at Charlotte Bobcats Arena against North Carolina and Duke.

This year could be the year the Wildcats win back Charlotte.

All it took was the legacy of a coach who did his thing and left, the development of a coach who’s done his thing and stayed, burgeoning suburbs, and finally a skinny, unafraid 19-year-old kid who could end up being the most important player in the history of Davidson basketball.

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